Michele K-tel salutes the harmolodics of ORNETTE COLEMAN and other musical rule breakers. “It sounds like a melody but it’s not a melody.” — Ornette Coleman

Playlist 6.18.15

Ornette Coleman “Rise And Shine” (previously unreleased) Beauty Is A Rare Thing – Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble “Ornette” Dance with the Ancestors (Chameleon)
Rabih Abou-Khalil “Ornette Never Sleeps” Al-Jadida (Enja)
Ornette Coleman “Macho Woman” Hidden Man (Polygram)
Ornette Coleman “Heard It Over The Radio” Beauty Is A Rare Thing – Complete Atlantic Recordings (Rhino)
Ornette Coleman “La Capella” Tone Dialing (Harmolodic)

Vetiver “Current Carry” Complete Strangers (Easy Sound)
The Be Good Tanyas “Ship Out On The Sea” Chinatown (Nettwerk)
The Carter Family “Waves On The Sea” The Acme Sessions 1952/56 (JSP)
Beach House “On the Sea” Bloom (Sub Pop)

Dimas III “So Funny Royal” Jesters: English Oldies (Numero Group)
Polar Bear “We Feel the Echoes” Same as You (the Leaf Label)
Colleen “Humming Fields” The Weighing of the Heart (Second Language Music)
Colleen “Soul Alphabet” Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
Royal Jesters “Afro-Lypso” Royal Jesters: English Oldies (Numero Group)
Dafnis Prieto Sextet “Two for One” Triangles and Circles (Dafnison)

Girlpool “Slutmouth” Girlpool (Wichita)
Bratmobile “Are You A Lady?” Girls Get Busy (Lookout!)
Marc Bolan & T.Rex “Lady” The Slider
Deradoorian “A Beautiful Woman” The Expanding Flower Planet
Mary Afi Usuah “Ima Mma Uyem” Ekpenyong Abasi (Voodoo Funk)
Mbongwana Star “Suzanna” From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
Ty Segall “Tall Man Skinny Lady” Manipulator (Drag City)

Tara Jane O’Neil “At Last The Night Has Ended” Remembering Mountains : Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton (Tompkins Square)

Michele K-tel plays new music from old folks WIRE, the latest movie score collaboration between Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, “SCRAMBLED!” from Italian jazz sextet OU (that’s EGG in Sardinian) + a tix giveaway to solo synth works from Chicago’s SEA AND CAKE member Sam Prekop @ Slim’s 6/9.

Playlist 6.4.15

Polar Bear “The First Steps” Same as You (Leaf Label)
Mbongwana Star “Kala” From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
Django Django “Pause Repeat” Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
Ginger Folorunso Johnson & His Afro-Cuban Band “Highlife No. 5” Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway)

OU “S’OU ABBATTADU” Scrambled (Spoot)
Los Straitjackets “Brains & Eggs” !Viva! Los Straitjackets (Rounder)
Pram “Eggshells” Music For Your Movies EP (Duophonic UHF)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis “Dust Storm” Loin Des Hommes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Sam Prekop “Weather Vane” The Republic (Thrill Jockey) (@Slim’s on 6/4)
Shrimp Boat “Kickball (live)” Something Grand (Aum Fidelity)
Sam Prekop “Magic Step” Who’s Your New Professor (Thrill Jockey)
The Sea and Cake “New Patterns” Runner (Thrill Jockey)

Wire “Blogging” Wire (pink flag)
Chastity Belt “Time To Go Home” Time To Go Home (Hardly Art)
Joanna Gruesome “Hey! I Wanna Be Yr Best Friend” Peanut Butter (Slumberland)
Surf City “One Too Many Things” Jekyll Island (Fire)

Jamie XX “Gosh” In Colour (XL)
Donovan “Oh Gosh” A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (Legacy)
Skepta “Oh My Gosh” Microphone Champion (Boy Betta Know)
Pixies “Oh My Golly!” Surfer Rosa (4AD)
The Coasters “Gee, Golly” The Definitive Coasters (A Sides & B Sides)
K. McCarty “Golly, Gee” Dead Dog’s Eyeball (Bar/None)
Conway Twitty “Golly Gosh Oh Gee” Master Classics
A Tribe Called Quest Oh My God (Remix) Hits, Rarities & Remixes (Jive)

Gideon Freudmann “Oh Me, Oh My” Banking Left (Gadfly)
The Monkees “Oh My My” Changes (Rhino)
The Robot Ate Me “OH NO! OH MY!” On Vacation Part 1 (5RC)
Thee Oh Sees “Holy Smoke” Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
Jimmy Reed “Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth” Big Boss Man
Carla Thomas “Gee Whiz” Live at The Bohemian Caverns
Elsie Carlisle “Gosh, Darn” A Retrospective Elsie Carlisle

Splatter Trio “Sheesh (Monk’s Dilemma)” The Splatter Trio (RASTASCAN)
Big Satan (Berne, Ducret, Rainey) “Geez” Souls Saved Hear (Thirsty Ear)

On this edition Michele K-tel goes ALL Mountain Goats with a pile of Shrimper cassettes, Merge 7″s, festival recordings, etched EPs, and favorites from their 15+ studio releases (including The Extra Glenns!). Once you unlock the lyrics, show up and sing-a-long with John at the upcoming Amoeba in-store and sold-out performance at Great American Music Hall.

Playlist 5.28.15

​​The Mountain Goats “FM” Sweden (Shrimper)
The Mountain Goats “Blood Capsules” Blood Capsules 12″ (Merge)
The Mountain Goats “See America Right” Tallahassee (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “Going to Chino” Hound Chronicles (Shrimper)
The Mountain Goats “Some Swedish Trees” Sweden (Shrimper)

The Mountain Goats “Billy The Kid’s Dream Of The Magic Shoes” Protein Source Of The Future…Now! (3 Beads of Sweat)
The Mountain Goats “No Children” Tallahassee (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “This Year” The Sunset Tree (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “Dance Music” Peel Session 2003
The Mountain Goats “Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of” We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)

The Mountain Goats “Up the Wolves” Live @ Newport Folk Festival 2013
The Mountain Goats “Letter From Belgium” We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “Druglife (Casio version)” SCORE! THE COVERS! (Merge)
The Mountain Goats “Who You Are” Or Thousands of Prizes: The Covers EP (Merge)

The Mountain Goats “Brave” Stroke – Songs For Chris Knox (Flying Nun)
The Mountain Goats “Song For Dennis Brown” The Sunset Tree (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “Shadow Song” The Coroner’s Gambit (Absolutely Kosher)
The Mountain Goats “Answering The Phone” All Hail West Texas (Remastered) (Merge)
The Mountain Goats “The Ballad of Bull Ramos” Beat the Champ (Merge)
The Extra Glenns “Somebody Else’s Parking Lot in Sebastopol” Martial Arts Weekend (Absolutely Kosher)
The Mountain Goats “So Desperate” Heretic Pride (4AD)

The Mountain Goats “You Were Cool + Cubs In Five” Live @ Newport Folk Festival 2013
The Mountain Goats “Love Love Love” The Sunset Tree (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “Original Air-Blue Gown” Full Force Galesburg (Emperor Jones)
The Mountain Goats “Cotton” We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)

The Mountain Goats “The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton” All Hail West Texas
The Mountain Goats “Shot in the Dark” Of Thousands of Prizes 7″ series (Merge)
The Mountain Goats “The Black Ice Cream Song” Zopilote Machine (3 Beads of Sweat)
The Mountain Goats “Ice Cream, Cobra Man” Taboo IV: The Homecoming (Shrimper)
The Mountain Goats “Wild Sage” Get Lonely (4AD)
The Mountain Goats “Golden Jackal Song” New Asian Cinema EP (YoYo)

The Mountain Goats “I Will Grab You By The Ears” Nothing For Juice (3 Beads of Sweat)
The Mountain Goats “Cut Off Their Thumbs #1” hospicio de huerfanos (online release)

Join Michele K-tel for an ever-eclectic cavalcade of sounds including new music from the Congo’s African trad-meets-electro Mbongwana Star, Welsh indie act Joanna Gruesome, guitarist David Torn, pianist (and resident UC Berkeley educator) Myra Melford plus YES (on red vinyl even) a recent collaboration between Half Japanese’s Jad Fair and Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub. Jump in!

Playlist 5.21.15

Jad Fair & Norman Blake “This Is It” Yes (Joyful Noise)
Treniers “This Is It” They Rock! They Roll! They Swing! (Sony)
Mission Of Burma “This Is Hi-Fi” Unsound (Matador)
The Wedding Present “Real Thing” Saturnalia (Cooking Vinyl)
Bongwater “The Real Thing” The Big Sell-Out (Shimmy Disc)
Syd Barrett “It Is Obvious (Take 3)” Opel (Parlophone UK)

Mbongwana Star “Malukayi (feat. Konono #1)” From Kinshasa (World Circuit)
Soundz Africana “Africana” Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway)
Guerilla Toss “A Pig Who Feeds” Infinity Cat Series: Guerilla Toss (Infinity Cat)
Metá Metá “Sozinho” EP

The Stones “Something New” Three Blind Mice (Flying Nun)
Surf City “Leave Your Worries” Jekyll Island (Fire)
Courtney Barnett “Debbie Downer” Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
Joanna Gruesome “I Don’t Wanna Relax” Peanut Butter (Slumberland)
Stereo Total “Relax Baby Be Cool” Paris Berlin
Mali Music “Le Relax” Mali Music (Parlophone UK)
Tal National “Claire” Zoy Zoy (FatCat)

Human Don’t Be Angry (Malcolm Middleton) “Cottage Syndrome” Electric Blue
Alasdair Roberts “This Uneven Thing” Alasdair Roberts (Drag City)
David Torn “Spoke With Folks” Only Sky (ECM)
Thee Oh Sees “Withered Hand” Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
Withered Hand “California” New Gods (Slumberland)

Jim O’Rourke “Last Year” Simple Songs (Drag City)
Myra Melford “Times of Sleep and Fate” Snowy Egret (Yellowbird Records)
My Dad Is Dead “Planes Crashing” The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get (Homestead)
Vic Chesnutt “Flying” West Of Rome (New West)
Mitski “Last Words Of A Shooting Star” Bury Me At Makeout Creek (Don Giovanni)

On this week’s edition -> Michele K-tel spins new sounds from GARAGE ROCK royalty Thee Oh Sees, Boston NOISE makers Guerrilla Toss, AVANT JAZZ saxophonist Tim Berne’s Snake Oil, a little RHUMBA from Lagos via London, Surf City’s NZ INDIE + ride a BRIT ROCK wave with Django Django (plus some songs about TV).

Playlist 5.14.15

Django Django “Shake and Tremble” Born Under Saturn (Ribbon)
Deerhoof “Tiny Bubbles” La Isla Bonita (Polyvinyl)
Thee Oh Sees “Palace Doctor” Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
John Zorn / The Dreamers “Uluwati” The Dreamers (Tzadik)
Fat White Family “Without Consent” Champagne Holocaust (Fat Possum) Playing 5/17 @The Chapel

Surf City “What They Need” Jekyll Island (Fire)
Bilders “Let It Go” Cut (IMD)
The Clean “Something I Need” Modern Rock (Flying Nun)
Buzzcocks “I Need” Another Music In A Different Kitchen (EMI)

Guerilla Toss “TV Spell” Infinity Cat Series: Guerilla Toss (Infinity Cat)
Robert Pollard “Television Prison” Kid Marine (Fading Captain Series)
Robyn Hitchcock “Television” Spooked (Yep Roc)
Wilco “Kicking Television” Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994 – 2014
David Byrne and St. Vincent “I Should Watch TV” Love This Giant (4AD)
SoAK “Digital Witness” Rookie Mag Theme Song

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld “With the Dark Hug of Time” Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)
Chancha Via Circuito “El Zampullin” A Guide to the Birdsong of South America (Rhythm & Roots)
Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble “Frankiphone Blues” Singles (Katalyst)
Afro Rhythm Kings “Donaldo’s Samba” Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway)

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil “Embraceable Me You’ve Been Watching Me (ECM)
Chet Baker “Embraceable You” Embraceable You
Jad Fair & Norman Blake “You Are the One” Yes (Joyful Noise)
Ghostpoet Feat. Lucy Rose “Sorry My Love, It’s You Not Me” Shedding Skin (Pias)
Marianne Faithfull “The Price Of Love” Give My Love To London
Roxy Music “Bitters End” Roxy Music
Vetiver “Last Hurrah” Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company)

On this edition, Michele K-tel #swings into Spring with Duke Ellington, Canadian sax + violin duo Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld, BLUR, plus The Mountain Goats get choked out by National Poetry Month.

Playlist 4.30.15

Rahsaan Roland Kirk “It‘s A Grand Night For Swinging” Rip, Rig And Panic/Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno “Cuidad Del Swing” The Best Of Quantic (Death of a Revolution)
Duke Ellington “Swing Baby Swing” Duke´s Anthology, Vol.6 (Rare Recordings)
Mills Brothers “Swing Is The Thing” Mlle Swing & M. Zazou (Chansons Actualites)
Scrawl “Take A Swing” Velvet Hammer
Savages “Hit Me” Silence Yourself
The Mountain Goats “Choked Out” Beat the Champ (Merge)

Blur “I Broadcast” The Magic Whip
Mexrrissey “Ask” Mexico Goes Morrissey
Los Seven Del Swing “Silencio” Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & The Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound Of Colombia 1962 – 72 (Soundway)
Algodón Egipcio “Cotorra Del Sol” A Guide to the Birdsong of South America (Rhythm and Roots)
MeNeO “La Licuadora” ZZK Sound Vol. 2

Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld “The Rest of Us” Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)
Clarinet Thing “Pulmonary” Cry, Want
Clarinet Factory “5 Steps” (feat. Alan Vitouš and Lenka Dusilová) Worx and Reworx
Ben Goldberg featuring Carla Kihlstedt, Greg Cohen and Myra Melford “Reading” Orphic Machine (The Royal Potato Family)
Kate Tempest “And Now It’s Thursday, Cold Dark Sky” Brand New Ancients
THEESatisfaction “Needs” awE naturalE (Sub Pop)
Linton Kwesi Johnson “Reality Poem” Independant Intavenshan: The Island Anthology
The Last Poets “Black Rage” Holy Terror
Nina Simone “Baltimore” Baltimore
Mutabaruka Dis Poem The Ultimate Collection
Mount Eerie “Wind’s Dark Poem” Wind’s Poem

Colleen “This Hammer Breaks” Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)

On this edition: Michele K-tel spins the latest in eclectic newness -> from Godspeed You! Black Emperor‘s atmospheric dirge, viola da gamba-ist COLLEEN, plus desert hoodoo from Tucson’s CALEXICO..and #BIRDS lots and lots o’ #BIRD #CHIRPS.

Playlist 4.9.15

Barrio Lindo “Capuchino Pecho Blanco” A Guide to the Birdsong of South America (Rhythm & Roots)
Sherwood & Pinch “Wild Birds Sing” Late Night Endless (On U-Sound)
DakhaBrakha “Zhaba” Light
A Hawk And A Hacksaw “The Sparrow” The Way The Wind Blows (the Leaf label)
Clarinet Factory “Birdsong” Worx and Reworx (Supraphon a.s.)
Doc Watson “The Cuckoo” The Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
Janet Bean & The Concertina Wire “The Bluebird’s Spindle” Dragging Wonder Lake (Thrill Jockey)
Devendra Banhart “Wake Up, Little Sparrow” Niño Rojo (Young God)

Hard Girls “Birds” Hard (Asian Man)
Amy Denio “Birds” Tattoo: Pat Graney Dance Company (CD Baby)
Animal Collective “Cuckoo” Strawberry Jam (Domino)
Jolie Holland “All The Morning Birds” Catalpa (Anti)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Serenade To A Cuckoo” Simmer, Reduce, Garnish & Serve
Volcanic Eruption “Red Robin” Eccentric Soul: The Way Out Label (Numero)
Fruit Bats “Every Day That We Wake Up It’s A Beautiful Day” Spelled In Bones

Colleen “Captain of None” Captain of None (Thrill Jockey)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor “Asunder, Sweet” Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation)
Pere Ubu “Drag the River” Carnival of Souls (Fire)
Alasdair Roberts “In Dispraise Of Hunger” Alasdair Roberts (Drag City)
Brian Eno & David Byrne “Very, Very Hungry” My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Bo Diddley “I’m Hungry” Ride On / The Chess Masters 1960-1961
Innersouls ” Just Take Your Time” Quantic Presents Worlds Rarest Funk 45s 2
The Replacements “Hold My Life” Tim

Calexico “Cumbia de Donde” Edge of the Sun
Vetiver “Time Flies By” Complete Strangers
Billie Holiday “As Time Goes By”
The Damned “Life Goes On” Strawberries
Giant Giant Sand “Not the End of the World” Tucson

On this edition, Michele K-tel spins glorious new sounds from UK wordsmith Ghostpoet, SF’s Vetiver, ex-Tunng project Diagrams, singer-storyteller Tom Brosseau plus…a side detour into a cloud of #smoke.

Playlist 4.2.15

Ghostpoet “Off Peak Dreams” Shedding Skin (Pias America)
Dick Dale & The Del-Tones “Let’s Go Trippin'” Greatest Hits 1961-1976
Foxygen “Bowling Trophies” We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic (Jagjaguwar)
Max Nagl, Otto Lechner, Bredley Jones “Bowling” Flamingos (HatArt)
Lambchop “Let’s Go Bowling” Jack’s Tulips (Merge)
Sound Effects Bowling 625 Best Sound Effects
Camera Obscura “Let’s Go Bowling” Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (Merge)
The Ikettes “I’m Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)” Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another (Rhino)

Courtney Barnett “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)” Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom+Pop)
The Twerps “Cheap Education” Range Anxiety (Merge)
Go Betweens “Cattle And Cane” Before Hollywood (Beggars Banquet)
Hans Reichel “Eros Vs. Education” Yuxo: A New Daxophone Operetta (Phantom Sound & Vision)
Kate Tempest “The Truth” Everybody Down (Big Dada)
The Pop Group “Mad Truth” Citizen Zombie (Freaks R Us)

Vetiver “Stranger Still” Complete Strangers (Easy Sound Recording Company)
Devon Sproule “Turnstyled, Junkpiled” – rough kickstarter bootleg
Laura Marling “Don’t Let Me Bring You Down” Short Movie (Ribbon Music)
Emiliana Torrini “Nothing Brings Me Down” Fisherman’s Woman (Rough Trade)
Amason “Älgen” Sky City (Fairfax Recordings)
Diagrams “Gentle Morning” Song Chromatics (Full Time Hobby)

Quantic “El Yagé” tour single
Matias Aguayo “I Don’t Smoke” (Kompact)
Les Paul & Mary Ford “Blow The Smoke Away” The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band “Blabber And Smoke” The Spotlight Kid
Can “Smoke (E.F.S. No. 59)” Flow Motion
The Replacements “More Cigarettes” Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash (Twin Tone)

Tom Brosseau “The Wholesome Pillars” Perfect Abandon (Crossbill Records)
The Carter Family “There’s A Bright Side Somewhere” The Acme Sessions 1952/56 (JSP)
Angel Olsen “All Right Now (Bonus Track)” Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
The Soul Stirrers “All Right Now” The Last Mile Of The Way (Fantasy)

On this edition –> A report from Austin’s SXSW music fest, the annual event that can be an overdose of commercial chaos, or an opportunity to see loads of new artists in small venues, backyard patios and sidewalks. Michele K-tel plays new discoveries and nostalgic favorites.

Playlist 3.26.15

Kate Tempest “Circles” Everybody Down (Big Dada)
Laura Marling “Strange” Short Movie (Ribbon Music)
Courtney Barnett “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party” Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom & Pop)
SOAK “Shuvels” Before We Forgot How To Dream (Rough Trade)

Girlpool “American Beauty” Girlpool (Wichita Recordings)
Moon City Boys “Let My Love Dance” Let My Love Dance (8tta 7uor)
Hard Girls “Punkers,Too” Hard (Asian Man)
Girl Band “Lawman” The Early Years EP (Rough Trade)

Thee Oh Sees “Web” Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castleface)
Summer Cannibals “Something New” Show Us Your Mind (New Moss)
White Reaper “Cool” White Reaper (Polyvinyl)
Jacco Gardner “Find Yourself” Find Yourself (Polyvinyl)
The Parrots “Hello Stranger”
Songhoy Blues “Nick” Music In Exile (Atlantic)

Tanya Tagaq “Umingmak” Animism (Six Shooter Records)
Little Simz “Devour” E.D.G.E (Boom Ting)
The Residents “Smack your Lips (Clap your Teeth)” The Tunes Of Two Cities (Cryptic)
Half Japanese “As Good Can Be” Overjoyed (Joyful Noise)

The Damned “I think I’m Wonderful” Strawberries (Sanctuary)
METZ “Acetate” II (Sub Pop)
Chastity Belt “Trapped” Time to Go Home (Hardly Art)
Mac McCaughan “Lost Again” Non-Believers (Merge)
Howard “Song About Something” Religion (Fashion People)
Springtime Carnivore “Collectors” (Autumn Tone)

Barberettes “Rum And Coca-Cola” (EggPlant)
Mighty Sparrow “Sparrow Dead” Soca Anthology: Dr. Bird – The Mighty Sparrow (VP)
Mitski “Last Words Of A Shooting Star” Bury Me At Makeout Creek (Don Giovanni)

Michele K-tel gets heavy with new Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sherwood & Pinch, The Twerps + a fond farewell wave to beloved Bay Area ensemble Tin Hat. Plus, you know, other eclectic sounds.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor “Peasantry or Light” (Constellation)
The Pop Group “Age Of Miracles”Citizen Zombie (!K7)
Mark Stewart “My Possession” Metatron (Mute)
Mark Stewart & The Mafia “Liberty City” Learning To Cope With Cowardice (On-U Sound)
Sherwood & Pinch “Gimmie Some More (Tight Like That)”
Late Night Endless (On-U Sound)

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble “Can You Find a Place” Black Is Back – 40th Anniversary Project (Katalyst)
Daymé Arocena “Madres” (Brownswood)
The Dodos “Precipitation” Individ (Polyvinyl)
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld “The Sun Roars Into View” Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)

The Twerps “Stranger” Range Anxiety (Merge)
Grifters “You Be The Stranger” Full Blown Possession (Sub Pop)
Giant Sand “Wayfaring Stranger / Fly Me To The Moon” Cash Covered (Mojo)
Benny Goodman “Sweet Stranger” The Indispensible B
Merle Haggard “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers”
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977
John Lee Hooker “I’m A Stranger”Travelin’
Doris Duke “We’re More Than Strangers” I’m A Loser (Remastered)
Freakwater “Rank Strangers” Dancing Under Water (Thrill Jockey)

Tin Hat Fond Farewell Tour
Tin Hat”Compay” Foreign Legion (BAG)
Tin Hat “Now More” ee (the rain is a handsome animal – 17 songs from the poetry of E.E.Cummings (New Amsterdam)
Tin Hat Trio “Happy Hour” The Rodeo Eroded (Rope a Dope)
Tin Hat Trio “Same Shirt, Different Day” Book Of Silk (Artemis)
Tin Hat Trio “Fountain of Youth” Helium (Angel)