Charley Pride - In Person at Panther Hall

Ah, live albums. There's a bunch of great ones (Townes Van Zandt Live at the Old Quarter and Robert Earl Keen's Live Album (the first one) immediately come to mind) and a lot of stinky ones. Charley Pride's "In Person" is definitely in the first category. Nice choice of covers and his own hits, some funny banter, and the amazing Lloyd Green on steel guitar. Just a really great country album!

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Intro By Bo Powell

The Last Thing On My Mind

Just Between You And Me

I Know One

Dialogue

Lovesick Blues

The Image Of Me

Kaw-Liga

Shutters And Boards

Six Days On The Road

Streets Of Baltimore

Got Leavin' On Her Mind

Crystal Chandeliers

Cotton Fields

More Girl Group Music

As promised last week, here's another compilation of girl group music. Btw, my only rule was that it had to be at least two women singers - after all you can't really have girl's talk without, well....two girls. :)

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Baby That`s Me The Cake

He Did It The Ronettes

Girl Of 100 Lists The Go-Go's

Stop Pretending The Pandoras

My One And Only, Jimmy Boy The Girlfriends

Chapel of Love The Chicks

Iko Iko The Dixie Cups

There's No Right Way to Do Me Wrong The Miller Sisters

Growing Upside Down The Ditty Bops

I'm Blue The Ikettes

Nothing But a Heartache The Flirtations

I`ll Keep Holding On The Marvelettes

Leave My Kitten Alone The Detroit Cobras

High School Yum Yum The Donnas

Such A Joke Vivian Girls

This is a Foxy World Tom Tom Club

Then He Kissed Me The Crystals

Whatta Man Salt-N-Pepa

The Party Betty & The Werewolves

Silent Treatment The Bangles

It Happens Every Day Persianettes

Since You've Been Gone The Dreamers

So Young The Veronicas

Da-Di-Da-Da The Satin Bells

Maybe The Three Degrees

I Just Want to Hear Girl's Talk - Volume 1

I can't claim that I've got anything particularly interesting or insightful to say about girl groups. Therefore, I'll just let the music speak for itself. I will, however, say that several of the tracks come from Rhino's (fill in superlative) 60s girl group box set, One Kiss Can Lead to Another. (The sampler on emusic is also pretty dandy.) I'll post Volume 2 next week.

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He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' Bananarama

Chains The Cookies

Needle In A Haystack The Velvelettes

Bhang, Bhang, I'm a Burnout Dum Dum Girls

You're No Rock N' Roll Fun Sleater-Kinney

Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me) The Chiffons

You Won't Forget Me Jean & the Statesides

Crying In The Rain The Sweet Inspirations

Teardrop Sea Tonettes [1-2-3-4-5-6-7]

Count The Days Patti Labelle and The Bluebelles

Satellite Luscious Jackson

Your Time Is My Time Tralala

He Doesn't Love Me The Breakways

Tell Me What You Want The Pipettes

He's Not That Kind Of Guy The Tangeers

Cherry Bomb The Runaways

Swallow My Pride Thee Headcoatees

Those Memories of You Dolly Parton/Emmylou Harris/Linda Ronstadt

Double Knots The Living Sisters

Sweet Sweet Love Durettes

Come See About Me The Supremes

And My Heart Sang Tra La La Brenda & The Tabulations

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Bouzoukee Version) Petty Booka

All Grown Up Gore Gore Girls

The Train From Kansas City The Shangri-Las

Richard Buckner and Elliott Smith - The Bards of Gen X

For reasons I won't go into here, I've always been suspicious of the term "voice of a generation". On the other hand, I've always kind of thought of Richard Buckner and Elliott Smith as well, ..... the voice of Gen X - or better yet, the voice of a small, but not insignificant subset of Gen X. (The social scientist in me always comes out.) Whatever you want to call them, they are two of my favorite artists and I think their stuff still holds up remarkably well. So here's two mixtapes (combined into one download) featuring album cuts, obscurities, live tracks, etc.

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Disc One

Pull Richard Buckner

Tomorrow Tomorrow Elliott Smith

Pretty (Ugly Before) Elliott Smith

Lucky Buzz Richard Buckner

Angel In The Snow Elliott Smith

Sister Richard Buckner

When Love Is Gone Richard Buckner

kiwi maddog 20/20 Elliott Smith

Her Richard Buckner

Stickman Elliott Smith

Place Pigalle Elliott Smith

Hard Ground Richard Buckner

Wouldn't Mama Be Proud? Elliott Smith

Disc Two

Because Elliott Smith

Gauzy Dress in the Sun Richard Buckner

Oscar Hummel Richard Buckner

Needle In The Hay Elliott Smith

Do You Want To Go Somewhere? Richard Buckner

New Disaster Elliott Smith

Rose Parade Elliott Smith

Dusty from the Talk, Richard Buckner

A Living Will Elliott Smith

Mile Richard Buckner

Poor Old Tom Richard Buckner

A Passing Feeling Elliott Smith

Boys, The Night Will Bury You Richard Buckner