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 #3 - With Added Americana
It's all gone a bit American this week, Toadlings. I have no intention of putting out a series of strictly themed podcasts, but it's still early days and there are so many massive chunks of my music collection I want to poke about in that this may happen a couple of times before things settle down. So I started with a couple of vaguely American-sounding tracks this week and before you know it I ended up with a podcast with a definite Americana theme.
I'm quite happy with how it's all turned out though, I must confess - a nice combination of classics and small, small bands, so the playlist is working quite well by itself. And actually handling the microphone is getting easier as well. I am quite liking this podcasting business, I'd say!
1. The Band - The Weight (02.16)
2. Hem - Half Acre (09.18)
3. Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping (12.38)
4. Cherry Ghost - Mathematics (20.27)
5. The Holy Modal Rounders - Hey Hey Baby (25.30)
6. Night Jar - Sweet Annie Lee (28.30)
7. Caramel Jack - Lincoln Jackson Incident (33.45)
8. The Builders & the Butchers - Spanish Death Song (39.27)
9. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Ballad of a Thin Man (49.51)
10. Rick Redbeard - Blood (54.06)
11. Billie Holiday - Georgia on My Mind (59.26)
12. Night Jar - Big Black Horse (64.05)
13. Broken Records - Lies (71.45)
14. DeVotchka - The Enemy Guns (77.57)
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