North Fork Sound Top 20 - February 28th '10

Roky Erickson
Del Valle, TX
photo: ht

1. Roky Erickson w/Okkervil River: Goodbye Sweet Dreams
2. Mickey Newbury: Frisco Depot
3. The Star Spangles: I Don't Wanna Be Crazy Anymore
4. Martin Belmont (feat. Johnny Nicky): Time For The Sun To Rise
5. Peter Holsapple: Don't Ever Leave
6. Billy Fury: Turn My Back On You
7. The Wailers: Don't Rock This Boat
8. Bryin Dall: You Win Again
9. Bo Diddley: Craw-Dad
10. The Soft Machine: She's Gone
11. Billy Bragg: The Boy Done Good
12. Sir Mack Rice: Mustang Sally
13. The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Twin Cadillac Valentine
14. Lloyd & Patsy: Papa Do It Sweet
15. Jerry Lee Lewis: What'd I Say
16. The Cruel Sea: The Honeymoon Is Over
17. Count Basie & His Orchestra: Hang On Sloopy
18. Soho: Hippychick
19. Big Jim Sullivan: If I Could Only Play Like That
20. The Flamin' Groovies: Move It

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week
Galactic: Ya-Ka-May

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month
Keith Richard
photo: Michael Cooper

Last Week's Listener Favourites
A Taste Of Honey: Boogie Oogie Oogie
Alvin Robinson: Let The Good Times Roll
Amy Allison: Turn Out The Lights
Ben E. King: Supernatural Thing
Betty Harris: I'll Be A Liar
Björk: Anchor Song

Björk
Bearsville, NY
photo: ht

Buddy Holly: Bo Diddley
Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: The Cradle Did Rock
Chuck Prophet: You're Not My Same Sweet Baby
The Cryin' Shames: Please Stay
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women: Que Sera Sera
Delbert McClinton & Dick 50: Cherry Street
Denim: Middle Of The Road
Ducks DeLuxe: Dig It Deep
Elmore James: Done Somebody Wrong
Etta James: I'd Rather Go Blind
Forest For The Trees: Dream
Frederick Knight: I've Been Lonely For So Long
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Bad Baby
George Jones & Keith Richards: Say It's Not You
The Icarus Line: King Baby
The Inmates: Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie
James Hunter: Hand It Over
Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze (BBC)
Johnny Rivers: Over The Line
Julee Cruise: Falling
Junior Murvin: Bad Weed
Justin Hines & The Dominoes: Rub Up, Push Up
The Kinks: Victoria
The Kursall Flyers: Drinking Socially
Little Joe Cook: Stormy Monday Blues Pt.2
Martin Belmont (w/Sean Tyla): Johnny Too Bad
Mikel Rouse: The World Got Away
The Mothers Of Invention: Invocation and Ritual Dance Of The Young Pumpkin
Neil Young: After The Goldrush
Peter C Johnson: I Still Miss Someone
The Replacements: Another Girl, Another Planet
The Rolling Stones: This Place Is Empty
Slim Harpo: Strange Love
Southern Culture On The Skids: Life's A Gas
Stephen Bruton: Bigger Wheel
Stevie Klasson: Goin Mental
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Goldfinger (live)
Vince Quatroche: Forever And A Day
Yellowman: Ooh-We (Sea Cruise)

Yellowman
Ithaca, NY
photo: ht

Alex McMurray

Alex McMurray
'The Woman I Love'
Sullivan Hall, NYC 01/15/10

Alex McMurray: guitar/vocals
Bill Malchow: piano
Scott Bourgeois: tenor sax
Skip Ward: bass
Louie Appel: drums

North Fork Sound Top 20 -February 21st '10

The Church Keys' Bill Peitch: A person of interest.
w/Lori Yorkman, The Prissteens' panties, cop
Lakeside Lounge, NYC
photo: ht

1. The Church Keys: Cryin' Ruth
2. Kevin Coyne: Saviour
3. The Deviants: Deviation Street
4. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Born On The Wind
5. George Gilmore & The Giblets: River Deep, Mountain High
6. Austin Thomas: I'm In Love With Your Knees (Wedding mix)
7. Justin Hines & The Dominoes: Rub Up, Push Up
8. The Icarus Line: King Baby
9. Streak: Be Your Ryder
10. The Strange Death Of Liberal England: A Day Another Day
11. Dirty Red: Mother Fuyer
12. Hill Country Revue: Georgia Women
13. Hayseed Dixie: Won't Get Fooled Again
14. The Mothers Of Invention: Anything
15. C/L Stealers (aka Collapsed Lung) feat. Little Annie: Interactive
16. Johnny Rivers: Over The Line
17. Bill Parsons: All American Boy
18. The Penguin Café Orchestra: Telephone And Rubber Band
19. Delphic: Acolyte
20. Lloyd Cole: Tell Your Sister

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week:

Martin Belmont: The Guest List

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month:

Keith Richards

Last Week's Listener Thumbs-Ups:

Andre Williams: Rib Tips Pt.1

Can: She Brings The Rain
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Ashtray Heart
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Yellow Brick Road
Chris Wilson & Friends: This Is London
Copperhead: Pawnshop Man
The Cryin' Shames: Please Stay
Curtis Mayfield: Move On Up
Curve: Fait Accompli
Death In Vegas: Hands Around My Throat
Dion: Shu-Bop (The Lost)
Doc Oliver: I've Kissed My Last Ass
Earl Palmer: Honky Tonk Pt 2
The Easybeats: Good Times
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues (live)
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Dirty All The Time
George Jones w/Keith Richards: Burn Your Playhouse Down
Gypsy: Let's Roll
Hamell On Trial: Blood Of The Wolf
Here Today: The It
Ian Hunter: 23A Swan Hill
J.J. Cale: Lou-Easy-Ann
Jeff Beck: Hi Ho Silver Lining
Joey Ramone: What A Wonderful World
Keith Richards & The X-pensive Winos: Take It So Hard
Little Barrie: Free Salute
The Liverpool Scene: Batpoem
Lo-Fidelity Allstars: Feel What I Feel
Mickey Jupp: Down In Old New Orleans
Mikel Rouse: The World Got Away
Moe Tucker: Hey Mersh!
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: Louisiana Liplock
Morning 40 Federation: Bottom Shelf Blues
The Motors: Forget About You
Nicholas Payton: Fleur De Lis
Otis Redding: Direct Me
Patti Smith: Stride of The Mind
The Pogues: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

The Rake's Progress
photo (scanned from a lenticular 3-D print): ht

The Rake's Progress: Port Au Prince Tourist Information
Richard & Linda Thompson: Down Where The Drunkards Roll
Roky Erickson: Haunt
Seasick Steve: Cut My Wings
Slim Harpo: Strange Love
The Small Faces: What's A Matter Baby
Wreckless Eric: Joe Meek

North Fork Sound Top 20 - February 14th '10

Happy Mardi Gras Day!

James Booker

1. James Booker: Junco Partner

2. Dr. John: Mardi Gras Day
3. The Wild Tchoupitulas: Hey Dey Come
4. Alex McMurray: The Day After Mardi Gras Day
5. Louis Armstrong: Where The Blues Were Born In New Orleans
6. Earl Palmer: Honky Tonk Pt.2
7. The Wild Magnolias: Party
8. Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can Pt.1
9. Elvis Presley: New Orleans
10. Etta James: Born On The Bayou
11. Illusion Fields: The Mardi Gras Raven
12. Nicholas Payton: Fleur De Lis
13. Amy Allison: Mardi Gras Moon
14. Neil Young: Walking To New Orleans
15. Ed Sanders: Ash Wednesday And Lent
16. Jesse Hill: Ooh Poo Pah Doo Pt.1
17. Mark Bingham: Louisiana Proverbs
18. Brenda Lee: Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
19. Eddie Bo: Temptation
20. The Neville Brothers: Wild Injuns

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week:

Vincent Quatroche: In Dreamthink

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month:

Keith Richards

Last Week's Listener Thumbs-Ups:
Joey Ramone
Coney Island High, NYC
photo: ht

The Ramones: I Don't Wanna Go Down in The Basement

Delbert McClinton: Out Of My Mind
Jimmy Reed: Baby What You Want Me To Do
The Small Faces: Watcha Gonna Do About It
Jimi Hendrix Experience: All Along The Watchtower
Andre Williams: The Spider And The Fly
Genevieve Waite: White Cadillac
Dave Swarbrick, Martin Carthy & Diz Dizley: Spanish Ladies Medley
Jean Claude Vannier: Le Roi Des Mouches Et La Confiture De Roses
Gene Ammons: I Remember You
Les Paul & Mary Ford: How High The Moon
Inez & Charlie Foxx: My Special Prayer
The Fugs: Group Grope
The Pogues: White City
The Pogues: Misty Morning Albert Bridge
The High Dials: The Holy Ground
John & Beverley Martyn: Primrose Hill
Ramsey Lewis Trio: Wade In The Water
Cream: Strange Brew
Doug Powell: A Prayer For Ray Davies
The Dominos: Sixty Minute Man
Daddy Cleanhead: Something's Going On In My Room
Danny & The Fat Boys: Harlem Nocturne
James Brown: It's Too Funky in Here
Frankie Miller: Play Something Sweet
Keith Richards & The X-pensive Winos: Take It So Hard
Johnnie Johnson (feat: Keith Richards): Tanqueray
The Dirty Strangers (feat: Keith Richards): She's A Real Botticelli
Warren Zevon: My Shit's Fucked Up
Richard Lloyd: Torn Shirt
Alex McMurray: Lazy Eye
John Coltrane: Impressions
Jim Backus & Friend: Delicious
The Saints: Know Your Product
Shpongle: No Turn Unstoned
The Maytals: Alidina
The Paragons: The Tide Is High
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken
Bo Diddley: Oh Yeah
Peter C Johnson & Bonnie Raitt: Lower Power
The Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia
Bob Dylan: Everything Is Broken
Bonnie & The Treasures: Home Of The Brave
Andy Fairweather Low: Be Bop 'n' Holla
Petty Booka: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
Gypsy: Midnight Fighter
Denny Laine: Say You Don't Mind
Boots Brown: Cerveza
The Band: Up On Cripple Creek (alt. take)
The Who: The Song Is Over
The Happy Talk Band: When I Sing About You
Headstone: Searching Light
The Ronettes: I Can Hear Music
Allen Toussaint: Soul Sister
Jocelyn Pook: Take Off Your Veil
Sylvester & The Hot Band: Southern Man
Audience: House On The Hill (original version)
Bobby Charles: See You Later Alligator
Richard Thompson: Willie And The Hand Jive/Not Fade Away
The Replacements: Sadly Beautiful
Robert Schimmel: Richie Valens' Plane/Airport Security
Jane's Addiction: Mountain Song
Heinz: Just Like Eddie
Dean & Britta: White Horses

Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips
photo: ht

North Fork Sound Top 20 - February 7th '10

Andre Williams
The Poetry Project, St. Marks Church, NYC
02/05/10
photo: ht

1. Andre Williams: The Spider & The Fly

2. Eddie & The Hot Rods: Do Anything You Wanna Do
3. Jerry Reed: Last Train To Clarksville
4. The Heptones: Hypocrite
5. Balls: Fight For My Country
6. Mott The Hoople: The Moon Upstairs
7. John Cooper Clarke: Salome Maloney, live
8. Maureen Tucker: Around And Around
9. Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Bloody Hammer
10. The Bunch (feat: Sandy Denny): Learning The Game
11. Morning 40 Federation: Conversation Ho
12. The Ramones: I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement
13. Sir Douglas Quintet: Bacon Fat
14. The Valentinos: It's All Over Now
15. Richard Thompson: Willie And The Hand Jive/Not Fade Away
16. Eddie Hinton: Can't Beat The Kid
17. The Godfathers: I'll Never Forget What's His Name
18. Petty Booka: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
19. Jimmy Reed: Baby What You Want Me To Do
20. The Soft Machine: She's Gone

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week
The Very Best Of The Pogues

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month
Keith Richards
portrait by Sebastian Krüger

Last Week's Listener Thumbs-Ups:
Lux Interior, The Cramps
W. 23rd St, NYC
photo: ht

The Cramps: New Kind Of Kick
Elvis Presley: Mystery Train
John Mayall: Thoughts Of Roxanne
Carlene Carter: If The Shoe Fits
Cristina: La Poupee Qui Fait Non
Mikel Rouse: Wait For Me
Dave Alvin: Every Night About This Time
The Flashcubes: Five Personalities
The Goons: The Ying Tong Song
Chuck Berry: I'm A Rocker
John Cooper Clarke: Suspended Sentence
The Rolling Stones: Sympathy For The Devil, live
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: (What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love & Understanding?
Van Der Graaf Generator: Darkness (11-11)
Richard Lloyd: Backtrack
The Rezillos: (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
Prince: Head
Patti Smith & Fred Smith: It Takes Time
The Nipple Erectors: King Of The Bop
Shpongle: Invisible Man In A Fluorescent Suit
Shpongle: Electroplasm
Shpongle: Ineffable Mysteries
Roy C: Shotgun Wedding
Les Paul & Mary Ford: How High The Moon
Delbert McClinton: Jungle Room
The Brains: Money Changes Everything
George McCrae: Rock Your Baby
Steve Winwood: Time Is Running Out
Peter C Johnson: Joining The Marines
Elliott Sharp: InSERGEncy Dr. Feelgood: All Through The City Family: In My Own Time
John & Beverley Martyn: Primrose Hill
Chris Isaak: Except The New Girl
Warren Zevon: My Shit's Fucked Up
Link Wray: I'm So Glad, I'm So Proud
Richard Ace: Hang 'em High
Bessie Banks: Go Now
Angel Corpus Christi: Down
The Fugs: Group Grope
The Sisters Of Mercy: First And Last And Always
Jon Cleary : More Hipper
Dan Baird: Seventh Son

Dan Baird, The Georgia Satellites
Austin, TX
photo: ht

Hamell On Trial

Hamell On Trial
'Untitled Work In Progress'
New Suffolk, NY
02/02/10

Ed Hamell

Ed Hamell
New Suffolk, NY
02/02/10

Alex McMurray

Alex McMurray
Sullivan Hall, NYC
January 15th '10

Ari Up, The Slits

Ariane Speaks Her Mind
Brooklyn, NY, January 15th '10

Ari Up, The Slits (pt. 1)

Ari Up, The Slits (pt. 2)

Ari Up, The Slits (pt.3)

Ari Up, The Slits (pt. 4)

Ari Up, The Slits (pt. 5)

Ari Up, The Slits (pt. 6)

Hamell On Trial

Hamell On Trial
New Suffolk, NY
02/02/10