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Flashlite #673

Jenny Don't

Last show of 2021! We check out new singles for Jenny Don’t and The Spurs, Eamon McGrath, The Strange (with Chris Eckman) and John Paul Keith. We also check out James McMurtry from Austin TX, Pilgrim from Tulsa, OK, Suicide Swans from Australia, all with new albums. And of course, the legendary Neil Young is also here with a track from his new record. We say goodbye to Michael Nesmith, a Monkee and a great songwriter who passed away this year, 10 days before his birthday.

Shannon McNally – You Show Me Yours And I’ll Show You Mine
Jenny Don’t & The Spurs – Three Or Four Nights
Eamon McGrath – Cannonball
Sierra Ferrell – In Dreams
James McMurtry – Decent Man
Pilgrim – Katie
Rosali – Whisper
Suicide Swans – Below Zero
The Strange – Not Now Not Ever
Chapel Hart – You Can Have Him Jolene
Chuck Prophet – One Last Dance
Jim Lauderdale – Sister Horizon
Neil Young – Song of the Seasons
Dori Freeman – Walk Away
John Paul Keith – If We Make It Through December
Michael Nesmith – Some of Shelly’s Blues
Monkees – What Am I Doing Hanging ‘Round

Flashlite #615

Dumb Punts

Coming back to us, today we bring you Zvonka Obajdin and Svemir with a live in the studio cover of Neil Young, along with Plastic Pals from Sweden with a truly catchy new single. We introduce more catchiness from Dumb Punts over in Australia and Spyrals from California. Over from the Iberian peninsula we check out Ded Routines from Spain and D3O from Portugal with a killer cover from Dead Moon. This episode goes form Spencer Davis and Ken Hensley who left this godforsaken world recently.

Kinks – This Is Where I Belong;
Dumb Punts – Up All Night;
The Spyrals – Goodbye;
Motorpsycho – The All Is One;
The Plastic Pals – More than an icon;
Svemir – Motion Pictures;
Neil Young – Motion Pictures;
The Spencer Davis Group – Morning Sun;
The Spencer Davis Group – Time Seller;
The Gods – Long Time, Sad Time, Bad Time;
The Gods – Maria;
Percewood’s Onagram – Braindrops Won’t Kill The Fire;
Ded Routines – Not available blues;
D3O – Unknown Passage;
Dead Moon – Unknown Passage.

Flashlite #595

Bob Dylan

Today at the lighthouse we have nothing but the heavyweight legends of rock’n’roll, all mostly with the new material. We start off with Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Bob has a new record and Neil released unpublished recordings from 1975. We also have two ex members of Green on Red with new records for each of them: Chris Cacavas and Chuck Prophet. Their buddy from the same scene, Russ Tolman, who used to be in True West also has a new single out. Their buddy from the same town, Howe Gelb, has a piano solo record and we check it out. Our good friend from Louisiana, a legendary songwriter in his own right, Damien Youth has a new band Belladonna Lovers and we check it out in this episode of the show. We close the show with the new projects from the Trotsky Icepick camp. They are extraordinarily active these days: Vitus Matare and John Rosewall have a new album as Petrified Max and John Talley Jones is with Strikeslip.

Chris Cacavas – Truth;
Neil Young – Vacancy;
Bob Dylan – Goodbye Jimmy Reed;
Bob Dylan – Standing in the Doorway;
Giant Sand – Warm Storm;
Howe Gelb – Steadfast;
Russ Tolman – The Trees Are In Love With You;
True West – You;
Green On Red – We Shall Overcome;
Chris Cacavas – We Can Dream;
Chuck Prophet – Womankind;
The Stone Roses – Sally Cinnamon;
Damien Youth – Susie Cinnamon;
Belladonna Lovers – Frankenstein Head;
Petrified Max – Snowshoe;
Strikeslip – Stuporstar;
Trotsky Icepick – Imaging Neptune.

Flashlite #314

Miriam LinnaSecret star of this episode is Neil Young. Two of his songs recently saw inspiring covers. Kent State murders are having a 45 year anniversary this year. Neil wrote a song about the event and this year, Cleveland band Obnox recorded a cover. A totally different sounding Colleen Rennison’s new album is named after a Neil Young song See The Sky About To Rain from On The Beach. King Khan is very active these days. After his album with Gris Gris, he reunited with Mark Sultan in a new duet Bad News Boys. We also have Miriam Linna, once a member of Cramps and nowadays boss of Norton Records. She’s back into the “business” as a performer and has a solo album Nobody’s Baby. Howlin’ Rain led by Ethan Miller also has a new album Mansion Songs.

Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone;
Bad News Boys – Illuminations;
King Khan and the Gris Gris – Too Hard and Too Fast;
The Bevis Frond – Lights Are Changing;
Evan Dando – Green Eyes (Live in CLE);
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – Ohio;
Obnox – Ohio;
Colleen Rennison – See The Sky About To Rain;
Neil Young – See The Sky About To Rain;
Eamon McGrath – Empire of Open Air;
Miriam – Questioningly;
Ramones – Questioningly;
Otis Spann – Got My Mojo Working (Blues Alphabet);
Ducks Deluxe – West Texas Trucking Board;
Howlin’ Rain – Big Red Moon.

Flashlite #175

Neil YoungFour old legendary rockers are back these days with their new projects. Neil Young once again got on his Crazy Horse and this time he covered eleven songs from the history of the American continent. Thus the title Americana. Howe Gelb expanded Giant Sand to Giant Giant Sand and a busload of musicians from two places on the planet (Denmark and the US), and made a new rock opera dedicated to his hometown Tucson. Ed Crawford (Fromohio) has a new band FOOD and a new EP Four Easy Pieces. Alejandro Escovedo is back with the new record called Big Station. Once again, the record is co-written with Chuck Prophet and it is produced by Tony Visconti, just like the other two previous records. The idea of this episode is to fill up an our by hearing some new tunes from Young, Gelb, Crawford and Escovedo and also recall their earlier careers as well.

Shocking Blue – Venus;
The Big Three – Banjo Song;
Neil Young – Oh Susannah;
Buffalo Springfield – Broken Arrow;
Neil Young – On The Beach;
Giant Sand – Tumble ‘n’ Tear;
Giant Giant Sand – We Don’t Play Tonight;
Giant Sandworms – Steadfest;
Ed Fromohio – Live in Pittsburgh;
FOOD – You Don’t Know;
fIREHOSE – Witness;
Buick Mackane – The End;
Alejandro Escovedo – Man of the World;
The Setters – She’s Got;
Mott The Hoople – I Wish I Was Your Mother.

Flashlite #97

Ari UpToday we begin with two obituaries. I’ve only recently heard that Kenny Gethway has passed away in April this year. He was very young and practically at the beginning of his musical career with two of his brothers in this band called Monstrous. I really liked their 2006 album Mother Nature’s Slaves. Somewhat silently they published another album in 2009 called Brothers Gethway, but I only got it now. In any case, my hope is that the other two brothers will continue to make music as great as it was with Kenny when they recuperate. Another loss for rock’n’roll is Ari Up from The Slits, who cause quite a stir back in the days of post punk with their record Cut. Ari Up passed away last week, she was just 48. Today’s show is dedicated to Kenny and Ari. We also have a few new things today. Giant Sand have a new record called Blurry Blue Mountain and Howe Gelb just celebrated his 54th birthday. Other two big rockers, Brian Wilson and Neil Young also have new records out. Neil Young has a noisy guitar album called Le Noise and Brian Wilson has an interesting record where he reimages and reinvents old George Gershwin songs.

Brian Wilson – Rhapsody in Blue (Intro);
Monstrous – Please Start;
Monstrous – Kickn Now;
The Slits – Typical Girls;
Howe Gelb – Blood Orange;
Howe Gelb And The Band of Gypsies – Blood Orange;
Giant Sand – Better Man Than Me;
Peter Case – The Words In Red;
Pat Hull – So Far Gone;
Neil Young – Angry World;
Neil Young – Country Home;
Neil Young – When You Dance You Can Really Love;
New Lou Reeds – Felony;
Limes – Kantina Katrina;
Brian Wilson – Nothing But Love;
Brian Wilson – Rhapsody in Blue (Reprise).

Flashlite #47

Mama RosinToday 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.