The two core members of Rockin’ Horse, Jimmy Campbell and Billy Kinsley, are masters of English beat music. Students of American R&B, The Everly Brothers, and the Shirelles, the pair could marry a hard rocking groove to a pop hook with ease and could blend their voices into beautiful close harmony. The band itself was a figment of the studio, a one-off ensemble gathered at Majestic Studios in Clapham, South London, to make the great ‘60s rock album four years too late.
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: Fukuoka, Japan – March 8, 1976
"I'd like to do this song for Rodan the Flying Monster," announces Neil Young towards the end of the opening acoustic set on this excellent audience tape. The song that follows is a mellow rendition of the chart-topping "Heart of Gold". But Neil obviously had Japanese monsters in mind this evening: he returns for the second set with Crazy Horse and proceeds to lay waste to the concert hall like Godzilla.
Aside from a few low profile NoCal gigs in 1975, this Japanese jaunt was the debut of the new Crazy Horse with . . .
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Nina Simone :: Revolution (Harlem Cultural Festival, 1969)
"I thought it was interesting that Nina Simone did a sort of answer to “Revolution”. That was very good -- it was sort of like “Revolution,” but not quite. That I sort of enjoyed, somebody who reacted immediately to what I had said." - John Lennon, 1971
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Ray Stinnett :: A Fire Somewhere
"Wooly Bully" this is not. Following his departure from Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, Ray Stinnett took off for the Haight in 1967. Shacking up at the Morning Star Ranch with his wife and young son, Stinnett bean sowing the seeds on what would later become A Fire Somewhere -- a record that would languish unreleased and in obscurity until now. Four long decades after A&M first shelved the tapes, Fire sees its belated . . .
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
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.
Matt Sullivan from Light In The Attic Records is my guest this week. Recorded Sept 18th at the label's HQ in Hollywood, CA.
SIRIUS 263: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The High Numbers - I'm The Face ++ The Orwells - Mallrats (La La La . . .
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Jamaica To Toronto :: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974
As we inch closer to Light in the Attic Record’s 10 year anniversary showcase, featuring Rodriguez and Shin Joong Hyun later this month in L.A., it’s worth noting that the label’s last decade has been littered with classics. Case in point, the excellent 2006 compilation, Jamaica to Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974, a set that finds . . .
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Loving On The Flip Side :: Sweet Funk And Beat-Heavy Ballads
There’s a type of tunnel vision that goes along with being a collector. Regardless of what his or her particular obsession might be, any collector will hone in on a detail or a characteristic and proceed to amass as many objects exhibiting said details as possible. Whether it’s stamps, comic books, or vintage clothing, the devil is always in the details. And when it comes to records, especially 45s, that tunnel vision often causes one to miss out on some amazing music; it happens to me all the time. become a member or log in.
Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmissions) – Transmission / 1
Eleven track polyglot bouillabaisse of sound spanning 3 continents, 2 decades, and a dozen time zones. Sidecar - First transmission.
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IntroBeach Boys - Unknown Harmony (except)Rob Jo Star Band - I Call On One's MuseCisneros & Garza . . .
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Elizabeth Cotten :: Shake Sugaree
File under: oft-covered. Culled from the Smithsonian Folkways reissue of Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten's 1965 sophomore LP, "Shake Sugaree" was sung by Cotten's then 12 year old great-granddaughter, Brenda Evans. Effortless grace.
MP3: Elizabeth Cotten :: Shake Sugaree
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Willie Nelson & Family :: Okie From Muskogee, 1974
Dan “Bee” Spears was all of nineteen years old when he joined Willie Nelson’s Family Band as a bassist, a post he would hold until his death in December 2011. Marshall Grant’s tubthumping time in the Tennessee Two notwithstanding, country music bassists tend not to draw attention to themselves. Given Willie Nelson’s fast and loose relationship with conventional rhythm, Spears’ job was to act as the anchor that both allowed the band the freedom to roam and kept them from falling out of sync. It’s . . .
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Aaron Embry :: Tiny Prayers
Aaron Embry waited thirty-six years to make his debut album, Tiny Prayers. It’s the type of record you only get a chance to make once -- an album he began writing while on the road with his friend, Alexander Ebert. Before that, Embry was a hired gun for some other folks you may have heard of (Willie Nelson, Elliot Smith). Mostly a piano player, this particular set of songs came to Embry via an old tenor guitar, in an octave mandolin tuning, and a harmonica.
“Moon of the Daylit Sky,” the album’s opening track and first single, is a rarified thing. Opening with just acoustic guitar and harmonica, like half the other folk songs before it, something immediately sets Embry’s apart. The arrangement is perfectly sparse, but there’s a bit of old-fashioned magic as some brushed drums, mandolin, and Embry’s tinkling of the ivory fill out the song’s skeletal frame.
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Pescado Rabioso :: Cementerio Club (1973, Argentina)
Argentina's Pescado Rabioso existed in name only by the time this laid back groove was produced and released in 1973. Culled from the band's best, fourth, and final record, Artaud, "Cementerio Club" is a dead man's blues -- a man cut down by by his lover's contempt, left for dead from the heat of too many moments. And when our dead man sings of how sad and lonely he'll . . .
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AD Presents :: Guided By Voices, NOLA – One Eyed Jacks, 9/22
The club is indeed open. Next Saturday, September 22nd, Aquarium Drunkard presents Guided By Voices at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. Detective and KG Accidental support. Tickets available, here. We're also giving away a few . . .
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
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 262: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Cisneros & Garza Group — I’m A Man ++ The Daktaris — Super Afro-Beat ++ Music Convention — Big Green ++ Dion — Daddy Rollin’ (In Your Arms) ++ Niela Miller — Baby Don’t Go To Town ++ The Olivia Tremor Control — California Demise, Pt. 3 ++ The Rolling Stones — We Love You . . .
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The Yamasuki Singers :: Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki
Yamasuki began as a dance craze in 5 steps -- full-body instructions are on the album cover. Its mastermind was Daniel Vangarde, a French auteur of the concept album who skipped and pirouetted across genres and cultures with Gainsbourgian whimsy. Written mostly with his Belgian producer-partner Jean Kluger, Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki
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