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I Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All/The World is Gone Wrong

Side A
Artist Song
Yes  Heart of the Sunrise - Fragile - (1972) 
Kindred Spirit  Blue Avenue - An Overdose of Heavy Psyche - (1969) 
Flaming Lips  Slow Nerve Action - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart - (1993) 
Deerhoof  L' Amour Stories - Apple O' - (2003) 
Unicorns, The  Innoculate the Innocuous - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? - (2003) 
Of Montreal  The Autobiographical Grandpa - The Gay Parade - (1998) 
Red Krayola  Free Form Freakout: Transparent Radiation - Parable for Arable Land - (1967) 
No-Neck Blue Band  Illirikum - Parallel Easters - (2003) 
Pentangle  Hole in the Coal - Sweet Child - (1968) 
Fairport Convention  Fotheringay - What We Did on Our Holidays - (1969) 
M. Ward  Involuntary - Transfiguration of Vincent - (2003) 
Mountain Goats  Linda Blair Was Born Innocent - We Shall All Be Healed - (2004) 
Papa M  Pink Holler - Live from a Shark's Cage - (1999) 
Dirty Three  Serena - Ocean Songs - (1998) 
Blind Mamie and A.C. Forehand  I Wouldn't Mind Dying If Dying Was All - The Key to the Kingdom (Washington Phillips) - (192?) 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
James, Skip  Hard Time Killin' Floor - Complete Early Recordings - 1930 - (1930) 
Jefferson, Blind Lemon  Mosquito Moan - All the Classic Sides - (192?) 
Blackwell, Scrapper  Down South Blues - Virtuoso Guitar 1925-1934 - (1931) 
Staple Singers (Charley Patton cover)  Too Close - Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton - (1957) 
Franklin, Aretha  Today I Sing the Blues - Aretha Sings the Blues - (1969) 
Carr, James  These Ain't Teardrops - Complete Goldwax Singles - (1969) 
Alexander, Arthur  In the Middle of it All - The Ultimate Arthur Alexander - (196?) 
Clay, Otis  I Love You, I Need You - Hi Masters - (197?) 
Chocolate Genius  The Eyes of the Lord - Godmusic - (2001) 
Henry, Joe  Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation - Scar - (2001) 
Chesnutt, Vic  Bakersfield - Little - (1988) 
Spence, Alexander "Skip"  All Come to Meet Her - Oar - (1969) 
Moby Grape  Sitting by the Window - Moby Grape - (1967) 
Peanut Butter Conspiracy  The Most Up Till Now - Is Spreading/The Great Conspiracy - (1967) 
Earth Opera  Home to You - The Great American Eagle Tragedy - (1969) 
Dylan, Bob  Tell Me That It Isn't True - Nashville Skyline - (1969) 
Guthrie, Woody  Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues - Uncut Masters: Tracks That Influenced Bob Dylan - (1964) 
Orbison, Roy  Mean Little Mama (Undubbed Version) - Sun Records Story - (1961) 
Brown, Clarence "Gatemouth"  That's Your Daddy Yaddy Yo - The Original Peacock Recordings - (195?) 
Hooker, John Lee  Lonely Boy Boogie - John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues - (1951) 
Zoogz Rift (Tim Buckley Cover)  Look at the Fool - Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins - (1988) 
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band  Safe as Milk - Safe as Milk - (1967) 
Mississippi Sheiks  The World is Gone Wrong - Essential (& Uncut Masters: Tracks That Influenced Bob Dylan) - (1930) 

Comment:

A Double Disc - Somewhat Random Collection - which, didn't turn out that random, after all.

Thematically and genre-wise there's a yearning, love-lorn feel found throughout this collection.

Disc One kicks off with some bombastic prog, psych, neo-psych which gives way to some extended avant psych/folk. Some lo-fi americana revival tunes are added and the disc culminates with a wonderful piece of pre-war gospel/blues.

Disc Two is a continuation. After a meddley of delta/piedmont blues a smooth transition is made to a number of Deep Soul numbers...another quick transition and the mix comes to completion with some folk rock/folk/psych/rockabilly/blues rock/avant folk-psych and yet another fine acoustic blues-gospel tune.

The title of the mix is from the song of each disk. And, (once again, unintentionally) seems to depict the overall mood of the mix.

I hope you enjoy!

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Rob Conroy
Date: 6/27/2005
This looks fantastic, particularly the Skip Spence, Mt. Goats, Capt. Beefheart, James Carr, Skip James, Fairport, Aretha, Dylan, Grape, Red Krayola... hell, I love *all* of this, including that Yes song (I'm not a fan of the band, but that's one of their two or three best moments, IMHO). GREAT work.
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no borders
Date: 6/27/2005
Excellent. Lot of nice soul numbers!
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dimflash
Date: 6/27/2005
Don't know much here but looks intriguing. Love the Yes and the Deerhoof! (Now that's a sentence I don't think I ever thought I'd utter.)