Dido – No Angel

How many people can honestly say they heard of Dido before hearing her voice on Eminem’s smash hit “Stan”? I can. I knew of her from her brother Rollo’s band Faithless (boo yah – nerd powers) and couldn’t wait to get her album after hearing her single “Here With Me” when I used to watch Roswell on television (back when Katherine Heigl was still universally bad ass) on the WB. Those were the days.

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong , professionally known as Dido, originally released No Angel in 1999, it found a mass audience in 2001, and according to her official web site it went on to achieve sales in excess of over sixteen million copies worldwide.

The success of No Angel was spurred on by Eminem sampling Dido’s track, “Thank You” on “Stan”, a track from his The Marshall Mathers LP album, released in 2000. The Marshall Mathers LP reached #1 on the US and Canadian charts, and Dido appeared in the music video for “Stan”, which was the third single from the album, playing the fictional character Stan’s long-suffering girlfriend. While the song only reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA, it went to #1 in the UK and Australia and was an international hit. “Stan” was nominated for a Grammy award for the track (Dido did not sing with Eminem at the ceremony; Elton John sang Dido’s section).

Track listing

1. “Here with Me” (Dido Armstrong, Pascal Gabriel, Paul Statham) – 4:14
2. “Hunter” (D. Armstrong, Rollo Armstrong) – 3:57
3. “Don’t Think of Me” (D. Armstrong, R. Armstrong, Paul Herman, Pauline Taylor) – 4:32
4. “My Lover’s Gone” (D. Armstrong, Jamie Catto) – 4:27
5. “All You Want” – 3:53
6. “Thank You” – 3:38
7. “Honestly OK” – 4:37
8. “Slide” – 4:53
9. “Isobel” – 3:54
10. “I’m No Angel” – 3:55
11. “My Life” – 3:09
12. “Take My Hand (Bonus Track)” – 6:42

Outkast – ATLiens

This group instantly became one of my favorites with their debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, but there was something about this album when it came out that was…well a little strange. Outkast wasn’t yet worldwide known and the odd subject matter on the album caused a few eyebrows to be raised. Andre’s first hints of the eccentric behavior he would fully accept for himself on later albums was just starting to shine through. I think the fans who thought that Outkast would keep their southern pimp personas from the first album forever were a little taken back by this “weird space shit” but I loved it.

1. You May Die: (Intro)
2. Two Dope Boyz: (In A Cadillac)
3. Atliens
4. Wheelz Of Steel
5. Jazzy Belle
6. Elevators: (Me & You)
7. Ova Da Wudz
8. Babylon
9. Wailin’
10. Mainstream
11. Decatur Psalm
12. Millennium
13. E.T.: (Extraterrestrial)
14. 13th Floor/Growing Old
15. Elevators: (DNP86 Mix)

Samples used

• “Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)” contains a sample of “Danger, She’s A Stranger” by The Five Stairsteps.
• “Wheelz of Steel” contains a sample of “Focus III” by Focus (from the 1972 album Focus III).
• “Jazzy Belle” contains a sample of “Prelude” by Lamont Dozier (from the 1974 album Black Bach).
• “Elevators (Me & You)” contains a sample of “Come In Out of the Rain” by Parliament (from the album First Thangs) and SFX from the video game Super Mario Bros.
• “Wailin” contains a sample of “To The Establishment” by Lou Bond.
• “Mainstream” contains a sample of “Sesame Street” by Goodie Mob.

Personnel

• Alvin Speights – Mixing
• Andre 3000 – Vocals
• Andrea Martin – Vocals
• Bernasky Wall – Engineering
• Big Boi – Vocals
• Big Gipp – Vocals
• Blake Eiseman – Engineering
• Brian Frye – Engineering
• Carlos Glover – Acoustic Guitar
• Carlton Batts – Mastering
• Cee-Lo – Vocals
• Cool Breeze – Vocals
• Craig Love – Guitar
• Debra Killings – Vocals
• Dee Simmons – Drum
• Derrick Williams – Engineering
• Dexter Simmons – Engineering, Mixing
• Ed Stroud – Guitar
• James “Jay” Nicholas – Bass
• Jarvis Blackshear – Engineering
• Jazzyfatnastees – Vocals
• John Frye – Engineering
• John Wydrycs – Engineering
• Joi – Vocals
• Kenny Wright – Keyboard
• Kerren Berz – Violin
• Khujo – Vocals
• Leslie Brathwaite – Mixing
• Marq Jefferson – Bass Guitar
• Martin Terry – Guitar
• Marvin “Chanz” Parkman – Keyboard, Organ
• Mike Wilson – Engineering
• Mr. DJ – Scratches
• Neal Pogue – Mixing
• Organized Noize – Drum Programming, Keyboard Programming, Mixing & Production
• Outkast – Drum Programming, Keyboard Programming, Mixing & Production
• Peaches – Vocals
• Preston Crump – Bass Guitar
• ShaJuanna Edghill – Vocals
• Skinny Miracles – Piano
• Sleepy Brown – Vocals
• T-Mo – Vocals
• Tamara – Vocals
• Tommy Martin – Acoustic Guitar
• Trina Broussard – Vocals
• Whild Peach – Vocals
• Witchdoctor – Vocals

Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison

I don’t think I can really express my feelings for the singer Johnny Cash. I grew up around country music, but I hated it when I was in my teens. I clung to its polar opposite, rap and hip hop, but I learned as I got older, I knew more about the old country I used to listen to more than I would care to admit. My grandfather was a truck driver and I can remember finding some old tapes of his while I was visiting for the summer. In that box was the Man in Black. I didn’t listen to the tape I found that day, but every time I listen to Johnny Cash now, I think of my grandfather and I am very happy that we have at least one thing in common. It’s a shame I don’t really know what else we have in common but at least I have that.

At Folsom Prison is a live album by Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in May 1968. Since his 1955 song “Folsom Prison Blues”, Cash drew an interest in performing at a prison. His idea was put on hold until 1967, when personnel changes at Columbia Records put Bob Johnston in charge of producing Cash’s material. Cash had recently controlled his drug abuse problems, and was looking to turn his career around after several years of limited commercial success. Backed with June Carter, Carl Perkins, and Cash’s band, the Tennessee Three, Cash performed two shows at Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California on January 13, 1968. The resulting album consisted of 15 tracks from the first show and one track from the second.

Set list for the 9:40AM concert

1. “Folsom Prison Blues”
2. “Busted”
3. “Dark as a Dungeon”
4. “I Still Miss Someone”
5. “Cocaine Blues”
6. “25 Minutes to Go”
7. “I’m Not in Your Town to Stay”
8. “Orange Blossom Special”
9. “The Long Black Veil”
10. “Send a Picture of Mother”
11. “The Wall”
12. “Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog”
13. “Flushed From The Bathroom of Your Heart”
14. “Joe Beam”
15. “Jackson”
16. “I Got a Woman”
17. “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer”
18. “Green, Green Grass of Home”
19. “Greystone Chapel”

Set list for the 12:40AM concert

1. “Folsom Prison Blues”
2. “Busted”
3. “Dark as a Dungeon”
4. “Cocaine Blues”
5. “25 Minutes to Go”
6. “Orange Blossom Special”
7. “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer”
8. “Give My Love to Rose”
9. “Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog”
10. “Flushed From The Bathroom of Your Heart”
11. “Joe Beam”
12. “Jackson”
13. “Long Legged Guitar Picking Man”
14. “I Got Stripes”
15. “Green, Green Grass of Home
16. “Greystone Chapel”
17. “Greystone Chapel” (repeat)

Here is the version we played (re-release from 1999)

1. “Folsom Prison Blues” – 2:42
2. “Busted” (Harlan Howard) – 1:25
3. “Dark as a Dungeon” – 3:04
4. “I Still Miss Someone” – 1:38
5. “Cocaine Blues” – 3:01
6. “25 Minutes to Go” – 3:31
7. “Orange Blossom Special” – 3:06
8. “The Long Black Veil” – 3:58
9. “Send a Picture of Mother” – 2:05
10. “The Wall” – 1:36
11. “Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog” – 1:30
12. “Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart” – 2:05
13. “Joe Bean” (B. Freeman, L. Pober) – 3:05
14. “Jackson” (with June Carter) – 3:12
15. “Give My Love to Rose” (with June Carter) – 2:43
16. “I Got Stripes” – 1:52
17. “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer” (Johnny Cash, June Carter) – 7:08
18. “Green Green Grass of Home” – 2:13
19. “Greystone Chapel” – 6:02

• Johnny Cash – vocal, guitar, harmonica
• June Carter – vocal
• Marshall Grant – bass guitar
• W.S. Holland – drums
• Carl Perkins – electric guitar
• Luther Perkins – electric guitar
• The Statler Brothers (Lew DeWitt, Don Reid, Harold Reid, Phil Balsley) – vocals
• Bob Johnston – producer
• Bob Breault, Bill Britain – engineers
• Jim Marshall – photography

Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera

I never really knew about this band until I met my wife. Sometimes I get confused because of the two singers and not really liking one of them, but this is a really good band. Especially on a road trip. Any fans of good storytelling and the South will love these guys. Any fans of music period will too.

Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the alt country band Drive-By Truckers. It was a double album and released in 2001. Covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 70s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. The record was originally self-released on Soul Dump Records. It was re-released on July 16, 2002 by Lost Highway Records. The album was financed by issuing promissory notes in exchange for loans from fans, family and friends of the band.

The album’s artwork was done by Virginia artist, Wes Freed.

Disc one: Act one: Betamax Guillotine

1. “Days of Graduation” (Hood)
2. “Ronnie and Neil” (Hood)
3. “72 (This Highway’s Mean)” (Cooley)
4. “Dead, Drunk, and Naked” (Hood)
5. “Guitar Man Upstairs” (Cooley)
6. “Birmingham” (Hood)
7. “The Southern Thing” (Hood)
8. “The Three Great Alabama Icons” (Hood)
9. “Wallace” (Hood)
10. “Zip City” (Cooley)
11. “Moved” (Malone)

Disc two: Act two

1. “Let There Be Rock” (Hood)
2. “Road Cases” (Hood)
3. “Women Without Whiskey” (Cooley)
4. “Plastic Flowers on the Highway” (Hood)
5. “Cassie’s Brother” (Malone)
6. “Life in the Factory” (Hood)
7. “Shut Up and Get on the Plane” (Cooley)
8. “Greenville to Baton Rouge” (Hood)
9. “Angels and Fuselage” (Hood)

Band

• Mike Cooley – lyrics, vocals, guitar
• Earl Hicks – bass
• Patterson Hood – lyrics, vocals, guitar
• Rob Malone – lyrics, vocals, guitar
• Brad Morgan – drums

Guest performers

• Kelly Hogan – vocals
• Anne Richmond Boston – vocals
• Jyl Freed – vocals
• Amy Pike – vocals

There is a good page on the band’s website with comments on each of the songs on this album. The comments are written by singer Patterson Hood.

Paul Simon – Graceland

This album is a tremendous mix of African and American music that should be listened to at least once in each person’s lifetime. That being said, there is some argument over whether or not Mr. Simon gave credit where credit was due for the musical excellence of this brilliant album. (See the story at WFMU to see what I am talking about.) Despite that controversy, nothing is diminished from the overall quality and top notch artistry that you get with this 11 song masterpiece.

From Wikipedia

Graceland is an album released by Paul Simon in 1986. It was a hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US. The album won the Album of the Year Grammy award, while the title song won the Record of the Year Grammy award, for 1986 and 1987 respectively. The title track was inspired by a visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley’s estate in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2006, the album was added to the United States National Recording Registry, along with another 24 significant recordings that year.

1. “The Boy in the Bubble” – 3:59
2. “Graceland” – 4:48
3. “I Know What I Know” – 3:13
4. “Gumboots” – 2:44
5. “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – 5:45
6. “You Can Call Me Al” – 4:39
7. “Under African Skies” – 3:37
8. “Homeless” – 3:48
9. “Crazy Love, Vol. II” – 4:18
10. “That Was Your Mother” – 2:52
11. “All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints” – 3:15

Credits

• Paul Simon – Acoustic Guitar (tracks 1 and 11), Guitar (tracks 5 and 7), Synclavier (track 3 and 4), Six-String Electric Bass (track 6), Background Vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9)
• Rob Mounsey – Horn Arrangement (track 6) (uncredited on album)
• Ray Phiri – Guitar (tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9)
• Adrian Belew – Guitar Synthesizer (tracks 1, 6, and 9), Guitar (track 7)
• Demola Adepoju – Pedal Steel Guitar (track 2)
• Daniel Xilakazi – Lead and Rhythm Guitar (track 4)
• Sherman Robertson – Guitar (track 10)
• Cesar Rosas – Guitar and backing vocals (track 11)
• David Hidalgo – Guitar, accordion, and backing vocals (track 11)
• Conrad Lozano – Bass (track 11)
• Alonzo Johnson – Bass (track 10)
• Lloyd Lelose – Bass (track 9)
• Bakithi Kumalo – Bass (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7)
• Isaac Mtshali – Drums (tracks 5, 6, 7, and 9)
• Vusi Khumalo – Drums (tracks 1 and 2)
• Petrus Manile – Drums (track 4)
• Alton Rubin, Jr. – Drums (track 10)
• Louie Pérez – Drums (track 11)
• Steve Gadd – Additional Drums (track 11)
• Makhaya Mahlangu – Percussion (tracks 1 and 2)
• Ralph MacDonald – Percussion (tracks 4, 6, 7, and 11)
• Yossou N’Dour – Percussion (track 5)
• Babacar Faye – Percussion (track 5)
• Assane Thiam – Percussion (track 5)
• Lulu Masilela – Tambourines (track 4)
• David Rubin – Washboard (track 10)
• Alton Rubin, Sr. – Accordion (track 10)
• Jonhjon Mkhalali – Accordion (track 4)
• Forere Motloheloa – Accordion (track 1)
• Rob Mounsey – Synthesizer (tracks 1 and 6)
• Barney Rachabane – Saxophone (track 4)
• Mike Makhalemele – Saxophone (track 4)
• Teaspoon Ndela – Saxophone (track 4)
• Lenny Pickett – Tenor Saxophone (track 5)
• Earl Gardner – Trumpet (track 5)
• Alex Foster – Alto Saxophone (track 5)
• Ronnie Cuber – Bass and Baritone Saxophone (track 6)
• Jon Faddis – Trumpet (track 6)
• Randy Brecker – Trumpet (track 6)
• Lew Soloff – Trumpet (track 6)
• Alan Rubin – Trumpet (track 6)
• Dave Bargeron – Trombone (track 6)
• Kim Cissel – Trombone (track 6)
• Morris Goldberg – Pennywhistle (track 6), Soprano Saxophone (track 9)
• Johnny Hoyt – Saxophone (track 10)
• Steve Berlin – Saxophone (track 11)
• The Everly Brothers – Additional Vocals (track 2)
• The Gaza Sisters – Vocals (track 3)
• Diane Garisto – Backing Vocals (track 4)
• Michelle Cobbs – Backing Vocals (track 4)
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Vocals (tracks 5 and 8)
• Joseph Shabalala – Vocals (track 8)
• Linda Ronstadt – Additional Vocals (track 7)

Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R

This is the host of our show Better Living Through Chemistry’s favorite band. He even named his show after one of their songs. But you already know that right? Bow down to the genius of Josh Homme and his bandmates on this, their sophomore album. For the adventurous, seek out the vinyl copy of this album which is Rated X!!! Rated X I say.

Rated R also called R is the second album by the American hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age. It was released on June 6, 2000 through Interscope Records. The band began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, Queens of the Stone Age, released in 1998. Rated R captured the heaviness of the band’s earlier releases while displaying a more diverse range of influences.

Rated R was a critical and commercial success and became the band’s breakthrough album. It peaked at number 16 on the Top Heatseekers and reached high positions on charts worldwide. Three singles were released from the album: “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”, “Feel Good Hit of the Summer” and “Monsters in the Parasol”, the first single helped Queens of the Stone Age reach mainstream popularity. The album has been certified silver in the United Kingdom.

1. “Feel Good Hit of the Summer”
2. “The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret”
3. “Leg of Lamb”
4. “Auto Pilot”
5. “Better Living through Chemistry”
6. “Monsters in the Parasol”
7. “Quick and to the Pointless”
8. “In the Fade”
9. “Tension Head”
10. “Lightning Song”
11. “I Think I Lost My Headache”

Personnel

• Josh Homme – vocals, guitar, percussion (tracks 3, 8), drums (track 4), piano (track 10), backing vocals (track 4), producer, mixing, concept
• Nick Oliveri – bass, percussion (track 8), guitar (track 4), vocals (tracks 4, 7, 9), backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 11), concept, art conception
• Nick Lucero – drums (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8, 11), percussion (track 3, 4)
• Gene Trautmann – drums (tracks 1, 6, 7, 9)
• Chris Goss – bass (track 4), percussion (track 1), backing vocals (tracks 4, 5, 6), producer, grand piano (track 1), noise piano (track 2)
• Dave Catching – electric piano (tracks 1, 2, 8), piano (track 5), B3 (track 4), guitar (tracks 6, 7), 12-string guitar (track 10), lap steel (tracks 1, 11)
• Mark Lanegan – vocals (track 8), backing vocals (tracks 4, 11)
• Barrett Martin – percussion (tracks 5, 10), steel drum (track 11), vibes (tracks 2, 5)
• Mike Johnson – backing vocals (track 3)
• Rob Halford – backing vocals (track 1)
• Nick Eldorado – backing vocals (tracks 1, 7)
• Scott Mayo – horns (track 11), baritone sax (track 2)
• Fernando Pullum – horns (track 11), flugal horn (track 7)
• Wendy Ray Moan – backing vocals (tracks 1, 7)
• Peter Stahl – backing vocals (track 2)
• Reggie Young – horns (track 11)
• Bradley Cook – engineer
• Martin Schmelzle – engineer, sequencing, assembly
• Trina Shoemaker – engineer, mixing
• Dan Druff – guitar technician
• Marek – noise (track 8), mixing
• Robert Brunner – pre-production assistant
• Francesca Restrepo – art direction

DJ Shadow – Endtroducing

What can I say about this album that hasn’t already been said? I still listen to it at least once a month. I loved it so much, I created the theme song for my show in college from one of the songs. I have listened to every DJ Shadow album since, hoping to feel the same feeling I did when I first heard this. It hasn’t happened. Luckily, I can still pull this out and listen and get taken back to a time when life was simpler, music was better and things were less worrisome. Not bad for a debut.

Endtroducing….. is the debut studio album by hip hop artist DJ Shadow. It was first released on November 19, 1996 by Mo’ Wax Records, and later reissued on June 7, 2005 by Island Records. It is noted for being one of the first instrumental albums created entirely from samples of other records. The album received worldwide critical acclaim upon release.

1. “Best Foot Forward” – 0:47
2. “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” – 6:39
3. “The Number Song” – 4:34
4. “Changeling” – 7:16
   • “Transmission 1″ – 0:35
5. “What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)” – 5:02
6. ” ” – 0:25
7. “Stem/Long Stem” – 7:47
   • “Transmission 2″ – 1:29
8. “Mutual Slump” – 4:00
9. “Organ Donor” – 1:57
10. “Why Hip Hop Sucks in ’96″ – 0:44
11. “Midnight in a Perfect World” – 4:58
12. “Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain” – 9:21
13. “What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit)” – 6:17
    • “Transmission 3″ – 1:11

Personnel

• Josh Davis (DJ Shadow) – production, mix, engineering
• Lyrics Born – vocals – untitled track 6 & “Why Hip-Hop Sucks in ’96″
• Gift of Gab – vocals – “Midnight in a Perfect World”

A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory

I still remember the day my friend, Mike Romero, popped a cassette in his deck and changed my musical world forever. The sounds were nothing like I had heard before. It’s not that I didn’t grow up liking rap music, that’s not it at all. This music was different. There were instruments in the background and a new mindset that I hadn’t heard before. This wasn’t overtly explicit like my beloved N.W.A. Nor was it seemingly childish rhyming like the Fresh Prince era I went through. This was grown up music. It made me think. And it came at a perfect time in my life.

The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg’s lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz samples, the album includes guests Brand Nubian, Diamond D and Leaders of the New School, the original rap group of Busta Rhymes.

1. “Excursions” – 3:53
2. “Buggin’ Out” – 3:38
3. “Rap Promoter” – 2:13
4. “Butter” – 3:39
5. Verses from the Abstract” – 3:59
6. “Show Business” – 3:53
7. “Vibes and Stuff” – 4:18
8. “The Infamous Date Rape” – 2:54
9. “Check the Rhime” – 3:36
10. “Everything Is Fair” – 2:58
11. “Jazz (We’ve Got)” – 4:09
12. “Skypager” – 2:13
13. “What?” – 2:29
14. “Scenario” – 4:10

Samples

• “Excursions”
  • The Last Poets – “Time”
  • The Last Poets – “Tribute to Obabi”
  • Shades of Brown – “The Soil I Tilled For You”
  • Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – “A Chant for Bu”
• “Buggin’ Out”
  • Jack DeJohnette – “Minya’s the Mooch”
  • Lonnie Smith – “Spinning Wheel”
  • Michael Urbaniak – “Ekim”
• “Rap Promoter”
  • Eric Mercury – “Long Way Down”
  • New Birth – “Keep On Doin’ It”
  • Sly & the Family Stone – “Stand”
  • Jimi Hendrix – “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
• “Butter”
  • Eighties Ladies – “Turned On To You”
  • Chuck Jackson – “I Like Everything About You”
  • Gary Bartz – “Gentle Smiles”
  • Weather Report – “Young and Fine”
• “Verses from The Abstract”
  • Joe Farrell – “Upon This Rock”
  • Heatwave – “Star Of A Story”
• “Show Business”
  • James Brown – “Funky President”
  • Fatback Band – “Wicky-Wacky”
  • Martin Denny – “Midnight Cowboy”
  • Ferrante and Teicher – “Midnight Cowboy”
• “Vibes and Stuff”
  • Grant Green – “Down Here on the Ground”
• “The Infamous Date Rape”
  • Jackie Jackson – “Is It Him Or Me?”
  • Cannonball Adderley – “The Steam Drill”
  • Les McCann – “North Carolina”
• “Check the Rhime”
  • Average White Band – “Love Your Life”
  • Minnie Riperton – “Baby, This Love I Have”
  • Grover Washington, Jr. – “Hydra”
  • Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like An Eagle”
• “Everything is Fair”
  • Bobby Byrd – “Hot Pants… I’m Coming, I’m Coming, I’m Coming”
  • Funkadelic – “Let’s Take It To The People”
  • Harlem Underground Band – “Ain’t No Sunshine”
  • Willis Jackson – “Ain’t No Sunshine”
• “Jazz (We’ve Got)”
  • Five Stairsteps – “Don’t Change Your Love”
  • Sly & the Family Stone – “Sing a Simple Song”
  • Freddie Hubbard – “Red Clay”
  • Lucky Thompson – “Green Dolphin Street”
  • Mountain – “Long Red”
• “What?”
  • Paul Humphrey – “Uncle Willie’s Dream”
• “Scenario”
  • Miles Davis – “So What”
  • Emotions – “Blind Alley”
  • Kool and the Gang – “Give It Up”
  • Kool and the Gang – “Soul Vibrations”
  • Ohio Players – “Ecstasy”
  • Brother Jack McDuff – “Oblighetto”
  • Jimi Hendrix – “Little Miss Lover”

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

A Love Supreme is a jazz studio album released by John Coltrane’s quartet in 1965. It is generally considered to be among Coltrane’s greatest works, as it coalesced the hard bop sensibilities of his early career with the free jazz style he adopted later in his life.

1. Part 1: “Acknowledgement” – 7:47
2. Part 2: “Resolution” – 7:22
3. Part 3: “Pursuance”/Part 4: “Psalm” – 17:53

Personnel

• John Coltrane – tenor saxophone, bandleader
• Jimmy Garrison – double bass
• Elvin Jones – drums
• McCoy Tyner – piano

Additional musicians

• Art Davis – double bass on alternate takes of “Acknowledgment”
• Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone on alternate takes of “Acknowledgment”

Production

• Michael Cuscuna – reissue production
• Bob Thiele – production

Cambodian Rocks – 9/10/09

From WFMU’s blog:

In 1996, the Parallel World label released the LP “Cambodian Rocks”, a collection of Cambodian psych and garage music from the 60s and early 70s (probably), compiled by an American tourist named Paul Wheeler from some cassettes he bought in Phnom Penh. No information on the songs was provided at all, no artist names, no song titles, and no recording dates. Four years later, Parallel World reissued this compilation on CD with a few extra tracks, but still without any identifying information. Unfortunately, it is more than likely that many of the featured musicians, showing a definite Western influence in their music, were murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime which took over power in 1975. Certainly none of them ever received any money from the sales of this compilation.

My wife introduced this album to me a few years ago and I fell in love (twice). We have since lost the original CD and case but luckily we had the vision to burn the music to our computers. We looked on Amazon the other day to see how much a new copy would cost us and we were very surprised to see it being listed at the lowest $60. What gives? I guess we will have to wait to get another physical copy.

Tracklist:

1. Yol Aularong – Jeas Cyclo “Ride Cyclo”
2. Ros Sereysothea – Chnam Oun Dop-PramMuy “I’m 16″
3. Ros Sereysothea – Tngai Neas Kyom Yam Sra “Today I Drink Wine”
4. Yol Aularong + Tuk – Sou Slarp Kroam Kombut Srey “Rather Die Under the Woman’s Sword”
5. Sinn Sissamouth – Srolanh Srey Touch “I Love Petite Woman”
6. Pan Ron – Rom Jongvak Twist “Dance Twist”
7. Pan Ron – Knyom Mun Sok Jet Te “I’m Unsatisfied”
8. Liev Tuk – Rom Sue! Sue! “Dance Soul! Soul!”
9. Ros Sereysothea – Jam 10 Kai Thiet “Wait 10 More Months”
10. Ros Sereysothea – Jah Bong Ju Aim “Old Sour & Sweet”
11. Samouth + Sothea + Ron) Maok Pi NaokWhere From?
12. Sin Sissamouth – Phneit Oun Mean Evey? “What Does Your Eyes Has?”
13. Yol Aularong – Yuvajon Kouge Jet “Broken Heart Man”
14. Meas Samon – Jol Dondeung Kone Key “Going to Get Engage”
15. Ros Sereysothea – Kerh Songsa Kyoum Thay? “Have You Seen My Boyfriend?”
16. Ros Sereysothea – Chnang Jas Bai Chgn-ainj “Old Pot, Tasty Rice”
17. Ros Sereysothea + Seang Vanthy – Kone Oksok Nas Pa “We’re Very Bored Dad!”
18. Ros Sereysothea – Kom Kung Twer Evey “Don’t Be Mad”
19. Ros Sereysothea – Penh Jet Thai Bong Mouy “I Like Only You”
20. In Yeng + Pan Ron – Sralanh Srey Chnas “I Love Mean Girl”
21. Samouth + Meas Samon – Komlos Teng Bey “Three Gentlemen”
22. Ros Sereysothea – Retrey Yung Joup Knea “The Night We Met”