North Fork Sound Year’s Best - 2008

Albums:
1. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol 8
2. Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: What Happened
3. Ed Sanders: Poems For New Orleans
4. Keith Gemmell: Unsafe Sax
5. Buddy Guy: Skin Deep
6. Lambchop: OH
7. The Wolfmen: Modernity Killed Every Night
8. The Jim Jones Revue: Jim Jones Revue
9. Eden and John’s East River String Band: Some Cold Rainy Day
10. Brother Tyrone: Mindbender

Tracks:
1. Duffy: Distant Dreamer
2. Bruce Springsteen: Dream Baby Dream
3. James Hunter: Carina
4. M.I.A.: Paper Planes
5. Robyn Hitchcock: Up To Our Nex
6. Little Barrie: Pin That Badge
7. Randy Newman: A Few Words
8. Dion: Sweet Little Rock And Roller
9. Ian McLagan: When The Crying Is Over
10. Motörhead: Rock Out
11. Rodney Crowell: Sex And Gasoline
12. Glasvegas: Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime
13. Levon Helm, Amy Helm & Theresa Williams: Anna Lee
14. Mike Edison: Pornography Pt. 1
15. The Baseball Project: The Closer
16. Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby: The Downside Of Being A Fuck-Up
17. Marianne Nowottny & The All American Band: Love Is Just A Dream
18. Amanda Thorpe: Life Is Great
19. Paul Thorn: Long Way From Tupelo
20. Black Kids: I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

Compilation/Reissue:
1. V/A: Take Me To The River - A Southern Soul Story 1961 – 1977
2. Bo Diddley: I’m A Man – The Chess Masters 1955 – 1958
3. Robyn Hitchcock: Shadow Cat
4. Ry Cooder: Anthology - The UFO Has Landed
5. Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: Rehive
6. Suicide: Live 1977/1978
7. The Move: Anthology 1966-1972
8. V/A: On Vine Street – The Early Songs of Randy Newman
9. V/A: Rock On
10. Darlene Love: So Much Love – A Darlene Love Anthology 1958 - 1998

Gig (Long Island):
1. Chris Isaak & James Hunter: CapOne Theater at Westbury
2. Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks/Eden and John’s East River String Band/Otis Brothers: Pleasure Lounge, Shelter Island
3. Robyn Hitchcock: Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett
4. English Beat: Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett
5. Yellowman: Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett
6. Mary Gauthier: Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett
7. Sleepy LaBeef/Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks/The Blaggards: Shelter Island Beach Blast
8. Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks Two: The Old Mill, Mattituck
9. Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Osprey’s Dominion, Peconic
10. Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks/The Blaggards: Shelter Island Boat Party

Gig (up island):
1. Suicide: Europa, Brooklyn
2. Motörhead, Roseland, NYC
3. Nick Lowe/Robyn Hitchcock/(Elvis Costello): Manhattan Center, NYC
4. Billy Bragg: Manhattan Center, NYC
5. Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Rodeo Bar, NYC

Book:
1. Pete Frame: The Restless Generation
2. Dean Wareham: Black Postcards - A Rock & Roll Romance
3. Eric Goulden: A Dysfunctional Success
4. Josh Alan Friedman: Tell The Truth Until They Bleed
5. Mike Edison: I Have Fun Everywhere I Go

Last Week’s Listener Favourites:
Alan Vega: Wipeout Beat
Can: She Brings The Rain
The Kinks: Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Them: Gloria
Lyle Lovett: Friend Of The Devil
Glasvegas: Daddy’s Gone
Ian Hunter: Too Much
Billy Storm: Baby Don’t Look Down
The Cookies: Buzz Saw
Black Grape (feat: Joe Strummer & Keith Allen): England’s Irie
Duffy: Distant Dreamer
Angie: Peppermint Lump
Billy Bragg & The Blokes: NPWA
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Clear Spot
The Collins Kids: Hoy Hoy
East River String Band: Ain’t No Tellin’
Elvis Presley: Way Down
George Bean: She Belongs To Me
Jeri Bo Keno: Here It Comes (And Here I Go Again)
Kevin Ayres: Thank You Very Much
LCD Soundsystem: Us v Them
Martin Rev: Baby Oh Baby
XTC: Greenman
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: It Should Rain
Mattias Hellberg & The White Moose: Black Cat Fever
Lou Reed: I Remember You
The Yayhoos: Fittin’ To Do
Laurie Anderson: O Superman
The Nips: Gabrielle
Huw Gower: Lightning Over Montauk
Lee “Scratch” Perry:
Lonnie Mack: Why
Chris Isaak: Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me)
Frankie Paul: Pass The Tushung Peng
The Star Spangles: Which Of The Two Of Us Is Gonna Burn This House Down
Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley Is Crazy
Killer B’s: Fascinating Bob
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