Episode 1: Should I Stay or Should I Glasgow?
Greetings from South Omaha and the offices of our sponsor, Grapefruit Records which is really just the ransacked home of Simon Joyner and the near-home of co-host, Mychal Marasco. All of our conversation for this episode was accomplished via recorded phone call as we were in lockdown with a covid scare there for a minute. So, forgive the answering machine message quality of our spiel, if you can. While our first episode is a mix of many things, we were pleasantly surprised by how much Glasgow and 1972 came up. Special thanks to our inaugural guest and guinea pig, Ryan Davis.
FIRST SET: Spirit of ’72
1. Hackamore Brick – “Radio” – [Kama Sutra, 1970]
2. Arthur Lee – “Love Jumped Through My Window Last Night” – [A&M, 1972]
3. The Bibs – “It’s Not” – [Soft Abuse, 2016]
4. Ralph McTell – “Zimmerman Blues” – [Reprise, 1972]
5. Jean Bosco Mwenda – “Mukwendu Wadima Madimi” – [Mississippi, 2019]
6. Kendra Smith – “In Your Head” [4AD, 1995]
7. Merry Airbrakes – “Even Those Among Us” – [St. George International/Scissor Tail, 1973/2019]
8. Ornette Coleman – “Lonely Woman” – [Atlantic, 1959]
9. Alison Cotton – “The Hill Was Hollow” – [Feeding Tube/Cardinal Fuzz, 2020]
10. Dion – “Tennessee Madonna” – [Warner Bros., 1972]
11. Kamasi Washington – “Humility” – [Young Turks, 2017]
12. Kevin Ayers – “Waltz for You” – [Harvest, 1978]
13. Ted Hawkins – “The Lost Ones” – [Rounder, 1982]
14. Blod – “Gyklarnas Afton” – [Förlag För Fri Musik, 2020]
15. Tinariwen – “Sastanàqqàm” – [Anti-, 2017]
16. Bob Lind – “Love Came Riding” – [Capitol/Deep Focus, 1971/2017]
17. Jon Collin – “Wrong Moves V” – [Fördämning Arkiv, 2020]
SECOND SET: Security Questions with Special Guest
Simon’s interview with Ryan Davis, renaissance man of many musical projects including Sophomore Lounge Records, the Cropped Out music festival, State Champion band, and Technique Street independent mail-order record shop. Followed by a DJ set Ryan cherry-picked for us.
1. Equipment Pointed Ankh – “Blue Folding Room” – [Upcoming on Sophomore Lounge, 2021]
2. Kosmos – “Tetris” – [Puu, 1996]
3. Marc Riordan – “Nice Place” – [Upcoming on Sophomore Lounge, 2021]
4. Meat Puppets – “I’m A Mindless Idiot” – [SST, 1984]
5. Warmer Milks – “Wild Springs” – [Animal Disguise, 2008]
6. Astute Palate – “No Queen” – [Petty Bunco, 2020]
7. Circle X – “Prehistory Part II” – [Index, 1983]
8. Gravediggaz – “2 Cups of Blood” [Gee Street, 1994]
9. The Homosexuals – “Technique Street” [Recommended, 1984]
10. Wombo – “Sad World” – [Upcoming on Sophomore Lounge, 2021]
11. Fraser & DeBolt – “Waltz of the Tennis Players” – [Columbia, 1971]
THIRD SET: Inherent Vibes – Songs sharing a theme, this episode it’s all tracks from our 7″ collections.
1. Lucky Luke – “Simon of the Desert” – [Wee Black Skelf, 2003]
2. Ama-Dots – “Hit Girls” – [Hunky, 1980]
3. Vital Idles – “The Garden” – [Not Unloved, 2016]
4. The Bruces – “Invisible Ceiling” – [Unread, 2020]
5. The Whines – “Insane OK” – [Just For The Hell Of It, 2009]
6. Lonnie Methe & the Lux-o-Values – “Battered and Bruised” – [Rolling Hills, 1994]
7. Human Switchboard – “Fly In” – [Under The Rug, 1977]
8. Orange Juice – “Simply Thrilled, Honey” – [Postcard, 1980]
9. Destroy All Monsters – “Nobody Knows” – [Cherry Red, 1979]
10. Alastair Galbraith/Demarnia Lloyd – “Tae Keening” – [Roof Bolt, 1994]
11. Gary Jacobelly – “Bird Calls” – [New Alliance, 1982]
12. Two Dollar Guitar – “Erl King” – [Kim Will Kill Me, 1997]
13. MX-80 Sound – “Boy Trouble, Girl Trouble” – [Gulcher, 1977]
14. The Dead C – “Bad Politics” – [Xpressway, 1988]
We would like to thank James Schroeder for providing our theme song, Sean Pratt and Megan Siebe for use of their songs “Music for Chickens” and “Through the Keyhole” as segue music, and Todd Fink and Jason Meyer for the outro echo chant from Joshua Tree. Thanks also to Allyson Gibbs for allowing us to use her artwork for our FTS logo.
Additional thanks to all of our friends far and wide who shared their voices for our FTS introduction, including: Noah Sterba, Sean Pratt, Megan Siebe, Frances Joyner, Liz Huffman, Donovan Quinn, Jeffrey Lewis, Ryan McKeever, Jerry David DeCicca, Robb Nordstrom, David Nance, Adam Ostrar, Sara Adkisson-Joyner, Zach LaGrou, Kevin Donahue, Brad Smith, George Peek, James Schroeder, William Thornton, Gillian Welch, Bill MacKay, Michael Krassner, Tim Kasher, David Rawlings and Ryan Jewell.
Special thanks to Chris Deden for his astute curatorial efforts on “the archive” project.