Pugwash - upcoming album teasers

THIS JUST IN...

Pugwash's Intimate album trailer from Omnivore

STREAM THE NEW ALBUM TRACK "Kicking & Screaming"  

The new album, called Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends), is due Sept. 4 via Omnivore Recordings.

TRACKLISTING
1. KICKING AND SCREAMING
2. LUCKY IN EVERY WAY
3. FEED HIS HEART WITH COAL
4. JUST SO YOU KNOW
5. CLOUDS
6. THE FOOL I HAD BECOME
7. YOU COULD ALWAYS CRY
8. HUNG MYSELF OUT TO DRY
9. SILLY LOVE
10. OH HAPPY DAYS
11. ALL THE WAY FROM LOVE
12. WE ARE EVERYWHERE

TV Eyes - Los Angeles 2003

The Troubador

Los Angeles, CA

May 13, 2003

 

audience recording (pretty sure this is the only known live set by TV Eyes)

TV Eyes = post-Jellyfish collaboration with Jason Falkner and Roger Manning

 
01 Over the City
02 She's a Study
03 Fascinating
04 Love to Need
05 What She Said
06 Mission Submission
07 The Party's Over
08 She Gets Around
09 Fade Away
10 Time's Up

THIS IS 'ASH TUESDAY' 

POST #2

(new blog feature: details are HERE)

  

MP3@320

YET MORE THANKS to the late, great ASH blog. When this was first posted there years ago, Don said: TV Eyes, the trio formed by Jason Falkner, Roger Manning and Brian Reitzell make their live debut in this great show. Very synth-driven, fans of Falkner and Jellyfish will love it, but it stands up on its own feet.

FIND TV Eyes rarities at Haper's Popfair blog.


BUY TV Eyes' debut album (remastered & expanded) at Omnivore. 

 

Rhiannon Giddens - Milwaukee, WI 2015

Turner Hall Ballroom

Milwaukee, WI

April 26, 2015

audience recording (sound quality: VG+; lively dynamics and minimal crowd noise make for a great listen)

Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops, New Basement Tapes) sings live in 2015

YES SIREE THANKS to bersey for taping & sharing, and to goody for re-working

ROB SEZ: The only thing I have in common with the fabulously talented Rhiannon Giddens is Greensboro, N.C. (she was born there and I spent part of my childhood there). If you've heard her in The Carolina Chocolate Drops or The New Basement Tapes, you already know how gifted she is. If not, you're in for a treat.

SAMPLE: "Black Is the Color" (Milwaukee 2015)

01 stage entrance

02 Spanish Mary

03 Don't Let It 

     Trouble Your Mind
      (Dolly Parton cover)
04 She's Got You  

      (Patsy Cline cover)

05 Shake Sugaree

06 Waterboy

07 Last Kind Words

08 O Love Is Teasin'

09 Black Is the Color

10 Ruby, Are You Mad 

     at Your Man?

11 When I Was a Cowboy

12 Buck Creek Girls ^

13 Tommorrow Is My Turn

14 Come, Love, Come

15 Puirt A Beul (mouth music medley)

16 Duncan and Jimmy

17 encore break

18 The Lonesome Road * -->

19 Up Above My Head *

20 Black Annie

TT: 1:30:59 (suggested split for disc burning: between tracks 11 & 12)

artwork (included in download) by ethiessen1

NOTES:

* Bhi Bhiman (opening artist) on backing vocals
^ Hubby, Malcolm, Rowan

#15, Puirt A Beul (mouth music medley):

   -S'iomadh rud tha dhith orm = “it's many a thing I lack”
   -Ciamar a ni mi 'n dannsa direach = “how will I dance the dance right?”

WAV lossless files

(I'm honoring the request of the sharers to not convert to lossy, unless strictly for personal use)

MUSICIANS:

Rhiannon Giddens - banjo, fiddle, vocals

Hubby Jenkins - acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, drum, vocals

Malcolm Parson - cello, melodica, vocals

Rowan Corbett - acoustic guitar, banjo, bones, cajon

Jason Sypher - bass

Jamie Dick - drums, percussion

    Learn more about the music of Rhiannon Giddens at her own site and/or FB page. You might also enjoy this recent NPR interview with her.

The Connells - Munich, GR 1995

Alabamahalle
Munich, Germany
March 20, 1995
WDR Broadcast

(band's first show in Europe)

The first 'ASH Tuesday' post, a new weekly feature of the blog
(more info HERE)

REPERCUSSION: Mitch Easter produced The Connells' acclaimed Boylan Heights album.

01 Try
02 Running Mary
03 Darn You
04 Disappointed
05 Burden
06 New Boy
07 Choose A Side
08 '74-'75
09 Something to Say
10 Motel

MANY THANKS TO DON & THE LATE, GREAT ASH (Anything Should Happen) blog!

Thanks also to Pat R for pointing out the correct date for this share...

MP3@320

The Connells:
Michael Connell - guitar, vocals
Doug MacMillan - guitar, vocals
George Huntley - guitar, vocals
David Connell - bass
Steve Potak - keyboards
Peele Wimberley - drums

NEW FEATURE: ASH Tuesday

I am proud & pleased to announce 

a new weekly feature: "ASH Tuesday"

The name is in honor of the late, great ASH 
(Anything Should Happen) music blog.

Most Tuesday mornings, there will be a vintage ROIO that appeared years ago at the old ASH blog. They will be from either Don or Mick, who gave me permission to share them with you here.

(BIG THANKS to Don & Mick!)

The ASH Tuesday posts will be "minimalist", because this blog is a part-time, when-I-can-grab-a-few-hours labor of love. So the Tuesday posts will lack some of the deluxe features of the Friday posts, like sound quality ratings, groovy photos, and sound samples. Usually, you'll see only one photo or piece of artwork. If the artwork has a track listing, I'll just leave it at that. Otherwise, you'll see just the essential info about the recording and a link for the files (usually MP3@320).

First up: an FM broadcast featuring Raleigh, N.C.'s The Connells, "college rock" & jangle-pop darlings of the 1980s.

DON'T FORGET: you can always leave a comment before or after you snag the music (hint...)

Scene Is Now - New York City 1997

Westbeth Theatre

New York, N.Y.

Oct. 31, 1997

opening for Yo La Tengo

The Scene Is Now: avant-garde, eccentric jazz-rock-pop

audience recording (sound quality: VG+; a really nice audie; no complaints — unless you really wanted to hear the between-song announcements, which are kinda low volume)

 
REPERCUSSION: Will Rigby played drums on the band’s 1988 album Tonight We Ride and has sometimes played live gigs with the band, as he does here.

MUCH THANKS to the taper and to Brandon for sharing.

SAMPLE: "Anthracite" (NYC 1997)

The Scene Is Now ... now

 
01 Port Authority
02 Moonlight Broil
03 Anthracite
04 Pumpkin Bordello

05 Hey Skinny

06 Let's Straighten It Out

07 Apricot Harvest / 

     Shotgun Wedding

08 He'll Never Do Time

09 If Justice Hides

10 Gone For a Long, Long Time

11 Fresno*

*Bonus track: live in Brooklyn, N.Y., early 2011 (sound quality is VG-; thanks to Chain Gang for sharing)

Will Rigby (the shy drummer), far right

MP3@320


The Scene Is Now:
Chris Nelson
Philip Dray
Tony Maimone
Steven Levi
Will Rigby
Mark Howell
Doug Wygal
Sue Garner

BUY some music by TSIN at Bandcamp (most albums are just $7 bucks!)

READ a fab interview with Philip Dray at Perfect Sound Forever

GO TO the band's FB page
  

Marti Jones & Don Dixon - 2 Mtn. Stage shows + 1988

Mountain Stage Live & 1988 set

FM & soundboard recordings (sound quality: VG+ to Ex-)

Marti & Don - Motorco, Durham, N.C. in 2011. stunning photo by ASH CROWE

ABUNDANT THANKS to NPR’s Mountain Stage for hosting such a cool show and making some of their broadcasts available on the web. THANKS ALSO to dB’s Fan for sharing the soundboard recording of Marti & Don at The dB’s 1988 reunion show.

Mountain Stage
Live radio broadcast (FM)

Charleston, WV
June 5, 2011

00 Larry Groce intro

01 Feels Like 1972

02 You Remind Me

03 Walk Outside

04 Trouble Is as Troubles Does

05 Hanging My Laundry

06 outro

DON & MARTI at Mountain Stage: above & below
from 2014, this one 2013 (all 3 by Amos Perrine)

Mountain Stage
Charleston, WV

May 19, 2013
(FM)

07 intro

08 My Felon Girlfriend

09 Always

10 The Night That Otis Died

11 These Arms of Mine (cover)

12 outro

The dB’s First Reunion Show

Charlotte, NC
May 15, 1988
(soundboard)

13 Talk to Me
14 Heart In a Box

15 Back of the Line

16 I Don't Want Him (Anymore) 

MP3@320



Errata: not sure how this happened, but tracks 15 & 16 are untitled. You can fix that after downloading, can't you?

Learn more about the music of Don Dixon and Marti Jones at Don's web site, Don & Marti's FB page, or AllMusic (Don, Marti).