Lost & Found playlist for 1/26/12

Intro: "Jambo" - Claude McLin

Background music for the show: McCoy Tyner - Nights of Ballads & Blues

Blue Mink - "Good Morning Freedom"
Etta James - "Take Out Some Insurance"
Bobby Charles - "Small Town Talk"
The Rolling Stones - "Winter"
Syl Johnson - "Together Forever"

Darondo - "Didn't I"
Them - "Don't Look Back"
The Velvet Underground - "Oh! Sweet Nothin'"
Clarence Ashe - "Trouble I've Had"
Jimmy Witherspoon - "I've Been Treated Wrong"

The Pretty Things - "Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut"
Thin Lizzy - "Got to Give It Up"
The Outlaws - "Green Grass & High Tides"
Willie Nelson - "The Local Memory"
The Louvin Brothers - "There's a Higher Power"

George Harrison - "Ballad of Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)"
Tony Joe White - "Voodoo Village"
Chip Willis & Double Exposure - "I'm Gonna Gitcha"
The Dynamic Tints w/ the Pieces of Peace - "Be My Lady"
Delroy Wilson - "I'm Still Waiting"

Etta James - "I Worship the Ground You Walk On"
Manfred Mann - "Why We Should Not"
George McGregor & the Bronzettes - "Temptation is So Hard to Fight"
Percy Sledge - "Cover Me"
Etta James & Harvey Fuqua - "If I Can't Have You"

Darrell Banks - "No One Blinder (Than a Man Who Won't See)"
Arthur Alexander - "The Migrant"
The Vibrations - "Hello Happiness"
Don & Dewey - "Sweet Talk"

Outro: "Beautiful Baby" - The Clangers

Lost & Found playlist for 1/19/12

A radio show's worth of productions from the Wizard, the True Star: Todd Rundgren

Listen to the show here.

Intro: "Spreadin' Honey" - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Background music for the show: Art Tatum - The Best of the Complete Solo Masterpieces

Nazz - "Open My Eyes"
Nazz - "Not Wrong Long"
Nazz - "Some People"

Todd Rundgren - "Hello It's Me"
Todd Rundgren - "Heavy Metal Kids"
Todd Rundgren - "Time Heals"

New York Dolls - "Private World"
Foghat - "Sara Lee"
Hello People - "Listen to Your Heart"
Felix Cavaliere - "It's Been a Long Time"
The Lords of the New Church - "Live for Today"

The Band - "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show"
Utopia - "I Just Want to Touch You"
Sparks (Halfnelson) - "Wonder Girl"
Badfinger - "Name of the Game"
Meat Loaf - "Heaven Can Wait"

The Tubes - "Prime Time"
Dragon - "Still in Love With You"
Jesse Winchester - "Midnight Bus"
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "Blind Leading the Blind"
Janis Joplin - "One Night Stand"

Cheap Trick - "Heaven is Falling"
Patti Smith Group - "Frederick"
Grand Funk Railroad - "To Get Back In"
Steve Hillage - "Om Nama Shivaya"
Fanny - "Is It Really You?"

Hall & Oates - "You're Much Too Soon"
Utopia - "One World"
The Rubinoos - "If I Had You Back"
Todd Rundgren - "We Gotta Get You a Woman"

Outro: "Beautiful Baby" - The Clangers

Johnnie Otis, dead at the age of 90.

I don't have the strength to comment. This just keeps sucking.

Johnnie Otis Obituary.

Oh, for fuck's sake...R.I.P. Jimmy Castor.

Jimmy Castor, dead at the age of 68. Don't be one of the Butt sisters, ok?

Obituary.

R.I.P. Robert Dickey

1/2 of the Purify Brothers, dead at 72.

Obituary.

A great video of the Purify Brothers "performing" "I'm Your Puppet."

Lost & Found playlist for 1/5/12

Intro: "Spreadin' Honey" - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Background music for the show: Lee "Scratch" Perry - Sound System Scratch

Thin Lizzy - "Ray-Gun"
Clarence Reid - "Heaven Will Welcome You"
The Chambers Brothers - "So Long Baby"
Ricky Allen - "No Better Time Than Now"
Little Feat - "Time Loves a Hero"

The Purify Brothers - "I'm Your Puppet"
Charles Bradley - "Heartaches and Pain"
Small Paul - "There's Gonna Be Some Crying"
Nathaniel Mayer & the Shanks - "Ride in My 225"
Icky Renrut - "Jack Rabbit"

James Luther Dickinson - "The Strength of Love"
Mott the Hoople - "Roll Away the Stone"
The Rolling Stones - "No Spare Parts"
Insight Out - "It Makes You Feel So Bad"
Kourosh Yaghmaei - "Leila"

Mel Brown - "Chicken Fat"
Willie Headen - "Stop Drinking"
Freddie King - "I Don't Know"
Booker T. Jones - "Progress"
Parliament - "Ride On"

Elaine Brown - "Seize the Time"
Etta James - "Someone"
Bob Marley & the Wailers - "It Hurts to Be Alone"
Delroy Wilson - "Conquer Me"
Lord Kitchener - "London Is the Place for Me"

The Purify Brothers - "So Many Reasons"
Fats Waller - "You Run Your Mouth, I'll Run My Business"
Little Richard - "Every Time I Feel the Spirit"
Echos of Harmony - "Ain't It a Shame"
The Modulations - "The Old World Is Going Down"
Herbie Hancock - "Chameleon"

Outro: "Beautiful Baby" - The Clangers

Lost & Found playlist for 12/29/11

Intro: "Spreadin' Honey" - The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Background music for the show: Ikebe Shakedown - S/T

Paul Kelly - "The Upset"
Jimmy Witherspoon - "Handbags and Gladrags"
Boogaloo Joe Jones - "Games"
Roebuck "Pop" Staples - "Black Boy"
Bobby Charles - "Grow Too Old"

Jim Ford - "Changing Colors"
The Animals - "This Side of Goodbye"
Lou Johnson - "Thank You Anyway (Mr. DJ)"
Bettye Swann - "Make Me Yours"
Lee Hazelwood - "The Old Man and His Guitar"

Lois Blaine - "Stop It Baby"
Lynn Varnado - "Tell Me What's Wrong"
Bernie & the Buzz Band - "Don't Knock It"
Al King - "Bad Understanding"
The Three Sounds - "Crying Time"

Lee Fields - "Moonlight Mile"
The Rolling Stones - "Claudine"
Kitty Wells - "You're No Angel Yourself"
Roscoe Shelton - "There's a Heartbreak Somewhere"
Otis Redding - "Amen"

Otis Rush - "My Love Will Never Die"
Jimmy Ruffin - "It's Wonderful (To Be Loved By You)"
Ben E. King - "Amor"
Santander Flores - "Capital Cebuista"
Joe Bataan - "Magic Rose"

Carol Fran - "So Close"
Timothy Carr - "Love My Love"
The Metros - "My Imagination"
The Lyrics - "I've Got a Girl (Who Looks Like a Queen)"
The G-Clefs - "Cause You're Mine"

Louis Armstrong with Oscar Peterson - "You Go to My Head"

Outro: "Beautiful Baby" - The Clangers

Breakfast of Champions. A fill-in on 12/28/11.

Selections from my 27+ favorite Records of 2011. (It's true...some I didn't get to but the complete list-with links-is below this post)

Background music for most of the show - Chris Joss - Sticks

Rhys Chatham - "Outdoor Spell" from Outdoor Spell
Ethel Profit - "I Got to Make It" from V/A - This May Be My Last Time Singing
Willie Wright - "I'm So Happy Now" from Telling the Truth
Shabazz Palaces - "Are You...Can You...Were You..." from Black Up
Thomas Bryan Eaton - "When You're Dancing" from When You're Dancing 


The Cars - "Free" from Move Like This
Dan Melchior und das Menace - "Drama Queens on Prozac" from Catbirds & Cardinals

Band of the Week: Joel R.L. Phelps - "Spokane Motel Blues" & "Get the Chills"

Cheap Girls - "Pure Hate"

Delaney Davidson - "Another Man's Eyes" from Bad Luck Man
Bird Names - "The Beach at the Lake" from Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun
The Field - "Burned Out" from Looping State of Mind
The Bees - "Silver Line" from Every Step's a Yes
Peter, Bjorn, & John - "Second Chance" from Gimme Some

Doug Shipton - "Track 17" from Dedicated Swallower of Fashion
Wooden Shjips - "Lazy Bones" from West
Paul Messis - "What Am I Going to Do?" from The Problem With Me
Dawes - "How Far We've Come" from Nothing Is Wrong
Jonathan Wilson - "Can We Really Party Today?" from Gentle Spirit

O'Death - "Ghost Head" from Outside
The Higher State - "It's Not Up to You" from Freakout at the Gallery
The Cambodian Space Project - "Have Visa, No Have Rice" from 2011: A Space Odyssey
Yellow Chair - "Bebe Zeva" from Curses
Ikebe Shakedown - "The Hold Up" from S/T

Glossary - "Keep It Coming" from Long Live All of Us
The Impossibles - "Mister Slow" from V/A - Intercontinental Transmissions, Vol. 1
Jeff & Jane Hudson - "Los Alamos" from Flesh

The 27 Best Records of the Year

It's time. Here are my choices for the best 27 LPs released this year. Additionally, I've added my favorite LP of the Year, Single of the Year, Reissue of the Year, and Anthology of the Year. I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. What'd I miss? Oh, this is in no particular order.

Paul Messis - The Problem With Me (13 O'Clock Records)

The Higher State - Freakout at the Gallery (13 O'Clock Records)

Thomas Bryan Eaton - When You're Dancing (Self Released)

The Only Sons - American Stranger (This Is American Music)

The Bees - Every Step's a Yes (ATO Records)

Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence)

The Cars - Move Like This (Hear Music)

Ikebe Shakedown - S/T (Ubiquity Records)

Josh T. Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen (Mute Records)

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (Sub Pop Records)

Bird Names - Metabolism: A Salute to the Energy of the Sun (Northern Spy Records)

Wooden Shjips - West (Thrill Jockey Records)

Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong (ATO Records)

Doug Shipton - Dedicated Swallower of Fashion (Fat City)

Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit (Bella Union)

O'Death - Outside (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)

Lauderdale - Moving On (Not Sure, Self? TIAM?)

McCarthy Trenching - Fresh Blood (Slumber Party Records)

Yellow Chair - Curses (Self Released)

Cambodian Space Project - 2011: A Space Odyssey (Metal Postcard Records)

The Field - Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)

Prison Book Club - S/T (Big Bullet Records)

Dan Melchior und das Menace - Catbirds & Cardinals (Northern Spy Records)

Darondo - Listen to My Song: The Music City Sessions (Omnivore Recordings)

Delaney Davidson - Bad Luck Man (Voodoo Rhythm Records)

Glossary - Long Live All of Us (Self Released)

Rhys Chatham - Outdoor Spell (Northern Spy Records)

My favorite record of the year is Glossary's Long Live All of Us. Kids, no one is doing such perfect, no nonsense, no bullshit rock and roll right now better than this band from Murfreesboro, TN. If you don't know them run to Glossary.us and pick their stuff. You can thank me later. No, seriously, get going...

Single of the Year:

Cheap Girls - "Pure Hate" (No Idea Records)

Reissue of the Year: TIE!

 

Willie Wright - Telling the Truth (1977) (Numero Group)

Jeff & Jane Hudson - Flesh (1983) (Captured Tracks)

Anthology of the Year: TIE!

V/A - This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 rpm, 1957-1983 (Tompkins Square)

V/A - Intercontinental Transmissions, Vol. 1 (Kala Bandar Records)

Whew!