Today we take a roundtrip from Tucson and back via many different places. We start off with Rainer and Das Combo. His legendary first album Barefoot Rock was reissued together with a bonus cd. Also, recall that earlier this year also Ptacek’s old tape Mush Mind Blues also saw the light of day in form of a bandcamp download. The we go to Las Vegas where we check out the new blues rock band called The Lucky Cheats. Than we land all the way down under where we check out the new band called The Straight Arrows form Sydney and a duet of two ladies Super Wild Horses from Melbourne. Both bands were released on the new volume of the comilation record New Centre of The Universe. Then we fly to Europe. Sweden’s Plastic Pals had a wonderful album this year called A Turn of The Tide and we finally get to hear it in this show too. Then we go to Chicago. Phil Agnotti played the entire Zombies Odessey and Oracle, only months after Ben Mason did a similar thing earlier this year. And then, via Chicago, where I recorded his new song, we go back to Tucson and Rainer’s old friend, Howe Gelb from Giant Sand.
Howe Gelb – Spiraled;
Rainer And Das Combo – Around And Around;
Rainer And Das Combo – What Have I Done To You;
Rainer And Das Combo – O My Worried Spirits;
The Lucky Cheats – Black Days;
The Fuzz – Another Way;
Knickerbockers – Lies;
The Straight Arrows – Lies;
The Straight Arrows – Running Wild (Demo);
Super Wild Horses – Some Things I Can’t Do Without You;
Silos – She Lives Up The Street;
The Plastic Pals – A turn of the tide;
Phil Agnotti – Care of Cell 44;
Zombies – A Rose for Emily;
Ben Mason – Maybe After He’s Gone;
Howe Gelb – Windblown Waltz;
Howe Gelb – (new song);
Howe Gelb – Left of Center.
We follow Laura Cantrell’s career since the inception of this show and she has a new record out called No Way There From Here. Another band that’s been with us since the first year of this show is Electric Six, although back then their name was Wild Bunch. We watched them go to the top and they have one record a year without breaks almost all the time. The new record is called Magnum. James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand is also back with the new record backed by his band World War IV from Birmingham, AL. The most interesting novelty this time is a new singer songwriter from Melbourne, Australia. His name is Ben Mason. He re-recorded the Zombies classic The Odessey And Oracle and renamed it into The Odessey Odyssey. I think it’s an awesome idea to take one of the most intricate records and show that you are capable of repeating it note to note – it’s a great way to make people pay attention to your own work.