Final artist lineup for our day party. Our (unofficial) fiesta is happening Thursday March 15th at Hype Hotel - 504 Trinity Street. Free booze. RSVP details below. Artist lineup, below. See you in Texas.
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Nick Waterhouse & the Tarots - 1:00
Lee Fields and The Expressions — 2:00
Bass . . .
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It was somewhere in New Mexico, while out in the desert on a road trip listening the old Nuggets compilation, that a bunch of us got to listing our favorite Dylan homages/ripoffs. Specifically the track "A Public Execution" by the sixties garage rock band, Mouse, from Tyler, TX. Of course Stealers Wheel came up - their "Stuck In The Middle With You" Dylan aping from 1972; so did the Beatles "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away," various Donovan tracks, etc, etc.
MP3: Mouse :: A Public Execution
So. Without running down a list of some of the more obvious (and less so) tracks we came up with, I'm curious as to which songs immediately come to mind, re: Dylan aping. Hit us up in the comments. The more blatant the better. Oh, and I'm well aware that Dylan borrowed/stole from many before him, so no need to get into/rehash all that.
Related: After the jump, stream Bob Dylan's epic 1978 film, 'Renaldo & Clara," in its entirety. This version is the best quality I've seen yet. Filmed in 1975, during Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, it was originally released in 1978 with a running time of nearly four hours. Epic, indeed.
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(Volume nine 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)
What's commonly considered to be "blues" tends to be pretty cliche'd. Unfortunately, the forces of commerce and mass . . .
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Twenty-three track radio session Randy Newman cut while in New York City, August 1971, for WPLJ FM. Stripped down, solo piano. The session highlights material culled from Newman's first two albums, and showcases tracks from his next full-length, 1972's Sail Away.
Download: Randy Newman: WPLJ FM - New York, NY, 1971
01. Lover's Prayer02. Yellow Man03. Sail Away04. Living Without You05. Mama Told Me Not To Come06. Rosemary07. Last Night I Had A Dream08. Let Me Go09. Lucinda10. I . . .
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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 230: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Destroyer - Leave Me Alone (New Order) ++ Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl ++ White Hinterland - Requiem Pour Un Con ++ The Beach Boys - Unknown Harmony ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (New Order) ++ No Joy - Heedless ++ Girls . . .
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Before Wit's End, before Catacombs and before the near universal 'year-end list' acclaim, Cass McCombs quietly released A in 2004 via the Monitor label. I've been reintroducing the album piecemeal into my radio show over the past few months. Revisit A's opening pair of tracks below.
MP3: Cass McCombs :: I Went To The Hospital
MP3: Cass McCombs . . .
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Bill Fay is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity culminating in a series of commendable reissues of the artist’s work. Going into Time of the Last Persecution, however, I was unaware of such recent windfalls.
Initially I was a bit uncertain as to Fay’s . . .
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As I mentioned earlier in the month, the Dirty Three have a new LP dropping in February. My copy has been on repeat, but revisiting the Melbourne trio's last output - 2005's Cinder - I was reminded how I used to imagine what the album's cornerstone track, "Great Waves," would sound like with Will Oldham handling the vocals in place of Chan Marshall (yes, I think about this sort of thing). Aesthetically the fit seems perfect.
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Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, his 12th studio album, will be released a week from today. If I might I offer a suggestion, listen to the album cold - sans any outside editorial critique. You'll be glad you did...it's worth it.
You can stream to the record, in its entirety, here . . .
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Serge Gainsbourg cut "Requiem pour un Con" in 1968 for Jean Gabin's film Le Pacha (see clip below). Forty years later Casey Dienel, under the nom de tune, White Hinterland, released the Francophone, six song, Luniculaire ep. I've been revisiting the collection for the first time since its release - specifically Hinterland's take on "Requiem . . .
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This shit is intense. My friend Ryan happened upon Sandy Nassan's Just Guitar while digging at Folk Arts Records in San Diego a few weeks back. Released in 1970, the opening track, "Jam," is just that. Clocking it at over 16 minutes, Ryan described it as: "being drawn into the most tense moment of the most suspenseful movie you've ever seen - it's like Sandy Bull on steroids and it doesn't let up. It's . . .
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RE: Dan Bejar. The latest Mojo compilation to hit newsstands is a disc comprised of reinterpretations of New Order's second LP, 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies. The covers range from the fairly catholic to wholly re-imagined versions, with the key takeaway being Destroyer's take on the original album's eighth and final track, "become a member or log in.
How's your French? I watched this twice last night before going out -- 1969 footage from a French documentary on the Stax and Muscle Shoals sound. The description bills its 11 minutes as featuring "Brook Benton & Booker T. & The MGs recording session...and The The Mar-keys working out a horn arrangement" but what your really seeing is a rare view into one of the most fertile eras of 20th century American music. Hat tip to Scottie Diablo for the tip and Bedazzled for the upload . . .
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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 229: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The Damned - New Rose ++ Bleached - Think Of You ++ Bass Drum of Death - Nerve Jamming ++ Ty Segall - Girlfriend ++ Black Keys - Thickfreakness ++ Jeff The Brotherhood - Health And Strength (Heavy Version) ++ The Soft Pack - Fences ++ Lower Dens - Brains ++ Pet Politics - The Ghost Mary And Her Friends ++ Le Loops . . .
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To these American ears, Merit Hemmingson's Swedish lyrics on "Brudmarsch efter Florsen i Burs" come across like an inspired - if whimsical - jazz scat vocal. Known as the "queen of Swedish Hammond folk groove," "Brudmarsch" is culled from Hemmingson's 1972 LP, Trollskog. While the Hammond organ is ever-present, it's this - the more 'folk' than 'groove' side of her work - that keeps me coming back.
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