Known to J Dilla disciples for his sampling of "Light My Fire" on Donuts, it was Lil Brown's title and artwork - an obvious nod to Music From Big Pink - that initially caught my ear a few years back. I suppose all roads do lead to Rome.
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Dark, reverb-y, Kentucky-born garage blues strike back. "Rotten On The Vine" - the new single from the Owsley Brothers upcoming full-length - delivers on all the promise of last year's Pure Lust ep (see: "Blood & Fire" below). Look for the new LP, Cobalt, out March 6.
MP3: The Owsley Brothers :: Rotten . . .
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Sip on this narcoleptic soul brew - Junior Parker's psychedelic molasses rendition of the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows." One of three Beatles covers found on his 1971 LP, Love ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin' On, Parker died of a brain tumor the year of its release just shy of his fortieth birthday.
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Originally released in 1971 via the Black Jazz label, Tompkins Square is set to drop a vinyl-only reissue of Calvin Keys debut LP, Shawn-Neeq, this Tuesday. Check out "B.E." below for a taste, and stream the LP in its entirety here.
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(Volume eight 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. — AD)
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 227: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Reparata & the Delrons - Boys and Girls ++ Dum Dum Girls - Pay For Me ++ Bleached - Dazed ++ Gentleman Jesse - Highland Crawler ++ The Owsley Brothers - Blood & Fire ++ Takeshi Terauchi — What Have They Done / Venice — 30Th Century ++ Beatle-Ettes — Only Seventeen ++ Arif Sag — Su Sansunun Evleri . . .
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Culled from the BYG vaults, I've had Coeur Magique's slice of French psychedelia, "Mademoiselle Marie," on deck for awhile now slated for an upcoming DJ set. Track two off the groups 1971 LP, Wakan Tanka, the track exemplifies the substrain of heavy, guitar-driven, underground French psych blasting off at the time (see also: become a member or log in.
As promised, more sixties girl-group stuff. If you keep up with this sort of thing (we do), you'll remember The Girls were rescued from collector obscurity awhile back via the mutli-volume Girls In The Garage series - and then later on the similar themed, higher profile, ACE Records compilation become a member or log in.
Caveat Lector: I've been on another vintage girl-group kick of late and will be featuring some lesser known faves over the next few days beginning with Reparata & The Delrons "Boys And Girls." Clocking in at an all too brief one minute and forty-six seconds, it's propulsive drums and percussive piano that drive the track. Pair the two with syncopated handclaps, attitude and elevated vocal harmonics and the song finds itself residing in that oft elusive, intangible, sweet spot.
Formed in 1962 at . . .
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Pete Drake’s performance of his hit song, “Forever,” in the film Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar is a proto-Hee-Haw flight of fancy. The assembled band members nod their heads back and forth to a hypnotic beat on a down-home, front porch set. Drake sits at a pedal steel emblazoned with his name and is dressed in a crisp suit. The scene has all the trappings of high honky-tonk decadence and country fancy. But when the verse comes around . . .
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Welcome to 2012. Here's one for the last year of our existence, Father John Misty's duet with Phosphorescent on the Misty original, "I Would Love You."
MP3: Father John Misty & Phosphorescent :: I Would Love You
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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
The Roots' Undun is a concept record - a man's life told in reverse, starting with the flatlining of his heartbeat and working backward through his life. But it's interesting that within that concept, the last song with lyrics, and therefore the earliest song in our protagonist's . . .
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As mentioned in the inaugural Videodrome post last month, the recurring series is an effort to highlight some of the more exceptional videos and/or performances we stumble upon out there in the ether. This week we're looking at some footage from 1968 -- an intimate live performance of Booker T. & The MG . . .
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 226: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne ++ Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me A Tale ++ Bill Withers - Better Off Dead ++ Ify Jerry Krusade — Everybody Likes Something Good ++ Amanaz - Khala My Friend ++ Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters - Hey Jude ++ Santa Nguessan :: Manny Nia ++ Os Mutantes - A Minha . . .
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Aquarium Drunkard presents Black Lips New Year's Eve at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. It's going to be nuts. We're giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, send an email to blacklipsnye AT gmail.com with your full name and favorite record of 2011. Winners . . .
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