Chances With Wolves X-Mas Special

Here it is: the 1st annual Chances With X-mas Christmas Special.
We got all the holiday spirit filled jams for you to play softly in the background of your holiday parties.
For best results play along with roasted chestnuts, an open fire, egg nog (spiked with good rum), mistletoe for to kiss under, candy canes, and santa hats.
And of all your closest friends, family and loved ones.


We spent our lovely X-mas special alongside one of our favorite human beings - special guest star Mr. Gary Langol (below; outside; in the window;on the phone)

Episode #31


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You can also download the entire x-mas special as an mp3(.zip)


Tracklist:
Introduction - Bruce Haack
O Christmas Tree - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Let's Unite The Whole World At Christmas Time - James Brown
~Oscar's hating~

It's Christmas Time - The Cosmic Rays
Deck Five - Saturday's Children
We Three Kings - The Gaylads
You're All I Want For Christmas - The Persuasions
We Wish You A Merry Christmas (whistle) - Quigley
Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas - The Staple Singers
Jing-Jing-a-Ling - Honey & The Bees
I'll Be Working On Christmas - Michael G. Mayham
Come Back Christmas - Allen Ginsberg
Blue X-Mas - Bob Dorough/Miles Davis/Gil Evans
I Went To Santa Town - The Whites
On Christmas Day - The Trinity Family
Fat Daddy - Fat Daddy
Here Comes Santa Claus - ?????
Santa Baby - Ertha Kitt
All I Want For Christmas Is You - Carla Thomas
Silent Night - Bootsy Collins
X-mas Balls - Ben Light & His Surf Club Boys
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Jimmy Smith
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - The Caravans
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Joe Quigley
The Christmas Song - Jim Baker
Come On Santa Let's Have A Ball - Kay Martin & Her Body Guard
Kingle's Jingle - Ken Griffin
Christmas In Vietnam - Soul Searchers
~Kermit Gets In On The Story~
Christmas Love - Rotary Connection
El Nino Del Tambor - George Conedy
O Tannenbaum - Magnetic Fields
Santa Claus is a Black Man - Akim & The Teddy Van Project
Jingle Bell Hop - MH Holiday
Hey You, get Off a My Roof - The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Man With all The Toys - Beach Boys
Toy Drive PSA - The Beach Boys
Back Door Santa - Clarence Carter
Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC
Let The Jingle Bells Rock - Sweat Tea
Cold Chillin Christmas - The Juice Crew
Christmas Rhymin' - Audio Two
Christmas in The City - King Sun
~Kermit's Demographic Survey Findings~
What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas? - The Emotions
For Today Is Christmas Morning - Michael G. Mayham
Jingle Bell Mambo - Pete Rugolo Orchestra
Hark The Herald Angels sing - Charlie Brown Christmas Special
It's Christmas Time - James Brown
My Christmas Tree - The Temptations
Blue Grey Christmas - King Coleman
Silent Night & The 11 O'Clock News - Shurfire Singers
Another Christmas Without My Son - Rev. Oric Mays
Santa Claus Comes Once a Year - Trinity
Silver Bells - Julian Koster
Saludo - Maria & Luis
Billy's Christmas Wish - Red Sovine
Santa Claus is Here Again - The Lemon Sisters
Merry Christmas Baby - Otis Redding
Put The Loot In The Boot - Mae West
White Christmas - The Drifters
Meaning of Christmas - Charlie Brown & Linus
We Free Kings - Roland Kirk
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues

Even older, weirder Talk Box/ Steel Guitar w/ Robot !

Notice the use of the phrase: "take a powder"

and her "store-bought hair"

Pete Drake got the brilliant idea one time to make his steel guitar talk

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

How hip is this guy?!?

Episode #30 Cold Cold Chances (with PQ)

Episode #30




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Tracklist:

Winter In America (Live) - Gil Scott Heron
Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin
I Got A Cold - King Tee
Ice - Spirit
Coffee Cold - Galt Macdermot
Winter - Carol Batton
Please Warm My Weiner - Bo Carter
Ice Cold Daydream - Shuggie Otis
It's Getting Kind Of Chilly - Slim Gailard
Winter Song - Nico
Snow Surfin Matador - Jan Davis
Cold World - GZA
Cold Cold People - Timmy Thomas
End Of The Season - The Kinks
December - Regina Spektor
Cold Blooded Old Times - Smog
Pocket Full Of Cold - Nervous Cabaret
Wind Blows Hard - The Pleetas
Favorite Sweater - Y Pants
Baby, It's Cold Outside - June Carter
Long Long Winter - Bob Marley
Snowin on Raton - Townes Van Zandt
-BREAK-
Disillusioned Man - Demon Fuzz
Brwon Baby - Derrick Harriott
Mona Ki Ngi Xica - Bonga
Pastures of Plenty - Odetta
I Can Love A Woman - Al Kooper
While I'm Alone - Frankie Beverley
Touch Me Baby - Myrna Hague
I Feel Good With You Baby - William Smith
1,2,3 you and Me - Charles Wright
Sensitive Kind - J. J. Cale
Hard Times - Boz Scaggs
????? - Carol Kaye
Incidental Black Cloth No. 3 - Keith Mansfield
Undisputed Truth - Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite The World) / Friendship Train

Episode #29

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Tracklist:
E.V.R. - Jean-Jacques Perrey
Think Of Me - Black Merda
On The Horizon - Ben E. King
Shadows On My Wall - The Poppy Family
Pad - Fritz & Jerry
That's The Way It Is Out Here - Eddie & The Rays
Skydiving Accident - Last Good Tooth......
The Great Medical Menagerist - Harmonica Frank
One Kiss Led To Another - The Coasters
I Turned To The Bottle - Debbie Brimmer
Everybody Saw You - Ruby Andrews
Inner City Blues - James Last
Midnight Cowboy - Martin Denny
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance - The Mothers Of Invention
Just Another Day In The Projects - Nas
Beautiful Scarlet - Capability Brown
Hard Times - The Young Pimps & The Nastys
People From Another World - The Jive Five
Hey Hey - First Moog Quartet
Dreadlocks In The White House - Junior Reid
Window Of My Eyes - Cuby & The Blizzards
3 is the Magic # - Elizabeth Mitchell
Love Power - Dusty Springfield
Jailhouse Blues - Andre Williams
Can't Call It - De La Soul
Kung Fu - The Upsetters
Tap Water - Dengue Fever
Left Right - Death Of Fashion
When The Night Falls - The Eyes
Blue Driver - Vetiver
Under Arrest - Big Beats
There's No Satisfaction - Manfred Hubler, & Sigfried Schwab
Watch Me Burn - Mike Furber
Of Dreams and Tombstones - The Purple Hearts
Tec - Tom Ze
Boulmamine - Orchestra Baoban
All Your Sisters - Mazzy Star
An Occasional Dream - David Bowie
To Russia My Homeland - ....and you will know us by the trail of dead
Portrait of Linda In Three Colors, All Black - Sonny Sharrock

Billy Swan - "Don't Be Cruel"

This is the song we get the most emails about, and the song which I find I am most often asked about at cocktail parties.

Here's the story:
They used to make these things called "break records". They were basically bootleg collections of songs with dope drum breaks pressed on vinyl for hip hop DJs to cut up, sample, or have rappers rap over them or whatever.
Since they were bootlegs they almost never had the artist information on them. Just the track names.

One of these series of break records was called "octopus breaks" and on one of these volumes was a particularly haunting version of "Don't Be Cruel" sung by a women who sounds somewhat like dolly parton - my colleague Kenan had this record and searched for years trying to find the artist who recorded this gem. He bought any and all covers of don't be cruel sung by women (of which there are quite alot he would soon find).A lot of them were good too, in their own way, but every time he'd put on one of these don't-be-cruels, he would be disappointed to find it was not the one he had been searching for.
Until one day, by chance, he plays a version by Billy Swan which sounds suspiciously like the elusive gem but slower and, you know, more manish.
Then it dawns on him. The tricky bootleggers behind Octopus Breaks had sped it up and pressed it on the record that way so that the drums would sound funky.
(and boy, that break, with the naked drums & sped up vocal, is very, very beautiful)

The original version is nice too (& slow) but having heard it in it's other-worldly sped up incarnation, we can't hear it any other way.




Download: Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel (45 rpm)

BLACK FRIDAY

                         Black Friday - Cool Calm Pete

So it goes

We lost a friend of ours yesterday. He left us suddenly, and he will be missed. This was gonna be a Thanksgiving show, but it became a show for Alex. In the last hour we played a lot of his favorite songs. We love you Alex, and we are truly blessed to have known you and we're thankful for your friendship.

-Kenan Juska

Alex Gomez

July 7, 1977 - November 25, 2008
Rest in Peace

Episode #28




Here it is:

A Thanksgiving Prayer - William S. Burroughs
Beans and Cornbread - Louis Jordan
Harvest Time - Water Into Wine Band
Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Circle - Wild Man Fischer
Hello Lucille Are You A Lesbian? - T. Valentine
Because I Got it Like That - Jungle Brothers
I'm a Pilgrim - The Soul Stirrers
I Wanna Be Your Mama Again - Sir Douglas Quintet
November - Tom Waits
Rain Rain Go Away - Bob Azaam
Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Neil Young
Old Man Waltz - Calexico
The Bottom - Ro Agents
Pain In My Heart - Otis Redding
Hummin' - Cannonball Adderley Quintet
The Parasite - Eugene McDaniels
Le Bracelet - Alain Goraguer
Ham Hock and Beans Pt. 1 - Chuck Womack and the Sweet Souls
Greasy Greens - Lionel Hampton and his Inner Circle of Jazz
The Mash Potato Man - King Coleman
Yard of Blonde Girls - Micah P Hinson
You Are Standing On My Bed - Ragni, Rado, & MacDermont
Twilight in Turkey - Raymond Scott
Coming Up - Sir Paul McCartney
I Yam What I Yam - Resident Alien
Mary, Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip - Fugi
Way Back Home - Bernard Purdie
I'm So Thankful - Ann Peebles
Help - Caetano Veloso
Don't Come Close - The Ramones
Oh, You Pretty Young Things - David Bowie
Historia De un Amor - Los Angeles Negros
24 Horas - Cafe Tacuba
Washington Bullets - The Clash
El Matador - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys
Embracing The Darkness - R. Carlos Nakai
Fly Me To The Moon - Sinatra
Train In Vain (Live) - The Clash
Charlie Don't Surf - Los Gatos Locos
Formed A Band - Art Brut
Cafe Espresso - Leiber Stoller Orchestra
Los Tamalitos De Olga - Orquesta Aragon
La Pinta - Cafe Tacuba
Looking At You - MC5
Out of Time Man- Mano Negra

By My Bootstraps

I just recently pulled myself out of a week long bout of depression.
This is something that happens to me periodically.
There will be nothing particularly wrong in my life, no specific reason for any sadness. In fact if I think about it I can still clearly see that I have everything going for me, that I have so much to be thankful for. In fact I am quite sure I am among the luckiest, most blessed & shined upon human beings on the face of this earth. But sometimes I'll wake up with the wrong sort of chemicals splashing around in my head. And an unshakeable grey, bleak mood. It''s part anger. Part aching sad. Lots of frustration & a little self-pity.
I feel as if I'm the cartoon with the cloud over my head. I feel as if I'm a wounded animal. I have no patience. I'm raw. I'm terribly mean to myself. I secretly tell myself the worst things. I curse myself under my breath for being so stupid and ugly. I stay awake at night obsessing over some conversation that went wrong. Some interaction where "I should have said this.....", but didn't. Because I didn't think to say it at the time. And sometimes, and this is the worst part of it, I'll end up being mean to the people around me. I'll be short with them, or unnecessarily negative, or maybe just straight up flip out on them. And then they react negatively back to me and my foul mood which reinforces the whole thing in my head. And so on. This is depression.

I'm sure it has a lot to do with the cold.
Winter in New York is now upon us. No mistaking it.
The days are short. My brain is going through withdrawal from the sun.
Did you know there are chemicals in sunlight which make you happy which you can absorb through your skin? (It's true.)

But so over the years I have developed techniques to shake myself out of these dark places.
I can't explain them to you because they are constantly evolving. It's not math.
But they basically involve doing things that are positive. Doing things that are nice for other people. Trying to remember to forgive myself for being so flawed and talking to my friends and lady-friends.

A lady-friend is a great thing to have. To talk to. To be around.
Did you know there are chemicals in their hands which can make a man feel soothed. (it's true)
And sometimes you just want that woman to rub your head and tell you everythings going to be alright.
And then it's alright.

Download: Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed

Episdoe #27

Episode #27




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Tracklist:
Turn Your Radio On - Grandpa Jones
I Sat And Cried - Jimmy Nelson
Can't You Hear Me Call You, Woman - Fugi
Teenie Weenie Boppie - France Gall
The Click Song - Miriam Makeba
Earthword's - John Hartford
Homeboy - Mr. Wiggles
Mouse and Me - Paul Korzan
Ya Mama (Remix) - The Pharcyde
The Old Man Of The Mountain - The Mills Brothers
Dog (by Ferlinghetti) - Bob Dorough
After Laughter (Comes Tears) - Wendy Rene
Last Laugh - Ennio Morricone
Tough Chick - The Rockbusters
What's The Use Of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again?) - Louis Jordan
I got High - Frankie Ervin and His Band
Swahililand - Ahmad Jamal
Forget it - Sixto Rodriguez
Flesh and Blood - Solomon Burke
Psycho - E.T. White & His Great Potential Band
Volunteered Slavery - Roland Kirk
Lifetime Monologue - Lou Rawls
Hometown Beggar - Humble Gathering
(Talky Talky Talky)
Goodbye Poverty - Miriam Makeba
"I wonder what makes them howl like that"
Wait Till Next Year - Rick Nelson
Sure as Sin - Candi Stanton
Home Is Where The Hatred Is - Esther Phillips
Let's make it - Ellie Girl & 7 Beat Sulks
Morning - Cal Tjader
Roscoe James McClain - The Tymes
Crimson & Clover - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Why Can't I Touch It? - The Buzzcocks
Momma Miss America - Paul McCartney
The Juicer - The Sweat
Sudden Death - Anders, Laguna, & Ginsberg
What Do You Want - Blue Jays
(you caught me) Smillin' - Sly and The Family Stone
You Don't Know - Ellie Greenwhich
I'm Your Angel - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
With a Little Help From My Friends - The Persuasions
Teach Me How To Fly - Rotary Connection
(goodbye)
Kingdom of Death - Daniel AIU Balthezar Higgs

Radio Belly

If you don't already know, I started this new site called Radio Belly.
It's a site that gives away free music. 

On Chances With Wolves I get to pick out a lot of obscure over-looked gems of the past. With Radio Belly I get to pick out the obscure over-looked gems of the future.

This week I posted an EP by my dear friend Paul Korzan
Paul is a painter and not really a musician but he made these songs and they are great. 

He made them just for fun though and allowed me to release them only under the strict condition that nobody would then encourage him to pursue a music career.

It's called animal.date.die and it's beautiful and it's about animals and birthday's and death and other stuff
I encourage you all to download it.

Go to: RadioBelly.com

Peace Yo!

Episode #26

I received a nice email from a Mr. Kevin jones. He says this has been his air-freshener for the last two years.

I wonder what it smells like?

Episode #26

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and here we are:

The Ballad Of John & Yoko - Percy Faith
The Devils's Pad - Paul Leader and H.B. Barnum's Circats
Susie Q - Los Psicodelicos Xoc
Respect - Prince Buster
Travelin Blues - Slim Gaillard
End Of The Rainbow - Sonny Sharrock
Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee
Don't It Sound Good? - Billy Mashburn
Bendix "The Tomorrow People" - Raymond Scott
And I Love Her - Reggie Milner
Bandido - The Pastel Six
Way Down In Mexico - The Coasters
Transistor Radio - George "Bpngo Joe" Coleman
Out In The Streets - The Shangri-Las
Annie's Answer - The El-Dorados
3 days Later - De La Soul
Yama Yama - Yamasuki
Big Noise From Winnetka - Eric Delaney
I Who Have Nothing - The Druids Of Stonehenge
Once and for all Girl - The Other Four
Eleanor Rigby - Rare Earth
Chitlin Con Carne - Junior Wells
Waiting Around To Die - Townes Van Zandt
Hard Travelin' - Woody Guthrie
Santiano - The Highwaymen
Don't Fence Me In - Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby
Endearing Young Chums
Reasons To Be Cheerful - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
African Lullaby - Bruce Haack
Foolish Woman - The Oxford Circle
Passion Plumbers - Nervous Cabaret
Flying - The Beatles
Cefalea - Musica Dispersa
Winchester Cathedral - The New Vaudville Band
Boat Ride To The Jungle - Paul Korzan
The Bed - Ragni, Rado & MacDermont
The Old Man Of The Mountain - The Mills Brothers
I Got Loaded -Peppermint Harris with Maxwell Davis & his All-Stars/Peppermint Harris
Serious - Luke Temple
Plea Bargain - Beat The Devil
The Pusher - The Prophet & The Disciples
Black Cat - Scotty McKay
In Time - The Jungle Brothers
Just Walking In The Rain - The Prisonaires
Road Without An End - Charles Wright

what's he building in there?

meant to put this up around halloween, but here it is now...



Can you imagine when they used to show shit like this on MTV?
what the hell is he building in there?

Episode #25 (1/2 sandwich & cup of soup)

So.
Phew.
President Obama.

Here's our President Obama show. It's a 1/2 show. There were all these technical problems with the second half of the show. So here's the first half. The first half sounds great.


Episode 25 &1/2:






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Track list:
(Intro) - John Bonham getting busy
If I Were President - The Pharcyde
Yes We Can Can - The Pointer Sisters
I'm Movin' On - Chevrone Scott
Slim's Jam - Slim Gaillard
President Mash Up The Resident - Shorty
Happy Birthday, Mr. President - Marilyn Monroe
Sh-Boom - The Chords
You Are My Sunshine - Paul McGhee
Fallin Rain - Link Wray
Bring It On Home To Me - Britt Daniel
Stupid Girl - Neil Young
The Crazy Daisy - Anita Ellis W/ David Amram
(He's) The Great Imposter - The Fleetwoods
Walk Tall - Cannonball Adderley Quintet
I Love Her Still - The Poets
Lift Him Up That's All - Washington Phillips
When The Ship Comes In - R. Zimmerman

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