Louisiana special today. We hear new music either made in Louisiana or inspired by it. We check out the new tunes from Corey Ledet, Dwayne Dopsie, Rose and The Bros, Salebarbes, Willie Durisseau, Kat Danser and Esther Rose. We also pay a tribute to a fallen swamp pop hero Rod Bernard.
Broadway Lafayette – Girl De Hong Kong;
Corey Ledet – This Is All I Want;
Dwayne Dopsie and Zydeco Hellraisers – I Give It You (In French);
Rockin’ Dopsie – Pushin and Pullin;
Mama Rosin – Negro Loco;
Rose & The Bros – Save Me a Waltz;
Salebarbes – Good Lord;
Lost Bayou Ramblers – Granny Smith (Live);
John Delafose – Chokin Kind;
Willie Durisseau – Willie’s Zydeco;
Kat Danser – Frenchman Street Shake;
Dr John – Such a Night;
Esther Rose – Mountaintop;
Rodney Crowell – Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight;
BeauSoleil – Cariere Zydeco;
The Revelers – Southside Stomp;
Rod Bernard and Clifton Chenier – My Babe;
Rod Bernard – Recorded in England;
Rod Bernard – Congratulations To You.
Today we introduce singer songwriter from Tulsa, Lauren Barth and a Swedish hard rock band Ball. Angaleena Presley from Pistol Annies has a second solo album out, and we check that out too. Dickinson brothers. North Mississippi Allstars have a new record out called Prayer for Peace. Zerodent from Perth Australia are back with the new EP. Our proud sponsors, Blue Arrow Records, have new excellent releases, Stutter Steps from Pittsburgh and Ethan Daniel Davidson from Detroit.
Today we check out the new stuff from the legendary Greg Dulli and his Afghan Whigs. Also Low Cut Connie have a new single that announces a record coming out soon. San Mikulec from Zagreb, Croatia who we know most notably from Sloming Moops has a new project called Van Klokan Band. Aaron Lee Tasjan from Drivin N Cryin has a cool solo album. We also introduce singer songwriters Sera Cahoone and Sarah Shook. New bands today are Platinum Boys from Milwaukee and Chinese Herbal Medicine from LA.
Today we have new music from the Australian band Chook Race and the spanking brand new tune from Tav Falco and his Panther Burns with Mike Watt on bass. We alco introduce Beware of Darkness from California, Apocalypse Blues Revue from Florida, Bob Hillman also from Cali and The Meredith Hunters from France. Safeties are in our Live in CLE block.
Today we start off with the new Dinosaur JR album that they call Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not. Then, Low Cut Connie stopped by Cleveland on August 26th and played some brand new songs from the upcoming album. Death Lens come from LA and they play a tune from their new album Fuck This. Surinam come from Toronto and Thee Oh Sees from San Francisco continue their furious discography with another new record. Meet Your Death come from Austin TX and they play us a Mose Allison tune If You Live. Then we also have two great new country singer-songwriters, Kelsey Waldon from Kentucky (pictured here) and Miss Tess from New York.
Our show today brings the new music from Mitski, Kate Maki and duet of Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle. We introduce the new band out of Boston Sandwich Police, that features Evan Dando of The Lemonheads, who made a surprise Cleveland show recently. Starling Electric from Ann Arbor is another new band introduced in today’s show. We also hear newly surfaced recording of Allen Toussaint which were made shortly before him passing away this year. Another tribute today is to Chips Moman, a legendary producer and songwriter in Memphis, who sadly passed away on June 13. Mojo magazine put together an interesting compilation that covers Bob Dylan’s album Blonde on Blonde song by song and we check out the contribution from Seattle’s Night Beats.
Andy and Zach Gabbard are in a hard rocking, jammy band from Cincinnati called Buffalo Killers. As a band, Buffalo Killers delivered a string of five notable albums and both brothers wrote the songs. This year, Andy decided to try something on his own.
Just when you think rock’n’roll is ready to be sent into history as a past musical expression that has nothing to offer to a new generation of listeners, a band like Faux Killas shows up to prove us wrong. Rock’n’roll is not dead, it just smells funny.