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A nice little Northern Soul tune following a conversation I had the other day. Great video from a '60s TV show. Just got to love Northern Soul for its ability to make you want to move and dance!

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Sam Chatmon doing three songs. Born in the 19th century, like many blues artists he didn't start getting the credit such an amazing artist deserves until the 1960s and 1970s when he started touring and recording, by then he was well into his 60s. Incredible.

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This guy is powerful. He got voted Best Live Act by Mojo this year. Here he's singing for the guys at La Blogothèque accompanied by just a piano. On the record (Queen Of Denmark, 2010) he continues his tradition for creative, witty lyrics and baroque orchestration from his days in The Czars. Enjoy.

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In celebration of Bert Jansch who died today but has left so much to remember him by.

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This is the Dj that first played Elvis Presley on the radio (listen out for the mentions). Legend has it, he played the record, 'That's All Right', back to back 14 times that first night because he was so amazed by the exciting fresh sound.

Dewey Phillips was a legend in his own right by having an individual style defying the stations and by being one of very few/first radio Djs around to play R&B, country, blues, jazz and anything in between.

After a bit of Dewey's machine gun style delivery he plays Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing 'Strange Things Happen'. Phenomenal.

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One hit wonders The Maisonettes from 1982. Great song, good enough in fact to be sampled by Roll Deep for their single 'The Avenue', when I say sampled I really mean played normally and then rapped/made funny noises over. Some people have no shame.

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The Rolling Stones, need I say more? 'Little Red Rooster', written by Willie Dixon, was the Stones' second number 1. Their first being a Bobby Womack song 'It's All Over Now' in July 1964, no excuses now if that comes up in a music quiz!

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The legend that is Tom Waits on American chat show parody Fernwood 2 Night from 1977.

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50s rock'n'roll in the Link Wray vane with added B-movie flavour by Messer Chups.

Messer Chups are currently touring Europe, taking in such sights as Bourge, Pau, Brangança, Tampere as well as more well known destinations like Barcelona, Lisbon, Toulouse. They're looking to tour Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland in October but are still searching for venues, check out their Myspace if you can help them out!!

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Lonelady has been around for a while and it looks like the perfect combination of talent and perseverance is paying off, not so long ago she was interviewed by Paul Morley for The Guardian newspaper which you can see here. Her album Nerve Up has been out for a while, zoom on over to her Myspace for more info.

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Brian Wilson = Legend

If you can put up with a cheesy American advert beforehand, you'll be able to enjoy Brian Wilson in all his ballad-tastic glory.

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Run to Your Grave - The Mae Shi

(Co-Starring members of: Health, 14 Year Old Girls, Holi Buffaglo, and DJ Kyle H. Mabson)

Great video, great song, great band. This song was released as a single way back in 2008.

Enjoy.

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CALLmeKAT - Glass Wall

This enchanting enchantress is lovely...

Taken from a site with lots of nice videos of mostly new stuff called Yours Truly. CALLmeKAT is currently on tour and will me sweeping through middle Europe and then on to North America, check her Myspace for further details please.

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Ex-Supergrass boys in their covers venture as The Hotrats. The album Turn Ons features twelve (fourteen if bought from iTunes) covers including this The Velvet Underground cover from the fourth album that never was. The material from the sessions before Loaded be found on various out-take albums. This track is on VU.

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A classic performance for you today, playing live with The Band for their The Last Waltz farewell gig Joni Mitchell performs 'Coyote'. If you have some pocket money the DVD of this concert is well worth it. Expect performances from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Neil Diamond (Robbie Robertson was producing his album at the time), Ronnie Hawkins, Dr John, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr.... The list is endless!!

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I'll Believe In Anything by Wolf Parade

Wolf Parade, another favourite of ours. Quickly browsing through the internet you realise that they also make good music vids. Look here for a couple more and for more info on these Canadian scallywags.

They are have a next album out this summer on Sub Pop, the label that has released their other two LPs.

Great band. Good video.

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#72 - JONQUIL - Part2

A band that we really like, Jonquil. I saw them in concert without realising their grandeur, I just went because a friend suggested we go to get out of the house. Needless to say I left the concert rather shocked and surprised.

Everybody needs to buy the album, Lions.

...with thanks to La Blogotheque ;)

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Grizzly Bear in a church.

The acoustics only help emphasise what a beautiful song this is. Great stuff, as almost always from the people at Pitchfork, you catch the other songs from the session after the jump.

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A fun video to accompany our Song Of The Day.

XTC - 'Generals and Majors' from the 1980 album Black Sea. If you pay attention you will see then Virgin head-honcho Richard Branson as one of the majors in the video at the dinner, go-karting and other typically generaly/majorly things to be done.

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#36 Scout Niblett - Wet Road
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It was difficult deciding today, I had already decided I wanted to put up a Scout Niblett video because she's amazing but I couldn't decide between this great song/odd video combination or one of these typically Blogotheque wandering-the.streets-with-an-amp-around-your-neck videos.

In the end I plumped for a stripped down Emma Louise Niblett.

Beautiful.