1. Francis Lazarus--One Two--Fire Star 2. Midnight Star-- No Parking (On the Dance Floor)--No Parking On the Dance Floor 3. Defunkt-- Thermonuclear Sweat--Defunkt 4. Orchestre Abboud Abdel-Al--Disco Song--Soiree Orientale 5. Mobius-- Nervos--Tonspuren 6. Thinking Fellers--In The Stars I Can Sizzle Like a Battery-- Bob Dinners and Larry Noodlles present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche 7. Luis Perez C.-- Se Me Peridio La Cadentia--Amaneciendo En Carnaval 8. Toots and the Maytals--Louie-Louie--Slatyam Stoot 9. Newcleus-- Jam On It (instrumental)--12" Single

The giving spirit during the holidays struck me unexpectedly. The overwhelming generosity left me flush and as a result I kind of went hog wild on new vinyl. Now, normally when shopping for new vinyl I've the tendency to go in with a game plan, and while it may appear as though I did, I never intended to wind up with as much world electronica as I did. I don't know if it's because I've opened myself up to allow more electronic music into my life, or because of all the stellar releases over the last three months, or some perfect storm of the two, but in any case I ended up with quite a haul. DayDoorSour this week is going to be a globetrotting electronic affair touching upon such countries as Iran, Japan, Cameroon, Germany, Chicago--that's somewhere in the middle-east, right?, and Jamaica. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that the classic country show will have to go on hold for another week. Granted, I also pulled in quite the line-up of classic country titles, such as the second Buck Owens LP, and the third and forth Webb Pierce LP's as well as a bevy of 45's, (which reminds me, I'm planning to re-run the 45 single show in it's entirety due to a download malfunction), and a surprise sealed copy of everyone's favorite female artist's 1st solo LP, (did that give it away? I hope not.) Dead Horse Hour will return next Tuesday Jan. 15th at 3pm and should remain the primary show I run through the remainder of Jan., though with Feb. as Pat Rogers birthday month it's anybody's guess as to what kind shenanigans he have me up to.

Committing to an all vinyl show is taking its toll on me, and my trusty assistant Pat Rogers is flaking on his end of the bargain; lugging the records around with him. He whined, this week, one too many times. Next week will be that much more difficult, what with finals, so I've decided to make it easy on him by doing a 45 single only Dead Horse Hour. Because of his recent I-5 yo-yo trip, one in which he acquired well over 40 records, (10 of which were 45 singles), I'll be able to swing an all 45 single show. As we began the process of uncovering just what to play, he reminded me of the small collection of Starday Records 45's I had found at a rummage sale in Scappoose, early last spring. [url]http://www.bsnpubs.com/starday/stardaystory.html[/url] He or I haven't listened to those since I had acquired them. I'm really looking forward to playing the Warren Robb single, such a dark, downer number. Hell, both sides are perhaps the most depressing Country and Western songs I have ever heard, far beyond the cliche divorcee crashing his truck and killing his dog dreck. If there was any fear of stray Reed students hearing it and getting dim ideas of early departures I'd demur, but it's not quite the right time for that, anyway. To fill out the set I may have to replay a couple artists, but I think everyone has forgiven Waylon Jennings by now, so I can double up on him, and I don't much care what anyone thinks if I play two by Merle.

Pat Rogers, my trusty production assistant, practically cut off my right arm while attempting to help me with my show Tuesday November 13th. That might be a bit of an overstatement, but thanks to his incompetence I was without the right turntable, which greatly hindered my ability to wield suitable classically minded country music to the people. Fortunately, for him I suppose, he was able to brandish me with an alternative, not one I'd readily admit, but for the sake of this space and its associated readers, I'm sure it won't tarnish my image too much. The alternative, in the end, was quite clever, although one I felt needed explanation on the show and here. He offered me his MP3 player loaded with Peggy Seeger's American Child Ballads. He explained these were, in essence, what eventually morphed into Honky Tonk via the folk process through Blue Grass and other associated genres. It seemed like as good as any other remedy I could come up with. Unfortunately, I was only able to play half as many songs as I had wished to. Songs like 'Busted' by Wanda Jackson recorded by and performed with Jack White, and 'Jackson' the famous duet by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. I also had 2 other numbers by Dolly Parton I wanted to play, as well as a really strange, almost psychedelic song by the Carter Family from the early 70's. I suppose there's always next week. As the hour was winding up, Pat Rogers, my "trusty production assistant", nearly redeemed himself by reminding me to play Marisa Anderson's 'The Golden Hour'. I was able to play the opening track, a super saturated scorcher, 'Drop Down', talk a bit about her performance earlier in the week with Daniel Higgs, formerly of Lungfish, and to finally close out the show with her superior 'Dust Devils' also off 'The Golden Hour'. KPSU really lucked out getting a copy donated to their growing vinyl collection from Mississippi Records. Now if Pat Rogers can just deflate that dinghy some DJ's might be able to actually play that record.