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William Tyler :: Whole New Dude / Lost Colony EP

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Accept no substitutes! William Tyler's Lost Colony EP is the only piece of music you need in your car this summer. Or any season, really. The wide-open, panoramic sonic vistas on the three tracks here seem tailor made for epic, exploratory road trips. And Tyler's been doing plenty of road-tripping in the past year, touring nonstop in support of last year's masterful Impossible Truth. The Nashville guitarist was . . .

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Ryley Walker :: All Kinds Of You

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You could probably convince someone that Ryley Walker's debut long player is the work of some long-lost UK singer-songwriter from the 1970s. Recalling at different moments John Martyn, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Nick Drake, All Kinds Of You conjures up a mystical, classic Britfolk feel -- it's even got a cover photograph that would fit in perfectly with that scene. But Walker is actually a 20-something dude from Chicago who made experimental/noise music before setting his sights on Albion. Lucky . . .

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Jackie Shane :: Any Other Way

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Jackie Shane was a gay, cross-dressing soul singer born in Nashville, TN in 1940. He made his away across the Canadian border in the early '60s and, in 1963, scored a local and soon forgotten hit in Toronto. The song was a cover of William Bell’s “Any Other Way". Jackie replaced the country-soul flavor of the Bell original for a slower, gracefully hushed serving of smooth . . .

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The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation :: Watch n’ Chain

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Ye olde mailbag gets heavy whenever I play this one on the radio show...so, for those asking, this funky mess is the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation doing "Watch n’ Chain" - Liberty Records, 1968. Trivia: Flying Lotus sampled this one on "Camel".

The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation :: Watch n’ Chain

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Okkervil River's Will Sheff guests this week during the second hour of the show. Listen in as we froth about the upcoming Rock*A*Teens reunion...AND MORE.

SIRIUS 338: Jean . . .

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The Four Seasons Do Dylan

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While spinning the recent reissue of Dylan’s Gospel, I was reminded of two incredibly odd Dylan "reinterpretations." To that, introducing Bob Dylan’s music through the lens of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. First up is their cover of “Queen Jane Approximately”, whose vocals and instrumentation are so boisterously rough and rousing that even the most diehard Dylan purest should find it compelling. It's interesting to hear Valli leave his world of sweet falsettos to do . . .

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Tinariwen :: Chaghaybou

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Tinariwen’s music speaks for Kel Tamashek, the Tuaregs, and their desert home, the “tenere.” Formed in 1979, the group's latest LP (Emmaar) is a continuation of Tinariwen’s rhythmic, and at times incredibly psychedelic, Saharan desert blues. Unlike previous output, the new album was recorded in the U.S., specifically Joshua Tree, California -- the dusty cradle of “cosmic” American music -- due to violent political instability in the band’s home in Northern Mali.

A return to form following their previous (mostly) acoustic album,Tassili, Emmaar is a heady, droning, affair aided and abetted by guitarist Matt Sweeney and the Nashvillian multi-instrumentalist Fats Kaplan. The group is presently wrapping up a US tour before heading to Europe. See them live. You'll thank me later.Debut of the new video for "Chaghaybou", off the  Emmaar LP, directed by Antoine Carlier.

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Butch McGhee :: Stacked

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Music historian John “Johnny D” Dixon must not sleep. In between hosting the freeform “Mostly Vinyl” and “Totally Jazzed” programs on Phoenix’s KWSS FM and creating a special Record Store Day single featuring Waylon Jennings and Sanford Clark -- which I had the pleasure of helping produce -- Dixon has cranked out a voluminous new collection of southwestern soul, Sha-Boom Bang! Vintage Arizona Doo Wop, R'n'B, Soul & Funk: 1956-71.

The CD features 31 songs — ranging from . . .

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Jolie Holland :: Dark Days (Video) via Wine Dark Sea

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"Dark Days"-- the first taste from Jolie Holland's upcoming LP, Wine Dark Sea, out next month via Anti Records. Both it and a cheap-o used copy of Neil Young's Live Rust, that I recently re-bought, have lived side by side on my car's passenger seat the past month. And in contrast to Holland's previous output, the two are very much kin, sonically. Described in the production notes as skirting the . . .

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Graeme Allwright :: Je Perds Ou Bien Je Gagne (1968)

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1968 French language rendering of Jackson C. Frank's "Blues Run The Game", courtesy of Graeme Allwright. Frank's haunting, Paul Simon produced, 1965 debut was reissued earlier this year via Earth Recordings. And if you're not familiar with Frank, you may remedy that, here.

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Wax Wonders :: Detroit Soul, Part 1

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The amount of superb soul records (from the obscure to the massive hits) that were waxed in Detroit is a near bottomless well of greatness. Following the lead of Berry Gordy's Motown empire, dozens of young artists latched on to the label's independent spirit, using their talents to write, record, arrange, produce and perform...all with the hopes of emulating Motown's worldwide success.

Welcome to Detroit Soul, Part 1. This series is in no way chronological; it's simply a celebration of this wonderful music that is far too unknown outside of the circles of fanaticism.

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AD Presents :: Steve Gunn/Kevin Morby @ Rough Trade 4/25 – Brooklyn, NY

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We're back in NYC. This Friday night, April 25th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Steve Gunn and Kevin Morby at Rough Trade in Brooklyn. Local outfit Prince Rupert's Drops supports. We have several pairs of tickets for AD readers. To enter, leave . . .

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Stevie Wonder :: @ The Rainbow Theatre — London, 01/31/74

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There are very few artists who had album runs like the one Stevie Wonder pulled off in the ’70s (the Stones come immediately to mind). The following set, from January of 1974, finds the artist in the midst of a creative high while touring the UK. Recorded after Innervisons and prior to

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 337: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning ++ Jim Ford — Under Constructiion ++ Doris Troy — What’cha Gunna Do About It ++ Eddy Giles — Losin’ Boy ++ Major Lance — Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um ++ Joe Tex — I Believe I’m Gunna Make It ++ Percy Mayfield — Louisiana ++ Huey . . .

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The Band :: Live At The Casino Arena – July 20, 1976

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Hallelujah. This rare archival footage finds everyone’s favorite on a hot July night in Jersey amidst its final summer tour, just under a month before the much-acclaimed  King Biscuit Flower Hour set at the Carter Baron Amphitheatre in Washington, D.C. Sure, the track list is basically the same as that show–the Band throws in a couple of extra cuts this night–but this is a  video  of an  entire performance.    It’s a nearly flawless one at that, save . . .

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