Episode 163 - Who Doesn't Like (a) Hammock?

Special Guest: Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson of Hammock

As we're upon the first day of winter my thoughts drift to warm weather lounging in a hammock. That doesn't seem likely to happen so instead I sit down with my other favorite Hammock to discuss their latest disc Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow.

Track Listing
Paula Valstein (Bring It On) - Bastards of Twang (Old Black Crow) - The Church (Reptile) - Lila Downs (Pinotepa) - Professor and Maryann (Little Towns Go By) - New Bohemians (Spanish Style Guitar) - Hammock (Mono No Aware / Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow / Eighty-Four Thousand Hymns) - Kip Winger (Broken Open) - Robin Danar (Last Goodbye (feat. Celia Chavez)) - Bumblefoot (The Color of Justice) - Weird Ways (Goodbye) - Martin Rivas (North) - Dave Pittenger Band (Memphis)

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Episode 162 - Week AS Show!

Special Guest: None

No one ever asked me what a typical week is like for me musically so I decided to take it upon myself to give you a listen. It's either that or I needed a filler show because of scheduling conflicts. How weak!

Track Listing
Sting (Seven Days) - The Devin Townsend Band (Sunday Afternoon) - Múm (Sunday Night Just Keeps On Rolling) - Explosions In The Sky (Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean) - Mike Errico (Monday Morning) - Bumblefoot (Tuesday In Nancy) - Roland Orzabal (Day By Day By Day By Day By Day) - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories (Waiting For Wednesday) - Slave To The System (Ruby Wednesday) - Fools for April (Any Day Now) - David Bowie (Thursday's Child) - Polar Bear (Friday) - Derek James (One More Day) - Casey Shea (Lazy Saturday) - Nick Drake (Saturday Sun) - The Cure (10:15 Saturday Night)

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Episode 161 - Thank God That's Over

Special Guest: None

Politically fried and in need of four more years of sleep the Nefarious Bovine tries to get us back to being musically sound. Will it work? His plan has a few holes in it but it's crazy enough that it just might work.

Track Listing
Have Her Home By Ten (Have Her Home By Ten) - Bryan Dunn (Wake Up) - Cantharide (Love is a Cake Too Big for Me) - Michael Leonhart (Flamenco Sketches) - Pat Metheny Group (This Is Not America) - Beck (Gamma Ray) - Bret Mosley (Leavin' Here) - Anthrax & Public Enemy (Bring The Noise) - Joe Jackson (Got The Time) - Allie Moss (Way With Words) - The Album Leaf (The Light) - Andrea Ball (Fought For Your Life) - Stars Of The Lid (The Evil That Never Arrived) - Cliff Carlisle (Wreck Of Number 52) - Holler, Wild Rose! (Captive Train) - Tribe Of Judah (Exit Elvis)

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Episode 160 - Bovine '08

Special Guest: None

I figure if everyone else these days is making long winded speeches and promises that they'll most likely not follow through with then why can't I? We also add a new rum into the mix. That should please the rum lobbyists.

Track Listing
Rodrigo y Gabriella (Oogie Boogie's Song) - Goddamn Electric Bill (Ten Thousand Years) - Adam Ant (Vampires) - Philip Aaberg (Spring Creek) - Dùnndotta (Meannie) - Martin Sexton (Diner) - Weird Al Yankovic (Trapped in the Drive Thru) - Return To Earth (You Built The Fire, I Brought The Match) - Juana Molina (Un Dia) - The Black Noodle Project (Escape) - Larissa Shmailo (Bloom) - Gabrielle (Threw It All Away) - Naked Eyes (Burning Bridges) - One Nation Under A Groove (Jazzcrash Hotel) - Blake Morgan (Silver Lining) - Múm (The Land Between Solar Systems)

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Episode 159 - Less Talk, More Talk Talk

Special Guest: None

I've been threatening to chronicle Talk Talk's progression from synth-pop to post-rock for quite some time now. Well I'm finally getting around to doing it. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for you.

Track Listing
The Clash (Lost in the Supermarket) - Stewart Copeland (Genepool) - Atomictom (Take Me Out) - eliotE & The Ritournelles (Pour les enfants qui ont peur) - Postcode (Drop Dead) - Rachel's (Water From The Same Source) - Delerium (Euphoria (Firefly)) - Talk Talk (Talk Talk / Dum Dum Girl / Happiness Is Easy / The Rainbow / Myrrhman) - 2 Foot Yard (Chapter IV) - missFlag (You're Not Easy to Love) - Antennas To Heaven (Hunting) - Edwin (Never Over) - Queensrÿche (Anybody Listening?)

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Episode 158 - Mo Faux You

Special Guest: None

Rockin' the new and improved hawk and flying solo once again. This time I thought I'd revisit some artists I haven't played in a while and share some new stuff that just came in. And that would be different because....

Track Listing
Airtime (River Runs Deep) - Shea Seger (Clutch) - Homeboy Steve (Nothing Is Right) - Salvavidas (Nunca Mas) - Q-Ball (Music And Pizza Boy) - Karma Generator (Candyland) - Sinéad O'Connor (4 My Love) - The Soul's Release (Lott) - Plastic Parachute (One Greta Garbo Love) - Weird Ways (Shore) - Colin Hay (Lose To Win) - deSol (Ghost In The House Of Texas) - The Beatless (The Hello Man) - The Rosy Nolan Band (Janina) - John Huldt (The Sleeping Beauty David Bowie (Bring Me The Disco King)

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Episode 157 - Podjack v2 (Tommy Merrill)

Special Guest: Tommy Merrill

Just what exactly are venues looking for when they fill up the time slots? This time around Tommy Merrill, booking director for Rockwood Music Hall, takes over the show and gives us some insight.

Track Listing
Led Zeppelin (Good Times, Bad Times) - Fionn O'Lochlainn (Racing Against The Time) - Mouritz & the Bleeding Hearts (This Chaos Called Love) - Jeff Taylor (Girlfriend) - Michael Brunnock (Fallen Leaves) - Crystal Castles (Courtship Dating) - The Prigs (2nd Avenue Prigs) - Duke Ellington (Skin Deep) - Your Vegas (Aurora) - Amos Lee (Listen) - Del Castillo (Mi Carino) -) - James Maddock (When The Stars Align) - Eric Johnson (Steve's Boogie) - Chromeo (Fancy Footwork) - Melody Gardot (Worrisome Heart) - Emily King (Walk In My Shoes)

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Episode 156 - And Now The New(s)

Special Guest: None

Depending on your defintition we have a bunch of new stuff this time around. New CD's, new tracks, new artists to the show and quite possibly some old stuff that's new to you.

Track Listing
Overloaded (Feeling Overloaded) - Robert Plant (Tie Dye On The Highway) - Mina Tindle (The Kingdom) - A Death Cinematic (And All The Leaves Trembled (With The Dawn Sirens)) - Jamie Leonhart (Spider & The Fly w/ Intro) - The Black Noodle Project (Resistance) - Heather Christian (Reasonable Doubt) - Sevara Nazarkhan (Orik Gullaganda) - Rush (Working Man (Vault Edition)) - Andrea Ball (Beat Beat Pound) - Hater (Between Two Fires) - Peter Bjorn And John (Young Folks) - Bess McCrary (I Just Refuse) - The Ghastly Ones (Lonesome Understaker) - Deena Goodman (Too Damaged To Care) - GTR (Imagining)

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Episode 155 - It's A Live

Special Guest: None

Bootlegs, board records, on stage, T.V. or studio - any way I can hear it I'm a fan of live music. This time around we feature all live recordings by some of our favorite artists. I guess that makes me the annoying guy talking through the entire concert.

Track Listing
Ann Courtney & the Late Bloomers (Perfect Medicine) - Jane's Addiction (Slow Divers) - Jeff Schram (Head In The Clouds) - Eluvium (Under The Water It Glowed / After Nature) - Charlie Faye and The Total Sweethearts (Welcome Table) - Primus (Pudding Time) - Lara Ewen (Keeping It In) - Hrsta (Une Infinite De Trous En Forme D'homme) - Jeff Jacobson (Lunch In The Park / On the Sunny Side of the Street (featuring Jamie Leonhart and Michael Leonhart)) - Strapping Young Lad (Far Beyond Metal) - Gabrielle (She Smiles) - Martin Sexton (Can't Stop Thinking About You) - Mike Errico (Someday) - Willie Nelson And Wynton Marsalis (That's All) - Men At Work (The Longest Night)

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Episode 154 - Excessive Baggage

Special Guest: None

Well it may not be excessive but how about my new luggage? Just how has a Nefarious Bovine gone 37 years without cow print luggage? Who knows. Lets take it on a musical journey.

Track Listing
Yes (Going For The One) - Lara Ewen And The Unstrung Orchestra (The Airport Song) - Caspian (Further Up / Further In) - Eric Avery (Belly Of An Insect) - Alyson Greenfield (Almost There) - Casey Shea (Lartigue) - Ollabelle (All Is Well) - Tribecca (New Life) - Siamese (Manta) - The Bumble Bees (Stuck Inside My Head) - Runaway Dorothy (Caulfield) - Lizzy Grant (A Star For Nick) - OutKast (Hey Ya!) - 30 Odd Love (Carousel) - Talk Talk (New Grass) - Mother Love Bone (Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns)

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Episode 153 - Struggling Minstrels

Special Guest: Charlie Faye

I'm often asked why I do this particular program. While there are many reasons the main one has always been to promote the artists that struggle creatively, financially, logistically and mentally all for my listening pleasure. I often hope I can pay back a fraction of what I receive. Charlie Faye also joins us to give us first hand insight into the world of an independent artist.

Track Listing
Gundogs (Call Out My Name) - Radiohead (House Of Cards) - Stewart (Consider Me Gone) - Leo Alves Vieira (Grande Reação) - Kagero (Wheels Within Wheels) - One Nation Under A Groove (One Nation) - Charlie Faye (Goin' Grey / Never Forget / On That Train) - I Mother Earth (God Rocket (Into The Heart Of Las Vegas)) - Aaron Gilmartin (Two Sided Blues) - Beck (No Complaints) - Robert Attanasio (Dark Days) - Rich Girls (Latchkey Kids) - This Will Destroy You (A Three-Legged Workhorse)

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Episode 152 - For The Kids

Special Guest: None

My youngest listener (that I know of) requested more music and less talking. I've always believed that our children's voices should be heard so this one's for her. Try to see if you can guess her name.

Track Listing
Jeff Buckley (Grace) - Julia Darling (Grace) - Louis Prima (I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)) - Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai (Grace) - Donna Leonhart (If I Only Had A Brain) - David Bowie (Segue: Baby Grace [A Horrid Cassette]) - Mike Errico (Grace) - Beyondo (Party) - Piero Umiliani (Mah-na Mah-na) - Geddy Lee (Grace To Grace) - Liquid Tension Experiment (State of Grace) - De La Soul (The Magic Number) - Jack Sheldon & Terry Morel (Conjunction Junction) - Sarah McLachlan (Full Of Grace) - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (Let's Call The Whole Thing Off) - Liz Tormes (Graceful Dissent) - Tears For Fears (Schrodinger's Cat) - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Lonely Moments) - Paul Simon (Graceland) - John Linnell (West Virginia) - Dave Matthews Band (Grace Is Gone) - Peter Gabriel (Grace's Recapture) - Martin Sexton (Amazing Grace)

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Episode 151 - What's Vinyl?

Special Guest: Michael Leonhart & Bumblefoot

Vinyl, it's not just for catsuits anymore! Michael Leonhart discusses his new album "Hotel Music", Sean runs rampant about musical spoilers and Bumblefoot even chimes in. What more could you want in a show?

Track Listing
Queensrÿche (Blood) - Q*Ball (Showcase) - The Offspring (Dirty Magic) - HATR Project (En La Obscuridad - I) - Animal Logic (Stone In My Shoe) - The Dig (Marianne) - Michael Leonhart (Adelaide / The Madman from Kyoto / Snake in the Hole) - The Fighting Cocks (The Little Goats' Big Night Out) - Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley) - Bumblefoot (Abnormal) - Sigur Ros (Gobbledigook) - Harris Trucks (Dumb Of Me) - The Faster Gore Core Girls (Sunny Day)

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Episode 150 - Information Overload

Special Guest: Holler, Wild Rose!

Blackberrys, Cell Phones, Elevators, Internet, TV, Radio, Newspapers. There's too many ways to get information these days. We get the information on Holler, Wild Rose! the old fashion way - we sit down and talk to them.

Track Listing
Steve Miller Band (Jungle Love) - Casey Shea (Someone) - The Blue Chieftains (I Think Hank Woulda Done It This Way) - Jamie Leonhart (Who Says Words) - Holler, Wild Rose! (Holler, Wild Rose! / Thief In Our Bed / Sun Vines) - Then There Were Two (Amelia) - Rush (Here Again) - Diafanes (High Heels) - Warmbodies (Calming waters) - Chris Cubeta (Change) - Devin Townsend (Noisy Pink Bubbles)

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Episode 149 - Back Up and Backup

Special Guest: None

The craziness has ended and the laptop is back up and running. It's been a while so why don't we play some music and catch up with each other. I've got no plans.

Track Listing
Rachel Zamsteen (Drought) - Aaron Berg & The Heavy Love (Madame X) - Joanne Shenandoah (Circle of Friendship) - She & Him (I Thought I Saw Your Face Today) - The Buggles (Elstree) - The Mugs (Sinister Six) - Mr. Bungle (Super Mario Bros. Theme) - Louis Armstrong (Go Down Moses) - Michael Nyman (A Wild And Distant Shore / The Heart Asks Pleasure First) - Melanie Gabriel (Heartbeats) - Return To Earth (Gunpoint Poetry) - Oi Va Voi (7 Brothers (featuring Sevara Nazarkhan)) - Neil Nathan (3 Seconds) - National Airlines (Three Minute Conversation) - Shalabi Effect (Mending Holes In A Wooden Heart) - John Lennon (Watching The Wheels)

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Episode 148 - Rip-offs, Remakes and Summertime

Special Guest: None

This time around we leave behind the ills of the world and once again examine the art of the cover. And at this point of the year who's not ready for a little summertime? I think we got you covered.

Track Listing
A Perfect Circle (Imagine) - Richard Cheese (Baby Got Back) - Faith No More (Easy) - k.d. Lang (Constant Craving) - Telex (Rock Around The Clock) - Jeff Healey Band (Stuck In The Middle) - Dead Kennedys (Viva Las Vegas) - Casey Shea (Chop Suey) - Vince Giordano's Nighthawks (Georgia On My Mind) - Wakey!Wakey! (Everlong) - Billie Holiday (Summertime) - Janis Joplin (Summertime) - Charlie Faye (Summertime) - The Puppini Sisters (I Will Survive) - Bret Mosley (Amazing Grace) - The Tunstall Sisters (Black Horse and the Neutron Tree) - Echo and the Bunnymen (People Are Strange) - Slade (Cum On Feel The Noize) - Celia Chavez (Moon River) - Frank Zappa (Murder By Numbers)

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Episode 147 - Something Ain't Right

Special Guest: None

Cover the kids ears - this is going to be ugly. We seem to have some issues in dire need of exorcising this time around. Great Music and Inane Rants. All is well around here but the same can't be said for the rest of the world. At least that's one mans opinion. But he drinks so take his opinions at face value.

Track Listing
2 Foot Yard (Seven Houses) - Benjalu (My Shelter My Fortress) - Set Fire To Flames (Love Song For 15 Ontario) - Diablo Swing Orchestra (Balrog Boogie) - Matt Jones (Dancing In The Moonlight) - Flor De Loto (Madre Tierra) - Professor and Maryann (Tin Heart) - Kip Winger (Song of Midnight / Free) - Sevara Nazarkhan (Korgim Kelar) - Sam Cooke (Frankie and Johnny) - Royksopp (Remind Me) - Antennas To Heaven (My Robot Lets Me Watch The Cricket) - Bherman (I Wanna Talk To You) - Lotion (She Is Weird City) - Matthew De Zoete (Mathlide) - Victor (At The End)

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Episode 146 - Podjack v1 (Trevor Exter)

Special Guest: Trevor Exter

What inspires the people we play and promote around here? In this first of a series of podjacks we have planned Trevor Exter takes over the music and I in return delve into his mind. If that doesn't seen fair I also brought rum.

Track Listing
Trevor Exter (On The Night Train) - Puente Celeste (Estrella Fugaz) - Santiago Vazquez & Puente Celeste (El Amor) - Gaby Kerpel (Gabytok) - Pedro Luis Ferrer (Ay Mariposa) - Elis Regina (Atrás Da Porta / Ladeira Da Preguiça) - Changos (M.L.) - Trevor Exter (What Happened To The Man? / Sooner Or Later) - Norte Potosi (Chascañawisitay) - Aca Seca Trio (Monte Maíz / La música y la palabra) - Banda Hermética (No Llego) - The Wood Brothers (Tried & Tempted) - Trevor Exter (Let Me Hold You)

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Episode 145 - Define Mainstream

Special Guest: Reb Beach

It seems that as I get older I'm confusing what I know and like with what is mainstream. Not that I think it's top 40 but I'm suprised when no one knows who the hell I'm talking about. What can you do? Reb Beach calls in this time around to discuss the new Winger Live disc and the pros and cons of touring.

Track Listing
Deep Purple (Any Fule Kno That) - Paula Valstein (Light) - Neil Peart (Pieces of Eight) - Celia Chavez (Fear of Falling Leaves) - The Soul's Release (Joy Leaves) - Jeff Schram (Bad Luck) - Talk Talk (Give It Up) - Q-Ball (Baby You Drive Me Crazy) - Winger (Blind Revolution Mad / Your Great Escape / Headed For A Heartbreak) - Ethan Lipton (Girl From The Renaissance Faire) - George Jones (White Lightning) - Swashbuckle (Rum Runners / Upon the Spanish Main) - Chavela Vargas (La Llorona) - Dùnndotta (Air Fire) - Strapping Young Lad (Centipede)

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Episode 144 - Because I'm The Program Director

Special Guest: The Evils of the World

The fun in being the program director is having the ability to play what I like no matter what it is. This time we touch on the old, new and deranged. Not sure if that's good or bad for you.

Track Listing
RX Bandits (Newstand) - Neds Atomic Dustbin (Grey Cell Green) - Ian McGlynn (Catharsis) - La Jovenc (Going Home) - Elvis Presley (A Little Less Conversation) - Raul Midon (State Of Mind) - Black Pig (Forgivable Sin) - Natalie Gelman (Forgive Me) - Trapeze (Black Cloud) - Mark Hollis (Watershed) - Bumblefoot (Your A Cactus) - Ann Courtney & the Late Bloomers (Music Box) - Antara del Barrio (Desde Siempre) - Your Ten Mofo (I Think We May Be Alone Now) - Vanessa Boyd & The Yes Men (Train) - HitchcockGoHome! (End of Me)

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Episode 143 - Teambuilding

Special Guest: None

The rambling becomes even more confusing as Sean discusses the high points of his recent teambuilding experience, adventures in finding a sponsor and the joys of switching hats.

Track Listing
Eyelevel (The Hole You're In) - Vince Guaraldi Trio (Fenwyck Farfel) - The Fighting Cocks (King Of The Street) - Stellardrive (Departure) - Blake Morgan (Already Away) - Dominique Bélanger (FireWall) - Merle Haggard / Willie Nelson (Pancho And Lefty) - Weird Ways (Beauty) - Alai (Superpoderosa) - PFL (Une Derniere Cigarette) - Sunday Drive Bye (I Stand Alone) - Charlie Faye (Lady Of The Leading Man) - Neon (Making Waves) - The Sundays (Here's Where The Story Ends) - Debra DeSalvo (When It Comes Down) - The Undisputed Heavyweights (Just For Laughs)

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Episode 142 - Trying To Get On Track

Special Guest: None

Christmas and New Years Eve. Molding and Trim. Day Job and Jury Duty. Spackle and Paint. It's been a crazy few weeks around here. I haven't even been to a show since last year. Let see if we can back on track with the show and get 2008 moving along.

Track Listing
The Kinks (Come Dancing) - Elika (We Stay The Same) - Martin Rivas (Damn Damn Damn Good Look) - The Album Leaf (Red-Eye) - Bryan Dunn (Geraldine) - Los Lobos with Antonio Banderas (Cancion del Mariachi (Morena De Mi Corazon)) - Wes Hutchinson (No Need To Talk About It) - Fatboy Slim (Weapon Of Choice) - War (Low Rider) - Casey Shea (Crying Out) - The Gilmartin Potter Band (I Learn Alone) - Trevor Exter (Strawberry Wine) - Hammock (Blankets of Night) - True Nature (My Freedom Lies Behind The Sun) - The Smothers Brothers (My Old Man) - Diafanes (Obviously Clear)

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Episode 141 - Happy New Year NYC

Special Guest: None

Millions may have watched the ball drop in Times Square but I'd prefer a good show on the LES. Let's recap some of my favorite NYC artists that we played last year.

Track Listing
Bumblefoot (Real) - Jessica Lynn (Waving) - Lara Ewen And The Unstrung Orchestra (Manhattan/Kansas) - Longwave (No Direction) - Trevor Exter (The Money Men) - Lizzy Grant (Rehab) - Martin Rivas (Hope) - Wynn Walent (Where Are You Now) - Jeff Jacobson (Rock Through My Window) - Jeff Schram (Only One (Nefarious Bovine Remix)) - Q-Ball (John Hughes) - Atomictom (You Always Get What You Want) - Holler, Wild Rose! (Mary Lawn Hair) - Michael Leonhart (Gentle Heathen) - Tom Hayes (North Atlantic) - Bret Mosley (Run It Again) - Celia Chavez (Lose Myself In You) - Wakey!Wakey! (Car Crash Song)

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