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Tracklisting :
01. Charlie Feathers - One Hand Loose
02. Ann Cole with The Suburbans - Got My Mojo Workin'
03. Rudimentary Peni - Media Person
04. Doyle Dykes - Jazz in the Box
05. Desmond Dekker - Intensified
06. Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee - Alabama Blues
07. The Nips (a.k.a. The Nipple Erectors) - Nervous Wreck
08. Jesse Fuller - Footdella Stomp
09. Joey Ramone - Waiting For That Railroad To Go Home
Tracklisting :
01. Charlie Feathers - One Hand Loose
02. Ann Cole with The Suburbans - Got My Mojo Workin'
03. Rudimentary Peni - Media Person
04. Doyle Dykes - Jazz in the Box
05. Desmond Dekker - Intensified
06. Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee - Alabama Blues
07. The Nips (a.k.a. The Nipple Erectors) - Nervous Wreck
08. Jesse Fuller - Footdella Stomp
09. Joey Ramone - Waiting For That Railroad To Go Home
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In the tradition of "Harmony in My Head," I have provided annotated notes for each song. Enjoy!
Charlie Feathers - One Hand Loose:
He is and always will be the king of rockabilly. I enjoy rockabilly music much more than the average person, but I am certainly not blind to its main fault: so many of the songs sound the same. Too many rockabilly artists can be accused of using the same melody line over and over, but not Charlie Feathers. He always stood for what rockabilly should be and he played it the way it should be played and he rarely reworked the same melody line. Unfortunately, his work is scattered about on various collections. This track can be found on "Get With It: The Essential Recordings," which is probably the best and most extensive collection of work, but others such as "Uh Huh Honey," "Tip Top Daddy," and "Rockabilly Kings" would certainly be worthy purchases as well.
Ann Cole with the Suburbans - Got My Mojo Workin':
Anyone and everyone is all too familiar with this song as it is, but this is my favorite version of the song. She puts so much into the song, you'd really believe that she is living the life in those lyrics. She is difficult to locate, though. I found this song on volume 6 of the Blues Masters compilations, but it can also be found on the one CD release that she got of her scattered work, "In the Chapel: 30 of Her Greatest Hits!" on Dead Dog Records (http://www.deadog.com/) which specializes in giving CD releases to rare and out of print stuff from blues, rockabilly, and doowop.
Rudimentary Peni - Media Person:
A punk band wholly unique to any other band I've ever heard. They have the simplicity of the Ramones, with the power of Slayer. This first album "The EPs of RP" destroyed me the first time I heard it, the whole thing was absolutely insane and I loved it. They've been together for about 20 years, but they will go years at a time without doing anything and they rarely play live shows at all. Their official site is http://www.southern.com/southern/band/RPENI/
Anyone who hears them and enjoys them might also be interested to know that Nick Blinko, the lead singer, also wrote a book about his time spent in an institution called "Primal Screamer," now out of print.
Doyle Dykes - Jazz in the Box:
I had a conversation with someone once about guitar players, we were going back and forth on underrated players, and he finally dropped this name on me. He told me that Dykes is one of the few players who very regularly plays with all ten fingers. He's not the best song writer, but he is without a doubt one of the most talented guitar players to ever grace the Earth and he's the best that I've ever seen. This song can be found on his "Fingerstyle Guitar" album. Go to his website http://www.doyledykes.com/ and watch the videos of him playing, they're unbelievable.
Desmond Dekker - Intensified:
One of my all-time favorite reggae artists and, as I've come to realize, one of the most underrated as well. There are a million and one greatest hits collections for him, nine out of ten of them hold his major U.S. hit from the 60's "Israelites," but very few of his albums have been released on CD. The sign of true respect and recognition is to get your albums re-released on CD, much of the time with bonus tracks, as we've seen with the Ramones and X and Wire and so so many others, but Dekker continues to be generally overlooked. You can get his first album on CD, "Writing on the Wall," but after that his work is scattered about on various collections. Get ahold of his stuff and enjoy it, he is one of the best.
Ramblin' Jeffrey Lee - Alabama Blues:
Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club, covering a Robert Wilkins tune, did two solo albums, "Wildweed" and this one which is self-titled. I would not so much recommend "Wildweed" for anyone but Gun Club fanatics (such as myself), but I would recommend this album for anyone who enjoys the blues. This whole album was a labor of love by someone who understood and appreciated the blues for everything that it was. The whole album is good from start to finish and it stands as a monument to his talent.
The Nips - Nervous Wreck:
Shane MacGowan of the incredible Pogues and, later on, the Popes started this band after he saw the Sex Pistols play. They are one of my all-time favorite punk bands from that era along with The Undertones and The Lurkers. If you're into those two bands, The Nips are for you, great songs, great sound (on one song, the guitar player uses a phaser, and as cheezy as those things are, in this song it works out spendidly), and I would say that it's too bad that they didn't do more, but Shane went on to do the Pogues, so no complaints here. They have one CD release called "Bops, Babes, Booze and Bovver" which features two previously unreleased tracks. Unfortunately, though, you don't get the live album they did or the other two studio tracks they recorded, but still worth buying, every single song on it is great, particuarlly the song "So Pissed Off."
Jesse Fuller - Footdella Stomp:
When I compiled a list of artists I wanted to put on this Fanatic list (I came up with 60 in one sitting), Jesse Fuller was at the top. He's one of my favorite blues artists, but he is easily the most difficult artist I've tried locating in record stores. No one carries him, NO ONE, and believe me, I've looked. I love buying my music from record stores, I like giving them my support, I like being able to walk into the store, go to name in alphabetical order and find exactly what I was looking for. It's even more satisfying when I've looked for it at other stores, they didn't have it, and then I find it at a different one, I feel accomplished! No one carries Fuller, you have to find him online, through eBay or Amazon or what ever else. I first heard his name because of the first track off the first Bob Dylan album. He's been covered by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, and Eric Clapton, and I STILL can't find his albums in any stores. He's one of the most talented musicians I've ever heard, a one-man band, he plays his guitar, kazoo or harmonica or sings, one foot keeps time with a symbal, and the other plays an instrument of his own invention called the footdella (or fotdella), which is a foot-operated bass made from piano wires. This is, by no means, one of his best songs, and I actually wish now that I had chosen a different song, but I thought people would get a kick out of hearing about the footdella. I recommend getting a hold of the album "Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues."
Joey Ramone - Waiting For That Railroad To Go Home:
I decided to throw on an artist that you all know and love, but a song you may not know. I bumped into this when I was doing research for a 9-page Ramones paper I was writing for college. This is one of two acoustic songs he played for a radio show at the New York West Bank Cafe in 1987 with his brother, Mickey Leigh, and Daniel Rey. Go to this website for the other song, "Death of Me," http://www.ramones.ru/eng/stuff/audio.html
There's all kinds of cool stuff on this site, including Ramones b-sides, live videos of Dee Dee, and a couple other unreleased Joey song, which is just going to have to hold us off until that whole other album worth of songs gets all the legalities worked out and the fans can get their hands on it.
I didn't get to put in more songs, so I'm just throwing this in. If you liked the songs I chose, go out and listen to these: Radiators From Space, Wayne Hancock, Murder City Devils, Sonny Burgess, The Last Poets, The Pogues, Old Crow Medicine Show, Drive Like Jehu, Collins Kids, The Knitters, and Buju Banton. Music is my life, and I hope you find the joy in some of these artists that i did.
Wow. Thanks for your efforts, Aaron!
Thanks for all the info, Aaron! It's definitely appreciated.
Aaron,
I just finished listening to the whole set and I loved it. I agree with you about preferring to buy music from stores rather than online. I'm even waiting until I go to California next month to buy stuff I couldn't find locally instead of shopping online. You're making my list of things to look for at Amoeba Music very long. I think that's going to be one of the highlights of my trip. Maybe I should bring an extra suitcase with me just for CD's! Thanks.
I'm very glad you enjoyed it. It took me quite a while to narrow it down to those. I even thought about throwing some local stuff on there, but none of it quite measures up to even the worst song on the list.
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