The Hangover Mass Blues Show: Episode 1

A bi-monthly blues program spinning vintage and contemporary sounds from the Mississippi Delta and beyond:

| Mississippi Delta |

robert belfour - hill stomp || junior kimbrough - lord have mercy || r.l. burnside - jumper hanging on a line || howlin' wolf - back door man || charles caldwell - alone for a long time|| asie payton - i love you || jimmy lee williams - have you seen peaches || willie dixon - i can't quit you, baby || cecil barfield - georgia bottleneck blues || boyd rivers and ruth may rivers - come out the wilderness || walter horton - need my baby || jimmy dawkins - b phur real || lurrie bell - smokin' dynamite || lowell fulson - why don't we do it in the road || junior wells - snatch it back and hold it || smokey wilson - want to do it to you || j.w. warren - hoboing into hollywood || john lee zeigler - if i lose let me loose || jimmy lee williams - hoot your belly || john lee zeigler - used to be mine but look who got her now ||  belton southerland - blues #2 || a.a. bondy - vice rag || dr. isaiah ross - feel so good || j.b. lenior - talk to your daughter || junior kimbrough - meet me in the city ||

Revisited: The Georgia Sea Island Singers

The Atlantic coast that stretches from South Carolina to Florida is scattered with over one hundred barrier islands within miles from the shore. Saint Simons is one such island, allocated to Glynn County, Georgia, and despite its recent development as a resort community, has history dating back two hundred years before European contact. The island later served as a hub for cotton production, like many of the neighboring Sea Islands, and became the adopted home to generations of slaves and their ancestors. It was here that Gullah culture was birthed to preserve the African customs, and it was out of Gullah culture that the music of the Georgia Sea Island Singers came to be.

Headbanging in the Mirror - Ducktails

Ducktails has returned with the new track "Headbanging in the Mirror," just in time to make everybody's summer playlist. The song picks up where Ducktails left off with 2013's The Flower Lane  LP and Wish Hotel EP, as a tight, melodic, lolloping bedroom pop tune. With a title that's more reflective of the blissful feeling that comes from rocking out than something you'll find yourself along with  the song, "Headbanging in the Mirror" is the perfect accompaniment to taking a deep breath and taking it easy.

"Headbanging in the Mirror" is the first single from Ducktails' forthcoming LP St. Catherine, out July 24th on Domino. <EC>

april/15 playlist

A spirit of youth in everything.
 

Listen Up: Great Outdoors

Welcome back nice weather, get outdoors. <PM>

Gross - Jonwayne

Enough novelty was tied in to the rap career of Jonwayne that his projects would earn buzz, albeit only within the ever-blurring borders of “underground” hip hop. There were his aptly titled, only-available-on-tape-deck Stones Throw mixtapes. There was the Philip Morris lawsuit that followed the Cassette. Then of course there is his name, shared with, but not lifted from America’s favorite cowboy (unlike The Duke, Jonwayne’s moniker is his given name).  But once novelty wore thin, the substance had to pack a punch worthy of the legendary Stones Throw stamp of approval.

The native of La Habra, California began his ascent as a beatsmith before laying his signature voice over his own productions. His first release on Stones Throw didn’t even feature a tracklist, just two sides of a tape cassette, four raps on one, their corresponding instrumentals on the other. Before being told to cease and desist by the world’s largest seller of cigarettes due to their similarities in packaging, the tape was highly sought after, due both to its limited release and Jonwayne’s breakout performance.

The opening track of Cassette, “Gross”, samples Johnnie Taylor’s soulful “I Worry About You” while Jon rhymes about the differentiators between himself and the remainder of the rap game; the worry is addressed to his competition. He flows with simultaneous lethargy and quickness, reminiscent of another portly MC once signed to Stones Throw. References to the Flintstones and shout-outs to his label pop up out of nothing, requiring a momentary rewind in order to fully grasp the line. With his skill set, it does indeed define baffling that his fame has not grown. Cassette should have taken on the hallowed status of his labelmates. Jonwayne’s lack of stardom feels unfair. That is, until you remember that it is very much by design. <PM>

Quick Glance - Holiday - Keath Mead

Sounds like: The structure of and solo from "Let It Be" as sung by Paul Simon, plus samples of ray-guns and UFOs. Produced by Toro y Moi's Chaz Bundick and released on his Company Records label. <EC>