Mayday / riffraff (TOTR 418)

 

Stream the audio archive here:

https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/riffraffmayday-totr-418

-this episode produced & pre-recorded on 4/29 for broadcast on WTTU 88.5fm Cookeville on 4/30/2022

-All songs today, released by Casey Neil 

-Interview with Casey recorded & broadcast on Facebook & YouTube live

To buy his music & support Casey, go to:

https://caseyneill.bandcamp.com

May Morning Dew (sung by Hanz Araki)- Portland West by Casey Neill Trio   

The Ramble - Goodbye to the Rank and File by Casey Neill & The Norway Rats

[interview portion]

The Power Is Turning 

A Different Kind of Traveler -from pawprints (out of print low-fi dub from Andrew’s personal cassette copy)

Secret Places

Flaming Arrows -from riffraff out-of-print 1996 CD, available on Bandcamp

[interview portion]

-Riffraff 

[interview portion]

-the following tracks are from Great American Music Hall 1998

-A live solo acoustic Casey Neill performance recorded at the storied Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, CA on July 16th 1998. This was an opening set for Jello Biafra. The set leans hard on a fevered acoustic punk sound and is full of 90s cultural references and activism. Released from the archives in 2021 & available at bandcamp.  

-Scrounge Around

-Dancing on the Ruins

-Manchester Rambler

-Breathe Life

-Double Dutch

[interview portion]

The Distance Ahead - from an EP called Crow Hill released in 2020

A Mighty Love

Okanogan County 

Saints of the Ditches 

Hallowed Be Thy Ground - from Skree by Casey Neill Trio

[interview portion]

Mayday -from self-titled Casey Neill album

Jesus Etc (TOTR 417)

[image - Jesus on the Lotus Flower by Solomon Raj]
Originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM on Saturday, April 16, 2022

listen to the archived audio here:
https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/jesus-etc-totr-417

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Forgive Me Lord & Try Me One More Time
Jimmy Collier & Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick - Everybody’s Got A Right To Live
Theillalogicalspoon- Hoods Up, The Low-down Technified Blues
Will Hoge - Jesus Came to Tennessee
Psalters - Dumpster Divers
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Children Of The Lord
Lincoln Durham - Ballad of a Prodigal Son
Bread & Roses - Babylon is Fallen
The Coyote Bandits - Hosanna / Wayfaring Stranger
The Pine Box Boys - Will You Remember Me?
Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon - Plastic Jesus
Colter Wall - The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie
Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay
Delaney Davidson & Marlon Williams - Death Don't Have No Mercy
Vudu Sister - Psalms
The Hat & Father John Misty & S.I. Istwa - The Angry River
Quiet Life & Jim James - Waiting Around to Die
Nirvana - They Hung Him On A Cross
Mastersystem - Bird is Bored of Flying
Justin Townes Earle - Mornings In Memphis
Crooked Still - Ain't No Grave
Kris Kristofferson & The Borderlords - The Hero
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
Norah Jones - Jesus, Etc.
Brent Cobb- We Shall Rise

Beneath The Cobblestones (TOTR 416)

Originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
Listen to the archive here:

https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/beneath-the-cobblestones-totr-416

Vincent Neil Emerson - The Ballad of the Choctaw-Apache

Joy Harjo with

Mumu Fresh

Indigo Girls

Winona LaDuke

Pura Fé

Jennifer Kreisberg

Bonnie Raitt

Day Sisters

Soni Mareno

Waubanewquay -

No More Pipe Line Blues (On This Land Where We Belong)

The Little Unsaid - The Great Nowhere

Moddi - Beneath The Cobblestones

Kimya Dawson - Utopian Futures

Lunatraktors - 16000 Miles

Christy Moore - Clock Winds Down

Martyn Joseph - There Is A Field

Pixie & The Partygrass Boys - Be Kind

Pagan Holiday - Maybe Today Will Be Different

Joe Pug - I Don't Work in a Bank

The Local Honeys - Dying to Make a Living

Steve Earle - Devil Put the Coal in the Ground

Chris Doud - Who Shall Be Free

Colter Wall - Do Re Mi

The Longest Johns & Seth Lakeman - The Workers Song

The Mountain Goats - Solidarity Forever

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West - Our Lady of the Tall Trees

Jason Dea West

Cassandra Girard

John L Richardson

Kevin Hayezy - Mountain Air

Willi Carlisle - Tulsa's Last Magician

Nick Shoulders - New Dying Soldier

Adeem the Artist - Cast Iron Pansexual

Tim Vantol - Before It All Ends

Joe Troop - Heaven on Earth

The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit - Everywhere Now

Airness Brings the Sonic Silly We Need to Save Us!!

 

True confession: I grew up playing air guitar in the family basement.

True confession: I was the lead singer at a campus air-band competition a couple of years ago. To my knowledge, I was the only faculty crazy enough to join any band, which I did at the request of the students in the learning village, of which I was then the official mentor.

Air guitar has a special place in some steamy sub-section of rock fandom. Not mockery, not parody, not mere mimicry but something special in its own alternate universe, the air band and the air guitar are epic and grand in their own wild way. 

If fantasy football had actual players, not just names on a roster, surrendered to the random math culled from actual results, maybe it would come closer to the air band. Maybe the “live action role playing” community understands air guitar better? Maybe the folks at the Renaissance Faire? 

As a play, Chelsea Marcantel’s Airness is completely silly and totally over-the-top. Let’s go to the competitive crazy of some air guitar Olympics. Okay sure. I am there! 

For a wistful 90-minutes of head-banging beauty with great sound and glittering lights and an actual bar where cast members pop the tops of NA beers throughout the show, the incredibly talented cast and crew at the Backdoor Playhouse bring the noise. 

For the 15 years I have steadily attended and reviewed shows at our campus black-box theater, I have learned to expect the unexpected, to never be surprised by the creative director Mark Creter’s ability to bounce from the serious to edgy to depressing to dark to campy to comedy to something so unbelievably silly and therefore salvific as this. Because silly can save us now!

Because to put it plainly, with everything definitely not silly or youthful that our world throws at us daily, with a plague of adults adulting and workers working and warmakers warring, who doesn’t need 90 minutes of sheer silly air guitar? 

This play is fantastic fun on every level, and it’s exactly the gift that Cookeville needs right now. Melt your face at our campus’s coolest alternative space! 
Andrew William Smith

[image: the cast of Airness from the official program, provided by the Playhouse.]

Now Showing  -  AIRNESS
@ 8:00 PM    March 31st,  &  April 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9
@ 10:00 PM    April 7  (Late Night)
@ 2:00 PM    April 9  (Matinee) 
The Backdoor Playhouse is off the main quad on the campus of Tennessee Tech in Cookeville. Tickets at the door.
General admission: $15.00; Senior citizens: $12.00
Student admission is $5.00 (This is for all university, college, high school students)
On Tennessee Tech Employee Appreciation Night (Tuesday),Tennessee Tech employees pay $5.00 with ID.