Sunday, August 31, 2008
North Fork Sound Top 20 – August 31st ‘08
1. Miles Davis: Water Babies
2. Muddy Waters: Bottom Of The Sea
3. Brian Eno: You Don’t Miss Your Water
4. Johnny Rivers: Sea Cruise
5. Sons Of The Pioneers: Cool Water
6. Big Al Anderson & The Balls: Something In The Water
7. The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Sweet Water Pools
8. Kirtsy MacColl: He’s On The Beach
9. Jimmy Reed: Blue Blue Water
10. Alan Vega: Cry A Sea Of Tears
11. Bobby Darin: Beyond The Sea
12. Kevin Ayers: Walk On Water
13. Fotheringay: The Sea
14. Robyn Hitchcock: Parachutes & Jellyfish
15. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Castles Made Of Sand
16. Ramsey Lewis Trio: Wade In The Water
17. The Waterboys: This Is The Sea
18. Owen Gray: On The Beach
19. Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs: Seaside Shuffle
20. Jim Kremens: Deep Blue Sea
Featured Album:
‘Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby’ (Stiff Records)
The 7” B-side:
The Star Spangles: The Sins Of A Family Fall On The Daughter
Last Week’s Listener Favourites:
Faster Pussycat: Bathroom Wall
Sahara Hotnights: Rockaway Beach
Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Creature With The Atom Brain
Carlene Carter: Every Little Thing
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone From The Sun
T-Bone Burnette: Kill Switch
Alex Chilton: Bangkok
Julee Cruise: Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart
Angel Corpus Christi: Big Black Cloud
Tragic Mulatto: Whole Lotta Love
Paul Thorn: High
The Mekons: Point Of No Return
Ian Hunter: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
The Du-Tels: Obama
Howlin' Wilf & The Vee-Jays: Hello Stranger
Pete Townshend: Rough Boys
The Motors: Airport
Loudon Wainwright III: Say That You Love Me
Mara Carlyle: But Now I Do…
Laurel Aitken: Hey Bartender
The Kinks: Victoria
(you can vote by clicking the “thumbs-up” icon in your Live365 player window)
2. Muddy Waters: Bottom Of The Sea
3. Brian Eno: You Don’t Miss Your Water
4. Johnny Rivers: Sea Cruise
5. Sons Of The Pioneers: Cool Water
6. Big Al Anderson & The Balls: Something In The Water
7. The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Sweet Water Pools
8. Kirtsy MacColl: He’s On The Beach
9. Jimmy Reed: Blue Blue Water
10. Alan Vega: Cry A Sea Of Tears
11. Bobby Darin: Beyond The Sea
12. Kevin Ayers: Walk On Water
13. Fotheringay: The Sea
14. Robyn Hitchcock: Parachutes & Jellyfish
15. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Castles Made Of Sand
16. Ramsey Lewis Trio: Wade In The Water
17. The Waterboys: This Is The Sea
18. Owen Gray: On The Beach
19. Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs: Seaside Shuffle
20. Jim Kremens: Deep Blue Sea
Featured Album:
‘Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby’ (Stiff Records)
The 7” B-side:
The Star Spangles: The Sins Of A Family Fall On The Daughter
Last Week’s Listener Favourites:
Faster Pussycat: Bathroom Wall
Sahara Hotnights: Rockaway Beach
Roky Erickson & The Aliens: Creature With The Atom Brain
Carlene Carter: Every Little Thing
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Third Stone From The Sun
T-Bone Burnette: Kill Switch
Alex Chilton: Bangkok
Julee Cruise: Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart
Angel Corpus Christi: Big Black Cloud
Tragic Mulatto: Whole Lotta Love
Paul Thorn: High
The Mekons: Point Of No Return
Ian Hunter: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
The Du-Tels: Obama
Howlin' Wilf & The Vee-Jays: Hello Stranger
Pete Townshend: Rough Boys
The Motors: Airport
Loudon Wainwright III: Say That You Love Me
Mara Carlyle: But Now I Do…
Laurel Aitken: Hey Bartender
The Kinks: Victoria
(you can vote by clicking the “thumbs-up” icon in your Live365 player window)
Saturday, August 30, 2008
James Hunter
James Hunter
Westbury, NY
August 29th '08
Last night, James Hunter pocketed a batch of new fans by playing a blinder, opening for Chris Isaak at Westbury's intimate theater-in-the-round. Mainly playing tunes from 'People Gonna Talk' and his latest, 'The Hard Way', James demonstrated with affable style and exceptional technique why Van Morrison calls him his favourite singer and so many others rate him one of the most exciting guitarists and songwriters around. It's probably fair to say that most folks in the audience weren't aware of James prior to tonight but judging by the line waiting to meet him and buy his merchandise during the interval, it would seem like he's well on the way to cracking the US. And good luck to him, I say. It couldn't happen to a more deserving, likable man.
I had arranged to meet him briefly before the show, but his bus had broken down en route and they'd only just arrived, so organizing their equipment and a doing a short soundcheck precluded any pre-gig handshake. Thanks to Go Records' Kimberly and Aaron, James' unfazed and professional production manager, I was promised I'd get an ID for the station once his set was over and he'd done his meet and greet with fans.
Since the Capital One Bank Theater at Westbury is a "union hall", apparently this is enough to insist that the artist has to pay some kind of "facility fee" if they want to be photographed on the premises, including the parking lot. So, just to underline what a decent fellow James is, after impersonating Walter Matthau in the Odd Couple - "The irony is unless we sort out some other arrangement, I'm going to kill you, that's the irony of it" - he took the time to walk with me to my car and we drove just off the premises to Brush Hollow Road where he graciously supplied me with what I needed. He seemed genuinely grateful for all the play he gets on the station and said, "as I get older, my taste become more Catholic. I find there's two kinds of music...Fats Domino and...shit!". Cue laughter all around. I told him I first heard 'No Smoke Without Fire' on WEHM, that it was one of those WOW moments and that we play tracks from all his albums, including 'Believe What I Say', 'Kick it Around' and one he made as 'Howlin' Wilf & The Vee-Jays'. James said that touring with Chris had been a real pleasure and that he and his band and crew been generous to a fault. Finally, I gave him a cd containing a few songs by The Lone Sharks, suggesting that when he came back to the Island as a headliner, he might want to consider them as openers. I then wished him luck and went back to my seat where Chris was in the middle of 'All The Way', resplendent in a hot pink number with glittering diamonte.
Vicky told me he'd already played 'Wicked Game', but 'Can't Do A Thing (To Stop Me)', 'Only The Lonely' and 'Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing' more than made up for it. This band has been together for 22 years and are as tight and accomplished as anyone could hope for. Their harmonies were spot on and their stage craft, communication, was delivered with aplomb and good humour. There seemed to be no limit to the amount of cameras flashing from the audience, so I guess Chris had paid the 'fee' necessary for his fans to take pictures. Either that, or some officious twerp just like to mess with the opening act. Chris came out for the encores in a 'disco mirror-ball' suit and brought James and his horn section (the brilliant Damien Hand & Lee Badau) back out for a rollicking 'Kansas City'. Soon it was all over. A marvelous show...go here and click on "slideshow" for a couple more pix...
James Hunter, Hershel Yatovitz & Chris Isaak
Westbury, NY
August 29th '08
I had arranged to meet him briefly before the show, but his bus had broken down en route and they'd only just arrived, so organizing their equipment and a doing a short soundcheck precluded any pre-gig handshake. Thanks to Go Records' Kimberly and Aaron, James' unfazed and professional production manager, I was promised I'd get an ID for the station once his set was over and he'd done his meet and greet with fans.
Since the Capital One Bank Theater at Westbury is a "union hall", apparently this is enough to insist that the artist has to pay some kind of "facility fee" if they want to be photographed on the premises, including the parking lot. So, just to underline what a decent fellow James is, after impersonating Walter Matthau in the Odd Couple - "The irony is unless we sort out some other arrangement, I'm going to kill you, that's the irony of it" - he took the time to walk with me to my car and we drove just off the premises to Brush Hollow Road where he graciously supplied me with what I needed. He seemed genuinely grateful for all the play he gets on the station and said, "as I get older, my taste become more Catholic. I find there's two kinds of music...Fats Domino and...shit!". Cue laughter all around. I told him I first heard 'No Smoke Without Fire' on WEHM, that it was one of those WOW moments and that we play tracks from all his albums, including 'Believe What I Say', 'Kick it Around' and one he made as 'Howlin' Wilf & The Vee-Jays'. James said that touring with Chris had been a real pleasure and that he and his band and crew been generous to a fault. Finally, I gave him a cd containing a few songs by The Lone Sharks, suggesting that when he came back to the Island as a headliner, he might want to consider them as openers. I then wished him luck and went back to my seat where Chris was in the middle of 'All The Way', resplendent in a hot pink number with glittering diamonte.
James Hunter, Hershel Yatovitz & Chris Isaak Westbury, NY
August 29th '08
Friday, August 29, 2008
The Flashcubes
The Flashcubes
Tommy Allen & Paul Armstrong
Knitting Factory toilet
August 10th '08
The Flashcubes - "Hello Suzie"
The Knitting Factory, NYC
August 10th '08
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
"A Dysfunctional Success" by (Wreckless) Eric Goulden
This book is hysterically funny and well-wrote. Please buy it here.
After decades of dues-paying, it's all finally goin' Wreckless's way. Newly hitched, he and partner, Amy Rigby, are on the cusp of releasing their brilliant new album 'Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby' (on the newly revitalized Stiff Records, no less) and touring extensively across America, starting August 28th in Portland, OR and ending September 9th in New Haven, CT. Go here for the full list of dates, and get a preview of the album, starting Sunday, here at North Fork Sound.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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