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Alan Lewis, Editor

Our Corner of the Rock 'n' Roll Life

July 11, 2009
Issue 2009:335
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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, July 11 - I should have had this sent already. Work on this
issue is barely started. What little time remains is fast running out. Bad
combination.

And what would a Saturday in the middle of the year be without a forecast of
afternoon thunderstorms? Unfortunately, we're not going to find out today.

Let's get done as much as we can as quickly as possible.

The big item in this issue, to my mind at least, is our list, so far, of New
England essential record releases. It is posted below. We are still soliciting
suggestions and we will continue asking for suggestions for some time to come.
It seems to me that, as we go along, this gets easier. At first, the holes
needing to be filled were pretty nearly the whole thing. But now summer is upon
us, holes in our list are getting smaller, and issues are being narrowed. Many
people now, I believe, will have little if any trouble seeing essential albums,
album tracks, DVDs, singles, EPs, videos, 78s, scores, and piano rolls that have
been missed.

Following the latest version of our essential records list is a set of
instructions.

Our subscribers, Yahoo Groups home page visitors, correspondents, and
miscellaneous contributors are the experts on this topic. May they send us
their best thoughts.

There is just so much longer I can count on Jupiter/Zeus holding off with those
lightning bolts, so I am calling it quits early and getting this issue sent. I
have done my level best, in a set of Bits and Pieces entries in Brief items,
below, to make up for my haste.
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<> Thanks to Amy Fairchild and to JoEllen.

<> Get well wishes to Brian in western Massachusetts.


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

New CD Releases Available Tuesday, July 7th

BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE - Fluent In Stroll - $9.99

BORN OF OSIRIS - Higher Place - $9.99
<> I know nothing about Born of Osiris, but I do know that we don't have to be
found by the common Victorian practice of mispronouncing words by severely
Anglicizing them. The last word in this band name is properly pronounced
oh-zir-EES. The correct pronunciation of "Isis" is iz-EES.

CAGE - Depart From Me - $9.99
DONNAS - Greatest Hits Vol. 16 - $9.99
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS - Live From Austin, TX (CD/DVD)-$14.99
JAYHAWKS - Music From The North Country - $9.99
JAYHAWKS - Music From The North Country (Deluxe Edition)-$25.99
OAKENFOLD, PAUL - Perfecto Vegas - $11.88
SOUNDTRACK-HANNAH MONTANA 3 - $11.88
SON VOLT - American Central Dust - $9.99
SOULIVE - Up Here (CD/DVD)-$7.99

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featured dvd new release Available Tuesday, July 7th

070609_pushPush
$19.99 DVD

SOURCE: Newbury Comics, "July 6 Newbury Comics New Releases and More," July 6,
2009.

<> I know little if anything about most of this week's Newbury Comics artists
with new releases, and the person who normally advises us on the other side of
the new generation gap is otherwise engaged. Fortunately, though this list is
considerably shortened here, we have interesting information elsewhere in this
newsletter issue about record releases with prominent New England connections.

Is Big D and the Kids Table a Boston band? I am thinking it may be, but at the
moment my mind is more on potential trouble coming from the skies. If you know,
please let us know.

:: the drive by truckers, paul oakenfold; nems query, nemsquery ::
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STOMPERS
At Market Days and Summer Music Festival
Downtown Concord, New Hampshire
Saturday, July 11, 2009
8 p.m.
- Plus -
"Stompilation" Coming July 18

THE STOMPERS with The Tornado Alley Horns

FREE SHOW!!!

MARKET DAYS and SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL Downtown Concord NH

***Saturday July 18, 2009 8PM***

For directions & more info:

http://www.mainstreetconcord.com/06even02b.html

STOMPILATION!

Release date JULY 18

18 tracks

all original recordings

http://www.thestompers.com/

SOURCE: Salvatore Baglio, "Stompilation!" July 11, 2009.

<> If "Stompilation" is what I take it to be, this ought to be a MAJOR treat.
The Stompers could rock, can rock, and will still be able to really rock for a
good long time to come. This band has also produced some excellent songwriting,
"First Kiss" still being my favorite.

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GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS
Vermont Homecoming Appearance
On the Waterfront
Burlington, Vermont
Sunday, July 12, 2009

<> "Put on your Sunday best 'cause this Sunday, July 12th, we will be rocking
Burlington's Waterfront in our only summer headlining appearance in New England!
The show is a part of Vermont's Quadricentennial Festival, celebrating the
anniversary of the discovery of the magical Lake Champlain. GPN will be debuting
original songs from our brand new album, 'Medicine,' produced by T-Bone Burnett,
as well as kicking out a wide array of tunes from our back catalog. This will be
our first show in VT with the new lineup featuring Catherine Popper (formerly of
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals) and Burlington's own Benny Yurco! The show is
being filmed for a feature length DVD and TV special, capturing the live
experience of GPN. This is your chance to be a part of our movie! Click here for
more info. Looks like all this rain is going to finally give way to dryness on
Sunday, so come join us to celebrate some fine Vermont summer weather!"

SOURCE: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, "Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
'Homecoming,' July 8, 2009.

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KIMON KIRK

<> Kimon Kirk told us nothing about his new EP and his record-release event, no
doubt wanting to surprise us; but we do have our own sources, one of whom named
the KK CD to our essentials list. And Billy Beard, in his July 2009 "Lizard
Lounge Listings," leaked details to the masses about the LLounge CD-release
gathering. Here, and in the Kimon Kirk entry on our essentials list, is pretty
much what we know at present.

Tuesday 7/14 - CD Release Party featuring
KIMON KIRK and his fantastic band (Russell Chudnofsky, Joe Klompus and Lorne
Entress)
with VERY special guests MERRIE AMSTERBURG
AND PAPER SCISSORS (Dave Godowsky, Dave Champagne, Jon Bistline, and Dinty
Child)
8:30 doors / 9:15 show
$8 IN ADVANCE / $10 AT THE DOOR

http://www.myspace.com/kimonkirk

http://www.myspace.com/merrieamsterburg

Does anyone out there know whether this Dave Godowsky of Paper Scissors is the
same as the person named David Godowsky who used to be involved in Rounder
Records publicity?

:: nems query, nemsquery ::

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NEW ENGLAND ESSENTIAL RECORD RELEASES
The Suggestions We Have So Far

<> I believe this list of suggestions is complete up to this point. We have
credible promises from a couple incredible people that they will be sending us
their own thoughts, and it is alleged that several other suggestions may be on
the way. We hope to hear from you, if we have not heard from you already.

Blackjacks
"That's Why I Always Dress in Black"

Boston: Favorite Songs
Original List

1. Loretta, Nervous Eaters
2. Lonelyhearts, The Atlantics
3. All Kindsa Girls, The Real Kids
4. Knock Me Down, The Outlets
5. What Does Sex Mean to Me, Human Sexual Response

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

Boston: Favorite Songs
Third List

<> Coast to Coast, The Stompers
<> It's a Night for Beautiful Girls, The Fools
<> Lock It Up, Pastiche
<> Third Generation, The Rings
<> What a Girl Can't Do, Lyres

Boston: Favorite Songs
Fourth List

<> Jackie Onassis, Human Sexual Response
<> Judy, The Dark
<> Just What I Needed, The Cars
[Live recording by The Cars at The Rat, which played on WBCN-FM, was noted]
<> What Gives, The Streets [with Johnny A.]
<> When Things Go Wrong, Robin Lane and the Chartbusters

Willie "Loco" Alexander
"Mass. Ave."

Asa Brebner
"I Walk the Streets"

John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
"On the Dark Side"

Freddy Cannon
"Palisades Park"

Cars
"The Cars"

Cars
"You Might Think" [video]

Bill Chinnock
"Badlands"
[North Country? Atlantic? Version not specified.]

5 Satins
"In the Still of the Nite (I'll Remember)" [single]

J. Geils Band
"Monkey Island"

Kimon Kirk
"Eye on You" EP [brand new]

Spider John Koerner
"Running, Jumping, Standing Still"

Aimee Mann
"Lost in Space"
[Attention was called to this album's Special Edition.]

Erin McKeown
"Distillation"

Mission of Burma
"Academy Fight Song"

Morphine
"Good" [album]

Morphine
"Buena" [single]

Peter Mulvey
"The Trouble With Poets"

Ric Ocasek
"Nexterday"

Robert Ellis Orrall
"Fixation"

Pastiche
"Wicked Intense" [EP]
["Boston Lullaby," "Talk Show," "Terminal Barbershop"]

Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers
"The Monster Mash"

Gene Pitney
"(I Wanna) Love My Life Away" [single]

Pixies
"Surfer Rosa"

Ramrods
"Bright Lit Blue Skies" [single]

Reddy Teddy
"Reddy Teddy"

Remains
"Barry and the Remains"
[This 1991 CD has been replaced by "The Remains," Epic Legacy, 2007.]

Josh Ritter
"Golden Age of Radio"

Gary Shane and the Detour
"Johnny's Coaltrain"

Stone Coyotes
"Ride Away From the World"

Swinging Steaks
"Southside of the Sky"

Tribe
"Abort" [the album]

Wildweeds
"No Good To Cry" [single]

Dar Williams
"End of the Summer"

Peter Wolf
"Sleepless"

Various Artists
"Mass. Ave.: The Boston Scene (1975-83)"

We at the New England Music Scrapbook Newsletter are seeking suggestions for a
list of New England music record releases that may be judged to be essential
listening matter: records of great beauty, artistic expression, skilled
performance, emotional power, historic significance, or just plain must-hear
music for whatever reason.

With luck, the suggestions we receive will not concentrate really heavily on the
best known and most obvious recordings. A record only needs to be truly
essential in your view. It does not need to be the MOST essential. We
certainly do not need dozens of people all recommending the same titles by the
same acts.

Recordings need not necessarily be really old, and the acts that issued them
need not be all veterans. An essential recording could have been issued by an
emerging artist or could have come out this year or even this month. In the
case of the Kimon Kirk EP, the release party isn't until next week.

To make a suggestion, e-mail it to us at

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Please make just one suggestion, name the record and artist you favor, and use
Essential Record for your subject line. If your recommendation is something
other than an album, please explain what it is. An EP? Soundtrack cut?
Concert videocassette? We may not necessarily know.

We value your knowledge and crave your thoughts. Please send us an essential
record release suggestion.

[We really are looking for only one suggestion from each contributor to this
survey. I have included a few short lists above, though, because they dovetail
wonderfully with one another and take a huge step toward capturing a great time,
the early 1980s, in Boston, New England's biggest city.]

:: nems query, nemsquery ::

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ROCK BAND
This Week's Downloadable Content (DLC)
With Notable Boston Content

Big Dipper "All Going Out Together"
Big Dipper "She's Fetching"
Big Dipper "Younger Bums"
Judas Priest "Dissident Aggressor (Live)"
Judas Priest "Eat Me Alive (Live)"
Judas Priest "Prophecy (Live)"
The Dead Weather "Hang You From the Heavens"
The Dead Weather "No Hassle Night"
The Dead Weather "Treat Me Like Your Mother"

SOURCE: Rock Band Website.

<> I always liked Big Dipper. The person who sent us this list favors "She's
Fetching," and it is the DLC track that I remember best.

If I can get "Supercluster," the Big Dipper box set, from several years back,
added to our catalog in time, I will post details here next issue or at least
soon. - Ed.
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FOOLS
Major-Label Two-fer
It's Been a Long Time Coming

<> One of our most regular correspondents searched Amazon.com for availability
of Fools records and came across this delightful - to say the least - surprise:

Fools
"Sold Out / Heavy Mental"
(CD, Infinity Entertainment Group, 2009)

My own searches since turned up extraordinarily few details and nothing at all
about a release date, making me wonder whether this disc is out just yet.
Nonetheless, there was really good stuff on the original vinyl LPs; and this
two-fer ought to be well worth whatever wait remains.

Close readers and others may notice that I waffled on our essentials list over
which Fools record to name. While "Alibi" is my personal favorite Fools track
and it readily qualifies as essential to me, personally, I was not at all sure
it would be the most essential Fools recording to the greater part of everyone
else. With that doubt in mind, I switched to "It's a Night for Beautiful
Girls," a selection which I believe would draw more general agreement. I stuck
to my guns, though, with "What a Girl Can't Do" by The Lyres, over what seems
likely is the far better known "I Want To Help You Ann."
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LISA MARTIN
"Good Love Is Hard To Find" Nomination

Lisa Martin has big news in the serious recognition department.

<> "I was notified that my song, 'Good Love Is Hard To Find,' was nominated in
the Just Plain Folks Music Awards, an international competition that received
over 500,000 submissions! My song was nominated in the Americana category and I
am in very good company there. Whether or not I win, it's an honor to be
selected out of that many songs and make it to the finals."

SOURCE: RedLionRecords At AOL Dot Com, "Nashville Show Tomorrow, July 5, and JPF
Music Awards Nomination!" July 4, 2009.
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THE CARS
CarsUnreleased Dot Com

<> Our list of New England essential record releases now includes "Just What I
Needed," recorded live at The Rat in Kenmore Square in the early days. This
recording played on Boston's WBCN-FM. Reference to this live taping set off a
chain of events that brought us to

http://carsunreleased.com/CARS_Rare_Unreleased.html

I, personally, have a very old computer system on dialup and, incidentally, I
connect to the Web without the aid of an Internet Service Provider. We are
talking really primitive stuff here. But after one of my Google Web searches
turned up this Cars-related website, one of our regulars, who has a computer
system that is primed for the new millennium, visited CarsUnreleased Dot Com and
totally enjoyed the experience. So, I am passing along the direct Web address
for anyone with more Web power than me who cares to give it a shot.
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ANDY PRATT
"Live at the Village Underground" CD

<> When looking into the question of what is Andy Pratt's most recent record, I
found a listing for this June 16, 2009 release:

Andy Pratt
"Live at the Village Underground NYC"
(CD, Renaissance Records RENA2562, 2009)

I'd call that recent.

It is possible this may be a physical product version of a digital-only release
of several years back. I didn't get quite far enough to be sure. Either way,
Avenging Annie's 1970s pal is back with a new-to-us album.
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KORN
The Massachusetts Connection

Apparently the band, Korn, has a very strong Massachusetts connection; but I am
drawing a complete blank as to what that connection may be. If you know and
would be willing to share your information, please e-mail us at

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:: nems query, nemsquery ::
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FOOLS
"Psycho Chicken"
A Query

<> If you know of an official CD release of "Psycho Chicken" by The Fools and
you could send us some details, please e-mail us at

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One of our correspondents has heard that "Psycho Chicken" appeared on a
compilation; and I will look into this, but only after sending this newsletter
issue. Meanwhile, if you are already aware of a CD release, please let us know.

:: nems query, nemsquery ::
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BITS AND PIECES

The sky is looking worrisome. Here are some quick items I believe we still have
time for. Maybe we can include more details in later issues. Meanwhile, please
keep in mind that I am going largely on memory here.

<> Maine singer-songwriter David Mallett has a new album set to come out the
chute. A medley of some sort of his new songs is available for listening at his
website. Mallett has written some of the classic songs of the coffeehouse and
folk festival repertoire, and he is very well versed in country music.

<> Roger Salloom has a new album; and since we were sent a good deal of
material, I really regret not having time left to post it here. Two Roger
Salloom regional hits that I know of - "Out of Worcester" and "Margret McGee" -
plus the documentary about him are worthy of consideration for our essentials
list.

<> The Michael Merenda and Ruth Ungar Merenda - Mike and Ruthy - forthcoming CD
is being mixed.

<> There was a mid-day show today in Boston's Jamaica Plain by a new group
involving at least Amy Fairchild and Carla Ryder. We hope to hear more about
this band.

<> Joan Wasser of Joan as Police Woman has an album, called "Cover," of
interpretations of other writers' works. I would be hesitant to characterize
this as an album of covers, since it seems to me we can count on Ms. Wasser to
give each individual piece her own special twirl. News of this release sounds
very promising.

<> Banjo Dan Lindner of Vermont's Banjo Dan and the Mid-Nite Plowboys released
his first solo full-length effort on cassette only many years ago. Even having
followed Banjo Dan since the band's debut LP, I am drawing a blank on the
Lindner cassette. But it has been reborn in the new millennium by way of a CD
reissue. When there is more time and the sky is not darkening, maybe I can post
the Banjo Dan announcement.

<> Phil Rosenthal: I was not aware that Phil Rosenthal, formerly of the Seldom
Scene, is the father of Naomi Sommers. Her current newsletter is devoted
largely to his latest record release.

<> Crooked Still has a live CD, featuring the band's new lineup, which is
available at shows and by way of the Signature Sounds website.
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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.

In the very few, truly exceptional instances where we post show listings...
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... Shows can be canceled, sold out, or even moved to another date or location.
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