Thu 19 May 2016
Music I’m Listening To: RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM “I Get The Blues When It Rains.”
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From violinist and lead singer Rani Arbo’s 2001 release Cocktail Swing, her group’s first CD:
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Tue 17 May 2016
Music I’m Listening To: GUY CLARK – Texas Cookin’.
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Here’s the title track from this Texas singer-songwriter’s second album (RCA, 1976):
Sat 30 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: KAY HUNTINGTON “What’s Happening to Our World?”
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While browsing through the folk LPs offered for sale in a retro music shop in Magnolia Park yesterday, I came across quite a few names from the past that I hadn’t thought of in years, such as Fred Neil, Judy Henske, Phil Ochs, and Carolyn Hester, but also several that I’d don’t remember at all. Such a one is Kay Huntington, who seems to have released one LP, that in 1970, before she seems to have disappeared from the music business forever.
The LP is entitled What’s Happening to Over World? It was released in 1970, and it has never been reissued on CD. But most of the songs on it are on YouTube. Here’s the title track:
And as a bonus, one other song on it, “Right to Poverty,” that has caught my ear:
Mon 25 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: ALLAN CHASE QUARTET “Borderick.”
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From this group’s 1995 album Dark Clouds with Silver Linings, this bright and bouncy tune by Bud Powell:
Personnel: Allan Chase, alto & soprano sax; Ron Horton, trumpet & flugelhorn; Tony Scherr, bass; and Matt Wilson, drums.
Sun 24 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: EMMYLOU HARRIS & JOHN PRINE “Magnolia Wind.”
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From the two-disc Guy Clark tribute album This One’s For Him (2011):
Sat 23 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: BARBARA DENNERLEIN “Very Hot Stuff.”
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I don’t know anything about playing the Hammond B3 organ, but to me this is awesome, if not physically impossible:
Fri 22 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: LES SAMPOU “My, My, My.”
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A live version of this song from acoustic blues-rock singer Les Sampou’s 2010 album Lonesomeville.
Sun 17 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: MADELEINE PEYROUX & WILLIAM GALISON “The Way You Look Tonight.”
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Recorded in 1999 and after a contentious split-up, contained in the album Got You on My Mind compiled by Galison alone in 2003:
Sat 16 Apr 2016
Music I’m Listening To: RUN WESTY RUN “Green Cat Island” Complete CD.
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Run Westy Run was a Minneapolis-based post-punk guitar band that was very popular in Minnesota in the late 1980s, but they remained practically unknown in the rest of the country. Their third and final album Green Cat Island was released by Twin/Tone Records in 1990.
Fri 15 Apr 2016
JONATHAN LEWIS: Music I’m Listening To — JOHN KAY “Moonshine (Friend of Mine) .”
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SELECTED BY JONATHAN LEWIS:
This song was used as the theme for The Moonshine War, a comedy-drama based on a Leonard Elmore novel and starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Widmark, Alan Alda and Melodie Johnson.