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Music of all kinds that hits me in the pit of my stomach, all arranged to find your sweet spot, too. Plus radio shows from the 1940s & 1950s: dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, detectives, and more.
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June 30, 2008: Show 193: Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all?
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Show time: 12 AM - 3 AM
The start and end times for each individual set and each individual song are exact.
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Set 1: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Escape |
Blood Bath
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Originally broadcast June 30, 1950 | (no label) |
"Tired of the everyday routine? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all?"
...This was the famous opening of every Escape broadcast for years. This story: anything but romantic, it's an adventure tale of the jungle, greed, and death. Three prospectors are trapped on a sandbar - who will survive? Star: Vincent Price. From John Dunning's The Encylcopedia Of Old-Time Radio: "...widely considered radio's greatest series of high adventure....Never on radio was the action formula more effectively utilized." |
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 2: Just think: only 53 minutes to climb one of the summits of rock. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Rhys Chatham |
Guitar Trio, Pt. 1 - Chicago (CD 3, track 2)
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Guitar Trio Is My Life! |
How do you take a single chord and make it into one of the summits of rock? This is how. Sure - - you could call it minimalist, "downtown," heavily influential on everything and everyone from Sonic Youth to Robert Longo....Forget all about that. Get swept along in the ecstatic wave of sound and just FEEL it. Supreme. And a hell of a lot of fun.
And this goes for Part 2, Chicago, which follows. |
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| Rhys Chatham |
Guitar Trio, Pt. 2 - Chicago (CD 1, track 2)
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Guitar Trio Is My Life! |
Unlike the way the concerts are split up and separated on the 3 CD set, we now hear the second half of the Chicago concert right after the first - exactly the way it really happened. This piece rocks even more intensely than Part 1.
Exciting music....and relaxing. Saaay - wasn't it just 34 minutes to climb the summit last week? The Chicago concert was longer, not exactly the same line-up...the reward: more music = more pleasure. To say the least. |
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 3: a quiet interlude. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Ella Fitzgerald |
Russian Lullaby (CD 1, track 5)
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book | Verve | On the melancholy side. | ||||||
| Marissa Nadler |
Leather Made Shoes (track 11)
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Songs III: Bird On The Water | Kemado | The hauntingly voiced Nadler sings how sad it is when one's love has died - he's marrying someone else. | ||||||
| Sally Timms |
When The Roses Bloom Again (track 9)
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Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments...For Lost Buckaroos | Bloodshot | There's a measure of hope: "don't forsake me - I'll be waiting." | ||||||
| Grails |
Dargai (track 1: begun at -4:28)
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Redlight | Necrot Recordings | Mellow rock, hints of country. | ||||||
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Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop | ||||||
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Set 4: the (mostly) psych rock portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Plants |
Tumbleweed (track 4)
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Photosynthesis | Strange Attractors | Warm folk-psych, relaxed. | ||||||
| White Heaven |
Mandrax Town (Live Version) (track 2)
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Tokyo Flashback 5 | PSF | Beautiful at times, also reminds me of the Grateful Dead. | ||||||
| Bodhies |
And She's Gonna Kill Me (track 4: begun -6:44, ended at -0:07)
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Send Me To Space | Bodhisattva | Kind of an avanty space-blues, even some soul-jazz feel. | *** | |||||
| Vocokesh |
Sunday Afternoon (track 7)
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Through The Smoke | Strange Attractors | Almost beautiful psych rock with an edgy guitar, softer in the second half. | *** | |||||
| Residual Echoes |
Slant (track 1: begun -12:27, faded out at -3:00)
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Residual Echoes | Holy Mountain | Great psych rock. | ||||||
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Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop | ||||||
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Set 5: a little jazz to end the show. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Donald Byrd |
Dixie Lee (track 3)
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Blue 'n' Groovy Volume 2: Mostly Modal | Blue Note | Easily upbeat soul-jazz. | ||||||
| Miles Davis |
Nem Um Talvez (CD 1, track 5)
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Live Evil | Columbia | A ballad. Despite calling it Live Evil, some tracks - like this one - were recorded in a studio. | ||||||
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End of show mic break. Background music played during it: |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop | ||||||
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Long live Guitar Trio Is My Life!
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