Coming back to us, today we bring you Zvonka Obajdin and Svemir with a live in the studio cover of Neil Young, along with Plastic Pals from Sweden with a truly catchy new single. We introduce more catchiness from Dumb Punts over in Australia and Spyrals from California. Over from the Iberian peninsula we check out Ded Routines from Spain and D3O from Portugal with a killer cover from Dead Moon. This episode goes form Spencer Davis and Ken Hensley who left this godforsaken world recently.
Kinks – This Is Where I Belong;
Dumb Punts – Up All Night;
The Spyrals – Goodbye;
Motorpsycho – The All Is One;
The Plastic Pals – More than an icon;
Svemir – Motion Pictures;
Neil Young – Motion Pictures;
The Spencer Davis Group – Morning Sun;
The Spencer Davis Group – Time Seller;
The Gods – Long Time, Sad Time, Bad Time;
The Gods – Maria;
Percewood’s Onagram – Braindrops Won’t Kill The Fire;
Ded Routines – Not available blues;
D3O – Unknown Passage;
Dead Moon – Unknown Passage.
Melancholic new summer episode today features new music from Eamon McGrath from Canada, Ethan Daniel Davidson from Detroit, and Plastic Pals from Sweden. We also feature Marshall Chapman from Spartanburg, SC, Loose Koozies from Detroit, Ben de la Cour from Nashville, Warmer from Idaho, Heather Anne Lomax from LA, Courtney Marie Andrews from Phoenix and Trixie and The Trainwrecks from Berlin Germany. Give it a shot!
Czeslaw Niemen & Akwarele – Gdzie To Jest;
The Plastic Pals – Hangin’ in the Louvre;
Marshall Chapman – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow;
Sylvia Rose Novak – Dry;
Neil Young and The Crazy Horse – Powderfinger;
Loose Koozies – Easy When You Know How;
Ben de la Cour – Harmless Indian Medicine Blues;
Morphine – Thursday;
Mark Lanegan – Stockholm City Blues;
Little Albert – Blues Asteroid;
Ethan Daniel Davidson – Death Don’t Have No Mercy;
Eamon McGrath – Sign of the Times;
Swampmeat Family Band – Be Here To Love Me;
Warmer – Fishes Swim and Corals Grow;
Heather Anne Lomax – Better Luck;
Jim Capaldi – Boy With A Problem;
Courtney Marie Andrews- Old Flowers;
Trixie and The Trainwrecks – Summertime;
Big Brother And The Holding Company – Summertime.
Today we start with Stuart Turner and his Flat Earth Society, all the way from the musically rich Medway area in UK. Pedaljets come from Kansas City, Danny McDonald from Melbourne and The Berries from Seattle, WA. Those our new introductions this week and Berries have a killer new LP. We are also listening to new albums from Andy Gabbard and Lilly Hiatt. Plastic Pals from Sweden are back with their new single. Check out the recent recording of Yawpers live in Cleveland. This show is dedicated to Yugoslavian singer Zdenka VuÄković who passed away on March 8 this year.
Bob Dylan – This Wheel’s On Fire;
Stuart Turner And The Flat Earth Society – Kisses Are Keys;
Pedaljets – Down Town;
Trotsky Icepick – I Haunted Myself;
Stan McMahon – Have You Heard The Word_;
The Berries – Passing Scene;
The Plastic Pals – Plastic Pal;
Gretchen’s Wheel – The Last Balloon;
The Yawpers – (Live in CLE);
Danny McDonald – Commuter’s Lament;
Andy Gabbard – Fight To Live;
Andy Gabbard – This Wheel’s On Fire;
Julian Cope – That Ain’t No Way to Make a Million;
Aubrey Sellers – Troublemaker;
Lilly Hiatt – P-Town;
Zdenka VuÄković – You don’t have to say you love me;
Byrds – This Wheel’s On Fire.
Donnie Fritts recorded a new tribute to the late and great singer songwriter Arthur Alexander, and we sample in in this episode. Our pals, Plastic Pals from Sweden are also back with the new single. Walter Lure who used to be one of Johnny Thunders’ Heartbreakers is back with his band The Waldos. We also introduce The Peawees from Italy, Record Company from Los Angeles, Vines from Sydney Australia, and Subsonics from Atlanta, GA.
The Rolling Stones – You Better Move On;
The Peawees – As Long As You Can Sleep;
The Record Company – Coming Home;
Wussy – Jonah;
Texxcoco – Interludio;
Ford Madox Ford – Before The Fall;
Walter Lure & The Waldos – Lazy Day;
The Plastic Pals – Connecting;
Peter Blegvad – Powers In The Air;
Danny & The Doorknobs – Birthday Wishes;
The Vines – Hate the Sound;
Subsonics – He’s a Keeper of the Fire;
Dot Dash – Holly Garland;
The Lemon Twigs – Never In My Arms, Always In My Heart;
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog – Shut That Kid Up;
Joe Bonsall – Pauve Hobo (Poor Hobo);
Arthur Alexander – You Better Move On;
Donnie Fritts – You Better Move On.
Today we hear some new music from the kings of lo-fi rock, Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices. He is as productive as ever. Following his footsteps in lo-fi, we introduce City Yelps from Leeds UK and Honey Radar from Indiana. Paul Kelly is back with a set of Shakespearean sonnets. Plastic Pals form Sweden have a new single. San Mikulec, a one-man band in Croatia is back with the new project called Snooze in Motion and we close everything with John Doe of X with his new album. Bob Hillman is a new name in show, he recorded an albums with the help of Peter Case. We pay respect to Jadranka Stojakovic, probably the greatest female character that ever came out of the Yugoslav pop and rock scene. She passed away yesterday.
Jadranka Stojakovic – Zivot je jednosmjerna cesta;
City Yelps – Light & Classical;
Honey Radar – Postcard Target;
Honey Radar – Scorpions Bought Me Breakfast;
Robert Pollard – Little Pigs;
Guided By Voices – Glittering Parliaments;
Guided By Voices – The Caterpillar Workforce;
Paul Kelly – O Mistress Mine (Clown’s Song from Twelfth Night);
XTC – Melt The Guns;
Kim Simpson – Melt The Guns;
Jadranka Stojakovic – Putovanja;
Jadranka Stojakovic – Ko zna reci;
The Plastic Pals – Wouldn’t Change a Thing;
Bob Hillman – Bad Business;
Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds – Chicano Studies;
Disciplin A Ktchme – Nepokolebljivost pokazi ti uz neophodnu dozu neozbiljnosti;
Snooze In Motion – Agnes OM;
John Doe – Get On Board.
The first part of today’s show is mostly filled with the new tunes. We start off with the new music from Barrence Whitfield, who continues his furious comeback with a new record called Under a Savage Sky. Then we introduce a new duet from Cleveland Wesley Who, with a live recording of a Prince song. We also introduce Slates from Edmonton, Alberta in Canada – compatriots of Eamon McGrath. Plastic Pals from Sweden are back with the new single. The second part of the show dominates with music of several folks that we lost in the recent days: country music singer Lynn Anderson, record producer Bob Johnston, Flesh Eaters guitarist Stuart Lederer and Eddie Hardin who had a tough job filling Steve Winwood’s shoes in Spencer Davis Group, but also wrote one of my favorite tunes ever Time Seller.
Rickie Lee Jones – Infinity;
Faux Killas – When You Get Wild;
Barrence Whitfield – I’m a Full Grown Man;
Barrence Whitfield – The Corner Man;
Wesley Who – The Beautiful Ones (Live in CLE);
Slates – Auditorium;
Eamon McGrath – Auditorium;
The Last – Century City Rag;
Sherwin – Qualm;
The Plastic Pals – Timing Is Everything;
Johnny Young – Slam Hammer (Blues Alphabet);
Joe South – Rose garden;
Lynn Anderson – Rose Garden;
Bob Dylan – Desolation Row;
Flesh Eaters – Death Installment Plan;
Spencer Davis Group – Time Seller.
Some interesting stuff today. Erotic Biljan and his Heretics from Zagreb have a new single called Discgrace and we check it out. Also, Plastic Pals out of Sweden have a new single Riding With Elvis commemorating 80th birthday of Elvis Presley, which happened on January 8th. Also, out of Sweden, we have a new garage rock band The Vanjas. From Puerto Rico, we have Los Vigilantes singing in Spanish. Volume two of Jackie DeShannon tunes performed by other artists is out and we hear some rare acetates that she made as demos back in the day. We dedicate today’s show to one of the most original and interesting rock songwriters and organizers, one and only Kim Fowley who passed away last week.
Jackie DeShannon – Only You Can Free My Mind;
The Vanjas – Friday Twist;
The Plastic Pals – Riding with Elvis;
Bäddat För Trubbel – Fakta Och Nostalgi;
First Base – That’s My Girlfriend;
Games – About Me;
Erotic Biljan and His Heretics – Disgrace;
Danny And The Darleans – Don’t Get In The Car (Live in CLE);
Kim Fowley – Bubblegum;
Kim Fowley and Ben Vaughn – The King of Saturday Night;
Ben Vaughn – She Fell Out The Window;
Jackie DeShannon – New Thoughts;
Jackie DeShannon – Love Forever Stay;
Leon Redbone – Mississippi Delta Blues (Blues Alphabet);
Nude Beach – On The One Too Manys;
Los Vigilantes – Ahi no Estoy;
Outragous Cherry – Timing Ain’t Everything;
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – I Am In Heaven;
The Last – Hitler’s Brother;
The Steppes – Who Needs More Love.
We start off rocking out to the new band from Japan called The Novice. They have a new single out on Dirtnap Records. Then we move on to an old Kansas power pop band called The Tunes. Their material is recently reissued on an LP called Love Uncool on Cheap Rewards. Plastic Pals from Sweden have an excellent new single and Pat Todd of the Lazy Cowgirls fame is back with the new band called The Rankoutsiders and the album 14th and Nowhere is a sweaty rock’n’roll record. We have some news from The Gories headquarters. Their old bootleg The Shaw Tapes saw a proper release on Third Man Records and their guitar player Dan Kroha has a new band Danny and The Darleans. We also have some news from the Yugosphere. Partibrejkers from Belgrade are back with the new single and Overflow from Koprivnica have a new record which features Mihovil Pavlek MiÅ¡kina’s. MiÅ¡kina was killed in a concentration camp 70 years ago. Jimmy Haber is a new name from the power-pop scene in Australia. His new album New Bondi Hippies has some catchy tunes spiced up with politically conscientious lyrics. Doug Paisley is a singer songwriter from Canada. A lot of people talk about him these days. What I find particularly interesting is that he pulled out of darkness reclusive Canadian singer Mary Margaret O’Hara who has a significant space on his new record. She had a landmark album back in the 80s called Miss America.
In our Live in Cleveland segment, we have two songs recorded at the Cleveland club Happy Dog. It’s one of my favorite places to go out to. They have an excellent assortment of hot dogs with rich sides and live music few times a week. The segment goes out to Sean Kilbane, founder of this club, who tragically passed away recently.
The Goldebriars – No More Auction Block;
The Novice – What You Want;
The Tunes – Love Uncool;
The Fuzz – Merry-Go-Round;
The Plastic Pals – The final remedy;
Pat Todd and The Rankoutsiders – Back to the Wind;
Lazy Cowgirls – Anymore;
Pierced Arrows – Frankenstein (Live in CLE);
Bill Fox – These Men Are Guilty of Crimes (Live in CLE);
Albert Collins – Avalanche (Blues Alphabet);
The Gories – Nautiloid Reef;
Danny And The Darleans – Can’t Kill the Rooster;
Partibrejkers – Sitna lova;
Overflow – Pjesma medjimurskog zlatara;
Jimmy Haber – Worlds On Fire;
Doug Paisley and Mary Margaret O’Hara – What’s Up Is Down;
Mary Margaret O’Hara – Dear Darling.
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.
Some really exceptional new records today. First, we have Tommy Womack, a new singer songwriter from Nashville. Then Kevin Gordon. This native of Monroe LA, now living also in Nashville, made a new record Gloryland which is a true masterpiece and it got a lot of very nice attention in the music press these days. Canadian rocker Eamon McGrath also has a new record out Young Canadians. The concept is loosely all things Canadian, but it also mentions a ghost of Bob Stinson. I will go out on the limb and say that with this record McGrath establishes himself as the greatest young songwriter of today and finishes the race for the best record in 2012 already. It’s hard for me to imagine that it’s even possible to make a record as good as this one by the end of the calendar year. And then there’s also Jack White with his new album Blunderbuss. Swedish paisley poppers Plastic Pals are also represented today with their new single.
Fresh – Revolution;
Eamon McGrath – Rabid Dog;
Eamon McGrath – No One’s Gonna Love You When You’re Gone;
Warren Zevon – Play It All Night Long;
Tommy Womack – It Doesn’t Have To Be That Good;
David Bromberg – Sharon;
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Mother Blues;
James Luther Dickinson – O How She Dances;
Kevin Gordon – Black Dog;
The Kill Devil Hills – Gunslinger;
The Blasters – I’m Shakin’;
Little Willie John – I’m Shakin’;
Jack White – I’m Shakin’;
The Plastic Pals – Leave It Til Tomorrow.
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