Kosmik Radiation Radio - January 27, 2015 Playlist

January 27, 2015 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Black Oak Arkansas "Black Oak Arkansas" 1971 (USA)

Black Oak Arkansas was a pioneering "Southern Rock" band from the town they eventually named themselves after. When they started out in the 1960's they were probably the only psychedelic hippie band in all of Arkansas, and apparently lived an outlaw existence there (allegedly the band members received twenty-year prison sentences in absentia and spent some time on the lam until the sentences were suspended); at the end of the decade they moved to the nearest major music center of Memphis, Tennessee and released their first album under the name The Knowbody Else. Following on the heels of the Allman Brothers Band's rise at the beginning of the 1970's, the newly rechristened Black Oak Arkansas adopted a louder, almost heavy metalish attack to the blues-and-gospel approach of Southern rockers and thus paved the way for Lynyrd Skynyrd who debuted two years later. BOA is also notable for being the orignal three-guitar Southern rock band (a pattern followed by Skynyrd as well as Molly Hatchet and The Outlaws), and one of the earliest groups of any kind with a three-guitar attack (Blue Oyster Cult debuted the year after Oak; only Moby Grape seems to have preceded them). And then there's the singer: the notorious Jim "Dandy" Mangrum, who makes Captain Beefheart sound like Frank Sinatra, and whose stage antics were like those of a primordial David Lee Roth (except Diamond Dave didn't play washboard solos in concert!) The self-titled debut could be BOA's best release, featuring two of their signature songs in the mystical epic "Lord Have Mercy On My Soul" and the self-explanatory sexboogie "Hot And Nasty." Other highlights include the heavy rocker "I Could Love You", instrumental jam (featuring the washboard!) "When Electricity Came To Arkansas" and an old 1950's chestnut called "Singing The Blues." Though personally, I am a big fan of their first live album which also includes "Nasty" and "Electricity."

(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
The Doors	The Soft Parade	The Soft Parade	1969	USA
Cem Karaca	Nem Kaldi?	Nem Kaldi? (N)	1975 (2014 Pharaway Sounds)	Turkey
Ariel Pink	Negative Ed	Pom Pom (N)	2014 (4AD)	USA

Pond	Zond	Man It Feels Like Space Again (N)	2015 (Caroline)	Australia
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Empty / Hot Water	I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (N)	2014 (Castleface)	Australia
5-Track	Wand	Electrostagmalites & Leafy Transmissions (N)	2014 (Cosmic Primitive)	USA
Parquet Courts	Psycho Structures	Content Nausea (N)	2014 (What's Your Rupture)	USA

The Mystic Moods Orchestra	Sunny Googe Street (Donovan)	Emotions	1968	USA
The Incredible String Band	Bridge Theme	U	1970	UK (Scotland)
The Love Generation	Magic Land	Montage	1969	USA
Stardrive with Robert Mason	Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles)	Intergalactic Trot	1973	USA

Black Oak Arkansas (R)	Lord Have Mercy On My Soul --> When Electricity Came To Arkansas	Black Oak Arkansas CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1971	USA
Black Oak Arkansas (R)	Up (live)	Raunch 'N' Roll Live	1973	USA
Black Oak Arkansas (R)	I Could Love You	Black Oak Arkansas CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1971	USA

Goose Creek Symphony	Talk About Goose Creek And Other Important Places	Est. 1970	1970	USA
Steve Miller Band	High On You Mama	Recall The Beginning...A Journey From Eden	1972	USA
Trapeze	Seafull	Medusa	1970	UK
Gypsy	Blind Man	In The Garden	1971	USA
Quicksilver Messenger Service	It's Been Too Long	Quicksilver Messenger Service	1968	USA

The Tubes	Up From The Deep	The Tubes	1975	USA
BeBop Deluxe	Life In The Air Age (live)	Live In The Air Age	1977	UK
Captain Beyond	I Can't Feel Nothin' (part I) --> As The Moon Speaks (To The Waves Of The Sea) --> Astral Lady --> As The Moon Speaks (Return) --> I Can't Feel Nothin' (part II)	Captain Beyond	1972	USA/UK
Gary Wright	I Know A Place	Extraction	1970	UK

Roxy Music	The Bogus Man (live)	Viva! Roxy Music Live	1976	UK
Phil Manzanera & 801	Que? / City Of Lights	Listen Now!	1977	UK
Caravan	Jack And Jill	Blind Dog At St. Dunstans	1976	UK
Mike McGear (Paul McCartney's brother)	Norton	McGear	1975	UK

Killdozer	Hot And Nasty (Black Oak Arkansas)	Uncompromising War On Art Under The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat	1994	USA

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