Frank & Earthy

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1. "Superdeformed" by Matthew Sweet (from No Alternative compilation)
2. "Your Mother Should Know" - The Beat Boys (from The Beat Boys)
3. "Mexican Blues" - Pete Seeger (from Circles and Seasons)
4. "Buckeye Jim" - Judy Henske (from High Flying Bird)
5. "City of New Orleans" - Arlo Guthrie (from Together In Concert)
6. "Invocation" - Marc Ribot (from Spiritual Unity)
7. live set by John Biz
8. "You Broke My Heart"- Lavender Diamond (from You Broke My Heart EP)
9. "Bird Song" - Jerry Garcia (from Garcia)
10. "Shoulder Full of You" - Blitzen Trapper (from EP3 EP)
11. "Woodland Orchestra" - Steffan Basho-Junghans (from Late Summer Morning)
12. "Think Small" - Tall Dwarfs (from Fork Songs)
13. "The Face of Empty Me" - Christian Ward (from File Under: Male Vocal: The Golden Age of the Beat Balladeer compilation)
14. "Here I Set" - The Ronettes (from Georgia's 2008 Hanukkah mix)
15. "She Shot A Hole In My Soul" - Clifford Curry (from Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm and Blues, 1945-1970 compilation)
16. "Katie's Been Gone" - The Band (from The Basement Tapes)
17. "What For the Stables" - King Darves (from The Sun Splits For... the Blind Swimmer)
18. "Observations" - Tristan Perich
19. "A Stone For Angus Maclise, no. 1" - Pelt (from A Stone For Angus Maclise)
20. "Mangungu" - Hector Zazou and Bony Bekaye (from Noir Et Blanc)
21. "When Doves Cry" - Prince (from Purple Rain: Live in Syracuse bootleg)
22. "Young Subjects" - Steve Gunn (from Steve Gunn)
23. "Witch's Will" - Wilburn Burchette (from Guitar Grimoire)
24. "Wood Between Worlds" - Laura Barrett (from Victory Garden)
25. "These Few Presidents" - Why? (from Almost Live From Eli's Room CD-R)
26. "So Long, Old Bean" - Devendra Banhart (from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon)

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Features:
The Notorious M.O.V.I.E., Jamal Woolard feature (Paste)
Gospel Zone, on Dylan's gospel period (Boogie Woogie Flu)
2008 faves (WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

Albums:
Old Money - Omar Rodriguez Lopez (Paste)
At the Cat's Cradle - Ween (Paste)
The Atavistic Waltz - Ralph White (JamBands.com)
Indie-Weirdo Round-Up, featuring: Bird Show, Stag Hare, DJ Olive, Yeti, v. 6, Chris Watson (JamBands.com)
Pleasant Obsolescence, featuring: Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, Charles Mingus, Willie Nelson, Lou Reed, Peter Tosh (JamBands.com)

Live:
Julian Koster at Andrew Frisciano's Apartment, 13 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Neil Young at Madison Square Garden, 15 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's, 21-22 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)
Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's, 21-28 December 2008 (Village Voice blog)

Books:
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric by Bob Dylan and Barry Feinstein (The Forward)
Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Changed the World and Saved My Life by Brian Raftery (San Francisco Chronicle)

Movies:
Che (Paste)
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Village Voice blog)
Gomorrah (Paste)

Columns:
BRAIN TUBA: Song of the Refreköx (JamBands.com)
BRAIN TUBA: Ten Years, part 4 (JamBands.com)

In print:
o Paste #50 (Neko Case cover): feature on Jamal Woolard, album reviews of Ween, movie reviews of Gomorrah, Che
o February/March Relix (The Dead cover): album reviews of Neil Young, Animal Collective, M. Ward, Ernest Stoneman, Frank Zappa; book review of San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde

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1. "I Know There's An Answer" - Sonic Youth (from Goo deluxe edition)
2. "Frow Show Theme" - MVB
3. "Goodbye" - Justin Heathcliff (from Justin Heathcliff)
4. "No Way Around That" - Yoshimi (from Hark Too! Tribute to the Hark Album by Wim T. Schippers compilation)
5. "Whether U Like It Or Not I Love U" - The Frogs (from The Frogs)
6. "I Don't Want To Do It" - George Harrison (from Beware of Abkco demos)
7. "Putting Myself Together Again" - Lambert & Nuttycombe (from At Home)
8. "Remember" - Thelonious Monk (from Thelonious Alone in San Francisco)
9. "Shift Register" - Robert Henke (from Atom/Document)
10. "Absence of Redemption" - Chas Smith (from An Hour Out of Desert Center)
11. "Hall of Flowers (part I)" - Philip Perkins (from Hall of Flowers)
12. "Gragnana, Italy" - Steven Feld (from The Time of Bells, v. 1)
13. "Even Wild Horses, Act III, Scene 1" - Harry Partch (from Harry Partch Collection, v. 1I)
14. "Medium III" - Iancu Dumitrescu (from Medium III)
15. "Gomul Visa Um Vori" - Kria Brekkan (from Wildering 7-inch)
16. "Rothko Chapel" - Morton Feldman (from Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?)
17. "Quiet Morning" - Chihei Hatakeyama (from Dedication)
18. "This Time Tomorrow" - The Kinks (from Lola Vs. the Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One)
19. "It Seems Like Nothing's Gonna Come My Way Today" - The Outsiders (from CQ)
20. "Seastones (Original February 1975 version)" - Ned Lagin (from Seastones reissue)
21. "Prarie Ghost" - Meredith Monk (from Songs From the Hill/Tablet)
22. "Diane Dean" - Heart (from Best of the Night Air, v. 1)
23. "Upon Composition" - Ron Geesin (from As He Stands)
24. "Gotcha" - Bobby Hutcherson (from Solo/Quartet)
25. "Restin" - Jason Moran (from Same Mother)
26. "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye" - Leonard Cohen (from Songs of Leonard Cohen)
27. "I'll Fly Away" - Johnny Cash (from My Mother's Hymnbook)
28. "Maria Bethania" - Caetano Veloso (from Caetano Veloso (1971))

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Detailed playlist

1. "My World Fell Down" - Saggitarius (from Present Tense)
2. "Frow Show Theme" - MVB
3. "Ted Fucking Williams" - The Baseball Project (from Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)
4. "Rod Poole's Gradual Ascent To Heaven" - Nels Cline (from Coward)
5. "I'm A Believer" - Robert Wyatt (from Solar Flares Burn For You anthology)
6. "Lumpy Gravy" (original orchestral edit) - Frank Zappa (from Lumpy Money box set)
7. "Mean Old World" - Sam Cooke
8. "Amime" - Eddie Marcon (from Shining on Graveposts)
9. "Streets of Laredo" - Michael Hurley (from The Ancestral Swamp)
10. "Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)" - Buraka Som Sistema feat. Pongolove (from Black Diamond)
11. "Cheyla ya Haiuune" - Group Doueh (from Guitar Music of the Western Sahara)
12. "Green Vines" - Bird Show (from Bird Show)
13. "Feel the Drip" - Black Moth Super Rainbow (from Don't You Want To Be In A Cult? 12-inch)
14. "River Mara at Dawn, Massai Mara, Kenya" - Chris Watson (from Stepping Into the Dark)
15. "Cosmogenesis" (excerpt) - Ela Lamblin (from Orbitones, Spoon Harps, and Bellowphones compilation)
16. "Ghost" (Birchville Cat Motel remix) - Pyramids
17. "Do You Like Worms? (Do You Dig Worms?)" - Olivia Tremor Control (from Smiling Pets compilation)
18. "Metastasis" - Iannis Xenakis (from Metastasis Pithoprakta Eonta)
19. "Can I Sleep In Your Arms" - Phospherescent (from To Willie)
20. "Everything's Big" - Here We Go Magic (from Here We Go Magic)
21. "Hard Times Wondering" - Euros Childs (from The Miracle Inn)
22. "Gentle Hour" - Yo La Tengo (from Dark Was the Night compilation)
23. "Lazybones" - Soul Coughing (from Irresistable Bliss)
24. "Wait For You" - The Mountain Goats (from Babylon Springs EP)
25. "Going, Going, Gone" - Legion of Mary (from Garcia Sings Dylan anthology bonus disc)

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