Unshakable Pines

From the desk of Peter Crowley:

 

I'm not know for my patience, but fortunately, the folks in Frankenpine have enough to spread around. After a long day at work, I was an hour late for the recording session I had scheduled with the three founding members of this New York City band, and they spent that hour at my house, chatting with my parents and grandma. I can only imagine what they learned about me, whom they had not yet met.

 

Then we couldn't get things to sound right for the first 45 minutes or so here at the Rock 105 studio, until we realized one of the mics wasn't plugged in.

 

To their everlasting credit, the Frankenpiners never seemed phased in the least. They handled it all with grace and good will, and as a result, we saw a trying day through to a rewarding finish. They're lovely folks. Check out their new Web site, and try to catch one of their gigs, including at Hobofest Sept. 6 here in Saranac Lake. Field recorder/photographer/filmmaker/banjo player John Cohen will also be there, which I'm really looking forward to. To show you why, this week I play one song by his band, the New Lost City Ramblers, and two he recorded: by Rev. Gary Davis and Roscoe Holcomb. I wish he'd teach me a thing or two about how to make musicians sound so good.

 

By the way, a Frankenpine, if you don't know, is a cell tower in disguise as a tree; you can see them and other stealth towers in Pete Seward's paintings.

 

Also this week: blues boogie, good vibes, new styles, old friends and storms passing over the Ten Dollar Radio Show - sounds like a gale whistling through branches of steel and plays for free.

 

This week's playlist:

 

Faceless Weaver - Frankenpine

-----Frankenpine in the studio:

Convict Grade

Rivers and Tides

Bet on Me

John the Revelator

Boatman

-----End of Frankenpine in the studio

Buck Creek Girls - New Lost City Ramblers

If I Had My Way - Rev. Gary Davis

Man of Constant Sorrow - Roscoe Holcomb

Going up the Country - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

Slim Chance (rock version) - Todd Snider

Baby What's Wrong - The Rolling Stones

I Gotta Try You Girl - Junior Kimbrough

Keep It to Yourself - Billy Preston

Make It Easy on Yourself - Little Anthony & the Imperials

Girl Don't Tell Me - The Beach Boys

Devil's Loose - A.A. Bondy

Look into the Light - Graham Coxon

Percussion Gun - White Rabbits

Charmaine Champage - The Fiery Furnaces

When they Fight, They Fight - Generationals

Saturday Morning on Sunday Street - Mark Olson & Gary Louris

When the Wind Comes Up - Mark Olson & Gary Louris

Growin' Trade - Levon Helm

Home I'll Never Be (acoustic version) - The Low Anthem

If I Were a Carpenter - Sweet Tea

Storm Passing Over - Evangelist Sister Myrtle Miller

 

 As always:
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(Painting by Peter Seward of Lake Placid - see more here)