February 16th - FINALLY back on the air!

After two weeks of problems, the show was finally back on the air. Two weeks ago, John's car broke down and he had to cancel the show and the Grip Weeds interview. Last week we were all set to go, but the station wasn't streaming so if we did a show, no one would be able to hear it. This week, we finally got back to it. We were a little rusty and it showed. For the first 10 minutes, we were both kind of out of sync and it showed. Long pauses, awkward silences, John losing the cd he was about to play and replaying the song he had just played. Things like that.

Fortunately it got better as it went along. I played five songs that would have been played the week before and they were all brand new releases. Here is what I played:

A.C. Newman - There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve...
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Hurry For The Sky
Cut Of Your Hands - Turn Cold
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
Letters Lost - I Melt With You (Modern English cover)

We ran out of time and I didn't get to play a song from the new Mark Olson & Gary Louris album. Hopefully I'll get to that one soon.


John's interview tonight was with George Mason University student Alex Rhoads. She is a VERY talented singer/songwriter who play all the instruments herself (except drums). She brought her acoustic guitar with her to the studio and played two songs plus two studio recording from her cd. I was very impressed with her and you should check her out at http://www.alexrhoads.com/ or http://www.myspace.com/alexrhoads
Check out Alex Rhoads. You won't be sorry!