Boulder MT 9-year-old, Brigid Reedy, may be young, but she can yodel with the best of ’em. Mountain West Voices, a new series by producer Clay Scott, presents a radio portrait of this pre-teen musical tour-de-force, “The Yodeler” (5:00 mp3):
The MtnWVox site has nice photos of Brigid in full yodel, and with the animals on her fam’s farm. While there, check these other series eps: “The Pastor” and “The Returning Warriors.”
Gilbert “Gil” Scott-Heron April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011:
Above video clip excerpted from “The 90’s, episode 306: Race And Racism – Red, White, And Black.”
Gil Scott-Heron & band, live “The Bottle:”
A friend found this literary gem of musical analysis:
An excerpt:
Wikipedia writes: “Bob Larson is an American radio and television evangelist.” Aka, in RationalWiki terms: “a notoriously sensationalist fundamentalist Christian windbag… He spent at least 1/3 of every show begging for money.”
WFMU has more Anti-Rock ‘n’ Roll Books.
Iggy Pop music interpreted by HOUSE production and casting:
A stylized take on the casting process created with diegetic sound, shot at House Production & Casting and Milk Studios.
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113 Hippies: Flying our Freak Flag
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-03-30
“Hippies” (52:00 mp3):
Tuning in and turning onto alt.Hippie.history:
A couple choice fearsome, loathsome filmclips, with J. Depp conjuring Dr Hunter S Thompson on the subject of Hippie history, from A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.
From the VPOTUSA’s Greastest Hits, Spiro T. Agnew Speaks Out.
With the blessings of the Hendrix family and the record company, the band remixed Jimi’s “If Six was 9,” and other songs, into the album If 60’s Were 90’s.
Interviews with Merry Pranksters Mountain Girl (Carolyn Garcia) and Hardly Visible (George Walker); mixed with audio from the Prankster archives and other 60s esoterica. Produced for PRI Weekend America. (Above photo: courtesy of Zane Kesey.)
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112 Native America: Our Nation’s First Nations
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-03-16
“Native America” (52:00 mp3):
Canoes, horses, poems, and songs in the heart of Native America:
From the soundtrack, The United States Of Poetry
USOP project. Music by Tomandandy.
A National Geographic / NPR Radio Expeditions: Nez Perce tribal members and Forest Service workers travel the Nez Perce Trail on horseback, looking for lost histories and common ground. Featues Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell. Producer: Carolyn Jensen Chadwick, editor: Christopher Joyce; engineer: Suraya Mohamed.
From the CD Traveling Circus
From the album, Bone Days, 
Pi may be an irrational, transcendental, decimally never ending nor repeating constant. But it does play well with others, at least on the musical scale. Musician Michael Blake of Quebec Antique performs some Pi slices — out to 31 places:
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111 Guitar Heroes: Pickers, Pluckers, Players
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-02-23
“Guitar Heroes” (52:00 mp3):
From the original big bad bluesman to a Master Class with classical guitarist Christopher Parkening:
The legend is of a shadowy soul traveling the countryside as singer, preacher, outlaw, teacher, of a hard boozin’, brawlin’, womanizin’ Blues Man. Well, that man had a name: Charley Patton, born around 1890 in the heart of the delta.
We hear interviews with people who played with Patton, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, and archival tape from Booker Miller (interviewed By Gayle Dean Wardlow), Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, and Howlin’ Wolf. And we talk to musician Corey Harris and authors Jim O’Neal (Living Blues Magazine) and Francis Davis (History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People: From Charley Patton to Robert Cray
BBC asks GHP to mash/mess/mix their theme: “Music sampling and remixing in the bedroom.”
Mark Vidler = Go Home Productions
More info, and audio of the GPH-remixed BBC News theme: “BBC News – New utility that breaks music down into its components.”
22yo Brit, Adele has a new album, 21, and an Adele: Tiny Desk Concert : NPR.
A few songs from Montreal.ca band Stars, beside the All Songs Considered Tiny Desk:
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109 Musical Memory: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-02-02
“Musical Memory” (52:00 mp3):
Selections from Musicians in their own words, from the series Song & Memory (What one song do you remember most from your childhood?), and from the Afterquake project:
Song & Memory: Rebel Chef Anthony Bourdain is known for his raucous ways in the world of the professional kitchen, detailed in his book “Kitchen Confidential.” We asked him to put away his pans and think back to when he was a kid — is there a song from childhood that brings it all back? Bourdain can pinpoint his desire sex-drug-rock n’ roll start to a single song: “96 Tears
Musicians in their own words: Trudy Pitts and her husband, drummer Bill “Mr C.” Carney do a first-person duet. Trudy is an unsung hero of the Hammond B-3 electric organ. With her husband, Mr C, they’ve played with the Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry and Pat Martino. Their 50s R&B band, the Hi-Tones, featured a young sax player: name of John Coltrane. Their most rewarding musical partnership, though, is the one they share with each other. (MITOW stories were produced for NPR and are archived at PRX)
I’ve been Best Coast (space) crazy of late. Now the band has finally scrapped enuf shekels together for some videos.
From their 2010 debut album Crazy for You
Piano: John Lennon “Imagine”
Acapella: Van Halen “Jump”
Mashup:Â Mighty Mike.
“Imagine a Jump” (2:17 mp3):
via Joe Bass.
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108 Making Music: For a Living, For a Life
Host: Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airs week of: 2011-01-19
“Making Music” (52:00 mp3):
Making music, for a living, for a life:
The Maddox Bros. & Rose were America’s Most Colorful Hillbilly Band. In the 1930s, 40s & 50s, the four brothers and sister/singer Rose paraded thru America in their colorful Cadillacs and cowboy outfits. “Their costumes make Liberace look like a plucked chicken,” said Tennisee Ernie Ford.
Born to sharecroppers in Boaz, Alabama, they rode the rails and hitch hiked to California in 1933, where they formed the band. Their sound was both old-timey and western swing; their rhythms helped plant the roots of rockabilly. Ginna Allison’s sound-portrait features interviews with Rose Maddox, Tennesse Ernie Ford, Cliffie Stone, and her co-prodcuer on this piece, TJ Meekins of KVMR-Nevada City CA. (Images: Maddox Bros. & Rose: Myspace, Rockin’ County Style)
A preacher’s son, met in a North Carolina thrift shop, comes over the house to play guitar, and talk Jesus, G chords, and Gilligan’s Island. Carmen’s grandmother would not approve. Produced by Jay Allison for This American Life (PRX).
[UPDATE: Added Paul Rose’s memorial song.]
Lost another friend and great keyboardist, Dave Arnott (Band Universal and & Triumphant, FOG ) died at 49yo.
One early 1980s night, I was leaving KGLT about 3am, and this wild, ethereal piano was echoing up the stone stairwell. Odd, since the building had been closed for hours. Tracked it down to the grand in the 1st floor lounge, being played by one very serious and very accomplished young man. I introduced myself, so did he: Dave Arnott.
He was (as I recall) on a break from helping sound-wire the Student Union Theatre. I sat and listened. He played another half-hour.
I’ve seen some of this land’s best musicians of many genres in excellent venues across USA. But that pre-dawn Dave solo performance, to an audience that had just increased from 0 to 1, was among the most memorable concerts I’ve ever attended.
Music (“Yellow Jacket” by FOG from Rain) and Footage by David Arnott. Edited by Tol. Additional Footage by Tol, Blue, and Mike. More…
Great new tune by my ol’ bud Bill McClintock, “Dollar Store”:
I bought a wrench & a saw & a screwdriver too, deluxe corkscrew & a jug of shampoo. A new dog dish for my pup, a baseball cap & a coffee cup.
I bought a flashlight & a safety knife, a can of corn & a real cool kite. I bought a faucet drain & a picture frame, a pair of dice & a can of Raid.
I bought some Saniflush & a new toothbrush, some Christmas cards & a tape by Rush…that fine Canadian band.
The aughts are over, now start the… teens? HV wishes your a hearty 1/1/11 welcome.
“I am going to make it through this year if it kills me.”
—The Mountain Goats, from The Sunset Tree
Found at HuffPo’s “RIP Captain Beefheart,” CB, aka Don Van Vliet, talks w/ Dick Clark on American Bandstand, June 18, 1966:
And this advice the Cap’n gave his guitarist in the mid-90s (printed in Rolling Stone’s Alt-Rock-A-Rama
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GUITAR PLAYING as given to moris tepper by captain beefheart. they are not arranged hierarchically – each commandment has equal import. also, to help clarify their intent, each commandment is followed by an exegesis. More…
Today is the 100th birthday of writer/composer Paul Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999). Here’s a celebratory sonic survey of his audio efforts…
From the 2001 movie “Baptism of Solitude: A Tribute to Paul Bowles” with music by Vince Clarke and Bill Laswell:
From the CD Baptism Of Solitude
From the Library of Congress album Folk Music and Song, “Chorus and Dance,” rung and played by Rais Mahamad ben Mohammed and ensemble, musicians of the Haha tribe in Tamanar; recorded by Paul Bowles in Essaouira, Morocco, August 8, 1959 (1:11 mp3):
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