Mark Manning interviews country music artist & gay rights activist Chely Wright this Friday morning, November 8, at 11:15 am, on KKFI 90.1 FM during Eclectics, with Rebecca Roche. Please tune in for a chance to win certificates to be redeemed for two free tickets for the benefit for the LikeMe Lighthouse-Kansas City annual fundraiser November 13th at The Folly Theater starring Margaret Cho, Judy Gold, John Fugelsang, Jim Short and a special appearance by Chely Wright. Buy your tickets at http://www.FollyTheater.org

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

Local & New Releases + Guest Producer Harris Wilder
+ Poet Bill Bauer + More Music from Lou Reed

1. Rooms Without Windows – “Rooms Without Windows”
from: Single Digital Release / Independent / October 17, 2013
[Elsa Rae – Vocals, Hanna Smith – Keys, Chris Brower – Drums, Chris Turner – Bass, and Corey Vitt – Guitar]

[Rooms Without Windows play 10-Year Anniversary of The Record Machine at the recordBar, Friday, November 8, with Little Legend, Sleepy Kitty, and Max Justus.] [RWW play The Riot Room, Nov. 25.]

2. Little Legend – “Nowhere Fast”
from: No Way To Tell / The Record Machine / July 2, 2013
[Madison based band formed by: Brandy J Tudor, Joseph Copeland, Daniel Jin and Robby Schiller. All songs written and produced by Little Legend. Recorded, Engineered, and Mixed by Brandy John Tudor in Madison, WI. Mastered by Paul Carabello.]

[Little Legend play 10-Year Anniversary of The Record Machine at the recordBar, Friday, November 8, with Rooms Without Windows, Sleepy Kitty, and Max Justus.]

3. Jesca Hoop – “Hospital”
from: The House That Jack Built / Bella Union / June 25, 2012
[From Wikipedia: Born in Santa Rosa, California, Jessica grew up singing hymns & folk tunes with her morman family in 4 part harmony. She began singing in the Santa Rosa Chamber Choir before breaking away from her Mormon background at the same time as her parents separating, becoming a homesteader in the wilderness areas of Northern California, Wyoming and tmountains of Arizona where Hoop worked with a rehab program for children. Hoop began writing music and worked as a nanny for the children of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan. Nic Harcourt at the Southern California radio station KCRW in 2003, featured her with a six-minute demo recorded on a four track recorder. Tom Waits described Hoop thus: “Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night.”]

[Jesca Hoop plays The Midland Saturday, November 9, with Iron and Wine.]

10:13 – Underwriting

10:14

4. The Caves – “Liars”
from: Secret Handshakes/Golden Sound Records+The Record Machine(12″ Split Release)/Apr. 21, 2012
[KC based: Andrew Ashby on Guitar & Voice, David Gaumé on Bass, Elizabeth Bohannon on Keyboards, Percussion & Voice, Jake Cardwell on Drums & Percussion.] [Golden Sound Records, 12″ vinyl split release with The Record Machine, that includes 6 tracks featuring Golden Sound Records artists and 6 tracks including The Record Machine artists, all designed especially for Record Store Day! 2012]

[Andrew Ashby of The Caves performs a solo acoustic set at Prospero’s Uptown Books, Friday, November 8, at 7:00 with The Sexy Accident.]

5. Alaturka – “Dar Hejiroke”
from: Yalniz / Tzigane / March 4, 2013
[From Alaturkamusic.com: “formed in 2009 with the vision of creating an equal “auditory handshake” between two musical cultures, American jazz and Turkish classical music. Founder and director Beau Bledsoe joined with three of KC’s most acclaimed jazz musicians, Rich Wheeler, Brandon Draper and Jeff Harshbarger, to form a quartet in which both cultures are treated with equal respect. The collaboration has resulted in an intriguing new sound that has garnered the ensemble multiple invitations to perform throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 2013, Alaturka’s second recording, “Yalniz” (Tzigane Music) received 4.5 stars in Downbeat Magazine.]

[Alaturka play The Lawrence Art Center, Thurs, Nov. 7, with the University of Kansas Jazz Ensemble]

6. John L. Keck – “Die With Me”
from: Jack Moon Sessions / Independent / , 2013
[Two years ago while John was visiting the famous Sun Studios in Memphis, TN where Presley, Cash, Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and so many others have recorded John decided to produce a single at the legendary studio and a session being booked. He originally only booked 2 hours thinking that would be plenty of time to get several takes of “Die with Me”, his most recent song. 2 hours turned into 4, and 8 tracks were recorded with 3 takes of each song. This “live” album was brought back to KC and discussed with Brent Jamison & Chappy Felkins of Dreamwolfanimalbear Productions, with the intention of adding more instrumentation to it, to bring out a full band sound that John had planned for most of the songs. John’s friends Betse Ellis; Elaine McMillan; Megan Zander & Chris Taddy of Dream Wolf; Clint Hoffmeier of Ned Ludd and Vehicle; and Hume Man were asked to sit in on the Chappy Road sessions and create the sound John was hearing in his head.]

[John Keck plays CODA, Saturday, November 9, in a special album release show with Dream Wolf.]

10:30

7. Crosby, Stills, Nash – “Daylight Again”
from: Daylight Again / Atlantic / June 21, 1982
[From Wikipedia: “Daylight Again is a 1982 studio album by the band Crosby, Stills & Nash, their 4th of completely original material, and 7th in total. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, the final time the band has made the top ten to date. Three singles were released from the album, all making the Billboard Hot 100: “Wasted on the Way” peaked at #9, “Southern Cross” at #18, and “Too Much Love to Hide” at #69. The genesis of the album lies in recordings made by Stephen Stills and Graham Nash at intervals in 1980 and 1981, the album slated to be a Stills-Nash project. They employed Art Garfunkel, Timothy B. Schmit, and others to sing in place of where David Crosby might have been. Executives at Atlantic Records, however, had little interest in anything but CSN product from any member of the group, and held out for the presence of Crosby, forcing Nash and Stills to start paying for the sessions out-of-pocket. They began to turn toward the company’s point of view, however, and decided to invite Crosby to participate at the eleventh hour. He brought two of his own tracks to the album, “Delta,” where Stills and Nash squeezed their vocals into Crosby’s already-taped multi-tracked harmonies, and “Might As Well Have A Good Time,” which received the bona fide CSN treatment. Most of the recording, however, features other voices in addition to the main trio, a first for any CSNY record, as is the number of outside writers. The song “Daylight Again” evolved out of Stills’ guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the south in the Civil War, seguing into “Find the Cost of Freedom,” which had been the b-side of the “Ohio” single in 1970.”]

10:30 – Interview with Bill Bauer

Poet Bill Bauer joined us to discuss the re-release of his book, “Last Lambs.” Bill Bauer will be reading at Johnson County Community College, as part of Veterans Week, on Thursday, November 7, at 7:00 pm, in the Hudson Auditorium in the Nerman Museum. The event, A Call to Words: Veterans & Why They Write, features two Vietnam-era veterans reading and discussing their poetry. Reception following at Café Tempo. Collaborating partners: BkMk Press of UMKC, New Letters on the Air, The Writers Place and ResVets.

Bill Bauer grew up in Kansas City, and he credits his mother who taught him to read when I was four years old as igniting his interest in words.

From BillBauerPoetry.com: “I have since been enchanted by the sounds of words and people’s voices. Most of all, I like to catch the sound of the voice at moments when the words are spoken by whim or chance, at random, spoken in moments of want, protest or surprise. I think this is where authenticity can be found.”

“Born into a lower middle class family in Kansas City, Missouri in 1944. I left home at seventeen to escape my father who was diagnosed later in life as manic-depressive. At the time, I thought he was just crazy and mean. I have since become convinced that mental illness is primarily biological in nature. I think my father did the best he could with what he was given.
I made it through college by hook and crook with the help of a half-time scholarship, 50 hours a week working nights as a copy boy and sometimes junior reporter at The Kansas City Star, and a work-study job at school. Then, as I began graduate school, a huge hand reached out of the sky and I awoke one morning against my will at a fire base in South Vietnam.”

“When I returned from the war, my academic career was gone, no longer in reach. The war was followed by a family tragedy; I became a single father and was forced to scrape for The Coin.”

10:37 – Poem Reading

From BillBauerPoetry.com: “Some old business friends are prone to ask, “Why waste your time writing poetry? No bestsellers there.” I have no rational explanation other than that’s what I do and have always done. As a boy, I also enjoyed sewing together pages cut from paper sacks and making books. One of my old high school friends asked another, “Doesn’t Bill know those stupid things are supposed to rhyme?” I have no answer for that. Some critics complain my poems read too much like prose. Others have called them vingnettes or very short stories. It makes little difference to me what they are called. My take on poems and other forms of fiction is that I remain open to accepting them in the form they are offered to me.”

“Poetry does not really need definition. It’s neither “Life distilled,” (Gwendolyn Brooks) nor “… the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” that takes “its origins from emotion recollected in tranquility.” (Wordsworth). Like its strange, not so reclusive neighbor, so-called “pornography,” we know a poem when we hear or see it. It defies definition and that’s what makes it attractive to me.”

“There is no such thing in my mind as a good poem or a bad poem, only finished and unfinished poems. I am particularly fond of one shot poets. They have real jobs. I find their poems to be much more meaningful than the “So what?” poems often found in literary journals. My favorite poem is the one I am reading at the moment. I do hold an unfair bias against poems with literary or artistic allusions or references to writing, erudition, other poets or one’s own precious moments.”

Bill Bauer will be reading at JCCC, as part of Veterans Week, on Thursday, November 7, at 7:00 pm, in the Hudson Auditorium in the Nerman Museum. The event, A Call to Words: Veterans & Why They Write, features two Vietnam-era veterans reading and discussing their poetry. Reception following at Café Tempo. Collaborating partners: BkMk Press of UMKC, New Letters on the Air, The Writers Place and ResVets. More info on Bill Bauer at http://www.billbauerpoetry.com

10:45

8. The Burdock King – “Coffee”
from: A Guide To Lake Driving / Independent / August 23, 2013
[Recorded in one day in August of 2013, with one take from the first song to the last with all of the raw scratches and cracks left in. The EP is a concept record about a day in which Justin fell off of a pond boat in Missouri. Justin Vacca – Guitar, Vocals; Analiese Motta – Drums; Dan Kavanaugh – Keys, Kazoo, Vocals and with help on the recording from Ahafia Jurkiewicz-Miles – Violin, Vocals; and Eman Chalshotori – Cello.]

[The Burdock King plays FOKL, 556 Central Avenue, KCK, Sunday, November 11, 8:00 PM, with Heyrocco, SeaKings, Sun Club]

9. David Bowie – “Queen Bitch”
from: Hunky Dory / RCA / December 17, 1971
[From Wikipedia: Bowie was a great Velvet Underground fan and wrote the song in tribute to the band and Lou Reed. He recorded a cover of “I’m Waiting for the Man” in 1967 (which remains unissued), as well as live versions on Bowie at the Beeb and the radio-recording of the live at Nassau Coliseum concert that follow “Queen Bitch”. It starts with Bowie counting down to his acoustic guitar before Mick Ronson’s thrashy guitar riff enters. The song’s arrangement, featuring a melodic bass line, a tight drum pattern, choppy distorted guitar chords, and an understated vocal performance by Bowie, provided the template for the glam rock style which features prominently on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, his seminal 1972 follow-up to Hunky Dory. While the main riff is similar to The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane”, it is actually lifted from Eddie Cochran’s “Three Steps to Heaven”.]

10. Lou Reed – “Satellite of Love”
from: Transformer / RCA / Nov. 8, 1972
[A Lou Reed song from his 1972 second solo album Transformer. It was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson. From Wikipedia: “One of Lou Reed’s best-known songs from his solo career. It is the 2nd single from Transformer. The song is about a man who observes a satellite launch on television and contemplates what Reed describes as feelings of “the worst kind of jealousy” about his unfaithful girlfriend. David Bowie, who produced the album, can be heard providing background vocals, especially at the final chorus. Reed would write later: “He has a melodic sense that’s just well above anyone else in rock & roll. Most people could not sing some of his melodies. He can really go for a high note. Take ‘Satellite of Love,’ on my Transformer album. There’s a part at the very end where his voice goes all the way up. It’s fabulous.” Often considered a Reed solo song, it was originally recorded by The Velvet Underground. The band played the song at concerts and recorded it during the 1970 sessions for their album Loaded, though like many of the songs recorded during those sessions, it does not appear on the album. The existence of the VU version was largely unknown and even forgotten by the band members themselves until the release of the box set Peel Slowly and See in 1995. It also appears on the 1997 Rhino Records 2-CD version of the Loaded album.]

Lou Reed was co-founder of The Velvet Underground, and he had an extensive solo career. Lou Reed died on Sunday, October 27, at the age of 71.

11. The Velvet Underground – “I’m Sticking With You”
from: Fully Loaded (2-CD reissue of Loaded) / Rhino Records / February 18, 1997
[On February 18, 1997, Rhino Records released a “Fully Loaded” two-CD reissue of Loaded, which contained numerous alternate takes, alternate mixes and demo versions of Loaded songs and outtakes. Two of these include performances by Maureen Tucker (“I’m Sticking with You” demo, vocals; “I Found a Reason” demo, drums) and there is also a cameo appearance by original band member John Cale (“Ocean” demo, organ). “Loaded” was the 4th album by the Velvet Underground, released in November 1970, by Atlantic Records’ Cotillion. It was the final album recorded featuring Lou Reed, who had left the band shortly before its release. Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, piano; Doug Yule – keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Who Loves the Sun”, “New Age”, “Lonesome Cowboy Bill”, and “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'”; Sterling Morrison – guitar; (Maureen Tucker – drums: credited, but does not appear due to maternity leave. She does appear singing on the outtake “I’m Sticking With You”, and playing drums on the demo of “I Found a Reason” on the Fully Loaded Edition). Additional musicians: Adrian Barber – drums on “Who Loves the Sun” and “Sweet Jane”; Tommy Castanero – drums on “Cool It Down” and “Head Held High”; and Billy Yule – drums on “Lonesome Cowboy Bill” and “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'”]

11:00 – Station ID

11:00 – Harris Wilder – “Guest Producer”

Harris Wilder began his career in the music business as a singer playing local gigs and high school dances in New Jersey. He made his first recording at 17, and at 18 he joined the band: Wind in the Willows, with future Blondie star Debbie Harry. The Wind in the Willows made one album for Capitol Records and opened for the bands: Traffic, Vanilla Fudge, Spooky Tooth which later became Foreigner, Soft White Underbelly which later became Blue Oyster Cult and many others. During his college years he toured playing clubs and colleges throughout New England and notably as opening act for The Velvet Underground and the J. Geils Band. After graduating from college he appeared at numerous clubs in New York including the legendary Trude Heller’s. Along with Bette Midler, Melissa Manchester, Nick Ashford and Paul Simon, he studied voice with the great David Sorin Collyer. After producing his first solo demo, he was signed by Private Stock Records with production by Grammy winner Tony Camillo (“Midnight Train to Georgia”). Those sessions included Elliot Randall, one of the mainstays on the early Steely Dan recordings.

After finishing law school in New York, Harris stopped singing, lost his mind and moved to Kansas City. In 1985, he formed Kahn-Wilder Management and helped steer the great reggae band Blue Riddm to a Grammy nomination. Over the following years, he has represented various musical groups and organizations and is currently general counsel for the Mutual Musicians Foundation, Maria the Mexican and others. In 2013 he got back into the music business as one of the co-founders of Tom’s Town Media, LLC, concentrating on concert promotion, record production and music publishing.

12. Wilson Picket – “She’s Lookin’ Good”
from: The Very Best of Wilson Pickett / Atlantic Recording Group / April 13, 1993
[Originally a 1968 Single from Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B, soul and rock and roll singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which hit the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100. Among his best known hits are “In the Midnight Hour” (which he co-wrote), “Land of 1,000 Dances”, “Mustang Sally”, and “Funky Broadway”. The impact of Pickett’s songwriting and recording led to his 1991 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ]

13. Mitch Ryder – “Rock N Roll”
from: The Best of Mitch Ryder / TUTM Entertainment / April 26, 2005
[Originally released as a single in 1972. William S. Levise, Jr (born 26 February 1945), known better by his stage name Mitch Ryder, is an American musician who has recorded more than two dozen albums during more than four decades. On February 14, 2012 Ryder released The Promise, his first US release in almost 30 years. Ryder currently resides in South Lyon, Michigan, a western suburb of Detroit, Michigan. He continues to tour and perform in the United States and Europe.]

11:17

14. Ray Charles – “Night Time Is the Right Time (Live At Newport Jazz)”
from: Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) [Remastered] / Atlantic Recording Group / September 20, 2005
[Ray Charles originally recorded his version, titled “(Night Time Is) The Right Time”, in October 1958. From Wikipedia: “Blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes (listed as “The Honey Dripper”) recorded “Night Time Is the Right Time” in 1937 (Decca 7324). Called “one of his ‘hits’ of the day”, it is a moderate-tempo twelve-bar blues that features Sykes on vocal and piano. It has been suggested that it was “drawn from the old vaudeville tradition”. In 1938, Big Bill Broonzy recorded the song with slightly different (and more suggestive) lyrics (Vocalion 4149). The same year, Roosevelt Sykes recorded a second version titled “Night Time Is the Right Time #2” (Decca 7438), also with slightly different lyrics. These earliest recordings of “Night Time Is the Right Time” are credited to Roosevelt Sykes and Leroy Carr. Although Carr died in 1935 without any known recordings of the song, “Night Time Is The Right Time” bears considerable similarity to Carr’s “When The Sun Goes Down”. The latter was phenomenally popular song at this time, having been covered by the Ink Spots and also serving as a model for “Love In Vain” by Robert Johnson. In 1957, Nappy Brown recorded the song as “The Right Time” (Savoy 1525). Called “a highlight of Brown’s early career”, his version features additional lyrics with background singers answering his vocal lines. Instrumental accompaniment is provided by Buster Cooper (trombone), Hilton Jefferson (alto sax), Budd Johnson (tenor sax), Kelly Owens (piano), Skeeter Best (guitar), Leonard Gaskin (bass), and Bobby Donaldson (drums). Brown’s version did not reach the national record charts, but was “borrowed by Ray Charles in short order”According to Brown, “The difference between me and Ray Charles’s ‘Night Time Is the Right Time’ … is he had it up-tempo with Mary Ann and them behind him—the ladies [Charles’ female backup singers, the Raelettes]. I had mine in a slow tempo with a gospel group behind me. That was my gospel group. But he got everything just like mine, note for note”. Margie Hendricks with Charles’ backup singers the Raelettes provided the accompaniment to Charles vocals. The song became a hit in 1959, when it reached number five in the Billboard R&B chart and number 95 in the pop chart. The song is included on the albums Ray Charles at Newport and The Genius Sings the Blues.”]

15. Moby Grape – “Hey Grandma”
from: Listen My Friends! The Best Of Moby Grape / Sony / May 10, 2007
[Originally released as a Columbia Records Single in 1967 from the band’s debut record Moby Grape. San Francisco based band made up of: Skip Spence, Jerry Miller, Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis, Don Stevenson.]

16. Howard Tate – “Get It While You Can”
from: Get It While You Can – The Complete Legendary Verve Sessions / UMG / April 30, 2004
[Originally release on his 1966 album “get It While You.” Howard Tate (August 13, 1939 – December 2, 2011) was an American soul singer and songwriter. His greatest success came with a string of hit singles in the late 1960s, including “Ain’t Nobody Home” and “Get It While You Can,” the latter of which became a hit for singer Janis Joplin. After struggling with drug addiction and falling out of the music business, Tate mounted a warmly-received comeback in 2001.]

11:28 – Underwriting

11:30

17. David Ruffin – “My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)”
from: The Ultimate Collection: David Ruffin / UMG / September 22, 1998
[Originally released in early 1969, on Motown Records by Davis Eli “David” Ruffin (January 18, 1941 – June 1, 1991) most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968 (or the group’s “Classic Five” period as it was later known). It is the solo debut single for singer David Ruffin, The song was written by Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol, Pam Sawyer, and James Roach, with its melody and intro based upon the classical music piece “Frühlingslied” by Felix Mendelssohn. Fuqua and Bristol handled the recording’s production. Ruffin had been dismissed from the Temptations in June 1968 for what has been repeatedly deemed increasingly unprofessional behavior. The song was originally intended to be sung by the Temptations when Ruffin was still the group’s front man, but when he finally agreed to a solo contract with Motown, the song was given to him. He was the lead voice on such famous songs as “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” Known for his unique raspy and anguished tenor vocals, Ruffin was ranked as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 for his work with the Temptations. Fellow Motown recording artist Marvin Gaye once said admiringly of Ruffin that, “I heard [in his voice] a strength my own voice lacked.”]

18. Al Green & Annie Lennox – “Put a Little Love in Your Heart”
from: Testify: The Best of the A&M Years / A&M Records / September 25, 2001
[Originally released in 1988 as the ending theme song to the 1988 film “Scrooged.” The song reached #9 in the USA on the Hot 100 in January 1989 and climbed all the way to #2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, as well as becoming a top 40 hit in several countries worldwide.]

11:42

19. Ray Charles – “Tell The Truth”
from: The Great Hits of Ray Charles / Atlantic Recording Group / 2005 (orig. 1964)
[Originally a 1968 Single on ABC Records, release just before Georgia On My Mind.]

20. Laura Nyro – “Save The Country”
from: New York Tendaberry / Columbia / 1968
[Released 18 months after, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. Considered by rock critics and to be her greatest musical achievement. Born Oct. 18, 1947 – and died April 8, 1997. Laura Nyro was a hybrid of Brill Building-style NYC pop, jazz, gospel, R&B, show tunes, rock and soul. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.]

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

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

Show #498

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

Local & New Releases + Guest Producer Harris Wilder
+ Poet Bill Bauer + More music from Lou Reed

Mark plays New & Local Releases from: Rooms Without Windows, Alaturka, The Caves, John L. Keck, The Burdock King, Little Legend, and Jesca Hoop.

We’ll also play from Lou Reed, and also The Velvet Underground. Lou Reed died on Sunday, October 27, 2013. In honor of his passing we will feature songs from Lou Reed’s releases: Transformer, Berlin, and Loaded.

At 10:30 Mark talks with Poet Bill Bauer about the re-release of his book, “Last Lambs.” Bill Bauer will be in be reading at Johnson County Community College, as part of Veterans Week, on Thursday, November 7, at 7:00 pm, in the Hudson Auditorium in the Nerman Museum. The event, A Call to Words: Veterans & Why They Write, features two Vietnam-era veterans reading and discussing their poetry. Reception following at Café Tempo. Collaborating partners: BkMk Press of UMKC, New Letters on the Air, The Writers Place and ResVets.

At 11:00 Mark welcomes Harris Wilder as special “Guest Producer” for the hour. Harris will play music from: Wilson Picket, Mitch Ryder, Ray Charles, Moby Grape, Howard Tate, David Ruffin, Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox, Al Green, and Laura Nyro.

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Show #498

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

Apocalypse Meow! 2013 with Cody Wyoming & Mac McSpadden
+ Spinning Tree Theatre’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'”
+ Penny Thieme of VALA Gallery & Studios
+ A Musical Tribute to Lou Reed

1. Lou Reed – “Take A Walk on The Wild Side”
from: Monitor This / Monitor This / June-July 2003
(Transformer / RCA / Nov. 8, 1972)
[A previously unreleased version found during remastering sessions for Transformer release – different from version found on the BMG album NYC Man: The Collection. A Lou Reed song from his 1972 second solo album Transformer. It was produced by David Bowie. The song received wide radio coverage, despite its touching on taboo topics such as transsexuality, drugs, male prostitution and oral sex. In the United States, RCA released the single using an edited version of the song without the reference to oral sex. The lyrics, describing a series of individuals and their journeys to NYC, refer to several of the regular “superstars” at Andy Warhol’s New York studio, The Factory, namely Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis and Joe Campbell (referred to in the song by his nickname Sugar Plum Fairy). Candy Darling was also the subject of Reed’s earlier song for The Velvet Underground, “Candy Says”.]

2. Lou Reed – “Interview”
from: Satellite Of Love / Vanilla-One Media Publishing / 2009 (also released as American Poet 2001)
[Originally a bootleg recording of Lou Reed’s December 26, 1972, remote radio broadcast from Ultra Sonic Recording Studios for Tuesday Night Concert series WLIR-FM out of Long Island, New York. It featured material from the Transformer album, The Velvet Underground, his 1972 solo debut Lou Reed. Fresh off having just recorded Transformer in the UK with David Bowie and Mick Ronson, Lou had returned to NYC with his new band the Tots and agreed to do a live concert on WLIR. Recorded in crystal clear clarity, music critics have claimed that the show would end up being one of the finest live documents of Lou’s career and would capture a band at the top of its game. Circulated as a bootleg for years, the performance put to shame almost every other live album Lou put out in the 70s, including the disappointing Rock And Roll Animal and Lou Reed Live LPs, as well as the infamous Take No Prisoners.]

3. Lou Reed – “Heroin”
from: Satellite Of Love / One Media Publishing / 2009
[A bootleg recording of Lou Reed’s Dec. 26, 1972 remote radio broadcast from Ultra Sonic Recording Studios for WLIR-FM out of Long Island, NY.]

10:16

Some things are sacred. Lou Reed is certainly sacred. I’ve been grieving the loss of Lou. A treasured Icon, for so many reasons, the voice, the rebellion, the beat, and the poetry. Listen to “Heroin,” one of Lou Reed’s first songs, written in 1964, and tell me who it reminds you of. The song is an experience, the song is the drug. Lou wrote about things no one else was writing about. The people in his songs really existed. Lou changed the rules about what rock & rollers could write about in their songs. Thank god he did, because queer kids like me finally found their identity in music, for the first time ever.

I came to know the music of Lou Reed through my infatuation with David Bowie, as a teenager tracing Bowie’s influences. I learned that Bowie’s producer Ken Pitt, while in NYC, was able to obtain a white label acetate of The Velvet Underground’s debut record, before it came out in 1967, and he gave this to Bowie, who became The Velvets biggest fan. Bowie bragged that he’d be the first to cover a Velvet’s song, before the album even was released. Bowie borrowed everything he could, Lou was one of his greatest influences.

Bowie made his own trip to NYC in 1971, to visit The Factory, Andy Warhol, and to see the play “Pork” written by Brigid Berlin. By this time The Velvets were a broken band. Lou was flying solo. Bowie & Mick Ronson happily signed on to produced Reed’s 2nd album “Transformer” (released November 8, 1972). Ronson and Bowie loved Lou, it was a beautiful collaboration, a soundtrack to NYC, The Factory, Warhol, a companion piece to Bowie’s “Hunky Dory” (released December 17, 1971) and “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars” (released June 6, 1972). Glam Rock had arrived.

Everybody after The Velvet Underground, owes something to The Velvet Underground. After Lou Reed left the band, he forged a solo career spanning over 40 years, and he never sold out. He never made Transformer 2. Lou always challenged himself, always an artist.

Patti Smith said it best: “So many of us have benefited from the work he has done, we all owe him a debt. Most of us, that owe a debt, are not very happy to own up to it. Sometimes you like to imagine that you did everything on your own. But I think with Lou, everyone will stand in line to say ‘thank you,’ in their own way.”

We started with rare and live tracks and interviews with Lou Reed. Lou Reed died on Sunday, October 27, at the age of 71. Later in the show we’ll feature songs from Lou Reed’s clasic recordings: New York, Magic & Loss, and The Velvet Underground & Nico.

10:21 – Interview with Penny Thieme

Penny Thieme is founder of VALA Gallery & Studios. Penny Thieme joined us to discuss the VALA Benefit Concert, Saturday, November 2, 7:00 to 10:00 pm, to support victims of domestic abuse and other violent crimes. The concert features Howard Iceberg, The Accidentals, Camry Ivory, Alan Whyte, and Kathryn Lorenzen and will be held at VALA Gallery, at 5834 Johnson Drive, Mission, Kansas.

Penny Thieme thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.dio, Literary, Artists; a multimedia, multi-generational contemporary art space and gallery for independent artists to connect, collaborate, create and build community. Could you tell us how you started VALA and how it has grown?

VALA Gallery & Studios joins us to discuss the VALA Benefit Concert, Saturday, November 2, 7:00 to 10:00 pm, to support victims of domestic abuse and other violent crimes. The concert features Howard Iceberg, The Accidentals, Camry Ivory, Alan Whyte, and Kathryn Lorenzen and will be held at VALA Gallery, at 5834 Johnson Drive, Mission, Kansas. More information at: http://www.valagallery.org.

10:31 – Underwriting
10:32

4. Ron Lacke & Eboni Fondren (Angie Benson, piano) –“Honeysuckle Rose”
from: Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Spinning Tree Theatre / Recorded by Jeff Eubank, October 29, 2013

10:37 – Interview with Andy Parkhurst and Eboni Fondren

Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller was a musical innovator and influential jazz pianist and composer. A Broadway production of his music was the only musical review to win The Tony Award for best musical. Spinning Tree Theatre’s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ opens this Friday, November 1, at 8:00pm, at Just Off Broadway Theatre in KCMO.

Joining us in our 90.1 FM studios were: Managing Director & Ain’t Misbehavin’ co-director & choreographer Andy Parkhurst and cast member Eboni Fondren.

This is the 1st show of Spinning Tree Theatre’s new season, and 1st at Just Off Broadway Theatre. Spinning Tree Theatre has produced shows in many venues including Off Center Theatre, The Living Room, Paul Mesner Puppets.

The show features an an all local professional cast featuring:

Eboni Fondren
Jennie Greenberry
Matthew King
Ron Lackey
Linnaia McKenzie

Angie Benson, piano
Brian Wilson, bass
Julian Goff, drums

scenic design by Michael Benson
lighting design by Paul Tilson
costume design by Shannon Smith
sound design by Jeff Eubank
stage management by Robin Harman
musical direction by Angie Benson
directed by Michael Grayman and Andy Parkhurst

Just Off Broadway Theatre – 3051 Central Ave. KCMO on south end of Penn Valley Park

Fri Nov 1, 8:00pm
Sat Nov 2, 8:00pm
Sun Nov 3, 2:00pm

Thurs Nov 7, 7:30pm
Fri Nov 8, 8:00pm
Sat Nov 9, 8:00pm
Sun Nov 10, 2:00pm

Thurs Nov 14, 7:30pm
Fri Nov 15. 8:00pm
Sat Nov 16, 8:00pm
Sun Nov 17, 2:00pm

2013-14 SEASON:

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
MOTHERHOOD OUT LOUD
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

For info visit: Spinning Tree Theatre (816) 569-5277 or http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

10:52

5. Bill Callahan – “Javelin Unlanding”
from: Dream River / Drag City / September 17, 2013
[Born June 3, 1966, Bill Callahan is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders.]

6. Deer Tick – “The Dream’s In The Ditch”
from: Negativity/ Partisan Records / September 24, 2013
[from Providence, Rhode Island led by guitarist and singer-songwriter John McCauley]

7. Radkey – “Overwhelmed”
from: Devil Fruit – EP / Little Man Records / October 14, 2013
[Radkey is a St. Joesph based band made up of teenage brothers Darrion, Isaiah, and Solomon. Their influences include The Who and Nirvana.]

11:02 – Station Identification

Apocalypse Meow is Fri, Nov. 1, at Midwestern Musical Company, feat: Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds, The Silver Maggies. Sat, Nov. 2, at Knuckleheads, featuring: She’s A Keeper, Freight Train & Rabbit Killer, Not A Planet, The Latenight Callers, The Philistines, & Sister Mary Rotten Crotch, Tony Ladesich, Dave ‘Chilidog’ Crawford, Betse Ellis, Howard Iceberg, Gregg Todt. Here are 4 musical acts appearing at Apocalypse Meow.

8. Howard Iceberg & The Titanics w/ Sara Swenson– “Hard To Forget”
from: Welcome Aboard Vol. 1 / Independent / June 26, 2011
[7-CD set, includes over 100 original songs, featuring The Titanics: Gary Paredes on lead guitar, Dan Mesh on rhythm guitar, Scott Easterday on bass, Pat Tomek on drums. With contributions from over 70 local artists, who’ve joined in on Howard’s “never-ending recording project” conducted in Pat Tomek’s home studio.]

[Howard Iceberg plays acoustic stage at Knuckleheads on Sat, Nov 2, for Apocalypse Meow 2013]

9. The Silver Maggies – “Slow Poke”
from: My Pale Horse / Money Wolf Music / March 28, 2013 [Fronted by lead singer/songwriters – Patrick Deveny and Terrence Moore (American Catastrophe, The Black Water). Founding members include Felix Dukes on electric guitar, Jonathan Knecht on drums and Steve Tubbert (Zoom) on bass. Terrence joined The Silver Maggies in 2010 after performing with them that year at the Murder Ballad Ball. He brought several original songs to add to the repertoire and splits singing and songwriting duties. This spring the band added Amy Farrand (American Catastrophe, Atlantic Fadeout, EIO) on vocals and additional instrumentation, as well as Samon Rajabnik on B3 organ. Both artists performed on “My Pale Horse” and joined the band for a raucous set at the 2012 Murder Ballad Ball in Kansas City. The album was recorded over the last year by Chris Cosgrove at Black Lodge, Cosgrove Audio, WaveLab and Element Recording. Mixing was done in Tuscon, AZ at WaveLab by veteran producer/engineer Craig Schumacher (Calexico, Neko Case, DeVotchKa).]

[The Silver Maggies play Midwestern Musical Company, Fri, Nov. 1 for Apocalypse Meow 6.]

10. Not A Planet – “Girl Comes Down”
from: The Few, The Proud, The Strange / Independent / May 10, 2013
[Kansas City based Rock and Roll trio formed in 2010. Nathan Corsi, Liam Sumnicht, Bill Sturges.]

[Not A Planet play the Main Stage at Knuckleheads on Sat, Nov. 2, for Apocalypse Meow 2013]

11. Betse Ellis – “Twilight is Stealing”
from: High Moon Order / Free Dirt / June 14, 2013 [BE voc & tenor guitar / Roy Andrade on voc & banjo]
[2nd solo release from renowned fiddler, Betse Ellis, known by many as a founding member of The Wilders]

[Betse Ellis plays Knuckleheads on Sat, Nov. 2, for Apocalypse Meow 2013 on the Acoustic Stage]

11:15 – Interview with Cody Wyoming & Mac McSpadden about Apocalypse Meow 2013

A year ago, on this show, we were joined by Abigail Henderson and Chris Meck, known for their bands: The Gaslights, Atlantic Fadeout, and Tiny Horse. Abigail Henderson was a songwriter, musician, and activist. After 4 years of non-stop touring, recording, & promoting, in early 2008, Abigail was diagnosed with Stage 3 inflammatory breast cancer. Abby’s friends & fellow musicians, rallied around her and helped raised money to aid Abby with the enormous hospital bills and her battle with a health insurance company.

That same year, in 2008 Abigail & Chris, and friends in the music community founded the Midwest Music Foundation a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational arts organization that unites performer & audience and fills a health care gap for KC musicians.

This summer we lost Abigail Hope Henderson Meck, who died at the age of 36, on August 27, at her home in Kansas City, after a five-year battle with cancer. Abby’s amazing music will live on, Abby’s friends, and the community around Abby, that created the MMF will continue in her honor, to do the work that was so very important to Abby.

Two of Abby’s dear friends Cody Wyoming & Mac McSpadden, joined us to discuss Apocalypse Meow.

Apocalypse Meow 2013 is on TWO NIGHTS!

Friday, November 1, at Midwestern Musical Company, 1830 Locust, KCMO. (Doors at 6, Free, All Ages), featuring: Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds, and The Silver Maggies.

Saturday, November 2, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Avenue, KCMO. (Doors at 6, $10, 21 and over), featuring a Silent Auction, Raffles, and Two Stages!

Main Stage: She’s A Keeper, Freight Train & Rabbit Killer, Not A Planet, The Latenight Callers, The Philistines, and Sister Mary Rotten Crotch.

Acoustic Stage: Tony Ladesich, Dave ‘Chilidog’ Crawford, Betse Ellis, Howard Iceberg, and Gregg Todt.

Midwest Music Foundation sponsors health care programs and provides financial relief to local musicians who have suffered a health care crisis. Since 2009, the MMF has distributed $30,000 in health-care grants. Abigail also founded Apocalypse Meow, an annual fundraiser for the MMF. Apocalypse Meow became an annual event to help raise funds for the Musicians Health Care Fund for Artists living and working in the KC area. The Foundation aims to create mechanisms where Musicians, Live Sound Engineers, Music Club Employees, and Recording Engineers can gain affordable access to health care.

11:23

12. Tiny Horse – “Ride”
from: Darkly Sparkly [EP] / Flyover Records / Mar. 4, 2013 [Outside of the band, we were the first to hear the debut EP release from Abigail Henderson and Christopher Lynn Meck. In our opinion, Abigail’s voice remains one of the most honest and moving voices in KC music scene, Chris Meck’s guitar sings too. Cody Wyoming-baritone guitar, guitar, keys, Zachary Phillips-bass guitar, Matt Richey-drums, percussion ]

Funds are now available to musicians in need. Grant applications and more information are available online at http://www.apocalypsemeow.net.

For more info visit: http://apocalypsemeow.net
or http://midwestmusicfound.org

11:36

13. The Latenight Callers – “Straight Razor”
from: Songs for Stolen Moments / TLNC / June 8, 2013
[formed in Lawrence by baritone guitarist, Krysztof Nemeth, and vocalist Julie Berndsen, With the addition of Bassist Gavin Mac, and Nick Combs on keyboards.]

[The Latenight Callers play Knuckleheads on Sat, Nov. 2, for Apocalypse Meow 2013 with She’s A Keeper, Freight Train & Rabbit Killer, Not A Planet, The Philistines, Sister Mary Rotten Crotch. Acoustic Stage: Tony Ladesich, Dave ‘Chilidog’ Crawford, Betse Ellis, Howard Iceberg, Gregg Todt.]

11:40 – Underwriting

11:41 – More Lou Reed Tribute…

14. The Velvet Underground – “Atlantic Release Promo”
rom: Live At Max’s Kansas City / Atlantic Recording Group / 2005 Reissue (orig. 1972)
[Other than this promo piece, the entirety of “Live At Max’s Kansas City” was recorded on a tape recorder by Andy Warhol protege Brigid Berlin.]

15. The Velvet Underground – “Black Angel’s Death Song”
from: The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary (Super Deluxe Edition) / Universal / Oct. 1, 2012
[Originally released in March, 1967 by Verve Records. Debut album by The Velvet Underground and Nico. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico would gain notoriety for its experimentalist 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. Though a commercial and critical failure upon release, 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.]

Lou Reed was co-founder of The Velvet Underground, and he had an extensive solo career. Lou Reed died on Sunday, October 27, at the age of 71.

16. Lou Reed – “Halloween Parade”
from: New York / Sire / January 10, 1989
[The fifteenth solo album by Lou Reed. Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker played on the album. “Dirty Blvd.” was a #1 hit on the newly created Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks.]

17. Lou Reed – “Power & Glory” w/ Jimmy Scott
from: Magic & Loss / Sire / January 14, 1992
[Magic & Loss was Lou Reed’s 16th solo album inspired in part by the illnesses and eventual deaths of two close friends: songwriter Doc Pomus, who had given Reed his start in the music business some 25 years earlier, and a woman Reed identifies as “Rita” — popularly assumed to be Rotten Rita, who along with Reed was a familiar figure at Andy Warhol’s Factory in the mid-to-late ’60s. Photos of Pomus and a woman’s face can be seen at the center of the lyric booklet included with the CD release. Jazz singer Little Jimmy Scott performs the backing vocal on “Power and Glory.”]

Lou & Laurie

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

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

Show #497

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

Apocalypse Meow! 2013 with Cody Wyoming & Mac McSpadden
+ Spinning Tree Theatre’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'”
+ Penny Thieme of VALA Gallery & Studios
+ A Musical Tribute to Lou Reed

Mark plays New & Local Releases from: Radkey, The Silver Maggies, Deer Tick, Not A Planet, Betse Ellis, Tiny Horse, The Latenight Callers, Bill Callahan, Howard Iceberg & The Titanics and Sara Swenson.

We’ll also play live tracks and interviews with Lou Reed. Tragically, Lou Reed died on Sunday, October 27, 2013. In honor of his passing we will feature songs from Lou Reed’s releases: Transformer, New York, Magic & Loss, and The Velvet Underground & Nico.

At 10:15 Penny Thieme of VALA Gallery & Studios joins us to discuss the VALA Benefit Concert, Saturday, November 2, 7:00 to 10:00 pm, to support victims of domestic abuse and other violent crimes. The concert features Howard Iceberg, The Accidentals, Camry Ivory, Alan Whyte, and Kathryn Lorenzen and will be held at VALA Gallery, at 5834 Johnson Drive, Mission, Kansas. VALA is: Visual, Audio, Literary, Artists; a multimedia, multi-generational contemporary art space and gallery for independent artists to connect, collaborate, create and build community. More information at: http://www.valagallery.org.

At 10:35 Mark talks with company members of Spinning Tree Theatre‘s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ opening Friday, November 1, at 8:00pm, at Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri. The show features an all local professional cast featuring: Eboni Fondren, Jennie Greenberry, Matthew King, Ron Lackey, and Linnaia McKenzie, with Angie Benson on piano, Brian Wilson on bass, and Julian Goff on drums, and directed by Michael Grayman and Andy Parkhurst. Just Off Broadway Theatre is at 3051 Central in Kansas City, Missouri. The show runs through November 17. For info visit: Spinning Tree Theatre (816) 569-5277 or http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

At 11:15 Mark talks about Apocalypse Meow 2013 with Cody Wyoming and Mac McSpadden. This annual event will benefit Abby’s Fund of Midwest Music Foundation.

Apocalypse Meow 2013 is on TWO NIGHTS!

Friday, November 1, at Midwestern Musical Company, 1830 Locust, KCMO. {Doors at 6, Free, All Ages), featuring: Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds, and The Silver Maggies.

Saturday, November 2, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Avenue, KCMO. (Doors at 6, $10, 21 and over), featuring a Silent Auction, Raffles, and Two Stages! Main Stage: She’s A Keeper, Freight Train & Rabbit Killer, Not A Planet, The Latenight Callers, The Philistines, and Sister Mary Rotten Crotch. Acoustic Stage: Tony Ladesich, Dave ‘Chilidog’ Crawford, Betse Ellis, Howard Iceberg, and Gregg Todt.

For more info about Apocalypse Meow visit: http://apocalypsemeow.net or http://midwestmusicfound.org

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

Show #497

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 Musical World of Krystle Warren
+ Monta At Odds & Gemini Revolution
+ Music from The Winfield Hangover

1. Monta At Odds – “Some Times Almost Never Happens”
from: Unsuspecting / Upstairs Recordings / originally released in 2005, Re-released in 2012
[Kansas City, Kansas based musicians, Dedric and Delaney Moore’s electronica and psychedelica recordings have been released through the Canadian record label, Upstairs Recordings who reissued their band, Monta At Odds, 2005 release “Unsuspecting” last year.

[Monta At Odds play the recordBar, Tuesday, October 29 with My Gold Mask, and Redder Moon.]

2. Gemini Revolution – “My Mind Has Wings”
from: My Mind Has Wings [EP] / Upstairs Recordings / November 1, 2013
[Gemini Revolution is: Dedric Moore, Delaney Moore, Mika Tayana. They were asked to perform at last year’s Pop Montreal Festival. Upstairs Recordings of Vancouver, Canada, released their self titled, full length debut to coincide with the festival.]

10:32 – Underwriting

10:33 – The WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room

By all reports it was a very wonderful Walnut Valley Festival this past September in Winfield Kansas. Many of the participants are keeping the spirit alive with The WINFIELD HANGOVER, Saturday, October 26, at Riot Room. Here are four musical acts in the Hangover: Loaded Goat, FastFoodJunkies, Wells The Traveler, and Betse Ellis…

3. Loaded Goat – “Shine”
from: Sick & Tired / Loaded Goat / 2012
[Martin Korb, Matt Hawkins, Eddie Crane, Paul Andrews, Rob Ritter. Written by Eddie Crane. Recorded and Engineered by Duane Trowr at Weights and Measures Soundlab.]

[Loaded Goat plays the WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room, w/: Betse Ellis, Wells The Traveler , Kansas City Bear Fighters, The John Brown Boys, Cadillac Flambe, and Fast Food Junkies]

4. FastFoodJunkies – “Bubba”
from: Your Dying Day / Independent / June 1, 2012
[all songs written by Fast Food Junkies © 2012, recorded by Mike West @ 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor in Lawrence, KS. Landon Unruh: Banjo, Vocals; Chicken Dinner: Bass; Clint Snyder: Guitar, Vocals]

[FastFoodJunkies plays the WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room, w/: Loaded Goat, Wells The Traveler , Kansas City Bear Fighters, The John Brown Boys, Cadillac Flambe, Betse Ellis.]

5. Betse Ellis – “Stamper”
from: High Moon Order / Free Dirt Records / June 14, 2013
[Critically acclaimed 2nd solo release from renowned fiddler, Betse Ellis, a founding member of The Wilders]

[Betse Ellis plays the WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room, w/: Loaded Goat, Wells The Traveler , Kansas City Bear Fighters, The John Brown Boys, Cadillac Flambe, and Fast Food Junkies]

6. Wells The Traveler – “One For The Dreamers”
from: One For The Dreamers / Independent / August 23, 2013
[Manchester, England born Danny McGaw released one of our favorite recordings of 2012 w/ “Eccles Road.” Since then he has been playing with drummer Jason Jones & bassist Dan Hines (of the Lawrence band Paw), Chad Brothers on guitar, and Musician, Producer, and member of Truckstop Honeymoon, Mike West, who was intially brought in to produce the group’s debut recording, and ended up becoming the fifth member.]

[Wells The Traveler play the WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room, w/: Loaded Goat, Betse Ellis, Kansas City Bear Fighters, The John Brown Boys, Cadillac Flambe, and Fast Food Junkies]

10:45

7. John Vanderslice – “Song for Dana Lok”
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: Dagger Beach, on his own label, Tiny Telephone. 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.]

[John Vanderslice plays Czar Bar, on Friday, October 25]

10:47 – The Musical World of Krystle Warren

2001 Paseo Arts Academy Graduate, Krystle Warren began her musical career wowing Kansas City audiences and collaborating with local jazz and pop musicians. After living in San Francisco and New York City, five years ago Krystle was signed to a French recording label, Because Music, and moved to Paris and released her album “Circles” in 2009. Krystle played numerous French and Britsh television programs, including Later with Jools Holland, garnering critical acclaim and traveling all over the world, touring with Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle recently created her own music label: Parlour Door Music, to release her new recordings, including: “Love Songs: A Time you May Embrace” a recording that came from a 13 day session in Brooklyn, where she recorded the songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle wrote the songs, and is releasing the music in two separate releases, in Europe.

8. Krystle Warren & The Faculty – “Forever Is A Long Time”
from: Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace / Parlour Door Music / April 9, 2012 UK]

9. Krystle Warren & The Faculty – “Every Morning”
from: Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace / Parlour Door Music / April 9, 2012 UK]

10:59

Krystle Warren recently returned home to Kansas City from Paris, to play on the Kansas City Live Stage in the Power & Light District Rhythms Series. We sat down with Krystle the day before that concert to talk about her musical adventures, her marriage, and the day she met Rufus Wainwright and auditioned before Rufus, Nick Cave, and Emmylou Harris for the New York and UK tribute concerts for Kate McGarrigle.

11:00

10. Krystle Warren – “Station I.D.”

11. Mark interviews Krystle Warren

11:27 – Krystle Warren’s Musical Collaborators

We heard Krystle refer to many people in the interview, she talked about the day she met Rufus Wainwright and auditioned before Rufus, Nick Cave, and Emmylou Harris for the New York and UK concerts in honor of the late Kate McGarrigle, the beloved singer and Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame member. After McGarrigle died of sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, in 2010, her children the acclaimed musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright and her sister and musical partner Anna McGarrigle led tribute concerts in London, Toronto, and New York. The New York concerts were filmed for a feature documentary entitled Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, directed by Lian Lunson who earlier has directed the film, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man. Here from the new (2-CD) recording, “Sing Me The Songs – Celebrating The Works of Kate McGarrigle,” produced by Joe Boyd, who also curated the concerts, is Krystle Warren singing Kate McGarrigle’s “I Don’t Know.

12. Krystle Warren – “I Don’t Know”
from: Sing Me The Songs Celebrating The Works of Kate McGarrigle / Nonesuch / June 21, 13
[Features highlights from three concerts in honor of the late Kate McGarrigle. Proceeds from the concerts provided seed money for the Kate McGarrigle Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to raising money in the fight against sarcoma and also to preserving her legacy through the arts. Net proceeds from the sale of Sing Me the Songs also will be donated to the Foundation. The double-disc set was produced by Joe Boyd, who curated the concerts, and features performances by Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Antony, Norah Jones, and Teddy Thompson, among others. The New York concerts were filmed for a feature documentary entitled Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, directed by Lian Lunson (Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man) and produced by Luson and Teddy Wainwright. Candid interviews with McGarrigle’s family and friends are paired with rousing performances of her music.]

Krystle talked about Joe Boyd, who produced and curated the Tribute to Kate McGarrigle, Joe Boyd is also the producer of another tribute recording, released earlier this year, featuring live recordings of the songs of the late Nick Drake. Joe Boyd was Nick Drake’s original producer. Here from “Way To Blue – The Songs of Nick Drake” is Krystle Warren and Teddy Thompson doing the classic “Pink Moon.”

13. Teddy Thompson & Krystle Warren – “Pink Moon”
from: Way to Blue – The Songs of Nick Drake / StorySound Records / April 16, 2013
[Joe Boyd, put together a series of concerts in the UK, Australia and Italy to celebrate Nick’s greatness as a songwriter. The concerts are called Way To Blue and they have involved singers as diverse as Teddy Thompson, Green Gartside (from Scritti Politti), Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan and Lisa Hannigan, as well as bass master Danny Thompson (who played on Nick’s records), and the arrangements of Robert Kirby. These recordings are the edited highlights of concerts in New York and London. Over the years, Boyd has explored the possibility of producing an album in tribute to Drake s songwriting. But despite many well-known artists wishing to participate, he always resisted, because it seemed the only practical way to accomplish it would be for each artist to supply a track recorded separately, with their own chosen musicians. Boyd felt that the only way to avoid the pitfalls of the typical Tribute Album would be to have everyone together for a week in a rural studio, backing each other with harmonies and guitar parts, creating an organic whole of an album. By performing Way To Blue fifteen times over the course of four years, he has accomplished something resembling his original dream. The songs have been honed and shaped over the course of time, and the spirit of togetherness among the Way To Blue company has proved inspiring to all participants. The result is an album with the quality of a studio production and the spontaneity of a live performance.]

11:39 – Underwriting

11:40 – Krystle Warren’s Touring Life, opening for…

14. Joan As Police Woman – “Kiss The Specifics”
from: The Deep Field / 101 Distribution / Feb. 1, 2011
[Joan Wasser was a professional violinist, who after the death of her boyfriend Jeff Buckley, began to sing and write songs with some of Jeff’s band mates in a project called Black Beetle. Since assuming her current moniker in 2002 she assumed her new identity – a reference to the 70’s cop show, and has toured and collaborated with Rufus Wainwright and Antony and the Johnsons. She has received critical acclaim for her three studio albums REAL LIFE (2006), TO SURVIVE (2008) and a compilation of covers aptly titled COVER (2009).]

15. Rufus Wainright – “Jericho”
from: Out of The Game / Decca / April 24, 2012
[Produced by Mark Ronson, this is the seventh studio album from Rufus. Recorded in New York in the fall of 2011, the twelve songs include the Dap-Kings; Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow; Sean Lennon and Martha Wainwright. On August 23, 2012 Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt married in Montauk, New York. Artist Justin Vivian Bond officiated. On February 2, 2013 Rufus Waiwright became a dad with the birth of Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen born to Leonard Cohen’s daughter Lorca Cohen. Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen will reportedly be brought up by both of her parents, as well as Wainwright’s partner, “deputy dad” Jörn Weisbrodt. ]

11:50

16. Krystle Warren – “To The Middle”
from: Circles / Because Music / March 13, 2009
[ 2009 release from the American singer/songwriter and her band The Faculty. Krystle Warren hails from Kansas City, Missouri. She learned to play the guitar by listening to The Beatles’ albums Rubber Soul and Revolver. Her musical tastes range from Rufus Wainwright to Betty Carter, Willie Nelson to Odetta. She has toured the US with Martha Wainwright, Zap Mama, Rodrigo & Gabriela and Erykah Badu.]

17. Teddy Thompson – “Saratoga Summer Song”
from: Sing Me The Songs Celebrating The Works of Kate McGarrigle / Nonesuch / June 21, 13
[British folk and rock musician born February 19, 1976. He is the son of folk-rock musicians Richard and Linda Thompson and brother of singer Kamila Thompson. He released his first album in 2000.]

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

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

Show #496

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 Musical World of Krystle Warren
+ Monta At Odds & Gemini Revolution
+ Music from The Winfield Hangover

Mark plays the latest music from Kansas City, Kansas, based musicians, Dedric and Delaney Moore. Their electronica and psychedelica recordings have been released through the Canadian record label, Upstairs Recordings. Their band Monta At Odds plays recordBar, Tuesday, October 29, with My Gold Mask, and Redder Moon. Dedric and Delaney’s other musical project, Gemini Revolution, has just released new music. We’ll play their new 27-minute song: “My Mind Has Wings.”

We’ll also feature musical recordings from several bands participating in The WINFIELD HANGOVER, Saturday, October 26, at Riot Room, in Kansas City. We’ll play music from Loaded Goat, Fast Food Junkies, and Betse Ellis.

Krystle Warren Photo by Manu Noyon

At 11:00, Mark talks with Paseo Arts Academy Graduate, Krystle Warren. Five years ago Krystle was signed to a French recording label, Because Music, and released her album “Circles” in 2009. Krystle then created her own label: Parlour Door Music, and has been touring Europe opening for Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle Warren’s new album “Love Songs: A Time you May Embrace” came from a 13 day recording session in Brooklyn, where she recorded the songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle wrote the songs, and is releasing the music in two separate releases, in Europe. Krystle recently played Kansas City on October 6. We recorded this interview with Krystle on October 5, at 90.1 FM KKFI Studios.

Mark also plays music from: John Vanderslice, Brad Cox, Joan As Police Woman, Rufus Wainwright, and Teddy Thompson.

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

Show #496

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

Kaite Mediatore Stover & “True Grit”
+ Guest Producer Matt Kesler

1. John Vanderslice – “Juvenile Success”
from: Vanderslice Plays Diamond Dogs / 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: Dagger Beach, released June 11, 2013 on his own label, Tiny Telephone. 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.]

[John Vanderslice plays Czar Bar, on Friday, October 25]

2. 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.]

[The Mat Shoare band plays recordBar TONIGHT at 10:00 pm w/ Schwervon and Proletariat Chariot.]

3. Elliott Smith – “Twilight”
from: From a Basement on the Hill / ANTI- / Oct. 19, 2004
[6th and final studio album by the late American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003). Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, the area in which he first gained popularity. Recorded from between 2002 to 2003, it was released posthumously. The album was incomplete at the time of Smith’s death. Many of the songs Smith intended for the album remained unfinished, in some cases only lacking vocals. Smith’s family hired his former producer Rob Schnapf and ex-girlfriend Joanna Bolme to sort through and put the finishing touches on the batch of over thirty songs that were recorded for the album. The album was initially planned as a double album, due to contractual obligations with the DreamWorks label (now Interscope). Thus, a fifteen-track album was assembled and released. This became Smith’s highest-charting album in the US to date and was praised by critics, with reviewers complimenting the album’s attempts to expand Smith’s sound, such as the incorporation of instrumental passages as well as heavier, guitar-based material.]

[Thommy Vincent Hoskins, Cody Wyoming, Nick Davis, Andrew Ashby & Elizabeth Bohannon (of The CAVES), Richard Gintowt (of Hidden Pictures), Ben Summers (of The Grisly Hand) and Brent Windler (of Sons Of Great Dane) will be featured in the Elliott Smith Memorial Tribute, Sunday, October 20, at 8:00 pm, at The Brick, a benefit for Synergy Youth Resiliency Center, a Drop-In Center For Ages 12-20 with: Recording Studio, Basketball Court, Computer Lab, Free Laundry, TV Lounge, Exercise Room, Dental/Health Clinic and basic case management and counseling for youth who might be going through some kind of family or personal crisis.]

10:16 – Underwriting

10:17

4. Hidden Pictures – “Where Does The Story Go”
from: Where Does The Story Go [EP] / Golden Sound Records / 2013
[Engineered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording Richard Gintowt – vox, guitar; Claire Adams – vox, electric uke axe; Chad Toney – bass; Nate Holt – keys; Cameron Hawk – drums. Richard Gintowt who was formerly in the the band OK Jones, has been a frequent music writer and reviewer for The Pitch and other publications.]

[Richard Gintowt is moving to San Francisco and Hidden Pictures will play one of heir last shows at Czar Bar Friday, October 18 with label mates Fullbloods, Skypiper, and Kickback.]

5. Krystle Warren & The Faculty – “Five Minutes Late”
from: Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace / Parlour Door Music / April 9, 2012 UK]
[ Paseo Arts Academy Graduate was signed to a French label, Because Music and then created her own label: Parlour Door Music. Krystle has been touring Europe opening for Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle Warren’s new album came from a 13 day recording session in Brooklyn, where she recorded the songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections. Krystle wrote the songs, and is releasing the music in 2 separate releases. Krystle recently played KC on Sun, Oct 6. Our recent interview with Krystle will be broadcast as part of next week’s WMM.]

6. Pokey LaFarge – “Central Time”
from: Pokey LaFarge / Third Man Records / June 4, 2013
[30 year old LaFarge was born Andrew Heissler in Bloomington, Illinois. It has also been noted that the nickname “Pokey” was coined by his mother, who would scold him to hurry when he was a child. This is his 7th full length release as leader of a band. It is his second with Jack Whites label Third man Records. two of his releases were on Free Dirt Records, the same label as our friend Betse Ellis.]

[Pokey LaFarge plays recordbar, tomorrow night, Oct. 17, with Victor & Penny]

7. Jeff Harshbarger and the Revisionists – “How Come That Blood on your Coat Sleeve”
from: The Sound of True Grit / Independent / Recorded live, Oct. 2, at The Plaza Branch.
[The revisionists: Mike Stover, Brad Cox, Betse Ellis & Kasey Rausch.]

10:30 – Interview with Kaite Mediatore Stover

Kaite Mediatore Stover – Director of Readers’ Services at The Kansas City Public Library, Author at ALA Editions, and Readers’ Services Manager at The Kansas City Public Library. Kaite joined us to discuss The Kansas City Public Library’s Big Read: “True Grit” by Charles Portis. More info on the Big Read at http://www.kclibrary.org

For the fifth time in six years The Big Read returns to Kansas City. “The Big Read,” was created by the National Endowment for the Arts to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture.

True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post. The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel named Tom Chaney. It is considered by some critics to be “one of the great American novels”.

In 1969, it was adapted for the screen as a Western film True Grit starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (a role that won John Wayne Best Actor at the Academy Awards) and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross. Wayne would reprise the role in Rooster Cogburn (1975) with an original screenplay. The sequel was not well received, and the plot was considered a needless reworking of the plot of True Grit combined with elements of The African Queen.

In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen wrote & directed another film adaption also called True Grit, which starred Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross & Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director(s) (The Coen Brothers), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Jeff Bridges), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Hailee Steinfeld), and Best Adapted Screenplay (The Coen Brothers).

Narrated by Mattie Ross, a thrifty, churchgoing elderly spinster distinguished by intelligence, independence and strength of mind. She recounts the story of her adventures many years earlier, when, at the age of fourteen, she undertook a quest to avenge her father’s death at the hands of a drifter named Tom Chaney. She is joined on her quest by Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, & a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (“La-beef”).

As Mattie’s tale begins, Chaney is employed on the Ross’s family farm in west central Arkansas, near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County. Chaney is not adept as a farmhand, and Mattie has only scorn for him, referring to him as “trash”, and noting that her kind-hearted father, Frank, only hired him out of pity. One day, Frank Ross and Chaney go to Fort Smith to buy some horses. Ross takes $250 with him to pay for the horses, along with two gold pieces he always carried. He ends up spending only $100 on the horses. When Ross tries to intervene in a barroom confrontation involving Chaney, Chaney kills him, robs the body of the remaining $150 and two gold pieces, and flees into Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) on his horse.

Hearing that Chaney has joined an outlaw gang led by the infamous “Lucky” Ned Pepper, Mattie wishes to track down the killer, and upon arriving at Fort Smith she looks for the toughest deputy U.S. Marshal in the district. That man turns out to be Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn, and although he is an aging, one-eyed, overweight, trigger-happy, hard-drinking man, Mattie is convinced that he has “grit”, and that he is best suited for the job due to his reputation for violence.

Playing on Cogburn’s need for money, Mattie persuades him to take on the job, insisting that, as part of the bargain, she accompany him. During their preparation, a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf appears. He too is tracking Chaney, and has been for four months, for killing a senator and his dog in Texas, with the hopes of bringing him back to Texas dead or alive for a cash reward. Cogburn and LaBoeuf take a dislike to each other, but after some haggling, they agree to join forces in the hunt realizing that they can both benefit from each other’s respective talents and knowledge. Once they reach a deal the two men attempt to leave Mattie behind, but she proves more tenacious than they had expected. They repeatedly try to lose her, but she persists in following them and seeing her transaction with Marshal Cogburn through to the end. Eventually she is jumped by Cogburn and LaBoeuf, who had hid themselves from view and LaBoeuf begins to spank Mattie. Mattie appeals to Cogburn and he orders LaBoeuf to stop. At this point Mattie is allowed to join.

Together, but with very different motivations, the three ride into the wilderness to confront Ned Pepper’s gang. Along the way, they develop an appreciation for one another.

Readers will be able to connect with True Grit through a wide range of free public events, programs, book discussions, and a special exhibit at the Central Library.

True Life, True Grit: Achieve the Honorable – Ike Skelton
Tues. October 8, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. – Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III: A Conversation with Tom Bass
Thurs. October 10, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. – Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

What True Grit (Might Have) Looked Like: The Photographs of F.M. Steele – Jim Hoy
Sun. October 20, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. – Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Mattie Ross: A Portrait of Feminist Heroism or Traditional Masculinity? – Jane Wood, Brenda Bethman, Crystal Gorham Doss & Adrianne Russell
Thurs. October 24, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. – Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

The U.S. Marshals: A Popular History of the Nation’s Oldest Law Enforcement Agency – Anthony Gasaway – Wed. October 30, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. – Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

True Grit Film Screenings of the 1969 and 2010 Film Adaptations

True Grit (2010; PG-13)

Wed. October 16, 2013 | 7 p.m. – Sugar Creek Branch, 102 S. Sterling

Fri. October 25, 2013 | 1 p.m. – Westport Branch, 118 Westport Rd.

Sat. October 26, 2013 | 2 p.m. – Trails West Branch, 1141 E. 23rd St.

True Grit (1969; M)

Fri. October 4, 2013 | 2 p.m. – Waldo Branch, 201 E. 75th St.

Sun. October 6, 2013 | 2 p.m. – L. H. Bluford Branch, 3050 Prospect

Thurs. October 17, 2013 | 10 a.m. – North-East Branch, 6000 Wilson Rd.

Sat., October 19, 2013 | 5 p.m. – Sugar Creek Branch, 102 S. Sterling

10:40

8. Jeff Harshbarger and the Revisionists – “Beulah LAND”
from: The Sound of True Grit / Independent / Recorded live, Oct. 2, at The Plaza Branch.
[The revisionists: Mike Stover, Brad Cox, Betse Ellis & Kasey Rausch.]

10:45

Charles Portis was born in El Dorado, AR, The United States December 28, 1933 in El Dorado, Arkansas and was raised in various towns in southern Arkansas. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean war and after his discharge in 1955 attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He graduated with a degree in journalism in 1958.

His journalistic career included work at the Arkansas Gazette before he moved to NYC to work for The New York Herald Tribune. After serving as the London bureau chief for the The New York Herald Tribune, he left journalism in 1964 and returned to Arkansas.

He currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

True Grit by Charles Portis — published 1968 — 72 editions

The Dog of the South by Charles Portis — published 1979 — 14 editions

Norwood by Charles Portis — published 1966 — 14 editions

Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis — published 1985 — 11 editions

Gringos by Charles Portis — published 1990 — 7 editions

Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany by Charles Portis, Jay Jennings (Editor) — published 2012 — 4 editions

The 50 Funniest American Writers: According to Andy Borowitz
by Andy Borowitz (Editor), Mark Twain, S.J. Perelman

More information on the Big Read at http://www.kclibrary.org also kcbigbead.org

11:00 – Station ID

11:00 – Matt Kesler – “Guest Producer”

Matt Kesler is owner of The Midwestern Musical Co. at 1830 Locust, in the Crossroads District of Kansas City, Missouri. Matt is also a member of several legendary KC based bands: The Doo-Dads, Midtown Quartet and Pedaljets. Matt is the youngest of five siblings who all had their own musical loves. His parents took him to see Sonny & Cher, Doc Severinsen, Issac Hayes with Dion Warwick, and Elvis, all before he was ten. By the time he was 14 his brother and sisters had taken him to see Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Spinners, the Four Tops, and The Temptations. Matt started playing bass at the age of 15, and soon discovered Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Neil Young and The Stones.

9. Bunny Berigan – “I Can’t Get Started”
from: Charleston / ZYX Music / 2011
[Matt Kesler’s first instrument was the trumpet. His father was also a music enthusiast and one of his favorite performers was Bunny” Berigan. Roland Bernard “Bunny” Berigan (November 2, 1908 – June 2, 1942) was an American jazz trumpeter who rose to fame during the swing era, but whose career and influence were shortened by a losing battle with alcoholism that ended with his early death at age 33 from cirrhosis. Although he composed some jazz instrumentals like “Chicken and Waffles” and “Blues”, Berigan was best known for his virtuoso jazz trumpeting. His 1937 classic recording “I Can’t Get Started” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975.]

10. Dinah Washington – “What A Diff’ence A Day Makes”
from: Verve Introducing Jazz Masters / Polygram / April 19, 1994
[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.]

11. Ella Fitzgerald – “Cow Cow Boogie”
from: Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings / UMG Recordings / Aug. 29, 1995
[“Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)” is a “country-boogie” style blues song utilizing the folklore of the singing cowboy in the American West. In the lyrics, the cowboy is from the city and tells his “dogies” (motherless calves)[1] to “get hip.” The music was written by Don Raye, and lyrics were written by Benny Carter and Gene De Paul. The song was written for the 1942 Abbott & Costello film Ride ‘Em Cowboy, which included Ella Fitzgerald as a cast member. The first recording was by Freddie Slack & his Orchestra, featuring vocalist Ella Mae Morse in 1942. The record was the first release by Capitol Records and their first million seller. The 1944 collaboration between The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald in resulted in a number-one hit on the Harlem Hit Parade and a number-ten hit on the pop chart.]

12. David McCallum – “Batman Theme”
from: Ultra-Lounge Vol. 13 – TV Town / Capital Records / Oct. 14, 1997
[This version is from actor/musician David McCallum. His cover of the original. “Batman Theme”, the title song of the 1966 Batman TV series, was composed by Neal Hefti. This song is built around a guitar hook reminiscent of spy film scores and surf music. It has a twelve bar blues progression, using only three chords until the coda. In the original version, the eleven cries of “Batman!” are sung by a chorus of four tenors and four sopranos (performed by The Ron Hicklin Singers). A long held myth purports that the chorus is actually a group of horns. Adam West’s book Back to the Batcave also fuels this rumor by claiming the chorus is instrumental, not vocal. However, Neal Hefti, the writer of the theme, stated that the chorus was made up of eight singers, one of whom jokingly wrote on his part, “word and music by Neal Hefti”. TV’s Biggest Hits by Jon Burlingame, published in 1996, focuses exclusively on TV theme songs, and includes an interview with Hefti about the creation of the Batman theme song. According to Burlingame, the song consisted of “bass guitar, low brass and percussion to create a driving rhythm, while an eight-voice chorus sings ‘Batman!’ in harmony with the trumpets.”In addition to Neal Hefti’s original version, and the television soundtrack version by Nelson Riddle, versions were covered by The Marketts (single “Batman Theme” and album The Batman Theme by The Marketts), The Ventures (The Ventures Play the “Batman” Theme, Dolton BST8042, 3/1966), Al Hirt, The Standells and Iggy Pop. The song has been widely parodied in the decades since its debut. The theme has been re-recorded by dozens of artists, including Link Wray, Voivod, The Jam, and The Who.]

13. Elvis Presley – “A Big Hunk O’ Love”
from: 30 #1 Hits / Sony Music / Sept. 23, 2002 [RCA Victor Single release June 23, 1959]
[Written by Aaron Schroeder and Sid Wyche, aka Sid Jaxon. The latter is best known for writing the jazz standard “Okay, Alright, You Win”, whereas Aaron Schroeder co-wrote a whole bunch of hits from the rock`n`roll area, from “Fools Hall of Fame” (Pat Boone) to “Because They’re Young” (Duane Eddy). In an interview conducted by Jan-Erik Kjeseth, he also revealed that in fact he worked with his partner Wally Gold in order to improve a song submitted by another writer, and the end result was “It’s my party”, a big hit for Lesley Gore. Schroeder and Gold tossed a coin as to whose name should go on the record, and Gold “won”. Other titles written by the duo include “It’s Now or Never” and “Good Luck Charm”; both of which – like “A Big Hunk o’ Love” – were originally recorded by American rock and roll icon Elvis Presley. “A Big Hunk o’Love” was released as a single on June 23, 1959, by RCA Victor and later topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. The song was revived by Presley in 1972 during his engagements at the Las Vegas Hilton in February 1972 and was used in his live shows until mid-1973. It was performed live for the last time on January 26, 1974. The song is included in the 1972 documentary Elvis On Tour and his 1973 show broadcast via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. During this time period, it was played by the Elvis’ TCB Band, and featured Glen D. Hardin and James Burton.]

14. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – “Born To Lose”
from: L.A.M.F. / Jungle Records / October 3, 1977
[The only studio album by The Heartbreakers, which included Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure and Billy Rath. The music is a mixture of punk, R&B and rock and roll. The band played a seminal role in the formation of early punk. Thunders and Nolan were previously in the New York Dolls, an important protopunk band. Biographer Nina Antonia states in the L.A.M.F. liner notes that “Johnny and his wise-guys were not a punk band, in the 1976 application of the term, they were N.Y. street punks playing rock n’ roll but the kids still pogoed.” The acronym “L.A.M.F.” stands for “Like A Mother Fucker”, in a 1977 interview in the UK monthly magazine Zigzag Thunders said this originated from New York gang graffiti. Thunders claimed the gangs would add the LAMF tag after writing their gang name. However if they were on another gang’s territory they would write “D.T.K.L.A.M.F” (Down To Kill Like A Mother Fucker).]

15. The Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
from: Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: The Anthology / Rhino – Sire / July 20, 1999
[One of the band’s best known songs. It was originally released on their fourth album, Road to Ruin, in September 1978 and was the b-side of the UK single “She’s the One” released on January 10, 1979. The song was later released as a single in the Netherlands in 1979, then in the U.S. in 1980 by RSO Records from the Times Square soundtrack album.]

16. True Believers – “Rebel Kind”
from: Hard Road / Rykodisc / June 6, 1994 [Reissue]
[Principally recorded at Arlyn Studios, Europa Sound Centre and Austin’s Riverside Sound, Austin, Texas; Axis Studio, Atlanta, Georgia. Includes liner notes by Jody Denberg. TRUE BELIEVERS (1st LP) was originally released in 1986. HARD ROAD contains the True Believers’ self-titled 1st LP, plus their previously unreleased follow-up. In Austin, TX, a town where great roots rock bands grow like crabgrass in suburbia, the True Believers gained a reputation as something very special right off the bat, and their blazing live shows earned them a rabid following long before they cut their first record. Unfortunately, they also became the classic example of a fine band brought down by their own record company; their first album was cut on the cheap for an independent label (and often sounds like it), and after a major label bought out their contract and paid for a significantly more polished and powerful second album, the band was dropped following a corporate reorganization, and a potential breakthrough album was left collecting dust in the vault. Hard Road finally gives this great band their due, bringing together the True Believers’ self-titled debut and their previously unreleased follow-up on one compact disc. While the self-titled first album’s low-budget production (especially the out-of-balance snare sound) makes it sound more like a demo than a polished final product, the performances are game, the triple-guitar lineup kicks pretty hard, and the songs are great, especially “The Rain Won’t Help You When It’s Over,” “Tell Her,” and a rollicking cover of the Velvet Underground’s “Train Round the Bend.” The unreleased album’s production is a bit more boomy and bombastic than it needs to be, but it certainly gets the band’s wall of guitars on tape with a lot more authority and force (especially Jon Dee Graham’s slide work), and while the new rhythm section imposed on the band by producer Jeff Glixman doesn’t sound all that different than the band’s original timekeepers, the True Believers do sound a lot tighter and strike with greater impact on these songs, whether they’re rockers like “She’s Got” or introspective mid-tempo tunes such as “One Moment to Another.” And while these two albums were where Alejandro Escovedo first began to gain his reputation as one of America’s great songwriters, his brother, Javier Escovedo, and Jon Dee Graham make it clear he wasn’t the only fine songwriter in the group, and their tightly interlocked guitars are a wonder to behold. The True Believers deserved better than the hand they were dealt, and one listen to Hard Road provides all the proof you need.] ~ Mark Deming (Cd Universe)

[Producers: Jim Dickinson, Mike Stewart, Jeff Glixman. Engineers: Mike Stewart, Stuart Sullivan, George Pappas. True Believers: Alejandro Escovedo, Javier Escovedo (guitar, vocals); John Dee Graham (guitar, lap steel, vocals); Denny DeGorio (bass, harmonica); Gordon Copley (bass); Mark Shaffer, Kevin Foley (drums). Additional personnnel: David Hidalgo (vocals); Jim Dickinson (piano). Rolling Stone (5/19/94, p.102) – “…vividly documents the boys’ budding songwriting skills…”]

17. Alejandro Escovedo – “Diana”
from: More Oar: A Tribute To The Skip Spenser / Birdman / July 6, 1999
[More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album is a 1999 tribute album completed shortly before and released shortly after the death of Moby Grape founding member Skip Spence. The album contains cover versions by various artists of Spence’s music from his Oar album, released in 1969, presented in the same order as on the original album. On More Oar, Escovedo contributes his version of Spence’s “Diana”. Critic Rob Brunner commented, “The best contributions come from artists who realize that Spence’s work is as much about atmosphere as words and chords. …Alejandro Escovedo offers an appropriately bleary ‘Diana’, Spence’s darkest song. Matt Kesler plays bass on the track.]

18. The Paladins – “Re’jive’inated”
from: Ticket Home / Foil Records / 1999
[The Paladins are a roots rock/rockabilly band from San Diego, California. Founded in the early 1980s by guitarist Dave Gonzalez and his high school friend and double bass player Thomas Yearsley, they have recorded nine studio albums and built a reputation as one of America’s hardest-working live bands.]

19. Calexico – “Alone Again Or”
from: Convict Pool / Quarterstick Records / April 6, 2004
[Tucson, Arizona-based Americana / Tex-Mex / indie rock band. The band’s two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while their 2005 EP In the Reins recorded with Iron & Wine has reached the Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by traditional Latin sounds of mariachi / conjunto / cumbia / Tejano music and also the Southwestern United States country music as well as ’50s-’60s jazz and ’90s-’00s post-rock, and they have been described by some as “desert noir” or indie rock. The band is named for the border town of Calexico, California.]

20. Bob Mould – “Star Machine”
from: Silver Age (Bonus Track Version) / Merge / Sept. 4, 2012
[Robert Arthur “Bob” Mould (born October 16, 1960) is principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s. Born in Malone, New York, Mould lived in several places, including the Minneapolis – St. Paul area where he then attended Macalester College. There, he formed Hüsker Dü in the late 1970s, with drummer/singer Grant Hart and bass guitarist Greg Norton. Mould’s song “Dog on Fire” is the theme song for The Daily Show. They Might Be Giants perform the current version. On December 19, 1996, Mould made a cameo appearance on The Daily Show Holiday Spectacular in an homage duet of “The Little Drummer Boy” with Mould playing the part of David Bowie to Craig Kilborn’s “Bing Crosby”. In 2001, Mould played lead guitar in the house band for the film of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and on the film’s soundtrack. In 2003, Mould also participated in a Hedwig tribute album, Wig in a Box, on which he covered the song “Nailed.”]

21. PedalJets – “Terra Nova”
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]

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

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

Show #495

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

Kaite Mediatore Stover & “True Grit”
+ Guest Producer Matt Kesler

Mark plays New & Local Releases from: Mat Shoare, Jeff Harshbarger & The Revisionists, Krystle Warren & The Faculty, John Vanderslice, Pokey LaFarge, Elliot Smith and more.

At 10:30, Mark talks with Kaite Mediatore Stover – Director of Readers’ Services at The Kansas City Public Library, Author at ALA Editions, and Readers’ Services Manager at The Kansas City Public Library. Kaite joins us to discuss The Kansas City Public Library‘s Big Read: “True Grit” by Charles Portis. We’ll also play live recordings from Jeff Harshbarger & The Revisionists (Mike Stover, Brad Cox, Betse Ellis & Kasey Rausch) who recently performed music associated with the novel at the KC Public Library. More information on the Big Read at http://www.kclibrary.org

Matt Kesler

At 11:00 Matt Kesler joins us as “Guest Producer” of our second hour. Matt Kesler is owner of The Midwestern Musical Co. at 1830 Locust, in the Crossroads District of Kansas City, Missouri. Matt is also a member of several legendary KC based bands: The Doo-Dads, Midtown Quartet and The Pedaljets. Matt is the youngest of five siblings who all had their own musical loves. His parents took him to see Sonny & Cher, Doc Severinsen, Issac Hayes with Dion Warwick, and Elvis, all before he was ten. By the time he was 14 his brother and sisters had taken him to see Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, the Spinners, the Four Tops, and The Temptations. Matt started playing bass at the age of 15, and soon discovered Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Neil Young and The Stones.

Matt Kesler will share music from: Harry James, Ella Fitzgerald, The Beatles, Elvis, Booker T & the MGs, Ramones, True Believers, Frank Black, T. Rex, Marvin Gaye, The Embarrassment, Gun Club, and Alejandro Escovedo.

Tune in on 90.1 FM KKFI
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Show #495

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 Midcoast Sound”
+ Emily Behrmann & The Series at JCCC
+ Marion Merritt & Jennifer Appell co-host

1. King Khan & The Shrines – “Born To Die”
from: Idle No More / Merge Records / Sept/ 3, 2013
[Berlin-based garage rock and psychedelic soul band. Founded in 1999 by then 22-year-old King Khan, formerly of Canadian garage rock outfits The Spaceshits (where he operated under the pseudonym Blacksnake) and Kukamongas. The band is noted for its impressive stage antics. Typically King Khan is scantily clad, and the overwhelming frontman. His performances feature cheerleader/go-go dancer Bamboorella and a mixture of instrumentation including: keyboard, baritone saxophone, guitar, bass, drums.]

[King Kahn & The Shrines play the recordBar, Sunday, Oct. 20, with Hell Shovel]

Marion Merritt and Jennifer Appell joined me for the entire show to encourage ALL listeners to call 888-931-0901 during WMM, to express support for this show and 90.1 FM KKFI.

10:04 – Pledge Break #1

10:12

2. Drew Black and Dirty Electric – “Love & A Riot”
from: Midwestern Audio Vol. 2 – Electric Hullabaloo / Midwest Music Found. / Oct 5, 2013
[Written by Drew Black. Recorded, mixed, mastered by Mark Johnson at Atzero Studios in Lee’s Summit, MO. Drew Black – vocals, guitar; Terra Skaggs – bass; Zach Hodson – guitar; Michelle Bacon – drums]

[Drew Black and The Dirty Electric play Czar bar, Tues. Oct. 15 with: Aotearoa, & Hillary Watts Riot]

3. Animal Collective – “Rosie Oh”
from: Centipede Hz / Domino / September 24, 2012
[9th studio album by American experimental psychedelic band that grew out of childhood friendships in Baltimore County Maryland, currently based in NYC, LA, and Lisbon. The band consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Records released under the name Animal Collective may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup is not uniform. The group also runs the record label Paw Tracks.]

[Animal Collective play The Midland, Thurs, October 24, with Deradoorian. We’re giving 2 tickets to see Animal Collective as a “Thank You Gift” for the first 10 donations, on MC/Visa of $50.00 or more.]

4. Krystle Warren & The Faculty – “Tuesday 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, and is releasing the music in 2 separate releases. Krystle recently played KC on Sun, Oct 6. Over the weekend we interviewed Krystle for our Oct. 23 show.]

10:20 – Pledge Break #2

10:29

6. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion – “Chairman Meow”
from: Wassaic Way / Rte. 8 Records / August 6, 2013
[Sarah Lee Guthrie is daughter of Arlo Guthrie and granddaughter of Woody Guthrie.]

[Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion play an early show on Sat, Oct. 12, at Davey’s Uptown with Olassa] [Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion play Knuckleheads later with Song Preservation Society, Olassa]

7. The Kinsey Sicks – “Toucha Touch Me – Tsa Security”
from: Electile Dysfunction / The Kinsey Sicks / May 8, 2012
[Formed in 1993, by original members: Ben Schatz (“Rachel”) is a Harvard-trained civil rights lawyer, former Director of the national Gay & Lesbian Medical Assoc, and one-time presidential advisor on HIV issues, who created the 1st national AIDS legal project and authored Clinton’s HIV policy during the 1992 presidential campaign, and Irwin Keller (“Winnie”) is a University of Chicago-trained lawyer & linguist & former director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area, who authored Chicago’s gay rights ord., passed into law in 1989. In 2004, the Kinsey Sicks were joined by actor/singer/designer Jeff Manabat. In Oct. KC-based actor & singer, Spencer Brown joined in 2008 as (“Trampolina”).]

[The Kinsey Sicks perform: “America’s Next Top Bachelor Housewife Celebrity Hoarder Star Gone Wild,” Fri. Oct. 25, & Sat. Oct. 26, at Polsky Theatre, for the Performing Arts Series at JCCC.]

10:35 – Interview with Emily Behrmann

Emily Behrmann is General Manager of the Performing Arts Series at Johnson County Community College presenting diverse cultures, dance, music, cutting-edge performances. They’ve just started the 2013-2014 series with critically acclaimed performances from national performers as well as local music and dance companies including the Owen Cox Dance Ensemble. Emily joins us today to talk about what is coming up in the season.

The Kinsey Sicks perform their R rated show: “America’s Next Top Bachelor Housewife Celebrity Hoarder Star Gone Wild,” Friday AND Saturday, October 25, and 26, in the Polsky Theatre, for the Performing Arts Series at Johnson County Community College!!

Spencer Brown (“Trampolina”) – also known to KC audiences as Daisy Bucket

6 shows in the Polsky Theatre, next door to Yardley Hall, including the Kinsey Sicks, and other upcoming shows featuring: Rita Moreno, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, Arturo Sandoval, and many others. plus, classical/chamber music programs, theatre and comedy, and 5 dance shows.

This year the Performing Arts Series at Johnson County Community College has made new connections with local companies: KC Ballet, Owen/Cox Dance Group, Bach Aria Soloists.

Performing Arts Series at Johnson County Community College, 12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS. For more information about the Performing Arts Series at Johnson County Community College, you can call (913) 469-4445 or visit jccc.edu/TheSeries

10:44

8. Wells The Traveler – “Never Been Easy”
from: One For The Dreamers / Independent / August 23, 2013
[Manchester, England born Danny McGaw released one of our favorite recordings of 2012 w/ “Eccles Road.” Since then he has been playing with drummer Jason Jones & bassist Dan Hines (of the Lawrence band Paw), Chad Brothers on guitar, and Musician, Producer, and member of Truckstop Honeymoon, Mike West, who was intially brought in to produce the group’s debut recording, and ended up becoming the fifth member.]

[Wells The Traveler play the late show at Davey’s on Sat, Oct. 12, w/ Brother Bagman, and Old Sound]

[Wells The Traveler play the WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room, w/: Loaded Goat, Betse Ellis, Kansas City Bear Fighters, The John Brown Boys, Cadillac Flambe, and Fast Food Junkies]

9. Neko Case – “Local Girl”
from: The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You / Anti- / Aug 30, 13
[9th solo release of Neko Case who also performs with The New Pornographers.]

[Neko Case plays Liberty Hall, in Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday, October 15, at 8:00pm]

10. Betse Ellis – “The Complainer”
from: High Moon Order / Free Dirt Records / June 14, 2013
[Critically acclaimed 2nd solo release from renowned fiddler, Betse Ellis, a founding member of The Wilders]

[Betse Ellis plays the WINFIELD HANGOVER, Sat, Oct 26, at Riot Room, w/: Loaded Goat, Wells The Traveler , Kansas City Bear Fighters, The John Brown Boys, Cadillac Flambe, and Fast Food Junkies]

10:52 – Pledge Break #3 & Phone call from Betse Ellis in St. Louis

11:00 – Station ID

11. Polvo – “Light, Raking”
from: Siberia (Bonus Track Version) / Merge Records / Oct. 1, 2013
[Formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1990, by guitarists/vocalists Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski. Brian Quast plays drums, and Steve Popson plays bass guitar. Eddie Watkins was the band’s original drummer, but did not rejoin the band upon its reunion in 2008. Considered to be standard bearer of a genre which came to be known as math rock, although in interviews the band disavowed that categorization. Their sound was defined by complex and dissonant guitar harmonies and driving rhythm, complementing cryptic, often surrealist lyrics. The band’s name means “octopus” in Portuguese and “powder” or “dust” in Spanish; in Spain it also is a slang word for sex.]

12. Ghosty – “YR WILD LIFE”
rom: 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.]

13. The ACB’s – “Surface”
from: Little Leaves / High Dive Records / March 5, 2013
[Konnor Ervin on lead vocals, Andrew Connor on Guitar & Vocals, Bryan McGuire on Bass & Vocals, Kyle Rausch on Drums & Vocals. The band joined us LIVE on the show on Feb. 27.]

[The ACBs play Replay, Oct 31, w/ Spirit is The Spirit, Dean Monkey & The Dropouts, Stiff Middle Fingers.]

14. Margo May – “Close The Door”
from: Midwestern Audio Vol. 2 – Electric Hullabaloo / Midwest Music Found. / Oct 5, 2013
[Margo May ha been working on a new release. She’s currently on the road singing backup for Josh Berwanger midway in the tour they play recordBar, on Oct. 31. Her new release will be out in November.]

11:11 – Pledge Break #4

11:19

15. Red Kate – “Pink Sweater”
from: When the troubles come (Vinyl) / Replay Records USA / August 23, 2013 [1st full-length from Punk 4-piece formed 2007. Engineered by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab.]

[Red Kate play an in store performance at Mills Record Company Oct. 11 with Dated]

[Red Kate open for Sister Mary Rotten Crotch Oct. 18, at Davey’s Uptown with The Big Iron]

16. Bloodbirds – “Radiation”
from: Psychic Surgery / Independent / February 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 play recordBar Sat. Oct. 12, with Metatone, Zorch, and The Hips]

17. Schwervon! – “Cougar Pride”
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. Schwervon! have produced 5 full length albums, 2 seven inch vinyl only singles, in addition to touring the world and performing with: Belle and Sebastian, The Vaselines, The Wedding Present, Kimya Dawson, The Thermals, Grass Widow, Jeffrey Lewis, The Essex Green, Comet Gain, and Veronica Falls. They recorded Courage with Memphis-based engineer Doug Easley who has worked with Pavement, Sonic Youth, Cat Power.]

[Schwervon! play recordBar, Wed. Oct. 16, with The Empty Spaces, and Proletariat Chariot.]

18. The Bad Ideas – “Dead in My Head”
from: Lesson #1 / Independent / March 8, 2013
[Full length debut recording from the Kansas City based punk band, formed in October 2011. They’ve written all original songs and are influenced by post-hardcore, punk, and early pop punk. Their EP, Worse Thoughts, was one of our favorite recordings of 2012.]

[The Bad Ideas play the Return of Rock Down Drag Out, at Czar, Sat, Oct. 12.]
[The Bad Ideas play Replay on Thurs. Oct. 17 with Cherokee.Rock.Rifle, and Thrift Store 45s.]

11:30 – Underwriting

11:45

19. Radkey – “Out Here In My Head”
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 played this song last week on “Later with Jools Holland” on BBC 2.]

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

21. The Grisly Hand – “Coup de Coeur”
from: Country Singles / Independent / April 26, 2013
[Kansas City based, six member band that first started playing live in 2009. The current line up includes: Jimmy Fitzner (Guitar and Vocals), Lauren Krum (Vocals and Percussion), Johnny Nichols (Bass and Vocals), Matt Richey (Drums), Mike Stover (Steel Guitar), and Ben Summers (Guitar and Mandolin). The band’s debut release “Safe House” was release in November of 2010. Their EP “Western Avenue” was one of our Best Recordings of 2012. Mike Stover and Lauren Krum of The Grisly Hand joined us LIVE on April 24.]

[The Grisly Hand play recordBar, Fri, Oct. 11, w/ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, & Great Big Pile of Leaves]

11:50 – Pledge Break #6

13. 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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