PLAYLIST

Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family "My Ancestors" LP [Chris Editions]—More killer Zambian psych fuzz garage! Killer affordable LP reissue that I got from Bomp! The cover lets on nothing. 

Chaka Demus & Pliers "Don't be Cruel" from "All Shook Up: A Reggae Tribute to the King" CD [Trojan]—This track is so good I could use it to kick people out of my house if they didn't like it. Reminds me of a story I heard where REM was kicked out of a party because they said they didn't like Funkadelic. Right on! 

Vodka Collins "Tokyo-New York" CD [Man's Ruin]—Japanese glam rock from the early 70s featuring Englishman Alan Merrill who had been in Japan for years as a session player on stuff produced by Yuya Uchida and Miki Curtis along with such "bands" as PYG, Too Much etc. I heard this a long time ago and it never really registered but today it sounds like the best Japanese version of T Rex I could possibly imagine. Available at Amazon "used & new" for $2.81. It must have been a weird day at Man's Ruin the day Frank decided this was coming out.