We have four new names in today’s show. Three represent straight forward garage rock. Elephant Bones are coming from my town, Cleveland. Their album Arms is a glamified deal with good lyrics and well informed with history of pop music. Bazooka Falcon are from New York, but sound more like they’re from Sweden. They have some of that rocking sound that we’ve heard from the Hellacopters and Hives. The third in the new line up is The Rain Bonnets, who I know very little about, but they sound like Iggy Pop with a good dose of humor. Greg Koons from Philadelphia also debuts at The Little Lighthouse. His song Los Angeles Looks Prettier on TV is a modern songwriting masterpiece. His tour-list is very extensive, so make sure if he’s visiting your town. Demon’s Claws from Montreal have a new 45 and we check it out today. And, finally – we have waited 30 years for their second lp, but only 5 for their fourth one – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely – The Flatlanders are together again.
Bruce Springsteen – It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City;
Jackie DeShannon – Movin’;
Rod Bernard – Recorded In England;
Bazooka Falcon – New Enemy;
Rain Bonnets – Your Space and Your Reaction;
Dan Auerbach – My Last Mistake;
Elephant Bones – Diaspora;
Demon’s Claws – Get Together;
Demon’s Claws – 9000 Feets;
Neil Young – Just Singing A Song;
Mama Rosin – Bon Temps Roulet;
Tarbox Ramblers – Last Month Of The Year;
Flatlanders – I Know You;
Flatlanders – There’s Never Been;
Flatlanders – Dallas;
Greg Koons – Los Angeles Looks Prettier On TV;
Guy Clark – LA Freeway.
Today we bring you two European bands with appreciation for the American sound. Mama Rosin come from Switzerland and play Cajun music. Waistcoats are from Netherlands and they put out one of the strongest garage rock eps this year. Stateside, Neil Young is back with new album Fork In The Road. Steve Earle has a Townes Van Zandt cover album and Mission of Burma has a live ep distributed online.
John Martyn – Root Love;
Mission Of Burma – Academy Fight Song;
Waistcoats – Take That You Bastards;
Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Outside The Lines;
Neil Young – Johnny Magic;
Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night;
Townes Van Zandt – Where I Lead Me;
Steve Earle – Where I Lead Me;
Mama Rosin – J’Vas Mon Chemin;
Rufus Jagneaux – Opelousas Sostan;
The Resentments – Struttin’ Yer Stuff;
Neko Case – I’m An Animal;
Don Nix – Goin’ Down;
Jeff Beck Group – Going Down;
Autosalvage – The Great Brain Robbery.
Today’s show brings a very special block dedicated to legendary keyboardist Augie Meyers, original member of Sir Douglas Quintet who is making a sensational comeback these days with The Krayolas. We also have a brand new CD for John Doe who joined with The Sadies, re-recording a selection of classical country songs. Indie rockers Superchunk are back with a new single and Cat Power covered Dylan on her new EP.
The Bubble Puppy – Beginning;
Blue Öyster Cult – Hot Rails To Hell;
Superchunk – Learned to Surf;
Superchunk – Seed Toss;
Bob Mould – It’s Too Late;
Obits – Back and Forth;
Cat Power – I Believe In You;
Bob Dylan – I Believe In You;
Bob Dylan – Love Sick;
The Krayolas – We’ve Got a Secret;
The Krayolas – Aw Tonight;
Sir Douglas Quintet – If You Really Want Me To I’ll Go;
The Ron-Dels – If You Really Want Me To I’ll Go;
The Resentments – Look Up;
Johnnie Allan – Promised Land;
Ean Eraser – It Does Not Matter To Me;
John Doe And The Sadies – Help Me Make It Through The Night;
Kris Kristofferson – Help Me Make It Through The Night.
Today’s show is dedicated to one of the greatest songwriters ever – Jackie DeShannon. There is no particular reason for this celebration of her talent, I just felt like I needed some of her music. Back in the sixties it wasn’t so easy to be a female singer-songwriter. Somehow, musical industry at the time saw women either as performers or songwriters. So, women that wanted to do both at the same time had hard time breaking through these barriers. For example, Carole King had to wait for the entire decade to be over until she was given an opportunity to record her own songs properly. Jackie DeShannon was making albums and successful singles through the decade, but typically made hits with other people’s songs (Needles and Pins, What The World Needs Now). Her own songs she very often recorded just as simple acetate demos and passed over to other artists. These recordings are not easy to find these days, but some of these recordings surfaced. Today we have a concept where we play versions of Jackie’s demos and studio versions recorded by other artists that actually made charts. But most of all, it’s a chance to hear gorgeous Jackie’s tunes in her own inspired interpretation. Slight asperity of her voice is unmistakable and paired with her perfect songs, they stand as some of the most beautiful recordings laid on tape… umm acetate.
The Searchers – When You Walk In The Room;
Jackie DeShannon – When You Walk In The Room;
Cher – Come And Stay With Me;
Jackie DeShannon – Come And Stay With Me;
Diana Dawn – Back Street Girl;
Jackie DeShannon – Back Street Girl;
The Fashionettes – Daydreamin’ Of You;
Jackie DeShannon – Daydreamin’ Of You;
Dick Lory – There’s Gonna Be A Fight;
Jackie DeShannon – There’s Gonna Be A Fight;
Jackie DeShannon – Don’t Doubt Yourself, Babe;
The Byrds – Don’t Doubt Yourself, Babe;
Jackie DeShannon And The Byrds – Splendor In The Grass;
The Boys – Splendor In The Grass;
Jackie DeShannon – Splendor In The Grass;
Wynona Carr – Carrying A Torch;
Jackie DeShannon – Carrying A Torch;
Dobie Gray – Blue Ribbons;
Jackie DeShannon – Blue Ribbons;
The Bandits – I Remember The Girl;
Jackie DeShannon – I Remember The Boy;
Jackie DeShannon – Bette Davis Eyes;
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes.
I finally saw Gentleman Jesse live and I loved the show. A snippet from that show is in today’s episode. Jesse played in Cleveland his new song Word Gets Around and a cover of King Tuff’s Connection. King Tuff is a new band for me, so we check out also their own version of Connection and we introduce them to the Little Lighthouse. Inspired by the new Obits version of Milk Cow Blues, we explore the history of this great song by hearing four different versions of it. Brimstone Howl has a new 45 out, they cover Neil Diamond’s song Solitary Man. New names for today’s show are Palmyra Delran – a powerpop singer-songwriter from New York City, Mark And The Spies, a powerpop band from Netherlands. Also we have DV Nikt art-rocker from Philadelphia and The Guilty Hearts, garage rockers from California. We finish things up with wonderful last year’s Boz Scaggs jazz standards album Speak Low. We caught it as it was slipping thorough the cracks of my forgetfulness.
Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me;
Boye – Ja hocu te;
DV Nikt – Spirit of the forest;
Dead Moon – Milk cow Blues;
Sleepy John Estes – Milk Cow Blues;
The Kinks – Milk Cow Blues;
Obits – Milk Cow Blues;
The Guilty Hearts – 3000 Miles;
Brimstone Howl – Solitary Man;
Gentleman Jesse – Word Gets Around;
Gentlemen Jesse – Connection;
King Tuff – Connection;
The Jam – Away From The Numbers;
Palmyra Delran – You’re Loosing Me;
Mark & The Spies – We Fell In Love;
Boz Scaggs – Up to You;
Boz Scaggs – Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me.
We have several new artists for the first time at The Little Lighthouse in today’s show. Justin Townes Earle is Steve Earle’s son and he covers The Replacements’ Can’t Hardly Wait. The Buttshakers from Lyon, France cover Brenton Wood’s Gimme Little Sign. Camera Obscura is a fancy new band from Scotland and Ean Eraser is a mysterious new artists with a great new 45″ record. It’s also great to see Joe Dee Graham from True Believers and Scrappy Newcomb from Ian McLagan’s Bump Band in their Austin city supergroup – The Resentments. By the way, I also played a nice bootleg from last week’s Bump Band’s live performance in Cleveland.
Emtyset ft Ron Asheton – Down On The Street;
Sin Albert – Kinderbet;
Ean Eraser – Illegitimate Love;
Memphis Black – Gimme Little Sign;
Brenton Wood – Gimme Little Sign;
The Buttshakers – Gimme A Little Sign;
Justin Townes Earle – Can’t Hardly Wait;
The Replacements – Can’t Hardly Wait;
Black Lips – I’ll Be With You;
Gentleman Jesse and His Men – Black Hole;
Ian McLagan’s Bump Band – Glad and Sorry;
The Resentments – Nice To Meet You;
Treat Her Right – Back To Sin City;
Bo Diddley – Mumblin’ Guitar;
Rooster Blues – I Heard You Don’t Miss Me Anymore;
Volcano Suns – Tree Stomp;
Moving Targets – Funtime;
Camera Obscura – French Navy;
Outrageous Cherry – Fells Like Shadows.
Today we examine what’s rock’n’roll and what’s not and what we like about it and what not… at least in first two songs, as Outrageous Cherry paraphrase Stones in one of the standout tracks on the new album Universal Malcontents. We also check out the new album for The Obits called I Blame You. We know the Obits from the 45 that they had earlier this year. We also have new album for Neko Case called Middle Cyclone. Neko’s songwriting is really in shape on this one, it’s a truly exciting new record. Dan Auerbach, the most famous rock’n’roll Ohioan today also has a new record entitled Keep It Hid. Another, less famous Ohioan, but well known to the regular listeners of this show, Derek Deprator has a new band called Ravenscroft and we check them out as the new demos are crawling out of the studio. And at last, we finish out with two new Homestead reissues – Big Dipper and Volcano Suns.
The Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I Like It);
Outrageous Cherry – It’s Not Rock N’ Roll (And I Don’t Like It);
Obits – Fake Kinkade;
Green On Red – New World;
John Mayall – I Started Walking / Open Up A New Door;
Spencer Davis Group – Feel Your Way;
Ravenscroft – In The Pines;
Mark Lanegan – Where Did You Sleep Last Night;
Leadbelly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night?;
Dan Auerbach – I Want Some More;
Golden Palominos And Jack Bruce – Something Else Is Working Harder;
Lou Ann Barton – the doodle song;
Lucinda Williams – Heaven Blues;
Neko Case – People Got A Lotta Nerve;
Neko Case – People Gotta Lotta Nerve;
Big Dipper – Wrong in the Charts;
Volcano Suns – Descent into Hell.
Let me take you on a sixty minute ride down to Mississippi and Memphis TN – cradle of rock’n’roll. Of all places on this planet, Memphis is the mythical place where all the rock’n’roll crossroads meet in a very special way. We go there for a very concrete reason. I recently discovered a relatively new record label based there that nurtures new talents that are brewing in the area. The label is called Skeeter Hawk Records and to be more precise, the label is actually based in Hattiesburg MS, but that entire region from Hattiesburg up 300 miles North naturally, artistically and historically gravitates to Memphis. We check out three new names that are on the Skeeter Hawk roster. First, singer-songwriter Mark Mann whose rich talent is well documented on two of his CDs. Wide range of lyrical topics in his songs, capable band and deep understanding of all traditional rock idioms will make you keep returning to Mark’s songs. Besides Mark, Thomas Jackson and his Orchestra is another pleasant surprise on Skeeter Hawk Records. This rock and blues duet, with a little help of their friends created an interesting amalgam of traditional forms, but also some glammed up themes that you perhaps wouldn’t expect from a delta band. But then again, bold fusion of genres and ideas is hard-coded in rock’n’roll. Third band that we present here for the first time is Rooster Blues – a straight forward guitar+drum neo-blues outfit that echoes Black Keys. At least until they unplug and surprise you with their own brand of bluegrass. Does the new stuff from the area stand up to the good old Memphis crazies? Check it out in today’s podcast – between these three artists we sample a cross section of important Memphis artists covering all generations of musicians.
The Memphis Jug Band – Kokomo;
Rooster Blues – Down Is On My Way;
Thomas Jackson Orchestra – Blood Red Blues;
Lorette Velvette – Lost Part Of Me;
Lorette Velvette – Kokomo Blues;
Moloch – Gone Too Long (feat Johnny Woods);
Lee Baker & The Agitators – In ma Bag (Love me Tonite);
Jump Back Jake – Easy Answers;
Jump Back Jake – The Flood (Live);
James Luther Dickinson – The Curse Of The Alphastone;
Jim Dickinson with Chuck Prophet & The Creatures Of Habit – Pain and Drain;
Sid Selvidge – Stay in My Car;
Sid Selvidge – By Your Side;
Mark Mann – Vaeda;
Mark Mann – Zeus;
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – Snake Drive;
Othar Turner’s Rising Star Fife and Drum Corps – Glory Hallelujah.
Very fresh show today at The Little Lighthouse! We have the new Billy Childish project The Chatham Singers which he founded together with his wife Julie. We also have new album for Neal Casal, Roots and Wings. Madeleine Peyroux, our favorite Billie Holiday sound-alike is also back with her third album so far Bare Bones. Detroit band Outrageous Cherry announced the new album with a fantastic mp3 single Get Out While You Can. Italian band Afterhours came up with a new album last year, but I just discovered it recently – so we check that out. The new LP is called I Milanesi Ammazzano Il Sabato. And we finish our new album list for this show with Black Lips’ 200 Million Thousand. Also, I played some songs by Cleveland Bill fox who I saw live last week and who blew me away with his talented performance.
Billy Childish – Caroline;
The Chatham Singers – Upside Mine;
Oblivians – Bad Man;
Reigning Sound – Find Me Now;
The Mice – Not Proud of the USA;
Bill Fox – Get Your Workingman’s Things;
Neal Casal – Back To Haunt You;
Neal Casal – I Will Weep No More;
Madeleine Peyroux – Life is Fine;
Madeleine Peyroux – Our Lady Of Pigalle;
Outrageous Cherry – Get Out While You Can;
Outrageous Cherry – Keep Everything Under Your Hat;
Alexander Spence – Keep Everything Under Your Hat;
Dewey Martin – Indian Child;
Afterhours – Riprendere Berlino;
Afterhours – Plastic;
Afterhours – Ballata per la mia piccola iena;
Black Lips – Starting Over.
Today’s show is dedicated to three rockers that died in the last few days: Lux Interior of The Cramps, Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield and John Martyn. John Martyn was a singer songwriter that emerged from the British scene of the late 60s. Good friend of this radio show, Kim Simpson, introduced me to him just mere days before Martyn died, so this posthumous homage to Martyn is also his debut at the Little Lighthouse. Buffalo Springfield on the other hand, is a very well known band that sprung up careers of Neil Young and Stephen Stills. Drummer in that band was Dewey Martin who had a decent voice himself. Dewey had some solo efforts after Buffalo Springfield, but these are difficult to come across. However, the biggest rock’n’roll loss that we commemorate in this show is definitely Lux Interior. Legendary singer of The Cramps died of the heart failure on February 3rd 2009. Although he was born as an Ohio boy name Erick Purkhiser, he died as Lux Interior, who might as well been from outer space…
John Martyn – Sing a Song of Summer;
Buffalo Springfield – Burned;
The Cramps – Human Fly;
The Cramps – Green Fuzz;
The Cramps – I’m Cramped;
Buffalo Springfield – Good Time Boy;
John and Beverley Martyn – John The Baptist;
John Martyn – May You Never;
The Cramps – Natives Are Restless;
The Cramps – All Women Are Bad;
Buffalo Springfield – Leave;
Buffalo Springfield – On the Way Home;
John and Beverly Martyn – Give Us A Ring;
Buffalo Springfield – Mr. Soul;
The Cramps – Bikini Girls With Machine Guns;
The Cramps – Cornfed Dames;
The Cramps – Garbageman;
The Cramps – Can Your Pussy Do The Dog;
The Cramps – She Said;
John Martyn – Hello Train.
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We have four new names in today’s show. Three represent straight forward garage rock. Elephant Bones are coming from my town, Cleveland. Their album Arms is a glamified deal with good lyrics and well informed with history of pop music. Bazooka Falcon are from New York, but sound more like they’re from Sweden. They have some of that rocking sound that we’ve heard from the Hellacopters and Hives. The third in the new line up is The Rain Bonnets, who I know very little about, but they sound like Iggy Pop with a good dose of humor. Greg Koons from Philadelphia also debuts at The Little Lighthouse. His song Los Angeles Looks Prettier on TV is a modern songwriting masterpiece. His tour-list is very extensive, so make sure if he’s visiting your town. Demon’s Claws from Montreal have a new 45 and we check it out today. And, finally – we have waited 30 years for their second lp, but only 5 for their fourth one – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Joe Ely – The Flatlanders are together again.
Today we bring you two European bands with appreciation for the American sound. Mama Rosin come from Switzerland and play Cajun music. Waistcoats are from Netherlands and they put out one of the strongest garage rock eps this year. Stateside, Neil Young is back with new album Fork In The Road. Steve Earle has a Townes Van Zandt cover album and Mission of Burma has a live ep distributed online.
Today’s show brings a very special block dedicated to legendary keyboardist Augie Meyers, original member of Sir Douglas Quintet who is making a sensational comeback these days with The Krayolas. We also have a brand new CD for John Doe who joined with The Sadies, re-recording a selection of classical country songs. Indie rockers Superchunk are back with a new single and Cat Power covered Dylan on her new EP.
Today’s show is dedicated to one of the greatest songwriters ever – Jackie DeShannon. There is no particular reason for this celebration of her talent, I just felt like I needed some of her music. Back in the sixties it wasn’t so easy to be a female singer-songwriter. Somehow, musical industry at the time saw women either as performers or songwriters. So, women that wanted to do both at the same time had hard time breaking through these barriers. For example, Carole King had to wait for the entire decade to be over until she was given an opportunity to record her own songs properly. Jackie DeShannon was making albums and successful singles through the decade, but typically made hits with other people’s songs (Needles and Pins, What The World Needs Now). Her own songs she very often recorded just as simple acetate demos and passed over to other artists. These recordings are not easy to find these days, but some of these recordings surfaced. Today we have a concept where we play versions of Jackie’s demos and studio versions recorded by other artists that actually made charts. But most of all, it’s a chance to hear gorgeous Jackie’s tunes in her own inspired interpretation. Slight asperity of her voice is unmistakable and paired with her perfect songs, they stand as some of the most beautiful recordings laid on tape… umm acetate.
I finally saw Gentleman Jesse live and I loved the show. A snippet from that show is in today’s episode. Jesse played in Cleveland his new song Word Gets Around and a cover of King Tuff’s Connection. King Tuff is a new band for me, so we check out also their own version of Connection and we introduce them to the Little Lighthouse. Inspired by the new Obits version of Milk Cow Blues, we explore the history of this great song by hearing four different versions of it. Brimstone Howl has a new 45 out, they cover Neil Diamond’s song Solitary Man. New names for today’s show are Palmyra Delran – a powerpop singer-songwriter from New York City, Mark And The Spies, a powerpop band from Netherlands. Also we have DV Nikt art-rocker from Philadelphia and The Guilty Hearts, garage rockers from California. We finish things up with wonderful last year’s Boz Scaggs jazz standards album Speak Low. We caught it as it was slipping thorough the cracks of my forgetfulness.
We have several new artists for the first time at The Little Lighthouse in today’s show. Justin Townes Earle is Steve Earle’s son and he covers The Replacements’ Can’t Hardly Wait. The Buttshakers from Lyon, France cover Brenton Wood’s Gimme Little Sign. Camera Obscura is a fancy new band from Scotland and Ean Eraser is a mysterious new artists with a great new 45″ record. It’s also great to see Joe Dee Graham from True Believers and Scrappy Newcomb from Ian McLagan’s Bump Band in their Austin city supergroup – The Resentments. By the way, I also played a nice bootleg from last week’s Bump Band’s live performance in Cleveland.
Today we examine what’s rock’n’roll and what’s not and what we like about it and what not… at least in first two songs, as Outrageous Cherry paraphrase Stones in one of the standout tracks on the new album Universal Malcontents. We also check out the new album for The Obits called I Blame You. We know the Obits from the 45 that they had earlier this year. We also have new album for Neko Case called Middle Cyclone. Neko’s songwriting is really in shape on this one, it’s a truly exciting new record. Dan Auerbach, the most famous rock’n’roll Ohioan today also has a new record entitled Keep It Hid. Another, less famous Ohioan, but well known to the regular listeners of this show, Derek Deprator has a new band called Ravenscroft and we check them out as the new demos are crawling out of the studio. And at last, we finish out with two new Homestead reissues – Big Dipper and Volcano Suns.
Let me take you on a sixty minute ride down to Mississippi and Memphis TN – cradle of rock’n’roll. Of all places on this planet, Memphis is the mythical place where all the rock’n’roll crossroads meet in a very special way. We go there for a very concrete reason. I recently discovered a relatively new record label based there that nurtures new talents that are brewing in the area. The label is called 
Very fresh show today at The Little Lighthouse! We have the new Billy Childish project The Chatham Singers which he founded together with his wife Julie. We also have new album for Neal Casal, Roots and Wings. Madeleine Peyroux, our favorite Billie Holiday sound-alike is also back with her third album so far Bare Bones. Detroit band Outrageous Cherry announced the new album with a fantastic mp3 single Get Out While You Can. Italian band Afterhours came up with a new album last year, but I just discovered it recently – so we check that out. The new LP is called I Milanesi Ammazzano Il Sabato. And we finish our new album list for this show with Black Lips’ 200 Million Thousand. Also, I played some songs by Cleveland Bill fox who I saw live last week and who blew me away with his talented performance.
Today’s show is dedicated to three rockers that died in the last few days: Lux Interior of The Cramps, Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield and John Martyn. John Martyn was a singer songwriter that emerged from the British scene of the late 60s. Good friend of this radio show,