Rock Garden Tour

Volume 2 Rock Garden Tour 97: Squash Mosh '12

This November we celebrated some of our favorite listeners by forcing them to eat squash live on the show. Butternut! Acorn! Speckled Hound! And more! Thanks to everyone for playing along. And thanks to Queen City Bakery for baking the squash. You can listen to the whole broadcast right here.

Download VOL 2 - 8 RGT SDPB 129 SQUASH MOSH 

The Squash Mosh free range rock-n-roll playlist:

The Gourds - Country Love

Darron Hanlon - There's Not Enough Songs About Squash

Tall Tales And The Silver Lining - The Understanding

Andrew Bird - Spirograph

Beachwood Sparks - The Orange Grass Special

Deadman's Bones - Pa Pa Power

Clark Bueling - Early American Gourd*

*Songs played on a cucurbitae banjo

Below, News From Pierre introduces the squash.

THINK INSIDE THE BOX

The Rock Garden Tour lockout is nearing an end. We've learned a lot, mostly about changing diapers. We also learned that cute baby clothes aren't nearly as cute when you're trying to put them on a crying baby. We've learned other things too. For example, people that talk about 'thinking outside the box' have no idea how fun it is to think 'inside of the box.' I have first hand knowledge of this, as you can see from the above photo. You can see it in the below photo as well.

Squash Yer Troubles!

 

Huge show about curcubita last night on KCFS 94.5, though I do wish I could have tracked down a few more rock-n-roll tunes about squash. The critics are going to chew us up and spit us out over that one, as if our little radio show was nothing more than some under cooked warted hubbard squash, which really isn't all that bad if you can believe it. Some high points from the show: a sonic adventure to Squash Mosh 2010, haiku poetry, we defined the term squarsh, and the Rock Garden Tour Family Band performed a tune inspired by the sunshine squash (see above), the show also featured some intense free range rock and roll (see below).

The Gerbils - Sunshine Soul*

Langhorne Slim - Hello Sunshine*

Pearl Jam - The Fixer

Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues

The Bad Plus - Never Stop

Colin Gilmore - Black Vines*

Holy Modal Rounders - Sugar In The Gourd*

Bob Dylan - Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues

James & Bobby Purify - My Adorable One

Tim Kasher - Cold Love

Bombadil - Laurita

Ewan McLennan - Tramps and Hawkers

Wumpus - L-O-V-E*

Bombadil - Sad Birthday**

Kings For Forth - One Day

The Out-Siders - Sun's Going Down*

The Mountain Goats - Going To Georgia

Charlie Parr - Where You Gonna Be

Tonic Flowerman

*Tunes we suspect were written about squash

**Songs dedicated to our Garretson Correspondent who celebrated his birthday yesterday 

Shocking news from the North East.

Here's an example of the Rock Garden Tour's journalistic ability. We broke a story about the horrors of pumpkin chucking in Delaware. If you have a weak stomach you may want to sit this one out.

Download the_horrors_of_pumpkin_chuckin.mp3

Keep it rural.