the calico wall: radio shimmy
radio shimmy podcast: Hullabaloo (#2) Preview and more recent gems...

a little late is better than never this week as we take a look at tomorrow's HULLABALOO night in Brooklyn plus some recent arrivals in my "stockyard".
download: 128k mp3 (37.4mb // 40:56)
Full track list below...
setlist:
Sidney Maiden - Hand Me Down Baby - Louisiana Blue singer's 1961 release on Bluesville, here courtesy of compilation
Jook Block Busters Vol. 2 (on Valmor Records/1989).
Billy Joe Becoat - You Can't Hide - from 1970 Fantasy LP "Let's Talk for Awhile" -- Black "folk" singer sounds like Sam Cooke, sort of.
The Detroit Cobras - Leave My Kitten Alone - From the new CD "Tied and True" on Bloodshot Records; original by Little Willie John on King (he of "Fever" fame)
Les Sexareenos - Baby I Grind - from the 2005 CD compilation "The Sympathetic Sounds of Montreal"
The Ribeye Brothers - Buffalo - from the 2005 CD "Bar Ballads and Cautionary Tales" this New Jersey band will play Hullabaloo #4 on June 30 at Matchless in Brooklyn.
Mercury Rev - Chasing a Bee - from a reissue (?) LP on Mint Records (UK) -- their debut Yerself Is Steam (originally 1991).
The Shaydes
- Sweet Little Something - From the new CDR release (a five tracker) by this Brooklyn band of ex-pat Canadians.
-- talk --
The Anything People - Left Side - 60's-inspired Brooklyn garagers.
The Shalitas - Take Me Home - Brooklyn's modern girl group sound!
The Brian Wilson Shock Treatment - Power of the Third Eye - the only true garage/psych band from Greenpoint!
-- talk --
The Brian Wilson Shock Treatment - Lords of the Infinite Cosmos
- from the 2006 7" EP of the same name on Slutfish records.
C'mon down to the HULLABALOO at Matchless, Brooklyn Saturday April 28!
27.april.2007