It’s Mom’s Day, and they don’t come any more important than moms, so we’ve got a whack of songs in their honour, including some special dedications for some of our favourite mom listeners. We’ve also got some more upcoming shows to preview, and we announce the next big show at Sunset Saloon!
It’s always embarrassing when a radio guy gets laryngitis, but I just had to come in anyway, because it’s time to chat with our old pal Geoff Berner, who returns to town this week. Luckily, Berner is one of those great guests that I can count on to do most of the work. We’ve also got some new music and some of T-Bar’s picks.
After several long years of superfandom, I finally got the opportunity to see The Damnwells live. The band, these days, consists primarily of singer/songwriter/guitarist/god Alex Dezen, and rather than assembling a band himself, he went out and hired himself a great live band, Harper Blynn, to open the shows and back him up as the Damnwells. We made the trek to see the show at The Hub in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and then at the 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis.
download Harper Blynn’s set – April 16, 2011 – Cedar Falls (started a bit late, because it took a few songs to realize how awesome they were)
download The Damnwells set – April 16, 2011 – Cedar Falls
download Harper Blynn’s set – April 17, 2011 – Minneapolis
download The Damnwells set – April 17, 2011 – Minneapolis
Cedar Falls videos:
She Goes Around:
Golden Days:
Minneapolis videos:
I Am a Leaver:
hilarious intro to the last song of the show and the tour:
I Will Keep the Bad Things from You:
This past weekend’s trip down south to see the Damnwells and take in Record Store Day was pretty amazing, and we can’t help but relive it by listening to some live recordings and pulling out the new vinyl we bought on Record Store Day. Lots of good stuff to behold. Also, we’ve got a whole whack of great new music.
This one felt like such a busy show, yet we only managed to play 4 artists in 2 hours – I don’t think we’ve ever done that before! We had to pay tribute to the late, great John Bottomley, who left us this week, but left behind a lot of great music. RIP. We look forward to my trip to finally see the Damnwells live, and we were joined in-studio by Taylor Ashton of hot up-and-coming roots band Fish & Bird to chat about their great new record and upcoming shows.
playlist
part 1 (John Bottomley tribute)
part 2 (Damnwells preview)
part 3 (Taylor Ashton – Fish & Bird)