Show #337
Time: Saturday 20 March 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Drive-By Truckers, *The Big To-Do* (2010) . . . . . . great Georgia band last featured on this show 3/15/2008 (cuts from their double album *Brighter Than Creation's Dark*), & now they are back with a combustible slew of rocking tales . . . death, infidelity, and Dixie-flavored lunacy . . . dark, funny stuff . . . as they say down there, "turn it up . . . "
Classic Rock Album: Cat Stevens, *Teaser & the Firecat* (1971) . . . . . . this British folk rocker had many hits back in the '70s, and then nothing but controversy when he converted to Islam and left the music business . . . happily, he seems to have his faith and his music now . . . this album is one of his classics, an intense, pretty, deeply questioning album that leaves one gasping at its beauty time & again . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Fapardokly, a California band that only existed by way of a 1966 album of songs cobbled together from various sources, featuring most of the same players, but some trippy nuggets on it nonetheless . . . after a couple of weekends off to re-charge, it's good to be back on air and spending Saturday morning among all this good music, these fine words, & what I bring to the table as well . . .
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Show #338
Time: Saturday 27 March 2010 at:
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On this week's show:
New Rock Album: Beck & Friends, *Oar* (2009) . . . rock master Beck's newest project is called the "Record Club," wherein he recruits a variety of musicians to cover an entire classic album in one day's worth of recording . . . for the third entry in this series, he teams up with Wilco, Jamie Lidell, Brian LeBarton, James Gadson, & Leslie Feist to record a cover of Alexander "Skip" Spence's legendary 1969 album *Oar*. . . Beck and his crew create a new work from the old, a deeply focussed, deeply funky re-interpretation that stands as much as a love letter as it does as a powerful, stand-alone work. . . the trippy grooves they conjure are most potent!
Classic Rock Album: Steely Dan, *Pretzel Logic* (1974) . . . the Dan is an old favorite of this show, this being the fifth time their music is featured . . . their third album continued their exploration of a jazz-rock sound nobody has replicated in the decades since . . . a masterful sound, by turns sad, serious, funny . . . they know how to rock, how to blow out the horns, how to run wide their own special, weirdly smiling ground . . .
Storybook Time: Chapter Three of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artists are some of those whose music is featured on the fantastic soundtrack to the Coen Brothers' fantastic 2000 film, *O Brother, Where Art Thou?*. . . spring has arrived, and hope is stretching out and showing her potency in the greening and blooming of the trees, and in the actions of men and women who sometimes do believe in the better road ahead & act on these beliefs . . . enough to make a soul walk a little taller, look around with clearer eyes . . .
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