Start 2014 on this note. Another side of The Everly Brothers: "Lord of The Manor", the b-side to their 1968 single, "Milk Train". And then go ahead and pick up the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy / Dawn McCarthy tribute to the Everlys that made our best of 2013 list.
The Everly Brothers :: Lord Of The Manor
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SIRIUS 324: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Honeyboy Martin & The Voices - Dreader Than Dread ++ Johnny & The Attractions - I'm Moving On ++ Andersons All Stars - Intensified Girls ++ King Sporty - DJ Special ++ Freddie Mackay - When I'm Gray ++ Hopeton Lewis - Sound And Pressure ++ The Upsetters - Popcorn ++ Willie Williams - Armageddon Time ++ Sister Nancy - Bam . . .
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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 324: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The Beatles- Christmas Time (Is Here Again) ++ Billy Childish — Christmas Hell ++ The Wailers — Christmas Spirit ++ The Sonics — I Don’t Believe In Christmas ++ The Ramones — Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) ++ Thee Headcoatees — Santa Clause ++ Jack Scott — There’s Trouble . . .
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Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2013 . . .
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Jonathan Rado, of Foxygen, is my guest this week.
SIRIUS 322: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Bernard Chabert - Il Part En Californie (He Moved To California) ++ The Move - Chinatown ++ Todd Rundgren - Healing Part III ++ Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks of . . .
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(Volume 21 of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond.)
I know. I know. It’s been a minute since the last Clifton’s Corner installment. Although I had every intention of working one up, life kept getting in the way. My apologies. In that time though, I’ve been exposed to some amazing music and have picked up quite a few records that I intend on airing ASAP. So, as a kind of reboot, this installment will be like my first effort. Consider it more of a mixtape. (NOTE: These mp3s were digitized from vinyl. Please excuse any pops, crackles, & hiss.)
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Prince is the Artist: a virtuoso, a maverick, a symbol. The Purple One's genius has transformed the man into a musical hero and a legendary performer. If Prince is a somewhat inscrutable artist today, ensconced in Paisley Park, the Twin Cities provided a palpable point of origin for the myth, the hometown scene of a young Prince Rogers Nelson.
Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound is the 50th proper release by Numero Group, the historically curious, keen-eyed, crate digging wunder-label. This idea of a "Minneapolis Sound" is inextricably linked to Prince, and the compilation's evocative title means the Purple One will inevitably be the point of entry into these songs. However, the late '70s/early '80s funk scene in Minneapolis and St. Paul is actually a great match for the Numero treatment--the label's best releases involve scrutinizing an overlooked local history and hanging a narrative around forgotten music. Prince's meteoric ascent into purpled high fantasy fogged up what was going on in the dove's nest, but his influence insures the Minneapolis sound will never be forgotten. We're talking about 1999 and Control at the most mainstream, which just means the stakes are extra high for Numero as revisionist historians--a fitting challenge for the label's 50th release.
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From the depths of upstate New York's Black Dirt Studio emerges this free-folk collective, a loose affiliation of players including Steve Gunn, Nathan Bowles (Pelt and the Black Twig Pickers), Margot Bianca (Flown), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and several others. A "super group," perhaps, but there's no star performer here, just a group following the sound, picking up disparate elements from ancient Appalachian folk, tranced-out dub, and oddball kraut rock. The resulting LP, Wayawanda Patent, is all over the place, but in a good . . .
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Each December, Brian Reese at Big Rock Candy Mountain deals out a month’s worth of holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Keeping it loose, he trims his tree with Red Simpson and Mae West, then tops it off with The Sonics, Hank Snow and Champion Jack Dupree. It’s a heady brew. Go ahead, deck them halls.
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It’s the third week of December. The egg nog is spiked, the Christmas tree is trimmed, and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, really needs no further explanation. Unsanctioned soundtrack download and video after jump. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
Download: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Soundtrack (1977)
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The sheer sprawl of James Jackson Toth's discography -- usually released under some iteration of the Wooden Wand moniker -- can be intimidating. Where to begin? I humbly submit that this latest release is a perfect introduction to the wonders of the Wand. Seven tracks fueled by minor key melodies, Crazy Horse distortion and lovely male/female harmonies, it's one of the more powerful rock records of 2013. Toth's band here is on point throughout, loose and spacey one moment, clattering and tense at the . . .
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Back from the dead. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission thirteen.
Direct download, below. The first twelve transmissions can be found and downloaded, here.
Intro
CAN - I'm So Green
The Everly Brothers - Lord Of The Manor
Blossom Dearie - Somebody New
Bernard Chabert - Il Part En Californie (He Moved To California)
These Trails - Garden Botanum
Pete Ham - Without You (solo demo . . .
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Welcome to the sixth installment of Dead Notes, where we find the Grateful Dead in the Fall of 1970, gigging at the famed Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY. Between 1970 and 1971 the band played the theater 18 times, placing it thick in the pantheon of Dead venue lore alongside historic nights at Bill Graham's Fillmore East and West.
As the sixties came to a close, the psychedelic setlist center pieces of yore ("Dark Star" and "The Other One'' in particular) began to slowly disappear, replaced with a series of individual songs anchored by heavy Pigpen fueled R&B (see Dead Notes #1 & #4). Shows also began to include an opening acoustic set, drawing heavily from the American Beauty album and its predecessor, Workingman's Dead -- two albums that once again found the Dead shedding their skin. Donning a rural Americana vibe, a unique fusion of bluegrass, rock & roll and folk, with a heavy dose of country music, the Dead soon found themselves at the forefront of the country-rock movement with 5 of American Beauty's 10 tracks receiving radio play on both AM and (at the time underground) FM radio.
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As a sideman, pedal steel master B.J. Cole has played on a litany of great recordings, including albums by Elton John, T. Rex, the Walker Brothers, Loudon Wainwright, John Cale, Bjî¶rk, Elvis Costello, Bert Jansch, and Spiritualized. Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space? That’s Cole. His playing is unique, with countrypolitan touches and spacey elements that endear him as much to downtempo DJs as seasoned songwriters.
His approach is beautifully displayed on 1973’s The New Hovering Dog. Recorded following the dissolution . . .
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