[As you may or may
not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream
their audio to here and i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a
non-Canadian address. This week, according to
https://whatismyipaddress.com/
i was listening from North Bergen, New Jersey
again – zip code 07047, to be more exact.]
It was a special St
Patrick's Day edition of the show today, and Uman was broadcasting
live from Helen Flanagan's Irish Pub And Grill, 3650 S. Lindbergh
Boulevard in south St Louis. At least half of the songs were by Irish
performers, and almost every song was by an artist with a (sometimes
tenuous) connection to Eire (Sammy Hagar is of Irish ancestry? Who
knew?) or at least had the word “green” in its title.
Some of the music had
no Hibernian connection at all – at least, not as far as i could
tell. I mean, Santana? Jimi Hendrix? Really?
The inclusion of Rory
Gallagher (b. Ballyshannon, County Donegal) and Mama's Pride (a
couple of whose members, the Liston brothers, are of Irish descent)
automatically means that this week's show is graded an A+ and the
fact is i probably would have awarded that grade anyway, but
in some ways it was strangely unsatisfying. For instance, why were
there two songs each by U2, Horslips and Thin Lizzy, but only one
Rorysong? And why Steely Dan's “Chain Lightning” when their song
“Green Earrings” would have been more appropriate? Further, as
much as i love Peter Gabriel's music, there's no Irish in him
whatsoever.
Anyway, here's the
playlist. There was one song i was unable to identify, although i'd
heard it before, but i think the title is “Come Ride The Highway
With Me.” And there's a picture of Helen Flanagan's. I didn't get
there when i was in St Lou, and to be honest it doesn't look like my
type of place particularly: not specially cosy. I'm sure the regulars
love it :-)
Horslips – Sure The
Boy Was Green
Eddie Money – Get A
Move On
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey
In The Jar
The Outlaws – Green
Grass And High Tides
Rory Gallagher –
Moonchild
U2 – Two Hearts Beat
As One
Creedence Clearwater
Revival – Green River
The Lemon Pipers –
Green Tambourine
????? - Come Ride On
The Highway With Me (?)
Wings – 1985
Sammy Hagar –
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Thin Lizzy – Showdown
Horslips – The Man
Who Built America
U2 – Gloria
Steely Dan – Chain
Lightning
Gerry Rafferty –
Right Down The Line
Michael Martin Murphey
– Medicine Man
Moon Martin – Rolene
Ian McLagan – Li'l
Troublemaker
Heart – How Deep It
Goes
The Boomtown Rats – I
Don't Like Mondays
Joe Cocker – The
Letter
Chris de Burgh –
Don't Pay The Ferryman
The Beatles – Baby
You're A Rich Man
Sugarloaf –
Green-Eyed Lady
Jethro Tull – The
Whistler
Santana –
Transcendance
Yes – Wondrous
Stories
Foreigner – Rev On
The Red Line
The Steve Miller Band –
Serenade
The Jimi Hendrix
Experience – Little Wing
Jackson Browne –
Running On Empty
The Doors – Backdoor
Man
Neil Young – Cowgirl
In The Sand
Mama's Pride – Young
And Free
Peter Gabriel –
Solsbury Hill
The Kinks – Destroyer
Van Morrison – Wild
Night
Kansas – Go To Rock
On
One final note: one of
these weeks i'm going to get my stopwatch out. Uman always announces
“four hours of KSHE classics” but there are so many commercials
i'm sure the actuality is that it's less than three hours' worth.
It's still the highlight of my week, though!
My specialist in
internal medicine recommended these albums for me this week, and who
am i to argue with him?
Cat Stevens – The
Best Of Cat Stevens
Peter Hammill – In A
Foreign Town
Chicago – Chicago VI
Afro Celt Sound System
– Flight
The Beatles – Help!
The Waterboys – Room
To Roam
Ten Wheel Drive – The
Best Of Ten Wheel Drive
Max Webster – Mutiny
Up My Sleeve
Happy Rhodes – The
Keep
Renaissance – Novella
Paul McCartney – Ram
Eliza Gilkyson –
Paradise Hotel
Focus – Hamburger
Concerto
Procol Harum – A
Salty Dog
Colin James & The
Little Big Band – II
Jon & Vangelis –
Page Of Life
Eagles – Greatest
Hits Volume 2
Bruce Guthro – Guthro
Saga – Images At
Twilight
Melissa Etheridge –
Your Little Secret
Sparks – Lil'
Beethoven
Various Artists –
World Of Noise
Foo Fighters – St
Cecilia
Yes – Fragile
Van der Graaf Generator
– A Grounding In Numbers
Siouxsie & The
Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Fish – Vigil In A
Wilderness Of Mirrors
Stevie Ray Vaughan &
Double Trouble – Greatest Hits
Taste – The Best Of
Taste
Various Artists –
Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Paul Simon – The
Rhythm Of The Saints
Richard Thompson (w.
Danny Thompson) -- Industry
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