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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 Bob has a new record and Neil released unpublished recordings from 1975.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 #486

Anna Von HausswolffWe first check out two recent tracks for the Patsy’s Rats, the band of Patsy Gelb, daughter of Howe. We introduce the new band for from Chicago, The Safes. Their latest album Tasty​ Waves has excellent reviews. We also have two new bands that are still waiting for the proper release: Quarx from Baton Rouge recorded a song live at KLSU and my sister’s band Rent Party contributed one song to the Tom Petty tribute Howling At The Full Moon, now digitally available at The Mooster Records. Anna Von Hausswolff is a young singer songwriter from Sweden and that’s another new name for us today. Finally, we check out the new releases from Wreckless Eric and Sarah Shook.

The Tonys – Border Radio;
Patsy’s Rats – Burnin’ Honey;
Patsy’s Rats – Is It Alright;
Kathy McCarty – City Song;
Grapefruit – Elevator;
The Safes – Mind of Its Own;
Quarx – Otherside;
Falling Stars – Live in CLE;
Bat Fangs – Mercury (Live);
Anna Von Hausswolff – The Mysterious Vanishing Of Electra;
Rent Part – Feel A Whole Lot Better;
The New Lou Reeds – Beautiful Women;
Margo White – I’m Not Ashamed;
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Over You;
Wreckless Eric – They Don’t Mean No Harm;
I Am The Polish Army – Gene;
Everly Brothers – Amanda Ruth;
Alejandro Escovedo – Chip N’ Tony.

Flashlite #430

Balackfoot GypsiesWe bring you new music from some good old groups that we used to like in the 80s: Thurston Moore and Paul Roessler and Howe Gelb with his one man project Arizona Amp And The Alternator. We also introduce new bands from Melbourne, Australia – Brad Pot, Philadelphia PA – The Improbables, Nashville TN – Blackfoot Gypsies. I am especially excited about the newly discovered recordings from Gun Club, which are not assembled into their posthumous album entitled In My Room. Old Crow Medicine Show (and Little Lighthouse!) celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s masterpiece Blonde on Blonde. So many good albums have their 50th anniversary this year! 1967 was insane.

Paul Roessler – Galatea pt1;
Brad Pot – Bullshit;
The Improbables – Disappear;
Chris Mars – No Bands;
Chuck Berry – Promised Land;
Blackfoot Gypsies – Promise to Keep;
The Gun Club – L.A. is Always Real;
Jason and The Scorchers – Absolutely Sweet Marie;
Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie;
Old Crow Medicine Show – Absolutely Sweet Marie (Live);
Arizona Amp and The Alternator – Contraception;
Marshall Crenshaw – Cynical Girl (Live in CLE);
The Modulators – She’s So Cynical;
BT’s – Givin You Everything;
John Wesley Coleman III – Hang Tight;
Guided By Voices – Overloaded;
Thee Melomen – Bez Prevoda
Paul Roessler – Galatea pt2;
Thurston Moore – Smoke of Dreams.

Flashlite #357

Patsy Gelb of Patsy's RatsWe bring you some cool new stuff. Daughter of Howe Gelb and Paula Jean Brown (of the original Giant Sand line up), has a great band called Patsy’s Rats. Impulsive Hearts from Chicago are also fronted by a lady: Danielle Sines. Miriam Linna of Norton Records has made another new album this year Down Today. We also introduce Green Hornet from Netherlands and Sloming Moops from Zagreb, Croatia. Also from there, Thee Melomen have a new single. Peter Buck of REM is back with a nice solo record. An interesting tribute came out recently in Tucson AZ for Rainer Ptacek.

Mott The Hoople – Backsliding Fearlessly;
Green Hornet – Let It Go;
Dead Ghosts – Good Love (Is Not Free);
Miriam – So You Say You Lost Your Baby;
Miriam – I Keep Falling In Love;
Impulsive Hearts – MDB;
Rickie Lee Jones – Hunted (Live in CLE);
Peter Buck – I Hate My Life and the Way I Live;
Billy Sedlmayr – Here I Am;
Rainer – Here I Am;
Giant Sand – House in Order;
Patsy’s Rats – Rock & Roll Friend;
Thee Melomen – Chinatown;
Sloming Moops – JF Killer;
Television – See No Evil;
Jesse Winchester – She Makes It Easy Now;
Los Lobos – When We Were Free.

Flashlite #329

Red AuntsToday we star of with Dany Laj and The Looks from Canada (Montreal and Toronto) and their new album Word On The Street. We continue with a 90s punks from California, an all-female line up, Red Aunts who recently have a nice double LP compilation album Come Up For A Close Look. Xaxaxa from Skopje, Macedonia, are lead by Vasko Atanososki who we also know from Bernay’s Propaganda. The Splits are three girls and one guy from Finland. Howe Gelb and his Giant Sand are back with one of their best albums in a rich career entitled Heartbreak Pass. They are now an international collective, more than a band – with 11 musicians (and one baby) on the record cover. Jackie DeShannon’s music from 1973 that was meant to be her second album for Atlantic record recently came out on a disc entitled All The Love – The lost Atlantic Recordings. It was recorded with Tom Dowd as a producer, but never came out in an integral version until now. We also have a new young band from Cleveland Daylight is the Dream and finish things off today with Movie Star Junkies – from Italy.

George Harrison – Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long;
Dany Laj and the Looks – I Know You Want Out;
Red Aunts – Detroit Valentine;
Redd Kross – Self Respect;
Bernay’s Propaganda – VIP In Paradise;
Xaxaxa – Siromasni i bogati;
The Splits – Rotten Me;
AAAA The Memphis Legs – Been Kinda Lost;
Oblivians – Final Stretch;
Bobby Blue Bland – Two Steps From The Blues;
Giant Sand – Hurtin Habit;
Jackie DeShannon – Easy Evil;
T Bone Walker – Blues For Marili (Blues Alphabet);
Tav Falco – Memphis Rumble;
Kim Fowley’s Psychedelic Dogs – 15 Years Ago;
Daylight is the Dream – Live in CLE;
Movie Star Junkies – Plain Gold Ring.

Flashlite #296

Maggie BjörklundToday we begin with some vinyl reissues from Superior Viaduct – 100 Flowers and Flesh Eaters. Then we hear a Sweet Apple B side, which is a cover of Scientists’ Frantic Romantic. Then we go to Italy, where our friends Cheap Wine have a new record, tenth in seventeen years! Jesse Winchester who passed away earlier this year, recorded an LP worth of stuff which has just come out and we check it out. Singer songwriter Kim Simpson returns with music set to the DuÅ¡ko Trifunović lyrics. And Maggie Björklund who we know well from her collaborations with Howe Gelb and John Doe has a record on her own. Also, Mike Watt and his Italian sailors visited my town, and we have it on a tape. Il Sogno Del Marinaio! The most famous musician out of Boise ID, Paul Revere passed away and we pay a small tribute to his legacy.

Gun Club – Texas Serenade;
100 Flowers – Without Limbs;
Flesh Eaters – Divine Horsemen;
The Scientists – Frantic Romantic;
Sweet Apple – Frantic Romantic;
Cheap Wine – Beggar Town;
Cheap Wine – Waiting On The Door;
Hammie Nixon – Sugar Mama Blues (Blues Alphabet);
Jesse Winchester – Brand New Tennessee Waltz;
Jesse Winchester – Never Forget to Boogie;
Paul Revere And The Raiders – Kicks;
Paul Revere And The Raiders – The Great Airplane Strike;
Mark Lindsay – Easy Street;
Il Sogno Del Marinaio – Stucazz;
Il Sogno Del Marinaio – Punkinhead Ahoy (Live in CLE);
Kim Simpson – ÄŒini mi se da uzimam viÅ¡e;
Maggie Björklund – The Road to Samarkland.

Flashlite #253

Today we take a roundtrip from Tucson and back via many different places. We start off with Rainer and Das Combo. His legendary first album Barefoot Rock was reissued together with a bonus cd. Also, recall that earlier this year also Ptacek’s old tape Mush Mind Blues also saw the light of day in form of a bandcamp download. The we go to Las Vegas where we check out the new blues rock band called The Lucky Cheats. Than we land all the way down under where we check out the new band called The Straight Arrows form Sydney and a duet of two ladies Super Wild Horses from Melbourne. Both bands were released on the new volume of the comilation record New Centre of The Universe. Then we fly to Europe. Sweden’s Plastic Pals had a wonderful album this year called A Turn of The Tide and we finally get to hear it in this show too. Then we go to Chicago. Phil Agnotti played the entire Zombies Odessey and Oracle, only months after Ben Mason did a similar thing earlier this year. And then, via Chicago, where I recorded his new song, we go back to Tucson and Rainer’s old friend, Howe Gelb from Giant Sand.

Howe Gelb – Spiraled;
Rainer And Das Combo – Around And Around;
Rainer And Das Combo – What Have I Done To You;
Rainer And Das Combo – O My Worried Spirits;
The Lucky Cheats – Black Days;
The Fuzz – Another Way;
Knickerbockers – Lies;
The Straight Arrows – Lies;
The Straight Arrows – Running Wild (Demo);
Super Wild Horses – Some Things I Can’t Do Without You;
Silos – She Lives Up The Street;
The Plastic Pals – A turn of the tide;
Phil Agnotti – Care of Cell 44;
Zombies – A Rose for Emily;
Ben Mason – Maybe After He’s Gone;
Howe Gelb – Windblown Waltz;
Howe Gelb – (new song);
Howe Gelb – Left of Center.

Flashlite #249

Night BeatsWe have a large roots rock block today with the latest album for Steve Earle, which is not that new anymore, but we hear it for the first time in this show. Howe Gelb’s album is in and it sounds really great. Two new roots rock names today are Willie Sugarcapps from Mobile, AL and Greg Trooper from New Jersey. But we begin today’s show with the psychedelic sounds of Night Beats, new band from Perth, Australia called Night Signals and a live Dylan cover by Cleveland’s New Salem Witch Hunters.

The Mamas And The Papas – Gemini Childe;
Fuzz – Sleigh Ride;
Night Beats – Sonic Bloom;
Night Beats – The Other Side;
Bob Dylan – Quinn the Eskimo;
New Salem Witch Hunters – Mighty Quinn;
Manfred Mann – The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo);
Night Signals – Nobodys Girl;
Smrts – The Signs Left Behind;
Bassholes – Paranoia Paradise (Wayne County);
Wayne County – Paranoia Paradise;
Steve Earle – Pocket Full of Rain;
Willie Sugarcapps – Mr. Lee;
Greg Koons and The Misbegotten – A Picture of My Pa Before He Died In Vietnam;
Promised Land Sound – Fadin’ Fast;
Greg Trooper – Everything’s a Miracle;
Howe Gelb- Running Behind.

Flashlite #239

Motel MirrorsA ton of new things today. A lot of it comes from advanced downloads that artists made to promote their upcoming records, so search, stream and download. Amy LaVere and John Paul Keith have a new duet together called Motel Mirrors. Howe Gelb has a new tune that he recorded together with Will Oldham. City of Cool from Australia also have a new tune and so does Eamon McGrath. His new song Exile is meant to announce a three part series of eps that will eventually comprise his future LP. R. Stevie Moore has a new hilarious song as a support for Pussy Riot and he has a reissue of his 1978 record called Delicate Tensions. Alejandro and Javier Escovedo together with Jon Dee Graham reunited into True Believers and prepared a newly recorded song as an advance for their future new record. Talking about reissues, The Replacements are back together and I saw that over in Toronto. They sounded great and we have three songs bootlegged at the reunion show today. Two new exciting records are also out Bras by Bad Sports and Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere by Terry Malts. And Dirtbombs! Two new records, one with brand new records done in bubblegum rock style and the other – a compilation of B sides and singles.

The Replacemetns – Achin’ To Be;
The Replacements – Takin’ A Ride;
Modernettes – Rebel Kind;
True Believers – Rebel Kind;
True Believers – Gipsy Son;
Bad Sports – Would You Wait For Me Too;
Bad Sports – Nothing In This World;
Terry Matls – I Was Not There;
Terry Malts – No Good for You;
Amy LaVere – Killing Him;
Motel Mirrors – Meet Me On The Corner;
Howe Gelb – Vortexas;
R. Stevie Moore – Schoolgirl;
R. Stevie Moore – Free Pussy Riot;
The Dirtbombs – Hot Sour Salty Sweet;
The Dirtbombs – Candyass;
City of Cool – Controlled;
Eamon McGrath – Exile;
The Replacements – IOU.

Flashlite #221

Miss ChainToday we present new albums by Howe Gelb of Giant Sand, which is one of his budget home recordings. Yet it sounds wonderfully intimate and we warmly recommend it. Thee Oh Sees experiment with some new styles for them on their new record store day release Moon Sick EP. New bands today are Miss Chain and The Broken Heels from Italy and Tijuana Panthers from California. I’m on a Mick Taylor kick, so we hear two of his amazing guitar solos today. Another great guitar legend who gets a spotlight in this show is Duane Allman. There’s a new 7CD set anthology dedicated to his work and career. And in the end, we are saying goodbye to one the greatest voices in music ever, George Jones who passed away last week at 81.

Michael Tarbox – When The Fire’s Out;
John Mayall – Vacation;
Miss Chain And The Broken Heels – The Dawn is Me;
Diemonds – We Gotta Get The Fuck Outta Here (Live in CLE);
Meat Puppets – Time and Money;
Tijuana Panthers – Tony’s Song;
Thee Oh Sees – Candy Clock;
Ethan Johns – Red Rooster Blue;
Faces – Debris;
Carla Olson and Mick Taylor – Winter;
Carla Olson – Keep Searchin’ (With Peter Case);
The Allman Joys – Shapes of Things;
Otis Rush – Me;
George Jones – Out Of Control;
George Jones & B.B. King – Patches;
Howe Gelb – Lost Love.