As you will remember, my Inno only caught the latter half of my XM show on the Loft last month.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, I just received CD copies of my appearance, and here’s what I left out.<\/p>\n
1. "Spring Is Here"<\/strong> They’ve got this giant library at XM.\u00c2\u00a0 Where they have full-time employees feeding in data, ripping not only CDs, but vinyl too.\u00c2\u00a0 Then that material is available to EVERYBODY in the XM universe.\u00c2\u00a0 So, if you want to play a track NOT in the library, you’ve got to deliver the disc to the librarians, who input it.<\/p>\n They needed to input "Spring Is Here" from Wendy Waldman’s eponymous third album.\u00c2\u00a0 For, despite having 14,000 tracks in the Loft library, Mike didn’t have this one.\u00c2\u00a0 So, he brought in the CD.\u00c2\u00a0 He recommended starting off the show with THIS.\u00c2\u00a0 Since he knew how much I loved it.<\/p>\n When I run the world, Wendy Waldman will get just as much airplay as Joni and Jackson.<\/p>\n Start here.\u00c2\u00a0 The CDs are now available.\u00c2\u00a0 This is SO FAR from what they play on terrestrial radio today, yet so RIGHT!<\/p>\n Utterly timeless.<\/p>\n And inspirational.<\/p>\n 2. "Fifty"<\/strong> Played in honor of Mike’s 50th, which explains his absence and my appearance on the Loft.<\/p>\n This guy’s been forgotten, but that very first double album, "Power In The Darkness", it was good from start to finish in a way today’s CDs never are.<\/p>\n 3. "Spanish Jack"<\/strong> Mike turned me on to this.\u00c2\u00a0 Utterly magnificent.\u00c2\u00a0 Play it in the middle of the night in your one room apartment in Manhattan.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s got that city vibe.\u00c2\u00a0 Pregnant with possibility with a side of defeat to tempt you.<\/p>\n 4. "Why Can’t I Forget About You"<\/strong> In the seventies, I used to go to this roadhouse Cold Spring Tavern high in the hills above Santa Barbara.\u00c2\u00a0 An old stagecoach stop, in a glen of trees, just over the ridge from the ocean side, this log cabin featured bikers on their Harleys and bands playing earthy, country rock every Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n If you’ve ever been to the country, if you’ve ever slowed down enough to be comfortable with your own thoughts, you’ll dig this.<\/p>\n This was never a hit on the radio, but it’s in my own personal pantheon.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it captures brilliantly the sense of loss you have after a relationship has ended.\u00c2\u00a0 You shared so much.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe you don’t belong together, but the bond persists.<\/p>\n Discovered on XM too.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is why I became such a booster in the service, all these great tracks were sitting out there and no one was HEARING THEM!<\/p>\n 5. "Face Of Appalachia"<\/strong> When Valerie digs down deep and sings "APPALACHIA" after the break the hair stands on your back, you stop doing what you’re doing and pay attention.<\/p>\n Still, as much as I loved this track, the one that KILLED me was John Sebastian’s original.\u00c2\u00a0 Which someone e-mailed me about after I wrote about Valerie’s take.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n Read what I had to say at: Face Of Appalachia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 6. "Your Gold Teeth"<\/strong> I meant to play "Your Gold Teeth II", from "Katy Lied", but chose this one by accident.<\/p>\n You see there’s a computer program.\u00c2\u00a0 And you scroll through the tracks, which we had alphabetized by name, and then drag to the top window what you want to play.\u00c2\u00a0 And, being in a rush, needing to catch a plane, I picked the wrong track!<\/p>\n I’m not a huge fan of "Countdown To Ecstasy", which this is from, but I LOVE "Katy Lied".\u00c2\u00a0 Played it on those rainy summer days…<\/p>\n But, did you ever notice how the aliens on the cover of "Countdown To Ecstasy" resemble both those in "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and "E.T."?\u00c2\u00a0 I think Spielberg saw this record…<\/p>\n 7. "(I Don’t Want To Love You But) You Got Me Anyway"<\/strong> I remember exactly where I was when I heard this.\u00c2\u00a0 On PCH just the other side of the McClure Tunnel one spring day in 2003, a couple of months after getting XM installed in my car.<\/p>\n I heard this song ONCE on the radio in the seventies and had to rush out and buy the album IMMEDIATELY!<\/p>\n 8. "The Loner"<\/strong> He’s a perfect stranger Now if THAT ain’t Neil Young.\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s what we love about him, the fact this alienated prick is the perfect us.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone who does whatever he wants, when he wants to.<\/p>\n Who knew this guy with the weird voice from Buffalo Springfield was so talented?<\/p>\n Most people didn’t come on board until "After The Gold Rush".\u00c2\u00a0 And although I love that album, really, my favorite is the very first.<\/p>\n The record starts out with the jingle-jangly "The Emperor of Wyoming" and then EXPLODES into this.\u00c2\u00a0 But "The Loner" is cryptic, just like its writer.\u00c2\u00a0 It goes from intense to dreamy, and back again.<\/p>\n
Wendy Waldman<\/p>\n
Tom Robinson<\/p>\n
Willy DeVille<\/p>\n
Subdudes<\/p>\n
Valerie Carter<\/p>\n\n
Steely Dan<\/p>\n
Sutherland Brothers & Quiver<\/p>\n
Neil Young<\/p>\n
Like a cross of himself and a fox<\/em><\/p>\n\n