The Raw Mess Around


Brendan

Programs that unite widely different musical styles around subject matter, sound, or experience of the artists, with a focus on raw, archaic, new, non-conformist, and strange music.

Genre
Raw Folk, Gospel, Funk, Non-American transcendence with a focus on SouthEast Asian, West and North African, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European Sounds, Free Jazz, Psych, Ecstatic Garage Punk, Weirdo Shit comin' from the outside., International, Blues



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Show Description for Sunday 11/30/2008
Get your tape recorders ready, kids, cause we're gonna hear most of Abner Jay's "True Story of Dixie" LP, sandwiched between some serious slabs of choice American roots.

Track Artist Song Album Label    
V/A Yonder Comes the Blues Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton- Sweet Sara Blues Yonder Comes the Blues- The Evolution of a Genre Document 1929; this might be the best damn white country blues I've heard
V/A Hokum Blues (1924-1936) The Pebbles- Deep Henderson Hokum Blues (1924-1936) RST Records 1927
V/A Good for What Ails You Hezekiah Jenkins- Shout You Cats Good For What Ails You- Music of the Medicine Shows: 1926-1937 Old Hat 1931; the flip side to this 78- "The Panic Is On" is also unbelievably good
V/A Singing Preachers and Their Congregations Elder Otis Jones & Congregation- Oh, Lord I'm Your Child Singing Preachers and Their Congregations Blues Classics 1936
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Tommy Jarrell & Kyle Creed John Brown's Dream June Apple Mountain 1972
Abner Jay Shortin 'N Bread True Story of Dixie Brandie Records 197?
V/A Songsters & Saints Vol. 1 Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band- Under the Chicken Tree Songsters & Saints Vol. 1 Matchbox 1927
Coley Jones Traveling Man Coley Jones & the Dallas String Band Matchbox 1927; a fasinating piece of Amfrican-American folklore- the black man who could vanish from the police at any moment
V/A Please Warm My Weiner Robert & Charlie Hicks- Darktown Gambling- The Crap Game Please Warm My Weiner- Old Time Hokum Blues Yazoo 1930
Abner Jay St. James Infirmary True Story of Dixie Brandie Records 197?
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V/A Pickin' Up My Blues Stick Horse Hammond- Too Late Baby Packin' Up My Blues- Blues of the Deep South: 1950-1961 Muskadine born 1896; rec. 1950
Peg Leg Sam Born in Hard Luck Medicine Show Man Trix 1972
Charlie Turner and Winston Holmes The Death of Holmes' Mule Part 1 Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes (1928-29)- Complete recordings Wolf 1929
V/A Songsters & Saints Vol. 1 Mother McCollum- When I Take My Vacation in Heaven Songsters & Saints Vol. 1 Matchbox 1930
V/A Black Banjo Songsters John Snipes- You Don't Know My Darling Black Banjo Songsters of North Carolina and Virginia Smithsonian Folkways early 1970's
Abner Jay Collard Greens True Story of Dixie Brandie Records 197?
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Dennis McGee Adieau, Rosa The Complete Early Recordings of Dennis McGee Yazoo 1930
Howard Finster A Few Special People The Night Howard Finster Got Saved Golbal Village Music and Old Country Music early 1980's
Howard Finster Cripple Creek The Night Howard Finster Got Saved Golbal Village Music and Old Country Music early 1980's
Uncle Dave Macon Take Me Back to My Old Carolina Home Laugh Your Blues Away Rounder 1939; live recording
Abner Jay She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain True Story of Dixie Brandie Records 197?
Gus Cannon Going Around the Mountain Walk Right In Stax 1963
Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers Slow Buck "Hear These new Southern Fiddle and Guitar Records!" Rounder late 1920's
Wilmoth Houdini Uncle Jo' Gimme Mo' Calypso Classic from Trinidad Folklyric 1928
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V/A Deep River of Song- Black Appalachia Jimmie Strothers- Cripple Creek Deep River of Song- Black Appalachia Rounder- Alan Lomax collection 1936
Howard Finster Some of These Days The Night Howard Finster Got Saved Golbal Village Music and Old Country Music early 1980's
V/A Singing Preachers and Their Congregations Rev. C.C. Chapman- On my Way part 1 Singing Preachers and Their Congregations Blues Classics 1951; Los Angeles
Fannie Bell Chapman Prayer & speaking in tongues Gospel Singer Southern Culture Records 1972
V/A Singing Preachers and Their Congregations Deacon L.. Shinault- Lord, I Come to Thee Singing Preachers and Their Congregations Blues Classics 1956; Chicago
V/A One -String Blues Edward hazelton- Mocking the Train, Mocking the Dogs One-String Blues: Rural Blues on Skid Row Gazell Documents 1960; musicians from los Angeles' skid row
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V/A The Stuff Dreams Are made of jaybird Coleman- Boll weevil The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of Yazoo late 1920's
Abner Jay Coton Fields True Story of Dixie Brandie Records 197?
V/A Victrola Favorites The Hall Brothers- Little Mo-Hee Victrola Favorties:Artifiacts from Bygone Days Dust-to-Digital 1937
V/A Victrola Favorites Two Liquorice Drops in Jail (excerpt) Victrola Favorties:Artifiacts from Bygone Days Dust-to-Digital 1930
V/A Victrola Favorites Barton Brothers- Cockeyed Jenny Victrola Favorties:Artifiacts from Bygone Days Dust-to-Digital 1950
Abner Jay Dixie True Story of Dixie Brandie Records 197?
Coley Jones The Elder He's My Man Coley Jones & the Dallas String band- Complete Recordings Matchbox 1929
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V/A Mississippi String Bands & Associates Alec Johnson- Sundown Blues Mississippi String Bands & Associates Document 1928
V/A Hokum Blues On An Island All By Myself Hokum Blues (1924-1936) RST Records 1929
Abner Jay Man Walked on the Moon True Story of Dixie Brandie records 197?