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Kimono My House On Bastille Day

Saturday, July 9

Known for his work with bands such as Mr. Big and Racer X, Paul Gilbert recently issued the album I Can Destroy which finds him crafting songs that include dashes of humor and pop sensibilities that recall Todd Rundgren and The Beatles. We’ll hear from that release on this episode of Strange Currency along with selections from Singularity the upcoming release by Standing in the Colour.

Monday, July 11

Nineteen eighty-three was an exciting year for the Athens, Georgia band Pylon. The group spent much of the year touring the country with the likes of an up-and-coming U2. Then, inexplicably, the band decided to call it quits. The group’s final show, held at the Athens club the Mad Hatter, was recorded for a failed television show. That audio has gone unheard until now with the release of the live album Pylon Live. We’ll hear selections from that recording as well as from the seminal Minneapolis, Minnesota punk band Suicide Commandos.

  Tuesday, July 12 

Although she’d attempted to launch a singing career through much of the 1960s, it was only at the end of the decade when her path intersected with Miles Davis that singer Betty Mabry (better known as Betty Davis) began to get her due. Although her marriage to Davis would only last a year and although her own first proper album wouldn’t emerge for several years after their marriage came to an end, she recorded some innovative soul/R&B tracks under her new husband’s watchful eye in early 1969. Those demos are now available on a new recording capturing those New York sessions and some from Los Angeles the previous year. Listen for selections from the Betty Davis release The Columbia Years 1968-1969 as well as Kira Small’s recent effort 3 A.M.

Wednesday, July 13

Listen for selections from Jeff Beck’s classic album Truth as well as songs from the English band Faces.

Thursday, July 14

We celebrate Bastille Day with music from Rush, Serge Gainsbourg, Magma and M83.

  Friday, July 15

Ron and Russell Mael have performed under the name Sparks since the early 1970s with virtually no commercial success in the United States while audiences in France and England have been supportive almost since the duo’s start. We’ll hear selections from the classic Sparks album Kimono My House as well as music from Toyah’s 1981 release Anthem.

Saturday, July 16

Tommy Bolin joined Deep Purple just in time for the band to disintegrate while supporting a somewhat uncharacteristic release, Come Taste the Band. It would be Deep Purple’s final recording for nearly a decade and one of the last to feature Bolin who would die in 1976 at the age of 25. We’ll hear selections from Deep Purple release on this episode of the show as well as music from Bolin’s Teaser LP.

Jedd Beaudoin is host/producer of the nationally syndicated program Strange Currency. He has also served as an arts reporter, a producer of A Musical Life and a founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in Pop Matters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.