Put Your Tongue to the Rail
Various Artists
Genus Records, 1999
Put Your Tongue to the Rail is a two-cd tribute to the Jim Carroll Band featuring more than two dozen artists from Philadelphia. Stylistically it touches on punk, post punk funk, traditional american guitar rock, garage/psychedelia, singer/songwriter stylings, eastern european folk music, stadium rock, homocore-cabaret, country, and free jazz.
The project began as a multi-band “tribute” concert in Philadelphia in September of 1996, organized by Mike Villers. The concert generated so much excitement, Mike decided to do an album that would showcase local talent while also demonstrating the power of the Jim Carroll Band’s songs. He rounded up the best bands in Philly and embarked upon what became a three -year project and a two-CD set that includes covers of almost all of the Jim Carroll Band’s songs! Jim Carroll Band bassist Stevie Linsley even came onboard at the end to master the album with Mike.
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Sound Clips (to come!)
Nothing is True – Mae Pang
It’s Too Late – Psyclone Rangers
Three Sisters – Thorazine
People Who Died Bootleg Thorazine Nightmare
Catholic Boy – Bottom
City Drops Into the Night – Stomaboy w/ Marrow
I Want the Angel – Jen Hess & Hotch
Day and Night – Iota
Differing Touch – Marah
Crow – Del Pez
Plain Division – Mia Johnson & Hoagy
Wicked Gravity – Sensitive Pricks
Lorraine – Dawn Morpurgo w/ New Ghost
Dry Dreams – DeControl
Dance the Night Away – Poppy
Hold Back the Dream – The Subverts
Black Romance – Rockula
I Write Your Name – The Last Match
Voices – The 440’s
Freddy’s Store – EDO
Low Rider – Maria Nicgorski w/ Ty Cobb
Jealous Twin – The Keepsakes
Rooms – Brother JT
Still Life – Burn Witch Burn