Today we bring you the new music from the legendary John Mayall. Also Wolf People are back with the new record. Valerie June has a new one out called The Order of Time. We introduce guitar-sligner Philip Sayce, heavy Crobot from Pottsville, PA and James Hoare (ex Veronica Falls) brings us his new project called The Proper Ornaments. At the end of the show, we pay tributes to Gil Ray (from Game Theory) and Maggie Roche of the Roches, who lost their battles with cancer in the past several days.
Ceramic Dog – Take 5;
Crobot – Easy Money;
Philip Sayce – Out of My Mind;
John Mayall – Ain’t No Guarantees;
John Mayall – Gimme Some of That Gumbo;
Wolf People – Ninth Night;
Wolf People – Tiny Circle;
Velvet Crush – My Blank Pages;
The Byrds – My Back Pages;
The Proper Ornaments – Back Pages;
Valerie June – shakedown;
Danny And The Darleans – Cat Squirrel;
Los Trendy with Tony Kinman – Get Soul;
Game Theory – Here It Is Tomorrow;
The Roches – Hammond Song.
Robert Pollard is as active as ever. We introduced his new band Ricked Wicky just recently, and now he also has a new solo record. We also introduce Home Blitz from Princeton NJ, which reminds me on Game Theory. Faux Ferocious come from Nashville and we check out their studio and live recordings from their show in Cleveland. Thee Oh Sees are back with the new LP called Mutilator Defeated At Last. Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris have a new album together. They first worked together 40 round years ago, so it’s a nice anniversary. Fauntleroys is a supergroup consisting of Alejandro Escovedo, Ivan Julian (ex Voidods) and Linda Pitmon (ex Zsu Zsu’s Petals and Miracle 3). We finish with a tribute to Bobby Irwin, drummer in Nick Lowe’s band who passed away recently.
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.