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Wednesday
May222013

We LOVE Monkeys! Gravel Road Too...

These Seattle blues rockers are known for touring and recording with T-Model Ford (Marty's writin' a book!) as much as their sometimes scary approach to hill-country style electric blues. Word has it, the new album will drop any day now on Knick Knack records!

This is what Joe from Knick Knack says, “GravelRoad, Seattle's own Deep Blues trio are set to release their second album on Knick Knack Records this summer. Following closely on a successful 2012 that saw two record releases: Psychedelta, a critically acclaimed album, and their 7" Pedernales, named for Willie Nelson's studio in Texas. T-Model Ford's backing band will release The Bloody Scalp of Burt Merlin in June 2013. While you wait for that slab of heavy brain melting groove, please enjoy the video for the first single of the album, filmed by No Brow Productions. Here is...Monkey With a Wig.

We're ready! Monkeys!

 

Tuesday
May212013

Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Jim James Had a Baby = Louisiana Fairytale

For fifty years the Preservation Hall Jazz Band has played to keep the traditions of New Orleans jazz alive, both at home and on tour around the world. Along the way, they have brought in collaborators of all musical stripes to play, honor and reinterpret America's first true art form.

In Louisiana Fairytale, director Danny Clinch documents their collaboration with American rock band My Morning Jacket, showing a legendary group of New Orleans musicians passing on traditions and inspiring a new generation. Produced by Clinch and Preservation Hall band leader Ben Jaffe, the film features an intimate performance by both bands in the French Quarter's historic Preservation Hall.

PHJB is playing Sasquatch this weekend! Really...? yes! Saturday May 25th 

Danny Clinch : Louisiana Fairytale Trailer from Levine / Leavitt on Vimeo.

Monday
May202013

Listen To Roadhouse Radio NOW: 05/15/13: Pokey LaFarge In-Studio

It was great to have Pokey Lafarge back in The Roadhouse!

Pokey LaFarge is a 29 year-old with an old soul. He’s been playin’ and livin’ old-time for ever increasing audience over the past few years, and his 3rd full-length LP is coming out this June 4th on Third Man Records. He’s been living in St Louis and is well acquainted with the Mississippi River, floods, and nicely pressed slacks. I weakly asked for some Jack White inside gossip, but Pokey's too professional.

Jump directly to KEXP's archive page here and listen to the whole 30-minute session now. It starts at 6:15pm

On the rest of the show there's music from Old Cow Medicine Show who's Ketch Secor produced the new Pokey LaFarge record, Baby Gramps from Pickathon 2002, a Gramps disciple Kit Stymie Stovepipe's old band Inkwell Rhythm Makers, and everyone's freak folk masters The Holy Modal Rounders, and the unofficial 1975 album from The Unholy Moldal Rounders which is really a Michael Hurley record minus the main Rounders (Stapfle & Weber) called Have Moicy!

There's a set of bands playing the American Standard Time stage at FolkLife Monday Memorial Day May 27th, like The Slide Brothers (check the video link of them on Conan O'Brien in the playlist below) and The Sojorner's, Vancouver's excellent gospel vocal group. There's also new music from the Howlin' Brothers, but it's mostly older stuff from the White Stripes, Son House, Josh White, Nina Simone, Fairport Convention, Richard & Mimi Farina, and an obscure late 60's band from the Bay Area called Joy Of Cooking (classic name!).

Check the music by clicking the link!

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)

Time Artist Song Album Label
6:01 Bobby Mitchell I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday The Rock 'n' Roll Era: The New Orleans Sound
6:03 Willie Nix Baker Shop Boogie The Complete Sun Singles, Volume 1 (disc 1) Bear Family Records

DJ Comments: 1953 Sun single ; http://www.wirz.de/music/nixfrm.htm
6:06 Washboard Sam Bucket's Got a Hole in It When the Sun Goes Down, Volume 3: That's Chicago's South Side
6:09 Muddy Waters Corrina Corrina Live Sessions
6:12 Lightnin' Hopkins Shaggy Dad Mojo Hand: The Anthology Rhino

DJ Comments: Originally released on 1967 self-titled album on Verve-Folkways
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6:16 Pokey LaFarge Central Time Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15 KEXP

DJ Comments: Right here in The Roadhouse! See 'em Fri 5/17 @ Tractor! http://www.pokeylafarge.net/
6:20 Pokey LaFarge What the Rain Will Bring Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15 KEXP

DJ Comments: All new songs, from their upcoming album on Third Man Records! Video of this song (in the rain): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrD-VujFprY
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6:30 Pokey LaFarge Close the Door Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15 KEXP

DJ Comments: On NPR (including a Tiny Desk Concert): http://www.npr.org/artists/128958878/pokey-lafarge-and-the-south-city-three ; http://www.pokeylafarge.net/
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6:39 Pokey LaFarge Day After Day Live @ KEXP 2013-05-15 KEXP

DJ Comments: Thanks to Pokey LaFarge for stopping by The Roadhouse! Catch them Fri in Seattle @ Tractor ; Sat in Spokane @ Bing Crosby Theater ; here's video from their 2011 appearance in The Roadhouse: http://blog.kexp.org/2011/08/10/live-video-pokey-lafarge-and-the-south-city-three/
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Sunday
May192013

The Allah Las: Summer Is Coming....

Last year's self-titled debut by The Allah-Las is probably my most-listened-to record of late, which may say more about my new pool scene and MCM lifestyle than anything else- or maybe it's just Cali envy- but regardless, it's a solid spin and one of those records that gets better the more you listen. It's spot-on 60's Golden-State, pre-psych, goodness. 

The video also displays their vision of what's good. And super cool. 

LOVE these guys

Sunday
May122013

Listen To Roadhouse Radio NOW: 05/08/13: Caitlin Rose In-Studio

This lil' thing? YES!

Caitlin Rose played Roadhouse Radio this week and she pops quite a wallop in that little frame with a voice that soars in country-pop goodness and strength. Touring in support of her critically acclaimed 2nd LP, The Stand In, with a hot, young Nashville band of cool dudes, Caitlin sings like crazy in this session that features 4 songs and interview (*disclaimer- Caitlin's mom, Liz Rose is a heralded country songwriter, NOT a country singer like I flubbed here. Tho I'm sure Liz can sing on occasion...). The in-studio starts in the second hour at 7:30pm. To jump directly to this KEXP in-studio, go here

This show kicks off with songs reflecting the sunny vibe of Seattle's amazing weather of late, and then taps into the yearning desire (again) to be in New Orleans. Not going to JazzFest is always hard, but suffering the steady stream of Instagram photos and Twitter feeds makes a guy yearn even more. And then with the weather and all... well, it all adds up to me playing songs that have that certain joyful noise from artists who may, or may not be, from NOLA. 

There's also more of the new revival of old-time feelin' from artists who know what's up, like Luke Winslow-King, Brittany Howard (covering Memphis Minnie!), Hurray For The Riff, Dustbowl Revival, Pokey LaFarge, Spirit Family Reunion (on KEXP's Swingin' Doors this Thurs night), Crow Quill Night Owls, and Old Crow Medicine Show. All these bands and singers are what's exciting about the current, young, fresh scene in rootsy music. Get with them now. Thank us later.

And in the third hour, we get outside a bit and tap into a summer vibe of stoner music from some of my favorite mystics and bearded song smiths, like the new Phosphorescent, Foxygen, Gold Leaves, Jonathan Wilson, and Father John Misty. It ain't country, but it ain't bad!

There's also newish music sporadically throughout from Sallie Ford, Charlie Parr, The Cave Singers, Deadstring Brothers, and Michael Tarbox.

Dig it! Click the link!

*Next Week! Pokey LaFarge is in the Roadhouse for a 4-song in-studio session! Wed May 15th 6:15pm

Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)

Time Artist Song Album Label
6:00 Bob Dylan Mozambique Desire Columbia
6:03 The Kinks Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues Muswell Hillbillies Rhino
6:06 The Rolling Stones Loving Cup (alternate take) Exile on Main St. (bonus disc) Polydor
6:11 The Howlin' Brothers Delta Queen Howl Readymade
6:15 Bruce Springsteen Jacob's Ladder We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions Columbia
6:19 Andrew Bird Shake It And Break It Preservation Preservation Hall Recordings
6:22 New Birth Brass Band Smoke That Fire Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens AMG
6:26 Alex McMurray You've Got to Be Crazy to Live in This Town How to Be a Cannonball Threadhead
6:32 Dr. John & The Lower 911 Clean Water


DJ Comments: Bobby Charles wrote this song
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6:36 Tony Joe White Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Mossacin) The Best of Tony Joe White (feat. Polk Salad Annie) Warner Bros. Records
6:39 Dusty Springfield Willie & Laura Mae Jones Dusty in Memphis Atlantic
6:42 Bobbi Gentry He Made A Woman Out Of Me Country Funk 1969-75 Light In The Attic
6:45 Bobbi Gentry Tobacco Road TheDelta Sweete Capitol
6:47 Lee Hazlewood My Baby Cried All Night Long These Boots Are Made for Walkin': The Complete MGM Recordings (disc 1) Ace Records
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Thursday
May092013

Listen To Roadhouse Radio NOW: 05/01/13: New Orleans = Most Fonky, Always and Forever 

Last week's show. Finally!

This show had me thinking of New Orleans as it was JazzFest time and I wasn't there. I was missing it and so the first set is proof positive on just how fonky that place has always been and always will be. Then it gets funkier and just goes from there with the usual Roadhouse fare. Enjoy Soul Sisters!

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Wednesday, May 01, 2013 (LISTEN TO THIS SHOW)

Time Artist Song Album Label
6:00 Kid Clayton Corrina Corrina VA- Classic Sounds Of New Orleans Smithsonian Folkways
6:04 Deacon John Moore Going Back to New Orleans Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans Shout! Factory
6:06 The Pazant Brothers New Orleans The Brothers Funk BGP Records
6:10 Jimmy Hicks I'm Mr Big Stuff New Orleans: The Original Sound of Funk, Volume 2 Soul Jazz Records
6:13 Allen Toussaint Soul Sister Life, Love and Faith Charly
6:15 Bonnie And Sheila You Keep Me Hangin On New Orleans: The Original Sound of Funk, Volume 2 Soul Jazz Records
6:18 Inell Young What Do You See In Her? (VA) New Orleans Funk 2 Soul Jazz
6:24 Ernie K Doe Here Come The Girls VA- New Orleans Funk Soul Jazz
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6:27 Andre Williams Humpin' Bumpin' and Thumpin' Movin On: Greasy and Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970
6:29 Bo Diddley Funky Fly The Black Gladiator Future Days/Light in the Attic
6:33 Jim Ford I'm Gonna Make Her Love Me Harlan County Edsel Records
6:36 Dennis The Fox Piledriver Country Funk 1969-1975 Light in the Attic
6:41 Shannon McNally Street People Small Town Talk Sacred Sumac Music
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6:47 Bobbi Gentry He Made A Woman Out Of Me Country Funk 1969-75 Light In The Attic
6:49 Link Wray Fire and Brimstone Country Funk 1969-1975 Light in the Attic
6:54 The Rolling Stones Good Time Women Exile on Main St. (bonus disc) Polydor
6:57 Deadstring Brothers It's Morning Irene Cannery Row Bloodshot
7:01 The Cave Singers When the World Naomi Jagjaguwar
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