Lost Notes

Harry Dean Stanton was already three decades into his career as an actor’s actor when he began touring regularly as a song interpreter with a small acoustic trio. Joined by top-shelf sidemen Steven Soles and Kenny Edwards, Stanton dropped into Deirdre’s studio on June 24, 1987, to share a commanding set of covers in both Spanish and English. Included is “Canción Mixteca,” which Stanton legendarily performed in Wim Wenders’s “Paris, Texas.”

LA’s Concrete Blonde were fresh off an ill-fated tour with Cyndi Lauper when they careened into SNAP in April 1987. They serve up a characteristically paint-peeling performance punctuated by grade-A banter between Deirdre and frontwoman Johnette Napolitano. More: BBN Ep. 1 – "This Is SNAP" (with Johnette Napolitano)

Love Tractor made their long-overdue SNAP debut in June 1989, as part of the long-running promotion for their “Themes from Venus” album. The 11-song set draws evenly from that 1988 album as well as the three which preceded it.

For a moment, LA’s legendary Dream Syndicate seemed to be victims of the major-label doldrums. After a failed engagement with A&M records, they took a hiatus and made a triumphant return with their 1986 album, “Out of the Grey.” That same year, the newly-reformed band dropped in on Deirdre for their inaugural performance on SNAP.

Suzanne Vega visited SNAP in April 1985 for her second-ever live radio appearance. Ahead of her now-classic self-titled debut album, Vega offers perfectly rendered takes of songs from that record, as well as an early appearance of one of her most iconic numbers. An essential and long-unheard document of Vega at a crucial moment in her early career.