"Decent Man" by Lawrence Rothman

Song: Decent Man (ft. Lucinda Williams)
Artist: Lawrence Rothman
Album: Good Morning, America (2021)
Also try:  THe National, Nick Cave, Lou Reed
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶Are there any decent men left?🎶
Commentary: Just discovered Lawrence Rothman and I dig. I'm only one rep into Good Morning, America and I can't wait to hear their latest country album, The Plow That Broke the Plains. This song gave some the National vibes and I def love Lucinda. Lawrence Rothman seems like an interesting gender-fluid who doesn't seem to have gotten a particularly early start in music.

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"Blend" by Sandy Bull

Song: Blend
Artist: Sandy Bull
Album: Fantasias for Guitar & Banjo (1963)
Also try:  Hamza El Din, John Fahey
Commentary: What a debut album. Just learned that Sandy Bull and Hamza El Din roomed together the year this album was released, which explains a lot. They both are awesome.

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"Elle M'a Oublie" by Joe Falcón

Song: Elle M'a Oublie (She Has Forgotten Me)
Artist: Joseph Falcón with Cléoma & Orphy Breaux
Album: B-side of "C'est Si Triste San Lui" 78 (1929)
Also try:  other early Cajun collections, such as Yazoo's Early American Cajun Music, Arhoolie's Cajun Breakdown, etc.
Commentary: I've heard a few other songs by Joe & Cléoma (who were married) and they rock. Cléoma's singing is great, but I just love the vocals in this song. Heard on Dust-to-Digital's the Harry Smith's B-Sides release.

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"All I Want is You" by Cindy Lee

Song: "All I Want Is You"
Artist: Cindy Lee
Album: Diamond Jubilee (2024)
Also try:  Pat Flegel's work with the band Women, maybe Amen Dunes, or early How to Dress Well
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶🎶 [I don't know the lyrics yet -- too fresh. maybe I'll update when I've got some]
Commentary: I've barely started disc 1 and I'm digging the album. I'm not that familiar with Pat's work but I'm ready to work backwards. Some sugary lo-fi pop music that apparently is often noisier than this track. I'm down.

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"AS Tearless" by Amnesia Scanner

Song: AS Tearless
Artist: Amnesia Scanner
Album: Tearless (2020)
Commentary: Post-pop! idk. I liked this album when it came out in 2020. Nice and interesting newer genre.

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"Fafa" by Vieux Farka Touré

Song: Fafa
Artist: Vieux Farka Touré
Album: Fondo (2009)
Also try:  Ali Farka Touré, Vieux's father
Commentary: Just heard about VFT's recent album with Khruangbin. Can't wait to hear that banger. VFT is a great guitarist and songwriter. This is album is some more desert blues. Lots of great music out of Mali.

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"American Teenager" by Ethel Cain

Song: "American Teenager"
Artist: Ethel Cain
Album: Preacher's Daughter (2022)
Also try:  Other sad girls with guitars.
Commentary:What have I told you about not listening to enough trans artists? Nice music.

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2 songs from the Minutemen

Songs: "My Heart and the Real World" & "History Lesson, Pt. 2"
Artist: the Minutemen
Album: Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶🎶
Commentary: Excellent, fun, off-kilter album. I have no idea why I've always liked "History Lesson, pt. 2," but it's my most-listened Minutemen song.

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"Photoshoot (Flying Lotus remix)" by Gucci Mane

Song: Photoshoot (Flying Lotus remix)
Artist: Gucci Mane
Album: Adult Swim Singles Project 2009
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶I see the boy, see the boy, see the boy. Lemme take a polaroid, polaroid, camera flash🎶
🎶Get your camera phone on, it's a photoshoot🎶
Commentary: This was my first introduction to Flying Lotus and his genius as a producer. I didn't like Gucci Mane at the time or the kind of percussive drum kits like we hear here. But something about this song I have loved. It gets stuck in my head and springs to mind regularly, and it's been so long that he's singing about a "camera phone"! I also have to hype the Adult Swim Singles music operation. They've been curating excellent music selections for YEARS. Go ahead, check out some of their releases. I can't tell if they've ceased since 2021, but there's still good stuff there. I hope they keep going because they tend to be ahead of the game.

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"Mercho" by Lil Cake

Song: Mercho
Artist: Lil Cake
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶En el mercho, escuchando fercho🎶
Commentary: I might end up taking this song down, because I don't loooooove it. But the chorus is so catchy! And following up on the TikTok trends en español from Thursday, it seemed fun. Plus the guy has a Bengals jersey on?! weird. It's fun, the beat is nice, I guess my least favorite part is Lil Cake's voice here...

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"M.A (Mejores Amigos)" by BM

Song: M.A (Mejores Amigos)
Artist: BM (Brian Sánchez)
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶te 'ta' portando mal y será' castigada🎶 (you are behaving badly and will be punished)
Commentary: First heard this on Spanish Tok and find it very catchy!! Great flow, nice reggaetón.

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"Tika Molamu" by Sebongile Kgaila

Song: Tika Molamu (Knobkerrie Throw)
Artist: Sebongile Kgaila
Album: I'm not here to hunt rabbits -- Guitar & Folk Styles From Botswana (2018)
Commentary: A really nice collection of folk & guitar music out of Botswana. Well-produced by, I guess, the Piranha label out of Berlin. You should probably watch some videos of the cool way people are playing overhand guitar in Botswana -- some examples in this NPR article.

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"Leonard's Lake" & an excerpt from ~Third Side of Tape~ by Lil Ugly Mane

Song: "Leonard's Lake" and "Infinite Rave"
Artist: Lil Ugly Mane
Album: Oblivion Access (2015) and Third Side of Tape (2015)
Also try: 
Commentary: I guess I've posted something by Shawn Kemp (another alter ego of Travis Miller), but I could've sworn I'd already posted Leonard's Lake. I like Lil Ugly Mane's early stuff, I think he's loosely associated with the Raider Klan and Denzel Curry. He got more experimental, which was great, and lately Volcanic Bird Enemy was more poppy (and not hip hop?!) yet good. Also, lol, I thought the 2nd was called "Infinite Rain" -- it's a segment, and highlight, of the long mix, Third Side of Tape.

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"Landwerk I" by Nathan Salsburg

Song: Landwerk I
Artist: Nathan Salsburg
Album: Landwerk (2020)
Commentary: Fellow Kentuckian, Nathan Salsburg, does some nice guitar work. With Landwerk, he uses crackling old 78 recordings and loops to build a series of haunting and repetive melodies. Recommend.

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"Grass" & "For Reverend Green" by Animal Collective

Songs: "Grass" and "For Reverend Green"
Artist: Animal Collective
Albums: Feels (2005) & Strawberry Jam (2007)
Commentary: Shocking to notice I've never put any Animal Collective on here. And it's different enough from Panda Bear. But yeah, the 00s saw me listening to a lot of them, well into the 10s and they still rock. Feels, Strawberry Jam, and Merriweather Post Pavilion were all awesome and appreciated. I usually try to vary the type of song I post, and maybe I did a little, but I just love it when they scream, so we got two screamers here. Animal Collective deserves a double post in my anthologizing here.

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"Good Girl/Carrots" by Panda Bear

Song: Good Girl/Carrots
Artist: Panda Bear
Album: Person Pitch (2007)
Also try:  Pet Sounds
Commentary: Surprised I've never posted any Panda Bear. Person Pitch is such a good album. I missed Panda Bear at P4K :/ My cousin wanted to see him because he'd heard them in a Daft Punk song haha

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"Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?)" by Soul Glo

Song: Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?)
Artist: Soul Glo
Album: Diaspora Problems (2022)
Commentary: I already liked Soul Glo, so it was nice to see them live, also at Pitchfork. The guitarist (GG Guerra?) was so fun and my cousin really liked how Pierce Jordan screamed.

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"Pa'lante" by Hurray for the Riff Raff

Song: Pa'lante
Artist: Hurray for the Riff Raff
Album: The Navigator (2017)
Also try:  Cat Power, Neko Case
Lyrics that resound:: 🎶Do your best, but fuck the rest. Be something!🎶
Commentary: I didn't think I'd ever heard of this band before, but I have heard Pa'lante. I just saw them at Pitchfork Music Festival and they were fun. And now I find out the lead singer is nonbinary?? dope.

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"The Keith Haring Story" by Jeffrey Lewis

Song: The Keith Haring Story
Artist: Jeffrey Lewis
Also try:  Other anti-folk music, Jeffrey Lewis' comics
Commentary: Ope. Guess I've been lax in posting! Just saw JL & the Voltage live last night. It was pretty fun. Saw/heard this biography and learned something, also thought it was awesome. Listened to him in high school, namely "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror."

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"Ana Bas Saktalak" by Nancy Mounir

Song: "Ana Bas Saktalak"
Artist: Nancy Mounir with Fatma Sherry
Album: Nozhet El Nofous (2022)
Also try:  Women of Egypt 1924-1931: Pioneers of Stardom and Fame; old 78s of Egyptian music
Commentary: So many wonderful musical traditions around the world. I'm so glad there's so much access to so much of it today. I'm grateful to the musicians and their lineages. Appreciate the musicologists and archivists preserving these histories. And I ALSO love the current artists working from and with older stuff. So this album is dope. Apparently Nancy Mounir is also in a metal band (Massive Scar Era).

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