A live performance of Lord Can You Hear Me by Spiritualized at Queens Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999.
Because you needed this, and so did I.
Some Dark Holler on KUCI 88.9 FM
15thday ofFebruaryin the year2013
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15thday ofDecemberin the year2012
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Sweet Nobody Album Release
Friend of the show and former KUCI DJ Brian Dishon, has put together a band that needs your support to put out their debut release.
Please check out the link above to listen to Brian’s music and find out more about the Kickstarter project.
20thday ofOctoberin the year2012
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Wish I still had the show, if only to play some cuts off of this brilliant album.
Like a lot of people who are (finally) waking up to America’s best kept secret, Sixto Rodriguez’s music, I caught Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul soul stirring documentary, Searching for Sugar Man last week (run, don’t walk!).
Born and raised on the mean streets of Detroit, Chicano poet-musician Sixto Rodriguez was/is the real deal. With songwriting that rivals greats (and personal favorites) like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and perhaps even a bit of Nick Drake, his musical efforts in the late 60’s and early 70’s, somehow went unnoticed and unappreciated, at least in his home country. Unbeknownst to Rodriguez, only South Africa and Australia/New Zealand recognized his genius from the beginning. But all of that is beginning to change now thanks to the film.
Cold Fact was released in 1970 on the now-defunct Sussex label and did diddly squat on the U.S. charts at the time of its release. But one wonders how this musically rich, lyrically complex and altogether singular album flew under the radar for so damn long. Was it racism that kept Rodriguez off the charts? Was America not ready for a Latino Dylan at the time? Rodriguez is not Dylan though. He is totally without affectation or pretense, unconcerned with image and press, or even getting his due. He is a humble (yet totally enigmatic) poet and a true man of the people, who never left the Detroit streets he grew up on. He spent the past 40 years doing back-breaking hard labor and quietly performing his music for an audience of none. His is the story of dreams finally coming true and of the good guy coming out on top.
Go listen now!
Searching for Sugar Man trailer: http://youtu.be/KKXewWDh1og
7thday ofFebruaryin the year2012
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Mixtapers of the World Unite: An Interview with Brian Dishon
I recently did an interview with old friend of the show, Brian Dishon about his mixtape exchange collective. You can read it now on the KUCI homepage.
13thday ofAugustin the year2011
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Like a Submarine in the Sky: An Interview with Erika M. Anderson of EMA
My interview with Erika Anderson of EMA is now up on the KUCI homepage
26thday ofMayin the year2011
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the great bill callahan performs ‘bathysphere’ in Dublin, Ireland.
May 2011
27thday ofMarchin the year2011
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Brian’s Playlist - Final Broadcast
**I had a bit of input with this final playlist. I hope you all enjoyed the show!
Blind Boy Fuller - Weeping Willow - Truckin’ My Blues Away (Yazoo)
Dock Boggs - Country Blues - Country Blues (Renevant)
Ramblin’ Thomas - Poor Boy Blues - The Anthology Of American Folk Music vol.3 (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Jandek - CF - Blue Corpse (Corwood)
The Handsome Family - Weightless Again - Through The Trees (Carrot Top)
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti)
Smog - In The Pines - A River Ain’t Too Much To Love (Drag City)
B.F. Shelton - Darling Cora - Man Of Constant Sorrow (Yazoo)
Buell Kazee - The Butcher Boy - Kentucky Mountain Music (Yazoo)
Mississippi John Hurt - You Got to Walk That Lonesome Valley
Gillian Welch - April The 14th pt.1 - Time (The Revelator)
Red House Painters - Golden - Old Ramon
The Innocence Mission - Sweep Down Early - Befriended (Badman)
The Danielson Famile - Daughters Will Tune You - Trying Hartz (Secretly Canadian)
Joanna Newsom - Sprout An The Bean - The Milk Eyed Mender (Drag City)
Cat Power - Moonshiner - Moon Pix (Matador)
Big Star - Big Black Car - Third/Sister Lovers (Rykodisc)
Nick Drake - Hanging On A Star - Made To Love Magic (Island)
Vashti Bunyan - Wishwanderer - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind (DiChristina/Spinney)
Whiskeytown - Indian Gown - Strangers Alamanac (Deluxe Edition) (Geffen)
Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed - Praise God I’m Satisfied (Yazoo)
PJ Harvey - The Devil - White Chalk (Island)
Uncle Tupelo - Criminals - March 16-20, 1992 (Columbia)
13th Floor Elevators - Lay Down Your Weary Tune - The Interpreter Vol. 2
Loose Fur - Laminated Cat - S/T (Drag City)
EMA - Trouble In Mind - Some Dark Holler Demos
John Davis - Jesus Gonna Build Me A Home - S/T (Rambler)
The Dave Rawlings Machine - Bells Of Harlem - Friend Of A Friend (Acony)
