WFMU: Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from November 30, 2015

Listener comments!
	9:02am famous original sugarwolf: Good morning!!
	9:04am V Priceless: Mornin' Mr. Joe! Hope you had a swell holiday!
	♥ 9:07am Joe McG: Hi, FOS and VP, welcome to the program. I hope you had a nice holiday, too!
	9:07am Cheri Pi: Yip.
	9:08am doncaballero: Hey All!
	9:11am sphere: hello people :)
	9:11am thedunkel: Good Morning Magic McGasko and other fellow sleeve tricksters!
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Good morning CP and dc. Hope you're A-OK.
	♥ 9:12am Ken From Hyde Park: Ah, cyber sounds for Cyber Monday.
	9:12am P-90: Yip, yip, (leftover turkey burp) yip.
	9:12am doncaballero: These East German Olympic jams have been my spirit animal the last few weeks. Yet another amazing find via WFMU.
	♥ 9:13am Joe McG: Hello, Ken, thedunkel, P-90, sphere. Welcome to my Monday morning sphere.
	9:15am sphere: Also, that label Unknown Capability has a great name. Thanks, Joe!
	9:15am Claw!: Greetings, Earthlings!
	♥ 9:18am Joe McG: Happy Monday, Claw!
	♥ 9:20am Zach: excellent coding tunes this morning, much obliged
	♥ 9:20am Guido from Cologne: hello Joe! how are the oscillators doing? good vibrations?
	♥ 9:23am Joe McG: Thanks for coming, Zach! Hey Guido: My oscillators are beginning to hum pleasantly.
	9:25am KP: Ho, Ho, Ho Joe!
	♥ 9:26am Joe McG: I was going to say "Too early!", KP, but it no longer is.
	♥ 9:27am Ken From Hyde Park: Morning, Claw! How was your Thanksgiving, a treat or a treatment?
	9:28am duke: Morning all
	♥ 9:29am Joe McG: Howdy, duke.
	♥ 9:33am Marcel M: Good morning Joe and friends.
	♥ 9:34am Joe McG: Marcel, hello to you and I hope the morning isn't too unwelcome.
	9:35am bobdoesthings: hi.
	♥ 9:39am Marcel M: Thanks Joe. Its not TOO unwelcome. But biking to work after binge eating and drinking for the last 4 days is going to be rough.
	♥ 9:41am Ken From Hyde Park: My son missed his school bus this morning. I was driving north at 7:30 and the way the sun and shadows were illuminating the shoreline on the west shore of the Hudson R. was pretty neat.
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: Hi, bob! @Marcel: I admire your dedication to fitness. @Ken: Sounds enlightening!
	♥ 9:44am common: morn
	♥ 9:45am Marcel M: @Joe: Its more about my dedication to not take the train but I will take your admiration nonetheless ;-)
	♥ 9:45am Joe McG: Hey, common!
	♥ 9:47am common: good to be awake and able to listen to your show, joe! hello all
	9:48am V Priceless: comm!
	♥ 9:52am common: vp!
	♥ 9:57am doctorjazz: Hi all. Quick question...is the new FMU home page temporary, or is it meant to stay as is? Much harder to navigate than the old one (though the old one wasn't very stable at my work PC).
	9:59am famous original sugarwolf: I have the day off after four long days of work so I'm being so so lazy today
	♥ 9:59am Joe McG: Hi, doctorjazz. The new web site isn't temporary, but it's still being worked on. We're paying attention to listeners' input, so thanks for yours.
	10:04am Paul D: Wow this is some of my fave music
	♥ 10:09am Joe McG: G'morning, Paul D, and thanks for listening!
	10:10am Rev. Turnip Druid: sup
	10:10am βrian: I used to live on Mad Maggie's farm. No relation, I'm sure.
	10:11am Ben Uno-Air Logic: Made it just in time for Single File!
	♥ 10:11am Joe McG: Hey Brian, Rev.
	♥ 10:11am Uncle Michael: I didn't find this version when I was looking!
	♥ 10:12am Joe McG: Hey, Ben! Hey, Uncle Michael--weird one, huh?
	10:12am famous original sugarwolf: I'll always regret not buying the record of JC Superstar songs in Hungarian at Footlights Records.
	♥ 10:13am Uncle Michael: Weird and wonderful.
	♥ 10:13am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, all! UGGGGH.
	♥ 10:14am Joe McG: @sugarwolf: That sounds AMAZING! Hey, Greg! Everyone: Greg did the logo on my playlist page. It's nice, isn't it?
	♥ 10:18am doctorjazz: Loving Single File! Great Konitz!
	10:20am Listener Scott: That's one jaunty version of one of the most maudlin songs ever written.
	10:20am βrian: Stereophonic, Joe!
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: @Listener Scott: It's so happy...and yet so sad!
	♥ 10:22am Ken From Hyde Park: Greg also makes playlist graphics for Stashu and Matt Warwick, maybe others, from ZONE 5. Plus, the marathon pledge-o-meter.
	10:23am A down Charlotte Street: Enjoying these 45s so far Joe.
	♥ 10:26am Joe McG: Thanks, A!
	♥ 10:29am common: pretty great, joe
	10:32am famous original sugarwolf: Is 90.1 off the air for anyone else?
	♥ 10:33am Greg from ZONE 5: #workworkworkworkwork Gedge!
	10:40am Ear Hammer: Amanda! She also did a 33 1/3!
	♥ 10:40am Ken From Hyde Park: 90.1 works for me just now. The DJ and guest are speaking.
	♥ 10:41am Uncle Michael: Hear hear for Watertown!
	♥ 10:43am Uncle Michael: Is Mack McCormick in the book?
	10:45am Sean B.: Good Morning @JoeMcG Single File today was just what it should be=Eclectic, moving and bittersweet!. The Aretha cut killed!, Sinatra was just what the doctor ordered & I had the Terry Jacks version on 45 When I was very young;I hadn't heard the song in a very long time. Thanks. Hoping you had a great thanksgivng day.
	10:48am V Priceless: Spidey sense!
	♥ 10:48am Ken From Hyde Park: Sorry, I missed the name of the guest. Who is speaking here? She has interesting stories.
	10:54am famous original sugarwolf: @KenHP: thanks, it's back for me. Maybe just my radio.
	10:54am Greg Red: I still miss the Voice music section. Still haven't found a place I like to go as much. Anyone have good recommendations?
	10:54am A down Charlotte Street: @Ken Amanda Petrusich
	♥ 10:54am Alfredo Garcia: @KenHP www.amandapetrusich.com
	10:55am Ike: Wow, she has a great voice. I could listen to her talk all day. Give her a show!
	11:01am Jeff: Testing a posting thing. (Oh, and hello!)
	11:01am A down Charlotte Street: The American Primitive compilation with Last Kind Words on it is astounding.
	♥ 11:01am Ken From Hyde Park: Cool, thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am -Ken: 90.1 is indeed of the air but I did manage to get it back at very low power.
	11:05am Dean: Much of the charm of Ward Marston's digital transcriptions of 78s of classical vocal recitals is a function of his refusal to use noise reduction.
	♥ 11:06am Guido from Cologne: Cream played the hospital bills for Skip so to say
	♥ 11:08am Marcel M: The straight ahead white boy electric blues is just boring. Once it got taken into "hard rock" territory it became its own unique thing. But that in-between period is pretty lame.
	♥ 11:09am Brian in UK: Hey Joe & Amanda. Crackles make it real.
	♥ 11:10am Guido from Cologne: Roughly said: Electric Blues tends to repete over and over rules and schemas while original Country Blues often enough doesn't care about rules at all. Skip James is a good example.
	11:10am KP: Cream's "I'm So Glad" is much more Jack Bruce than Eric Clapton.
	11:11am Dean: Gotta disagree. I mean, "Goin' Home" is as white, virtuosic, electric as you can get, but it works. And then there's Cedell Davis's work, which wouldn't translate well to acoustic. I think the problem with a lot of electric blues is in the engineering. The instruments need space and air.
	♥ 11:11am Joe McG: I knew we'd get you going with this dissing of British blues! :)
	♥ 11:12am Brian in UK: Clapton is NOT god, he's a very naughty boy.
	♥ 11:15am Marcel M: I wasn't trying to imply white people can't play the blues, I was refering it more as a "genre." I feel that during that time it was pure emulation until a unique sound was found. Lots of black blues musicians played eletric guitar as well.
	♥ 11:17am Marcel M: Clapton's THING with the blues was keeping it pure... which is kind of respectable in a way but its also the reason I never liked him. Always though it was boring. Not pushing the envelope.
	♥ 11:18am tadpoles: Just a thought - it took the British - Alexis Korner / John Mayall etc - to introduce the likes of Skip James to white America. Should have been the other way around.
	11:19am Dean: I heard you right, Marcel M. Ten Years After is a white band, but more importantly they represent a genre, an approach to emphasizing the blues in rock. Clapton:blues::Wynton Marsalis:jazz?
	11:19am KP: Oh no
	11:22am A down Charlotte Street: Argh Springsteen.
	11:26am SheWolf: I maintain that this is one of the most depressing songs I've ever heard. Gets me in the guy every time. Blech.
	11:27am KP: Hank!
	11:27am Jeezy: Two amazing river songs... But after which line did Bruce make "that sound"? I missed it! :-(
	11:28am Jeff: Years ago when I was attempting to teach myself to do something at all with the harmonica, I kept working on trying to get that note-bending at the beginning of the riff in _The River_ right.
	11:28am Brendan: Good morning Amanda, Joe and folks. Rivers seem more apt topics for blues than lakes.
	11:29am Jeff: "...and I strolled down to the lake, a bloody mary in my hand..."
	♥ 11:34am ChrisB.: Oh, Joe, you seem to have skipped over Brucie on your playlist. Leave no trace?
	11:38am Jeremy: Glad to hear Amanda on WFMU!
	11:38am Kurt Gottschalk: i've been enjoying this entire interview but i want to jump in now to say how glad i am to hear 'cubist blues' mentioned in this context. such a unique record.
	♥ 11:40am Greg from ZONE 5: You guys are smart.
	11:41am Dean: Ward Marston, Ward Marston, Ward Marston
	11:44am Ike: People treat life and news events that way too, not just music. If it's canned and safely in the past, it's easier to take, easier to understand. "I just wasn't made for these times" and such.
	11:45am Kurt Gottschalk: "shoot out the lights" was done on 33.3
	♥ 11:49am Joe McG: Thanks, Kurt!
	11:51am Dean: Nick Drake is perhaps a bad example of the Nick Drake myth. He wasn't all that unknown during the mid-to-late-'70s, and it seems to me there has always been a murmur of a conversation about his recordings.
	♥ 11:53am doctorjazz: Did someone scream "Whipping post"?
	11:54am BEAVO: What Nick Drake song was used in a car commercial?
	♥ 11:54am tadpoles: Lovely interview thanks to you both.
	♥ 11:55am Brian in UK: Nick Drake never seemed unknown to me over here growing up when his records were issued. Just not popular.
	11:55am βrian: Coming up on the less trodden path: The Magic Hour with Jeff Golick wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:56am Joe McG: Thanks everyone for listening and commenting, and thanks to Amanda for coming down! Have a great week!
	11:56am Kurt Gottschalk: good of belock to let you go 15 minutes into his show so you could play this track.
	11:57am Cheri Pi: lol :)
	11:57am KP: Good lord
	11:58am Dean: That Allman Bros. tune was used for a commercial for I Can't Believe It's Not Whipping Cream.
	11:58am βrian: Lots Of Luck?
	11:58am Brendan: Thanks
	♥ 11:55am steveo: ciao Joe, thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from November 30, 2015

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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

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November 30, 2015: Down to the River (with Special Guest Amanda Petrusich)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Donato Dozzy	Downhill to the Sea "Downhill to the Sea" by "Donato Dozzy"	The Loud Silence	Further	2015	CD		*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Sam Spence	Electric Texas "Electric Texas" by "Sam Spence"	Sam Spence Sounds	Finders Keepers	2015	CD	early 70s	*	0:07:53 (Pop-up)
Kosmischer Läufer	Jenseits des Horizonts	The Secret Cosmic Music of the East German Olympic Program 1972-1983 - Volume 3	Unknown Capability Records	2015	CD		*	0:11:14 (Pop-up)
Keith Levene	Sunshine Days 3 "Sunshine Days 3" by "Keith Levene"	CZ2014 (The Commercial Zone)	Keith Levene	2015	CD		*	0:20:10 (Pop-up)
Shana Falana	Gone "Gone" by "Shana Falana"	Set Your Lightning Fire Free	Team Love	2015	LP		*	0:22:53 (Pop-up)
Esmerine	Funambule (Deux Pas de Serein)	Lost Voices	Constellation	2015	CD		*	0:28:04 (Pop-up)

Craven Fops	Ravi Shankar "Ravi Shankar" by "Craven Fops"	Half a Cow: Doing It for the Kids Since 1990	Half a Cow	2015	CD	From 1990	*	0:42:47 (Pop-up)
Sauna Youth	Try to Leave "Try to Leave" by "Sauna Youth"	Distractions	Upset the Rhythm	2015	LP		*	0:45:52 (Pop-up)
Chook Race	Clever "Clever" by "Chook Race"	About Time	Chook Race	2015	LP		*	0:50:26 (Pop-up)
The Wild Poppies	Stare at the Sun	Heroine: The Wild Poppies Complete Collection (1986-1989)	Manufactured Recordings	2015	CD	From 1987	*	0:51:12 (Pop-up)
The Lighthouse Keepers	Seven Years	This Is Hot Too	Hot	1986	LP	From 1985		0:54:53 (Pop-up)
Smudge	Don't Want to Be Grant McLennan	Half a Cow: Doing It for the Kids Since 1990	Half a Cow	2015	CD		*	0:58:27 (Pop-up)
The Go-Betweens	One Thing Can Hold Us	Send Me a Lullaby	Jetset/Circus	2002	CD	From 1982		1:00:49 (Pop-up)

Single File: a bunch of random 45s lined up in a row
Maxine Weldon	Maggie's Farm "Maggie's Farm" by "Maxine Weldon"	single	Columbia	1973	45			1:07:33 (Pop-up)
Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass	Superstar	single	RCA	1973	45			1:10:26 (Pop-up)
Frank Sinatra	Bein' Green "Bein' Green" by "Frank Sinatra"	single	Reprise	1970	45			1:12:23 (Pop-up)
Lee Konitz with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet	Lover Man	single	Pacific Jazz	1953	45			1:15:31 (Pop-up)
The Coachmen	Seasons in the Sun "Seasons in the Sun" by "The Coachmen"	single	Capitol	1967	45			1:18:34 (Pop-up)
Morgan-Fisher	Geneve "Geneve" by "Morgan-Fisher"	single	Cherry Red	1979	45	cover of John Otway song		1:21:39 (Pop-up)
Aretha Franklin	If You Don't Think	single	Atlantic	1973	45			1:24:52 (Pop-up)
Wet Bull	Strutin' "Strutin'" by "Wet Bull"	single	Claridge	1976	45			1:28:51 (Pop-up)
The Wedding Present	Don't Cry No Tears	single	RCA/BMG	1992	45			1:31:50 (Pop-up)

Today's guest is music journalist Amanda Petrusich, author of the recent book about 78 collectors "Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records" as well as the Nick Drake "Pink Moon" book in Continuum/ Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3rd series. She also writes intelligently about music for Pitchfork, the Oxford American, and The New York Times. Recently, she has started a series of articles for The New Yorker. Today we play music and chat!
Interview with Amanda Petrusich Part 1
Geeshie Wiley	Last Kind Words "Last Kind Words" by "Geeshie Wiley"	Last Kind Words (1926-1953)	Mississippi	2006	LP	From 1930		2:00:06 (Pop-up)
Interview with Amanda Petrusich Part 2
Skip James	I'm So Glad "I'm So Glad" by "Skip James"	I'd Rather Be the Devil: The Legendary 1931 Sessions	Rev-Ola	2007	CD			2:09:42 (Pop-up)
Interview with Amanda Petrusich Part 3
Bruce Springsteen	The River "The River" by "Bruce Springsteen"	The River	Columbia	1980	LP			2:53:52 (Pop-up)
Hank Williams	Long Gone Lonesome Blues	The Complete Hank Williams	Mercury Chronicles	1998	CD	From 1950		2:25:46 (Pop-up)
Roscoe Holcomb	Old Smoky "Old Smoky" by "Roscoe Holcomb"	San Diego State Folk Festival 1972	Tompkins Square	2015	LP		*	2:29:00 (Pop-up)
Interview with Amanda Petrusich Part 4
The Allman Brothers Band	Whipping Post	The Allman Brothers Band	Atco	1969	LP			2:53:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:02am famous original sugarwolf: Good morning!!
	9:04am V Priceless: Mornin' Mr. Joe! Hope you had a swell holiday!
	♥ 9:07am Joe McG: Hi, FOS and VP, welcome to the program. I hope you had a nice holiday, too!
	9:07am Cheri Pi: Yip.
	9:08am doncaballero: Hey All!
	9:11am sphere: hello people :)
	9:11am thedunkel: Good Morning Magic McGasko and other fellow sleeve tricksters!
	♥ 9:11am Joe McG: Good morning CP and dc. Hope you're A-OK.
	♥ 9:12am Ken From Hyde Park: Ah, cyber sounds for Cyber Monday.
	9:12am P-90: Yip, yip, (leftover turkey burp) yip.
	9:12am doncaballero: These East German Olympic jams have been my spirit animal the last few weeks. Yet another amazing find via WFMU.
	♥ 9:13am Joe McG: Hello, Ken, thedunkel, P-90, sphere. Welcome to my Monday morning sphere.
	9:15am sphere: Also, that label Unknown Capability has a great name. Thanks, Joe!
	9:15am Claw!: Greetings, Earthlings!
	♥ 9:18am Joe McG: Happy Monday, Claw!
	♥ 9:20am Zach: excellent coding tunes this morning, much obliged
	♥ 9:20am Guido from Cologne: hello Joe! how are the oscillators doing? good vibrations?
	♥ 9:23am Joe McG: Thanks for coming, Zach! Hey Guido: My oscillators are beginning to hum pleasantly.
	9:25am KP: Ho, Ho, Ho Joe!
	♥ 9:26am Joe McG: I was going to say "Too early!", KP, but it no longer is.
	♥ 9:27am Ken From Hyde Park: Morning, Claw! How was your Thanksgiving, a treat or a treatment?
	9:28am duke: Morning all
	♥ 9:29am Joe McG: Howdy, duke.
	♥ 9:33am Marcel M: Good morning Joe and friends.
	♥ 9:34am Joe McG: Marcel, hello to you and I hope the morning isn't too unwelcome.
	9:35am bobdoesthings: hi.
	♥ 9:39am Marcel M: Thanks Joe. Its not TOO unwelcome. But biking to work after binge eating and drinking for the last 4 days is going to be rough.
	♥ 9:41am Ken From Hyde Park: My son missed his school bus this morning. I was driving north at 7:30 and the way the sun and shadows were illuminating the shoreline on the west shore of the Hudson R. was pretty neat.
	♥ 9:44am Joe McG: Hi, bob! @Marcel: I admire your dedication to fitness. @Ken: Sounds enlightening!
	♥ 9:44am common: morn
	♥ 9:45am Marcel M: @Joe: Its more about my dedication to not take the train but I will take your admiration nonetheless ;-)
	♥ 9:45am Joe McG: Hey, common!
	♥ 9:47am common: good to be awake and able to listen to your show, joe! hello all
	9:48am V Priceless: comm!
	♥ 9:52am common: vp!
	♥ 9:57am doctorjazz: Hi all. Quick question...is the new FMU home page temporary, or is it meant to stay as is? Much harder to navigate than the old one (though the old one wasn't very stable at my work PC).
	9:59am famous original sugarwolf: I have the day off after four long days of work so I'm being so so lazy today
	♥ 9:59am Joe McG: Hi, doctorjazz. The new web site isn't temporary, but it's still being worked on. We're paying attention to listeners' input, so thanks for yours.
	10:04am Paul D: Wow this is some of my fave music
	♥ 10:09am Joe McG: G'morning, Paul D, and thanks for listening!
	10:10am Rev. Turnip Druid: sup
	10:10am βrian: I used to live on Mad Maggie's farm. No relation, I'm sure.
	10:11am Ben Uno-Air Logic: Made it just in time for Single File!
	♥ 10:11am Joe McG: Hey Brian, Rev.
	♥ 10:11am Uncle Michael: I didn't find this version when I was looking!
	♥ 10:12am Joe McG: Hey, Ben! Hey, Uncle Michael--weird one, huh?
	10:12am famous original sugarwolf: I'll always regret not buying the record of JC Superstar songs in Hungarian at Footlights Records.
	♥ 10:13am Uncle Michael: Weird and wonderful.
	♥ 10:13am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, all! UGGGGH.
	♥ 10:14am Joe McG: @sugarwolf: That sounds AMAZING! Hey, Greg! Everyone: Greg did the logo on my playlist page. It's nice, isn't it?
	♥ 10:18am doctorjazz: Loving Single File! Great Konitz!
	10:20am Listener Scott: That's one jaunty version of one of the most maudlin songs ever written.
	10:20am βrian: Stereophonic, Joe!
	♥ 10:22am Joe McG: @Listener Scott: It's so happy...and yet so sad!
	♥ 10:22am Ken From Hyde Park: Greg also makes playlist graphics for Stashu and Matt Warwick, maybe others, from ZONE 5. Plus, the marathon pledge-o-meter.
	10:23am A down Charlotte Street: Enjoying these 45s so far Joe.
	♥ 10:26am Joe McG: Thanks, A!
	♥ 10:29am common: pretty great, joe
	10:32am famous original sugarwolf: Is 90.1 off the air for anyone else?
	♥ 10:33am Greg from ZONE 5: #workworkworkworkwork Gedge!
	10:40am Ear Hammer: Amanda! She also did a 33 1/3!
	♥ 10:40am Ken From Hyde Park: 90.1 works for me just now. The DJ and guest are speaking.
	♥ 10:41am Uncle Michael: Hear hear for Watertown!
	♥ 10:43am Uncle Michael: Is Mack McCormick in the book?
	10:45am Sean B.: Good Morning @JoeMcG Single File today was just what it should be=Eclectic, moving and bittersweet!. The Aretha cut killed!, Sinatra was just what the doctor ordered & I had the Terry Jacks version on 45 When I was very young;I hadn't heard the song in a very long time. Thanks. Hoping you had a great thanksgivng day.
	10:48am V Priceless: Spidey sense!
	♥ 10:48am Ken From Hyde Park: Sorry, I missed the name of the guest. Who is speaking here? She has interesting stories.
	10:54am famous original sugarwolf: @KenHP: thanks, it's back for me. Maybe just my radio.
	10:54am Greg Red: I still miss the Voice music section. Still haven't found a place I like to go as much. Anyone have good recommendations?
	10:54am A down Charlotte Street: @Ken Amanda Petrusich
	♥ 10:54am Alfredo Garcia: @KenHP www.amandapetrusich.com
	10:55am Ike: Wow, she has a great voice. I could listen to her talk all day. Give her a show!
	11:01am Jeff: Testing a posting thing. (Oh, and hello!)
	11:01am A down Charlotte Street: The American Primitive compilation with Last Kind Words on it is astounding.
	♥ 11:01am Ken From Hyde Park: Cool, thanks!
	🎸 ♥ 11:04am -Ken: 90.1 is indeed of the air but I did manage to get it back at very low power.
	11:05am Dean: Much of the charm of Ward Marston's digital transcriptions of 78s of classical vocal recitals is a function of his refusal to use noise reduction.
	♥ 11:06am Guido from Cologne: Cream played the hospital bills for Skip so to say
	♥ 11:08am Marcel M: The straight ahead white boy electric blues is just boring. Once it got taken into "hard rock" territory it became its own unique thing. But that in-between period is pretty lame.
	♥ 11:09am Brian in UK: Hey Joe & Amanda. Crackles make it real.
	♥ 11:10am Guido from Cologne: Roughly said: Electric Blues tends to repete over and over rules and schemas while original Country Blues often enough doesn't care about rules at all. Skip James is a good example.
	11:10am KP: Cream's "I'm So Glad" is much more Jack Bruce than Eric Clapton.
	11:11am Dean: Gotta disagree. I mean, "Goin' Home" is as white, virtuosic, electric as you can get, but it works. And then there's Cedell Davis's work, which wouldn't translate well to acoustic. I think the problem with a lot of electric blues is in the engineering. The instruments need space and air.
	♥ 11:11am Joe McG: I knew we'd get you going with this dissing of British blues! :)
	♥ 11:12am Brian in UK: Clapton is NOT god, he's a very naughty boy.
	♥ 11:15am Marcel M: I wasn't trying to imply white people can't play the blues, I was refering it more as a "genre." I feel that during that time it was pure emulation until a unique sound was found. Lots of black blues musicians played eletric guitar as well.
	♥ 11:17am Marcel M: Clapton's THING with the blues was keeping it pure... which is kind of respectable in a way but its also the reason I never liked him. Always though it was boring. Not pushing the envelope.
	♥ 11:18am tadpoles: Just a thought - it took the British - Alexis Korner / John Mayall etc - to introduce the likes of Skip James to white America. Should have been the other way around.
	11:19am Dean: I heard you right, Marcel M. Ten Years After is a white band, but more importantly they represent a genre, an approach to emphasizing the blues in rock. Clapton:blues::Wynton Marsalis:jazz?
	11:19am KP: Oh no
	11:22am A down Charlotte Street: Argh Springsteen.
	11:26am SheWolf: I maintain that this is one of the most depressing songs I've ever heard. Gets me in the guy every time. Blech.
	11:27am KP: Hank!
	11:27am Jeezy: Two amazing river songs... But after which line did Bruce make "that sound"? I missed it! :-(
	11:28am Jeff: Years ago when I was attempting to teach myself to do something at all with the harmonica, I kept working on trying to get that note-bending at the beginning of the riff in _The River_ right.
	11:28am Brendan: Good morning Amanda, Joe and folks. Rivers seem more apt topics for blues than lakes.
	11:29am Jeff: "...and I strolled down to the lake, a bloody mary in my hand..."
	♥ 11:34am ChrisB.: Oh, Joe, you seem to have skipped over Brucie on your playlist. Leave no trace?
	11:38am Jeremy: Glad to hear Amanda on WFMU!
	11:38am Kurt Gottschalk: i've been enjoying this entire interview but i want to jump in now to say how glad i am to hear 'cubist blues' mentioned in this context. such a unique record.
	♥ 11:40am Greg from ZONE 5: You guys are smart.
	11:41am Dean: Ward Marston, Ward Marston, Ward Marston
	11:44am Ike: People treat life and news events that way too, not just music. If it's canned and safely in the past, it's easier to take, easier to understand. "I just wasn't made for these times" and such.
	11:45am Kurt Gottschalk: "shoot out the lights" was done on 33.3
	♥ 11:49am Joe McG: Thanks, Kurt!
	11:51am Dean: Nick Drake is perhaps a bad example of the Nick Drake myth. He wasn't all that unknown during the mid-to-late-'70s, and it seems to me there has always been a murmur of a conversation about his recordings.
	♥ 11:53am doctorjazz: Did someone scream "Whipping post"?
	11:54am BEAVO: What Nick Drake song was used in a car commercial?
	♥ 11:54am tadpoles: Lovely interview thanks to you both.
	♥ 11:55am Brian in UK: Nick Drake never seemed unknown to me over here growing up when his records were issued. Just not popular.
	11:55am βrian: Coming up on the less trodden path: The Magic Hour with Jeff Golick wfmu.org...
	♥ 11:56am Joe McG: Thanks everyone for listening and commenting, and thanks to Amanda for coming down! Have a great week!
	11:56am Kurt Gottschalk: good of belock to let you go 15 minutes into his show so you could play this track.
	11:57am Cheri Pi: lol :)
	11:57am KP: Good lord
	11:58am Dean: That Allman Bros. tune was used for a commercial for I Can't Believe It's Not Whipping Cream.
	11:58am βrian: Lots Of Luck?
	11:58am Brendan: Thanks
	♥ 11:55am steveo: ciao Joe, thanks!

Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from November 30, 2015

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