360 Sound Show for 05/09/12

Otherwise known as The Big Thanatopsis

M. Ward "Requiem" (2006)
Laura Gibson "Funeral Song" (2009)
Shirley & Dolly Collins "Death And The Lady" (1970)
Cat Stevens "Lady D'Arbanville" (1970)
Pearls Before Swine "Seasons In The Sun" (1971)
Eclection "Mark Time" (1968)
The Free Design "An Elegy" (1968)
Daniel Higgs "Living In The Kingdom Of Death" (2006)
Blind Willie Johnson "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" (1927)
June Tabor "Lay This Body Down" (1983)
Marissa Nadler "Bird On Your Grave" (2006)
Patti Smith "Elegie" (1975)

Grin "Beggar's Day (Eulogy To Danny Whitten)" (1974)
Crazy Horse "Downtown" (1971)
Peter Lang "Snaker Ray Has Come And Gone" (2003)
Charlie Louvin "Ira" (2007)
Nico "Eulogy To Lenny Bruce" (1967)
Tim Hardin "Tribute To Hank Williams" (1967)
Rosalie Sorrels "Goodbye Joe Hill" (1967)
Bill Cox "Fate Of Will Rogers And Wiley Post" (1935)
Bob Dylan "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" (1964)
John Renbourn "White House Blues" (1972)
Sleepy John Estes "President Kennedy Stayed Away Too Long" (1969)

Matt Baldwin "Eulogy & Dark" (2008)
Yair Yona "Floodgate Opens To Allow A Ship To Come Through (As It Carries The Passenger Fahey On It)" (2009)
Glenn Jones "One Jack Rose (That I Mean)" (2004)(This was not meant as a eulogy as Jack Rose was still around and about for another five years.--RW)
Charles Mingus "Theme For Lester Young" (1963)
Jack West & Curvature "Song For Calder" (1999)
Portland Cello Project "Elegie" (2010)
Pat Kilroy & The New Age "Ode To Satie" (1967 air-check)


Stefan Grossman & Danny Kalb "Requiem For Patrick Kilroy" (1969)
Nick Shillace "Requiem For John Eric Bradley" (2005)
Bruce Haack "Requiem" (1970)
John Fahey "Requiem For Molly Pts. 1-4" (1967)

The Association "Requiem For The Masses" (1967)

Here are some pertinent links:

Here's the complete Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant, who wrote it at the ripe old age of 16. He would go on to live a mere sixty-eight years.

http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/thanatopsis.html

Here's Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament, written in 1802, right after he lost his hearing and went into the throes of depression. Little did he realize at the time that his best works were ahead of him.

http://www.all-about-beethoven.com/heiligenstadt_test.html

360 Sound Show for 05/02/12

This show goes out to my home away from home, Portland, Oregon. I was up there this last week as my Whiskey Before Breakfast show for April 22 as well as my 360 Sound Show for April 25 were being broadcast. Consequently, I was not there for KUSF's 35th Birthday. In this episode of The 360 Sound Show, you will hear excerpts of three new albums from PDX artists as well as one group from Boise, Idaho, Finn Riggins, whom I saw live at Holocene on Thursday, April 26. I've also included many tracks off of quite a few Portland-area compilations for your perusal. Enjoy!

Finn Riggins with tracks from Benchwarmers, on Tender Loving Empire:

"Benchwarmers"
"Plural"
"Big News"

Y La Bamba with tracks from Court The Storm, also on TLE:

"Moral Panic"
"Como Ratones"
"Viuda Encabronada"
"Ponce Pilato"
"Court The Storm"

Portland Cello Project with tracks from Homage, from Jealous Butcher:

"She Will"
"Canon On A Lillipopalicious Theme"
"All Of The Lights"
"H*A*M*"
"Lua Descolorida"

From the TLE comp Friends And Friends Of Friends, Vol. 3 (2010):

Boy Eats Drum Machine "Lolo Forest"
Brainstorm "Split The Lark"
And And And "You Can't Hide"
Typhoon "White Liars"

Also from TLE, Friends And Friends Of Friends, Vol. 4 (2011):

Mnemonic Sounds "Keeping It Quiet"
Light For Fire "(NY) By The Hand"
Alamedas "Silver Hands"
The Ascetic Junkies "Thought Thief"

Much of the next two sets was taken from the A Compilation Of Portland Music series, a four-volume set which was released from 2004 to 2007. The number given is the volume number from which each song was taken.

The Bella Fayes "Far From The Disco" (1)
Invisible "Verdict Swings" (1)
The Sun The Sea "Even Happier" (4)
Here Comes A Big Black Cloud! "Southern Suite" (4)
Durango Park "For Tomorrow" (2)
The Moneychangers "Dice Of Fortune" (2006) *(Not on ACOPM comps.)

Crock "Where We Get Off" (2011) *
Tic Code "Skeletons" (3)
Wooden Nickle "Patriot Blues" (2)
Voodoo Economics "Time To Drive" (2)
Jef Brown "Devotion" (1)
Tears Run Rings "Distance" (2010) *
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose "Younger" (2010) *

Mirrorring (feat. Grouper from PDX and Tiny Vipers from Seattle) with tracks from Foreign Body on Kranky:

"Cliff"
"Drowning The Call"
"Mirror Of Our Sleeping"

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360 Sound Show for 04/25/12

While this episode was being broadcast, I was up in Portland for the week and could not make KUSF's 35th Birthday celebration. Here then is the show.

First up, it was Sacramento singer/songwriter Sea Of Bees with four cuts off of her latest, Orangefarben.

"Broke"
"Gone"
"Give"
"Smile"

Next up, it's Johnny Headband from Detroit with their latest, Who Cooks For You.

"Over There"
"And Then Again"
"Pineapple Triangle"
"Water Damage"

Next set is all KUSF DJ's past and present:

A.J. Curtis & Sonny Walker "Pretty Boy Floyd"
Daniel Hintz (DJ Cactus) "The Grey Goat"
DJ Nobody "The Oppressor"
Hydrogen Pellets (w/DJ Cactus) "Queasy Kittens"
Josh Wilson "Bellbottom Shuffle"
Windowpain Industries (Stereo Steve) "(I Suggest You) Release The Monkey"
Stevil "Murder Mystery"
(All of these songs are from 2006-08)

Buffalo Springfield "A Child's Claim To Fame" (1967)
Country Funk "Apart From Me" (1970)
The Charlatans "Ain't Got The Time" (1969)
Blue Cheer "When It All Gets Old" (1969)
Leigh Stephens "Another Dose Of Life" (1969)
Tim Hardin "Turn The Page" (1968)

Jefferson Airplane "The Farm" (1969)
Grateful Dead "Box Of Rain" (1970)
Victoria "New Country Song" (1970)
GTO's "Circular Circulation" (1969)
Judee Sill "Lopin' Along Thru The Cosmos" (1971)
Willis Alan Ramsey "Ballad Of Spider John" (1972)
Crazy Horse "Downtown" (1971)
The International Submarine Band "A Satisfied Mind" (1968)
The Byrds "Child Of The Universe" (1969)
Leslie West "This Wheel's On Fire" (1969)

This last hour goes out to the memory of Levon Helm (1940-2012)

The Band "The Weight" (1968)
"Up On Cripple Creek" (1969)
"Rag Mama Rag" (1969)
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (1969)
"Don't Do It" (1971 live)
"Life Is A Carnival" (1971)
"Ophelia" (1975)

Levon Helm "One More Shot" (1999)
"Tennessee Jed" & "Kingfish" (both 2009)
"You'll Never Again Be Mine" (2011)
"Poor Dirt Farmer" & "Wide River To Cross" (both 2007)

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360 Sound Show for 04/18/12

National Record Store Day is this Saturday, April 21st. For this show
I played LP sides.

Side One of The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers (1967):

"Artificial Energy"
"Goin' Back"
"Natural Harmony"
"Draft Morning"
"Wasn't Born To Follow"
"Get To You"

Side One of The Grateful Dead's Anthem Of The Sun (1968):

"That's It For The Other One"
A)Cryptical Envelopment
B)Quadlibet For Tender Feet
C)The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get
D)We Leave The Castle
"New Potato Caboose"
"Born Cross-Eyed"

Side One Of Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention's Uncle Meat (1969):

"Uncle Meat, The Main Theme"
"The Voice Of Cheese"
"Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution"
"Zolar Czakl"
"Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague"
"The Legend Of The Golden Arches"
"Louie Louie (At The Royal Albert Hall)"
"The Dog Breath Variations"

Side Two Of Capt. Beefheart & His Magic Band's Strictly Personal (1968):

"On Tomorrow"
"Beatle Bones And Smokin' Stones"
"Gimme Dat Harp Boy"
"Kandy Korn"

Side One Of Soft Machine's Volume Two (1969):

"Pataphysical Introduction Pt. 1"
"A Concise British Alphabet Pt. 1"
"Hibou Anemone And Bear"
"A Concise British Alphabet Pt. 2"
"Hullo Der"
"Dada Was Here"
"Thank You Pierrot Lunaire"
"Have You Bean Green?"
"Pataphysical Introduction Pt. 2"
"Out Of Tunes"

Side One of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (1970):

"The Barbarian"
"Take A Pebble"
"Knife-Edge"

Side Two of The Who Live At Leeds (1970):

"My Generation"
"Magic Bus"

To the memory of Alexander "Skip" Spence, here's the second half of
the 1999 Sundazed re-issue of Oar (1969):

"Grey/Afro"
"This Time He Has Come"
"It's The Best Thing For You"
"Keep Everything Under Your Hat"
"Furry Heroine (Halo Of Gold)"
"Givin' Up Things"
"If I'm Good"
"You Know"
"Doodle"
"Fountain"
"I Think You And I"

Don't forget! Next week is KUSF's 35th Anniversary!

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360 Sound Show for 04/11/12

Part 1: Golden Throats (yet more of 'em!)

William Shatner "Bohemian Rhapsody" (2011)
Leonard Nimoy "Proud Mary" (1974)
Sherman Hemsley "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" (1990)
Herve Villechaize "Why Do People Have To Fight" (1980)
Richard Dawson "Apples & Oranges" (1967)
Walter Brennan "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town" (ca. 1969-70)
The Sandpipers "Louie Louie" (1966)

Flatt & Scruggs "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" (1969)
Buck Owens "Love Minus Zero, No Limit" (1971)
Telly Savalas "I Shall Be Released" (1972)
Sebastian Cabot "All I Really Want To Do" (1967)
Cher "Masters Of War" (1968)
Bing Crosby "Hey Jude" (1969)
Nancy Sinatra "Day Tripper" (1966)
Anthony Newley "Within You, Without You" (1977)
The Brothers Four "Revolution" (1969)
Percy Faith & His Orchestra "The Ballad Of John & Yoko" (1969)

Part 2: Standard Psyche Set

The Beatles "Old Brown Shoe" (1969)
Hour Glass "I Still Want Your Love" (1968)
The Collectors "She (Will-O-The-Wind)" (1968)
The 13th Floor Elevators "Scarlet And Gold" (1968)
The 31st Of February "A Different Kind Of Head" (1968)
Iron Butterfly "Slower Than Guns" (1970)
Fat Mattress "Everything's Blue" (1969)
Love "Listen To My Song" (1969)

Spirits And Worm "She's The One" (1969)
Autosalvage "Autosalvage" (1968)
The Bubble Puppy "Todd's Tune" (1968)
Moby Grape "Three-Four" (1968)
The Charlatans "Doubtful Waltz" (1969)
The Listening "9-8 Song" (1968)
Notes From The Underground "Cantaloupe Island" (1968)

Part 3: Miles Davis Alumni

Herbie Hancock "The Sorcerer" (1968)
Wayne Shorter "Tom Thumb" (1967)
Dave Holland Quartet "Four Winds" (1972)
Mahavishnu Orchestra "Thousand Island Park" (1973)
Tony Williams Lifetime "Emergency" (1969)
Joe Zawinul "His Last Journey" (1971)

Miles Davis "In A Silent Way/It's About That Time" (1969)

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360 Sound Show for 04/04/12

1st, it's tracks from Bastards Of Fate's album, Who's A Fuzzy Buddy?

"Digging Up Dinosaurs"
"Oedipus Rex"
"Police 9000"
"Nobody Loves You"

Next up, it's tracks from Conduits' self-titled debut album.

"The Wonder"
"On The Day"
"Last Dirge"

...and finally, it's tracks from Choir Of Young Believers' album, Rhine Gold.

"The Third Time"
"Patricia's Thirst"
"Nye Nummer Et"
"Rhine Gold"

Petra Haden "Our Love Was" (2005)
Frankie Randall "I Can See For Miles" (1968)
Sebastian Cabot "Like A Rolling Stone" (1967)
Jack Webb "Try A Little Tenderness" (1960)
William Shatner "Rocket Man" (1978)
Mel Tormé "Sunshine Superman" (1970)
Mae West "Light My Fire" (1972)
Jim Nabors "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" (1973)
Joel Grey "White Room" (1971)

Penguin Cafe Orchestra "Music For A Found Harmonium" (1985)
Beaver & Krause "So Long As The Waters Flow" (1970)
Leyland Kirby "Polaroid" (2011)
The Caretaker "False Memory Syndrome" (2008)
Jim Henson & Raymond Scott "Paperwork Explosion" (1967)

Paavoharju "Ikuisuuden maailma" (2005)
Chubby Wolf "Toy Pianos Underwater" (2008)
Zaïmph "Tobacco Flowers" (2011)
Eric Carbonara "Music For Wine Glasses" (2005)
So Percussion & Matmos "Aluminum" (2010)

Shook Twins "Dance Around In Circles" (2008)
Radiation City "The Color Of Industry" (2011)
Y La Bamba "Juniper" (2011)
Harlowe & The Great North Woods "Roses" (2010)
Shenandoah Davis "White Wind" (2011)
June Madrona "Wolf Dream" (2007)

Bridget St. John "Goodbye Goodbye" (1972)

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360 Sound Show for 03/28/12

John Coltrane & Wilbur Harden "Gold Coast" (1958)
Chick Corea "Steps-What Was" (1968)

Charlie Nothing "In Eternity With Brother Frederick" (1967)
Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe "Exchange Part 1" (1972)
Firesign Theatre "Balliol Bros." (1972)

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid "Soul Oscillations" (2006)
Theatre Of Eternal Music "Stainless Steel Gamelan" (1965)

Six Organs Of Admittance "Only The Sun Knows" (2003)
Anahita "Moi Kissen" (2009)
John Fahey & Cul De Sac "Gamelan Collage" (1997)
Firesign Theatre "Duke Of Madness Motors" (1972)

In Gowan Ring "Cipher's String On The Tree In The Dream Of The Queen" (1999)
Joanna Newsom "Cosmia" (2007)
Firesign Theatre "Bob's Brazerko Lounge" (1972)

Phil Ochs "When In Rome" (1968)
Tim Buckley "Love From Room 109 At The Islander (On Pacific Coast
Highway)" (1969)
Jethro Tull "Life Is A Long Song" (1972)
Firesign Theatre "Sleep" (1972)

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360 Sound Show for 03/21/12

Etta James "Tell Mama" (1967)
Archie Bell & The Drells "Tighten Up" (1968)
The Isley Bros. "It's Your Thing" (1969)
Joe Jeffrey Group "My Pledge Of Love" (1969)
Leon Haywood "It's Got To Be Mellow" (1967)
Dionne Warwick "Don't Make Me Over" (1962)
The Flirtations "Nothing But A Heartache" (1968)
The Meters "Cardova" (1969)
The Soul Survivors "Expressway To Your Heart" (1967)
Eric Burdon & The Animals "Hey Gyp" (1966)

The Electric Flag "Groovin' Is Easy" (1968)
Funkadelic "I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing" (1970)
Taj Mahal "Six Days On The Road" (1969)
Jesse Davis "Farther On Down The Road" (1972)
Redbone "One Monkey" (1972)
Leonda "Blue Diamond In A Platinum Setting" (1968)
Anna Black "Drinkin' Daddy" (1968)
Buffy Sainte-Marie "97 Men In This Here Town Would Give A Half A Grand
Of Silver To Follow Me Down" (1967)

Geronimo Black "Let Us Live" (1972)
Love "She Comes In Colors" (1966)
Lothar And The Hand People "That's Another Story" (1968)
Chrysalis "Summer In Your Savage Eyes" (1968)
Rejoice "Golden Gate Park" (1968)
Randy S & The Westwood Paper "Haight-Ashbury Blues" (1967)
Grateful Dead "The Only Time Is Now" (1965)
Jefferson Airplane "J.P.P. McStep B. Blues" (1966)
The Brogues "Don't Shoot Me Down" (1965)
The Mystery Trend "Johnny Was A Good Boy" (1967)
The Charlatans "Easy When I'm Dead" (1969)
The Tears "People Through My Glasses" (1968)

Indian Puddin' And Pipe "Go Run And Play" (1967)
Stone Country "Time Isn't There Anymore" (1968)
Iron Butterfly "Don't Look Down On Me" (1967)
Moving Sidewalks "99th Floor" (1967)
ZZ Top "Miller's Farm" & "Salt Lick" (both 1969)
Canterbury Fair "Days I Love" (1968)
Meditations "Transcendental Meditation" (1967)
Gale Garnett & The Gentle Reign "Breaking Through" (1969)

Elyse "Band Of Thieves" (1968)
Jan & Lorraine "Bird Of Passage" (1969)
Linda Perhacs "Parallelograms" (1970)
Lily & Maria "Aftermath" (1968)
Kathy McCord "For You, Child" (1970)
Kathy Smith "Fly Off With The Wind" (1971)
Karen Dalton "Ribbon Bow" (1969)
Priscilla Quinby "With All Hands" (1975)
Dayle Stanley "Nobody Knows That I Have A Name" (1964)

Niela Miller "Baby Don't Go Downtown" (1962)
Judy Roderick "You Were On My Mind" (1965)
Kathy & Carol "Just A Hand To Hold" (1965)
Propinquity "Miles Before Sleeping" (1973)
Barbara Sipple "Song For Life" (1973)
Anne Briggs "The Time Has Come" (1971)

Geronimo Black "Siesta" (1972)

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360 Sound Show for 03/14/12

Denison Witmer "Hold On"
"Life Before Aesthetics"
"Every Passing Day"
"Two And A Glass Rose" (all four tracks are brand new)

Bud Powell "Reets And I" (1953, not '55)
Cecil Taylor "I Love Paris" (1959)
Lowell Davidson Trio (w/Gary Peacock on bass & Milford Graves on
drums) "Dunce" (1965)
Gabor Szabo "Bacchanal" (1968)
Jean-Luc Ponty "Idiot Bastard Son" (1970)
George Braith "Evelyn Anita" (1967)
Catalyst "Little Miss Lady" (1974)
Jethro Tull "Serenade To A Cuckoo" (1968)

George Harrison "In The Park" (1968)
Hamza El Din "Aiga Denos Ailanga" (1964)
Tony Scott "Ode To An Oud" (1970)
Sandy Bull "Sweet Baby Jumper" (1972)
Richard Crandell "The Island 2000" (2004)

Tears Run Rings "Beautiful Stranger" (2008)
Songs Of Green Pheasant "Wintered" (2006)
Damedas "Ayuse" (2010)
Michele (O'Malley) "Lament Of The Astro Cowboy" (1969)
Emily (Bindiger) "Old Lace" (1971)
Rykarda Parasol "Oh My Blood" (2009)

Espvall Jakobsons Szelag "Black Forest" & "Lunar Horizon" (brand new)
Allison Faith Levy & Mushroom "You Laugh At Me Because I'm Different,
I Laugh At You Because You're All the Same" (2007)
The Gray Field Recordings "Creeping" (2005)
Fursaxa "Celosia" (2010)
Le Forte Four "Balanced Comfort" (mid-1970's)
Pelt "Outside, Listening" (1997)
Grouper "Hold A Desert, Feel Its Hand" (2005)

Charlambides "Finale" (1993)

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360 Sound Show for 03/07/12

Mr. Fox "Join Us In Our Game" (1970)
Danny Kalb & Stefan Grossman "Devil Round The Moon" (1969)
The Free Spirits "I'm Gonna Be Free" (1966)
Eric Burdon & The Animals "When I Was Young" (1967)
Keith Shields "Hey Gyp" (1967)
Melton, Levy, & The Dey Bros. "Hold On To The Good Times" (1972)
Earth Opera "All Winter Long" (1969)

Marty Balin "Nobody But You" (1962)
Jefferson Airplane "Comin' Back To Me" (1967)
Gene McDaniels "A Hundred Pounds Of Clay" (1961)
Eugene McDaniels "Love Letter To America" (1970)
Mac Davis "In The Ghetto" (1970)
Kaleidoscope "Sneakin' Thru The Ghetto" (1970)
Country Joe & The Fish "The Harlem Song" (1968)
Laura Nyro "Poverty Train" (1968)
Spanky & Our Gang "Nowhere To Go/Give A Damn" (1968)

Dennis "Do Your Own Thing" (1975)
Cluster "Plas" (1972)
Conrad Schnitzler "Gelb 1" (1974)
Moebius & Beerbohm "Minimotion" (1983)

Kraftwerk "Kristallo" (1973)
Dies Irae "Trip" (1971)
Kalacakra "Vamos" (1972)
Neu! "Negativland" (1972)

Fairport Convention "Now Be Thankful" (1970)
Fotheringay "Two Weeks Last Summer" (1970)
Forest "Mirror Of Life" (1969)
The Incredible String Band "Waltz Of The New Moon" (1968)
The Sallyangie "Balloons" (1968)
Davy Graham "Both Sides Now" (1968)

Synanthesia "The Tale Of The Spider And The Fly" (1969)
Fresh Maggots "Frustration" (1971)
Comus "Drip Drip" (1971)

Mr. Fox "Mr. Fox" (1970)

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