Well, Now My Eyes Are Hissing Radiator Tunes . . . of Happiness

Hopedaddy on the Air: WFHB Morning Music Mix 7/9/08

The Avett Brothers, "Shame," Emotionalism
Whiskeytown, "Don't Be Sad," Pneumonia - The Rough Mix
Bruce Cockburn, "Avalon, My Hometown," Avalon Blues: A Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt
Matthew Ryan, "Night Watchman," Concussion
Grant Lee Buffalo, "Honey Don't Think," Mighty Joe Moon
Beck, "Gamma Ray," Modern Guilt
Paul Westerberg, "Mannequin Shop," 14 Songs
M. Ward, "Helicopter," Transfiguration of Vincent
Ben Sollee, "How to See the Sun Rise," Learning to Bend
Buddy Holly, "That'll Be the Day," The "Chirping" Crickets
Richard Thompson, "I Can't Wake Up to Save My Life, Mirror Blue
Chuck Prophet, "Doubter Out of Jesus (All Over You)," Soap and Water
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, "Bhindi Bhagee," Global A Go-Go
Bell X1, "Flame," Flock
Bob Marley & The Wailers, "I'm Still Waiting," _____________
Daniel Lanois, "Under a Stormy Sky," Acadie
Pretenders & Emmylou Harris, "She," Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons
Band of Heathens, "Second Line," Band of Heathens
Ron Sexsmith, "Clown in Broad Daylight," Other Songs
Buddy & Julie Miller, "Keep Your Distance," Buddy & Julie Miller
Mason Jennings, "Fighter Girl," In The Ever,
Allison Moorer, "I Ain't Giving Up On You," The Duel
Steve Earle, "Telephone Road," El Corazon
Los Lobos, "Chuco's Cumbia," The Town and The City
The Black Keys, "Strange Times," Attack & Release
Band of Horses, "The Great Salt Lake," Everything All The Time
Jason Collett, "Out of Time," Here's to Being Here
My Morning Jacket, "I'm Amazed," Evil Urges

Hopedaddy on the Air: WFHB Morning Music Mix 7/2/08

This week's morning music mix included a set from guest DJ, Sleepy Penguin, accompanying Hopedaddy in her radio debut . . .

















She was, by all accounts, a natural "on-air" talent. As the old saying DOESN'T go, this face is NOT made for radio!








A.A. Bondy, "World Without End," American Hearts
Tim O'Brien, "Where's Love Come From," Chameleon
Josh Ritter, "Open Doors," The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Tim Easton, "Lexington Jail," Break Your Mother's Heart
Vigilantes of Love, "Skin," Blister Soul
Fleet Foxes, "Ragged Wood," Fleet Foxes
My Morning Jacket, "The Way That He Sings," At Dawn
Neko Case, "Hold On, Hold On," Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Elbow, "Grounds for Divorce," The Seldom Seen Kid
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(from The Sleepy Penguin)
Mike Doughty, "Move On," The Future Soundtrack for America
The Shins, "Australia," Wincing the Night Away
The Postal Service, "Sleeping In," Give In
Andrew Bird, "Imitosis," Armchair Aprocrypha
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Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, "Bridges, Squares," Hearts of Oak
Alejandro Escovedo, "Sister Lost Soul," Real Animal
Matthew Ryan, "American Dirt," Matthew Ryan Vs. the Silver State
Gomez, "Detroit Swing 66," In Our Gun
Aimee Mann, "Freeway," @#%&*! Smilers
Thao & The Get Down, Stay Down, "Bag of Hammers," We Brave Bee Stings & All
Pretenders, "Stop Your Sobbing," The Pretenders
The Pernice Brothers, "Talk of the Town," Nobody's Watching
Martin Sexton, "Marry Me," Seeds
Keith Richards, "You Don't Move Me," Talk is Cheap
Dan Bern, "Alaska Highway," New American Language
The American Analog Set, "The Only One," Know By Heart
Eddie Vedder, "Long Nights," Into the Wild (Soundtrack)
The Magic Numbers, "This is a Song," Those The Brokes

WFHB Top 10 - 6/24/08

1. My Morning Jacket Evil Urges
2. Alejandro Escovedo Real Animal
3. John Mellencamp Life Death Love and Freedom

4. Eli "Paperboy" Reed Roll With You

5. The Watson Twins Fire Songs
6. Ben Solee Learning to Bend

7. Abigail Washburn and The Sparrow Quartet

8. Dr. John The City That Care Forgot
9. Kingman & Jonah Sign Time

10. John Hiatt Same Old Man

Alejandro

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Radiohead: In Rainbows at Malahide Castle

If you truly "get" music, or, more accurately, it gets you . . . stalking you, grabbing you, informing you, and most accurately, reflecting you . . . it is especially difficult to write about it. "Getting it" is not a learned skill, and perhaps not even desirable.  If anything, it's a disease. It occupies your headspace, your iPod memory, your consciousness, and your Visa bill. 

If you are stricken with the disease, and you are lucky, you don't also need the live show counterpart. You are perfectly content to get your fix online, through your television, through your speakers, or through your headphones, avoiding the cost, the smoke, the crowds, the parking, the spilled beers, the frequently bad sound, and the general frustrations that are attendant to the live music experience.

But if you have the disease in its worst form, your addiction necessarily includes the live show experience. And I'm sorry, my friend, this is the disease in its worst form. Terminal. 

Last week, that very form of the disease sent a friend and I to Dublin, Ireland to see Radiohead at Malahide Castle. Unable to begin to put it to words, I won't attempt to describe what transpired.  But it happened. It all happened. In one beautiful perfect late afternoon in front of a castle, the absolutely perfect show happened. Despite twenty-five or thirty thousand other fans bearing witness (we were in the very front!), I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't been there myself. After hundreds of live shows in the past 40+ years, there simply is no close second.

Oh, and Radiohead's new record, In Rainbows? Just before Radiohead took the stage, rain fell for five or ten minutes-- just long enough to make the brightest, clearest, most perfect rainbow . . . make that TWO rainbows . . . appear over Malahide.  They took the stage In Rainbows.  It really happened.

Radiohead at Malahide Castle, Ireland from Mark Need on Vimeo.

Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel, RIP

a/k/a Bo Diddley, 1928-2008.