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Cat Power “Redux”

sfilzen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:06:45 +0000

Cat Power “Redux” 2026. Domino Recording Co. a three song 10-inch EP by Chan Marshall aka Cat Power where she’s backed by her Dirty Delta Blues band which includes Judah Bauer (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) on guitar plus Gregg Foreman (The Delta 72, Jesse Malin), Erik Paparozzi (Lizard Music), and Jim White (Dirty Three, The Hard Quartet). The 10″ was released in celebration of the 20th anniversary of her 2006 album The Greatest. It includes one Cat Power original, the track “Could We” which was originally recorded but not included on The Greatest. The remaining two tracks are covers: James Brown’s bluesy “Try Me” – also originally recorded for The Greatest and scrapped – plus a hauntingly sad rendition of Prince/Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” According to a review on Under the Radar: “This inclusion is bittersweet as it was recorded in tribute to the late, great guitarist Teenie Hodges, a legendary member of The Memphis Rhythm Band that backed Cat Power on The Greatest and with whom she formed a close bond before his passing in 2014.” (undertheradarmag)

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Squeeze “6 Squeeze Songs Crammed Into One Ten-inch Record”

sfilzen — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:07:31 +0000

Squeeze “6 Squeeze Songs Crammed Into One Ten-inch Record” 1979. Today, January 24th, is Squeeze keyboardist Jools Holland’s 65th birthday (b. Julian Holland, 1958). This 10″ EP is a comp of Squeeze’s early singles housed in a die-cut 12″ sleeve designed to precisely accommodate a 10″ record. The fists are startling life-like! Squeeze’s early era is my favorite: fun power pop, good-time new wave songs. Side A has a rollicking live version of “Goodbye Girl” from ’78 (#63 UK), the most excellent “Cool For Cats” which went to #2 in the UK in ’79 and a remix of “Up the Junction” from ’79 which also hit #2 in the UK. Those two from 1979 both appear on Squeeze’s second LP Cool For Cats. Side B has the driving beated, synth-heavy “Slap & Tickle” (#24 UK, also from ’79 and on the LP Cool For Cats) and two singles from their ’78 debut s/t album: “Bang Bang” (#49 UK) and probably my top Squeeze track “Take Me, I’m Yours” which was their first ever single; it hit #19 in the UK. 6 Squeeze Songs Crammed Into One Ten-inch Record is a US-release and I’m guessing it was primarily promoted to the college radio market; our copy has KESD-FM stamped on the cover. That station used to be South Dakota State University’s station but is now a public radio station.

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El Vez “A Lad From Spain? (…No From Mexico!)”

sfilzen — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:05:41 +0000

El Vez “A Lad From Spain? (…No From Mexico!)” 1998. Sympathy for the Record Industry. Six-song (plus one hidden track) 10″ EP of covers, reworked in El Vez’s kitschy, political, classic rock/rockabilly (a bit punk’d up), and hilarious style. It leads off with a brief hard-driving instrumental rendition of T. Rex’s “Twentieth Century Boy” and seamlessly flows into a musically faithful cover of Bachman Turner Overdrive’s “Taking Care of Business” but El Vez changes the lyrics into a biting (but funny) commentary on Mexican immigrant labor (i.e. “You wouldn’t want to be a field worker and be sprayed with pesticide” and “Taking care of business: Working fields! Taking care of business and cooking all your meals”). The last listed song on Side A is “Chihuahua,” a cover of Elvis’ “Hound Dog” (which, of course, was written by power duo Lieber and Stoller and then first – and best – recorded by Big Mama Thorton in 1952) but concluding after a minute or two of run-out groove hiss is the hidden track, the rework of David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” to “A Lad From Spain” performed live. Side B begins with a less-than-towering version of the opening theme from 2001: A Space Oddessey and then segues into “Si, I’m a Lowrider (Low & Slow Mix),” a bluesy number and then he launches back into more Bowie medley’d with Earl Brown: “Rock and Roll Suicide – If I Can Dream” (Brown wrote “If I Can Dream” to close the “Comeback Special for NBC” by Elvis Presley). The 10″ concludes with a reprise of “Taking Care of Business.” Much of the 10″ is live, recorded partially at Emo’s in Austin.

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