Quotation
Of The Week ~ Robert Crumb: When i listen to old music, that's one of
the few times i actually have a kind of love for humanity.
[As
you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE
doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to
spoof a non-Canadian address. This week,
https://whatismyipaddress.com/
was once more unable to locate me precisely, apart from my
being somewhere in Kansas again. However, i think
i was able to pin in down: Cheney, Kansas, about 20 miles west of
Wichita and about 460 miles west of St Louis – which means i was
close to home!]
Now
that's more like it! After a couple of Sundays where the show was
“merely” very good, this week we were back to the excellence that
we've come to expect. It gets a grade of A+, no question. Of course,
the inclusion of Dan Fogelberg guarantees that grade, but i think it
would have merited it anyway.
Even
the Ted Nugent song, a man i think is responsible for some of the
worst music in the history of Western culture, was bearable. The low
point – and it wasn't that low – was Eric Burdon &
War. War was a fine band, but i'm on record as saying that, after the
first success of The Animals, Eric Burdon became a total and utter
wanker. He was ... in character on this song, and his lyrics were
just plain embarrassing.
The
highlight for me was probably James Taylor (old wuss that i can be
sometimes), but the Deep Purple and The Who tracks were right up
there, and it was also brilliant to hear one of my favourite female
singers, Maddy Prior, singing backing vocals on the Jethro Tull song:
she's not someone who ever appears on KSHE.
There
were a few technical glitches, although they didn't detract from the
music. The Chilliwack song was mis-identified as being by Thin Lizzy
and the Mike Harrison track was certainly not Manfred Mann!
And
here's Cheney, Kansas. In 1907.
Santana
– Lightning In The Sky
John
Mellencamp – Wild Night
Albert
Hammond – Smokey Factory Blues
Flash
– Small Beginnings
Ted
Nugent – Dog Eat Dog
Chilliwack
– Something Better
James
Taylor – Something In The Way She Moves
Jethro
Tull – Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young To Die
Montrose
– Space Station #5
Deep
Purple – Woman From Tokyo
Journey
– Somethin' To Hide
Eric
Burdon & War – Spill The Wine
Mike
Harrison – Smokestack Lightning
Steve
Winwood – Holding On
Michael
Murphey – Geronimo's Cadillac
Skip
Battin – St Louis Browns
The
Band – Stage Fright
The
Fabulous Thunderbirds – Stand Back
Lucifer's
Friend – Spanish Galleon
Black
Sabbath – The Wizard
Slade
– How Does It Feel
The
Fixx – Red Skies
Foreigner
– Starrider
Carolyne
Mas – Still Sane
Dan
Fogelberg – Man In The Mirror / Below The Surface
38
Special – Stone Cold Believer
Randy
Pie – Back To The Universe
Steppenwolf
– Monster
The
Who – Substitute
Captain
Beyond – Sufficiently Breathless
The
Beat – Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight
David
Crosby & Graham Nash – Immigration Man
My
therapist at Bentley's Bar & Inn, the cute-as-a-button Adriana,
who i thought had fled to Bali with my registered psychotherapist,
didn't flee at all, and was here all along. Our paths finally crossed and here's the list of cds
she told me to play this week, to ease my worried mind:
Blodwyn
Pig – Getting To This
Peter
Hammill – pH7
Steeleye
Span – Hark! The Village Wait
Laurie
Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall
Terje
Rypdal – Chaser
Three
Dog Night – Joy To The World: Their Greatest Hits
Joan
Osborne – Relish
The
Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Amelita
– Court Yard Hounds
Max
Webster – Max Webster
James
Taylor – Greatest Hits
ABBA
– The Visitors
The
Hollies – 20 Golden Greats
Highly
Strung – When The Winds Begin To Sing
Chelsea
Williams – Boomerang
Nazareth
– Loud 'N' Proud
Rod
Stewart – Smiler
Dick
Gaughan – The Definitive Collection
Carbon
Leaf – Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat
Dead
Can Dance – Dionysus
Wendy
Carlos – Clockwork Orange
Amazing
Blondel – Fantasia Lindum
Pyewackett
– The Man In The Moon Drinks Claret
Steve
Earle – Essential Steve Earle
Outback
– Baka
A
Fine Frenzy – Bomb In A Birdcage
Marc
Jordan – Mannequin
The
Who – Tommy
The
Beatles – Help!
Sheryl
Crow – Threads
London
Grammar – Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
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