Starting in the early Fall, record labels release albums from Big Name artists. Marquee names. Hoping to get the word out, so you’ll buy the record for Christmas.
By early November, they are releasing music from Brand Names---artists SO BIG, you don’t even need to hear the music, to consider buying it. Boxed Sets, Greatest Hits, Christmas albums and such.
Once December hits, the labels go into hibernation. With all the Holiday Hoo-hah, they realize that trying to get a new record started would just get lost in the shuffle.
So no new releases come out at this time.
But the radio station beast still needs to be fed. Songs we added weeks and months ago are burning out, and we want to replace them with fresh material.
I really enjoy this time of year, because it gives us a chance to reconsider records that we missed earlier in the year.
We met Dala at Newport this summer, and fell in love. They are charming, sweet, and super-strong in their singing. But we never added the record. It’s a little on the poppy side of mvyradio.
But in the light of no new releases, we are able to listen again, and be won over by these young Canadians.
Check out a sample of "Levi Blues."
Hear the girls live at Folk Festival 50 and in an interview from that day with Barbara Dacey.
See the video, here
Showing posts with label Folk Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Folk Festival. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer “Redemption Song”
What do DJ’s do in their free time? They DJ, of course.
Long before I worked at mvyradio, I was the guy who spent most of the Party fiddling with the stereo (which meant I was rarely the guy who took the girl home).
On the Saturday night of Newport Folk in 2008, the station hosted a House Party in Newport, featuring live music from Kate Taylor and Red Rooster and JP Jones. A really fun, loose time.
But by 2am or so, all the guests and bands and friends had gone to bed (or to other parties), and just a few of us hung on---Barbara, Nark, Jane the weekend DJ, Marianna from the office, and Joe, our President. And I sat in front of the stereo, trying to get the gang to dance (Naughty By Nature? No. Johnny Hoy? Yes.)
And when even this fighting few was worn out, I started spinning some wind-down tunes, to ease us out of a long, long day and night.
That’s when I played this cut, and I’ll always think of how Joe just nodded when the first notes hit, and he said the title, just the title, but with a weight that said way more than two words. His inflection said, “Yeah, this is the song. This is the song we need right now.”
Hear Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer “Redemption Song”
See the video Here
Long before I worked at mvyradio, I was the guy who spent most of the Party fiddling with the stereo (which meant I was rarely the guy who took the girl home).
On the Saturday night of Newport Folk in 2008, the station hosted a House Party in Newport, featuring live music from Kate Taylor and Red Rooster and JP Jones. A really fun, loose time.
But by 2am or so, all the guests and bands and friends had gone to bed (or to other parties), and just a few of us hung on---Barbara, Nark, Jane the weekend DJ, Marianna from the office, and Joe, our President. And I sat in front of the stereo, trying to get the gang to dance (Naughty By Nature? No. Johnny Hoy? Yes.)
And when even this fighting few was worn out, I started spinning some wind-down tunes, to ease us out of a long, long day and night.
That’s when I played this cut, and I’ll always think of how Joe just nodded when the first notes hit, and he said the title, just the title, but with a weight that said way more than two words. His inflection said, “Yeah, this is the song. This is the song we need right now.”
Hear Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer “Redemption Song”
See the video Here
Labels:
Bob Marley,
Folk Festival,
Joe Strummer,
Johnny Cash,
Newport,
Redemption Song
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