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Big Guitars from Texas
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Boomerang
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Our twang theme album has a slight Aussie flavor on this tune
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Wirra Birra
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A Forest of Gum Trees & Running Water
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From "Digeridoos: Sounds of the Aborigine." This song uses rhythm sticks to make the sounds of the forest: "The kookaburra laughs from the trees.
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Nomad
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Nomad
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An odd album of digeridoo & Aborigine vocals/sounds from 1994. Some cuts have Mor Thiam from Senegal & Native American Robert Mirabal. Does anyone know: Is Nomad a person or a band?
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Marc Ribot
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Fat Man Blues
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Solo guitar, from new CD: "Silent Movies" (Pi, 2010)
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Davy Spillane
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River of Gems
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Cool Celtic piper, formerly of Moving Hearts
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Katie's Quartet
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Duke of Cornwall's Reel
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A ceilidh band. On the web, says they are an English dance band. When I first looked, I got them mixed up with a group from Katy, Texas.
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Davy Graham and Holly
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Round Midnight
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This fine British guitarist died in 2008; this music comes from a 1970 album. He usually plays Celtic guitar but, as this number shows, he can certainly stretch!
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Music behind DJ:
Duncan King-Smith
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Spirit Earth
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Ambient music from Australia
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Edward II
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Wild Mountain Thyme
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From a fRoots collection (#8)-- from Folk Roots magazine, a fine English journal that puts out CDs with each issue. Thanks to Mike Locicero for giving me this-- and lotsa CDs
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Dick Gaughan
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Let It Be Me
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Cover of an Everly Brothers song, from Scottish political folkie. On Appleseed Recordings, 1998.
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Billy Bragg & Wilco
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Walt Whitman's Niece
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One more Brit, sorta. What these guys did with lost Woody Guthrie songs is just amazing!
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Tom Waits
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Down in the Hole
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This song-- in many versions-- was the theme to the Wire, that great & gritty TV series from a few years back.
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Darrell Nulisch & Texas Heat
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Orange Soda
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From a blues harp collection on Rounder, from 1997
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Shawn Colvin
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Viva Las Vegas
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From "Till the Night is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus"
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Duane & Miriam Eddy
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Guitar on my Mind
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Another tribute album, this one for Lee Hazlewood, new from Ace.
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Al Casey with the K-C-Ettes
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Guitars, Guitars, Guitars
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Wow!! More Lee Hazlewood. I've played this before but too much ain't enough, as they say.
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Music behind DJ:
Marc Ribot
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Eric Clapton
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Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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This is why he is considered the guitar god. Clapton joined a bunch of other heavies in the 90s for a Bob Dylan tribute at Madison Square Garden.
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John Mayall
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Jacksboro Highway
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Clapton's former boss, from 1990. A nice album: "A Sense of Place" (Island)
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Pancho Villa & the Bandits
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Ain't That Bad
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A vinyl collection called "Whip It On 'Em" on Candy Records, from 1990.
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Bobby Davis
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Damper Down
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Deanna Rocket
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When Your World Comes Tumbling Down
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A wild new collection just arrived: "Beehives & Bumper Bullets: Country Girls of the 1960s" (Tbird Records)
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Bill Neely
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Austin Breakdown
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I used to see Bill play when I lived in Austin in the early 70s, mostly a parties; this album was recorded in 1974 and released on CD 2001 (Arhoolie)
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Bill Neely w/ R Powell St. John
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Deep Elm Blues
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A blues classic about the red light district of old Dallas; RP St John was a charter member of Mother Earth, the Austin-to-San Francisco band that spawned Tracy Nelson
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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Deep Eddy Blues
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Similar title but Jimmie wrote this. Deep Eddy is a neighborhood in Austin with a great swimming hole.
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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So I'll Run
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Written by another Lubbock guy, Al Strehli. The Flatlanders-- Jimmie's band with Joe Ely & Butch Hancock-- do another Al Strehli song on the their 1972 debut album. Should I play it?
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The Flatlanders
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Keeper of the Mountain
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Okay, you twisted my arm. Another Al Strehli tune. This original Jimmie Dale & the Flatlanders album is out of CD on, get this, Sun Records.
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Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin
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Rex's Blues
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Another pretty good Texas songwriter. From "Riding the Range: The Songs of Townes Van Zandt" (Righteous Records, 2010)
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Rob Dunford
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Two Girls
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Another Townes cover. This CD is a benefit for the QE2 Activity Centre in London
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Giant Sand
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Ride the Rail
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Song salutes the Molly McGuires, the radical Irish coalminers from Pennsylvania. New CD is "Blurry Blue Mountain" on Fire
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Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
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Strange Ways to Win Wars
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Former Mekons player has a nice new album on Bloodshot: "Old Devils"
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Jimmie Rodgers
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Waiting for a Train
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"I left my home in Texas, a state I dearly love." The Singing Brakeman was from Mississippi but my Texas friends took as one of their own.
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Merle Haggard
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California Blues
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Merle recorded this in 1968 & 1969, a superb tribute to a great country songwriter: "Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Sings the Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers"
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Merle Haggard
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Narration #1
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I could listen to Merle talk for hours!
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Merle Haggard
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Hobo's Meditation
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"Will the hobo chum with the rich man?" Heaven to the hobo=No tough cops or brakemen. I used to think he was saying "tough cops for breakfast."
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Iris DeMent
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Hobo Bill's Last Ride
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This sweet tribute to Jimmie Rodgers has Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Van Morrison, Aaron Neville and lots more
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Porter Wagoner
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Lonely Coming Down
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Despite his sequined suits, his production excess, his corny shtick, this could write and sings songs.
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Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra
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What's New Pussycat?
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His slogan-- an early album title-- used to be "Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye." This album, a vinyl find, is "Swing & Sawy Au Go Go". .
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Glen Velez
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Inner Smile
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This is from a 1995 CD called "Pan Eros" (CMP)
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Tom Ze
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O Ceu Desabou
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Great music still comes out of Brazil via Tom Ze. From his new CD: "Estudando A Bossa: Nordeste Plaza" (Luaka Bop, 2010). This song, its says, is "inspired by The Perisans by Aeschylus"
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Tom Ze
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Sincope Jaobim
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I don't know Portuguese but I'm pretty sure Tom Jobim would have appreciated this.
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Caetano Veloso
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Cry Me A River
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The first time I heard this album-- Veloso singing pop tunes in English-- I thought it was (mostly) embarrassing. But there are some good ones. I loaned my copy of this to someone and want it back. Who has it?
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Afrocubism
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Mali Cuba
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This is the collaboration between African & Cuban musicians that was supposed to happen a while back. It's worth the wait. This tune by Toumani Diabate celebrates the independence of Mali, although we are hearing the instrumental version
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Afrocubism
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Bensema
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Buena Vista Social Club alum Eliades Ochoa plays great guitar on this one. The CD is on World Circuit/Nonesuch.
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Blood Sweat & Tears
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Overture
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The original band, with Al Kooper & Steve Katz:, with that great cover: "Child Is the Father to Man"
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Blood Sweat & Tears
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I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
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Randy Brecker plays sax. Watta band!!
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