Last week’s gLASSsHRIMP show is now online. Finally. It features an hour long special focusing on the output of New York’s Tompkins Square, covering classic American primitive, more modern and experimental folk, and the occasional drowning ballad. In fact there was no space for any James Blackshaw, pictured above. I’m not sure why I’m even using that photo. Because it is nice photo, probably. As well as being able to stream the entire show from the gLASSsHRIMP site, you can download the Tompkins Square feature here. The tracklisting of this section is below. I tell you what, when you’ve finished with all this, go and listen to some James Blackshaw here.
Harry Taussig – “Sugar Babe, Your Papa Cares For You” from cd/lp Fate Is Only Once (Tompkins Square, 2006) arthurtaussig.com
Mike Fekete – “Birds on the Lake” from va cd/lp Imaginational Anthem IV (Tompkins Square, 2010) myspace.com/mikefekete
William Tyler – “To the Finland Station” cd Behold The Spirit (Tompkins Square, 2010)
Ben Reynolds – “Skylark (scorner of the ground)” from cd How Day Earnt Its Night (Tompkins Square, 2009) myspacemusic.com/benreynoldsmusic
Bill Cox – “Fate of Will Rogers & Wiley Post” rec 1935
Elder Curry – “Memphis Flu” rec 1930
Grayson & Whitter – “Tom Dooley” rec 1929
3 tracks above from va 3cd book/set People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square, 2007)
Nick Jonah Davis – “Death and the Monkey” from cd May Fair Fortune Be Yours (Tompkins Square, 2011) myspace.com/nickdavisguitar
A Broken Consort – “A Mercy Kill” from lp/cd Crow Autumn (Tompkins Square, 2010) http://richardskelton.wordpress.com/
Aaron Sheppard – “The Transmigration of the Old West” from va cd Beyond Berkeley Guitar (Tompkins Square, 2009) www.myspace.com/aaronsheppard
Robbie Basho – “Venus in Cancer” from cd Venus in Cancer (Tompkins Square, 2006) orig lp 1969
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