"Josh and Jordy Get the Blues"



Jordan and I got a pretty bad case of the blues, so I pulled out my slide guitar for this program. After checking into Rob Stoner's "Hotel 1-2-3," we woke unexpectedly from the "Night Dream Blues." The "Steel Guitar Rag" provided some relief, but after setting out "Across the Borderline"(Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) we found ourselves "Buried Alive in the Blues" by Nick Gravenites. We took another detour with my instrumental, "Lemurs and Chameleons" before accepting that the blues really are the only friend you can always count on with Steve Earle's "My Old Friend the Blues."

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All right, folks. Here's episode 5. This podcast is a work in progress, a chance to experiment, a chance to play and be heard. This is our first episode in the ubiquitous mp3 format, which we hope will allow more of you to more easily tune into our podcasts and listen.



Episode 5 is good fun, as usual. Kim and Jordan join me for a 25 minute set of music, beginning with "Labor of Love" and then moving from Peter Stampfel's "If You Want to Be a Bird" and Lieber and Stoller's "Framed and Riot in Cell Block #9" to Daniel Lanois's "Under the Stormy Sky," our "Rolling Blackout Blues," and concluding with Kim doing an a capella version of Tracy Nelson's "Down So Low" followed by a duet of Junoon's "Ghoom Tana."

This show will take you somewhere.

Part of the experiment, by the way, is setting up a nice format for this podcast, and making it easier for you to subscribe. We'll keep you posted on how to do that in the new format here.

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The fourth in our series of band performance podcasts is now available. We're going to keep them coming twice a month, so get tuned in and stay tuned!

This episode hear Kim and me joined by our solid-in-the-groove percussionist Jordan Russ and our good friend Vince Snyder tearing it up on mandolin and harmonica.

This show begins with the so-sad-it's-funny "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" and gets better with every song. Kim sings about her longing for a life on the range in "Down Home Cowboy," and then I sing an up song about feeling down, my "Real Down Blues." The "Bird of Paradise" flies in from Rhodesia after that, followed by a raucous "Rag Mop" and finally "I Want a Roof Over My Head and Bread on the Table" which Kim copped from Helen Humes.

I promise you'll love the show.

P.S. This will be the last of our AAC file shows for a while, as we'll move to the more accessible MP3 format starting with episode 5. So if you don't have iTunes and are having trouble playing this show and the previous three, do tune in again on December 15th and beyond and have another shot at listening.

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Our third podcast is up. In this episode you will hear me on guitars and vocals, Kim singing too, and Jordan on djembe.

We open the show with Ponte Bone's "Frio City Road Polka," which is one of the more inexplicable and fun songs we know, and take it from there:"Never Let Me Go," an acoustic take on our "Pirates at the Helm," and Kim doing Lil Green's gem "Give Your Mama One Smile"; plus I sing "Drive All Night," and we end with the Danny O'Keefe ecologically oriented completion of a song Bob Dylan started but left half finished, "Well Well Well."

Happy listening!

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Here's our second podcast. Download and enjoy! And drop us a line to let us know what you think.

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Here's a link to our first podcast episode. I'm still learning how to set up the RSS feed which will allow you to subscribe to our show, but enjoy this for now, and stay posted for updates on how to subscribe, and also new shows.

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