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.
Following the raging success of last week’s “Fishes n B!tches” fish fry, Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes brings you “Sqrrlz & Grrlz”, a Michael-Darby-homecooked squirrel stew (or something) on-air extravaganza, complete with alligator meat from Red DeVecca and a frozen rabbit/possum from Lou. Come for the sqrrlz, stay for the grrlz. (Or vice versa.) Tune in for the sizzle.
Fiiiiishes n Biiiitches!!! (aka Incest Fest ’17) Thank you to all the musicians who played and extra big thanks to Michael Darby for catching/cleaning/cooking all dat fish. Check out Stacey’s rockin’ “Hair on the Air” mohawk ‘do on Rose Cangelosi’s rockin’ head!
Also, thanks to Natasha Sanchez for hosting the pre-party(/party-party) at Buffa’s, Shawn for running boards, Stacey for taking pics, and everyone else who hung out: Amy Wingrave, Peter Huganir, Pizza Mike, Lumino Perseid, Lynn Drury, Smitti Supab, Corey Collins, Greg, Becca, Laaaaaurel, David Dunau, and my best and most clever friend, Liam DeFazio.
Thanks to all the musicians who played, guest soundboard operators who operated, and Pizza Mikes who brought gas station chicken. Check out Margi Cates’ ‘do by Stacey Kelly Styling!
Most of all, thank you to Lissa Driscoll for changing so many lives for the better, keeping us all on our toes, and saying ‘fuck it’ in the appropriate instances. And of course for all the music. Rest recklessly. (And peacefully, too.)
Shawn Williams, Artemis, and Natasha Sanchez. (Photo: Stacey Bridewell)
THIS WEEK’S DYSFUNCTIONAL CAST MEMBERS (and Cast-Wearers):
Host/ “Brain” (ha) Behind the Circus: Laura DeFazio
Unofficial Co-Horst: Pizza Mike (out sick)
Hair Do-er/Photo-taker/Chaos MGMT: Stacey Bridewell
Vintage Hairdo Victim: Carolyn Broussard
Musicians Playing Live: Mike Martinez, Natasha Sanchez, Patrick Cooper, Richard Bates Rose Cangelosi, Shawn Williams
Miscellaneous Lurkers: Shameus Pan Greymountain, “BabyDat” Artemis, David, Monica, Andrei, Chelsea Sullivan
Photo: Stacey Bridewell (Ditto all photos below.)
Last night’s playlist! Might have skipped a few. (Episode 40. We are officially over the hill!)
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.
Thanks so much to all the songwriters who came out and played after this afternoon’s Songwriter Circle feat Cary Hudson, Jean Bayou, Natasha Sanchez at Buffa’s Bar & Restaurant, plus Patrick Cooper driving in from somewheres and the eternally-uninvited Shawn Williams debuting a new song. Thank you to Stacey Kelly Vintage Styling for the amazing hair-do, and congrats to Corey Collins starting his new show “Under the Influence” (11p-1a on Sunday nights!) [Tune in Mondays now, for the Super Sounds of Sunday with Just Wade. 7-9pm!]
Bad jokes, great music, new gimmicks. Walk-ins welcome. Playlist below!
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!