Friday, February 16, 2007

Radio Show - Friday, February 16 8-10am

Tom Waits - It's Over
The Cyrkle - We Had a Good Thing Goin'
Kay Starr - It's a Good Day
Erin McKeown - Coucou
Red Ingle and the Natural Seven - Temptation
Lucinda Williams - Learning How to Live
Webb Pierce - Why Baby Why
Golden Smog - Long Time Ago
Pop Levi - (A Style Called) Crying Chic
Perez Prado - Marilyn Monroe Mambo
Calexico - El Picador
Unrest - Make Out Club
Lalo Guerrero - Oh Babe

I was very perplexed by Lucinda Williams voice on her new record. She sounded ROUGH. Really rough. She's always had a husky voice, but this was different. She just sounded scraggly. What's up with that?

Last weekend, Elizabeth gave me a mix cd of dance and pop tunes that I love. I learned about Gnarls Barkley and Wet Willie. I also heard a version of "Temptation" that I did not know existed sung by Johnny and June Carter Cash. I loved it... they sounded like granddad and grandmom. But I still love the Red Ingle version more. It features the vocals of Jo Stafford who had to work hard to develop a humorous hillbilly voice for this track. It worked for me.

The entire playlist can be found here.

1 comment:

Elizabeth said...

I'm not sure how I feel about being documented as the person that introduced you to Wet Willie.