Rock Garden Tour

GROWING TROPICAL PANTS IN NORTHERN CLIMATES

Intense show last night, we talked about Glen Campbell, Chip Davis, and whether or not Oil Can's shark skin polyester pants were more tropical than my denim Levis. Probably sounds boring now, but just wait until you hear it on the radio. Above: Our corporate approved pic of the week. It's a three parter featuring visual images that reference wind power, wood power, and ear power. Below: The playlist from last night's show featuring new tracks by Glen Campbell and old tracks by Brian Wilson. 

Roe Family Singers - Crow Black Chicken***

Future Islands - Give Us The Wind

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Stranded On The Wrong Beach

The xx - Islands

Willie Nile - Far Green Hills

Chuck Prophet - Hot Talk

Broken Bells - The Mall & Misery**

Bob Dylan - Christmas Island

Tune Yards - Gangsta

Mike Doughty with Roseanne Cash - Holiday

The Beach Boys - Brian Wilson Falls Into A Piano

The Beach Boys - Vegetables

Jami Lynn - Sod Busters

Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean

Glen Campbell - Any Trouble*****

The Mountain Goats - High Hawk Season

Tonic - Flowerman

**Tunes I played in response to a segment about mall walking.

***Tunes by bands that might be playing at this year's Sioux River Folk Fest at Newton Hills State Park

*****Glen Campbell

Happy! Hurleyween!

Mayor of Hurley, SD Linda Peterson inspired last night's show. She moved Halloween up a day to accommodate their high school football team's second round play off game. So we decided to move our Halloween show back 3 days to accommodate our idea of fun. It went about as good as these things go. We talked about leaf raking vs blowing, Stingy Jack, the Hub City Slash and Haunted De Hoek. Stay tuned for the broadcast. In the mean time, if you turniped yer radio last night and are dying to know what song played at about 8:47, here's the playlist:

Jason Trachtenburg - Halloween

Michael Hurley - Werewolf

The Books - A Long Villainous Sequence

The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains

Deer Tick - Miss K

Aerial Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Fright Night (Nevermore)

Burl Ives - Fooba Wooba John

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place

Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers Part I

Sea Wolf - Black Leaf Falls

Noah And The Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.

Burl Ives - Buckeye Jim

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

Steve Martin - Words Unspoken

Daniel Johnston - Casper The Friendly Ghost

David Simonett - The Gravity Of The Situation*

The Mountain Goats - Please Come Home To Hamngatan**

Tonic - Flowerman

*Songs written by dudes with names I mispronounced when introducing their song

**Songs I sometimes play 2 weeks in a row because I love them so much

 

PAIN PLUS THYME EQUALS COMEDY

More lights than my boom box, not quite as much mojo.

The Reel Dakota Film Festival inspired last night's Rock Garden Tour. That has nothing to do with the audio board in the picture though. KCFS traded in their old pot board (engineered by an antique tractor tinkerer out of Menno, SD) for this beauty. We of the rock garden appreciate the new gear. Not pictured is a new butternut squash shaped microphone. So about the show, we talked to a pair of South Dakota film makers Joe Hubers and Aaron Toronto. We referenced acting greats Cage, Costner, Moranis and Spano. And I dedicated a free-verse haiku poem to Bonesteel, SD. The show goes out over the waves tomorrow night on SDPB Radio - turnip yer radio for fun. In the mean time though, have a look at last night's playlist of free range rock and roll featuring new stuff by Wilco, Paley & Frances and Shelby Lynne.

Lou Barlow - One Note Tone

Paley & Frances - Praise

Wilco - Dawned On Me

Kid Dakota - War And Pieces

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe You

Blitzen Trapper - Fletcher

Human Television - Saw You Walking By

Eels - That's Not Really Funny

Mates Of State - Plaomino

Shelby Lynne - I Don't Need A Reason To Cry

Jami Lynn - Sod Busters

Stornoway - We Are The Battery Human

The Notwist - Boneless

Joe Henry - The World And All I Know

The Mountain Goats - Please Come Home To Hamngatan

Tonic - Flowerman

Potato Creek Johnny joins the Rock Garden Tour Family Band for a number.

CRIMES AGAINST HORTICULTURE

Garden variety criminals in the Queen City and beyond took a giant step toward recovery last Thursday night on KCFS 94.5 as Rock Garden Tour opened the microphone to confessions. Admittin' you done wrong is half the battle. It was an emotional evening, and fulfilling, partly because of the witty banter, but mostly because of the music. I'd tell you more but I don't want to give away the ending, which you'll hear on SDPB Radio in a couple weeks. Check out the playlist from the show below the jump.

SWEET HOME SOUTH DAKOTA

Godfather of the Rowena Polo Club and Flowerman rehearse a new song for their upcoming performance at this year's South Dakota Festival of Books on October 7th in Deadwood, SD. Have a look at this year's line-up.

DIRTY GREEN SUPER NOVA

 
I would normally take some time in these first few sentences to recap last Thursday night's show, which would normally go something like; This week's rock and roll garden show was an absolute gasser. Oil Can performed a sweeet haiku about Summit, SD. Badger mooned the entire tech crew. Etc... The only problem is that its Monday morning and I can't remember what we talked about. I know we made an incredibly important announcement of some kind, but I can't recall the details. It was last Thursday night after all. The day before Automania in downtown Sioux Falls. The day before I saw that silver Pinto station wagon. The day before I tore my shirt sleeves clean off and traded my VW for a dirty green Nova. At least I remember the free range rock and roll playlist from the show. Enjoy it below the jump.

HOT NEWS FROM HOT SPRINGS.

 
Spent the evening talking about sun gazing, and whether or not it was inspired by humans wishing to live more like plants. It went well, but it didn't hold a foot candle to a story of vegetative violence out of Hot Springs, SD. Turns out a guy had the nerve to prune a buckeye tree in June. I'll share the audio at the bottom of this post. It's that good. In the mean time, our playlist featured a lot of great free range rock and roll. Check it out below the jump.

T-BONE AND THE SPARE RIBS GO DOWN IN WHITE, SD

Last night's rock and roll gardening show started with a blow out. Heard from Oil Can during the pre-show warm up that he literally blew a tire near White, SD, that he can still probably make it in time for the free verse haiku poetry segment, that Volvo sure knows how to make a fella feel comfortable during a roadside ordeal. He made it in time for haiku. I asked him to level with me, 'Was it really a flat, or did T-Bone and the Spare Ribs (Oil Can's kareoke persona) stop by the Irish Pub in White for a quick performance of Jim Croce's 'Time In A Bottle?' He dodged the question. Anyway, you can hear all of that when the show plays on SDPB Radio next week-end. In the mean time, here's the playlist from last night's Rock Garden Tour below the jump.

START SPREADING THE NEWS, RHUBARB IS A FRUIT.

While in the process of gathering some veggie sounds from Mitch and Kristine at Queen City Bakery for last night's rock and roll garden show, I learned that at some point in the 1950's the state of New York declared rhubarb a fruit, ya know, for tax purposes. You don't just drop a line like that on my blue mic and expect it to not completely change the course of the entire show. I had hoped to spend the evening talking about growing vegetables, more or less, but instead spent the night wondering how the state of New York feels about botany (as it applies to taxes). And what about the big apple itself? Is it a fruit in New York, or an aggregate berry, or maybe an intermediate rhizome? In the end I'm not sure what we decided exactly, but I am sure that we played some most wholesome free range rock and roll music. Check the playlist below the jump: