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Wednesday, Nov 11 2020, 7AM
Hey Wednesday, it's 241 days since lockdown began, and time for The Morning Show!
The song is a tribute to the British supercentenarian Harry Patch, Known as the "Last Fighting Tommy" Harry Patch was the last surviving British soldier from WWI until his death in 2009. Recorded in an abbey shortly before Patch's death, the lyrics are from the perspective of a soldier in the First World War, and include modifications of quotations from Patch.
“Run Away With Me" is the second track of Sufjan Steven’s eighth studio album.
In 1991 (29 years ago) Catherine Wheel release the single "Black Metallic" and wait for it, wait for it...it was a CD single.
Hey John & Team,
I'm feeling some Foxing vibes this morning, your pick if you can get them in. It's been a while since I've heard them on KEXP.
I hope each of you are taking care of yourself and that this week is slightly less "heavy."
Thanks for always being here,
Bailie
From the Australian duo’s upcoming album We Will Always Love You, this track features Leon Bridges, as well as a sample of Alan Parsons Project’s “Eye in the Sky” and is inspired — like the album itself — by the story of astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan capturing their romance on tape and sending it into space as part of the Voyager’s Golden Record. - bit.ly
From the upcoming album, As the Love Continues, which will arrive exactly 25 years after the release of the band’s debut single, “Tuner”/“Lower.”
According to press materials, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite hopes that the new album will be transportive for listeners, “unless you are somewhere really amazing and then why are you listening to some weird music like this?” - bit.ly
Second album from the Finnish band.
joensuu1685.bandcamp.com
‘For Tomorrow’ feels like a song for Covid times, with Goodwin contemplating, “I spend my days wondering what’s happened to us?”, before he offers a beacon of hope with the promise: “For tomorrow we will breathe again / No more sorrow we will love again / I hope, I hope” over Verve-style guitar licks. - bit.ly
Hi John. Thinking about younger days with my wife, Heather. Can you please play "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas?
Judd
Hi John!
How about a little ♥️ of Glass by Blondie? Trying to get in the styling groove here at work @ the Four Seasons Photo Studio in Beacon NY.- Elizabeth
Hey John,
Haven’t heard Baby Dayliner – You Push I’ll Go in a while, woke up with the song stuck in my head this morning. Must be the fact that I haven’t walk into a bar and ordered a vodka soda with lime for a long time or just a great catchy song.
Best,
Marcus
Austin TX
Good morning John, my sister graciously gave me her 40 year old Rega P2 turntable so I could give it to my youngest daughter who just graduated from nursing as a gift. We set it up last night and listened to New Order’s Substance. I would love to send out "The Perfect Kiss" to both of them!
Love, Peter
Good morning friends!
...a song request for Stu and he lives in Lewisville, TX.
We met almost a year ago at a Christmas party and began (thanks to the pandemic) what could be called an "extra long-distance" relationship.
We have been sending songs back and forth this entire time creating playlists for the record books.
U2 is one of his favorite bands and he has told me stories of how they helped him through some of the darkest times in his younger life.
Saying, "you are not alone" has an entirely new meaning for me. I am thankful every day I can wake up and have KEXP and music in my home.
If you could play some U2 for him to turn up loud while he's cleaning his office in Texas that would be fantastic.
Thank you for all you do.
-Ann Marie
Hi John!
My dad was a Vietnam vet who passed away in 2007. I’d love you to play a song he loved: Buffalo Springfield‘s “For What It’s Worth”.
Thanks for all you do John:)
Zoe
Sample on this one is from Buffalo Springfield's 1966 hit "For What It’s Worth," and also features guest raps from KRS-One and Wu-Tang Clan’s Masta Killa.
“Is this how we keep America great? With violence and hatred? What role do you play in interrupting and addressing that?” NEW MUSIC from Seattle's own with a steller lineup of Seattle artists including D'Vonne Lewis, Geoffrey Castle, Josh Rawlings, Thaddeus Turner, Lonnie Marshall, and Owour Arunga, in addition to the great Vitamin D and Lady Tasz. www.tiffanywilsonmusic.com
From the upcoming album "I Told You So", coming out in January!
Watch Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio when the played KEXP in 2018: www.kexp.org
This song by Malian rock band Songhoy Blues was a KEXP Song Of The Day!
www.kexp.org
The latest solo album from the former Hüsker Dü /Sugar frontman is an excellent set of anthemic guitar rock that echoes at times the post-hardcore ferocity of Hüsker Dü. Featuring Mould in prime power-trio mode with bassist Jason Narducy (Verbow, Split Single, etc.) and Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster, the album combines buzzsaw guitar riffs and energetic rhythms with angry, often-politically charged lyrics raging against climate change, bigotry, online escapism and extremism, economic injustice and a country falling apart. kexp.org
Seattle band by request!
The Long Winters played KEXP live at Little London Plane during Upstream Music Fest in 2017: www.youtube.com
Laura Veirs will join us for Lawn in The Morning on Friday, December 11th at 9:30!!!!!!
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My Echo is Laura Veirs' eleventh studio album, and includes appearances and features from Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, Matt Ward and others.
See her live performance on KEXP in 2018 here: www.youtube.com
The latest from singer/songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. davidnance.bandcamp.com
Steve Earle performed "Copperhead Road" live in the KEXP studio? Yes he did! Recorded February 21, 2015. www.youtube.com
Johnny Cash wrote, “I love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgment day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother And God."
My Dad was a DJ in the Navy and went by Big Daddy R. He LOVED soul music and was often spotted at the Whiskey A Go Go amongst the greats like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett. He loved Booker T and the MGs most of all.
He passed away a little over a year ago, far too soon and suddenly at 71 years old. I'd love to hear anything from that era that you'd like to spin.
Peace,
Stacey
"In The Midnight Hour" became Pickett's breakout hit. He went on to become a soul music legend and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.
“Over You” is the lead single off of Aaron Frazer’s upcoming debut album, Introducing... produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. Frazer is also the co-lead singer and and drummer of Durand Jones and the Indications. Introducing… will be out on January 8th on Dead Oceans/Easy Eye Sound.
aaronfrazermusic.com
“‘Moment In The Sun’ is about finally recognizing what is important in one’s life, the people you decide to spend it with,” New York trio Sunflower Bean say of this brand new song. “All of these things we distract ourselves with, the neverending mountain of career climbing, the pursuit of financial success, and the hope that after all that trying you could finally be cool. All of that is meaningless in comparison to one great day, hour, or moment with someone you really love.”
www.sunflowerbeanband.com
New single from local musician Erik Blood and Gary V (formerly Prism Tats) - erikblood.bandcamp.com
"Enola Gay" is an anti-war song by the British synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and the only single from the band's 1980 album Organisation. The track addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the aircraft Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, toward the conclusion of World War II.
Yorkshire band Working Mens Club was formed by a bunch of Working Teens last year. Eighteen-year-old frontman Sydney Minsky-Sargeant explained, "We grew up in northern towns trying to get in to pubs in social clubs because that's all we had. The name is an ode to that. Our surroundings and their differences has influenced us a lot on these tracks."
The song, "A..A.A.," from their self-titled debut album was chosen as a free KEXP Song of the Day.: www.kexp.org
John - don't you think now would be a great time to bust out "Cry To Me" by Solomon Burke, followed by the IDLES cover?
-Dave in Greenwood Seattle
Dear John,
Today my husband Simon and I celebrate our 9th anniversary. We had a zombie/vampire themed wedding and our officiant was a werewolf. Given the theme, could you play Killing Joke's "Love Like Blood"? It was on our wedding playlist.
Much love,
Janine
Travis Stewart, better known as Machinedrum, is an American electronic music producer and performer from North Carolina.
machinedrum.net
Garage duo from Toronto. From their debut album. At the time they were named Death From Above, but changed their name in response to a cease and desist letter from DFA Records. www.deathfromabove1979.com
Happy 67th birthday to Andy Partridge! The English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer (XTC and The Dukes of Stratosphear) was born on this day in 1953.