Julie
graceful
My top 15 of 2009
1 DIRTY PROJECTORS - Bitte Orca
2 ALASDAIR ROBERTS - Spoils
3 BILL CALLAHAN - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
4 STEAMBOAT - S/T
5 MUSKOX - 5 Pieces
6 MOUNTAINS - Choral
7 TUNE-YARDS - Bird-Brains
8 TIMBER TIMBRE - S/T
9 MICACHU - Jewellery
10 TY SEGALL - Lemons
11 THE WEATHER STATION - The Line
12 VETIVER - Tight Knit
13 THE FLAMING LIPS - Embryonic
14 KURT VILE - Childish Prodigy
15 DAN AUERBACH - Keep It Hid
My top 15 reissues of 2009
1 THOMAS MAPFUMO - Hokoyo!
2 EMITT RHODES - The Emitt Rhodes Recordings
3 BOB DYLAN - New Morning
4 DELROY WILSON - Dub Plate Style
5 VA - Legends Of Benin
6 ORCHESTRE POLY-RHYTHMO DE COTONOU - The Vodoun Effect
7 LARRY WILLIAMS & JOHNNY "GUITAR" WATSON - Two For The Price Of One
8 VA - Boogaloo Pow Wow
9 DEATH - ...For The Whole World To See
10 BERT JANSCH - Santa Barbara Honeymoon
11 VA - Local Customs: Downriver Revival
12 THE FEELIES - Crazy Rhythms
13 VA - Can You Dig It?: The Music And Politics Of Black Action Films 1969-1975
14 JACQUES DUTRONC - Et Moi Et Moi Et Moi
15 PROCOL HARUM - S/T
My favourite artists are: Townes Van Zandt, Karen Dalton, The Band, Jorge Ben, John Fahey, Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill, Dirty Projectors, Velvet Underground, T-Rex, Impressions, Jonathan Richman, Elizabeth Cotten, Sandro Perri, Eric Chenaux, Field Recordings
My all-time favourite album is: BOB DYLAN - Blood on the Tracks
The first album I ever bought was: MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller
On Saturday nights, I throw down to: Thomas Mapfumo, Johnny Osbourne, Dirty Projectors, Noel Ellis, Lauryn Hill, Reigning Sound, Sonics, Novos Baianos, Black Star
On Sunday mornings, I recover to: Pentangle - Reflection , Kinks, Irma Thomas
The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: DIRTY PROJECTORS & LEVON HELM'S MIDNIGHT RAMBLE
My favourite album so far this year is: ZEUS - Say Us, JOANNA NEWSOM - Have One On Me, SKIP BIFFERTY- Skip Bifferty, VA/Next Stop-Soweto, VA/Orange Street Special, PINECONES-Sage, TEENANGER - Give Me The Pink
The best show I've seen so far this year is: Dirty Projectors @ Lee's Palace, Thrush Hermit @ Lee's Palace
The band that should come out of retirement is: The Deadly Snakes