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Part one of a double-header with Dream Bitches.
Medley: The Butcher Boy [traditional] / Nature Boy [Eden Ahbez, as sung by Nat King Cole]
Soul Of A Man [Blind Willie Johnson]
On My Own Sense
The Minstrel Boy [traditional]
Born In 1984
John Houx
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The freewheelin' John Houx phones it in from the Harlem Renaissance House in Manhattan, NY, for a truly historic session. Like a man wandering through time as he's wandered from West Coast to East, John exists simultaneously in the NYC antifolk scene of the Sidewalk Cafe and the 60s Greenwich Village folk scene of Bleecker Street. If Langhorne Slim has a fire in his belly, then John eats at the same lunch counter. And more to the point, if Woody Guthrie had a cel phone, he would have had John on speed dial. This is that dreaded four-letter word, folk, that's still alive and revelatory. Awesome!
Part one of a double-header with Dream Bitches.
Nadav Carmel, WMBR 05/15/2008
Songs
Fight No MoreMedley: The Butcher Boy [traditional] / Nature Boy [Eden Ahbez, as sung by Nat King Cole]
Soul Of A Man [Blind Willie Johnson]
On My Own Sense
The Minstrel Boy [traditional]
Born In 1984