Accordion Noir radio playlist 2008-08-29: Monsters of Accordion

AccNoir 2008-08-29

When we put on Accordion Noir episode number 91 ten years ago, we were celebrating Jason Webley’s incredible alt-accordion tour the Monsters of Accordion, working its way up the west coast right up to Seattle but no further.  It was an excellent lesson in “your alt accordion festival won’t come to you, you have to put on yourselves”, basically hauling bellows right to our backyard but stubbornly refusing to ring our front doorbell.  If nothing else, it proved inspirational.  In addition to its ringmaster, one of the monsters this time around was Seattle’s Amy Denio — both of them will be performing at our 11th annual Accordion Noir Festival’s Sept 14 Friday night opening party, and you can hear them both (plus Wendy McNeill, headlining our Sunday Sept 16 program!) on this playlist.  At its original online home it was enjoyed some 2255 times, and we hope future generations continue enjoying it over at the Internet Archive.  Now to help prime the pump, here’s its playlist:

Accordion Noir: Playlist: Aug 29, 2008, Monsters of Accordion tour!

Artist — Song – Album (date) – Origin – Label/Contact info
Cordero – La Yegua – De Donde Eres (2008) – Brooklyn, New York, USA – http://www.corderomusic.com
Wendy McNeill – Ask Me No Questions – A Dreamer’s Guide to Hardcore Loving (2008) – Sweden, Canada – http://www.wendymcneill.com/
The Mad Maggies – Mad Mod Vlad – Magdalena’s Revenge (2007) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – http://www.themadmaggies.com/
Guy Davis – Fonza Curry – Skunkmello (2006) – New York, USA – http://www.guydavis.com
Gunshai (Rowan Lipkovitz, acc.) – Bellows Jam – Traveling Without Memory (2008) – Vancouver, BC, Canada – http://www.thekonspiracygroup.com/gunshae.html
Duckmandu – Thus Spracht / Anarchy in the UK / I’ve got spurs that jingle jangle jingle – The Monsters of Accordion show (Caterina Winery, Spokane, Washington, USA, Aug 22, 2008) – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – (The P.A. System, Spokane7 Podcasts) (2008) Ryan Pitts: RyanP@SPOKESMAN.com http://www.spokane7.com/music/podcast/?id=244
Amy Denio – Inst. – The Monsters of Accordion show (Spokane, Aug 22, 2008) – Seattle, WA. USA
Power und Beauty – Beggar – (For practicing) (2008) – Spokane, Washington, USA –   HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/POWERUNDBEAUTY
Power und Beauty: The Monsters of Accordion show (Spokane, Aug 22, 2008) – Lavender (live) – Spokane, WA.
Jason Webley: The Monsters of Accordion show (Spokane, Aug 22, 2008) – Chewing Gum Medley – Seattle, Washington, USA
Mark Growden: The Monsters of Accordion show (Spokane, Aug 22, 2008) – Crazy Davie – San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA – The Monsters of Accordion show, (Caterina Winery, Spokane, Washington, USA, Aug 22, 2008) – (The P.A. System, Spokane7 Podcasts) (2008) – Ryan Pitts: RyanP@SPOKESMAN.com http://www.spokane7.com/music/podcast/?id=244

This episode’s cover is the lovely Lon Cheney, exhibiting yet another aspect of his brilliance: “Man of a thousand buttons.”

Another quicker podcast attempt. Quantity and timeliness probably trump perfectionism. Hope you enjoy

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