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

Cat Mahari + Calvin Arsenia
+ Fally Afani & Lawrence Field Day Fest

Mark plays more New & MidCoastal Releases from: Varma Cross, The Philistines, The Dear Misses, Lincoln Marshall, Bummer, The People’s Punk Band, The Tamborine Club, Erik Voeks, Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Calvin Arsenia, The Julie Ruin, The Avalanches, Spacin’, Afefe Iku, Laura Mvula, and Theo Parrish.

Fally Afani photo by Tom Hudson

At 10:30, award winning photo-journalist, Fally Afani, of I Heart Local Music, joins us to share music and information about Lawrence Field Day Fest, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, July 14-16, in Lawrence Kansas. I Heart Local Music provides information about Lawrence music events and bands. For more information you can visit: http://www.iheartlocalmusic.com

Cat Mahari photo by Matthew Dunehoo

At 11:00 we’ll talk with nationally recognized KC based dancer, performance artist, and choreographer, Cat Mahari, who will share information about ‪31st & Brklyn‬, a new space she is opening. Cat will talk about the present, past and future of 31st & Brooklyn and her experience of working with KIVA and the international community of lenders who’ve invested in the space. 31st & Brklyn will host, Currents of Reality, on Saturday, July 16, 6:00 to 9:00 pm, at 2123 East 31st Street, KCMO, 64109. The themes of the evening include: Connection of Water, and Diaspora Africa, with an introduction to current programming, associate artists, and our community gathering. Sounds will be provided by Thomas Xu of Detroit, Michigan. More info on Cat Mahari at: http://catmahari.wix.com/collabwest

Calvin Arsenia photo by Jenny Wheat

At 11:30 Kansas City based musician, composer, singer, Calvin Arsenia joins us in our 90.1 FM Studios. Standing at 6 foot 5 inches, Arsenia’s powerful vocals span a 3.5 octave range, while playing piano, guitar, harp, and banjo. Calvin Arsenia has written, arranged and produced 5 EPs including Prose, his 2015 release that was recorded over the course of three live sessions at Edinburgh’s Napier University. Calvin Arsenia is getting set to release a new EP of original material. More info at: http://www.calvinarsenia.com

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Show #638

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

New & MidCoastal Releases +
Bill Sundahl & The 12 Annual Crossroads Music Fest
+ Judy Mills of Mills Record Company

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – “Nobody Dies”
from: A Man Alive / Ribbon Music / 2016
[4th studio album from San Francisco, California-based (formerly Falls Church, Virginia) alternative folk rock music group. It consists of Thao Nguyen on vocals & guitar) and Adam Thompson on vocals, bass guitar & keyboards. Produced by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs. Thao Nguyen was born in Virginia in 1984, and raised in Falls Church, Nguyen began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of twelve while helping out at her mother’s laundromat. She began performing in high school as part of a pop-country duo with friend Brenna Clerkin. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County and studied at the College of William & Mary, where she double majored in Sociology and Women’s studies. After recording an EP that differed from her initial style, she began performing as a soloist with her acoustic guitar. With her fellow college students Adam and Willis Thompson she formed Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down. After graduating she toured extensively, both with the band and as a solo artist. She moved to San Francisco around 2009, and has been based there since.]

[We’ve been playing this band on the radio show since 2008! Thao & The Get Down Stay Down play recordBar, on Friday, July 8, at 8:00 pm, with Rachel Mallin and The Wild Type opening.]

3. Wild Beasts – “Get My Bang”
from: Boy King / Domino Recording Co / August 5, 2016
[Indie rock from the UK. They released their first single, “Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants”, on Bad Sneakers Records in Nov. 2006, and then signed to Domino Records. They’ve released 4 acclaimed albums, Limbo, Panto (2008), Two Dancers (2009), Smother (2011), Present Tense (2014). In 2002, Queen Katherine School students Hayden Thorpe and Ben Little formed the duo Fauve, the French term for “wild beast”, and began writing songs. In January 2004, drummer Chris “Bert” Talbot and bassist Gareth “Gaz” Bullock, joined and the band’s name became Wild Beasts. The quartet recorded their eponymous demo EP in June 2004. In September 2005, the band relocated to Leeds and Tom Fleming replaced Bullock full-time bassist.]

4. Deerhoof – “Life is Suffering”
from: The Magic / Polyvinyl / June 24, 2016
[13th studio release from prolific San Francisco based experimental rock band who play with noise pop, punk rock, and avant-garde styles. Formed in 1994, the lineup includes: Greg Saunier on drums & vocals, Satomi Matsuzaki on vocals & bass, John Dieterich on guitar, and Ed Rodríguez on guitar.]

10:15 – Underwriting

5. Kodascope – “It’s Alright, It’s Ok”
from: Kodascope [EP] / Independent / May 12, 2015
[Debut release from six-piece KC band. Matthew Hayden on drums, percussion; Justin Skinner on percussion, drums; Michael Tipton on vocals, guitar; Ashleigh Guthrie on keyboards; Brent Jamison on bass; and Andy Kirk on guitar. Also for this song: Megan Zander (Dream Wolf, REN) and Camry Ivory on backing vocals. ]

[Kodascope play their last show Fri, July 8, at miniBar, w/ The Saturday Bros, Lee Walter Redding.]

6. Me Like Bees – “Hymns and Blues”
from: There Will Be Time [EP] / Independent / April 8, 2016
[Formed in Joplin in 2009 by Luke Sheafer, Nick Bynum, Pete Burton, Tim Cote. In 2015 after completing a leg in Van’s Warped Tour, Me Like Bees finished their new EP with award-winning producer, John Feldmann (Five Seconds of Summer, The Used, Panic! at the Disco, Goldfinger, Good Charlotte, Plain White T’s)]

[Me Like Bees are currently on tour playing tonight in Buffalo, NY, tomorrow in Amityville, NY.]

7. Golden Groves – “Gold”
from: IDEAS / Independent / February 1, 2016
[Debut EP from KC based band: Isaac Hodges on vocals & guitar, Dylan Nelson on lead guitar, Max Kmeck on bass, Andrew Lewis on drums. Recorded in Lawrence, KS with Jim Barnes producing & engineering. Additional mixing done by Ryan Cork. Mastering done by John McCaig of Panic Studios, Seattle, WA.]

[Golden Groves play the Crossroads Music Fest Showcase, Friday, July 8, at The Tank Room with IRIEplaceables Ska Orchestra, American Slim, and Brody Buster One Man Band.]

10:30– Interview with Bill Sundahl

Bill Sundahl, is 90.1 FM KKFI’s Special Events Coordinator, and he also plays bass and sings in the band, The Starhaven Rounders. Bill is also the founder of the Crossroads Music Festival! and joins us to talk about the 12th annual Crossroads Music Fest, Saturday, September 10, 6:00 PM – 2:00 AM, on 8 stages, in a two-block region of the Crossroads, with over 30 bands, and a series of CMF Showcases sponsored by Josey Records, that begin this Friday, in Kansas City and Lawrence and Saturday in St. Joe.

90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio Presents:
A benefit for 90.1FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio

The 12th annual Crossroads Music Fest is a celebration of Kansas City Music with talent from around the Midwest. Saturday September 10, 2016.

New This Year:

1. VIP Venue at Good Golly (more info and VIP Ticket Link coming soon)
2. Main Stage Moving to the brand new recordBar
3. Josey Records will be selling advance Tix (to avoid Extra Fees)
4. Bringing back Collection as an acoustic venue.
5. Radkey & Kelley Hunt (Co-Headliners)

Josey Records Sponsored: CMF Showcases, July 8-15 in (KC, St. Joe, Lawrence, OPKS)

Friday, July 8, at The Tank Room with IRIEplaceables Ska Orchestra, Golden Groves, American Slim, and Brody Buster One Man Band;

Friday, July 8 at Replay Lounge in Lawrence, with Street Level Uprising, Heidi Lynne Gluck, and Nicholas St. James;

Saturday, July 9, at First Ward House in St. Joseph, Missouri, with Gaston lamps, The Center Stage, and Under The Big Oak Tree;

Friday, July 15, at Llywelyns Pub, in Overland Park, Kansas, with Thunderclaps, and Ragged Heirs. More info at: http://www.cmfkc.com

Featuring: Radkey, Kelley Hunt, Not A Planet, Various Blonde, Jessica Paige, Amanda Fish Band, Michaela Anne, The Phantastics, The Philistines, Brother, Under the Big Oak Tree, The MGDs, The Matchsellers, Caleb Ryan Martin, American Slim, Brody Buster Band, Golden Groves, Heidi Lynne Gluck, Instant Karma, IRIEplacables Ska Orchestra, Thunderclaps, Nicholas Saint James, Stephonne Singleton, Street Level Uprising, Alex Abromovitz & his Swing’n KC Jazz Band, Willie Arthur Smith’s MARCHING COBRAS.

Venues: Good Golly, recordBar, The Brick, The Tank Room, The Mod Gallery, The Living Room Upstairs, The Living Room Downstairs, and Collection

CMF Tickets available Friday July 8, $20.00 Advance, $25.00 at gate, http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1182033 or Josey Records, 1814 Oak, KCMO.

Bill Sundahl, Thanks for being with us on WMM.

Josey Records presents CMF Showcases: Fri, July 8, at The Tank Room w/ IRIEplaceables Ska Orchestra, Golden Groves, American Slim, Brody Buster One Man Band; Fri, July 8 at Replay Lounge in Lawrence, w/ Street Level Uprising, Heidi Lynne Gluck, Nicholas St. James; Sat, July 9, at First Ward House in St. Joseph, Mo, w/ Gaston lamps, The Center Stage, and Under The Big Oak Tree; Friday, July 15, at Llywelyns Pub, in OPKS, w/ Thunderclaps, Ragged Heirs. More info at: http://www.cmfkc.com

11:45

8. American Slim – “On My Mind”
from: American Slim – [EP] / American Slim / December 18, 2015
[Debut EP of original music from KC based 4-piece band formed in 2012 by Nathan Jurries on guitar; Patrick Newland on piano, tenor saxophone, bass, & vocals; Jacob Newland on guitar, bass, & vocals; and Mikala Petillo on vocals & drums. Their sound is a mix of rock, funk, blues, and americana and all members play multiple instruments, ncluding ukulele, and banjo.] [American Slim play the Crossroads Music Fest Showcase, Friday, July 8, at The Tank Room with IRIEplaceables Ska Orchestra, Golden Groves, and Brody Buster One Man Band.]

11:49

9. Bobby Watson & The I Have a Dream Project – “My Song ” [feat. Glenn North]
from: Check Cashing Day / Lafiya Music / Aug. 28, 2013
[Watson chose to concentrate on the reason why over 300,000 people, black and white, gathered in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Dr. King spoke of coming to Washington to cash a 100 year old check, a moral check that the founding fathers wrote into the Declaration of Independence, but to this day, the check keeps coming back marked ‘insufficient funds.’ Introducing poet and spoken word artist Glenn North from KCMO, Check Cashing Day is a concept recording with 15 tracks portrayed in the vein of musical theatre. “I asked Glenn to put some poetry, from his perspective, to several of my compositions” comments Watson. “It was my desire with this project to produce poetry that would in some ways cleanse the soul,” notes North. In addition, Watson’s release features trumpeter Hermon Mehari, pianist Richard Johnson, drummer Eric Kennedy, flutist Horace Washington, and trombonist Karita Carter.]

10. Bobby Watson & The I Have a Dream Project –”Mlk On Jazz” [feat. Glenn North]
from: Check Cashing Day / Lafiya Music / Aug. 28, 2013
[From wikipedia.org: “Bobby Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas, August 23, 1953. he is an American post-bop jazz alto saxophonist, composer, producer, and educator. Watson now has 27 recordings as a leader. He appears on nearly 100 other recordings as either co-leader or in a supporting role. Watson has recorded more than 100 original compositions. Watson grew up in Bonner Springs and Kansas City, Kansas.]

[Bobby Watson will perform music from this release LIVE, with his I Have A Dream Band, and poet Glenn North, Friday, July 8, at The Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum.]

11. Femi Kuti – “No Place For My Dream”
from: No Place For My Dream / Knitting Factory Records / June 25, 2013
[Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti was born June 16, 1962 and is popularly known as Femi Kuti, a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. and a grandchild of a political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. Femi’s musical career started when he began playing in his father’s band, Egypt 80. In 1986, Femi started his own band, Positive Force, and began establishing himself as an artist independent of his father’s massive legacy. His first record was released in 1995 by Tabu/Motown, followed four years later by Shoki Shoki (MCA), which garnered widespread critical acclaim. In 2001 he collaborated with Common, Mos Def and Jaguar Wright on Fight to Win, an effort to cross over to a mainstream audience, and started touring the United States with Jane’s Addiction. In 2004 he opened The Shrine, his club, where he recorded the live album Africa Shrine. After a 4-year absence due to personal setbacks, he re-emerged in 2008 with Day by Day and Africa for Africa in 2010, for which he received two Grammy nominations. In 2012 he was both inducted into the Headies Hall of Fame (the most prestigious music awards in Nigeria), was the opening act on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ European arena tour and became an Ambassador for Amnesty International. He continues to expand the diversity of his artistry on his new album (2013) No Place for My Dream. Femi Kuti was a judge on Nigeria’s huge TV show Nigerian Idol Season 3.]

[Femi Kuti & The Positive Force play The Crossroads Roots & Heritage Fest, Fri, July 8, at Crossroads -KC behind Grinders with: Roots of Creation, Lion Dub, DJ Rico, Soul Rebel & The Beast, and Sunu.]

11:00 – Station ID

12. Angel Olsen – “Intern”
from: MY WOMAN / Jagjaguwar / September 2, 2016
[American folk and indie rock singer and guitarist, who was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She first toured as a backing singer and guitarist with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and The Cairo Gang.]

13. Four Arm Shiver–”That’s Always Been The Difference Between Us, Dan”
from: Something About My 20’s / Independent / April 21, 2016
[Lawrence Kansas Punk Rock Power trio of: Ryan Schlotterbeck, Logan Herrera, Joel Austin. Recorded at Revealed Studios – Chanute, KS. Produced by Cody Nichols. Engineered & Mixed by Cody Nichols. Additional engineering / mixing by Christian Nichols. All songs written & performed by Four Arm Shiver. More info at: http://www.fourarmshiver.bandcamp.com ]

[Four Arm Shiver play The Jackpot in Lawrence on Thur, July 7, at 7:00 pm w/ Bruise, Laissez-Faire]
[Four Arm Shiver play Lawrence Field Day Fest, July 14]

14. Real Adults – “Bones”
from: Bones – Single / Independent / March 15, 2016
[Lawrence based band formed in June 2015, by Garrett Marsh on lead vocals & songwriting, Nicholas Fredrickson on drums, John McCain on bass, Doug Bybee, and Carlos Calderon. “Bones” was Produced by Joel Martin and Real Adults and Recorded by Joel Martin.]

[Real Adults play Mills Record Company’s in-store, Moving Celebrations Night 1: Friday, July 8, with Thunderclaps, Conductor Williams & Weaver, and Not A Planet.]

15. Thunderclaps – “You Got a Hold On Me”
from: Cookin’ Up a Good Time [EP] / Independent / October 16, 2015
[Cousins: Colin Blunt on drums. Bryce Jones on vocals & guitar. Colin hosts of late night radio show on 90.1 FM and Bryce works as an English teacher in Salina, KS. Produced by Lennon Bone.]

[Thunderclaps play Mills Record Company’s in-store, Moving Celebrations Night 1: Friday, July 8, with Real Adults, Conductor Williams & Weaver, and Not A Planet.]
[Thunderclaps play the Crossroads Music Fest Showcase, at Llywelyns Pub, in Overland Park, Kansas, on Friday, July 15, with Ragged Heirs.]

11:15 – Interview with Judy Mills

After paying her dues and building a successful resume in corporate retail, Judy Mills took the leap of faith that Kansas City needed a record store to buy new vinyl and she opened Mills Record Company on May 3, 2013. During these past three years the store has expanded into the space next door, doubling their size and giving them the opportunity to bring in used records too, and expand their stage for in-store performances. Now in just the last week Mills Record Company has moved from their original Westport Rd. location, just around the corner to their new home, 4045 Broadway, giving them even more square footage to add thoudsands more records, a bigger, more dedicated live stage performance area, and Mills will host 6 nights of in-store, Moving Celebrations starting: Friday, July 8, with Real Adults, Thunderclaps, Conductor Williams & Weaver, and Not A Planet; and Saturday, July 9, featuring The Shuttlecock Showcase, with Deaton Chris Anthony, Kye Colors, Explicit Content, and Narc Parade.

Judy Mills Thanks for being with us again on Wednesday MidDay Medley!

New home, 4045 Broadway, This move has been several months in the making.

4045 Broadway gives Mills even more square footage to add thoudsands more records,

4045 Broadway gives Mills a bigger, more dedicated live stage performance area,

Moving Celebrations:
Fri, July 8, w/ Real Adults, Thunderclaps, Conductor Williams & Weaver, Not A Planet;

Sat, July 9, featuring The Shuttlecock Showcase, w/ Deaton Chris Anthony, Kye Colors, Explicit Content, Narc Parade;

Fri, July 15, w/ Gnarly Davidson, Freight Train Rabbit Killer, Emmaline Twist, Parents;

Sat, July 16, w/ Youngblood Supercult, Keef Mountain;

Friday, July 22, with Altered Beast, Inner Altar, and Peasant; and Saturday, July 23, with Rachel Mallin and The Wild Type, Drugs & Attics, and The Ovaries-eez.

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

The State of vinyl. Since Mills opened on May 3, 2013, several other record stores have newly opened including: Revolution Records, Josey Records, Records With Merritt, Brothers Music, joining the previously established: Vinyl Underground at Seventh Heaven, It’s A Beautiful Day and Renaissance Records in Overland Park. Many retail outlets like Half priced Books and Barnes & Noble are now selling new vinyl, it would appear that our community of music lovers is able to support all of these outlets, where just 9 years ago all of our record store were dying. What happened?

Judy Mills, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Mills Record Company now located at 4045 Broadway, will host 6 nights of in-store, Moving Celebrations starting: Friday, July 8, with Real Adults, Thunderclaps, Conductor Williams & Weaver, and Not A Planet; and Saturday, July 9, featuring The Shuttlecock Showcase, with Deaton Chris Anthony, Kye Colors, Explicit Content, and Narc Parade. More info at: http://www.millsrecordcompany.com

11:30

16. Deaton Chris Anthony – “B Bae B”
from: BB / Independent / May 12, 2015
[BB was entirely recorded in Chris Deaton Anthony’s closet. It tells a story of virtual love, a baby boy searching for his baby girl through the web. Chris Deaton Anthony will be playing a show on July 29th in California for the premiere of skate film “Wet” that he is featured in, and will also be playing at the after party of local KC skate video premiere “Døg” on September 3rd.]

[Deaton Chris Anthony plays Mills Record Company’s in-store, Moving Celebrations Night 2: Saturday, July 9, featuring The Shuttlecock Showcase, with Kye Colors, Explicit Content, and Narc Parade.]

17. Esperanza Spalding – “One”
from: Emily’s D+Evolution (Deluxe Edition) / Concord Music Group / March 4, 2016
[5th album from an American jazz bassist, cellist and singer, Esperanza Emily Spalding, born October 18, 1984, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions. A concept album revolving around a central character named Emily (Spalding’s middle name), Emily’s D+Evolution is not a jazz album — though jazz does inform much of the music here. Instead, Spalding — who also co-produced the album alongside legendary producer Tony Visconti (David Bowie) — builds the release largely around angular, electric guitar-rich prog rock, kinetic, rhythmically rich jazz fusion, and lyrically poetic pop. Spalding was raised in Portland, Oregon and was a musical prodigy, playing violin in the Chamber Music Society of Oregon at age five. She was later both self-taught and trained on a number of instruments, including guitar and bass. Her proficiency earned her scholarships to Portland State University and the Berklee College of Music. She has won four Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, making her the first jazz artist to win the award. Of her new album Pitchfork writes, “These are exuberant, confrontational songs, amplified in the same sort of rock/funk hybrid style that brings Prince and Janelle Monae to mind. Gone is the Afro, replaced with long braids, wide-rimmed glasses, and ornate outfits.”.]

18. case/lang/veirs – “1000 Miles Away”
from: case/lang/veirs / Anti- Records / June 14, 2016
[Several years ago k.d. lang sent an email to Neko Case and Laura Veirs on a whim. It read simply, “I think we should make a record together.” Though the three musicians were barely more than acquaintances “Laura and I both responded immediately,” recalls Case. “There was no question.” ‘case/lang/veirs,’ is a new album by three phenomenal, self-driven artists was released with an extensive tour to follow. ‘case/lang/veirs’ features fourteen new, original songs written by the artists over a period of two-and-a-half years. It was recorded in Portland, OR where lang and Veirs both live, and produced by Tucker Martine with the group. Sessions commenced in lang’s loft with a view of Mount St. Helens, and in Veirs’ dining room and backyard studio. ‘case/lang/veirs’ draws inspiration from alluring, mysterious subjects: a supermoon, the tumbledown story of 70s singer Judee Sill, and the “best kept secret” in Silver Lake, to name but three.]

11:41 – Underwriting

19. Amy Marcus – “Ebb and Flow”
from: Brave / Independence / May 19, 2016
[Kansas City based singer songwriter has I’ve writing songs since she was 4 years old. 26 years later, she got the opportunity to recored an EP with Serve Productions and was able to release her debut EP that includes: Casey Sheets on electric & upright bass, Nick Siegel on keys & grand piano, Kevin Rogers on electric & acoustic guitar, and Brandon Graves on drums.]

[Amy Marcus will open for Dallas, Texas, singer songwriter, Zach Balm, on Monday, July 18]

20. ON AN ON – “Drifting (RAC Mix)”
from: Drifting Remix EP / Independence / November 6, 2015
[Minneapolis, Minnesota three-piece band formed in August 2012 by Nate Eiesland, Ryne Estwing, and Alissa Ricci. This track is a remix of the band’s song “Drifting” from their July 24, 2015 release, And The Wave Has Two Sides.]

[On An On play The Tank Room, Tuesday, July 12, and it might be the end of the band’s constant touring as they’ve announced their be taking a hiatus.]

21. JAENKI – “Miracle Maze”
from: EP 1 / unreleased / late Summer 2016
[Kansas City based trio and the new band from The Republic Tigers lead singer, Kenn Jankowski with Ryan Wallace, and Drew Little. ]

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

Next week, July 13 Cat Mahari joins us to talk about her new space 31st & Brklyn and the soft opening of the space on July 16. Also joining us live on the show is Calvin Arsenia. Also Fally Afani talks about the Lawrence Field Day Fest!

Our Script/Playlist is a cut and paste of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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Show #637

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

New & MidCoastal Releases +
Bill Sundahl & The 12 Annual Crossroads Music Fest
+ Judy Mills of Mills Record Company

Mark plays more New & MidCoastal Releases from: JAENKI, Four Arm Shiver, Bobby Watson, Golden Groves, Me Like Bees, Real Adults, Thunderclaps, Kodascope, Deaton Chris Anthony, Amy Marcus, American Slim, Deerhoof, Wild Beasts, Angel Olsen, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Esperanza Spaulding, Case/Lang/Veirs, On An On, and Femi Kuti.

At 10:30, Bill Sundahl talks about the 12th annual Crossroads Music Fest, Saturday, September 10, 6:00 PM – 2:00 AM, on 8 stages: Good Golly, recordBar, The Brick, The Tank Room, The Mod Gallery, The Living Room Upstairs, The Living Room Downstairs, and Collection, featuring: Radkey, Kelley Hunt, Not A Planet, Various Blonde, Jessica Paige, Amanda Fish Band, Michaela Anne, The Phantastics, The Philistines, Brother, Under the Big Oak Tree, The MGDs, The Matchsellers, Caleb Ryan Martin, American Slim, Brody Buster Band, Golden Groves, Heidi Lynne Gluck, Instant Karma, IRIEplacables Ska Orchestra, Thunderclaps, Nicholas Saint James, Stephonne Singleton, Street Level Uprising, Alex Abromovitz & his Swing’n KC Jazz Band, and Willie Arthur Smith’s MARCHING COBRAS. Tickets available Friday July 8, $20.00 Advance, $25.00 at gate, http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1182033 or Josey Records, 1814 Oak, KCMO.

Josey Records is sponsoring multiple CMF Showcases: Friday, July 8, at The Tank Room with IRIEplaceables Ska Orchestra, Golden Groves, American Slim, and Brody Buster One Man Band; Friday, July 8 at Replay Lounge in Lawrence, with Street Level Uprising, Heidi Lynne Gluck, and Nicholas St. James; Saturday, July 9, at First Ward House in St. Joseph, Missouri, with Gaston lamps, The Center Stage, and Under The Big Oak Tree; and Friday, July 15, at Llywelyns Pub, in Overland Park, Kansas, with Thunderclaps, and Ragged Heirs. More info at: http://www.cmfkc.com

At 11:15 Mark welcomes Judy Mills who shares details about Mills Record Company’s recent move to their new home, 4045 Broadway, just around the block from their original location on Westport Road. Mills will host 6 nights of in-store, Moving Celebrations: Friday, July 8, with Real Adults, Thunderclaps, Conductor Williams & Weaver, and Not A Planet; Saturday, July 9, featuring The Shuttlecock Showcase, with Deaton Chris Anthony, Kye Colors, Explicit Content, and Narc Parade; Friday, July 15, with Gnarly Davidson, Freight Train Rabbit Killer, Emmaline Twist, and Parents; Saturday, July 16, with Youngblood Supercult, and Keef Mountain; Friday, July 22, with Altered Beast, Inner Altar, and Peasant; and Saturday, July 23, with Rachel Mallin and The Wild Type, Drugs & Attics, and The Ovaries-eez. More info at: http://www.millsrecordcompany.com

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

Show #637

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

Krystle Warren began her musical career in her hometown, Kansas City. She is a graduate of Paseo Academy of Performing Arts. After living in San Francisco and New York City, Krystle was signed to the French recording label Because Music, and moved to Paris and released her album “Circles.” Krystle has played many French and British television programs, including Later with Jools Holland. She has been compared to Tracy Chapman and Nina Simone, garnering critical acclaim and traveling all over the world, touring with Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle created her own music label: Parlour Door Music to release, “Love Songs: A Time you May Embrace” a recording from a 13 day session in Brooklyn, where she recorded 24 songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle is currently getting set to release her latest album of original songs, where she plays all of the musical instruments and sings all of the lead and background vocals. More info at http://www.krystlewarren.com.

Krystle Warren will be in concert, for a special solo performance, at Prospero’s Books, 1800 W 39th St, KCMO, Sunday, July 3, at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $12.00 at the door; $10.00 dollars advance.

Photo of Krystle Warren by Manu Noyon

Photo of Krystle Warren by Manu Noyon

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Universal / Dec. 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme]

2. Dionne Warwick – “Do You Know the Way To San Jose”
from: The Dionne Warwick Collection: Her All-Time Greatest Hits / Warner / Jan. 1, 1989

3. Jimmy Cliff – “Time Will Tell”
from : Jimmy Cliff / Sanctuary Records / 2002 [orig. 1989]

4. D’Angelo – “Back To the Future (Part I)”
from: Black Messiah / RCA / December 15, 2014
[Third studio album from D’Angelo. Released after a 14-year hiatus. Black Messiah won Best R&B Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards as well as Best R&B Song for “Really Love” which also was nominated for Record of the Year. Michael Eugene Archer was born February 11, 1974, better known as D’Angelo. Born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of a Pentecostal minister, he began teaching himself piano as a very young child, and at age 18 he won the amateur talent competition at Harlem’s Apollo Theater three weeks in a row. After briefly being a member of a hip-hop group called I.D.U., his first major success came in 1994 as the co-writer and co-producer of “U Will Know”. His debut solo album, Brown Sugar, released in July 1995, received rave reviews and sold over two million copies. Along with artists like Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, and collaborator Angie Stone, D’Angelo became part of the Neo soul movement. D’Angelo became more uncomfortable with his growing status as a sex symbol. This was followed by numerous personal struggles including alcoholism, and a fourteen-year musical hiatus. ]

5. Fink – “Pretty Little Thing”
from: Biscuits for Breakfast / Nija Tune / April 24, 2006

6. Prince – “Girl”
from: The Hits/The B-Sides [Disc 3] / Warner Bros. / September 13, 1993

7. Robert Palmer – “Hey, Julia”
from: Sneakin’ Sally through the Alley / Island Records / 1974

10:30 – Underwriting

8. Rufus Wainwright – “Shadows”
from: Poses / SKG / February 12, 2002

9. Emily King – “Georgia”
from: Seven / Emily King / July 12, 2011

10. Blake Mills – “Hiroshima”
from: Break Mirrors / Record Collection / July 6, 2010

11. Joan as Police Woman – “Ask Me”
from: The Classic / Play It Again Sam / March 11, 2014

12. Mathieu Boogaerts – “Siliguri”
from: Michel / Tôt ou tard / April 5, 2005

13. Menahan Street Band – “Esma”
from: Make the Road By Walking / Dunham Records / October 14, 2008

11:00 – Station ID

14. Dirty Projectors – “Temecula Sunrise”
from : Bitte Orca / Domino Recordings / June 9, 2009

15. Andrew Bird – “The New Saint Jude”
from Are You Serious / Wegawam – Loma Vista / April 1, 2016

16. Hiatus Kaiyote – “The World Softly Lulls”
from: Tawk Tomahawk / Pineapple Spaceship / July 12, 2013

17. Jai Paul – “Jasmine”
from: Jasmine (Demo) – Single / XL Recordings April 9, 2012

18. Dr. John – “Mama Roux”
from: Gris-Gris / ATCO Records / 1968

19. Bobby Blue Bland – “Rockin’ In the Same Boat”
from: Spotlighting The Man / The Anthology / Geffen Records / June 5, 2001

11:27 – Underwriting

20. Lord Huron – “La Belle Fleur Sauvage”
from: Strange Trails / IAMSOUND Records / April 7, 2015

21. Ex-Reyes – “Bad Timing”
from: “Bad Timing” – Single / Tillary Gold / May 16, 2016

22. King – “The Story”
from: We Are King / KING Creative / February 5, 2016

23. Here We Go Magic – “Hard To Be Close”
from: A Different Ship / Secretly Canadian / May 8, 2012

24. Lucius – “Go Home”
from: Wildewoman / Mom + Pop / October 15, 2013

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

Next week, July 6 we’ll talk with Judy Mills of Mills Record Company, and Bill Sundahl about the Crossroads Music Festival .

Our Script/Playlist is a cut and paste of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:

www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org,
http://www.facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMedleyon90.1FM,
http://www.kkfi.org

Show #636

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

Guest Producer Krystle Warren

Photo of Krystle Warren by Manu Noyon

Mark welcomes Krystle Warren who will join us for the entire show as “Guest Producer.” Krystle will take over Wednesday MidDay Medley playing musical tracks from: Dionne Warwick, Jimmy Cliff, D’Angelo, Fink, Prince, Robert Palmer, Rufus Wainwright, Emily King, Blake Mills, Joan as Police Woman, Mathieu Boogaerts, Menahan Street Band, Dirty Projectors, Andrew Bird, Hiatus Kaiyote, Jai Paul, Dr. John, Bobby Blue Bland, Lord Huron, Ex-Reyes, and King.

Krystle Warren began her musical career in her hometown, Kansas City. She is a graduate of Paseo Academy of Performing Arts. After living in San Francisco and New York City, Krystle was signed to the French recording label Because Music, and moved to Paris and released her album “Circles.” Krystle has played many French and British television programs, including Later with Jools Holland. She has been compared to Tracy Chapman and Nina Simone, garnering critical acclaim and traveling all over the world, touring with Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle created her own music label: Parlour Door Music to release, “Love Songs: A Time you May Embrace” a recording from a 13 day session in Brooklyn, where she recorded 24 songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle is currently getting set to release her latest album of original songs, where she plays all of the musical instruments and sings all of the lead and background vocals. More info at http://www.krystlewarren.com.

Krystle Warren will be in concert, for a special solo performance, at Prospero’s Books, 1800 W 39th St, KCMO, Sunday, July 3, at 8:00 pm. Prospero’s Books was the very first venue Krystle played as a musician, at a monthly event called “The Pit,” hosted by Will Leathem. Tickets are $12.00 at the door; $10.00 dollars advance.

Photo of Krystle Warren by Manu Noyon

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Show #636

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

Rock & Art & Gender
+ Artist Ryan Wilks & Gender Treason + Poet Jen Harris
+ Ryan will paint the radio show!

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Sufjan Stevens – “The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius And His Squadron Of Benevolent Butterflies”
from: The Avalanche: Outtakes And Extras From The Illinois Album / Asthmatic Kitty / July 11, 2006
[Sufjan Stevens references outsider artist, Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. Born April 12, 1892 – and died, April 13, 1973, He was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a hospital custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story. A press release on the Asthmatic Kitty website reported that the Illinois album was supposed to be a double record (with somewhere near 50 songs), but the idea was eventually scrapped. After the success of the album, Stevens returned to his analog 8-track recorder in late 2005 and began the process of finishing 21 of the previously abandoned songs, which would eventually become The Avalanche. Stevens has stated during interviews that although he doesn’t like The Avalanche as much as Illinois, he felt it was important to release the songs in light of the success of his most recent album. He has also said that he decided to release the album in order to buy time until his next “The 50 States” project,” release.]

3. Laurie Anderson – “Cartoon Song [Live Album Version]”
from: United States Live / Warner Bros. / 1984 (Recorded February 7 – 10, 1983)
[3rd album release by avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director, Laurie Anderson, born June 5, 1947, whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, making particular use of language, technology, and visual imagery. Released as a 5-record boxed set (later reissued, slightly truncated, on four CDs), the album was recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City in February 1983. United States was Anderson’s magnum opus performance-art piece featuring musical numbers, spoken word pieces, and animated vignettes about life in the United States. Segments ranged from humorous, such as “Yankee See,” which gently chided Anderson’s record label, Warner Bros. Records, for signing her in the first place, to the apocalyptic anthem “O Superman,” which had been an unexpected Top 10 hit for Anderson on the UK music charts in 1981. Originally, United States was presented over the course of two nights, running some eight hours. The United States Live box set is a truncated rendering of the performance, omitting many segments that were solely of a visual nature. Among the songs performed on the album was “Language is a Virus (from Outer Space),” a pop-like song based upon a phrase attributed to William S. Burroughs. Anderson later performed a modified arrangement of the song in her 1986 concert film Home of the Brave. Although Anderson has since created numerous other major performance pieces (i.e. Moby-Dick, Stories from the Nerve Bible, Happiness, The End of the Moon), United States Live remains, to date, the only serious attempt at producing anything approaching a full-length recording of any of these performances, although her previous album Big Science and her segment of the compilation You’re the Guy I Want to Share My Money With consisted of studio-recorded excerpts from United States.]

4. David Bowie – “Sound and Vision 2013”
from: Sound and Vision 2013 – Single / Parlophone Records / October 4, 2013
[A 2013 remix that was commissioned for Sony Xperia Z smartphone advertising campaign. The new mix by Sonjay Prabhakar utilized the original lead vocals and Mary Hopkin’s backing vocal with a new piano part by Rob Gentry. Parlophone Records digital download released on 7 October 2013. Originally “Sound and Vision” is a song and single by David Bowie which appeared on the album Low in 1977. The song is notable for juxtaposing an uplifting guitar and synthesizer-led instrumental track with Bowie’s withdrawn lyrics. In keeping with the minimalist approach of Low, co-producer Visconti and Bowie originally recorded the track as an instrumental, bar the backing vocal (performed by Visconti’s wife, Mary Hopkin). Bowie then recorded his vocal after the rest of the band had left the studio, before trimming verses off the lyric, and leaving a relatively lengthy instrumental intro on the finished song. Selected as a first single from the album, “Sound and Vision.”]

5. Herbie Hancock – “The Jungle Line (feat. Leonard Cohen)”
from: River: The Joni Letters / The Verve Music Group / September 25, 2007
[A tribute album, featuring covers of songs originally written and performed by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It is Hancock’s 47th studio album. Hancock is a longtime friend of Mitchell’s, and both he and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who plays throughout the album, had previously collaborated with Mitchell on her 1979 album Mingus, and both continued to work with her on occasion ever since. Guest vocalists on River include Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Souza and Mitchell herself. In 2008 The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Jazz Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. The Album of the Year award surprised the music world; Hancock had faced competition from major-selling artists Kanye West, Foo Fighters, Amy Winehouse, and Vince Gill. River was only the second jazz album to win Album of the Year in the award’s history, the first being Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and João Gilberto in 1965. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 after enjoying a huge post-Grammy sales boost.]

10:13 – Underwriting

6. Le Tigre – “My Art”
from: Feminist Sweepstakes / Le Tigre Records / October 16, 2001
[Le Tigre is an American electroclash band from the United States, formed by Kathleen Hanna (formerly of Bikini Kill) and Johanna Fateman in 1998 in New York City. It also featured Sadie Benning from 1998 until 2001 and JD Samson for the rest of the group’s run. Le Tigre is known for its left-wing sociopolitical lyrics, dealing with issues of feminism and the LGBT community. Feminist Sweepstakes is the second studio album and the first album to feature JD Samson as a member of the band. She had previously worked with the band as a roadie and the operator of Benning’s slide show during live performances in support of their first record.]

7. Schmekel – “Gay Shame”
from: The Whale That Ate Jonah / Schmekel / October 29, 2013
[Schmekel is an all-transgender, Jewish folk punk band from Brooklyn, NY, known for their humor. Lucian Kahn on guitar & vocals, Ricky Riot on keyboards & vocals, Nogga Schwartz on bass guitar, Simcha Halpert-Hanson on drums. Active from 2010 to 2014. They have been compared to Pansy Division, Tribe 8, Frank Zappa, Mel Brooks and Tom Lehrer. The Forward cites Schmekel as an example of the cultural movement “Queer Yiddishkeit.” More info at: http://www.transjews.com]

8. ANOHNI – “Why Did You Separate Me from the Earth?”
from: HOPELESSNESS / Secretly Canadian / May 6, 2016
[ANOHNI is formerly known as Antony Hegarty or Antony, is an English-born American singer, composer, and visual artist. She is best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons. Anohni was born in 1970 in the city of Chichester, England. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States in 1981. In 1990, she moved to Manhattan, New York to study at New York University, where she founded the performance art collective Blacklips with Johanna Constantine. Entering a musical career, she began performing with an ensemble of NYC musicians as Antony and the Johnsons. Their first album, Antony and the Johnsons, was released in 2000 on David Tibet’s label Durtro. Their second album, I Am a Bird Now (2005), was a commercial and critical success, earning Anohni the Mercury Music Prize. In 2016, Anohni became the second openly transgender person nominated for an Academy Award; she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, along with J. Ralph, for the song “Manta Ray” in the film Racing Extinction.]

9. Ivory Black – “A Good Answer”
from: Ready Get Set EP / Independent / June 23, 2015
[Singer, songwriter, rock & roller, Ivory Black was born in 1986 in Peoria Illinois. Given up for adoption at the age of four, it was difficult to find trust in people after living with eight different foster families, running away at 15, moving from Indiana to Oklahoma, Ivory eventually ended up in Seattle. In 2011, after a friend sent a plane ticket, Ivory landed in the Kansas City.]

10:30 – Interview with Ryan Wilks

Ryan Wilks is a Kansas City based artist who’s work centralizes on gender issues, femininity and sexuality. His upcoming exhibition: “Gender Treason,” opens July 1, at 6:00 PM, at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Ave, in Kansas City’s Crossroads Art District.

“Gender Treason” is a year long project involving the documentation of 12 queer persons living in Kansas City who were interviewed, photographed, recorded, transcribed, and painted in oils. The aspiration of this project is to reshape the perception of queer people in Kansas City in a constructive and powerful way. More information at: http://www.wilkspainting.com

We just heard Ivory Black who is part of this exhibition.

10:45

10. The Velvet Underground – “I’ll Be Your Mirror (Mono Version)”
from: The Velvet Underground & Nico (45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) / Universal Records / 2012 [Orig. March 12, 1967]
[The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico, released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico would gain attention for its experimental performance sensibilities, as well as the focus on controversial subject matter expressed in many of its songs including drug abuse, prostitution, sadism and masochism and sexual deviancy. In 1982, musician Brian Eno famously stated that while The Velvet Underground & Nico initially only sold 30,000 copies, “everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.” Though it was a commercial failure upon release and was almost completely ignored by critics at the time, the record has since become one of the most influential and critically acclaimed rock albums in history, appearing at number thirteen on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time as well as being added to the 2006 National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. “I’ll Be Your Mirror” is a song by The Velvet Underground. It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with “All Tomorrow’s Parties” in 1966. Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals. Inspiration for the song apparently came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, “Oh Lou, I’ll be your mirror.” The song was a favorite of Reed’s and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.]

11. Lou Reed and John Cale – “Images”
from: Songs For Drella / Sire – Warner Bros. / 1990
[Dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol Superstar Ondine, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol’s crowd. The song cycle focuses on Warhol’s interpersonal relations and experiences, with songs falling roughly into three categories: Warhol’s first-person perspective (which makes up the vast majority of the album), third-person narratives chronicling events and affairs, and first-person commentaries on Warhol by Reed and Cale themselves. The songs on the album are, to some extent, in chronological order.]

12. Britta Phillips – “Ingrid Superstar”
from: Luck Or Magic / Double Feature Records / April 29, 2016
[Britta Phillips was born June 11, 1963. She is a singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, actor, and voice actor. Phillips’ music career spans more than 30 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s as the singing voice of the title character of the animated television series Jem. She has also been a member of the bands Luna and as one half of the duo Dean & Britta, both with her husband Dean Wareham. For a few years, on and off, Phillips has been working on Luck Or Magic, her solo debut, which started off as a collaboration with the late dance producer Scott Hardkiss. The album finally comes out this week. It’s got five originals and five covers. The closing original track, “Ingrid Superstar,” named after the former Andy Warhol superstar who disappeared in 1984 and has not been found. It’s a fitting reminder of Britta’s connection to Warhol, particularly on Dean & Britta’s 2009 release 13 Most Beautiful Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests. “In addition to her talents as a film comedienne, Ingrid Superstar also wrote short poems and prose pieces, which were occasionally published, and sometimes gave public readings from her Trip Book. Warhol thought ‘her poems were good, really good, half poetry and half comedy.’ In later years, Ingrid Von Scheven fell on hard times, struggling with a drug problem and eventually ending up in Kingston, New York, where she worked in sweater factory. She disappeared one day in December 1986, after leaving her apartment to buy cigarettes. although the Kingston police announced ‘there’s a clear possibility of foul play and we are intensifying our investigation,’ she was never found. She was forty-two years old at the time of her disappearance.”]

10:57

13. Le1f – “Wut”
from: Hey – EP / Terrible Records / March 7, 2014
[Khalif Diouf, known by his stage name Le1f, is an American rapper and producer from New York City. He runs the hip hop label Camp & Street, a subsidiary of Greedhead Music. As a gay rapper he’s garnered attention for his unique and subversive musical and performance styles. Following a series of well-received mixtapes and EPs, his debut studio album Riot Boi was released in November 2015. Hey is the label debut EP by Le1f. The EP also marks the first official hip hop release for Terrible Records, aside from Solange’s 2013 single “Looks Good with Trouble” that featured Kendrick Lamar. “Ask a gay question/ Here’s a black answer” is a line hidden in the opening track of big indie label debut.]

11:00 – Interview with Jen Harris

Kansas City based poet & spoken word artist, Jen Harris, joined us to talk about her Kickstarter campaign to support the release of her debut spoken word album, Flaunting Her Mediocrity, (due out Fall 2016), and planning her 2016 solo cross-country tour: Multiple Personalities.

Earlier this year her first book of poetry, SLAMMED was published through Prospero’s Books and Spartan Press as part of the POP POETRY series.

Jen Harris is co-owner of Createful Studios LLC, & founder of KC’s PoUnd SLAM now called Kansas City Poetry Slam.

Jen Harris is the recipient of the 2015 UMKC Jim Wanser Pride Award for outstanding LGBT community activism in Kansas City. Additionally, she is the recipient of the 2015 & 2014 Pitch Magazine Top 3 Poets in Kansas City award, and the 2009 ACP Kansas Journalist of the Year. More info at: http://www.facebook.com/poetjenharris.

Jen Harris has a new book, SLAMMED. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/poetjenharris and http://www.poetjenharris.com

11:15

14. Pieta Brown – “Painter’s Hands”
from: Paradise Outlaw / Red House Records / September 30, 2014
[Recorded at Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon’s studio April Base, Paradise Outlaw was another new spin on the ethereal folk sound Brown has crafted over six albums. Pieta Brown was born in 1973 in Iowa City, Iowa. Her early upbringing was in Iowa. There, Brown was exposed to traditional and rural folk music through her father, singer songwriter Greg Brown. Brown spent her childhood living in 17 different residences between Iowa and Alabama. While living with her mother in Alabama, Brown began writing poetry and composing instrumental songs on piano. As a musician and singer-songwriter she has released five albums and four EPs. Collaborator Bo Ramsey produced her 2002 debut record, Pieta Brown and co-produced her 2005 album In the Cool, which was named one of the year’s best by Amazon. Her next album Remember The Sun was released in 2007 and was cited as one of the year’s best in a The Wall Street Journal article. After the release of her next album, One and All, Brown joined Mark Knopfler’s North American tour, had a string of performance dates with John Prine, participated in a full orchestral show with Brandi Carlile, and embarked on her own performance tour in Australia. Brown’s 2009 EP, Shimmer was produced by Don Was after hearing her on his car radio in a live solo performance. In addition to Mark Knopfler, John Prine and Brandi Carlile, Brown has shared stages with JJ Cale, Emmylou Harris, Richard Thompson, Ani DiFranco, Calexico, Neko Case, Mason Jennings, Shawn Mullins, Carrie Rodriguez and Jim Lauderdale. She has performed at festivals throughout North America including Bonnaroo, Mountain Jam, Edmonton Folk Music Festival and more. Her national radio credits include performances on eTown and Mountain Stage. Brown is married to guitarist and producer, Bo Ramsey.]

15. Rufus Wainwright – “The Art Teacher”
from: Want Two / Geffen Records / November 16, 2004
[4th album from American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, to folk singers Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III. His parents divorced when he was three, and he lived with his mother in Montreal for most of his youth. Want Two is, according to Wainwright, the darker sibling of 2003’s Want One – its subject matter concerned with “the world we live in” after Want One’s focus on the intensely personal. Antony Hegarty of 2005 Mercury Prize winners Antony and the Johnsons sings lead vocal alongside Wainwright on “Old Whore’s Diet”. ]

16. Janelle Monáe Feat. Prince – “Givin Em What They Love”
from: The Electric Lady / Bad Boy Records / September 10, 2013
[Janelle Monáe moved from Kansas City, Kansas to New York to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Her original plan was to pursue a career on Broadway, but she soon changed her mind and returned to music. After moving to Atlanta, GA, where she met OutKast’s Big Boi, Monáe founded the Wondaland Arts Society with like-minded young artists and made appearances on Outcast’s Idlewild, where Janelle is featured on the songs “Call The Law” and “In Your Dreams”. In 2007, Monáe released her first solo work, titled Metropolis. A few months later she was signed to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ label, Bad Boy Records.]

17. Kristie Stremel – “Orlando (Keep Dancing)”
rom: Orlando (Keep Dancing) – Single / Stremeltone / June 16, 2016
[Written by: Kristie Stremel and Recorded and Mixed by Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound. Mastered by John Hobson. Kristie Stremel on vocals & guitar, Anna Cook on cello & backround vocals, Ryan McCall on piano & background vocals. Described as “Joan Jett & Tom Petty’s love child,” and armed with her guitar, fueled by coffee, and over 75 published songs, singer, songwriter, producer, rock & roll mom, Kristie Stremel has had a very busy year. In October, 2013 Kristie and her partner, Lori Isabell, welcomed their adopted baby son, Charlie, into their family. In April 2014 Kristie released her 6th solo record, and the 9th full-length release of her musical career of over 20 years. Released on her own label, Stremeltone, it was Kristie’s first self-produced album. Stremeltone Records, was created in her home in Lawrence. The last track, “It’s Enough” was released early, as a video, featuring photos of couples in partnerships, relationships, marriages, unions, families. The video was Kristie’s response the the KS House of Representatives passing HD 2453 allowing business the right to refuse service to LGBT customers. The bill eventually died in the Kansas Senate. ]

11:43 – Underwriting

11:45

18. Television Personalities – “Lichtenstein Painting”
from: Mummy Your Not Watching Me / Fire Records / 1981
[2nd album from The Television Personalities, an English post-punk band formed in 1978. The band was led through several incarnations by singer-songwriter Dan Treacy, its only constant member.] [Roy Fox Lichtenstein was born October 27, 1923 and died September 29, 1997. He was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody. Favoring the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting.” His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.]

19. Mission of Burma – “Max Ernst”
from: Signals, Calls and Marches / Matador / (August 1981) Remastered by by Matador in 2008
[American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass), Peter Prescott (drums) and Martin Swope (tape manipulator/sound engineer). Miller, Conley and Prescott share singing and songwriting duties. In early years the band’s recordings were all released on the small Boston-based record label Ace of Hearts. Despite initial success, Mission of Burma disbanded in 1983 due to Miller’s development of tinnitus caused by the volume of the band’s live performances. The band released only one album in its original lineup, Vs.. Mission of Burma reformed in 2002, with Bob Weston replacing Swope, and has since recorded three more albums, ONoffON, The Obliterati, and The Sound The Speed The Light. Mission of Burma played The Middle of The Map Fest. Friday April 6, 20121.] [Max Ernst was born April 2, 1891 and died April 1 1976. He was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.]

20. Talking Heads – “Artists Only [Live]”
from: The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [Live] / Sire / March 24, 1982
[The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads is a double live album by Talking Heads, originally released in 1982. The first disc featured the original quartet in recordings from 1977 and 1979, and the second disc the expanded ten-piece lineup that toured in 1980 and 1981. The album contains live versions of songs that appear on Talking Heads: 77, More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, and Remain in Light. The cassette edition of the album included “Cities” as a bonus track not included on the vinyl edition – this track has been included on the subsequent CD release. The title of the album is a reference both to the group’s preference for having no expressed definite article within the band name (as opposed to “The Talking Heads”) and to David Byrne’s minimalist introductions to songs. The album opens with one such introduction: “The name of this song is New Feeling. That’s what it’s about.” Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.[3] The band comprised David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Former art school students who became involved in the 1970s New York punk scene, Talking Heads integrated elements of punk, art rock, funk, dance, and world music with avant-garde sensibilities and the anxious stage persona of singer Byrne, helping to pioneer new wave music. The group produced several commercial hits and a number of multimedia projects throughout its career, and often collaborated with other artists, such as musician Brian Eno and director Jonathan Demme.]

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

During the entire live, two-hour broadcast, Ryan Wilks painted an oil portrait of Mark.

Next week, June 29, .

Our Script/Playlist is a cut and paste of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:

www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org,
http://www.facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMedleyon90.1FM,
http://www.kkfi.org

Show #635

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

That’s So Fabulous!
(Our Annual LGBTQIA Pride Show)
+ KC Pride Fest June 3–4-5 + The 70th Annual Tony Awards!

We celebrate The Pride Season with our annual show, “That’s So Fabulous!” Mark spins music from: Liberace, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde, Jim Nabors, Noel Coward, RuPaul, Grace Jones, Lucille Ball & Bea Arthur, Dos Fallopia, Judy Garland, Al Franken, Lily Tomlin, David Bowie, Anohni, Lou Reed, John Cale, Carmen Cusack, Cynthia Erivo, Dev, Beverly McClellan, Mountain Sprout, The Sleazebeats, The Kinsey Sicks, Mundo Nouvo, Stephonne, Vigil and Thieves, Radial Red, and the Broadway casts of “Hamilton,” “The Color Purple,” “Bright Star,” “A Chorus Line,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” and ”How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” plus the film soundtracks to “Bambi,” “Mame,” ”Hedwig & The Angry Inch,” and “Sordid Lives.”

We’ll feature music from one of the most diverse awards shows of the year, The 70th Annual Tony Awards. “Hamilton” a musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda is nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards. We’ll also hear from Cynthia Erivo, nominated for the 2016 Tony Award, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, for “The Color Purple.” We’ll hear from Carmen Cusack, also nominated for the 2016 Tony Award, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for “Bright Star.” The 70th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre in NYC, on Sunday, June 12, at 7:00 PM on CBS. More info at: http://www.tonyawards.com/

At 11:15, Mark talks with Bill Svoboda, Festival Director for Kansas City Pride Fest, June 3, 4, & 5, at Berkley Riverfront Park, KCMO. Friday features emcee Dirty Dorothy with DJ Remix, DJ Aaron Fries, DJ Chef Nguyen, DJ Chad Slater, DJ Tony Moran, and Men of Skin. Saturday features emcee Widow Von’du and emcees: Flo & Melinda Ryder with The Heartland Men’s Chorus, Vigil and Thieves, KC Sunshine, AJ Menendez, Stephonne, Mayor Sly James, Material Girl, Ty Herndon, and Dev. Sunday features emcee Monique Heart and emcee Daisy Buckët with Black Gay Pride, Mid America Freedom Band, Radial Red, Heartland Trans Chorus, Holmes Street, and Beverly McClellan. For more info at http://www.gaypridekc.org/

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Show #632

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

The Philistines
+ Rae Fitzgerald + Westport Roots Festival

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980 [WMM’s theme song]
2. Santah – “Did We Sing?”
from: How To Keep Dreaming III / The Record Machine / April 8, 2016
[Chicago based Blurry-Eyed Dark doo-wop rock-roll, formed on February 10, 2006 by Plock, McConnells, Trafton, and Winegardner.][The Record Machine’s new sampler: How To Keep Dreaming Vol. III, is available at https://therecordmachine.bandcamp.com. Proceeds benefit Spay & Neuter Kansas City.][Santah played Middle of The Map, Sat, May 7 at The Brick]

3. Mat Shoare – “All About You”
from: Mirror Music no. 1 / Independent / January 26, 2016
[Mat Shoare followed up his critically acclaimed 3rd full length release of 2015, Right As Rain, with this new 4-song EP. Mat has also released several EPs with his band The Empty Spaces, who won a Pitch Music Award for Best Garage Band.][Mat Shoare plays The Brick, on Saturday, May 28, with The Leonas, and The Perfect Things.]

10:11 – Music from Westport Roots Festival

Westport Roots Festival, begins this Friday, May 27, at 8:00 PM w/ The Honky Tonk Pre Party at The Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO, w/ The Hardship Letters, Kasey Rausch and Friends, Dusty Rust, and Dale Watson at Midnight. The Festival continues on Saturday May 28, at 12:00 Noon through 2:00 AM at: The Westport Saloon, Ernie Biggs, Firefly Lounge, Californo’s, Buzzard Beach, and Doughnut Lounge, with over 60 performers of Honky Tonk, Bluegrass, Outlaw Country, Ameripolitan, Blues, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Cowpunk, and Roots music. On Sunday, May 29, The Westport Saloon presents Roots Fest Recovery with special guests, Mountain Sprout, and solo sets from: Joey Henry’s Dirty Sunshine Club,Brook Blanche, Joshua Morningstar, Billy Don Burns, and J.B. Beverley.

4. Dale Watson – “Everybody’s Somebody in Luchenbach Texas”
rom: Call Me Insane / Hen House Records Records / June 9, 2015
[Dale Watson was born October 7, 1962 in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and self-published author based in Austin, Texas. He champions “Ameripolitan” as a new genre of original music and has positioned himself as a tattooed, stubbornly independent outsider who is interested in recording authentic country music. As a result, he has become a favorite of critics and alt-country fans. Since 1995 he has released 29 full length albums. Dale Watson has appeared on film and television and appears regularly at The Continental Club in Austin and The Grand Ole Opry in Nasville.][Dale Watson plays The Honky Tonk Pre Party at The Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania Ave, Friday, May 27, at 8:00 PM, with The Hardship Letters, Kasey Rausch and Friends, Dusty Rust.]

Jody Hendrix is co-founder of Little Class Records, and is co-founder of the Westport Roots Festival. He organizes all of the music presented at The Westport Saloon. Jody grew up dreaming of making music. By the age of 14, he was forming bands and organizing little free festivals in public parks. After serving in the military, and learning life’s lessons the hard way, while in his late 20s, Jody helped form, Them Damned Young Livers, a “cowpunk” band that toured the region in a bus fueled on vegetable oil.

In an effort to avoid the high prices of commercial recording studios, Jody and his band created their own studio, to record their second album, Psalms of Ill-Repute. Eventually their home-made studio began recording music for their friends, and in 2010, with the recording of Billy Beale’s “Slide Dog Billy,” Jody created Little Class Records with friend and collaborator, Matt Dennis. While working as booking manager at The Westport Saloon, in 2013 Little Class Records teamed up with The Westport Saloon to create Westport Roots Festival, now in it’s third year, featuring over 60 bands, on six stages in Westport, on Saturday, May 28, 12:00 Noon through 2:00 AM.

While searching for ways to get his band’s music out there to listeners and fans, Jody Hendrix ended up creating a recording company that is serving multiple bands and many many musicians, and an entire community of music lovers.

Little Class Records, the label has put out so much music in a short period of time. In fact there are six new Little Class records releases happening during this year’s Westport Roots Festival:

Nathan Kalish and The Lastcallers – Continental Breakfast of Champions
[After releasing their debut record, How Am I Supposed To Get Back Home, on Little Class in 2015, NKATLC continued grinding away and accomplished over 250 shows and walked away with an sophomore follow up that was completely curated on the road. When you do as many shows as these guys, there is no rehearsal, you write, create and shape songs in front of people every night. This particular collection is wrapped in Cosmic Cowboy, Outlaw and Classic Country. Obvious inspirations include Woody Guthrie and John Prine with a touch of early Sun Records slap back.] [By way of Grand Rapids, Mi., Nathan Kalish and The Lastcallers are slated to call KC home in Spring 2016 to be close to the amazing music happening here.]

Julian Davis and The Hay-Burners – Make Americana Great Again
[16 year old Julian Davis has quite a splash on the regional roots scene. With his television debut just days after the fest, Julian and his Hay-Burners have a new album to boot. This will be the trio’s first effort as a full band. Since the release of Who Walks In, When I Walk Out?, Julian and Seth Campbell on bass stumbled upon red hot fiddler’, Shannon O’Shea and quickly invited her to permanently round out the sound. O’Shea’s authentic hillbilly chops bring a real western swing feel to the project. There will be some originals revisited on this release as well as some obscure songs from heroes past.]

The Drunken Cuddle – Electric Cat
[The 3rd studio album, from Denver, Colorado, based “cowpunk”band. Spouting a solid set of road tested tunes with no frills or anything fancy, this album was recorded to sound exactly like TDC sounds live. Why? Because that’s how we love music. All songs were captured in 2 to 3 live takes, displaying the tightness of this Never-go-home duo. The thing we love about this band, is they are the perfect bridge between roots and punk. In fact, they inhabit the hearts in the nationwide punk communities the same way they do in the roots community. Between the spaghetti western guitar lines and the fast as hell tempos, there isn’t a subculture in the land that wouldn’t like to be Drunken Cuddled.]

Monzie Leo and The Big Sky – Visions Envelop
[Monzie Leo has a big voice and a knack for songwriting. His presence is large and the sounds on Visions Envelop are a powerful reminder of what culture and talent reside in rural Kansas. Some tracks you can boot scoot to at times, while others are rather somber, full of minor chords and melodies that are almost influenced by soul music. The songs are thought provoking, introspective and always tell a story. ]

Boot Hill – Buried With Their Boots on: The Very Worst of Boot Hill
[During the late 90’s and early 00’s Boot Hill was one of Kansas City’s best cowpunk bands. Frontman and songwriter, Gary Cloud has resurrected this outfit (with some minor adjustments) and prepared a compilation of old demos and b-sides for release at the fest. We have also been told that there will be a handful of new tracks to boot! Gary Clouds’ rock n’ roll noises have been dwindled down to some solo acoustic shows here and there for several years now. We only hope that the resurrection of Boot Hill brings his music back to the forefront of the local scene. Both the KC punk scene and the roots community could use a dose.]

CJ Walker – Currently Untitled
[CJ Walker is a 21 year old blues guitarist with something special: His old soul. Coming from a family of Kansas City Blues pioneers, it’s not surprising that CJ has Kansas City Blues deep in his gut. What is surprising, is he does it against all odds. CJ suffered a traumatic injury at birth leaving him with only partial use of his left hand. Long story short he wound up being one of the best blues guitarist we’ve ever heard. CJ and his band, consisting of Adam Watson on Drums and Derek Tucker on bass, are currently in the studio and will hit the ground running on May 28th with their debut full length! For fans of Jimi Hendrix and BB King.]

Westport Roots Festival was developed in 2013 when Little Class Records and The Westport Saloon decided to team up and make The Historic Neighborhood of Westport, located in KCMO ground zero for the new roots music revolution. Launching Memorial Day Weekend, 2014, WRF made waves and in the media and the national music community with the diverse line up of genre bending artists. The traditional Bluegrass, Honky-Tonk and Outlaw acts performed side byside with Psychobilly, Cowpunk and Neo-Traditional acts, creating a unique blend of music appealing to many listening preferences!

The Westport Roots Festival – May 28, starts at 12:00 Noon through 2:00 AM
Westport Roots Festival — More info at: http://www.westportroots.com

Venues include: The Westport Saloon, Ernie Biggs, Firefly Lounge, Californo’s, Buzzard Beach, and Doughnut Lounge.

Musical Acts:
Sarah Gayle Meech, The Hickoids, Billy Don Burns, JB Beverley, Shawn James and The Shapeshifters, Calamity Cubes, Urban Pioneers, Carrie Nation and The Speakeasy, Elvis Hitler, Josh Morningstar, AJ Gaither OMB, SS Web, Champagne Charlie, Jack Grelle, Carsone Mchone, Nathan Kalish and The Lastcallers, Jon Hatchett, The HoboSexuals, The Creek Rocks, Pete Berwick, Brutally Frank, Dead Bundy and The Neat, Neat ,Neats, Dead Dickhammer, Freght Train Rabbit Killer and The Legions of Ghosts, Pendergast, BootHill, Julian Davis, Kansas City Hustle, The Kansas City Bearfighters, Drunken Cuddle, Kiel Grove, Hunter Grigg, Monzie Leo and The Big Sky, Twenty Thousand Strongmen, Tyler Gregory and The Bootleg Band, Booker Noe, Dusty Rust, Joe and Vicky Price, Kasey Rausch and Friends, Scott Hrabko and The Rabbits, Well Worn Soles, The Bindlestiffs, Hunter Grigg, Randal Conrad Ollinger OMB, Billy Beale, Coyote Bill Boogie Band, CJ Walker, The Hector Anchando Band, KC Raindogs, The Matchsellers, Ashes to Immortality, Loaded Goat, Konza Swamp Band, Good Time Charlie, Johnny 2 Tone and Jabberock spin classic vinyl.

Sunday, May 29, 12:00 PM, Roots Fest Recovery, at The Westport Saloon, with special guests Mountain Sprout, and Solo Sets from: Joey Henry’s Dirty Sunshine Club, Brook Blanche, Joshua Morningstar, Billy Don Burns, J.B. Beverley.

This year’s Westport Roots Festival features over 60 bands, on six stages in Westport, on Saturday, May 28, 12:00 Noon through 2:00 AM. The Honky Tonk Pre Party, is Friday, May 27, at 8:00 PM at The Westport Saloon. More info at: http://www.westportroots.com

5. Sarah Gayle Meech – “Love of Mine”
from: Tennessee Love Song / Sarah Gayle Meech / March 28, 2015
[Nashville based singer songwriter is the winner of the 2015 Best Outlaw Female Ameripolitan Award, ][Sarah Gayle Meech plays The Westport Roots Festival, Saturday, May 28, at 10:45 pm at The Lagunitas Stage at Ernie Biggs.]

6. Rae Fitzgerald – “Lost in Ukrainian Village”
from: Popular Songs For Wholesome Families / Independent / June 3, 2016
[The third album from Columbia, Missouri based singer songwriter Rae Fitzgerald. Recorded at Centro Cellar Studio in Columbia, MO, and Good Danny’s in Austin, TX, between October 2014 and September 2015. Engineered and produced by Lucas Oswald of Shearwater/Minus Story/Appleseed Cast/Old Canes/Hospital Ships. Mastered by Carl Saff. ]

10:34 – Interview with Rae Fitzgerald

We just heard Rae Fitzgerald performing her song, Lost in Ukrainian Village, from her new album POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES, to be released June 3. This is the third album from the singer songwriter who was raised in Alabama, Fitzgerald and has lived in Bakersfield, California and Austin, Texasa but considers Columbia, Missouri her home. Rae Fitzgerald Recorded POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES at Centro Cellar Studio in Columbia, MO, and Good Danny’s in Austin, TX, between October 2014 and September 2015. Engineered and produced by Lucas Oswald.

The lyrics of POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES are beautifully poetic and personal and sometimes painful in their expression of isolation, death, betrayal.

In the midst of this crazy political year Rae relates her own personal moments with references to Ferguson Missouri, Living in the USA, drinking clean water.

“LOST IN UKRAINIAN VILLAGE” is the second single from your Rae Fitzgerald’s record and it premiered on AtwoodMagazine.com with a beautiful piece written by Mitch Mosk.

The cover photo for POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES shows four women sitting on the steps of a porch to a house with a man wearing shorts stands to the right. Rae explained that this is a picture of her father, her grandmother, and her aunts.

Throughout the 11 songs on the new record, we noticed references to Seagrams, Vodka, Wine, Beer, bourbon, gin, champagne, heroin, camel double wides, and Cat Power, as revelation to what is truly on the cabinets of WHOLESOME FAMILIES homes.

Rae Fitzgerald recently recorded for Daytrotter, a website for the recording studio Horseshack, located in Rock Island, Illinois, which hosts recording sessions with many popular and typically up-and-coming indie music acts. Founded in 2006 by Sean Moeller. The sessions can be compared to that of a radio station’s lounge recordings, where musicians passing through the town can record live in the studio. Due to their tendency to offer an eclectic sampling of music, and their production style (see Studio section below) the sessions have been compared to that of the legendary Peel Sessions. The site typically hosts around 60 songs by 17 bands per week, almost all available as downloads. According to the Daytrotter website, they have served more than 21.5 million song downloads.

Rae Fitzgerald is performing a series of ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS

Friday, May 27, at 8:00 PM, at Cafe Berlin, 220 N. 10th Street, in Columbia, MO. w/ Enemy Airship and Extravision

Sat, May 28, at 8:00 PM, at Columbia’s Farmers Market, 1701 West Ash, Columbia, MO

Thurs, June 2 at 8 PM at Foam, 3359 S Jefferson Ave, St. Louis, MO w/ The Hollow Ends

Saturday, June 4 at 9 PM at Lindberg’s Tavern, 318 W Commercial St, Springfield, MO with Heidi Klum’s Bangs, and Hot Missoury

Sat, June 18, at 8:00 PM, at Cooper’s Landing, 11505 Smith Hatchery Rd, Columbia, MO

https://raefitzgerald.bandcamp.com/

Rae Fitzgerald performing her song, Jackyl the very last track from her new album POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES, to be released June 3.

7. Rae Fitzgerald – “Jackyl”
from: Popular Songs For Wholesome Families / Independent / June 3, 2016
[The third album from Columbia, Missouri based singer songwriter Rae Fitzgerald. Recorded at Centro Cellar Studio in Columbia, MO, and Good Danny’s in Austin, TX, between October 2014 and September 2015. Engineered and produced by Lucas Oswald of Shearwater/Minus Story/Appleseed Cast/Old Canes/Hospital Ships. Mastered by Carl Saff. ]

10:49 – Underwriting

8. Schwervon! – “Fuzzy Math”
from Broken Teeth / Haymaker Records / September 30, 2014
[2 piece rock band. Nan plays drums and Matt plays guitar and they both sing. They lived in NYC for 15 years and relocated to KC 5 years ago]

[Major Matt Mason USA (Matthew Roth of Schwervon!) has a solo show this Thursday with Pat Tomek (of The Rainmakers) on drums for most of the set. This will be their virgin flight together in a live setting as a duo as part of FOLK THIS III, Thursday, May 26, at 8:00 PM, at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3402 Main St, KCMO with Maggie Henehan, Not Sisters, Boot Hill, Go Generation]

[Schwervon! play Merica Records presents: Anti Folk Fest 3, Tuesday, May 31 at 6:00 PM at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, featuring 14 acts: Billy Beale, Matthew Mann, Dr. Dave Duly, Patrick Westerhaus, Seafoam Galaxy, Nick Mckenna, Schwervon, Ven Smith, Taylor Mitchell, Lazy Ol’ Bitch, Here’s To The Life, Folkicide, Caleb Cox Johnson, Nate Cartwright, and Bradley Tiedeman]

9. The Conquerors – “I Don’t Know”
from: I Don’t Know – Single B/W I See You / High Dive Records / August 11, 2015
[Rock & Roll / Psychedelic Pop from KC based 5-piece band with: Rory Cameron on guitar & vocals, Vince Lawhon on guitar & vocals, Jim Button on drums, Jake Cardwell on percussion, and Kyle Rausch on bass & vocals. Written by: The Conquerors. Recorded by: Vincent Lawhon at Element Recording. Mixed by: Joel Nanos & Vincent Lawhon at Element Recording. Mastered by: Joel Nanos at Element Recording. More info at: http://theeconquerors.bandcamp.com%5D[The Conquerors play The Brick, Friday, May 27th opening for their label-mates Psychic Heat who have a KC album release show for this new record SUNSHOWER also on the bill is Toughies.]

10:58 – Station ID

11:00

10. The Philistines – “Radiation Drive”
from: Backbone of the Night / The Record Machine / June 4, 2016

The Philistines are a six-piece powerhouse of sound with Kimmie Queen on lead vocals, Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals, Rod Peal on guitar; Michelle Bacon on bass & vocals, Josh Mobley on keyboards, and Steve Gardels on drums.

The Philistines were recently signed to The Record Machine, and are releasing their debut album, THE BACKBONE OF NIGHT, on Friday May 27. The Philistines will present a special LP Release Show, at The Living Room, 1818 McGee Street, KCMO, with doors opening at 8:00 for Johnny Hamil’s GAV7D, followed at 9:00 with a floor show from Damian Blake, Annie Cherry, Jon Piggy Cupit and Ron Megee, and then at 10:00 The Philistines take the stage. For ticket information: http://www.squareup.com/store/philistineskc.

Rod Peal, Cody Wyoming, Kimmie Queen, Josh Mobley, Michelle Bacon, and Steve Gardels of The Philistines on the May 25, 2016 Wednesday MidDay Medley.

Kimmie Queen, Cody Wyoming, Rod Peal, Michelle Bacon, Josh Mobley and Steve Gardels, joined us live on Wednesday MidDay Medley

The album was recorded & mixed with Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios where everyone is in the same room.

The Philistines were born out of a heavy snowstorm in Kansas City in late 2012. Cody Wyoming told Tim Finn in a January 2015 interview, that with his girlfriend of eight years, Kimmie Queen, holed up in the house they share, and music started to happen. “We had lots of food, whiskey and records,” Wyoming said. “So we stayed in, played records and wrote songs.”

The idea of the band evolved as Cody started creating songs in collaboration with Kimmie.

All of individual members of The Philistines represent many different parts of the Kansas City Music and Arts Community

1. Josh Mobley is one of the original members of Hearts of Darkness, and The Afterparty, he has been a working part of the West Crossroads and West Bottoms cultural arts scene at Y.Js, The Ship, and The Mardi Gras celebrations.

2. Steve Gardels was formerly with the band Appropriate Grammar, The Art Institute, Stever works in film and video work, performance art, the punk scene and he came from the Omaha music scene.

3. Cody Wyoming is also a member of The Pedaljets, he was part of the bands: Tiny Horse, The Cody Wyoming Deal, The Afterparty, The Von Hodads, David George and A Crooked Mile, Wyandotte County Lowriders, The Monitor, he has directed and produced plays at The Living Room and organized tribute shows for The Rolling Stones, and The Velvet Underground. He has worked at Midwestern Musical Company, The Folk Store, and is a former radio show host on KKFI.

4. Rod Peal created Halcyon Diversified Trading, and after moving from brick and mortar to online, he still sells albums and collectibles through Cowtown Mallroom, 3101 Gillham Plz. Along with Kimmie he his a parent, a Rock & Roll Dad.

5. Michelle Bacon is everywhere in the KC music scene, as a member of of Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds, as a writer for The Bridge 90.1, as former editor of The Deli Magazine, and former member of the bands Deco Auto, Drew Black & Dirty Electric, and Dolls On Fire. Michelle also works extensively as a volunteer for Midwest Music Foundation, she has also worked for Folk Alliance.

6. Kimmie Queen works as an actress. She has been seen on stages for The Coterie Theatre, Late Night Theatre, The Living Room Theatre, La Esquina/Charlotte Street Foundation. Kimmie has also worked as a make up and costume designer, director, writer and producer, and she has worked in theatre education.

The album was recorded & mixed with Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios and mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. This album was mastered for vinyl.

11:18

11. The Philistines – “A Twitch of The Death Nerve”
from: The Backbone of Night / The Record Machine / June 4, 2016

The Philistines release their debut, THE BACKBONE OF NIGHT, on Friday May 27.

The Philistines present an LP Release Show, Saturday June 4, at The Living Room, 1818 McGee, KCMO

Doors open at 8:00 – with Johnny Hamil’s GAV7D

9:00 – floor show from Damian Blake, Annie Cherry, Jon Piggy Cupit and Ron Megee,

10:00 – The Philistines take the stage.

For ticket information: http://www.squareup.com/store/philistineskc.

THE BACKBONE OF NIGHT

In early 2014, members of The Philistines shared their musical influences with The Deli Magazine KC and Editor Michelle Bacon:

Cody: The Flaming Lips are a big influence, but also The Velvet Underground, Love and Rockets, Mazzy Star, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Black Sabbath. But hidden under the feedback and reverb, there’s some pretty basic early rock ‘n roll and even girl group influences. There’s some Buddy Holly and Elvis in there as well as The Ronnettes and the Crystals.

Kimmie: Love and Rockets, the Velvet Underground, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Sabbath, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are probably the most obvious influences. Some others are Italian and British horror cinema of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Hugh Hefner, and The Monkees.

Rod: Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Beatles, The Stones, The Sonics, The Stooges, Expo ‘70.

In the Deli Magazine KC interview, members gave “thumbnail descriptions” of the band’s sound:

Cody: Psychedelic rock. Sometimes heavy, sometimes dreamy.
Kimmie: Go-go acid pop.
Steve: Loud, drippy ’70s-era psych with a ’60s pop attitude.
Rod: Psychedelic pop stoner rock, the best of all my favorite genres.

11:31

12. The Philistines – “Steep”
from: The Backbone of Night / The Record Machine / June 4, 2016
[KC based rock band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimmie Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Michelle Bacon on bass & vocals, Josh Mobley on keyboard, Steve Gardels on drums. Recorded & mixed with Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios and mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering.][The Philistines play a special LP Release, at The Living Room, 1818 McGee Street, KCMO, on Saturday, June 4, with doors opening at 8:00 and Johnny Hamil’s GAV7D, at 9:00 The floor show entertainment begins with Damian Blake, Annie Cherry, Jon Piggy Cupit and Ron Megee, and at 10:00 The Philistines take the stage. For ticket information: http://www.squareup.com/store/philistineskc.%5D

13. Krystle Warren & The Faculty – “Every Morning”
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.][Krystle Warren and her band will play The Polsky Theatre, Wednesday, May 25, at 7:30 PM, for the Performing Arts Series at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Blvd, Overland Park, Kansas 66210. More info at: http://www.jccc.edu/TheSeries%5D

14. Calvin Arsenia – “’86”
from: Moments [EP] / Independent / April 9, 2014
[25 year old Calvin Arsenia returned home to Kansas City after living and performing in Edinburgh, Scotland. Standing at 6 foot 5 inches, Arsenia strikes a commanding presence complimented by his equally powerful vocal capacity and his abilities playing piano, guitar and harp. He also works as a songwriter, composer, lyricist, producer, and engineer. Calvin Arsenia made his debut as a performer in early 2010 and since then he has written, arranged and produced 5 EPs. Earlier this year in April, he release a 7-song EP called “Moments” and now is set to release a new EP “Prose,”a collection of new songs inspired by his own personal revival. Calvin Arsenia performs his acoustic show in pubs and local venues around the city, sharing his soaring and soulful vocal range.][Calvin Arsenia plays MiniBar Friday, May 27, at 10:00 PM with Pageant Boys.][Calvin Arsenia plays The Uptown Arts Bar on Saturday, May 28 at 10:00 pm.]

15. Pageant Boys – “Because”
from: Shadowboxing / Independent / To Be Released in 2016
[1st single from the new upcoming album from the Pittsburg, Pennsylvania based trio formed by Alex Sheppard on guitar & vocals, Cooper Neil on keyboards, and Larry Fleury on percussion. Pageant Boys is the current musical project of 20 something, Alex Sheppard is a Pittsburg native who’s been writing and recording music for more than a decade, and was part of the funk-rock group the Medicine Men, and was the driving force behind Alexandre. While living in Istanbul, Turkey, Sheppard started recording using laptop & bluetooth phone mic, though none of his previous musical efforts incorporated electronics in a major way. “It was born of necessity,” he said, as his stay in Turkey was longer than expected and his instruments weren’t with him.][Pageant Boys play MiniBar Friday, May 27, at 10:00 PM with Calvin Arsenia.]

11:50

Revolvers, are part of a new release called, I’ll Repay You: A Benefit for John Fackler – featuring the songs of John Fackler and Jettison. This a benefit for John Fackler who was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Type III ) when he was 15. He is now 39 and has worked full time since he was 18. He wants to continue to working to support himself financially, however, because of his ever-worsening condition, he is having obstacles that won’t be overcome without obtaining a Bounder power chair and a wheelchair conversion van.

John’s friends, including John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons, Revolvers, Deco Auto, Dead Ven, Chad Rex, Ben Summers, Suicide Robins, and Hipshot Killer all recorded his songs for this new collection and a tribute show. All proceeds from this album’s sales go directly via Paypal to the account for gofundme.com/FundFackler to benefit John’s medical and transportation needs so he may continue working and living the life that he wants to lead.

16. Revolvers – “Closer Then”
from: I’ll Repay You: A Benefit for John Fackler – featuring the songs of John Fackler and Jettison / Indep / May 20, 2016
[This song was written by John Fackler, but influenced completely by Revolvers (and Husker Du). John remembers seeing Revolvers play numerous times and wanting so bad to be as good as them. This was an early attempt at that concept. Now it is a Revolvers song. Fackler could not be happier with the results. He views it as an absolute honor. Buddy on drums, Mike on guitar, Chris on bass, and Justin on vocals. Recorded at Whisker Gables, KCMO by Chris Meck. Mastered by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab.

16. Two Headed Cow – “Signs and Wonders”
from: Zen Again / Saunders Street Records / December 15, 2012
[Tod Davis and Bj McArthur moved to Kansas City from Pensacola, Florida several years ago. Once in KC they changed their band’s name to: Two Headed Cow, for a more regional appeal. “Zen Again” was the follow up to band’s 2008 release, “Safe As Milk.” The album also features Glen Hockemeier on drums, and Matt Waddell on bass.][Two Headed Cow play The Last Call at Coda, 1444 Broadway, KCMO, Saturday, May 28, starting at 1:00 PM with The Walltalkers, Your Robot Friends, Violent Bear, Rick Malsick, The Night Owls, Scott Moyer Band, Two Headed Cow, Patrick Deveny, and at 9:30 Nan and the One Night Stands take the stage with Breaka Dawn & Los Cauz.]


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

Next week, June 1, we present our annual LGBT Pride Show “That’s So Fabulous!”

Our Script/Playlist is a cut and paste of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

Show #631

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, May 25, 2016

The Philistines
+ Rae Fitzgerald + Westport Roots Festival</strong>

Mark plays New & Mid Coastal Releases from: Mat Shoare, Krystle Warren, The Philistines, Rae Fitzgerald, Schwervon!, The Conquerors, Pageant Boys, Calvin Arsenia, Two Headed Cow, Santah, Dale Watson, and Sarah Gayle Meech.

At 10:15 we are joined by organizers of The Westport Roots Festival, beginning Friday, May 27, at 8:00 PM with The Honky Tonk Pre Party at The Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania Ave, KCMO, with The Hardship Letters, Kasey Rausch and Friends, Dusty Rust, and Dale Watson at Midnight. The Westport Roots Festival continues on Saturday May 28, at 12:00 Noon through 2:00 AM at: The Westport Saloon, Ernie Biggs, Firefly Lounge, Californo’s, Buzzard Beach, and Doughnut Lounge, with over 60 performers of Honky Tonk, Bluegrass, Outlaw Country, Ameripolitan, Blues, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Cowpunk, and Roots music. On Sunday, May 29, at 12:00 PM, Roots Fest Recovery, at The Westport Saloon, presents special guests Mountain Sprout, and solo sets from: Joey Henry’s Dirty Sunshine Club, Brook Blanche, Joshua Morningstar, Billy Don Burns, and J.B. Beverley. More info at:www.westportroots.com

Rae Fitzgerald

At 10:30 Mark talks with musician Rae Fitzgerald who is releasing a new album called, Popular Songs For Wholesome Families, with original songs she composed with Lucas Oswald. This is the third album from the Columbia, Missouri and Austin, Texas based singer songwriter. More information at: http://raefitzgerald.bandcamp.com

At 11:00 Wednesday MidDay Medley welcomes KC based band, The Philistines with Kimmie Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Michelle Bacon on bass & vocals; Josh Mobley on keyboard, and Steve Gardels on drums. The Philistines were recently signed to The Record Machine, and are releasing their debut album, THE BACKBONE OF NIGHT, on June 4. The album was recorded & mixed with Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios and mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. The Philistines play a special LP Release, at The Living Room, 1818 McGee Street, KCMO, on Saturday, June 4, with doors opening at 8:00 and Johnny Hamil’s GAV7D, at 9:00 The floor show entertainment begins with Damian Blake, Annie Cherry, Jon Piggy Cupit and Ron Megee, and at 10:00 The Philistines take the stage. For ticket information: http://www.squareup.com/store/philistineskc.

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