The Console Drive - 07/29/2012 - Show #62

 Image from The Band's studio sessions, including the recording of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

 

Photo: Elliott Landy/Redferns

Playlist for today's show, which was recorded live to tape at RFN's network studios, high atop Jellybean Mountain in western Davidson County, Tennessee.

Hour 1

Bread - Diary

Mason Williams - Classical Gas

ELG - U.F.O.

Spirit - Taurus

The Police - Bombs Away

Django Reinhardt - Limehouse Blues

George Clinton - Computer Games

Bobby Darin - If I Were A Carpenter

Roger McGuinn - Ballad Of Easy Rider

Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes

George Duke - I Love You More

America - Don't Cross The River

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Don Williams - Maggie's Dream

The Alan Parsons Project - Time (Hourly Closing Theme)

Hour 2

Tipsy - Grossenhosen

Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman

Eddie Money - Baby Hold On

Bad Bascomb - Black Grass

MF Doom - Zatar

Boston - More Than A Feeling

The Four Tops - Bernadette

Steve Winwood - Slowdown Sundown

Canned Heat - Goin' Up The Country

Stevie Wonder -  Overjoyed

Charlie Hayden & Pat Metheny - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress

Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out

Eric Clapton - Let It Grow

Ween - Pork Roll, Egg & Cheese

The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird

Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me

The Console Drive - 07/22/2012 - Show #61

"That's my '51 dodge.  That's my car.  That's MY car.  Whew!  All my youth and passion. . spent. . in that back seat. . heheh. . it's all gone you see!  Rust and dust!"  - Ned Beatty from 'Deliverance'.


 "Where yew goin' city boih?!" - Griner from 'Deliverance'




Hour 1

Negativland - The Perfect Cut (Rooty Poops)
Pink Floyd - On The Run
Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
Andrea True Connection - More, More, More
Hall & Oates - One On One
The Blackbyrds - April Showers
Roger McGuinn - Ballad Of Easy Rider
Ferrante & Teicher - Live For Life
Eric Clapton - Another Ticket
Tina Turner - Better Be Good To Me
Yes - Starship Trooper
The Alan Parsons Project - Time (Hourly Closing Theme)

Hour 2

An hour long retrospective on The Who's Quadrophenia album

The Console Drive - 07/15/2012 - Show #60

  
Yeah, yeah, I know. . this simple blog has not been updated since April.

So, what's been going on?

Welp, sheer and utter (or udder) laziness; lack of motivation and general malaise.

However, we are going to start updating this darn thing again, if the paddles don't break and Aintry doesn't flood.

We've expanded the program to two hours, airing Sunday afternoons from 4p to 6p CT on Radio Free Nashville.

Playlist for today:

Hour 1:

Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady
Neil Young - Down By The River
Bob Welch - Sentimental Lady
The Doobie Brothers - South City Midnight Lady
Bo Diddley -  Hit Or Miss (as sampled by De La Soul on 'Buddy)
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
ELG - U.F.O (as sampled by numerous hip hop and R&B artists in the 80's)
Bon Iver - Holocene
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
The Alan Parsons Project - Time (Hour 1 Closing Theme)

Hour 2:

Selections from MF Doom's Special Herbs Vol 0-9 box set.

Any community or LPFM station that would like to pick up this show, whether it be for one or both hours, please drop me a line.  Timing is relatively consistent per hour, typically we do the first hour at 49:30 to leave room for local avail (news, etc).  The second hour is typically 59:50 with room for a station ID.