Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
January 25, 2008
Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
This show is available for listening as an archive for one week after its airing at WPVM’s Archive Page (click on the STREAM button for this show–under the letter ‘G’)
Notes:
– I’ve liked everything I’ve played off the new Tight Leather CD, so I’ll be going to see them play at the New French Bar on March 8. They’re from Lexington, Kentucky, and play arty garage punk with a psych and VU slant–right up my alley.
– Also new and somewhat amusing were two garage outfits on the Spoonful record label out of Ohio. First came The Griefs, from Cincinnati and featuring Eric Stein, who used to be in the Greenhornes and has played with Holly Golightly. They play a kind of retro-garage pop that reminds me a lot of the dB’s and Let’s Active, but at times they can also lay down the fuzz à la Mudhoney. Second was The Tough & Lovely from Columbus, who aren’t as noisy as many of their townmates and often recall the stylings of Mary Weiss with Reigning Sound. More exciting than both those bands, however, is These Are Powers, who are somehow from both Brooklyn and Chicago–I hope that works out for them.
– Oh, the 70s. Today’s pic is from the back cover of the 1977 album by Robert Gordon (left) with Link Wray (right). Whoever the art director was for this album kinda missed the mark, I dare say, unless there were lots of gay rockabilly fans back then. What a great pose! Pink background? Gotta love the chest hair, open shirt, and wifebeater. The song I played, though, was so great I thought it had to be a cover, but no, "Woman (You’re My Woman)" is a Link Wray original. Link Wray’s 70s work is thoroughly under-appreciated, by the way. Check out the early 70s records, Link Wray, Beans and Fatback, and the Mordicai Jones album, all gathered on the 2CD collection, Wray’s Three Track Shack (Acadia 2005).
– New volunteer Shaina sat in again this week and brought bunches of fiddle music that’s not bluegrass, and so we played a set of bluegrass vs. the rest of the world. I didn’t really play fiddle music per se, so it wasn’t a rigorous contest. We switched to vocal music about half-way through, but the set worked out nicely, even with Nico rounding it up. She just mixed too well with Shirley Collins to leave out.
Background Music: Jimi Hendrix - Moods (Trip)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Half Japanese | Best of the Best | Hello | Alternative Tentacles | 2001, great riff | |
| Screamin’ Mee-Mees | Blue Trashcan | Plastic Hong Kong Door Bell Finger | Gulcher | It "always reminds me that I want to murder you." | * |
| Tight Leather | Sun | Severed Sentry | Tight Leather | Lexington, Kentucky. Playing Asheville on March 8 (New French Bar) | * |
| The Griefs | It Was Another Time | Throwing a Tempo Tantrum | Spoonful | Cincinnati garage pop | * |
| The Tough & Lovely | With You (In Your Arms) | Teardrops | Spoonful | Cleveland garage | * |
| These Are Powers | You Come with Nothing | Terrific Seasons | Hoss | Brooklyn and Chicago | * |
| The Rebel | Iran’s Nuclear Threat | Brown Girl in the Ring | s/r | Oh, the Rebel (B.R. Wallers of the Country Teasers), we love you so | |
| Gibson Bros. | Dedicated Fool | Dedicated Fool | Homestead | 1989, with Asheville resident Don Howland (when he lived in Columbus, OH) | |
| Jewlia Eisenberg | Meister of Kultur | Trilectic | Tzadik | Shaina pick. Nice singing, bad German accents. | |
| Gorilla Angreb | Jeg Går Ikke I Sort | s/t | Feral Ward | Swedish X | |
| Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci | Y Ffordd Oren | Introducing | Mercury | Shaina pick. Welsh. | |
| Robert Gordon with Link Wray | Woman (You’re My Woman) | s/t | Private Stock | 1977, great Link Wray song (and guitar) | |
| Pivi et les Balladins | Samba | Authenticité: The Syliphone Years | Stern’s Music | 1972 from Guinea | |
| Sun Ra | Sun-Earth Rock | The Night of The Purple Moon | Atavistic Unheard Music | 1970, John Gilmore on drums! | * |
| Bennie Maupin | Mappo | The Jewel in the Lotus | ECM | 1974 classic album | * |
| Annbjørg Lien | Villvinter (Wild Winter) | Prisme | Shanachie | Shaina pick. 1996, Norwegian fiddle player | |
| Bill Monroe | Blue Grass Breakdown | 16 Gems | Columbia Legacy | 1947, with Flatt & Scruggs in the band | |
| Robin Williamson and His Merry Band | Cadgers on the Cannongate | Farewell Concert at McCabes | Resurgent | Shaina pick. 1979 Scottish, former member of Incredible String Band | |
| Del McCoury Band | Red Eyes on a Mad Dog | The Family | Ceili | 1999, bluegrass sounding kinda Celtic | |
| Le Vent du Nord | Les Amant de Saint-Laurent | Les Amants de Saint-Laurent | Xenophile | Shaina pick. 2005 Quebec, with hurdy gurdy | |
| Bill Monroe and Doc Watson | What What You Give in Exchange for Your Soul? | Live Duet Recordings 1963-1980 | Smithsonian Folkways | 1963 live recording of the old Monroe Brothers smash hit | |
| Shirley Collins | The Streets of Derry | The Sweet Primeroses | Topic | 1967, with her sister Dolly | |
| Nico | Janitor of Lunacy | Desertshore | Reprise | from The Frozen Borderline 1968-1970 | |
| Leonda | Peace and Pipes | Woman in the Sun | Fallout | 1969 California | * |
| Maximo Damian | Cele Celeste | El Violin de Ishua | A.S.P.I.C. Editions Suisse | 1993 Peruvian fiddle | |
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