Every couple of weeks I sit down with a couple of gins and talk you through the new music that's caught my ears in the last fortnight. There'll be a few classics and a few mainstream bands but the focus will always be on the new, the emerging, the eclectic and the interesting.
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Toadcast #297 - The Routecast (Part 1)
This podcast is composed of songs which namecheck towns I drove through on my rather epic 7500 mile drive across American in March and April of this year.
Part 1 is places I drove through between collecting the van in Phoenix, collecting Meursault in Texas and then driving up to New York on their East Coast Tour. Part 2, which is coming next week, will be songs about places I drove through with Mrs. Toad on our way back to drop the van in Phoenix again.
Most of the connections are a little tenuous, honestly, tending to concentrate more on the fact that the song name-checks the town in the title rather than provides a touching insight into real life in that town, but you know, superficial is kind of what we do best here.
01. Bob Dylan - Romance in Durango (Live) (00.22)
02. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Christmas in Nevada (11.00)
03. Samantha Crain - Santa Fe (14.55)
04. Sleepy Horses - Lubbock Love Song (21.50)
05. Fastball - Sweetwater, Texas (29.47)
06. Micah P. Hinson - On the Way Home (to Abilene) (33.17)
07. REM - Texarkana (38.11)
08. Paul Simon - Graceland (43.07)
09. Steven Malkmus and the Jicks - Baltimore (47.57)
10. LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You, but You're Bringing Me Down (59.22)