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Wax Wonders :: Bettye LaVette

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Betty LaVette has been a powerful force in soul music for over fifty years since her 1962 debut recording which was cut when she was 15 years old. Betty was born in the small town of Muskegon, MI, and grew up in Detroit, which is where she was discovered by Motown raconteur Johnnie Mae Matthews. As someone who has been known mostly to soul aficionados, her recent resurgence in popularity and activity is inspiring, and her old records are legacy that will live on forever.

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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 349: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Loose Fur - Hey Chicken ++ Parquet Courts - You've Got Me Wonderin' Now ++ Pavement - Baptist Blacktick ++ The Fall - The Classical ++ Pavement - Unfair ++ Silver Jews - Send In The Clouds ++ Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange ++ Women - Black Rice ++ Ought - Pleasant Heart ++ Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision ++ Destroyer - Blue . . .

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Grace Braun :: Down In The Garden

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Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Grace Braun is a folk singer known for her visceral approach, which often consists of experimental instrumentation and shrieking vocals. Yet, Braun’s showmanship takes a backseat in this beautifully orchestrated, down-tempo anthem peppered with haunting organ keys and a choir of angelic voices. “Down in the Garden” can be found on Grace Braun’s 2002 LP, I’m Your Girl.

Grace Braun :: Down In The Garden . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Eric D. Johnson (Joe Jackson / Richard And Linda Thompson)

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Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

The Lagniappe Sessions return with two from Eric D. Johnson, whose first LP outside the long-running Fruit Bats, EDJ, is out next month via new label home, Easy Sound. Here, Johnson takes on . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Ryley Walker @ The Echo, July 17th

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Los Angeles: This Thursday night, July 17th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Ryley Walker at the Echo. Advance tickets available for purchase, here. We’re giving away a few pairs to AD readers. To land them, leave a comment with your name and an email address we can reach you at.   Winners notified by Wednesday night . . .

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Viet Cong :: Cassette

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Viet Cong, a Calgary quartet made up of former Women bandmates Matt Flegel (bass) and Mike Wallace (drums), as well as guitarists Monty Munro and Danny Christiansen, have just reissued their previously tour-only Cassette via Mexican Summer.

While there are shadows of the aforementioned Women — a certain spooky, claustrophobic, gloominess — this new concern has proven interested in expanded sonic territories, making Cassette a dynamic and absorbing listen, one which strengthens with each listen.

Viet Cong, while indefinable by genre, certainly know who they are and what . . .

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Allen Toussaint :: BBC Documentary (2006)

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Ahhh, mann. The good Richard Swift recently turned us on to the following 2006 BBC documentary on one of my all-time heroes of any trade - New Orleans' Allen Toussaint. Ride your pony...

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Nancy Dupree :: James Brown

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"...Nancy Dupree's 1969 album Ghetto Reality, essentially an inner city version of the Langley Schools Music Project, but with the kids writing their own songs rather than covering contemporary pop hits." - Mike McGonigal

I quoted the above, via McGonigal, several years ago while introducing Nancy Dupree's "James Brown" on the radio and was reminded of it, recently, during a conversation centered around 'noteworthy' children's musical projects. If you've yet to hear . . .

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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.

We are in NYC this week. Sebastian Freed, talent buyer at the new Rough Trade room in Williamsburg, guests.

SIRIUS 348: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Pavement - Baptist Blacktick ++ That Summer Feeling - Jonathan Richman ++ Livin' Was Easy - The Glands ++ Sucker - Water Liars . . .

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Les Sultans :: Il N’y A Rien Au Monde Que Je Ne Ferais Pas Pour Cette Fille

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It was 1966, a year that saw the Beach Boys drop Pet Sounds, the Beatles unleash Revolver, and the Kinks dethrone the Mop-Tops from Liverpool by scoring a #1 hit with “Sunny Afternoon,” supplanting “Paperback Writer” and cementing their place as legitimate vanguards of the British Invasion. By this time, however, the music of the Beatles and Kinks had already spread like wildfire, inspiring garage bands across the globe to take to their studios and earnestly hammer out versions of their favorite tunes in their native tongues.

From the “Uruguayan Beatles,” Los Shakers, to the Mexican group Los Freddy . . .

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Roy And The Dew Drops :: The One Who’s Hurting Is You

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It’s summer and the monsoon has finally crept in. Time to stash a few cervezas in a cooler and sit by a body of water. This cut from Roy and the Dew Drops might function well as a soundtrack. Put to tape in August ‘67 by Hadley Murrell at Audio Recorders in Phoenix, Arizona, the teenage Dew Drops led by Roy Figueroa offer a take on Tejano soul combo Sunny & the Sunliner’s “The One Who’s Hurting Is You.” The Dew Drop's version is woozy and heat-dazed, with the sax and trumpet bleeding together under . . .

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Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson And The Story of SMiLE

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Brian Wilson And The Story of SMiLE. 2004 David Leaf directed oral history of Smile. Originally presented by Showtime, the documentary is loaded with archival footage corresponding around the release of Brian Wilson's SMiLE and subsequent tour. Worth the watch.

And speaking of SMiLE, consider the following absolute required reading: The AD Interview :: Darian Sahanaja (Behind The Smile Sessions)

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Wax Wonders :: Philadelphia Soul, Pt. 1

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Philadelphia soul will always be remembered for the hits of the 1970’s; a lush, string-driven, hit-making sound that was probably more responsible for the birth of disco than any other style of music. However, in the 1960’s, Philadelphia began carving out its own sound on stacks of soul 45’s that took the vibe of this gritty east coast city and began adding the type of trademark arrangements into the mix that birthed the patented Philly sound. These records, presented today, are a handful of my all-time favorite soul releases from ANY city; the level . . .

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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 347: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (solo piano) ++ Bedlam’s Offspring — I’ll Be There ++ The Emperors — I Want My Woman ++ The Blue Rondos — Baby I Go For You ++ The Graham Bond Organisation — Early In The Morning ++ Bo Diddley — Bo Diddley ++ Cat . . .

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