The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Hey Listeners,
So a few weeks ago Trusty Sidekick Lando gave me a book he had recently finished that he thought I might enjoy reading. Not sure if he had remembered a conversation we had had about a year ago or it was just another hand-me-down he was passing along. I was unfamiliar with the author and the title, but when I flipped it over and read the description of the book I got very excited to read the book and share it with my son Malcolm. You’ll have to tune in to hear all the details, but the book was written by native Richmonder, Jack Carneal, and the title was Destroy Yo0ur Safe and Happy Lives. The book follows Jack and a group of his friends / bandmates – The Anomoanon (rhymes with phenomenon) as they navigate the music industry, young adulthood, parenthood and the trade-ffs and choices in life. It’s a great read.
So tonight’s show is the very unofficial and unauthorized would-be soundtrack to the text. The playlist features the band and works from Will Oldham and his brother Ned as well as bands from the Drag City label, bands that influenced their band or shared a bill with their band. It’s a fun set of tracks. So keep it tuned here.
The Haberdasher
The Anomoanon Mermaid's Womb The Anomoanon Palace Records Palace Brothers (Thou Without) Partner Days In the Wake Domino Records Slint Breadcrumb Trail Spiderland Touch and Go Records Mekons Blow Your Tuneless Trumpet The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll Mekons The Sadies Memphis, Egypt (Live) In Concert, Vol. 1 Outside Music Will Oldham Party with Marty (Abstract Blues) Songs of Love and Horror Drag City Records Bonnie "Prince" Billy Death to Everyone I See a Darkness Drag City Records Johnny Cash I See a Darkness American III: Solitary Man American Recordings Catalog P&D Ned Oldham Further Gone Further Gone - Single No Quarter The Anomoanon Where Are You Going to My Pretty Maid Mother Goose Palace Records The Anomoanon The Lamplighter Songs from Robert Louis Stevenson's a Child's Garden of Verses Palace Records Mark Lanegan Sunrise Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology (1989-2011) Light In The Attic Soulsavers You Will Miss Me When I Burn (feat. Mark Lanegan) Broken [PIAS] Cooperative Kate Wolf Brother Warrior An Evening In Austin Rhino The Olivia Tremor Control Jumping Fences Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle Cloud Recordings Bill Callahan Let's Move to the Country Gold Record P-VINE RECORDS Jim O'Rourke Insignificance Insignificance Drag City Jessica Pratt Jacquelyn in the Background On Your Own Love Again Drag City Records Squirrel Bait Too Close to the Fire Skag Heaven Drag City Records The Anomoanon Mr. Train Joji Temporary Residence Ltd. Royal Trux Yellow Kid Accelerator Fat Possum / Hostess Watershed Slowly Then Suddenly The Fifth of July Idol Records Tin Can Fish Band Osusanna Good Fight Canned Goods Watershed On a Broken Radio Brick and Mortar Curry House Records Bonnie "Prince" Billy Apocolypse, No! Joya Drag City Inc. Silver Jews Punks In the Beerlight Tanglewood Numbers Drag City Records Purple Mountains I Loved Being My Mother's Son Purple Mountains Drag City Records The Anomoanon The Free Web Hello My - Single Palace Records