PROGRAM 36: LOST EPISODE #2, GOODBYE TO KEVIN AYERS [02.21.13]

There were atrocious sound problems with this show, and much of it had to be completely reconstructed from the library. The only unaffected parts were the mic sets, and I found those especially obnoxious after the fact (they haven't aged well either). Apologies to any Kevin Ayers fans for marring a tribute to the man with my amateurism. One note: the Broadcast track was meant to evoke "Rheinhardt & Geraldine." Maybe I should have actually played that at some point.

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• Stalling tape
• Robert Wyatt - "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" (from Nothing Can Stop Us)
• The Soft Machine - "Hope for Happiness / Joy of a Toy / Hope For Happiness (Reprise)" (from Volume 1)
• Kevin Ayers - "Joy of a Toy Continued" (from Joy of a Toy)
• This mic set is just embarrassing.
  • Kevin Ayers - "Joy of a Toy Continued" (from Joy of a Toy)
• Kevin Ayers - "The Lady Rachel (Single)" (from Joy of a Toy)
• Broadcast - "The Book Lovers" (from Work and Non Work)
• Caravan - "Nine Feet Underground" (from In the Land of Grey and Pink)
• Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Eno & Nico - "Baby's On Fire" (from Eno: The Lost 70s Pop Album)
• Kevin Ayers - "Red Green and You Blue" (from Shooting At the Moon)
• R. Stevie Moore - "Showing Shadows" (from Phonography)
• Kevin Ayers - "Puis Je?" (from Shooting At the Moon)
• The Velvet Underground & Nico - "I'll Be Your Mirror" (from The Velvet Underground & Nico)
• Kevin Ayers - "Caribbean Moon" (from Bananamour)
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Poodle Rockin'" (from Spanish Dance Troupe)
• Kevin Ayers - "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" (from Whatevershebringswesing)
• You twit, it's pronounce "Yakko."
  • Broadcast - "Lights Out" (from Work and Non Work)
• Maston - "Strange Rituals / (You Were) In Love / Messages" (from Shadows)
• Jacco Gardner - "Clear the Air / The One Eyed King / Puppets Dangling" (from Cabinet of Curiosities)
• Grouse has run out of steam.
  • The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Kevin Ayers (w/ Syd Barrett) - "Religious Experience (Singing a Song in the Morning)" (from Joy of a Toy)

PROGRAM 35: LOST EPISODE #1, A GRAND MESS [02.07.13]

For some reason I was unhappy with this program and never assembled it into a podcast. Probably because it's a disorganized, unplanned mess. Enjoy!

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• Ras Kommanda - "What is the Price?"
• Grouse sounds like he's throwing in the towel.
  • The Mar-Keys - "Bush Bash" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Shadow - "Tabanca" (from This is Soca [CS])
• Natural Dreamers - "Sir G" (JNR108)
• "Ashre" (from Chasidic Dances)
• Birds of America - "Nitewalker" (from The Slow Wish [CS])
• A naked Grouse back announce.
• My Bloody Valentine - "Wonder 2" (from MBV)
• Yes - "Nous Sommes Du Soleil" (from Tales from Topographic Oceans)
• Another naked Grouse back announce.
• Daniel Bachman - "Mount Olive Cohoke" (Live in Germany)
• Chico Buarque & Maria Bethânia - Ao Vivo [side 1]
• "Kol Rinoh" (from Chasidic Dances)
• Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - "Reverse Shark Attack" (from Reverse Shark Attack)
• Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (from Reverse Shark Attack)
• Hedzoleh - "Yei Baa Gbe Wo" (from Hedzoleh)
• Koudede - "Hat-iman-in (She Is In My Heart)" b/w "Nelil-igorasan (Life In The Bush)" (SF076: Guitars from Agadez Vol 6)
• 3 Man Band - "Owsley (In Theory & Practice)" (GH6)
• Apache Dropout - "Do The Splendid Clown" (AD#1)

PROGRAM 39: AM I TOO LATE FOR RECORD STORE DAY? [05.02.13]

Or as we old birds call it: eBay Eve! paDOW! (I'm pretty sure I'm stealing that joke from someone, possibly even a music writer I've met. Lars? Christopher R.W.?)

Grouse is low on planning time these days, so we get to hear that tried and true lazy DJ mainstay: the Let's Listen to Records I Just Bought But Haven't Listened To! show.

It's a talky show: if you love the sound of Grouse's voice as much as he seems to himself, you're in for a treat! What is going on with all these shifting voice-POVs? I'm confused!

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Also, how about that beautiful Cal Tjader photo above? More from that stunning LIFE Magazine spread are available here.

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• Debt Collectors calling READ-GROUSE (732-347-6873)
• Robert Wyatt - "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" (from Nothing Can Stop Us)
• Stalling tape
• Grouse pours out his soul like silver.
  • The Meters - "Funky Miracle" (from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology)
• Dieuf-Dieul De Thiès - "Na Binta" (from Aw Sa Yone Vol. 1)
• Karthala 72 - "Marche De La Mort" (from Diable Du Feu)
• Fela And Afrika 70 - "Sorrow Tears And Blood (Original Extended Version) " (from Sorrow Tears And Blood)
• CSC Funk Band (featuring David Maraniss) - "Choom Gang" (from Funkincense)
• Shake Keane & His Highlifers - "Balonga" (from London Is The Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London)
• Joseph Jarman - "Little Fox Run" (from Song For)
• Tunji Oyelana - "Omonike" (from London Is The Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London)
• Lord Kitchener - "London Is The Place For Me" (from London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950 - 1956)
• Wilmoth Houdini with Gerald Clark's Night Owls - "I Need a Man" (from Songs of Trinidad)
• Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra - "Begin the Beguine" (from Cugat's Favorite Rhumbas)
• The Cal Tjader Trio - "Ivy" (from The Cal Tjader Trio)
• Percy Faith & His Orchestra - "Tropical Merengue" (from Greatest Hits)
• Grouse sees his future, and gives a shout out to a Pulitzer Prize winner that he really does know.
  • The Mar-Keys - "Bush Bash" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Thee Oh Sees - "Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster" (from Floating Coffin)
• White Fence - "Pink Gorilla" (from Cyclops Reap)
• Apache Dropout - "I'm So Glad" (from Magnetic Heads)
• Apache Dropout - "I'm So Glad" (from Apache Dropout)
• Gram Parson [sic] and the International Submarine Band - "Folsom Prison Blues / And: That's All Right" (from The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea)
• The Scientists - "She Said She Loves Me" (from The Scientists)
• The Bats - "By Night" (from By Night)
• Orange Juice - "Felicity" (from You Can't Hide Your Love Forever)
• Orange Juice - "Love Sick" (from The Glasgow School)
• Lord Apologizer sends a message to Edwyn Collins.
  • Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords)
• The Troggs - "With A Girl Like You / I Can't Control Myself" (from The Best Of The Troggs)
• Simon Turner - "(Baby) I Gotta Go" (from Velvet Tinmine)
• The Easybeats - "Friday On My Mind" (from The Definitive Anthology)

PROGRAM 38: DO THE DADA MAMBO! [04.18.13]

Rakete bee bee, grouseketeers. Sorry it's taken me a week to post this. Show is also 30 minutes shorter than usual because of punctuality issues. Probably for the best. Mostly jazz, international sounds, and a little bit of easy listening. Enjoy yourself, if you survive the first ten minutes. Rakete bee zee.

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• Jaap Blonk - "Presto" (from Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate)
• Roy Campbell, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Warren Smith - "Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe" (from Tribute to Albert Ayler - Live at The Dynamo)
• Creative Construction Company - "Muhal (Part I)" (from Creative Construction Company)
• Richard Landry - Last Track (from Solos)
• Mammane Sani - "Lamru" (from La Musique Electronique du Niger)
• Fatimah Al-Zaelaeyah - "Ya Mun Dakhal Bahr Al-Hawa (Hey, Who Enters the Sea of Passion?)" (from Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen)
• Mas Sujud - "Dangdut Medley" (from Street Musicians of Yogyakarta)
• Ergo Phizmiz - "Jews Harp Mambo" (from Phuj Factory)
• Jackie Davis - "Manana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" (from Ultra-Lounge Vol 2: Mambo Fever)
• Mona Baptiste - "Calypso Blues" (from London Is The Place For Me 2: Calypso & Kwela, Highlife & Jazz From Young Black London)
• Percy Faith - "The Bandit (Theme from O Cangaceiro)" (from Aquarela Do Brasil)
• The playlist and podcast are so much easier to make when Grouse keeps his trap shut.
  • Ike Bennett & the Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)

PROGRAM 37: TALK ME OFF THE LEDGE, GROUSE [04.04.13]

I did two terrible shows in February that are possibly permanently stuck in the podcast queue (programs 35 and 36). They contributed to a general loss of élan for the show and for Radio CPR in the month of March. I quit the station, I re-imagined (but never implemented) the whole podcast, and then I unquit. I'm back. I'm still a mess, but EASGS is back and maybe not going away any time soon. Unless I get cranky again in May.
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• Yehudi Menuhin & Ravi Shankar - "Raga Piloo" (from West Meets East: Album 2)
• You are listening to a Grouse going crazy.
• Gentle Giant - "Knots" (from Octopus)
• Grass Widow - "Under the Atmosphere" (from Internal Logic)
• Matmos - "Just Waves" (from The Ganzfeld EP)
• Maston - "Young Hearts" (from Shadows)
• Ruth Welcome - "Parisian Heiress" (from Zither Magic)
• Ed Askew - "Here We Are Together Again" (IND086)
• Natural Dreamers - "Just No Probe" (JNR108)
• Cryptacize - "Cosmic Sing-a-long" (from Dig That Treasure)
• The Return of Lord Apologizer!
  • Stereolab - "Les Yper-Sound" (from Emperor Tomato Ketchup)
• Jowe Head - "Cake Shop Girl" (Cape Shok 01)
• Alash Ensemble - "My Throat, The Ediski" (from Buura)
• Group Inerane - "Tamidit In Aicha" (from Guitars From Agadez Vol 3)
• L'Orchestre National de Mauritanie - "Senam-Mosso" (from L'Orchestre National de Mauritanie)
• Hedzoleh - "Kaa Ye Oyai (Don't Be In A Hurry)" (from Hedzoleh)
• Lord Shorty - "Sweet Music" (from Sweet Soca Music)
• Charanjit Singh - "Raga Kalavati" (from Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat)
• In which the Mighty Grouse rudely belittles the important work of Uncle Matt's upcoming guest.
  • Stereolab - "Les Yper-Sound" (from Emperor Tomato Ketchup)
• Albert Ayler - "Heart Love" (from New Grass)

PROGRAM 34: SNOW & SOCA [1.17.13]

Snow was in the forecast when I did this show more than two weeks ago, but it never came. We've seen 70 degree days since then, but as if in direct challenge of the will of the God of Punxatawney, it's 20 degrees out and snowing now as I type this post. Enjoy some snow tunes, then warm up with some 2013 soca hits!

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• Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley - "Footprints in the Snow" (from The Original Folkways Recordings 1960-1962)
• The Coctails - "First Snowfall" (from A John Waters Christmas)
• The Ronettes - "Frosty the Snowman" (from A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector)
• Prince and the Revolution - "Sometimes It Snows in April" (from Parade - Music from The Motion Picture 'Under The Cherry Moon')
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "100/0 (Snowdays forever)" (from Autumn, again)
• The Curtains - "Snowy Visitors" (from Flybys)
• The Aislers Set - "Hit the Snow" (from Last Match)
• Booker T. & the MG's - "Winter Snow" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• The Halo Benders - "Snowfall" (from God Don't Make No Junk)
• Thursdays Rock! with Grouse and 86. A new sitcom debuting this February on CPR!
  • Booker T. & the MG's - "Jingle Bells" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Lord Shorty & Vibrations International - "Vibrations Groove" (from Sofrito: International Soundclash)
• Merchant - "Um Ba Yo" (from Golden Hitz Of Calypso And Soca Vol. 2)
• Mighty Sparrow - "Phillip My Dear" (from ALBUM)
• Mighty Shadow - "Dat Soca Boat" (from Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque)
• Fay-Ann Lyons - "Get On" (from Soca Gold 2008)
• Bunji Garlin - "Hold a Burn"
• Skinny Fabulous - "6:30 (What Time Is It)" (from I Am Soca - 2012)
• JW & Blaze - "Timing It"
• Fay-Ann Lyons - "Eff"
• Bunji Garlin - "Vikings Coming"
• JUS J - "Soca In We Soul"
• Rikki Jai - "Mauvais Lang"
• Machel Montano - "Float"
• Bunji Garlin - "Over the Hills"
• Ras Kommanda f/ the Mighty Power - "Respect Yuh Culture"
• Fya Empress - "Painter"
• Terri Lyons - "Fighter"
• Grouse says goodnight, hoping for snow.
  • Sheriff Music - "Dark Horse Riddim"
• Thee Open Sex - "Peanut Butter / I Do Not Know What" (from Thee Open Sex)

SPECIAL PROGRAM 5: NEW YEARS EVE WITH THE LADY KATIE [12.31.12]

The Lady Katie joins the Mighty Grouse for an hour on the annual Radio CPR New Year's Eve Marathon. I think we showed up a little early for the party.

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• Amral's Trinidad Cavaliers - "Time Is Tight" (from Steel Vibrations)
• The Clash - "Time Is Tight" (from Super Black Market Clash)
• Booker T & the MGs - "Time Is Tight (extended intro)" (from Up Tight)
• Grouse has bird flu, and hello from the Lady Katie
  • Ike Bennet & the Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
• Phyllis Dillon - "Don't Touch Me Tomato" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
• Sir Lancelot - "Scandal In The Family" (from The Rough Guide to Calypso Gold)
• Unit 4+2 - "Never Say Goodbye" (from Concrete & Clay)
• The Troggs - "With A Girl Like You" (Atco 45-6415)
• Grouse introduces the Lady Katie set.
  • Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords)
• Marscha Gee - "Peanut Duck" (from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another)
• The Ramones - "Needles & Pins (Early Version)" (from Rocket to Russia)
• Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind" (from The Essential Etta James)
• James Brown - "Please Please Please" (from 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!)
• Rockin' Sidney - "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine" (from The Louisiana Party)
• Huey Smith And His Clowns - "I Tried" (from For Dancin')
• Cats on Fire - "Draw In The Reins" (from Draw In The Reins EP)
• The Olivia Tremor Control - "The Opera House" (from Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle)
• The Four J's - "Will You Be My Love" (from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another)
• Petula Clark - "Heart" (from Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another)
• The Lady Katie does a mean mic set. The answer to your question, Grouse, is: Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono!
  • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology)
• The Zombies - "This Will Be Our Year [Mono Mix]" (from Odyssey & Oracle)