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December 2, 1999 | All there is

Song | Artist | Source (VA = various artists) (*** = it's new; I like it)

Postponed Native Pleasures, Part 1 | Campag Velocet | To Lose La Trek
Mama Too Tight | Archie Shepp | Mama Too Tight
Scottish Rite Temple Stomp | Ninian Hawick | Steep Steps
Slumming On Park Avenue | Machito & His Orchestra | Irving Berlin In Latin America
Moanin' | Davy Graham | Folk, Blues and Beyond

Goin' Back (To Memphis, Tennessee) | Furry Lewis | On the Road Again
Mouse an' Me | Maximum Joy | Station M.X.J.Y.
Bonaparte's Retreat | Holy Modal Rounders | Too Much Joy
Deflections | Protruberance | Treated and Released
Little Wing | Mr. McFall's Chamber | Like the Milk
I Was Made To Love Her | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | BBC Sessions
Two-Bit Faux Construction | The Aluminum Group | Pedals

Presto | Max Nagl | Barenoper
Don't Think | Rick Potts | Blorp Essette (L.A.F.M.S. box) (VA)
Mr. Ghost Goes To Town | John Buzon Trio | Ultra-Lounge: Organs In Orbit (VA)
Herr Rossi Sucht Das Gluck | Die Moulinettes | 20 Blumen
Electric Lady Land | Fantastic Plastic Machine | Luxury
Hora (F# Minor) | Kalman Balogh & Gypsy Cimbalom Band | Gypsy Jazz

Little | Motor Humming | Musical Aluminum ***
Broadway Blues | N.A.D. | Ghosts
I Brought The Rain | Houndog | Houndog
Hangin' Out (In Someone Else's World) | The Split Level | The Split Level
Give Me Money | Jigsaw | Ethiopian Urban & Tribal Music, Vol. 1 (VA)
Shiny Escalator | Sonya Hunter | Headlights and Other Constellations

A Village Funeral | Ghanaian Brass Band & Drummers | Dead & Gone # 1 (VA)
Wade In the Water | The Bubbadinos | Ready As We'll Ever Be
Internal Affairs | Moosaka | Sound Thoughts
Is That All There Is? | Giant Sand | The Love Songs
Menelik (The Lion Of Judah) | Ballin' the Jack | Jungle
7XL | Sir Menelik | Soundbombing 2 (VA)
Sunday, Part 1 | Cibo Matto | Stereo Type A

Disc Dance Of the Globbots | Joe Meek & the Blue Men | I Hear a New World
Sort Of | Slapp Happy | Sort Of
Pet Sounds | The Beach Boys | Pet Sounds
I Know There's An Answer | Sonic Youth | Smiles, Vibes & Harmony (VA)
Desolation Blues | Gorky's Zygotic Mynci | Spanish Dance Troupe

Story, from Living Room Music | John Cage | Choral Works 1: Ars Nova vocal group
The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs | Joey Ramone | Caged/Uncaged (VA)
Gira Gira | Carmen Tejada | Voices In My Lunchbox (VA) ***
You Must Be In | Roger Doyle | The Babel Project Bitmap
Walt Whitman's Niece | Billy Bragg & Wilco | Mermaid Avenue

Tumbling Tumbleweeds | J. J. Johnson Quintet | J Is For Jazz
Xica da Silva | Jorge Ben | Africa Brasil
Let's Make a Cap | DJ Sasha Crnobrnja | Stop Shopping, Start Crafting!
Is That All There Is? | Cristina | 12-inch single

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | Al Green | Hank Williams tribute (VA)

"I remember, when I was a little girl,
my mother set the house on fire --
she was like that..."
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