November 16, 2009 - The Music of Ray Davies

The original plan for tonight's show was for me to go on right at 7:30pm and go until John's guest, Justin Trawick arrived. Unfortunately for John, Justin Trawick wasn't feeling well and cancelled. Because of the cancellation, John decided to play music for the first hour and then have Donohue's Music Den on at 8:30pm.


My theme for this week was the music of Ray Davies. Ray just released an interesting new album. It is an album of Kinks songs with a full choir backing. It definitely puts a new spin on the old music. I am going to see Ray Davies on Friday night at Town Hall in NYC so I figured this would be a good time to play some cool Kinks covers. Since I'm going to see Ray, I decided to pick only Ray Davies compositions, which left several very good Dave Davies songs out of the mix, but maybe I'll take care of them at a later date. Anyway, here is what was played, starting with my theme music:


Lou Luca - ONniversary Theme
Ray Davies & The Crouch End Festival Chorus - You Really Got Me
Fastball - Till The End Of The Day
Fountains Of Wayne - Better Things
Beat Farmers - 20th Century Man
Minus Five - Get Back In Line
Camper Van Beethoven - I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Steve Wynn - This Strange Effect
Thoughts - All Night Stand
Heather Duby - The Way Love Used To Be
Matthew Sweet - Big Sky
Jon Auer - Fancy
The Smithereens - The World Keeps Going Round
Damon Albarn & Ray Davies - Waterloo Sunset


Half of what I played tonight came from two Kinks Tribute albums, This Is Where I Belong and Give The People What We Want. If you are a Kinks fan, you should check these out. There is a lot of great stuff on them.


There will be no show for the next two weeks. We will be preempted for George Mason Women's Basketball. We will be back on the air on December 7th for the penultimate show of 2009. John's guest on December 7th will be Tony Gamble and then for the final show of the year on December 14th, it will be an entire show of Rob Fetters music. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and I'll be back on the 7th!

November 9, 2009 - Back To Normal

It was a long, hard, emotional week and I had no time at all to think about what to play on this week's show. Fortunately, I had enough left over from the previous week that I did not have to worry about anything. The show started at 7:30pm with my segment and we went until about 8:20pm, when the members of the band Honor By August showed up. Here is what we played tonight:



Badfinger - Baby Blue
The Thorns - Blue
Michael Carpenter - Thinking Of You
Paul Collins Beat - Rock & Roll Girl
The Spongetones - Better Luck Next Time
John Hiatt - Washable Ink
Jamie Hoover & Steve Stoeckel - Between The Lines
Beat Farmers - Road Of Ruin
The Skeletons - Trans Am
Morphine - Cure For Pain



I was thinking about going to see Drivin-n-Cryin(who are playing NYC for the 1st time in 10 years) this weekend, but at this point that is up in the air. However, I am definitely going to see Ray Davies next week, so I think that means next week's show will be a good time to play some Ray Davies songs. There have been so many great covers of Kinks songs that I don't know where to begin, but I'm sure I'll find some good stuff. Oh yeah, this week's pictures were taken on my trip to Hallstatt, Austria in 2008.



Just one more thing. I received so much love and support from all my friends last week and it was very touching. But Lou Luca, Rich Tully, John Campbell, Chuck Campbell and Adam Bramwell really went above and beyond with all of their help. Thanks to you and to everyone else! You're the best!!!

November 2, 2009 - A Heavy Heart

We were all set to go on the last Monday in October. I had a brand new song from Johnny B Irizarry that I was going to play and Johnny B had a listening party set for the broadcast. Then the show was canceled and everything was pushed back to November 2nd. Johnny B had another listening party planned for this show, but unfortunately he had to listen without me. I was not available to do this show because my mother had passed away very late the night before. I'm told John said some very nice things about me and my family. He also went ahead and played the music that I had planned for the show. He played the Lou Luca ONniversary theme, then he played these:


Continental Drifters - The Rain Song
The Thorns - I Can't Remember
Squeeze - Goodbye Girl (Rockabilly Version)
John Irizarry - Save You, Save Me
Lou Luca, John Irizarry & Wayne Marone - Photograph
Lou Luca - I Met A Girl
The Bears - Mr. Bonaparte
The Raconteurs - Old Enough
John Hiatt - Have A Little Faith In Me
Jamie Hoover & Steve Stoeckel - English Afternoon


I feel very honored to be a part of this show and to have John Campbell as a friend. He dedicated this week's show to my mother and my whole family and I am dedicating this blog to her. Sleep well Patricia Donohue, I will miss you!