A Thing Called Soul

Isley Bros - Your Old Lady
Pete & Repeat - But Still I Do
Hollywood Playboys - Talk To Audrey
Bobby Moore & The Fourmost - Dance Of The Island
Saucers - Cha Wailey Routa
Oscar Martinez feat. Little Rudy Martinez - La Bamba
Rosco Gordon - Torro
Little Buck - So Fine, So Sweet
Tall Paul - Teen Age Hop
Big Mike - Down In New Orleans
Boogie Jake - Early In The Morning
Joan Shaw - You Drive Me Crazy
Jake Porter - El Toro
Bobby Reno & The Infernos - I've Been Hoo-Dood
Joe Tanner - The Battle
Carla Thomas - That Beat Keeps Disturbing My Sleep
Singers - Just A Little Further
Maria Tynes - Ain't Ready Yet
Showmen - Need Love
Soul Twisters - Swinging (On A Grape Vine)
Bayrons - Wild Turk
Gt's - A Thing Called Soul
Jordan Brothers - Turn On Your Love Light
Sunglows - All Night Worker
Roy Roberts - Got To Have All Your Love
Embers - Embers Theme-Before Six

Memories of Lake Evelyn

 Part 1

Maybelle Carter Autoharp Lesson (introduction)
Walter & Lola Caldwell - Bright & Morning Star (American Folksong Festival, Kentucky 1934)
Roy Harvey & Leonard Copeland - Lonesome Weary Blues (Columbia 15582-D, 10/22/1929)
Frank Floyd - Fox Chase (Adelphi AD 1023, 1976)
Uncle Dave Macon- Railroadin' & Gamblin' (Bluebird Bb-B8325, 1/26/1938)
Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston - 900 Miles (Folkways, 1940s)
Wise & White - Train Blues (Madison, FL 9/6/1936 rec. Margaret Valiant)
Aunt Molly Jackson - Roll On Buddy (New York City, 1939 rec. Alan Lomax)
Etta Baker - Railroad Bill (Morganton, NC 1956 rec. Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy, and Paul Clayton)
South Georgia Highballers - Blue Grass Twist (OKeh 45155, 10/5/1927)
Sam McGee - Knoxville Blues (Vocalion 15326, 4/17/1926)
Wade Ward - Chilly Winds (VA 1939 rec. Alan Lomax)
Hobart Smith - Pateroller Song (Saltville, VA 1956 rec. Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy, and Paul Clayton)
W.E. Bird - Old Granny Hare (Cullowhee, NC 1925 rec. Robert Winslow Gordon)

Part 2

Tobacco auction (excerpt)
"Tex"Jenks Carman - Blackjack David (Rem 329, 1963)
Ray Lunsford - Shelia (Excellent EX-400, 1958)
Jimmie Skinner (feat. Ray Lunsford) - Carroll County Blues (Mercury 71192, 1957)
McCormick Brothers - The Banjo Fling (Hickory, 1959)
Rusty York & Kentucky Mountain Boys - Cindy (Bluegrass Special 603, 1961)
Carl Story - Why Don't You Haul Off & Get Religion? (Starday, 1960)
Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys - My Lord Will Lead Me On (Spin-o-Rama)
Allen & Wakefield - I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (Folkways FA-2408, 1964)
Estill Stewart & The 7 Flat Mountain Boys - I Could Love You All The Time (Arrow 2530A, 1954)
Maggie & Louie - Someone Who Loves Me (Tek 101)
Brewster Brothers - One Little Word (Acme 2025, 8/1960)
Ted Prillaman & The Virginia Ramblers - Death Of Charlie Poole
Gene Carpenter & Ernest Jones - They'll Never Land A Man On The Sun
Jack Anglin, Van Buren "Red" Anglin & Jim Anglin - Southern Whoopie Song (Vocalion 04774, 11/12/1938)
Modern Mountaineers - Moonlight Waters (Bluebird Bb-B7423, 9/18/1937)
Mainer's Mountaineers - Johnson County Blues (King, 1946)
Jack Grant - Sweetheart You Left Me (Swannonoa 001B)
Carolina Ramblers - That Lonesome Valley (Perfect 12818/Melotone 12428, 1932)
Paul Clayton - Bile Them Cabbage Down (Folkways FG 3571, 1962)

Joy, Hope, and Pleasure

Joy, Hope & Pleasure by Vg- on Mixcloud

living truth - freedom bell version
wando - sumida
jon lucien - greater than i
SE rogie - koneh pelawo-beh ngii-jakaw
yaseen mohamed - mahaba maskini
yagnik & sargam - more ghar aye
moroder - leopard tree dream
yukio yung - my favorite ratbag
kliche - international klein blue
bohannon - come & dance with me
bobby moore - anything man 2
first class - sing me & my gemini
milton nascimento - simples
jeffmajors - room 400
loose ends - hanging
rebbie jackson edit
gaston - japanese smurf
HBM
LSR1015 - 2.1
upsetters - 3 x 3
inez brooks - chilling out
candi staton - summertime
yutaka yokokura - the rest of my life

Disenfranchised Fuzzboxes

part 1


x-treems - facts of life (st. louis, MI)
golliwogs - fight fire (el cerrito, CA)
denims - white ship (1966)
chymes - he's not there anymore (L.A.)
the odyssey - little boy, little girl (L.A.)
marauders - since i met you
kavaliers - congregation for anti-flirts, inc. (texas)
moonrakers - i'm allright (L.A.)
rumblers - leave me alone (L.A.)
sir david & his knights - shotgun (texas)
conrad & thee travelin' lights - a la media noche (texas)
vince maloney sect - no good (australia)
the eggy - you're still mine (england 1969)
liverpool 5 - she (england)
beachniks - last night i cried (iowa 1965)
the specktrum - confetti (rhode island 1967)
the sounds - little joe (texas)
the fugs - couldnt get high (NYC 1965)
memphis goons - get off your ass jon jon
acid - the story of LSD (1971 filmstrip)

part 2


samples & campbell
los yorks - mira tu (peru)
tamrons - wild man (NC)
jim tarbutton & memphis sound - the mysterian
sonny flaherty - hey conductor (ohio)
swingin' apolloes - slow down (louisiana)
blue things - orange rooftop of your mind (kansas)
sidewalk surfers - strawberry tuesday (L.A.)
the fire escape - love special delivery (L.A.)
raik's progress - why did you rob us, tank? (fresno, CA)
sounds of tyme - to understand mankind (NC)
the male - you're playing with fire (alabama)
she - outta reach (sacramento, CA)
flower power - you make me high (louisiana)
savage resurrection - thing in e (SF)
parish hall - my eyes are getting heavy (SF)
thorndike pickledish - san francisco bound

Break My Balloon

PART ONE


west coast pop art experimental band - break my balloon
caetano veloso - partido alto
mother sunday - midnight in the graveyard
portrait of fun - wages man
los solitarios - que hare hoy
anel y los chavos - warning
COC - green manalishi
wally gonzalez - bagong kabuhayan

PART TWO


sounds of harley - hard ride
wilmer & the dukes - livin' in the USA
granicus - bad talk
ray pittman - come on back
frummox - there you go
sweet wine - things you said
freaky ralph eno & the pointless sisters - eulogy
the motors - phoney heaven
wingate & floyd - empty horn
shawn phillips - moonshine

Since I Been Gone

Mostly your relatively ancient American folkstyles mish-mashed together here (in honor of our nation's birthday), but framed by some Euro-type things, and of course North Carolina artists are foregrounded heavily as always. To begin with, lawyer and folkie Bascom Lamar Lunsford delivers a lusty and forceful "Hesitation Blues" in Asheville, N.C. for Robert Winslow Gordon on behalf of the feds in 1925. Then do enjoy the fidelity on Rudy Cipolla & David Grisman's "Chinese Carousel" because it's about the only semi-contemporary recording here. Those men did have a way with their mandolins. I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find a cleaner copy of the 78 of D. Halkias' "Minore Tou Halkia", but the story behind my finding this reissue is somewhat unusual: One Saturday a few years ago, I was negotiating the bike rack at a used book sale in Fort Mason, and an old man with a long beard and a sailor's cap was next to me strapping an album of old rembetikas onto the back of his bike, to give to his Armenian wife, apparently. I had totally forgotten about the LP section at the store, and sure enough he left a few volumes in the series behind for me.
Next up, ethnomusicologist Laura Boulton records Yaqui Indians performing "Matachines" for an Easter ceremony in Tlaxcala, Mexico, sometime around 1940, the George Ku Trio offer the tender plaint "Kuu Lei" from 1932, and the Highway QC’s sing "How I Love Jesus" from a rather rough-sounding promo Vee Jay 45 I recently picked up in Washington, DC. Channeling the profane once more, Calvin Johnson thunders through a truly rocking "Unsatisfied Mind" (with drum thwack at its most cardboard boxy) and Eddie Taylor boasts "I’m Gonna Love You," also recording for Vee Jay. A different genre, but you might hear the same lightly swinging rhythm tipping in with Norvin Kelly's Hank-styled "You Can’t Make Me Live With The Blues." I'm pretty sure Carl Belew had a hit on "24 Hour Night" but boy it sure is a dark and sorrowful tune. That's nothing though, compared to Dave Van Ronk's "Hang Me." A dying soldier's tragic fuck-you wrapped up in a petty dream of betterness. Worthy aside: Van Ronk threw rocks at cops at Stonewall. Jimmie's cousin Ernest Rodgers got to make a few sides for Victor in the 20's ; the well-known "Willie The Chimney Sweeper" belongs to the whole Minnie the Moocher/Jerry the Junker body of lurid drug songs and also evokes a whole lot of Barbary Coast hoodoo as well. I'm sure you all know Michael Hurley, who continues to record and tour today. "Lilly Pads" is a just a great old album track, and pretty catchy too.
The Blue Sky Boys, aka Bill & Earl Bolick out of Hickory, N.C., were recruited for an Illinois festival reunion in 1964 by none other than Archie Green (RIP), and "Midnight On The Stormy Deep" is but one of their many old hits rekindled that night. And now a couple of hillbilly tunes struck deep with the spirit: Fred Starr & His Mountain Boys's "Shout & Shine" is from a surprisingly stirring budget label LP, and this version of "There Ain’t No Grave" (a song I've never heard a bad version of) is off a 1961 single by Detroit-area duo by the name of Jimmie Williams & Red Ellis, both of whom had long careers prior to this. Play-party time again, and the mighty Algia Mae Hinton bangs out an "Old Time Buck Dance," mad breaks and all. Next is a record by the Internes. I'm pretty sure they're the Four Internes of Durham, N.C., whose career supposedly began while working as orderlies at Duke Hospital and recorded for King/Federal in the early 50's. "When You Pray" is an uptempo harmony fingersnapper from 1958. No surprises from Brownie McGhee's  "My Fault" ; his honest and unassuming manner make the song, and it's really in that Tampa Red/Melrose family vein of solid pop blues.
Les Waldroop's "Watergate Bug" is an obscure record even for him, and what a tangled, weird anachronism it is too. Collecting North Carolina records is even more fun when artists actually name-check places; that's only part of what makes Jack Grant 's "Raleigh Train" such a hoot, but it's a big part. Besides, train songs rule. Now to throw you off the scent, this isn't the Carolinian guitarist Arthur Smith, but the fiddling Arthur Smith Trio of an earlier era; their breakneck "I’m Bound To Ride" of 1935 was later covered by the Stanley Brothers. Not much info on this here National Geographic Music Of The Ozarks record, but I'll be darned if this "Guitar Medley" ain't the jam. Harmonica Frank Floyd presents the familiar "Married Man" descriptive novelty in fine form (I'd buy a bottle or two). As you can hear, he hadn't really mellowed out too much by the 70's.
Sandy & Jeanie Darlington's "When I Die" is simple revival purity, somewhat blemished by the following blue record: pretty sure that Pratt & George Blues Part 2 is from an instantaneous recording from the 1930's or possibly 40's, at any rate early for this kind of aimless funk. Stirring up the kettle a little bit, Radley Gourzong's take on one of the most ur-fiddle tunes ever, "Devil’s Dream," is a field recording from the Caymans, and is from the great compilation Under the Coconut Tree on Original Music. And now we hear some fine Hungarian orchestrated soul from Asszony Lesz A Lanybol with "Levelem, Levelem" and then, also from Hungary, one of Bela Bartok's legendary cylinder recordings. This is of two girls, Battovsky and Zichla, performing "Megjott A Level Fekete Pecsettel," and it is from around 1910.

Period Peace

hi. i'll be posting every two weeks, starting last week. this mix we got here is a real mixed bunch but i tried to keep the spirit pretty uniform. electric guitar and organ, seagulls and surf, loner/us versus them mentality. mostly sixties too.

remo biondi- lament for lana
king fleming - stand by pt. 2
charlie ventura - east of suez
sticks evans & afro-americans - africa laments
arabian nights - night in arabia
JP& the turnpikes_ - navajo
ronny underwood - night jet
toni harper - never trust a stranger
caymmi & quarteto em cy - historia de pescadores
cal tjader - curtain call
potters clay - are these your thoughts
charles lloyd - ship excerpt
islanders - king of the surf
monzas - forever walks a drifter
johnny heartsman - lovelorn flame
denny walters - i know i'm losing you
los xochimilcas - mazatlan
los yencas - y la amo
la brigada - nada
gary mcfarout - wine & bread
LA county COPE - sacramento playhouse
charles lamont - before it's over
vietnam war actuality
fawns - wish you were here
chico buarque - ua cheia
carr & kahl - daphne
unknown solo piano (white label 45)
kentfield elementary honor band - its the time of the year
the mustang - acid test

Funk Music of Black America

Little Sonny - Funky Broadway
Monguito - Everybody Needs Help
Walter Rhodes – It’s Not What you Do
Yakety Yaks - Soul Night
Tropicals - Mwad’s
Shirlean Williams (actually Nolla Manor) & Tempo’s - Ease It To Me
Concept 9 – No Escape
Camille Bob - 2 weeks 2 days
Tommy Lee & Autographs - Wake Up Young People
4 Tops - My Past just Crossed My Future
Eliminators - Give It Up
Green Berets- We Must Make Things Right
Love for Dollars & Cents - In the Next World
Holy Lights – I’ll Be Satisfied
Music Messengers - Signed Sealed Delivered
Meditation Singers - Get High on The Lord
Mar-keys - Creeper's Funkatrations