Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Bummer + Red Kate + The Bad Ideas +
Hank Weidel & The Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project
+ Jerad Tomasino & The Crossroads Summer Block Party

1. Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel – “Nico”
from: Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious / Burger Records / October 23, 2013
[Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel are art of the collective of BURGER RECORDS in Fullerton, California, a record store, and record company, that call themselves a rock n roll philanthropic quasi-religious borderline-cultish propaganda spreading group of suburban perma-teen mutants. More info at: http://www.burgerrecords.org]

[Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel will play Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, Kansas, Thursday, May 29, at 9:00 pm, with Froth (also of Burger Records) and KC’s own Sneaky Creeps.]

2. MY BROTHERS & SISTERS – “How to Move What to Wear” (Vinyl)
from: Violet Music Vol. 1 / Independent / April 12, 2014

[MY BROTHERS & SISTERS, play The Spring Dance, Saturday, May 31, at 7:00 pm, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, with: Grand Marquis, Starhaven Rounders, The New Riddim.]

3. Kat & Mouse – “3 Words”
from: Kat & Mouse EP / Independent / March 15, 2014
[Kat, Maxwell Crews, and Brandon “Bam” Thomas first wrote together during the inaugural class of the Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project in the summer of 2012. Discovering that they had chemistry and an unheard blend of styles they continued to write together.]

10:15 – Interview with Hank Weidel

Hank Weidel is a Kansas City-based artist and entrepreneur who started his entrance into the KC music scene at the age of 16. He is currently the drummer for indie rock band Captiva. In 2013, Hank was accepted as one of nearly twenty-five musicians to take part in the Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project at the Sprint Center. There, he studied under names like Fall Out Boy, Samantha Fish, Billy Branch, and Raydar Ellis. After completing this program, he began to venture into both performance and management. The GRAMMY Museum’s Music Revolution Project, will be in Kansas City, June 16 through July 11, bringing Grammy award winning artists from Los Angeles and all around the globe to the Sprint Center to work with young people. The student’s final public performance will be July 10, at 7:00 pm, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

After completing this program, Hank now has begun his own music management / promotion company and has been appointed as the Special Projects intern for the Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project this summer.

Hank recorded, performed, and booked for the Connor Leimer band, then discovered Captiva, where he now performs, records, and helps book the band.

http://www.grammymuseum.org/education/for-students-1/music-revolution-project

Captiva are working on a new album.

Hank’s band Captiva play The Bottleneck, in Lawrence, tonight! Wednesday, May 28th, They also play: Union Station, Saturday, May 31st, and then The Riot Room, June 1, with Swearin’ on Sunday, and back to Lawrence to play The Granada Theatre, Saturday, June 28th with Not A Planet.

The GRAMMY Museum’s Music Revolution Project, June 16 through July 11, in Kansas City, Missouri bringing Grammy award winning artists from Los Angeles and all around the globe to the Sprint Center to work with young people. The student’s final public performance will be July 10, at 7:00 pm, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. More info at: http://www.grammymuseum.org

10:28 – Underwriting

10:30

4. Rev Gusto – “Local Girls” (Vinyl)
rom: Too Much Rock Single Series No. 002 / Too Much Rock / 2014
[Written by Graham Parker. B-side of TMR single Still There. Jerry Frederick on Vocals & Guitar, Sam Frederick on bass, Shaun Crowley on lead guitar and keys; Peter Beatty on guitar & back-up vocals; Quinn Hernandez on drums, Recorded with and engineered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording.]

5. The ACBs – “Record Store” (Vinyl)
from: Little Leaves / High Dive Records / March 5, 2013
[Konnor Ervin (lead vocals, guitar); Bryan McGuire (bass); Andrew Connor (guitar); Kyle Rausch (drums). Follow up to their December, 2010 release, Stona Rosa. Their songs have been featured on MTV’s The Inbetweeners, and Daytrotter. “Little Leaves” is a nod to frontman Konnor Ervin’s landscaping day job.]

[Rev. Gusto and The ACB’s play The Crossroads Summer Block Party, First Friday, June 6, from 6:00 pm to Midnight, at 19th & Wyandotte, in Kansas City’s Crossroads with Forrester, La Guerre, Metatone, Mat Shoare, Loose Park, and Jorge Arana Trio]

10:35 – Interview with Jerad Tomasino

This year’s Crossroads Summer Block Party from Golden Sound Records, is First Friday, June 6, from 6:00 pm to Midnight, at 19th & Wyandotte, in Kansas City’s Crossroads. This evening of live music, food and KC culture features: The ACB’s, Forrester, Rev Gusto, La Guerre, Metatone, Mat Shoare, Loose Park, Jorge Arana Trio, plus: Food Trucks, Art & Fashion. More info at: http://www.crossroadsblockparty.com and info@goldensoundrecords.com

Along with Mat Shoare, and Ross Brown, Jerad Tomasino created Golden Sound Records

3rd annual – Crossroads Summer Block Party features The ACB’s, Forrester, Rev Gusto, La Guerre, Metatone, Mat Shoare, Loose Park, Jorge Arana Trio. All of these bands will be a part of a vinyl artist compilation produced by Golden Sound Records.

plus: Food Trucks, Art & Fashion.

More info at: http://www.crossroadsblockparty.com and info@goldensoundrecords.com

The band, See Through Dresses, made up of members from Millions of Boys, from Omaha, are now on Golden Sound Records

10:42

6. See Through Dresses – “Glass”
from: See Through Dresses / Golden Sound Records / May 27, 2014 (November 30, 2013)
[Sara Bertuldo – vocals, guitars, bass, synths; Mathew Carroll – vocals, guitars, synths; Robert Little – bass; Nate Van Fleet – drums, percussion. All songs written by Mathew Carroll/Sara Bertuldo. Recorded in early 2013 at Little Machine in Omaha, NE. Engineered by Mathew Carroll, Mixed by JJ Idt. Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering in Kansas City, MO. Pressed by Rainbo Records in California. 550 copies made. Reissued this year by Golden Sound Records in Kansas City.]

[See Through Dresses play Replay Lounge, Lawrence Kansas, May 31, w/ Your Friend and The Outfit]
[See Through Dresses play Mills Record Company, Sunday, June 1, w/ The Author & The Illustrator]

This year’s Crossroads Summer Block Party from Golden Sound Records, is First Friday, June 6, from 6:00 pm to Midnight, at 19th & Wyandotte, in Kansas City’s Crossroads. This evening of live music, food and KC culture features: The ACB’s, Forrester, Rev Gusto, La Guerre, Metatone, Mat Shoare, Loose Park, Jorge Arana Trio, plus: Food Trucks, Art & Fashion. More info at: http://www.crossroadsblockparty.com and info@goldensoundrecords.com

10:52

7. Forrester – “I Was With You at the End”
from: Antitheses / Independent / March 27, 2014
[Instrumental/Shoegaze/Post-Rock from Lawrence based band formed in the fall of 2011. Members include: Brian Rogers, Joe Newman, Connor Creighton, Will Chertoff, Steven LaCour.]

[Forrester plays The Crossroads Summer Block Party, First Friday, June 6, from 6:00 pm to Midnight, at 19th & Wyandotte, in Kansas City’s Crossroads with Rev. Gusto, The ACB’s, La Guerre, Metatone, Mat Shoare, Loose Park, and Jorge Arana Trio]

8. Scott Hrabko – “Lost As You”
from: Gone Places / Independent / Oct. 18, 2013

[Scott Hrabko plays the KKFI 90.1FM – Spring Pledge Drive Kick Off Party, at The Brick, 1727 McGee, 9:00 to 1:00, with Maria The Mexican, and Hillary Watts Riot.]

11:00 – Station ID

9. The Philistines – “Heart Like Candy”
from: The Philistines EP / Independent / March 2014
[The Philistines are Kansas City based rock ‘n roll/pop band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimberley Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar and vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Michelle Bacon on bass; Josh Mobley on keyboard, and Steve Gardels on drums.]

[The Philistines play The Big Iron – Record Release Show, Friday, May 30, at 9:30 pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Road with The Death Scene.]

10. Grand Marquis – “Every Day’s the Same”
from: Blues and Trouble / Grand Marquis / June 25, 2013
[12 New songs from Bryan Redmond – lead vocals, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones; Chad Boydston – trumpet, backing vocals; Ryan Wurtz – guitar; Ben Ruth – upright bass, sousaphone, backing vocals; Lisa Mckenzie – drums, washboard.

[Grand Marquis play The Spring Dance, Saturday, May 31, at 7:00 pm, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, with: MY BROTHERS & SISTERS, Starhaven Rounders, The New Riddim]

11. The New Riddim – “Muma Muma”
from: Kidnapped / Independent / December 6, 2012
[Ska, Jamaican Rock & Roll from Kansas City. Daniel Loftus – lead vocals / organ; Rico Pierce – drums; Kian Byrne – bass; Conor Loftus – guitar; Nick Howell – trumpet; Mike Walker – trombone; Marshall Tinnermeier – tenor saxophone. More info at http://www.thenewriddim.com]

[The New Riddim play The Spring Dance, Saturday, May 31, at 7:00 pm, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, with: MY BROTHERS & SISTERS, Starhaven Rounders, and Grand Marquis.]

12. Bummer – “Sports”
from: Young Ben Franklin / Independent / April 1, 2013
[One of two EPs released last year from the Kansas City based trio of Matt Perrin on Guitar/Vocals, Mike Gustafson on Bass, Thomas Williams on Drums. The EP was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tyler Perryman.They call their music: neanderthal punk noise rock sludge from Kansas City]

[Bummer plays The Riot Room, Friday May 30, 8:00 pm with The Runaway Sons, The Sluts, and Scruffy & the Janitors.]

11:15 – Interview with Matt Perrin and Mike Gustafson of Bummer

They call their music: neanderthal punk noise rock sludge from Kansas City. The band BUMMER, is Matt Perrin who sings and plays guitar, Mike Gustafson who plays bass, and Thomas Williams on drums. Bummer plays The Riot Room, Friday May 30, 8:00 pm with The Runaway Sons, The Sluts, and Scruffy & the Janitors. Bummer digitally released their EP – MILK, on October 23, 2013. The band will be releasing a physical CD release of MILK on Friday, May 30.

Bummer has had a busy year, releasing two EPs, The band opened for Yuck in February at The Ruiot Room, The band recorded their own version of Gary Numan’s “Cars” playing Middle of The Map Fest and The Center of The City Fest, playing Record Store Day at Mills Record Company, as well as in-stores and shows at area venues.

The duo of Perrin, and drummer Thomas Williams first came together under the name Vestibule. When Williams left the band in summer 2012, bassist Mike Gustafson and Perrin found another drummer, Sam Hunter, and formed Bummer. In April, 2013, they released “Young Ben Franklin,” a three-song EP. In July, Hunter left the band and Thomas Williams came back on board. In October, they released “Milk,” a four-song EP

Bummer’s influences are in hard rock. Heavy. Raw.

Members of Bummer told Tim Finn in an Ink Magazine article from February 18, 2014, about their influences.

Mike Gustafson, 21, likes Queens of the Stone Age. “I love stuff that’s heavy & dark,” he said. “I like pop-song structures, stuff that gets stuck in your head. But it has to be heavy.”

Matt Perrin, 19, admits he had a Nirvana/Kurt Cobain dependency as a young teen but has since moved on to bands like the Melvins, Unsane, Young Widows and Pissed Jeans. “Those were all turning points,” he said. “It’s all really raw, aggressive stuff.”

Thomas Williams said initially he was more of a pop-punk fan. “I was the odd one,” he said. “I was more into Blink 182 and My Chemical Romance. But once I started hanging out with these guys, it became more Nirvana and Foo Fighters.”

11:22

13. Bummer – “Estocada”
from: Milk / Independent / October 23, 2013
[One of two EPs released last year from the Kansas City based trio of Matt Perrin on Guitar/Vocals, Mike Gustafson on Bass, Thomas Williams on Drums. The EP was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tyler Perryman.]

11:25

Bummer plays The Riot Room, Friday May 30, 8:00 pm with The Runaway Sons, The Sluts, and Scruffy & the Janitors.

Bummer is also playing the 3rd Annual Field Day Festival, June 26 – 28, Lawrence, Kansas at The Bottleneck, The Jackpot, Love Garden and Wonder Fair.

The band is currently in the studio, recording EP number 3 at Westend Recording Studio. The band is recording 4 new songs plus new versions of Estocada and Infinite Witches

11:32

14. Bummer – “Infinite Witches”
from: Milk / Independent / October 23, 2013
[One of two EPs released last year from the Kansas City based trio of Matt Perrin on Guitar/Vocals, Mike Gustafson on Bass, Thomas Williams on Drums. The EP was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tyler Perryman.The call their music: neanderthal punk noise rock sludge from Kansas City]

[Bummer plays The Riot Room, Friday May 30, 8:00 pm with The Runaway Sons, The Sluts, and Scruffy & the Janitors.]

11:36 – Underwriting

11:37 – Interview with Britt Adair & George Magers of The Bad Ideas + L. Ron Drunkard & Desmond Poirier of Red Kate

The Bad Idea’s full length debut, Lesson #1, was in our Best Recordings of 2013. Their EP, Worse Thoughts, was one of our favorite recordings of 2012. Formed in October 2011, driven at maximum speed, and fueled by their original songs, The Bad Ideas are influenced by post-hardcore, punk, and early pop punk. Breaka Dawn on lead vocals; Britt Adair on guitar, back-up vocals; Caitlin Curry on bass, back-up vocals; George Magers on drums.

KC based Punk band Red Kate is a 4-piece that has been rocking venues since 2007. The band’s first full-length album, “When the Troubles Come” was released on Replay Records, and engineered by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab, and was in our Best Recordings of 2013. Bassist and lead vocalist L. Ron Drunkard, Andrew Whelan on drums, vocals; Brad Huhmann on guitar, Desmond Poirier on guitar, vocals.

Red Kate and The Bad Ideas have joined forces to release a new Split 7″ Single, with 4 new songs, a pair from each band, on each side, as the premiere vinyl release on the “Mills Record Company” label. Both bands perform live in a Release Show – Saturday, May 31 at 8:00 pm at Harling’s Upstairs in KCMO, with Faultfinder, Bruiser Queen (from St Louis) and Crushed Out (from Brooklyn).

Red Kate and The Bad Ideas have joined forces to release a new Split 7″ Single. Engineered by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab in Kansas City.

11:42

15. The Bad Ideas – “Apocalypse Detroit” (Vinyl)
from: Red Kate & The Bad Ideas – Split 7″ / Mills Record Company / May 31, 2013
[The Bad Idea’s full length debut, Lesson #1, was on our list of The Best Recordings of 2013. Their EP, Worse Thoughts, was one of our favorite recordings of 2012. The Kansas City based punk band, was formed in October 2011. Driven by original songs and influenced by post-hardcore, punk, and early pop punk. Breaka Dawn on lead vocals; Britt Adair on guitar, back-up vocals, Caitlin Curry on bass, back-up vocals, George Magers on drums. The Bad Ideas joined us last on July 11, 2012.]

16. The Bad Ideas – “Im Stuck” (Vinyl)
from: Red Kate & The Bad Ideas – Split 7″ / Mills Record Company / May 31, 2013

Red Kate and The Bad Ideas have joined forces to release a new Split 7″ Single, with 4 new songs, a pair from each band, on each side, as the premiere vinyl release on the “Mills Record Company” label. Both bands perform live in a Release Show – Saturday, May 31 at 8:00 pm at Harling’s Upstairs in KCMO, with Faultfinder, Bruiser Queen (from St Louis) and Crushed Out (from Brooklyn). More info at: http://www.facebook.com/events/653570198029550/

Red Kate is a 4-piece that has been rocking venues since 2007. The band is bassist and lead vocalist L. Ron Drunkard, Andrew Whelan on drums, vocals; Brad Huhmann on guitar, Desmond Poirier on guitar, vocals.

11:52

17. Red Kate – “On My Mind” (Vinyl)
from: Red Kate & The Bad Ideas – Split 7″ / Mills Record Company / May 31, 2013
[In the review of the debut EP, The Pitch wrote, “Bassist and lead vocalist L. Ron Drunkard, (aka Shawn Saving) is a socialist activist by day, bellows like an Appalachian Roger Daltrey.” Andrew Whelan – Drums/Vocals, Brad Huhmann – Guitar, Desmond Poirier – guitar/vocals]

18. Red Kate – “New Dreams” (cover of Naked Raygun song) (Vinyl)
from: Red Kate & The Bad Ideas – Split 7” / Mills Record Company / May 31, 2013

19. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Sources for notes on tracks and interview segments come from: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org and where noted.

Show #527

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Bummer + Red Kate + The Bad Ideas +
Hank Weidel & The Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project
+ Jerad Tomasino & The Crossroads Summer Block Party

Wednesday MidDay Medley Plays More Local Music & New Releases from: Rev. Gusto, The ACB’s, Forrester, My Brothers and Sisters, Kat & Mouse, Red Kate, Bummer, The Bad Ideas, Scott Hrabko, and Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel.

At 10:15 Mark talks with Hank Weidel about The GRAMMY Museum’s Music Revolution Project, June 16 through July 11, in Kansas City, Missouri bringing Grammy award winning artists from Los Angeles and all around the globe to the Sprint Center to work with young people. http://www.grammymuseum.org/education/for-students-1/music-revolution-project

At 10:30 Jerad Tomasino joins us to discuss this year’s Crossroads Summer Block Party from Golden Sound Records, June 6, 6:00 to Midnight, at 19th & Wyandotte, in Kansas City’s Crossroads. This evening of live music, food and KC culture features: The ACB’s, Forrester, Rev Gusto, La Guerre, Metatone, Mat Shoare, Loose Park, Jorge Arana Trio, plus: Food Trucks, Art & Fashion. More info at:www.crossroadsblockparty.com and info@goldensoundrecords.com

At 11:15 Mark talks with members of the band BUMMER, Matt Perrin who sings and plays guitar, Mike Gustafson who play bass, and Thomas Williams on drums. Bummer plays The Riot Room, Friday May 30, 8:00 pm with The Runaway Sons, The Sluts, and Scruffy & the Janitors. Bummer digitally released their EP – MILK, on October 23, 2013. The band is currently fundraising for a physical CD release of MILK with a kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1008326859/help-bummer-get-the-hell-out-of-kansas-extravaganz

At 11:35 the members of the bands Red Kate and The Bad Ideas join us to discuss their Split 7″ Single and their Release Show – Saturday, May 31 at 8:00 pm at Harling’s Upstairs in KCMO. Performing with Red Kate and The Bad Ideas are: Faultfinder, Bruiser Queen (from St Louis) and Crushed Out (from Brooklyn). This is the premiere release on Mills Record Company and comes out just before The Bad Ideas are head out for a three week tour. Moee info at: http://www.facebook.com/events/653570198029550/

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Show #527

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Sherman Breneman Spins from The Vinyl Market
+ Valarie Vogel of Free Byron Case
+ The Lucky

1. Phil Neal & the Wornalls – “I’ll Be There”
from: Lonely Tonight / Phil Neal / December 15, 2012
[Veteran singer songwriter, and rock and roller, Phil Neal’s early eighties band, The Artists, had a video in rotation on MTV, critical acclaim, and national management. When the band fell apart, Phil continued on, writing songs, and playing for over three decades, with several different bands, all while raising a family, and making a home, here in Kansas City. The songwriter has written dozens, of what he calls “Midwestern Rock” numbers. The Wornalls are the band Phil wanted, to bring his songs to life. Doug Gunn on drums, Danko Loftus on bass, Gary Paredes on guitar, Ben Eisiminger on keyboard, and Bruce Sidener on guitar, they are more than a band to Phil, they’re old friends.]

[Phil Neal & the Wornalls play the recordBar, 1020 Westport Road, Saturday, May 24, 7:00 pm. They’ll perform songs from their new album “Lifeline” to be released this summer.]

10:07

Westport Roots Festival is this Saturday, May 24. The Pre Party, is Friday, May 23, at The Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania, w/ Tommy Donoho, Backfat, Trashcan Bandits, The Cowtown Playboys, The Naughty Pines, The Phantoms Of The Opry, Starhaven Rounders.

Westport Roots Festival on Saturday May 24, features live music all day, at The Westport Saloon indoor stage from: Noon to 2:00 am and on the Outdoor stage from: 2:00 pm to Midnight, featuring 27 bands and headliners: Billy Joe Shaver, and Joe Buck Yourself, Viva Le Vox, Outlaw Jim & The Whiskey Benders, The Bullhauleras, Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys, The Whistle Pigs, Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy, Cadillac Flambe, The Kansas City Bear Fighters, The Calamity Cubes, Scratchtrack, Loaded Goat, The Quivers, Famous Seamus & The Travelbongs, The Rural Grit Allstars, Billy Beale, Brutally Frank, Whiskey For the Lady, Konza Swamp Band, Deadman Flats, AJ Gaither OMB, The Blue Boot Heelers, Clawhammer, Twentythousandstrongmen, The Culprits, and The County Graves. More info at: http://www.westportroots.com

2. Billy Joe Shaver – “If The Trailer’s Rockin’ Don’t Come Knockin’”
from: The Real Deal / Compadre / September 20, 2004
[18th release of 22 from Billy Joe Shaver, born August 16, 1939, in Corsicana, Texas. He is a Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver’s 1973 album “Old Five and Dimers Like Me” is a classic in the outlaw country genre. Upon his discharge,from the Navy he worked a series of dead-end jobs, including trying to be a rodeo cowboy. About this time, Shaver met and married Brenda Joyce Tindell. They had one son, John Edwin, known as Eddy, who was born in 1962. The two divorced and remarried several times. Shaver took a job at a lumber mill to make ends meet. One day his right hand (his dominant hand) became caught in the machinery, and he lost the better part of two fingers and contracted a serious infection. He eventually recovered, and taught himself to play the guitar without those missing fingers. Shaver set out to hitchhike to LA and ended up just outside of Memphis, Tennessee. and then Nashville, where he found a job as a songwriter for $50 a week. His work came to the attention of Waylon Jennings, who filled most of his album Honky Tonk Heroes with Shaver’s songs. Other artists, including Elvis Presley and Kris Kristofferson, began to record Shaver’s music. This led to his own record deal. After losing his wife, Brenda, and his mother to cancer in 1999, Shaver lost his son and longtime guitarist Eddy, who died at age 38 of a heroin overdose on December 31, 2000. Shaver nearly died himself the following year when he had a heart attack on stage during an Independence Day show in Texas. After successful heart surgery, Shaver came back to release Freedom’s Child in 2002. In 1999, Shaver performed at the Grand Ole Opry. In November 2005, he performed on the CMT Outlaws 2005. In 2006, Shaver was inducted in the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. He recently served as spiritual advisor to Texas independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman. For his efforts, the Americana Music Convention awarded him their Lifetime Achievement Award in Songwriting. He currently lives in Waco, Texas. Bob Dylan mentioned Shaver in his song “I Feel a Change Comin’ On” (Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter) on the album, Together Through Life (2009) – “I’m listening to Billy Joe Shaver, And I’m reading James Joyce”. Police in Lorena, Texas, issued arrest warrants for Shaver April 2, 2007 on charges of aggravated assault and possessing a firearm in a prohibited place. This was in connection with an incident outside a tavern, Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon in Lorena on March 31, 2007, in which Shaver shot a man, Billy Bryant Coker, in the face with a handgun. Coker’s injuries were reported as not life-threatening. Witnesses interviewed by police report hearing Shaver saying “where do you want it?” and then, after the shot was fired, “Tell me you are sorry” and “No one tells me to shut up.” Coker told police the attack was unprovoked. Shaver’s attorney declared that Shaver had shot Coker “in self-defense” after Coker threatened Shaver with a knife. After unsuccessfully attempting to surrender to police in Austin, TX, who were unaware of the warrant, Shaver turned himself in at McLennan County Jail in Waco, TX on Tuesday, April 3. He was released after an hour on $50,000 bond and gave his scheduled performance at Waterloo Records in Austin that evening, where he reportedly told fans, “Don’t forget to pray for me, and tell your kids to pray for me, too.” He was acquitted in a Waco court on April 9, 2010 after testifying that he acted in self-defense. The Texas based country musician, Dale Watson, wrote a song about the incident titled “Where Do You Want It?” The song has been recorded by Whitey Morgan and the 78’s and appears on their second album, Whitey Morgan and the 78’s, on Bloodshot Records.]

[Billy Joe Shaver plays Westport Roots Festival Saturday, May 24, at Westport Saloon Outdoor stage.]
10:11

3. Cucharada – “Bordel”
from: Necisitado / Astor Piazzolla, Maximo Diego Pujol / March 11, 2014
[An Argentinean Tango project founded in December of 2011, by guitarist Sean Mawhirter, violist/violinist Kelly Bohling, and flautist Guy Montes.]

[Cucharada will be in residence, hosting the Milonga every week at Piropos Restaurant, 4141 N. Mulberry Drive in Briarcliff Village, KCMO, starting tonight, Wednesday, May 21. The band plays from 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm.]

[Cucharada playi PorchFestKC, June 14, 1:00 to 5:00 pm in the West Plaza neighborhood. More info at: http://www.porchfestkc.com]

10:15 – Interview with Valarie Vogel

On June 11, 2001, the Jackson County Sheriff arrested Bryon Case and charged him with the murder of Anastasia WitbolsFeugen, who had been found dead, three years earlier, on October 22, 1997. Byron Case was convicted by jury trial, on May 2, 2002 of Murder in the First Degree and of Armed Criminal Action. He received a sentence of Life in Prison Without Chance of Parole. He exhausted his last appeal in 2010, when the Supreme Court of the United States denied his petition to consider his habeas corpus appeal. Through the trials and 13 years in prison, Byron and his family, have maintained his innocence.

Valarie Vogel is originally from Pittsburgh, PA. She currently lives in LA, and works as a police dispatcher in Southern California. Valarie learned about Byron Case through a friend and began doing research in Byron Case’s Murder trial. Valarie joined us to share information about Byron’s first book, THE PARIAH’S SYNTAX, Notes From An Innocent Man, published by Red Bat Books.

Much of the case rested on the testimony of Byron Case’s ex-girlfriend Kelly Moffett who had started dating the 18 year old Case when she was still in Middle School and 14 years of age. Kelly changed her story from what she reported to the investigating Sheriff immediately after the Anastasia was found dead. Kelly ended up testifying against Byron. She received immunity for her testimony.

Byron Case the writer. Byron’s work has appeared in magazines and literary journals as well as best selling anthologies, Requiem for a Paper Bag (Fireside, 2009) and The Moment (Harper Perennial, 2012).

Byron’s first book, THE PARIAH’S SYNTAX, Notes From An Innocent Man, published by Red Bat Books.

10:22

Valarie read, “The Ways Justice Fails” starting on page 79 of THE PARIAH’S SYNTAX, Notes From An Innocent Man

More info at: http://www.FreeByronCase.com

10:28 – Underwriting

10:30

4. The Lucky – “Hey Rosie”
from: Swimming Invisible / Independent / May 24, 2014
[More info at: http://www.theluckyband.com]

5. The Lucky – “Gay Night (for the Straight Kids)”
from: Swimming Invisible / Independent / May 24, 2014
[Recorded at Massive Sound Studio by Paul Malinowski]

10:35 – Interview with Camilla Camille, Iason Mac Ai

The Kansas City based rock and roll band, The Lucky celebrates the release of their furst full length release, Swimming Invisible, with release party and show, Friday, May 23 at 9:00pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd, Kansas City, Missouri, with NowHere, and Sextonic Plates. Joining us in the studio are two of the four members of The Lucky, Camilla Camille, and Iason Mac Ai.

Igniting a post-punk-riot explosion, The Lucky combines the intellect, sensuality, and fire-and-powder energy of Camilla Camille and Iason Mac Ai. Together they create dirty garage rock with a literary edge and a beat you can dance to.

Camille and Iason became fast friends over coffee and guitar riffs in the summer of 2011. In the heat of their collaboration, new songs took shape and old songs were reborn.

Sharing vocals, they mixed a punk and riot girl recipe for rock-n-roll. They named the band The Lucky, added a drummer and began performing shows in June 2012.

The Lucky recorded with Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studio and released a four-song demo in February 2013.

After going through a Spinal Tap-like procession of drummers, Dustin Mott joined the band with bassist Calandra Rene in July 2013. Camille, who previously played guitar, switched solely to vocals, adding her enthusiastic choreography to the live show.

Camille is sometimes sweet, like Kathleen Hannah, and other times primal, like Donita Sparks. Iason is reminiscent of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, while his guitar solos weave a haunting melody of divine frosting.

Drawing on musical influences throughout the history of rock-n-roll as well as literary idols such as Lord Byron and Emily Dickinson, The Lucky forges a powerful post-punk-riot fusion that begs to be turned up a little louder.

Camilla Camille on vocals, guitar, octave pedal; Iason Mac Ai on vocals, lead guitar; Calandra Rene on bass; Dustin Mott on drums.

More info at: http://www.theluckyband.com

The Lucky celebrates the release of their furst full length release, Swimming Invisible, with Release party and show, Friday, May 23 at 9:00pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd, Kansas City, Missouri, with NowHere, and Sextonic Plates.

6. The Lucky – “Kanss City”
from: Swimming Invisible / Independent / May 24, 2014
[Camilla Camille on vocals, guitar, octave pedal; Iason Mac Ai on vocals, lead guitar; Calandra Rene on bass; Dustin Mott on drums. Recorded at Massive Sound Studio by Paul Malinowski More info at: http://www.theluckyband.com]

7. Miranda Hall – “Kingdom”
from: Kingdom / Independent / March 4, 2014
[EP Debut from Blue Valley North High School Senior graduating this year. 5 song ep CD made by Josh Fletcher and Adam Mitchell at the Hammer Barn.]

11:00 – Station ID

11:00 – Sherman Spins The Vinyl Market

Sherman Breneman is supervisor of The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven on Troost, 7621 Troost Ave. He is owner of The Vinyl Market, open 1st Friday weekends at Pentimento Antiques & Art, 1324 W 12th. Sherman is a life-long record collector and live-music addict. More info at: http://www.facebook.com/TheVinylMarket.

8. St Paul & the Broken Bones – “Broken Bones & Pocket Change” (CD #9) (3:47)
from: Half the City / Thirty Tigers / 2014

9. Drive By Truckers – Pauline Hawkins
from: English Oceans / ATO / 2014

11:15

10. Lydia Loveless – “Verlaine Shot Rimbaud”
from: Somewhere Else / Bloodshot / 2014

11. Lydia Loveless – “Somewhere Else”
from: Somewhere Else / Bloodshot / 2014

12. The War on Drugs – Under The Pressure
from: Lost in the Dream / Secretly Canadian / 2014

11:34 – Underwriting

11:35

13. David Dondero – “The Real Tina Turner”
from: Golden Hits Vol 1 / Unrequited records / 2013

14. O.V. Wright – “I Don’t Do Windows”
from: The Bottom Line / Hi – Fat Possum Records / 1978

15. Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds – “Su Su”
from: Haunted Head / In The Red / 2013

11:50

16. The Uncluded – “Delicate Cycle”
from: Hokey Fright / Rhymesayers / 2013

17. Minor Alps – “Maxon”
from: Get There / Barsuk Records / 2014

11:58

Sherman Breneman is supervisor of The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven on Troost, 7621 Troost Ave. He is owner of The Vinyl Market, open 1st Friday weekends at Pentimento Antiques & Art, 1324 W 12th. Sherman is a life-long record collector and live-music addict. More info at: http://www.facebook.com/TheVinylMarket.

Next week on Wednesday, May 28, we’ll talk with Jerad Tomasino about the Crossroads Summer Block Party, Hank Wiedel will join us to talk about the 2014 Grammy Museum’s Music Revolution Project. The band Bummer joins us licve inour 90.1 FM Studios, and members of the punk bands Red Kate and The Bad Ideas drop in to discuss their new split single.

Spring Dance, Saturday, May 31, at 7:00 pm, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, KCMO, featuring: Grand Marquis, Starhaven Rounders, The New Riddim. and MY BROTHERS & SISTERS. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spice-of-Life-Productions

Sources for notes on tracks and interview segments come from: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org and where noted.

Show #527

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Sherman Breneman Spins from The Vinyl Market
+ Valarie Vogel of Free Byron Case
+ The Lucky

Wednesday MidDay Medley plays new and local releases from: The Lucky, The Wornalls, Cucharada, Miranda Hall, NOW/here, Billy Joe Shaver, St Paul & the Broken Bones, Drive By Truckers, Lydia Loveless, The War on Drugs, Pinback, David Dondero, Wussy, O.V. Wright, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, The Uncluded, Minor Alps.

At 10:15 Valarie Vogel joins us to discuss Byron Case, a KC native who has spent the last 13 years in prison, for a murder that Byron and his family say he did not commit. Valarie will share information about Byron’s first book, THE PARIAH’S SYNTAX, Notes From An Innocent Man, published by Red Bat Books. Byron’s work has appeared in magazines and literary journals as well as best selling anthologies, Requiem for a Paper Bag (Fireside, 2009) and The Moment (Harper Perennial, 2012). More info at: http://www.freebyroncase.com

The Lucky

At 10:30 Mark talks with members of the KC based band, The Lucky. Camilla Camille, Iason Mac Ai, and Calandra René will tell us about about their first full-length album, Swimming Invisible, and The Lucky’s CD release party, Friday, May 23 at 9:00pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Rd, Kansas City, Missouri, with NowHere, and Sextonic Plates.

Sherman Breneman

At 11:00, Sherman Breneman joins us as guest producer. Sherman is supervisor of The Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven on Troost, 7621 Troost Ave. He is owner of The Vinyl Market, open 1st Friday weekends at Pentimento Antiques & Art, 1324 W 12th. Sherman is a life-long record collector and live-music addict. Sherman will spin vinyl from: St Paul & the Broken Bones, Drive By Truckers, Lydia Loveless, The War on Drugs, Pinback, David Dondero, Wussy, O.V. Wright, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, The Uncluded, Minor Alps. More info at: http://www.facebook.com/TheVinylMarket.

Tune in on 90.1 FM KKFI
or streaming live at kkfi.org

Show #526

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Spinning With Mills
+ Confessions of a Belly Dancer + A Little Night Music

1. Wye Oak– “Glory”
from: Shriek / Merge Records / April 29, 2014
[Indie folk rock duo from Baltimore, Maryland, composed of Andy Stack (drums, keyboards, backup vocals) and Jenn Wasner (vocals, guitars). Their sound has been described as “earnest folk-influenced indie rock with touches of noise and dream pop”. Wasner sings lead vocals and plays electric or acoustic guitar, while Stack plays both drums and keyboards, playing the drums with his feet and right hand, and the bass line with his left hand. The band was formed as Monarch in mid-2006, before changing their name to Wye Oak, a reference to the former state tree of their home state of Maryland. They released their first album If Children independently in 2007 and subsequently signed to Merge Records in 2008.]

[Wye Oak plays The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas, Saturday, May 17.]

2. Good Graeff – “Hold Me Fast”
from: Better Half / Independent / April 7, 2013
[The group originated as a duo when twin sisters Brooke and Brit, formed Good Graeff (pronounced “grayf”). at 16, playing on street corners of Sarasota, FL. At 18, Brooke moved to Canada to become a foley artist and Brit studied marketing and international business and eventually settled in Hanoi, Vietnam. Brooke joined her there in 2012, and Good Graeff was born into its second life.]

[Good Graeff played Middle of the Map Fest, April 5, 8 pm at recordBar in Westport. They’re back in town to play The Riot Room, Tuesday, May 20.]

3. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – “Until the Sun Explodes”
from: Days of Abandon / Painbow Music – Rebo Music / May 13, 2014
[Noise pop/indie pop band from NYC. The band comprises singer and guitarist Kip Berman, drummer Kurt Feldman, Alex Naidus on bass, and Peggy Wang on keyboard and vocals. In late 2009, Christoph Hochheim joined the band as a live member. When Hochheim departed in late 2011, Connor Hanwick (of The Drums) replaced him in January 2012. Their first album was a self-released EP, released in 2007. The release was distributed by Painbow – a record label created by the band. Their debut self-titled full-length album was released on February 3, 2009 via Slumberland Records, a personal favorite label of the band’s. Their name comes from an unpublished children’s story of the same title. A friend of Kip Berman wrote the story, which revolves around “realising what matters most in life – things like friendship and having a good time”]

[The Pains of Being Pure At Heart play the Recordbar, 1020 Westport Rd. tomorrow night, May 15.]

10:15 – Interview with Raksanna,Theresa Maze, and Jen Harris

After astounding audiences in sold out shows in Chicago and New York, Confessions of a Belly Dancer will debut its third installment of the show Confessions of a Belly Dancer; The Heartland of America, plays Kansas City this Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 pm, at the H&R Block City Stage, Union Station, 30 W Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO. Roxanne Larcher is Raksanna, the writer, producer, lead performer of Confessions of a Belly Dancer, she joins us to tell us more about this international collection of vignettes which tell the intimate stories of women through the art form of belly dancing.

Also joining us is in the conversation, Theresa Maze, a Kansas City based belly dancer, and our friend, writer Jen Harris is working to spread the word about this show.

Confessions of a Belly Dancer is also a book.

Confessions of a Belly Dancer features an international collection of vignettes which tell the intimate stories of women through the art form of belly dancing. This show portrays actual life events. Can you share some of the scenes from the show?

Some material may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.

Hand selected for this astonishing production, Kansas City’s finest belly dancers join Raksanna’s Desert Flames Near East Dance Ensemble. Theresa Maze spoke about how she started dancing.

Belly Dancing as a transformative celebration of courage and triumph.

Confessions’ includes remarkable original works by international composers Momo Kadous and award-winning Dr. Samy Farag.

With each new production comes innovative and unique choreography by Raksanna and striking costumes by Egyptian designer Mohammed Mahmoud.

Confessions of a Belly Dancer will debut its third installment of the show Confessions of a Belly Dancer; The Heartland of America, plays Kansas City this Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 pm, at the H&R Block City Stage, Union Station, 30 W Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO.

More info at: http://www.confessionsofabellydancer.com or http://www.unionstation.org

10:29 – Underwriting

10:31

4. Glynis Johns & Harold Hastings – “Send In the Clowns”
from: The Best of Broadway: The American Musical (Remastered) / UMG / October 5, 2004
[Original 1973 Recording. “Send in the Clowns” is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. Sondheim wrote the song specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway. The song is structured with four verses and a bridge, and uses a complex compound meter. It became Sondheim’s most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins’ version charted in 1975 and 1977. Subsequently, Sarah Vaughan, Judi Dench, Grace Jones, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Zarah Leander, Tiger Lillies, Ray Conniff, Glenn Close, Cher and many other artists recorded the song and it became a jazz standard.]

10:35 – Interview with Andy Parkhurst and Lauren Braton

Spinning Tree Theatre’s production of “A Little Night Music” just opened to critical acclaim and is up and running through May 24, at the Off Center Theatre, in Crown Center, 2450 Grand, Kansas City, MO. Set in 1900 Sweden and inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film “Smiles of a Summer Night.” The “Send in the Clowns” musical, was the winner of the 1973 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical. Joining us in our 90.1 FM studios are: Lauren Braton (Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music) and Andy Parkhurst (Choreographer, Producer, Managing Director).

Lauren’s voice was featured on the show, last year Mark Titus was our guest and he shared a recording of lauren singing – “Holding To The Ground from (Falsettoland)” from: Take The Stage / The Unicorn Theatre 40th Anniversary Gala / August 11, 2013.

Lauren Braton plays Countess Charlotte Malcolm. This is her Spinning Tree: Debut. Her local credits: Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Coterie Theatre, Starlight Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Quality Hill Playhouse, Musical Theater Heritage, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre and Kansas City Civic Opera. Regional: Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Seagle Music Colony New York. She also stays busy with commercial and film work, and teaches private voice at Kansas City Young Audiences. Up next: Jazz in the Woods at Corporate Woods in June. http://www.laurenbraton.com

From Pitch review: “Lauren Braton is exceptional as the caustic Charlotte, who relies on wry humor to mask her wounds. Braton has some of the show’s sharpest comic timing, but she’s also a rich mezzo whose range powers the stirring “Every Day a Little Death.” Vigthor Zophoniasson is imposing as Count Malcolm, and Liz Golson lends her strong voice and keen edge to Petra, a maid who attempts to seduce Fredrik’s brooding son, Henrik (played by Daniel Beeman).”

Cast: Melinda MacDonald, Charles Fugate, Lauren Braton, Molly Denninghoff, Liz Clark Golson, Cathy Wood, and Vigthor Zophoniasson.

From Pitch review: “Director Michael Grayman elevates a formidable cast to new heights with a few smart adjustments, such as shaving the five-person chorus to four. It’s the right call for this space, where subtlety and intimacy help emotions cut deep. And each performer makes a sizable impression.”

From Pitch review: “Melinda MacDonald portrays the aging Desiree with confidence, and her husky lower register has a resonance in which we can splash around. Her talent is on full display in an expressive “Send in the Clowns,” a cabaret mainstay that she makes her own.”

The orchestra, is directed by Angie Benson. Kaytee Dietrich and Andy Johnson, on reeds and French horn.

Remaining performances:

Thurs May 15 at 7:30pm
Fri May 16 at 8:00pm
Sat May 17 at 2:00pm
Sat May 17 at 8:00pm
Sun May 18 at 2:00pm

Mon May 19 at 7:30pm
Thurs May 22 at 7:30pm
Fri May 23 at 8:00pm
Sat May 24 at 2:00pm
Sat May 24 at 8:00pm

Spinning Tree Theatre’s production of “A Little Night Music” runs through May 24, at the Off Center Theatre, in Crown Center, 2450 Grand, Kansas City, MO. More info at http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

10:50

5. Papercuts – “Life Among the Savages”
from: Life Among the Savages / Independent / May 6, 2014
[Indie pop project centered around San Francisco songwriter/producer Jason Robert Quever. Born in Arcata, California, Quever moved to the bay area during grade school, living in various places until settling in San Francisco. He began making home recordings after buying a four-track recording desk at the age of 15, and his first work as an engineer/producer was on Cass McCombs’ Not the Way EP in 2002. The first official release as Papercuts was 2004’s Mockingbird (on Oaklands Antenna Farm Records). The band’s next two albums, Can’t Go Back (2007) and You Can Have What You Want (2009), were released on the Gnomonsong label, before the band signed with Sub Pop records in 2010, releasing the Fading Parade album in 2011.]

6. Morrissey – “You’re Gonna Need Someone On Your Side ” (Vinyl)
from: Satellite of Love / Parlaphone / January 24, 2014 (2014 – Remaster)
[Live track released with Morrissey’s live cover of “Satellite of Love” was first digitally released on December 2, 2013 as a tribute to Lou Reed, following his death in 2013. The song was recorded on November 25, 2011 in at the Chelsea Ballroom of Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 7″ and 12″ vinyl version and a three-track digital version were also released on January 28, 2014. All three versions of the single were supported by additional live tracks, including a rendition of The Smiths song, “Vicar in a Tutu,” a cover of Buzzcocks song “You Say You Don’t Love Me” and his 1992 song, “You’re Gonna Need Someone on Your Side.”]

[Morrissey plays Liberty Hall in Lawrence Kansas, Tuesday, May 20, with Kristeen Young]

11:00 – Station ID

11:00 – Spinning With Mills

We are so very happy to welcome Judy Mills and Chris LaBeau from Mills Record Company who join us for some Spinning With Mills.

Judy Mills is a native of Pittsburg, Kansas. She attended Kansas State, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English. Judy Mills worked as a teaching assistant, and an adjunct professor, teaching writing and English. She worked at Johnson County Community College. She worked as an account executive for Clinique, and then worked for several years at Restoration Hardware, until the Leawood store closed and she took a hiatus. After about a year of taking a break Judy Mills began to focus on her new vision, and in early May, 2013, Judy opened, Mills Record Company, at 314 Westport Rd, KCMO.

Christian LaBeau was born in Ontario, Canada but grew up in St Louis, Missouri for most of his life. He moved to Kansas City in 2006. Chris worked for Streetside Records from 1996 to 2011 in both St Louis and Kansas City. Chris joined Mills Record Co in June 2013. Chris was in a few bands in St Louis. Since 2008 Chris has been working as a DJ in Kansas City playing soul records under the name. “The Dropout Boogie”

Congratulations to Mills record Company for their one year anniversary and fabulous Record Store Day April 20th.

11:05 – Judy Spins

7. The Carpenters – “Superstar”
from: Carpenters / A & M Records / May 1971
[3rd album from vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen and Richard Carpenter. During a period in the 1970s when louder and wilder rock was in great demand, Richard and Karen produced a distinctively soft musical style that made them among the best-selling music artists of all time. Carpenters’ melodic pop produced a record-breaking run of hit recordings on the American Top 40 and Adult Contemporary charts, and they became leading sellers in the soft rock, easy listening and adult contemporary genres. Carpenters had three No. 1 singles and five No. 2 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and fifteen No. 1 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart. In addition, they had twelve top 10 singles (including their No. 1 hits). To date, Carpenters’ album and single sales total more than 100 million units. During their 14-year career, the Carpenters recorded 11 albums, thirty-one singles, five television specials, and a short-lived television series. They toured in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium. Their recording career ended with Karen’s death in 1983 at age 32 from heart failure following complications of anorexia nervosa. Extensive news coverage of the circumstances surrounding her death increased public awareness of the consequences of eating disorders.]

8. Tracey Thorn – “Why Does the Wind”
from: Love and Its Opposite (Bonus Track Version) / Merge Records / May 18, 2010
[Tracey Anne Thorn (born September 26, 1962) is an English pop singer and songwriter. She is best known as being one half of the duo Everything but the Girl, formed in Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, and singer Ben Watt. The youngest of three children, Thorn was born in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She grew up in Hatfield and studied English at the University of Hull, where she graduated in 1984 with First Class Honours. She later took an MA degree at Birkbeck College, University of London. After 28 years as a couple, Thorn and Ben Watt married in 2009 at Chelsea Register Office. They live in Hampstead, North London. The couple have twin daughters Alfie and Jean, born in 1998, and a son Blake born in 2001. Thorn released her autobiography, Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star, early in 2013.]

9. Little Dragon – “Klapp Klapp” (Vinyl)
from: Nabuma Rubberband / Republic Records / May 13, 2014
[Little Dragon are a Swedish band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1996. It consists of singer Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion) and her close high school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Fredrik Källgren Wallin (bass) and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards). The band’s name was inspired by the “Little Dragon” nickname Nagano earned due to the “fuming tantrums” she used to throw while recording in the studio. “It’s a little exaggerated but there is some truth in it”, Nagano said. “But we’ve grown up a bit and I realised you can’t have a fit every day because otherwise you won’t be able to stand each other.”]

10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- “Mermaids”
from: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live at KCRW / Bad Seed Ltd. / December 2, 2013
[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band that was formed in Melbourne in 1983 by frontman Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and guitarist Blixa Bargeld. The band has featured international personnel throughout its career and presently consists of Cave, violinist and multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn P. Casey, keyboard player Barry Adamson and percussionist Jim Sclavunos (United States). The band has released fifteen studio albums and completed numerous international tours.]

11:30 – Underwriting

11:31 – Chris Spins

11. Tony Ashley – “Just a Taste”(Vinyl)
from: 45 Single Release (B-Side of “I’ll Go Crazy”) / Decca / 1968
[Tony Ashley and the Delicates were artists on the Forte label, based in kansas City, that was owned and operated by Ellis Taylor. Taylor was briefly married to Marva Whitney, hence a few of her titles appeared as local releases on Forte. All of the Forte material was in-house, usually recorded at Damon Studios in downtown KC. Ellis Taylor also produced the three Tony Ashley releases on Decca. Tony Ashley was murdered in Kansas City, the early 1970s.]

12. Marva Whitney – “Daddy Don’t Know About Sugar Bear” (Vinyl)
from: 45 / Forte / 1972
[Included in Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label / Numero Group – Cleanteen Records / Sept. 3, 2013. Born Marva Ann Manning, May 1, 1944 in Kansas City, Kansas. Whitney’s performing career started as early as three years old while touring with her family’s gospel group, the Manning Gospel Singers. In 1960, when she was 16, she joined a Kansas gospel group, the Alma Whitney Singers, and ended up marrying Harry Whitney, the brother-in-law of the group’s leader. Ever since, she has gone by her married name, Marva Whitney. Marva Whitney is well known as a funk vocalist. Singing with James Brown in the late 1960s, she was able to make a name for herself with powerful songs like “I’m Tired, I’m Tired, I’m Tired (Things Better Change Before Its Too Late)” and “If You Don’t Work (You Can’t Eat).” Her recording of “It’s My Thing (You Can’t Tell Me Who to Sock It To)” reached the R&B Top 20. Her song “Unwind Yourself” has been sampled numerous times, most recognisably by DJ Mark the 45 King on his 1987 track “The 900 Number”, which was then sampled by DJ Chad Jackson on his 1990 hit single “Hear the Drummer (Get Wicked)” (UK #3 in July 1990), by DJ Kool on his 1996 hit “Let Me Clear My Throat” (UK #6 in March 1997), Sway on his 2009 track Mercedes Benz and Mac Miller on his 2011 track Party On Fifth Ave. In 2006, Marva Whitney collaborated with German born DJ/collector/manager DJ Pari and Japanese funk orchestra Osaka Monaurail to produce a new single, “I Am What I Am”. Osaka Monaurail style themselves on the James Brown sound and the single was produced in the fashion of an authentic release of the recordings she produced with Brown in 1969. Two successful tours of Japan and a full length album release followed, also entitled “I Am What I Am”. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, the tour was also brought to Europe. In December 2009, Whitney collapsed on stage in front of thousands of fans in Lorne, Australia, while performing with The Transatlantics at Falls Festival. She was immediately rushed to Geelong Hospital, where doctors diagnosed a stroke. The remaining dates of her tour had to be canceled, but Whitney made a recovery and performed again in 2010. In December 2012, Whitney died from complications of pneumonia at her home. She was 68.]

13. The Dirtbombs – “Underdog”
from: Ulltraglide in Black / In the Red Records / May 29, 2001
[Detroit, Michigan based band, notable for blending diverse influences such as punk rock and soul while featuring a dual bass guitar, dual drum and guitar lineup. The Dirtbombs were formed by Mick Collins (of the influential garage punk band The Gories) as a side project and started recording songs by 1995.]

14. PRETTY – “Mustache In Your Face” (Vinyl)
from: 7″ / Independent / 1969/1970
(never officially released until Numero reissued it in 2013)
[The Numero Group’s 700 series kicks off with three ferociously rockin’ double seven-inch dispatches from the American Midwest. Hailing from Kansas City, Pretty were more famously known as the Fabulous Four, a local beat combo that ground their way through the K.C. club scene from 1959 to 1976. In 1969, they buried themselves in a hole in a Missouri hillside, known as the Cavern Recording Studio, alongside Electric Prunes drummer Michael “Quint” Weakley. Together, they churned out eight tracks as Pretty — earthy, grooving hard rock pushed to the hilt with stuttering, psychedelic Wurlitzer work and some supremely heeeeeavy fuzzed-out electric guitar riffs. The title track, “Mustache in Your Face,” is the pick of this litter, featuring hilariously incongruous lyrics about “a girl/yeah yeah,” “the devil and the monkeys are comin’ upstairs,” and “what a lie, what a lie/mustache in your face.” Don’t bother trying to parse out the sentiments, just keep these psychedelic scorchers on rotation; all the b-sides are killers in their own rights. -Michael Stasiak (January 25, 2013) Bob Theen told Garage Hangover: “To my knowledge the record was not distributed at all. After the sessions, Weekly took off for California to try and sell them to someone. Don’t think he had any luck, and we didn’t see much of him after that.” On March 22, 2008, The Fabulous Four Band (Bob Theen – Jeff Mann – Mike Myers – Mark Higbee & original drummer Alex Love) was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall Of Fame.]

15. Dirty Projectors – “Two Doves”
from: Bitte Orca / Domino / 2009
[7th release from Brooklyn-based, experimental band, released June 9. The word “bitte” is a German word for “please,” and “orca” is another name for a killer whale. This was one of our 100 best recordings of 2009]

16. Dead Rider – “Blank Screen”
from: Chills On Glass / Drag City / 2014
[Dead Rider, formerly known as D. Rider, is an experimental rock band from Chicago, formed by 2009. It features: Todd Rittman (guitar, lead vocals), Noah Tabakin (saxophone), Andrea Faught (keyboard, trumpet), Matt Espy (drums) – who replaced former member Theo Katsaounis (drums) in 2010.]

17. Mr. Bungle – “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”
from: California / Warner Brothers / July 2, 1999
[Experimental band from Eureka, California. The band was formed in 1985 while the members were still in high school, and was named after a children’s educational film regarding bad habits which was featured in a Pee-wee Herman HBO special in the early ’80s. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid to late 1980s before being signed to Warner Bros. Records and releasing three full-length studio albums between 1991 and 1999. The band toured in 2000 to support their last album but in 2004 they disbanded. Although Mr. Bungle went through several line up changes early in their career, the longest-serving members were vocalist Mike Patton, guitarist Trey Spruance, bassist Trevor Dunn, saxophonist Clinton “Bär” McKinnon and drummer Danny Heifetz. Mr. Bungle was known for its distinctive musical traits, often cycling through several musical genres within the course of a single song. Many of its songs had an unconventional structure and utilized a wide array of instruments and samples. Live shows often featured members dressing up and an array of cover songs. An ongoing feud with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis escalated in the late 1990s, with Kiedis removing Mr. Bungle from a number of large music festivals in Europe.]

Mills Record Company is located at 314 Westport Road, KCMO, http://www.millsrecordcompany.com or call 816-960-3775

Next week on Wednesday, May 21, we’ll talk with members of the band The Lucky, plus Sherman Brenneman joins us a guest producer for our second hour.

Don’t Forget:

The Spring Dance, Saturday, May 31, at 7:00 pm, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, KCMO, featuring: Grand Marquis, Starhaven Rounders, The New Riddim. and MY BROTHERS & SISTERS. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spice-of-Life-Productions

For Wednesday MidDay Medley I’m Mark Manning. Thanks for listening!

11:59:30

18. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Sources for notes on tracks and interview segments come from: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org and where noted.

Show #525

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Spinning With Mills
+ Confessions of a Belly Dancer + A Little Night Music

Wednesday MidDay Medley plays new releases from: Wye Oak, Good Graeff, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Glynis Johns & Harold Hastings, Papercuts, Morrissey and more.

At 10:15 Mark talks with Raksanna about, “Confessions of a Belly Dancer” playing Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 pm, at the H&R Block City Stage, Union Station, 30 W Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO. Theresa Dancemaze and Jen Harris also join us to share info about this international collection of vignettes which tell the intimate stories of women through the art form of belly dancing. Hand selected for this production, KC’s finest belly dancers join Raksanna’s Desert Flames Near East Dance Ensemble for this celebration of courage and triumph. More info at: http://www.confessionsofabellydancer.com

At 10:30 Mark talks with company members of Spinning Tree Theatre’s “A Little Night Music” running through May 24, at Off Center Theatre, in Crown Center, 2450 Grand, Kansas City, MO. Set in 1900 Sweden and inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film “Smiles of a Summer Night.” The “Send in the Clowns” musical, was the winner of the 1973 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical. Starring Melinda MacDonald, Charles Fugate, Lauren Braton, Molly Denninghoff, Liz Clark Golson, Cathy Wood, and Vigthor Zophoniasson. More info at http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

At 11:00, Judy Mills and Chris LaBeau of Mills Record Company join us as “Guest Producers” for our second hour. They will spin vinyl from: Dead Rider, Tony Ashley, Mr. Bungle, Tobacco, Enon, Dirty Projectors, The Dirtbombs, and more. Learn more about Mills Record Company at: http://www.MillsRecordCompany.com

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Show #525

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday MidDay Medley Celebrates 10 Years

1. Dimitri From Paris – “Prologue”

2. SoundsGood – “Money”
from: Biscuits & Gravy / Innate Sounds / August 15, 2005
[2nd full length album from critically acclaimed, Kansas City based band made up of. Joe Good on vocals and lyrics and Miles Bonny on beats and music. Recorded by JAZ at 64111 Clinic Studios. SoundsGood played together for: A Night For Joc Max, Sat, March 29 at 10:00pm, at the recordBar, with Reach, Sounds Good, DJ Ataxic, DJ Skeme, DJ Maxx, and Smooth C.]

Wednesday MidDay Medley went on the air, 10 years ago, during the first week of May. During this period of 90.1 FM’s history, Program Director John Jessup tapped me on my shoulder and asked me to host and produce the Wednesday mid-day time slot. I had been producing and hosting a public affairs program called The Tenth Voice, since 2001. There was a lot of music we wanted to play. Very quickly Wednesday MidDay Medley established itself as a place to hear new and local releases.

Marion Merritt joined us for the entire show, as our special guest co-host. Marion made her first appearance on WMM on July 29, 2004. Marion has been a regular contributor, sharing her musical discoveries and info from her encyclopedic brain. For 18 years Marion was the manager of the music department at Barnes & Noble on The Plaza, until she left in January to start her own independent record store, specializing in vinyl. Records With Merritt, is now open at 1614 Westport Rd. http://www.recordswithmerritt.com

Barry Lee, 90.1 FM KKFI – Station Manager also said a few words.
Thank you Barry!

10:06

3. Tampa Red – “What Is It That Tastes Like Gravy?”
from: Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 / Shanachie / 1974
[Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician. Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string slide style. His songwriting and his silky, polished “bottleneck” technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others. In a career spanning over 30 years he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum records. His best known recordings include the “classic compositions ‘Anna Lou Blues’, ‘Black Angel Blues’, ‘Crying Won’t Help You’, ‘It Hurts Me Too’, and ‘Love Her with a Feeling.”]

4. Iris DeMent – “Hotter Than Mohave In My Heart”
from: Infamous Angel / Warner Brothers / 1992 / 1993
[DeMent’s first 3 releases on Warner Brothers Records, were all critically acclaimed. She received two Grammy nominations, in the “Folk Music” category. Meanwhile country radio completely overlooked her original songs, and amazing voice, that has been compared to Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette. Iris was our guest on our 100th show Tribute to Recycled Sounds & Anne Winter. We also talked with her before her concert at The Folly Theatre to benefit St. Mark Child and Family Development Center in November 2011. Iris DeMent was our special guest on October 10, 2012 to discuss her release Sing The Delta which was #1 on our list of 112 Best Recordings of 2012.]

5. Roman Numerals – “My Life After Death Pt. II”
from: Roman Numerals / Anodyne Records / 2006
[#1 on our list of The 60 Best Recordings of 2006. William Smith on vocals, guitar, stylophone; Seven Tulipana on vocals, bass, guitars, synth; Shawn Sherrill on synth, bass; Pete LaPorte on drums, electronics]

10:25

6. Regina Spektor – “Love Affair”
from: 11:11 / Independent / July 9, 2001
[Debut album by singer-songwriter Regina Spektor. It was self-released on CD and sold at Spektor’s early shows. The album is now out of print on CD and much sought-after by collectors; it is available as a download from online music outlets. Regina Spektor was born in Moscow, USSR in 1980 to a musical family. Her father, Ilya Spektor, is a photographer and amateur violinist. Her mother, Bella Spektor, was a music professor in a Russian college of music and now teaches at a public elementary school in Mount Vernon, New York.]

7. PedalJets – “Burgandy”
from: What’s In Between / Oxblood Records / November 2007
[When asked to contribute a track for the Oxblood Records compilation “First Blood,” members of the band began tinkering with tracks from their their 1989 second release, a CD that came out just before the band broke up. Inspired by the results of the re-working of “Burgandy” the band started looking at the entire record. With parts re-recorded, the entire recording was redone, remastered, remixed, the band re-released their second record again, as a do-over. Original members Mike Allmayer, Mat Kesler, Rob Morrow, and Phil Wade reunited to perform together for the first time in 17 years at The Brick, December 21, 2007, to perform the songs. On June 25, 2013 Pedaljets released “What’s In Between” on Electric Moth Records, their first album of new material in 23 years. Paul Malinowski (Vocals, Guitar), Rob Morrow (Drums, Vocals), Mike Allmayer (Guitar, Vocals), Matt Kesler (Bass, Vocals). Produced by The Pedaljets & Paul Malinoski. The albums photos & design are from artist Archer Prewitt of The Sea and Cake and The Cocktails. More info: thepedaljets.] [Original lead guitarist Phil Wade left the band and eventually became part of The Wilders. Mat Kesler of Pedaljets was at one point the very first bass player for The Wilders.]

8. The Whittlers – “Another Night Gone”
from: Nobody’s Happy / Independent / Summer 2004
[Tom Livesay & Phil Wade recorded 4 albums, as The Whittlers, from 2000-2004, while working together at the Art Institute. Phil and Tom and Ike Sheldon had played together in Day Sleeper, Ike and Tom had played together in many bands including Foolish Sad Robot, The Young Johnny Carson Story, and The William Jewel Band. This song was written by Betse Ellis. Tom on Vocals, Ike on Piano, Phil on Guitar. Recorded as a surprise for Betse. Betse included her own recording of this song on her solo debut.]

10:35 – Interview with Maria Vasquez Boyd

Maria Vasquez Boyd is the host and producer of ARTSPEAK RADIO, airing Wednesday nights at 6:00 pm on 90.1 FM. Maria made her first appearance on Wednesday MidDay Medley on October 10, 2007. Since then, Maria has been a constant contributor to the show, hosting and producing a series of shows about Day of The Dead, The music artists listen to in their studios, Teachers, The Ukulele, Mojo, and many others. Maria is a founding member of The Latino Writers Collective, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, a published writer, a visual artist, and a teacher who has taught at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, KCAI, Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery, The Writer’s Place, and Guadalupe Center.

We talked with Maria Vasquez Boyd, about our “A Story in A Song” shows and our “He Touched Me Gospel Hour” shows, and ARTSPEAK RADIO.

Maria Vasquez Boyd is my radio wife.

Maria performed two original pieces live in-studio.

10:50

9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Who?”
from: Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective / a Records / November 2, 2004
[The band began as a shoe gazing group in San Francisco in 1988. After their debut and sophomore albums, the group quickly turned to a broader style of psychedelic rock incorporating folk, blues, raga, and later, electronica influences. The name “Brian Jonestown Massacre” is a portmanteau of The Rolling Stones’ founder and guitarist Brian Jones and the infamous mass cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. They have gained media notoriety for their tumultuous working relationships and the drug addiction of their leader, Anton Newcombe. Originally released on “Take It from the Man!” from 1996 their third album. It was the first of three critically acclaimed albums, preceding Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request and Thank God for Mental Illness. It was another change of style for the band, with a large influence being 1960s garage rock, particularly the early work of The Rolling Stones.]

10. Bjork – “Kata Rokkar”
from: Gling-Glo / One Little Indian / March 9, 2010
[Born Nov. 21, 1965 as Björk Guðmundsdóttir, She is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in alternative rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and avant-garde. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003, she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in recognition of her “deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice.” Björk has also been nominated for 14 Grammy Awards (plus two for art direction on her album sleeves, done by others), one Academy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark. She was ranked 29th in VH1’s “The 100 Greatest Women in Music”, eighth in MTV’s “22 Greatest Voices in Music”,and 60th in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”.]

11:00 – Station ID

11. Barclay Martin Ensemble – “Please”
from: Dawn / Independent / June 5, 2008
[Barclay Martin on guitar and vocals, Mark Lowrey on piano, Giuliano Mingucci on drums, and Rick Willoughby on bass, Erin McGrane on backing vocals and percussion. This was #1 on our list of the 100 Best Recordings of 2008. The band joined us live in the studio on June 4, just one day before their release. Barclay Martin Ensemble also released 2010’s Pools That Swell In The Rain. For more info: http://www.BarclayMartin.com.]

[Barclay Martin plays the recordBar, May 27, with Vik G Trio, Eliza Neals, and Sonia Rao.]

12. Sara Swenson – “All Things Big and Small”
from: All Things Big and Small / Independent / 2010
[2nd full-length release from KC based singer songwriter who is also a teacher, who recently moved back into the Kanss City area after getting married and living in London. Sara’s self titled debut was released in 2008. Sara is currently getting ready to release her 3rd full length recording. Sara’s debut was #1 on our list of The 100 Best Recordings of 2009. Her second full length was #3 on our list of The 110 Best Recordings of 2010.]

11:10

13. Hearts of Darkness – “Come Forward”
from: Hearts of Darkness / Shipshape Music / July 10, 2010
[KC’s very own: funk/soul/rock/hip-hop ensemble featuring: Les Izmore: Vox & Perc, Brandy Gordon, Rachel Robinson & Erica Townsend: Voices / Sean P Branagan: Drum Kit, Mikael Spears: Congas, Perc, Phil Keegan: Shakere, Aux Perc, Brad “Bad Brad” Williams: Percussion, Kit / Pete Leibert: Bass Guitar, Josh Mobley: Rhodes, Hammond, Clavinet, Mark Vick: Guitar 1, Jeff Harshbarger: Guitar 2 / Jolan Smith: Tenor Sax, Vox, Perc, Shawn Hansen: Alto Sax, Vox, Perc, Alex Smith: Alto Sax, Vox, Perc, Sam Hughes: Baritone Sax, Vox, Perc / Andrew Ford: Slide Trombone, Vox, Perc, Ken Walker: Valve Trombone, Vox, Perc, Bob Asher: Trumpet, Vox, Claves, High Kicks. This was #1 on our list of The 110 Best Recordings of 2010]

14. Fela Ransome Kuti –“Open & Close”
from: Open & Close / Independent / Originally released January 1, 1971
[Review by John Dougan: Another long-thought-lost gem from the Fela Anikulapo Kuti archives, Open & Close was originally released in 1971 and, in the manner of He Miss Road and Fela’s London Scene, is a total groove-fest loaded to the gills with raucous horn blowing, ferocious percussion (once again, Tony Allen take a bow), and song lengths over ten minutes. By this point, Fela could do no wrong when it came to recording; Afro-beat dissenters will claim that there is a trance-inducing similarity to much of Fela’s ’70s recorded output, that the grooves aren’t enough to make the songs distinctive enough on their own. That’s true of some of his later recordings (like in the mid- to late ’80s), but at this point he was still breathing fire and the band was in top form. Perhaps the distinguishing factors of records like Open & Close and some of Fela’s other ’70s releases are that as much as he liked to ride a groove, he also liked to disrupt it, twist it and turn it, reshape it, only to bring it back to its original shape. There was less of that later in his career.]

11:15 – Interview with Kasey Rausch

Kasey Rausch gave us one of the very first live musical performances on Wednesday MidDay Medley She is a frequent guest and contributor. She was on our 100th show as a co-host when we celebrated Recycled Sounds and Anne Winter. Kasey and her sister Kim produced a special show in January, 2013, about their musical Rausch Family. Kasey was with us on our 500th show. Kasey Rausch performs as a solo artist and with a band, she is also a member of The Naughty Pines, The Buttermilk Boys, and Partners in Glory. With Mikal Shapiro, Kasey is host and producer of River Trade Radio, broadcasting Sundays, 9:00 am to 11:00 am on 90.1 FM KKFI.

We talked with Kasey about, Anne Winter, The Naughty Pines, River Trade Radio, Artists Inc., Mikal Shapiro, her grandfather, Pete Seeger, KKFI, playing on the radio.

15. Kasey Rausch – “Dr. King” (Live-in-studio)
Written by Pete Seeger. Recorded by Woody Guthrie’s granddaughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie & her husband, Johnny Irion, on their 2004, New West release, “Exploration.” Kasey turned us on to this recording when she worked at Recycled Sounds. We’ve included this song in our MLK Tribute show ever since. Kasey performed this song May 2, at Unity Temple on the Plaza for 90.1 FM’s celebration of Pete Seeger, hosted by Betse Ellis.]

16. Kasey Rausch – “Something Good Will Come” (Live-in-studio)
New song written by Kasey Rausch. Kasey is currently working on her new record.

11:30 – Underwriting

11:31

17. Howard Iceberg & The Titanics –”In This Lonesome Town”
from: Welcome Aboard! Vol 1. The Kansas City Sessions / Independent / June 26, 2011
[Features Abigail Henderson and Christopher Meck] [7-CD set, includes over 100 new songs, feat. The Titanics: Gary Paredes on lead guitar, Dan Mesh on rhythm guitar, Scott Easterday on bass, Pat Tomek on drums. W/ contributions from over 70 local artists participating in Howard’s “never-ending recording project” conducted in Pat Tomek’s home studio. Howard Iceberg, Pat Tomek, Scott Easterday, Elaine McMilian & Danny Alexander joined us on June 22, 2011 before the tribute to Howard at Crosstown Station on June 26. This was #1 on our list of The 111 Best Recordings of 2011.]

11:35

18. Sister Gertrude Morgan – “Let Us Make A Record”
from: Lets Make A Record / Ropeadope / June 27, 2004
[Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980) was a preacher, missionary, artist, musician, and poet who worked in New Orleans in the 1960s and ’70s, notable primarily for her folk art. She was born in 1900 in Lafayette, Alabama, and moved to Columbus, Georgia at the age of eighteen. She was married to Will Morgan in 1928, but at the age of 38 thought she heard a voice from God telling her to become a street evangelist. She left her family and husband to move to New Orleans, where she organized an orphanage with two other missionaries. She believed God told her to begin painting in 1956, and in 1957 thought she heard a voice telling her that she was the Bride of Christ. Thus she adopted a white habit and moved out of the orphanage to establish “The Everlasting Gospel Mission” in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Music was one of the tools of her ministry, and in the early 1970s, Let’s Make A Record was recorded in order to capture Morgan singing and playing her tambourine. She painted in order to create visual aids for her preaching, and her paintings use a colorful religious iconography. Some of her favorite subjects are the Book of Revelation and her and Jesus flying in an airplane, this last accompanied by the poem “Jesus is my air Plane.” She painted on whatever was at hand, including styrofoam trays, window shades and even toilet paper rolls. Her art brought her fame and notoriety, and in 1974 she announced that the Lord had ordered her to cease painting in order to concentrate on her preaching and poetry. She died in 1980. In 2005, the New Orleans Museum of Art presented the first comprehensive collection of her art. Also in 2005, the Ropeadope label released King Britt presents Sister Gertrude Morgan, which took the a cappella/tambourine recordings of Let’s Make A Record and added contemporary beat programming and instrumentation. The album received rave reviews and created a new, young audience for Sister Gertrude Morgan. The album artwork featured her paintings.]

19. Krystle Warren & The Faculty – “Forever Is A Long Time”
from: Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace / Parlour Door Music / April 9, 2012 UK]
[Paseo Arts Academy Graduate was signed to a French label, Because Music and then created her own label: Parlour Door Music. Krystle has been touring Europe opening for Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle Warren’s new album came from a 13 day recording session in Brooklyn, where she recorded the songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle wrote the songs, and is releasing the music in 2 separate releases. Krystle recently played KC on Sun, Oct 6. We talked with Krystle on the radio on October 23, 2013.]

20. Nina Simone -“I Can’t See Nobody (Daniel Y. Remix)”
from: Remixed & Reimagined / BMG / October 31, 2006
[The first album in the Legacy Remixed series released by Sony BMG. This is a collection of songs by Nina Simone, remixed by several club DJ’s. All original songs come from her albums released by RCA records. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. Born the sixth child of a preacher’s family in North Carolina, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist. Her musical path changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition. Simone was later told by someone working at Curtis that she was rejected because she was black. When she began playing in a small club in Philadelphia to fund her continuing musical education and become a classical pianist she was required to sing as well. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendering of “I Loves You, Porgy” was a hit in the United States in 1958. Over the length of her career Simone recorded more than 40 albums, mostly between 1958—when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue—and 1974. Her musical style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto. She injected as much of her classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and quality, as she felt that pop music was inferior to classical. Her intuitive grasp on the audience–performer relationship was gained from a unique background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons regularly from the early age of six years old. In the early 1960s, she became involved in the civil rights movement and the direction of her life shifted once again. Simone’s music was highly influential in the fight for equal rights in the United States. In later years, she lived abroad, finally settling in France in 1992. She received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2000 and was a fifteen-time Grammy Award nominee over the course of her career.]

11:50

21. The ACB’s – “Boy Like Me”
from: Stona Rosa / Independent / 2010
[Konnor Ervin (lead vocals, guitar); Bryan McGuire (bass); Andrew Connor (guitar); Kyle Rausch (drums). Their songs have been featured on MTV’s The Inbetweeners, and Daytrotter. Popmatters declared the ACBs as one of its “Best Hopes to Break Out in 2013.”]

22. Ghosty – “This Wolf”
from: GHOSTY / High Dive Records / April 17, 2012
[3rd full length release from Lawrence and KC area band. Ghosty is Andrew Connor, Mike Nolte an Bill Belzer who recorded their new album themselves over the last couple of years with help from David Wetzel, Josh Adams, Jake Blanton, Konnor Ervin, Ryan Connor, Kirsten Paludan, and Dan Talmadge. The new release was pressed on vinyl and available on LP and digital download. More info at http://www.ghostysounds.com]

Next week on Wednesday, May 14, we’ll talk with Roxanne Larcher about “Confessions of a Belly Dancer,” the show she is bringing to Kansas City, Saturday, May 17, 2014, at 8:00 pm, at the H&R Block City Stage, Union Station, 30 W Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO. We’ll also talk with Spinning Tree Theatre about their upcoming production “A Little Night Music” May 8 through the 24, at The Off Center Theatre in Crown Center. More info at http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com. And in our second hour Judy Mills and Chris LaBeau of Mills Record Company join us as guest producers.

For Wednesday MidDay Medley I’m Mark Manning. Thanks for listening!

11:59:30

23. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Sources for notes on tracks and interview segments come from: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org and where noted.

Show #524

Wednesday MidDay Medley
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday MidDay Medley Celebrates 10 Years

Wednesday MidDay Medley went on the air, 10 years ago, during the first week of May. During this period of 90.1 FM’s history, Program Director John Jessup asked Mark to host and produce the Wednesday mid-day timeslot. Mark had been producing and hosting a public affairs program called The Tenth Voice, since 2001. Very quickly Wednesday MidDay Medley established itself as a place to hear new and local releases.

Marion Merritt will join Mark for the entire show, as guest co-host. Marion made her first appearance on Wednesday MidDay Medley on July 29, 2004. Marion has been a regular contributor, sharing her musical discoveries and information from her encyclopedic brain. For 18 years Marion Merritt was the manager of the music department at Barnes & Noble on The Plaza, until she left in January to start her own independent record store, specializing in vinyl. Records With Merritt, is now open at 1614 Westport Rd. More info at: http://www.recordswithmerritt.com

At 10:30, Maria Vasquez Boyd joins us to share an original poem. Maria is the host and producer of ARTSPEAK RADIO, airing Wednesday nights at 6:00 pm on 90.1 FM. Maria made her first appearance on Wednesday MidDay Medley on October 10, 2007. Since then, Maria has been a constant contributor to the show, hosting and producing a series of shows about Day of The Dead, The music artists listen to in their studios, Teachers, The Ukulele, Mojo, and many others. Maria is a founding member of The Latino Writers Collective, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, a published writer, a visual artist, and a teacher who has taught at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, KCAI, Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery, The Writer’s Place, and Guadalupe Center.

At 11:15, Kasey Rausch joins us to play a song in our 90.1 FM studios. Kasey was one of the very first live musical performances on Wednesday MidDay Medley, and is a frequent guest and contributor. She was on our 100th show as a co-host when we celebrated Recycled Sounds and Anne Winter. Kasey and her sister Kim produced a special show in January, 2013, about their musical Rausch family. Kasey was with us on our 500th show. Kasey Rausch performs as a solo artist and with a band, she is also a member of The Naughty Pines, The Buttermilk Boys, and Partners in Glory. With Mikal Shapiro, Kasey is host and producer of River Trade Radio, broadcasting Sundays, 9:00 am to 11:00 am on 90.1 FM KKFI.

Tune in on 90.1 FM KKFI
or streaming live at kkfi.org

Show #524