Rock Garden Tour

This Week's Category: Ceramic Herbivore's Delimma

Last night on the Rock Garden Tour we jammed about garden accessories. Gazing ballz, ceramic fawns, gnomes, birdhouse duplexes, feather crosses, and more. We also talked about Thunderdome. Stay tuned for the podcast. In the mean time I'll tell you about the music. We played lots. Have a look at the playlist and keep it rural.

James & Bobby Purify - Shake A Tail Feather

David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things

Magnolia Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry

Bon Iver - Creature Fear

The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You

Kings Of Leon - Taper Jean Girl

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - White Corolla

Hoodoo Gurus - Like Wow-Wipeout!

Doug Martsch - Gone

John Lee Hooker - Rock-n-Roll

Lucky Elephant - Lucky Elephant

Zee Avi - Bitter Heart

Blitzen Trapper - Furr

Let's Wrestle - Song For Old People

Phoenix - Lisztomania

Of Montreal - Friends Of Mine

Jim Groth - Farmboy Blues (Live from the belly of a whale)

Harry Nillson - Think About Your Troubles

The Mountain Goats - Creature Song

Pavement - Cut Your Hair

Tonic - Flowerman

Rock Garden Tour 35: Broadcasting The Paranormal

 

This week's Rock Garden Tour podcast leaps into the paranormal, an alien world where only witty banter survives. Join us as we talk fert. sticks, vampire bats, vaporous farmers and more. Enjoy the podcast and keep it rural.

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As if our little radio show wasn't paranormal enough.

The Rock Garden Tour crew blasted out a show about the paranormal last night on South Dakota Public Broadcasting. It all started with an odd phone conversation with a vaporous entity from Iowa, it ended with some witty banter about mysterious hydrangeas, vampire bats, the great Pumpkin Center adventure, and more. You're not going to want to miss the podcast. In the mean time, I'll post the playlist from last night's show on SDPB. If you have any questions about the tunes let us know.

Basia Bulat - Pilgrimming Vine

Magnetic Fields - Strange Powers

Samamidon - Little Satchel

Deer Tick - The Ghost

John Vanderslice - D.I.A.L.O.

Horse Feathers - Curs In The Weeds

ColtCockers - Silver Scapes

We All Have Hooks For Hands - Ghosts And Strangers

We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Teeth That Feed The Lions

Tonic - Flowerman

This Week's Category: Bullsnakes And Ballyhoo

Last night's debut of the Rock Garden Tour on KCFS 94.5 went off with a few hitches but nothing major. An in-studio audience member did suffer a bullsnake bite, but other than that everyone survived. The show touched on some pretty serious garden variety issues. We talked about bull snakes, and bull's blood beets, and vegetabull. Stay tuned for the podcast. Moving on, the show blasted out some pretty intense free range rock and roll from the likes of Magnolia Electric Co., Those Darlins, Dinosaur Jr., and more. Take a crack at the playlist and keep it rural.

Eels - Prizefighter

Eugene McGuinness - Fonz

Magnolia Electric Co. - It's Made Me Cry

Let's Wrestle - Tanks

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don' t Haunt This Place

Great Lake Swimmers - Palmistry

Heartless Bastards - Wide Awake

Those Darlins - Cannonball Blues

Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel

Lucky Elephant - Lucky Elephant

Dinosaur Jr. - Over It

The Deep Dark Woods - Bakersfield

Herman Dune - 1-2-3/Apple Tree

The Broken West - Perfect Games

Kings Of Leon - Taper Jean Girl

Charley Patton - Jersey Bull Blues

The Mountain Goats - Please Come Home To Hamngatan

Holy Modal Rounders - Sugar In The Gourd

Slow Club - It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful

Tonic - Flowerman

Turnip Your KCFS! 94.5!

Rock Garden Tour debuts on KCFS 94.5 tomorrow night from 8-10. - Fact

We were forced to switch from KAUR to KCFS after Augustana officials caught word that we produced an entire show about a Wisconsin organic farm nudist colony. - Fiction - Augie officials have nothing against nudists. We're leaving KAUR because Augustana doesn't know what they're going to do with KAUR. And we're looking for a more stable Thursday night set up. This has nothing to do with the way Augie treated us. They're great.

You can now hear the Rock Garden Tour on KCFS every Thursday night from 8-10, as well as on South Dakota Public Broadcasting every Sunday night from 10-11 central. - Fact

In 2004 Brookings Radio shut us down midway through our second episode after a police officer complained about the show. - Fact

There is no room for a live in studio audience in the KCFS studio. - Fiction, we'll make room.

Leroy, Rock Garden Tour Family Band banjo player, left the act for greener pastures. - Fact...he'll be back.

The new show on KCFS will feature more witty banter. - Ficton, where'd you hear that? What are you a lawyer?

Wayne Porter constructed the Cow God of McCook County out of scrap metal salvaged near Miller, SD. -Duh

The giant ringneck pheasant near Tinkertown, SD is heavier than the giant ringneck pheasant in Huron, SD. - Probably

If you recorded the sound of corn growing it would sound exactly like Bruce Springsteen. - Fiction, it sounds like Creedence.

Overwatering is still the number 1 known killer of houseplants today. - Fact 

Hopefully this clears everything up. If you do happen to have a question, please, let us know.

Rock Garden Tour 34: When it comes to horticouture, comfort is Key.

This week's rock garden variety podcast features less talk and more witty banter about fashion, horticouture if you will. In other words we talked a whole lot about overalls. We also talked a bit more about hot sludge. Thanks to Joe Bartmann, Scott Gibson and Jack Ball for helping out. Enjoy this week's Rock Garden Tour podcast and as always, keep it rural.

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Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio: Sunday Night Playlist

Last night's Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio kicked like a rented mule. We talked garden variety fashion. We interviewed garden variety experts like Joe Bartmann and Scott Gibson. We blasted out some most righteous free range rock and roll. And we talked about hot sludge.

We're going to try to get into the habit of posting the playlist every Monday morning, so far so good.

Those Darlins - Cannonball Blues

War On Drugs - Taking The Farm

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Family Band - Them Old Days Are Gone

Let's Wrestle - Tanks

The National - Astronaut

Woody Guthrie - Dirty Overalls

The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

The Mountain Goats - Going To Scotland

Slow Club - It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful

Tonic - Flowerman

Rock Garden Tour 33: They Got Double Entendres In Wisconsin?

Nude gardening, sasquatch centennials, and the ultimate rock and roll garden variety double entendre, the beet, that about sums up last night's episode of the Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio. We also talked to Jeff Stewart, bona fide writer, dog owner, and Mt. Rushmore appreciator. Whoa. Just received word from our Canistota correspondent, apparently they're celebrating 125 years as well, not to mention Blunt, SD. (We didn't hear peep from our Blunt correspondent by the way. Chances are it slipped their minds.) 

Lucky for you we didn't forget to blast out some serious beets. Enjoy the podcast and keep it rural.

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This Week's Category: Siouxper Hot Sludge Sunday, And Fashion!

Last night I talked to Joe Bartmann about hot sludge, during Rock Garden Tour fashion week. I also talked to our Garretson Correspondent Scott Gibson about straw hats, Danish clogs and overalls. Make sure you check out next week's podcast for the interviews. In the mean time, let's talk about most righteous free range rock and roll. We blasted some ear drums last night - big time - Those Darlins, Dirty Projectors, Let's Wrestle, and more. Here's the playlist from last night's show on KAUR.

Woody Guthrie - Overalls

Slow Club - It Doesn't Have To Be Beautiful

Let's Wrestle - Tanks

Sunset Rubdown - Paper Lace

Dirty Projectors - No Intention

Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - Bugs & Flowers

The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

Those Darlins - Red Light Love

Kurt Vile - Freeway

Limes - Uptown

Deastro - Vermillion Plaza

We All Have Hooks For Hands - Werewolf

Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers Part I

Beirut - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

Grizzly Bear - About Face

Sportsguitar - Fish

Flowerman - Tonic

Remember to tune into the Rock Garden Tour every Sunday night from 10-11pm (Central) on SDPB radio. In the Queen City you can also hear us on Thursday nights from 8-10pm on 89.1 KAUR. 

Keep it rural.

Rock Garden Tour 32: Good Night East River Bias! Good Night!

 

This week's rock and roll gardening podcast features a few bits and peaches from our debut episode on South Dakota Public Broadcasting. It's packed full of parody, irony, wise cracks about Sisseton, a tune about Meckling (hay capital of the universe) and more. If you're new to the show feel free to drop us a line. If you want to ask a question about gardening by all means go ahead, can't guarantee that we'll know the answer, can guarantee that we'll take a stab at it though. If you're old to the show, enjoy this week's Rock Garden Tour podcast and as always, keep it rural.

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