Hello, we love you, listen to our show. We’re still on hiatus, but the music never stops. Break on through to the past with a classic Balcony Radio broadcast. This week, we open up the best of The Doors. We’ve got the best live, in studio, and postmortem recordings of L.A.’s house band. Grab a jug of wine and a fist full of peyote, you need to catch up.
Dusty Gems Episode 2
The second in our series of shows dedicated to lesser-known singer-songwriters. Take notes (and show your work!)
Admit it, you’ve never heard of most of these people. Buy some of their music and impress your friends. There’s a playlist below.
PLAYLIST:
JONATHAN EDWARDS: DUSTY MORNING (SELF)
JUDEE SILL: CRAYON ANGELS (SELF)
CHRIS BELL: I AM THE COSMOS (SAME)
LEO KOTTKE: CRIPPLE CREEK (BEST OF..)
RON SEXSMITH: STRAWBERRY BLONDE (OTHER SONGS)
GRAHAM PARKER: NOT IF IT PLEASES ME (HOWLING WIND)
IMAAD WASIF: TOMORROW IS OURS (SELF)
TERRY REID: FAITH TO ARISE (SEED OF MEMORY)
VASHTI BUNYAN: I DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS (SOME THINGS JUST STICK IN YOUR MIND)
ROBERT EARL KEEN: FEELING GOOD AGAIN (BEST OF..)
AL STEWART: SAND IN YOUR SHOES (YEAR OF THE CAT)
ALEX CHILTON: EVERYDAY AS WE GROW CLOSER (KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY)
LEON RUSSELL: CRYSTAL CLOSET QUEEM (LEON RUSSELL & THE SHELTER PEOPLE)
GORDON LIGHTFOOT: THE HOUSE YOU LIVE IN (SUMMERTIME DREAM)
PETER CASE: OLD BLUE CARE (SELF)
KATE & ANNE MCGARRIGLE: KISS & SAY GOODBYE (SELF)
MARSHAL CRENSHAW: CYNICAL GIRL (THIS IS EASY)
GENE CLARK: I FOUND YOU (ECHOES)
JOHN PRINE: MAUREEN, MAUREEN (AIMLESS LOVE)
DAVID SYLVIAN: MARIA (SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE)
RICKIE LEE JONES: SKELETONS (PIRATES)
EMITT RHODES: WITH MY FACE ON THE FLOOR (RECORDINGS)
PHIL OCHS: A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR)
MASON JENNINGS: SOUTHERN CROSS (BIRDS FLYING BACKWARDS)
JIM CARROLL BAND: I WANT THJE ANGEL (CATHOLIC BOY)
TIM BUCKLEY: SO LONELY (BLUE AFTERNOON)
LORI CARSON: SNOW COME DOWN (EVERYTHING I TOUCH RUNS WILD)
KATE WOLF: EARLY MORNING MELODY (SAFE AT ANCHOR)
JANIS IAN: WHEN THE PARTY’S OVER (BETWEEN THE LINES)
HARRY NILSSON: I WILL TAKE YOU THERE (SKIDOO)
RICHARD THOMPSON: FOR THE SAKE OF MARY (MIRROR BLUE)
KAREN DALTON: KATIE CRUEL (IN MY OWN TIME)
NCI LOWE: MARY PROVOST (JESUS OF COOL)
The FreeSpace Episode 1
The first of our adventures in to freeform radio. In this episode, we play whatever the hell we want. What other show will play the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the Sex Pistols within half an hour?
Be a cool person. Buy some music.
PLAYLIST:
Funkadelic: Back In Our Minds (Maggot Brain)
Aretha Franklin: Spanish Harlem (Spanish Harlem)
Lucinda Williams: Six Blocks Away (Sweet Old World)
Frank Zappa: WPLJ (Burnt Weenie Sandwich)
BeBop Deluxe: Ships In The Night (Live! In The Air Age)
Pink Floyd: Chapter 24 (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Grateful Dead: Scarlet Begonias (Live From The Mars Hotel)
Seachain: Flute Thing (What It Is! Funky Soul & Rare Grooves)
Moody Blues: Dear Diary (On The Threshold Of A Dream)
Marshall Tucker Band: Where a Country Boy Belongs (Where We All Belong)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: You Are My Flower (Will The Circle Be Unbroken)
Cream: Tales Of Brave Ulyses (Those Were The Days)
Al Stewart: Flying Sorcery (Year Of The Cat)
Angel City: Comin’ Down (Face To Face)
Marvin Gaye:P I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live)
The Yardbirds: You Can’t Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover (Five Live Yardbirds)
White Noise: Here Come The Fleas (An Electric Storm)
Wanda Jackson: Honey Bee (Rockin’ With Wanda)
Black Keys: Thickfreakness (Your Touch ep) “live” in Darwin, Aus.
Porcupine Tree: Signify (Signify)
Dukes of Stratosphere: What In The World?? (Chips From The Chocolate Fireball)
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows (Get Back Session)
David Crosby: Music Is Love (If I Could Only Remember My Name)
REM: Exhuming McCarthy (Document)
Wilson Picket: Hey Jude (The Very Best of…)
Sex Pistols: Problems (Winterland, San Francisco 1/14/1978)
Velvet Underground: Run Run Run (Velvet Undergound & Nico)
Eric Burden & The Animals: Don’t Bring Me Down (The Best of…)
Alton Ellis: My Time Is The Right Time (Be True To Yourself)
Todd Rundgren: Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (& I’ll Go Mine) (Faithful)
Embryonic Episode 1
Rock and roll is hard work. Here are the first drafts of some tunes you may know. Sometimes the demo version is just as good as the finished one. Now shut up, tape is rolling. You like music, now buy it. Select from the palylist below. There is no limit.
PLAYLIST:
Stephen Stills: Black Queen (Just Roll Tape)
Bruce Springsteen: Red River Rock (The River Demos)
Uncle Tupelo: Grindstone (March 16-20, 1992)
The Stooges: Loose (Funhouse)
Spoon: You Gotta Feel It (Survive & Advance)
Buddy Holly: Love Is Strange (Living Room Demos)
Lou Reed: Perfect Day (Demo)
Ramones: Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio? (End Of The Century Expanded)
Neil Young: Sugar Mountain (Archives)
The Mendoza Line: Dollars To Donuts (If They Knew This Was the End)
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust (Demos)
The Clash: Janie Jones (Clah On Broadway)
Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow’s Parties (Box Set)
My Morning Jacket: Hopefully (At Dawn & Tennessee Fire Demos)
Cat Stevens: Tuesday’s Dead (Demos)
Big Star: Femme Fatale (Keep An Eye On The Sky)
Paul Simon: Me & Julio Down By The School Yard (Demo)
Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues (Alone With His Guitar)
Richie Valens: Let’s Rock and Roll (The Richie Valens Story)
The Doors: Hyacinth House (Essential Rarities)
Laura Nyro: Stones Soul Picnic (Eli & The Thirteenth Confession)
High Tea With The Beatles Episode 3: RINGO!!!
The Beatles are dropping like flies . . . (sorry). We at the Balcony are pretty sure that Ringo is going to be the last Beatle standing, and we’re totally fine with that. In episode three of our series, High Tea With The Beatles the drummer gets the spotlight with his finest solo material. Ringo is always a fun time and this overview of his tunes proves it. As per the playlist below it is necessary to purch the merch of the RINGO!!
NO NO SONG (ANTHOLOGY..SO FAR)
I WOULDN’T HAVE YOU ANY OTHER WAY (BEACOUP OF BLUES)
HONEY DON’T (CONCERT FOR GEORGE)
I’M THE GREATEST (PHOTOGRAPH; BEST OF..)
I WAS WALKIN’ (VERTICAL MAN)
BEAUCOUP OF BLUES (BEACOUP OF BLUES)
OH, MY MY (PHOTOGRAPH; BEST OF..)
FILL IN THE BLANKS (Y NOT)
VERTICAL MAN (VERTICAL MAN)
FASTEST GROWING HEARTACHE IN THE WEST (BEACOUP OF BLUES)
(IT’S ALL DOWN TO) GOODNIGHT VIENNA (GOODNIGHT VIENNA)
GIVE ME BACK THE BEAT (CHOOSE LOVE)
SNOOKEROO (PHOTOGRAPH; BEST OF..)
LIPSTICK TEARS (BAD BOY)
MISSOURI LOANS COMPANY (RINGO RAMA)
LA DE DA (VERTICAL MAN)
OCTOPUS’S GARDEN (LIVE ON SOUNSTAGE)
THE OTHER SIDE OF LIVERPOOL (Y NOT)
$15 DRAW (BEACOUP OF BLUES)
TONIGHT (BAD BOY)
IT DON’T COME EASY (ANTHOLOGY..SO FAR)
ACT NATURALLY (LIVE ON TOUR)
BAD BOY (BAD BOY)
DRUMMING IS MADNESS (STOP & SMELL THE ROSES)
FALLING IN FADING OUT (CHOOSE LOVE)
PHOTOGRAPH (PHOTOGRAPH; BEST OF..)
High Tea With The Beatles Episode 2 – John Lennon Tribute
Fifty years ago the world took a strange wobble and created the band that started it all – The Beatles. And in this second episode we begin our look at the solo work of the individual members beginning with John Lennon. Great album cuts, rarities (bootlegs), and host of demo recordings pays a fitting tribute to a genuine legend and icon. Check out the play list below and take a trip to a record store.
Dusty Gems Episode 1 (Our episode 2!)
The first in our series of shows dedicated to lesser-known singer-songwriters. In this epsiode we play Emmitt Rhodes, Kate Wolf, Judee Sill, Phil Ochs and other people you’ve never heard of.
Like it? Buy it. Now.
PLAYLIST
Donovan: Hi, It’s Been A Long Time
Gordon Lightfoot: The House You Live In
Chris Bell: You And Your Sister
Phil Ochs: William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park & Escapes Unscathed
John Martyn: Back Down The River
Mason Jennings: Darkness Between Fireflies
Robyn Hitchcock: Elizabeth Jade
Vashti Bunyan: Love Song
Jonathan Edwards: Everybody Knows Her
David Syvian: The Devil’s Own
Karen Dalton: Skillet Good and Greasy
Kelly Willis: Not Forgotten You
Time Buckley: Sing A Song For You
Janis Ian: Light A Light
Rickie Lee Jones: After Hours (12 Bars Past Midnight)
Dave Edmonds: What Looks Best On You
Gene Clark: True One
Judee Sill: Lopin’ Around The Cosmos
Emitt Rhodes: Better Side Of Life
Richard Thompson: Put Your Trust In Me
Kate Wolf: Early Morning Melody
Jim Carroll Band: Three Sisters
Cass McCombs: My Master
Leon Russell: A Song For You
Harry Nilsson: Caroline
Kate & Anne McGarrigle: Blues In D
Terry Reid: Things To Try
Robert Earl Keen: Gringo Honeymoon
Blue Highway Episode 2
Well, howdy there, little shavers. Thanks for mosey-in’ up here to the campfire. We got coffee on the brew and our guitars are tuned to perfection. Time for some Americana. We got tunes covering about the last 60 years. So if you know the tune sing along. If not, well, it’s good to have your company, and your welcome to a plate of beans. If you get a hankerin’ check out the playlist the below and stop by the outpost and patronize our good friends.
PLAYLIST:
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: RED HOT WOMEN & ICE COLD BEER (WHO ARE THOSE GUYS?)
JERRY GARCIA & DAVID GRISMAN: FRIEND OF THE DEVIL (LATE SHOW)
LYLE LOVETT: L.A. COUNTY (PONTIAC)
MERLE HAGGARD: WALKING THE FLOOR OVER YOU (STRANGERS)
NEKO CASE: THIS TORNADO LOVE YOU (MIDDLE CYCLONE)
LOUVIN BROS: THERE’S A HIGHER POWER (SATAN IS REAL)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS: CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD (LIVE) (TITLE)
KATE & ANNE MCGARRIGLE: TRAVELIN’ ON FOR JESUS (SELF)
HANK WILLIAMS: I’M A LONG GONE DADDY (COMPLETE HW)
ROBERT EARL KEEN: LUANN (NO KINDA DANGER)
KITTY WELLS: WILL YOUR LAWYER TALK TO GOD? (20TH CENT. MASTERS)
WILLIE NELSON: BLOODY MARY MORNING (PHASES AND STAGES)
LEFTY FRIZZELL: THE LONG BLACK VEIL (16 BIGGEST HITS)
UNCLE TUPELO: ATOMIC POWER (MARCH 16-20, 1992)
BE GOOD TANYAS: THE LITTLEST BIRDS (BLUE HORSE)
JOE ELY: TONIGHT I THINK I’M GONNA GO DOWNTOWN (HONKEY TONK MASQUERADE)
MARSHALL TUCKER BAND: SEARCHIN’ FOR A RAINBOW (TITLE)
KELLY WILLIS: HEAVEN’S JUST A SIN AWAY (KELLY WILLIS)
LORETTA LYNN: THE PILL (DEFINITIVE COLLECTION)
TIFT MERRITT: I AM YOU TAMBORINE (TAMBORINE)
JIMMIE DALE GILMORE: BLUE MOON WALTZ (AFTER AWHILE)
STEVE EARLE: TOME AME’S PRAYER (TRAIN A-COMIN’)
GOB IRON: LITTLE GIRL & A DREADFUL SNAKE (DEATH SONGS FOR THE LIVINFG)
TOWNES VAN ZANT: SNAKE MOUNTAIN BLUES (OUR MOTHER, THE MOUNTAIN)
GILLIAN WELCH: I WANT TO SING THAT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 2009)
NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND: WILDWOOD FLOWER (WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN)
JOLIE HOLLAND: ADIEU FALSE HEART (SPRINGTIME CAN KILL YOU)
DOUG SAHM: WALLFLOWER (BEST OF..)
JIMMIE ROGERS: IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW (ESSENTIAL JR)
JOHNNY CASH: MY SHOES KEEP WALKING BACK TO YOU (NOW, THERE WAS A SONG)
THE HIGHWAYMEN: THE DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND (THE ROAD GOES ON FOREVER)
WHITE MANSIONS: ONE MORE SHOT (CONFEDERATE TALES)
DAVE VAN RONK: FIXIN’ TO DIE (INSIDE DVR)
Sock Rockin’ Beats Episode 1 – Here To Rock!
Rock and or roll. We’ve got it. You need it. Here it is . . . loud enough to hurt your feelings. Get some loud ass music in your life. And with your ears ringing from too many decibels truck on down to your local retailer and purchase some stuff from the playlist below.
PLAYLIST:
GRINDERMAN: GET IT ON (GRINDERMAN)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS: HONEY BEE (LITTLE HONEY)
THE BUZZCOCKS: LIPSTICK (OPERATORS MANUAL)
EDGAR WINTER & WHITE TRASH: I CAN’T TURN YOU LOOSE (ROADWORK)
THE 101ERS: SHAKE YOUR HIPS (ELGIN AVENUE BREAKDOWN)
WILCO: I’M ALWAYS IN LOVE (SUMMERTEETH)
THE DOORS: PEACE FROG (LIVE IN NY) (BOX SET)
THE RAMONES: GIMME GIMME SHOCK TREATMENT (LEAVE HOME)
SEX PISTOLS: EMI (NEVER MIND THE BULLOCKS)
X-JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE (LOS ANGELES)
ANGEL CITY: TAKE A LONG LINE (FACE TO FACE)
ALICE COOPER: UNDER MY WHEELS (THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF ALICE COOPER BOX)
WARREN ZEVON: I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD (STAND IN THE FIRE)
IGGY POP: TV EYE (TV EYE LIVE 1977)
THE CLASH: CAREER OPPORTUNITIES (DEMO) (CLASH ON BROADWAY)
TODD RUNDGREN: OUT OF CONTROL (HERMIT OF MINK HOLLOW)
FRANK ZAPPA: APOSTROPHE (TITLE)
BLACK SABBATH: CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE (MASTER OF REALITY)
RADIOHEAD: ELECTIONEERING (OK COMPUTER)
LED ZEPPLIN: CELEBRATION DAY (III)
MOTORHEAD: ACE OF SPADES (NO SLEEP TIL HAMMERSMITH)
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE: FUCKIN’ UP (RAGGED GLORY)
UFO: DOCTOR DOCTOR (STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT)
WHITE STRIPES: BLUE ORCHID (GET BEHIND ME SATAN)
THE BLASTERS: KATHLEEN (THE BLASTERS COLLECTION)
THE TUBES: WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE (SELF)
Have The Rolling Stones Killed Episode 2
Killer riffs plus a bad attitude equals the most killer rock ‘n’ roll. This is our second look at the second greatest band on the planet. Although, after listening to this show, that could be a debated argument. Nevertheless, it’s time to rock your ass onw more time. Now, go to the store and buy some rockin’ records by the boys. The playlist is below.
PLAYLIST:
HAPPY (LIVE 1972)
LITTLE T&A (TATTOO YOU)
LIES (LIVE 1978)
CITADEL (THEIR SATANIC MAJESTY’S REQUEST)
THE LAST TIME (LIVE 1965)
LET’S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER (FLOWERS)
STRAY CAT BLUES (LEADS 1971)
RIP THIS JOINT (LIVE 1972)
100 YEARS AGO (GOAT’S HEAD SOUP)
I’M ALRIGHT (OUT OF OUR HEADS)
CONNECTION (BETWEEN THE BUTTONS)
SUMMER ROMANCE (EMOTIONAL RESCUE)
SWEET VIRGINIA (FT. WORTH, TX 6/24/1972)
BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN (SOME GIRLS)
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE (IT’S ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL)
TORN & FRAYED (EXHILE ON MAIN STREET)
OH BABY (WE GOT A GOOD THING GOIN’) (THE ROLLING STONES NOW!)
BLACK LIMOSINE (TATTOO YOU)
HONEST I DO (ENGLAND’S NEWEST HIT MAKERS)
FACTORY GIRL (BEGGAR’S BANQUET)
UPTIGHT/SATISFACTION (W/ STEVIE WONDER) (THE SPECTRUM, PHILADELPHIA 1972)
