Today we feature Fred Cole, legendary Oregon rocker who’s been around since the Nuggets days. Of course, his best known band is Dead Moon, but he was also in The Lollipop Shoppe, Zipper and The Rats. His newest band is the great Pierced Arrows, which I was lucky enough to see live on a stormy winter night last weekend here in Cleveland. Pierced Arrows have a brand new second album out called Descending Shadows. We also introduce the German band Locas In Love obviously named after the Love and Rockets comic book episodes involving Maggie and Hopey. They appeared on the new Walkabouts tribute called Got No Chains. The Hotrats are the two dudes from Supergrass, one of the most annoying nineties English bands. Still, Hotrats are not that bad at all and we hear their interesting treatment of Beastie Boys original You Gotta Fight…. Things turn around! Home Sweet Home is another project by Luther Dickinson and it again, it’s done in the spirit of Luther’s father Jim. Also, we hear a new mp3 by Abby Travis recorded specially for the new Dave Markey’s movie The Reinactors.

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Luther Dickinson And The Sons Of Mudboy - Let It Roll;
Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party);
The Hotrats - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party);
The Len Bright Combo - The Golden Hour Of Harry Secombe;
The Five Americans - Western Union;
Dale Hawkins - Heavy On My Mind;
Lollipop Shoppe - Don’t Look Back;
Zipper - Born Yesterday;
The Rats - Descending Shadows;
Pierced Arrows - Paranoia;
Dead Moon - Kicked Out-Kicked In;
Los Trendy - Needs A Little;
The Walkabouts - The Light Will Stay On;
Locas In Love - The Light Will Stay On;
Home Sweet Home - Let Your Light Shine On Me;
Abby Travis - 1000 Times A Day;
Kropotkins - My Body Lies on the Mountain.

We dedicate this show to Dale Hawkins - a guy who wrote a rock’n'roll anthem Suzie Q. Hawkins died at the age of 73 on February 13th this year. We also have one new band here at The Little Lighthouse. Their name is The Len Price 3, they come from Medway UK and there is a lot of talk about them in the garage rock world these days. Eddie Current Suppression Ring is back with the new album entitled Rush To Relax.

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William Bell - Born Under A Bad Sign;
The Who - Pictures of Lily;
The Len Price 3 - Pictures;
The Buff Medways - Dustbin Mod;
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q (Pt. 1);
Dale Hawkins - Susie Q;
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q (Pt. 2);
Dale Hawkins - Baby What You Want Me To Do;
Tommy McLain - Grow Too Old;
Joe Strummer - Silver and Gold (Grow Too Old);
City of Cool - Loud And Clear;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax;
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Memory Lane;
Special Pillow - Poison Apples;
Soft Canyon - We Threw Our Love Into the Universe;
Holiday Rain - Powerless;
Satin Gum - Running Red Lights.

Today we have two new names at The Little Lighthouse. Pissed Jeans - a neo-grunge band from Pauline, SC. They’ve been a Sub Pop attraction for a few years now, but we have them here for the first time with their new album King of Jeans. We also have Glossary, a new band in and around the Memphis rock’n'roll scene. Beck and Wilco united last summer for a session where they re-recorded the entire Alexander Skip Spence album called Oar. This album is weekly uploaded track by track on Beck’s web site, and there’s one track left to go. Drive By Truckers recorded a new 45 and it is a tribute to Eddie Hinton. Besides Hinton’s great song Everybody Needs Love, the b-side of that 45 contains a wonderful cover of a lesser known Hinton’s song Where’s Eddie. The song and the new version are simply perfect. We also have in this show the new one-off record by Giant Sand called Off Ramp, which is a collection of out-takes and snippets from the recording session that gave birth to their 1991 masterpiece called Ramp.

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Eric Burdon And The Animals - Good Times;
Giant Sand - Romance of Falling;
Giant Sand and Victoria Williams - Love;
Victoria Williams - Love;
Eddie Hinton - Everybody Needs Love;
Drive-By Truckers - Where’s Eddie;
Lulu - Where’s Eddie;
Patterson Hood - Pollyanna;
Glossary - No Guarantee;
Jon Dee Graham - Beautifully Broken;
John Wesley Coleman III - Where Did My Friends Go;
Pissed Jeans - False Jesii Part 2;
Bassholes - Don’t You Look Sideways At Me;
Kurt Vile - Hunchback;
Mama Rosin - Le Pistolet;
Beck and Wilco - Little Hands;
Skip Spence - Little Hands.

Today’s editions brings you the newest album for The Kropotkins, band fronted by Lorette Velvette and Dave Soldier. This is their third album, and listeners of this show their two first albums very well if they followed our past episodes. We also have A. A. Bondy with his new album Daytrotter Session volume 2, Suzanne Vega with her new album Close-Up Vol. 1 Love Songs. Jon Dee Graham is also here with his brand new album It’s Not As Bad As It Looks. We know him previously as the member of The Skunks, True Believers and The Resentments. He recently had an accident that nearly took his life, and we’re glad to see him back raging full on. John Wesley Coleman III is the new name at the Little Lighthouse. In this show you can hear a tune from his new album called Steal My Mind, Coleman’s version of Warren Zevon’s Lawyers, Guns And Money.

Ivica Percl - Dobar Dan;
Kropotkins - Little Drag Racer;
Kropotkins - Cold Wet Steel;
Kropotkins - Junior’s Groove;
A.A. Bondy - Among The Pines;
A.A. Bondy - I Can See The Pines Are Dancing;
Luther Dickinson & The Sons Of Mudboy - Back Back Train;
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns And Money;
John Wesley Coleman III - Lawyers, Guns & Money;
True Believers - Sleep Enough To Dream;
Jon Dee Graham - My Lucky Day;
Javier Escovedo - The Music Keeps On Playin’;
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Maggie May;
Suzanne Vega - I’ll Never Be Your Maggie May;
The Boomtown Rats - (She’s Gonna) Do You In;
The Vibrators - Sweet Sweet Heart.

Today’s highlight is definitely the new very special tribute to Jim Dickinson, created by his sons, friends and sons of his friends entitled Luther Dickinson & The Sons of Mudboy. Listeners of The Little Lighthouse are very well familiar with Jim Dickinson’s ad-hoc supergroup called Mudboy and the Neutrons - one of the best bands that ever came out of Memphis, well known for their chaotic covers of standards and traditionals. Now, using the same idea but with a layer of sorrow surrounding the passing of Jim, Luther Dickinson and the Sons of Mudboy put out an excellent album called Onward and Upward. This record is a magnificent farewell to the imposing figure that Jim Dickinson used to be on the Memphis rock’n'roll scene. We also check out the newest album for the Swiss zydeco band Mama Rosin (Black Robert) and the new album for the singersongwriter Freedy Johnston (Rain On The City). Also, please check out our new bonus podcast below that we will receive weekly from Igor Mitic in Pancevo. Look for the panther logo and title Sympathy for Rock’n'roll!

Javier Escovedo - Just A Dream;
J Mascis - I Want you Bad;
NRBQ - I Want You Bad;
Freedy Johnston - I Want You Bad;
Freedy Johnston - Don’t Fall In Love With A Lonely Girl;
Big Drill Car - Let Me Walk;
The Radiators From Space - Television Screen;
Mama Rosin - Ti Moreau;
Mama Rosin - J’ Arrive Pas a Dormir;
Bobby Charles - Save Me Jesus;
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses;
Luther Dickinson & The Sons Of Mudboy - Angel Band;
Mudboy and the Neutrons - Angel Band;
John Paul Keith and The One Four Fives - Secondhand Heart;
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Tryin’;
Gentleman Jesse - No Rest (For the Wicked);
Wayne County - Flip Your Wig;
The Astorians - I Walk.

Today we say goodbye to the rock’n'roll pioneer Bobby Charles who died on January 14. Bobby Charles is one of those authors that kick-started the entire rock’n'roll, the way we know it today. After Bill Haley with his Comets recorded Bobby’s See You Later Alligator rock’n'roll ghost was out of the bottle forever. In 1972, Bobby Charles resurfaced and recorded a masterpiece record with Rick Danko and The Band. Songs that Bobby wrote will stay forever. This show is dedicated to him. We also presented some new records here at The Little Lighthouse. Miro Kusacic of Messerschmitt is back with a new band Junkers 5, fronted by the new name on the scene - Elizabeta Petric. Sarah Borges covered Clive Gregson’s Yesterday’s Love and Javier Escovedo had a really great new record in 2008, but for some reason, it fell through the cracks and I only got a chance to hear it now. It’s called City Lights and it’s truly exceptional.

John Hiatt - Have a Little Faith In Me;
Koja and Djura - Crveno;
Junkers5 - New Orleans;
Messerschmitt - Have A Little Faith In Me;
The Zeros - Wimp;
Javier Escovedo - See You Around;
True Believers - Tell Her;
Sarah Borges & The Broken Singles - Yesterday’s Love;
Any Trouble - Yesterday’s Love;
Goree Carter & His Hepcats - Rock Awhile;
Bill Haley & The Comets - See You Later, Alligator;
Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans;
Clarence “Frogman” Henry - (I Don’t Know Why) But I Do;
The Band - Down South In New Orleans;
Bobby Charles - Street People;
Bobby Charles - Grow Too Old;
Bobby Charles - Small Town Talk;
Bobby Charles - Take It Easy Greasy;
Bobby Charles - I Ain’t Gonna Do It No More;
Bobby Charles - See You Later Alligator.

Today’s show is dedicated to Jay Reatard and Vic Chesnutt. These two important characters on the modern rock’n'roll scene died recently. Jay Reatard died in his sleep on January 13 this year and Vic Chesnutt died from a muscle relaxant overdose on December 25. Jay was 29 and Vic was 45. We lost much more than just two rock’n'roll musicians. We lost leaders of the scene, relevant guys who moved and shook things around with every record they put out. On the other hand, the two are diametrically opposite. Jay wrote short, loud songs, did great singles and recently injecting some healthy dose of reformation of the rock album format. On the other hand Vic was a leader of the loose pack of new folk authors and singer songwriters, finding a new way to tell the old stories of despair and pain. They left shoes that will be impossible to fill in.

Vic Chesnutt - Dying Young;
The Reatards - Blew My Mind;
The Reatards - Lick on My Leather;
Jay Reatard - Man Of Steel;
Jay Reatard - Another Person;
Jay Reatard - It’s So Useless;
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions;
Jay Reatard - Oh, It’s Such A Shame;
Final Solutions - Poderimo Rock;
The Reatards - When I Get Mad;
The Reatards - Out of My Head into My Bed;
The Reatards - Runnin’ Free;
Jay Reatard - I’m Watching You;
Jay Reatard - There Is No Sun;
Vic Chesnutt - Sleeping Man;
brute - George Wallace;
brute - Blight;
brute - Snowblind;
Vic Chesnutt - Dodge;
Vic Chesnutt - Flirted With You All My Life;
Vic Chesnutt - Gravity of The Situation.

We begin today’s show by listening to Kurt Vile from Philadelphia who had a very good album called Childish Prodigy last year. The rest of the show is filled with our favorite short forms of 2009 (eps, singles, single downloads…) and compilations.

Kurt Vile - Arms Like Boulders;
Richard Hell - Monkey;
Kurt Vile - Monkey;

Best Unreleased Recods
smRts - Curious Bird;
My Buddy Moose - Alone;

Best Online Project
(Paul Kelly - A-Z in the previous show)
Dan Auerbach - Mean Monsoon;

Best Compilations
Ken & the 4th Dimension - See If I Care;
Big Star - I Got Kinda Lost;

Best Short Form
Ean Eraser - It Does Not Matter To Me;
Tav Falco & The Unapproachable Panther Burns - Administrator Blues;
Palmyra Delran - Baby Should Have Known Better;
Paul Westerberg - Ghost On The Canvas;
Kim Simpson - I See the World;
City of Cool - Not The Worst Thing;

King Tuff - Lady;
Mike Therieau - Devil Make My Bed;

Out of competition…
James Luther Dickinson - A Chicken Ain’t Nothing But A Bird.

Our award for the best musical Internet project in 2009 goes to the Australian singer songwriter Paul Kelly. Throughout 2008 and 2009 he ran a continuous Internet project in which for each month of the year he posted several songs re-recorded in the “unplugged” variants. Each month, one letter of the alphabet was covered (except V and X). This was a wonderful project in which Paul Kelly recorded over 100 hundred songs and posted them for free download at http://www.paulkelly.com.au/. In todays show, we cover at least one song for each letter of the alphabet, and for the other 80 plus songs, visit Paul Kelly’s website. Happy New Year by the way!

Anastasia Changes Her Mind;
Before Too Long;
Careless;
Dumb Things;
Don’t Harm The Messenger;
Everything’s Turning To White;
Forty Miles To Saturday Night;
Gift That Keeps On Giving;
Hard Love;
I Close My Eyes;
Jump To Love;
Keep On Driving;
Leaps And Bounds;
My Way Is To You;
Nothing But A Dream;
Our Sunshine;
Passed Over;
Queenie and Rover;
Randwick Bells;
Stories Of Me;
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning;
South Of Germany;
To Her Door;
Until Death Do Them Part;
Won’t You Come Around;
You’re 39, You’re Beautiful And You’re Mine;
Zoe.

 Here we are at the end of another year in rock’n'roll. It’s behind us… We entered it hoping it would be an exciting one, and for the most part, musically, it did bring a few exciting moments. We’re taking time right now to rediscover these moments in our year end list of best albums in 2009 at The Little Lighthouse. Chris Cacavas took the cake this year without too much contemplation, at least in this microcosm that we call The Little Lighthouse. Take a chance to review the rest of the list, read my reviews and of course - take a listen at the show. Exit 2009, enter 2010…

The Best of 2009 - LPs

1 Chris Cacavas - Love’s Been Discontinued
2 Grant Hart - Hot Wax
3 Satin Gum
4 Greg Koons - Welcome to the Nowhere Motel
5 Mama Rosin - Brule Lentement
6 John Paul Keith and The 145s - Spills and Thrills
7 Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River
8 Outrageous Cherry - Universal Malcontents
9 Krayolas - Long Leaf Pine
10 Reigning Sound - Love and Curses
11 Soulsavers - Broken
12 Amy Allison - Sheffield Streets
13 Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
14 Buddy and Julie Miller - Written in Chalk
15 Dinosaur Jr - Farm
16 The Resentments - Roselight
17 Doug Gillard - Call From Restricted
18 King Khan - Invisible Girl
19 Jack Oblivian - Disco Outlaw
20 Obits - I Blame You

Playlist

Obits - Run;
Jack-O & The Tennessee Tearjerkers - Against The Wall;
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Lonely Boy;
Doug Gillard - Gibraltar;
The Resentments - Look Up;
Dinosaur Jr - Your Weather;
Buddy & Julie Miller - One Part, Two Part;
Neko Case - People Got A Lotta Nerve;
Amy Allison - Monsters of the Id (with Elvis Costello);
Soulsavers - You will miss me when I burn;
Reigning Sound - Dangerous Game;
The Krayolas - Matter of Time;
Outrageous Cherry - I Recognized Her;
Richmond Fontaine - You Can Move Back Here;
John Paul Keith and The One Four Fives - If I Were You;
Mama Rosin - You Stole My Motorcycle;
Greg Koons And The Misbegotten - Turn Around (2AM On Second Street);
Satin Gum - Apparitions (Sweet!!!);
Grant Hart - California Zephyr;
Chris Cacavas - Other Side.