Show #325
Time: Saturday 07 November 2009 at:
US Pacific: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 08 November 2009 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: Built to Spill, *There Is No Enemy* (2009) . . . its been 3.5 years since this show featured BTS's last album, the fine, fine *You in Reverse* . . . this Idaho band's new release is every bit as good and, frankly, the song "Things Fall Apart" is one of 2009's best rock songs, period . . .

Classic Rock Album: Billy Joel, *Streetlife Serenade* (1974) . . . Joel's follow-up to his smash album *Piano Man*, this one is fairly well forgotten 35 years later, yet it is a beautiful rocking experience, and shows Joel still forming his ideas about fame, music, romance, and the world he sees around him . . . personally, this was one of several LPs of Joel's that as a teenager I played till they wore out . . . so i've LONG known it's good . . .

Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-eight of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Troggs, the '60s UK band that gave the world "Wild Thing" have a few other fine tunes to offer . . . the days crawl toward year's end . . . the air cools, deepens, the pockets way in soul open up for the mulling, if one wishes and wills and dares . . .

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Show #326
Time: Saturday 14 November 2009 at:
US Pacific: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 15 November 2009 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: The Avett Brothers, *I and Love and You* (2009) . . . I've been following this North Carolina band for awhile now, waiting till they released an album that floored me from start to finish . . . their new one does that . . . it is haunted music, haunted by love, by loss, by guilt, by life's mysteries . . . beautiful music, with many acoustic highlights mixed in with some rockers . . . holds nothing back, exhausting, exhilirating . . .

Classic Rock Album: Harry Chapin, *Verities & Balderdash* (1974) . . . aside from being another album whose music & maker I idolized in my late youth--in a recent run of them on this show--a deep bag of stories of the lonely & wanting--this album also poses to me a question: what is psychedelic music? Can it be as simple as music that strives for clearer vision, for empathy, for more kindness and deeper understanding? And if this music moves the soul, its melody sticking deep, its lyrics sharp, how can this not be psychedelic music? I leave it an open question. . .

Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-eight of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Sopwith Camel, & songs from this nearly forgotten San Francisco band's 1967 trippy debut album . . . mid-November is a time of inward looking, sweet melancholy, the leaves fall, the years pass, the faces change, come and go, and sometimes come again, and at best there is gratefulness in reminisce, and hope yet for days to come . . .

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Show #327
Time: Saturday 21 November 2009 at:
US Pacific: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 22 November 2009 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: The Cave Singers, *Welcome Joy* (2009) . . . this fairly new Seattle band has gotten the tag "indie folk" but what I hear is some fine, fine rock and roll with an acoustic angle at times . . . their sound is rich with warm and varied, their lyrics strange & moving . . . lifting music to raise a spirit or two when the drizzly days in the Pacific Northwest (and elsewhere) go on too, too long . . .

Classic Rock Album: Grant Lee Buffalo, *Mighty Joe Moon* (1994) . . . this Los Angeles band made rockers and ballads comparable to their more well-known 1990s contemporaries R.E.M. (with whom they toured) but they did not receive as much praise nor did they last as long . . . this album rattles deep the soul & ears, full of haunted sounds & strange figures . . . night time music, music for woods & stars & movements not quite real flashing by . . .

Storybook Time: Epilogue to *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is The Monks (a group of wild American soldiers serving in Germany in the mid-1960s) & cuts from their raw, funny, gorgeous 1965 release, *Black Monk Time*, a lost underground classic worth reviving . . . this month lays back the odd lights & mystery heats that gird the daylight hours, sit underneath, powerful & unshackled . . . check your dreams more often . . .

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No show Nov 28 - next show Dec 5