WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 08/29/14

Listener comments!

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8:28am duke:

Good morning. The picture gives me fond memories of when I was a toddler and my parents gave me my first .50 caliber.

8:29am Doug Schulkind:

You must be THIS:_ tall to be a completely insane adult.

8:43am glenn:

shotgun weddings, machine gun first communions. it's confusing.

8:47am Erella:

Good morning

8:49am Doug Schulkind:

Two Canadians in a row! Greetings glenn and Erella!

8:50am glenn:

we canuckistanians stand proud. where's earrie?

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8:55am listener james from westwood:

Put me down for a Derringer confirmation. Or confrontation. At my family gatherings, same diff.
Morning, all ye sluggards, druggards, and Douggards!

8:56am Gary:

Oh, man

8:59am Holly in NC:

Hi Doug! Hello all! Excited to hear 1st 1/2 hour. xo
Then must leave to hang pictures, which I am NOT good at. Wish me luck... I really need to live up to my poor client/friend's misplaced faith in me!

9:00am Erella:

Glenn, I am in toronto.

9:01am Doug Schulkind:

Listener James is here! Gary is here! Holly in NC is here! Erella is in Toronto!

9:01am glenn:

me too. the home of jubilation t. crackpipe.

9:03am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

9:04am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, ndbob! I went to a house concert last evening to hear fellow North Dakotan Tom Brosseau.

9:04am Erella:

Mary Margaret Ohara, John Oswald and friends are playing tonight at Imperial pub PWYC at 8pm. You might enjoy that if you are listening to Doug today.

9:04am Gary:

I want your job, Holly! That sounds like an awesome way to spend a day

9:04am Parq:

Hi, gang. Y'know, I try to take solace in being flippant too, but every now and then, I have to stop and acknowledge how horrified I am at what we've become in this century. And, of course, the more horrific an incident is, the surer it is that it will only strengthen the gun crowd's hold on the rest of us.

9:07am Holly in NC:

@Gary - I wish you could take over for me, truly. SO not my forte.

9:07am glenn:

i have that george barnes rekkid, by the way.

9:07am ndbob:

@parq - you think then that gun owners are a monolithic block of extreme nra supporters?

9:08am Gary:

It's not mine either, at all. But I love the idea of it!

9:08am Doug Schulkind:

Hi Parq! Hi George Barnes!

9:09am ndbob:

@Doug great! I loved the show you played of Tom's music - I added him to Twitter after that and tweeted him a few times

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9:09am duke:

@parq news.yahoo.com... It will probably get worse before it gets better

9:10am Gary:

This is great. Reminds me of that censored songs list that is floating around

9:11am glenn:

i think that hunters and farmers have a reasonable excuse to own a rifle. i don't think anybody has any possible reason to own an uzi, or an ak47, or even a handgun, for that matter.

9:11am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
I'm not sure how Parq is using the phrase "gun crowd," but I'm guessing he's not referring to every single individual who happens to own a gun. Just the community of people who assign to their guns the sorts of rights intended for actual humans.

9:13am ndbob:

@Glenn totally agree re uzi's and ak47s - not so sure about handguns - no one needs an automatic weapon and to train a 9 year old to use one is crazy -which doesn't mean that some firearms training isn't appropriate for 9 year olds

9:15am Mr C:

Good morning blues...

9:16am Doug Schulkind:

Easy for you to say, Mr C!

9:17am Doug Schulkind:

Who doesn't have the blues at 6:16 in the morning?

9:17am Erella:

No child of 9 needs to know how to use a firearm. And No one needs to use an automatic weapon.
They need to learn about how to cut their vegetables.

9:18am glenn:

i'm not completely anti gun, by any means. i grew up on a farm, where they are a necessary thing. and there's no doubt, target shooting is a ton of fun. i just honestly think the only use for a handgun is to kill another person, and i frown on that.

9:20am Erella:

I am completely anti gun for children

9:23am Frank from VT:

Do Canadian farmers have guns?

9:23am ndbob:

I am going to bow out of here for today - back for Uncle M - I have a Doctor's appointment later anyway and can't have my blood pressure go up - I also don't want to say things I may regret later

9:25am Mr C:

Magic Sam was remarkable as a live presence..thrilling and charismatic...a great memory to me..he did Cissy Strut the night I saw in Phila.

9:25am glenn:

canadians have LOTS of guns. we just don't seem to think we can shoot anybody we want to.

9:27am Gary:

This so totally lives up to the promise of its title

9:27am Doug Schulkind:

@ndbob
You are among friends. Friends can disagree and not be unfriendly.

9:30am Uncle Michael:

The ice man cometh.

9:30am ndbob:

@Glenn when I lived in Jamestown almost everyone owned a gun and there was very little violent crime - sad to see that holier-than-Americans attitude you have

9:32am Holly in NC:

@Mr C -So glad for you that you got to see Magic Sam, so sad for me that I didn't :-)

Re guns in US - My ex-husband, an avid, avid, hunter FOR FOOD ONLY (where do you think I get my venison?) and an even more avid target shooting afficionado/expert - was, in his youth, jointly trained by his hunter/trapper father & NRA instructors. He himself now is a licensed/certified NRA instructor. Who turned in his NRA membership quite a few years ago. NRA is NOT what it used to be.

9:34am ndbob:

@Holly agree there for sure - I wonder how the NRA was taken over by a bunch of extremists - I remember even Bush Sr. turning in his NRA membership

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9:34am listener james from westwood:

Firing a bolt-action .22 in Boy Scout camp was one of the ways I learned I needed glasses. I kept hitting other scouts' targets. Trip to the optometrist followed.

9:35am Gary:

bodegapop.blogspot.com...

9:35am ndbob:

aha James:)

9:35am glenn:

probably the same way the tea party took over the republicans.

9:36am ndbob:

@Glenn could well be

9:37am Uncle Michael:

I think young children should be limited to hand-to-hand combat like we were.

9:38am ndbob:

"trained in combat hand to hand" I guess

9:38am Doug Schulkind:

@Gary
Thanks! You beat me to it!

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9:40am duke:

A large amount of the NRA activities is acting as a lobby group for gun manufacturers. When you are in the gun business anything restricting gun sales is bad for business.

9:41am glenn:

but who knows? it takes an extremist to understand another one. reasonable people have difficult wrapping their minds around that kind of whackadoodle behaviour.

9:42am Doug Schulkind:

I think the biggest victims of the NRA phony 2nd Amendment absolutism are the people who've spent such huge amounts on guns and ammo thinking they are protecting their "rights." I think Duke is right. It's all marketing.

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9:42am listener james from westwood:

The Repub-driven law-and-order crusade (code words for anti-black fearmongering) in the mid/late 60s was, IIRC from something I've read, one of the forces that morphed the NRA from a hunting and sporting org to an absolutist gun-rights activist group.

9:43am glenn:

well, sure. same goes for the tobacco business or the alcohol business. what if the second amendment said that people have the right to propel sugar beets at each other? i'm pretty sure the beet growers would be doing their best to stop anybody limiting their activities.

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9:43am listener james from westwood:

This only accelerated under Reagan, despite his almost being murdered w a handgun.

9:44am ausmanx:

here i am in london! good afternoon, mr s (unusual time for me)... i'm happy to be comprehensively anti-gun. they're gonna start shooting badgers here again soon. that's just not fair. i say train the badgers to shoot back

9:44am Gary:

When I was a kid or maybe very early teen a friend took me out shooting with his BB gun. I aimed at a bird on a telephone wire above and, first time, shot it. It fell to the ground. It continued to move, slightly, in ways that suggested extreme trauma. It eventually stopped moving. I burst into tears. It was my only experience with guns.

I still eat birds, though.

9:44am ndbob:

@the 2nd Amendment is what the Supreme Court says it is - there is an individual right to bear arms - but that it no way, as the court made clear, an absolute right

9:45am ndbob:

it in*

9:45am Uncle Michael:

I like cheese. Cheese is delicious.

There, I said it.

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9:46am listener james from westwood:

And it's been limited in various ways on state and federal levels depending on legislation, e.g., w/r/t full-auto weapons or those equal or greater than .50 cal, even if the shooter is an adorbs wee girl.

9:49am holland oats:

drumma! peoples! tgigtds!

9:49am glenn:

it's the top knot, right? don't worry, she'll grow up to be tonya lee harding.

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9:49am listener james from westwood:

Then she'll definitely need to know hand-to-hand (or pipe-to-knee) combat.

9:49am Doug Schulkind:

@holland oats
Tgigtds sounds like a foot fungus or something. Good morning!

9:50am Parq:

Didn't think the point would still be going on. (Mrs. Parq needed the puter for a while.) I endorse Uncle Michael's position, as usual.

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

Hello in London, ausmanx! Or is that now engmanx?

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9:54am Brian in UK:

Hello Doug.
Hey ausmanx you missed the Manx Grand Prix by one week. Only two people died this year.

9:58am ndbob:

In half an hour I need to go to my doctors appointment - which is unnerving me and making me even edgier then usual

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9:58am listener james from westwood:

Hope all turns out well, ndbob! I know those pre-doc nerves.

9:59am Gary:

I'm always freaked out before Dr, Bob. And then everything turns out okay.

10:00am Doug Schulkind:

Sorry to add to the edginess, Bob. Fingers and toes crossed that all is well.

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10:01am Brian in UK:

ndbob have a nice cup of tea.

10:01am ndbob:

ty ty - lst time my blood pressure was in the danger zone, sugar not controlled so lots to talk abouttoday

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10:03am Brian in UK:

Doug, who is playing with Lol?

10:05am Doug Schulkind:

@Brian in UK
First thing: Hello!
Second thing: Veryan Weston on piano

10:05am Doug Schulkind:

No relation to Randy Weston.

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10:06am duke:

@ndbob good luck with Dr.

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10:06am Brian in UK:

Or ..... & Weston. Sorry.

10:08am Doug Schulkind:

All that Abdul Wadud last week has got me listening to a lot of cello. How about this wonderful Oscar Pettiford.

10:08am ndbob:

ty ty

10:21am Doug Schulkind:

I am going to lay on you a whole bunch of interesting nuggets about an obscure Broadway musical. Coming up!

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10:24am Brian in UK:

Taking of Pelham 123 The Musical, perchance.
An underground hit.

10:25am Doug Schulkind:

No Brian in UK, a Broadway musical of that film would be called...

The Taking of Pelham, and a 5..6..7..8..

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10:26am Brian in UK:

The Chicago version To El & Back.

10:28am still b/p:

A strap-hanger cliff-hanger! The third rail of entertainment!

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10:28am listener james from westwood:

@Brian: Killing it with the mass-transit humor.
@Doug: Can't have been half the show, there, can it have? I've been in a timeless musical bliss.

10:29am ndbob:

excellent first half of a show Doug! back eventually

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10:35am βrian:

Good God, did you just verb a noun??

10:36am still b/p:

All around my hat, I will wear the green willow.

10:38am holland oats:

lovely track - sublime freq comes through yet again

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10:39am βrian:

I'm not a fan of animated gifs, generally, but the machine-gun image is ripe for manipulation.

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10:39am Brian in UK:

Where do they find these songs?

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10:40am Brian in UK:

The child looks like a baby Roseanne Barr.

10:40am Doug Schulkind:

Horros! Did I verb a noun?! My people will effort to find out the truth.

@βrian
I was kind of hoping it would be animated, but am ultimately relieved it wasn't.

10:42am Doug Schulkind:

Rock from Greenland? Rock from Greenland.

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10:42am Brian in UK:

Verbing a nun would be worse.

10:43am Doug Schulkind:

Who's gonna come up with the first "breaking a bad habit" joke?

10:44am Uncle Michael:

Doug, tell us about Perkins in "Company" next!

10:46am Gary:

Got up from the couch where I was lounging lazily like a [fill in colorful noun here, could be giant fish, could be whatever else you like] to express my super thrill at hearing whatever this lovely song be

10:46am Doug Schulkind:

Perkins co-wrote, with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, the screenplay for the 1973 film The Last of Sheila, for which they received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

10:49am Doug Schulkind:

Could someone drop a few pinches of feed in Gary's tank? Thanks!

10:49am Doug Schulkind:

Hey, have I wished Charlie Parker a happy 94th birthday yet?

Happy birthday, Charlie Parker!

10:51am still b/p:

Yesterday, "Norman Bates bein' Momma in the shower" came up as a suggestion for fun and unlikely square dance calls/instructions.

10:52am Doug Schulkind:

Howdy, still b/p!

10:54am V Priceless:

Greetings Doug, all !

10:54am Doug Schulkind:

I get nervous before every radio show. I really want it them to go well. More and more, the thing I am most unhappy about is forgetting to say hello to people as they jump on the comments. I hate to be unwelcoming.

Hello and greetings to anyone I've missed!

10:57am Doug Schulkind:

Nice to see (read) you, V Priceless!

10:59am Gary:

apparently preston sturges bd as well!

10:59am Dean:

Just in, I've missed some good stuff. Couldn't help it, though. I took my 3YO out to the range to practice her archery and grenade throwing.

Re: Abdul Wadud, I have searched countless newspapers not freely available on the web. Nothing.

I'll repeat a mini-tour I mentioned yesterday. Sensations' Fix played last night in Charlottesville, will make it to LA and Oakland in early September. If you know the group you won't want to miss this.

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10:59am Brian in UK:

How can they be lost recordings if you are playing them, Doug?

11:00am still b/p:

Heeloooo. No worries. You're doing a show, curating, cueing and such and being convivial all t' once. I'm not.

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11:00am duke:

They were lost. Doug found them under the couch.

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11:01am Brian in UK:

TommEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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11:05am Brian in UK:

Love Tom B, he still uses the term 'gal'.

11:05am Doug Schulkind:

Heya Dean!

11:07am Gary:

So jealous!

11:12am Dean:

Would it be gauche to ask Raheem DeVaughn?

11:12am Carmichael:

Good morning Doug and drummers.

11:14am Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
One person I know did leave a query on Raheem's Facebook page. There has been no response. (Raheem grew up with his mother separate from his father, so who knows what the relationship was like.)

G'morning, Carmichael!

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11:20am Brian in UK:

One thing leads to another, that being Thomas.

11:20am Alex In Illinois:

Mapfumo. I saw him years ago at the Cubby Bear in Chicago.

11:21am Dean:

Mapfumo plays the club in my backyard (more or less) a couple times a year. I can hear the shows from my bedroom window.

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11:22am Brian in UK:

Dean invite him round for a cup of tea and an untipped cigarette.

11:22am Doug Schulkind:

Hey hey, Alex in Illinois! May I assume that the Cubby Bear is on the NORTH side of Chicago?

@Dean
The club has been trying to find you in order to impose its two-drink minimum.

11:26am Dean:

They can tally up the bottles in the recycle bin and do the math.

In fact, the place is all ages, which is very cool. After a night of a particularly long and loud performance by a Dead-inspired jam band, the club apologized to the neighborhood by presenting free passes to everybody on the block.

11:26am Doug Schulkind:

My favorite Thomas Mapfumo story is about the time the Rhodesian government arrested him because of his seditious music, which was being played despite bans against it. In order to try to discredit Mapfumo as a collaborator, the regime flew helicopters low over the bush where rebels were hiding. Hanging from the helicopters were loudspeakers pumping out Mapfumo's music at high volume. The authorities figured that the rebels would assume that Mapfumo had gone over to the other side if the government was playing it. Needless to say, the scheme backfired.

Ultimately and sadly, the whole revolution backfired with the installation of the monster Robert Mugabe.

Fuck!

11:29am Parq:

Sadly, Doug, the worst in human nature seems to triumph sooner or later in all of these things.

11:30am Doug Schulkind:

Glass half empty then, eh Parq?

11:30am Doug Schulkind:

I'm not saying I disagree. I just happen to be a very very positive pessimist.

11:31am Uncle Michael:

The Cubby Bear is kitty corner to Wrigley Field.

11:37am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Speaking of cuddly Cubs fans, Uncle Michael is up next here on the Drummer Stream. Hinky Dinky Time begins in 23 minutes.

Playlist page here: wfmu.org...

Stay tuned in and cuddle!

11:37am Alex In Illinois:

I actually was not sure if the Cubby Bear still existed, but it still does in the same location that Uncle Michael described in the Chicago dialect. ("kitty corner" as opposed to "Catty corner" or "Caddy Corner")

11:37am Uncle Michael:

Hey, if you don't have anything going on the next few hours you can come to my party. wfmu.org...

11:38am Doug Schulkind:

Cubby Corner

11:39am Uncle Michael:

I attended the world's loudest Soul Asylum show at the Cubby Bear.

11:40am Carmichael:

Just saw Anthony Bourdain's show last night; he was in Chicago. Some guy gave a detailed difference between Cubs and Sox fans. I never knew ...

11:40am Jex:

aw man, soul effects me like no other.

11:40am Uncle Michael:

I can just imagine.

11:42am Doug Schulkind:

Bare your soul, Jex!

11:42am Uncle Michael:

Toe Jex?

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

@Uncle Michael
That's what you get with tgigtds.

11:46am Uncle Michael:

Lummee some Laura Lee.

11:46am sinner:

Lawd. Sang it, girl.

11:48am Uncle Michael:

Green Briggs & Ham.

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

All rise. The honorable Sinner has entered the courtroom of the righteous!

11:51am sinner:

...and my verdict is that this is one funky spot.

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11:52am βrian:

Well, it's gettin' on time for a big bowl of Bibimbap ... Until next time.

11:53am Doug Schulkind:

The image of Mary Love's bottom is prominent in my thoughts at this juncture.

11:54am Uncle Michael:

oh my

11:54am Parq:

For better or (more likely) for worse, Doug, my positivism is exhausted. I am a victim of giving-a-shit fatigue.

11:54am Dean:

Digging these names: Styles, Conquest, Love. Are there any soul/R&B singers with more mundane names? Darlene Toothpastedispenser? Sheila Toenailclipper?

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11:54am Brian in UK:

AMEN erm AWOMEN.

11:55am Uncle Michael:

Margaret Drycleaning comes to mind.

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11:56am βrian:

Sometimes one has to hit bottom before coming up again.

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Maybe some Metamucil, Parq?

@βrian
Or at least spank bottom.

11:56am Gary:

Lovely show, Doug!

11:57am Parq:

Harsh, Doug. Not wrong, just harsh.

11:58am Doug Schulkind:

I hope you'll all climb aboard the Love Vann with me next show. We'll Style along Interstate 95 in search of new Conquests.

11:58am Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the great show, Doug. See you all in the next room.

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11:59am listener james from westwood:

Fab Friday tunes. Thanks as always for the ride! Last Exit to UM ahead....

12:00pm Doug Schulkind:

I derive an almost illegal amount of pleasure from doing this radio show. That makes you all accomplices.

12:00pm Mr C:

It's a love epidemic Doug!

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12:00pm duke:

Thanks Doug and fine listeners

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12:00pm Brian in UK:

I got the broom.

12:00pm Dominick:

Thanks for another great show

12:01pm Dean:

Aiders and abettors.

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

Never enough Trampps, Mr C!

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

Thankks everyone!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Papa Egg Shell (Lawrence Casey)	Whole Soul Blues	b/w Far From Home (Brunswick 1929)
Ruth Willis	I'm Still Sloppy Drunk	b/w Man of My Own (Banner 1933)
Walter Brown	Let's Love Awhile	b/w Slow Down Baby (Capitol 1949)
Freddie Mitchell	Freddie's Calypso	b/w Easter Parade (Derby 1949)
Eddie "Guitar" Burns	Hello Miss Jessie Lee	Treat Me Like I Treat You (Moonshine 1952)
Magic Sam & Shakey Jake	Backstroke	Magic Touch (Black Mafic 1968)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins	Armpit #6	b/w The Past (Gotham 1958)
Albert Collins & the Rhythm Rockers	Freeze	b/w Collins Shuffle (Kangaroo 1958)

Hoàng Oanh	Ong Lai Do	Saigon Siren 1960-1975
Willie Bobo & the Bo-Gents	Shut Up and Pay Attention	Do What You Want to Do... (Sussex 1971)
Nemours Jean Baptiste	Sou Cote	Grand Orchestre de Nemours Jean-Baptiste (Marc 1976)
I Roy	The Duke	Tommy McCook: Dub the Duke (Hot Stuff 1975)

Lol Coxhill	The Clück Variations	The Joy of Paranoia (Ogun 1978)
Oscar Pettiford	Jack the Fieldstalker	The New Oscar Pettiford Sextet (Debut 1953)
Rocket Science	Noise Control	Rocket Science (More Is More 2012)
Helen Merrill	Never Will I Marry	A Shade of Difference (Milestone 1968)

Rachid & Fethi	Ana Ghrib	1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (Sublime Frequencies )
Sume	Imigagssak (Danish translation: Ildvand)	Sumut (Demos 1973)
La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata	Nasty Sex	La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata (Polydor 1971)
Jim and Dale	Past the State of Mind	b/w Serena (United Artists 1968)
Donnie & Joe Emerson	Somethin's Comin' Down	Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-1981 (LIght in the Attic )
Tom Brosseau	Today Is a Bright New Day	Grass Punks (Crossbill 2014)

	August 29, 2014 The only thing that stops a bad little girl with a gun, is a good little girl with a gun
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Assalé	Ameniwa	Ayah Yako (Sodogil Editions 1980)
Thomas Mapfumo & the Acid Band	Changeta Vabereki	Hokoyo! (Gramma 1976)
The Black Hippies	You Are My Witness	The Black Hippies (EMI/Academy 1977)

Arelean Brown & Lee "Shot" Williams	Impeach Me Baby	b/w You Gonna Miss Me Baby (Dynamite 1974)
Vikki Styles	Withour Your Love I Can't Make It	b/w Mark My Words Love Will Never Die (Leno late '60s)
June Conquest	Almost Persuaded	b/w Party Talk (Fame 1964)
Laura Lee	Hang It Up	b/w It's How You Make It Good (Chess 1968)
Katie Briggs	Green Power	b/w Another Woman's Man (Columbia 1968)
Ila Vann	Keep on Laughing Baby	b/w Every Little Living Dream (Roulette 1969)
Mary Love	Born to Live with Heartache	b/w There's Someone for Me (Elco 1971)
New Love Ltd & Interstate 95	So Much to Talk About	So Much to Talk About (Giant 1978)

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