Desolation Angel Radio

Desolation Angel Radio on Outlaw Radio Chicago Jan. 26th

Thursday night's live broadcast is neatly wrapped up into a podcast here for your listening pleasure if you missed it, or if you want to hear it again.
Remember, every Thursday over on Outlaw Radio Chicago, and every week or two weeks the regular 2 1/2 hour Desolation Angel Radio podcast (new one below). Thank for being a listener and a supporter of the music.
Kip

Mr. Zimmerman, I presume. . . . .

Welcome back for another edition of the Desolation Angel Radio Show podcast. This week, a full load of songs from the Chimes of Freedom - The Songs of Bob Dylan that dropped this week; 80 artists, 4 discs, so helping yourself to 5 cuts or so of artists doing Bob their way is a goooood appetizer. Johnny Cash with the Avett Brothers, Seal and Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Adele, Dave Matthews Band, Eric Burdon and the list goes on.
A full 2 blocks of home-grown Michigan Talent. The entire roster of the Inside Outlaws; Doop & The Inside Outlaws, String of Ponies, Pat V. & The Detroit 3. Jeni Lee Richey & The Great Tribulation, The Deadstring Brothers and the Broken Arrow Blues Band round it out.
The normal, eclectic mix. Close to bone music; raw, passionate, authentic and real. Artists and bands who will not compromise, no matter what, and stay true to their muse and the voice inside that drives them to make the music they do. People like Grayson Capps, Anders Osborne, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, William Elliot Whitmore, Rich Robinson, Danny Barnes, Kevin Gordon and the list just keeps on going.
All the authenticity and passion that you can handle in 2 1/2 hours worth of a radio show, and it will be impossible to sit still in your chair. Fire it up, download, play it in the pop-up, open it in a separate tab and just keep on rolling with your day.
My thanks, as always, for my life being as good as it is, and for all of you, loyal listeners and music aficionado's who listen to folks who care about their art and the contribution it makes to the human soul. Let's keep these artists and bands working and eating so they can continue to give to the world what they do.
As per normal, and it's probably entirely insane, this broadcast costs you nothing and isn't advertiser or sponsor supported. I'm the CEO, musical director, technical director, producer and host and I'm the funding for it, so the price is simple. Share this, share the living shit out of it. Share it on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, through e-mail; however you can. Leave some comments and some ratings, I love interacting with y'all.
Remember that this podcast is now available on iTunes, just go to the iTunes store, to podcasts and search my name, Kip Williams or Desolation Angel Radio. It's yours free to subscribe to and download. Find me on Facebook; Kip Williams or The Desolation Angel or Music That Doesn't Suck Canal Water. Follow me on Twitter where I'm kip_williams, or on Google +. You're always welcome to this party.
Thanks,
Peace out
Kip

Rollin' on down the line. . . . .

Desolation Angel Radio 2012
The regular weekend show is back after the holiday/end of the year/football frenzy hiatus and is smokin' hot. Hip-shakin', blood-roiling, can't stay still in your seat music starting 2012 off right and hitting on all cylinders. The music you're used to from DR Radio; true, authentic, passionate, raw, real, close to the bone, down in the blood music made by artists who absolutely will not compromise.
Blocks of music from blues women, outlaw country, renegade rock and rollers that speak to where we're at, who we are and the thing that unites all of us, the human spirit. Enjoy, share the hell out of it, and thanks for being a listener and supporter.

2011 in review. . . . .

This edition takes on the year past, and looks at some of the fantastic music that came out in 2011. There were a lot of great releases, and music that flew under the radar, but by the end of the year was bubbling to the top and more and more "mainstream" folks were getting a chance to hear it. This list is by no means definitive, or a "best of" piece of crap. It's almost impossible to do a "best of". All music is completely dependent on the moment you hear it, what's going on around you, what memories may be associated with it, and is also dependent on what came out ahead of it, or after it. It's just a list of the music that I enjoyed in 2011, the stuff that came out this year that made it into constant rotation in the truck, on my home system, on the computer and on my playlists. Thanks for being a constant and loyal listener, and thanks for helping get these artists more widely known and out there.
Peace out,
The Desolation Angel
Kip

The hills are calling, and it sounds like the blues

This week is firmly rooted in the Hill Country of North Mississippi, with a taste of Memphis, some Red Dirt, some definite Detroit sweat and blood, an entire serving of New Orleans funk and swamp and the usual suspects from underground Country and XXX artists and bands.
Blocks from the North Mississippi Allstars and their bloodline: Junior Kimbrough and Otha Turner, along with the Hill Country Revue.
NOLA being represented by Anders Osborne, Amanda Shaw, The Rebirth Brass Brand, Trombone Shorty, Brian Stultz and more.
Detroit being paid respect to by Doop and The Inside Outlaws, Pat V. and The Detroit 3, String of Ponies and Screamray
Red Dirt from Stoney Larue and Mike McClure
XXX artists like The Drive-By Truckers and Dave Alvin
All for you, and all music that's passionate, intense, raw, true, authentic and close to the bone and blood.
Share the hell of out of this using the little Green share button below, Share it on Facebook, Twitter and anywhere you can, it's not about me, it's about these artists and this music, and as always, thanks for being a fan, for listening and taking the time.
The Desolation Angel
Kip

Where it came from . . . .

Where it all came from, the playlist that runs inside the Desolation Angel's head all the time. Music from the '70's that was happening in my life at the time when I was the kid hanging out down at Boogie Records and ripping and running on the roads, backroads and byways of West Michigan. The stuff you may not readily remember.
What you won't hear this week, because I'm under the assumption that anyone who's a serious student of  music already owns every cut or has heard every cut from: The Beatles, Hank Sr., Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Janis, Jimi, The Sun Studios catalog, the Chess Studios catalog, The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd or The Allman Brothers. They're important, they're critical and they're foundational.
What you will hear, the stuff that was always playing, on vinyl, on my turntable, and formed the foundation, the elements of my musical education. The "other" stuff. Enjoy, it's not nostalgia, it's like a class in American music and what it was like to grow up in West Michigan.
Peace out,
The Desolation Angel
Kip

Earn it. . .every day. . .every way

Earn it, every day, in every way. This week's show full of artists and bands that have earned it, and keep earning it every day. Go see a show by any one of the folks here this week and you won't find pyro, lasers or a B and C screen video. Hell, their lighting trusses are even simple. What you get is hard working people who know that you work hard too, and spent your hard earned money on their show, or their CD, and they appreciate it, and give every ounce of blood, sweat, energy and passion they can and make you feel like they know you.
Still the only show on the radio that can bring you authentic, raw, passionate, real, down to the bone and close to the blood music. The only show on the radio that can combine Chris Isaak, Hank III, Bob Seger, Tom Waits, Kid Rock, Lyle Lovett, The Kentucky Headhunters, Dave Alvin, Grand Funk and huge chunks of unsigned, underappreciated bands and and make it work. Full blocks of XXX Outlaw artists, Inside Outlaw bands, the roster of Top Dog Records, Bloodshot records, Farmageddon records, Michigan bands and Texas Songwriters.
Thanks for being a listener or a subscriber. Click Play in Pop-up, Listen Now, or download it from here or iTunes (available as free subscription). Remember to comment, rate it, and most importantly share the living shit out of this on Facebook, Twitter, or through e-mail.
You can always friend me Kip Williams on Facebook, or kip_williams on Twitter, or Like the broadcast on Music that Doesn't Suck Canal Water, or The Desolation Angel.
No cheesy Halloween show shit here, just real music.
Peace out,
Kip

Why they do what they do. . . .

This week's show includes a big Mitten (Michigan block) and a big block of XXX Outlaw artists, both in the second half of the show: The Great Tribulation, Rachel Brooke, String of Ponies, Doop and the Inside Outlaws, Ty, Scott H. Biram, Hellbound Glory, High or Hellwater, Have Gun Will Travel, Jimbo Mathus, Nick 13 and more.
I was asked why do what I do. Good question, why? It's simple, really. These artists don't get played on commercial radio, don't get played anywhere except satellite or the Internet, and they don't compromise. They're visceral, real, authentic, passionate, raw and every other adjective in that vein I can think of. They deserve it. I do it, because I can't hear the music I love, unless I do this (and I think you'll love too), or at the least, a very small number, a very few Internet stations that do it too. I do it because the music "industry", is just that, an industry. They couldn't care less whether or not they were selling you cans of tomato soup, boots or a CD; to them it's all about profit margin, units moved and using their consultants and profilers to make sure that the "product" they're pushing fits the right parameters, has the right notes, in the right sequence that have been focus group tested to make sure that it will sell the maximum number of units, period. Most music industry executives don't think much of you, don't think much of their musicians and bands, don't know that much about music, and don't know shit about rock and roll, and in fact, know that the particular product they're hyping isn't worth a heaping, smelly pile of dung, but it's all about the corporate profit margin.
So that's why I do what I do, make sure that people who haven't been bought and sold by the system get played and get heard, and for that, I can only thank you all for a growing listenership who appreciates real music, good music and understands that American roots music; music that touches on the blues, on rock and roll, on country, on bluegrass and gospel is the most important form of art that American culture has ever produced.
The first half of the show pretty much will twist your head around and whip back and forth between the blues and roots music that touches on the American landscape. Incredible songwriters like Joe Henry and Tom Russell. Musicians like Steve Cropper, B.B. King, Garland Jeffreys, John Doe, Gary Clark, Jr., Ryan Adams and more. Bands like American Taxi and musicians like Jim McCarty, they're all here this week. A long gone forgotten cut from The Hourglass Band, Duane and Greg's first band and one you may have forgotten about from Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on tour with Eric Clapton.
Thanks for being a listener and supporter, thanks for being part of something that is important, real and vital.
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Peace out,
Kip