Finest Worksongs

I want to point out the the Finest Worksongs CD is out now. Athens bands performing R.E.M. songs at a tribute show held at the 40 Watt, with R.E.M. members themselves guesting in spots. The show and sales of the CD benefit Community Connection Of Northeast Georgia and Athens Family Connection/Communities In Schools. The CD also has a track from Liz Durrett recorded by myself (!) later at The EARL in Atlanta (Liz was ill for the 40 Watt show, leaving an opening for R.E.M. to do a couple songs at their own tribute).

The Inflatable Orchestra @ Flicker 3/8/07

Jay Gonzalez (Nutria, former Possibilities) is the lone member of The Inflatable Orchestra, playing his "pop instrumentals" on guitar, keyboards, electronics and even some singing saw.

Track 1 - The Inflatable Theme
Track 2 - Chit The Bumbo
Track 3 - J.P.'s Flying
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Track 5 - Requiem For Mitch
Track 6 - Things Better Left
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Track 8 - Sleepwalk
Track 9 - Pez 1
Track 10 - Hacking Up
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Out-Of-Towners: Castanets @ Caledonia 3/10/07

Castanets (Brooklyn) features the haunting songs of Ray Raposa, washing in and out of crashing noise excursions. I've been stuck on the album First Light's Freeze for quite a while, and suggest it strongly.

Track 1 - Intro
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Track 3 - You Are The Blood
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Track 5 - Industry And Snow
Track 6 - All That I Know To Have Changed In You

Neal Pattman @ Georgia Theatre 4/14/01

From Music Maker Relief Foundation: "Nobody made moonshine, worked a cakewalk, chopped wood or played a harmonica like Neal Pattman (1926-2005).

Losing an arm in a wagon wheel at the age of nine didn't slowed him at all. "66 years ago the Blues knocked on my door and they wouldn't leave."

His testimony can be heard in a sound and a style his daddy taught him as a child in the country outside Athens, Georgia."

Track 1 - Intro
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Track 3 -
Track 4 - Prison Blues
Track 5 - Mannish Boy
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Track 8 -
Track 9 - Momma Whoopin' Blues
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Peter Erchick @ Flicker 3/8/07

Peter Erchick (Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't/Circulatory System/Olivia Tremor Control) played a rare solo set, with OTC-mate Eric Harris and Jay Gonzalez (The Inflatable Orchestra) helping out.

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Track 3 - Ten Thousand Years Old
Track 4 -
Track 5 - Ken Freeman Enslaved
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Track 7 -
Track 8 - Underground
Track 9 - Pueblo
Track 10 -
Track 11 - Moon River

Black Lips @ 40 Watt 2/24/07

Atlanta's Black Lips return to the 40 Watt after several years for a big Chunklet rock show with Dark Meat and Fatal Flying Guilloteens.

Track 1 - Henry Owings Intro
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Track 3 -
Track 4 - Boomerang
Track 5 - Oh, Katrina
Track 6 -
Track 7 - Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
Track 8 - Sea Of Blasphemy
Track 9 - Not A Problem
Track 10 - Dirty Hands
Track 11 - Buried Alive
Track 12 - Take Me Home (Back To Boone)
Track 13 - Ain't No Deal
Track 14 - Fairy Stories
Track 15 - M.I.A.

Summer Hymns @ 40 Watt 2/7/07

Time to check back in on Summer Hymns. The last time I featured them was before their tour, this show is after they came home; I think you can hear the "road polish."

Track 1 - Intro
Track 2 - Bombay Brown India Ink
Track 3 - Way You Walk
Track 4 - New Way
Track 5 - Mr. Soul
Track 6 - Start Swimming
Track 7 - What They Really Do
Track 8 - Fear The Law
Track 9 - Mr. Brewer (Cackle, Cackle)

Geoff Reacher @ 40 Watt 5/8/04

Geoff Reacher combines country-blues fingerstyle with hip-hop breakbeats. Avec Reacher C'est Plus Suris his 2006 album on Orange Twin.
Track 1 - Let's Talk It Over
Track 2 - Paranoia Is Fame
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Track 4 - When You're High
Track 5 - Girls Don't Like It(Outro)
Track 6 - Necromancer
Track 7 - You Like My Song