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Tuesday, Jan 11 2022, 7AM
It's one fine morning on the Tuesday morning show!
"I was in the shed behind my house, where I wrote the whole album," said Bill Callahan when asked where he wrote this song. "I kept it very messy and cramped for some reason. There was just a tiny space on the desk big enough for my notebook. And I lit only with electric light. I didn’t want anything natural sneaking in to my conscious, like shadows. I didn’t want to know what time of day it was or the weather. The whole album was written in three months. I think “One Fine Morning” came sort of quickly, used up the least time. It’s a release song, whereas something like “Universal Applicant” is kind of pulling in to itself or folding in on itself. “One Fine Morning” is the blossoming, it’s when the seed finally sprouts and begins to overflow into the air." (bit.ly)
Alexi Murdoch is a British folk musician and songwriter. Orange Sky is from his "Four Songs EP." The track has been featured in many film and series soundtracks, including Garden State, Dawson's Creek, The OC, and Looking For Alaska.
www.aleximurdoch.com
Reunited fourteen years after their first collaboration "Raising Sand," here is Robert Plant and Alison Krauss covering a song by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch.
'“I’ve been a big follower of Bert Jansch’s work since I was a teenager,” Plant said in a statement. "That whole Irish, Scottish, English folk style ... has a different lilt and different lyrical perspective. I was very keen to bring some of that into the picture." -- Read more at Rolling Stone: tinyurl.com
Steve Earle performed "Copperhead Road" live in the KEXP studio back in 2015.
You can still view that performance here (and you should because it's great!) :
www.youtube.com
Broken Social Scene announced Old Dead Young: B-Sides & Rarities, a career-spanning collection of B-sides, rarities, and outtakes pulled from 20 years of 7-inches, compilations, soundtracks, and hard-to-find releases. The album will be released January 14th!
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Alt-J will be playing with Portugal. The Man and Cherry Glazerr at WaMu Theater on Tuesday, March 29th!
This new track's lyrics take a "tongue-in-cheek look at the sensation of overnight adolescent millionaires created by the cryptocurrency boom. One enterprising young individual proclaims their riches to neighbors, teachers, and the entire world while chanting “don’t be afraid to make to make money boy.” “It’s the story of the ultimate childhood fantasy, the schoolboy who becomes a millionaire overnight, and the different interactions he has with people in his life from teachers to neighbors,” Newman said in a press release. “How ironically you interpret its message is entirely up to you…” bit.ly
Warpaint’s JennyLee is releasing the second single of her ‘Singles Club’, featuring A-side ‘Tickles’ - which was produced and mixed by Danish dance producer, Trentemøller - and B-Side ‘Heart Tax’.
“I love, love, love collaborating with Trentemøller…he never ceases to amaze me!” JennyLee says of ‘Tickles’. “And more often than not, I usually like his version of the song better!”
Valentine is the second studio album by American musician Snail Mail.
From KEXP's 'For Your Consideration' column about Valentine: The layered textures of deep bass grooves, jittery high hats, and droning synth convey the familiar anxiety of trying to appear OK when you're not, long before Lindsey ever opens her mouth. She plays confidence and nonchalance as a character, allowing the music to reveal subtext, before finally dropping the charade in time for the bridge. www.kexp.org
Snail Mail is playing The Moore Theatre April 20th, 2022.
snailmail.bandcamp.com
Debut of a brand new track from Pavement!
Pavement will be embarking on a North American reunion tour this fall, but before that the band will finally release the much-anticipated deluxe reissue of their final album, 1999’s Terror Twilight. After teasing it last year, Matador Records revealed today that Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal will come out on April 8th!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHET!!!!
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"Chet just asked if you could play a song this morning for his birthday. He turned 10!
We listen to Kexp now till 7:50 but could keep the radio on in the car till 8:05.
He loves Beastie Boys sabotage or sure shot.
I'll see if I can think of something else xx
Brandy "
“Can I Kick It?” was the third single from A Tribe Called Quest’s debut album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm.
The original version contains samples from Lou Reed’s 1972 classic “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Spinning Wheel” by Dr. Lonnie Smith and “Sunshower" by ‘70s pop group Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band.
This was P.M. Dawn's only #1 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. The track is well-known for the prominent sample of Spandau Ballet's "True" -- that band's lead singer, Tony Hadley, appears near the end of the music video for "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".
Official Video: www.youtube.com.
The lyrics for this song were inspired by a crush Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp had on Altered Images singer and Gregory's Girl star Clare Grogan: "I was infatuated with Clare Grogan," he told The Guardian. "I met her on Top of the Pops and, at one point, travelled up to Scotland to have tea with her and her mum and dad."
According to Gary Kemp, the feelings were unrequited and their relationship was platonic, however, it was enough to inspiration to write this song.
Brand new music from Animal Collective!
'Time Skiffs’ nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder'
-- anmlcollectve.bandcamp.com
Abigail Portner and Dave Portner co-directed the video: youtu.be
Beirut (aka Zach Condon and his band) has shared a new song “Fyodor Dormant.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming compilation album, Artifacts, a collection of never-before-heard recordings, which will be out on January 28th.
Condon shares: "I don’t know if people who hear most of my music would know immediately how much I loved synthesizers as a teenager. I saw them as a welcome escape from the then electric-guitar-dominated music of the States and the U.K., before I was exposed to the broader spectrum of music outside of these narrow walls.
"I still sneak synths in around the corners of most albums, sometimes heavily, sometimes subtly. I now have access to some beautiful and unique analog systems, but back then, I had a barely functioning, shared-by-the-whole-house PC with a pirated copy of Fruity Loops, and I wanted to make music that could make me get off the wall and move a little, at least in my imagination." bit.ly
8:15 AM
2nd spin
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie and The Postal Service appeared on this track.
The common denominator of great music is mail.
The Postal Service was a project by Seattle singer Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), producer Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel), and Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley). They released their one and only album "Give Up" in 2003.
"Such Great Heights" came together late in the recording process, and was one of the last songs Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello completed in June 2002. Its genesis came together "incredibly quickly," according to Gibbard, who felt it "seemingly came out of nowhere. It did feel that there was some sort of spiritual transcendence happening and the song being beamed down to me."
For Gibbard, the song was a thematic departure from his more melancholy subject matter: "I think 'Such Great Heights' is the first time I've ever written a positive love song," he told Rolling Stone, "where it's a song about being in love and how it's rad, rather than having your heart broken."
The song was written by Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello, and recorded in early 2002. The final recordings include backing vocals in the studio recording by Jen Wood, whose other collaborations include work for The Black Heart Procession and Joan of Arc. bit.ly
"In honor of losing minds on Tuesday, could you play "where is my mind" for me? Thanks!"
--Neil from Snoqualmie
Brandon Summers of Helio Sequence wrote "You Are Not Alone."
theheliosequence.bandcamp.com
The Pretenders released 'Learning to Crawl' on this day in 1984!
"Hey John,
Happy New Year! So, I've been sitting in 'all-hands' conference zoom after conference zoom this morning. Luckily for me, I get to be on mute and keep your show on to keep me company!
I feel this Tuesday needs The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death. That's how this particular Tuesday feels. Not a bad day, just dragging through the work day.
Thanks for all you do!"
Matthew
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"Great rock’n’roll is like drinking two hundred espressos in two minutes, whether it’s God Save The Queen or Motor City Is Burning or Street Fighting Man. That’s what you’ve got to reach for." - The Godfathers describing what rock and roll is to them in a 2017 interview with Louder Sound.
The same energy was channeled in this 1988 live performance:
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"Let's Go Crazy" was the opening track on both the album and the film Purple Rain.
The song was also notable for opening with a funeral-like organ solo with Prince giving the "eulogy" for "this thing called life."
When Jane Fonda asked Dolly to star in her film '9 to 5', Dolly said she'd only do it if she could write the theme song. In between takes of the film, Dolly would walk around set strumming her acrylic nails like a washboard. “I always play the nails and I’d come up with little things that I would see on the set, like I tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of… And I thought, 'Wow, that sounds like a typewriter.'" The clacking baseline heard at the beginning of the track was all Parton. The record's credits even read "Nails by Dolly," according to the musician.
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"Hey John & the morning crew!
I am convincing myself that 2022 is going to be a good year - with 2021 setting the lowest bar possible
As such the Hold Steady's "Stay Positive" has been in my head the past few days - maybe it may help others as well
Thanks for all you do - as always 🙂
Happy New Year!"
Jason on Bainbridge
When Robert Earl Keen was inducted into The Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the World’s Largest Honky-Tonk, Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth, Texas, he told the story behind this wonderful song.
He said, "Kathleen, the love interest in the story coming down the stairs, is my wife because occasionally she would wake up and figure, oh he’s not here, he must be at Arkey Blue’s Silver Dollar Saloon. And she would come down and see me and we would all sit and drink. And sometimes Arkey would lock the door and we would keep going after hours and go as long as we wanted to.”: bit.ly
For Laura on Queen Anne...
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Local legend Brandi Carlile takes on this Tears for Fears classic from 1983.
Watch her performing this live from home here: twitter.com
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) stepped in for Layne Staley's (Alice in Chains, Mad Season) vocals of this live performance.
Watch the video of this phenomenal performance here: www.youtube.com
"Live Aid & The 20 Minutes That Changed The World" perfectly describes Queen's Live Aid performance in July 1985.
“We were all forming a sort of a rut," Mercury said at the time. "I wanted to get out of this last 10 years of what we were doing."
Live Aid was a benefit show organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in aid of the Ethiopian famine.
The concert – dubbed by the organising parties as "the day music changed the world" – brought together some of rock's biggest stars over two venues in London and Philadelphia. It was a day filled with memorable performances, but Queen's Live Aid performance truly stole the show.(bit.ly)
Watch Queen perform at Live Aid 1985 Performance:
www.youtube.com
This one's from 1980's "Flash Gordon" where, "A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth." // www.youtube.com
Watch Harry Nilsson, the Beatles' favorite American artist, perform "Gotta Get Up" live: www.youtube.com
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The song is on endless loop on Netflix's "Russian Doll": www.rollingstone.com
“Better Things,“ is, in fact, an uncommonly gracious breakup song, written around the time of Ray Davies' divorce from his wife, Yvonne. It is the closing song of the album, Give the People What They Want.
Written in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy, for whom the hot-rod-riding protagonist certainly has enough passion to love, but perhaps not the patience. However, Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Freehold, New Jersey.
'Here Comes My Baby' was written in 1966 by Cat Stevens. Cat almost released it as his first single, but "I Love My Dog" was thought to be stronger. After the success of "I Love My Dog", "Here Comes My Baby" was shelved for several months.
The Tremeloes picked the song up and it became their breakthrough hit in America and their first hit in the UK in 1967. The song's success helped establish Cat Stevens as a songwriter and he included it on his first album Matthew And Son.
"YES to that, John & Owen!! Def struggling (yet again) with balancing work + a 3 yo in quarantine. Would love to hear You’re Not Alone by Mavis Staples 💙"
--Elaine in Houston
American Songwriter wrote, "Love is certainly one of the pet topics on Talking Book, and the album features the masterful closing ballad '“I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever.)' As romantic testaments go, it’s hard to top, in part because Wonder understands that the bright side of love looks all the more luminous when compared to the unfathomable darkness of loneliness."
americansongwriter.com
The track fades into "You'll Never Walk Alone," which is a song from Carousel, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. However, the song appears to have been recorded at a soccer match, hence the cheers and chanting at the end. This is because Liverpool fans use this as their anthem. It appears that at the end, the multitude is chanting "Liverpool."
Liverpool players and fans - You'll Never Walk Alone after beating Tottenham in the Champions League final 2019
Bono would mix in snippets of other artist's songs when singing this live. He left it alone for the Wide Awake In America recording because he did not want to get sued, as they did with "The Electric Company."
The Morning Show wishes all of you a good day! Take care and thanks for tuning in!
Good morning, happy Tuesday, and welcome to The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters! Thanks so much for being here!
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Inhaler will play The Showbox on Friday, March 25th, 2022.
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Inhaler is a four-piece group from Dublin. Singer Elijah Hewson is the son of Paul David Hewson, better known by his stage name Bono. Hewson (the son) says about this song, "I like writing about normal teenage experiences that everybody can relate to. I’m just trying to write about the joy of being alive, being a teenager, and the bad things that can come with that.”