The Music Lovers Monthly Review Playlist for 12/5/06

1. Trouble - Voxtrot from Your Biggest Fan EP
2. Go Lucky - The Curtains from Calamity
3. Grain of Salt - The Morning Benders from 3 Songs
4. The Light - White Magic from Dat Rosa Mel Apibus
5. Big Julie - Jarvis from Jarvis
6. True Affection - The Blow from Paper Television
7. Cosmia - Joanna Newsom from Ys
8. Master of None - Beach House from Beach House
9. I Do Have Weapons - Mogwai from Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait
10. The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) - SunnO)))/Boris from Altar
11. Elq Milq - The Octopus Project/Black Moth Super Rainbow from The House of Apples & Eyeballs
12. In The City - Xiu Xiu vs. Grouper from Creepshow
13. Steal the Blue Prints - +/- from Let's Build A Fire
14. Cut From The Cloth - The Evens from Get Evens
15. My Children, Be Joyful - Rock Plaza Central from Are We Not Horses
16. Brother - Annuals from Be He Me
17. Cold & Wet - Bonnie "Prince" Billy from Cold & Wet EP
18. Worlds Away - Daylights for the Birds from Trouble Everywhere
19. Let's Go Driving - Barzin from My Life In Rooms
20. Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists from The Crane Wife
21. The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black - Johann Johannsson from The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black EP
22. Safe Travels - Peter & the Wolf from Lightness
23. Bottom of the World - Tom Waits from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
24. Our Prayer - R. Keenan Lawler from Music for Bluegrass States
25. Been Here Before - Jeremy Enigk from World Waits

Update: The Music Lovers Monthly Review

Check out the new program The Music Lovers Monthly Review starting this Tuesday (12/5) from 4-6pm. I'll be playing all my favorite new releases from the past month. You can think of it as a monthly "best of" of The Music Lovers. The new program will air every first Tuesday of each month. And as always, you can check here for the playlist.

WEVL Halloween Special Playlist

1. Joost Visser - It's Halloween
2. Arch Oboler - Introduction To Horror
3. Evangelicals - Halloween Song
4. Bing Crosby, Victor Moore, and Boris Karloff - Halloween
5. Arch Oboler - I'm Hungry
6. John Zacherle - Dinner With Drac
7. Nouvelle Vague - Bela Lugosi's Dead
8. Hot Blood - Soul Dracula
9. Gene Defcon - Frankenstein
10. Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston - Frankenstein vs. The World
11. Jad and David Fair - Frankenstein
12. Harry Belafonte - Zombie Jamboree
13. R.E.M. - I Walked With A Zombie
14. Bruce Lenkei - Moonllight Zombie Dance
15. Crewnecks - Rockin' Zombie
16. Vincent Price - How To See Ghosts Or Surely Bring Them To You
17. The Specials - Ghost Town
18. Roky Erickson & The Aliens - If You Have Ghosts
19. Sheldon Allman - I Don't Stand A Chance With A Ghost Like You
20. Jumpin' Gene Simmons - Haunted House
21. Whodini - Haunted House Of Rock
22. Loretta Lynn - This Haunted House
23. Creepy Clyde - Haunted House
24. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Voodoo Priestess
25. The Chants - I'm Your Witchdoctor
26. The Sonics - Witch
27. Goblin - Suspiria (Main Title)
28. The Barbarellatones - Monster Surf Party
29. Jack and Jim - Midnight Monsters Hop
30. The Misfits - Monster Mash
31. The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf
32. Wally Ford - I Was A Teenage Mental Case
33. Thrul Ravenscroft - Teenage Brain Surgeon
34. The Blanks - Happy Halloween

Chicago Blog Is Up!

If there is anyone still left out there who is checking this blog, I am here to inform you that the Chicago blog is up. The wife and I are still working on it but I couldn't wait to get some updates up! So expect it to look more flashy as time goes by.

Welcome to A Mild Uproad of Fun!

A message from Chi-caw-go

Hey there! I just wanted leave a quick message to say that I think that both Tate and Andrew are doing a great job in my old time slots. Check out Andrew on the Memphis Beat every Tuesday from 1-2pm. And Tate during the old time slot for the Lovers every Thursday from 4-6pm.

P.S. Thanks Tate for all the kind words and for my song!

P.S. #2 Look out for another blog about my new life in Chicago to start real soon. Miss you!

A Lovers' Goodbye

Well, I guess that's it! It has been a lot of fun bringing you The Music Lovers each week. I will certainly miss it. Thanks for listening!

- And if you enjoyed The Lovers, you should be checking out these other programs on WEVL: Hi Fidelity, Janet's Planet, Siren's Muse, Welcome to the Working Week, Out on the Side, Pathways, Thursday Morning Throwdown, and every Tuesday Afternoon 4-6pm.

(Thanks Kenya for humoring me with the picture.)

The Lovers' Album of the Week

The Mountain Goats Get Lonely

The Music Lovers playlist for 8/24/06 (Final Show)

1. The Music Lovers - Destroyer from Notorious Lighting and Other Works
2. Here's Your Future - The Thermals from The Body, The Blood, The Machine
3. Mini T.V.'s - Chad VanGaalen from Skelliconnection
4. Almost There - Like A Fox from Like A Fox
5. Country Girl - Primal Scream from Riot City Blues
6. No Backbone - The Lemonheads from The Lemonheads
7. Rolling One Sun Blues - Wooden Wand And The Sky High Band from Second Attention
8. Ghost of York - As Tall As Lions from As Tall As Lions
9. She Is - Sufjan Stevens from Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley
10. The Lamests Shows - The Tyde from Three's Co
11. The American Line - Dog Age from Reefy Seadragon
12. Collection Of Stamps - I'm From Barcelona from Let Me Introduce My Friends
13. Golden Star - My Brightest Diamond from Bring Me The Workhorse
14. Be Good - Tokyo Police Club from A Lesson In Crime
15. White Light/White Light - Supersystem from A Milliion Microphones
16. Cybele's Reverie (Remastered) - Stereolab from Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology
17. Count Souvenirs - Junior Boys from So This Is Goodbye
18. Dorothy At Forty - Cursive from Happy Hollow
19. I'm On Fire- Electrelane from Singles, B-Sides & Live
20. Lex - Ratatat from Classics
21. Let Down - Easy Star All-Stars w/Toots and the Maytals from Radiodread
22. No Surprises - Easy Star All-Stars w/The Meditations from Radiodread
23. As You Said - Tortoise from A Lazarus Taxon
24. Chinese Translation - M. Ward from Post-War
25. What Were The Chances - Damien Jurado from And Now That I'm In Your Shadow
26. Memphis Moon - Magnolia Electric Co from Fading Trails
27. The Race Is On Again - Yo La Tengo from I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
28. Woke Up New - The Mountain Goats from Get Lonely
29. The Music Lovers - Destroyer from Yer Blues

This Week on the Lovers - Final Show

New releases from:
The Mountain Goats, The Lemonheads, Primal Scream, Cursive, My Brightest Diamond, The Tyde, Chad VanGaalen, Junior Boys, Damien Jurado, Magnolia Electric Co, M. Ward, Ratata, Supersystem, The Thermals, Lambchop, Electrelane, Tortoise, and many more...

Back To The Country playlist for 8/22/06

1. Marty Stuart - Get Back To The Country
2. Buck Owens - Above and Beyond
3. Ernest Tubb - Soldier's Last Letter
4. George Jones - Her Name Is
5. George Jones - Blue Moon of Kentucky
6. Hank Williams - Honky Tonkin'
7. Loretta Lynn - I'm A Honky Tonk Girl
8. Hank Thompson - When God Calls His Children Home
9. Lucy J. Dalton - Hard Times
10. Louvin' Brothers - Kentucky
11. Emmylou Harris - Blue Kentucky Girl
12. Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors
13. Jim Reeves - Blue Side of Lonesome
14. Bobby Osborne - The Hard Times
15. Tara Nevins - Troubles
16. The Sons of the Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds
17. Connie Smith - Ribbon of Darkness
18. Tanya Tucker - Blood Red and Goin' Down
19. Dolly Parton - Harper Valley PTA
20. Jimmie Rogers - T.B. Blues
21. Riders In The Sky - That's How The Yodel Was Born
22. Rex Allen, Jr. - Can You Hear Those Pioneers?
23. Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle Again
24. Carl Smith (by request) - Hey Joe
25. Bill Monroe - I'm On My Way To The Home
26. Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home
27. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
28. Dwight Yoakman - Guitars, Cadillacs
29. Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three - One Piece At A Time
30. Dave Dudley - Six Days on the Road
31. Don Gibson - Waitin' Down The Road
32. Tennessee Ernie - Mule Train
33. Doc & Merle Watson - Freight Train Blues
34. Fred Eaglesmith - I Like Trains
35. Asleep At The Wheel - My Baby Thinks She's A Train
36. Freddy Fender - Wasted Days and Wasted Nights
37. Charlie Rich - Sittin' and Thinkin' (by request)
38. Johnny Bond - Sick, Sober, and Sorry
39. James Hand - In The Corner, At The Table, By The Jukebox

    Album Feature:
    In Concert w/Charley Pride, Chet Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Gary Stewart

40. Charley Pride - Kaw-Liga
41. Charley Pride - Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town
42. Charley Pride - Louisiana Man
43. Dolly Parton - Jolene
44. Dolly Parton - Love Is Like A Butterfly
45. Dolly Parton - Coat Of Many Colors
46. Dolly Parton - The Bargain Store
47. Gary Stewart - Out Of Hand
48. Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Colonel Bogey
49. Charley Pride - For The Good Times
50. Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - John Henry

    - End of Album Feature -

51. Billy Walker - Thank You For Calling
52. Willie Nelson - Hello Walls
53. Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray
54. Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn - Who's Gonna Take Your Garbage Out
55. Gail Davies - Love Love Love
56. Roy Acuff - Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
57. June Carter Cash and Carl Smith - Love Oh Crazy Love
58. Jimmie Dal Gilmore - Braver New World
59. Merle Haggard - Wonder If They Ever Think Of Me

Blues on the Bluff - Part 2 Photos

Sorry, I didn't take that many photos from Part 2 since I wasn't able to get to the event until the start of the Kenny Brown Band. But I shall share what little I captured:

Blues on the Bluff - It's Tonight!

The Lovers' Album of the Week

Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon

The Music Lovers playlist for 8/17/06

1. Six Different Ways (Studio Demo) - The Cure from The Head On The Door (Deluxe Edition)
2. What's An Ocean For? - White Whale from WWI
3. Too Much Happy Wet Hair - Love Of Everything from Superior Mold And Die
4. My Dear Giant - The Marshmallow Kisses from I Wonder Why My Favorite Boy Leaves Me An EP
5. The Harness Can't Ride Anything - Chin Up Chin Up from The Harness Can't Ride Anything
6. The Hounds of War - The Subjects from With The Ease, Grace, Precision, and Cleverness of Human Beings
7. Big Times - The Winnerys form Daily Urban Times
8. Crackers - Lambchop from Damaged
9. See You On The Moon - Great Lake Swimmers from See You On The Moon! Songs For Kids
10. Puff The Magic Dragon - Broken Social Scene form See You On The Moon! Songs For Kids
11. Li'l Miss Riding Hood - Jeff Merchant from Window Rolled Down
12. Feels LIke I'm Walking - Huma from We Are Here For You
13. You Made It - DJ Shadow (w/Chris James) from The Outsider
14. Flats and Jobs - The Gurus form The Swing of Things
15. Flower Gardens - Chad VanGaalen from Skelliconnections
16. To Go Home - M. Ward from Post-War
17. Get Myself Into It - The Rapture from Get Myself Into It (radio single)
18. Superluminal - Home Video from No Certain Night or Morning
19. Haniel - The Cracow Klezmer Band from Belan: Book Of Angels Vol. 5
20. The Vague Angels of Vagary - Vague Angels from Let's Duke It Out At Kilkenny Katz
21. Bless Your Blood - Six Organs of Admittance from Sun Awakens
22. Roscoe - Midlake from The Trials of Van Occupanther
23. Metrorail Thru Space - Cut Chemist from The Audience's Listening
24. Peering - Tortoise from A Lazarus Taxon
25. Messenger - Pinback from Nautical Antiques: A Selection Of b-sides Outtakes And Rarities: 1998-2001
26. Bird of Cuzco - Nina Nastasia from On Leaving
27. Always For You - The Album Leaf from Into the Blue Again

Flow Radio playlist on 8/14/06

1. Brian Eno - Under Stars
2. The Album Leaf - Seal Beach
3. Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer
4. Art of Fighting - Give Me Tonight
5. Arthur Russell - Tone Before Kane
6. Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Edge of Nowhere
7. Quantic - Tell It Like You Mean It
8. Ian Boddy - Aurora
9. Arthur Russell - Wax the Van
10. Beth Orton - Sisters Of Mercy
11. Blue States - The Trainer Shuffle
12. dbkaos - After the Migration
13. Six Organs of Admittance - River of Transfiguration
14. Clogs - Kapsburger
15. Phillip Glass - Akhnaten: Dance (Act II Scene III)
16. Kronos Quartet - Elvis Everywhere
17. Arthur Russell - Let's Go Swimming
18. Terminal 4 - When I'm Falling
19. Antony and the Johnsons - Twilight
20. Matthew Shipp - Cohesion
21. Arthur Russell - Our Last Night Together
22. M. Ward - Afterword

All Arthur Russell tracks come off of the 1986 release World of Echo.

Hitched!

The little lady and I are getting married today!

The Lovers' Album of the Week

M. Ward Post-War

The Music Lovers playlist for 8/10/06

1. The Freed Pig - Sebadoh from III (reissue)
2. Los Angeles - The Rosewood Thieves from From The Decker House
3. Sketches (20 Something Life) - La Rocca from The Truth
4. I Go To The Barn Because I Like The - Band of Horses from Everything All The Time
5. The Ruling Class - Loose Fur (by request) from Born Again In The USA
6. The Rise and Fall of the Letter P - Lambchop from Damaged
7. Baby Brown Eyes - Damon McMahon from Mansions
8. Your Boyfriend's Blues - Blood Meridian from Kick Up The Dust
9. Sour Smoke Comets On Fire from Avatar
10. Bless Your Blood - Six Organs of Admittance from The Sun Awakens
11. Ash Wednesday - Elvis Perkins from Ash Wednesday
12. Perfect - Two Sheds from Strange Ammunition
13. Everybody Knows - Rufus Wainwright from Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Soundtrack)
14. Willy The Cocoa - Bobtail Yearlings from Yearling's Bobtail
15. Because Your Light Is Turning Green - The Dirty Projectors from Slaves' Graves & Ballads
16. Not Quite Easy On The Ryan - Tortoise from A Lazarus Taxon
17. Bomb In A Trumpet Factory Quantic from An Annoucement To Answer
18. Quick As Cupid - Matthew Friedberger from Winter Women
19. Velocity - Vert from Some Beans And An Octopus
20. Sweet Harmony - Michael Mayer/Tobias Thomas from Total 7
21. Miserable Girl - Soulwax from Nite Versions
22. Double Shadow - Junior Boys from So This Is Goodbye
23. Sing Me 2 Sleep - Chad VanGaalen from Skelliconnections
24. I Need All The Friends I Can Get - Camera Obscura from Let's Get Out Of This Country
25. Poison Cup - M. Ward from Post-War
26. This Year (for Apryl, love ya) - The Mountain Goats from The Sunset Tree

Flow Radio playlist on 8/7/06

1. Balun - I Shouldn't Do This
2. The Books - All Our Bases Are Belong To Them
3. Daniel Lanois - Two Worlds
4. Bill Frisell - Godson Song
5. Brian Eno - 2/1
6. Edith Frost - Temporary Loan
7. Smog - Rock Bottom Riser
8. Vashti Bunyan - Where I Like To Stand
9. Innocence Mission - Tomorrow On The Runway
10. Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination
11. Robert Hine - Find Myself
12. Panda Bear - Untitled 5
13. The Dirty Projectors - On The Beach
14. Juana Molina - Malherido
15. Gotan Project - Domingo
16. Jazznova - Bohemian Sunset
17. Amadou & Mariam - Djagneba
18. Felix Laband - Minka
19. Harold Budd - Breathless...I (with Zeitgeist)
20. Nika Japaridze - Fireworkds
21. Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers
22. Moondog - Pastoral
23. SIANspheric - Like Glass
24. Brian Eno - This
25. Nico - These Days

The Lovers' Album of the Week

Quantic An Annoucement To Answer

The Music Lovers playlist for 8/3/06

1. Hatched Upon The Age - Comets On Fire from Avatar
2. I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree - The Sleep Jackson from Pesonality. One Was A Spider. One Was A Bird
3. We're Just Temporary Ma'am - White Whale from WWI
4. Carlos The Jackal - 20 Minute Loop from Yawn + House = Explosion
5. Shoulder & Arms - Tokyo Police Club from A Lesson In Crime
6. Little Heartbreaker - Jim Greer from Online Exclusive
7. Anti-Anti - Snowden from Anti-Anti
8. Blah Blah Blah - Say Hi To Your Mom from Impeccable Blahs
9. These Roads - Our Lady Of The Highway from Beauty Won't Save Us This Year
10. Who's That Knocking - Pajo from 1968
11. Eventually, All At Once - Joan Of Arc from Eventually, All At Once
12. Two Divided By Zero - Belltower from Sweet Fruit
13. Clouds - The Long Winters from Putting The Days To Bed
14. The Clock - Thom Yorke from The Eraser
15. God's Small Song - Bonnie Prince Billy from Cursed Sleep EP
16. Paperback Bible - Lambchop from Damaged
17. Two Young Sheeps - The Dirty Projectors from New Attitude
18. Spoon - Cut Chemist from The Audience's Listening
19. An Annoucement To Answer - Quantic from An Annoucement To Answer
20. Madison Area - Tortoise from A Lazarus Taxon
21. Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind - Yo La Tengo from I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
22. If It Be Your Will - Antony from Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (Soundtrack)

The Music Lovers playlist for 7/27/06

Pitchfork Music Festival Special

1. Skip to the End - Futureheads from News and Tributes
2. Spider's Web - Mission of Burma from The Obliterati
3. Abel - The National from Alligator
4. Your Blood - Destroyer from Destroyer's Rubies
5. Little Dawn - Ted Leo/Pharmacists from Shake the Sheets
6. Insistor - Tapes`n Tapes from The Loon
7. Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes from Os Mutantes
8. Support Our Troops - Devendra Banhart from Xiu Xiu/Devendra Banhart 7"
9. Rusted Gates Of Milan - Art Brut from Bang Bang Rock & Roll
10. Dance Music - The Mountain Goats from The Sunset Tree
11. Julie (Remix) - Jens Lekman from "Oh You're So Silent Jens"
12. The Beast and Dragon, Adored - Spoon from Gimmie Fiction
13. Red Gradations - Chicago Underground Duo from Synesthesia
14. Odyssey - 8 Bold Souls from Last Option
15. Ghost of the Pinata - The Nels Cline Singers from Instrumentals
16. Who Took Berlin Part 1 - Tarantula AD from Book of Sand
17. Melo Do Tabaco - Bonde Do Role from Melo Do Tabaco
18. Into the Sun - Diplo from Florida
19. Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan - Matmos from The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
20. But For You - Matthew Dear from Leave Luck To Heaven
21. He Who Flattened Your Flame Is Gettin' Torched - Danielson from Ships
22. Louisana - The Walkmen from A Hundred Miles Off
23. How To Rent A Room - Silver Jews from The Natural Bridge
24. Beanbag Chair - Yo La Tengo from I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
25. St. Augustine - Band of Horses from Everything All The Time

Blues on the Bluff - Photos (Part 1)

Thanks to all the artists, volunteers, and attendees for making Part 1 of this year's Blues on the Bluff the most successful in the concert series' history! Scroll down for photos from the event:

Blues on the Bluff - Photos (Part 2)