Chalkhills Digest Volume 7, Issue 65
Date: Saturday, 22 December 2001
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 7, Number 65
Saturday, 22 December 2001
Topics:
And you want stuffing?
Re: Liz Phair
Re: Our Stevie
Re: Bah Humbug!
In Sweaters...
Re: Garden Grass
Re: Phil Collins
advertising
Evil Awful Consumerism
D'oh is me!
a few questions
Deaf School
Gotta have pop
Re: Sweating Sellers... I mean... Oh, nevermind.
Musical Gap Trap
Re: sweater song
Stroke Me
Phil and Fripp
Open Posting re: Disliking Phil Collins
Is Phil Evil?
Re: Phil Collins/ The Crap
Dylan 12-22-61
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:40:16 -0000 From: Dom Lawson <dom.lawson@emap.com> Subject: And you want stuffing? Message-ID: <F1C32CD48B89D411AD2B00D0B78EC38904FD3103@MAPPINMAIL01> Oi! Shut it! A very Merry (and secular) Christmas to you all...hail Santa!! Rest in peace - George, Stuart and Chuck... Lots of love, Dom.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:57:18 -0800 (PST) From: The Colonel <captainextraneous@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Liz Phair Message-ID: <20011219145718.84851.qmail@web12105.mail.yahoo.com> >I dunno, I'm kinda partial to the Liz Phair ad, >sweater or no sweater >(I'll take no sweater, thankyouverymuch). I'm with ya. I have this Ben Folds Five bootleg tape where Folds introduces the song "All Is Fair" in what he says is it's alternate pronunciation, "Ah, Liz Phair." Well, I found it amusing... The Colonel
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:03:08 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@fluor.com Subject: Re: Our Stevie Message-ID: <OFB9FBF84C.D55EEE80-ON85256B27.00521BD1@fdnet.com> Interestingly enough, I just completed a transaction with R. Stevie Moore. I bought a CD from him and he gave me one of his for free! The CD that I bought just happened to have a cover of "Chalkhills & Children" on it, if there's anybody out there who collects XTC covers. The CD in question is "Encyclopediac Two" by Krystyna Olsiewicz, I guess Stevie records & promotes her. As for Ben's comment: <<The Feelies were pop. The Housemartins were pop. Sloan and Guided by Voices are pop. Not friggin' MARIAH!>> Strictly speaking, pop only means popular, so I'm afraid that Mariah and all her naval academy are very much pop. Just not GOOD pop! ;~) Happy Holidays to all of you, I enjoy this digest immensely! Bob
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:37:39 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Eby <jeffaeb@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Bah Humbug! Message-ID: <20011219163739.18011.qmail@web11604.mail.yahoo.com> Duncan Kimball wrote: >Seriously though, folks -- have we indeed sunk so low, has radio become so moribund, that it requires the exploitation of all this fine music by advertisers to engender broad public interest in such artists as Nick Drake?< Selling music to advertisers worked for Moby. I say if some ad execs have good taste in music, more power to them. Commercial radio is dead and any other means to reach the masses is justified. And hell, I've been seing these Gap adds for years, often enjoying the music, and have yet to enter a store. >May we be spared the horror of hearing XTC used as an advertisment for ANYTHING. If XTC's long odyssey from the Virgin days to the present are about anything, it's about a bunch of guys who are more concerned with making good, true, honest music and being good craftsmen, than with being a bunch of cynical, greedy cash-in artists.< Funny, I learned that XTC were mad about their lack of profit at Virgin and wanted a better deal. XTC are definitely concerned about the bottom line. no, they don't comprimise on their music but they obviously have a stubborn streak about getting what's due to them. Consider this, if it was just about the music, Andy's wonderful music would have been in James and the Giant Peach instead of that damn crap by Randy Newman. Disney wouldn't give enough money, Andy walked and the movie suffered. I see no problem with their music being in commercials. I think it would be wonderful. But it still wouldn't get me in a Gap. Jeff "'Mario, integrity is everything! You keep the money. We'll live on love--the love we have for sophisticated head-bobbing music!'" -Mario Speaks, TMBG
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:52:36 -0500 From: Ben Gott <bgott@rectoryschool.org> Subject: In Sweaters... Message-ID: <B8463004.5C16%bgott@rectoryschool.org> Gang, My pal and collaborator Ian C Stewart quoth, regarding my comment about Nick Drake and Supertramp's music both being used in T.V. commercials: > Jesus H Jones man, let's hope not! Comparing Supertramp to the > incomparable Nick Drake is sacrilege! Don't make me come over there and > smack you on the arm with my cardigan! Just because I'm a pacifist doesn't > mean I won't write a really mean poem about you!!!!! Supertramp. Yeesh. Now hold on, Ian. I wasn't suggesting that Supertramp is anywhere near Nick Drake on the scale of musical wonderfulness! I was just making the point that, after that Volkswagen commercial came out, sales of "Way to Blue," like, quintupled. This is a *good* thing. I've e-mailed Dunks under separate header. Let the conversations begin! XTC content: That 12-string guitar on "Thanks for Christmas" is something! -Ben
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:25:05 EST From: ROBMSTEEN@cs.com Subject: Re: Garden Grass Message-ID: <c9.1a7397a2.29523581@cs.com> My addled brain cells I'm afraid, Virginia, as other Chalkhillers have pointed out to my great shame and embarrassment. I was, of course, confusing Garden of Earthly Delights with Grass. Easy mistake when you come to think of it - especially when you've been puffing on the subject matter of the latter for way too many yonks... The Dook of Cornwall
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:09:03 -0700 From: Landy <blandy@lawyernet.com> Subject: Re: Phil Collins Message-ID: <f05010401b846a3a23345@[10.0.0.198]> >And the fact that he might've had a lucky streak before the dookie hit >the fan 20 years ago is moot. Maybe he can play the drums, but to me >it's like arguing that Hitler was a great poet. Hmmm, perhaps he was but >so what!? > >Yes, I'm saying Phil Collins is as bad as Hitler. Please quote me on that. Gents: No doubt about it. Phil's music sucks now. But the comparison to Hitler (while silly if meant in all seriousness) is not logical. Phil did make some great music for a long period of time. He has not always used his ability toward evil ends. Early Genesis is among the most incredible albums of any genre. Phil was a full contributor to these albums. Had Ringo played instead of Phil, Genesis would never have lasted through Trespass. B -- Brian Landy, Attorney at Law
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:34:38 -0500 From: m stone <nedrise@sympatico.ca> Subject: advertising Message-ID: <3C20EBCD.EF30116@sympatico.ca> Duncan Kimball said: >And for what? To celebrate the music? As if. No, it is used purely as a means of seducing the listener/viewer into a state of receptivity to the inexorable, inescapable message: CONSUME - BE SILENT - DIE. Advertising is a blight on our culture, its practitioners are parasites. A pox on all their houses.< Here, here. You da Man, DK. http://www.adbusters.org/
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:34:33 -0700 From: Kirk.Gill@equifax.com Subject: Evil Awful Consumerism Message-ID: <OFF9D49308.B21591AA-ON87256B27.0064BEEB@fin.equifax.com> Forgive me, Mr. Kimball, but I need to respond to something from your last post. You keep hammering on consumerism, and advertising, and selling out, and I think you probably need to just get over it. Here's my take. In this life, there are those who create, and those who consume (amongst other groups that I'm really not talking about right now, so there). Some people create "art," and I sometimes get the impression that the people who consume this art get a little protective of their own perceptions of it, like they "own" it. (Yes, I used that awful word CONSUME. If you don't like consuming, how can you ever manage to actually buy an XTC record in the first place?) Anyway, here's a (somewhat bizarre) example of what I'm talking about. Think of Michael Jordan, the basketball player. "Art" may be too big a word to use to describe what he does, but he does it, and he had a pretty good run doing it, before deciding to hang it up. Then, a couple of years later, he decides that he'd going to give it another go, And what do you hear in the media? He's going to "tarnish his legacy." In other words, they have these nice memories of what he did, and they'd like to leave it at that. But guess what? He is an actual living, breathing human being, who wants to play the game again. The legacy those people cherish isn't his fricking problem. He's more concerned with having fun, and making money, and doing what he wants. Guess what? That's what a lot of us are concerned with, too. We just don't have an audience begging to differ. So a musical artist puts out a record, and some years go by, and someone comes along and offers a bunch of money to use that record to sell.....whatever. Chances are, this artist might like a new car. Or something nice for his wife. So he takes the money. In fact, a bunch of people are throwing around cash in this transaction. The company that's selling.......whatever is hoping to sell more stuff and make money. The advertising agency that wants to use the song is getting a piece. And you know what? People work for these companies, people like you and me. People that want to get paid. You say: "It is about the act of Giving, only insofar as you are being seduced into giving your money to Gap, or Coke, or Microsoft, or whoever is yapping at your at the moment." Guess what? A good friend of mine works for Coca Cola (ohmygod). And he's not the personification of evil. In fact, he has a lovely daughter, and he's a pretty good dad. You go on to say: "God bless the happy, healthy world where we spend more per annum feeding our pets than on welfare for humans living in poverty. Merry Xmas, starving millions." So how is that dolorous fact the fault of advertisers? What, are you saying that people have no choices in life? That advertising renders them unable to do good? People have a choice, and the fact that they decide to spend their money on pets instead of on helping out humans in need reflects poorly on all of us, and is clearly the fault of each individual person who makes those choices. In this society, in this economy, we're connected, and sometimes art is used to grease the wheels. It isn't the fact that radio has become moribund that's making the songs and artists we love appear in ads. It's time, and the fact that we're at the age where advertisers want to appeal to us, and the music we grew up with is the tool they're using. Doesn't anyone remember the 50's revival in the 70's? Do the math. We've become our parents. The music of the 50's is now being used to sell adult diapers and denture cleaner. Now, Andy and Colin may feel protective of their legacy. But I'm not so sure. I remember seeing Andy co-host MTV's 120 Minutes back in the day, and the co-host asked him if he ever listened to his old material. I believe the phrase Andy used was "No, our turds are for others to chew on." And if the Beatles or other groups didn't want their songs to be used in a way they didn't like, they should never have signed the contracts that let it happen. Sure, a lot of artists got screwed when they signed contracts (like XTC, for example), and were taken advantage of. But something tells me that by the time the Beatles were signing away their catalogues, they had a lawyer or ten telling them what the ramifications were. You say "...it just saddens and angers me to hear music I take rather seriously, that (I believe) was made with serious intent, being used to sell stuff that has NOTHING to do with music." You know what? It saddens me, too. I can't help but feel that way, 'cause the music connected to me, and it's in my mind, forever. I've made my own connections to it, and I don't want to have to experience some other connection that someone wants me to make. But Andy and Colin aren't just musicians. They're businessmen, too. When they felt screwed by their record company, they stopped making albums, 'cause the business wasn't working out. It wasn't an artistic decision, it was business. The reality in the music business is, to paraphrase a song by Tool, that the artists you love sold out long before you ever even heard their name. Sorry. Even our lads from XTC. Anyway, the reason I respond like this is that I'm a musician, and I love it. I haven't made much money from it, and I've never made business the central idea behind why I'm doing it. But I gotta live, and money helps, and sometimes the people who create something would like to make a dollar or two from it and not be dogged about it from an ivory tower by people who know nothing about their personal situation. I'll admit, I'm cranky, pig-headed, trivial, rude, and downright stupid. But I always enjoy your posts, and don't want this message to be as mean as it probably sounded. I'm an old hippy too, I guess, but I also have to admit that I play this Great Game you so despise. Sometimes I even enjoy it. And you play it, too, even if it's hard to swallow the fact that you do. Merry Christmas to all, and God Bless Us Every One. Kirk. P.S. Supertramp has always sucked. Frank Zappa's solos rule, and besides, he's dead, so cut the man some slack. And Phil Collins was fine until he started to suck. He got old. Ho Ho Ho. "I'm Bugged"
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:03:06 -0800 (PST) From: Ira Lieman <ilieman@yahoo.com> Subject: D'oh is me! Message-ID: <20011219200306.58381.qmail@web11206.mail.yahoo.com> Hi Chalkfolk, I could have sworn Sheryl Crow appeared twice in that GAP ad ... until everyone was commenting on how Liz Phair was there. C'mon -- they're almost twins! As for Ben: An XTC song that could sell sweaters? Snowman, definitely. And to Aimee Mann, if she's listening, don't think it's selling out to appear in a commercial. We'd love to see you. And besides, you contributed a song to the "Songs from Melrose Place" album so I really don't think 10 seconds of a GAP ad comes close to that. Besides, you would be a great "Wow, who is that talented individual singing on this GAP ad?" brainteaser for about 95% of the country. Unless you grew your hair back to '85 in which only 90% would be teased. -ira, working undercover for the man.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:36:34 -1000 From: Jim Smart <smart@punahou.edu> Subject: a few questions Message-ID: <a04330107b846b460052c@[10.23.4.7]> Only you wondrous beings can help me out with these: 1. Should I feel guilty for enjoying River of Orchids while driving my car? 2. How much irony is present (in grams) when an atheist writes a song called "Thanks for Christmas"? 3. Would it be better for an atheist or a believer to write a song called "Gandalf got run over by a reindeer"? 4. Does Vee Tube eat fish? These are the things which keep me up at night, Jim
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:00:21 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Deaf School Message-ID: <B8473D05.1B2E%cauldron@together.net> on 12/19/01 1:15 AM, an unidentified flying orator wrote: > Good Morning Chalkhills, > > I really enjoy Chalkhills,it's one of the few lists I actually > read. It's a nice vindicator knowing many of you listen(ed) to the > same stuff I grew up loving.. XTC,Supertramp, Roxy, NRBQ, Kinks > Genesis and Peter Gabriel...does anyone remember a band of 7-8 > characters known as "DEAF SCHOOL" with the likes of Enrico Cadillac > Jr., Betty Brite and the Revererend Max Ripple ( on vaccuum cleaner, > no less). My point? Yes, I still have their first two albums on vinyl, sort of like a working class Roxy Music with a dry sense of humor and three singers(one female; whatever happened to Bette Bright, anyway?). They had some good and memorable songs and got a lot of airplay on CHOM-FM in Montreal where I was in high school at the time. A slight XTC connection: their guitarist Clive Langer went on to be a pretty successful producer in the 80's, including a few abortive sides with XTC during the sessions for English Settlement, they ended up going with Hugh Padgham instead and only one or two songs from the sessions surfaced as B sides and outtakes.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:10:29 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Gotta have pop Message-ID: <B8473F64.1B2F%cauldron@together.net> on 12/19/01 1:15 AM, Ben wrote: > P.S. Don't you hate the fact that the stupid media has whored the term > "pop" to describe Britney, Backstreet, and N*sync? I always get excited > when I see "In Pop..." on CDNow's website, only to be disappointed by a > picture of Mariah Carey and her new album. That is *not* pop. The Feelies > were pop. The Housemartins were pop. Sloan and Guided by Voices are pop. > Not friggin' MARIAH! Unfortunately, "pop" is what's popular on the top 40 singles chart, which unfortunately applies to Mariah. It's not a label we can apply willy-nilly only to music we like that sounds "pop" to us. Of course we can do what we like anyway, but it won't matter to the millions who are force-fed cake when all they need is bread.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:51:41 -0500 From: William Loring <bloring@TIRERACK.COM> Subject: Re: Sweating Sellers... I mean... Oh, nevermind. Message-ID: <B847652D.16C05%bloring@tirerack.com> Duncan wrote: > Personally I can't wait for the Iggy Pop revival, courtesy of Pal > Meaty Bites. Iggy Pop is already enjoying his revival, courtesy of FTD(!) among others. I'm just waiting for the flower commercial where Iggy appears with a bouquet of flowers stuffed down his leather hip-hugger pants, while he fallates a microphone. William (did I spell "fallates" right? My spell checker didn't have an entry for it) Loring p.s. I work in marketing, so I'll take that pox when you've got it ready for me.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:46:48 +0000 From: "Ralph Simpson DeMarco" <sawpit@hotmail.com> Subject: Musical Gap Trap Message-ID: <F38BYXifWoqFXfyY0QU00001916@hotmail.com> Dear Affiliated Members: I am shocked that anyone thinks that Supertramp ad has any merits at all. First off that song, Give a little bit, seems to sound much worse when anyone else sings it (not that I liked it that much anyway) and the worst part is that Robbie Robertson (lead guitar, songwriter for The Band !) is in that ad! AArrrrrggghhh! It really sickens me and to top it off, he sounds like crap. I can deal with occasional commercials using classic songs like the Kinks, only because I hope it helps them sell CDs. Someone may hear So Tired and say, hey that reminds me, I haven't head them in years! But, mainly it all sucks. If I hear Iggy Pop's Lust for Life used in yet another commercial (I've counted three so far) I am going to melt my record into goo. Phil Collins should have stuck to drums, and soundtracks to movies. Anything else he's done since 1980's Genesis album Duke, has sucked so bad, it makes me wanna clean my ears out with soap when I hear it. I must confess: Last year I said that Wasp Star did not suffer for lack of Dave. I was wrong - sorry - but everytime I listen to it, I miss him... sniff, that album could have been great, but alas, it is only good. Merry X-mass one and all. I will miss George Harrison.... he was a true gentle soul. Aside from While My Guitar..., Something, and Here Come the Sun, what are your top Three Favourite Harrison songs? Mine are: 1) I Want To Tell You (love that dissonant piano chord!), 2) Blue Jay Way (underrated and the much neglected) 3) Savoy Truffle (love that horn section and the self-reference) Ralph
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:49:14 -0000 From: "Adrian Ransome" <adrian.ransome@instinct.freeuk.com> Subject: Re: sweater song Message-ID: <001e01c189a0$2ba39cc0$249a7ed4@atidy> Ben Gott pondered what XTC song could sell sweaters. Well, with a little re-writing we could have: +ACI-J-u-m-p-e-r-s Jumpers from Gomorrah I am fashion-less+ACEAIg- or +ACI-Ah well, that's this Pullover+ACI- or even River of Orchids re-written+ADs- +ACI-Put your Caaaar-digan on+ACEAIg- Happy holidays to all you chalkers+ACE- adrian
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:45:20 EST
From: OMBEAN1@aol.com
Subject: Stroke Me
Message-ID: <63.3c58546.29540a50@aol.com>
Hola!
Long time no post but something is troubling me.
Am I the only one who thinks The Strokes are good enough to get a mention
here?
Jayzus, That album is good. Excellent even. They pulled an XTC on me in
that I cant get them out of my head. Eleven great tunes. Lou Reed meets The
Clash. Something for everybody. And theyre all around 21 years old.
If anyone mentioned them earlier, sorry.
My friend saw King Crimson here in Philly earlier this month. He said
it was awesome. Fripp went off in another world with his guitar. He also said
it was scary that A. Belew was the least talented. That was his abridged
review.
Waiting on new stuff, Roger
p.s. Does anyone know if Harry made it on The Simpsons yet?
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:58:26 +0000 (GMT) From: andrew sneddon <andrew_sneddon@yahoo.com> Subject: Phil and Fripp Message-ID: <20011221125826.78643.qmail@web14601.mail.yahoo.com> Hello my darklings. Phil Collins has played with Fripp on a Charlie Drake novelty single penned by Peter Gabriel in his post-Genesis cabbage patch period. Not exactly Crimson I think. I have asked for some spanking new reissues for xmas, here's hoping. Right, time to remember my forum password. Merry Christmas
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:22:49 -0500 From: Tony Picco <tpicco@iesna.org> Subject: Open Posting re: Disliking Phil Collins Message-ID: <B848BDF9.2B01%tpicco@iesna.org> Okay, I don't like Phil Collins. Neither do I like Billy Joel or Fleetwood Mac, and many others. But obviously, their music serves a function for many people. No one is holding a gun to your head and making you listen. (At least I hope not.) And with Walkmans and Discmans and iPod and whatever, you don't even have to subject yourself to their music in stores and shopping malls. So why do you spend so much time vilifying these people? No one sets out to make mediocre music, or mediocre art. Why not spend more time enjoying what you like, and let the other stuff fall by your wayside. Life is short. Focus on the positive. You'll never get to feel better about yourself by tearing other people down... Happy New Year, all! Tony Picco XTC fan since 1978!
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:12:35 -0500 From: cutterccbaxter@netscape.net Subject: Is Phil Evil? Message-ID: <23482C69.39AB1BD6.6DE2C5FB@netscape.net> Ian said, and I quote: >Yes, I'm saying Phil Collins is as bad as Hitler. Please quote me on that. Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that if you look at the back cover of Brand X's "Moroccan Roll" you'll notice in the group photo that Phil bares a striking resemblance to Charles Manson. As Robert Plant once sang, "And it makes me wonder..." I guess I fall into the camp of I'd rather not hear an XTC song used to sell sweaters, but if someone said I had to choose a song or they would make me listen to side one of "No Jacket Required," I'd pick "Dear God" because it seems like an XTC song that would never end up as a music track on a commercial selling sweaters (or trousers for that matter). -Todd J. --
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:39:53 -0600 From: "Joe Funk" <twosheds@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Phil Collins/ The Crap Message-ID: <005401c18af6$858eca00$15a8343f@user> From: Ian C Stewart: >Ehh, I think that might be the drugs. I don't recall Phil ever sitting >in with Fripp etc. Well, you probably never heard Fripp's "Exposure".. Phil is all over this one.. "Breathless" is a CLASSIC!, IMO.. ..And Phil's work with Eno? He originally got involved with Eno as payment for Eno's work on "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"... >This got me thinking: what XTC song could sell sweaters? The great thing >about The Gap's current campaign is that these performers capture a real >magic . >Ben Are you kiddin' me? There's absolutely nothing F#$%ing magical about these F$%@ing Gap commercials.. I have seen grown men who'd rather pull their own heads off than watch a F#%$ing Gap commercial!!! And if XTC did a F$#@ing Gap commercial, I'd have to nail their heads to a coffee table... This is American Corporate Commercialization at it's worst!!!.... Plus, the clothes SUCK! "Give a little bit.. Give a little of your cash to us... ..See the clone with the empty eyes He's such a nerd, and so despised" ARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jomama -- Check out 3 tunes from our new CD at: http://www.ampcast.com/twosheds Two Sheds Website: http://www.angelfire.com/art/twosheds/twosheds.html
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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:24:33 -0500 (EST)
From: RSMko@webtv.net (R. Stevie Moore)
Subject: Dylan 12-22-61
Message-ID: <10960-3C24A5B1-113@storefull-258.iap.bryant.webtv.net>
40TH ANNIVERSARY Today!
The Minnesota Hotel Tape!!!
Young Bob's most vibrant recordings!
(On his way back to Hibbing after recording first Columbia album for
John Hammond and generally conquering Robert Shelton and NYC.)
Fri Dec 22 1961
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Recorded by Tony Glover at the apartment of Bonnie Beecher,
Minneapolis
1. Candy Man (trad., arr Reverend Gary Davis)
2. Baby Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams)
3. Hard Times In New York Town (trad.)
4. Stealin' (trad., arr Memphis Jug Band)
5. Poor Lazarus (trad.)
6. I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie)
7. It's Hard To Be Blind (trad., arr Reverend Gary Davis)
8. Dink's Song (trad., arr by John & Alan Lomax)
9. Man Of Constant Sorrow (trad., arr Bob Dylan)
10. Naomi Wise (trad.)
11. Wade In The Water (trad.)
12. I Was Young When I Left Home (trad.) (recently released
with L&T)
13. In The Evening (Brownie McGhee)
14. Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt)
15. Sally Girl (Woody Guthrie)
16. Gospel Plow (trad.)
17. Long John (trad.)
18. Cocaine (trad.)
19. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
20. Ramblin' Round (Woody Guthrie)
21. VD Blues (Woody Guthrie)
22. VD Waltz (Woody Guthrie)
23. VD City (Woody Guthrie)
24. VD Gunner's Blues (Woody Guthrie)
25. Black Cross (Lord Buckley)
26. The Story Of East Orange, New Jersey (monologue)
Mono recording, approximately 75 minutes.
GO LISTEN! LOUD!!
N O W !!
It rates up there with Elvis on Sun.
[xtc malcontent: LP 1, track 6]
Happy Xmas
(moore is over)
http://www.rsteviemoore.com
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