It's another Wild Weekend , edition 66 to be precise. A six pack filled with soul, jazzy tropicália , brand new garage rock, rocksteady, and flamenco. And a rather rare Dylan cover by Steve Wynn's Dream Syndicate. Wild scenes inside the goldmine then so. I'd like to start this issue with a birthday song, as the missus celebrated hers a couple days ago. Many happy returns, my dear. Especially for you, here's Kathy Young, with a soulful lament from 1961, so way before you were even born. A while back, [...]
"Do you know where you belong? And is your star sign ever wrong?" Presenting a stellar ten pack to wish upon. Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign MP3 Portishead - Wandering Star MP3 Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars MP3 Thinking Fellers Local Union 282 - Star Trek MP3 Roky Erickson - Starry Eyes MP3 Echo & The Bunnymen - Stars Are [...]
Slim Harpo (1924 -1970) was the man alright. A Louisiana swamp blues king if ever there was one, he never worked full-time as a musician. The trucking business was probably a safer bet. Nevertheless, many of his songs have long since become immortal, and were covered by the Stones, the Yardbirds, Them, and Alex Chilton amongst many others. His old friend and admirer Robert Pete Williams, a legendary bluesman in his own right, paid the 'original King Bee' an impressive tribute on the heartfelt Goodbye Slim Harpo . "Goodbye poor Slim, I see you again..." [...]
Wild Weekend is back with issue 65, and all is well with the world. Business as usual then so. Some hippy dippy folk, some wild garage rock, some classic flamenco, some outtake Bob. Let the games begin, and have a wild one. Let's get the show on the road with Peter Perrett's Only Ones, an old fave from hazy postpunk days. I played my vinyl copy of their dark '79 masterpiece Even Serpents Shine so often its grooves were all but worn out, so [...]
"Crazy moonbeams cover up the sky, oh crazy, you're the light in my eye..." Un poco loco? Good. Presenting a mad mad ten pack. Dig in. Bud Powell - Un Poco Loco MP3 Patsy Cline - Crazy MP3 Daniel Johnston - Crazy Love MP3 James Brown - I'll Go Crazy MP3 King Tubby & Friends - Real Gone Crazy Dub MP3 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms [...]
Hi-de-ho, partners. Like double entendres? Wanna hear two very funny, risqué novelty songs, in a jazzy Western Swing style? Here ya go. The Modern Mountaineers ('37) use a saxophone, a jazzy guitar and J.R. Chatwell's hot fiddle to get their message across. Listen closely to find that their lead singer Smokey Woods doesn't actually sing 'trucking' all the time... Meanwhile, the Light Crust Doughboys ('38) are all stressed out, looking for their lost kitty. More fine fiddling on this guaranteed earworm. "My pussy has no stripes, and besides it ain't never smelled like that..." Meow. Modern [...]
I'm off for a few days visiting the coolest city in the world. Maybe meet a hobgoblin or two. In my absence, please make do with this sparkling theme time ten pack. Hasta luego /back soon... Shuggie Otis - Sparkle City MP3 Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge MP3 Bob Dylan - Marchin' To The City MP3 The Only Ones - City Of Fun MP3 [...]
Phase one, in which Doris gets her oats... Presenting a galloping six pack. The Beatles - Dig A Pony MP3 Charley Patton - Pony Blues MP3 Bob Dylan - New Pony MP3 Paul Siebel - Pinto Pony MP3 Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony MP3 Ween - Mister, Won't You Please Help My Pony? MP3
Hello again and a warm welcome to Wild Weekend , issue 64. As no real interesting new stuff struck my eardrums this week alas, we'll just have to make do with a bunch of oldies goldies. No probs, as we're talking tracks by Delroy Wilson, Sir Doug Sahm and Louis Jordan amongst others. And a Japanese star fruits surf rider. Now is that wild or what? We'll start with a fine song from a very fine album: Doug Sahm's '74 Tex-Mex masterpiece Groovers Paradise . Sir Doug's got the [...]
"Hit me like a hurricane, I don't even know your name, Kiss me in the Hollywood rain..." A pair of supple pop beauties. Try 'em on for size. The Chills - I Love My Leather Jacket MP3 The 6ths - Heaven In A Black Leather Jacket MP3
"Without love you're like a ship that's lost its anchor, lost at sea in the swirling tides..." Presenting a conquering ten pack, inna strictly roots stylee of course. Cause you just can't conquer natty dreadlocks, seen? Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer MP3 The Meditations - Rasta Shall Conquer MP3 Linval Thompson - Jah Jah The Conqueror MP3 Dennis Brown - Conqueror MP3 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Duppy Conqueror [...]
Wild Weekend , take 63. A little something for everyone as usual, though I obviously dig it all. Be it reggae or soul, freakcore or flamenco-jazz. Or is that jazz-flamenco? Doesn't matter really. Just have a wild one. Kicking off with a Nostradamus alert. "There's something burning away at me so deep inside, I can't hide it anymore..." Could it really be that the way underrated Supreme Dicks foresaw the recent Arab Spring nearly twenty years before the fact? Answers on the proverbial postcard, and please don't miss this rather [...]
"Death never takes a vacation in this land..." I know which version I prefer. But Jerry Garcia & co's brooding jam - from Live/Dead - is not bad either, I'll give you that. The Reverend Gary Davis - Death Don't Have No Mercy MP3 The Grateful Dead - Death Don't Have No Mercy MP3 And since we're on the subject of Garcia, and I'm still full of that fantastic Patti Smith gig I saw last Wednesday, [...]
"They called her the queen of Sheba, laid her down in Ethiopia..." As I'm going to see living legend Patti Smith play this evening, here's some rare stuff from the bootleg vaults. Three exciting tracks from Teenage Perversity & Ships In The Night , recorded live at the Roxy in Los Angeles in 1976. Pay special attention to her impressive take on Birdland , complete with near-breathless spoken intro. "If we rip apart the ozone, there's gotta be another zone under it..." Patti Smith - Real Good Time Together (live LA '76) MP3 [...]
Leave it to the Calexico gang to provide the perfect soundtrack to all your imaginary westerns. Calexico - Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal) MP3
A not-so-sunny Sunday brings us edition 62 of Wild Weekend , which this time around features two brand new acts, a reggae classic complete with mondegreen, and a lost lofi Dutchman to boot. Is that wild or what? Gonna start with the gorgeous Bettye LaVette though, as I just bought a much recommended collection of the soul diva's late sixties Memphis recordings with the Dixie Flyers. Thirteen songs and not a dud between them, with We Got To Slip Around my current fave. "You've got another woman, and I've [...]
"Oh I could've loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind, you know that was the last thing on my mind..." Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Mr. T and the Possum team up with the Backwood's Barbie, the Coal Miner's Daughter and the First Lady of Country Music respectively. Three mouthwatering duets. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - The Last Thing On My Mind MP3 Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty - Lead Me On MP3 George Jones & Tammy Wynette - Two Story [...]
Because it all adds up in the end anyway, here's a somewhat mathematical ten pack for your listening pleasure. Buy some albums if you like what you hear, mi amigos da musica. I've got your number. Wire - The 15th MP3 Mantis - 199(7)1 MP3 The Outcasts - 1523 Blair MP3 Ry Cooder - 634-5789 MP3 Pere Ubu - Cloud 149 MP3 Prince Pompidou - 70 [...]
"Woman hold her head and cry, 'cause her son had been shot down in the street and died from a stray bullet..." Three years after Marley's grim original, Belfast's Stiff Little Fingers saw that Johnny Was didn't just fit the Kingston ghetto: it happened to be just as relevant for the situation around them in Northern Ireland. The resulting cover remains one of the most blistering examples of the punk-reggae hybrid. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Johnny Was MP3 Stiff Little Fingers - Johnny Was MP3
It's the day of the Champions League final, so it sure is gonna be a mad Wild Weekend . While waiting for the kick-off in nervous anticipation, let's get down with edition #61. Spotlight on the soul of Raw Spitt and the swamp rock of the Scientists, while we've got the Blind Owl blues and listen to a reggae psalm. Make it a wild one, y'all, and don't forget: ¡Visca el Barça y visca Catalunya! Let's get into the groove with a guy who called himself Raw Spitt. [...]
For The Sake Of The Song
[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
