Just made it before Thanksgiving ended. Best laid plans, right? Studio meltdown at just the right time but all is again operational. Wishing that all have had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. Consider this episode a bonus for letting us into your head in the first place. More from the Plant/Krauss album, something brand new from old pal James Deely and the legendary Dion, who has never made a record I didn’t eventually like, the blistering new album from Gov’t Mule gets us to classic Savoy Brown. Jah Wobble, Erin McKeown, The Professionals, Strand Of Oaks, and Kurt Elling are in the New Release Bin and Miles Davis completes the “Lost Trilogy” with perhaps his only live recording of a Herbie Hancock treasure with Herbie on stage with 30 days left before his Transition. We say a prayer for brilliant drummer Billy Conway of Morphine and discover another lost treasure as Meters’ guitarist Leo Nocentelli unearthed the genre shift Another Side, which was believed to have been destroyed by Katrina. With 4 years past we also remember Tommy Keene and so much more, including an 80th Birthday mini-tribute for Jesse Colin Young. Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for listening.
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As we approach the milestone of 150 Episodes I must confess this has been much more than a simple show for yours truly. Actually, it has been a vehicle to help reset the brain and stimulate memory after the wallop suffered by R-EPOCH Chemo. I thank every one of you for taking the ride and am happy to report that I feel better than I have in a very long time. New releases are everywhere and you will hear previously unreleased vault material from Elvis and Joni Mitchell (with and without James Taylor) immediately. In the brand new dept. NRBQ returns, Nick Piunti, The Weeklings, Inhaler, The Fixx, Nada Surf, Explorers Club, The The, Susanna Hoffs, The War On Drugs and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss join the fun with a stunning new record. Also a heartfelt tribute to Neal Casal and we hear the final musical gift from the brilliant Lyle Mays. Our romp through the massive library yields the expected wide assortment of sounds tying everything together. Thanks for listening, your support and encouragement. I wish I could give all of you a hug. If you can (https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8EAHQADmvJ).
Episode 148 comes after a very hectic week of studio remodeling, which is why it missed the planned release of Friday. There will be a deluge of new stuff in the next installment while we use this one as something akin to a giant musical exhale. Bowie, A Girl Called Eddy, David Sylvian and Prefab Sprout set the tone, but we also highlight the amazing playing of Danny Gatton, Miles Davis, Charles McPherson, Radiohead and more. There’s a new things from Neil Young (with Crazy Horse) and Elvis Costello, Ray Charles rocking some Stevie Wonder, old pal Syd Straw, Steve Gibbons, Dinosaur Jr., The Undisputed Truth, Peter Gabriel, Grand Funk Railroad, Swan Dive, Humble Pie and a ton more. Art Damage says goodbye to Graeme Edge and we have a new spot for donations (for a month) at https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8EAHQADmvJ. Thanks for all your support and most of all for listening.
Now this episode is the first that I truly consider a full and complete show. Clocking in at six hours, it is the first time in over 3 years that I have been able to do a regular six hour show. After doing two of these a day for 17 years, it was something I needed to do, proving to myself I still can. Honestly, there is no way I could do even one every day but that is fine. Small victories must be celebrated, so we hitch our wagon to the Induction of Todd Rundgren to the RRHOF and Suzy Creamcheese files a report from Cleveland. We also bid a fond farewell to one of the true masters of Jazz, guitarist Pat Martino, a player that other players were in awe of, as much for his humanity as his chops. There’s plenty of new things, including The War On Drugs, Mount Westmore, Voka Gentle, Spoon, The The, Jackson Browne, Liily, Aaron and the Lord, Joe Bonamassa, Tori Amos, Dave Hause and more. Last chance to donate at the original location which gets shut down on 11/8 (https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR). Thanks so much for your generosity, support and most of all, your ears.
It has been one hell of a week and considering the last few years, here’s to hoping we can put the brakes on before everything crashes apart. There is no politics in this episode, it simply is getting too painful to go there anymore. It seems necessary to let music stand alone in order to have any chance of letting the magic take hold and lift the spirit. A pair of “lifted spirits” get a farewell from Art Damage this time, groundbreaking humorist Mort Sahl and Jay Black, the otherworldly voice of Jay & The Americans. We also deal with the disturbing news that broke regarding Ken Stringfellow of one of our favorite bands, The Posies. We have Wilco covering The Beatles, The Raconteurs taking on James & Bobby Purify and new sounds from Simone Felice, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Shovels & Rope, Herbert, more from My Morning Jacket and the best new Elvis Costello track we’ve heard in ages. Joy Division prove to actually mix with The Captain & Tennille, Joining Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, The Velvettes, The Chameleons, Peter Murphy, Psychedelic Furs, Fila Brazillia, Pink Floyd, Morphine, Marvin Gaye, Primal Scream, Jethro Tull and plenty more. Thanks for all the love at https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR. Most of all, thanks for being out there.
Somehow we left an entire set out of Episode #145, still don't know how it happened. Please accept my apologies and here is the set in question.
This episode contains all the elements of the specialty programming we have been doing in The Basement over the past few months. On the new release front we get into Negativland, Jack White, My Morning Jacket, Billy Strings, Negativland, Jesse Malin, Jamestown Revival, Kevin Morby with Hamilton Leithauser, Tom Morello, Maria Muldaur, Nina Simone, Offset 5, The dB's, Newton Faulkner, Band Of Horses, Sunflower Bean and Thea Gilmore’s new Afterlight identity. A proper farewell to Commander Cody is made, Uncle Biff reveals more info regarding PROGADELIC while offering sounds from Caravan, The Flower Kings, Spock's Beard and more, yet we still manage some time for Alejandro Escovedo, Billy Bragg & Wilco, The National, Spoon, Robert Plant, Son Volt, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Lemonheads, The Cure, The Alarm and a bunch more.
In November the system we have been using to receive donations is closing (https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR) so another vehicle to accept donations is high on the list, you have until November 7 to use https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR). Please know that our gratitude is beyond the pale with the truly wonderful and beyond generous support received. All of us love you, even those of us not technically breathing. 
This massive release of “Let It Be” and the buzz surrounding the video footage coming soon have Fabs fans like yours truly all fluttering with anticipation. You would think we have seen and heard it all by now but speaking strictly for myself, you would be wrong. Even at 65 I look forward to examining each new tidbit that emerges from the vault. Expect to hear some of them during FTB144. Other new arrivals this time include Low, BADBADNOTGOOD, Far Caspian, Fischer-Z , Spearmint, James Blake, Kurt Elling, Offset 5, The Specials, We Are Scientists, Electric Lady Big Band, Santana (with Steve Winwood), Lizard Music, Jon Batiste, Vanishing Twin and more. The library took a pounding trying to keep up offering up The Lightning Seeds, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, The Go-Betweens, Hem, Fountains Of Wayne, The Kinks, The Del Fuegos, David Bowie, Tony Bennett & Count Basie, Dr. Lonnie Smith & David 'Fathead' Newman, Jimmy McGriff, David Ruffin, Marvin Gaye, Funkadelic, Frank Zappa, De La Soul, Porgy & The Monarchs and more and even a sealed 1975 splice editor! Thanks for listening and supporting this effort. We are living in crazy times. Keep your head down but your mind and vision on a better day ahead. Listen to more music, it helps. Speaking of which https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR.
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Whew… October 9 is generally a very busy day in my world, not only is it the birthday of John and Sean Ono Lennon, Jackson Browne and my Grandfather and namesake, who I unfortunately never met, it is also my wife’s birthday. I am a lucky guy and I don’t mean financially or to boast, but I think now more than ever we need to celebrate the gifts we have received to offset the welling panic of the last two years. We got married in 1980. We lost a cornerstone of our culture that year. Since my new bride shared this Birthday, even if I wasn’t a massive fan there would never be any danger of me forgetting it. I had already sewn up the other date by getting married on my Mother’s Birthday. So no matter what happened in our new life together, I had two of the largest potential marital infractions covered. BTW can you believe Sean is 46?!? On #143 we wish all of the above a “Happy” and dig into new stuff from Tears For Fears, Theo Croker, Lizard Music, The War On Drugs, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jason Isbell, John Paul White, The Temptations (with Smokey Robinson), Shelby Lynne, Jesse Malin, Lala Lala (with Ben Gibbard) and Strand Of Oaks. As a bonus, Art Damage has a new “Damage Report” on collecting music but not touching it and the scarcity of humanity as the algorithm is in charge. Thanks for listening, as always and your support. Tip jar is here: https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR
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Basement After Dark is always about an inner journey through many different styles of sound. This episode serves in part as a remembrance of the great Dr. Lonnie Smith. He recently transitioned with his extraordinary gifts to bring peace and musical love beyond Earth. There is also an abundance of new things explored with releases from Theo Croker, Nolan Potter, Mac McCaughan, Sufjan Stevens &Angelo De Augustine, The Specials, John Sebastion and Arlen Roth (which winds up leading into some Spoonful covers), Esperanza Spalding and Tori Amos. The whole trip starts with The Moody Blues and their commercial for Coke. Thanks for your ears and the continued support at https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR
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Right at the start of one of my favorite movies, Kyle MacLachlan intones "It's a strange world, isn't it." It's not a question, more a statement of wonder. Next week is a class reunion for my High School Class of 1974 and I won't be attending. To be honest I have never made it to one in the past but this year I was considering it as we find ourselves home in N.J. after 26 years away. There are simply too many former classmates that have been absorbed by the cult of stupid and with a daughter in great peril due to her immune disorder, I am not willing to risk it. We are not willing to risk our daughter's health for anything. It hit us hard this week that there's still a lot of time to go before our society and culture get back to normal, and just what is normal in 2021? I say, "Fuck it. I'm locking myself in the studio and playing music to help my battered psyche get through the drama and discord of what is a very strange world indeed." New stuff from Billy Strings, The Connells, Manic Street Preachers, Roger Chapman, Paul Carrack, Fantastic Negrito, Gonzalo Rubalcaba with Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette, Jose Gonzalez, Southern Energy Ensemble, The Lumineers, Heartless Bastards, Dion, Mathew E White, Wesley Stace, Kasim Sulton, The Crushing Violets, Damon Albarn and The long awaited Velvet Underground tribute and Dylan's latest Bootleg Box. That's just the new stuff! Scattered throughout these 5 hours you will find a wealth of rarities, obscure and obvious, favorites and new to you sounds carefully hand placed throughout the ride. Buckle up and thanks for listening and please continue to support the show through https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR Love to all.
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This episode of BAD was a pure exercise of letting go and following a stream of consciousness in search of the elusive “radio muse.” Trusting the first instinct and taking a leap of faith, there were a few things I needed to get to, like the new track from The War On Drugs which starts us off, some Hendrix to mark his “death day,” a bit From Gang Of Four live in NYC in ‘82, a new My Morning Jacket track and Jason Isbell’s R.E.M. cover. All of that was happily accomplished and the entire ride took some twists - Walter Cronkite being bookended by Mighty Lemon Drops and Lee Michaels? Works for me. Also new things from Aoife O'Donovan, Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney, Willa Amai and Bob Perry, a chat with Peter and Mike from REM, Lou Reed live and very talkative, The Dean Ween Group, Lenny Bruce and plenty more. Hope you enjoy the show as much as we enjoy your support at https://paypal.me/pools/c/8beKwFWlHR
The latest episode is centered around the brilliant new album from Slothrust.
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