It’s Open Mic Night at Balcony Radio! On EP 19 of Dusty Gems — our testament to the best under the radar singer/songwriters — we pull up a stool at the small venue downtown and snap our fingers at some of the best music you’ve never heard. The crowds are small, but the songs are big. Dig? 
PLAYLIST:
GETAWAY: UNCLE WALT’S BAND (ANTHOLOGY)
YOU AND I TOGETHER: KATE WOLF (LIVE IN MENDOCINO)
SO DAMN HAPPY: LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III (SO DAMN HAPPY(LIVE))
I WANT TO SEE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TONIGHT: RICHARD THOMPSON (SMALL TOWN ROMANCE)
BLACKWATERSIDE: BERT JANSCH (LIVE AT THE 12 BAR)
DOLPHINS: TIM BUCKLEY (LIVE AT THE FOLKLORE CENTER – MARCH 16, 1967)
THE LAMB RAN AWAY WITH THE CROWN: JUDEE SILL (SONGS OF RAPTURE AND REDEMPTION-RARITIES & LIVE)
TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU IN THE END: DANIEL JOHNSTON (LIVE @ ALBERTSTUDIOS)
EGYPTIAN REGGAE: JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS (LIVE)
SEPTEMBER GIRLS: ALEX CHILTON (LIVE IN LONDON)
I’M GONNA TEAR YOUR PLAYHOUSE DOWN: GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR (LIVE AT ROCKPALAST 1978)
PARALLELOFRAMS: LINDA PERHACS (JAM IN THE VAN-LIVE SESSIONS, SONOMA VALLEY)
CYNICAL GIRL: MARSHALL CRENSHAW (MY TRUCK IS MY HOME)
SWEEPING THROUGH THE CITY: LEON RUSSELL (LEON LIVE)
I SOMETHING YOU: ROBYN HITCHCOCK (STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK: MUSIC FROM THE JONATHAN DEMME FILM)
SCHOOL IS OUT: RY COODER (SHOW TIME)
TRAVELIN’ LIGHT: ROBERT EARL KEEN (LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX)
IT MUST BE LOVE: RICKIE LEE JONES (NAKED SONGS LIVE AND ACOUSTIC)
ROMEO’S TUNE (STEVE FORBERT (SCHOOL GIRL)
THERE IS A MOUNTAIN: DONOVAN (IN CONCERT AT THE ANAHEIM CONVENTION CENTER NOV. 17, 1967)
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER: RICHIE HAVENS (LIVE AT THE CELLAR DOOR AND AT THE SANTA MONICA CIVIC AUDITORIUM)
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