Caught on the In Between Playlist 12-16-08

“Put some records on while I pour…” Bing Crosby to Doris Day in ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’

I’m a sucker for holiday music.

Baby, Its Cold Outside and Blue Christmas are the two best xmas tunes ever. However, I heard a couple great new ones this year—The Waitresses ‘Christmas Wrapping’ and Brett Dennen’s ‘The Holidays Are Here And We’re Still At War’.

Someday Some Morning Sometime is probably my favorite tune of this set. Billy Bragg and Wilco were contacted by Nora Guthrie, daughter to Woody Guthrie, to put music to some of her father’s lyrics and they came out with the two volumes of Mermaid Avenue. This song has some great lyrics and Jeff Tweedy’s voice is perfect for it, although I long to hear Woody sing this one.

If you live in Vermont, get out to see the Starline Rhythm Boys live—they put on an awesome honky tonk show. The song I played, Texacos and Roadmaps, is all about hitting the road and living a life of ramblin’ around. “…I’ve streamlined my life back, to Texacos and roadmaps…” Sounds good to me.

1. Christmas Weekend – Los Straitjackets – ‘Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets
2. Always Wanting More – Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ‘08
3. Set In Stone – Catfish Haven – Devastator
4. Cheer – Descendents – Somery
5. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Doris Day & Bing Crosby
6. Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Christmas Album
7. Here Comes Santa Claus – Gene Autry
8. I Met Him On A Sunday – Shirelles
9. The Coast – Paul Simon – The Rhythm of the Saints
10. Mi Confesion – Gotan Project Feat. Koxmoz – Lunatico
11. Truckin’ Trees For Christmas – Red Simpson
12. Texacos and Roadmaps – Starline Rhythm Boys – Better Luck is a Barroom Away
13. Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys – Sounds of Summer
14. Santa Claus Blues – Champion Jack Dupree
15. Someday Some Morning Sometime – Billy Bragg & Wilco – Mermaid Avenue Volume 2
16. Sunken Treasure – Jeff Tweedy – Sunken Treasure
17. Two Hearts – Chris Isaak – San Francisco Days
18. Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer – Gene Autry
19. What Peer Pressure – Tan Analog

Caught on the In Between Playlist 12-08-08

"We’ve been waiting so long, for someone to come along…" Death 'Politicians In My Eye'

I’ve lived in Vermont for 4 and a half years and during that time I’ve seen a ton of great shows. The bigger – The Decemberists, DeVotchka, Jason Isbell, Ryan Adams, Dr. Dog, Against Me!, Feist at the Flynn, Old Crow Medicine Show, Wilco, Gogol Bordello, etc—and the smaller—In Memory of Pluto, Lowell Thompson, the Radio Bean birthdays, Honky Tonk Tuesdays, The Husbands AKA, Barbacoa, etc—but no show has been more hyped up than the Rough Francis shows over the weekend of 12/6. They came out of nowhere, but immediately it was all the talk around town. Their unique story helped to fuel the fire and the mystery kept it going strong. The story goes a bit like this…

Back in 1974, the brothers Hackney (David, Daryl, & Bobby Sr.) were a rock n roll band playing in their grandmother’s garage in Detroit. They went by the name Death and released a self-recorded demo that gained a lot of ground and attention around the punk, r&b, Motown, and rock’n’roll crowds of Detroit. Eventually the demo found its way to Clive Davis who was at Columbia Records at the time. He offered them a record contract with the stipulation that they had to change their name. They wouldn’t budge on the name and thus he didn’t offer them the contract. Eventually Death split up and Daryl and Bobby Sr. made their way to Vermont and have been playing roots reggae music ever since with the band Lambs Bread International. It seemed that, like many bands over the years, Death had seen their day and would soon be lost and forgotten.

And for the most part they were, until one of this generations Hackneys was out at a party in California and heard the demo being played. He called his dad and told him that the demo had started being played in some underground parties and clubs and was picking up a cult following. Needless to say, Bobby Sr. was shocked. Fast forward a couple months and Drag City Records will finally be releasing the album in Feb ’09 and Rough Francis set up 3 shows over 6 days playing the demo in its entirety.

I caught all three shows and all were excellent, but the standout was definitely the very first show at 242 Main on Friday. The show at the Monkey House on Saturday was cool due to the fact that I was standing up front next to Bobby Hackney Sr. as he watched his sons play the songs that he had written over 30 years ago in their grandmother’s garage. According to Bobby Jr., Rough Francis will be staying together as a band and will be writing some of their own music, but I’m sure they’ll keep some Death tunes in their live sets. They are a band to keep on your radar, so if you see that they are playing around town, get off your couch and go check them out.

In honor of these shows, I started off the show (after the intro surf rock version of California Sun by Dick Dale) with two of the Death songs that came from their original demo—Keep on Knockin and Politicians in My Eye. These mp3s are around the Net, so look for them and get yourself a copy. They’re great tunes and they’ll get you pumped up to get what Bobby Jr. calls “the best record I’ve heard in my entire life” when it comes out in Feb.

I kept the punk going for the rest of that set with the Descendents tune Suburban Home, The Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love?, and finally Television’s Venus from their incredible album Marque Moon.

For the next set I played some music that would be very hard to classify. I started off the set with Washington Bullets by The Clash which I believe is on their triple album, Sandinista!. Following that I played a song from the Diplo produced mix-tape, Top Ranking, featuring Santogold and Movado called L.E.S. Artistes which has one of the most catchy melodies I’ve heard in awhile. Diplo is a great DJ/producer who has put out a bunch of great mix-tapes and as well as did most of the beats to M.I.A.’s phenomenal album, Arular. Next up was Parade by Pretty Girls Make Graves. They can be hit and miss, but I really like their Elan Vital album that this song comes from. It’s mostly punk-ish music, but this one has a slower beat to it and also a great melody. This set finished up with Vampire Weekend’s The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance off of their excellent self-titled album that came out over the last couple years. These guys get a lot of flack from people, probably b/c of the amount of attention they got from the press this year, but I’m a big fan b/c of their obvious Paul Simon influence.

Ted Hawkins dominated the next set with Watch Your Step and If You Love Me, two fantastic tunes off of his album, Watch Your Step. Next we we jumped into a little of the legendary Sam Cooke next with Bring It On Home To Me and then finished off the show with Donovan’s Colours, a song all about my favorite time of the day—morning.

1. California Sun – Dick Dale – Unknown Territory
2. Keep on Knockin – Death – Demo
3. Politicians in My Eye – Death – Demo
4. Suburban Home – Descendents – Milo Goes To College
5. Ever Fallen In Love? – The Buzzcocks – Singles Going Steady
6. Venus – Television – Marquee Moon
7. Washington Bullets – The Clash – The Clash On Broadway
8. L.E.S. Artistes (feat. Movado) – Santogold – Top Ranking
9. Parade – Pretty Girls Make Graves – Elan Vital
10. The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance – Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
11. Watch Your Step – Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
12. If You Love Me – Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
13. Bring It On Home To Me – Sam Cooke – Greatest Hits
14. Colours – Donovan – Donovan’s Greatest Hits

Tim...

Quit creepin on my blog!

Caught on the In Between Playlist -- 12/02/08

I'm listening to an excellent Ted Hawkins album as I type this. My little bro sent this on to me today and it's great thus far. It's a crazy blend of 50's rock, honky tonk, rock 'n' roll, motown, R&B, etc. I can't really place this guy. It's great and it's an album like I've never heard before.

I think that going forward I'm going to have my show from 8-9pm and then Frank will come in for his show from 9-10pm. He's not quite ready to run his own show yet, although I'd argue his dj skills are much better than mine, he's still learning all the controls. I have fun with him in there and I get to learn a bunch of tunes from him, so I see no problem in this set up. I'll be director-slash-choreographer of his talent show.

So during my hour I set it off in the usual surf-rock style with a tune by Los Straitjackets. It was a tune that I'm sure everyone knows and loves and it's one we really only play around this time of year--Jingle Bell Rock. The past few months have been on hyper speed. I can't believe it's already December 2nd.

After that tune I jumped into a set featuring Calexico's 2nd album, The Black Light. I've been a huge Calexico fan for many years and it was the sound of this album that originally attracted me to them. I was living down in Southern California and the mix of having both the desert and Mexico close by made the sounds of Calexico sound so great to me. I'm always attracted to music that is relevant to the area in which I'm living. After reading about then somewhere, either the internet or the OC Weekly, I drove up to Spaceland in LA to check them out. The show was phenomenal and I've been a fan ever since. That first show was more their rock 'n' roll side, but if you go see them now they have tons over other instruments -- blaring mexican trumpets, slide guitar, etc, etc and it's a much more eclectic show. Over the years they've put out tons of albums since 1996, but The Black Light was their 2nd and really the one that put them on the mariachi/spaghetti western/surf/twang/50's jazz map and it's the one that has the sound that attracted me so I did a short feature on this album tonight.

After the Calexico set I played a song by Emiliana Torrini, whom I found out about by seeing her album in the studio and being "drawn" to her picture on the cover. I'm not usually that much of a pushover based on an album cover, but this is a good one. I took a chance on it and it turns out that it's great and very creative. Last week I played the title track to the album and tonight I played the song called Jungle Drum. Both are great into songs to her music.

After her, we heard Marah's Angels on a Passing Train off of their latest album, Angels of Destruction! I did a feature set on them back on 7/22, so check out that write up for more info on them. Great Boss-esque rock'n'roll from Philly.

The set was wrapped up with a Richmond, VA, guy by the name of David Shultz. The song was Apples and it's off his album Sinner's Gold.

Next we jumped into a set by Session Americana fronted by Rose Polenzani. A couple months ago my buddy JJ and I rolled down to Montpelier to check out Army of Fun's Langdon St Block Party outside of Langdon St. Cafe, which is the 2nd best coffee shop (2nd to Radio Bean, of course) in VT. Potentially, 2nd best I've been to in my life. It's a shop run by an artist collective and it's very comfortable inside, with mis-matched furniture/lights, a nice wooden bar, great coffee, great music, great art, and great beers. This summer they had the 2nd annual (I think) block party and it was totally awesome. There were a bunch of great bands playing all day outside--Prodigal String Band, Amapola, Rusty Belle, Rose Polenzanie w/ Session Americana, and a few others. I had heard of Session Americana before, but had never seen them. They were fronted that night by Rose Polenzani who is usually a solo act, but recently put out an album with them as her backing band. A live show by them consists of them sitting around a small cafe table, with beers and mics on top, and lot's of acoustic instruments ranging from guitars, banjos, mandolins, to harmonicas, small organs, and a suitcase drum kit. It's a very comforting set-up and they're damn good at the music they play. I played three tunes off of the album she recently released with them. I'd like to get one of their albums as well.

After that set we jumped into a set beginning with a song that has meant a lot to me right now called "See The World" by Gomez. The words are great and very pertinent to my life right now. Next up was a tune by a band called Two Cow Garage that I read about on No Depression magazine's new website. Song was called "Swingset Assassin" and it's a solid song with some good lyrics. Finishing up the set was a tune off of the latest Josh Ritter album called Good Man. Another fitting jam right now.

I finished my portion of the show before Frank got there with a Ted Hawkins tune called "Sorry You're Sick", which I just got today from my little brother, then an Old Crow Medicine Show tune from their new album, Tennessee Pusher, called Methamphetamine, and finally my favorite Beatles song, Don't Let Me Down, that I dedicated to Frank as he chose some songs to play.

Frank took to the controls next and played his latin jams. Thanks for listening. See you next week.

Sully
1. Los Straitjackets -- Jingle Bell Rock -- Tis' the Season For Los Straitjackets
2. Calexico -- Gypsy's Curse -- The Black Light
3. Calexico -- Frontera -- The Black Light
4. Calexico -- Stray -- The Black Light
5. Calexico -- Trigger -- The Black Light
6. Emiliana Torrini -- Jungle Drum -- Me and Armini
7. Marah -- Angels on a Passing Train -- Angels of Destruction!
8. David Shultz -- Apples -- Sinner's Gold
9. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- If I Could Hit You -- When The River Meets The Sea
10. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- You Were Drunk -- When The River Meets The Sea
11. Rose Polenzani W/ Session Americana -- The Soft Parts -- When The River Meets The Sea
12. Gomez -- See The World -- How We Operate
13. Two Cow Garage -- Swingset Assassin -- Speaking in Cursive
14. Josh Ritter -- Good Man -- The Animal Years
15. Ted Hawkins -- Sorry You're Sick -- Watch Your Step
16. Old Crow Medicine Show -- Methamphetamine -- Tennessee Pusher
17. The Beatles -- Don't Let Me Down -- Let It Be...Naked

Frank
1. La Jente Del Pais -- Cantares de Navidad
2. Luis Vargas -- El Envidioso
3. Frank Reyes -- Quien Eres Tu
4. Carlos Vives -- Fruta Tresca
5. Frankie Ruiz -- Te Estoy Estudiando
6. Kinito Mendez -- El Bocinon
7. Joe Veras -- Intentalo Tu
8. Luis Vargas -- Volvio El Dolar
9. Johnny Ventura -- Merenguero Hasta La Tambora

Caught on the In Between shows -- 11/18 - 11/25

The last two shows have been invaded by a ball of energy from the Dominican Republic, commonly referred to in the US as Frank. I help teach a weekly ESL class at Fletcher Free Library and that's how I came to know Frank. He's always the most talkative, and most flirtatious with the ladies, person in the class so he always makes the class fun. Frank moved here about 4-5 months ago and I still don't fully understand how he chose Vermont. But nevertheless he's here and he's very nervous about the upcoming winter as he's never, ever experienced a winter to the caliber of what nature provides up here. In the DR, he worked as a firefighter but also moonlighted as a journalist and sports DJ on the radio, so he was totally in his environment in the studio. All of his music is still down in the DR, so he was playing songs through YouTube on the studio PC. Not the best quality, but that didn't stop Frank. As with most Latinos, he can't sit still during a song. He was a dance machine, moving and shaking, laughing and singing all throughout the small studio. A couple times he turned up the mics and told me to clap into them to the beat. He's a force of nature.

We're in the process of setting Frank up with his own weekly show. He's hoping for a 2 hour time slot either Friday or Saturday night. It will be a great show and a great introduction into Latin music for Vermonters. The show title -- Sabor Latino (translates to "Latin Flavor").

Here are the playlists from the last two shows.

11/18 Playlist
1. Bio Ritmo -- Seguiras Criticando -- Bionico
2. Chicha Libre -- un Shipibo en Espana -- Sonido Amazonico
3. Juan Luis Guerra -- La Cosquillita
4. Frankie Ruiz -- Puerto Rico -- Los Maestros de la Salsa
5. Paul Simon -- Gumboots -- Graceland
6. Generation X -- Triumph -- Perfect Hits 1975 - 1981
7. Hector Lavoe -- Timbalero
8. Johnny Ventura -- Merengue Hasta La Tambora
9. Juan Luis Guerra -- A Pedir Su Mano
10. Nat King Cole -- Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
11. Manu Chao -- La Vacaloca -- Proxima Estacion: Esperanza
12. Julio Jaramillo -- Fatalidad

11/25 Playlist
1. Dick Dale -- Caravan -- Tribal Thunder
2. Les Sans Culottes -- Allo Allo -- Fixation Orale
3. Jay Reatard -- An Ugly Death -- Matador Singles '08
4. New Pornographers -- Electric Version -- Electric Version
5. Kings of Leon -- Velvet Snow -- Aha Shake Heartbreak
6. Little Ones -- Lovers Who Uncover -- Sing Song EP
7. The Raveonettes -- Great Love Sound -- TBA
8. Michael Franti & Spearhead -- Say Hey (I Love You) -- All Rebel Rockers
9. Paul Simon -- Kodachrome -- Concert in the Park 8/15/91
10. Beirut -- Nantes -- Black Session: Studio 104 Maison de Radio France
11. Yo La Tengo -- You can Have It All -- And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
12. TV on the Radio -- Province -- Return to Cookie Mountain
13. Life Without Buildings -- The Leanover -- Any Other City
14. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down -- Geography -- We Brave Bee Stings & All
15. Bio Ritmo -- Chuleta -- Bionico
16. Emiliana Torrini -- Me & Armini -- Me & Armini
17. Jehro -- Shantytown Carnival -- Jehro
18. Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban -- Echale Salsita -- Mambo Sinuendo
19. The Slickers -- Johnny Too Bad -- The Harder They Come
20. Felix Del Rosario -- Alegre Vengo
21. Kinito Mendez -- El Bocinon
22. El Gran Combo -- Timbalero
23. Elvis Crespo -- Suavemente
24. Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz -- Juan en la Ciudad
25. Juan Luis Guerra -- La Cosquillita

Caught on the In Between Playlist 11/11/08

In Memory of Pluto are a band from "downtown" who I first saw at the Bands of Burlington show at Metronome back in Sept and they blew me away. I felt like I was back in the '90's watching a Jade Tree Records show. And that's a great thing. They brought me back to a comfortable time of music. It was a time of great creativity and energy within that scene and IMOP have it nailed. Not that they're trying to nail that sound, it's just what they love and so it naturally comes out in their music. I've since seen them two other times and they've been equally as good and I can't recommend their live show enough. Go check them out when they play. You won't be disappointed.

And they're all cool dudes. Fellow DJ, MC Emcee (Mike Carney to Superman's Clark Kent), and I put on a benefit show to raise money for the Radiator on Mon 11/17 at Metronome and IMOP, as well as The Fatal Flaws, Cave Bees, and Nosebleed Island, all played for free so that all door loot could go to the station. That shows the kind of dudes they are. IMOP also agreed to come into the studio for tonight's show to play some tunes and answer some questions. I'd never interviewed anyone before, but once we started talking music it all came out great.

One of the things that impressed me most about these guys is how cool and modest they are. I asked them about memorable shows that they've seen or played in and they said that they've learned from every band and every show they've played and seen. They pick up something and see something new from each band and they just love to play live. It seems like IMOP are just super happy guys, having a blast doing what they're doing. Hopefully they keep it up.

While they were in the studio, we played a bunch of tunes off of their newest album, Cutting Open The Fiction, so go pick it up. It's available at Pure Pop and Advance Music. And go here to see when they're playing next.

1. Cap'n Jazz -- In the Clear -- Analphabetapolothology
2. In Memory of Pluto -- Berlin -- Cutting Open The Fiction
3. In Memory of Pluto -- A Century In The Dust -- Cutting Open The Fiction
4. In Memory of Pluto -- If They Collide -- Cutting Open The Fiction
5. In Memory of Pluto -- Cutting Open The Fiction -- Cutting Open The Fiction
6. In Memory of Pluto -- Thunder D -- Cutting Open The Fiction
7. In Memory of Pluto -- Dancy -- Cutting Open The Fiction
8. In Memory of Pluto -- From The Back Seat -- Cutting Open The Fiction

Caught on the In Between Playlist 10-28-08

Obama!

Tonight's show was a spur of the moment look at the DC punk scene in the 80's to early 90's. It's impossible to cover it all in an hour, so I just looked at the top few bands and played some of their tunes and talked about how each band came about and evolved and, in most cases, split up. Fugazi has not yet declared a break up, but all members are doing their own things and they haven't put out a Fugazi album in years. Ian is off doing The Evens with Amy Farina, which is a great live band. I caught them in Montreal a bit ago and they played Mount Pleasant so well that the crowd demanded that they play it again. It was hilarious. I've never seen that before in a live show. Joe Lally released a solo album on Dischord that is very bass and poetry heavy. Brendan is up in Portland recording bands (most notably Ted Leo's latest and The Thermals). Not sure where Guy is, but I'm sure he's doing something awesome. I imagine they'll all get back together at some point to record. At least I hope so. Here's the list.

1. Beach Bag -- Los Straitjackets -- Supersonic Guitars in 3-D
2. Stand Up -- Minor Threat -- Complete Discography
3. Supertouch -- Bad Brains -- Rock For Light
4. Right Brigade -- Bad Brains -- Rock For Light
5. I and I Survive -- Bad Brains -- Rock For Light
6. Banned In DC -- Bad Brains -- Rock For Light
7. For Want Of -- Rites of Spring -- Rites of Spring
8. All There Is -- Rites of Spring -- Rites of Spring
9. Theme -- Rites of Spring -- Rites of Spring
10. Building -- Embrace -- Embrace
11. No More Pain -- Embrace -- Embrace
12. Spoke -- Embrace -- Embrace
13. Suggestion -- Fugazi -- 13 Songs
14. KYEO -- Fugazi -- Steady Diet of Nothing
15. Give Me The Cure -- Fugazi -- 13 Songs

PS -- there is a huge Radiator Benefit show coming to Metronome on Monday 11/17. The lineup is incredible -- Cave Bees, Nose Bleed Island, The Vacant Lots, and In Memory of Pluto! $5 donation at the door ($8 for under 21) all goes to the Radiator so we can keep our doors open and the music blaring for you! So support your community radio station and see an awesome show while doing so!

Caught on the In-Between Playlist 10-21-08

It's a cold, rainy October night. This cold weather always seems to sneak up on me, even though there's nothing more guaranteed than cold weather in VT. This has been a great Fall--very sunny and great leaf-peepin' action, so I can't complain. I love this time of year, but it definitely packs a brooding feeling that another long, cold VT winter is a comin'. I'm sipping a Wolaver's Will Steven's Pumpkin Ale while I type, which is another reason I like this time of year. I'm a huge fan of seasonal beers and pumpkin ales are high on my favorites list.

Two more weeks until election day and I'm ready. It's time. It's been a long campaign season with the Democratic primary being so hotly contested. It started off incredibly interesting to me, but after a bit in an election like this, the media just starts pining for any story they can get, so it eventually gets incredibly trivial. CNN is on my last nerve. I'm ready to vote and move on. I'll happily and contentedly cast my vote for Barrack. I have full faith that he can do great things for this country and our image throughout the world. We need it badly right now.

Not sure how I jumped into politics from the weather.

This beer sure is good. So is the Gram Parsons I'm listening to right now. He's singing the song She through my speakers and it's great. He was one of a kind. There are a handful of artists that have touched my life in so many ways and he's one of them. The Clash, Manu Chao, Fugazi, Calexico, and Ryan Adams are a few more. I've finally given Paul Simon a good listen over the past year and he's jumping into that crew as well. Steve Earle too. They are artists that, to me, can do no wrong.

So, tonight's show was a block party. I played (besides two songs) 4 blocks of music consisting of songs by Catfish Haven, Dr. Dog, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Soft Boys. I started the show off with a Challengers tune called K-39 off of an album of the same name and ended the show with a Heartless Bastards song All The Time also by an album of the same name.

K-39, I believe, is a song referring to a surf spot in baja Mexico. K-38's (38th kilometer into Mexico from California) is a very famous surf spot and a place where I camped with my brother, Jason, and some of his friends about 6 years ago. So, since it's a surf rock song by a Malibu band, I'm guessing that it has something to do with this surf spot.

First set of rock was by Catfish Haven and I can't say enough about how solid of a show these guys put on. The lead singer plays through an acoustic guitar cranked all the way up, belting a soulful howl over the top, and is backed up by an incredibly tight bass and drum duo. They currently reside in Chicago, but originally hail from Missouri where there is a trailer park from which the band acquired their name. I saw these guys up in Montreal a few years back when they opened for The Black Angels and they put on a solid rocking show. When I listen to their songs I picture them playing in a church basement, much like the vinyl tile floored one's that held wedding receptions and other such gatherings that I attended in my Iowa days. They have sound/feeling of small town rockabilly, but not as over the top or categorical as other declared rockabilly bands may have. They have that same small town community rock ‘n’ roll feeling in their music, but their music and style is entirely their own. They're great and you should check them out. The website www.daytrotter.com has two great live sets by them that were recorded in the Futureappletree Studios One in Rock Island, Ill.

Stiff Little Fingers took over the next set. The first time I heard these guys, I was working in the warehouse shipping skate shoes for Sole Technology and their album Inflamable Material was our go-to album whenever we got busy. It always got us pumped up and feeling good. It's a solid album start to finish and the perfect intro to this great band from Bellfast, Ireland. It's an album full of working man's rock/punk--great song writing and in-your-face distorted guitar, drums, and bass. Alternative Ulster, from Inflamable Material is probably their most known tune (that and probably Suspect Device which was covered excellently by Ted Leo on his iTunes only Sharkbite Sessions) and it was written at the request of a local fanzine in '78 of the same name so they could include it as a flexi-disc with their publication. I played tunes that spanned their albums from '78 - '81. They broke up in '83 after their Now Then album, but reunited in '88 to do some more touring. I believe they're still playing to this day.

Dr. Dog pushed their way into the next set. I can't get enough of these guys since their 10/6 show at Higher Ground. They were so good live. See them if they come to a spot near you. This is a band in which you can't just rely on their recordings b/c, as good as they are to me now, they didn't mean crap to me before I saw them live. I couldn't get into them at all, but once I saw them live, my interest in them took a drastic 180.

Last block of the night was the Robyn Hitchcock fronted Soft Boys from Cambridge, England. Hitchcock is one of those artists whose name I kept seeing repeatedly in all of the websites, record labels, and publications that I frequent and knew that I'd get into him at some point in my life. I'm still slowly finding my way into the Hitchcock world and The Soft Boys album Underwater Moonlight has helped speed this process. It's a great album of creative rock tunes that displays Hitchcock's song writing ability. I'm still learning about this band/guy, so I'm going to leave it at that.

Here's the playlist for tonight's show. Thanks for listening and reading. I'll also throw in a VT Fall picture for you non-Fall getters that are living to the south of me.

1. The Challengers -- K-39 -- K-39
2. Crazy For Leaving -- Catfish Haven -- Tell Me
3. Please Come Back -- Catfish Haven -- Daytrotter Sessions
4. Madelin -- Catfish Haven -- Please Come Back
5. Grey Skies -- Catfish Haven -- Tell Me
5. Barbed Wire Love -- Stiff Little Fingers -- Inflamable Material
6. Back To Front -- Stiff Little Fingers -- Back to Front Single with Mr. Fire Coal-Man on the b-side
7. Nobody's Hero -- Stiff Little Fingers -- Nobody's Hero
8. Go For It -- Stiff Little Fingers -- Go For It
9. Alternative Ulster -- Stiff Little Fingers -- Inflamable Material
10. The Ark -- Dr. Dog -- Fate
11. From -- Dr. Dog -- Fate
12. The Queen of Eyes -- The Soft Boys -- Underwater Moonlight
13. Underwater Moonlight -- The Soft Boys -- Underwater Moonlight
14. Positive Vibrations -- The Soft Boys -- Underwater Moonlight
15. All This Time -- Heartless Bastards -- All This Time

Caught on the In-Between Playlist 10-07-08

Back in action. My reason for the delay is that I was in California for the past week. That's also why I wasn't on the air this week. Hopefully you were able to survive without me, whoever you are. I was out in CA for Tony "Cap'n Caveman" Durbano's holy matrimonial joining of two hearts and also to work out of my company's Irvine office. It was great being back out there with all of my friends and all of the incredible Mexican food. I'm not sure which I miss more. So here's the breakdown of the show on 10/7.

I started it off with a little Los Straitjackets playing their song Isn't Love Grand off of their Supersonic Guitars in 3D album. It's a great album of what you come to expect from this excellent/unique band--instrumental surf rock. This album is a bit more tame than they can be, but very melodic nonetheless.

On Monday 10/6, my neighbor Josh and I rode bikes up to Higher Ground to catch the Charlie Louvin/Old 97's show. It was my first time seeing both and both impressed. Charlie began his career sharing a mic with his brother Ira as the Louvin Brothers, a harmonizing duo in the '40s and 50's. Ira died in a car accident in the mid-60's, so Charlie was forced to go on alone. He released an album in 2007 that included some contemporary artists like Jeff Tweedy, Elvis Costello, and others. He's an old fella--clocking in at 81 years old--so he had a bit of trouble hitting all notes, but his between song banter was hilarious.

Old 97's hit the stage next and were great as expected. Singer Rhett Miller played the first half through an acoustic guitar (backed up by the band) so it wasn't as loud as I wanted it to be, but once he plugged in his tele, that all changed. It was the loud, rocking, surf country Old 97's that I like best.

Their show ended by about 10ish, so as Josh and I were leaving, we noticed that Dr. Dog was just taking the stage in the Showcase Lounge next door. Josh is a huge fan and I've heard good reviews from friends, but never really got into them, so we talked our way into the show. What I saw on stage absolutely floored me. Perhaps it was the Switchback brews, but I don't think so b/c I've never seen anything like that before. They were so good, so passionate, so powerful, so creative, etc, etc, etc. They completely and utterly rocked my socks off.

Since that show, I've found a new respect for their recordings, so I played a set of tunes off of their We All Belong album -- The Girl, Old News, and Ain't It Strange.

Next up I jumped into a set of tunes by a couple of British Invasion bands--The Yardbirds doing I Ain't Got You and The Animals playing their way through their Blue Feeling. Last song of this set was a Levon Helm song off of his latest album, Dirt Farmer, called I Got Me A Woman. This song is about his "good woman" who shaves his beard and keeps his tractor clean and burns his bread and makes him eat collard green. Sounds like a great gal.

The next set featured some Murry Hammond songs off of his recently released solo album I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm Leaving. Murry plays bass and sometimes sings for the Old 97's and this is his first solo album. It's a very quiet, soothing, humble album of him singing over an acoustic guitar with a few other string instruments sparsely thrown in. This was the perfect album to listen to as I relaxed on my flight out West last week. Murry is a kind-hearted soul and 100% of the proceeds from sales of this album will be donated to Project Mercy (www.ProjectMercy.net) which is similar in mission to Habitat For Humanity. They build houses in a section of neighborhood east of Tijuana called Colonias for many people who will get running water for the first time. With every 234 albums he sells, a new house is built, so pony up and go buy the album. Songs I played were Lost At Sea, Wreck Of The 97, and Next Time Take The Train.

To show another side of Hammond, I next played a couple by the Old 97's--The One off of their latest album Blame It On Gravity and Doreen off of Wreck Your Life (although I played the better version in my opinion, which came from their greatest hits album Hit By A Train). The One is a song about the band and robbing banks in California and taking their time escaping via Highway One.

Cash on the Barrelhead is an old song by the Louvin Brothers that has been covered many times by other artists (most notably Gram Parsons) and is about a young man being shown the world of no free lunches. It's all about paying up front. The Old 97's did a bit of their own version of the song, but called it Crash On The Barrelhead on their album Fight Songs. Rumor has it, the song is about Ryan Adams in his Whiskeytown days and how his hard partying ways will be the end of him. It speaks of a great artist who could meet his maker much too soon. To show the similarities of the tunes, I first played the Louvin Brothers tune and then the Old 97's. And to give equal airtime to the supposed subject of the tune, I played a Ryan Adams tune off of Cold Roses called If I Am A Stranger. A lot of people give Adams beef, but I'm a huge fan of his and eagerly receive any of his many releases.

I wrapped up the show with a little Dwight Yoakam off of his Dwight's Used Records album with the song I Said (Paradise Reprise). This is a take on the John Prine song called Paradise. Back in my college days, I worked one summer at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel as a bell hop and had the honor of helping Dwight Yoakam with his bags. He wasn't very friendly, but his manager gave me $20 which is a huge sum when you're in college. That job also provided me with the opportunity to look through Demi Moore's bag and put my arms around Boy George, but those are stories better left for another time.

1. Los Straitjackets -- Isn't Love Grand -- Supersonic Guitars in 3D
2. Dr. Dog -- The Girl -- We All Belong
3. Dr. Dog -- Old News -- We All Belong
4. Dr. Dog -- Ain't It Strange -- We All Belong
5. The Yardbirds -- I Ain't Got You -- Greatest Hits 1964-1966
6. The Animals -- Blue Feeling -- The Story of the Animals
7. Levon Helm -- Got Me A Woman -- Dirt Farmer
8. Murry Hammond -- Lost At Sea -- I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm Leaving
9. Murry Hammond -- Wreck Of The 97 -- I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm Leaving
10. Murry Hammond -- Next Time Take The Train -- I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm Leaving
11. Old 97's -- The One -- Blame It On Gravity
12. Old 97's -- Doreen -- Hit By A Train
13. The Louvin Brothers -- Cash on the Barrelhead -- Close Harmony
14. Old 97's -- Crash on the Barrelhead -- Fight Songs
15. Ryan Adams and The Cardinals -- If I Am A Stranger -- Cold Roses
16. Dwight Yoakam -- I Said (Paradise Reprise) -- Dwight's Used Records

Caught on the In Between Playlist 09-30-08

Got in some good tunes tonight--I wanted to play a faster set.

1. Furr -- Blitzen Trapper -- Furr
--great band with a solid album here. Horrible logo though.

2. If She Wants Me -- Belle & Sebastian -- Dear Catastrophe Waitress
--B&S is an institution. Check them out if you have never heard them. They've been around for years and this album is my favorite of theirs

3. Southern California -- Brian Wilson -- That Lucky Old Sun
--Wasn't even aware that this CD was out, but I found it in the studio. I took a chance on this song based on the lyrics I read in the album booklet. It was a slow one, but it's about Wilson's time with the Beach Boys.

4. Pipeline -- The Chantays
--My mom says she used to dance "The Swim" to this tune.

5. The Train Kept A-Rollin -- The Yardbirds
--Page, Clapton, and Beck all were in the Yardbirds at one time.

6. River Deep, Mountain High -- The Animals -- The Story of the Animals
--Singer Eric Burden has some pipes.

7. I Like It Like That -- Them -- The Story of Them
--Van "the man" Morrison led group from Northern Ireland in the '60's.

8. The Magnificent Seven -- The Clash -- Sandinista
--In 1980 when hip hop was still pretty underground, The Clash traveled to NY and laid witness to Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five and tried their hand at creating a hip hop song. This song shows how great and well-rounded the Clash were. They could and did play any kind of music.

9. I Know What I Know -- Paul Simon -- Graceland
--This is such a great and solid album start to finish.

10. Sound System -- Operation Ivy -- Energy
--Bay area ska-core band that was only around for two years, but made an incredible impact on punk and ska music.

11. Salvation -- The Cranberries -- To The Faithful Departed
--I went through a huge Cranberries phase in High School and actually saw them live at some place in VA. I think it was either the Abyss or the Boathouse.

12. Safe -- Dag Nasty -- Can I Say + Wig Out At Denko's
--DC punk band from the mid-80's.

13. Past Lives -- Hot Snakes -- Automatic Midnight
--Jon Reis at it again with his unique raw punk rock.

14. Carl Perkins Cadillac -- Drive-By Truckers -- The Dirty South
--Song about Sam Phillips of Sun Records and his promise to buy a Cadillac to the first of his artists to score a gold record. Carl Perkins beat out Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis to get himself a Cadillac.

15. Buick City Complex -- Old 97's -- Satellite Rides
--Texas country/surf/rock group that is playing at Higher Ground tomorrow night 10/5/08 and I can't wait.

16. Wreck My Car -- Scott H. Biram -- The Dirty Old One Man Band
--Bloodshot Records singer/guitarist/foot stomper/madman

17. Gold For Bread -- Blitzen Trapper -- Furr
--Another great one from the NW Trappers

18. Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead -- Ted Leo & The Pharmacists -- Hearts of Oak
--Unique, creative singer/guitarist that was originally in Chisel and then went his own way and started the Pharmacists which started out as an experimental act that played some dub, rock, reggae, punk, etc. The band included Amy Farina who went on to form The Evens with Ian Mackaye and James Canty, younger brother of Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty.

19. Summer People -- The Webb Brothers -- Maroon
--3 brothers and another guy playing pop rock.

Caught on the In Between Playlist 09-23-08

So I broke my first FCC law tonight. About midway through the show, I jumped into Ron Wood's Act Together (a great song that was covered by Band of Horses when they played Higher Ground a couple years back). A minute and a half into the song, during the first chorus, he sings the word "shit" and it totally caught me off guard b/c I forgot that he said that, otherwise I wouldn't have played the tune. The Radiator may be a small, low-frequency commercial free station, but we still have to follow The Man's laws. Can't ever escape that man, can we? That guy's reach stretches far and wide.

So after the "shit" went down, so to speak, I slowly faded the song out and read the disclaimer, which basically frees the station of any responsibility, and jumped right into the Whiskeytown tune Turn Around. I was a bit flustered by the "shit", as it threw me off course a bit in my show, however I was ready to get it back on track. Well, even though I was on track, the cd was off track and started skipping on that song. Awesome. Flustered further, I stopped that song and crossed my fingers and jumped into some 2 Live Crew. Just kidding. I put on a little Husker Du ditty called Never Talking To You Again and got the show rolling again.

Later on in the show, I played my favorite three songs of the night. It was a local set that included the three all-stars of the Burlington scene in my opinion--Lowell Thompson, Kelly Ravin, and Paddy Reagan. I've been really immersed in some local tunes lately through the Radiator, the Bands of Burlington show, Art Hop shows (Blowtorch specifically), and some Monkey House shows.

The first song was Kelly Ravin's Those Days and I can't write enough about this song. I downloaded it from his myspace page, so check it out. I don't know much about him, but downloaded a live set by him, Paddy Reagan, and Lowell at the Monkey House from this website http://www.vermontlivemusic.com/Paddy%20Reagan,%20Lowell%20Thompson%20and%20Kelly%20Ravin/2008-05-13%20-%20Monkey%20House/MP3%20Format/
and it's such a great, full set of awesome tunes by these guys. Check it out and download it. Kelly's song in this set stood out immediately--especially the "drive fast cars" lyric about a 2 minutes in. Check it out.
The next to stand out is the next song I played and is Fortunate to Sing by Paddy Reagan. Paddy is the booking guy at The Monkey House and is responsible for turning that place around and making it the best hang out in the area by far. They have great beer, awesome music, and always a cool crowd. The shows they've been pulling lately (thanks to Paddy) have really filled a void in the area for me. The bands aren't limited to the usual singer songwriter--although there's nothing wrong with that--but they branch out to punk bands, rock bands, electro-trash bands, salsa night, etc. They also hold a lot of the Tick Tick promoted events which are always guaranteed to be awesome. And best of all, it's only about 5 stumbling blocks from my house. So back to Paddy's song, it makes some great VT references and is a solidly crafted tune with a good vocal melody over the top.

I finished off the local trio with my guy Lowell Thompson's tune called You. He finger picks his way through this slower ballad of a song and impresses me, as always, with his song writing ability. I'm surprised that he is not bigger than he is, but am kind of happy he's not, in a very selfish way b/c I like being able to see him in smaller environments. His set at the Bands of Burlington event at Nectar's/Metronome last Thursday was the first time I'd seen him play with a full band since the very first time I saw him a couple years ago and it was an incredible set of rocking tunes ala The Stones, Kings of Leon, rockin' Boss, etc.

There were a bunch more tunes that I threw into the show tonight that I love and next week I think I'm going to speed it up a bit and get some more hard rocking going on, so tune in.

1. Tombstone -- Barbacoa -- Barbacoa
2. Self-Destructive Zones -- Drive By Truckers -- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. 7 Months, 39 Days -- Hank Williams III -- Lovesick, Broke, & Driftin'
4. Stop the World -- Dwight Yoakam -- Dwight's Used Records
5. Standin' -- Vetiver -- Thing of the Past
6. Turn Around -- Whiskeytown -- Stranger's Almanac
7. Never Talking to You Again -- Husker Du -- Zen Arcade
8. Those Days -- Kelly Raven
9. Fortunate to Sing -- Paddy Reagan, Lowell Thompson, & Kelly Raven -- 5/13/08 Monkey House Winooski, VT
10. You -- Lowell Thompson w/ Lowell Thompson & Kelly Raven -- 5/13/08 Monkey House Winooski, VT
11. I Must Be In a Good Place Now -- Vetiver -- Thing of the Past
12. Bury Your Burden -- Oakley Hall -- Gypsum Strings
13. I Was A Stranger -- Smog -- Red Apple Falls
14. Swimming Song -- Loudon Wainwright III

Caught on the In Between Playlist 09-16-08

Tonight's show was a feature on the website www.daytrotter.com. It's a website that plays live tracks recorded in the mid-western studio Futureappletree Studio One in downtown Rock Island, Ill. Rock Island is one of the 5 (ironically) Quad Cities -- Illinois cities Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline and Iowa Cities Davenport (my birthplace) and Bettendorf (where I lived the first 7 years of my life). I check the site often and have gotten some great tracks from it.

Starting off the show was Surf Jam by The Beach Boys off of Surfin' USA and then we jumped into the Daytrotter tracks --

1. Surf Jam -- The Beach Boys -- Surfin' USA
2. Another Late Night -- Catfish Haven -- Daytrotter
3. White Winter Hymnal -- Fleet Foxes -- Daytrotter
4. Are You As Excited About Me As I Am -- Jeff Daniels -- Daytrotter
5. Restless -- Langhorne Slim -- Daytrotter
6. Marlboro Man -- The Felice Brothers -- Daytrotter
7. Furr -- Blitzen Trapper -- Daytrotter
8. Biscuits -- Justin Townes Earle -- Daytrotter
9. Dry -- William Elliott Whitmore -- Daytrotter
10. Flume -- Bon Iver -- Daytrotter
11. Alive Among Thieves -- Oakley Hall -- Daytrotter
12. Priest, Poet, and The Pig -- Vietnam -- Daytrotter
13. You Ain't Going Nowhere -- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson -- Daytrotter
14. Goodbye Dear Old Stepstone -- Bonnie "Prince" Billy -- Daytrotter

My favorite song out of all of them is the Jeff Daniels tune. Go download it right now. I was shocked at how good it is and it wasn't what I was expecting it to be at all. Yeah, that's Harry Dunne. Mock, Yeah, Ing, Yeah.

Another great one is the Catfish Haven song Another Late Night. It's a rocker that sounds like it's played at some big town hall and people are dancing up a storm to it. The other songs they've recorded for Daytrotter are great as well, specifially Please Come Back.

William Elliott Whitmore has a voice like a weary, travelled 75 year old man. And plays the banjo like one too. It's front porch music.

The Felice Brothers are complete and unique and can't be lumped into indie rockers trying to play old timey. They're creative and have great voices and control of their instruments. Their set at the Newport Folk Festival, although I only caught the last couple minutes of it, was amazing--the power had gone out, so they jumped down into the crowd with their instruments and voices and had everyone clapping, dancing, and singing. It was one of those shows where the audience would barely let the band leave the stage at the end.

Langhorne Slim is hit and miss in my opinion. This tune is a strong hit. I saw him live at Higher Ground and the show was also hit and miss. He's got his way of playing and singing, but sometimes the songs tend to blend together.

Oakley Hall is a great band out of Brooklyn. Their album Gypsum Strings is a good place to start if you're looking to check them out. The Daytrotter songs is an even better place.

So hopefully that's a good guide to www.daytrotter.com. It's a great blog to support as it's not your run of the mill blog...just talking about music...er...wait...

Caught on the In Between Playlist -- 09/09/08

Tonight's show is dedicated to my brother Brad b/c today is his birthday. Happy birthday, Brad!

We started off the show with the local boys Barbacoa and a tune called Stratosphere. Bill Mullins is in another band these days--Blowtorch--and I had the pleasure of catching them last Friday at the Art Hop behind Speaking Volumes. They put on a great show and I see them as a mix between Robyn Hitchcock, Bad Religion, and The Descendents. I liked the feel of that tune, so I played another similar styled tune by The Untamed Youth called I'm Going Away.

Next up we jumped into a block of David Byrne tunes. Setting it off was Strange Overtones off of his new collaboration album with Brian Eno called Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Following that was a live version of Psycho Killer off of their live album Stop Making Sense that is from the DVD of the same name. Rounding out the set was a tune off of his album on which he jumped with both pies into Latin music called Make Believe Mambo. The album is called Rei Momo and features Byrne's take of various Latin music styles such as merengue, Cumbia, Rhumba, Bolero, Cha Cha Cha, etc. It's a great, diverse album.

Last week I was down in VA for a family reunion and my dad's cousin Carolyn Matousek was there. I always knew that she and her husband used to play music together, but over the 3-4 days that I was down there, I found out just how big of an act they were. Her husband, Danny Matousek, started a band called The Flairs in 1958 when he was still in high school in Sioux City, Iowa. Eventually they became The Screamers and finally The Velaires. In 1961, their cover of Chuck Berry's tune Roll Over Beethoven was a top ten hit nationally and went to #1 in Los Angeles according to Billboard. They toured for the next several years and became the only band out of Iowa to be on American Bandstand. Eventually Danny and Carolyn became a duo and started incorporating country music into their tunes and moved to Nashville to do some recording and performing. In 1997 they were inducted into the Iowa Rock N Roll Hall of Fame and in 1998, after Danny passed away due to a heart ailment, the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame began giving out the Danny Matousek Lifetime Achievement Award each year to "those persons that have displayed, during their lifetime the same dedication, the same spirit, the same professionalism, and made a lasting contribution to Iowa Rock and Roll music as did Danny Matousek."

The first Danny and The Velaires tune that we played was a B Side called Shaggy Dog that is actually featured, albeit sneakily, in the movie Pineapple Express. After that we heard "What Am I Living For" which really showcases how great of a singer Danny was.

We next rolled into the tune Broken Heart off of Deke Dickerson's The Melody album, which is a concept album on which Deke did his best to construct tunes with great melodies and hooks that never leave you throughout the day. Following that was Elvis doing Don't Be Cruel off of the new Platinum: A Life In Music box set, which features a ton of unreleased versions of Elvis tunes. Finishing out the set was Peer Pressure by my buddies Tan Analog.

One of my favorite bands of all time is The Clash. Their openness to different genres of music is what most pulls me toward them. When most punk rockers were being narrow minded and sticking to their same punk style, The Clash ventured into all kinds of different music from ska to reggae to R&B to funk and to even early hip hop with The Magnificent Seven. More bands need to take a cue from them and open up a bit. We played the songs Revolution Rock and Rudie Can't Fail off of London Calling and Bankrobber which was not on an official studio release, but ultimately came out on Black Market Clash.

Calexico's new album Carried To Dust was released today, so in honor of them I played one of their new tracks called The News About William. I'm happy to hear that tune heading more towards their Southwest style as opposed to their middle of the road last album Garden Ruin. Hopefully the rest of the album sounds the same b/c I liked this song. Next up we jumped into some instrumental tunes -- Beans For Breakfast by Blktop Project which features the three skate legends Ray Barbee, Tommy Guerrero, and Matt Rodriguez, then Ciudad Del Swing by the Colombia based DJ Quantic and finally a tune off of Tommy Guerrero's album A Little Bit of Somethin' called 100 Years. Thanks for listening and I'll see you next week.

1. Stratosphere -- Barbacoa -- Barbacoa
2. I'm Going Away -- Untamed Youth -- Untamed Melodies
3. Strange Overtones -- David Byrne and Brian Eno -- Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
4. Psycho Killer -- Talking Heads -- Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition
5. Make Believe Mambo -- David Byrne -- Rei Momo
6. Shaggy Dog -- Danny and The Velaires
7. What Am I Living For -- Danny and The Velaires
8. Broken Heart -- Deke Dickerson -- The Melody
9. Don't Be Cruel -- Elvis Presley -- Platinum: A Life in Music (disc 1)
10. What Peer Pressure -- Tan Analog
11. Revolution Rock -- The Clash -- London Calling
12. Rudie Can't Fail -- The Clash -- London Calling
13. Bankrobber -- The Clash -- Black Market Clash
14. The News About William -- Calexico -- Carried To Dust
15. Beans For Breakfast -- Blktop Project -- Blktop Project
16. Ciudad Del Swing -- Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno -- Ciudad Del Swing
17. 100 Years -- Tommy Guerrero -- A Little Bit of Somethin'

Great live show -- Bands of Burlington show 9/18 at Nectars/Metronome

Check out this great show on Thurs 9/18 at Metronome/Nectar's. The admission benefits our beloved Radiator, so make sure you go to the show! Not that you need an excuse b/c the lineup is incredible -- Swale, Husbands, Lowell Thompson!, etc.

Make sure to check it out!

http://whatsgood.7dvt.com/2008/08/local-music-101.html#more

Caught on the In Between Playlist -- 08/26/08

I am super proud of this show, but bummed that it wasn't broadcast over the net. The server was screwed up again for some reason (i.e. someone probably spilled tie-dye paint on it), so the show could only be heard over the radio.

I started off with another stellar Dick Dale tune called Fish Taco. While out in CA a couple weeks ago, I got super inspired by their History of CA Surfing exhibit in the OC Airport and it had a cool section on Dick Dale. Such a great guitarist and musician.

Next up was Catfish Haven -- a Missouri band named after the trailer park that the singer hails from. The song is off of their new, as of yet unreleased, album Devastator and is called Are You Ready. It's an excellent hype song to get the show rolling right. They're a trio and they play loud, tight, soulful, bluesy rock with the singer plugging in an acoustic and turning it up to 10. He's got a great voice.

We kept the vibe going with M. Ward's To Go Home next and then jumped right into a song by the legendary Talking Heads called Tentative Decisions. I'm going to play a trio of David Byrne songs on my next show this Tuesday, so check it out. His musical career over the past 30 years is incredibly inspiring and ever changing. From Talking Heads to his solo stuff to his work with Brian Eno to the bands he chooses to put on his label Luka Bop, he's a very well-rounded musician and the kind of genre jumping musician that I love.

The next set started off with a tune from the mix-tape Top Ranking released by Diplo and Santogold called Guns of Brooklyn. The music is a lift from The Clash's Guns of Brixton (specifically Paul Simonon's bassline) and I think her voice sounds great over top of it. This song is so unique to The Clash and to Simonon in particular that it's hard to cover, but this version is great. Next up was Nacimiento by Cordero, which is a band that was started back in '99 and featured members from Calexico and Giant Sand. I'm a huge Calexico fan but not really a fan of Howie Gelb's work in Giant Sand b/c I feel it's too incomplete and his voice is more of a whisper or spoken word style than actually good singing. Cordero is fronted by Ani Cordero and has moved on from the Calexio/GS backing band to form a full band unique to Cordero and they have a new one that just came out on the excellent Bloodshot Records.

We moved on next to Life Goes Down Low by the Lijado Sisters off of the Soul Borders album and then to Tamacun by Rodrigo y Gabriella. They are a guitar destroying duo originating from Mexico but relocating to Ireland. They started off playing hard metal music, but have moved to playing guitar instrumentals in the style of flamenco. He plays the melody and she's responsible for the beat which is where the flamenco styling comes from. They haven't fully left their metal roots as they do a cover of Metallica's Orion on this album.

Shantytown Carnival by Jehro was next and is from his self-titled album. He comes from France, but most of this album is either in English or Espanol and is a very relaxing album perfect for sunny Sunday afternoons. We next moved on to the Burlington collective Guagua and their song Newest Son off of Psychotropical. The very first time I heard Guagua was 3-4 years ago when I was driving by Radio Bean on a sunny Tuesday evening. I was completely caught off guard by the sounds that were hitting me as they sound like they're straight out of South America rather than Vermont. But that's Vermont for you--always catching you off guard.

Next up I played a tune by my great friends Noel Paris, Brooke Pedersen, and Jeff Trainor from Tan Analog. I met them all when I was out in CA working for Sole Tech years ago and wish I still lived close to them to see them play. I tried to get to one of their shows when I was out there the other week, but it was sold out. I fondly remember seeing Noel playing at the Kitsch Bar and also out with The Scrimmage Heroes. The song I played was Kitten Attack.

I played a couple covers next -- Iggy Pop's Lust For Life covered by Yo La Tengo and then The Smith's What Difference Does It Make covered by Bobby Bare Jr. Ending the show was a tune by Richard Buckner called Town and then finally Sparkle and Shine by Steve Earle. This was the song that hey played to introduce his wife to the stage at the Newport Folk Fest and it absolutely captivated the audience, me included.

Thanks for listening. Tune in Tuesday at 9pm.

1. Fish Taco -- Dick Dale -- Unknown Territory
2. Are You Ready -- Catfish Haven -- Devastator
3. To Go Home -- M. Ward -- Post-War
4. Tentative Decisions -- Talking Heads -- Once In A Lifetime
5. Guns of Brooklyn -- Santogold and Diplo -- Top Ranking
6. Nacimiento -- Cordero -- Somos Cordero
7. Life Goes Down Low -- Soul Boulders -- Soul Boulders
8. Tamacun -- Rodrigo y Gabriella -- Rodrigo y Gabriella
9. Shantytown Carnival -- Jehro -- Jehro
10. Newest Son -- Guagua -- Psychotropical
11. Kitten Attack -- Tan Analog -- Pre Fabric
12. Lust For Life -- Yo La Tengo --
13. What Difference Does It Make? -- Bobby Bare Jr. -- Young Criminal's Starvation League
14. Town -- Richard Buckner -- Meadow
15. Sparkle and Shine -- Steve Earle -- Washington Square Serenade

Caught on the In Between playlist - 08-12-08

This post is super late. I was out in CA all last week and never found time to post on the 8/12 show. Since I was out there last Tuesday, I wasn't on the air last week so if you tuned in at my usual time and didn't like what you heard, don't fret.

The 8/12 show was pretty crazy. I usually go between iPod and CD during my show so as to avoid dead air, but the CD that I prepared wasn't playing in the CD drive for some reason. And it threw me for a loop.

Here is the playlist:

1. Tube City -- The Trashmen -- Rufe's Surfrock Extravaganza
2. Psycho -- The Sonics -- Here Are The Sonics!!
3. Sweet Thing -- Van Morrison -- Astral Weeks
4. Frankie's Gun! -- The Felice Brothers -- The Felice Brothers
5. Chip 'N' Tony -- Alejandro Escovedo -- Real Animal
6. Timebomb -- Old 97's -- Too Far To Care
7. Window -- Doug Martsch -- Now You Know
8. If You Need A Reason -- Mason Jennings -- Boneclouds
9. Highway Song -- Nancy Sinatra -- Country, My Way
10. Yeah Saphire -- The Hold Steady -- Stay Positive
11. Epic Problem -- Fugazi-- The Argument
12. Spring -- Rites Of Spring -- End On End
13. Dance Of Days -- Embrace -- Embrace
14. Purpleface -- Hose Got Cable -- Discography
15. The First Vietnamese War -- The Black Angels -- Passover

Tune in tomorrow at 9pm EST on 105.9 FM or http://www.theradiator.org/

Caught on the In Between playlist - 08-05-08

So the below post says I wasn't going in tonight. And I wasn't planning to. But after I called Higher Ground and found out that Gogol Bordello was going on at 10pm instead of 9pm, I decided to cruise up to the station and get on the air for at least 40 mins. I wasn't prepared with a plan of tunes to play or anything and just wanted to wing it to see what happened. The show turned out to be so much fun and I got so many great calls and requests that I ended up going the full hour.

I started the show off uncharacteristically with a non-surf rock tune by No Age called Teen Creeps. They're getting a ton of attention in mags and blogs, but I'm not completely into them yet and I'm not convinced that I ever will be. However, I'm always up to play these types of bands to see if they end up sparking something in me. I grabbed their disc Nouns off of the station's music shelf and tossed on song 3. Its noise rock and it was alright, but I feel that it was the hole in tonight's playlist.

Next up I jumped into Boss Hoss by The Sonics. I was down at the Newport Folk Festival with my friends Matt and Maggie Rufe this past weekend and had an incredible time. They came bearing the single best gift I've ever received in my life--see the picture below. I'm truly blessed to have friends like them in my life. Actions like that make the world better. Pay it forward. So back to the song--Matt had sent me some Sonics tunes awhile ago and I had given them some spins, but not my complete attention. On Sunday morning we were driving from our campsite to the Folk Fest and he played this song and I immediately loved it and planned on playing it on my next show. The Sonics are a garage rock band from the mid-1960’s that played raw, rock tunes and sang about the teen culture in the ‘60’s (this song specifically is specifically about hot rods and muscle cars).

Christmas in Washington by Steve Earle was the next tune up. I saw him for the first time this weekend at the Folk Fest and he completely captivated me and the entire audience. It was one of those pin-dropping silent shows. This was the song with which he started his set. It was a great start to an incredible set. Another notable song (among many) in his set was Sparkle and Shine which I'll probably play next week.

After Earle, I made an unsuccessful attempt at playing an unknown band--Balkan Beat Box. B/c I was going to the Gogol Bordello show, I wanted to try to get that kind of vibe rolling. He's mentioned Balkan music as one of his many influences, but I think I chose the wrong song off of this album. Of course, being the Mexican fanatic I am, I chose the song called Mexico City. It wasn't quite what I expected--it had a good beat coming in, but then it sounded like G Love took over. No offense to G Love, but he's just not what I'm looking for in music. So I quickly phased out that tune and brought in the real heroes of the night, Gogol Bordello, with their song Oh No. It's a great song about how music can pull people out of their times of trouble and get them dancing and celebrating. It doesn't take dough to have a good time--just good music and good friends ready to enjoy the music to its fullest.

Next up we rolled into Mala Vida by Mano Negra. This is the band that really started to get Manu Chao notoriety. They were a French band in the '80's playing a mash-up of a ton of different styles of music from punk, ska, reggae, R&B, and pop that they called Patchanka. However, this tune originally came from his first band The Hot Pants, but was changed up a bit and released with Mano Negra.

Acorda Que Eu Quero Ver by Brazilian Beat Brooklyn came next. I don't know much about this album beyond the fact that this was a compilation put together by a couple NY djs and is more or less a bunch of '70's original Baile Funk tunes. It's a great album to throw on to spice up any get together or road trip and get people feeling good and dancing.

The DeVotchka tune Queen of the Surface Streets followed and this is the tune that stood out the most to me when I saw them a few years back at Higher Ground. Nick Urata's phenomenal voice singing the chorus to this song is something to see live at any chance you get. This song stayed with me ever since the show even though I never had a version of it on my iPod, but finally I picked up a copy of their album Una Volta. I believe this song is also on the soundtrack to Little Miss Sunshine too, as are a bunch of DeVotchka tunes.

It was during the DeVotchka tune that I got the best phone call of the night. My very first friend, Spencer Zimmerman, called in to say he, his wife, and his parents were listening to the show in Bettendorf, IA. I was blown away and so completely elated to hear from him. It totally made my night. He requested that I play a Tom Waits tune. I have some Tom Waits tunes, but I've never fully jumped into the Tom Waits boat. Not that I have anything against Tom Waits--I've always highly respected his music (his acting skills in Down By Law leave something to be desired)--I just haven't yet reached that time in my life that I know I will reach where I fully understand him and am fully into his music. I was looking for the song Long Walk Home, but couldn't find it on the spot so instead took a gamble and played 2:19. It turned out pretty good.

During the Tom Waits tune, I got a text from my brother Brad with a great request--Bhindi Bhagee by Joe Strummer & The (incredible and incredibly missed) Mescaleros. It was a perfect request and a perfect fit for the show. Joe Strummer embodies the type of genre-crossing musician with which I'm fascinated and it's tragic that he passed on so young. He made such an impact on so many people (take the lyric from the song Constructive Summer off of the latest Hold Steady album "Raise a toast St. Joe Strummer / I think he might have been our only decent teacher") and it's difficult to think about how much impact he could still be having. The Mescaleros were a nearly perfect band in my opinion and I need to figure out what happened to those guys when Joe passed on.

Despues de the Mescaleros tune, we kept the dancing going with the Specials cover of the Toots and the Maytals song Monkey Man. The Specials are always a go-to album to spice up any party. If you don't know who they are, they are an English 2 tone style band from the '70s. The 2 Tone term comes from the name of a record label that was started by The Specials and it referred to the black and white checker board style that was incorporated into their visual style. Many also see it as a fusion between reggae (a predominantly black music) and the punk skinhead movement (a predominantly white scene) that came to be known as 2 Tone Ska.

Talking Heads followed up with Love->Building on Fire. I wish I could have been of concert-going age when the Talking Heads were still playing live in small clubs as I can imagine that their shows would be amazing. I was down in Montpelier a couple months ago and wandered into Langdon St Cafe one night (2nd Best coffee shop in the world (1st is, of course, Radio Bean)) and there was a Talking Heads cover band going completely crazy and the whole place was a thick, low-ceilinged, sweaty, dancing mess.

I finished the show with one of my favorite Jimmy Cliff songs, and it was a request from my little brother, Jason, Beware. It's a great mellow reggae tune that will nicely compliment any reggae mix out there.

So that was the show and I had a blast. I wasn't even planning on going into the studio, but I'm so happy I did. Walking down the stairs out of the studio, I hopped on my trusty steed (Motobecane Mixte) and Lance Armstrong'd (or should I say Carlos Sastre?) it up and over the Main St. hill to Higher Ground to have my socks rocked off by Gogol Bordello. He always puts on an incredibly, energetic show and he blew me away as always. He can get a bad rap by hipsters or snobby music nerds, but it's impossible to deny the energy and power and excitement that he packs into each show.

Tune in next week and we'll keep the party going.

1. Teen Creeps -- No Age -- Nouns
2. Boss Hoss -- The Sonics - Here Are the Sonics!!
3. Christmas in Washington -- Steve Earle -- El Corazon
4. Oh No -- Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
5. Mala Vida -- Mano Negra -- Patchanka
6. Acorda Que En Quero Ver -- Brazilian Beat Brooklyn -- Baile Funk 2: Agora E Moda
7. Queen Of The Surface Streets -- DeVotchka -- Una Volta
8. 2:19 -- Tom Waits -- Orphans 1 - Brawlers
9. Bhindi Bhagee -- Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros -- Global A Go-Go
10. Monkey Man -- The Specials -- Specials
11. Love->Building on Fire -- Talking Heads -- Once in a Lifetime (2003)
12. Beware -- Jimmy Cliff -- Wanted...

Show cancelled tonight too

I truly hate to write this, but unfortunately my show will be canceled tonight too. There are just too many Tuesday shows around here! Tonight Gogol Bordello is playing at Higher Ground and they always put on a wild and entertaining to say the least, so I'm heading up there in a few minutes.

However, next week I'll be back on the airwaves and fully inspired by all of the great music I've seen and heard over the past 3 weeks, so please come back and check out the show then. Just writing about it has me so excited to get back in there. I have a ton of good songs already set aside for us to listen to.

Until then, I'll leave you with this tasty little treat. Here is a pic of my new guitar thanks to my tremendous friends Matt and Maggie Rufe.

Tonight's show cancelled

"Unfortunately" I don't think I'm going to be able to have my show tonight b/c I'm going to see the Avett Brothers at Higher Ground. Should be a great show. I may hop in the studio for a bit before the show, but I don't think I'll have time.

Anywho, check back next week as the show will definitely be on. And I'll probably pretty good and inspired by the Newport Folk Fest that I'm attending this weekend. Here are the bands that I'm most excited to see:

Steve Earle and Allison Moorer
She & Him
Jim James
Son Volt
Calexico
Gillian Welch
Levon Helm

I'm also really looking forward to checking out a lot of the artists on the schedule that I don't know about yet.

Can any of you out in internet land recommend any of the other artists on the schedule?

Caught on the In Between playlist - 07-22-08

So I just finished my show and rode my bike home from the station in the pouring rain. It's about a 2.5 mile ride and I got soaked, but luckily my iPod and laptop were tucked safely in plastic bags in my backpack. As I was riding across the bridge into Winooski, I got totally drenched by a car driving by. I swear the guy swerved into the puddle just to cover me. My immediate reflex was to flick him off. But then I started laughing b/c it's pretty funny and I would have done the same thing. Unless it was an old grandma or something.

The show was different tonight. My brothers and Rufer called in to let me know that they couldn't hear it over the internet. I wasn't quite sure it was broadcasting out over the radio locally as well, so I wasn't sure if anyone could hear me or not. When I got home, I flipped on the radio and it was coming through, but it's still not coming through over the internet. Bummer.

This week I continued the format I started last week--I featured two bands and jumped into them pretty deeply, playing multiple songs by each. In between, I played a couple tunes by other bands.

I started off the show with a track called The Hearse by Untamed Youth. They are fronted by surf/rockabilly/honky tonk guitar maestro Deke Dickerson who has put out a ton of stuff on his own and with Untamed Youth. The Youth have great surf rock songs and they have some great album artwork that really captures the energy of surf rock.

The first of my two featured bands was Australia's The Drones. They're a rock 'n' roll, gritty blues, menacing electric folk band who write and play sincere, unique, and genius sparse-beginning songs that build to a climactic explosion of passion and speaker splitting rage. They are fronted by Gareth Liddiard who sings in a voice that I'm sure my mom doesn't consider singing. His emotion and Aussie accent pour out in his lyrics and the raw energy of the band hits hard at all jagged angles. I don't remember how I stumbled upon them, but I was looking around the internet a couple years ago and somehow came across the video for "Shark Fin Blues". The riff and the melody Liddiard sang over the top, coupled with the tenacity of the live footage in the video, captivated me. I was hooked. I watched it multiple times in a row. If you've never heard The Drones, the song "Shark Fin Blues" is the perfect place to start. I had trouble finding their stuff around any local record shops, but I eventually got the album that the song is on -- Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By. Then I picked up their live album from Spaceland out in LA and finally their latest, Gala Mill. I saw them live in Montreal last year and was completely blown away. It was amazing. If you ever have a chance to see them live, don't think twice--just go to the show. You will not be disappointed. Tonight we heard three songs by them, the first being I Don't Ever Want To Change off of Gala Mill. It's an excellent high energy, rock song with a great guitar line in it at the 2:09 mark. Next song we heard was This Time off of Wait Long...and the final song was Dog Eared which is a tune off of Gala Mill, but the version I played was from their live Spaceland album.

After The Drones set, we heard a couple songs to cleanse the palate between the next featured band. Starting off was a tune off of the Fleet Foxes excellent new self titled album called White Winter Hymnal. They're a band that employ Beach Boys-esque harmonies and do it well. Next up was Liam Finn, an artist off of the excellent and multi-genre label, Yep Roc out of North Carolina. Yep Roc is a great label that makes an effort to not pigeon hole itself into one genre, but instead focuses on excellent artists/bands regardless of genre. They have an incredibly consistent, yet genre jumping line-up of bands, from Billy Bragg to Marah to Radio Birdman to Caitlin Cary, and are one of my favorite go-to labels. Growing up, in order to find new bands, I would search record stores for anything on Dischord records. Now, I've widened my "discover new bands" search criteria a bit to include Yep Roc, Bloodshot, New West, and Matador. And, of course, always Dischord. Finn, like The Drones, is also from the land down under and he the son of a guy from Crowded House. The song we heard was Second Chance off of his album I'll Be Lightning. It's an awesome song and a great introduction to this great album. We ended this mid-section set with the unbeatable Fugazi, with a tune off of The Arguument called Nightshop. I could go on and on about Fugazi, so I won't even start.

The next featured band was the Philly inspired, surprisingly Brooklyn based, Marah. I say surprisingly, b/c they love and sing so much about Philly, I'm surprised they still don't live there. They are an incredible, incredible band and I'm shocked, but selfishly happy, that they're not bigger and more known than they are. They are raw, blue collar type rock 'n' rollers who embody early Bruce Springsteen and sing about the grittiness of the streets and booze inflicted city wanderings. Their close associations with author Nick Hornby are pretty interesting to me. He wrote the books High Fidelity and About A Boy, among others, and always seems to feature music in his books--especially in High Fidelity. Most of us know this from the excellent John Cusack flick of the same name in which the title character creates endless top 5 lists of music, girls, etc. There are some great music references in the movie and I'm excited to read the book to see how similar it is or if there are other musical references in it that were left out of the movie. Hornby is really inspired by Marah and in a top 10 list of his own, he listed their song My Heart Is The Bums On The Street as #3 on his of 10 songs he can't live without. They were also in his "Top 5 Gigs Of All Time" list alongside The Who, The Clash, The Boss, and Southside Johnny and Dave Edmunds. That's some great company to be listed with. Hornby has traveled with Marah in the past and joins them on stage to read some of his music essays about various artists. Once he's finished, Marah will take the stage and play songs by that artist. Hornby has also written some Marah essays and he has read them on stage to open up the Marah set. I'd love to be able to see that. I would love to just be able to see Marah. We need more bands to come way up here to ol' VT. Tonight we heard five Marah songs off of four of their albums. First up was the first song of theirs that I ever heard--The Closer off of If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry. This album is a great introduction to Marah as I think it's a full, top to bottom, excellent album. Next up we heard a couple tunes off of Kids In Philly (on Steve Earle's label E Squared) called Point Breeze and the Nick Hornby fav My Heart Is The Bums On the Street. Next tune came from their first album, Let's Cut The Crap And Hook Up Later On Tonight, called Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft and we finished the set with East off of 20,000 Streets Under The Sky.

That took us all the way to about the end of the show. I ended the show with the live version of Plenty For All by the Hot Snakes off of their Australia recorded live album, Thunder Down Under. So I guess I unintentionally had an Australia theme to tonight's show.

Here's the setlist. Thanks for listening. Check out the show next week--hopefully the internet will work.

1. The Hearse -- Untamed Youth -- Untamed Melodies
2. I Don't Ever Want To Change -- The Drones -- Gala Mill
3. This Time -- The Drones -- Wait Long By The River And The Bodies Of Your Enemies Will Float By
4. Dog Eared -- The Drones -- Spaceland Presents: The Drones In Spaceland 11/15/06
5. White Winter Hymnal -- Fleet Foxes -- Fleet Foxes
6. Second Chance -- Liam Finn -- I'll Be Lightning
7. Nightshop -- Fugazi -- The Argument
8. The Closer -- Marah -- If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
9. Point Breeze -- Marah -- Kids In Philly
10. My Heard Is The Bums On The Street -- Marah -- Kids In Philly
11. Formula, Cola, Dollar Draft -- Marah -- Let's Cut The Crap And Hook Up Later On Tonight
12. East -- Marah -- 20,000 Streets Under The Sky
13. Plenty For All -- Hot Snakes -- Thunder Down Under

Caught on the In Between playlist - 07-15-08

I had a blast on the show tonight. I had some Hold Steady cued up at the start of my playlist b/c their newest (4th) album, Stay Positive, was released today. At lunch I went downtown to 1.) get the new album; and 2.) get a free burrito at Boloco! Boloco just opened up here last Friday and it is so good! It's a chain and I'd had it once before in Boston. This town was in desperate need of a good burrito shop--we have Moe's which really isn't that bad, but it doesn't blow me away. Their beans have a funky taste and it's up by Higher Ground, so it's not walking distance from downtown. I had incredibly high hopes for Bueno Y Sano, but they just haven't done it for me. Their burritos are more like cannonballs than tasty logs and there's no spicy flavor to them. I did, however, just get some chicken tacos there the other night that were great. But still, between the two, there was something lacking. Boloco has filled that void for me. And they filled it twice today. And it didn't cost me a cent.

So getting back to the music, after lunch I went over to Pure Pop to scoop the new Hold Steady, but unfortunately it wasn't in yet. Back to work I went and spreadsheeted my ass off until about 7ish and then headed back downtown. First to burritotown and then to Pure Pop, but the album still wasn't in. I'll just have to wait until tomorrow.

I had a blast doing the show tonight and felt really good about it. I played some solid music that I have really been into hard lately. The Hold Steady and Steve Earle have really been all I've played over the past month or so. I can't get enough of Steve Earle. I have his albums Transcendental Blues, The Revolution Starts Now, and I just picked up his first, Guitar Town, this weekend. He has a ton more, so I'm just at the tip of a very awesome iceberg.

I received a mix from New Guy Chris, by way of my little brother, the other day and on it were some more great tunes that got me going in the Bloodshot Records direction. Scott H. Biram really stood out as did Trailer Bride. Bloodshot is full of great artists and bands and one in particular has hit me hard the last couple days. Justin Townes Earle -- son of Steve, and named after Mr. Townes Van Zandt, is a young singer/guitarist who writes and sings in the style of Hank 1 and other old time honky tonk guys.

I played a couple local guys too. Lowell Thompson is a singer/songwriter around here whose self-declared influences mirror all of my favorite bands--Gram Parsons, Wilco, Fugazi, The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Lucinda Williams, Whiskeytown, Bruce Springsteen, etc. I bet our music collections are nearly identical. He's an awesome singer and I need to get out and see and support him more around town. I started off the show with the usual surfrock/instrumental tune, this time by local crew Barbacoa. This was the very first band I saw when I moved to Burlington. It's fronted by guitar wiz Bill Mullins, who was kind enough to send me their album for free--thanks Bill!--and I saw him out playing with Lowell once, so I bought him a beer to thank him.

Finally, I ended the show with a song by Paul Westerberg, who I incorrectly said was in the Pretenders, but who was really in the Replacements. I couldn't remember which one it was for some reason, and the mic is like a spotlight, so I just blurted out one and it ended up being wrong. I finished the show with a tune by Fast Piece Of Furniture out of Toledo (beat laid down by none other than Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat/Dischord) called "Pictures Of You And Me".

All in all, I was very pleased with the show. My lil' bro, Jason, was recording it, so we'll see how it sounds tomorrow. Thanks for listening, here's the playlist.

1. Barbacoa - Hang 'em High School - Barbacoa
2. The Hold Steady - Positive Jam - Almost Killed Me
3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive - Stay Positive
4. The Hold Steady - The Swish - Almost Killed Me
5. Scott H. Biram - No Way - Graveyard Shift
6. Justin Townes Earle - Hard Livin' - Turn
7. Lowell Thompson - Turn Me Home - Turn
8. Steve Earle - The Gringo's Tale - The Revolution Starts Now
9. Steve Earle - Condi, Condi - The Revolution Starts Now
10. Steve Earle - I Thought You Should Know - The Revolution Starts Now
11. Steve Earle - I Can Wait - Transcendental Blues
12. Paul Westerberg - Runaway Wind - 14 Songs
13. Fast Piece Of Furniture - Pictures Of You And Me - Adventures In Contentment