When Britney Beerhouse was mentioned that reminded me of Beth Rowley, I don’t have an album, but live she was incredible. I really liked her band, too.
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--- On Sat, 9/13/08, Bill Harrison <customphoto@???> wrote:
> From: Bill Harrison <customphoto@???>
> Subject: Re: [Exotica] 2007 - Album of the Year
> To: "Strange and unusual music." <exotica@???>
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7:46 PM
> Hey it's good to see some life in the list lately, and
> very good that
> Our Man In Japan is back! Here comes a long rambling post
> vaguely
> related to a couple of recent threads.
>
> I've been on a downloading spree thanks to a generous
> cousin who gives
> me birthday gift certificates to BestBuy, which I mostly
> convert to
> iTunes prepaid cards. Got a 30 track comp of great doo-wop
> called The
> Fire And Fury Story which includes perhaps the only love
> song ever to
> rhyme "stump" and "lump." Also the Ska
> Cubano group which Geoff
> mentioned a while ago, Jean-Jacques Perry and Dana
> Countryman (the
> previous release, not the very latest one), and lots of the
> Delmore
> Brothers and other good stuff.
>
> I searched on iTunes for Stolen Idols, but in vain, alas.
>
> I heard a performance by George Gao at a local music
> festival this
> summer and I dug him a lot. He plays a two-stringed Chinese
> instrument
> called an erhu (and however you pronounced that word in
> your head, I can
> almost guarantee it sounds nothing like that when he says
> it). He played
> some pieces based on Chinese folk songs and some original
> compositions,
> accompanied by guitar and bass, and his virtuosity and the
> beauty of the
> music were both memorable. There's more than a bit of a
> New Age vibe in
> what he does, sort of like a Chinese Riverdance without the
> dancing, so
> maybe I should consider it a guilty pleasure, but I really
> enjoyed his
> performance. And now I have some of his music on my
> computer, again from
> iTunes. On these recordings he's accompanied by a
> female vocalist and
> the selections are almost all standards, including
> list-friendly tunes
> like Desfinado and The Shadow Of Your Smile, so the sound
> is a bit
> different from the live set but also very enjoyable, IMO.
>
> A Podsville fan once sent me a cut from a CD called Cool
> Music by Water
> Melon Group. I liked it and Amazon had it, but at some
> ridiculous import
> price. Checked the other day and one of their
> "sellers" was offering a
> sealed copy for around $15 - bingo! I just got it and
> it's good fun,
> some tracks are old-school Exotica and some, like Fly Me To
> The Moon,
> are pretty strange, but it's all worth hearing.
>
> Also in the category of CDs that are cheaper than they used
> to be, Don
> Ralke's Savage And Sensuous Bongos paired with his But
> You've Never
> Heard Gershwin With Bongos has been released on the
> Collectables label
> and goes for $15 on Amazon. I'm afraid this one was a
> bit of a
> disappointment, though.
>
> I downloaded the Sad Salamanders album from CDBaby for a
> buck - what a
> deal! - thanks to the listmember who provided that tip.
>
> And thanks to everybody who took a look at my photo of the
> ultra-60s
> building on a small college campus near here. I've
> uploaded another shot
> of the interior, which I attempted to Shag-ify a bit in
> Photoshop:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/podsville/2839320489/
>
> and also an exterior:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/podsville/2840157404/
>
> --
> Bill
> www.customphotousa.com/podsville
> www.flickr.com/podsville
>
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