MMBRH#30: Another Great Songwriter Night and Passing of the Bottles Both Ways Around the Circle :O
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Episode #29: Bob Bateman and the Musical Intros
When you ask Bob Bateman to introduce the people he brought with him to your radio show (“Mike Marks and Sweet Dee”, you learn eventually), and you get this convoluted explanation of how they met (see video below.) Ha! Awesome. (Also when you are capable of controlling your spastic laughter and acting like a professional.) Crazy fun night with these folks, Jimi Palacios, Martha Francis, and Pizza Mike.
Episode #28: N.O. Dead Air No. 5 (the Last One Before We Retire that Moniker, as the Show Has Pretty Much Become a Songwriter Hang All the Time Anyways, Plus We Kinda Like Dead Air)
N.O. Dead Air on tonight’s episode. Live music, bar stories, pregnant pauses, live applause-s, a convivial atmosphere, and info on exciting upcoming shows. Courtesy of Valerie Jean Capitanich (ha!) & a slew of local singer-songwriters. This week’s lineup includes some combination of Patrick Cooper, Lili Dove, Judy Hill, Ron Hotstream, Tina Jamieson, Alison McConnell, Natasha Sanchez, and whoever else wanders in with a guitar, a washboard, or a set of trigger-happy vocal cords. (You know who you are.)
Episode #27: Windex Pete Isn’t Dead!
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.
Episode #26: Domenic Fusca Gets Your Soul Right
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.)
Episode #25: There Once Was A Man from St. Louis… (Limericks with Tom McDermott)
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.*
Episode #24: N.O. Dead Air Cuatro, Jass Fezt Finale
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.)
Episode #23: Robinson’s Dirty Mouth
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.
Episode #22: R.I.P. Ooh Poo Pah Doo :(
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”.
Episode #21: Tunes from Local Acts Laura Has Seen This Week (Abbreviated So I Can Go See The Monocole)
One of my favorite artists of all time, Aurora Nealand, orchestrates a full ensemble for her solo project. Got to catch the above show at the Marigny Opera House.
Spotify Playlist Etc Below