Today we check out exciting new music from venerable Ian Hunter. Also Kid Congo is back with his Pink Monkey Bird and a new album. Afghan Whigs published a cool new Lou Reed cover. Amy Rigby has a new single and Leyla McCalla has a new album. Speedways have a new compilation record out and we introduce new names for us: Baron Four and Lord Esme.
Lou Reed – I Love You, Suzanne
The Baron Four – Never Feeling Blue
Ian Hunter – People
Ian Hunter – This is what i’m here for
The Reflectors – Supernova
The Speedways – Kisses Are History
Lord Esme – Alison Rhodes
Daniel Romano – All of thee above
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – Is there anything i can do
Amy Rigby – Dylan In Dubuque (Single Version)
Leyla McCalla – Open The Road
Rosali – Rewind
Emily Wolfe – Road to Ruin
Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds – The Boy Had It All
The Afghan Whigs – I Love You Suzanne
The Afghan Whigs – Demon in Profile
Deep Purple – Love Help Me
Today we have a Velvet Underground tour de force. Death of Samantha play a cover of Rock And Roll in our Live in Cleveland segment, Danny And The Darlean’s play a pre-Velvet Lou Reed tune You’re Driving Me Insane. Also Natural Child participated in the Burger Records tribute to White Light White Heat. That album also saw a deluxe reissue with a lot of previously unreleased material, so we check out one of the songs. Talking about Natural Child, they also have a new record Dancing With The Wolves, which is about to come out. Other good new stuff come from The Cry!. We also check out The Moldes from Peru.
We got some sad news this Sunday. Lou Reed passed away. When it comes to rock’n’roll, there are not many musicians that are greater than Lou. He managed to take the Bo Diddley rhythms and put them in the context of urban New York underground art movement. He was a street poet and he consciously enhanced the lyrical potentials of rock’n’roll music. We will dedicate our entire show today to him. We begin with two tunes that are direct dedications of other artists to his musical direction. Then we hear some other bands trying out their abilities by performing Lou Reed tunes. Two of those bands are from Yugoslavia (my former country), where Lou Reed was extraordinarily influential. Then we hear one live recording of Velvet Underground which was recorded in 1968 in Cleveland, where I live now. Again, it turns out, Cleveland was one of the rare places where VU was welcome back then. And then we close things off with an ambitious medley of songs by Lou Reed about death. He was obsessed by that topic and wrote a lot of songs about it, especially in the past 20 years. And now, he’s gone too. Lou, Lou, Lou… it’s the end of a great adventure.
Folks, one of the weirdest episodes ever here at the Little Lighthouse… There is a whole bunch of reissues these days with live music. So, we started off with the new live reissues of Lou Reed, Rolling Stones and Giant Sand. Twilight Singers have a new live album out, so we check out that as well. Our good friend Damien Youth reissued his studio album Sunfield on vinyl. It’s a lovely double LP. And then we played the new band for Chris Eckman from Walkabouts, called The Frictions, which he put together over in Ljubljana where he lives these days. They played a cover of Suicide, so “naturally”, the rest of the songs were about suicide as an act, not as a band. So, very happy ending today… Check it out, but don’t do it.