Today we review the best new roots rock music. We begin with the Canadian guitar virtuoso Matt Andersen. Then we check out Michael and Tanya Trotter, duet that makes The War And Treaty. Over in Australia, we have Silversound. From Vicenza in Italy, we have Elli de Mon, back with the new record. From Boston, we hear the live sounds of GA-20. Chicago entertainers Joe Nosek and Oscar Wilson lead The Cash Box King and their new record is truly entertaining. Veteran blues musician Leo Welch represents sounds from rural Mississippi. Legendary musicians Rickie Lee Jones, Taj Mahal and Van Morrison represent their own new takes of some classic traditional and standard tunes.
Brian Owens – Man In Black
Matt Andersen – Let It Slide
The War and Treaty – Lover’s Game
The War and Treaty – Healing Tide
The Silversound – Rider
Elli de Mon – I Can See You
Elli de Mon – Vampire Blues
GA-20 – I Cry For You
The Cash Box Kings – Oscar’s Motel
Bob Corritore with Oscar Wilson- Tenessee Woman
Loe Welch – Praise His Name
Taj Mahal – Summer Time
Taj Mahal – Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day
Rickie Lee Jones – There Will Never Be Another You
Van Morrison – Green Rocky Road
Van Morrison – Gypsy Queen
We start the show with the new rhythm and blues band from Memphis, Southern Avenue. They we check out the new tune for Janiva Magness. We also check out the music from Rickie Lee Jones and Madeleine Peyroux, who are collaboration on a new tour together. The New Pornographers have a new record and so does the singer of The Ettes, Coco Hames. Guided By Voices recorded a new, lengthy double album too. But a special treat today is a block in which we check out separate projects of each new member of Ty Segall’s band. Charles Mootheart has a new CFM album and so does Emmet Kelly with his Cairo Gang. We introduce the pianist Ben Boye and his band Joshua Abrams And Natural Information Society, who also have a new album out.
We start off with the new Spanish duet called Los Bengala. They have a new album called Incluso Festivos. Zach Jones is a new name from Portland, Maine. Rolin comes from Cleveland and runs a cool band called Nowehere. We also have some good old familiar faces – Rickie Lee Jones and Richard Thompson. His new album is produced by Jeff Tweedy and his old band Uncle Tupelo saw a release of an interesting tribute recently. We cull out Leeroy Stagger from that tribute. Today we say goodbye to Chris Squire, the bassist of Yes and The Syn.
Making a good tribute is not an easy thing to do. You can have the best musicians the best songs but rarely do things fall together so nicely. On Map To The Treasure things came together perfectly and I think several things contributed to that.
It’s a heavy show today. We start off with OBN III’s from Austin TX, lead by Orville Bateman Neeley III. Their new album Third Time To Harm, which is loud add diverse love letter to rock’n’roll. Speaking about rocking, one of the strongest bands in Yugoslavia was The Spoons from Pula. Their singer Bruno Subiotto continued his career as a singer in numerous bands, and also as an actor. His new band is called Roger N. Out which we feature in today’s show. San Pedro Slim is also a new name in our show. He comes from San Pedro, sings the blues and plays a mean harmonica. Chuck Prophet’s new single is also featured today. It’s a heavy show today, but we finish with an incredible, soft new arrangement of Laura Nyro’s Been On A Train. This features Rickie Lee Jones on vocals and will be out on the upcoming Billy Child’s record Reimagining Laura Nyro.
The Dirtbombs from Detroit joined forces with Dan Sartain and Terrible Twos for a new ep release and they cover another act from Detroit on that single – a cult band called Death. Quartet from Pittsburgh, PA Satin Gum are back with their second album, which they call LP2. Mark Eitzel and Rickie Lee Jones have new solo records out. And Crusaders of Love is a new name today, from Lille in France.
Today we begin with a block of Los Angeles garage bands and we choose the songs from the latest Nuggets compilation, called Where The Action Is. We take a chance to reflect especially on Sky Saxon, legendary member of The Seeds who passed away earlier this summer. Rickie Lee Jones has a new album out called Balm In Gilead and it’s filled with smoky, intimate, slow tempo tunes. We also check in with Marshall Crenshaw and his new album called Jaggedland and with the Drive-By Truckers guy Patterson Hood who has an exciting new solo album out called Murdering Oscar.