Episode 101 Friday, April 17
Angine de Poitrine – Sarniezz
Meels – Out West
Music City – Common Sense
Boy Golden – Cowboy Dreams
The Legal Matters – It Doesn’t Matter
Jesse Welles and Joan Baez – No Kings
Squeeze – You Get the Feeling
TSHA – Green
The Vibeke Saugestad Band – Hey Now Sunshine
Our Notes!!
Meels – Out West
Meels – Out West (Official Music Video)
I don’t know Meels (Full Name – Amelia “Meels” Einhorn), but I love this song and her voice. A little bit about her here from ASA magazine – What is ART SEEN ATL?ART SEEN ATL is a local, sibling-run publication covering music, film, photography, festivals, and all sorts of creative outlets in the city of Atlanta (and beyond!).
In several ways, Across the Raccoon Strait represents a return to Meels’ roots. Raised in the heart of the Muir Woods, Meels left her northern California home to study music at NYU’s prestigious Clive Davis Institute. Her season in the Big Apple was incredibly influential and educational, but it never delivered the creative spark she hungered for. That all changed when she decided to move back to California. She remarked that the transition opened the creative floodgates and led her to write most of the songs on this project—as evidenced by her “itching to get Out West” on the EP’s opening track. Though she currently resides in Los Angeles, Meels’ soul is still with the redwoods. “I think my Northern California self is always going to be tugging at my sleeve creatively,” she affirmed. “It’s the version of myself that I’ll always return to.”
Boy Golden – Cowboy Dreams
We love Boy Golden and saw them open for William Prince at the NAC a few weeks ago. From the NAC promo:
Boy Golden found immediate success with his debut LP, Church of Better Daze, which contained the breakout, chart-topping mono-mixed guide to low-budget living, KD and Lunch Meat. His first headline tours saw sellouts across the country, with festival appearances including Winnipeg Folk Fest, Osheaga, the Edmonton and Calgary Folk Festivals, Rifflandia, Saskatoon Jazz Festival, and more. Boy Golden’s charmingly chameleonic sound makes him just as welcome at a country festival as he is at a rock show. Subsequent tours with The Sheepdogs, The Paper Kites, Lucero, and more, as well as a breakout appearance at AmericanaFest 2023, have spread the Church of Better Daze gospel of good times far and wide.
Every song they played was great and I could have chosen anything off their new album Best of Our Possible Lives.
Boy Golden – Cowboy Dreams (feat. Cat Clyde) [Official Video]
The band is amazing, if you get a chance you really meed to see them.
Jesse Welles and Joan Baez – No Kings
Jesse Welles and Joan Baez, Complete footage – No Kings and Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright
Excerpts from a Medium article by Jack Olmstead
In a charged performance at San Francisco’s historic Fillmore, two generations of folk activists blend voices to challenge power structures amid ongoing national tensions.
San Francisco — On a crisp November evening, as the nation grapples with the resurgence of familiar political fault lines, folk icon Joan Baez made an unannounced appearance at singer-songwriter Jesse Welles’s sold-out show at The Fillmore. Their shared rendition of Welles’s recent protest song “No Kings,” followed by a nod to Bob Dylan’s timeless “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” transformed a routine concert into a poignant reminder of music’s role in resistance.
Welles, a emerging voice in contemporary folk, released “No Kings” just weeks before widespread demonstrations erupted against policies associated with the current administration, making the performance feel like a bridge between eras of unrest.
Videos circulating on YouTube show the duo harmonizing effortlessly, Baez’s seasoned timbre intertwining with Welles’s raw delivery. One clip, uploaded shortly after the show, captures the audience swaying in unison, some holding up signs echoing the song’s themes. “It felt like a call to arms, but peaceful — like the old days,” one concertgoer posted on X, formerly Twitter. Another described it as “icing on the carrot cake,” borrowing a phrase from a past Baez appearance at the venue.
More from Olmstead on No Kings 3 here
Voices in the Wind: “No Kings 3” Fills the Streets of Port Townsend, WA
TSHA – Green
TSHA (Teisha Matthews) is amazing! Again, I don’t know anything about her, but her songs have a dynamic quality to them and her voice is strong and bold.
I wanted to get some music video with her – Green is a great song, but is a visualizer. This is a bit better
TSHA, Ellie Goulding & Gregory Porter – ‘Somebody’ (Official Visualiser)
and that’s the best I can do. Most of the video material by TSHA is her DJ work, which is great, but you don’t get to hear her voice.
So, who is she?
Thanks Wikipedia (again)
Her music has earned well over 180 million streams across all platforms, earning her accolades such as becoming a DC-10 resident, delivering a BBC Essential Mix, nominations for the MOBO‘s (Best Dance Act). Her debut album, Capricorn Sun, was named Album of the Year by DJ Mag and BBC R1 Dance.[5][6]
her 2024 album Sad Girls
here is one of her DJ Mixes
TSHA In The House! | Defected Ibiza Summer Sunset Boat | House Music DJ Mix
Angine de Poitrine – “Sarniezz” – Vol. 2
Don’t look now, but this Saquenay duo is taking over the Internet. Angine de Poitrine is a duo of anonymous musicians performing under pseudonyms as guitarist Khn de Poitrine and drummer Klek de Poitrine. Although I know it is probably a logarithmic manipulation, it seems that every 2nd post on my Instagram, Threads and Bluesky is about these guys. They perform very complex stuff while wearing goofy costumes. Like them or hate them, they are provoking reaction.
You Tube is filled with videos trying to explain these guys.
They are also using microtonality as explained here.
How Angine de Poitrine use Microtonality
Give it a listen.
Angine de Poitrine – Sarniezz (Live on KEXP)
Music City – “Common Sense” – Welcome to Music City
Music City are from Dublin but now work from London. This is their debut album. Songwriter Conor Lumsden explains, “I didn’t set out with a theme or story arc, but looking back, the album feels like a constant fight between hope and disappointment. It’s the peaks and troughs of just trying to get by, in love, against the outside forces, or the ones inside your own head.”
Legal Matters – “It Doesn’t Matter” – Lost at Sea
The Legal Matters is a Michigan-based power pop trio . I am assuming they adopted their name from the great Who song.
Anyone influenced by the Who, Brian Wilson and Big Star is alright by me. Lost at Sea is their 4th album. This is an excellent representative track.
My selection and three more excellent songs are featured in this pretty cool interview with Goldmine Magazine.
Squeeze – “You Get the Feeling” -Trixie
Squeeze are of course English band that became known in the new wave period of the late 1970s. Most think they hit their creative peak in the early 1980s.
My 2 faves:
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The band has existed off and on since then and have recently released their 16th record, Trixie. The album consists of material written by the band’s main songwriters Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook in 1974, at the ages of 19 and 16, respectively. Trixie rose on its release in March to number 15 in the charts.
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/new-music/squeeze-trixies-reviewed/
The Vibeke Saugestad Band – “Hey Now Sunshine” -The Sun Sessions EP
Vibeke Saugestad is a US based Norwegian Power Pop singer and songwriter. From my research, it appears Saugested has been making music since the 1990’s. She has dabbled in Americana Roots music, noise rock and mellow folk. By the early 2000’s she went solo writing and releasing music influenced by bands like Fountains of Wayne, Cub and Blondie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmzwzDTpf0k
And in what must be a first in over 100 episodes of the Old Fellas podcast, we have a performer who is also a ventriloquist! Vibeke performs with a penguin , Punguin.
There’s lots of Puguin on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/the_punguin/
Whole-Hearted 
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