Program #594

NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
BOB DYLAN . . . . . On The Road Again . . . . . Bringing It All Back Home
DEER TICK . . . . . Straight Into A Storm . . . . . Born On Flag Day
JOHN DOE & THE SADIES . . . . . Stop The World And Let Me Off . . . . . Country Club
THE PRETENDERS . . . . . Don’t Lose Faith In Me . . . . . Break Up the Concrete
DEREK AND THE DOMINOES . . . . . Anyday . . . . . Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
OTIS RUSH . . . . . So Many Roads, So Many Trains . . . . . The Best of Chess Blues, Vol. 2
CAT POWER . . . . . Woman Left Lonely . . . . . Jukebox - Deluxe Edition
BETTYE LAVETTE . . . . . Ain’t Know Sunshine . . . . . Change Is Gonna Come Sessions

OASIS . . . . . To Be Where There’s Life . . . . . Cloud Nine
GEORGE HARRISON . . . . . When We Was Fab . . . . . Cloud Nine
BECK . . . . . Chemtrails . . . . . Modern Guilt
THE ELECTRIC PRUNES . . . . . I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night . . . . . Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
SONIC YOUTH . . . . . Calming The Snake . . . . . The Eternal
THE AMBOY DUKES . . . . . Journey To The Center Of The Mind . . . . . Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968
THE CAESARS . . . . . In Orbit . . . . . Teenage Kicks
THE ONLY ONES . . . . . Another Girl, Another Planet . . . . . Teenage Kicks

THE HIGH DIALS . . . . . Master Of The Clouds . . . . . Elvis Perkins in Dearland
M. WARD . . . . . Stars Of Leo . . . . . Elvis Perkins in Dearland
ELVIS PERKINS . . . . . Hey . . . . . Elvis Perkins in Dearland
ELVIS PRESLEY . . . . . It’s Now Or Never . . . . . The Number One Hits
THE OLD 97’S . . . . . Dance With Me . . . . . Blame It On Gravity
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN &THE E STEET BAND . . . . . Rosalita . . . . . Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 (2CD)

AIR . . . . . Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping . . . . . Pocket Symphony
BRIAN ENO . . . . . Julie With . . . . . . . . Before and After Science
GRIZZLY BEAR . . . . . Dory . . . . . Veckatimest
JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE LONELY ASTRONAUTS . . . . . Take Me Home . . . . . Let's Just Be
NICK DRAKE . . . . . Northern Sky . . . . . Bryter Layter
HEADLESS HEROES . . . . . See My Love . . . . . The Silence of Love
TOM RUSH . . . . . Shadow Dream Song . . . . . The Circle Game
EELS . . . . . All The Beautiful Things . . . . . Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire
LEONARD COHEN . . . . . Suzanne . . . . . Live In London

We began this time with a Bob Dylan track that floated out of the mist after my first listen to the Deer Tick tune that followed, which clarified the dissatisfaction expressed through humor in the Dylan song into something more painful and real. John Doe & the Sadies then took it to an extreme, followed by the Pretenders seeking a solution from the opposite direction. The sound started shifting to the blues with Derek & the Dominos attemping to look on the bright side, but that quickly changed with Otis Rush contemplating which path to travel, Cat Power feeling the pain of the one left behind and Bettye LaVette from a brand new release pretty much doing the same.

Kicking off this section was Oasis offering the latest evidence of the Beatles continual influence on their music, and then we had George Harrison wryly looking back at his time inside the hurricane that was the Fab Four. Beck having some fun with late '60s psychedelia was followed by the Electric Prunes big hit from that period. Sonic Youth from their latest conjured up another late '60s hallucination from the Amboy Dukes, which led to another kind of trip from the Caesars before the Only Ones took us to a different world altogether to finish up.

After some nice twangy guitar pop from the High Dials to open this section we moved on to one with more of an acoustic emphasis from M. Ward followed by Elvis Perkins introducing a bit of a Southwest/Mexican rhythm to the mix. Then it was another Elvis P and a tune that was built on "O Solo Mio," best associated once upon a time with Enrico Caruso. From there we had the Old 97's continuing the Latin-influenced sounds, as did Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band from their first-ever show across the pond in the fall of 1975.

A tune from Air with a title that perfectly describes the atmosphere it creates began this final set, and from there it was a Brian Eno track that has a similar effect: the song's lyrics detail a man and woman's languid boat excursion, and the music invites you to drift away with them. Grizzly Bear with another one full of water and boat images led to Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts looking for some assistance and Nick Drake finally breaking through into the light. The early '70s pop feel of that one was echoed in the Headless Heroes track that followed even as the mood turned more regretful; from there it was Tom Rush with an early Jackson Browne tune into a sad but lovely new one from Eels before Leonard Cohen finished it all off with a live version of the tune that first brought him to prominence.

Here's another one from Elvis Perkins