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

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Victor & Penny + The Country Duo
+ Truck Stop Love + Chase the Horseman

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

2. Lucas Oswald – “Dark On Us”
from: Whet / Cosmic Dreamer Music / September 1, 2017
[Lucas Oswald is a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer, homebody road-warrior, and lover of dogs, and international touring musician. He is currently on tour in the United Kingdom supporting Jesca Hoop, and also playing in her band. He is also a member of a member of Shearwater, and past member of the bands The Appleseed Cast, Old Canes, Hospital Ships, and Minus Story. More info at: http://www.lucasoswald.com]

3. Flying Lotus – “Massage Situation”
from: Reset – EP / WArp records / October 1, 2007
[Steven Ellison, born October 7, 1983, is an experimental multi-genre music producer, electronic musician, DJ, filmmaker, and rapper from LA, California. Flying Lotus has released 5 studio albums: 1983 (2006), Los Angeles (2008), Cosmogramma (2010), Until the Quiet Comes (2012) and You’re Dead! (2014) He has produced much of the bumper music on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block. He also contributed remixes for fellow Plug Research artists including Mia Doi Todd. He is the grand-nephew of the late jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, and her husband saxophonist John Coltrane. He is the grandson of singer-songwriter Marilyn McLeod, who is notable for having written Diana Ross’s “Love Hangover” and Freda Payne’s “I Get High (On Your Memory)”, and is Alice Coltrane’s sister. McLeod has been called by one writer “the biggest influence on Ellison’s music”. Ellison attended LA’s Film School and Academy of Art University.]

[Flying Lotus in 3D with Seven Davis Jr and PBDY play the Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland, 1228 Main Street, KCMO, TOMORROW NIGHT, Thursday, November 16, at 8:00 PM]

4. Angel Olson – “Only With You”
from: Phases / Jagjaguwar/ November 10, 2017
[Phases is a compilation or rare tracks, studio outtakes, studio tracks showing the range of Angel Olsen’s young career and evolution. Singer songwriter and musician Angel Olsen was born January 22, 1987 and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.She has recorded and toured as a backing singer with Bonnie “Prince” Billy and the Cairo Gang, before embarking on her own career. At age three, Olsen was adopted by a foster family that had cared for her since shortly after her birth. The difference in years between her and her parents left an impression. “Because there are so many decades of difference between us, I became more interested in what their childhood was like,” she says of her parents, both of whom still live in St. Louis. “I fantasized about what it was like to be young in the ’30s and ’50s, more so than other kids my age.” Olsen explained that “my mother just has this capacity for children.” Despite early adolescent aspirations to be a “pop star”, her interests later shifted in high school. Olsen became more introverted, regularly attending punk rock and noise music shows at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center as well as Christian rock shows throughout the city. She began learning the piano and guitar and writing her own music. Two years after graduating from Tower Grove Christian High School, Olsen moved to Chicago. After releasing her first EP, Strange Cacti, and a debut album, Half Way Home, on Bathetic Records, Olsen signed with Jagjaguwar, ahead of her first full-band record, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, which was released on 17 February 2014. Olsen’s third full-length album, My Woman, was released on September 2, 2016.]

5. Victor & Penny – “Wake Up Early”
from: Wake Up Early – Single / EAT.HEAR.RECORDS / November 15, 2017
[Erin McGrane, Jeff Freling formed Victor & Penny in 2010. The vinyl-only label was started by Steve Tulipana and the team at recordBar. Recorded by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab.]

[Victor & Penny and their Loose Change Orchestra with special guest Brian Steever celebrate the launch of EAT. HEAR. RECORDS and their new release, with a full band show, Wed, Nov. 15, at 7:00pm, at recordBar, 1520 Grand. Info at: http://www.victorandpenny.com and http://www.therecordbar.com]

10:17 – Interview with Erin McGrane and Jeff Freling

Formed in 2010, Jeff Freling and Erin McGrane are Victor & Penny. The duo were honored to represent Kansas City at a New York City press event as part the America’s Creative Crossroads campaign, “Paris of the Plains Goes to NY.” Victor & Penny have also performed at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Inaugural New Year’s, the Missouri Governor’s 2016 EDC Awards Luncheon, KC Union Station’s Centennial Celebration, and KC Mayor, Sly James’ 2015 State of the City Address.V&P are a four-time Official Showcase Artist for Folk Alliance International Conference, and have made over 1,000 personal appearances and traveled more than 200,000 miles in the last five years. In 2016 V&P released their 4th album, ‘Electricity.’ and after recently getting married, and traveling to Europe and Spain, Victor & Penny are back and are releasing their first ever vinyl 7-inch vinyl single though EAT.HEAR.RECORDS.

Victor & Penny and their Loose Change Orchestra with special guest Brian Steever celebrate the launch of EAT. HEAR. RECORDS and their new 7″ vinyl release, with a full band show, TONIGHT (Wed, Nov. 15), at 7:00pm, at recordBar, 1520 Grand

Jeff Freling and Erin McGrane recently returned from Europe and Spain from their honeymoon. Two of the hardest working people in show business, they are performing at recordBar in celebration of your new single.

Celebrating the simultaneous launch of EAT. HEAR. RECORDS and the first release on the new label, Victor & Penny and their Loose Change Orchestra will play a full band show at the Record Bar, home of the new label.

The 7”/ 45rpm vinyl record by Victor & Penny offers a new sonic landscape from the band as they have expanded to include drums with local jazz drummer, Brian Steever. Mr. Steever will join the band for a portion of the special concert.

The Loose Change Orchestra with James Isaac on clarinet, soprano saxophone and melodica; Rick Willoughby on upright bass; and trombonist Kyle Dahlquist.

EAT.HEAR.RECORDS. was created by Steve Tulipana and the team at recordBar.

Copies of the record will be available for purchase at the show. The songs will also be available digitally. Each quality vinyl record is highly collectible as only 500 copies will be pressed and no re-pressing will be offered. The limited run will be numbered and signed. EAT. HEAR. RECORDS plans to release a different artist each quarter on limited edition collectible vinyl.

Formally trained at Berklee School of Music (Boston) and the Conservatory of Music (Kansas City), Mr. Freling participated in the international program, The Acoustic Guitar Project in 2014 and is an accomplished composer, arranger, and outstanding instrumentalist.

Ms. McGrane is an ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Grant recipient and a Mid-America Arts Alliance Professional Development Grant recipient as well as a fellow of the ArtistINC program for which she currently serves as a peer facilitator and a workshop presenter. The duo was married in May 2017 and recently returned from an extended overseas honeymoon in Spain and Portugal (Oct. 2017).

Victor & Penny and their Loose Change Orchestra with special guest Brian Steever celebrate the launch of EAT. HEAR. RECORDS and their new 7″ vinyl release, with a full band show, TONIGHT (Wed, Nov. 15), at 7:00pm, at recordBar, 1520 Grand

10:30

6. Victor & Penny – “She Say She Knows”
from: She Say She Knows – Single / EAT.HEAR.RECORDS / November 15, 2017
[Erin McGrane, Jeff Freling formed Victor & Penny in 2010. The vinyl-only label was started by Steve Tulipana and the team at recordBar. Recorded by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab.]

[Victor & Penny and their Loose Change Orchestra with special guest Brian Steever celebrate the launch of EAT. HEAR. RECORDS and their new release, with a full band show, Wed, Nov. 15, at 7:00pm, at recordBar, 1520 Grand. Info at: http://www.victorandpenny.com and http://www.therecordbar.com]

10:34 – Underwriting

7. The Country Duo – “The Crumbling Of My Heart”
from: Live At Sun Studio / The Country Duo / September 1, 2017
[Recorded live at Sun Studio, Memphis TN on August 14, 2016 for the Sun Studio Sessions television show as seen on PBS across the United States. All songs written by Kasey Rausch on vocals & acoustic guitar, and Marco Pascolini on pedal steel & baritone guitars. Engineered by Curry Weber, assisted by Ples Hampton at Sun Studio. Mixed by Paul Malinowski, Mastered by Chad Meise – Massive Sound, KCMO]

10:40 – Interview with Kasey Rausch and Marco Pasolini

Kasey Rausch is one of the first musicians to play live on Wednesday MidDay Medley. She is a 5th generation musician, songwriter and co-producer of River Trade Radio on KKFI 90.1FM. Her family and musical roots can be found in Parkville, Kansas City, the Missouri Ozarks, Winfield, Kansas , and deep Southeast Texas. Her third album, Guitar in Hand debuted at #3 on the Roots Music Reporting charts and was voted one of the top three albums of the year by readers of The Pitch. She was named 2013’s Female Performer of the Year by The Farmer’s Turnpike on KMXN 92.9 FM.

Marco Pascolini grew up in a family of artists. His parents were both artists at Hallmark. For more than twenty years Marco Pascolini has built a musical reputation as one of the most well-respected musicians in Kansas City playing in the bands Scott Hrabko and the Rabbits, Folkicide, Dead Voices, Mr. Marco’s V7, Expassionates, the Brannock Device, Snakebite Orphans, the Fred Wickham band, with Kasey Rausch in The Naughty Pines. Marco is also a graphic artist and has designed multiple album covers and sleave designs including the new Victor & Penny 7″ Single. On electric guitar and pedal steel he plays and tours with Kasey Rausch as The Country Duo.

The Country Duo play “Tonights the Night 2017 – The Music of Neil Young,” Wednesday, November 22 at 7:30 PM, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester St, KCMO with KC Bankroll, Broken Arrows, Volker brothers, Scott Stanton & Friends, Two Headed Cow, and Neal Wolahan & Friends. This is a benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI.

Bluegrass Goes Country w/ The Country Duo Benefit for Harvesters, Sunday, November 26 at 3 PM, at the Stockyards Brewing Co. 1600 Genessee St Ste 100, KCMO

After just a year of working together as a duo, 2016 found the two playing in Nashville at the Station Inn, recording at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, TN as well as being invited by Sun Studio to film the PBS Sun Studio Sessions. Airing on PBS stationsy.

Recorded live at Sun Studio, Memphis TN on August 14, 2016 for the Sun Studio Sessions television show as seen on PBS across the United States. All songs written by Kasey Rausch on vocals & acoustic guitar, and Marco Pascolini on pedal steel & baritone guitars. Engineered by Curry Weber, assisted by Ples Hampton at Sun Studio. Mixed by Paul Malinowski, Mastered by Chad Meise – Massive Sound, KCMO

A passion for good ol’ country music, you’ll hear them play Rausch’s original tunes as well as the classics from Patsy to Merle, Gram to Emmylou

The Country Duo recently played Apocalypse Meow 10, November 3, at 7:00 PM, at Mills Record Company, w/ The Country Duo, Bohemian Cult Revival, and Headlight Rivals

The Country Duo is KC’s Kasey Rausch and Marco Pascolini. Armed with acoustic and electric guitars, a pedal steel, and a passion for good ol’ country music, you’ll hear them play Rausch’s original tunes as well as the classics from Patsy to Merle, Gram to Emmylou.

Kasey Rausch is co-producer of River Trade Radio

Marco Pascolini is a guitar legend be it an electric guitar or a pedal steel in his hands.

The Country Duo play “Tonights the Night 2017 – The Music of Neil Young,” Wednesday, November 22 at 7:30 PM, at Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester St, KCMO with KC Bankroll, Broken Arrows, Volker brothers, Scott Stanton & Friends, Two Headed Cow, and Neal Wolahan & Friends. This is a benefit for 90.1 FM KKFI.

10:56

8. The Country Duo – “Picking Up The Pieces”
from: Live At Sun Studio / The Country Duo / September 1, 2017
[Recorded live at Sun Studio, Memphis TN on August 14, 2016 for the Sun Studio Sessions television show as seen on PBS across the United States. All songs written by Kasey Rausch on vocals & acoustic guitar, and Marco Pascolini on pedal steel & baritone guitars. Engineered by Curry Weber, assisted by Ples Hampton at Sun Studio. Mixed by Paul Malinowski, Mastered by Chad Meise – Massive Sound, KCMO]

11:00 – Station ID

9. Truck Stop Love – “Tommy”
from: Can’t Hear It: 1991-1994 / Black Site Records / November 18, 2017
[Rich Yarges on vocals & guitar, Eric Melin on drums, Matt Mozier on vocals & guitar, Brad Huhmann on bass & vocals, (Jim Crego on vocals & guitar.) Twenty-five years ago Truck Stop Love made their first recordings. These previously unreleased demo tracks and never-before-heard recordings. To give these old recordings a new life on vinyl, audio archivist and sound engineer Kliph Scurlock remastered the songs from the original analog and digital audio tapes, and Chris Muth at Taloowa Corp cut the master lacquers. With art and design from Commercial Artisan’s Jon Sholly and vinyl-only liner notes from Edward Skoog.]

[Truck Stop Love play an Album Release Show and Reunion, (their first in 13 years), Friday, November 17 at recordBar with Pedaljets, Red Kate and Chris Tolle.]

11:04 – Interview with members of Truck Stop Love

Band Members:
Rich Yarges – vocals, guitar
Jim Crego – vocals, guitar
Matt Mozier – vocals, guitar
Brad Huhmann – vocals, bass
Eric Melin – on drums

Twenty-five years ago Truck Stop Love released their first recording – a cassette recorded by the band in the back room of Vital Vinyl, a local record store in Manhattan, Kansas. This weekend, the band will release three of those songs, plus 8 more previously unreleased demo tracks and never-before-heard recordings, on vinyl LP through Kansas City coop record label Black Site. Can’t Hear It: 1991-1994 captures the band’s Midwest rock twang at its most formative, and made Truck Stop Love the first-ever Manhattan-based band to sign to a major label , get featured on MTV, in Seventeen magazine, and tour nationally. Guitarist & vocalist Rich Yarges and drummer Eric Melin formed the band in 1990. Guitarist & vocalist Matt Mozier and bassist & vocalist Brad Huhmann joined Truck Stop Love in 1991. Jim Crego came on board a few years later. Truck Stop Love play an Album Release Show and Reunion, (their first in 13 years), Friday, November 17 at recordBar with Pedaljets, Red Kate and Chris Tolle.

Joining us on in the studio are band members: Matt Mozier & Brad Huhmann
Joining us on the phone are: Rich Yarges & Jim Crego

From press materials from Black Site Records:

One of the key bands in the early 90s Midwest underground rock scene, Truck Stop Love made Midwestern country-fuzz pop/rock and played it loud

1991 to 1994 was the key formative period for Truck Stop Love. Those years were likely even more successful for bar owners and liquor stores across the United States. When the band wasn’t out playing their music from town to town, they were writing and recording it — or “drinking,” as other people might call it.

In the beginning, the band would record anywhere someone would allow them to set up their 4-track reel-to-reel machine.

Later, they would favor Red House Recording in Lawrence, Kansas and its engineer Ed Rose. During the time leading up to their 1995 release, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, they would write and record some 50 songs, most under the mind-freeing influence of Old Crow and Schaefer’s beer. From the stoney drone of “Townie” to the frenetic blast of “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” to the head-slamming psych-pop of “You Keep Searchin’,” Can’t Hear It: 1991-1994 is Truck Stop Love at its wildest, sweatiest, beer-soaked best.

To give these old recordings a new life on vinyl, audio archivist and sound engineer Kliph Scurlock remastered the songs from the original analog and digital audio tapes, and Chris Muth at Taloowa Corp cut the master lacquers. With art and design from Commercial Artisan’s Jon Sholly, Can’t Hear It:1991-1994 not only sounds good, it looks good too!

The album will be available Nov. 18 at area record stores. More info at http://www.black-site.org

To celebrate the release of the record, Truck Stop Love will play three reunion shows – their first in 13 years – November 16-18, 2017 in Manhattan, Kansas City, and Lawrence.

Thurs. Nov. 16 – Auntie Mae’s Parlor, Manhattan, KS – w/Red Kate and Chris Tolle

Fri. Nov. 17 – recordBar, Kansas City, MO – w/The Pedaljets, Red Kate, and Chris Tolle

Sat. Nov. 18 – The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS – w/Red Kate and The Headlight Rivals

TRUCK STOP LOVE IS THREE F@#%ING WORDS

The early ’90s were a huge time for underground rock and roll. Everybody knows about “grunge” and the Seattle music explosion, but another movement was bubbling up around the same time in the Midwest, and it has proven to be just as influential on today’s music scene, if far less hyped.

Call it “No Depression”, Americana, Alt/Country, or whatever, but bands like Minneapolis’ The Jayhawks, St. Louis’ Uncle Tupelo, and other, smaller bands paved the way for artists like Ryan Adams and (insert hot-shit new country rock band here) to incorporate a little local twang into their punk rock ethos.

Long before it was cool to wear a trucker hat, a little band from Manhattan, Kan. called Truck Stop Love stopped drinking long enough (well, not really stopped) to record a 1993 self-titled EP and a 1995 full-length that, courtesy Los Angeles’ Scotti Bros/Backyard Records, slowly crept its way across the plains and into the stereos of America. And then those albums were played loud.

Guitarist/vocalist Rich Yarges and drummer Eric Melin formed the band in 1990, but it wasn’t until guitarist/vocalist Matt Mozier and bassist/vocalist Brad Huhmann joined Truck Stop Love in 1991, that the band solidified their aggressive, fuzzed-out rock sound. In the back room of a record store in Manhattan, TSL recorded a demo tape (yes, people used cassettes back then) that won them a spot in MTV’s national band competition, “Dodge’s Rockin’ Campus Bash.” A smashed guitar, a flat tire, and a many big hangovers followed.

Another well-received demo, recorded at Red House in Lawrence, garnered the attention of the College Music Journal, which gave it a glowing spotlight review that sent labels scurrying to the unlikely locale of Manhattan.

Ignoring the advice of their lawyer, Truck Stop Love signed with Scotti Brothers Records, a label best known for “Weird Al” Yankovic and Survivor. “We thought it would be a good idea because we heard they were run by the mob,” Melin explains. Truck Stop Love’s self-titled debut EP contains some of their best-loved tunes, including “Stagnation,” “River Mountain Love,” and “Townie.” The band hit the road hard after that in Hi-Tone, their 1954 Chevy school bus. The gas mileage was horrible, but it looked cool and it was big, allowing the members to be apart from each other whenever fights would break out.

The group covered “Listen To Her Heart” for You Got Lucky – A Tribute To Tom Petty and participated in the sold-out “Lucky” tribute concert at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles in January of 1995. The show was later seen by more than 3 million music fans when it aired on ABC’s late-night music show “In Concert.”

How I Spent My Summer Vacation is the album that defines Truck Stop Love for many in the Midwestern music scene. Produced at Memphis’ legendary Ardent Studios by Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and Jeff Powell (Afghan Whigs, Primal Scream), the album is a dizzying mix of TSL’s wide influences. Drenched with loud guitars and a twist of country, the album features a dozen songs that range from the subtle country yearnings of “Whiskey Waltz,” to the catchy hooks of “Other Stars,” and the in-your-face fury of “You Owe.” The raw emotions of small-town boredom and angst are evident on hard-rocking tracks like “Bitter Boy,” “Benny” and the title cut “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.” Rounding out the record are the bittersweet “Carolina’s Eyes,” and a hidden, thirteenth track – an acoustic duet between Stephens and guitarist/vocalist Mozier.

A great sounding record and an expensive video weren’t enough for the label to push four unpolished Kansas scrubs into the national spotlight, and, despite college radio airplay and the support of commercial Lawrence giant, KLZR (R.I.P.), the album didn’t catch on with the pre-TRL crowd. After a typical drunken fight (“Beatles or Stones?”) between band members escalated into a wrestling match on a concrete back porch, Mozier left the band, and the remaining members soldiered on.

Mozier’s replacement was Jim Crego, formerly of the Minneapolis powerhouse God’s Favorite Band. Truck Stop Love’s new focus was on a tighter, more focused pop sensibility. Crego brought his melodic chops into play immediately as the band recorded a split 7-inch with Lawrence rockers Action Man, and three tracks for various compilation CDs. More touring, more drinking, and a new demo with Ed Rose at Red House came next. The new material was some of the best stuff TSL had recorded, but Scotti Brothers’ experiment in the post-Nirvana alternative explosion had ended, and so had the band.

Aside from a string of three notoriously rowdy reunion gigs in 2004, it would seem the band had finally called it quits. But early in 2017, possibly after a few too many (no one will admit, or can remember), the band felt it was finally time to get the their material online for the next generation to hear (and before their generation’s CD players all stopped working). Not interested in angering their former mafia bosses, they decided to focus on the 50+ songs they had recorded themselves. Resurrecting those tunes from hibernation, however, would require special skills and high technology. Fortunately, longtime friend of the band, Kliph Scurlock, had both the skills AND the technology needed to remaster the songs back to life.

When Huhmann’s former band mates in Red Kate, founders of the Black Site record label cooperative, got wind of what Truck Stop Love was up to, they knew they had to put out a record. They were struck by the urgency and intensity of the recordings, especially in this age of over-produced, digitally perfect “rock.” After a couple beers and repeated assurances that Black Site was not in any way “connected,” Truck Stop Love’s second full-length LP, Can’t Hear It: 1991-1994, was born. From the stoney drone of “Townie” to the frenetic blast of “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” to the headslamming psych-pop of “You Keep Searchin’,” this is Truck Stop Love at its wildest, sweatiest, beer-soaked best.

Rich Yarges, Matt Mozier, Brad Huhmann and Jim Credo thanks for being on WMM

To celebrate the release of the record, Can’t Hear It: 1991-1994, on Black Site Records, Truck Stop Love will play three reunion shows – their first in 13 years – November 16-18, 2017 in Manhattan, Kansas City, and Lawrence.

Thurs. Nov. 16 – Auntie Mae’s Parlor, Manhattan, KS – w/Red Kate and Chris Tolle
Fri. Nov. 17 – recordBar, Kansas City, MO – w/The Pedaljets, Red Kate, and Chris Tolle
Sat. Nov. 18 – The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS – w/Red Kate and The Headlight Rivals

11:22

10. Truck Stop Love – “Townie”
from: Can’t Hear It: 1991-1994 / Black Site Records / November 18, 2017
[Rich Yarges on vocals & guitar, Eric Melin on drums, Matt Mozier on vocals & guitar, Brad Huhmann on bass & vocals, (Jim Crego on vocals & guitar). Twenty-five years ago Truck Stop Love made their first recordings. These previously unreleased demo tracks and never-before-heard recordings. To give these old recordings a new life on vinyl, audio archivist and sound engineer Kliph Scurlock remastered the songs from the original analog and digital audio tapes, and Chris Muth at Taloowa Corp cut the master lacquers. With art and design from Commercial Artisan’s Jon Sholly and vinyl-only liner notes from Edward Skoog.]

[Truck Stop Love play an Album Release Show and Reunion, (their first in 13 years), Friday, November 17 at recordBar with Pedaljets, Red Kate and Chris Tolle.]

11. JohnnySuperColossal – “She Culture”
from: Doors in the Wall / HearYou Music / October 27, 2017
[JohnnySuperColossal is the musical project of KC based Shawn Stewart who is originally from Chicago.]

11:32 – Underwriting

12. Chase The Horseman – “RIPchord”
from: RIPchord – Single / Chase the Horseman / eOctober 24, 2017
[Recorded at Element Recording with Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Coiling, Tutelage nu Joel Nanos , and Fritz Hutchison on C&C Drums, Kustom K Cymbals, Heidi Lynne Gluck on Fender Jazz Bass, Grounding, and Chase Horseman on Prophet 600, Wurlitzer 206, Drumbrute, Arp Explorer, Hagstrom 12-String, Framus 12 String, vox. Chase the Horseman is a band, film composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and producer. He has composed music for over 36 films and as musician has collaborated with Clairaudients, Teri Quinn, Heidi Lynne Gluck, and many more.]

11:36 – Interview with Chase the Horseman

Chase the Horseman is a band, film composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and producer. He has composed music for over 36 films and as musician has collaborated with Clairaudients, Teri Quinn, Heidi Lynne Gluck, KD Kuro, and many more.

The song “RIPchord” is the first single released by Chase the Horseman from a new recording project he has been working on for this year.

Recorded at Element Recording with Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Coiling, Tutelage nu Joel Nanos , and Fritz Hutchison on C&C Drums, Kustom K Cymbals, Heidi Lynne Gluck on Fender Jazz Bass, Grounding, and Chase Horseman on Prophet 600, Wurlitzer 206, Drumbrute, Arp Explorer, Hagstrom 12-String, Framus 12 String, vox.

Chase the Horseman just returned from Mexico City where he attended the premiere of a new film project where he composed music for the score of the film series.

Chase the Horseman lists his influences as: Brian Eno, St. Vincent, A Tribe Called Quest, Grizzly Bear, Feist, and James Blake.

In February Chase released a digital album of 16 songs called Covers & Others, with for ACLU.

Last time Chase was on the radio show, he brought KD Kuro aka Kwame Boateng who he helped to produce his solo album. Earlier Chase was on the show with Teri Ann Quinn who he helped in her debut EP recording of Moons and Meltdowns, as producer, engineer, performer.

Chase also perform at Middle of The Map Fest a few years ago with Heidi Lynne Gluck at our Wednesday Midday Medley Day Party. A lot of Chase’s work is in collaboration with other artists.

More info: chasethehorseman.bandcamp.com

Bandography:
The Cherry Tree Parade – writer, performer 2007-2008 – Self Titled E.P. 2009
*The Low End – performer, producer, mixer, engineer 2009-2010 – House Fire E.P. 2009
Lower 48 Single 2010
*The Heat Index – producer, engineer, mixer 2010 – Horsehead E.P. 2010
*The Vowels – mixer/performer 2011 – Alligator Pear L.P. 2011
*Fake Natives – producer, performer, mixer, engineer 2011 – Self Titled L.P. 2011
*Towers – writer, performer, engineer, mixer, producer 2010-Present – For Whatever We Were & What Will Never Be L.P. 2012
*Clairaudients – guitar, keyboards, aux-percussion, vocals, writer 2013-
*Teri Quinn – Producer, engineer, performer – Moons and Meltdowns E.P. 2016
*Narkalark – Producer/Engineer – Narkalark Ep II released November 18, 2016
*Molly McGlaughlin – Producer/Engineer – A Beautiful Dying 2017

11:49

13. Chase The Horseman– “Theme”
from:Theme / Chase the Horseman / unreleased
[Chase the Horseman is a band, film composer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, and producer. He has composed music for over 36 films and as musician has collaborated with Clairaudients, Teri Quinn, Heidi Lynne Gluck, and many more.]

14. Cris Williamson – “I Never Meant To Hurt You”
from: Motherland / Wold Moon Records / November 14, 2017
[30 release from Cris Williamson. Written by Laura Nyro. Cris Williamson is an American feminist singer-songwriter, who achieved fame as a recording artist, and who was a pioneer as a visible lesbian political activist, during a time when few who were not connected to the Lesbian community were aware of Gay and Lesbian issues. Williamson’s music and insight has served as a catalyst for change in the creation of women-owned record companies in the 1970s. Using her musical talents, networking with other lesbian artists of musical quality, and her willingness to represent those who did not yet feel safe in speaking for themselves, Williamson is remembered by many in the LGBT community for her contributions, both artistically, and politically, and continues to be a role model for a younger generation hoping to address concerns and obtain recognition for achievements specific to people who have historically been ignored. Williamson was born in 1947 in Deadwood, South Dakota, although her family moved to Colorado and Wyoming when she was still young. Her musical idol at the time was Judy Collins, and Williamson developed a musical style and sound that was similar to that of Collins. She released her first album, The Artistry of Cris Williamson in 1964, when she was sixteen. She became a local musical sensation in Sheridan, Wyoming, releasing two following LPs afterward. Williamson graduated from the University of Denver. She supported herself initially as a schoolteacher, while at the same time collaborating with other women who were also singer-songwriters and performing artists, and began to network with Holly Near, Meg Christian, and Margie Adam, all musicians who became women artists of stature, forming an entirely new genre of music, primarily about and for women. During a radio interview in Washington, D.C. in 1973, Williamson suggested that a record label aimed at gay women would be a good idea. The independent label Olivia Records was founded the next day. Olivia Records released Williamson’s The Changer and the Changed (1975), which became one of the best-selling independent releases of all time. As William Ruhlmann of AllMusic writes: “The Changer and the Changed was to women’s music what Michael Jackson’s Thriller was to the music industry in general in the mid-’80s, an album that sold far beyond the perceived size of the market, more than 100,000 copies in its first year of release. Eventually, it reportedly sold more than 500,000 copies, which would make it a gold album, although it has not been certified as such by the RIAA. (That does not disprove the sales estimate, however. Albums are not certified automatically; a record company must request certification and pay for an audit.)” Williamson went on to record more than a dozen more albums with Olivia Records, then after its demise formed her own label, Wolf Moon Records. This helped to set the pace for other recording artists who found it difficult to work with the major record labels.]

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

Next week on Wednesday, November 22, we play our Top Ten Favorite Singles of 2017. In our second hour Michelle Bacon joins us with het Top Ten Favorite releases of 2017.

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

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