Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-02-07: Four Stars in February

We can’t take a bold principled stand every week… some weeks, we just play accordion music. (“Just”, as if that wasn’t enough!)

This week’s theme is “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 14 songs that have four stars, from Bruce’s 26,000 track accordion library.”

So please find an extra high-quality hour of our standard melange of varied squeezy musics, with a podcast bonus track for you online listeners. Speaking of which: if your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. Here’s its playlist:

AccNoir–2024–02–07, Four Stars in February

* ‟The Many Voices of Accordion Noir, PRA 100.5 FM” – tune “Boyd’s Cove Singles” – The Dardanelles (2009) – Newfoundland, Canada – http://thedardanelles.com/ – https://thedards.bandcamp.com/releases

* Artist – “Song” – Album (Date) – Where they’re from – Artist Links – Comments

* Entourloupe – ‟Hommage à Gérard Lajoie” – Les Choux Pis Des Melons (2000) – Quebec, Canada – Stéphane Landry, acc – https://claudemethe.com/product/entourloupe-les-choux-pis-des-melons/
* Clifton Chenier – ‟Tu Le Ton Son Ton (Every Now And Then)” – King Of The Bayous (1970) – Bogalusa, Louisiana, USA – https://folkways.si.edu/arhoolie
* Eugène Daignault, avec accordé – ‟Pssut, pssut, pssut” – Digital Gramophone, Library and Archives Canada (1928) – Montréal, Québec, Canada – https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/virtual-gramophone/pages/virtual-gramophone.aspx (That’s where they’ve hidden the Digital Gramophone library now) – http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/
* The Plankerdown Band – ‟Skipper Sydney’s Pussycat” – The Jig Is Up (1993) – Newfoundland, Canada – Former members of Figgy Duff: Kelly Russell, concert; Frank Maher, button acc. – https://www.discogs.com/artist/4597676-The-Plankerdown-Band
* The Ciderhouse Rebellion – ‟Navvy Camp at Green Head Brow” – Genius Loci 2 : The Valley of Iron (2022) – UK – Murray Grainger, acc; Adam Summerhayes, fiddle – https://theciderhouserebellion.com – https://theciderhouserebellion.bandcamp.com
* The Haldols w/ alec k redfearn – ‟Bulgarian Skin Mechanic” – Who Needs a Good Cockpunching? (2003-ish?) – Providence, Rhode Island, USA  The Haldols were a project Alec K Redfearn had between (?) the Amoebic Ensemble and the Eyesores I think. I only have a couple of tracks he had available for download on MySpace back in the olden days. You can get a great version on the Eyesores album Quiet Room: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-quiet-room
* Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski – ‟Mist” – Cinéma Novo (2008) – Belgium – Michel Massot: brass; tuur Florizoone: chromatic acc. Marine Horgaczerwski: cello – www.homerecords.behttps://aventuramusica.bandcamp.com/album/cinema-novo
* Rob Harbron – ‟Midnight Schottisches 1 & 2” – Meanders (2019) – UK – www.robertharbron.com
* The Band – ‟Bound By Love” – Jubilation (1998) – Canada / USA – Garth Hudson, acc. – https://www.culturesonar.com/five-great-songs-i-helped-create-with-the-band/
* J.R. Shore – ‟M.S. St. Louis” – State Theatre (2013) – Calgary, Alberta  Canada  – www.jrshore.com
* Amy Thatcher – ‟Nee Musette, Pet” – Let What’s In Out (2021) – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – https://amythatcher.co.uk
https://amythatcheraccordion.bandcamp.com
(see also The Shee, and Monster Cailidh Band)
* Al Clauser & His Oklahoma Outlaws – ‟Old Gal”(1939) – from Kevin Coffey’s personal collection – Topeka, Kansas, USA –   (Lambert Bartak, acc.  1919-  )
* Sharon Shannon & The Woodchoppers – ‟The Diamond Mountain” – Live In Galway (2001) – County Clare, Ireland – Homepage:  sharonshannon.comhttp://www.daisydiscs.com/

*Podcast Bonus*
* Anja Kreysing – ‟MEL inTunis 5” – Mise en Lumiere (2022) – Germany – https://euerzimmer.bandcamp.com
https://anjakreysing.de/wp/

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