NICEST HAIR RUNNER UP

Ray Manzerek died today. Now, before you go saying that he wasn't that big of a deal, that Jim Morrison was the Doors and the rest of the band were but bit players, or that he grabbed onto the coattails of X in the late seventies to try to reclaim some sort of L.A. counter culture coolness, or that he shamelessly slogged on tours some years back in some sort of ersatz Doors with the guy from the Cult singing in the place of Morrison, before you say the guy hadn't been relevant in years, you have to take a step back, silence the skeptic, and look at what he did do. He played keyboards for one of the most original bands to ever come out of L.A., a band that had a sound all their own, a sound that relied heavily on keyboards, and still managed to sound badass. An argument could be made that without him, the Doors would have sounded like a hundred other bands, albeit one with a good looking waste case William Blake fetishist of a lead singer. But I'm not some stoned hippie chick on the Sunset Strip, and this is not 1967. I like the Doors as a package, and Manzarek was an indispensable part of it.

Here's just some oddballs; mostly covers, but they're good ones. The live one, with Albert King guesting on slide, is really good, sloppy good. I trust most of you already have some Doors you can revisit. If not, for craps sake, don't start with a greatest hits package. Just start with the first LP and get to know it as an entire album. Then continue with some of their others. You should listen to them as they were intended to be heard. Don't be a stupid ass spring chicken.

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Listen:
The Doors - Break On Through mp3 at Happy Blue Mondays
The Doors - Soul Kitchen mp3 at Happy Blue Mondays
The Doors - Moonlight Drive (Demo) mp3 at Music For Humans
The Doors with Albert King - Money (Live) streaming at Hellhound on My Trail
Covers:
Shirley Bassey - Light My Fire mp3 at Cover Me 
X - Soul Kitchen mp3 at Cover Me
Patti Smith - Soul Kitchen mp3 at Happy Blue Mondays
The Ramones - Take It As It Comes mp3 at Cover Me
The Fuzztones - I Looked At You mp3 at Cover Me
Nico - The End mp3 at Cover Me

FAR EAST FUZZ

When you really think about it, fuzz is an odd thing to have as an effect, isn't it?  What is it about it that's so appealing? How was it ever thought to enhance the sound of guitar, or bass for that matter? I know, I shouldn't ask too many questions, because what ever the reason, fuzz works for me. Especially when you put it on some oddball record from a faraway place. More so when it's not the weirdest thing going on in the song. Yes, these have been posted before, but it's been a couple years. Regardless, it time for our periodic reminder that westerners don't have a lock on weird.

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Listen:
The Key Boys - A Sailors Song mp3 at Waxidermy
The Key Boys - My Love Is Distant mp3 at Waxidermy

YOUR BAND LOOKS STUPID

I don't have much to say about these. Spock sings. So does Kirk. There are several people I know that would be pissed if they knew I ran into these and didn't post them. And you don't want to get a Trekkie pissed, they know all sorts of weird moves. Martin Jaquish, wherever you are, this one's for you.

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Listen:
Leonard Nimoy - Highly Illogical mp3 (via DivShare) at Estudio del Sonido Esnob
William Shatner - Mr. Tamborine Man mp3 (via DivShare) at Estudio del Sonido Esnob

BEST LOUD

There's no urgency. I'm long past the age where you have to be the first to buy and dissect a debut LP from some hot shit band to somehow prove that you were in on it first. That's kid stuff. So, I sit back, listen to a few songs here and there, and deliberate. Oh, do I deliberate. You save money that way. I'm still on the fence about Savages. They don't strike a chord in me that hasn't been struck before, and I'm not using a capo. But, as they now have an LP out, I thought I'd go looking for something more than the couple of cuts I'd heard before. I'm still not convinced. There was a serendipitous detour though. One of the sites had a cut by the Heliotropes that I like, if for no other reason than it sounds like the Shangrilas doing the Stooges, "We Will Fall" stylee. If you try real hard. No, maybe Sabbath, or Dream Syndicate, or the Velvets, or what have you. Night Soil Man is down there because the other two bands made me think of them. You can't dance to any of them, but they're of sonic interest.

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Listen:
Heliotropes - Psalm mp3 at The Deli
Heliotropes - Live show, good quality soundboard recording at NYC Taper 
Savages - She Will mp3 at The Key
Savages -Flying to Berlin mp3 at Rollo and Grady 
Savages - Shut Up mp3 at Indie Rock Cafe
Night Soil Man - Hyena (streaming) at YouTube

ZYDECO STAR

It's not everyday that you run into a 1955 single by Clifton Chenier on Specialty Records. Okay, fiends, I know you're rolling your eyes. It's probably not all that rare. But, boy oh boy, it's nice to hear it with all of the pops and crackles of a well played, bordering on thrashed, 45. The second one down there is a must-listen too. It's bare, just drums, accordion and barely audible violin. And Chenier's voice, holy fuck, that voice. It's genre defining, Of course his playing is good, but damn his singing. It's iconic. I hate that word. You know what I mean. Chenier's voice, accent, and phrasing are dead on. Like Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf or Ltlltle Richards, He's a template. Is it any damn wonder why he was on both Specialty and Chess, among other labels?

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Listen
Clifton Chenier - Ay-Tete-Fee mp3 (via DivShare) at Dad's 45s
Clifton Chenier - Baby Please Don't Go mp3 at You're Soaking In It
Clifton Chenier - Zydeco Sont Pas Sale mp3 at Let's Polka
Visit:
Clifton Chenier at Wikipedia

CROWD THINNING SPECIAL

Two peas in a pod, aren't they? In some weird way, they are alike. Maybe because they're both, in their own way, repelling to some people. You know, the ones you don't want around anyway.  Here's a video I ran into at Aquarium Drunkard. It's the two of these guys together, for eight minutes, doing "Constipation Blues". There is singing in there, but there's a whole lot more weirdness. Gainsbourg seems totally unfazed by the grunting and carrying on of Hawkins, not because he's Joe Cool, it's more like some secret society of nut cases.

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Listen:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Alligator Wine mp3 at Api.ning.com
Serge Gainsbourg - Couleur Cafe mp3 at Sadko-Martin

I TOO AM DIGGING IT

You all know Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88", right? It was a very early recording done at Sam Phillips studio, then sold to Chess Records, who whipped into a hit in 1951. Phillips, realizing that it was a relatively bonehead move, took his cue and started his own damn label. That worked out for him.

"Rocket 88" was actually recorded by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, and Brenston, a member of the band, just happened to sing lead. The Chess brothers decided that Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats had a little more pizzazz, so they exercised the label asshole option, and that's how the record ended up being credited.

"Rocket 88" is a fine song, no doubt about it, but most of you have heard it enough to know that. No matter, the song that got me all worked up is another recorded the same year, "Juiced". I ran into that at Diggin' It!, and although you have to jump through a few hoops to download it, believe me, it's worth it. Just the guitar tone alone is worth it, but that Phillips Studio sound...yeesh! Add to that Brenston's yelp in the intro, and the yelp buckshot unleashed during the seriously tweaked guitar solo, and what you have is a two and a half minute party.

To get that one, once you get to DivShare, just click on the green "Download" button and scratch your head for fifteen seconds. When the button reappears, you're good to go.

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Listen:
Jackie Brenston - Juiced mp3 (via DivShare) at Diggin' It!
Jackie Brenston - Leo the Louse mp3 at Rocky 52
Jackie Brenston - Trouble Up the Road mp3 at Rocky 52
Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88 mp3 at Rocky 52

WHO SNUCK IT IN?

In case you missed it the first time around, here it is again, Nora Dean's "Angie La La", an improbably spacey cut from the studio of Duke Reid, ex-cop turned reggae producer. This isn't reggae at all, I'm not sure what you'd call it, but it's often posted as a YouTube streaming thing, rarely as an mp3, which is why I'm posting it again. Mixtape Riot has it.

The unusual thing about the record, other then the sound, is that Reid was a hard ass. As mentioned, he was an ex-cop. When something went haywire during a recording session, he was known to fire his side arm into the ceiling. Plus he had a no dope rule, in his studio that recorded almost exclusively reggae. He actually sounds like kind of a dick. So how did this trippy thing get made there?

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Listen:
Nora Dean - Angie La La mp3 at Mixtape Riot 
Nora Dean - More at this post

HOW DO YOU HOLD THIS THING?

Say what you will, he's still here. Know what I like about Keith Richards? Anything you can say about him, he'll cop to. Every stupid thing he's done. You want to say he's done two much partying? He'll acknowledge it. Say he's only a marginally good guitar player? His singing's worse. Too big of an ego? Too much money? You should hate him, like Reggie Mantle with a shaggy hair cut. He knows all that. He knows he's lucky.

The conversation below, between him and Hunter S. Thompson, ends with Thompson saying, "You're just a rock 'n' roll punk". That alone should make you see it. There's a part in there when they're talking about what J. Edgar Hoover would come back as, in a second life. Richards, or Keith as we call him, settles on "a fawt". Despite all the fame, the money, cars, sex, drugs, fancy homes, and just about anything he could possibly want, despite all of that, Keith Richards still thinks a fart is funny. At the end of the day, that's why I like this guy, I hope he sticks around a while longer.

Here's some Keith Richards stuff. Definitely check out the post at Boogie Woogie Flu, Duets with George Jones, Johnnie Johnson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dave Edmunds and Rockpile, and Bob Dylan. There's also another link to a Tom Waits thing he played on.

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Listen:
Keith Richards and George Jones - Say It's Not You mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Jerry Lee Lewis and Keith Richards - Sweet Virginia (2010) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Tom Waits with Keith Richards- Satisfied mp3 at Informal Flick Thru
Jerry Lee Lewis and Keith Richards - That Kind of Fool (2006) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Keith Richards - Nine cuts with duets at Boogie Woogie Flu Duets with George Jones, Johnnie Johnson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dave Edmunds and Rockpile, and Bob Dylan.
Video:
Jerry Lee Lewis w/Keith Richards - Your Cheatin' Heart, Little Queenie (1983) at YouTube
Jerry Lee Lewis w/Keith Richards - Whole Lotta Shakin' (1983) at YouTube
Visit:
Keith Richards - Interview at The Guardian

IT'S THAT TRICK BAG GUY

Boy, was Earl King ever entrenched in the New Orleans music scene of the fifties. The first talent contest that he entered, at age fifteen, was emceed by Ernie K-Doe. His guitar teachers were Guitar Slim and Huey "Piano" Smith(!). His mom, known as "Big Chief", and was the inspiration behind his song of the same name, famously recorded by Professor Longhair. On his first record he was backed by Huey Smith and Lee Allen. His second had both of them, and Earl Palmer on drums. That, admittedly, is cherry picking a lengthy profile. You should read his whole story over at The Hound Blog.

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Listen:
Earl King - Trick Bag mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Earl King - Fly High mp3 at RnB 45
Earl King - Everybody's Carried Away mp3 at RnB 45
Earl King - Mother's Love mp3 at Snuhthing Anything
Visit:
Earl King - Profile at The Hound Blog

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?

Every once in a while, it's just the record cover. If it's a good one, I'll try to like the music. I'm like that. Not necessarily because the music demands serious consideration, it's more like appreciating the music as part of a package. If the cover is bewildering, I'll try to find something bewildering in the record.

Good old Harold y su Banda don't disappoint. Here's the thing. The cover is a little odd, not necessarily freaky, and the music is a little odd too, to me anyway. Both as an funky ultra thick wall of weird thing, or busy Latin funk disco. I can't tell for sure whether I really like it, or find it irritatingly busy. Maybe both. I'm just sitting over here, bewildered, man.

The host of this music, Musica del Alma, refers to it as Heavy Colombian Funk and b-boy catnip. There are some fine beats. I am so damn fresh. Anyways, it's something different. It's a big world out there.

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Listen:
Harold y su Banda -Busque El Gato mp3 at Musica del Alma
Harold y su Banda - Latino mp3 at Musica del Alma
Harold y su Banda -Two more, and all four streaming at Musica del Alma plus a bigger scan of the LP cover

STUDIO ONE RARITIES

Oh yeahhhhh. If you're at all into reggae, particularly early and rare, you're in for a treat. Here's a new one. a massive mix of more than sixty early and rare Coxsone Dodd productions, from his Studio One and Coxsone labels. If you're thinking, "yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before, Studio One, blah, blah, blah..." think again.  This is a recently posted mix and there's a lot of stuff here you probably haven't heard, obscure artists, familiar riddims with different vocals, and versions available only on the flips of records that are rare to begin with. Speaking of versions, can any of you reggae eggheads ID the DJ toasting over Burning Spear's "Rocking Time"? That's one of the more recognizable cuts here. Without going into specifics about each and every cut, take my word for it, this is dynamite stuff. As I've posted a lot of Dodd's work before, you guessed it, it's recycled text time. If you've stopped by the earlier Studio One post, just skip the next three paragraphs. It's for the new people:

Dodd was the owner of Studio One, the most prolific reggae studio in the sixties and seventies. He had his own studio, his own house band, and his own, often copied, rhythms. He was so good at producing reggae hits, that he had over ten different record labels so Jamaican radio stations wouldn't shy away from the records fearing charges of favoritism. He gave a lot of reggae artists their first breaks, and while many would record elsewhere, most owe their musical identities to Dodd.

His chief competitor in the early years of rock steady and reggae was Duke Reid, who ran Treasure Isle records. But Dodd got consistently better results from the artists that the studios shared. Many attribute that to the differences in demeanor. Duke Reid was an ex-cop, who often wore a side arm in the studio, and was known to shoot into the studio ceiling when something pissed him off; and, being an ex-cop, he prohibited the smoking of weed by the musicians. Dodd, on the other hand, was more open minded, and chose to look the other way when the weed came out, which led to an entirely different creative process. Most reggae rhythms at the time were written in the studio, the results of in-studio jams; in the case of Studio One, loose jams.

Coxsone Dodd's adult life was all about music. It all started with a trip to the U.S. to work in the fields. He came back with R&B records, and began playing them at sound systems,. He then opened a recording studio, and a record store, and created multiple record labels. He discovered dozens of artists, and created rhythms still recycled today. He was there, from the beginning of ska, through rock steady and on into reggae, a key proponent of all. Even after he started to slow down in his later years, he moved to the U.S. and opened another record store. He is one of the most significant figures in history of reggae. In these parts, Coxsone Dodd is the man.

There's a handful of other random Studio One mp3s down there, to satisfy the cherry pickers. The real show, though, is the mix. Here's a quick how-to guide for this one: It's posted at Zippy Share in a 172 mb zip with over sixty individual mp3s (it takes six minutes). Just make sure to enter the Captcha, and then click on the "Download Now" link (not the button that just says "Download"). The song list resides at the host of this baddass puppy, Underground Undercover.

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Listen:
Jackie Mittoo - Hot Milk mp3 at Badminton Stamps
The Minstrells - People Get Ready mp3 at Club Cortez 
Errol Dunkley - Way Down Low mp3 at Pixie Radio
Ken Boothe - Set Me Free mp3 at Surface to Air 
Alton Ellis - Tumbling Tears mp3 at Snuthing Anything
The mother lovin' mix, 60+ songs:
Coxsonne Dodd Rarities at Underground Undercover (where it says "LINK" at the end to the text) NOTE: Once at Zippy Share, enter the Captcha, and then click on the "Download Now" link, not the button that just says "Download"

ANYWAY, ENOUGH ABOUT HIM

Oh jeez, I'm embarrassed to admit that this post doesn't contain anything revelatory about Johnny Kidd. He did a fine job with his original version of "Shakin' All Over", to that I think you'd agree. And he did, with his band the Pirates, make the guitar-bass-drums-vocals quartet style do-able (which, if Wikipedia is to be believed, convinced the Who that Roger Daltrey should ditch the guitar), but if astounding surprises are what you're after, you'll have to settle for the video below. It's Donna Loren, singer and actress, who was off on the sidelines playing second fiddle to Annette Funicello in beach party movies. She, like Annette, was squeaky clean, not someone you'd thing of as being cool. But cool is what she is in this clip from Shindig. She may not give Ronnie Spector anything to worry about, but one would have to cop to the fact that in this particular clip, she does a good job appropriating the expressionless beehive routine that elevated the Ronettes to top tier huzza-huzza status.

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Listen:
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Shakin' All Over mp3 at Mp3 Rockabilly
The Who - Shakin' All Over (BBC session) mp3 at N1.vmuzike.net 
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Growl mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban

SAY HEY LADY SPINSTA

A heads up here. Diddy Wah just posted "I Found You" by Yvonne Fair, which probably brings no spark of recognition from all four of you who traipse through here. It's the same song James Brown released three years later as "I Feel Good (I Found You)". Though Fair's version is Northern Soul all the way, it's notable that she's backed by "James Brown Band" who must have still been getting their funky footing. I'm not really sure how many of the members of the band were actually on both recordings. It's safe to say the way the JB billed backing bands on early recordings is muddy to say the least. 

Now, this is how this works, this meandering. After I ran into the Diddy Wah post and decided to look into things a little. I did find another really good early cut, "Say Yeah Yeah". Then I read that she later recorded at Motown with Norman Whitfield producing. If you've been paying attention, you know that Whitfield is the man who pushed things at Motown in a psychedelic soul direction, in the late sixties and early seventies. There's probably very few singers who have worked with James Brown in the early sixties, and worked with Whitfield in his prime. I found one song from that period, "Let Your Hair Down", and though it's got the Whitfield touch, it's got the pace of an Issac Hayes jam, and her voice sounds like Betty Davis.  It's really bare bones. At the very least an interesting thing to hear, I happen to dig it. Completely different from the other two, but that's how this meandering works. I'm not going to let all this goofing off go to waste.

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Listen:
Yvonne Fair - I Found You mp3 at Diddy Wah (Go there to get it)
Yvonne Fair - Say Yeah Yeah mp3 (via Zippy Share) at Funky By Nature NOTE: There are several download buttons. Click on the orange one that says "Download Now"
Yvonne Fair - Let Your Hair Down mp3 at Rap Radar 
James Brown - I Feel Good mp3 at Momo92zik (?)

MAN AND GUITAR

R.L. Burnside was on that long list of people it never occurred to me to look for online, until I ran into that video below. It lead to a nice diversion and a few songs I hadn't heard. If Burnside's name conjures up thoughts of a certain former collaborator from NYC, maybe a couple of his earliest cuts will rid you of that association.

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Listen:
R.L. Burnside - Poor Black Mattie mp3 at Article 11 (late 60s) 
R.L. Burnside - Just Like a Bird Without a Feather mp3 at Article 11 (late 60s) 
Much later:
R.L. Burnside - Nothin' Man mp3 at Review Stalker
Visit:
R.L. Burnside at Wikipedia

DUDE BIT ELVIS

Roy Head just seems a little crazy. Not really bat shit crazy, just a little who gives a fuck crazy. There's something about him that makes him just a classic American under-achieving performer. Not for lack of trying, the guy has achieved a lot, but he really should have been huge. What is it about him? Why did big time superstar status elude him? He had the voice, the showmanship, and he definitely had the moves. (Moves-wise, I can guarantee you that both Michael Jackson and Iggy Pop both took a little something out of his playbook.) So, what was it? Oh yeah, who gives a fuck.

There were a couple quotes included in the excellent bio at the Hound Blog that are pretty telling. "I beat up club owners, choked disc jockeys, and did a lot of things I wish I hadn't done. Just just screwed up."  Alright then, he screwed up. But, hell, lots of performers have. Judging by my trusty Jerry Lee Lewis Screw Up Intensity vs Frequency Guage, he ranks pretty high. There's something more telling here: "Hell, I've screwed up. I've got thrown off tours because I was having a little more fun than some of the other acts. I bit Elvis Presley on the leg when I was drunk one night and his bodyguards leaped on me, man, I had to go to the chiropractor for three weeks to get straightened out. I'm still not through. If there's one son of a bitch in the room that's paid to hear me, I'll work my butt off for them." It's that last two lines that really makes Head a classic trooper. He's been schlepping around stages for half a century. When the stages got smaller, he'd just ask the audiences to step back so he could party on their floor. One of his signature moves is the Gator, which entails him rolling around and dry humping the floor, be it the stage or where you just spilled your drink. He made that one up back in the day, when he fell off of a stage and tried to make the best of it. Someone asked him what the move was and he just came out with "gator". He didn't give a fuck.

Even though, as we've established, he's screwed up, there was this thing called timing. When his only real chartbuster "Treat Her Right" was released in 1965, the pop world was nutty about the Beatles and Stones, not some dude in a suit that danced like a freak. He was too soul for rock, and too rock for soul. He didn't give a fuck. But he put out some awesome records. Listen to these below and marvel at the fact that "Linda Lu" and "You're Almost Tuff" are only separated by only four years. Seriously, the latter sounds like some sort of Bo Diddley/Blue Cheer hybrid. If your whistle's sufficiently dampened, read the bio at The Hound Blog.

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Listen:
The Traits – Linda Lou mp4a* at I'm Shakin'
Roy Head - Treat Her Right mp3 at Rocky-52.net
Roy Head - Just A Little Bit mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Roy Head - You're Almost Tuff mp4a* at I'm Shakin'
*NOTE: You might need a converter to play mp4a songs on your portable gizmo. Converters are readily available online.
Visit:
Roy Head - Excellent profile at The Hound Blog
Roy Head at Wikipedia

ATTENTION POSEURS

Have you heard this kid Willy Moon? Oh brother is right. It got me thinking about how things get watered down, and how some music really should require some degree of authenticity. If you borrow heavily from a particular genre or era, you really ought to think twice before you try to fuck with the formula. This Moon kid reminds me of hearing Blink 182 way back when and thinking, some people think this is punk rock? There's just no fucking pedigree, real or imagined. It's just throwing spaghetti at the wall.
 

A few posts after the Moon one, I ran into one about Nick Waterhouse, While it didn't exactly cheer me up, it did lessen the "Oh god, this shit is weak" blow. Waterhouse does a respectable job, but he doesn't have me bouncing off the walls. Not like Nick Curran did. (The video below is required viewing.)

By now my early rhythm and blues/rock 'n' roll ADD is kicking in. I started thinking about others that have tried to tackle this sort of music, early rock 'n' roll with horns and/or piano, and who has, not only the pipes, but the authenticity to pull it off. Here's a few that gave it a shot, with varying degrees of success.

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Listen: 
The Blasters - Marie Marie mp3 at Full Songs (?) 
The Blasters - Red Rose mp3 at AM Then FM 
The Blasters - Dark Night mp3 at OST For Me 
Nick Curran and the Lowlifes - Kill My Baby mp3 at KEXP
Nick Curran and the Lowlifes - Reform School Girl mp3 at Austin Town Hall
JD McPherson - Wolf Teeth mp3 (via Box.com) at The Slow Drag
JD McPherson - Carol (Live in studio) mp3 at MOKB
JD McPherson - Scratching Circles mp3 at Cortesia de la Casa
Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Ace of Spades mp3 at Ryan's Smashing Life
Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Explosion mp3 at Dr. Mooney's 115th Dream
Nick Waterhouse - Some Place mp3 at Augasm
Nick Waterhouse - (If) You Want Trouble mp3 at Augasm

FOR THE GOOD TIMES

It had to happen at some point. Kogar the Swinging Ape is hanging up his Lux and Ivy's Favorites series of mixes, ending it with volume 17, a thirty two song set of old rock 'n' roll, rockabilly, doo-wop and such. For the uninitiated, the series included songs the Cramps covered, songs Lux and Ivy mentioned at one time or another as favorites, and songs they included on mixes for friends. If you're at all familiar with the Cramps (and you had better be), you know the type of stuff.

Too his credit, Kogar has made these available for free and has encouraged the sharing of them. Considering the amount of effort tracking down seventeen volumes of songs referenced, and then sharing all of his hard work without any compensation whatsoever, it's pretty remarkable that he stuck to it as long as he has.

This last mix comes without a song list, to thwart bootleggers that have been selling the mixes as their own compilations. (Mixes 1-16 do have song lists.) Regardless, it's all good stuff. There's a few Cramps things down there too, for the lazy bones who don't hassle with mixes.

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The mix:
Lux and Ivy's Favorites, Vol 17 at Kogar's Jungle Juice 32 songs in a zip. You'll want this.
More of Lux and Ivy's Favorites - A lot more of Kogar's hard work
Cramps what-not:
The Cramps - Let's Get Fucked Up mp3 at 8106 
The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck mp3 at Soundbites 
The Cramps - Confessions of a Psycho-Cat mp3 at Review Stalker
The Cramps - Human Fly mp3 at Review Stalker

SONG PART OF THE WEEK

Dead Wax, two days ago, was just a random pick on someone's link list. Uh-huh, here we go again. Skipping around over there is like landing in a bar in some out of the way place, fifty years ago, and hearing nothing but second and third tier regional hits come out of the juke box. There's everything from rhythm and blues, rockabilly, doo-wop, to country and western. You may never see many of them again. Here's just a couple random picks. You really need to bookmark it, because there's no way you're going to take it all in, not in one visit.

There's two down there, one by Bennie Dixon (seen above), and one by Kip Anderson. That's the one you have to listen to. It's rhythm and blues, but by the second verse somehow manages to border on VU monotony. Hold on though, because at 1:29 is the most joyfully fucked up solo you'll hear this week.

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Listen:
Kip Anderson - I Wanna Be the Only One mp3 (vis DivShare) at Dead Wax
Bennie Dixon and the Rebels - Breaking In a New Heart mp3 (via Box.com) at Dead Wax
Visit:
Dead Wax

TRUCK BERRY

Attention hipsters of all ages. Give up. The regular guy above, one Dave Dudley, has commandeered all the PBR in the house, smokes when or where he wants, and has a customized windbreaker. (Or did. He passed away in 2003.). He just has that look, like he just said "I don't give a shit".

He had his first hit, "Six Days on the Road" at age 35. Yeah. 35. You've heard it a zillion times, but it's like the "Johnny B. Goode" of trucker music; good to revisit every so often to relish the pureness of it. If you haven't heard it, watch the video above. For those of you who are already Six Days saturated, there's one down there, recorded in 1980, at age 57; the truth about a life on the road, "Rolaids, Doans Pills, and Preperation H". To add to its weirdness, it's on Sun. And it has wah-wah on it.

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Listen:
Dave Dudley - Two Six Packs Away mp3 at Rocky52
Dave Dudley - I Got Lost mp3 at Beware of the Blog 
Dave Dudley - Rolaids, Doans Pills, and Preparation H mp3 via DivShare at Frances Favorites 45s
Visit:
Dave Dudley at Wikipedia