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"Border Radio/Soul City, NC" with Rick Cornell (archive)

Saturday, March 11, 2006 | 20:00 to 22:00 | alt-country/60s & 70s soul
 rcornell@nc.rr.com

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Two Dollar Pistols Driveway to Driveway Songs for 65 Roses Splinter Group/Redeye Upcoming compilation that benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. On the comp, NC artists cover the songs of other NC artists. This is a Superchunk song Waylon-ized by the $2 Pistols. A show at Cat's Cradle on March 31 will bring many of the artists together.
Stillhouse It's the Shame Through the Winter self -- www.stillhousetheband.com
Chicken Wire Gang Buddha Buddha Galvanized Roost
Ryan Adams Oh My Sweet Carolina Heartbreaker Bloodshot
Caitlin Cary Battleground Park Songs for 65 Roses Splinter Group/Redeye Versions of the three songs that made up the middle of this set are on the 65 Roses record. Tift Merritt covers "It's the Shame"; Sledge, Maxwell & Mosher cover Rick Rock's "Buddha Buddha" (the Chicken Wire Gang's version fit this format better); and Portastatic does "Oh My Sweet Carolina." The album will be released at the end of March.
Tres Chicas Sway Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl Yep Roc
Eric Hisaw Every Sunday The Crosses Saustex
Ken Will Morton True Love Is a Sickness King of Coming Around Fundamental
Scott Miller Say Ho Citation Sugar Hill
Marti Jones So Lonesome I Could Fly My Tidy Doily Dream D.A.R. Marti Jones & Amy Rigby are playing together at Cat's Cradle on March 18, with Wreckless Eric opening.
Amy Rigby w/ John Wesley Harding Beer & Kisses Diary of a Mod Housewife Koch
Wreckless Eric Semaphore Signals Greatest Stiffs Metro
Joe Ely Jericho (Your Walls Must Come Tumbling down) Honky Tonk Masquerade MCA in memory of Jesse "Guitar" Taylor
Patty Griffin Not Alone Living with Ghosts A&M in memory of Leigh, a true sweetheart and a great friend to local music
Soul City, NC Soul City, NC Soul City, NC
Mavis Staples Keep on Pushing I Believe to My Soul Rhino/Work Song Mavis Staples at the Carrboro ArtsCenter next Saturday as part of the wonderful American Roots Series.
Aretha Franklin People Get Ready Queen of Soul box set Atlantic
The Impressions Amen The Very Best of the Impressions Rhino
Lauryn Hill Forgive Them Father The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Ruffhouse
Stevie Wonder Higher Ground Innervisions Motown
Baby Washington You Are What You Are The Sue Singles Kent
Irma Thomas These Four Walls A Woman's Viewpoint: The Essential Recordings Kent
Big John Hamilton How Much Can a Man Take? Southern Soul Showcase: Cryin' in the Streets Kent
Geater Davis Chained and Bound The Lost Soul Man AIM
Otis Redding I'll Let Nothing Separate Us Another Day in Paradise soundtrack V2 Records
Hank Ballard & Bettye LaVette Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go It Takes Two Shout!
Hank Ballard Sunday Morning Coming Down My Goodness, Yes! Sundazed
Bettye LaVette Piece of My Heart Shake What You Brought! Sundazed
Betty Wright Paralyzed Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label Numero Group
James Knight and the Butlers Save Me Miami Sound Soul Jazz
The Soul Stirrers Why Am I Treated So Bad Chicago Soul soul jazz