Mary filling in for Steve on this fine February evening, with tracks celebrating James Joyce, Graham Nash, and the invention of the polygraph machine; as well as tunes to keep you 'warm'
Finnegan's Wake Dubliners - Ireland's Finest - Rhapsody 02002 |
Ulysses Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg - 4AD 01988 |
Tales of Brave Ulysses Cream - Disraeli Gears - Universal 01967 |
The Sensual World Kate Bush - The Sensual World - Capitol 01989 |
turning from the birthday of difficult wordsmith James Joyce (1882) to the birthday of somewhat easier on the ears word and tunesmith Graham Nash (1942) |
Clown Hollies - For Certain Because - Imperial 01966 |
Crusader Hollies - For Certain Because - Imperial 01966 |
Butterfly Hollies - Butterfly - Parlophone 01967 |
Elevated Observations Hollies - Butterfly - Parlophone 01967 |
Marrakech Express Crosby Stills & Nash - Crosby Stills & Nash - Atlantic 01969 |
Cathedral Crosby Stills & Nash - CSN - Atlantic 01977 |
I Used to be a King Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners - Atlantic 01971 |
Southbound Train Nash/Crosby - Nash & Crosby - Atlantic 01972 |
we also take note of the birthdays of TV celebrities Tommy Smothers (1937), Pebbles Flintstone (1963), and Bo Hopkins of White Lightning, the Wild Bunch, and Rockford Files... |
Rockford Files Mike Post - Tube Tunes Vol I - Rhino comp 01995 |
and commemorate the first use of the unreliable polygraph machine by Laurence Keeler on this date in 1935, with a few tracks about lying and liars... |
Would I Lie to You? Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight - RCA 01985 |
Dorothy Taps the Toes of the Tinman Liars - Atheists, Reconsider - Version City 02002 |
She's Crafty Beastie Boys - Licenced to Ill - Columbia 01986 |
and now, in light of ill communication from those pesky groundhogs, some tunes on the topic of keeping warm - for a further six weeks - |
Here Come the Warm Jets Circle - Manner - Hydra Head 02012 |
Newport Kinski - Be Gentle with the Warm Turtle - Strange Attractors 02005 |
White Light White Heat Lou Reed - Best of - RCA 01979 |
Born Under Punches (the Heat Goes On) Talking Heads - Remain In Light - Sire 01980 |
Keeping Warm Meredith Monk - Facing North - ECM 01992 |
Warm Leatherette Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette - Island 01980 |
The Warm Room Kate Bush - Lionheart - Harvest 01978 |
Windy and Warm Doc Watson - Southbound - Vanguard 01965 |
Looking for June Gary Higgins - Red Hash - Drag City |
Fever a Warm Poison Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulum's Embrace - SL 02008 |