[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 an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Chicago – it seems to be my usual spot these days.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Haruki Murakami: Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
"Save big money at Menard's!” “If you bring home $350 a week, you can get up to $25,000 in credit!” “There are many reasons to choose UMSL!” “111 Salvage in Granite City is hiring!” (Those are the highlights from this morning's ads. Unfortunately we also had to suffer “Pickleman!” and Tom Shane --- about four times each.)
It is with a heavy heart, a lead stomach and a pair of hobnail boots that i grade this week's show a mere “B+”. Yes, yes, there was some great music here today, no question, but not much that i can truly say i loved. Buffalo Springfield, April Wine, Rockpile and The Eagles and that's about it. Thin Lizzy, ELO, Rush, 10 c.c., Yes and even The Police are all groups that have created some fabulous music, but their selections today could never be included in a “best of” collection, Well, maybe the ELO. The soprano voice at the beginning of Rockaria! belonged to Mary Thomas, by the way.
But then we had jerkface from REO Speedwagon bleating about how he'd always be a music man (but is probably now earning his living stocking shelves at Walmart) and Eric Burdon at his most pretentious (on an otherwise pretty good Animals song). The Billy Joel and John Mellencamp numbers were pretty good, Marshall Tucker's number featured Dicky Betts on guitar and that was nice, and, unlike our host, i really don't see Supertramp's Crime Of The Century as being one of the greatest albums of all time. I don't even think it's Supertramp's best album. De gustibus non disputandum, as we say.
Things i learned today department. Once upon a time there was a great little band called Free (i saw them in Glasgow in 1970) and they had a great and greatly troubled guitarist called Paul Kossoff (pictured below). When Free disintegrated, Koss released a solo album called Back Street Crawler and and gathered a group of musicians behind him to tour in its support and they took the name of the album. When Koss died in 1976, aged twenty-six, of cerebral and pulmonary oedema, exacerbated by years of substance abuse, the band decided to carry on using the name Crawler, but they needed a guitarist. They approached Mick Taylor, who had recently quit The Stones, but he declined, saying he “didn't want to replace a dead guy” and Crawler faded away, leaving nothing but a couple of songs on the KSHE Klassics Show.
Here's the playlist:
Steppenwolf – The Pusher
John Mellencamp – Rain On The Scarecrow
Dave Mason – Only You Know And I Know
Buffalo Springfield – Rock 'N' Roll Woman
REO Speedwagon – Music Man
Thin Lizzy – Romeo And The Lonely Girl
The Rolling Stones -- Neighbours
Queen – One Vision
Eddie Money – No Control
The Charlie Daniels Band – Passing Lane
Kansas – People Of The South Wind
The Little River Band – Red-Headed Wild Flower
Crawler – Sail On
The Electric Light Orchestra – Rockaria!
The Animals – San Franciscan Nights
Rush – Roll The Bones
Billy Joel – Say Goodbye To Hollywood
10 c.c. -- Rubber Bullets
The Marshall Tucker Band – Searchin' For A Rainbow
Stevie Nicks – Talk To Me
Steve Winwood – Roll With It
April Wine – Say Hello
Rockpile – Teacher, Teacher
Supertramp – Rudy
Yes – Tempus Fugit
The Police – Secret Journey
Roger Daltrey – Under A Raging Moon
Sammy Hagar – Run For Your Life / Danger Zone
Arc Angels – Sent By Angels
Jay Ferguson – Shakedown Cruise
Eagles – The Last Resort
Slade – Run Runaway
The Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street
Huey Lewis & The News – The Only One
Charlie – She Loves To Be In Love
Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song
Yes, my personal playlist is a rather long one this time. For one thing, we're back in lockdown again, which means i've been leaving work early; for another, quite a few of these albums date back to the time when a record was, on average, about forty minutes long, unlike now when they're often seventy-plus minutes.
The Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience
Sky – Sky 3
Fairport Convention – Festival Bell
Beryl Davis – I'll Be Seeing You
Peter Gabriel – OVO
Roxy Music – Manifesto
April Wine – The Hits
London Grammar – If You Wait
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks
Silly Wizard – A Glint Of Silver
The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South
The Tragically Hip – Yer Favourites (2 CDs)
Sheila Chandra – Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
Tyrannosaurus Rex – Unicorn
Christine McVie – In The Meantime
Curved Air – Phantasmagoria
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Greatest Hits
Squeeze – The Best Of Squeeze
Jeff Beck – Wired
Kate Rusby – Little Lights
Yo-Yo Ma & Friends – Songs Of Joy And Peace
Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Weezer – Six Hits
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Black Moon
Alison Krauss & Union Station – So Long So Wrong
Arkells – Jackson Square
Jann Arden – Jann Arden
Talking Heads – Remain In Light
Richard Thompson – Mock Tudor
Rhiannon Giddens w. Francesco Turrisi – There Is No Other
Pink Floyd – The Endless River
The Beatles – Past Masters Volume Two
Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Bill Bruford – One Of A Kind
Rod Stradling – Rhythms Of The Wold.
Various Artists – Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Steeleye Span – Ten Man Mop, Or, Mr Reservoir Butler Rides Again
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