Rock Garden Tour

Rock Garden Tour 7: The Word Ambitious Rhymes With Paddle-Fishes

So we took last week off. Rock Garden Tour 7 features bits and peaches from historic episode 57 from back in 2006 - when we were producing the show at a radio station located just across the street from IHOP. The Rock Garden Tour staff gets back into the studio this Thursday night to crank out some more free range rock & roll, mixed in with some more witty banter about gardening. Keep it rural.

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Rock Garden Tour 6: It's Been A Good Year For The Christmas Cactus.

Learn how to force your Christmas Cactus to bloom in just a shade over 6 weeks. Hear some free verse haiku poetry by Oil Can. Listen to witty banter about the oldest living mammal on the planet - all this week on the Rock Garden Tour podcast.

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Yes Petunia, There Is A Flowerman

A few truths unearthed during last night's show: the bowheaded whale is the oldest living mammal on the planet, it takes roughly 6 weeks to force a Christmas cactus into bloom, George Jones is Oil Can's number 1, and you can't trust Badger with petty cash.

Rock Garden Tour 6 featured some most righteous free range rock & roll from the likes of everyone from Wesley Willis to Patrice Holloway. Here's the playlist:

Patrice Holloway - Those DJ Shows

Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

Wolf Parade - Grounds For Divorce

Rock Garden Tour Family Band - Information County Highway

Wesley Willis And The Drag News - Its The End Of The Western

The Black Keys - Hold Me In Your Arms

Ra Ra Riot - Oh, La

The Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

Bon Iver - Skinny Love

Sufjan Stevens - Get Behind Me Santa

Prescot Curlywolf - Gold In The Mud

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy

Animal Collective - Who Can Win A Rabbit

Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood

Good Old War - Coney Island

The Submarines - You, Me And The Boureoisie

Right Away, Great Captain - Oh No, I Tried

Drive By Truckers - Wednesday

Bobby Bare Jr - Stay In Texas

The Mountain Goats - Cubs In Five

Tonic - Flowerman

Stay tuned for bits and peaches from last nights show, until then keep it rural.

Rock Garden Tour 5: Sloth Fratelli Goes To Lebanon

Here's the latest podcast featuring bits and peaches from last Thursday night's show. Corporate asked us to produce a show about the holiday poinsettia. We answered with a smash hit episode about a freakish, world record setting potato from Lebanon.

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A marketing stunt by the Beirut board of tourism?

Thursday nights Rock Garden Tour broadcast brought to the foreground the questions nobody else wanted to ask about this whole freakish, Sloth Fratelli like potato giant. Stay tuned for the podcast. Until then, take a look at the playlist from last night. We featured tracks by Beirut (the band), Horse Feathers, Benoit Pioulard and more. Here's the playlist:

Los Hombres - Let It All Hang Out

The Gourds - Lower 48

Beirut - Scenic World

Doug Martsch - Gone

Little Joy - How To Hang A Warhol

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

Lifter Puller - Sherman City (we recorded over the bad words in this one)

Julie Sokolow - In The Greenhouse

John Frusciante - This Cold

Blitzen Trapper - Country Caravan

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Sally Ann

Geggy Tah - Lotta Stuff

The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

The M's - Tryin' To Keep

Frank Black and the Catholics - If It Takes All Night

Horse Feathers - Working Poor

Keith Richards - Run Run Rudolph

Benoit Pioulard - Ahn

Wild Beasts - The Devils Crayon

The Mountain Goats - Snow Song

Drive By Truckers - Bob

Tonic - Flowerman

That's the playlist. If you ever have any questions regarding the music - feel free to comment. We'll do our best. Keep it rural.

Tuber? Or Not Tuber?

 

I'm all for giant potatos, but this thing looks like a sweet potato, which isn't really a potato after all. We're going to get into it tomorrow night during the show (KAUR 89.1 - Sioux Falls, SD), count on it, big time. You're not going to want to miss this one. Keep it rural.

Say Yes! To Giant Lebanese Potato!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/12/09/vo.lebanon.giant.potato.ap

Not sure where our Lebanese correspondent was at on this deal. Thanks to Brian Hauge for bringing it to our attention. Keep it rural. 

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Rock Garden Tour 4: Rock Me Amaryllis

This week's podcast features some straight talk about amaryllis. And round one of the real vs fake Christmas tree debate. And a talk with Coach. And a quick run down of the Shriner's health care plan.

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RGT 4 Playlist: Pumpkin Center, SD

Last night we discussed amaryllis bulb care. We debated an issue that divides the Rock Garden Tour every year at this time - real vs fake Christmas tree. And we buttoned the show up with a stirring discussion regarding Shriner health care. Stay tuned for the podcast.

In the mean time though - let's talk rock & roll. Last night we spun some new stuff from HollAnd, Elk City, and Seabear - and some not so new stuff by Al Dexter, Taj Mahal, and wait for it...The Mountain Goats. Here's the playlist:

Nico - These Days

Al Dexter & His Troopers - Pistol Packin' Mama

The Fleshtones - Watch Junior Go

HollAnd - Like Trees We Fall

Human Television - Saw You Walking By

Unbunny - Mandi

Los Campesinos! - Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #1

Elk City - Deer Crossing

Frightened Rabbit - Old Old Fashioned

Gang of Four - Not Great Men

Love Is All - Give It Back

The Fugs - How Sweet I Roamed From Field To Field

Taj Mahal - Queen Bee

Black Mountain - No Satisfaction

Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster

Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good

Seabear - Arms

Jason Lowenstein - Casserole

Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear

The Mountain Goats - Going To Bristol

The Clean - Do Your Thing

Tonic - Flowerman

Keep it rural.