Focus of today’s show is the new XTC tribute album Garden of Earthly Delights, out now on Futureman Records. We check out contributions by Chris Church and King Radio. Another interesting tribute is the one for John Wicks. Carla Olson contributes. We also hear new music from ANC4 (from Sweden), Jeremy (from Michigan), Resonars (from Tucson AZ) and Kneeling in Piss (from Columbus OH).
Greg Dulli – The Tide;
ANC4 – When We Were There;
Jeremy – Pop Overflow;
Fotomaker – Come Back;
he Krayolas – Aw Tonight;
Reigning Sound (Live in CLE);
XTC – Stupidly happy;
Chris Church – Stupidly Happy;
King Radio – Mayor of Simpleton;
XTC – The Mayor of Simpleton;
The Kinks – Victoria;
The Resonars – The Man Who Does Nothing;
Kneeling In Piss – song about being unemployed;
The Rockers – Don’t Leave Me Tonight;
The Bad Beats – Tip of My Tongue;
Tommy Hoehn – She Might Look My Way;
Van Duren – Make A Scene;
Carla Olson – (The Sordid Tale of) Elvis Strange
We start off with a new name for us, a duet of Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean, that goes under Ida Mae, from London UK. Another new name for today is Cromm Fallon from Las Vegas, Darenda Weaver from Houston and Sofia Bolt from Los Angeles. Over in Nashville, Buddy Miller and his wife Julie Miller have a new record and Buddy’s buddy, Jim Lauderdale also has a new one out. Speaking of duets, Carla Olson joined forces with Todd Wolfe in a new project. Finally, we pay a tribute to the New Orleans songwriter Dave Bartholomew, who passed away recently at the age of 100.
The Brooms – Don’t Burn The Fires
Ida Mae – Boom Boom Boom;
Buddy & Julie Miller – I’m Gonna Make You Love Me;
Buddy & Julie Miller – Memphis Jane;
Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller – Looking for a Heartache Like You;
Jim Lauderdale – Are You Trying to Make a Song Out of Us;
Cromm Fallon – The Next One (with Darenda Weaver);
Darenda Weaver & Derek Lynn – Cryin’ Inside;
Sofia Bolt – Metamorphosis;
Sofia Bolt – Ojai;
Carla Olson & Todd Wolfe – Gave It All I Got;
Textones – Clean Cut Kid;
Todd Wolfe Band – Gone;
Helen Rose – Trouble Holdin’ Back;
Fats Domino – Ain’t That A Shame;
Smiley Lewis – I Hear You Knockin’.
Today we have a relatively random playlist consisting of some of the most interesting cover songs in the past year or so. The only truly new record this time is Under The Covers Vol 3 by Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs. This time they covered the 80s and we hear their version of the XTC song Towers of London. We also check out Replacements and Arbouretum, each with a Gordon Lightfoot tune, Dan Sarka covers The Records and Steve Wynn covers Townes Van Zandt. We recorded Dax Riggs in Kent with a cover of a Billie Holiday tune and we also check out Carla Olson and Juice Newton belt out a Foster and Lloyd tune and The Walkabouts in Boss’ shoes.
Gordon Lightfoot – I’m Not Sayin’;
The Replacements – I’m Not Sayin’;
Arbouretum – Carefree Highway;
Chris Stamey – If Memory Serves;
Matthew Sweet And Susanna Hoffs – Towers of London;
XTC – Towers of London;
The Records – Starry Eyes;
Dan Sarka and the Sometimes Why – Starry Eyes;
Steve Earle – Lungs;
Townes Van Zandt – Lungs;
Steve Wynn – Lungs;
Dax Riggs – Gloomy Sunday (Live in Kent);
Carla Olson – You Can Come Crying to Me (With Juice Newton);
Walkabouts – Grand Theft Auto/State Trooper.
Devastating week for rock’n’roll… This time we have four obituaries to cover. Scott Miller was one of the most creative college rock musicians from the 80s. He was the leader of Game Theory, which had a series of very interesting albums back in the day and that was often played on college radio stations across the US. Then we have Storm Thorgerson, the leading artist in the Hipgnosis art collective who designed many of the iconic album covers throughout the 70s. Lead singer of the Australian band Divinyls, Chrissy Amphlett also died a few days ago at the age of 53. And the most recent news is that Richie Havens, who had a memorable live appearance at the original Woodstock, also passed away. Beside tributes to these artists, we also feature the new single for Turf War, new albums for Carla Olson and Todd Rundgren and a new band Bazooka from Greece.
Horseflies – Human Fly (Live in CLE);
Bazooka – Penny;
Turf War – Born To Run Free;
Heavy Times – Poison Ivy;
Byrds – She Don’t Care About Time;
Carla Olson with Richie Furay – She Don’t Care About Time;
Textones – Upset Me;
Game Theory – Erica’s Word;
Game Theory – White Blues;
Game Theory – Couldn’t I Just Tell You;
Todd Rundgren – Couldn’t I Just Tell You;
Todd Rundgren with Metropole Orchestra – We Gotta Get You a Woman;
Led Zeppelin – For Your Life;
Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg;
Divinyls – Only Lonely;
Richie Havens – Freedom.
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