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LaRae

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all tracks listed in reverse chronological order

COMPILATIONS

Lilac Wine [the Album Leaf Remix]
Verve Remixed, Vol. 3 2005 via Verve

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Grupo Fantasma

El Desconocido
Sonidos Gold 2008 via High Wire Music
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(REQUESTED)

Two Gallants

Despite What You've Been Told
Two Gallants 2007 via Saddle Creek
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Two Gallants are made up of Adam Stephens (b. 1981) on guitar, harmonica and vocals and Tyson Vogel (b. 7 November 1981) on drums and vocals. Stephens and Vogel started gigging around San Francisco as Two Gallants in 2002, when both were twenty; the two had been making music together since the age of twelve. They made two separate self-released CDs, which are now out of print.

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Delta Spirit

Trashcan
Ode To Sunshine 2008 via Rounder / Umgd
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2:40 pm

Miles Davis

Generique
Cool & Collected 2006 via Sony
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Hugh Masekela

Open the Door
Revival 2005 via Heads Up
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Crooked Fingers

Cannibals
Forfeit-Fortune 2008 via Constant Artists, Inc. / Red Pig
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COMPILATIONS

Superstar
Juno- Music From The Motion Picture 2008 via Rhino Records

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(REQUESTED)

The Jam

That's Entertainment
Stranger Than Fiction 2006 via Sony
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(REQUESTED)

Tower of Power

What Is Hip-
Live And In Living Color 1990 via Warner Bros / Wea
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The Meters

Cardova
The Josie Years
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Booker T

I Can't Stand The Rain
That's the Way It Should Be 1994 via Sony
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Lucky Dube

Abathakathi
Retrospective 2008 via Rykodisc
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2:00 pm

COMPILATIONS

The Maker Makes [Rufus Wainwright]
Brokeback Mountain [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] 2005 via Verve

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TV on the Radio

Family Tree
Dear Science 2008 via DGC/Interscope
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(REQUESTED)

Meshell Ndegeocello

Come Smoke My Herb
Comfort Woman 2003 via Maverick
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Ben Harper with the Blind Boys of Alabama

Satisfied Mind
There Will Be A Light 2004 via Virgin Records Us
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1:40 pm

Feist

Let It Die
Let It Die 2005 via Interscope Records
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COMPILATIONS

Knockin' On Heaven's Door
I'm Not There- Original Soundtrack 2007 via Sony

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Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

As Tall as Cliffs
Not Animal 2008 via Epic
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(REQUESTED)

Tom Waits

All Stripped Down
Bone Machine 1992 via Island
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Beastie Boys

Sabrosa
The In Sounds From Way Out!
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1:20 pm

Keren Ann

La Forme Et Le Fond
Nolita 2005 via Blue Note Records
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COMPILATIONS

Special Rider Blues
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues- The Soul Of A Man 2003 via Sony

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Jenny Lewis

Pretty Bird
Acid Tongue 2008 via Warner Bros.
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Michael Riley

Don't Get Too Fond
Michael Riley 2009 via Make Your Own Records
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http://www.myspace.com/girlslovelemons

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1:00 pm
(REQUESTED)

Karl Denson

Groove On
The Bridge 2002 via Relaxed Records
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Manu Chao

Mr. Bobby
Proxima Estacion- Esperanza 2001 via Virgin Records
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Manu Chao sings in the English, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, French, Arabic and Wolof languages, often mixing them in the same song. His music has many influences: punk, rock, French chanson, Iberoamerican salsa, reggae, ska, and Algerian raï.

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(REQUESTED)

Talking Heads

This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Speaking in Tongues 1983 via Sire / London/Rhino
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The Flaming Lips

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 2002 via Warner Brothers
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12:40 pm

Lightnin' Hopkins

Happy New Year
The Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins 2004 via Sony
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(REQUESTED)

Roberta Bradley & Gypsy

Funky New Orleans
Move Over 1998 via Independent

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Professor Longhair

Cry to Me
Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge 1991 via Rhino / Wea
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Professor Longhair (born Henry Roeland Byrd, also known as Roy "Bald Head" Byrd and as Fess) (December 19, 1918 - January 30, 1980) was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist. He was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He was noted for his unique piano style, which he described as "a combination of rumba, mambo, and Calypso", and his unusual, expressive voice, described once as "freak unique"

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Nick Moss & The Fliptops

You'll Remember My Name
Play It 'til Tomorrow 2007 via Blue Bella
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Playing at Billy's Lounge on 2/7/09 to kick of the Cabin Fever Blues Series, benefiting The West Michigan Blues Society and WYCE!

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12:20 pm

Lady Dottie & The Diamonds

Love Me or Leave Me
Lady Dottie & The Diamonds 2008 via HI-SPEED SOUL
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Lady Dottie & the Diamonds -- including former members of GoGoGo Airheart -- perform covers of songs by Etta James, Muddy Waters, BB King, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, the Staple Singers, Sam and Dave, Ray Charles, Howling Wolf, Danzig, the Rolling Stones, Leadbelly, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, the Sonics, Chuck Berry, Nazareth, Ike & Tina Turner, Billie Holiday, Little Richard, Guitar Slim, Otis Redding, T-Bone Walker, Skip James, Stevie Wonder, AC/DC, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Foghat, Sam Cooke, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Huey Piano Smith, and the Clowns,.

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Q-Tip

Life Is Better
The Renaissance 2008 via Universal Motown
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Q-Tip (born Jonathan Davis, April 10, 1970, in Harlem, New York), is an American hip hop artist, singer, and occasional actor from Queens, New York City. He went to Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan, New York and was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest. He converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed. The Q in Q-Tip's stage name stands for Queens, the borough of New York City from which he hails.

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Greyboy

Grey's Groove
15 Years of West Coast Cool 2008 via UBIQUITY RECORDS
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At 14 tracks, 15 Years of West Coast Cool represents every phase of Greyboy’s career. Cuts are culled from his four studio albums in addition to compilations and singles, and several remixes and previously-unreleased tracks get an outing as well.

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Of Montreal

An Eluardian Instance
Skeletal Lamping 2008 via Polyvinyl Records
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Skeletal Lamping, was released on October 21, 2008. The album was released in ten different formats, including conventional CD and vinyl, as well as t-shirts, button sets, wall decals, tote bags and a paper lantern, the latter formats replete with a digital download code for the album itself.

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