{"id":1272,"date":"2008-03-07T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-08-26T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T17:45:45","slug":"dugout-chatter-lemgthe-greater-antilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dugout-chatter-lemgthe-greater-antilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dugout Chatter: The Greater Antilles Sampler<\/em> Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last night I pulled out an old, 1976 Antilles Records<\/a> sampler that was stashed in an odds and ends bin in my record collection. I remember buying this album long ago for a dollar or less because it was bookended by a Nick Drake<\/strong> song at the beginning (at that time I had not pulled the trigger on buying anything by him) and a Portsmouth Sinfonia<\/strong> track, a legendary Eno-produced conglomeration of art rockers playing instruments foreign to them, at the end. I liked the Drake tune and would go on to buy a sampler collection culled from his 3 albums that still does the trick for me. The Portsmouth Sinfonia thing was a one-trick pony of an artsy-fartsy joke. I’d been involved in funnier one-off art rocker jokes with my friend and fellow Townsman, General Slocum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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After not spinning this record for at least 10 years, I was determined last night to dig into the sampler’s midsection. This weekend’s Dugout Chatter<\/strong> is structured around a handful of this collection’s guts, so to speak. After listening to each track, please respond to the corresponding question. As always, your<\/em> gut response is what we value! The songs and questions follow the jump.
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