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Welcome back to the Podcast Cafe on the verge of springtime! Make yerself comfortable as DJ Fundi serves up a blend of mostly-new beardy manfolk from many of our musical heroes: M. Ward, Andrew Bird, Damien Jurado, Iron & Wine, the Cave Singers, Sturgill Simpson, Bon Iver... and a surprise appearance by Ms. Lucinda Williams in the midst of it all. These modern folk songs are often haunting, sentimental, sometimes spooky, always satisfying. Don't know why so many bearded-men-folk-singers released new albums all at the same time, but they did, and DJ Fundi is here to help you sift through to find the best and most nutritious nuggets. If you like what you hear tonight in our Spring Buds III gathering, support the artists and buy their records, as well as consider making a donation to the Podcast Cafe to help us keep the lights on and the music flowing.

Fiddleheads Unfurling:  BEARDY MANFOLK EQUINOX : track list \\ Damien Jurado "Lon Bella > ONALASKA" / Robin Pecknold "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" / J. Tillman "Diamondback" / Andrew Bird "Capsized" / Bon Iver "Haven, Mass" / The Cave Singers "That's Why > The Salamander" / Lucinda Williams (with Bill Frisell + Greg Leisz) "Faith & Grace" / Sturgill Simpson "Brace For Impact (Live A Little)" / M. Ward "Slow Driving Man" / Iron & Wine "Bullet Proof Soul" / Andrew Bird "Roma Fade" / Ray LaMontagne "Wouldn't It Make a Lovely Photograph"  / Sturgill Simpson "In Bloom" / The Cave Singers "Fade Away" / Damien Jurado "On the Land Blues" \\

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Welcome to Episode #103! As in previous episodes El Blanco Chango and SnowGreen SpinCycle, DJ Fundi typed a word in to iTunes -- in this case, obviously, "black" -- and challenged himself to make a fun, interesting & coherent mixx from the search results. This was a pretty easy color challenge as you might imagine, and it offered a wide array of funky, soulful, jazzadelic and reggae-skankin' tunes.

track list :: Blackalicious "Blazing Arrow" > The Black Brothers "The Donkey Bray" > Black Heat "Wanoah" > The Black Keys "Black Mud" > Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics "Addis Black Widow" > "Voices of Black" > Miles Davis "Black Satin" > Robert Glasper "Black Radio" (with Mos Def) > Ray Charles "Blackjack" > Prince "Black Sweat" > Parliament "Theme from the Black Hole" > D'Angelo "Prayer" from "Black Messiah" > Aretha Franklin "Border Song "Holy Moses" (from 'Young, Gifted & Black') > Stevie Wonder "Black Man" > James Brown "I Feel Good" (Tall Black Guy remix) > The Heptones "Choice of Black and White" > Lee "Scratch" Perry "Pablo in the Black Arc" > Pearl Jam "Black" > Led Zepplin "Black Mountain Side" > Cave Singers "Black Leaf" > Local Natives "Black Spot" >  The Beatles "Blackbird" >  Tony Rice Unit "Blackberry Blossom" > Laura Veirs "Black Butterfly > Blackened Anchor" ::

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With this jointly-created mix by Playaduster and Fundi we attempt to honor the life, music and creative legacy of David Bowie after his sudden departure from Planet Earth. They collaborated on this mix that features Bowie's songs (in somewhat chronological order), interviews, news reels, a few choice covers and a handful of remixes. When choosing tracks, we had studio cuts, live versions, remixes and sometimes Bowie's reinterpretations of them re-recorded 20+ years later ~ they often blend several sources in to one track, so listen carefully! So much gratitude for this magical human being and all that he left behind.

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It's been a very interesting week here in the Pacific Northwest, home of the Podcast Cafe : raging wildfires, air full of smoke and ash, then a giant storm on the day of the Full Moon bringing torrential rains and winds strong enough to topple trees and knock out power at the cafe. In the midst of all this elemental power and dramatic planetary upheaval, we lit some candles, opened the cafe to our neighbors and spun out this mix of newish music that has been tickling our earholes here in late Summer. "Rain Return" features a bunch of cafe regulars like Wilco, Beck, Built to Spill, Father John, Beirut, Kurt Vile and Laura Marling, while also bringing is some new friends that we'd love for you to meet, like Courtney Barnett, Yaima, SaQi, Hot Chip and Pepper Proud. DJ Fundi gets things started off, while DJ Playaduster steps in midway through to blend in some new, groovy sounds from the world of electronica and sacred bass music.

Hope y'all enjoy!

I typed the color-word "White" in to my iTunes and several dozens songs came up. I made an hour+ music mix from these options, enjoying the random constraints as I attempted to craft an audio journey for myself and for you. It helped me to dig deeper in to my vaults!

track list // Bill Frisell "White Fang" / Wilco "The Lonely 1" (White Version) / Parquet Courts "Black and White" / The Heptones "Choice of Black and White" / Gillian Welch "Six White Horses" / Doc Watson "Whitehouse Blues" / Elliott Smith "Bled White" / Morphine "Honey White" / The Field "Then It's White" / Bluetech "White Magnesia" / Pantha du Prince "White Out" / Thriftworks "Pearly Whites" / Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal" / Neil Young + Crazy Horse "White Line" / Johnny Cash "Six White Horses" / Sturgill Simpson "Long White Line" / Iron & Wine "White Tooth Man" / The Whites "Keep on the Sunny Side" \\

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Love, DJ Fundi

Ever so subtly, the seasons are shifting: days grow longer, buds swell on the branch, frogsong in the evening, not building as many fires for warmth. DJ Fundi has gone ahead and gathered up some very fresh new music and mixed it up for you. It was created on the last full moon - the "snow moon." Many of these tracks are singles from forthcoming albums we are very much looking forward to, including new music from Modest Mouse (two new tracks bookend the mix), Death Cab and Laura Marling; others are from albums just released, like Father John, Bjork, D'angelo; and finally, the rest are from some of the best albums released in 2014, many of which we featured in our last podcast mix "'Cause You Had Taste: 2014 Favorites." Enjoy!