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Flashlite #757

Robbie Robertson

Today we open with a new single for a Melbourne band The Prize. Then we go to Sweden where we check out the new name for us, Finnjavlar. Then we dive into a Blue Arrow Records block with tunes for their new releases by Stutter Steps and The Wind-Ups. Legendary California bands Trotsky Icepick and Rain Parade are back with new tunes. And so is Chris Stamey, legendary founder of The dBs. Natural Child from Nashville are back with a new album. We have a special treat for Guided By Voices fans. They have a new album out and their former member Tobin Sprout has a record of previously unreleased tunes. We hear these two tunes as if they came out together on an album, together with signature low fi and tape dropouts characteristic for the early GBV albums. We close the show with a tribute to Robbie Robertson who passed away on August 9th at the age of 80.

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Jackie De Shannon – I Got My Reason
The Prize – First Sight
Finnjavlar – Life For You
The Whiffs – Satellites
Stutter Steps – Lift
The Wind-Ups – Jonathan Says
Trotsky Icepick – Windowpane
Trotsky Icepick – Before My Madness Caves In
Rain Parade – Bring You Back
Rain Parade – What’s She Done To Your Mind
The dB’s – If & When
Chris Stamey – Back in New York
Guided By Voices – Romeo Surgeon
Tobin Sprout – Bad Scenes
Natural Chold – Playin’ In The Band
Natural Child – Little Magic
The Band – The Weight
The Band – Look Out Cleveland
The Band – Time To Kill
The Band – Chest Fever

The Best of 2020 (Part 1): Flashlite #621

Best of 2020

We’re at the end of this historic crappy year. Still, there’s a good handful of albums that we kept coming back to at the Little Lighthouse. So, let’s take a look back and try to list those albums. Before the complete list of top 30 albums is complete in a week for now, let’s dig into the lower end of that list. For a crappy year, overall, the music was really good.

Datura4 – Mother Medusa;
Fuzz – Close Your Eyes;
X – I Gotta Fever;
All Them Witches – Lights Out;
The Third Mind – Claudia Cardinale;
Levitation Room – Stars Speak Softly;
The Sonic Dawn – UFO;
Bob Dylan – False Prophet;
Fred And Rose – In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night);
Nicole Atkins – These Old Roses;
Saba Lou – Penny Roll;
Natural Child – Farm;
The Berries – Passing Scene;
Honey Radar – Almanac Singer;
Bipolaroid – In My Cave.

Flashlite #577

Black Lips

Today we open up with the new tunes from the Austin band Xetas and Drive-By Truckers. Then we introduce Tom Baker and The Speedways, two bands on the Rum Bar Records. Natural Child are back with the new album. We also hear the new star-studded album by Ned O’Millick Cooperative. And we also hear Sunfruits from Australia for the first time at the show.

Xetas – The Burden;
Xetas – The Bystander;
Drive-By Truckers – Armageddon’s Back in Town;
The Hot Dogs – Time Is All;
Paul Westerberg – Love Untold;
Tom Baker – Turn Your Head Around;
The Speedways – In Common With You;
Jericho – Can’t Seem To Make It Happen;
Natural Child – Beast of Burdon (Live in CLE);
Natural Child – Farm;
Ned O’Millick Cooperative – Sunce;
R. STEVIE MOORE – The Flavour Is Mine;
Chris Spedding – Motor Bikin’;
Sunfruits – All I Want;
The Real Impossibles – With A Girl;
The Paupers – It’s Your Mind.

Flashlite #395

Dori FreemanToday we bring you one new tune from Natural Child. Their new album is about to come out. We introduce BTs who’s members span from east to west coast, lead by Joey Genovese, including the people from No Bunny and Apache. Faz Waltz are from Italy and they bring out that vintage glam rock sound. Skeptics are from France and have a new cassette. Dori Freeman is a young singer-songwriter from Virginia and Willie Nelson’s son Lukas Nelson is on our playlist for the first time. Enjoy!

Holly Golightly – As You Go Down;
Apache – 50’s Rock N Roll;
Natural Child – Now and Then;
Natural Child – Nashville’s a Groovy Little Town;
Natural Child – Beast of Burdon (Live in CLE);
BT’s – Bustin’ Out;
Faz Waltz – Rock’n’Roll Boy;
Slade – man who speeks evil;
Don Howland – Gonna Shake It;;
Faux Killas – Maurice;
Skeptics – Everyday Knight;
Luke Nelson And The Promise of The Real – Don’t Want To Fly;
Royal Headache – Love Her If I Tried;
The Madcaps – Too Afraid To Give Up;
Sonny Vincent – Her Hand;
The Reverberations – Mystery;
Wonky Tonk – Montague Road;
Dori Freeman – Lullaby.

Flashlite #302

Iggy and James WilliamsonToday we check out the new record for the legendary Stooges guitar player James Williamson. He took some old song that he wrote for the Raw Power follow-up, finished them up, recorded with various singers and put them out on a new record Re-Licked. Matthew Smith is back with another Outrageous Cherry album, after a few years of hiatus. We introduce a new band from Sweden – The Youth. Also, check out a cool version of NRBQ tune Magnet, performed live in Cleveland by Natural Child.

Evie Sands – Crazy Anne;
Bäddat För Trubbel – Det Har Jobbet;
Powder Monkeys – What Do You Care;
James Williamson feat. J.G. Thirwell – Rubber Leg;
James Williamson feat. Ron Young – Rubber Leg;
Natural Child – Magnet (Live in CLE);
NRBQ – Magnet;
Johnny Jenkins – Walk On Gilded Splinters;
Magic Sam – What Have I Done Wrong (Blues Alphabet);
Damien Youth – Doodle Bug Man;
Outrageous Cherry – The Illuminated Council for World Destruction;
Outrageous Cherry – Megalomania Blues;
Nude Beach – The Witness;
The Youth – Bubblegum;
Paul Westerberg – Down Love.

Flashlite #263

Tomaž PengovToday 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.

Today’s show is dedicated to a wonderful singer-songwriter and a poet from Ljubljana, Tomaž Pengov who recorded some of the greatest music in the former Yugoslavia. He passed away last week in the age of 64. His music influenced yours truly in many different ways.

Boykot Fur – Sister Ray;
The Cry – Seventeen;
King Tuff – Kind of Guy;
Canned Heat – Evil woman (Blues Alphabet);
Natural Child – Saturday Night Blues;
Natural Child – White Light White Heat;
Danny And The Darleans – You’re Driving Me Insane;
The Velvet Underground – I’m Not a Young Man Anymore;
Death of Samantha – Rock and Roll (Live In Cleveland);
The Moldes – Tres Malade;
Steve Wynn – She Came;
Kim Simpson – Prisla je;
Tomaž Pengov – Danaja;
Tomaž Pengov in Mladi Levi – Oda Ireni;
Phil Angotti – My Life And Rhymes.

Flashlite #215

Major StarsA very heavy show tonight, folks. We start off with the new band from San Francisco, Hot Lunch. They have a new record on Tee Pee that is an awesome tribute to the old hard rock records that used to come out on Vertigo or Deram labels in England. Then we have the newly discovered Jimi Hendrix recordings. Then we introduce two new bands: John The Conqueror from Philadelphia and another heavy one Major Stars from Boston. Thee Oh Sees are back with the new record called Floating Coffin and Natural Child have another great single. Cheater Slicks come from Columbus OH, and we listen to their new music as well. Finally, Queens band Hollis Brown are here for the first time. And yes, they name come from a Bob Dylan tune!

Bevel Emboss – Arabic;
Hot Lunch – Killer Smile;
Jimi Hendrix – Somewhere;
Leaf Hound – Freelance Fiend;
John The Conqueror – Come Home With Me;
Major Stars – Blank State;
Pretty Things – Old Man Going;
Thee Oh Sees – I Come From The Mountain;
Natural Child – Nathan’s Blues;
The Id – Short Circut;
The Resonars – Vanishing People;
Cheater Slicks – Hook or Crook;
Tim Lee 3 – Cinnamon Girl (live);
Hollis Brown – Down On Your Luck;
Hot Nun – Fight Fight Fight;
Veronica Falls – Starry Eyes (Live in CLE);
Roky Erickson – Starry Eyes.

Flashlite #203 – The Best Short Forms and Archives in 2012

Eamon McGrathLast week we introduced the list of 20 best LPs that we liked to listen to here at The Little Lighthouse. This week, we move on to the list of five best reissues and archival recordings that came out in or around 2012. The title goes to Tav Falco and a gorgeous reissue of Beyond the Magnolia Curtain with also included Blow Your Top EP and four pages of early history of the band. The whole list looks like this:

01 Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – Beyond the Magnolia Curtain
02 Epic Soundtracks – Wide Smile An Anthology
03 Sandy Denny – The Notes and The Words: A Collection Of Demos & Rarities
04 Nova Mob – The Last Days of Pompeii
05 Dan Penn – The Fame Recordings

Then we move on to the list of the best short forms in the last year. This includes singles, eps, short dowloads etc… The title goes to one of the hardest working bands today, Natural Child for their 45 Mother Nature’s Daughter, which also came out as in a strange new audio format – a tobacco paper roll! The complete list of top 10 looks like this:

01 Natural Child – Mother Nature’s Daughter
02 King Tuff – Wild Desire
03 Drivin ‘n’ Cryin – Songs from the Laundromat
04 Eric Burdon And The Greenhornes EP
05 Dirtbombs and Dan Sartain Terrible Two / Kelley Stoltz
06 Cozy – Cola Shock Kids
07 King Louie’s Missing Monuments
08 Bad Sports – Red Overlay
09 Grant Hart – So Far From Heaven
10 Daniel Kroha – The Folk-Blues Stylings Of Daniel Kroha

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Chuck Prophet – Limit To It;
Dan Penn – Power of Love;
Nova Mob – The Last Days of Pompeii/Benediction;
Sandy Denny – After Halloween;
Epic Soundtracks – You Better Run;
Tav Falco – Bertha Lou;
Daniel Kroha – Run Little Children;
Grant Hart – Morning Star;
Bad Sports – Stuff;
King Louie’s Missing Monuments – Another Girl;
Cozy – Cola Shock Kids;
The Dirtbombs – Politicians In My Eyes;
Eric Burdon And The Greenhornes – Out of My Mind;
Drivin ‘n’ Cryin – Dirty;
King Tuff – Wild Desire;
Natural Child – Mother Nature’s Daughter;
Natural Child – Bodyswitchers Part II.

Flashlite #192

The ShivasNew supergroup today: David Hidalgo from Los Lobos, Luther Dickinson from North Mississippi Allstars and Mato Nanji join forces on a new album together called Three Skulls And The Truth. We have also the new non-album single from Natural Child and a track from a new LP for Suzi Chunk. The new names today are The Shivas from Portland and Forty Nineteens from LA. Famous tribute to the great late Arizona guitarist Rainer Ptacek called The Inner Flame has been reissued with some tracks missing and some new tracks. We check it all out today.

Etta Britt – High;
Dan Sartain – Voodoo;
King Tuff – Stupid Superstar;
King Louie’s Missing Monuments – I’m Gonna Love You Back to Life;
Natural Child – Mother Nature’s Daughter;
Sonic Youth – Kill Yr. Idols;
The Shivas – Thrill Yr Idols;
David Hidalgo, Luther Dickinson, Mato Nanji – Make It Right;
North Mississippi Allstars – Live in CLE;
Rainer – Powder Keg;
Chris Whitley – Powder Keg;
Bill Janovitz – Powder Keg;
Rockpile – Wrong Again (Let’s Face It);
Suzi Chunk – It’s Not Your Heartbreak;
Forty Nineteens – Magnolia Mississippi.

Flashlite #190

Paul WesterbergThe Replacements fans should pay special attention today. We have a new track for Paul Westerberg and also a new one for Chris Mars. Chris’ song is a part of an effort to raise fund for Slim Dunlap’s recovery after a severe stroke this February. And we also have Kevin Bowe, a musician from Minneapolis who collaborates with Westerberg on Bowe’s new record. Nels Cline is on guitar. We also have the brand new album for Natural Child. They already had one really good one earlier this year called For The Love Of The Game (we have a review of that one), and now they have another fresh one called Hard In Heaven. Scott Reynolds (ex All) is trying to put a new record together, and we culled one of the demos from the Internet. Chris Brokaw (ex Come and Dirt Music) is also back with a new record called Gambler’s Ecstasy and we have a recording from his Cleveland live show. New name today is Cory Branan from around Memphis and Bad Sports from Denton TX. We also represent some very interesting compilation records.

Eamon McGrath – (Acoustic) Signals;
Natural Child – She’s Got A Mind;
Natural Child – B$G P$MP$N;
Ian Hunter – Comfortable (Flyin’ Scottsman);
Bad Sports – Red Overlay;
Chris Brokaw – Danny Borracho;
Chris Brokaw – Crooked (Live in CLE);
Paul Westerberg – My Road Now;
Kevin Bowe and The Okemah Prophet – Everybody Lies;
Chris Mars – When I Fall Down;
Scott Reynolds – Ladders Made Of Smoke;
River City Tanlines – Pretty Please;
The Stones – Down and Around;
The Textones – You Can Run;
International Submarine Band – Sum Up Broke;
Stream Of Consciousness – Till You’re Through;
Rick Jarrard – High Coin;
The Byrds – Lady Friend;
Cory Branan – Survivor Blues.