A few new names today. First, Uncle Acid and The Deadbeads, a hard rock band from England. Also from over there, Desert Mountain Tribe. The Cherry Drops are a power pop band from Florida and Cherie Currie from Runaways had a new album recently, so we check it out. Dan Baird from Georgia Satellites joined forces with Warner Hodges of Jason and The Scorchers and had a live show in Cleveland.
Pezband – Crash And Burn;
Jonathan Richman – Ishkode Ishkode;
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Waiting for Blood;
Dan Baird And The Homemade Sin – Two for Tuesday (Live in CLE);
Dan Baird – Thin Disguise;
Desert Mountain Tribe – OC Dream;
Wendy and the Rockets – No Control;
Honeymoon Disease – Bellevue Groove;
Cherie Currie – American Nights;
The Cherry Drops – I Need you, I Love You;
Olivia Tremor Control – Green Typewriters Suite (Excerpts);
Andy Gabbard – Octoman;
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine;
The Equals – Diversion;
Ty Segall – Diversion.
This show is dominated by several new names today. First, we have the Connection – a power pop band from Portsmouth, NH. They are joined by Wyatt Funderbunk as a guest, who we also have for the first time. Then we have the Black Oil Brothers, an interesting unpretentious mixture of traditional blues and other types of art. For instance, on their site you can download a nice story of a struggling painter. Another new name are the Australian band The Murlocks. We also have some good old friends here with new music. Singing Loins are about to put out the new record called Here on Earth and David Eugene Edwards is back with another Woven Hand release. Nick Cave invited Mark Lanegan to sing on the soundtrack for the movie that he wrote Lawless.
Exactly ten years ago in this show we introduced a little known Italian Americana band Cheap Wine. Since then, they became a constant in our show. Recently, they put out a 2CD live album called Stay Alive, worth of two full hours of dusty rock’n’roll. I’m glad to have them still next to us. Besides this, in our show today we have the brand new collaboration between Wanda Jackson and Jack White. We also introduce the amazing harpist and singer Stacie Collins. She is lucky enough to be backed by the legendary Jason and The Scorchers. Wanda with Jack and Stacie with Warren are lethal rock’n’roll amalgams! We also introduce The Jaybirds from Salzburg in Austria – a band that belongs to a 60s retro movement that’s always fun to listen to.
 Today’s show is dedicated to Mark Linkous, a guy that contributed a lot to the 90s rock’n’roll with his band Sparklehorse and who committed sucide last Saturday. We pay a very special tribute in this show to Mark Linkous with an unexpected song selection. Hear Mark foot stomping with Bryan Harvey, playing with Susanna Hoffs and rocking out with his 80s band Dancing Hoods. We also have the new Roky Erickson and a new Jason and The Scorchers tune. We have a Cleveland band Whiskey Daredevils who have their debut album out these days. They have a song on it dedicated to Johnny Cash. Which reminds me, there’s the sixth volume of his American recordings out.