Episode 53 (S2): Club Foot / Peaches Joint Alumni Meeting

Great episode! Below is an extended playlist; wouldn’t have had time to play everything cuz we had so many guest/audience requests phoned/”phoned” in. Yay! Thanks to Elise, Corey, Jim, Natasha, and Dick for pickin tunes.

During the 7-8 hour, had my pal Richard “Dick Deluxe” Egner in the studio with his old friend Richard Marriott, founder of the Club Foot Orchestra. They talked about their work with that ensemble, a San Francisco-born, performance art-centric group that made a name for itself providing complex soundtracks to classic silent movies (check out their website here: http://www.clubfootorchestra.com/) and also played a couple of lovely duets! (I always love having brass instruments in the studio.) Big thanks to Elisabeth Beaird for taking photos of the Richards, and to Natasha Sanchez for this photo of Jim Sniff I klepto’d from a different episode, see below.

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Episode 50: THE LAST STRAW (Season Finale)

Oh lawd!

Finally getting the playlist and pictures up from our season finale a week ago. What a night! We ran from 8pm to almost 1:30am and had over 50 guests in the studio, and various others tuning in from near and far. There were several newcomers (including my best&most-clever frand Brady, the notorious “Whalevo Rob”, and Jim Smith of Checkpoint Charlie’s Acoustic Open Mic), a bunch of old-comers, one dog, one child, a lot of delicious food, a lot of gas station food, Hair-on-the-Air (victim: me), Amber bringing a SPOCK candle (!!!) and Patrick Cooper announcing he was going to play “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” seconds after I’d cued up that album on my laptop.

We heard tons of local tunes (mostly live, a few …un-live? dead? undead? ) in the company of an ever-charmingly-diverse crew dear friends, sworn enemies, and neighbors. Our pals at United Bakery Records came in to announce the fabulous shows they’re putting together this holiday season, and we even got a surprise visit at the very end from our illustrious leader, MarkAlain Dery! (emojis) It’s been a great year, and I’ll miss y’all like the dickens. See ya on the flip side! Semi-accurate playlist etc. below… there was a rough draft, then people started shouting requests… you know how it is.

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Episode 47: Tequil-over (Buffa’s After-Party, Oct)

What happens when you are physically undead from too many gigs/witless side-hustles and want to kick everyone in the kneecaps? You put on bear-cat ears, drink a stimulant, and show up at the after-party! A whale of a time! (Happy birthday to Renard Boussiere and Gloria Turrini.) Heard tunes from tons of excellent local singer-songwriters after kicking things off with Katie Sikora talking about “The Sexism Project” (journalistic exhibition she’s spearheading which runs Nov. 2, 3, and 5 at Prez Hall.) Many of the recorded tunes we “spun” last night are from the artists playing the event. (Also, past MM&BRH guest Dominique LeJeune aka DJ Dominomnom is DJing the opening night. Woo!) See playlist below!

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Episode 45: The Hot Brown

MM&BRH #45: “The Hot Brown” (…Recipe: Hip Hop + Southern Rock + Ukuleles + Trad Jazz + Punk + Comedy + Chaos, Moonpies, Moonshine, and a pinch of children and dogs. Topped with bacon, served with dragonfruit.)

Thank you oodles to everyone who played live music, brought in tracks, blood on the tracks, made a Hot Brown, crossed Parish Lines, supplied moonpies/gas station food/liquor-water (plenty of sauza-flavored water in the trunk for next week, thank you mystery Good Samaritan!) etc.

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Episode #39: Irresistible Saloon Hair

Thank you to Renard Boissiere, Andre Lovett, and Nervous Duane for playing/reading live, big thanks always to Pizza Mike and his plethora of gas station snacks, hurray for Stacey Leigh Bridewell (Stacey Kelly Vintage Styling and her hot rollers for getting me back to my roots being a widowed saloon owner during the last gold rush (“widowed” as in, “hip and unattached”), my fave Brandy Roden for schlepping over from Arabi, and congrats to Corey Collins for working a fourteen hour day then running a great second show! (“Under the Influence”, 11p-1a.) Playlist below.

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Episode #37: Lady-Party After-Party & the Resting “Ancient Maya Face”

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A particularly insane evening at 102.3 WHIV FM! Featuring all sorts of unlikely parties partying together. Old hats, new hands, no dogs, neat tricks, etc. The inception of “Hair on the Air”, I think our greatest gimmick yet, because I have a great face for radio and clearly need my hair in hot rollers while wearing headphones. Ha! Check out Stacey Kelly Styling, y’all.

And of course we heard some great tunes, both live and recorded. Thanks to everyone who hung out and tuned in! Every Sunday night, folks. (As close-knit as we sound on-air, many of us just met each other and/or actually hate each other, so you’re more than welcome to come join the fray. 🤣 I won’t make you use the microphone.) Also, consider becoming a station member at whivfm.org / .com! Community radio, every little bit helps!

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Episode #34: Wholesome Tidbits

Kicking things off with Jennifer Callan telling us about the Bywater Toys For Tots Christmas In July Party and some sweet live tunes from Mike Dill and Jonathan David Tankel (the Mutineers)! Lane “They Call Him Bonedaddy” in the house, that great bassist Red DeVecca telling a few tales from days of yore, vinyl junkie Corey Collins, co-horst Pizza Mike… whoever else wanders in. Playlist below!

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