October 26, 2009 - Show Postponed

Everything was all set for this week's show. John's guest was going to be Tony Gamble. I had some great music lined up including the premiere of a brand new song by Johnny B Irizarry and a very old song by Lou Luca. Johnny B had gotten all his friends to listen in and it was going to be a great show!

10 minutes before airtime, I check my email and see one from John Campbell. His car broke down again and he was being towed. The show would have to be postponed! Now I had to scramble to inform everyone that the show would not air. I got most of the people. but I'm sure I missed a few. Hopefully there won't be any problems next week and we can do then what we couldn't do now. One change for next week is that I will be on earlier. For the month of November, I will be on from 7:30-8:15pm.

(Since I don't have any pictures of John's car, I decided to use waves crashing on the Maine coast as today's picture since that image should convey how John feels about his car right now.)

October 19, 2009 - What's New???

This week's show almost didn't happen. As we know, the show starts at 7:30pm. John called me at 7:45 to tell me that he was circling the parking lot looking for a place to park and was about to give up and head home. Fortunately for all of us, he did one more lap and found a spot. But from where he was parked, he had no idea how to get to the radio station. He found his way and was on the air around 8pm.


John had forgotten to bring his usual opener (The Radio Song by Des & Nicola Coffield)so he went back in time and played the song that opened the show for most of its' first year (The Boxer by Carbon Leaf). Since he was so late, he jumped right into the Charlotte Hatherley interview, which was pretty good. Then at 9pm it was time for Donohue's Music Den!


After spotlighting Bob Nyswonger last week, and doing 60's 70's & 80's themes in the last few weeks it was time to come back to the present. So this week I decided to go with music that I had picked up in the last month or so. Most of it was brand new, but there were a couple things that were a little older, including one that went all the way back to 1980! John started us off with Lou Luca's ONniversary and then I followed with these:


D.L. Byron - Listen To The Heartbeat from the album This Day And Age
The Offbeat - She Can Make The Sun Shine from the ep To The Rescue
The Resonars - Sister Sally from That Evil Drone
Jason Falkner - Emotion Machine from All Quiet On The Noise Floor
Coconut Records - Microphone from Davy
Dreaming In Stereo - Misery Loves Companies from Dreaming In Stereo

Chris Church - Bombast, Verbatim from The Heartbreaks You Embrace
George Cunningham - The Upturned Face from Stumblingham
The Black Hollies - Run With Me Run from Softly Towards The Light
Grant-Lee Phillips - Violet from Little Moon
Jon Auer - Pop Music For The Future from the split ep Two For The Money
Cheap Star - Not My Friend from the split ep Two For The Money


I need to thank Johnny B. Irizarry for reminding me that Listen To The Heartbeat existed. It is one of his all time favorite songs and has finally been released on cd. I hadn't heard the song in at least 25 years, but as soon as I heard the song again, I was transported back to 1980 and being 14 years old again. Thanks John!

The George Cunningham track is from 2005 and I was planning on buying it back then. For whatever reason, I never did and didn't get it until a few weeks ago. Very good record! The rest of the material is from 2009 (with one from 2008) and at least half of what I chose was originally recommended to me by Bruce Brodeen from Not Lame records. If you are a power pop fan and have never checked out Not Lame, you don't know what you are missing. Check em out at www.notlame.com.


It's still too early in the week to figure out what I'll be doing next week, but I'm sure it will be interesting and most of it will be stuff that John has never heard before. I do know that I will be playing a brand new, unreleased song by John Irizarry. The first time I heard the song I knew I was going to have to play it on the show. Hopefully you'll like it as much as me. Tune in next Monday to give it a listen.

October 12, 2009 - Bob Nyswonger.....Come On Down!

This week on Independents Uncovered we went back to the same musical well that gave us our best show back in April. Back in April, the guest was Chris Arduser. This time it was his longtime bandmate Bob Nyswonger. For those that don't know who Bob is, shame on you! The fact that Bob Nyswonger isn't a household name shows one of the things that is wrong with the music industry. Bob is an outstanding bassist and a talented songwriter and I chose tonight to show as much of that as I could.

Bob has been or is still a member of The Raisins, The Graveblankets, The Bears, Psychodots, Bucket and Tickled Pink. If you are from the Cincinnati area you probably know every one of those bands. But if you aren't, you probably have never heard of any of them, except maybe The Bears. John interviewed Bob several weeks ago and the interview was the centerpiece of this week's show. During the interview these songs were played:


Tickled Pink - Alright, Already (from their soon to be released debut cd)
Bob Nyswonger - Catherine The Great
Bob Nyswonger - Interlude
Bob Nyswonger - Water Song (all from his solo debut Deposition)
Psychodots - Don't Bury Me (from the Official Bootleg live cd)
Tickled Pink - Standing 8 (also from the new Tickled Pink cd)


At 9pm, after the interview ended, Donohue's Music Den began with the ONniversary Theme. You may remember this as the song Lou Luca put together for my 1st anniversary show back in May (which John played about 5 TIMES that night). Lou did a great job taking the basic music from the Adrian Belew/Bears song ON and writing his own lyrics about the show. Great stuff! Thanks again Lou!


After the opening theme, the last hour of the show was used to showcase songs that Bob has written for all of the bands he has been in. Bob said that he had never heard a full hour of his songs on the radio before. I'm glad we were able to do this and I'm glad he was able to listen to the entire show. During my segment these songs were played:

The Raisins - A Little Discipline (from their lone studio album)
Psychodots - Sad Little Monkeys (from the 1st Psychodots cd)
Bucket - Trust (great version of the song from their most recent cd Hunch Dancer)
The Bears - We Never Close (from the latest Bears cd Eureka!)
The Bears - Caveman (from Car Caught Fire)
Bam Powell - Possum In The City (from the 2000 release Bam Powell & The Troublemakers and featuring a reunited Raisins)
Psychodots - More To Life (from Awkwardsville)
The Bears - Rabbit Manor
The Bears - Robobo's Beef (both from the 2nd Bears album Rise & Shine)
Psychodots - Copy Machine (from On The Grid)


There were so many great songs that didn't get played because we ran out of time, including Let Us Prey and The Bottom Line from The Raisins, Bed Of Nails and You Will Never Be Satisfied from Psychodots, Neighbors and Victory By Attrition from Bucket and When She Moves and Veneer from The Bears.


If you enjoyed what you heard, please support Bob Nyswoner (and Chris Arduser and Rob Fetters and Bam Powell and independent music in general). Many of the things that I played can be purchased at cdbaby.com or artist-shop.com or even itunes. If you missed the interview, David Ash will be posting it on the Psychodots Google Group as a download. Thanks a lot Dave! And thanks again Bob and have a great birthday!!


Next week John will be interviewing Charlotte Hatherley who played in Ash for many years before going solo. During my segment, I will be playing some new music from Jason Falkner, The Offbeat, Chris Church, Josh Fix, Coconut Records and a few others. It should be another good one.

October 5, 2009 - Murray Attaway and a trip back to the 60's!

Murray Attaway was the guest on this installment of Independents Uncovered. For those that don't know, Murray Attaway was the lead singer of Guadalcanal Diary. I was a big Guadalcanal Diary fan back in the late 80's and I found the interview to be very interesting. We even found out that Guadalcanal Diary may be reforming for a few shows in 2010. Who know? Maybe that will lead to something more!

However, the best thing about the interview was that Murray Attaway gave John ELEVEN unreleased songs to play! In the mid-90's he recorded a solo album for Geffen Records. The album has never been released and Geffen owns the masters so there is a good chance it will never see the light of day. This could have been the only chance to hear these songs, and I was very impressed with them. They were all quite good! When I get the song listing from John, I will post it here!


For my section of the show, I had originally planned to continue the Murray Attaway theme by playing songs off his first solo album as well as some lesser known Guadalcanal Diary songs. However, since all of my songs from the previous week had gone unused, John decided to use those instead. That meant that instead of Guadalcanal Diary/Murray Attaway songs from the 80's & 90's we were going to go all the way back to the 60's. Several weeks ago I had done garage rock from the 80's. I had followed that up with power pop from the 70's, so it only seemed logical to continue the trip in the "way back machine" and go for garage rock from the 60's. The majority of songs that I chose came from the many different "Nuggets" compilations from Rhino records. Here is what we played:


The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me
The Syndicate Of Sound - Little Girl
The Blues Magoos - (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet
Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow
Marmalade - I See The Rain
Davy Jones & The Lower Third - You've Got A Habit Of leaving
Lyme & Cybelle - Follow Me
The Beau Brummels - Just A Little
The Merry-Go-Round - Live
Love - Alone Again Or
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Just Like Me
The Mothers Of Invention - Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

There were an additional four songs that I had tried to play, but for whatever reason, they never made it. Those four were:


The Knickerbockers - Lies
The Music Machine - Talk Talk
The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
The Grass Roots - Let's Live For Today


John's guest next week will be Bob Nyswonger. Bad Bob is a talented songwriter and an amazing musician. He is the bassist for many of my favorite bands, including The Raisins, The Bears, The Graveblankets, Psychodots, Bucket and Tickled Pink! I will be playing several Nyswonger penned tunes on next week's show (and maybe even some he didn't write). I'm definitely looking forward to this interview and who knows? Maybe we'll get an extra treat and get a track or two from the soon to be released Tickled Pink record. See you next week!