Desolation Angel Radio
Music has it’s own spirit, soul and life. It’s a part of us, and tells our story, gives us a soundtrack, when we let it.
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Episodes
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
Wednesday Dec 19, 2012
The show hit the air, and it delivered this:
The Band - It Makes No Difference
Bruce - Rocky Ground
Shooter Jennings - Breaking Point
John Legend & The Roots (w/ Common) - Wake Up, Everybody
Waylon Jennings - It's The World Gone Crazy (Cotillion)
The Neville Brothers - One Love/People Get Ready/Sermon
Van Morrison - In The Garden/You Send Me/Allegheny
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
This particular one, I'm going to ask, plead with you, that you share with your friends, that you listen to what's here, and spread the word.
Thank you for being part of the Desolation Angel family, for being a member of the congregation of the high church of rock and roll, and supporting music, and these artists and bands. It's important in this day and age of corporate homogenization. Please remember to share this freely and often as many ways as you can; FB, Twitter, Google +, email and all the different and various ways of communicating, and remember to go to these band's web stores and buy their CD's and go see them live.
Peace
Kip
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
Wednesday Dec 12, 2012
The Tuesday night service hit the airwaves, and delivered hard, to the heart and the gut:
Kevin Gordon - Gloryland
The Damn Quails - Midnight Swagger
Matt King - Shantytown
The Lone Bellow - You Never Need Nobody
Tom Skinner - Out on Dentonville
Chris Knight - In The Mean Time
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Dress Blues
Patterson Hood - (unspoken pretties)
Cross Canadian Ragweed - 17
Reckless Kelly - Weatherbeaten Soul
Otis Gibbs - Small Town Saturday Night
As always, thanks for being a listener and supporter of independent radio, and independent musicians. Please share this as many different ways as you know how.
Kip
Friday Dec 07, 2012
Friday Dec 07, 2012
The broadcast network went down on Thursday night, but there was still a show, and it sizzled:
Grant Lee Phillips - Thunderbird
Will Hoge - American Dream
John Fullbright - Moving
Shovels & Rope - Hail, Hail
The Mastersons - Tell Me Its Allright
The Deadstring Borthers - Talkin' Born Blues
The Detroit Cobras - The Real Thing
Ryan Dillaha - Comfort Me
The Howling Diablos - Xmas in Jail
The Believers - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Heart On A String
JJ Grey & Mofro - Tupelo Honey
Graham Parker & The Rumour - Three Chords Good
Thanks for supporting the show, for being a loyal and faithful listener and supporting artists like these and music like this, it's important, more than you know. Keep on rockin' in the free world, boys and girls. Remember that ratings, comments, interaction is always appreciated, and remember that this is one of only 9 independent broadcasts left in the United States, support the artists here and keep it commercial, sponsor and advertiser free by sharing this as many ways as humanly possible in this day and age of social media - FB, Twitter, Google +, email, smoke signals, tin cans on a string, whatever and however you can.
Peace
Kip
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
Wednesday Dec 05, 2012
The Tuesday night rock and roll flying circus, rodeo and tent revival hit the airwaves and nailed it, thanks to a playlist that included:
The Band - the preshow was a lot of unreleased material from the The Last Waltz, including the long, long jam that occurred at the end of the night
The show concentrated on a couple of themes. It's well known that yes, I theme Tuesdays. We spent almost a year going back to Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Son House, Elmore James, Lightning Hopkins, Bo Diddley and the like. People like Townes VanZandt, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie, Waylon, Kris and Johnny are heard here often, but the question is this. How did a long-haired 16 year old in 1974 in the Midwest get turned on to the blues and country to begin with? Simple, it was the major bands of the era, and you know what. 2012 has been as great a year as any year in the mid-70's:
John Fogerty - Hey Tonight
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Swamp Music
The Allman Brothers Band - Done Somebody Wrong
The Eagles - Doolin Dalton
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Wanna Rock and Roll
American Aquarium - Cape Fear River
Reckless Kelly - Back In the USA
Cody Canada & The Departed - Hobo
Lucero - Women and Work
North Mississippi Allstars - Rollin' and Tumblin'
As always, thanks for supporting the show, the artists and the music. It's really about that - the music - and supporting those folks who come through your town, and getting out to see people live, buying their music, keeping them eating. Please share this as many ways as humanly possible; FB, Twitter, Google +, Reddit, email. I thank you personally for your continued support.
Kip
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Friday Nov 30, 2012
Fellow members of the high church of rock and roll, fellow members of the congregation of soulfullness, roots and truth, brothers and sisters of the gospel of the Desolation Angel, the Thursday night service was held, souls were saved through the salvation of 3-bar blues, songwriting, 4 chords, a head on an amp with the voltage turned down, gritty down to saturate those tubes and the message was delivered:
The pre-show, if you tuned in, was some old Dire Straits, and some old Allman Brothers straight off the boards.
Jerry Jeff Walker - Tryin' To Hold The Wind Up With A Sail
Townes VanZandt - Lungs
Gram Parsons - Streets of Baltimore
Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go 'Round
JD Mcpherson - Dimes for Nickels
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nichols - Wreck and Ruin
Whitey Morgan & The 78's - Long Road Home
Doop & The Inside Outlaws - Sittin' Here
Chris Dupont - A Thousand Miles
Tom Russell - The Death of Jimmy Martin
John Prine - Jesus, The Missing Years
The White Buffalo - The Whistler
Thanks so much for being part of what we're doing here. Whether you know it, or not, you're part of a revolution in music. The independent broadcasters, like this one, are trying to keep the music and the songs alive and keep the corporate labels and radio stations from swallowing music whole and turning it all into pod-people, cookie cutter, sound alike music, and by listening you're supporting that. Now, as the producer, director and host of the program, I don't charge you for landing here on the podcast site and listening to the music, or jumping the live feed into the studio during the broadcast, but what I'd like you to do is to share this as many ways as humanly possible; FB, Twitter, Google +, email and get the word out. I can depend on you to do that, can't I?
Peace,
Kip
Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
Wednesday Nov 28, 2012
Desolation Angel Radio rolled on into town on Tuesday, and we hit it hard -
The pre-show - Gary Clark Jr., if you've not heard this young man, I've got bootlegs and music straight off his soundboard that most folks don't have, and a more fitting artist to play on what was Jimi Hendrix's 70th birthday, you couldn't find.
The show itself:
Steve Forbert - Baby, I Know
Mike June & The Wilson Street Refugees - Hey, Woody Guthrie
John Wesley Harding - There's a Starbucks (Where A Starbucks Used To Be)
Chatham County Line - Route 23
Rodriguez - Inner City Blues
Gary Clark Jr. - Glitter Ain't Gold
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Outfit
CW Ayon - End of My Rope
The Believers - Railroad Spikes and Shotgun Shells
Will Hoge - Jesus Came To Tennessee
Thanks for being part of the revolution in radio, in broadcasting, in music. Thanks for supporting independent broadcasters who won't take advertisers and sponsors, won't let ClearChannel dictate their playlists. Thanks for supporting artists who won't play by the big 3 labels rules. Share this as many ways as you possibly can; FB, Twitter, Google +, Email. That's the price I ask of you for putting the show together and broadcasting it, nothing more, and it's not much of anything to ask from you if you enjoy the music and the show. Please don't just consider doing it, but do it, and support the music.
Kip
Friday Nov 23, 2012
Friday Nov 23, 2012
Thursday night, Thanksgiving night, we hit the air live, and did the second show of Desolation Angel Radio anniversary week, wrapped around my birthday, and the holiday weekend. The playlist ranged all over the map:
Pre-show: - Jason Isbell (Live in Alabama) - Danko/Manuel
The show:
Graham Parker and The Rumour - Long Emotional Ride
Lucero - On My Way Downtown
Lindi Ortega - Murder of Crows
Tin Pan - Summertime
Chris Knight - Nothing On Me
The Skels - Come Hell or Highwater
Uncle Lucius - Pocket Full of Misery
The Rev. Peyton's Big Damn Band - Shake "em Off Like Fleas
Tift Merritt - Still Not Home
Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - She Has Her Moments
Flogging Molly - This Present State of Grace
Ryan Bingham - Flower Bomb
Thank for being a member of the faithful, for being part of the congregation of the high church of Rock and Roll, where we know that the gospel of the Desolation Angel reaches down into the soul, and connects everyone through music, through rock and roll, through roots, blues, country, bluegrass, mountain music, through passion, authenticity, musicianship, craftsmanship, raw, true, close to the bone and down in the blood music.
Please share this if you're a regular listener, through email, FB, Twitter, Google +, however you can. In this day and age of corporate control of labels, and national computerized playlists on ClearChannel radio stations, it's desperately important to these artists, bands and musicians to get their music out there, and this is the model that's working to do it. Thank you in advance for doing that. Thank you for another great year at Desolation Angel Radio, and in my life, you're the ones who really make it all happen, and it is all for you.
Peace out,
Kip
Wednesday Nov 21, 2012
Wednesday Nov 21, 2012
Hello there. Desolation Angel Radio hit the airwaves on Tuesday night and we had us a time. It's anniversary week here at the show, and Wednesday is my 55th birthday, and there's that whole Thursday thing going on. It would have been tremendously easy to take the night off, phone this one in, do a "where it came from" or "best of" show with a playlist that I'd slapped together in 3 minutes. . .but that's not how I roll, nor is it how the show rolls. . .and as it turned out, if you haven't been listening lately, or if you want to get a flavor for what the show is, or want to turn a friend onto Desolation Angel Radio. . .this would be the one:
The Rolling Stone - Tumbling Dice
Cody Canada & The Departed - Worth The Fight
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - The Red, Red Dirt of Home
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Train Yard
Rosie Flores - Little But I'm Loud
American Aquarium - Abe Lincoln
Lilly Hiatt & The Dropped Ponies - Big Bad Wolf
Bow Thayer - Wingless Angels
Gretchen Peters - Woman On The Wheel
Frank Turner - Reasons Not To Be An Idiot
The Band (previously unreleased, straight off the boards at The Last Waltz) - The Weight
Bruce - Atlantic City
Thanks to you, this show has an anniversary week. Thanks to you, these artists, these bands, these songs - all get more ears and more attention paid to what they're doing. Thanks to you, Desolation Angel Radio exists, and I thank you - personally, sincerely and from the bottom of my heart for making it what it is, and for supporting the show, and this type of music.
I had a friend (well, several friends, actually) who were listening last night, and said after it was over "this is the show, the episode I"m using to introduce people to the show, it rocked". Thank you. Share this as many ways as possible. Send the link in email, use the Share button. Share it on all your social media - on FB, on Twitter, on Google +, using email, but let's continue to spread the full tilt boogie, pedal to metal, balls out rock and roll gospel of the Desolation Angel.
Kip