WFMU: The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from November 17, 2019

Listener comments!
	10:04pm TDK60: Hello Jeff. I listen to Neil Y. because he /did/ inhale. So there.
	10:05pm Jeff Conklin: Ok
	♥ 10:05pm chresti: Good evening Jeff and TDK60 and everyone else in the green ghetto room
	10:06pm Carmichael: Neil WHO??
	10:07pm Carmichael: He he chresti, I saw what you did there.
	10:07pm Chris Wardell: Sup, Jeff? Brother Neil. Funny, I just got done watching the David Crosby documentary, and he talks about Neil quite a bit.
	10:07pm ParUbi: Hello all
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: PArUbi here for the second time. Nice. Evening, everybody.
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: Not paying attention to what Crosby says has done well for me...
	♥ 10:09pm chresti: Hey Carmichael!
	10:12pm sufferwords: Dicky Betts a little on that lead
	10:14pm Carmichael: Betts is one of my guitar idols. Blue Sky is amazing.
	10:14pm Carmichael: Heya there chresti.
	10:16pm RCU-Keith: Evening, Jeff. Man, I’ve always wanted to check out Illinois Speed Press, but now I really have to hunt their albums down.
	10:17pm Jeff Conklin: Check the nearest dollar bin, for some reason nobody cares and its a very solid album...
	10:18pm sadiwn: Evening Jeff, getting here a little late but this Strangefolk is a nice one.
	10:20pm Chris Wardell: Aww, Croz is ok. A little pompous and unnecessarily surly for sure. If I Could Only Remember My Name is a classic record, and Jerry is all over it.
	10:21pm sadiwn: also, I bookmarked that Whims tweet to check out but honestly I saw it and thought "oh, I bet I'll hear from that Sunday night."
	10:23pm Neal: San Francisco here. Just tuned in about 15 minutes ago. As the legal cannabis kicks. Wonderful music.
	10:24pm Jeff Conklin: I'm deeply familiar with Croz's work. I just dont want to hear his opinbion on anything. And his last two records are dogshit.
	10:24pm Carmichael: While hanging around Portland, I found a local 70s band called Sand. Tremendous find.
	10:24pm mb: Evening all. Preach DJ JC.
	10:24pm Jeff Conklin: I have that LP, Carmichael, its very good. Weird how its split across two LPs though
	10:27pm Carmichael: You’ve heard of Sand? Most excellent. I have been playing it on repeat for awhile now. I have to go back to the dude at the record shop, who seemed to know them.
	10:28pm Beau&boris: Hey
	10:28pm Jeff Conklin: Of course I know Sand who do you think you’re talking to?!
	10:30pm Carmichael: Ha ha! New to me, thought it was a great find.
	10:34pm Jeff Conklin: There's a great German band called Sand as well. And I have their records too ;)
	♥ 10:35pm ParUbi: They have that one album, Golem, right?
	10:40pm Dean: This album first appeared in the UK on Transatlantic, which was the label on which Gryphon's first album, 1973, was issued.
	10:41pm Carmichael: Wow, strummed up James Taylor.
	10:44pm Jeff Conklin: www.google.com
	♥ 10:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi Jeff and ghetts. A blurb in the local paper mentioned that on December 15, there will be a celebration in honor of Robert Hunter up in Woodstock. www.colonywoodstock.com...
	♥ 10:55pm Mr. Pumpy: I'm up later than usual for a Sunday. It's kind of hot in here in my place in Clifton, and I have a few windows open. I hear the leaves rustling from the wind, and this airy, folky setlist is the perfect compliment. Cheers, Jeff!
	♥ 10:59pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ken...thanks for the info. I have a place up in Delaware County, and I go through right past Woodstock on the ride to and fro. I'll look into that.
	11:08pm scobot: Loved that opinion on Neil.
	11:12pm phat: great show tonight. my weekly dose of psych-jam-hippy stuff. love it.
	11:12pm Jeff Conklin: Yeah, time for him to hang it up or at least be quiet
	11:13pm Jeff Conklin: psych-jam-hippy is my middle name
	♥ 11:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Glad to have WiFis to steal (on & off with no reason I know) - so can get the full FMU experience - slipping in & out of wakefulness with interesting programs in later timeslots... Love you have this intelligent & well-informed presentation of genre music I don't get exposed to elsewhere.
	11:13pm Dean: I'm uncomfortable admitting it, but I've always thought Neil Young was overrated. He's a kinda folkie, hippie Springsteen. He's written a good song or two, but generally he isn't the best performer of those songs. Alas, B"P"B likewise strikes me as a fake. That's probably because The Wire so heavily covered him, and The Wire is for me almost unbearable.
	11:14pm jdcon: Tuning in from Jackson Wyoming
	11:14pm phat: and drone!
	♥ 11:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Cool, Mr. Pumpy. If you attend, let us know how it went.
	11:18pm phat: this Richard Youngs and Raul Refree is remarkable. truly lovely.
	11:18pm Jeff Conklin: What up Wyoming. Everybody thats by little brother.
	11:19pm Jeff Conklin: I think Neil has done at least 5 perfect albums. But his last 10 years have been shit for the most part.
	11:19pm phat: I'm jealous that someone gets to make this music. I need a new band
	11:22pm Jeff Conklin: @phat: Do it
	♥ 11:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Neil is a Stylist - in voice & on gittar - which will always hit & miss with various individuals ...& has written more songs than alll but a small handful of people... Always admired how he goes his own way after his muse ....if @ 74 & after more than a Half Century he isn't always the most relevant is it a shock?
	11:23pm phat: I should send you copies of one of my old band's records. you'd probably dig them.
	11:23pm Dean: If by "perfect" you mean "really, really good," then so be it. But if you mean transcendent, rarely to be bettered, then I can't reply meaningfully.
	♥ 11:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'd reckon Owen here has absorbed Neil...
	♥ 11:24pm ParUbi: Love that Owen Tromans number
	11:24pm Jeff Conklin: @Dean: Thats ok Dean. I mean perfect as in perfect and your reply isnt necessary
	11:25pm phat: At least 5 is probably about right
	♥ 11:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Seems a sober assessment...
	11:26pm Moelarryandjesus: What was your old band, phat?
	11:28pm phat: we were called Think. not the 1971 one or the Hungarian one. (couldn't Google obscure band names in 1993).
	11:28pm phat: self-released stuff
	♥ 11:29pm mariano: Ahhh, what a lovely tune to come home to. Hi Jeff, evening crew!
	11:31pm phat: the guitarist runs a blog called Blastitude/Blogstitude
	11:32pm ZeeBee: I am loving the music tonight. I am listening in the kitchen next to my dad, he is digging it all as well.
	11:33pm Mandy: Hi!
	11:34pm Jeff Conklin: Aw, love thast, ZeeBee, thank you. and Hi DAD
	11:34pm Jeff Conklin: Hey Mandy
	11:34pm Mandy: Great music here tonight
	11:39pm Jeff Conklin: Thank you
	11:44pm phat: Sunday evening WFMU is one of the highlights of my week.
	11:47pm Mandy: This would be great to hear on the radio at night while driving on a road trip. Everyone asleep in the back.
	11:48pm Jeff Conklin: @Mandy: Sort of what I picture when putting shows together ;)
	11:49pm dave b.: Some big negative feelings about Neil Young this evening. His records in the past 10 years are certainly not my favorites, but it's hard for me to call them S#1T. I have too much respect for this man. He was criticized and even sued by the record label he was on in the early 80's after he released Reactor/Hawks and Doves/ Trans/ Shocking Pinks. These were kinda considered bad records too by many at the time. There are real gems on all those albums, as there are a few on his current ones. Neil is a pure artist.
	11:52pm Jeff Conklin: He's indeed an artist. But far from pure. And shilling for Amazon is beyond shitty. Sorry, its how I feel.
	11:53pm phat: mandy, agreed
	11:54pm Dean: Mine contribute to the negative feelings. They are directed less at his lifetime of work--good, bad, influential, for some but not for others--than at the notion that he "is a pure artist," which means nothing. That aside, I don't find much to enjoy in his work.
	♥ 11:54pm mariano: I'm not the biggest Neil Young fan by any stretch, though do I have a lot of respect for him. But man, I really love his Shocking Pinks phase, then there was the new-wavy one, Sample and Hold. I looked up the Wonderin' video not long ago, hadn't seen it since probably the 80s on MTV, and it is a trip.
	11:55pm Mandy: This sounds like the sun is coming up. The sun must be coming up over the Atlantic right now.
	11:57pm Jeff Conklin: Wonderin video is SO GOOD
	11:58pm Mandy: Great show thanks!!!
	♥ 11:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Amazon. Huh.
	11:59pm mb: Thanks Jeff. Safe travels.
	♥ 12:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Wasn't Neil's song "This Note's For You" about not selling out? I am confused now.

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from November 17, 2019

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Unstuck in time, The Avant Ghetto wanders through heavy folk, pastoral noise, spiritual rock, harsh jazz and other dimly lit corners of the universe.

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November 17, 2019

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Neil Young	Love in Mind "Love in Mind" by "Neil Young"	Time Fades Away	Reprise	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Huckle	Get Down "Get Down" by "Huckle"	Upon a Once Time	Mapache	0:01:48 (Pop-up)
Illinois Speed Press	P.N.S. (When You Come Around)	Illinois Speed Press	Columbia	0:06:10 (Pop-up)
Strangefolk	Things That Fly "Things That Fly" by "Strangefolk"	Strangefolk	Self-Released	0:13:51 (Pop-up)
Pacific Range	Sending It "Sending It" by "Pacific Range"	Pacific Range EP	Self-Released	0:22:17 (Pop-up)
Greasy Bear	Windy City "Windy City" by "Greasy Bear"	Is Adrian There?	Vinyl Revival	0:30:59 (Pop-up)
Unicorn	Country Road "Country Road" by "Unicorn"	Uphill All the Way	Capitol	0:36:09 (Pop-up)
Quatrain	Fields of Love "Fields of Love" by "Quatrain"	Quatrain	Tetragrammaton	0:39:53 (Pop-up)
Tamburlaine	Pass a Piece of Paper	Say No More	Tartar	0:42:23 (Pop-up)
Phil Cordell	Red Lady "Red Lady" by "Phil Cordell"	Fading Yellow Vol. 1	Crown	0:46:16 (Pop-up)
Fayden	Ain't No Use in My Mind "Ain't No Use in My Mind" by "Fayden"	Peace Ballads	Bacillus Records	0:48:36 (Pop-up)
Oliver	Orbit Your Factory "Orbit Your Factory" by "Oliver"	Standing Stone	Self-Released	0:52:47 (Pop-up)

Bonnie "Prince" Billy	You Know the One	I Made a Place	Drag City	1:07:40 (Pop-up)
Richard Youngs & Raül Refree	Follow My Sleep	All Hands Around the Moment	Soft Abuse	1:10:43 (Pop-up)
Owen Tromans	Burying the Moon King	Between Stones	Sacred Geometry	1:19:05 (Pop-up)
Richard & Linda Thompson	A Heart Needs a Home	Hokey Pokey	Island	1:22:30 (Pop-up)
Tennent - Morrison	Round and Round	Tennent - Morrison	Polydor	1:26:29 (Pop-up)
Joe Weaver and Friends	Come on Down	The Wind In The Spumoni Trees	Branco	1:29:49 (Pop-up)
Bob Burchill	Near My Beginnings "Near My Beginnings" by "Bob Burchill"	Cabin Fever	Rumour	1:33:47 (Pop-up)
Mason Creek	Sonday Morning "Sonday Morning" by "Mason Creek"	Songs For A Rainy Afternoon	Self-Released	1:37:59 (Pop-up)
David Wiffen	Skybound Station "Skybound Station" by "David Wiffen"	Coast to Coast Fever	UA	1:46:33 (Pop-up)
Bruce Cockburn	Going to the Country	Bruce Cockburn	True North	1:50:36 (Pop-up)
Grace Cummings	Paisley "Paisley" by "Grace Cummings"	Refuge Cove	Flightless	1:56:01 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:04pm TDK60: Hello Jeff. I listen to Neil Y. because he /did/ inhale. So there.
	10:05pm Jeff Conklin: Ok
	♥ 10:05pm chresti: Good evening Jeff and TDK60 and everyone else in the green ghetto room
	10:06pm Carmichael: Neil WHO??
	10:07pm Carmichael: He he chresti, I saw what you did there.
	10:07pm Chris Wardell: Sup, Jeff? Brother Neil. Funny, I just got done watching the David Crosby documentary, and he talks about Neil quite a bit.
	10:07pm ParUbi: Hello all
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: PArUbi here for the second time. Nice. Evening, everybody.
	10:08pm Jeff Conklin: Not paying attention to what Crosby says has done well for me...
	♥ 10:09pm chresti: Hey Carmichael!
	10:12pm sufferwords: Dicky Betts a little on that lead
	10:14pm Carmichael: Betts is one of my guitar idols. Blue Sky is amazing.
	10:14pm Carmichael: Heya there chresti.
	10:16pm RCU-Keith: Evening, Jeff. Man, I’ve always wanted to check out Illinois Speed Press, but now I really have to hunt their albums down.
	10:17pm Jeff Conklin: Check the nearest dollar bin, for some reason nobody cares and its a very solid album...
	10:18pm sadiwn: Evening Jeff, getting here a little late but this Strangefolk is a nice one.
	10:20pm Chris Wardell: Aww, Croz is ok. A little pompous and unnecessarily surly for sure. If I Could Only Remember My Name is a classic record, and Jerry is all over it.
	10:21pm sadiwn: also, I bookmarked that Whims tweet to check out but honestly I saw it and thought "oh, I bet I'll hear from that Sunday night."
	10:23pm Neal: San Francisco here. Just tuned in about 15 minutes ago. As the legal cannabis kicks. Wonderful music.
	10:24pm Jeff Conklin: I'm deeply familiar with Croz's work. I just dont want to hear his opinbion on anything. And his last two records are dogshit.
	10:24pm Carmichael: While hanging around Portland, I found a local 70s band called Sand. Tremendous find.
	10:24pm mb: Evening all. Preach DJ JC.
	10:24pm Jeff Conklin: I have that LP, Carmichael, its very good. Weird how its split across two LPs though
	10:27pm Carmichael: You’ve heard of Sand? Most excellent. I have been playing it on repeat for awhile now. I have to go back to the dude at the record shop, who seemed to know them.
	10:28pm Beau&boris: Hey
	10:28pm Jeff Conklin: Of course I know Sand who do you think you’re talking to?!
	10:30pm Carmichael: Ha ha! New to me, thought it was a great find.
	10:34pm Jeff Conklin: There's a great German band called Sand as well. And I have their records too ;)
	♥ 10:35pm ParUbi: They have that one album, Golem, right?
	10:40pm Dean: This album first appeared in the UK on Transatlantic, which was the label on which Gryphon's first album, 1973, was issued.
	10:41pm Carmichael: Wow, strummed up James Taylor.
	10:44pm Jeff Conklin: www.google.com
	♥ 10:53pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi Jeff and ghetts. A blurb in the local paper mentioned that on December 15, there will be a celebration in honor of Robert Hunter up in Woodstock. www.colonywoodstock.com...
	♥ 10:55pm Mr. Pumpy: I'm up later than usual for a Sunday. It's kind of hot in here in my place in Clifton, and I have a few windows open. I hear the leaves rustling from the wind, and this airy, folky setlist is the perfect compliment. Cheers, Jeff!
	♥ 10:59pm Mr. Pumpy: @Ken...thanks for the info. I have a place up in Delaware County, and I go through right past Woodstock on the ride to and fro. I'll look into that.
	11:08pm scobot: Loved that opinion on Neil.
	11:12pm phat: great show tonight. my weekly dose of psych-jam-hippy stuff. love it.
	11:12pm Jeff Conklin: Yeah, time for him to hang it up or at least be quiet
	11:13pm Jeff Conklin: psych-jam-hippy is my middle name
	♥ 11:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Glad to have WiFis to steal (on & off with no reason I know) - so can get the full FMU experience - slipping in & out of wakefulness with interesting programs in later timeslots... Love you have this intelligent & well-informed presentation of genre music I don't get exposed to elsewhere.
	11:13pm Dean: I'm uncomfortable admitting it, but I've always thought Neil Young was overrated. He's a kinda folkie, hippie Springsteen. He's written a good song or two, but generally he isn't the best performer of those songs. Alas, B"P"B likewise strikes me as a fake. That's probably because The Wire so heavily covered him, and The Wire is for me almost unbearable.
	11:14pm jdcon: Tuning in from Jackson Wyoming
	11:14pm phat: and drone!
	♥ 11:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Cool, Mr. Pumpy. If you attend, let us know how it went.
	11:18pm phat: this Richard Youngs and Raul Refree is remarkable. truly lovely.
	11:18pm Jeff Conklin: What up Wyoming. Everybody thats by little brother.
	11:19pm Jeff Conklin: I think Neil has done at least 5 perfect albums. But his last 10 years have been shit for the most part.
	11:19pm phat: I'm jealous that someone gets to make this music. I need a new band
	11:22pm Jeff Conklin: @phat: Do it
	♥ 11:22pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Neil is a Stylist - in voice & on gittar - which will always hit & miss with various individuals ...& has written more songs than alll but a small handful of people... Always admired how he goes his own way after his muse ....if @ 74 & after more than a Half Century he isn't always the most relevant is it a shock?
	11:23pm phat: I should send you copies of one of my old band's records. you'd probably dig them.
	11:23pm Dean: If by "perfect" you mean "really, really good," then so be it. But if you mean transcendent, rarely to be bettered, then I can't reply meaningfully.
	♥ 11:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'd reckon Owen here has absorbed Neil...
	♥ 11:24pm ParUbi: Love that Owen Tromans number
	11:24pm Jeff Conklin: @Dean: Thats ok Dean. I mean perfect as in perfect and your reply isnt necessary
	11:25pm phat: At least 5 is probably about right
	♥ 11:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Seems a sober assessment...
	11:26pm Moelarryandjesus: What was your old band, phat?
	11:28pm phat: we were called Think. not the 1971 one or the Hungarian one. (couldn't Google obscure band names in 1993).
	11:28pm phat: self-released stuff
	♥ 11:29pm mariano: Ahhh, what a lovely tune to come home to. Hi Jeff, evening crew!
	11:31pm phat: the guitarist runs a blog called Blastitude/Blogstitude
	11:32pm ZeeBee: I am loving the music tonight. I am listening in the kitchen next to my dad, he is digging it all as well.
	11:33pm Mandy: Hi!
	11:34pm Jeff Conklin: Aw, love thast, ZeeBee, thank you. and Hi DAD
	11:34pm Jeff Conklin: Hey Mandy
	11:34pm Mandy: Great music here tonight
	11:39pm Jeff Conklin: Thank you
	11:44pm phat: Sunday evening WFMU is one of the highlights of my week.
	11:47pm Mandy: This would be great to hear on the radio at night while driving on a road trip. Everyone asleep in the back.
	11:48pm Jeff Conklin: @Mandy: Sort of what I picture when putting shows together ;)
	11:49pm dave b.: Some big negative feelings about Neil Young this evening. His records in the past 10 years are certainly not my favorites, but it's hard for me to call them S#1T. I have too much respect for this man. He was criticized and even sued by the record label he was on in the early 80's after he released Reactor/Hawks and Doves/ Trans/ Shocking Pinks. These were kinda considered bad records too by many at the time. There are real gems on all those albums, as there are a few on his current ones. Neil is a pure artist.
	11:52pm Jeff Conklin: He's indeed an artist. But far from pure. And shilling for Amazon is beyond shitty. Sorry, its how I feel.
	11:53pm phat: mandy, agreed
	11:54pm Dean: Mine contribute to the negative feelings. They are directed less at his lifetime of work--good, bad, influential, for some but not for others--than at the notion that he "is a pure artist," which means nothing. That aside, I don't find much to enjoy in his work.
	♥ 11:54pm mariano: I'm not the biggest Neil Young fan by any stretch, though do I have a lot of respect for him. But man, I really love his Shocking Pinks phase, then there was the new-wavy one, Sample and Hold. I looked up the Wonderin' video not long ago, hadn't seen it since probably the 80s on MTV, and it is a trip.
	11:55pm Mandy: This sounds like the sun is coming up. The sun must be coming up over the Atlantic right now.
	11:57pm Jeff Conklin: Wonderin video is SO GOOD
	11:58pm Mandy: Great show thanks!!!
	♥ 11:58pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Amazon. Huh.
	11:59pm mb: Thanks Jeff. Safe travels.
	♥ 12:02am Ken From Hyde Park: Wasn't Neil's song "This Note's For You" about not selling out? I am confused now.

The Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin: Playlist from November 17, 2019

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