North Fork Sound Top 20 - July 29th 2012

Nona Hendryx

 

1. Nona Hendryx: Temple Of Heaven
2. Little Freddie King: Great Balls Of Butter
3. Bernie Worrell Orchestra: BWO is Landing
4. Marianne Faithfull: Angel
5. Saor Patrol: O'Rourke
6. Chris Daniels: Better Days
7. Alton Ellis & The Flames: Girl I've Got A Date
8. Herb Alpert & Colors: The Look Of Love
9. The Chips: Rubber Biscuit
10. Elizabeth Cook: Rock n Roll Man 
11. Los Lobos: Down Where The Drunkards Roll
12. Nicky Hopkins: Old Memories
13. Little Jimmy Scott: Day By Day
14. Dr. Feelgood: Everybody's Carrying A Gun  
15. Peter Stampfel: Goldfinger 
16. Laurel Aitken & Freetown: Rudy Girl
17. Tindersticks: People Keep Comin' Around
18. Terry Corin & Her Boyfriends: Sick! Sick! Sick!
19. Lowell George & The Factory: Smile, Let Your Life Begin 
20. Guided By Voices: Teenage FBI 

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

Jovanotti: Italia 1988-2012 

Last Week's Listener Favourites

Alex Chilton 

photo: Stephanie Chernikowski

 Alex Chilton: Bangkok

Alice Cooper: Under My Wheels

Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor: Big Mamou

Fairport Convention: Reynardine
Fats Domino: One Night

  Genevieve Waite

Genevieve Waite: White Cadillac
Grant Geissman: Texas Shuffle (feat. Albert Lee & Larry Carlton)
Jon Cleary: Frenchmen Street Blues

 Jon DeRosa

photo: Karolina Waclawiak

Jon DeRosa: True Men

Kitty Wells: It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

Little Ike: She Can Rock
Lou Reed: Halloween Parade

Mary Chapin Carpenter: New Year's Day

Mikel Rouse

photo: Michael Stoughton

Mikel Rouse: Dumb Young
New Age Steppers: My Nerves (Punk)
The Olympics: Talkin' Trash

Omar & The Howlers: I'm Mad Again
Papa Mali & The Instagators: Keep Happy
Pasquale & The Lunar-Tiks: Moon Madness

 Petty Booka

Petty Booka: Devil Gate Drive
Richard & Linda Thompson: Wall Of Death

Steve Bernstein's MTO: Time (feat. Dean Bowman & Vernon Reid)

 Michael Gira

Portrait by Simon Henwood

Swans: Avatar

T. Rex: King Of The Rumbling Spires
Todd Rundgren: It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Tom Jones: Strange Things

 Tracey Curtis

Tracey Curtis: If The Death Penalty Were An Olympic Sport 

Who Are Those Guys: Theme From An Actual Western

Zuco 103: Futebol

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North Fork Sound Top 20 - July 22nd 2012

 Jon DeRosa

photo:  Karolina Waclawiak

1. Jon DeRosa: True Men

2. Tracey Curtis: If The Death Penalty Were An Olympic Sport

3. Todd Clouser's A Love Electric: Betty Davis

4. Allen Stone: Sleep

5. Harry Taussig: Electric Forest, Electric Trees

6. Peter C. Johnson: Speedballs, Pretzels & Beer

7. The Olympics: Talkin' Trash

8. Psychic TV: White Nights

9. Ray Davies: Yours Truly Confused, N10

10. Petty Booka: Devil Gate Drive

11. John J. Moses: Night Out

12. Junior Murvin & Dillinger: Roots Train

13. Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor: Big Mamou

14. Fairport Convention: Reynardine

15. Rodriguez: I Wonder

16. Alabama 3: Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness

17. Jon Cleary: Frenchmen Street Blues

18. Amon Düül II: Archangel Thunderbird

19. Fat Daddy Holmes: Where Yo Is

20. The Rake's Progress: El Camino

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

Swans: The Seer

Last Week's Listeners' Thumbs-Ups

The A,B,C & D Of Boogie Woogie: Somebody Changed The Lock On My Door
Al Anderson: Bang Bang Bang
Alan Vega: Ice Drummer

 Anais Mitchell

Anais Mitchell: Ships
Bert Jansch: When I Get Home
Bo Diddley: Mess Around
Bruce Anderson & Rich Stim: Major Pipe
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Mirror Man

Chelsea: The Right To Work
Chumbawamba: Add Me
Fraser Anderson: Beautiful
Gene Casey: Cry When I Die

Jimmy Donley

photo courtesy the Hound blog
  

Jimmy Donley: You're Why I'm So Lonely

La Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf
The Lake Poets: Small Town
Laurel Aitken & Girly: Scandal In A Brixton Market

 Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne: Turn A Deaf Ear
Martin Rev: Shimmer
Mikey Dread: Dread At The Mantrols
Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three: Chitlin' Cookin' Time In Cheatham County
Ray Wylie Hubbard: Three Days Straight

The Real Kids: All Kindsa Girls

 Rodney Crowell

photo: Alan Messer

Rodney Crowell: Anything But Tame

Ry Cooder: Going To Tampa

Ry Cooder: Take Your Hands Off It
Ry Cooder: The 90 And The 9
Ry Cooder: Wall Street Part Of Town
The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Wild Blue Yonder 

 Siggi Baldursson, Einar Örn Benediktsson

Iceland

 photo: howard thompson

The Sugarcubes: Blue-Eyed Pop 

Tom Jones: Just Dropped In

Toots & The Maytals: Careless Ethiopians (feat. Keith Richards)

Veniece Stark: I Still Love You
Vernon Reid: Cp Time 

North Fork Sound Top 20 - July 15th 2012

 Genya Ravan

1. Genya Ravan: I Will Follow

2. Saint Etienne: Over The Border

3. Dean & Britta: White Horses

4. Jeremy Denk: Ligeti - Piano Etudes X. (Der Zauberlehrling)

5. Wolf:Gang Deisel: Horsemeat Pie

6. Marjorie Ingram: In The Heat Of Love

7. Rodney Crowell: Anything But Tame

8. Chumbawamba: Add Me

9. Pat Metheny: Roofdogs

10. Anais Mitchell: Ships

11. Anti-Nowhere League: So What

12. Patsy Cline: It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

13. Hopeton Lewis & U-Roy: Tom Drunk

14. Billy Bragg & Wilco: The Jolly Banker

15. Amadou & Mariam: Chérie

16. Nico: These Days

17. The Jimmy Rogers All Stars: Bright Lights, Big City (feat. Taj Mahal)

18. MFC Chicken: Family Value Meal (Music For Chicken)

19. Tony Dread: Ghetto Soldier

20. David Torkanowsky & Lucia Micarelli: Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

Ry Cooder: Election Special

Last Week's Listeners' Thumbs-Ups

Ben Folds & Nick Hornby: From Above

Certain General: Anew Everyday

Chic: Good Times

Dave Edmunds: Crawling From The Wreckage/Queen Of Hearts (live)

DVA: Tralala
Dwight Twilley Band: You Were So Warm

 Eilen Jewell

Photo: Liz Linder

Eilen Jewell: Over Again

Fatboy Slim: Going Out Of My Head
Fats Domino: One Night

Gene Pitney: Backstage

Jerry Douglas: Right On Time (feat. Marc Cohn)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Born To Be A Loser (alt. version)

 Lady Ann

Lady Ann: Informer

Laetitia Sadier: One Million Year Trip

Lena Swanberg: Break Through

Lori Carson: Something's Got Me

 Papa Mali

photo: Todd V Wolfson 

Papa Mali & The Instagators: Walk On Guilded Splinters

Rob Jungklas: Detox

Sleeper: Delicious
Wreckless Eric: Crying, Waiting, Hoping
XPT's: She's A Lover
Zuco 103: Futebol

North Fork Sound Top 20 July 8th

The A B C & D of Boogie Woogie

Dave Green, Charlie Watts & Axel Zwingenberger, Iridium, NYC

photo: Arnie Goodman 

1. The A B C & D of Boogie Woogie: More Sympathy for the Drummer

2. Cristina: Jungle Love

3. Muddy Waters  & the Rolling Stones: Hoochie Coochie Man

4. Adam Rudolph & Ralph M. Jones: Spirit Voices

5. Union Carbide Productions: Three Mile Eyes

6. Psychic TV/PTV3: Milk Baba

7. Grant Geissman: Q-Tip (feat. Tom Scott)

8. Ian McNabb: Heydays

9. The Phobics: Lipstick

10. Original Rockers: Sexy Selector

11. Lori Carson: Something's Got Me

12. Twink: Ten Thousand Words In A Cardboard Box

13. The Nails: 88 Lines About 44 Women

14. Old Crow Medicine Show: Sewanee Mountain Catfight

15. Raphael Green & Dr. Alimantado: Rasta Train

16. Willie Walker: You Name It, I've Had It

17. The Winkies: Long Song Comin'

18. Arlen Roth: Knocking On Heaven's Door

19. The Bell-Rays: Fire On The Moon

20. AC Reed: Boogaloo Tramp

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

 The Blasters: Fun On A Saturday Night

Last Weeks' Listeners' Thumbs-Ups

BB King: The Thrill Is Gone
Bill Doggett: Mad

Booker T & The MG's: Gimme Some Lovin'
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Frying Pan
Curtis Mayfield: Move On Up

 David Bowie

David Bowie: The Bewlay Brothers
Dr. Michael White: Me And Bobby McGee
Ernest Lane & The Ikettes w/Tina Turner: What Kind Of Love

 Fraser Anderson

Grand Central Station, NYC

photo: Grace Anderson

Fraser Anderson: Run These Lines
Gene The Hat: Ram-Bunk-Shush
JD McPherson: I Can't Complain
John Lennon: Oh Yoko!

 Karen Dalton

Karen Dalton: Katie Cruel
La Düsseldorf: Cha Cha 2000
Larry Lurex: I Can Hear Music
LZ Love: My Higher Ground

Neneh Cherry & The Thing: Dream Baby Dream
Omar & The Howlers: I'm Gone
Ozomatli: Cut Chemist Suite

Chrissie Hynde 

(of The Pretenders)

The Pretenders: Kid

Promise Of The Real: I Won't Fail Her
The Spy From Cairo: Road To Ryhad
Steve Cropper w/Bettye LaVette & Willie Jones
The Tamlins: Baltimore (extended mix)
Underworld: Glam Bucket
The Upsetters: Vibrator

X-tal

photo: Jay Blakesburg

X-tal: Stepford Rockers

North Fork Sound Top 20 - July 1st 2012

Neneh Cherry

1. Neneh Cherry: Dream Baby Dream
2. Martin Creed: Fuck Off
3. Angel Corpus Christi: Happy Americans
4. MFC Chicken: Striptease Girl
5. Chuck Berry: Ingo
6. Rob Jungklas: The Moon Is Turned To Blood
7. John Hammond: Fish In The Jailhouse
8. Gene The Hat: Ram-Bunk-Shush
9. Shawn Smith: Shake It Like You Just Made Bail
10. The Flaming Lips (feat. Ke$ha & Biz Markie): 2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)
11. Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys: I Saw The Light
12. Bosco Delrey: I Know What I Know
13. Zuco 103: Garganteiro 
14. Veniece: Trying To Live My Life Without You
15. Jerry Douglas: On A Monday
16. Dave Barker & Bunny Wailer: What A Confusion 
17. Vince Gill: Jenny Dreamed Of Trains
18. El Chicano: Brown Eyed Girl
19. The Real Kids: Do The Boob
20. Vernon Green & The Medallions: A Lover's Prayer

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

Dub Pistols: Worshipping The Dollar

Last Week's Listener Favourites
Amy Allison & The Maudlins: Everybody Ought To Know
The Bleechers: You Gonna Feel It 

Jackie Brenston

sketch by Jeremy W. Mullins

Jackie Brenston: I'm Tore Up
Brinsley Schwarz: (It's Gonna Be A) Bringdown
The Chemical Brothers: Leave Home (Underworld mix 1)
Chris Knight: Maria
The Cobra-Matics: It Ain't Right

  Dennis Linde

Dennis Linde: Some Songs
Fraser Anderson: Run These Lines
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: All Along The Watchtower 
Lady Ann: Informer
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: If I Could Build My Whole World Around You
Mick Ronson: Growing Up And I'm Fine 
Motörhead: No Class

 Nektar

Nektar: Remember The Future (Pt.1)
Nick Waterhouse: Is That Clear
Paul Thorn: Take My Love With You
Portishead: Glory Box
The Real Kids: Reggae Reggae
The Records: Starry Eyes

 Roky Erickson

Roky Erickson & Blieb Alien: Starry Eyes
Steve Cropper: Help Me Somebody
Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy
XTC: Mayor Of Simpleton
Zonder Kennedy & The Scoville Junkies: Ain't Enough Comin In
ZZ Top: Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers