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Alan Lewis, Editor

Our Corner of the Rock 'n' Roll Life

June 27, 2009
Issue 2009:333
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We've got Thrills, chills, Dirty Water
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When the big beat hits ya
Comin' from your transistor
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When the big beat hits ya...

"Boston Lullaby," Dudick/Naihersey.
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BRATTLEBORO, VT, June 27 - Late this week was marked by the deaths of two
superstars of the 1970s and 1980s, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. It makes
me sorry to say that I did not follow either of these artists and have little
worthwhile to add. Farrah Fawcett totally remade the industry of celebrity
posters, with her swimsuit number that sold 12,000,000 copies. Her season on
"Charlie's Angels" was a national TV network event. Michael Jackson, in
addition to being a major hitmaker, also was among the earliest stars of MTV,
back when that cable channel had a lot to do with music.

It is hard to imagine Boston producing New Edition, if it hadn't been for the
success of the Jackson Five. And New Edition not only gave us that group's own
hits, but it also spun off Boston bad boy Bobby Brown and a nifty trio, Bell Biv
Devoe.

May Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson rest in peace.
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It surprises no one more than it surprises me that this is all the news we
received this week, except for a Green River Festival press release that somehow
fell victim to an alien abduction of some sort somewhere out there in
cyberspace.
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READ WHAT INTERESTS YOU, scroll right past whatever doesn't.
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RECORD RELEASES THIS WEEK
Listed by Newbury Comics, Excerpted by Us

Our youth movement editor has been uninspired by the record releases of the past
few weeks. The selections here, then, lean more toward veteran acts and
reissues, mixed in with a few guesses on my part. - Ed.

<> New CD Releases Available Tuesday, June 23rd

COLVIN, SHAWN - Live - $10.88
DINOSAUR JR.-Farm (2 CD Deluxe Edition)-$9.99
DREAM THEATER - Black Clouds & Silver Lining-$12.88
DREAM THEATER - Black Clouds & Silver Lining (Deluxe)-$19.99

GINUWINE - A Man's Thoughts-$16.99
<> I am drawing a total blank as to why I recognize this act's name.

GOD HELP THE GIRL (BELLE & SEBASTIAN) - God Help The Girl - $9.99
JEDI MIND TRICKS - Greatest Features - $10.88
LEMONHEADS-Varshons-$9.99
MARLEY, BOB & WAILERS - B Is For Bob - $9.99
MELLENCAMP, JOHN - Life, Death, Love And Freedom (Deluxe Edition) - $15.99
MELLENCAMP, JOHN - Life, Death, Live, And Freedom - $7.99
MERRITT, TIFT - Buckingham Solo: Live - $14.99
REM - Reckoning (Deluxe Edition)-$19.99
YORN, PETE - Back & Fourth-$9.99

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featured dvd new release Available Tuesday, June 23rd

062209_confessionsConfessions Of A Shopaholic
$21.99 DVD

SOURCE: Newbury Comics, "June 22 Newbury Comics Coupon and New Releases," June
22, 2009.

Dinosaur Jr.
"Farm" (2 CDs, 2009)

Lemonheads
"Varshons" (CD, 2009)

:: belle and sebastian, shawn colvin, bob marley and the wailers, john
mellencamp, john cougar mellencamp, tift merritt, pete york back and fourth ::
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NEW ENGLAND MUSIC ACTS
And Their Unreleased Recordings

<> Part of my project of compiling a new catalog, for our use, of record
releases by acts with strong New England ties has involved looking through
credits of the nearly countless compilations turning up and then checking to see
what records the artists on these compilations have released. It has since
become my sense that acts in growing numbers are seldom if ever releasing music
in any traditional sense.

The database I prefer to use at present is far from complete, so it is not
surprising, here and there, to find individual artists and bands missing from
it. But when researching artists in the credits of compilations put out in
recent years, I am finding many, MANY of them missing. Time and time again, I
will be taken right back to the compilation where I found any given act's name
in the first place. And, sad to say, the great majority of these compilations
appear not to have circulated at all widely.

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PRESS RELEASES THIS WEEK

<> Erin McKeown announces "Cabin Fever" live Internet concerts. (This press
release actually came out last week.

<> The Green River Festival press release somehow got the opposite of truncation
when forwarded to this account: for some reason, the very end of the message
came through, but all the rest of it did not. It is probably too late to get
the original press release out of our FredRemainsLost account, so I will see
whether I can get another copy.
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MARK CUTLER
AND THE MEN OF GREAT COURAGE
at The Penalty Box
Providence, Rhode Island
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Rhode Island's Mark Cutler was at the heart of one of the greatest rock debut
albums it has ever been my honor and pleasure to hear, "Lost Souls" by The
Raindogs. Rarely has a band gotten it so right on the first try. I have never
heard Cutler's Men of Great Courage, but he makes this sound like a pretty
outstanding outfit.

Here is Cutler's announcement of a show tonight:

<> "I just thought I'd let you know that my new large crazy man band 'The Men of
Great Courage' will be playing at the Penalty Box (HA!) this coming Saturday
June 27th. It's on North Main St. in Providence, Rhode Island. If you feel
like hearing Hank to Hendrix and a ton of real fine originals (at least that's
what they tell me) please come on down. We'll have electric, acoustic, slide
and steel guitars, mandolins and banjos and keyboards and harmonicas and bass
and drums ... sometimes all at the same time. We'll play music that you will
love and learn to love."

SOURCE: Mark Cutler, "Gigs and Nominations," June 24, 2009.

MARK CUTLER IS ALSO . . a member of Rhode Island's Forever Young, a gifted Neil
Young tribute band.

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JIMMY RYAN (and Hayride?)
At Sally O'Brien's

<> "I'll be back at Sally's to play Sunday, June 28 with Julie Dougherty and her
band."

SOURCE: Jimmy Ryan, "This Week in Mandolining," June 22, 2009.

I WAS JUST ABOUT . . to query our readers for Jimmy Ryan's new e-mail address
when a message from him appeared in our inbox. This is not one of the most
detail-oriented messages he could have sent; but if there is much chance you
would catch this show, you probably already know in what city or town Sally
O'Brien's is located.

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THE FOOLS
WITH CLUTcH GRABWeLL
Wachusett Village Inn
Westminster, Massachusetts
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Worth Taking Note: Music at 1 PM

<> This is according to a recent Fools mailing that was annoying to get into.
But these guys, in the photo that was included, don't look a lot worse for all
those years of Fools-ishness, so I guess opening their e-mail was worth the
effort.

A search of the Web did not quickly turn up an official website for the band,
but there seems to be a FoolsSpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/foolsband

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BASTILLE DAY A-GO-GO
Saturday, July 18, 2009
At The Precinct
Somerville, Massachusetts

<> Shaun Wolf Wortis Presents
Wolf's 16th Annual (Four Days After) Bastille Day A-Go-Go
Saturday, July 18, 2009
The Precinct, 70 Union Square, Somerville, MA

Description: A night of New Orleans rhythm & blues. Featuring the Vudu Krewe
All-Star Mardi Gras Band* with special guest singers Jen D'Angora, John Powhida,
Jordan Valentine, Asa Brebner, Mick Mondo, and Al Janik.

For the sixteenth year running, Wolf's Annual Bastille Day A-Go-Go (four days
after Bastille Day) turns a Boston area club into a New Orleans house party.
Shaun Wolf Wortis (Gato Malo, ex-Slide etc.) leads a sprawling band -- the Vudu
Krewe All-Star Mardi Gras Band -- through a night of New Orleans rhythm & blues
music. Special guest singers Jen D'Angora (Jenny Dee & the Deliquents), John
Powhida (Rudds), Jordan Valentine (Sunday Saints), Asa Brebner, Mick Mondo, and
Al Janik round out the eve.

What does it have to do with France's Independence Day? Fair enough, not a
whole lot, but after sixteen years, does anyone really care?

*On tap: Shaun Wolf Wortis, guitar; Ken Schopf, drums; Ducky Carlisle, drums;
Chandler Travis, guitar; Marc Hickox, bass; Paul Ahlstrand, sax; Dan Zupan, sax;
Mark Sanchez, trumpet; Joe Stewart, bone; Phil Clements, piano.

SOURCE: Shaun Wolf Wortis, "Wolf's Bastille Day A-Go-Go," June 22, 2009.

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STOMPERS
At Concord, New Hampshire
Saturday, July 18, 2009

That fun and durable Boston band, The Stompers, has a free show Saturday, July
18 at Concord, New Hampshire.

The announcement we received did not specify where and I may have inadvertently
deleted when, but it seems quite likely one could round up these details and
more by stomping over to

http://www.thestompers.com/

and surfing around the site.

In other news...

"'An Evening with THE STOMPERS'

<> "Be a part of the 32nd Anniversary celebration and live recording!"

: : : Saturday November 28 - 8:00 PM
: : : Tupelo Music Hall
: : : Londonderry, New Hampshire

Seating is said to be limited. Procrastinating may be inadvisable.

SOURCE: The Stompers, "The Stompers Live '09 Update," June 21, 2009.

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THE LPs
Peter Mulvey and Kosher Ham
To Play Tom Waits' Entire "Ran Dogs" Album

"Monday, July 20, at the Rendezvous in Turners Falls, MA, and Tuesday, July 21,
at Atwoods Tavern in Cambridge... uh... it's hard to describe. Basically, the
band Kosher Ham and I will have a smackdown that results in the formation of a
band called the LP's, which has been known to spontaneously play entire LP's for
the sheer joy of it. Anyhow, this incidence of the LP's will be performing Tom
Waits 'Rain Dogs' in its entirety. In fact, on Tuesday, we'll perform it in its
entirety twice, at 7 and 10pm. I'll be singing all the songs. All 17 of them.
It's a great record - a bit like a Shakespeare play, if I may be so bold - you
just get on stage and do the parts, and some form of magic usually ensues.
PLUS, we'll be giving away a hair from Mr. Waits's beard, encased in amber, as a
door prize. Top that."

SOURCE: YH Management, "Peter Mulvey Newsletter," June 25, 2009.

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NEW ENGLAND ESSENTIAL RECORD RELEASES

<> Once before, when we polled our readers about essential New England record
releases, in this newsletter I updated our list each week for several weeks.
But this survey is likely to run a good deal longer, as I am trying to bring in
many of our e-mail correspondents, whether or not they are regular readers,
along with some other folks who to me, at least, are celebrities.

Let me just say, then, that we have had a decent number of additions to the list
we posted last issue, including some inspired choices.

It has never been my intention to post a list of various people's own lists.
But one person, back at the beginning, named five favorite Boston records, and
that list made an excellent start toward capturing the early 1980s in Boston, a
wonderful place and time.

Another person, after making his own excellent suggestion for our list, simply
made note of five deserving songs that had not been included up to that point.
After giving it a good deal of thought, I have decided to add his list to ours.

Boston: Favorite Songs
Second List

<> Better Off Dead, La Peste
<> Prettiest Girl - The Neighborhoods
<> She Pays the Rent, The Lyres
<> Tessie, Dropkick Murphys
<> When You're Young, The Atlantics

"Tessie" is way out of place in time. Otherwise, though, this set nicely
complements the first list we received.

What the heck then: I made my own list. Sticking to the same city and pretty
much the same time period, I came up with my own humble additions to the
previous two sets, treating those ten songs as already taken and no longer
available. (It pained me deeply not to name, say, "Lonelyhearts" by The
Atlantics.) I did not go way back in time to include a real groundbreaker,
"Mass. Ave" by Willie "Loco" Alexander, nor did I go ahead far enough to include
personal favorites such as "Love Under Pressure" by Girls Night Out. I did not
go for anything too far out of the ordinary, either, such as political folkie
Fred Small's Walk on the Supply Side," a surprisingly knowing parody of "Walk on
the Wild Side" (though it was tempting).

Here's what I did include:

<> Alibi, The Fools
<> Coast to Coast, The Stompers
<> Lock It Up, Pastiche
<> Third Generation, The Rings
<> What a Girl Can't Do, Lyres

On another day, "This Reminds Me of the Future" by Pastiche might have
substituted for "Lock It Up," while "I Want To Help You Ann" by the Lyres might
have taken the place of "What a Girl Can't Do" and "A Night for Beautiful Girls"
by The Fools might have made my list.

"Coast to Coast" refers to either the Stompers' indie single or the "Live at the
Metro" track. Both were great.

The early years of the 1980s were really fantastic times.

Probably next issue I will post our revised list in whole. In the meantime,
suggestions are still coming in.
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MIGHTY SAM McCLAIN
"Betcha Didn't Know" CD

<> "Mighty Sam will be releasing his first CD since 2003. 'Betcha Didn't Know'
will be released in the US and Europe in July 2009. It will be released on the
Mighty Music label and distributed by City Hall Records. In Europe our
distributor will be mokambo music (www.mokambomusic.de) This is an upbeat CD,
perfect for today's market. It is a different MSM sound, with his signature
'Mighty Horns' but, with a bit more Funk and Soul and Hip-Hop for a more
contemporary audience."

SOURCE: Mighty Sam, "Mighty Music Releases 'Betcha Didn't Know'," June 24, 2009.

Mighty Sam McClain
"Betcha Didn't Know" (CD, City Hall Records, Mighty Music, 2009)
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ROSE POLENZANI WITH SESSION AMERICANA
- Plus -
PAUL RISHELL AND ANNIE RAINES

We stumbled across the information that "Queen Anne's Lace" by Rose Polenzani
with Session Americana is included on the July/August 2009 Editor's Choice
Sampler CD of the publication, Dirty Linen. Pretty neat.

Also, on the same disc is "Blues on a Holiday" by Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
and Friends.

We do not have much in the way of details about the Rose P and Session Americana
album.

Rose Polenzani With Session Americana
"When the River Meets the Sea" (CD, 2008)

I take it that "Queen Anne's Lace" is a track off this record.

It seems quite likely the Paul Rishell and Annie Raines cut comes from their
album,

Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
"A Night in Woodstock"
(CD, Mojo Rodeo Records MOJR1950, 2008)

These two are great, and Paul Rishell is a real wealth of information about
Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1970s.
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ILL WIND
1960s Website

<> We have posted the address of the official website of the 1960s Boston band,
Ill Wind, and we are very interested in doing it again. Here it is:

http://ill-wind.com/

I haven't visited it in a while, but I remember this one as being a very good
site.

Last Sunday, my monitor, which has been going, going, going for the longest
time, finally expired. It was always extremely dark. Lots of the time, most
people wouldn't much notice. Some images even looked far better on my old
screen than on the usual bright sort of affair. But other images and some text
came across very poorly on my old screen, and these days I am seeing a great
deal online anew. So, visiting sites, once again, such as that of Ill Wind,
ought to be a real treat for me.

Last time I visited the Music Museum of New England (MM/one) site, I recall
something collage-like that it would be terrific to see another time on this
new-to-me screen that features some degree of brightness.

The first rock site I visited after switching monitors was PunkBlowfish.com. In
fact, it seems to me I even saw an Ill Wind album cover there. Some of the
Blowfish album-art images have a light, sparkling look, which is a real asset
when, in the particular instance of a Bosstown page, one is portraying the
psychedelic era.
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SMOKEY GREENE
And His Website

<> When posting a Smokey Greene item last issue, I had no idea even whether he
was still alive. Evidently he is, and he has his own website:

http://www.smokeygreene.com/

Paul "Hank" Preston searched the Web for Smokey Greene's story, which I imagine
brought him to the following page:

http://www.smokeygreene.com/smokeystory.htm

Smokey Greene has, or at the very least had, family in this immediate area, and
his vinyl singles used to sell locally. Judging by those singles I got, he was,
and probably still is, quite good.

Smokey Greene is a true Northeast country music pioneer. It is great to learn
that he has a home out there on the information superhighway.
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FROM THE WEEKLY PHOENIX MAILING
Thursday Morning

Interview: Aerosmith's Joey Kramer
The Aerosmith drummer steps out from behind the kit to talk about his new book,
Hit Hard.

THE JOEY KRAMER ITEM . . in this week's Phoenix ought to make great reading.
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EILEEN ROSE
New Album in October

<> "The big news is that Eileen's new album will be coming out in October! It's
being recorded in Nashville and will feature The Holy Wreck - The Legendary Rich
Gilbert and Nate '86' Stalfa.

"The album is being mixed by producer/mixer Tim Palmer, who has quite a CV! His
mixing credits include Pearl Jam, The Cure and U2.

"Full details of the new album closer to the release date..."

SOURCE: Eileen Rose [actually, Vicky], "New Album Coming Up, New Tour Dates,"
June 25, 2009.

GUITARIST RICH GILBERT . . is very well known in New England, especially in and
around Providence and Boston. In the 1990s and more recently, he may be best
known for his involvement in the Boston rock band The Zulus, as well as various
Frank Black ensembles including Frank Black and the Catholics. - Ed.
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Yahoo Music News headlines are a real problem this week in that, on the first
page of the table of contents, most are about Michael Jackson and few, if any,
are limited to music news. They are, put another way, all over print media and
all over the Web. But there is at least this one item that ought to be of
interest to many of our readers and that they may not have seen elsewhere:

YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Thursday Morning

Pixies planning Hollywood-themed new album
Yahoo! Music – Thu Jun 25, 9:00 am ET

Pixies frontman Black Francis has revealed that he is planning to record the
band's first new album since 1991's Trompe Le Monde with a Hollywood film
director.

IF YOU ARE FAMILIAR . . with the science fiction content of some of Frank
Black's lyrics - including a few of his best songs - the idea of working on an
album with a Hollywood film director does not seem at all strange. At one
point, during the Pixies reunion tour, Black was being quoted as saying he
didn't have any more Pixies songs in him. This could be a way of getting some.
- Ed.
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WHITNEY HOUSTON
"I Look to You" CD

<> What would a newsletter issue that mentions Bobby Brown be without a Whitney
Houston item, right? She and her people have lately announced that the new
Whitney Houston album, "I Look to You," is set for a September 1, 2009 worldwide
release on Arista Records.

SOURCE: Sheri Dot Ladner At SonyMusic Dot Com, "Whitney Houston Breaking News,
June 25, 2009.
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ERIN McKEOWN ANNOUNCES "CABIN FEVER"
LIVE INTERNET CONCERTS

Press Release
June 18, 2009

ERIN MCKEOWN ANNOUNCES CABIN FEVER

SERIES OF FOUR LIVE INTERNET CONCERTS FROM HER PICTARESQUE HOME IN REMOTE
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE RELEASE OF HER NEW ALBUM HUNDREDS OF LIONS

Watch the trailer here: http://www.erinmckeown.com/CabinFever/

<> In the grand tradition of barn-raisings and house-rent parties, Erin McKeown
is inviting you into her living room, onto her porch, into her river, and into
her yard, asking you to lend a hand. Just as farmers needed their neighbors to
help raise the roof, and musicians have sung for their supper, Ms. McKeown is
holding a series of four Live Internet Concerts this July with all proceeds
benefiting the recording and release of her newest album, Hundreds of Lions.
Lions marks the first album of pure McKeown originals since 2005's critically
acclaimed We Will Become Like Birds.

Each concert will be broadcast live online and will have a live chat window
where you can send in your comments and talk with other viewers as you watch.
Tickets are only $10 per concert or a mere $30 for the whole series! If you
can't tune in live, your ticket also allows you to watch the concert anytime
OnDemand for a week after the live broadcast airs.

Expect to see an intimate series of shows, with McKeown delving into her
extensive catalog of originals and eclectic knowledge of the world of music with
a selection of covers hand picked by McKeown – some of which you will only see
here. Some shows will be acoustic and others electric and all will offer
something special with a cadre of talented friends stopping by to lend their
voice and support.

"For only the second time in my 10+ year career, I decided to self-finance my
newest recording project." says McKeown "Just like Distillation, my new record,
Hundreds of Lions, was made on my own dime and my own time, with no influence,
input, or manipulation from any outside source. It has meant so much to me to be
able to record the music I've written just as I imagined it to sound, with
nothing lost in the translation."

Cabin Fever Schedule:

Tuesday, JULY 7, 2009- 7pmEST
An intimate, acoustic candlit evening in McKeown's living room plus a tour of
her house.

Thursday, JULY 16, 2009- NoonEST
Interactive, all-request electric set from McKeown's riverside porch.

Wednesday, JULY 22, 2009- 3pmEST
McKeown performs classic cover songs about water of all sorts from a rock in the
middle of her river. We're not kidding.

Sunday, JULY 26, 2009- 5pmEST
The new album, Hundreds of Lions, performed in sequence by McKeown and band,
from her front yard.

Rain Location:
We'll broadcast from the inside of McKeown's Sprinter Touring Van. We're not
kidding about that either.

Purchase tickets, hear clips of the finished album, and find more information at
www.erinmckeown.com/CabinFever/
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<> As a rule, we do not post SHOW LISTINGS. The reason is quite simple. Though
our name is the NEW ENGLAND Music Scrapbook, probably an easy majority of our
readers are based outside the six New England states. The great majority of
show listings would be of no interest at all to the great majority of our
readers.

We make exceptions when show listings are part of an item of more general
interest. CD-release events are great examples. For us, the main point of an
item of this sort is that an act has a new record. The show being announced is
of secondary interest to us - if that - as far as the contents of our newsletter
goes.

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... Shows can be canceled, sold out, or even moved to another date or location.
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