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The Everly Brothers :: Kentucky

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Don and Phil Everly were, respectively, 19 and 21 years old when "Kentucky" appeared on the Everly Brothers LP, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, in the summer of 1958. Just kids who were making a name for themselves with hits like "Bye Bye Love" and "Wake Up , Little Susie," pure shots of Eisenhower America innocence made sublime by those oft-imitated but never matched close vocal harmonies. But "Kentucky" is something else, a vision of the green grass of home, with an air of longing that make even those crystalline voices ache with world weariness.

It's . . .

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Elyse :: Houses (w/ Neil Young)

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I slid this slice of psych-folk into the latest Sidecar podcast (Transmission 11) earlier this week to a number of inquiries. The provenance of "Houses" is via the 2001 Orange Twin reissue of Elyse Weinberg's 1968 self-titled debut. That's Neil Young lending a hand on guitar, and his appearance reportedly marks the first recorded document of Shakey making use of his distinctive . . .

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Jesse Ed Davis :: Jesse Davis / Ululu

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Backing Taj Mahal in The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus, Jesse Ed Davis plays guitar like a stone cold badass. His face looks almost too at ease to be lucid and focused, yet his deliberate licks on the telecaster are perfectly understated and soulful. When the band drops out during “Ain’t That a Lot of Love,” Davis takes a coolly restrained solo that’s all punchy rock licks but the antithesis of gauche . . .

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Lena Hughes :: Queen Of The Flat Top Guitar

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An exceedingly rare, private-press holy grail recorded in the early 1960s, Queen Of The Flat Top Guitar (now given 21st century life by the Tompkins Square label) is the lone recorded evidence of Lena Hughes. Though only clocking it at 23 minutes, you can hear a lifetime's worth of music in these celestial fingerpicked guitar instrumentals. The 11 tracks gathered, either adapted fiddle tunes or parlor music from the 1900s, are concise, plaintive and uniformly beautiful, a glimpse into a bygone age that drifts further . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 11) — Podcast/Mixtape

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Extra width / Winter weight.  Country gospel soul. Est. 1975.

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Sidecar: Transmission / 11 . . .

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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.

Martin Nunez, L.A.'s Sir Psych, sits in during the second hour of today's show sharing rare vintage nuggets from his personal collection. Find his work, here and twitter,

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Buffy Sainte-Marie :: Many A Mile

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Comprised of now-iconic tracks like “Cod'ine,” "The Universal Soldier,” and “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone”, Buffy Sainte-Marie's 1964 debut, It’s My Way!, first and foremost introduced the artist to the world as a songwriter. Her topical folk albums on Vanguard Records proved she was one of the more original folk revivalists as well an important Native American voice.

Sainte-Marie’s 1965 follow-up, Many a Mile, featured the original recording of “Until It’s Time for You to . . .

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Chris Darrow :: Artist Proof (Reissue)

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Even if you've never heard of Chris Darrow, you've probably heard him. The guy has a resume a mile long, having lent his stringed instrument skills to recordings by Leonard Cohen, Linda Ronstadt, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, James Taylor and John Fahey, among many others. He was also a founding member of the obscure-but-excellent psych group Kaleidoscope, a collective that made two adventurous,  West Coast-Meets-Middle-East  LPs in the late 1960s. But by the time he recorded his solo debut, become a member or log in.

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The Brothers Of Soul :: I Guess That Don’t Make Me A Loser

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Oliver Wang's Soul Sides hipped me to this record 5 or 6 years back, and its rarely left the sweet-soul stacks since. Released in '68, courtesy of Boo Records, I recently re-encountered the track in a different context via a series of compilations documenting East L.A.'s affection for 50s and 60s soul and R&B.

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Goose Creek Symphony :: A Satisfied Mind (Band Not Band)

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Lots of inquiries per the Band Not Band compilation I mentioned earlier this month, re: Clover's "Mr. Moon". The original CD-R has since been lost to the sands of various moves, road trips, etc., though I still recall much of the track selection, and will be posting it, piecemeal, over the next few months. Following Clover, track two was become a member or log in.

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We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic

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No one will accuse  Foxygen's We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic of being a concept album. It’s as stylistically diverse, maddening and confident as the Take The Kids Off Broadway EP, yet feels ready to enter the primetime -- a band confident that their set of skills will be accepted, or at least tolerated. This is in part thanks to the deft production of Richard Swift, whose hand truly feels like a contribution rather than a contraption. Sonically, the music is still confounding, still prone to fits of vibing followed by un-fettered freakouts. And with Foxygen there always seems to be a nod and a wink with every riff and turn. Sam France's manic vocal delivery, something like a man alternating between 103 degree fever dreams and a case of the chills, meanders mercurially throughout the record, with multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Rado accentuating his most fanciful moments. And it's this, Rado's own ability to genre-hop moment-to-moment, that remains one of the bands hallmarks and is as defining as France’s howls of poetry.

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Vashti Bunyan :: Winter Is Blue (1966 Acetate)

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While my perception of "winter" has wholly changed since moving to California 11 years ago, Bunyan's haunting 1966 rendering of "Winter Is Blue" continues to inhabit the season existentially. Culled from an unreleased acetate, later tacked   on the reissue of Just Another Diamond Day, the track cuts right through sunny and 75 L.A. in January. Call it achingly beautiful aural sleet and snow.

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: The Amazing – Mercury Lounge, NYC (January 25th)

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This Friday, direct from Sweden, Aquarium Drunkard presents The Amazing with Woodsman at Mercury Lounge, NYC. If you missed our 2012 Year In Review, we likened the record to a "textured glide through the past four decades of coast & canyon folk, pop and rock coupled with the pastoral side of Pink Floyd and the live fury of Crazy Horse." If that's your . . .

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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.

Download the Aquarium Drunkard session with Melody's Echo Chamber, HERE. The latest Sidecar podcast . . .

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Harlem River Drive (1971, NYC)

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Harlem River Drive were a short-lived but righteous group of musicians brought together in 1970-71 by Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri.   Veritable king of the Latin dance floors, by the end of the 1960s Palmieri was restless, out to top himself, and looking to push beyond the boundaries of the music he had been performing over the past decade. So that's what he did. He got down and pushed further out.

A street-tough blend of Latin rhythms, 70s funk, fusion, soul grooves and social poetry . . .

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