WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has even more from my favourite Old Weird America artists today: The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters. Your money back if you don’t love them.
Category: choons
stuff I hear
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the first family of folk
The Carter Family recorded their first session 80 years ago today. Here’s Wildwood Flower, which they recorded in 1928.
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What’s That Tune???
Andy wants to ID some tunes; can you help him? What’s That Tune???
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Uncle Dave on ill-advised facial hair
Look at that man with all the hair around his mouth
Like he swallowed a mule and left the tail hanging out
– I’ve Got The Morning Blues -
that’ll learn me
… to buy so many CDs at the Midwest Banjo Camp. I’ve spent the last couple of hours keying in track listings for The Old Time Banjo Festival, Erynn Marshall & Chris Coole, and Neil Woodward. Please, please please don’t let me have to do the same for the Uncle Dave Macon set, ‘cos then I’ll be here all day.
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minutemen moment
I’m in Los Angeles, and it gave me rather more jollies than it should have done to drive under a road sign to San Pedro like on Double Nickels On The Dime.
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speeding motorcycle
Twee popsters rejoice! The complete works of Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike will be re-released on CD this year!
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every day, but not everyday
I contributed today’s music for the 365 Days Project: 365 Days #136 – Daniel Aliangana – From Eldoret to Sighthill (which previously lived here and here).
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my guitar teacher can climb through a tennis racquet, yours can’t
I went to The Friendly Rich Show for the first time last night, and my mind capsized completely. I’d seen Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People before, but never as their full-on, prank-calling, burlesque-puppeting avant-cabaret show.
The Lollipop People are incredibly tight as a band, which must be hard when you’ve got a harpsichord, a bassoon, a full concert harp, and a banjo (binga-banga in Rich-speak) in the mix. I put it down to skilled musicians having fun, and Rich’s excellent direction.
The show is run by Soot, the almost wordless but entirely malicious stage manager. He grumbles his way from musical number, to animal trick show, to song, to prank call. Last night’s call was to order pizza from Pizza Pizza, and they didn’t take it too well. Nichol S. Robertson did indeed climb through a tennis racquet.
Last night’s show was a little different, in that they performed Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition (complete with Hammond and turntables). What was a lot more different was, while they were playing, a naked man in a wild man mask set fire to his, um, self. That’s gotta smart.
They’re playing again at the Tranzac on the last Friday of June. You should be there. It’s exactly like nothing else!
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I’m not so sure
I got the feeling that quite a few people at the Daniel Johnston gig last night weren’t there for the music, but were just there to see what he’d do.
I quite like his music (I was more there to hear McCa) and I’m glad he’s making a living from it, but he’s clearly not doing too well on stage. Random playing, forgetting the words or tune, massive tremor while he was singing, complaining of being tired — he’s not well. I felt particularly sorry for him when his keyboard mic kept slipping lower and lower, and he had to hunch down to sing into it; no stage crew came out to help him.
I had to leave early. Too many of the crowd were there to laugh at him, I felt.
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this should be fun …
I’m going to see Mayor McCa support Daniel Johnston tonight.
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Mayor McCa, Lee’s Palace – Toronto – 18/6/2004
Mayor McCa, Lee’s Palace – Toronto – 18/6/2004
- I’m So Poor. Buy My CD
- That’s A Wrap
- Hey Man, You Gotta Nice Job
- I Got A Haircut
- Funky Fresh Beets
- I Can’t Pay The Rent
- You Better Watch Out
(there are better quality MP3s at the main link.)
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Mayor McCa and the Implants, The Horseshoe – Toronto – 29/7/2003
Mayor McCa and the Implants, The Horseshoe – Toronto – 29/7/2003
- Theme
- I’m Gonna Write You A Letter
- I Can’t Pay The Rent
- Work
- One Million Songs For You
- I (heart) You
- I Got A Haircut
- Funky Fresh Beets
- Baby Boy
- Hold Me
- A Liddabidda Fun
- Goodbye
- Fin
(there are better quality MP3s at the main link.)
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Pullhair Rubeye
I really like Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan’s album, but I’m not sure if I’m playing it forwards or backwards.
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twang twang
I had my first guitar lesson with Nichol Robertson last night at Steve Briggs‘s place. It’s strange coming to guitar from another stringed instrument. I’m still convinced that the guitar has one string too many. But then, my guitar teacher is better known for playing the banjo, and my banjo teacher is better known for playing the guitar, so I may be confused.