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March Vinyl Night Playlist

1	Artist	Title	Album/45	Presenter	Notes
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3	The Hassles	I Hear Voices / You've Got Me Hummin'	The Hassles	Steve Spatt	very early Billy Joel
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5	Jeremy & the Satyrs	In the Land of Glass Teardrops	Jeremy & the Satyrs	Steve Spatt
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7	South	Back on the Road Again / Southbound Again / Mr. Bartender	First Edition	Lou "Elvis" Webb	Lonnie Mack recording anonymously
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9	Hal Singer	Cornbread	Rent Party	Steve Kemme
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11	Tiny Grimes	Flyin' High	Atlantic Honkers, a Rhythm & Blues Saxophone Anthology	Steve Kemme	Red Prysock featured on tenor sax
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13	King Curtis	Jest Smoochin'	Atlantic Honkers, a Rhythm & Blues Saxophone Anthology	Steve Kemme
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15	They Might Be Giants	They'll Need a Crane	Lincoln	Bob Nyswonger
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17	Mahavishnu Orchestra	Celestial Terrestrial Commuters	Birds of Fire	Bob Nyswonger
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19	Nazz	Not Wrong Long	Nazz Nazz	Bob Nyswonger	early Todd Rundgren
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21	Van Dyke Parks	Donovan's Colours / The Attic	Song Cycle	Neil Sharrow
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23	John French, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Richard Thompson	Disposable Thoughts / Bird in God's Garden/Lost and Found	Live, Love, Larf & Loaf	Neil Sharrow
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25	Hawkshaw Hawkins	Lonesome 7-7203	The All New Hawkshaw Hawkins	Gary from Oxford	King Records
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27	Lesley Gore	Look of Love	45	Paul Horn
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29	The Vapors	Talk Talk / Turning Japanese	45	Paul Horn
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31	Good Rats	Taking It to Detroit / Coo Coo Coo Blues	From Rats to Riches	Woody Woodburn	produced by Flo & Eddie
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33	Todd Rundgren	Pretending to Care / Blue Orpheus	A Cappella	Woody Woodburn
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35	Fotheringay	The Way I Feel	Fotheringay	Jim McNair	Sandy Denny
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37	Ten Years After	Working on the Road	Cricklewood Green	Jim McNair	R.I.P. Alvin Lee
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39	My Morning Jacket	It Makes No Difference	10" single	Joel from Louisville	with Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes
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41	Richard Hell & the Voidoids	The Kid with the Replaceable Head	45	Joel from Louisville
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43	Paul Robeson	Ol' Man River	Old Flames (compilation LP)	Bill Frost	ask Bill about his dad's box of matches
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45	Marlene Dietrich	Falling in Love Again	Old Flames (compilation LP)	Bill Frost
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47	John Hartford	Gentle on My Mind	All in the Name of Love	Lou "Elvis" Webb
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49	Robert Gordon	Red Hot	Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die	Jim McNair

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Cincinnati Library to Spotlight North Korean Music

Posted on March 9, 2013

By Steven Rosen

Under Steve Kemple, music reference librarian in the Popular Library, downtown’s Main Library has begun doing some fascinating free programming to highlight the depth of its music collection — and just music in general. It already has an Experimental Music at the Library series, featuring live events such as a band from Oakland (Horaflora) that plays grapefruit, electric toothbrushes and balloons. At 7 p.m. on March 20, Hadron Collider will pair psychedelic light projections with feedback and drone noises.

But coming up first, the spotlight is on another of Kemple’s ongoing music programs at the Main Library — Listen to This! — for which an audience is invited to listen to and discuss albums from the Library’s collection.

 

Past sessions have been devoted to Iranian music and Marvin Gaye. Next Wednesday, March 13,  from 7-8:30 p.m., Listen to This! features the traditional music of North Korea. So far, Kemple has only found one relevant album in the collection — North Korean Folk Songs — but it’s a good one. And the hunt is on for more.

No word if Dennis Rodman will attend with or without his new best friend, but you’re sure to have a good time — and become well-versed on North Korean music — if you do. The program will be held in the first-floor Popular Music Lounge.

Kemple’s creative programming was just written up in the Library Journal.



From http://www.citybeat.com

February Vinyl Night Playlist

1	Artist	Title	Album/45	Presenter	Notes
2	Allen Toussaint	On Your Way Down	Life, Love and Faith	Neil Sharrow
3	Jess Roden	Reason to Change	Jess Roden	Neil Sharrow	produced by Toussaint, featuring The Meters
4	Ry Cooder	Tamp 'em Up Solid	Paradise and Lunch	Peter Gafvert
5	Ry Cooder	Jesus on the Mainline	Paradise and Lunch	Peter Gafvert
6	Violent Femmes	Kiss Off	Violent Femmes	Paul Horn
7	Violent Femmes	Gone Daddy Gone	Violent Femmes	Paul Horn
8	Boomtown Rats	She's So Modern	A Tonic for the Troops	Paul Horn
9	Spongetones	Here I Go Again	Beat Music	Jim McNair
10	Spongetones	Where Were You Last Night	Beat Music	Jim McNair
11	Surdy-Greebus	Red Room	45	Steve Rosen	Produced by Don Litwin (one-time Enquirer editor)
12	Geezinslaw Brothers	You Wouldn't Put the Shuck On Me	45	Steve Rosen
13	P.F. Sloan	This Precious Time	Precious Times - The Best of	Steve Rosen
14	"Gil Evans Orchestra"	Bulbs	Into the Hot	Steve Kemme	Actually Cecil Taylor
15	Cecil Taylor	Lena	Live at the Café Montmartre/Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come	Steve Kemme
16	Rodney Dangerfield	Rappin' Rodney	Rappin' Rodney	Brian Powers
17	Ruth Wallis	Hawaiian Lei Song	The Admiral's Daughter	Brian Powers
18	Troggs	I Can't Control Myself	Vintage Years	Steve Spatt	R.I.P. Reg Presley
19	Shangri-Las	Give Him a Great Big Kiss	Golden Hits	Steve Spatt	R.I.P. George "Shadow" Morton
20	Kevin Ayers	Oh! Wot a Dream	Bananamour	Steve Spatt	R.I.P. Kevin Ayers
21	Laura Nyro & Labelle	I Met Him on Sunday/The Bells	Gonna Take a Miracle	David Little
22	Dillards	She Sang Hymns Out of Tune	Wheatstraw Suite	David Little
23	Quire	Blue Rondo a la Turk	Quire	David Little	Christian Legrand also known for Swingle Singers
24	Gato Barbieri	India	Chapter One: Latin America	Polly Campbell

R.I.P. Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers, one of Britain's great eccentric singer-songwriters, died in his sleep on Monday.

Mojo published this tribute:

Farewell, Kevin Ayers...

12:14 PM GMT 20/02/2013

Photo: Getty Images

MOJO's Editor-In-Chief Phil Alexander pays his respects to a great English songwriter.

Kevin Ayers possessed a voice like no other, intrinsically British and full of whimsy and mischief. This latter quality animated much of his life as well as his music.

Born in Herne Bay, Kent, in 1944, Ayers was raised in Malaysia before returning to England at the age of 12 where he attended Simon Langton Grammar School For Boys, later described as "a hotbed for teenage avant-garderie". His first band, The Wilde Flowers, formed in the summer of '63 and also featured Robert Wyatt andHugh Hopper, both of whom (along with Ayers) would have a huge effect on what became known as The Canterbury Scene.

By mid-1966 The Wilde Flowers had morphed into The Soft Machine and featured Ayers on bass and vocals, Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, Mike Ratledge on organ and Daevid Allen on guitar - the latter, both older and wiser, and a key influence on Ayers. The band's sound evolved dramatically, as they began blending jazz influences and beat-inspired incantations to their psychedelic sound.

Appearances at London's UFO Club led to a French tour which proved hugely successful but which marked the departure of Allen who, being Australian and lacking the requisite visa, was denied entry back into the UK. He would, of course, remain in France where he formed Gong, while Ayers, Wyatt and Ratledge continued for the most part as a three-piece.

Soft Machine's upward trajectory continued when they were invited to open for Jimi Hendrix on his 1968 US Tour. Halfway through the tour, the band recorded their self-titled proto-prog debut with producers Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson (the latter having overseen five Bob Dylan albums and had just helmed The Velvet Underground's debut).

Ayers was involved with writing eight of the 14 tracks on the album, his key role being emphasized by freewheeling, romantic tunes like We Did It Again and Lullabye Letter, but it was evident that he disliked the monotony associated with touring, telling this journalist that he found the entire process "dehumanizing". Despite his later reputation as a bon viveur and a ladies' man, Ayers also expressed his dislike for the temptations of the road as well as at the prospect of the band's music becoming increasingly complex.

His exit from Soft Machine was amicable as he repaired to Ibiza with the aim to simply enjoy life. There, however, he met up with Allen again in the village of Deia and wrote much of what became his first solo album, Joy Of A Toy.

Released on the Harvest label and featuring a number of his Soft Machine friends, the album summed up Kevin's wonky view of pop music. Nevertheless, today the album has retained all of its psychedelic charm, key tracks like Lady Rachel, All This Crazy Gift Of Time and Song For Insane Times illustrating Ayers' songwriting at its most engaging. A track entitled Religious Experience was also recorded during the Joy sessions featuring Syd Barrett on guitar, but was not issued until the 2003 reissue of the album.

Blessed with good looks and natural charm, Ayers seemed set for a blossoming career, his second album Shooting At The Moon (released October 1970), building on the momentum of his debut and featuring his backing band, The Whole World, which included key players such as David Bedford, Lol Coxhill, Wyatt, Bridget St Johnand the young Mike Oldfield. Despite a rich run of form - which also include key albums Whatevershebringswesing (1971) , Bananamour (1973) and The Confessions Of Dr Dream And Other Stories (1974) - Ayers was ultimately beset by his own inconsistencies and appetites. As a result, a quest for greater commerciality was doomed to failure and, ultimately, led a string of patchy albums in the '80s.

His later career rarely saw him participating in music, although he did return to the stage in 1992 when he released his only album of that decade, the largely acoustic Still Life With A Guitar. Then, in 2007, he remerged with a brand new full-fledged studio album, The Unfairground, released on Bernard MccMahon's Lo-Max label. The album itself featured 10 startlingly good songs penned by the man himself and also saw a slew of artists, both his contemporaries and those he had influenced, playing on the record. Among them were Hugh Hopper, Bridget St John and Phil Manzanera, as well as members of Teenage Fanclub, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ladybig Transistor andGorky's Zygotic Mynci.

The album received a four star review in MOJO and the magazine attempted to put together a series of shows with Kevin in order to fully support the album. The logistics of these were complicated and involved Ayers travelling to Scotland to rehearse with the Teenage Fanclub and musical director Bill Wells. Sadly Ayers felt it was a step too far and, despite his return to London for promotional interviews, the plans for his live return collapsed.

More recently, requests for him to conduct interviews were met with rebuttals and word that Ayers found the prospect of talking to the media increasingly alarming. In truth, he was also battling illness.

A man often beset by his own insecurities, Kevin passed away on February 18, seemingly in his sleep, at the age of 68 at his home in France, a country with which he had developed a deep association. He will be greatly missed by all those who knew him, and those who lost themselves in his wondrous music. Remember him by watching him at his most elegant and eloquent in this 1970 French film...

Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:14 PM GMT 20/02/2013

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2013/02/kevin_ayers_1944_-_2013.html

January 2013 Vinyl Night

1	Artist	Title	Album/45	Presenter	Notes
2	The Twilights	Shipwreck	45	Steve Rosen
3	Valentine Brothers	Money's Too Tight to Mention	12"	Steve Rosen
4	Jesse Lee Turner	The Little Space Girl	45	Steve Rosen
5	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	The Entertainer	The Case of the 3-Sided Dream in Audio Color	Dean Niemeyer
6	Bonnie Raitt	What Do You Want the Boy to Do	Home Plate	Dean Niemeyer
7	Gentle Giant	Friends	Giant for a Day	Rory Falato
8	Rory Gallagher	Crest of a Wave	Sinner … and Saint	Rory Falato
9	Joe Ely	Don't Put a Lock on My Heart	Lord of the Highway	Neil Sharrow
10	Astrosurf	Coastal Brawl	Ridin' the Amber Waves	Neil Sharrow
11	Shalamar	Make That Move	45	RJ Smith
12	Helene Smith	Thrills and Chills	Eccentric Soul/The Deep City Label	RJ Smith
13	Crazy Horse	Gone Dead Train	Crazy Horse	Lou Webb
14	Alice Cooper	Under My Wheels	Killer	Lou Webb
15	Ry Cooder	Alimony	Ry Cooder	Lou Webb
16	The Normal	Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D.	45	Steve Spatt
17	Miles Davis	Solea	Sketches of Spain	Steve Kemme
18	Ohio Players	FOPP	Honey	Dr. Chlorophyll
19	Willie Hutch	Brother's Gonna Work it Out	The Mack	Dr. Chlorophyll
20	Bobby Fuller Four	I Fought the Law	45	Paul Horn
21	Bert Dievert	My Old Friends	Opus 3 Test Record/Depth of Image	Paul Horn
22	Savoy Brown	She's Got a Ring in Her Nose and a Ring on Her Hand	Blue Matter	Paul Horn
23	Kool & the Gang	Hollywood Swinging	Love and Understanding	Ray Morton
24	Kool & the Gang	Who's Gonna Take the Weight	Live at the Sex Machine	Ray Morton
25	Lord Buckley	Scrooge	Blowing His Mind (and Yours, Too)	Polly Campbell
26	Average White Band	Cut the Cake	Person to Person	Bill Frost
27	Status Quo	Roadhouse Blues	Live	Bill Frost
28	Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood	Some Velvet Morning	Nancy & Lee	David Little
29	Urszula Dudziak	Misty	Midnight Rain	David Little
30	Tony Joe White	Stud Spider	Country Funk 1969-1975	JP
31	Rolling Stones	Fingerprint File	It's Only Rock & Roll	JP
32	Tom Waits	Temptation	Franks Wild Years	Bob Nyswonger
33	Gentle Giant	Playing the Game	The Power & the Glory	Bob Nyswonger
34	Otis Williams	Wichita Lineman	Greatest Hits of Otis Williams	Brian Powers
35	Connie Smith	Cincinnati, Ohio	Greatest Hits Vol. 1	Brian Powers
36	Nick Gravenites	It Takes Time	Live at Bill Graham's Fillmore West	Jim McNair
37	Steppenwolf	Black Pit	45	Jim McNair