New Music/CD Releases - January 06, 2009

3 weeks running and nothing significant to choose from...

Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
The Gourds - Haymaker!
Neil Sedaka - Waking Up Is Hard to Do
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Communion

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Over the Rhine: 20th Anniversary Celebration - The Taft Theatre/Cincinnati 12.19-21-2008

friday, december 19th - reunion of the original over the rhine (karin bergquist, linfird detweiler, brian kelley, ric hordinski)

there is so much to say about this band, this weekend, this show, their fans (my friends) that i know i won't do justice to it all.

first of all, what a brilliant, wonderful, and rocking evening of music. i think many "lesser" bands, that hadn't played together in over 12 years might have played it "safe" on this kind of "one-off" reunion gig.

OtR, did not play it safe. in fact, they stepped out.

they covered the bases with the tunes that were "expected" (ie: "required") by long time fans, but surprised many with the inclusion of; "conjectures, daddy, i painted..., a gospel number." in an evening of highlights, for me the standouts were; how does it feel (w/reprise), june, like a radio, and the incredible second set ending "if i'm drowning" with the classic one-by-one stage exits.

the band sounded excellent, it was hard to believe that they had not played together in front of an audience for well over a decade. there was a great vibe on stage, lots of smiling, laughing, great stories.

i'm not expecting for this to happen again anytime soon, but if it does, i sure as hell planning on being there.

SET ONE
Eyes Wide Open
How Does It Feel?
How Does It Feel? (Reprise)
Within Without (with Kim Taylor)
Like a Radio
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
June (with Kim Taylor, Jake, Kenny Hutson, and Julie Lee)
Circle of Quiet (with Kim and Julie)
Daddy Untwisted (with Kim and Julie)

SET TWO
Paul and Virginia (L&K with Jake, Kenny, Mickey, Kim, and Julie)
Poughkeepsie (same minus Mickey)
Mary's Waltz (L, K, Paul Patterson)
Silent Night (Duet) (L, K, Paul, Julie)
Faithfully Dangerous (with Jake)
A Gospel Number (with Jake, Kim, Juli)
All I Need Is Everything (with Jake, Kim, and Paul)
If I'm Drowning

ENCORE NUMBER ONE
My Love Is a Fever
I Painted My Name (with Kim and Julie)

ENCORE NUMBER TWO
Latter Days (L & K)
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? (with Jake)


saturday, december 20th

set one:
-born
-waste
-all i ever get
-white horse
-here it is
-world can wait
-message from jack
-if nothing else
-roll
-trumpet
-kiddin'

set two:
-ohio
-pro day
-bpd
-happy birthday to kim and kenny
-darlin'
-snow angel
-pull through
-northpole man
-tom
-when i go
++
-c&p
-changes come
++
-hush
-new redemption song

*the setlist shows bpd as the set opener and ohio as the second song, wonder if she just changed her mind?

great damn night of music.

and...Sunday, December 21, 2008
St. Elizabeth Church - Norwood, OH

I Want You to be My Love
Long Lost Brother
Suitcase
Anything At All
We're Gonna Pull Through
Bothered
[Kim Taylor] Days Like This *
[Julie Lee w/Jake & Kenny] Does the Road Wind Uphill **
Paul and Virginia
Poughkeepsie
Goodbye Charles
[Q and A]
Hush Now
Jack's Valentine
Cruel and Pretty

Karin Bergquist - vocals, guitar
Linford Detweiler - piano, guitar, vocals, bell
Kenny Hutson - guitar, dobro, mandolin, pedal steel
Jake Bradley - upright bass
Mickey Grimm - drums, percussion
Kim Taylor - vocals, guitar
Julie Lee - vocals, guitar
Nick Radina - congas

This show was the last of 3 concerts staged as part of Over the Rhine's 20th Anniversary and Christmas celebration.

this was truly a wonderful weekend of music, friendship and fun.

my year in music [concerts 2008]

my year in music, 34 shows, 6 states…

02.10 - cat power @ the vic (chicago)
02.23 - over the rhine w/ben sollee @ the bomhard theatre (louisville)
03.07 - tift merritt @ ear x-tacy (louisville)
03.11 - grace potter and the nocturnals @ headliner’s (louisville)
03.14 - over the rhine @ the ryman (nashville)
03.27 - cowboy junkies w/mary gauthier @ the clifton center (louisville)
04.17 - kathleen edwards @ headliner’s (louisville)
04.25 - over the rhine (w/julie lee) @ canal street tavern (dayton)
04.26 - over the rhine (w/julie lee) @ canal street tavern (dayton)
05.25 - over the rhine / ohio: in concert (cincinnati)
05.30 - over the rhine w/mary gauthier @ the variety playhouse (atlanta)
06.11 - alejandro escovedo (w/ben sollee) @ headliner’s (louisville)
06.13 - ellery @ the rudyard kipling (louisville)
06.14 - over the rhine @ the rapp granary (new harmony, IN)
07.05 - tom waits @ the fox theatre (atlanta)
07.18 - missy higgins @ ear x-tacy (louisville)
07.18 - missy higgins w/teneia sanders @ the phoenix hill tavern (louisville)
07.23 - over the rhine @ the fraze pavilion (dayton)
07.31 - wild sweet orange @ ear x-tacy (louisville)
09.13 - tift merritt @ the original highlands street fair (louisville)
10.04 - mieka pauley @ perkfection (jeffersonville, IN)
10.09 - eilen jewell @ the player’s pub (bloomington)
10.11 - over the rhine @ elk creek winery (owenton, KY)
10.12 - louisville songwriter’s showcase w/johnny berry, mickey clark, danny
flanigan, john gage, tim krekel, teneia sanders, leigh ann yost @ the
bomhard theatre (louisville)
10.12 - the watson twins @ the bomhard theatre (louisville)
10.21 - david byrne @ the palace theatre (louisville)
11.15 - john prine @ indiana university auditorium (bloomington)
11.23 – ralph stanley @ the CEA’s emery theatre (cincinnati)
12.11 – ben sollee, neva geoffrey, daniel martin moore @ the dame (lexington)
12.12 - over the rhine @ the bomhard theatre (louisville)
12.14 - grace potter @ the 20th century (cincinnati)
12.19 – over the rhine @ the taft theater (cincinnati)
12.20 – over the rhine @ the taft theater (cincinnati)
12.19 – over the rhine @ st. elizabeth’s (norwood/cincinnati)

top 5 non-OtR
07.05 - tom waits @ the fox theatre (atlanta)
10.21 - david byrne @ the palace theatre (louisville)
02.10 - cat power @ the vic (chicago)
11.15 - john prine @ indiana university auditorium (bloomington)
06.11 - alejandro escovedo (w/ben sollee) @ headliner’s (louisville)

top 3 OtR
12.19 – over the rhine @ the taft theater (cincinnati)
05.25 - over the rhine / ohio: in concert (cincinnati)
06.14 - over the rhine @ the rapp granary (new harmony, IN)

New Music/CD Releases - December 30, 2008

none, nada, zip, zilch.


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WFPK Winter Fundraiser - From the Jayhawks: Gary Louris & Mark Olson

WFPK Winter Fundraiser - From the Jayhawks: Gary Louris & Mark Olson

91.9 WFPK is proud to present Gary Louris and Mark Olson at Phoenix Hill Tavern on Sunday, February 15th at 8pm. This is a rare opportunity to catch Jayhawks frontmen Gary Louris and Mark Olson as they reunite in Louisville for the first time in more than ten years to benefit 91.9 WFPK.

Louris and Olson last shared a Louisville stage at Phoenix Hill Tavern in 1995. It is fitting that the two return to Phoenix Hill’s Saloon stage in support of their new collaboration “Ready for the Flood”.

Tickets for An Evening with Gary Louris and Mark Olson go on sale Saturday, December 20th at 10am at www.ticketweb.com, and ear X-tacy. Tickets will be available here at 619 South Fourth Street and at Phoenix Hill Tavern beginning Monday, December 22nd. Tickets are $15.00 (plus applicable service fees when purchased at www.ticketweb.com or ear X-tacy). Patrons must be 21 years old to attend.

For more information on 91.9 WFPK, please visit www.wfpk.org . For information on this event or for artist interviews, please contact Billy Hardison at bhardison@louisvillepublicmedia.org or (502) 814-6518.

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

1. This Tornado Loves You
2. The Next Time You Say Forever
3. People Got A Lotta Nerve
4. Polar Nettles
5. Vengeance Is Sleeping
6. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
7. Middle Cyclone
8. Fever
9. Magpie To The Morning
10. I'm An Animal
11. Prison Girls
12. Don't Forget Me
13. The Pharaohs
14. Red Tide
15. Marais La Nuit

Neko Case: Middle Cyclone

Neko Case will follow up 2006's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood," the best-selling album of her career, with "Middle Cyclone," due March 3 via Anti-.

New Music/CD Releases - December 23, 2008

BILL'S PICK OF THE WEEK
Well, like last week, there isn’t one. Looks like a good week to go back and catch up on a release you may have missed earlier…

21 December Tuesday
Fear The State - Against The Ropes
Savage - Savage Island
Sterling Simms - Yours, Mine & The Truth
Stephanie Smith - Not Afraid
Various Artists - Slumdog Millionaire [Soundtrack]

and remember, whenever possible buy your music directly from the artist(s) or your local independent record store. both could become endangered without your support.




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