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Scrine Radio Library

2010-02-03T21:11:35+00:00

Sir’s Birthday Mix (a lot) ((HA!))

2010-01-20T20:14:09+00:00

I sent this compilation of songs that I discovered in 2009 out to a bunch of people on my birthday in return for them sending me their own compilations. It’s a thing that I do. Actually, they’re not ALL songs that I just found in 2009, but they’re MOSTLY songs that I found in 2009. If you’re going to get all picky about semantics then maybe you should just leave. Yeah, that’s right. I went there.

Here’s the playlist with little snippets of drivel for each song: Playlist

Mike Harding ~ Yorkshire Transvestite Found Dead on Everest

2010-01-16T18:52:19+00:00

FOR a number of years now, writer, photographer, stand-up-comic and folk musician Mike Harding has written a monthly column for The Great Outdoors, Britain’s premier backpacking and trekking magazine. Witty, acidic and sometimes frothing over with barely concealed grump, the articles have plumbed the heights, and soared to the depths of all that is best and worse in travel writing. Here, gathered under one roof for the first time, is a selection of some of the best of those literary burblings.

In these recordings you will meet Yorkshire Transvestite and hero Maurice Wilson, you will climb the Devil’s Bollocks, and hear the story of Akala and the Monk’s Ghost. May you hear them in health.

Ricky Gervais Guide to the Arts

2010-01-02T20:11:37+00:00

In the wake of his successful run in the British version of The Office, Ricky Gervais had a show on XFM with his Office collaborator Stephen Merchant. They were given a dude with a head like an orange and a limited outlook on everything as their producer, which turned into a remarkable act of serendipity. The comedy that resulted was unintended, but is certifiably hilarious in the way that only the dryness of British humor can be. When the show ended, podcasts became their outlet of choice and the evolution of the Guide To… series followed. They’re all very good, but this one in particular struck me as an excellent introduction and the more likely of them to make someone wet themselves. And since I take a certain degree of pleasure in causing people to soil themselves, well, here you go.

Fleet Foxes

2010-01-02T19:43:26+00:00

These guys sit somewhere between Indie and Alternative, but they’re almost too mellow to be either. Let’s call them Alt-Indie or Alterpendent or something. Regardless of what you call them, they make exceptionally good music. ‘Mykonos’ is from their 5-song debut Sun Giant, while their more recent and longer self-titled album is shown above with the song list below.

Them Crooked Vultures

2010-01-02T19:19:29+00:00

Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) decided to combine their superpowers into a band that’s so good that it reduces listeners to piles of satisfied goo. When someone told me that these people got together, formed a band, and pooped out an album, I punched him in the face then stood over him pointing an accusatory finger and chastised him for telling such horrible lies. Turns out he was right, so I felt bad for the punching, but the album was so good that it erased every other bad thing that I’d ever done. That’s how good it is.

The Biggest Collection

2009-04-15T22:24:00+00:00

John Cephas

2009-03-04T16:34:00+00:00

Guitarist John Cephas, one-half of the popular blues duo Cephas & Wiggins, and one of the last of the early Piedmont bluesmen, died on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 of natural causes. Cephas was 78 years old.

Born in 1930 in Washington, D.C. to a deeply religious family, Cephas’ music was seeped in gospel music and the Piedmont blues sound of artists like Blind Blake and Blind Boy Fuller. Cephas toiled outside of the blues for years, working as a professional gospel singer, a carpenter, and an Atlantic fisherman before he began earning a living with his music during the 1960s.

The Prairie Ramblers

2009-01-09T15:13:00+00:00

Here’s a good one filled with plenty of old-time sexual innuendo and some missing lyrics that are fun to try and guess. Can you guess the missing lyrics?

Phil Lee ~ You Should Have Known Me Then

2008-12-23T14:40:00+00:00

They say that if you shine a flashlight into the shadows of Nashville you might catch a small glimpse of Phil Lee before he disappears from sight. No one understands how a high-energy country man like Phil can remain so hidden for so long. Asked once what he thought, Waylon Jennings response was, “The man needs to switch to decaf.”

I don’t know about that, Waylon. One listen to “Carl’s Got Louise” convinced me that Phil’s doing just fine. No, make that better than fine. Enjoy.