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Archived Show: Episode 71
From October 12, 2004
Listen to the entire show
Featured: Madeleine Peyroux
Early folk music pioneer Elizabeth Cotten
"Urban" blues forefather Leroy Carr
A psychotic reaction from Michael Powers
Traditional Chinese zheng artist Hong Ting
Music of the Thai Elephant Orchestra
Returning 1970s folk artist Vashti Bunyan
A final farewell from Guided by Voices
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Madeleine Peyroux is perhaps known best for sounding like Billie Holiday. On this CD, Peyroux covers songs made popular by Holiday as well as cuts from Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan.
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Featured: Madeleine Peyroux
CD: Careless Love
Song: "Dance Me to the End of Love"
Label: Rounder
Listen to "Dance Me to the End of Love"
 Watch the slideshow (Requires Real Player)
Listen to an interview with Madeleine Peyroux from NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday
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Elizabeth Cotten was just eleven years old when she wrote one of the most popular folk tunes of all time: "Freight Train." Her work is remembered on this new collection from Folkways.
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Elizabeth Cotten
CD: Shake Sugaree
Song: "Shake Sugaree"
Label: Folkways
Listen to "Shake Sugaree"
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Pianist Leroy Carr pioneered a style known as "urban" blues in the 1930s, a slightly more polished and less intense approach than the rougher styles of country blues. Carr's work has inspired everyone from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.
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Leroy Carr
CD: Whiskey is My Habit, Good Women is All I Crave
Song: "I Believe I'll Make A Change"
Label: Columbia Legacy
Listen to "I Believe I'll Make A Change"
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Blues guitarist Michael Powers has performed with James Brown, Bo Diddley and Johnny Winter. On this CD Powers offers a half a dozen original tunes but also a few covers from artists like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. This song was originally released in 1965 as a psychedelic tune from the band Count Five.
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Michael Powers
CD: Onyx Root
Song: "Psychotic Reaction"
Label: Baryon
Listen to "Psychotic Reaction"
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Hong Ting performs on an ancient Chinese stringed instrument called a zheng. Its origins can be traced back more than two thousand years.
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Hong Ting
CD: Chinese Traditional Zheng Music
Song: "Lotus Out of Water"
Label: Oliver Sudden
Listen to "Lotus Out Of Water"
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These Thai elephants were trained to hold mallets and strike xylophones, steel pipes and tubular bells, improvising their own songs.
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Thai Elephant Orchestra
CD: Elephonic Rhapsodies
Song: "The Birth of Ganesha"
Label: Mulatta Records
Listen to "The Birth of Ganesha"
Watch the slideshow (Requires Real Player)
Visit the band's official Web site.
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British folk singer Vashti Bunyan originally released this album - her only full length record - in 1970. It received little attention and Bunyan soon dropped out of music all together to start a family. Now, more than 30 years later, this rare collection of songs is finally being reissued on CD.
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Vashti Bunyan
CD: Just Another Diamond Day
Song: "Iris's Song For Us"
Label: DiCristina
Listen to "Iris's Song For Us"
Visit the band's official Web site.
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Jangle pop rockers Guided By Voices have been making music for nearly 20 years. This year (2004) they startled fans by announcing plans to break up. This is their final album, with a farewell tour scheduled to wrap up on New Year's Eve.
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Guided By Voices
CD: Half Smiles of the Decomposed
Song: "Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)"
Label: Matador
Listen to "Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)"
Visit the band's official Web site.
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