2005_10_01_archive

Recent faves from hither, yon.

Dylan doc blog entry (has nothing to do with Dock Boggs):

"I'm not anythingggg! -- I'm just inscrutable and shit!"

Katrina-inspired radio show:

Doug Shulkind paying his respects and dreaming of the masters during

"Give the Drummer Some," on WMFU, September 2d. Shulkind fits in,

inter alia, the whole of the Mayor Ray Nagin/Garland Robinette

interview on WWL-New Orleans (around 2:18 into Shulkind's show), which

segues devastatingly into James Booker's "Make a Better World." Not a

benefit, a beautiful, heart-breaking elegy.

DVD reissue:

On the heels of No Direction Home, the Murray Lerner documentary

Festival, a remarkable (and remarkably compact) chronicle of the

Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966, is going to see the light of

day on DVD later this month. The Lerner footage provided some of the

performance highlights of the Bob'n'Marty Show. Saw this years ago on

a small big screen, and recall a burning Howlin' Wolf segment and some

phenomenal people-watching. That pre-hippie, post-beat look adopted by

the cool set c. '64 was probably the closest the US came to having its

own mod moment. Festival offers perhaps the only extant evidence that

Joan Baez was once hot. Lerner later captured the 1970 Isle of Wight

festival on film; it's called Message to Love, and features, among

many memorable moments, a stunningly ineffective Joni Mitchell

wig-out. [ via ]

Kiwi rock:

The Bats are back.

Inaccessible rock:

In 1979, the members of Nurse With Wound, Steven Stapleton, John

Fothergill and Heman Pathak, compiled a roll call of their favorite

"outsider" musical artists to include with their first album, Chance

Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. No

other details were provided, just 300 or so names in block type. The

second version of the list included several newly added names, and

came with the To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl LP in 1980. Stapleton

and co. knew not what they hath wrought; the so-called Nurse With

Wound List has since become a scavenger hunt of holy grails for

fanatical collectors of Krautrock, progressive rock, psychedelic,

post-punk, jazz, free improvised and experimental music.... So begins

'FMU's William Berger's three-part MP3 compilation/public service

announcement...with glockenspiel. Part one. Part two. Part three.

Please excuse me while I bathe myself in the bitter tears of rock

snobs who spent their paper route money and countless stanky hours

trolling record fairs looking for this stuff.

Postage stamp mega-event:

Would we lie?

Educational music blog post: