Show #294
Time: Saturday 10 January 2009 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Patti Smith, *Twelve* (2007)...Patti Smith came to prominence in the mid-1970s with such punk-poet-rock classic albums as *Horses* & *Easter*...her debut on this show, with more albums to come no doubts, is her most recent studio album, all cover songs, including tracks covering Hendrix, Nirvana, The Beatles, The Rollings Stones, The Doors, Stevie Wonder...she respects them, then she re-invents them...this album is one of a very few all-covers albums that have been featured on this show (joining Rush's *Feedback*, broadcast 8/1/04, & *The Church's *Box of Birds*, broadcast 9/23/06), but it is compelling listening...
Classic Rock Album: Lou Reed, *Berlin* (1973)...a classic early solo work by Lou Reed, hardly a few years removed from his time in the Velvet Underground...a loosely conceptual album about a doomed couple that deals with drug use and depression...Reed uses much orchestration for the songs, while he sings and plays guitar...there are funny moments, as in any Reed work, and moments breakingly beautiful...a powerful work
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-seven of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems...& this week featured artist is Medeski, Martin, & Wood, cuts from their beguilingly charming 2008 album of children's music, *Let's Go Everywhere*...well, well, here is 2009, and hardly over a week til O takes office as US president...finding at the White House door a thousand-foot-high pile of horse manure with a sign stuck in it that says "Gon Fishin"...it will be a time pushing it out of the way, and a longer time forgetting the stink...but hope, meaningful hope, is found foremost in that first moment of doing all this...soon, very soon...
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Show #295
Time: Saturday 17 January 2009 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Blitzen Trapper, *Furr* (2008)...this album came to me via my beloved KD's suggestion...the band from Portland, Oregon, nice to be playing some local boys this week...their sound is rooted comfortably in the early '70s, which is to say it rocks prettily, but there is an ambient tint to the music which indicates that these musicians have heard and enjoyed more recent music, and let their sound be inspired by it as well...
Classic Rock Album: Them, *Time out! Time in for Them* (1968)...this band started out in Belfast, Ireland before moving to England, they featured Van Morrison before he went solo, and their sound was more R&B before it turned decidedly psychedelic after Morrison left...with its whirling sitars, raw instrumentation, and trippy lyrics, this album embodies the psychedelic rock of its time, a sugary musical treat for those who love such lysergical sounds....
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-seven of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems...& this week's featured artist is The Decemberists (also a Portland band albeit a more well-known one), cuts from their 2008 "Always the Bridesmaid" singles series, such a delight any time to play new music by them! Tell me, if you can, any way you'd like, can you feel a bit of the stress on the world lifting a little as that demented cowboy lunatic departed the White House for the last time? Honest, did you feel it? The talk of diplomacy again in the world, of bringing relief and comfort to the poor and desperate? Do you feel it coming? Things do need to get worse, and in fact have gotten better. Look around, listen within, discover if you feel this too...
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Show #296
Time: Saturday 24 January 2009 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Sparklehorse, *Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain* (2006)...Sparklehorse is driven primarily by Mark Linkous, who creates much of the band's music from his home studio in Virginia...atmospheric, moody, raucous at times, there is a sweet, persistent charm to this record, one that culminates in the 10+ minute instrumental finale...
Classic Rock Album: West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, *Markley, A Group* (1970)...this band's first release, 1967's *Part One*, was played on this show back on 2/3/07...the current show's album was their fifth and last, and not originally marketed as a WCPAEB album, but as one by Markley, namely Bob Markley, the group's strangely charismatic leader...the short and the long of this band is that they make some really fine rocking music and marry it to Markley's obsessions with money and sex...their final release bears every one of their charms and quirks, and is something of a lost classic...
Storybook Time: Chapter Twenty-eight of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems...& this week's featured artist is the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, cuts from their seminal 1972 country rock triple-album *Will the Circle Be Unbroken*...this week the world finally began to change, hope took on the mantle of power, the test of how much humanity really wants peace and long-range survival begins anew...nobody knows what is going to happen, but the choice is in each of our hands, our fates waiting our making every hour...
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Show #297
Time: Saturday 31 January 2009 at:
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On this week's 10th Anniversary Show:
Featured: Phish, *A Live One* (1995)...Phish culled together a number of songs from their 1994 summer/fall tour, and it flows like a really great show from the hundreds they did in the 1990s...it brings back to me many happy memories of standing in outdoor ampitheaters, grooving as the band grooved, as the audience grooved, as we for awhile grooved as one big mysterious thing...
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Twenty-eight of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck...
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems...it was January 30, 1999, that this show begin in a closet-sized room in the back of an arts studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts....now it's 10 years and nearly 300 shows later...it's been three radio stations, four states, hundreds of albums and many books featured on the air...from the end of the Clinton era through the Bush nightmare to the dawning of Obama's better America...extra long show to have an expansive celebration...join in, please!
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