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, June 6, 2018

The MidCoast Sound + Second Hand King
+ Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund & Nadia Piotrowsky +
Marion Merritt & Jolle St. Pierre

10:00

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

2. Jametatone – “No More Ignor”
from: Frog In The Pot / J. Ashley Miller / December 21, 2017
[New 10-song album from Jametatone, the solo project of J. Ashley Miller who also records with his band as Metatone. J. Ashley Miller is the 2016 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award Fellow. He is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His genre-bending trans-modern work has been performed everywhere from YJ’s to the Kauffman Performing Arts Center, to the MoMa PS1 in NYC. Ashley utilizes a diverse range of technologies, techniques, and collaborators to access obscure facets of the human emotional landscape. You can view more of Ashley’s work at http://www.jametatone.com.]

3. David Byrne – “Gasoline and Dirty Sheets”
from: American Utopia / Todomundo – Nonesuch / March 9, 2018
[Co written with Brian Eno. David Byrne’s first solo studio album since 2004’s Grown Backwards. Even though since then he has released albums with Brian Eno, Fat Boy Slim, and St. Vincent. The album is his 11th outside of his work with Talking Heads. The new album is one part of a larger multimedia project entitled Reasons to Be Cheerful which aims to give reasons for being happy and optimistic in spite of political strife and environmental problems. The project was entitled after the Ian Dury song “Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part 3)”. David Byrne writes: “Is this meant ironically? Is it a joke? Do I mean this seriously? In what way? Am I referring to the past or the future? Is it personal or political? These songs don’t describe an imaginary or possibly impossible place but rather attempt to depict the world we live in now. Many of us, I suspect, are not satisfied with that world—the world we have made for ourselves. We look around and we ask ourselves—well, does it have to be like this? Is there another way? These songs are about that looking and that asking. This album is indirectly about those aspirational impulses. Sometimes to describe is to reveal, to see other possibilities. To ask a question is to begin the process of looking for an answer. To be descriptive is also to be prescriptive, in a way. The act of asking is a big step. The songs are sincere—the title is not ironic. The title refers not to a specific utopia, but rather to our longing, frustration, aspirations, fears, and hopes regarding what could be possible, what else is possible. The description, the discontent and the desire—I have a feeling that is what these songs touch on. I have no prescriptions or surefire answers, but I sense that I am not the only one looking and asking, wondering and still holding onto some tiny bit of hope, unwilling to succumb entirely to despair or cynicism.”]

[David Byrne plays the Muriel Kauffman Theatre at the Kauffman Center for The Performing Arts, Thursday, June 7, at 7:30 PM.]

10:07 – Pledge Break #1

But first, Marion Merritt is our most frequent contributor to WMM, She grew up in Los Angeles, and St. Louis. She went to college in Columbia, Missouri. She studied art and musical engineering, and is a avid lover of classic films and punk rock music. She saw Talking Heads on their first tour when they played One Block West, in 1978. For 14 years she has been sharing her musical discoveries and information from her encyclopedic brain on Wednesday MidDay Medley. Marion has joined us for every on-air fund drive to help raise funds for the MidCoast Radio Project. Marion is also the proprietor of Records With Merritt, at 1614 Westport Rd. in Kansas City, Missouri. More at: recordswithmerritt.com

Marion Merritt, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Also with us is Joelle St. Pierre, a friend of the show, a friend of mine since the early 1990s, and a huge friend to 90.1 FM KKFI. Joelle is a 90.1 FM Super Volunteer, helping with KKFI’s special events, the Crossroads Music Festival, The Spring Dance, Folk Alliance International, and answering phones for our On-Air-Fund Drives. Joelle stepped out of the crowd of our beautiful listening audience, to not only donate financially to KKFI, but also give her time and energy to help keep this rare treasure of the airwaves alive. Despite all of her hours given to community radio, like so many of our hardest working volunteers, she is not often found behind the microphone, so today is special.

Joelle St. Pierre, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Marion Merritt, and Joelle St. Pierre, join us for our Spring Fund Drive Show, to encourage our listeners to call 888-931-0901, to support 90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio, “The Voice of The Community.”

Non-Commercial, Community Radio, means that three times a year, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming, to ask YOU our beautiful-listeners, to help us continue 90.1 FM’s unique, 24-7 programming, that is…essentially free to you. this year, 90.1 FM KKFI is celebrating our 30th year on the airwaves. While the spirit of this station is kept alive by hundreds of volunteers who passionately donate their time and abilities to keep the transmission of our 100,000-watt-signal alive. We are a operated by a not-for-profit organization, incorporated over 40 years ago, called The MidCoast Radio Project. We’re non-profit, but we still have to pay the electric bill, the rent on our fully accessible production studios and offices, insurance, staff, royalties, production expenses. Even though we have hundreds of committed volunteers, who donate thousands of hours every year, producing radio shows, answering phones, creating websites, producing benefits, rewiring the board, setting up our computer system, we still need YOU, our listener, to take a moment and donate to keep us alive! YOU are the reason we are able to stay alive.

10:16

4. Supa Flowa – “The Wu”
from: The Supa Flowa EP / R.I.O.T. LLC / May 4, 2018
[KC based Supa Flowa, aka Yanna, is a multi-media artist and rapper. The Supa Flowa Ep is a very vulnerable, yet an uplifting play on Yanna’s experience in dealing with anxiety, self doubt, and becoming comfortable with the androgynous, “sunflower dyke” that she is. Her goal is to reach out to queer & LGBTQIA youth; who have endured similar experiences to hers, in finding and cultivating self love and peace of mind.]

[Yanna the supa flowa plays the I Heart Local Music Presents: Pride for the Masses, June 8 & June 9, at Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mass St., Lawrence, w/ Vibralux, Wick & The Tricks Calvin Arsenia, & Cuee.]

5. Mysterious Clouds – “Circles (Inner Party) featuring Your Friend”
from: My Head is Going Round EP / Haymaker Records / To Be Released in May, 2018
[Mysterious Clouds is one of the musical projects of Kansas City, Kansas based post-punk psychedelic musical artists, Dedric Moore and Delaney Moore and special guests. For this track and one other on the new EP the band collaborated with Taryn Blake Miller a Lawrence Kansas based musician and songwriter who records as Your Friend. The Delaney brothers are also founders of the band Monta At Odds. The band writes: “While crawling around in the murk of (their last release) Panic on the Noon Meridian, Delaney fed the band a healthy dose of underground West Coast psych. This helped the band see a feel good light that helped them recover from the heaviness of Panic. These songs are for spring and summer listening and are meant to add a bit of happiness to our daily struggle of keeping up the faith and fighting the good fight.]

10:21 – Underwriting

10:23 – Pledge Break #2

WMM Plays New & MidCoastal Releases. Timothy Finn of Kansas City Star named WMM “The Best Place to Hear Local Music on the Radio.”

Why do listeners need to support of this one-of-a-kind, programming?
Because 90.1 FM KKFI is “The Voice of the Community” Our Kansas City area Community Speaks Through our Airwaves and this Program

Along with all of the music, WMM interviews nearly 200 guests each year:

Michelle Bacon, Krystle Warren, Katy Guillen, Lesley Poiries, Ryan Wilks, Tim J. Harte, Julia Othmer, Victor & Penny, The Grand Mrquis, Megan Slankard, Justin Van Pelt, Amy Farrand, Jen Harris, Spencer Brown, CS Luxem, Red Kaye, Olivia Fox, Howard Iceberg, Doby Watson, Kadesh Flow, Bach Aria Soloists, Cris Williamson, David Wayne Reed, Mikal Shapiro, Calvin Arsenia, Shoun Crowley, Nick Carswell, Cody Critcheloe, Patrick Alonzo Conway, The Matchsellers, Teri Quinn, Cat Dail, Thee Devotion, Steve Tullipana, Kemet The Phantom, D Rashawn Gilmore, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, Scott Hobart, Necia Gamby, Dedric Moore, Brenton Cook, Erica Joy, Wick Thomas, Kadesh Flow, Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Nico Gray, Ron Megee, Nan Turner, Matthew Roth, Johnny Hamil, Marco Pascolini, Ada Brumback, Richard Alan Nichols, Erin Keller, Summer Osborne, Jen Appell, Steve Gardels, Cynthia Hardeman, Fally Afani, Matt Kesler, Scott Mize, Jennie Ferguson, Doug Hitchcock, Cole Bales, Cody Calhoun, Scott Hrabko, Jonathan Brokaw, Ethan Eckert, Jamie Rich, David Weeda, Austin Williams, Philip Hooser, IVØRY BLACK, Anna Selle, Bill Dickey, Roxi Copland, Joy Baker, Kathryn Golden, Bill Sundahl, Derick Cunninhgham, Desmond Mason, Bill Svoboda, Claire Adams, Ross Brown, Jerad Tomasino, Laurel Parks, Ben Parks, Maria Cuevas, Garrett Nordstrom, Barry Lee, Noah Davis, Steven Eubank, Julie Shaw, Sarah Beth Mundy, Lovergurl (Stephanie Bankston, Brook Worlledge, Heather Andrews), Chad Meise, Chris Haghirian, Nathan Reusch, Aaron Rhodes, Beth Marshall, Jon “Piggy” Cupit, Janet Henry, Michael McQuary, Clint Hoffmeier, Matt Tady, Patrick Alonzo Conway, Alan Winkler, Run With It (Miguel Carabello, Ben Byard, Daniel Cole) Matthew Dunehoo, Lou Jane Temple, Dave Storms, Sondra Freeman, David George, Jade Osborne, Quinn Hernandez, John Craige, Jennifer McCartney, Amy Marcus, Susanna Lee, Kyle Dahlquist, Vanessa Severo, Tim Finn, Simone Briand, Maria Vasquez Boyd, Jenny Mendez, Chato Villalobos, Miguel Morales, Salar Rajabnick, Barclay Martin, Zachary Van Benthusen, Krysztof Nemeth, Britt Adair, Duncan Burnett, Judy Mills, Stephonne Singleton, Jamie Searle, Patrick Alexander.

10:30

6. Second Hand King – “Go So Wrong”
from: Frankie / Second Hand King / June 9, 2018
[KC based Joe Stanziola records as Second Hand King, the original Doo Wop Rapper. His name was derived from a 1966 Doo Wop song known as, “The Joker Went Wild” by Brian Hyland. Second Hand King has released five previous albums: All My Fears (2012), The Lower Depths (2013), Chuck (2014), Before The Bomb Drops (2015), and Almost Blue (2016).]

[Second Hand King & The Lovers play a “FRANKIE” album release show, at recordBar, 1520 Grand, Sat, June 9 at 7:PM, w/ Black Mariah Theater, Rockababyrock & Tyler Banks, w/ Dj Peter Anthony.]

10:33 – Interview with Joe Stanziola

Joe Stanziola performs and records as Second Hand King, the original Doo Wop Rapper. His name was derived from a 1966 Doo Wop song, “The Joker Went Wild” by Brian Hyland. Joe’s been exploring the connections between Doo Wop and Hip Hop since he released his The Santa Sangre EP in 2011. Joe followed that up with five more albums: All My Fears (2012), The Lower Depths (2013), Chuck (2014), Before The Bomb Drops (2015), and Almost Blue (2016). Joe is set to release his 6th full length album, Frankie when Second Hand King & The Lovers play a “FRANKIE” album release show, Saturday, June 9 at 7:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand, with Black Mariah Theater, Rockababyrock & Tyler Banks, along with Dj Peter Anthony.

Joe Stanziola thank you for being with us on WMM.

First off, a Doo-Wop Tutorial from Wikipedia.org:

Doo-Wop – origins: Rhythm and blues harmony vocal groups a cappella negro spirituals barbershop music gospel ballads blues jump blues swing

Doo Wop – Derivative forms: Beach music beat Brill Building pop rock power pop soul vocal surf

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. Built upon vocal harmony, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented styles of the time. Singer Bill Kenny is often called the “Godfather of Doo-wop” for his introducing the “top and bottom” format which featured a high tenor singing the lead and a bass singer reciting the lyrics in the middle of the song. Doo-wop features vocal group harmony, nonsense syllables, a simple beat, sometimes little or no instrumentation, and simple music and lyrics

From the outset, singers gathered on street corners, and in subways, generally in groups of three to six. They sang a cappella arrangements, and used wordless onomatopeia to mimic instruments since instruments were little used: the bass singing “bom-bom-bom”, a guitar rendered as “shang-a-lang” and brass riffs as “dooooo -wop-wop”. For instance, “Count Every Star” by The Ravens (1950), includes vocalizations imitating the “doomph, doomph” plucking of a double bass. This art dates to The Mills Brothers, who first came to fame in the 1930s with their mimicking of instrumental music. Radio, gramophone, and cinema inspired imitation in many U.S. cities.

The late 1940s and early 1950s brought the so-called “bird groups”; The Swallows, the Ravens, The Orioles, The Penguins, The Crows, The Flamingos, The Blue Jays, The Cardinals, and The Larks. A number of band names are also drawn from cars (The Edsels, The Cadillacs, The Fleetwoods, The Impalas, and Little Anthony and the Imperials). The Orioles helped develop the doo-wop sound with their hits “It’s Too Soon to Know” (1948) and “Crying in the Chapel” (1953). Doo-wop scored 1951 R&B chart hits such as “Sixty Minute Man” by Billy Ward and His Dominoes, “Where Are You?” by The Mello-Moods, “The Glory of Love” by The Five Keys, “Shouldn’t I Know” by The Cardinals, “I Will Wait” by the Four Buddies, and “Will You Be Mine”, by The Swallows.

The term “doo-wop” first appeared in print in 1961 in The Chicago Defender; fans of the music coined the term during the height of a vocal harmony resurgence. The phrase was attributed to radio disc jockey Gus Gossert but Gossert suggested “doo-wop(p) was already in use [before me] to categorize the music in California.”

The first record to use the syllables “doo-wop” in the refrain was the 1955 hit “When You Dance” by The Turbans (Herald Records H-458). Previously, the backing vocal “doo-wop” is heard in The Delta Rhythm Boys’ 1945 recording of “Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin”, The Clovers’ 1953 release “Good Lovin'” (Atlantic Records 1000) and in the chorus of Carlyle Dundee & The Dunde

1958 also saw the rise of Italian American doo-wop groups. Like African-Americans, the Italian Americans generally attended church, where they gained singing experience, and lived in urban neighborhoods, where they would sing on street corners. By the late 1950s, Italian American street corner doo-wop groups were seen in cities such as New York, especially the Bronx and Brooklyn. Some of the Italian American groups with national chart hits included: Dion and the Belmonts, in 1958, with “I Wonder Why”, and Top #5 hits “Teenager in Love” and “Where or When”; The Four Seasons; The Capris with “There’s a Moon Out Tonight”, in 1960; The Earls; The Chimes; The Demensions; The Elegants; The Mystics; The Duprees; Vito & the Salutations; The Gaylords; Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge; The Regents; Nino and the Ebb Tides; The Del-Satins; The Videls; most of the members of The Passions; and The Chaperones. Other Italian American groups included Randy & the Rainbows, who charted with their Top #10 1963 single “Denise”.

The contribution of Hispanics is often overlooked. Early, especially in U.S. East Coast cities, Puerto Ricans were lead singers in some groups with black and white members, including The Crests, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Five Discs and the Tune Weavers. “Racially integrated” groups with both black and white performers, included The Del-Vikings, who hit big in 1957 with “Come Go With Me” and “Whispering Bells”; The Crests, whose “16 Candles” appeared in 1958, and The Impalas, whose “Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)” was a hit in 1959. All-white doo-wop groups were also appearing: The Mello-Kings’ 1956 “Tonight, Tonight” and The Diamonds’ chart-topping “Little Darlin'” in 1957, The Skyliners’ 1959 “Since I Don’t Have You” and 1960 “This I Swear”, The Tokens’ 1961 “Tonight I Fell In Love” and “I Love My Baby”, all saw success.

Female doo wop singers were unusual in the early days. Lillian Leach, lead singer of the Mellows from 1953 to 1958, helped pave the way for women and is often cited as an influence by later performers.

The peak of doo-wop might have been in the early 1960s with the most notable hits being Dion’s “Runaround Sue”, “The Wanderer”, “Lovers Who Wander” and “Ruby Baby” and The Marcels’ “Blue Moon”. There was a revival of the nonsense-syllable form of doo-wop in the early 1960s, with popular records by The Marcels, The Rivingtons, and Vito & the Salutations. A few years later, the genre reached the self-referential stage, with songs about the singers (“Mr. Bass Man” by Johnny Cymbal) and the songwriters (“Who Put the Bomp?” by Barry Mann), in 1961. Other important groups, including The Coasters, The Drifters, The Midnighters, and The Platters, helped link the doo-wop style to the mainstream, and to the future sound of soul music. The style is heard in the music of The Miracles, particularly in their early hits such as “Got A Job” (an answer song to “Get a Job”), “Bad Girl”, “Who’s Loving You”, “(You Can) Depend on Me”, and “Ooo Baby Baby”. The style is also heard in the early days of The Famous Flames, led by James Brown; the group recorded several doo-wop hits, including “Please, Please, Please”, “Bewildered”, “I Don’t Mind”, and their hit cover of The “5” Royales’ “Think all entering the Top#10, as well as R&B Number #1 Try Me

Doo-wop’s influence continued in soul, pop, and rock groups of the 1960s, including The Four Seasons, girl groups, and vocal surf music performers such as Jan and Dean and the Beach Boys. In the Beach Boys’ case, the doo-wop influence is evident in early hits such as “Surfin'” and “Surfer Girl”, and in albums recorded within their psychedelic era, during which the group experimented and innovated with the human voice as an instrument[15] in a self-described effort to “expand modern vocal harmony”.

As with most American popular music genres of the time, doo-wop’s mainstream popularity was decimated by the British Invasion of the mid-1960s

Joe Stanziola grew up in Kansas.

At the Age of 16 he first heard Tupac, it changed his life.

Born December 19, 1989 his parents wrote him a rap upon his birth.

Joe says that “At my core, I am a rapper.”

Joe confesses to be “a little bit of a loner.”

Joe didn’t like school.

In his search to find himself Joe discovered doo-wop with the Gene Chandler song “Duke of Earl”

Joe has listened to so much doo-wop it is now just part of him, he has no choice. Doo-wop is his “guiding light.”

Joe is now working with a band.

Frankie is a “coming out” moment.

10:47

7. Second Hand King – “The King of Broken Hearts”
from: Frankie / Second Hand King / June 9, 2018
[KC based Joe Stanziola records as Second Hand King. His name was derived from a 1966 Doo Wop song known as, “The Joker Went Wild” by Brian Hyland. Joe has released five previous albums: All My Fears (2012), The Lower Depths (2013), Chuck (2014), Before The Bomb Drops (2015), and Almost Blue (2016).]

[Second Hand King & The Lovers play a “FRANKIE” album release show, at recordBar, 1520 Grand, Sat, June 9 at 7:PM, w/ Black Mariah Theater, Rockababyrock & Tyler Banks, w/ Dj Peter Anthony.]

8. Joni Mitchell – “You Turn Me On I’m A Radio”
from: For The Roses / Asylum / November 1972
[Joni Mitchell originally wrote the song in response to her record label’s desire for her to write a hit song. Mitchell reveals her purpose on lines such as, “And I’m sending you out this signal here, I hope you can pick it up loud and clear”. She believed that including words in the song about radio themes would convince stations to play the recording. The song was recorded in preparation for Mitchell’s upcoming fifth studio album in Hollywood, California, United States at A&M Studios. Although Graham Nash, David Crosby, and Neil Young all contributed to the recording session for the song, only the harmonica piece performed by Graham Nash was included on the official release. “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” was released as a single in November 1972 via Asylum Records. The song became Mitchell’s first top-ten hit in Canada, reaching the tenth position on the RPM Top Singles chart. Additionally, the single became her first top-forty hit in the United States, reaching number twenty-five on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside North America, “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” peaked within the top-forty on the Australian Kent Music Report chart. The single was included on Mitchell’s fifth studio effort For the Roses, which was issued in November 1972. Released between her 2 biggest commercial and critical successes – “Blue” and “Court & Spark”. In 2007 it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. “For the Roses” was Mitchell’s farewell to the business; she took an extended break for a year after. The album was critically acclaimed with The New York Times saying “Each of Mitchell’s songs on For the Roses is a gem glistening with her elegant way with language, her pointed splashes of irony & her perfect shaping of images. Never does Mitchell voice a thought or feeling commonly. She’s a songwriter and singer of genius who can’t help but make us feel we are not alone.”]

10:53 – Pledge Break #3

KKFI is an Independent, non-commercial radio station!

Now, more than ever, Independent, Community Media is important for our world. We are here to listen to you, and share your concerns, and offer resources, and community activities and information. Along with our stellar National Public Affairs shows like Democracy Now, and Workers Independent News we also offer more locally produced public affairs programs than anywhere else on the dial. We offer programs specifically produced for the LGBTQIA Community, Women’s Issues, Native American News and Culture, Middle Eastern Music and Information, Latino Programming, African American Public Affairs and Community News, Labor and Worker’s Unions, our prison population and justice system, environmental programming, Visual and lLiterary Arts, and Performing Arts.

Just remember what you don’t have to hear when you are tuned to 90.1 FM KKFI!

No Commercials. We do have brief underwriting announcements, recognizing those who financially contribute to support non-profit community radio. But No Commercials

No automated robot playing the same 40 to 100 songs in a “rotation,” based on a formula, created someone who programs the robot. We are the opposite of this.

We are The Voice of The Community

90.1 offers 104 different radio programs. 82 of these programs are locally created and produced and hosted and engineered and written by over 100 different people, who create content, and personally handcraft each show. There are 143 hours each week of locally produced handcrafted programs. You we not find this kind of representative diversity anywhere else on your radio dial. It is very special. It needs to be nourished and kept alive in a world of corporate nationally owned commercial or religious broadcasting. Not only do we bring the most diverse and unfiltered news and information, but our musical playlists are deep, and comprehensive. In one week you can hear over 2000 different songs played, in Blues, Jazz, Folk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Classical, World, Americana, Southern Soul, Fusion, Soul, Rock, New Wave, Electronic, Native, Local, Old Timey, Rockabilly, Women’s, Children’s, Gospel, and Experimental. With all of this you also hear the voices from the hundreds of KKFI volunteers and the hundreds of guests who share their stories, while broadcasting live from our non-commercial, midtown studios, here at 39th & Main, in the center of our metro, across two states, and many cities, and hundreds of communities, and thousands of radios. How much is this worth to you?
We are The Voice of The Community

At http://www.wednesdaymiddaymedley.org you can find our playlists from the last 12 years.

11:00 – Station ID

9. CS Luxem – “Let Me Go On”
from: Symptoms / Whatever Forever / February 17, 2018
[Debut length from CS Luxem who works as a solo artist as well as a collaborator. CS Luxem has released several EPs and has performed all over the United States and Europe. Info at http://www.csluxem.bandcamp.com]

[CS Luxem plays 8th Street Tap Room in Lawrence, KS. on Friday, June 8 at 6:30 with LaGuerre, Miwi La Lupa, and Nik Freitas.]

[CS Luxem plays Decade, 920 Delaware St. Lawrence, KS. Monday, June 11, at 7:PM with Curt Oren, Dan English, and Morning Ritual.]

9. Mikal Shapiro – “Everybody’s Baby”
from: The Musical II / Mikal Shapiro / May 26, 2018
[The sequel to Shapiro’s 2015 concept album “The Musical.” Mikal Shapiro, on vocals & guitar, Chad Brothers on vocals & guitar, Johnny Hamil on bass, and Matt Richey on drums. Special guests include: Hermon Mehari on trumpet, Tina Bilberry on viola & violin, Damon Parker on keyboards, and Lauren Hughes on vocals. Engineered and co-produced by Joel Nanos at Element Recording & Mastering Studios.]

[Mikal Shapiro plays The Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania, Tonight, 9:PM, with Wonky Tonk.]

9. Howard Iceberg & The Titanics – “My Love For You Is Real”
from: Netherlands / Howard Iceberg & The Titanics / March 29, 2018
[Howard Iceberg on lead vocals & harmony vocals; Rich Hill on piano, organ & harmony vocals; Bryan Hicks on electric bass & harmony vocals; and Doug Auwarter on drums. Words and music by Howard Iceberg © 2017 Howard Iceberg. All rights reserved. Produced by Howard Iceberg and Rich Hill. Recorded by Pat Tomek at Largely Studios and Rich Hill at The Hilltop. Mixed by Howard Iceberg & Pat Tomek.]

11:07 – Pledge Break #4

Donating to 90.1 FM KKFI is investing in your community.

(From our bylaws of The MidCoast Radio Project)

KKFI’s Mission Statement: KKFI is the Kansas City area’s independent, noncommercial community radio station. We seek to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience, to reflect the diversity of the local and world community, and to provide a channel for individuals and groups, issues and music that have been overlooked, suppressed or under-represented by other media.

KKFI’s Philosophy Statement: KKFI is committed to diversity in programming and discourse and seeks to create a climate of mutual respect and collaboration among volunteers and staff.

11:14

12. Belle Plaine – “Golden Ring (feat. Megan Nash) – Single”
from: Malice, Mercy, Grief and Wrath / Belle Plaine / To Be Peleased Soon
[Belle Plaine is a singer, a songwriter and an inventive musician who was raised on the Canadian prairies near the hamlet of Fosston, Saskatchewan – population: 54. Belle’s reverence for artists who defy categorization has led her to create a brand of roots music that combines vintage blues and swing tones of the 1940s with classic country styles made popular in the heyday of the Grand Ole Opry. In 2015 she appeared as a guest vocalist on Colter Wall’s breakthrough debut album, Imaginary Appalachia. In 2016 she performed her work with the Regina Symphony Orchestra. She comtributed as a songwriter and harmony-vocalist on Blake Berglund’s 2017 album, Realms.]

[American Media Gig Spot presents: An Evening with summerland, Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine, at SqueezeBox Theatre, 1519 Oak Street, KCMO, on Friday, June 8, at 8:00 pm.]

11:17 – Interview with Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund & Nadia Piotrowsky

Kansas raised, Oklahoma based, Nadia Piotrowsky who performs as summerland, joins us today and she has brought along her singer-songwriter friends from Saskatchewan, Canada, Belle Plaine and Blake Berglund who have been embraced by the Red Dirt and Americana communities as evidenced by a slot at this year’s Tumbleweed Festival in La Cygne, KS, and an eight date tour along side summerland that includes Kansas City. American Media Gig Spot presents: An Evening with summerland, Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine, at SqueezeBox Theatre, 1519 Oak St, KCMO, on Friday, June 8, at 8:00 pm.

Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund & Nadia Piotrowsky, Thanks for being with us on WMM.

Belle Plaine is a singer, a songwriter and an inventive musician who was raised on the Canadian prairies near the hamlet of Fosston, Saskatchewan – population: 54.

We just heard “Golden Ring,” the first single from her upcoming LP Malice, Mercy, Grief and Wrath and is in collaboration with fellow Saskatchewanian, Megan Nash. True to Plaine’s genre-bending style, the song pairs a surf-era baritone guitar to an Everly Brothers inspired harmony.

Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund have split their time in the last year between Canada and the Appalachians promoting Berglund’s 2017 release, Realms, and have been direct support for Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, The Dead South, Jason Eady and Dwight Yoakam.

Plaine appeared on Colter Wall’s Imaginary Appalachia (2015) and serves up a hybrid of American music: her mix of folk, country, jazz and blues was showcased at Folk Alliance International in February 2017 and at Americana Fest in September 2017 to a full house at Nashville’s 12th and Porter.

TOUR DATES

Fri. June 8 – Kansas City, MO SqueezeBox Theatre^

Sat. June 9 – Ottawa, KS House Concert^

Sun. June 10 – Tulsa, OK Tulsa Tough Cry Baby Hill VIP Part presented by Vox Pop^

Mon. June 11 – Stillwater, OK Modella Art Gallery^

Tue. June 12 – Okemah, OK Rocky Road Tavern^

Wed. June 13 – Norman, OK Red Brick Bar^

Thu. June 14 – Stillwater, OK Summer on the Plaza at Oklahoma State University^

Fri. June 15 – La Cygne, KS Tumbleweed Festival

Sun. June 17 – Kansas City, MO Ollie’s Local

^with summerland

11:22

13. summerland (Nadia Piotrowsky) – “Kentucky”
from: Fourth Street Session / Nadia Piotrowsky /
[Oklahoma based singer songwriter Nadia Piotrowsky performs as summerland. Post-college adventures in Nashville, bumps and bruises from jobs and relationships, and a move to Los Angeles in the last couple of years have inspired the melodies and lyrics that now pour out of her. Her folk-rock tales are accompanied by the sounds and rhythms of the guitar that she learned to play while sitting on the porch of her college home in Manhattan, Kansas. Various music projects with friends have led to her current project “Summerland,” which is Nadia’s first official lead role in her own musical story. Standing on the stage with her own band, made up of various talented friends from L.A.]

[American Media Gig Spot presents: An Evening with summerland, Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine, at SqueezeBox Theatre, 1519 Oak Street, KCMO, on Friday, June 8, at 8:00 pm.]

11:24

NEWEST VIDEO,“GOLDEN RING”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAgaqvnze0

Website:http://belleplainemusic.com/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/belleplaine
Twitter:https://twitter.com/Belle_Plaine
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/blackpowderbelle/
Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/belleplaine
Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bCjjNx0wXytkKko9jlaLl
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/BellePlaineMusic

BLAKE BERGUND LINKS

NEWEST VIDEO, “MOOSE MOUNTAIN”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PImDzid_cLE
Website:http://blakeberglund.com/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/blakeberglund
Twitter:https://twitter.com/blakeberglund
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/blakeberglund/
Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/blakeberglund/sets/blake-berglund-realms
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3WEBMhfeVkjS6jR0EQwVq0
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/blakeberglund

Berglund’s album, Realms, has carved out its place among critics. Beatroute Magazine called it “the most ambitious Canadian country record of 2017 and should certainly be regarded as one of the best,” where popular online blog, Bandsintown says “Berglund’s psychedelic country is changing the game.” Realms applies the story arc of the hero’s journey to a good ol’ boy character – the listener follows the Everyman from ignorance to enlightenment, and eventually to reincarnation. Berglund has released four videos that compliment this storyline, the latest being the stunning “Moose Mountain” where Berglund appears amidst his homeland’s eautiful scenery on horseback enjoying a tightly rolled doobie.

11:30

15. Blake Berglund – “Crooked Old Earth”
from: Realms / Oceanman Records / September 1, 2017
[Blake Berglund’s fresh style of country music is unpredictable, intelligent, genuine, and a pleasant surprise, given his hard-rock/pseudo metal background. His grassroots approach has earned him a reputation as ‘the guy who sold 10,000 CDs door-to-door.” Raised in the Moose Mountains deep in Saskatchewan’s south east corner, Berglund took his early childhood responsibilities of tending to 200 head of horses as the education needed to base his music career around hard work and cultivating relationships. Berglund’s album was released through his independently owned and operated, Oceanman Records. Described as an allegorical concept record about the ‘breadth of the human experience’, the ten track album explores spiritual based themes, alternative beliefs, and universal truths. Inspired by the teachings, observations and research of Thomas P. Fusco, Dr. Rick Strassman, and authors Joseph Campbell and C.S. Lewis, Realms follows an ancient story-telling archetype and is riddled with patterns, puzzles and nuances. Berglund is self-managed and booked. He’s gained supporters world-wide based on his work ethic, out of the box marketing and unique musical style.]

[American Media Gig Spot presents: An Evening with summerland, Blake Berglund & Belle Plaine, at SqueezeBox Theatre, 1519 Oak Street, KCMO, on Friday, June 8, at 8:00 pm.]

11:34 – Underwriting

11:36 – Pledge Break #5

We offer loads and loads of information about what is going on in the community. We shine a light on area not-for-profit theatre companies, art museums & galleries, area festivals, service organizations, area record labels and record stores, the area music scene, arts scene, theatre scene, literary arts scene, and political action scene.

In just this past year, we’ve featured segments on: Bach Aria Soloist, KC Gamelan Genta Kasturi, The Workers Revival Festival, The Arts Asylum, KC PrideFest, Midwest Music Foundation and the MidCoast Takeover, Kansas City Public Library, Record Store Day, Folk Alliance International Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. , Spinning Tree Theatre, Middle of The Map Fest, Shuttlecock Music Showcase, First Friday Film Fest, American Jazz Museum, KC Fringe Theatre Fest, Late Night Theatre, The Barn Players, Crossroads Music Fest, Lawrence Field Day Fest, Girls Rock! and the Annual Girls Rock! Camp, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Apocalypse Meow, The Buffalo Room, Standing Rock, Union Station, Outer Reaches Festival, Plaza Art Fair, No Wave Fest, Haymaker Records, Johnson County Performing Arts Series, The Pop Poetry Series at Prospero’s Books, Datura Records, Center of The City Fest, Too Much Rock, Shelf Life, The Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The Band That Fell To Earth A Tribute To David Bowie, The Kauffman Center for The Performing Arts, Artist Inc., and more…

11:43

15. Amy Farrand & The Like – “White Girl Wasted (Radio Edit)”
from: One / Amy Farrand / April 28, 2018
[Amy Farrand & The Like are Amy Farrand on lead vocals & guitar, Steve Tubbert on bass, Felix Dukes on drums, Kyle Dahlquist on keyboards & backing vocals, Stephan Jean-Francois on trumpet, and Katie Gilchrist on backing vocals. 11-song debut album was recorded w/ Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab. Amy Farrand plays over a dozen intruments, bass, drums, lap steel, guitar, she has hosted variety shows, and radio shows and has been a a member of the bands: American Catastrophe, Experimental Instrument Orchestra, Shotgun Idols, Sister Mary Rotten Crotch, Atlantic Fadeout, The Silver Maggies. One reviewer wrote of her, “Amy Farrand is a tough-as-nails vocalist making her an invaluable asset to any live act.” ]

16. Kadesh Flow – “FYI”
from: Room Service EP / Ryan Davis / March 30, 2018
[Kadesh Flow is Ryan Davis is a rapper with an MBA. At age 11, he began rapping and playing trombone within two weeks of one another. His music has been featured on network television in multiple countries and territories across Southeast Asia. Locally, Kadesh can be found rocking solo hip hop sets, laying down bone bars with KC funk juggernaut The Phantastics, or jamming with various bands throughout the city. The Room Service EP was conceived between shows at MAGfest 2018, when Kadesh Flow, Atlas, and Bill Beats began creating in their hotel room. Producers/Writers include: Kadesh Flow, Atlas, Bill Beats, Shubzilla, Eye-Q, O.Super. Mixed By: Kadesh Flow. Mastered By: Out D Park Productions.]

[Kadesh Flow plays The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, Saturday, June 30, at 2:00 to 5:00 PM with Kemet the Phantom and the Phantastics.]

11:50 – Pledge Break #6

Why listeners need to support of this one-of-a-kind, programming.

KKFI offers 24-7 programming, and YOU (the listener), basically get all of this amazing programming for “free.” I, for one, love that I can turn on my radio, or computer device, and tune into the 90.1 FM’s 100, 000 watt, crystal-clear signal, and hear the music, information, news, entertainment, events, and stories, that I really cannot find anywhere else. 90.1 is my comfort, my special companion, my friend introducing me to all kinds of new & local music, as well as news & information without the intrusion of commercials. It is radio brought to YOU by real people, who create these shows out of love, and are guided by KKFI’s noble mission that “seeks to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience, to reflect the diversity of the local and world community, and to provide a channel for individuals and groups, issues and music that have been overlooked, suppressed or under-represented by other media.”

Driving in your car, at the office, at the gym, in your garage, in your cubicle, in your artspace, on your ipod, at your construction site, in your kitchen, in your barn, YOU can take 90.1 with you, as your companion. 90.1 FM is generally a good date. Good for a few laughs, fun to dance with, always interested in good conversation. Isn’t 90.1 FM KKFI worth a few dollars a day, or a week? So many people tune in to kkfi.org everyday, but studies show, that less than 5 percent actually donate to keep this miracle of broadcasting alive. Your support means that you will help bring this programming to folks who could not donate at this time, for whatever the reason.

This is your chance to put your money where your ears are. Please help keep, at least this part of our public airwaves, alive for our public to enjoy, free from commercials, free from religious sermonizing, free from extremely conservative and slanted right wing “talk radio” and free from corporately “owned and cloned” robotic affiliates that play the same 15 songs everyday at the same time. YOU deserve better. YOU deserve radio that really reflects our great city, and tells the story of our great music scene, and performing arts scene, and labor rights, and women’s issues, and LBGT information, and programming specifically produced for Latinos and African Americans, working people, Jazz lovers. Support the free-form spirit that is 90.1 FM KKFI!

11:56

17. Carswell & Hope – “The Other Side”
from: Exit Plan EP / Silly Goose Records / May 22, 2018
[Music by Carswell & Hope. Lyrics by Nick Carswell. Produced & mixed by Jason Slote & Nick Carswell. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper @ TurtleTone Studio NYC. Lawrence KS based 5-piece band formed June 25, 2012. The band is: Nick Carswell, Jason Slote, Austin Quick, Chris Handley, and Jordan Tucker. Songwriter Nick Carswell is originally from Ireland and has found a new home on the plains of Kansas.]

[Carswell & Hope play the 2018 Smoky Hill River Festival, Thursday, June 7, at 4:00 pm, in Salina Kansas in Oakdale Park.]


11:59:30

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

Next week, on June 13, we present part 2 of our series of Our Favorite Releases of 2018 …So Far and 10 more bands and representative tracks to play. Also next week, we’ll talk with Joseph Warren Wheeler of the Wanderlust Revival and the guys from FaceFace return to the show.

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

Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:
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http://www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org,
http://www.facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMedleyon90.1FM

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