Today we have an interesting show, full of new experimental tunes mostly inspired by the new Levitation festival releases by Dead Meadow and Osees. Following that block we check out the new music from City of Cool and Mythic Sunship who may as well have been on Levitation line up. Warm Drag has a new single and we also check out new releases from Hedvig Mollestad Trio and Writhing Squares. We also introduce a young guitar player from Austing TX, Ally Venable who has a very interesting new tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Although she could have titled it as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix and it would still work well, if not better given the experimental feel of the piece.
Jonathan Kane and Dave Soldier – Requiem for Hulis Pulis;
Dead Meadow – Rains in the Desert;
Osees – Chem Farmer Nite Expo;
City of Cool – Festival Time;
Mythic Sunship – Olympia;
Warm Drag – Butch Things;
Ally Venable – Tribute to SRV;
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Leo Flash’ Return to the Underworld;
Writhing Squares – Epilogue.
Thalia Zedek and her most recent band E are back with some new tunes on a new album Negative Work. Looks like Oh Sees dropped Thee from their title permanently. Also we introduce new names for us: Pastor in Austria, Civic and Last Quokka from Australia and Mooner from Chicago (not to be confused with Mooner from Indonesia). Jonathon Robert Lindaberry is a one man band The Bones of J.R. Jones. Shilpa Ray comes from New York City and covers an Alice Cooper tune on her new single.
Today we have several brand new bands for us here at The Little Lighthouse. Medicine Boy come from South Africa and it’s a duet with powerful modern sound. Nudity come from Leeds, Australia, and over there in the same neck of the woods we have The Prophet Hens from New Zealand. Radkey are three brothers from Missouri. Let’s not forget an awesome performance from the sold out show by Thee Oh Sees in Cleveland.
In today’s episode we hear new music from Trixie Whitley and Thee Oh Sees. W-X is a new band for Tim Presley of White Fence. Luther Dickinson, from North Mississippi Allstars is back with a solo record. Gary Louris from Jayhawks and Django Haskins from Old Ceremony formed a new duet called Au Pair. We introduce Doug Tuttle of MMOSS. After a short break, we are back with Live in CLE segment of our show. This time we feature a new song from Low Cut Connie.
Robert Pollard is as active as ever. We introduced his new band Ricked Wicky just recently, and now he also has a new solo record. We also introduce Home Blitz from Princeton NJ, which reminds me on Game Theory. Faux Ferocious come from Nashville and we check out their studio and live recordings from their show in Cleveland. Thee Oh Sees are back with the new LP called Mutilator Defeated At Last. Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris have a new album together. They first worked together 40 round years ago, so it’s a nice anniversary. Fauntleroys is a supergroup consisting of Alejandro Escovedo, Ivan Julian (ex Voidods) and Linda Pitmon (ex Zsu Zsu’s Petals and Miracle 3). We finish with a tribute to Bobby Irwin, drummer in Nick Lowe’s band who passed away recently.
Today 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.