Playlist for

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
August 29, 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’)

– Justin Farrar was my co-host today. As usual, he brought the goods.

– I’m still behind on the playlists, so this will lie sadly uncommented.

Playlist for

Invisible Worm Fill-in
August 26, 2008

Hosted by Greg Lyon on FRIDAYS at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)

– Shaina couldn’t do The Invisible Worm this week, so I sat in for her show. Here’s the playlist:

Playlist for

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
August 22, 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’)

– I’m behind in posting playlists, so no comments this time around.

Playlist for

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
August 15, 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’)

– HUGE amount of late-60s/early 70s Euro prog and psych rock today, including Dark (UK), Twink (UK), Les Irresistibles (France), MI5 (UK), Improved Sound Limited (Germany), Annexus Quam (Germany), Alrune Rod (Denmark). Of these, I’d hand the crown to Twink; that Think Pink album is in serious heavy rotation chez Greg.

– Delia Derbyshire, however, was far more impressive, although not at all rock. She worked for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and is responsible for the transcendent Doctor Who theme (she didn’t write the song, but she ‘played’ and recorded it using an incredible array of tapes and other electronic machinery). By the mid-1970s, though, she had given up electronic music, evidently because the synthesizer had made things too pre-fabricated.

– That Mykal Xul CD on Gulcher Records out of Indiana is the most perverted scum-rock I’ve heard in a very long time, perhaps since The Frogs’ masterpiece, It’s Only Right and Natural (1989). But wait, The Frogs’ album is not really rock, so maybe you have to go back to the other new release on Gulcher, The Gynecologists’ Hoosier Psychopaths (1981-1994: The Official Recordings). Sick sick sick. I played Mykal Xul covering The Gizmos–because it was the only unedited song on the CD one can play during the day on the radio. If only you could hear "Ridin’ the Cuke." Damn you, FCC!!!!!

– Honest Jon’s Records, out of the UK, hits the 78-RPM jackpot with their new compilation, Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted – Baghdad, 1925-1929. Jaw-droppingly good.

– I love vibes. One day I’m gonna do an all-vibes special radio show. When I do, Walt Dickerson will be well represented. Today’s background music (and a full-volume cut) was his 1966 release, Impressions of A Patch of Blue, where he took the Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack to the movie A Patch of Blue and made jazz out of it. Sun Ra plays piano and celeste on the record, which is one of the rare sideman appearances in Ra’s discography. Absolutely gorgeous record, but I have to say, I’ve had extraordinarily bad luck acquiring a satisfying copy of it. The CD reissue is out of print and expensive, so I bid and won a shrink-wrapped copy of the album on ebay, only to determine upon opening the shink-wrap that it was a mis-pressing: the record had two Side Bs. So I got another copy on ebay, only to determine this time around that I had purchased a mono copy. And I want the stereo copy. Damn you, ebay!!!!!

Background Music: Walt Dickerson Quartet – Impressions of A Patch of Blue (MGM 1966)

Playlist for

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
August 8, 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’)

– First solo show in ages. I played a lot of yummy new jazz releases, including the first-ever CD reissue of Byard Lancater’s 1979 solo album, "Personal Testimony," from the exciting Porter Records label. You wouldn’t really know it’s a solo record, though, because he accompanies himself (overdubbing) on several instruments, including the bass clarinet (my favorite), flute, percussion, piano, piccolo, alto and soprano sax. Also out now is the 2007 Vision Festival live recording by Bill Dixon’s orchestra, 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur, on Aum Fidelity. The 82-year-old Dixon, a woefully under-recorded giant of the jazz avant-garde, is suddenly prolific, as this is his second release this year, the other being the equally compelling Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra on Thrill Jockey.

– Another tasty new jazz reissue is Giuseppe Logan’s Quartet album from 1964 on ESP-Disk. Theme music was from Horace Tapscott’s 1969 masterpiece, The Giants Is Awakened, which featured a young "Black Arthur Blythe" on sax. Sadly, this gem has not yet been reissued.

Background Music: Horace Tapscott Quintet – The Giant Is Awakened (Flying Dutchman)