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Detailed playlist
1. “Superdeformed” by Matthew Sweet (from No Alternative compilation)
2. “Your Mother Should Know” – The Beat Boys (from The Beat Boys)
3. “Mexican Blues” – Pete Seeger (from Circles and Seasons)
4. “Buckeye Jim” – Judy Henske (from High Flying Bird)
5. “City of New Orleans” – Arlo Guthrie (from Together In Concert)
6. “Invocation” – Marc Ribot (from Spiritual Unity)
7. live set by John Biz
8. “You Broke My Heart”- Lavender Diamond (from You Broke My Heart EP)
9. “Bird Song” – Jerry Garcia (from Garcia)
10. “Shoulder Full of You” – Blitzen Trapper (from EP3 EP)
11. “Woodland Orchestra” – Steffan Basho-Junghans (from Late Summer Morning)
12. “Think Small” – Tall Dwarfs (from Fork Songs)
13. “The Face of Empty Me” – Christian Ward (from File Under: Male Vocal: The Golden Age of the Beat Balladeer compilation)
14. “Here I Set” – The Ronettes (from Georgia’s 2008 Hanukkah mix)
15. “She Shot A Hole In My Soul” – Clifford Curry (from Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues, 1945-1970 compilation)
16. “Katie’s Been Gone” – The Band (from The Basement Tapes)
17. “What For the Stables” – King Darves (from The Sun Splits For… the Blind Swimmer)
18. “Observations” – Tristan Perich
19. “A Stone For Angus Maclise, no. 1” – Pelt (from A Stone For Angus Maclise)
20. “Mangungu” – Hector Zazou and Bony Bekaye (from Noir Et Blanc)
21. “When Doves Cry” – Prince (from Purple Rain: Live in Syracuse bootleg)
22. “Young Subjects” – Steve Gunn (from Steve Gunn)
23. “Witch’s Will” – Wilburn Burchette (from Guitar Grimoire)
24. “Wood Between Worlds” – Laura Barrett (from Victory Garden)
25. “These Few Presidents” – Why? (from Almost Live From Eli’s Room CD-R)
26. “So Long, Old Bean” – Devendra Banhart (from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon)
Features:
The Notorious M.O.V.I.E., Jamal Woolard feature (Paste)
Gospel Zone, on Dylan’s gospel period (Boogie Woogie Flu)
2008 faves (WFMU’s Beware of the Blog)
Albums:
Old Money – Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Paste)
At the Cat’s Cradle – Ween (Paste)
The Atavistic Waltz – Ralph White (JamBands.com)
Indie-Weirdo Round-Up, featuring: Bird Show, Stag Hare, DJ Olive, Yeti, v. 6, Chris Watson (JamBands.com)
Pleasant Obsolescence, featuring: Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, Charles Mingus, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed, Peter Tosh (JamBands.com)
Live:
Julian Koster at Andrew Frisciano’s Apartment, 13 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Neil Young at Madison Square Garden, 15 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s, 21-22 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s, 21-28 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Books:
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric by Bob Dylan and Barry Feinstein (The Forward)
Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Changed the World and Saved My Life by Brian Raftery (San Francisco Chronicle)
Movies:
Che (Paste)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Village Voice blog)
Gomorrah (Paste)
Columns:
BRAIN TUBA: Song of the Refreköx (JamBands.com)
BRAIN TUBA: Ten Years, part 4 (JamBands.com)
In print:
o Paste #50 (Neko Case cover): feature on Jamal Woolard, album reviews of Ween, movie reviews of Gomorrah, Che
o February/March Relix (The Dead cover): album reviews of Neil Young, Animal Collective, M. Ward, Ernest Stoneman, Frank Zappa; book review of San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde
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Detailed playlist.
1. “I Know There’s An Answer” – Sonic Youth (from Goo deluxe edition)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “Goodbye” – Justin Heathcliff (from Justin Heathcliff)
4. “No Way Around That” – Yoshimi (from Hark Too! Tribute to the Hark Album by Wim T. Schippers compilation)
5. “Whether U Like It Or Not I Love U” – The Frogs (from The Frogs)
6. “I Don’t Want To Do It” – George Harrison (from Beware of Abkco demos)
7. “Putting Myself Together Again” – Lambert & Nuttycombe (from At Home)
8. “Remember” – Thelonious Monk (from Thelonious Alone in San Francisco)
9. “Shift Register” – Robert Henke (from Atom/Document)
10. “Absence of Redemption” – Chas Smith (from An Hour Out of Desert Center)
11. “Hall of Flowers (part I)” – Philip Perkins (from Hall of Flowers)
12. “Gragnana, Italy” – Steven Feld (from The Time of Bells, v. 1)
13. “Even Wild Horses, Act III, Scene 1” – Harry Partch (from Harry Partch Collection, v. 1I)
14. “Medium III” – Iancu Dumitrescu (from Medium III)
15. “Gomul Visa Um Vori” – Kria Brekkan (from Wildering 7-inch)
16. “Rothko Chapel” – Morton Feldman (from Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?)
17. “Quiet Morning” – Chihei Hatakeyama (from Dedication)
18. “This Time Tomorrow” – The Kinks (from Lola Vs. the Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One)
19. “It Seems Like Nothing’s Gonna Come My Way Today” – The Outsiders (from CQ)
20. “Seastones (Original February 1975 version)” – Ned Lagin (from Seastones reissue)
21. “Prarie Ghost” – Meredith Monk (from Songs From the Hill/Tablet)
22. “Diane Dean” – Heart (from Best of the Night Air, v. 1)
23. “Upon Composition” – Ron Geesin (from As He Stands)
24. “Gotcha” – Bobby Hutcherson (from Solo/Quartet)
25. “Restin” – Jason Moran (from Same Mother)
26. “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye” – Leonard Cohen (from Songs of Leonard Cohen)
27. “I’ll Fly Away” – Johnny Cash (from My Mother’s Hymnbook)
28. “Maria Bethania” – Caetano Veloso (from Caetano Veloso (1971))
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Detailed playlist
1. “My World Fell Down” – Saggitarius (from Present Tense)
2. “Frow Show Theme” – MVB
3. “Ted Fucking Williams” – The Baseball Project (from Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)
4. “Rod Poole’s Gradual Ascent To Heaven” – Nels Cline (from Coward)
5. “I’m A Believer” – Robert Wyatt (from Solar Flares Burn For You anthology)
6. “Lumpy Gravy” (original orchestral edit) – Frank Zappa (from Lumpy Money box set)
7. “Mean Old World” – Sam Cooke
8. “Amime” – Eddie Marcon (from Shining on Graveposts)
9. “Streets of Laredo” – Michael Hurley (from The Ancestral Swamp)
10. “Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)” – Buraka Som Sistema feat. Pongolove (from Black Diamond)
11. “Cheyla ya Haiuune” – Group Doueh (from Guitar Music of the Western Sahara)
12. “Green Vines” – Bird Show (from Bird Show)
13. “Feel the Drip” – Black Moth Super Rainbow (from Don’t You Want To Be In A Cult? 12-inch)
14. “River Mara at Dawn, Massai Mara, Kenya” – Chris Watson (from Stepping Into the Dark)
15. “Cosmogenesis” (excerpt) – Ela Lamblin (from Orbitones, Spoon Harps, and Bellowphones compilation)
16. “Ghost” (Birchville Cat Motel remix) – Pyramids
17. “Do You Like Worms? (Do You Dig Worms?)” – Olivia Tremor Control (from Smiling Pets compilation)
18. “Metastasis” – Iannis Xenakis (from Metastasis Pithoprakta Eonta)
19. “Can I Sleep In Your Arms” – Phospherescent (from To Willie)
20. “Everything’s Big” – Here We Go Magic (from Here We Go Magic)
21. “Hard Times Wondering” – Euros Childs (from The Miracle Inn)
22. “Gentle Hour” – Yo La Tengo (from Dark Was the Night compilation)
23. “Lazybones” – Soul Coughing (from Irresistable Bliss)
24. “Wait For You” – The Mountain Goats (from Babylon Springs EP)
25. “Going, Going, Gone” – Legion of Mary (from Garcia Sings Dylan anthology bonus disc)
