As a young man of few dollars & even fewer means, my friends & I would sometimes pool our meager resources together when things looked bleak. What we managed to scrape together would result in a surprisingly festive feast, an impromptu party, or some other damn magical celebration of surviving another day of being young & broke.
That's kindasorta how I felt when putting together this week's show.
There were no new releases this week so I felt compelled to explore, and I drew a total blank.
But wait! What's this? An awesome new
Lydia Loveless single just dropped (check out the super-fun video for "
Love Is Not Enough"). That changes everything!
I looked around & saw there were other new songs from forthcoming records by artists I dig. Okay.... now we're getting somewhere.
Where to next?
I'd been seeing a lot of articles online about
queer country. I'd totally dropped the ball about doing anything on the show to celebrate
Pride Month. Many of these artists are artists I already like. Here's a chance to explore an exciting & important musical movement that's been slowly building up over the years.
Okay, now we're cooking!
Waitaminute! I just remembered we've yet to spend quality time with the new
Jayhawks record.
We are getting there.
Cap it off with a fistful of tracks that were in heavy rotation during our first year as a mere mortal terrestrial radio show.
Next thing you know, I'm standing in front of what I'd seen previously as a bare cupboard, looking now at the makings of a fairly festive feast. Enjoy!
Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at
WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to
WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 &
Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at
WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.