Cheryl Waters

T-Bone Burnett is well-known and widely respected as a producer, but before he embarked on that career he was a guitarist – he played in Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue in the ’70s – and started a solo career that saw him release albums in musical styles ranging from New Wave to country. This song appeared on his 1992 LP “The Criminal Under My Own Hat,” which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk album, but it was first released the year before on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ film “Until the End of the World,” which Burnett also produced.

Happy Friday, and welcome to the Midday Show with Cheryl Waters :) -- Weezer is playing Seattle on Oct. 4, Vancouver, BC, on Oct. 5, Portland on Oct. 6, and San Francisco on Oct. 9. weezer.com

Seattle band Naked Giants performed "Ya Ya" Live on KEXP back in 2017. Check out the video here: www.youtube.com

Local Seattle band New Age Healers are playing a few shows around town this year. Catch them on Friday, April 5th playing the Seagaze Music Fest at Tractor Tavern in Ballard and Wednesday, July 3rd they'll at Chop Suey with Blushing. Their new album, 'The Spin Out,' releases on April 20th! newagehealers.bandcamp.com

Cheryl selected this tune as a KEXP Song of the Day last August. www.kexp.org After a 34-year wait, original shoegaze outfit The Veldt have finally released their 'Illuminated 1989' album via Portland-based Little Cloud Records and North Carolina’s 5BC Records. This is the original 1989 full-length record produced by Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie. While originally intended to be the band's first album, their label Capitol Records shelved the recording and sent them back into the studio resulting in their first album being released with the title 'Marigolds

"I was born a unicorn....I missed the ark but I could've sworn you'd wait for me..." You'll want to memorize the lyrics.: genius.com -- You'll want to see the video from this now-defunct Montreal-based band playing "I Was Born": www.youtube.com

Go to Sloan's official website for a biography of this Canadian band: sloanmusic.com

The prolific Dayton, Ohio, band Guided by Voices has released more than 35 full-length albums! www.guidedbyvoices.com

Meatbodies is performing LIVE on KEXP on April 11 at noon. It's free and open to the public, so come on down if you're in the Seattle area! www.kexp.org -- In the meantime, check out this 2017 Live on KEXP performance from the band: www.youtube.com

In honor of cutie black cats Inky and Curtis listening to the Midday Show today! -- Mira Aroyo of Ladytron was born in 1977 in Sofia, Bulgaria -- and the lyrics to 'Black Cat' were sung entirely in Bulgarian. You can find them, with an English translation, here: www.azlyrics.com

From the British band's third studio album, released in 2005. In 2018, Pitchfork ranked Tender Buttons at number seven on its list of the 30 best dream pop albums. The flavors of yé-yé sung in Keenan’s spectral voice sound even more intimate over a drum machine, as evidenced by the sticky “Black Cat”.... Tender Buttons may not be as delicate as other classics of dream-pop, but its noisy, sanguine sound and the group's maverick spirit make it essential. bit.ly "Certain sounds evoke a place and time, a person, so suddenly that hearing them can feel like pointed attacks. They transport us, whether we ask for it or not, into an earlier iteration of ourselves, returning the past to present, collapsing our sense of linear time. The phantasmagoric pop of Broadcast’s Tender Buttons references this rift in subtle layers." bit.ly broadcast.bandcamp.com

T. Rex were an English rock band, formed in 1967 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. In 1969, Bolan began to change the band's style towards electric rock, and shortened their name to T. Rex the following year. This development culminated in 1970 with the song "Ride a White Swan", and the group soon became pioneers of the glam rock movement. In 1977, founder, songwriter and sole constant member Bolan died in a car crash several months after the release of the group's final studio album Dandy in the Underworld, and the group disbanded. T. Rex have continued to influence a variety of subsequent artists. The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

Brand new collaboration from 2 legends! Stevie Wonder plays clavinet and sings, with Clark on guitar and vox. Gary Clark Jr. is touring! Playing Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA on Wednesday, August 14th. Playing THE MASONIC in SAN FRANCISCO, CA on Saturday August 17th. - www.garyclarkjr.com

Sly & the Family Stone included "Everyday People" in their set at Woodstock, which, according to Carlos Santana, was the standout performance at the festival. Sly & the Family Stone were some of the artists at the Harlem Music Festival in 1969, a largely forgotten cultural experience until Questlove documented it in the great "Summer of Soul." Enjoy KEXP's podcast about this documentary: tinyurl.com

The blue sky is out in Seattle right now! :)

The New Pornographers were very recently in KEXP's live studio -- last November, in a session hosted by Cheryl! Check out the video here: www.youtube.com

"Year of the Cat" was the title track of Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart's 1976 album.

This song by Neko Case is a reflection of growing up in the shadow of a serial killer. Read KEXP's discussion of the story behind this song: www.kexp.org Wait, what? Whoa.

"The video shows the band playing in an audition in a high school gymnasium, with different light filters changing the color of the room. Karen O's crying in the video was not staged. She explains: "They were real tears. My boyfriend at the time (Angus Andrew [of the band Liars]) was supposed to come to the shoot – he was three hours late and I was just about to leave for tour. I didn't think he was even going to come and this was the song that was written for him. He eventually showed up and I got myself in a real emotional state." Some have suggested the song title stands for “My Angus Please Stay,” though this was never confirmed by the band." www.youtube.com

An Australian artist that channels crunchy 60's psych while mixing trippy pop and modern electronics, Tame Impala has continually produced memorable psych rock while subverting the expectations of what modern psych can do. official.tameimpala.com

Pamplona, Spain-based band Melenas! This is their cover of Grauzone's "Eisbär." melenas.bandcamp.com

The sixth album from Cat Power's Chan Marshall. That's Dave Grohl on bass and drums on "Speak For Me." catpower.bandcamp.com

www.blackbelteaglescout.com Go listen to Katherine Paul of BBES talk about her connection to nature and her homeland in her new album, The Land, The Water, The Sky on Sound and Vision podcast on KEXP: www.kexp.org blackbelteaglescout.bandcamp.com

Waxahatchee is performing in Oakland on May 18, Vancouver, BC, on Aug. 16, Portland on Aug. 17 and Seattle on Aug. 18. www.waxahatchee.com

The Stones recorded this during a three-day session at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama from December 2-4, 1969. It was the last of three songs done at these sessions, after "Brown Sugar" and "You Gotta Move." Muscle Shoals Sound Studios (actually located in Sheffield, Alabama) opened in May 1969 when Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records (The Stones' label) loaned money to four of the musicians at nearby FAME studios so they could start their own company and install 8-track recording equipment (FAME was on 4-track). Wexler sent many of Atlantic's acts to Muscle Shoals, since the musicians were fantastic and it was a dry county with nothing to do, which meant the artists were more likely to stay focused. The studio also had a distinctive sound that can be heard on this track, especially on Jagger's vocals - you can hear a slight distortion that was caused by the console. www.songfacts.com

Watch Austin, Texas-based band Black Pumas perform "Colors" in this 2019 Live on KEXP session hosted by Cheryl! www.youtube.com

Check out this Live on KEXP session with Colombian band Bomba Estereo from 2010! www.youtube.com

The Austin band's debut album featuring this track was released last July: templeofangels.bandcamp.com

"If the key to being visionary is to see things that others can’t, then Cocteau Twins certainly understood the assignment.” Read more about the history of Cocteau Twins and the sixteen prolific years together as a band: cocteautwins.com

Seattle artist Brittany Davis performed Live on KEXP recently. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get a notification when that video posts: www.youtube.com -- In the meantime, check out this KEXP Sound & Vision podcast featuring Brittany! "Brittany Davis talks with Emily Fox about raising her voice in the face of adversity on her new album." www.kexp.org

In 1967, Jamaican reggae singer Dawn Penn recorded a version of Willie Cobbs' 1960 song "You Don't Love Me" , incorporating elements of its music and lyrics. Cobbs' song was based on Bo Diddley's 1955 song "She's Fine, She's Mine". Both are credited as songwriters on Penn's recording. In 1994, after a 17-year break from the music industry, she re-recorded this dancehall version of the song and retitled it "You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)" - it appeared on the Jamaican artist's first studio album, 'No, No, No'.

Sound familiar? The piano here was sampled by Celeste for "Stop This Flame." -- This song was written by Les Baxter and Will Holt and released by the Les Baxter Orchestra in 1956. Nina Simone made it absolutely hers on her 1965 album, "Pastel Blues." -- Nina Simone often closed out her performances with “Sinnerman.” She put it plainly: “I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I want them to be in pieces.” Read the story behind this song: www.udiscovermusic.com

Austin, Texas-based band The Black Angels stopped by the KEXP studio in November 2021! Check out the full performance and interview: bit.ly. -- Colin Ryan wrote this song, which might refer to a psychedelic experience. The band performed it live in Sydney in 2011: www.youtube.com

Happy Friday everyone! "The Lovecats" was first released by The Cure as a stand-alone single in 1983.