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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, August 14, 2013

The Musical World of Sarah Carpenter

Sarah Carpenter joined us as our special guest co-host and guest producer. Sarah shared songs that just absolutely tickle her, with lyrics, and performances from American popular music from before the Rock and Roll era began.

1. Walter Cole – “Mama Keep Your Yes Ma’am Clean”
from: Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 / Old Hat / Oct 4, 05

2. Ruth Brown – “Wild Wild Young Men” (CD #2) (2:32)
from: Atlantic Rhythm And Blues 1947-1974 [Box Set] / Atlantic Records / Oct. 15, 1991
[Originally released as a single in 1953. Ruth Brown (January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress also known as “Queen of R&B” noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as “So Long”, “Teardrops from My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean”. For these contributions, Atlantic became known as “The house that Ruth built.” Following a resurgence that began in the mid-1970s and peaked in the 1980s, Brown used her influence to press for musicians’ rights regarding royalties and contracts, which led to the founding of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Her performances in the Broadway musical Black and Blue earned Brown a Tony Award, and the original cast recording won a Grammy Award.]

3. Louis Prima & Keely Smith – “Baby, Wont You Please Come Home”
from: Capitol Collector’s Series: Louis Prima / Capitol Records / May 13, 1991
[Louis Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an American singer, songwriter, and trumpeter. He rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his 7-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the 1950s, and a pop-rock band in the 1960s. Keely Smith was 17 when Louis Prima met her. Her hometown was Norfolk, Virginia. In August 1948, she made a point to stop by the Surf Club in Virginia Beach to visit one of her favorite artists, Louis Prima. To her surprise, he was looking for a new female vocalist to replace Lily Ann Carol. Keely had a bathing suit on and was not allowed into the club until she had proper attire on. Luckily, someone was able to lend her some acceptable clothing and she auditioned. She landed the part and travelled with the band. Louis signed with Columbia records in the fall of 1951 to keep up with the rapid changes in the marketing industry.Throughout the sixteen-month contract his top hits consisted of “Chop Suey, Chow Mein,” “Ooh-Dahdily-Dah,” and “Chili Sauce”. To manage his expenses, he had to drop his big band and play in low-grade clubs to support his horses. On top of it all, he divorced his third wife Tracelene on June 18, 1953. Less than a month later he married Keely, who was half his age. She was open to criticism and he wanted to make her a star. He had to find the style that fit her correctly, especially since rock and roll was emerging. Prima was not against rock’n’roll like some other artists, such as Frank Sinatra and Jackie Gleason. He accepted that the kids had “an instinct for the kind of music that’s fun to listen to and dance to.”

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4. Dinah Washington – “So In Love”
from: I Get A Kick Out Of You: Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 2 / Verve / October 22, 1991
[Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963), was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s”. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of “Queen of the Blues”. She is a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Washington was married seven times. Her husbands were John Young (1942–43), George Jenkins (1946), Robert Grayson (1947), bassist and bandleader Walter Buchanan (1950), saxophonist Eddie Chamblee (1957), Rafael Campos (1961), and pro-football player Dick “Night Train” Lane (1963). She had two sons: George Kenneth Jenkins and Robert Grayson. Washington was an outspoken unapologetic liberal Democrat. She once said, “I am who I am and I know what I know. I’m a Democrat plain and simple, always have been. I’d never vote for a Republican because in my opinion they don’t have what it takes to run any kind of private or public office. That’s all.”Early on the morning of December 14, 1963, Washington’s seventh husband Lane went to sleep with his wife, and awoke later to find her slumped over and not responsive. An autopsy later showed a lethal combination of secobarbital and amobarbital, which contributed to her death at the age of 39. She is buried in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.]

5. Blossom Dearie – “Give Him The Ooh-La-la”
from: Verve Jazz Masters 51: Blossom Dearie / Verve / March 19, 1996
[Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924–February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and remembered for her light and girlish voice. One of the last supper club performers, she performed regular engagements in London and NYC over many years. In the 1970s after a period of inactivity, Dearie recorded the album “That’s Just the Way I Want to Be” (containing the cult song “Dusty Springfield”, an ode to the British pop star co-written by Dearie with Norma Tanega), which was released in 1970. In 1974, Dearie established her own label, Daffodil Records, which allowed her to have full control of the recording and distribution of her albums. Dearie appeared on TV throughout her career, most notably giving her voice to the children’s educational series Schoolhouse Rock! Some of her pieces in this series were written by her good friend Bob Dorough, the jazz singer and composer. Her voice can be heard on “Mother Necessity”, “Figure Eight”, and “Unpack Your Adjectives”. Songwriter Johnny Mercer, gave one of his final compositions to Dearie for the title song of her 1976 Daffodil album, My New Celebrity is You. In 1983, Dearie was awarded the first Mabel Mercer Foundation Award. Her voice and songs have been featured on the soundtracks of several films, including Kissing Jessica Stein, My Life Without Me, The Squid and the Whale, The Adventures of Felix, and The Artist. She continued to perform in clubs until 2006. Dearie died “after a long illness” on February 7, 2009, at her apartment in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was survived by her older brother as well as a nephew and a niece.]

6. Nat King Cole – “When I Grow Too Old To Dream”
from: Northern Exposure: Music From The Television Series (1990-95) / MCA / Sept. 15, 1992
[Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft, baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres. Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in February 1965.]

10:27 – Underwriting

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7. Mel Torme’- “It’s All Right With Me”
from: Mel Torme Collection 1944-1985 [Box Set] / Rhino WEA / June 4, 1996
[Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, pianist, and actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for the classic holiday song “The Christmas Song” (“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.]

8. Louis Prima & Keely Smith – “That Old Black Magic”
from: One For My Baby – Selections From The Great American Songbook / Starbucks / 2009
[Many know bandleader Louis Prima from the 1967 Disney movie, “The Jungle Book.” Prima played the voice of the cartoon ape named King Louie. Tom Clavin, author of That Old Black Magic: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas, was quoted in an NPR interview saying…”Well, Louis Prima and Keely Smith divorced and the act broke up, and Keely Smith then seemed to come into her own as a singer. She had been doing some solo things. She received a Grammy nomination for, actually, her debut solo album in 1958, but Louis Prima played a part in that. But in 1999, she received another Grammy nomination for an album called “Keely Sings Sinatra.”]

9. Mel Torme’ with The Mel-Tones – “It Happened in Monterrey”
from: Mel Torme Collection 1944-1985 [Box Set] / Rhino WEA / June 4, 1996

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10. Shirley Horn – “Get Out Of Town”
from: I Get A Kick Out Of You: Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 2 / Verve / Oct. 22, 1991
[Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 in Washington, D.C. – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer, pianist. Horn collaborated with jazz greats Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others. She was most noted for her ability to accompany herself with nearly incomparable independence and ability on the piano while singing, something described by arranger Johnny Mandel as “like having two heads”, and for her rich, lush voice, a smoky contralto, which was described by noted producer and arranger Quincy Jones as “like clothing, as she seduces you with her voice”.]

11. Shirley Horn – “Makin’ Whoopie”
from: Light Out Of Darkness (A Tribute To Ray Charles) / UMG / September 21, 1993

12. Fred Astaire – “Night and Day”
from: I Get A Kick Out Of You: Cole Porter Songbook Vol. 2 / Verve / October 22, 1991
[Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films, several award winning television specials, and issued numerous recordings. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films. Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that “the history of dance on film begins with Astaire”. Classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his influence.]

13. Eartha Kitt – “Je Cherche Un Homme (I Want A Man)”
from: Excellent and Dangerous / BMG International / September 10, 2001 IMPORT
[Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of “C’est Si Bon” and the enduring Christmas novelty smash “Santa Baby”. Orson Welles once called her the “most exciting woman in the world”. She took over the role of Catwoman for the third and final season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable due to other commitments. She also voiced Yzma on Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove and its television spinoff, The Emperor’s New School, earning five Emmy Awards in the process, the last shortly before her death.]

11:00 – Station ID

14. Louis Jordan – “Look Out Sister, Look Out”
from: Five Guys Named Moe / Decca – MCA / 1992
[Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as “The King of the Jukebox.” In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him no. 59 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He scored at least four million-selling hits during his career. After Duke Ellington and Count Basie, Louis Jordan was probably the most popular and successful African-American bandleader of his day. Jordan was a talented singer with great comedic flair, and he fronted his own band for more than twenty years. He duetted with Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Jordan was also an actor and a major black film personality—he made numerous cameos in mainstream features and short films, and starred in two musical feature films made especially for him. He was an instrumentalist who played all forms of the saxophone, but specialized in the alto, in addition to playing piano and clarinet. A productive songwriter, he wrote or co-wrote many songs that became influential classics of 20th-century popular music. Although Jordan began his career in big-band swing jazz in the 1930s, he became famous as one of the leading practitioners, innovators and popularizers of “jump blues”, a swinging, up-tempo, dance-oriented hybrid of jazz, blues and boogie-woogie. Typically performed by smaller bands consisting of five or six players, jump music featured shouted, highly syncopated vocals and earthy, comedic lyrics on contemporary urban themes. It strongly emphasized the rhythm section of piano, bass and drums; after the mid-1940s, this mix was often augmented by electric guitar. Jordan’s band also pioneered the use of electric organ. In the 1940s, Jordan released dozens of hit songs, including the swinging “Saturday Night Fish Fry” (one of the earliest and most powerful contenders for the title of “First rock and roll record”).]

15. John Lee Hooker – “Good Rockin’ Mama”
from: The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker / Vee-Jay Ltd. / September 21, 1964
[John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a ‘talking blues’ style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include “Boogie Chillen'” (1948), “I’m in the Mood” (1951) and “Boom Boom” (1962), the first two reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B chart.]

16. Shirley Horn – “Hard Harded Hannah”
from: Light Out Of Darkness (A Tribute To Ray Charles) / UMG / September 21, 1993

17. Eartha Kitt – “Let’s Do It”
from: Excellent and Dangerous / BMG International / September 10, 2001 IMPORT

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18. Louis Jordan – “Safe, Sane And Single”
from: Five Guys Named Moe / Decca – MCA / 1992

11:18 – Underwriting

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19. The Mourning After – “This is Why”
from: Unreleased recordings / Independent / 2007
[The Mourning After: Amy Farrand, Mark Smeltzer, Chris Devictor, and Sarah Carpenter]

20. The Columns – “Allies”
from: The Columns / Split Oak Records / 2010
[The Columns: Bill Sundahl, Andy Money, Nick Howell, Matt Richey & Sarah Carpenter]

[Bill Sundahl is now playing with The Starhaven Rounders who perform Friday, August 16, 7:00 to 9:00 at the recordBar, 1020 westport Road.]

[Bill Sundahl he is the founder of Spice of Life Productions, The Spring Dance, and The Crossroads Music Festival, and annual event that is scheduled for Saturday, September 14. For more information about the Crossroads Music Festival as tickets become available at noon today, and you can get information at: cmfkc.com]

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21. Mark Smeltzer – “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” (CD #21) (4:05)
from: Rural Grit: Last of 04 Before the F4 / Rural Grit / 2005

22. Dirty Mae – “Factory Girl”
from: Unreleased recordings / Independent / 2007
[Song originally recorded by The Rolling Stones. Dirty Mae: David Regnier, Chris Devictor and Sarah Carpenter]

23. The Afterparty – “Girl With All The Cool Names”
from: Under The Rainbow / Independent / August 24, 2006
[David Regnier, Danny Fischer, Josh Mobley, Chris Devictor, Paul Andrews, Sonya Andrews, Amy Nelson, and Sarah Carpenter.]

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24. High and Dry – “Spanish Pipe Dream”
from: High and Dry / Independent / August 16, 2013
[Song written by John Prine. High and Dry is a KC based band made up of: Greg Connally on accordian and vocals; Sam Zech on guitar and vocals; Cathy Hawes on mandolin and vocals; and John Yingst on dobro, banjo and vocals.]

[High and Dry is playing a special CD release show, at Mike Kelly’s Westsider, on Westport Road, Friday, August 16, at 8:00 pm.]

You can learn more about Sarah Carpenter’s business at http://www.thecluttermaven.com


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

Sources for notes on tracks: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org

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Wednesday MidDay Medley presents The Musical World of Sarah Carpenter

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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, August 14, 2013

The Musical World of Sarah Carpenter

Sarah Carpenter performing in a benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI

Sarah Carpenter performing in a benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI

Mark welcomes Sarah Carpenter who joins us as our special guest co-host and guest producer. Sarah shares songs that just absolutely tickle her, with lyrics, and performances from American popular music just before the Rock and Roll era began. Sarah will play selections from: Walter Cole, Ruth Brown, Louis Prima & Keely Smith, Blossom Dearie, Dinah Washington, Mel Tourme’, Shirley Horn, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Fred Astaire, Louis Jordan, and John Lee Hooker.

Sarah will also feature recordings with Kansas City based bands she was a part of including: The Columns, Rural Grit All-Stars, Kasey Rausch, The Afterparty, and two bands that never released albums: The Mourning After, and Dirty Mae. Sarah will also feature a selection from the newest band she has just started singing with called: High & Dry.

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or streaming live at kkfi.org

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WMM Playlist from August 7, 2013

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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, August 7, 2013

Marion Merritt’s Musical Discoveries + Carsie Blanton

Guest producer Marion Merritt joined us to share information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Marion Merritt is the co-creator of the blog: a2-m3.com providing info about: Music, Film, Art, Books, TV, Technology, with links, downloads, and articles.

1. Dimitri From Paris – “Prologue”

2. Matias Aguayo – “Una Fiesta Diferente”
from: The Visitor / Comeme Records / June 24, 2013
[3rd album from DJ Matias Aguayo is inspired from his years of touring and creates internationally flavored sounds, implementing his voice and using percussion, performing live with “the district union” a band that provides a powerful rhythm section.]

3. Matias Aguayo – “Rollerskate”
from: Rollerskate – Single / Kompakt Records / October 5, 2009

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4. T-Model Ford – “Ask Her for Water”
from: Bad Man / Big Legal Mess Publishing / September 10, 2010

5. T-Model Ford – “Bad Man”
from: Bad Man / Big Legal Mess Publishing / September 10, 2010
[James Lewis Carter Ford (c.early 1920s – July 16, 2013). An American blues musician, using the name T-Model Ford, he was nable to remember his exact date of birth, he began his musical career in his early 70s, and recorded for the Fat Possum label, then switched to Alive Naturalsound Records. His musical style combined the rawness of Delta blues with Chicago blues & juke joint blues styles. According to records, Ford’s year of birth was between 1921 – 1925, though his record company gave his age as 94, suggesting a birth in 1918 – 1919. Starting with an abusive father who had permanently injured him at eleven, Ford lived his entire life in a distressed and violent environment, towards which he was quite indifferent. Ford, an illiterate, worked in various blue collar jobs as early as his preteen years, such as plowing fields, working at a sawmill, and later in life becoming a lumber company foreman and then a truck driver. At this time, Ford was sentenced to ten years on a chain gang for murder. Allegedly, Ford was able to reduce his sentence to two years. He spent many of his years following his release in conflicts with law enforcement. Ford lived in Greenville, Mississippi and for a time wrote an advice column for Arthur magazine. Reportedly, he had twenty six children. According to music writer Will Hodgkinson, who met and interviewed Ford for his book Guitar Man, Ford took up the guitar when his fifth wife left him and gave him a guitar as a leaving present. Ford trained himself without being able to read music or guitar tabs. Hodgkinson observed that Ford could not explain his technique. He simply worked out a way of playing that sounded like the guitarists he admired — Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Ford toured juke joints and other venues, for a while opening for Buddy Guy. In 1995, he was discovered by Matthew Johnson of Fat Possum Records, under which he released five albums from 1997 to 2008

10:22 – Underwriting

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6. Anna von Hausswolff – “Mountains Crave”
from: Ceremony / Other Music Recording / July 9, 2013
[2nd album from Gothenburg, Sweden, based musician Anna Michaela Ebba Electra von Hausswolff (born Sept. 6, 1986). A singer, pianist, songwriter. She released her debut single, “Track of Time”, Feb. 5, 2010, followed by her critically acclaimed debut album Singing from the Grave. In March 2010 she toured Brazil with Taken by Trees. In 2011 she opened for Lykke Li and also for M.Ward. Hausswolff is noted for her expressive voice and her live performances, and is sometimes compared to Kate Bush. Hausswolff used to be a student of architecture at Chalmers University of Technology. She is the daughter of sound artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff.]

7. David Lynch & Lykke Li – “I’m Waiting Here (Bonus Track)”
from: The Big Dream / Sacred Bones / July 2, 2013
[2nd album from David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946). An American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor, Lynch is known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed “Lynchian”, a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was critically acclaimed. Next, Lynch created his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1991); he also created a cinematic prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999), in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on “dream logic”, non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006). Meanwhile, Lynch embraced the internet as a medium, producing several web-based shows, such as the animation Dumbland (2002) and the surreal sitcom Rabbits (2002). Allmovie called him “the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking”, while the success of his films has led to him being labelled “the first popular Surrealist.]

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8. The Three O’Clock – “Jet Fighter”
from: The Hidden World Revealed / Omnivore Records / June 25, 2013
[Alternative rock group associated with the Los Angeles 1980s Paisley Underground scene. Lead singer and bassist Michael Quercio is credited with coining the term “Paisley Underground” to describe a subset of the 1980s L.A. music scene which included bands such as Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Green on Red, and the Bangles. After 25 years of turning down reunion offers, The Three O’Clock finally reformed after being presented with a chance to play at the 2013 Coachella festival. Three quarters of the “Classic” line-up, Michael Quercio (vocals/bass), Louis Gutierrez (guitars) & Danny Benair (drums) – were joined by new recruit Adam Merrin (keyboards). The group played both weekends of the Coachella festival, and also played on Conan on April 10, 2013. They later embarked on a mini-tour, and released several archival recordings that same year. The final show was at Fingerprints record store in Long Beach California on June 24, 2013.]

9. The Three O’Clock – “In My Own Time (Alternate Version)”
from: The Hidden World Revealed / Omnivore Records / June 25, 2013

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10. Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs – “I Watch You”
from: I Watch You – Single / Heavenly Records / October 15, 2012
[The Voyeurs are led by Charlie Boyer with Sam Davies, Samir Eskanda, Danny Stead and Ross Kristian completing the line-up. Produced and engineered by Edwyn Collins & Sebastian Lewsley. Recorded at West Heath Studios, London on the 12th and 13th of September 2012. charlieboyerandthevoyeurs.bandcamp.com]

11. Irma Thomas – “We Wont Be In Your Way Anymore”
from: In Between Tears (Remastered) / Alive Natural Sounds / 2013
[Original 1973] [born February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans”. Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial success. In 2007, she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for After the Rain, her first Grammy in a career spanning over 50 years. Born Irma Lee, as a teen she sang with a Baptist church choir, auditioning for Specialty Records as a 13-year old. By the age of 19 she had been married twice and had four children. Keeping her second ex-husband’s surname, she worked as a waitress in New Orleans, occasionally singing with bandleader Tommy Ridgley, who helped her land a record deal with the local Ron label. Her first single, “(You Can Have My Husband but) Don’t Mess with My Man,” was released in spring 1960, and reached number 22 on the Billboard R&B chart.]

12. Irma Thomas – “In Between Tears”
from: In Between Tears (Remastered) / Alive Natural Sounds / 2013
[Original 1973]

11:00 – Station ID

13. Miles Davis – “Mademoiselle Mabry”
from: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions / Sony / September 11, 2001

11:18 – Underwriting

14. Carsie Blanton – “Smoke Alarm”
from: Idiot Heart / Self Released / 2012

11:16 – Interview with Carsie Blanton

Kasey Rausch, Carsie Blanton, Mikal Shapiro, and Kaya Rausch-Santee

Kasey Rausch, Carsie Blanton, Mikal Shapiro, and Kaya Rausch-Santee

Carsie Blanton is a singer/songwriter based in New Orleans and Philadelphia. She plays classic American pop music. She’s toured with Paul Simon, the Wood Brothers, the Weepies, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osbourne, and Loudon Wainright III. Carsie Blanton plays Kansas City for the Mama Ra Haus Concert, hosted Mikal Shapiro and Kasey Rausch, TONIGHT, Wednesday, August 7, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, at 632 W. 39th Terrace, KCMO 64111. Alexandra Fetterman kicks off the music with a short opening set at 7:00 pm. Also joining us was the amazing Kasey Rausch and Mikal Shapiro.

Carsie’s song “Smoke Alarm” features the festive and rich musical culture of New Orleans. Carsie is originally from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, but New Orleans is a big influence on her music.

Carsie’s writes in her bio… “I didn’t go to school when I was a kid. Instead I ran around the farm and hunted salamanders and read books. I was raised on folk music by a house full of crazy people. When I was a teenager, I discovered Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, and I learned all of their songs. At sixteen, I moved away from home to join an artist colony in Oregon, where I learned to hitchhike and dumpster dive, and sang backups in a funk band. Then I moved to San Francisco, and then Philadelphia, and now I live in New Orleans, which is the most magical city in the world.”

Besides her music, Carsie also write a blog about sex: brighterthanabuoy.blogspot.com

Carsie writes: “Love is hard. Sex is fun. Life is messy. We’re all going to die. Our hearts are idiots, our wills are weak, we’re bumbling around fucking the wrong people and falling in love for the wrong reasons and pretending like we have all the time in the world to figure it out. My aim is to write songs that make you stop pretending, even if only for an instant. I want to wake you up to your brief, idiotic, miraculous life.”

Along with just releasing a new music video for her song “Smoke Alarm” and embarking on a new solo tour across the country, Carsie has also just launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce her new project: ‘Jazz Is for Everybody.’

You can learn more about Carsie Blanton at: carsieblanton.com.

15. Carsie Blanton – “Crazy He Calls Me” (LIVE)
a song Carsie is developing for her new “Jazz is For Everybody” project.

Carsie released Rude Remarks & Dirty Jokes, a 3-song EP, April 23, produced by Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers). Carsie writes, “The 1st song is about a girl who killed her ex because he was an ass. The 2nd song is about somebody who accidentally falls in love with everyone she sleeps with. The 3rd song is about how people oughtta have a little backbone and say what they mean. The songs are about me, minus some details.”

Kasey Rausch and Mikal Shapiro are two KC based singer, songwriters, who perform together as Partners in Glory. Their longtime friendship also includes presenting House Concerts in Midtown backyards.

Mikal Shapiro

Mikal Shapiro

David Regnier

David Regnier

Mikal Shapiro is one of Kansas City’s true renaissance women, successfully working in film, music, performance, journalism, art, curating, puppetry, songwriting.

Carsie is playing a lot of House Concerts on this current tour, she spoke to our radio audience about playing a club, or hall, in comparison to playing a “House Concert.”

16. Carsie Blanton – “Chicken” (LIVE)
also available on: Idiot Heart / Self Released / 2012

Kasey Rausch & Friends play the Winfield Warm Up! Sunday, August 18, 2013
at 2:00pm to 10:00pm ay IBEW Local 124, 301 E 103rd Terr, KCMO a benefit for KKFI

Carsie Blanton plays Kansas City for the Mama Ra Haus Concert, hosted Mikal Shapiro and Kasey Rausch, Wednesday, August 7, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, at 632 W. 39th Terrace, KCMO 64111. Alexandra Fetterman kicks off the music w/ a short opening set at 7:00 pm. You can learn more about Carsie Blanton at: carsieblanton.com.

11:42

17. Carsie Blanton – “Together Too Long”
from: Idiot Heart / Self Released / 2012

11:45

18. Devo – “Auto Modown”
from: Hardcore, Vol. 1 / Devo Inc. / June 25, 2013

19. Devo – “Space Girl Blues”
from: Hardcore, Vol. 1 / Devo Inc. / June 25, 2013
[Hardcore documents DEVO’s beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark and Bob) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped-up an otherworldly brand of “devolved blues” that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (aka The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of the Bizarros. Recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements, and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock n’ roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera, and DEVO’s long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof.]

11:52

20. White Fence – “Chairs in The Dark”
from: Cyclops Reap / Castle Face Records / April 9, 2013

21. White Fence – “Mr. Adams”
from: White Fence / Woodsist / March 16, 2019

11:59:30

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

Sources for notes on tracks: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org

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Show #485

August 7 – Marion Merritt + Carsie Blanton

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

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Marion Merritt’s Musical Discoveries
+ Carsie Blanton & Kasey Rausch

Mark welcomes Marion Merritt who joins us to share information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Marion plays tracks from: Devo, Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs, David Lynch, T-Model Ford, The Three O’Clock, Matias, Aguayo, Anna Von Hausswolff, Algrebra Suicide, Irma Thomas, and Big Star.

Carsie Blanton Photo by Kayla Childs

Carsie Blanton Photo by Kayla Childs

At 11:15, Mark talks with Carsie Blanton, a New Orleans based music maker who has toured with the likes of Paul Simon, Joan Osbourne, Shawn Colvin and Loudin Wainright III. Carsie Blanton plays Kansas City for the Mama Ra Haus Concert, hosted Mikal Shapiro and Kasey Rausch, Wednesday, August 7, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, at 632 W. 39th Terrace, KCMO 64111. Alexandra Fetterman kicks off the music with a short opening set at 7:00 pm. Also joining us on Wednesday MidDay Medley is the amazing Kasey Rausch! You can learn more about Carsie Blanton at: carsieblanton.com or carsieblantonfans.

Marion Merritt is the co-creator of the blog: a2-m3.com providing information about: Music, Film, Art, Books, Television, Technology, with links, downloads, and articles keeping us current with the latest musical and film news.

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Show #485

WMM Playlist from July 31, 2013

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TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
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Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

David Burchfield + Mat Shoare
+ Guest DJ Matthew Hayden

1. Merry Clayton – “Southern Man”
from: 20 Feet from Stardom (Music from the Motion Picture) / Columbia / June 7, 2013
[Born Dec. 25, 1948, in Gert Town, New Orleans, Clayton began her recording career in 1962 at the age of 13, singing “Who Can I Count On? (When I Can’t Count On You)” as a duet with Bobby Darin. She has provided back-up vocals with Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones song “Gimme Shelter.” Her early career included performances with Ray Charles as one of The Raelettes. She has sang with Neil Young’s debut album 1968, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” and for Tom Jones, Joe Cocker and Carole King. She also originated the role of the Acid Queen in the original 1972 London production of The Who’s Tommy.] [Merry is currently featured in Twenty Feet From Stardom, a documentary about background singers and their contributions to the music industry. Merry also just released The Best of Merry Clayton.]

10:06

2. John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons – “Love’s No Place”
from: Love No Place Single release b/w “Affection” / Lakeshore Records / Nov 27, 2012
[John Velghe – vox, guitars, keyboards. The Prodigal Sons: Mike Alexander – guitar, mandolin, backing vocals; Chris Wagner – bass, backing vocals; GoGo Ray – drum set; Hermon Mehari – trumpet; Sam Hughes – saxophone; Mike Walker – trombone.] [John Velghe and the Prodigal Sons have been nominated for a 2013 Pitch Music Award for Best Americana / Bluegrass Band]

[John Velghe and The Prodigal Sons will be playing the Pitch Music Awards Showcase this Friday, August 2 at 8:30 PM on the Outdoor Stage in the lot next to Buzzard Beach.]

[John Velghe and The Prodigal Sons will be playing Knuckleheads Saloon, Thursday, August 8.]

10:09 – Underwriting

10:10

3. David Burchfield and The Great Stop – “Rite two”
from: Perseids / Independent / August 10, 2013
[Produced by David Bennett]

[David Burchfield and The Great Stop play a special CD Release Show & Farewell Concert, Saturday, August 10, at 7:00 pm, at The recordBar, 1020 Westport Road with Lawrence band Olassa.]

10:14 – Interview with David Burchfield

In December of 2011, David Burchfield released “The Beginning,” which was recorded here in Kansas City with Mike Crawford. David Burchfield joined us in February of 2012 to play live on the show with members of his band The Great Stop. Leslie Hammer, Devon Russell & Seth Jenkins. David joined us today to discuss his new recording with The Great Stop called: “Perseids” that will be released this week. David Burchfield and The Great Stop play a special CD Release show & Farewell Concert, Saturday, August 10, at 7:00 pm, at The recordBar, 1020 Westport Road with Lawrence band Olassa. More info at: davidburchfieldmusic.com

When we talked with David over a year ago, he had recently moved back to the Kansas City area after living in Golden, Colorado and working with a solar energy company. David spent years working in environmental education and youth development; helping migrant farmworkers; teaching, hiking, and clearing trails at the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico; working with justice issues and children in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

David is now returning to do post graduate work in Boulder, Colorado, in August.

10:20

3. David Burchfield and The Great Stop – “Sun Came Up”
from: Perseids / Independent / August 10, 2013
[Produced by David Bennett]

10:24

When David as on our show, back in February of 2012, The Great Stop played the song “Perseids” live in our 90.1 FM Studios. Perseids is, the stream of debris cloud that stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 130-year orbit. Most of the dust in the cloud today is around a thousand years old.

Information about the musical recording “Perseid” is available through: Davidburchfieldmusic.com.

11:29

4. David Burchfield and The Great Stop – “Perseids”
from: Perseids / Independent / August 10, 2013

[David Burchfield and The Great Stop play a special CD Release show & Farewell Concert, Saturday, August 10, at 7:00 pm, at The recordBar, 1020 Westport Road with Lawrence band Olassa.]

10:33

5. The Empty Spaces – “Holidays Are Nice and Warm”
from: Party Line / Golden Sound Records / July 24, 2012
[KC based band formed from a studio band that recorded Mat Shoare’s solo album The Empty Spaces in 2010.]

[Mat Shoare plays the Pitch Music Awards Showcase this Fri, Aug 2, at Californos, at 7:00 pm]

10:36 – Interview with Mat Shoare

23 year old dynamo, Mat Shoare played live on our Jan 23rd WMM. His full length solo recording, “Domestic Partnership” was released December 11, 2012, on Golden Sound Records. Mat has released two EPs with his band The Empty Spaces. All of the music is available at Golden Sound Records, an independent, Kansas City based record label Mat founded with his friends Jerad Tomasino and Ross Brown. Mat Shoare has just been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter, and his band The Empty Spaces has also been nominated for Best Garage Band.

Mat Shoare prefers the homemade sound and feel in his recordings, The Golden Sound Records website reports that most parts of his solo album were recorded by Mat in multiple bedrooms, basements, and offices from winter 2011 through the fall of 2012.

The Golden Sound Records website desribes “Domestic Partnership” as a recollection of love, loss, and love again. Then loss…and so forth.”

Ross Brown plays drums on Mat’s songs and also with his band The Empty Spaces, your band that has release two EPs including 2012’s “Party Line” which was part of our 112 Best Recordings of 2012.

Mat Shoare is nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter, and his band The Empty Spaces has also been nominated for Best Garage Band. More information at GoldenSoundRecords.com

10:48

7. Mat Shoare – “Keeping Everyone Happy”
from: Domestic Partnership / Golden Sound Records / December 11, 2013
[All songs by Mat Shoare. Made by Mat Shoare and Ross Brown. Most parts of this album were recorded by Mat Shoare in multiple bedrooms, basements, and offices from winter 2011 till fall 2012. It was finally focused into something cohesive by Ross Brown at The Reservation in Kansas City, MO.]

[Mat Shoare plays the Pitch Music Awards Showcase this Fri, Aug 2, at Californos, at 7:00 pm]

8. Molly Picture Club – “Typical Biped”
from: In My Own Time Machine / Independent / April 30, 2013
[Aniko Adany: vocals, keys, synths & omnichord; Matthew Hayden: drums, & drum sequencing; Michael Tipton: vocals, guitar, & bass. All songs written, arranged, performed, & produced by Molly Picture Club. Additional percussion by Justin Skinner. Drums recorded, EP Mixed & Mastered by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab. All other sounds recorded by Matthew Hayden at Southland Studios.]

9. The Postal Service – “We Will Become Silhouettes”
from: Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary) (3 record set) / Sub Pop / April 9, 2013
[It’s been a decade since The Postal Service released “Give Up” Feb, 2003. The indie classic recently went platinum! Sub Pop is released a deluxe, 10th anniversary reissue featuring 15 bonus tracks, including covers by The Shins and Iron & Wine, and two brand new Postal Service songs, “Turn Around” and “A Tattered Line of String.” The Postal Service are currently on tour with Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamberello with Jenny Lewis.]

[The Postal Service play The Midland Theatre: Tues, July 30 and Wed, July 31 with Mates of State.]

11:00 – Matthew Hayden “Guest DJ.”

Musician, percussionist, producer and member of Molly Picture Club – Matthew Hayden, joined us as “Guest DJ.”

Matthew Hayden played music from: Afrolicious, Frank Biyong & The Afrolectric Orkestra, Alton Ellis, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Junior Murvin, Cedric Im Brooks & the Light of Saba, Buari, Willam Onyeabor, and Gil Scott-Heron.

10. Afrolicious – “Revolution”
from: California Dreaming / ESL Music / May 28, 2013
[Debut full length from San Francisco based band. The collective throws the best Thursday night dance party in the bay area as voted by the San Francisco Guardian. Their weekly Show is at the Elbow Room every Thursday if you are visiting.]

11. Franck Biyong & The Afrolectric Orkestra – “African History”
from: Impala Afrobeats 2 / Wagram Records / May 7, 2003
[Born in Cameroon in 1973 Frank Biyong. He learned to play and compose music in West Africa namely Nigeria and Gabon. More info at: franckbiyong.com]

12. Alton Ellis – “African Descendants”
from: Studio One Funk / Soul Jazz Records / Sept. 25, 2004 Import
[Alton Ellis (September 1, 1938 – October 10, 2008) was one of the innovators of Rocksteady. This track centers on the fact that we are African and all come from Africa.]

11:15

Matthew talked about The Food People: Cultivate KC, Bread KC, and Howards Organic Market

11:18

13. Lee “Scratch” Perry – “Soul Fire”
from: Reggae Greats / Island Records / 1984
[The Seminal reggae producer. Song is about feeding the poor]

14. Junior Murvin – “Police and Thieves”
from: Reggae Greats / Island Records / 1984
[Song peaked at # 23 on th UK singles charts in 1980. It was also produced by Lee Perry]

15. Cedric Im Brooks & the Light of Saba – “Sabebe”
from: Light of Saba / Craze Productions / 1974
[Cedric im Brooks (1943 – May 3, 2013) was a Jamaican Saxophonist and flautist known for his solo recordings and as a member of The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari]

11:32

Matthew talked about Social Spaces: Cartwheel, Byproduct – The Laundromat, Jarboe Initiative, and Utilitarian Workshop

11:36 – Underwriting

16. Buari – “Advice from Father”
from: African Disco from the 1970’s / Nascente / [originally released in 1975]

17. William Onyeabor – “Better Change Your Mind”
from: World Psychedelic Classics Vol 3 / Luaka Bop / March 8, 2005

11:54

Matthew talked about: Midwest Music Foundation, KKFI, Plug Projects, and Gypsy Market Royal

11:57

18. Gil Scott-Heron – “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
from: Pieces of a Man / RCA / 1971
[Gil Scott-Heron poet, musician and activist. Its amazing how relevant this piece is 42 years after its release. ]

Sources for notes on tracks: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org

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Show #484

July 31 – David Burchfield + Mat Shoare + Guest DJ Matthew Hayden

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90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

David Burchfield + Mat Shoare
+ Guest DJ Matthew Hayden

Mark plays New & Local Releases from: David Burchfield and the Great Stop, Mat Shoare, Molly Picture Club, John Velghe and The Prodigal Sons, The Postal Service, and Merry Clayton.

At 10:15 Mark talks with David Burchfield about his new recording with The Great Stop called “Perseids” that quill be released in August. David talks about moving to Boulder, Colorado for graduate school. David Burchfield and The Great Stop play a special CD Release show & Farewell Concert, Saturday, August 10, at 7:00 pm, at The recordBar, 1020 Westport Road with Lawrence band Olassa. More info at: davidburchfieldmusic.com

At 10:35 Mark welcomes musician and songwriter, Mat Shoare who has just been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Singer-Songwriter Male, and his band The Empty Spaces has also been nominated for Best Garage Band. Mat is also co-founder of Golden Sound Records. More info at GoldenSoundRecords.com

Matthew Hayden PHOTO by Chad Cogdill Photography

Matthew Hayden
PHOTO by Chad Cogdill Photography

At 11:00 musician, percussionist, producer and member of Molly Picture Club – Matthew Hayden, joins us as “Guest DJ.” Matthew will play music from: Afrolicious, Frank Biyong & The Afro electric Orkestra, Alton Ellis, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Junior Murvin, Cedric Im Brooks & the Light of Saba, Buari, Jorge Ben, Willam Onyeabor, and Gil Scott-Heron.

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WMM Playlist from July 24, 2013

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TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
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Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Hot Summer Vinyl!
+ Philip Hooser & The KC Fringe Festival
+ 3 Son Green + The Record Machine Summer Showcase

1. Akkilles – “Waking Up” (Vinyl)
from: Something You’d Say / Akkilles / July 2, 2013
[Singer/songwriter David Bennett formed the KC based band Akkilles in 2011. David has been recording and performing with a collective of his friends and fellow musicians. Akkilles includes David Bennett on lead vocalsm guitar; Isaac Anderson, on drums; Rachel Pollock on violin, piano, percussion, & vocals; Nick Pick on Bass & vocals; Jeff Larison on lead guitar & dobro. David Bennett & Issac Anderson joined us on 6/26] [Akkilles has been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Emerging Band]

2. PedalJets – “Riverview” (Vinyl)
from: What’s In Between / Electric Moth Records / June 25, 2013
[This song was released last Dec. as a 7′ green vinyl single. Now included on The Pedaljets first album of new material in 23 years. Paul Malinowski (Vocals, Guitar), Rob Morrow (Drums, Vocals), Mike Allmayer (Guitar, Vocals), Matt Kesler (Bass, Vocals). Produced by The Pedaljets and Paul Malinoski. The albums photos & design are from artist Archer Prewitt of the bands: the Sea and Cake and The Coctails. More info: thepedaljets.com]

[The Pedaljets play Austin, Texas, Friday, July 26th at Club De Ville.]

10:09

3. Bloodbirds – “Divorce Sea” (Vinyl)
from: Psychic Surgery / Independent / April 1, 2013 [KC based Psychedelic post-punk trio featuring ex-Ad Astra Per Aspera member Mike Tuley, his wife Brooke Tuley and Anna St. Louis. The album will be available as a vinyl LP in April. Recorded at Junior’s Motel, with additional recording at the Worst Place in the World, and House Tuley. Rcorded by Kirk Kaufman and Mike Tuley. Mixed by Mike Tuley.]
[Bloodbirds have been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Garage Band.

10:13 – Underwriting

4. Radkey – “Pretty Things” (Vinyl)
from: Cat & Mouse – EP / Wreckroom / June 4, 2013
[Radkey is a St. Joesph based band made up of three teenage brothers Darrion, Isaiah, and Solomon. Their influences include The Who and Nirvana. Thank you to Robert Moore for loaning me your vinyl. Radkey has been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Live Act.]

[Radkey plays The Power & Light Distict KC Live Stage with Silversun Pickups Tuesday, July 30.]

5. The ACB’s – “Television” (Vinyl)
from: Little Leaves / High Dive Records / March 5, 2013
[Konnor Ervin, Bryan McGuire, Andrew Connor, and Kyle Rausch are The ACB’s. This week the band is releasing their new full length: “Little Leaves,” from High Dive Records. After five years of being nominated, The ACB’s won the 2012 Pitch Music Award for Best Pop Band. Their songs have been featured on MTV’s The Inbetweeners, and on Daytrotter. Their lead single, “Ocean,” released in late 2012, moved Popmatters to declare The ACB’s as one of its “Best Hopes to Break Out in 2013.” The ACB’s were our guests on Feb. 27. The ACB’s have been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Pop Band.]

6. SSION – “Growin” (Vinyl)
from: Bent / Dovecote Records / September 18, 2012
[Written by Cody Critcheloe, produced by J. Ashley Miller. SSION, (pronounced “shun”) was formed in 1996, in Kansas City, by multi-talented vocalist, visual artist, musician, performance artist, music video director, Cody Critcheloe. SSION, have been known for their extravagant live shows and amazingly crerative and hilarious videos. SSION has toured with Gossip, Fischerspooner, CSS, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Cody Critcheloe has served as Music Video Director music videos from Santigold, CSS, Peaches, Gossip, and Tilly & the Wall. Ssion recently toured doing shows in San Francisco, Arizona, Texas, New Orleans, Atlanta, DC, Baltimore, Brooklyn.]

10:15 – Interview with Philip Hooser, Jack Philips, Patrick Rippeto & Tafik Muhammad

Playwright, Actor, Director – Philip Hooser joins us to talk about this year’s Kansas City Fringe Festival and the show he directed: EXTENDED 4PLAY containing four plays by Frank Higgins, Michael Ruth, Nicholas Sawin and Jack Phillips, playing at The Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St. KCMO, with final performances: Wednesday, July 24 at 6:30 pm; Thursday, July 25 at 9:30 pm; and Friday, July 26 @ 8:00 pm. More info at: kcfringe.org

Joining Philip on the show was: Jack Philips (playwright of Future Perfect and producer), Patrick Rippeto (actor and bass in band Attic Light) and Tafik Muhammad (actor in final role in KC before LA).

EXTENDED 4PLAY

UNICORN THEATER 3828 Main St. Kansas City, MO 64111
Mature Audiences (60 min) $10 (Fringe Button required)

Friday July 19 @ 9:30 pm Saturday July 20 @ 8:00 pm
Monday July 22 @ 6:30 pm; Wednesday July 24 @ 6:30 pm
Thursday July 25 @ 9:30 pm; Friday July 26 @ 8:00 pm

“Peggy” by Michael Ruth
Cassie is looking for a one-night stand. Josh is hoping for something more. But then Cassie meets Josh’s friend Peggy, and all expectations are changed. Cassie needs to decide: how deep is she willing to go?

“Future Perfect” by Jack Phillips
Billy and Pat are in love. Before popping the question, Billy wants to discuss the past. Pat is leery. Billy plunges ahead and they find themselves with a serious problem.

“Górecki in Silence” by Nicholas Sawin
Geoff likes playing Super Mario Brothers music on his accordion. Mikołaj likes listening to Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 on his stereo. Geoff likes having loud sex with Dawn. Mikołaj doesn’t like listening to Geoff having loud sex with Dawn. One night, Mikołaj blasts his favorite record until Geoff comes up to silence the music. These housemates may soon discover that true communication occurs in the spaces between sounds.

“KOKO’s ACHILLES’ HEEL” by Frank Higgins.– Koko, the most intelligent gorilla in the world, knows everything about everything…except love; but when she decides to learn first hand about love, and finds a gorilla that she’s attracted to, what exactly is she about to learn?

EXTENDED 4PLAY containing four plays by Frank Higgins, Michael Ruth, Nicholas Sawin and Jack Phillips, playing at The Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St. KCMO, with final performances: Wednesday, July 24 at 6:30 pm; Thursday, July 25 at 9:30 pm; and Friday, July 26 @ 8:00 pm. More info at: kcfringe.org

10:45

7. Cowboy Indian Bear – “I Want A Stranger’s Heart” (Vinyl)
from: Live Old, Die Young / The Record Machine / April 23, 2013
[Released on White Vinyl! Joshua Browning served the band as producer and engineer. The songs were recorded over a three year period, where the band was also constantly touring, living on the road, keeping the van running. Beau Bruns – percussion, vocals, glockenspiel, guitar, Charles Calhoun – vocals, guitar, bass, keys, percussion, Martinez Hillard – vocals, guitar, keys, bass, percussion; Katlyn Conroy vocals, piano, keys. Cowboy Indian Bear has been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Live Act.]

8. Schwervon! – “Truth Teller” (Vinyl)
from: Courage / Olive Juice Records / September 28, 2012 [Schwervon! is a two piece rock band. Nan plays drums and Matt plays guitar and they both sing. They lived in NYC for 15 years and have just relocated to Kansas City. Last year they opened for both The Vaselines and Belle & Sebastian. They recorded Courage with Memphis-based engineer Doug Easley who has worked with Pavement, Sonic Youth, Cat Power. In a gross oversight, Schwervon! was not nominated for a Pitch Music Award.]

[Schwervon! play CODA, Sat, July 27, w/ Christopher the Conqueror, H.D. Harmsen, and the Quivers]

9. Ghosty – “TAKE” (Vinyl)
from: GHOSTY / More Famouser Records / April 17, 2012
[3rd full length release from Lawrence and KC area band. Ghosty is Andrew Connor, Mike Nolte an Bill Belzer who recorded their new album themselves over the last couple of years with help from David Wetzel, Josh Adams, Jake Blanton, Konnor Ervin, Ryan Connor, Kirsten Paludan, and Dan Talmadge. The new release was pressed on vinyl and available on LP and digital download. More info at ghostysounds.com. Ghosty is currently touring with Making Movies, playing Brooklyn on Saturday night. Ghosty has been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Pop Band ]

10. LAZY – “Party City” (Vinyl)
from: 7″ Single w/ Silence in Crisis & Boys in The Bathroom (45 RPM)/ Moniker Records / Aug 23, 2012 [Limited Edition 300 Copies] [Featured on the bands full length release Obsession which will be available on vinyl August 6 on Moniker records out of Chicago. Recorded by Ashley Miller, Mixed by Ashley Miller and LAZY, Mastered by Ashley Miller. LAZY includes: Brock Potucek, Zach Vanbenthuzen, Sarica Douglas, Billy Belzer. Lazy has been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for best Garage Band.]

11:00 – Station ID

11. The Grisly Hand – “Black Coffee” (Vinyl)
from: 7” Single – Western Avenue & Black Coffee (45 RPM) / Independent / February 1, 2012
[The Grisly Hand released their new full length recording this year. Jimmy Fitzner (Guitar & Vocals), Lauren Krum (Vocals & Percussion), Johnny Nichols (Bass & Vocals), Matt Richey (Drums), Mike Stover (Steel Guitar), and Ben Summers (Guitar & Mandolin). The Grisly Hand have been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Americana / Bluegrass Band.]

[The Grisly Hand play Knuckleheads Saturday, July 26, with Al Scorch.]

12. The Caves – “No Boss” (Vinyl)
from: Duplexiaville / Golden Sound Records / Nov. 24, 2012
[KC based: Andrew Ashby on Guitar & Voice, David Gaumé on Bass, Elizabeth Bohannon on Keyboards, Percussion & Voice, Jake Cardwell on Drums & Percussion. The Caves have been nominated for a Pitch Music Award for Best Rock Band]

13. 3 Son Green – “Redbird”
from: Redbird / Independent / Saturday, July 27, 2013
[Formed in 2007 with Jamie Anderson on Guitar & Vocals, Evan Carlson on Guitar & Vocals, Steven Pearson on Drums, and Trey Green on Bass & Vocals. More info at 3songreen.com]

[3 Son Green play a CD Release Show, July 27, at 9pm, at Californos in Westport w/ Shedding Watts.]

11:15 – Interview with Jamie Anderson, Evan Carlson, Steven Pearson, and Trey Green

The KC based band, 3 Son Green, was formed in 2007 with Jamie Anderson on Guitar & Vocals, Evan Carlson on Guitar & Vocals, Steven Pearson on Drums, and Trey Green on Bass & Vocals. 3 Son Green join us to discuss their debut recording, “Redbird” and their CD Release Show, July 27, at 9:00 pm at Californos in Westport with Shedding Watts.

More info at 3songreen.com

11:29 – Underwriting

11:30 – National Vinyl

14. John Vanderslice – “How The West Was Won” (Vinyl)
from: Dagger Beach / Tiny Telephone / June 11, 2013
[John Vanderslice launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording and distribution of his 9th full length recording of original songs. For Kickstarter donors he also recorded a limited edition vinyl recording: Vanderslice Plays Diamond Dogs. We will bring you some of these tracks on vinyl on future WMM shows.]

15. The Postal Service – “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” (Vinyl) from: Give Up (Deluxe 10th Anniversary) (3 record set) / Sub Pop / April 9, 2013
[It’s been a decade since The Postal Service released “Give Up” Feb, 2003. The indie classic recently went platinum! Sub Pop is released a deluxe, 10th anniversary reissue featuring 15 bonus tracks, including covers by The Shins and Iron & Wine, and two brand new Postal Service songs, “Turn Around” and “A Tattered Line of String.” The Postal Service are currently on tour with Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamberello with Jenny Lewis.]

[The Postal Service play The Midland Theatre: Tues, July 30 and Wed, July 31 with Mates of State.]

16. Monophonics – “There’s A Riot Going On” (Vinyl)
from: 7″ Single w/ High Off You Love (45 RPM) / Ubiquity Records / 2012
[Included on full length release “In Your Brain.” Bay area Psychdelic Soul, 6-piece band formed in 2005]

11:44 – The Record Machine Summer Showcase

17. Palace – “I’m Still Learning”
from: Summer Don’t You Dare / The Record Machine / July 27, 2013
[St. Louis based band: Matthew James: Vocals/ Guitar/ Canadian-Tuxedos, Danny James: Drums/ Vocals/ Mustaches, Phil Grooms: Trumpet/Bass/Tall, Josh Eaker: Bass/fuzz, Crystal Owens: Vocals/X-bells]

[Palace plays The Record Machine Summer Showcase, Saturday, July 27, at Czar Bar, 1531 Grand Blvd., Kansas City. with Spirit Is the Spirit, and Volcanos.]

18. Spirit is the Spirit – “Pillows” (Vinyl)
from: Secret Handshakes/Golden Sound Records+The Record Machine(12″ Split Release)/Apr. 21, 2012
[Folk-psychedelic-rock from Lawrence, Kansas. Austen Malone, Noah Compo, Wayne Zimmerman, Josh Landau, Brook Partain, Danny Bowersox. “a Lawrence band with a cosmic hippie vibe plus horns (trumpet, trombone), lots of percussion and supernal vocal harmonies”- Tim Finn. Included on Baktun Baby [EP] released March 26, 2013, from Lawrence, Kansas based 5-piece band known for their beautiful Psychedelic-Folk-Rock sound. Members include: Austen Malone, Noah Compo, Josh Landau, Brook Partain, Danny Bowersox]

[Spirit Is the Spirit plays The Record Machine Summer Showcase, Saturday, July 27, at Czar Bar, 1531 Grand Blvd., KCMO, with Palace, and Volcanos.]

11:59:30

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

Sources for notes on tracks: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org

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Wednesday MidDay Medley’s Hot Summer Vinyl

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TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org
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Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Hot Summer Vinyl!
+ Philip Hooser & The KC Fringe Festival
+ 3 Son Green + The Record Machine Summer Showcase

Wednesday MidDay Medley's Hot Summer Vinyl

Wednesday MidDay Medley’s Hot Summer Vinyl

Mark warms up the 90.1 FM turntables to play New & Local Releases on VINYL from: Akkilles, Radkey, Pedaljets, Monophonics, Spirit is the Spirit, Palace, The Grisly Hand, Schwervon!, Lazy, Ghosty, The ACBs, The Caves, Ssion, David Bowie, John Vanderslice, and The Postal Service.

At 10:30, Playwright, Actor, Director – Philip Hooser joins us to talk about this year’s Kansas City Fringe Festival and the show he directed: EXTENDED 4PLAY containing four plays by Frank Higgins, Michael Ruth, Nicholas Sawin and Jack Phillips, playing at The Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St. KCMO, with final performances: Wednesday, July 24 at 6:30 pm; Thursday, July 25 at 9:30 pm; and Friday, July 26 @ 8:00 pm. More info at: kcfringe.org

At 11:15 Mark welcomes members of Kansas City based band, 3 Son Green, formed in 2007 with Jamie Anderson on Guitar & Vocals, Evan Carlson on Guitar & Vocals, Steven Pearson on Drums, and Trey Green on Bass & Vocals. 3 Son Green join us to discuss their debut recording, “Redbird” and their CD Release Show, July 27, at 9:00 pm at Californos in Westport with Shedding Watts. More info at 3songreen.com

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WMM Playlist from July 17, 2013

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

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Local & New Releases + Crystal Boson
+ Alicia Solombrino & Beautiful Bodies
+ Claire & The Crowded Stage

1. Parquet Courts – “Stoned and Starving”
from: Light Up Gold / What’s Your Rupture? / Jan. 14, 2013
[American punk rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, that formed in late 2010. The band consists of Andrew Savage (lead vocals, guitar), Austin Brown (guitar), Sean Yeaton (bass), and Andrew’s brother Max Savage (drums). The band released their debut album, American Specialties, on a limited cassette release (later released on LP by Play Pinball! Records). This was followed by the full length album, Light Up Gold, which was initially released on Savage’s Dull Tools label and later reissued on What’s Your Rupture? in 2013. Light Up Gold received acclaim in both the DIY underground and mainstream rock press.]

2. The Jinxed – “The Loon”
from: The Loon – Digital 7″ / Sharp County Records / June 4, 2013
[The Jinxed are: Bobby Topaz: Vocals, Guitar; Jon Ulasien: Drums, Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Piano, Synth; Bo McCall: Guitar ; Lennon Bone: Trumpet. “The Loon” was written by Jon Ulasien. The b-side of the digital 7″ is, “Say To Me” written by Bobby Topaz and Jon Ulasien. Produced by Jon Ulasien. Jon Ulasien and Bo McCall are from the KC based band Antennas Up. Sharp County Records was started by Lennon Bone, drummer from the band Ha Ha Tonka.]

3. Beautiful Bodies – “Animal”
from: Battles [EP] / Independent / July 20, 2013
[Indie/rock band from Kansas City that mixes elements of punk, dance, new wave, and rock. Fronted by the magnetic – and at times, mischievous – Alicia Solombrino on VOCALS; Thomas Becker on GUITAR & BACKUP VOX; Luis Arana on BASS;. The band has received comparisons to Blondie, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Runaways and Metric. More info at thebeautifulbodies.com]

[Beautiful Bodies CD Release Show, for their EP “Battles” is Saturday, July 20 at The Riot Room with Strive and Grenadina. Beautiful Bodies are also on tour with the Vans Warped Tour 2013, playing KC, Tuesday, at Cricket/Sandstone Amphitheater. More information at thebeautifulbodies.com. ]

11:15 – Underwriting

4. Beautiful Bodies – “Invincible”
from: Battles [EP] / Independent / July 20, 2013
[Indie/rock band from Kansas City that mixes elements of punk, dance, new wave, and rock. Fronted by the magnetic – and at times, mischievous – Alicia Solombrino on VOCALS; Thomas Becker on GUITAR & BACKUP VOX; Luis Arana on BASS; Aaron Crawford on DRUMS. The band has received comparisons to Blondie, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Runaways and Metric. More info at thebeautifulbodies.com]

10:18 – Interview with Alicia Solombrino and Thomas Becker of Beautiful Bodies

Alicia Solombrino and Thomas Becker of Beautiful Bodies

Alicia Solombrino and Thomas Becker of Beautiful Bodies

The Kansas City based Beautiful Bodies have been compared to Blondie, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the Runaways. Fronted by the playful and charismatic Alicia Solombrino on Lead Vocals; with Thomas Becker on Guitar & Back-up Vocals; Luis Arana on Bass, Beautiful Bodies have been playing live since 2005 and have shared the stage with Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Chemical Romance, and Cake. Beautiful Bodies CD Release Show, for their EP “Battles” is Saturday, July 20 at The Riot Room with Strive and Grenadina. Beautiful Bodies are also on tour with the Vans Warped Tour 2013, playing KC, Tuesday, at Cricket/Sandstone Amphitheater. More information at thebeautifulbodies.com.

Beautiful Bodies were just nominated for “Best Live Act” from the Pitch Music Awards.

Beautiful Bodies CD Release Show, for their EP “Battles” is Sat, July 20 at The Riot Room.

Songs for Battles were recorded in LA with multi-platinum selling producer John Feldmann who has worked with The Used, Panic at the Disco, Good Charlotte, and Neon Trees.

Beautiful Bodies:
Alicia Solombrino on Lead Vocals
Thomas Becker on Guitar & Back-up Vocals
Luis Arana on Bass

Alicia Solombrino was born and raised in Kansas City and Alicia explained that moment when she knew that she wanted to be a performer. It was when she was in kindergarten. “I saw Madonna on the (1990) MTV (Video Music) Awards performing Vogue,” she said.

Along with being lead singer, Alicia is also known as a videographer, director, photographer, promotions manager, and web designer, she has been able to put her talents to use in many different ways and with many different venues working with many bands including The Republic Tigers and Alacartoona.

Guitarist Thomas Becker, is a Harvard Law graduate. he has been working representing victims of a Bolivian massacre in a civil lawsuit against the country’s former president.

Beautiful Bodies have been playing and touring since 2005, sharing the stage with bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shiny Toy Guns, My Chemical Romance, Cake, Har Mar Superstar. What are your favorite experiences?

The Vans Warped Tour 2013 will take the band to: San Diego, Pomoma, Ventura, Kansas City, St. Louis, Atlanta, Tampa, West palm Beach, Orlando, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Dallas, San Antonia, Houston

Beautiful Bodies CD Release Show, for their EP “Battles” is Saturday, July 20 at The Riot Room with Strive and Grenadina. Beautiful Bodies are also on tour with the Vans Warped Tour 2013, playing KC, Tuesday, at Cricket/Sandstone Amphitheater. More information at thebeautifulbodies.com.

10:32

5. Janelle Monae – “Dance Apocalyptic”
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.]

10:36 – Interview with Crystal Boson

Poet, Writer, Teacher, Scholar, Crystal Boson, is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Kansas. Crystal holds both a B.A and M.A in English Literature, from the University of Missouri and Texas A&M University. Crystal’s recent poetry collection: “The Queer Texas Prayerbook,” was released by Seven Kitchens Press, Her previous work has been published in Callaloo, Pank, the Black Bottom, and in an anthology of Queer Midwestern Writers. She also has a chapbook, “The Icarus Series’ , with Seven Kitchens Press. Crystal currently lives in Lawrence Kansas, with her macbook, a basil plant named Lazarus and her cat, Delphina Jenkins Boson-Lease III.

Crystal Boson is currently living in Lawrence, working on her PhD at the University of Kansas.

One of the subjects Crystal is researching and studying is Hoodoo.

(from wikipedia) “Also known as conjure, and “Voodoo” (which strictly speaking is different in many ways) is a traditional African-American folk spirituality that developed from a number of West African, Native American, and European spiritual traditions. Hoodoo has some spiritual principles and practices similar to spiritual folkways in Haitian, Cuban, Jamaican, and New Orleans traditions. Hoodoo seems to have evolved in the Mississippi Delta where the concentration of slaves had been dense. Hoodoo then spread throughout the Southeast as well as North along the Mississippi as African Americans left the Delta beginning in the 1930s.”

Prior to KU this Crystal received her Masters Degree from Texas A&M. Texas A&M is located in College Station, Texas. Crystal talked about how living in College Station, Texas, and the source material for her book of poetry, “The Queer Texas Prayerbook” published by Seven Kitchens Press.

While living there she was stopped for “driving while black” 98 times in four years.

Crystal is now working on new poems for a series called: Kansas Up South.

Crystal read several poems for her new collection.

In Missouri and Kansas, and perhaps in our entire country, our society doesn’t really like to discuss issue of race and our countries history of slavery and discrimination. Crystal never shys away from dealing with these themes in her original works.

This past Saturday evening the verdict came from the jury in Sanford, Florida, and George Zimmerman was found not guilty of charges, after he killed unarmed, 17 year-old Trayvon Martin, who was walking home to his dad’s house. The judge would not allow the issue of race to be part of the trial, but cases like these always seem to crack open the truth about where people really stand on issues of race. Crystal described her own observations about this trial and verdict.

Being identified as Lesbian, Queer, African American, Female, these identities have historically been used to hold a person back, to deny them equality, even offer that person violence and hate. Crystal has been writing about her own experiences, and her own first hand racial profiling experiences.

Claire Adams, Katy Guillen, Teri Quinn, Crystal Boson, and Megan Lease in the Green Room at 90.1 FM KKFI.

Claire Adams, Katy Guillen, Teri Quinn, Crystal Boson, and Megan Lease in the Green Room at 90.1 FM KKFI.

10:52

6. Mavis Staples – “I Like the Things About Me”
from: One True Vine / Anti Records / June 21, 2013 [Staple’s 13th studio album, 2nd collaboration with record producer and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. Their 2010 collaboration, “You Are Not Alone” won a Grammy in the category of Best Americana Album. Tweedy also played most of the instruments on the album, with the exception of the drums, which were played by his son, Spencer Tweedy. The album was recorded at the Wilco Loft in Chicago, and while working on it, Staples commuted back and forth between the Loft (on Chicago’s North Side) and her home on Chicago’s South Side.]

7. Michael Franti & Spearhead – “I’m Alive (Life Sounds Like)”
from: All People (Deluxe) / Boo Boo Wax – Capitol / July 30, 2013
[Michael Franti was born April 21, 1966. He is an American poet, musician, and composer. He is the creator and lead vocalist of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock. He is also an outspoken supporter for a wide spectrum of peace and social justice issues.]

[Michael Franti plays Starlight Theatre on Saturday, July 20, at 7:00 PM.]

11:00

8. Daughn Gibson – “Mad Ocean”
from: Me Moan / Sub Pop / July 9, 2013
[Carlisle, Pennsylvania based singer/songwriter, was formerly the drummer for the band Pearls and Brass. His debut solo album “All Hell” received such critical acclaim that Sub Pop records signed Gibson.]

9. Me Like Bees – “Naked Trees”
from: The Ides / LoveWay Records / July 9, 2013
[indie/alternative rock band from Joplin, Missouri consisting of: Pete Burton (lead guitar), Asher Poindexter (bass), Luke Sheafer (vocals/guitar), and Tim Cote on drums. Formed in May of 2009, the group has developed their sound with influences from bands such as Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire and The White Stripes.
More info at: melikebees.com.]

[Me Like Bees play for their Full Length Debut Release at The Riot Room on Friday, July 19, with Antennas Up, and Abandon Kansas at The Riot Room.]

10. Erik Voeks – “Hester A. Fish”
from: Finulu [EP] / Independent / April 29, 2013
[Written by Erik Voeks. Produced by Patrick Hawley & Erik Voeks., Mixed & mastered by Adam Schmitt, Drums, piano, pump organ: Patrick Hawley, Steel guitar: Mike Stover, Trumpet: Ryan Oldham, Handclaps: Coleen Voeks & Mary Hawley, Field recordings: Coleen Voeks. Everything else recorded at Sandusky Sound Co. by EV.]

[Erik Voeks plays the Uptown Arts Bar, Saturday, July 20 at 7:00 opening for The Depth and The Whisper. Erik joins Albert Bickley, Dave Tanner, and Kelsey Cook of The Depth and The Whisper on lead guitar, for this show, and he joins the band on tour in a string of out-of-town shows, including the band’s return to New York City and shows in Des Moines, Chicago, Canton, Boston, and Cincinnati.]

11. Tenderness Wilderness – “Morning Light”
from: Tribes / Independent / April 13, 2012
[Omaha based band: Mikey Kelly (guitar, vocals, bass, samples), Pat Kelly (guitar, vocals, bass, samples), Kevin Kelly (drums) , Ben Volkman (guitar, bass), Matt Hames (Gravity, Anna Louise vocals), Aly Peeler (Anna Louise vocals). “Tribes” was recorded at home. Mastering by Rick Carson @ Make Believe Studio.]

[Tenderness Wilderness play the recordBar, Saturday, July 20 opening for Claire & The Crowded Stage with Appropriate Grammar and Aly Peeler.]

11:15 – Interview with Claire Adams, Katy Guillen, and Teri Quinn

Katy Guillen, Claire Adams, and Teri Quinn of Claire & The Crowded Stage

Katy Guillen, Claire Adams, and Teri Quinn of Claire & The Crowded Stage

Kansas City based singer, songwriter, and musician, Claire Adams, is an integral part of multiple area bands including: Claire & The Crowded Stage, Appropriate Grammar, Hidden Pictures, The Katy Guillen Trio, and Quirk & Ruckus. Claire Adams grew up in Topeka and went to college in Nashville. Claire & The Crowded Stage is set to release their third EP, “Nightside of Day” with a special EP Release Show, this Saturday, July 20 at 9:00 pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Road in Kansas City, Missouri, with special guests: Tenderness Wilderness, Appropriate Grammar, and Aly Peeler.

We talked again with Claire about how one of the reasons she ended up being in so many bands, and in the middle of a crowded stage, is because when she first moved to KC three years ago she wanted to make friends.

Claire grew up in a small farming town in Kansas, went to High School in Topeka, went to college in Nashville. You lived in Nashville for 7 years before coming to KC.

Among members of Claire & The Crowded Stage, many other bands are represented including: The B’Dinas (Peter, Katy, Katelyn), Dream Wolf (Katelyn, Brent), The Katy Guillen Trio (Katy, Stephanie, Claire), Quick & Ruckus (Katy, Claire), Genessee (Jerod), Appropriate Grammar (Claire), Hidden Pictures (Claire), The Cave Girls (Stephanie), I Found A Job (Peter), with all of you switching around on keyboards, bass, drums, guitar, lead vocals. How many bands can one person be a part of before losong control?

11:22

12. Claire & the Crowded Stage – “Kamakazee”
from: Night Side of Day / Independent / July 20, 2013

The song “Night Side of Day” was Performed LIVE by half of The Crowded Stage: Claire Adams, Katy Guillen, Peter Lawless, & Teri Quinn, back on March 27 on this show.

Claire, Katy and Teri talked about how the new EP is more representative to the real sound of “The Crowded Stage.”

Claire & The Crowded Stage is:
Claire Adams – Vocals, Ukelele, Guitar
Katelyn Boone – Bass & Keys
Peter Lawless – Accordion & Saxaphone
Meredith McGrade – Electric Guitar
Katy Guillen – Electric Guitar
Stephanie Williams – Drums
Jerod Rivers – Drums
Brent Jamison – Keys
Teri Quinn – Clarinet, Guitar

11:32

13. Claire & the Crowded Stage – “I Saw It All”
from: Night Side of Day / Independent / July 20, 2013

Claire & The Crowded Stage is set to release their third EP, “Nightside of Day” with a special EP Release Show, Saturday, July 20 at 9:00 pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Road in Kansas City, Missouri, with special guests: Tenderness Wilderness, Appropriate Grammar, and Aly Peeler. More info at: claireandthecrowdedstage.bandcamp.com

11:38 – Underwriting

11:39

14. La Guerre – “Ontario Lake”
from: The Three / The Record Machine / May 7, 2013
[La Guerre is french for The War. La Guerre is Katlyn Conroy a singer songwriter, based in Lawrence, Kansas and is also a member of Cowboy Indian Bear. Her Transformations Tour comes to KC Thursday Night.]

[La Guerre plays the Riot Room, Thursday July 18, with The Blackbird Revue, and Monster.]

15. Piney Gir – “Outta Sight”
from: Geronimo! / Highline Records / October 2, 2012
[Piney Gir is Angela Penhaligon a musician and singer, born in Kansas and now based in London, England. This is her 5th album.]

16. Ecstatics – “Hearts Change”
from: 1,000 Years Of Ecstatics / Independent / January 1, 2013
[Brooklyn based duo made up of: Matthew Dunehoo (formerly of Doris Henson and Baby Teardrops) and Lillie Jayne (aka Admiral Grey). Recorded by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab in Kansas City, MO. Preliminary mixing by Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab. Further & final mixing by Erik Schuiten at Headroom Audio in New York City. Mastering for vinyl by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering in Brooklyn, NY. Mastering for digital by Al Houghton and Mike Crehore at Dubway Studios in NYC. ]

[Ecstatics play the recordBar, Thursday, July 18 with Parallels and Akkilles.]

17. Trampled Under Foot – “Bad Bad Feeling”
from: Badlands / Concord Music group – Telarc Records / July 9, 2013
[“Trampled Under Foot” is a song by English rock group Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. The lyrics were inspired by blues musician Robert Johnson’s 1936 “Terraplane Blues.” Trampled Under Foot is also one of Kansas Cities hottest blues bands consisting of siblings: Nick Schnebelen on Guitar & Vocals; Danielle Schnebelen on Bass & Vocals, and Kris Schnebelen on Drums & Vocals. Trampled Under Foot is the winner of the 2012 Pitch Music Award for Best Blues Band. More info at: tufkc.com]

[Trampled Under Foot play a special Album Release Show at Knuckleheads, on Friday, July 19.]

11:59:30

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

Sources for notes on tracks: artist’s websites and wikipedia.org

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July 17 – Beautiful Bodies + Crystal Boson + Claire & The Crowded Stage

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

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Local & New Releases + Crystal Boson
+ Alicia Solombrino & Beautiful Bodies
+ Claire & The Crowded Stage

Mark plays New & Local Releases from: La Guerre, Me Like Bees, Ecstatics, Trampled Under Foot, Erik Voeks, Beautiful Bodies, Claire & The Crowded Stage, Tenderness Wilderness, Piney Gir, Janelle Monae, Daughn Gibson, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Mavis Staples, and Parquet Courts.

Alicia Solombrino of Beautiful Bodies (photo by: samanthalevi.com)

Alicia Solombrino of Beautiful Bodies (photo by: samanthalevi.com)

At 10:15, Mark talks with the amazing singer and performer, Alicia Solombrino and members of Beautiful Bodies who will share music from their upcoming EP “Battles” and discuss their CD Release Show, Saturday, July 20 at The Riot Room. Beautiful Bodies is also on tour with the Vans Warped Tour 2013, playing Kansas City, Tuesday, at Cricket/Sandstone Amphitheater. More info at: thebeautifulbodies.com

At 10:35 Mark talks with writer, Crystal Boson, who recently released her new book of poetry, “The Queer Texas Prayerbook” through Seven Kitchens Press. Crystal has been previously published in Callaloo, Pank, and The Black Bottom, and is in an anthology of Queer Midwestern writers. Her previous chapbook, The Icarus Series, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in 2009. When not writing poetry about Texas, bar fights, or existential love, she is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Kansas. Crystal holds both a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature, from the University of Missouri and Texas A&M University respectively. She currently resides in Lawrence, KS.

At 11:15 Mark welcomes Claire Adams and members of Claire & The Crowded Stage. The band is set to release their third EP, “Nightside of Day” with a special EP Release Show, Saturday, July 20 at 9:00 pm, at the recordBar, 1020 Westport Road in Kansas City, Missouri, with special guests: Tenderness Wilderness, Appropriate Grammar, and Aly Peeler. More info at: claireandthecrowdedstage.bandcamp.com

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