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Episode #27: Windex Pete Isn’t Dead!

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Ha! Hahaha. Mashup! Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes will be some sort of slice of something tonight…. #LocalFlavor.

*Rumored* participants:
1) Eric Esshallop (Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant’s chef, renowned for being “comparatively sane and articulate”)
2) The one and only Michael Darby (renowned for the opposite) [possibly with offspring]
3) Former Lydia Lunch bass player Lucky Joe (Last seen drinking adult beverages at BMC, days ago.)
4) The one and only, larger than life Judy Hill (Ooh Poo Pah Doo, b!tchez) [possibly with her band]
5) Singer-songwriters Patrick Cooper and Natasha Sanchez (with their respective conversation-forcing acoustic music machines)
6-11) Whoever else stumbles in from the 6th ward, St. Bernard Parish, a brief but bright late 70s no-wave scene that flourished in New York City,and wherever the hell else in between.

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Episode #26: Domenic Fusca Gets Your Soul Right

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Domenic playing live at WHIV studios and sharing his insights about HIV awareness. We’ll spin local tracks, stumble around the annals of Checkpoint Charlie’s history, and you’ll be subjected to my musical whims, subliminal massaging, and technological ineptitude.

(Speaking of Checkpoint’s! It is the 20th anniversary of Jim Smith hosting open mic. Be there at 8pm sharp, because from 9-11pm, you’ll pay no attention whatsoever to Jim, your friends, or yourself onstage while you stream this radio show live. You will take no breaks because there are no commercials.This is independent radio, b!tchez$. Once the show comes to a complete stop, you may order another drink from the lovely Angelo.)

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Episode #25: There Once Was A Man from St. Louis… (Limericks with Tom McDermott)

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Excited to have one of my all-time favorite piano players, Tom McDermott, in the studio for the second half of my show tonight! Tune in 10-11 p.m. to hear music and poetry by an exceptional musicianer and limerician. He once told me in an interview how he’d ended up in New Orleans following the James Booker muse, and (in the spirit of musician mentors) hopefully he’ll relate that tale for y’all as well.

This OffBeat Magazine write-up I did a couple years back (McDermott on Booker etc., another fascinating conversation where only a fraction of it fits under the word count) was one of the many musician interviews I had in mind when I proposed this radio show.*

My Music: Tom McDermott

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Episode #24: N.O. Dead Air Cuatro, Jass Fezt Finale

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Live tunes from Jean Bayou, Lili Dove, Andre Lovett, Marc Paradis, Natasha Sanchez, and Bob Worth! Additional yakking/lurking from Red DeVecca, Pizza Mike, Ashley Rice, Abby Tideman, Sarah Murphy, and/or myself. 102.3 WHIV FM 9-11 pm, tune in! (Phone in, from your local bar, living room, or out-of-state phone booth. I’ll hold your 2 cents up to the mic.)

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Episode #23: Robinson’s Dirty Mouth

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MM&BRH #23! Belated (tis the season…) playlist from last Sunday, in which Timothy Robertson, David Brouillette, Jamie Vessels and I wax lyrical about Checkpoint Charlie’s ad nauseum (have you seen Randy Mack’s movie “Laundry Day” yet??), they introduce me to a bunch of amazing and/or hilarious music and a dog named Kora, we eat beef jerky, Peter shows up, etc.

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Episode #22: R.I.P. Ooh Poo Pah Doo :(

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Tune in tonight folks, we’re reminiscing fondly about the Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar and discussing plans for the future at a different location. I’ll be joined in the studio by some combination of fellow WHIV deejay Martha Alguera and her beautiful kiddo Lola, Big Chief Alfred Doucette, Michael Connor, Nooie Man, Reynard Green, and any other bar regulars that may or may not show up (holler at us if you’re in Mid-City and you have some bar stories you want to share  ) Expect tunes from James Andrews, Jessie Hill, Fantasia, Ernie K-Doe, Prince, Allen Toussaint, TUCKA, and spotify’s most lackluster karoake version of “La Bamba”.

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Episode #19: N.O. Dead Air (Take 3)

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Tonight! The 3rd edition of the monthly “singer, songwriter, etc” series I’m now calling Live Locals & No Dead Air. Studio will be kickin with various players, playahs, and lurkers… Patrick Cooper, Lili Dove, Lynn Drury, Natasha Sanchez, Shawn Williams, Bob Worth, Pizza Mike, Red DeVecca?…. the list groweth. (Text me if you want to come hang, or if you want to play the next one, a couple songs on air guaranteed to the first 6ish people I make drunken promises too  Bad jokes and unflattering lighting guaranteed to one and all.)

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