A post Record Store Day shambles with the likes of The Charlie Daniels Band, Johnny Paycheck and Robert Ellis. Down the blues hole with The OG Fleetwood Mac, John Mayal and The Blues Band. Brand new Sarah Shook and The Disarmers, a couple from Eilen Jewel and heaps more.
Deputy Paul presents Amerikiwiana. All New Zealand music including brand new Bernie Griffen and The Thin Men, AJ Bell, Boxcar Guitars, Miles Calder & The Rumour, The La De Das, old school '70's rock that sounds country as from Citizen Band, punk folk music from Auckland around teh same time with The Marching Girls as well as Darcy Clay, The Vietnam War, Magic Factory, Swampland and more, more, more.
Deputy Paul plays tunes by Sarah Shook (thrashing her just quietly), Not good with horses (from Sydney), Cletus Got Shot, Dogwood Tales and some new militant tell it like is gals called Birdcloud, plus Jenny DOn't and the Spurs, tons more and an interview with Joshua Hedley who's at the Tuning Fork in a couple of weeks...
Got the call up and hooned in to share some American tunaege. Couple of the all-time favorites like the Vietnam War and new favorites like Emily Fairlight. Some new, but old, tunes from Shovels & Rope off their latest album, 'Predecessors', a quick mention of the Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo 50th anniversary and somewhat stupidly, Faraway Eyes by the Rolling Stones. A great joke from Townes Van Zandt live at the Old Quarter in Houston and that awesome California Finally song from La Luz. C-minor, country as.
Swerving around a bit tonight with more than "both kinds" of music. Celebrating Delaney Davidson's shows over the weekend, but sadly the Roy Orbison CD gives up the ghost on live radio. A bit of a Calexico vibe because (eeeek) they're coming early next year and some heavy stuff from Bohannons and The Sparrows. New Magic Factory release, and happy birthday Joni with Courtney-Marie Andrews, Shana May Cleveland and The Sandcastles, Jenny don't and The Spurs & Sarah Shook and The Disarmers. Plenty more too. Couple of mistakes in the set list - but thats what you get typing at the same time as playing songs on the radio on a Sunday night.
This was fun. The great cliches of rural american music: factory closures, no good cheatin', "i done a crime and will be hanged", "troubles I got - you have no idea mate", "this town is fucked, i'm leaving" and the classic "all my problems are solved by drinking to excess". As well as few songs about significant weather events and a couple of warnings that war is bad and love is a bit tricky.
On the show we have new music from Roidz, Cosi Fanni Tutti, Whyfisucks, The Coathangers, Panda Bear, Fountaines D.C. plus some awesome reworkings of old tunes by LCD Soundsystem, Sharon Van Etten and Haruomi Hosono. This week's Long Player is the incredible Francisa Griffin speaking about her record 'The Spaces Between'.
New tunes and old. New tunes that sound old. The Mighty Eastern are in there, Reb, Tori Forsythe, Sarah Shook, Mary Elaine Jenkins, Social Disortion, mid-eighties Neil Young and Willy Deville. New Magic Factory and a very special, plucked from amongst the wetas under the house, Reena by The Spelling Mistakes- fitting right in on The Border Radio vibe. Also, the shittest, most depressing thing ever played that completely threw the DJ off his stride. Quite amusing probably.
So I caught the last hour of record store day and scored a Dolly Parton album and the soundtrack to the the Jim Jarmusch movie Dead Man, so I built the radio show around them. It was pretty fun. Dolly, Neil, movie music, noisy guitars, lovely female vocals, dark gothic themes and hooning tunes including Darcy Clay's cover of you know what.
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