Episode 49 Sept. 21

Cable Ties – Time for You

Ziggy Alberts – Love Me Now (friends edition)

Al Green – Perfect Day 

Tesky Brothers – Carry You

The Damned – Beware of the Clown

Margaret Glaspy- Get Back

Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves – I Remember Everything

Graham Parker – Wicked Wit

And here are our notes

Ziggy Alberts – “Love Me Now”  from the EP  Friends Edition

Ziggy Alberts is an Australian singer-songwriter who seems to be quite popular in his native land. He has been releasing music since 2012. His latest is an EP where he has rerecorded some of his more popular tunes with some, well, “friends”.  “Love Me Know features a transplanted Vancouverite,  Garrett Kato.   https://texxandthecity.com/2023/08/ziggy-alberts-re-imagines-his-most-beloved-tracks-with-nine-of-his-closest-friends-on-their-collab-ep-friends-edition/

Here’s Garrett and Ziggy ! 

Tesky Brothers –  “Carry You” from 2019’s Run Home Slow

The Teskey Brothers are a Grammy nominated Australian blues rock band from Melbourne.  The brothers formed the band in 2008  and have been releasing music on a consistent basis ever since.

This track is from 2019’s Grammy Nominated album Run Home Slow. Released The Winding Way in June.  The brothers definitely display a 1960’s Stax Records vibe on their recordings.  You can hear more than hints of Otis Redding or Wilson Pickett.

   Live, they do not disappoint.  

 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/26/the-teskey-brothers-review-concorde-2-brighton

ANOHNI – Rest

Anohni Hegarty (born Antony Hegarty; 24 October 1971), styled as ANOHNI,^[5] is an English-born singer, songwriter, and visual artist. She has presented work both as ANOHNI and as the lead singer of the band Anohni and the Johnsons, formerly known as Antony and the Johnsons.

In 2016, Anohni became the first openly transgender performer nominated for an Academy Award;^[6] she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, along with J. Ralph, for the song “Manta Ray” in the film Racing Extinction.^[7] Her debut solo album, Hopelessness, was released in May 2016 to wide critical acclaim, including another nomination for the Mercury Music Prize and a Brit Award. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Anohni at number 192 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.^[8]

Toronto Star July 6, 2023

In the early 2000s, Anohni connected with Lou Reed, lending her voice — which critic Brandon Stosuy once described as a blend of Nina Simone, Bryan Ferry and Jimmy Scott — to newly worked renditions of songs like “Perfect Day” and the Velvet Underground classic “Candy Says.”

But her breakout occurred in 2005 with the release of the Johnsons’ second album “I Am A Bird Now” — a gorgeous collection of songs that explored themes of gender identity, friendship, the rapture of joy, and the spectre of death, and featured appearances from Boy George, Rufus Wainwright and Devendra Banhart. The record won the prestigious Mercury Prize for the best album by a British or Irish act, and was later listed among The Guardian’s best albums of the 21st century.

2016 Oscar® nominated Best Original Song “MANTA RAY” written and performed by Academy Award® nominated composer J. RALPH and Academy Award® Nominated artist ANOHNI for the feature documentary “Racing Extinction” by Oscar winning director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove). Music Co-Produced by Arthur Pingrey Ⓒ Ⓟ 2015 Rumor Mill Records / Rebis Music

The Damned –

a series of firsts (first time on our show!!)

from All Music

They are rarely cited as the most important of the first wave of British punk bands, nor one of the most influential, but in many respects, the Damned can honestly claim to be first. They released the first U.K. punk single (1976’s “New Rose” b/w “Help”), the first U.K. punk album (1977’s Damned Damned Damned) and were the first British punks to tour the United States. They were also one of the first major bands on the scene to break up, and were later ahead of the pack when they reunited. 

and from their website

A Night Of a Thousand Vampires

Out Now

The long awaited Live-album “A Night Of A Thousand Vampires” teams the first Punk-Band with The Hammer House of Horror and the cast of The Circus of Horrors. With the band and audience in full vampire attire, David Vanian transforms from Dracula into Nosferatu, “Neat Neat Neat” morphs into “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”, and fire-eaters and trapeze artists dazzle to a set that includes classics such as “Wait For the Blackout” and rare performances of appropriate covers like “People Are Strange” and “Eloise.”

Cable Ties

Are a punk rock band from Melbourne, Australia formed in 2015.

Rolling Stone writes about how they got their name

It was the bassist who suggested the name Cable Ties. “When we started the group, I was like, ‘I don’t want to be in a band with a name I can’t comfortably say to my family anymore,’” McKechnie says. Brown figured the band had a “very physical but functional” sound, and the name Cable Ties fit. “We just felt like a very ‘getting on with it’ kind of band, and [actual cable ties] felt like a very ‘getting on with it’ piece of equipment,” he says. “It’s practical. It does the job. It’s a bit no fuss, and that felt appropriate to me.”

Their original name was Shit Sex – Cable Ties works beter.

In March 2022, Cable Ties announced the release of their third studio album, All Her Plans, scheduled for 23 June 2023. In an album review, Alex Gallagher from NME said “Cable Ties just keep getting better. All Her Plans finds the post-punk trio’s musical chemistry at both its tightest and most adventurous.”^[5]

Zachary Bryan

The video for this song is not interesting so I added something from one of his live shows

A bit from the New York Times

BRYAN HAS BEEN making hay from pain for the past few years, first getting attention for the muscularly intense songs he released on Twitter and YouTube while he was still in the Navy, and now as one of this year’s most sudden breakout stars. “American Heartbreak” has hovered in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 since its release, displaying staying power similar to recent albums from Kendrick Lamar, Future and Post Malone.

Margaret Glaspy-  “ Get Back”  from Echo the Diamond

Margaret Glaspy is an American singer and songwriter based in New York City.  Echo the Diamond is taken from her third album.  I’ll let one of my favourite bloggers, Burning Wood do the heavy lifting here.

https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/2023/08/echo-diamond.html

Also Pitchfork chimes in with a pretty positive review  https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/margaret-glaspy-echo-the-diamond/

Graham Parker &  the Goldtops – “Wicked Wit”  from Last Chance To Learn The Twist

Graham  is best known as the lead singer of the British band Graham Parker & the Rumour  who released  four great albums between 1976- 1980.  One of my faves is “Discovering Japan” from 1979’s Squeezing Out the Sparks.

   Parker has been busy the last 40 years  releasing multitudes of albums while touring here and there.  Once again, Burning Wood can explain better than I can.

https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/2023/09/gp-goldtops.html

There is a new Graham Parker record out. 

Billed as Graham Parker & The Goldtops, “Last Chance To Learn The Twist” features Martin Belmont on guitar and Geraint Watkins on keyboards and it is the first GP record in a very long time that really stuck to my bones. 

It’s an understated affair, and yet just about all the songs harken back to the salad days with The Rumour. Parker and The Goldtops try their hand at some Louisiana swamp pop on “Grand Scheme of Things,” a bit of Memphis soul on “Sun Valley” and of course some good ol’ pub rock on “Wicked Wit.” With the exception of the reggae novelty of “Them Bugs,” there really isn’t a clam on “Last Chance To Learn The Twist.” This is an excellent addition to a long, respected career.

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