Monkey Mind - 01/24/2011

This week’s mix. I’ve been especially loving that Tony Scott/Bill Evans LP and the experimental stuff from Jace Ewing. If only all unsolicited homemade CDs someone hands you for free were as interesting…

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Three Strings Jace Ewing EP
  Beach Red Lullaby Flying Saucer Attack Chorus
  Water Toy Pram Iron Lung
  Buddha's Blues Don Cherry Hear and Now
  Comin' At Ya Baby Johnny Otis Watts Funky: Johnny Otis & Friends
  All Your Kissin' Sho' Don't Make True Lovin' Betty Wright I Love the Way You Love
  Canadian Sunset Danny Gatton Hot Rod Guitar: The Danny Gatton Anthology
  For Stefan Wolpe Tony Scott/Bill Evans Trio Sung Heroes
  String Trio, Op. 45, Part 2 Arnold Schoenberg The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, Vol. 11
  GAO Red Krayola Hazel
  Long Live the Aged The Ex Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
  We Did It Again Soft Machine The Soft Machine
  L.T.D. (Life, Truth and Death) Jimmy Castor Bunch It's Just Begun
  Ark of Covenant The Congos Heart of the Congos
4pm Carry Go Bring Come The Selecter Too Much Pressure
  Isla Verde Noro Morales and his Orchestra More than Mambo: An Introduction to Afro-Cuban Jazz
  Turn Around Terranova Close the Door
  Square Root of Two Jace Ewing EP
  Beauborg, Part II Vangelis Beauborg
  One For Lenny Danny Gatton Hot Rod Guitar: The Danny Gatton Anthology
  My Brand of Blues Porter Wagoner The Thin Man From the Plains
  Paper Boy Boogie Texas Bill Strength Hillbilly Boogie
  The Highway Patrol Red Simpson The Man Behind the Badge
  Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie The Treniers Rare Rock 'n' Roll Rampage
  That's the Groovy Thing Jimmy Cavallo and his House Rockers Rare Rock 'n' Roll Rampage
  OK, So What? Freddie North Night Train To Nashville, Vol. 2
  Sonny Boy Williamson Don't Let Your Right Hand Know Keep It To Ourselves

Monkey Mind - 12/06/2010

Heavy on the obscure British 70s stuff this week, mostly thanks to a pal, Dickie, who freed them into the wild from his amazing collection. There’s another Tempest song, “Stargazer,” that I forgot to include in the set list; it shows up between the Caravan and Steamhammer.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Waiting For A Miracle Tempest Living in Fear
  Aristocracy Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
  City Song Lindisfarne City Songs
  Aux Anciens Parapets Martin Carthy The Kershaw Sessions
  Lead Us Neil Innes & The World Lucky Planet
  Congo Lafayette Afro Rock Band Darkest Light: Best of the Lafayette Afro-rock band
  Can We Try Love Again Kool Blues Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
  It's Hard to Stop Betty Wright Best of Betty Wright
  Ain't No Time For Tears Ash Ra Tempel The Best of the Private Tapes
  Holy Thursday David Axelrod Song of Innocence
  With All In Mind Clear Light Clear Light
  Full Circle Song Gene Clark Roadmaster
  The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma Terry Allen Lubbock (On Everything)
4pm Eye-On Ergonomics Ken Butler Voices of Anxious Objects
  Goodbat Nightman Scaffold Thank U Very Much: The Very Best of Scaffold
  Golf Girl Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
  Levinia Steamhammer Mountains
  Jamaican (played just after "The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma," sorry) tUnE-yArDs Bird-Brains
  Sail Away Neil Innes & The World Lucky Planet
  Bodang Buck McGuiness Flint McGuiness Flint
  Rain Dando Shaft An Evening with Dando Shaft
  Sonata Mongolia Štěpán Rak The Guitar of Štěpán Rak
  Reverse the Charges Etta Jones Hollar!
  Everybody Step Ella w/Chick Webb Orchestra American Songbood Series: Irving Berlin
  Show Me Joe Tex
  One Room Country Shack Shuggie Otis Al Kooper Introduces Shuggie Otis
  I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You Kool Blues Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label

Monkey Mind - 11/29/2010

This week’s collection. Been really getting into the early Nico solo albums, that Help Yourself “Strange Affair” LP and that great African Scream Contest comp of Benin 70s stuff. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Twin House Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine Twin House
  Rock Me Carey Bell & Lurie Bell Second Nature
  Triple Ballade Sandy Bull Inentions
  I'll Be Rested (When the Roll is Called) Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother American Primitive Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
  The Drunken Driver/Moonshiner/Drunkard's Hiccups/I Saw A Man At the Close of Day New Lost City Ramblers American Moonshine & Prohibition
  The Mess Inside Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas
  My House Lou Reed The Blue Mask
  Ari's Song Nico The Marble Index
  Save Me Nina Simone Silk and Soul
  Grunt The People's Choice I Likes To Do It
  Can't Go Back Elaine Brown Elaine Brown
  Rockochet Duke Ellington Small Band Intimacy of the Blues
4pm Strange Affair Help Yourself Strange Affair
  Sweet Dreams Roy Buchanan Sweet Dreams: The Anthology
  Mercy Wire Chairs Missing
  Lie for a Lie Built To Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers
  Exit Music I: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia Kenneth Gaburo/New Music Choral Ensemble Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds
  Breakfast Curlew A Beautiful Western Saddle
  Grosser Bogen You Dee Through the Tulips
  Strudel Strut Aromadozeski Therapy Future Primitive Sound
  It's a Vanity Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds fro Benin & Togo 70s
  Dance Music Penahi Raks Raks Raks: 27 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets from the Iranian 60s Scene
  Roast Possum Carter Brothers The Essential Carter Brothers
  Hot Cinders Big J Big Jay in 3-D
  Loose Wig Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra Flying Home
  Little Women Kinks Face to Face
  Variations for Piano, Op. 27 Anton Webern, performed by Beveridge Webster Piano Music of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern

Monkey Mind - 11/01/2010

Back after a couple of weeks off with another batch of what I think are gems, anyway. I’ve been especially loving that early Larry Coryell stuff and the Fred Astaire/Oscar Peterson small group session from 1954. Great smooching music. Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Indeterminacy John Cage/David Tudor Indeterminacy
  Rat City Les Sinners Les Sinners?
  Be With You Soon The Sweet Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
  Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes Kevin Ayers The Best of Kevin Ayers
  Boy, I Really Tied One On Esther Phillips Capricorn Princess
  The World's On Hard Slave Hardness of the World
  Offering Larry Coryell Offering
  Save Yourself Soft Machine The Soft Machine
  Problem Child Damned Neat Neat Neat: The Alternative Anthology
  A-So The Willows Reggae Classics
  This Land Is Your Land Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Naturally
4pm Heaven At Once Kook and the Gang Wild and Peaceful
  Run Charlie Run Temptations All Directions
  Your Man My Man Betty Davis Betty Davis
  Trying Times Sweet Honey in the Rock In This Land
  You're Fine You're Fine Les Sinners Les Sinners?
  Cats in a Bowl Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur
  Sundown Son House Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions
  Well Oh Well Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone
  I've Got My Eyes On You Fred Astaire w/Oscar Peterson The Astaire Story
  Solid Foundation The Congos Heart of the Congos
  A Certain Kind Soft Machine The Soft Machine
  All Your Kissin' Sho' Don't Make True Lovin' Betty Wright I Love the Way You Love
  Just Passing Through Smokey Robinson Pure Smokey
  Pillars of Hercules Extremadura/Muslimgauze Occupied Territories

Monkey Mind - 09/27/2010

This week’s collection. Hope someone out there loves Steve Reich’s “Tehillim” half as much as I do, and that new Esperanza Spalding is just amazing. There’s a great review of the Selecter’s dark, joyful, angry 1980 debut here. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Tehillim Steve Reich & Musicians Tehillim
  Pearly Turbo Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey Out Trios volume 3
  Cumulus Pram Iron Lung
  Constantly Changing Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
  Men 2nd Wire Chairs Missing
  Whaddit I Done Animal Collective Sung Tongs
  Rollin' Over Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
  Hello Trouble Kaleidoscope Pulsating Dreams: The Epic Recordings
  Til the Day i Die Vern Williams Band Bluegrass from the Gold Country
  Crazy Finger Blues Reno & Smiley Vintage Bluegrass Masters
  Butterfly Dance Kevin Ayers Banana Productions: The Best of Kevin Ayers
  James Bond The Selecter Too Much Pressure
  I Was Appointed Junior Murvin Police and Thieves
4pm It's Growing Margie Joseph Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Sisters
  Give Me Some Courage Howard Tate Get It While You Can
  Right On Boogaloo Joe Jones Right On Brother
  Good Love Isaac Hayes Black Moses
  Casa Forte Edu Lobo Sergio Mendes presents Edu Lobo
  Knowledge of Good and Evil Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society
  Sida (DJ Spider Remix) Ibrahim Hamma Dicko Frikyiwa Collection 1
  Honey in the Rock Blind Mamie Forehand American Primitive Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
  Mr. Clarinet Birthday Party Hee-Haw
  Loser=Weed Residents Third Reich 'n Roll
  Rompicapo Andrea Sartori Il Tagliacode
  Catacomb Dub Muslimgauze Lo-Fi India Abuse
  Out on the Streets Selecter Too Much Pressure

Monkey Mind - 09/13/2010

Some new (to me) female vocalists made my life better this week: Billie Poole, Sheila Jordan and Audrey Morris. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Precious Precious Isaac Hayes Presenting Isaac Hayes
  Tribute (Quasimodo) Sheila Jordan/Harvie Swartz Old Time Feeling
  Jealous Order of Candied Knights Matmos The Civil War
  Hubble Bath Spaceheads and Max Eastley The Time of the Ancient Astronaut
  Sendero Luminoso Crash Worship Asesinos
  Gloria's Step Larry Coryell Spaces
  Glad to be Unhappy Audrey Morris The Girls of Bethlehem, Vol. 1
  Riches and Wonders Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas
  I've Just Destroyed the World Willie Nelson Crazy: The Demo Sessions
  Sit Down Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Gospel of The Blues
  Pavan Hindustan Robbie Basho Bashovia
4pm Good Looking Stranger John Mayall Best of
  Teenage News Sylvain Sylvain Sylvain Sylvain
  Meadows of the Sea Marc Bolan & T. Rex Work in Progress
  Laugh Laugh Augusto Alguero Sensacional Soul: 37 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1966-1976
  Terror The Grippers Return of the Delfi and Donna Story
  Behold Bob Meyer & the Rivieras Very Best of
  Amazon Cal Tjader Solar Heat
  Gotcha Bobby Hutcherson Solo Quartet
  Hey Man/We Gotta Get You A Woman Four Tops Nature Planned It
  Don't Wanna Come Back Mother's Finest Very Best
  You Call Everybody Darling Andrews Sisters Apple Blossom Time
  The Man That Got Away Billie Poole w/the Junior Mance Trio Confessin' the Blues!
  It's Always You Audrey Morris The Girls of Bethlehem, Vol. 1
  Why Should We Try Anymore Hank Williams Long Gone Lonesome Blues
  Nothing Comes Clear Chris Knox Songs of You & Me

Monkey Mind - 09/06/2010

Another scattered selection. Hope you enjoy. For what it’s worth, that Simple Gifts CD of Shaker vocal pieces is wonderful stuff, and has me doing something I usually don’t like to do: read large sections of a book online. In this case it’s a sharp, informative history of the Shakers, The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers, available at Google Books. The early chapters are so good I’m not even bothered by the occasional unavailable pages. I had no idea the Shakers were such punks. Lunatic fanatic punks, but still. (Oh, and reverse the song/artist names for the 2nd cut; the band is Frou Frou.)

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Radio Mellotron Meat Beat Manifesto Subliminal Sandwich
  Frou Frou Maddening Shroud Details
  Rides Organos The Limbs EP
  Wurlitzer Jukebox Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
  Walking on Sunshine Rocker's Revenge The Perfect Beats: New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics 1980-1985, Vol. 1
  N.E.S.T.A. 75 Antibalas Talkatif
  Congoman The Congos Heart of the Congos
  God Is Great Billy Preston I Wrote A Simple Song
  Father James' Song Shakers of Sabbathday Lake Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals
  Face to Face That I Shall Know Him Joseph Spence The Complete Folkways Recordings 1958
  Salvador Egberto Gismonti Solo
  Crystal Illusions Edu Lobo Sergio Mendes presents Lobo
  What Do You Do When Love Dies Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis
  Come Back and Shake me Clodack Rodgers
  It's Her Turn to Live Smokey Robinson Pure Smokey
4pm Bulldozers and Dirt Drive By Truckers Pizza Deliverance
  Til the Day i Die The Vern Williams Band Bluegrass from the Gold Country
  Every Woman I Know (Is Crazy 'Bout An Automobile) Al Vance Crazy 'Bout An Automobile
  Another World Richard Hell & the Voidoids Blank Generation
  Kiss Your Killer No Knife ...drunk on the moon...
  Down Jawbreaker Unfun
  Brand - New - Life Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
  Hammond Song The Roches The Roches
  Fool Donavon Frankenreiter Move By Yourself
  Bad News Bad Times Marion Williams Gospel Now
  Lucifer Junior Murvin Police and Thieves
  Love Money T.W. Funkmasters The Perfect Beats: New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics 1980-1985, Vol. 1
  Mass Producing Hate Meat Beat Manifesto Subliminal Sandwich
  We Need Order The Chi-lites Best of
  I Don't Blame You At All Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Anthology

Monkey Mind - 08/30/2010

Back after vacation; here’s this week’s collection of jumbled sounds. The entire Terry Riley Shri Camel album is wonderful, for what it’s worth, and not nearly as well known as it should be.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Desert of Ice Terry Riley Shri Camel
  Sonata Noah Creshevsky Opus One compilation
  Get Down War All Day Music
  A-So The Willows Reggae Classics
  Ghetto Living Mighty Diamonds Uptown Top Ranking: Joe Gibbs Reggae Productions: 1970-78
  Lonely Boy Nirvana Island Folk
  The Other Side Crabby Appleton Crabby Appleton
  Can't Get You Out of my Life Eric Andersen Stages: The Lost Album
  Dos Gardenias Armando Garzon Boleros
  March of the Mandolas, Part 1 Dave Grisman/Andy Statman Mandolin Abstractions
  Song for a Young Queen Chris Thile Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  Hud Hud Jalal Solfonun Kord Bayat: Traditional Music from Iran
4pm Alwar Song T.M. Iyer World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: India
  Rainbow Doll Jimmy Dell Get Hot or Go Home: Vintage RCA Rockabilly '56-59
  The Slummer the Slum Five Royales It's Hard But It's Fair: The King Hits and Rarities
  I Want Your Picture Howling Wolf Howling Wolf Rides Again
  Why Should I Hang Around Big Maceo The Bluebird Recordings 1941-1942
  Laughin' and Clownin' Sam Cooke Night Beat
  Since I Found You Maxine Brown Greatest Hits
  Don't Stay Away Phylis Dillon Duke Reid's Treasure Chest
  Joao Gonzalo Rubalcaba Discovery: Live at Montreux
  Composition for Guitar Milton Babbitt/William Anderson Occasional Variations
  Dynamite Michael Horwood/John Brownell and Gerald Heslip Opus One compilation
  Backwards Man Scientists Absolute Scientists
  I Feel Dum/Dugga Do!/ah-tata-kaka-she-wa-hito-no, etc! Duotron The Complete Book of Duotron Illustrated

Monkey Mind - 07/26/2010

Starting off with some soulful reggae then moving on to the usual cross-genre mix. Thanks for listening.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm The Creator Dennis Brown The Promised Land 1977-79
  Don't Be Prejudice Max Romeo Uptown Top Ranking: Joe Gibbs Reggae Productions; 1970-78
  Bootie Cooler Shuggie Otis Here Comes Shuggie Otis
  Dedicated to the Press Betty Davis Nasty Gal
  Pure Soul Elijah and the Ebonites Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
  Out in the Country The Meters Fire on the Bayou
  Burn Babylon Sylford Walker Uptown Top Ranking: Joe Gibbs Reggae Productions: 1970-78
  Sometime Ago Flora Purim Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
  Once Around the Park Gonzalo Rubalcaba Discovery: Live at Montreux
  Loveable Sam Cooke Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
  Talk Break —

  Jesus: the missing years John Prine The Missing Years
  Rockin' in the Free World Richard Thompson/David Byrne An Acoustic Evening with David Byrne and Richard Thompson
  Why She's Acting This Way Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain
  A Satisfied Mind Cowboy Copas 20 Song Gospel collection
4pm New Pleasure Richard Hell & the Voidoids Blank Generation
  Fire Escape Scientists Absolute
  Shoplifter Quintron & Miss Pussycat Swamp Tech
  Come and Get It Badfinger The Best of Badfinger
  Here They Roll Down Mark Eitzel The Ugly American
  Can't Get You Out of my Life Eric Andersen Stages: The Lost Album
  You Still Live With Mom & Dad Eugene Chadbourne I've Been Everywhere
  Heading West Fay Victor Lazy Old Sun
  Tina Duke Ellington Latin American Suite
  Ain't Necessarily So Andy Bey Ain't Necessarily so
  I Love A Groove Ken Nordine Catalyst
  Tropicalia Beck Mutations
  Talking Lesbian Alix Dobkin
  Dvorak John Fahey America

Monkey Mind - 07/12/2010

Lots of different stuff; I’ll link that amazing genderqueer music theory site from Terre Thaemlitz in a bit…

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Midtown 120 Intro Dj Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues
  Cirque du Soul Kenny Larkin Keys, Strings, Tambourines
  Asiko Tony Allen Eager Hands and Restless Feet: The Best of Tony Allen
  Ain't It the Truth Catalyst The Funkiest Band You Never Heard
  What's Really Going On DJ Hurricane The Hurrah
  I Love You Leaving Trains Sleeping Underwater Survivors
  Rock 'n' roll-stoel The Ex Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
  Not Given Lightly Chris Knox Seizure
  Orange Ball of Pain Mountain Goats Nothing For Juice
  Naked Man Randy Newman Good Old Boys
  Crown Him Lord of All Marion Williams Gospel Now
  Pourin' It All Out Graham Parker Heat Treatment
  Chillout Tent The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
  I Gotta Getta Undertones Undertones
  Vasilissa, ergo gaude Guillaume Dufay/Pro Cantone Antiqua Motets
4pm Regard du Pere Olivier Messiaen/Pierre-Laurent Aimard Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus
  Green Grass of Tunnel Múm Finally We Are No One
  Ehi Amigo, Serve un'Autoradio Andrea Sartori Il Tagliacode
  5AM 9 Lazy 9 Paradise Blown
  Bahia Catalyst The Funkiest Band You've Never Heard
  Zap! Carnivorous Eddie Jefferson Vocal Ease
  Cool Ade Preston Love Watts Funky: Johnny Otis & Friends
  Nija Walk (Street Walk) Fatback Band Fatbackin': The Perception Sessions
  Fire Dub Israel Vibration Israel Dub
  Egyptian Garden The Kaleidoscope Side Trips
  Various Times The Fall Early Fall 77-79
  Real Life Tones on Tail Everything!
  You've Got to Be Kidding Graham Parker Howlin' Wind