What Are You Listening to? 2020

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great hillbilly blues stuff. I think he was another artist taht learnt from a black source or rather had a black mentor. & then went off and had his own apparently original take on things but it definitely sounds like structure is similar to blues recordings i know from the time. Recordings are from late 20s.
Also sounds like this echoes in material I know from the 60s. I think I first heard about him in the words of a Gun Club article from around 1983. Whoever wrote that seemed to fill about half the article with names of blues and hillbilly artists that I always meant to track down and only picked up a handfull of.
Also I picked up the Rough Guide to JImmie Rodgers over Xmas which came with a bonus disc of early country stuff including a track by Hutchison that was pretty haunting.
Anyway good stuff, I missed this when it was widely available but found a good price on Discogs. THink it was close to current list when other prices were rising though.

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Rocksteady artist. I think I knew his work mainly in terms of covers by the 2 tone era artists. I know a couple of Specials and a Beat here at least.
Set is also interesting because of some of the work he covers here. The Stones' Salt of The Earth, Donovan's There Is A Mountain, a few country things and the Beatles' Come Together.
NIce compilation anyway. I was thinking the current Trojan Best ofs were repackagings of the Sanctuary era Trojan 2cds but this doesn't seem to be tracklisted chronologically which those did seem to be.
Good stuff though.

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latest cover mounted cd from Greek psychedelic fanzine. Not consciously taken in the contents though. THink i've been nodding off as the disc before on my 3changer has been playing since I normally play this in bed.
Have heard some heavy fuzzy distortion and shoegazey tunefulness though. Must hear.

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THis arrived yesterday so I haven't really had a chance to hear it. Only found out about its existence over Xmas and had been wondering what exactly had been being played down at the club this partially represents. Wish I d got down there a lot more in the late 80s I think it coincided with the time i started hitching widely so both this club and the Son Of redneck country place behind Selfridges became things i was only at a few times instead of absolutely regularly.
Did love the sounds though.
& thought it a great coincidence taht when i went out looking for some decent music while having a pint yesterday I chanced on somebody djing some stuff that overlapped with this.

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Dj assault.
Jim White
Nikka Costa
Beastie Boys
Nada Surf

2-14:
Dale, Dick- Calling Up Spirits
Mingus, Charles- Cumbia and Jazz Fusion
Cave, Nick- Dig Lazarus Dig
Black Crowes- Lions
Mingus, Charles- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music & Poetry
Cave, Nick- Grinderman

2-15: (so far)
Guy, Buddy- Feels Like Rain
Foghat- In the Mood for Something Rude
Cave, Nick- Grinderman
Accept- Balls to the Wall
Big Chief- Face

Santana - third album

George shearing - you’re gearing George shearing

blue oyster cult - on your feet or on your knees

Beatles - buncha stuff

you’re hearing George, not gearing him

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Restraining Order, This World Is Too Much. Blazing Boston hardcore punk that could have been recorded in 1982. Recommended to elderly fuckers like me with delusionally fond memories of old CBGB matinees.

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^^^ that's really good, I have some of his earlier stuff but not that

anyways I'm listening to Raime EPs and doom metal

huerco s rules

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xposts: frank hutchison is awesome. need to check out more jimmie rodgers... think all i actually know are the tracks from the bristol sessions.

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powerful occult stench on this:
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Found out about this over Xmas, either didn't hear about it when it was easily available or have forgotten about it. BUt must have been reminded of Gilles Petterson or Eddie Pillar or something over the holiday. this has some stuff i think I remember from the time. certainly rings a bell.
May possibly have a photo of me at teh back of a crowd too. Did love that club and wish I'd been going down there longer than I was. Think it must have coincided with my starting hitching around the UK to see bands. Same is true of Son of Redneck the early-country club behind Selfridges of the same era. Loved both of them when i got the chance to go there.

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2cd compi of a lot of mainly late 60s early 70s material by Hag. Great stuff, the type of material Gram parsons seriously recommended.
Pretty mellow sounding great not countrypolitan stuff. Noice
So far its been disc 1 ,may have to swap over to disc 2 soon.

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2nd lp by prog band. A bit more ambient tahn I thought it would be.
Do like this lot anyway. The early live stuff is pretty great too.

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XP I thought White Heaven was interesting but not exactlky what I'd been lead to expect. It reminded me a lot more of Galxie 500 than the QMS/Sabbath hybrid the forcedexposure review that turned me onto it had suggested.
I think the live stuff from around teh time gets a lot closer to that FE review.
NOt sure what is available by them . Was there a box set released over the last couple of years?

Marble Sheep the band lead by one time White Heaven guitarist Ken Matsutaini is also really worth checking out.

as is the band Silence which is related to the Japanese band Ghost who are themselves quite awesome.

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Latest Mojo magazine cover mounted. NIce heavy rocky soul grooves. Covers the usual subjects Funkadelic, betty davis and has Doriella Du Fontiane by Lightnin Rod and Jimi hendrix in a convenient place.
I think it ties in well with their heavy Nuggets sets.
It also now goes up to current day with a couple of artists. Seems to be a good way to spend 70 odd minutes.

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Traditional folk instrumental stuff played by a harpist who I saw live a coupl eof weeks ago alongside a violinist who I haven't. Quite nice stuff.
There was a harp concert as part of a series of performances at a local University recentlyy that I bought thsi from.
Was interesting to see the variations of style between teh 3 harpists as they played a unison piece. The way that their hands moved playing the same notes and rhythms differed greatly.

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Debut lp by prog band. Style hasn't fully coalesced yet. But not sure if it ever did stay static anyway.
BUt this i sa good start.
I heard somewhere that tracks from this and possibly the next lp had started appearing in dj playlists at mod discos a decade and a bit ago and found it intriguing. Roots of the band were in teh soul revue Simon Dupree and the Big Sound so there is possibly some foundation for doing that. But it has been decades isnce i was really at mod discos .

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XP I thought White Heaven was interesting but not exactlky what I'd been lead to expect. It reminded me a lot more of Galxie 500 than the QMS/Sabbath hybrid the forcedexposure review that turned me onto it had suggested.
I think the live stuff from around teh time gets a lot closer to that FE review.
NOt sure what is available by them . Was there a box set released over the last couple of years?

Yeah I'd recommend Electric Cool Acid - live and louder versions of Out tracks but some of it is still in that G500 or Dream Syndicate vibe. I think the only thing available rn is the Out LP reissue, no box set that I know of (maybe you're thinking of the Overhang Party box?).

I don't really know the later WH stuff but there was a follow up band called The Stars that was even more alt-rocky but had some decent tunes.

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dang, og?

no sadly

fwiw the og pressing was not very good as I understand it, and I had a pretty terrible vinyl reissue that I traded back in for a CD version

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I was thinking I'd heard the original pressing of that Linda Perhacs wasn't very good.
I think I picked up the 2nd reissue cd after there had been a needledrop semi legit release sometime around the turn of the millenium.
Think that may have prompted Perhacs herself to turn up with her version of the master or as close to that as he got and I think that was the source for the copy i have which also had a few more tracks not on the original vinyl.
Also think Perhacs had been a dental secretary for the interim years but was prompted back into performing by hearing the response to the reissue of the lp.

jeff parker - suite for max brown

Blackalicious
dEUS (shoulda snuck out)
Ike Turner (but shld be listening to Acid Queen, got it in the mail today)

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New roisin murphy. Dayum it’s gooood

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Classic. I bought that when the blood and fire re-issue came out in the 90's. Yes I do love his music and feel it in my toes etc!

I found a Blood and Fire copy a few years back and have worn the bugger out. Magic.

oh yeah love that CD

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Watched a new ZZ Top documentary on Netflix, which was very entertaining in some aspects (learned a lot about their early days, some great footage of them playing together in an empty rehearsal studio in the present day) but also quite disappointing in that it glossed over a lot of stuff and basically ended in 1983, after Eliminator came out. This album, which I think is one of their best (weirdo psychedelic country boogie, very little hard blues-rock), was totally omitted, so I decided to listen to it.

Tejas rules, wall to wall deep cuts

Kanye. He used to be gooood.

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