North Fork Sound Top 20 - January 23rd 2010

Horace Andy

1. Horace Andy: Riding For A Fall
2. The Heart Throbs: Here I Hide
3. Poco: Rose Of Cimarron
4. Leah Siegel: Birdsong (reprise)
5. Michael Chapman: The Last Polish Breakfast
6. PT Walkley: Save The World
7. The Drive-By Truckers: I Used To Be A Cop
8. Mary Ann Fisher (The Raelettes): What Kind Of Man Are You?
9. Fairport Convention: Come All Ye
10. Swingadelic: The Gal From Joe's
11. John Holt: Got My Head On Straight
12. Peppermint Harris w/Maxwell Davis & His All-Stars: I Got Loaded
13. The Low Anthem: Matter Of Time
14. Teddy Thompson: Take Me Back Again
15. Robert Wyatt: Shipbuilding
16. The Trammps: Hold Back The Night
18. Curtis Mayfield: (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go
19. Hopeton Lewis: Sounds And Pessure
20. Free: Oh I Wept

North Fork Sound Alb O' The Week

Wire: Red Barked Tree

North Fork Sound Legend Of The Month

Elvis Presley

Last Week's Listener Favourites
? & The Mysterians: 96 Tears
Abba: The Visitors

Alex McMurray

Alex McMurray: Where K-Doe Lives
Althea Ranks: Jamaica 21
Arthur Lee: Do You Know The Secret?
Ben Folds & Nick Hornby: Password
Big Youth: Screaming Target (version 2)
Bob Dylan: Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
Bob Weir: Breaking The Hold
Brian Eno: I'll Come Running

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot: Ne Me Laisse Pas L'aimer
Buddy Guy: Who's Been Fooling You
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: The Floppy Boot Stomp
Charlie Chaplin: Que Dem
The Clash: Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
Crash Test Dummies: Da Doo Ron Ron
Cream: Strange Brew
The Dandy Warhols: Bohemian Like You
David Bowie: Seven
The Dirty Strangers: Don't Come Easy
Dr. Feelgood: Roxette
Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel

Shirley Manson, Duke Erickson
Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco
photo: ht

Garbage: You Look So Fine (Ed Kupper deep drama mix)
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Gone Hollywood
Glasvegas: Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
The Great Awakening: Amazing Grace
Grinderman: Palaces Of Montezuma
Joe The Boss: Skinhead Revolt
John Lydon w/Leftfield: Open Up (full vocal mix)
Julee Cruise: The Mysteries Of Love

The Kane Triplets

The Kane Triplets: Mission Impossible Theme
Kate Bush: The Big Sky
Katrina Leskanich: Hitsville UK
The Kinks: A Well Respected Man
Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
Michael Nyman: Bell Set No.1
Paul McCartney: No Other Baby
The Pink Fairies: The Snake
The Pretty Things: Vivian Prince
R. Dean Taylor: Gotta See Jane
R.L. Burnside: Stole My Check
Randy Newman: Big Hat, No Cattle
Red Dirt Rangers: Lavena
Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance: How Come

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson: One Whole Hour
The Shadows Of Knight: Gloria
Spencer Davis Group: Somebody Help Me
Taste: Railway And Gun
Television: Little Johnny Jewel (pts 1&2)
Tom Jones: Chills And Fever
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Jewel
Vince Taylor & The Playboys: Brand New Cadillac
X-Tal: Stepford Rockers
The Yayhoos: Monkey With A Gun

Yellowman
Sheraton Hotel, NYC
photo: Eric Maché

Yellowman: Zungguzungguzungguzeng
Zuco 103: Futebol

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

Yellowman

Yellowman
Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett, NY
August 22 '08

Yellowman

Yellowman
Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett, NY
August 22 '08

Last night, Yellowman came back to the East End and proved to a packed club he's still THE man when it comes to 'Dancehall' reggae. In a (sanitized for the South Fork) set that contained most of his hits, including I'm Getting Married, Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt, Mad Over Me, Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, Blueberry Hill, Jamaica Nice/Take Me Home Country Roads, Sea Cruise, Mr. Chin and Operation Radication, he and trusty longtime backing crew, Sagittarius, had the crowd singing and skanking, winding and grinding like there was no tomorrow. Despite a 20 year battle with jaw and skin cancer, not to mention an early life of being orphaned, teased and rejected on account of his albinism, 'King' Yellow has prevailed. If he wasn't such a good and (beneath the tongue in cheek boastful exterior) decent human being, he'd be having the last laugh. But he's too classy to gloat. Having built a career on how sexy he is, and how much the ladies love him, I saw the proof one afternoon when I went to visit him in Beth Israel, just prior to an operation. There in his hospital room were 4 gorgeous young ladies attending to his every desire. Needless to say, my visit wasn't long and I left soon after, wishing him well and thinking "just how the heck does he do it?"
I've seen him at NYC's Lone Star Cafe, Ritz, Roseland, and Madison Square Garden, a very heavy and somewhat dangerous club on Utica Ave. in Brooklyn the name of which I've long forgotten, The Haunt in Ithaca, NY, and an outdoor event near his birthplace of Negril, Jamaica. Every time, he's put on a positive, energetic, sometimes funny, sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes incredibly rude but always impressive 90 minute show and last night's was as good as any of them. In the dressing room, he told me that he's recorded some new tracks with Toots Hibbert's son, Clayton (pka Junior Toots) and that Sony still pay him royalties on 'King Yellowman', the album we did in '84 when I was at Columbia Records. Wikipedia says he's: had a substantial influence on the world of hip hop. He is widely credited for leading the way for the succession of reggae artists that were embraced by the growing hip-hop community in America during the 1980s and part of that is due to having had Bill Laswell produce the 'Strong Me Strong' 12". He tours extensively and still lives in Jamaica, which he finds preferable to living in a place where "Bush is in power". Just as I was about to take my leave, an office door opened and who should walk out clutching 2 guitars but Jimmy Buffett, who was about to play an unannounced set. But not before posing for a quick photo with the King...

Yellowman, Jimmy Buffett, Simeon Stewart
Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett, NY
August 22 '08

If you click here, and then click on the "slideshow" icon, it'll take you to some photos, old and new.