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Flashlite #575

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Today we start off with the new single from Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs. We also have new tunes from Jon S. Williams and his City of Cool. Yes, two new releases from Jon. Petra, Rachel and Tanya Haden are also back as The Haden Triplets with their new tunes. Rachel also has a recent record with Anna Waronker as that dog. Randy Newman is involved too. Montreal art group Red Mass is also back with the new release. We also introduce new names for us, Dead Feathers from Chicago and En Attendant Ana from Paris France.

Amon Duul – You Are Not Alone;
Greg Dulli – Pantomima;
Dead Feathers – Darling Sighs;
Bipolaroid – In My Cave;
Jon S Williams – New Games;
City of Cool – Raining outside;
Big Trouble House – Valley Of Rin Tin Tin;
Gun Club – For The Love of Ivy;
Jim Dickinson And The Catmando Quartet – Shake Em All Down;
En Attendant Ana – Not So Hard;
En Attendant Ana – Enter My Body (Lilith);
Red Mass – Howl;
Saba Lou – Telepathetic;
Prank – Brighton Blvd;
The Haden Triplets – Memories Of Will Rogers;
That Dog – Old LP;
Ghost Funk Orchestra – Seven Eight.

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Flashlite #379

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SeratonesToday we bring you several new bands. We have Empty Markets from Austin TX, Seratones from Shreveport LA and Cosmic Dead from Scotland. We also check out the newest collaboration of Petra Haden and Jesse Harris and a new record from Janiva Magness, Love Wins Agan.

Tunneltones – Happyland;
Red Arms and Wasted Potential – Ice Cold Ice;
Empty Markets – Home Invasion;
Terminal Lovers – Gone;
Seratones – Headtrip;
Petra Haden and Jesse Harris – Sometimes You Have to Choose Sides;
Charlie Haden and the Haden Triplets – Seven Year Blues;
Janiva Magness – Moth to a Flame;
Stone Cupid – Live and Not Die Trying;
Jack Oblivians And The Sheiks – La Charra (pt 1);
The Sheiks – Shitty Bo Diddley;
Jack Oblivians And The Sheiks – La Charra (pt 2);
The Forty Nineteens – I Walked With a Zombie;
Roky Ericosn – I Walked with a Zombie;
Los Straitjackets (Live in CLE);
The Cosmic Dead – Human Sausage;
Webb Wilder – Rough And Tumble Guy.

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The Haden Triplets (Third Man) and Kelley Mickwee – You Used To Live Here

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The Haden Triplets and Kelley Mickwee review
Kelley Mickwee used to be with The Trishas. With them, she sailed safe and predictable waters of acoustic old-time Americana. This year, she’s back with a new record You Used To Live Here. The new record is by far her most interesting. In just half an hour, she shows us some incredible signing and expands her musical palette beyond the old-time country. Opening tune River Girl is a blues tune with amazing keyboards (I’d swear it gotta be Ian McLagan playing it, but I can’t find the confirmation at the moment). It really gets rocking with a great Eliza Gilkyson tune Dark Side of Town and Kelley’s Hotel Jackson. Mickwee made an album which can be played next to any Gene Clark record and live up to it.

Talking about old-time country, have you heard that Haden Triplets album? Financially, it’s a big flop for the Third Man label. The sisters got booed from TV. But we live in a tasteless world and this record doesn’t fit there…

I’m sure the three Haden sisters, Rachel, Petra and Tanya, sang together on many Haden family gatherings, but the first time wider audience got a chance to hear their old-time prairie-home interpretations was on their father’s Charlie’s album Rambling Boy. Mr Haden is a jazz musician, and it may have been a surprise to some to hear that album back in 2008. Yet, the Haden Triplets performance on that record must have been an impetus for this years album, which is a second subject of this story. A saddens hits you a bit when you have in mind that their father passed away within months from when the new record came out, but I bet he enjoyed hearing it.

In mind-blowing harmony, these three voices, usually associated to rock music, belt out a selection of old country songs, but they spice things around here and there. For instance, one of the standouts on the record is Nick Lowe’s Raining Raining.

The whole record sounds very warm. Every sound, every vocal, every instrument is recorded with mics set up pretty far, so the sounds swim together in a room. They float around and mingle. Of course, a part of the credit for such a nice live set up must go to Ry Cooder who was in charge for the instrumental backdrop of this record.

The Haden Triplets record and Kelley Mickwee record together show some new paths for the old music which is something very interesting to me. In fact, it’s not hard to imagine Haden Triplets singing Blameless from Mickwee’s record.

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Flashlite #267

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The Forty NineteensWe end today with the mind-blowing new album for Rachel, Tanya and Petra Haden, The Haden Triplets, produced by Ry Cooder. We start with The Forty Nineteens from LA who just put out excellent new record called simply Spin It. Our recommendation exactly! The we check out Coathangers, a trio of ladies from Atlanta for the first time at the show. Black Lips have a new record and so do John The Conqueror. Swedish punks Bäddat För Trubbel are also back with a new tune.

Blondie – Dreaming;
The Forty Nineteens – Dimes From The Dead;
The Forty Nineteens – Modern Romance;
The Split Squad – Feel The Same About You;
RPMs – Gimme Some Action;
RPMs – Don’t Wanna Be Young;
Piloti – Novo odelo;
The Coathangers – Follow Me;
Baddat for Trubbel- Inte Varit Su Tuff;
Black Lips – Raw Meat;
Black Lips – Boys in the Wood;
Meat Puppets – Roof With A Hole;
Sleepy John Estes – President Kennedy;
Rainer and Das Combo – How I Wanted You;
John The Conqueror – Daddy’s Little Girl;
The Haden Triplets – Slowly.

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Flashlite #54

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Booker T. JonesHey hey! Welcome to the the very last Little Lighthouse for this summer. Radio SC, together with the college in Zagreb, are leaving for a collective summer vacation, and this program will also take a small break. In this show we have the brand new tunes for The New York Dolls and Petra Haden. Booker T. Jones recorded a brand new album with Drive By Truckers called Potato Hole. We check it out in this show. Chris Eckman of The Walkabouts also recorded a new album. It’s called The Last Side of The Mountain, it’s recorded in Slovenia and Steve Wynn is a guest on one tune.

Joe South – Clock Up on the Wall;
Utopia – Love In Action;
New York Dolls – Lonely So Long;
Willie Nile – Doomsday;
The Lemonheads – Fragile;
Wire – Fragile;
Petra Haden – Let Your Love Flow;
Booker T. Jones – Pound It Out;
Booker T. & The Mgs – Sunny;
Bobby Hebb – Sunny;
Nerve City – Junkyard;
Chris Eckman And Steve Wynn – The Same;
Bob Dylan – This Dream of You;
The Krayolas – Corrido Twelve Heads In A Bag;
The Know – Like Girls;
Suburban Lawns – Unable;
Piloti – Novo odelo;
Bill Fox – Way Way Down;
The Beach Boys – Don’t Worry, Baby;