Cover version episode today! We will review some of the most interesting cover versions that came out recently with special focus on Will Coutrney, Joe Emery and Daniel Wilcox doing a Byrds song, Mo Troper, Asteroid B-612 and Cheap Trick all doing a John Lennon song, Nicole Atkins doing a Fleetwoods tune, Mark Lanegan in Alice in Chains tune, Lorenzo Wolf doing a tribute to Judee Sill and Switchblade Symphony going for the Rolling Stones. Ton of other interesting versions too! Be sure to check it out.
Mogollar – Hard Work;
Will Courtney, Joe Emery, Daniel Wilcox – Here Without You;
Mo Troper – Rain;
CTMF – Fire;
Mike Edison – Go Down Moses;
Les Grys Grys – Milkcow Blues;
Asteroid B-612 – Gimme Some Truth;
Cheap Trick – Gimme Some Truth;
Badfinger, Albert Lee – Sweet Tuesday Morning;
Bill Janovitz – Taillights Fade;
Nicole Atkins feat. Mark Lanegan – November Rain;
Mark Lanegan & Maggie Bjorklund – Nutshell;
Nicole Atkins & Marissa Nadler – Mr. Blue;
Altin Gun – Esmerim Güzelim;
The Imperturbable Teutonic Griffin – Talk Talk;
Thurston Moore – Buckets Of Rain;
Lorenzo Wolff – jesus was a cross maker;
Switchblade Symphony – Wild Horses;
Fernando Perdomo – Tiny Demons.
Today we start with the new project for the Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson called The Magpie Salute. Then we check out the new solo single from the hard working New Zealander Dion Lunadon. Elder come from Boston and The Black Watch is a one man band John Andrew Frederick, novelist painter and a professor of English from Richmond VA. Ian Svenonius, from The Make-Up has a new band called Chain And The Gang. Cheap Trick have a new record and so does Shannon McNally. The latter one is produced by Rodney Crowell. We also introduce The John from Macedonia and a new band called Arcadea crated by the Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor.
Today we start off with the new record for Cheap Trick. We also introduce new bands: Music Band from Nashville, Vaguess from Long Beach, Terminal Lovers from Cleveland, Rocket Bureau from Wisconsin and Australian Rolling Blackouts. ne of my favorite albums in the last couple of months is Lilly Hiatt’s Royal Blue along with its b-sides, so as a part of my experiment to see what it makes so good, I dug out some past work from the producer and keyboardist Adam Landry and drummer Jon Radford. We also have Jonathan Richman live in CLE, courtesy of our good sponsor Blue Arrow Records.
In the past decade or so, we witnessed a surge of reunions, particularly of bands that meant something in the seventies and the eighties. Some of the bands just tour, perhaps make a live album and try to relive the past without changing much. Others make new records. Often times the motive is to draw larger crowds to the gigs than each band member would individually, or perhaps these bands simply want to go back to the youthful years. In any case, reunions are typically in shadows of the famous past. Exceptions to the rules are scarce. I can only think of Mission of Burma and their reunion album On Off On which is as great as anything they did before, if not better, more mature and stronger piece. Now we have a new example in Redd Kross.
More bad news this week… Steve Popovich, rock maverick from Cleveland who indebted the world with many great records died last week in Tennessee at the age of 68. Steve was a musical promoter and record label owner in the golden age of ’70s when he helped manage careers of Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick, Boz Scaggs, Joe Grushecky, Southside Johnny, Ronnie Spector, Meat Loaf, Johnny Cash – just to name a few. He was a rare breed, a promoter who truly cared for the music he was promoting, someone who believed in what he liked, even if there was no conventional logic for pushing what he pushed. In that way, he is a true inspiration. We also say goodbye to Benny Spellman, a New Orleans singer who also died last week in his hometown at the age of 79. He left behind exciting early rock songs such as Fortune Teller and Lipstick Traces On A Cigarette, both written by Allen Toussaint. We also throw in a few new records. We introduce Dead Rock West from LA, a band clearly influenced by X. Also, we have new albums for Kate Maki and John Paul Keith. Mama Rosin, zydeco band from Switzerland is also back with a collaboration with Hipbone Slim.