Today we have a new single from Needles//Pins from Vancouver in Canada, new albums for Galileo 7. On the songwriter’s front, Tony Molina and Andy Gabbard have their beautifully personal new albums. Giant Sand continue re-recording their opus, so now they are announcing a new version of their second album The Ballads of Thin Line Men. In Belgrade, we have a new jam band called Nas and from Portland OR, we have a new singersongwriter Kyle Craft. We pay a tribute to a poet Maja Perfiljeva who left an important mark on the Yugoslav pop scene and who passed away recently at the age of 79. Live in CLE segment brings a recording of the charismatic Pharlee.
Giant Sand – A Hard Man To Get To Know (original version);
Needles//Pins – Heaven’s on the Hillside;
Kyle Craft – 2 Ugly 4 NY;
Pat Todd and the Rankoutsiders – Somewhere Down The Line;
Steve Gunn – Ancient Juliet;
The Galileo 7 – There is Only Now;
Tony Molina – Can’t Find My Way;
Tony Molina – Here We Go Again;
Pharlee (Live in CLE);
Andy Gabbard – Floating;
Indexi – Da sam ja netko;
Shadows – I Can’t Forget;
Pankrti – Totalna revolucija;
Nas – Druga stvar;
Giant Sand – A Hard Man To Get To Know.
We begin the first weekly review of the new music and events in the rock world. Tim Lee and Susan Bauer are back, this time under a new band name Bark. Galileo 7 from the Medway area amd Pugwash from Ireland are back with their own brand of refined power pop. Part Time Lover from Cleveland have a new single, and we check out the B-side. We also introduce Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys from Sydney, Australia. We also pay tributes to Fast Eddie Clarke, the last remaining member of Motörhead classic line up. Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues also passed away this month. Oh, and by the way, it’s been 17 years since this little show started out.
A good chunk of today’s show is filled with power-pop tunes. We start off with The Akibas new single. This band is important for the history of our show as it was the first band tune ever played at The Little Lighthouse. The we go on to Terry and Louie, surviving duet from The Exploding Hearts and their new single. Galileo 7 from Medway also has a new single. We also introduce Dot Dash from Washington DC and Belltowers from Orlando. Guadalupe Plata with their dusty rock’n’roll return with a new record without any title. And finally, we hear The Z-Boy, an awesome new surf rock, instrumental band from Rhode Island that I saw playing live in Newport, out of a pure coincidence. The best things happen when you’re least expecting them.
In today’s show we have the new music from the hard rock band Radio Moscow from Iowa and we introduce the new band from the Medway area, The Galileo 7. John Hiatt is back with an excellent new algum called Terms of My Surrender. Also, Mark Lanegan is preparing a new record with his band, and as an advance, a new single and a live recording came out recently. Janiva Magness is an excellent blues rock singer who just recently decided to make an album of original material for her own label. In some ways, this is her most personal album ever, titled simply Original. Also, we jump to the letter “W” in our regular segment called Blues Alphabet because the news comes to us that Johnny Winter passed away on July 16 this year.