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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. Our compadres Twin Peaks guest host the first hour and a half of the show today. Pick up their new full-length, Wild Onion, here.

SIRIUS 351: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique . . .

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Eddie Ray :: You Are Mine

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If you’ve yet to check out our Blue August Moon mixtape, you can remedy that, here. Setting the vibe early on is Eddie Ray’s haunting and transcendent “You Are Mine.” Carried only by guitar, congas and Eddie’s deep, raspy and, at times, tortured voice, the song speaks volumes for the . . .

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A Salute To The All Electric Fur Trapper :: A Mixtape

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In the United Kingdom of the early 70s, the rock scene wasn’t all about the pillaging of the blues and progressive rock excess. Outside of the hustle and bustle of London, musicians cooped themselves in cottages on the country side attempting to emulate what was coming from the west coast of America at the time. Their American dream sound conglomerated the pristine songwriting of the Laurel Canyon crew, the wandering jams of the Grateful Dead and maybe a little bit of the down home groove of The Band. The English twist they spun on their abstract visions of open . . .

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Wax Wonders :: Soul Unknowns – Part One

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As a long time fanatic of ’60s soul and rock & roll, there’s no shortage of records whose information is either completely or mostly lost to history. And it wasn’t just small time/small pressing local releases - many were released on moderately large or massive labels (such as today’s offerings). Caveat lector: just because something is rare and/or obscure doesn’t automatically pique my interest; it has to be a great record. These four are very special, and records that (to my ears) had big time hit potential, or in the case of Doris & Kelley . . .

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Al Kooper & Shuggie Otis :: Lookin’ For A Home

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Al Kooper gets a lot of flack for being a storyteller of the ‘That Fish Was This Big’ variety. As biographer Clinton Heylin (Dylan: Behind the Shades) would have it: "there are lies, damned lies, and Al Kooper’s recollections."

But what else, really, do you expect from someone who went professional at the age of 14; who stumbled into classic sessions with Dylan and the Stones; who vouched for the American release of the Zombies Odessey and Oracle and wrote the liner notes himself; who shows up in the credits of The Who Sell Out and Who’s Next . . .

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David Kilgour & The Heavy 8’s :: End Times Undone

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All hail the Brothers Kilgour! David and Hamish (along with Robert Scott) are still best known as the founders of The Clean, the unfathomably great New Zealand band that started way back in the late '70s and continues to this day. The Clean are playing a few select stateside dates this summer, but the band doesn't seem to have any new material on the horizon. That's alright, though, because both David and Hamish have excellent solo albums for us to enjoy.

David's new one with . . .

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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 351: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Mammane Sani et son Orgue — Tunan ++ Mulatu Astatqe — Yekermo Sew ++ Eddie Ray — You are Mine ++ Harumi — Fire by the River ++ Odetta — Don’t Think Twice, It’s all Right ++ Irma Thomas — Ruler of my Heart ++ Hawa Daisy Moore — Really Love Me ++ Africa — Here I . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Blue August Moon – A Mixtape

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Fade out of the humidity and into this. Looming ominously, the following one hundred and thirty eight minutes are a product of their time: rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, dense fog and waves of radiation. Governed equally by the spiritual and the secular, by science and superstition, magic and economy: Mammane’s organ, Odetta’s baritone, Patsy’s guitar. Soul, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Ambience. There are ghosts residing in guitars and synths alike, the instruments transporting them across space and time. Embrace the transience, listen to their stories and surf the rising tides where solace awaits you . . .

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Africa Unbound: A Tale of Cross-Cultural Influence

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As you might expect from a  vast continent consisting of a number of countries and thousands of languages, African music is not so easily categorized. Unfortunately, the tendency has been to bag it all together in much the same way  we do African literature. Like the sameness of African book covers, we use Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Fela Kuti, and maybe Ali Farka Toure . . .

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Aaron Neville / Allen Toussaint :: Hercules (1973)

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As Brett Ratner’s Hercules wallows in the steroid-spill of yet another summer blockbuster season, it's an opportune time to think about the nature of myth. Sure, the classic image of Hercules is all brawn and virility, thrashing his way through obstacles–but myth is a flexible, amorphous thing forever being retold. New spins on old yarns.

Take for instance the hero of Allen Toussaint’s "Hercules" (1973). As embodied by Aaron Neville on the Toussaint-produced single, the character is . . .

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King Tuff :: Bad Thing (At The Galaxy Barn, Pickathon 2013)

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King Tuff performing “Bad Thing” (last summer in the Galaxy Barn at Pickathon) at the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon. This year’s festival is happening this weekend - August 1-3. We’ll be there again, DJing all three days. Advance tickets still available, here.

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Roadside Graves :: Body

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We last caught up with Roadside Graves via their 2011 LP, We Can Take Care of Ourselves, an eleven track song-cycle concerning S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. The band is back in early 2015 with a new record entitled ACNE/EARS. Roadside's John Gleason on the album's first taste, "Body", in his own words, after the jump...

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Hamilton Leithauser on Frank Sinatra – The Covers

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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.

I can't think of a more fitting pairing than that of Hamilton Leithauser taking on Sinatra. Subtle solo piano renderings highlighting Leithauser's vocals, the pair of covers dig into the ageless nuance of Sinatra's music. The chairman of the board, indeed. Leithauser on Sinatra, in his own words, below...
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Bob Dylan And The Band :: Oakland, CA 1974

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Seven and half years off the road, Dylan returns with the Band. Oakland Coliseum Stadium Feb 11, 1974.

Bob Dylan And The Band :: Oakland, CA 1974 (zipped folder, external link)

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Gracious Calamity :: Song That Grows Like A Vine (Demo)

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Gracious Calamity are Kate Lee and Kit Wallach, a duo based in Jamaica Plain, MA. They describe their music as Gospel, Melodramatic Popular Song, Healing and Easy Listening. The descriptions are apt. “Song That Grows Like a Vine,” which appears on their 2011 album Carefree Since ’83, is a borderline spiritual experience. But it’s a demo of the tune, originally appearing on the now-defunct Hooves on the Turf blog, way back in 2009, that truly has the power to transport.

Homespun and charmingly dusty, the demo does as its title suggests, changing throughout, though never requiring more than two voices, two guitars and a kick drum. Kate and Kit's voices are earthly and heavenly alike, delivering their deceptively plainspoken lyrics with a mystical matter-of-factness, although an air of sorrow and doubt and lingers within the recording.

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