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Dead Notes #1 :: Good Lovin’ (4/17/71 Dillon Gym / Princeton)

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Welcome to the first installment of Dead Notes. There is a raw stigma that runs parallel with the mention of the Grateful Dead. Far too often the circus surrounding the band trumps the actual music, instead placing more emphasis on skeletons, dancing bears, hacky sacks and other vestiges of the 'parking lot' scene. Not to mention Bobby's shorts. But all these images, these tye-dyed pre-conceptions, are the unfortunate characterization of the last 20 years of the Dead's history. Countless tomes have been written about the birth of the Dead, so no . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: White Fence (Second Session)

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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.

Welcome to installment 19 of The Lagniappe Sessions. Last May White Fence (Tim Presley) laid down five covers for us ranging from his re-imagination of 90s radio-rock (The Gin Blossoms) to Nina Simone. You can find that session,

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Willie Nelson :: Happy 80th Birthday, Hoss

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On Tuesday, Willie Nelson will turn eighty years old. If you happen to have caught him live lately, that might take you by surprise. Willie won’t be the first touring octogenarian – Ralph Stanley’s still on the road at 86; Chuck Berry, who is the same age, is still banging around St. Louis; and Yoko Ono, 80, was alive and screaming on last year’s collaboration with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Even the Old Possum George Jones made the rounds right up to his death last week . . .

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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 290: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The One Way Streets - Jack The Ripper ++ The Swamp Rats - Louie Louie ++ The One Way Streets - We All Love Peanut Butter ++ The Warlocks - I Love You ++ The Chocolate Watchband - It's All Over Now Baby Blue ++ Bedlam's Offspring - I'll Be There ++ Michelle's Menagerie . . .

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The Pretty Things :: She’s A Lover (1970)

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Provenance: The Pretty Things' fifth studio album: Parachute, 1970. No r&b bluesbreakers here -- instead, proto new-wave power-pop. Two years out from S.F. Sorrow, "She's A Lover" finds the band shedding its skin as the decade turned and the seventies began.

MP3: The Pretty Things :: She's A Lover

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The Velvet Underground :: The Matrix Sampler

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The bones of the Velvet Underground's carcass have been picked over many, many times since Lou Reed left the group in the summer of 1970, from greatest (non) hits comps to outtakes collections to live albums. Most recently, the band's epochal debut was given the "super deluxe" treatment in the form of a six-disc box set crammed with alternate mixes, audience recordings and rehearsals. But after all these years, is it still possible that some of the Velvets' greatest work remains unreleased and mostly unheard? Absolutely.

In late 1969, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, Doug . . .

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Good God! Apocryphal Hymns :: Numero Group 040

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The term “apocrypha”  comes from the Greek for “hidden things.”  Applied the Christian Bible, it covers a wide swath of books deemed “non-canonical”  by one denomination or another. The books and stories found within are pretty wild: there are dragons, beheading heroines, and Christ, as a young boy, animating clay pigeons.

Generally speaking, the Bible is comprised of a bunch of weird, weird books, but the scattered books of the Apocrypha are especially far-out. The same goes for the 20 gospel tracks found on Numero Group

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Sevens: The Replacements – Portland

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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

In 1988 the Replacements headed to a studio in Woodstock, New York in an effort to record their follow up to Pleased to Meet Me. They enlisted Tony Berg as the producer and set to it. And although the band allegedly laid down an album's worth of material, it was all scrapped as Paul Westerberg . . .

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Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona 1951-1971

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Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona, 1951-1971

Border hawks and radical sheriffs may unjustly define Arizona’s national profile, but there are powerful vibrations still at play in the dry air of the Sonoran Desert — echoes of old Hoozdo Hahoodzo -- bouncing off the rocks, through the canyons and off the cacti.

The songs featured here span many genres, all recorded in Arizona between 1951-1971: dusty garage rock, riffing funk, Latin soul, psychedelic surf, lonesome queens and kings of country, and hot breeze lounge. They’re sounds of Old Gold, sounds of an older, even weirder, Arizona.

MP3: Old Gold :: A Sonoran Soul Mixtape (35 min.)

tracklisting after the jump. . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Futurebirds @ The Echo, July 23

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The circus is coming to town. Los Angeles:  Tuesday night Aquarium Drunkard presents Futurebirds with Diarrhea Planet and T. Hardy Morris at The Echo. We're giving away tickets -- leave a comment below with your name, an email we can reach you at, and what you've been listening to this summer, old or new. Winners notified Monday night via email . . .

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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 289: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Ofo & The Black Company - Allah Wakbar ++ The Ify Jerry Krusade - Everybody Likes Something Good ++ Dutch Rhythm And Steel Show Band: Down By The River ++ Fatback Band - Goin' To See My Baby ++ The Last Poets - Time (edit) ++ Darondo - Let My People Go ++ Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo . . .

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Le Onda Pesada De Ernan Roch Con Las Voces Frescas

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English language Mexican psych joint from 1971, this one is heavy on the south of the border fuzz -- and if “The Train” hasn’t been comped yet, I’m sure it's only a matter of time. Whereas the vinyl boasts a hefty price tag, a digital rip of the wax has made its way around the Internet, and back again, several times. If you happen upon a superior rip/mix to the one posted below, please hit us up.

MP3: Ernan Roch :: The Train

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Rich Ristagno :: What Would It Be Like To Be Rich? (Reissue)

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Finally, a record that answers the age-old question: What would Lou Reed have sounded like if he had never left his parents' Long Island home and just made private press LPs of oddball funk rock? Don't pretend like you haven't thought about it. Rich Ristagno's What Would It Be Like To Be Rich is another extremely rare gem unearthed and made available to the masses by the fine people at Drag City. Recorded in Detroit in the early . . .

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