Rock Garden Tour

Feel The Power Of Loose Meat

Last night we talked a lot about a loose meat sandwich called the Tavern. You may know it as a Sloppy Joe, Steamburger, Slushburger, BBQ, Loose Meat Sandwich, Charlie Boy, Wimpy, or Swampwich, depending on your geographic vernacular. We also talked about Mennonites and the steam powered garden tools on display at this year's Pioneer Power Show. Stay tuned for the podcast. On the free range rock and roll front last night's show featured a pair of songs off of We All Have Hooks For Hands new album The Shape Of Energy. We also jammed a track by Wesley Willis. Take a look at the playlist and keep it rural.

The Kinks - A Long Way From Home

Wesley Willis - Feel The Power Of Rock And Roll*

We All Have Hooks For Hands - Made Up Of Tiny Lights****

Langhorne Slim - Back To The Wild

The Chambers Brothers - You Got The Power (To Turn Me On)*

Young Fresh Fellows - Power Mowers Theme**

The Born Again Floozies - We Got The Power (Love Letter From America)*

MV & EE - Feelin' Fine

British Sea Power - Blackout*

The Kinks - Powerman**

Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No

Iggy Pop - Raw Power***

We All Have Hooks For Hands - California****

Dolly Parton - In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)

The Mountain Goats - Romans 10:9

Blitzen Trapper - Big Black Bird

Tonic - Flowerman

* Songs that sort of fit into the Pioneer Power Show theme.

** Songs that really fit into the Pioneer Power Show theme.

*** Songs performed live from Gayville Hall (Gayville, SD).

**** Songs that will make you want to surf Lake Vermillion.

Rock Garden Tour 48: Invasion Of The Zombie Plants

 
The above photo features a plant that was recently an orchid, but as you can see the zombies snatched it.

Last night's Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio unearthed truths on everything from the real zombies of Hayti, SD to some zombie talk with Kerry Roberts of the Sioux Falls, SD Zombie Walk to a zombie stank hovering over Bridgewater, SD. I'd tell you more but I don't want to give away the ending. Enjoy the podcast and keep it rural.

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Kind Of A New Show

Tried something kind of new last night. If you listened close, you heard the live show that we produced in Deadwood, SD a few weeks ago. At the same time, or at least in between segments from the Deadwood show, you heard me talking about giant pheasants. So if you tuned in, you really heard 2 live shows going on at once, which is something I've always wanted to try. Another short term goal accomplished.

Here's the playlist from last night's show:

John Doe & The Sadies - Are The Good Times Really Over For Good

Young Fresh Fellows - Let The Good Times Crawl

The Greenhornes - Good Times

Langhorne Slim - Say Yes

Prescott Curly Wolf - Gold In The Mud

Michael Hurley - Hog Of The Forsaken

Polite Sleeper - These Are Not Fall Colors

Blitzen Trapper - Big Black Bird

The Glands - When I Laugh

Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers Part I

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Home

Ra Ra Riot - Oh, La

Pavement - Gold Sounds

The Clash - Gates Of The West

The Mountain Goats - Going To Cleveland****

Tonic - Flowerman

**** Songs that I'm listening to on repeat today because I ran out of time last night and didn't get a chance to play them. **** Also means songs about Cleveland.

Join us next Thursday night for a show about the Pioneer Power Show of Menno, SD, and keep it rural.  

Pledge Your Allegiance To The Rock Garden Tour. Right Now.

We barely survived our first pledge drive on SDPB Radio. Its not fun asking listeners like you to pledge your hard earned dollars, but that's the concept. You want all the benefits of member supported radio, the last refuge for decent, hard working, unique, worth while radio programming like the Rock Garden Tour? Then its time for you to pony up some cash. Here's a link to the pledge page.    

Rock Garden Tour 47: Alive! In Deadwood, SD!

 
So here it is then, the show we've been talking about for a few weeks, a live taping of the Rock Garden Tour in Deadwood, SD (Saloon No. 10) at this year's SD Festival of Books. Enjoy the full length podcast (complete with SDPB Radio pledge drive content) and keep it rural.

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Night Of The Half Dead Zombie Plants

Last night on the original rock and roll garden show we talked zombie plants. I'd tell you that our witty banter killed, but the truth is that most of the audience was already dead when they got there. Kerry Roberts of the Sioux Falls Zombie Walk told us what he knew. Wumpus knocked out some hard core zombie rock and roll. And some guy from Hayti, SD weighed in on Real Hatian Zombies. Stay tuned for the podcast, take a look at the playlist from last night's show, and keep it rural.

The Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside**

Ultravox - Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead*

The Like Young - Dead Eyes*

The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart

The Priscillas - All My Friends Are Zombies*

The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers*

Wumpus - March Of The Nobody's Nose*

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - I Love Creedence

Wave Machines - Dead Houses*

Blitzen Trapper - Black Bird

Still Flyin - Dead Memory Man*

Wumpus - Do The Zombie*

The Zombies - Friends Of Mine**

Beirut - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

The Mountain Goats - Half Dead*

Harper Simon - Cactus Flower Rag***

Tonic - Flowerman

* songs about dead stuff

** songs by The Zombies

*** songs by Paul Simon's kid

Rock Garden Tour 46: A Nose For The News In Bridgewater, SD

 
Last Thursday night's Rock Garden Tour on KCFS featured a bit on a recent story about a strange smell over Bridgewater, SD. We talked to News from Pierre, SD on the issue, because he has a nose for this kind of thing. Enjoy this week's (abbreviated) Rock Garden Tour podcast, and keep it rural.

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Life After Deadwood, SD

Spent the weekend away from the computer (mini-vacation), so we didn't have a chance to upload last Thursday night's playlist. If you're familiar with the website you've probably also noted that we have yet to upload this week's podcast, thats what we've been meaning to talk to you about, there isn't a podcast this week. Taping the show live in Deadwood, SD at Saloon No. 10 from this year's SD Festival Of Books threw us off a bit, messed with our schedule. You can bet that we'll make it up to you though. And thats a promise. So here it is then, last Thursday night's Rock Garden Tour playlist. Keep it rural.

Blitzen Trapper - Big Black Bird*

Rock Garden Tour Family Band - Honey Bee (Live in Deadwood, SD)

David Bowie - Life On Mars

Jay Reatard - Wounded

The Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart*

Fruit Bats - Being On Our Own

Built To Spill - Hindsight

The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Deathbridge In Lethbridge

Langhorne Slim - Say Yes*

Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down*

Strand Of Oaks - Two Kids*

The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die

Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness**

Rock Garden Tour Family Band - Under Presho (Live from Deadwood, SD)

God Help The Girl - The Psychiatrist Is In*

The Mountain Goats - Trick Mirror

Tonic - Flowerman

* New stuff by bands we really like.

** Not so new stuff by bands we really really like.

Rare Preshow Performance! Rock Garden Tour Family Band Performs 'Honeybee' In Deadwood.

Thanks to LeTwan from over in Pest Control for capturing this video during our pre-show warm up at last week's live show from the Charlie Utter Theater in Deadwood's historic Saloon No. 10 at this year's SD Festival Of Books. We wrote this tune about the dissappearing honeybees of Lincoln County, and beyond. The actual recording features an intense sound effects solo by Oil Can, but the tape cuts out just before he really gets into it. We'll share the entire track this Thursday night during our live show on KCFS 94.5. Keep it rural.

Rock Garden Tour 45: Buddha Shaped What?

Last night's Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio enlightened some and endarkened the rest. We talked about Buddha, and musk smellin', and News from Pierre blew our minds, again. RGT 45 features a brief interview with The Post SD, I'd tell you more but I've already said too much. Enjoy the podcast and keep it rural.

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