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#78 Radio Show – June 6, 2011, Bands I Roadied For

john — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:44:47 +0000

Here’s this weeks show, in which Ms. Buttercup kindly sat in for me after a motorcycle accident left me with a broken wrist. She played songs from some of the bands I roadied for.

The show is called “From the Other Side of the Mirror” and is broadcast every Monday between 9-10am. You can find KOOP radio at 91.7 Fm in the Austin area, or stream it online at www.koop.org If you miss the show, please email me and I will be happy to send you a recording.

1. The Fall – Sparta FC

2. Motorhead – Ace Of Spades

3. The Jam – Going Underground

4. The Jam – This Is The Modern World

5. Roxy Music – Do The Strand

6. Elvis Costello – The Loved Ones

7. Madness – Night Boat To Cairo

8. New Order – Temptation

9. Kraftwerk – Titanium

10. U2 – Love And Peace Or Else

11. Neil Diamond – Hell Yeah

12. David Bowie – Wild Is The Wind

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#76 Radio Show – May 23, 2011, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson

john — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:52:29 +0000

Here’s this weeks show which featured the jump blues shouter and saxophonist, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson.

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

1. Somebody Sure Has Got To Go

2. Bright Lights, Big City

3. Cherry Red Blues

4. When My Baby Left Me

5. Please Send Someone To Love

6. Too Many Women Blues

7. Arriving Soon

8. Bonus Pay

9. Somebody Done Stole My Cherry Red

10. Luxury Tax Blues

11. Person To Person

12. Old Maid Boogie

13. Kidney Stew Blues

14. I Took The Front Door In (I Took The Back Door Out)

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#75 Radio Show – May 16, 2011, Robert Wyatt

john — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:42:51 +0000

Here’s this weeks show which featured the English art rocker and Marxist rabble-rouser with a voice like a nightingale, Robert Wyatt.

Robert Wyatt

1. Solar Flares

2. East Timor

3. P.L.A.

4. Heaps of Sheeps

5. ‘Round Midnight

6. At Last I Am Free

7. Pigs….(In There)

8. The Age Of Self

9. Yolanda

10. I’m A Believer

11. Biko

12. Shipbuilding

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#69 Radio Show – April 4, Nick Lowe

john — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:30:59 +0000

Here’s this weeks show which featured the “Jesus of Cool and Prophet of New Wave,” Nick Lowe.

Nick Lowe aka Basher

1. Heart Of The City

2. I Trained Her To Love Me

3. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass

4. What’s Shakin’ On The Hill

5. American Squirm

6. Hope For All Of Us

7. Heart

8. Fool Who Knows

9. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock n’ Roll)

10. So It Goes

11. Faithless Lover

12. Cruel To Be Kind

13. What’s So Funny Bout Peace, Love And Understanding

14. The Beast In Me

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#44 Radio Show – September 6, 2010, Labor Day Workers Tribute

john — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:16:35 +0000

Here’s this weeks show which was a Labor Day tribute to all the workers and their struggles.

Bob Dylan & Pete Seeger

1. Welcome To The Working Week – Elvis Costello

2. Work Song – Nina Simone

3. Big Boss Man – Jimmy Reed

4. Dead End Street – The Kinks

5. Rat Race – The Specials

6. Career Opportunities – The Clash

7. Hard Times – Johnny Cash

8. Ain’t Times Hard – Floyd Jones

9. I Guess I Planted – Billy Bragg & Wilco

10. Salt Of The Earth – The Rolling Stones

11. Wat About Di Workin’ Claas – Linton Kwesi Johnson

12. Working Class Hero – John Lennon

13. John Henry – Bruce Springsteen

14. Ghost Town – The Specials

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Elvis Costello – High Fidelity, 2009 edition

john — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:37:59 +0000

The new season of Elvis Costello’s show Spectacle has fortunately returned.

Here’s a taste you won’t see on the actual show. He sounds better than ever. Enjoy!

A Spectacle Spectator

john — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:11:54 +0000

Anyone else been watching the new Elvis Costello music show Spectacle on Sundance Channel?

If you haven’t, check it out as fast you can. It’s a delight for anyone remotely interested in music, the craft of songwriting, and the real back story of some of its protagonists.

It stays away from shameless self-promotion, from, the “I’m only here doing the rounds as I’ve got a new release coming out” and it isn’t obvious. No dumb-ass questions. No telegraphed discussions we’ve all heard before.

That means its real. It’s deep, thoughtful, provocative, filled with the unlikely suspects. Starting with Elton John (a producer), to Lou Reed with Julian Schnabel (below), James Taylor (the only dud show so far coz he’s a really boring speaker), Bill Clinton, Tony Bennett and from someone who cut his teeth in the punk/new wave scene in Britain of 77-78, this weeks with The Police, was a delight.

Not at all grotesque, mutual back slapping pandering, but entertaining insights in 3 seperate interviews, before the obligatory band jam with Elvis and his trusty side-men, Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas on drums.

I couldn’t stop grinning as copeland and thomas murdered out the beats on a mix of costello and police mash-ups, culminating on The Cream classic, Sunshine of your love.

There is not much worth watching on TV these days, but do yourself a favor and check out Spectacle. Sundance Channel, usually Wednesdays at 8pm.