RFE Podcast

Puck 2009 - Part 2Recorded live at Puck in Doylestown, Pennsylvania with guests Mike Stanley and Ben Wachtel. Includes "Steel Guitar Rag," "I'm a Hog for You, Baby," "She Got It Off the Internet," "Well Well Well," "Down So Low," and "Pipeline."Special thanks to Mike Lightkep for running wonderful sound in the room and for making such a high quality recording of our sets.Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #17

Puck Part OneRecorded live at Puck in Doylestown, Pennsylvania with Mike Stanley and "Brother Ben" Wachtel. We clear the decks with Delbert McClinton's "Too Much Stuff," then Mike Scott's "Fisherman's Blues," and the classic "No Woman No Cry." Ben sings the Old Crow Medicine Show's completion of the abandoned Dylan song, "Wagon Wheel," plus Kim sings "Witchcraft" by the Spiders and we close with our version of Chris Isaak's "Two Hearts."Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #16

Brother Ben Sits InBen was visiting us and we recorded a podcast in the living room. We begin with "Trouble Blues" (aka "Troubles Ain't Nothin' But the Blues Stay Away From Me"), a medley of songs originally done by the Delmore Brothers (and Lonnie Johnson, too). Next it's Andy Razaf's "Handyman" and Trio's ("Da Da Da") "Out in the Streets." We close with two originals: first Ben Wachtel's "All Right Blues," then the Wachtel-Panshin-Wachtel song "Ancient Whispers."Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #15

Howling at MidnightThis episode includes material from recent duo shows and is hosted by Josh and Kim. The songlist includes "Howling at Midnight," "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" "Since I Fell for You," "Right String Baby" (a band track from our yet-to-be-released Freehand CD), "Acony Bell," "Out of Control" and "Bird of Paradise."Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #14

Lucky 13In this, our thirteenth podcast, Josh and Kim get back to the basics. It's an acoustic show, all new recordings of songs, and commentary over the kitchen table. Hear "You're Undecided," "I Love to See My Baby," "Them Dance Hall Girls," "Atomic Fission Blues," "I'm a Hog for You," and "Baby, It's You."Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #13

Music from Dark HollowThis time around we're presenting music recorded last summer at a festival in Dark Hollow, Pennsylvania, with Mike Stanley and Brother Ben. Starting with "Hesitation Blues" and "8:05," we move to "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" and "Looking for Answers." Then it's on to "Sufi Girl" and finally "Bye Bye" recorded live on our Available Light CD.Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #12

Labor of LoveWe're into double digits here at Radio Free Earth, with our tenth and now eleventh podcasts. Razvan Mitulescu has been tuning in to the show, and he sent me the original version of a song we recorded together in Romania in 1997, our theme song, "Labor of Love." (Razvan's art can be viewed at his web site.) We move from there to "Well Well Well," and "Vol Vist Du Gaily Star." Then there's a song from our And Don't Forget It! CD, "Wanderin' in the Dark." We conclude with "Maybe" and "Captain Spacegirl." And don't forget to let us know what you think with an email or a comment below. Enjoy!Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #11

Luv Is Just a 3-Letter WordWe're dipping into the archives this week to bring you a particularly varied program. Our theme song, "Labor of Love," is accompanied by Andrew Dickinson on the flute. He also plays bass on "Black Bottom Blues." Then there's "River at Midnight" with Ian Coss on accordion, "Operation Cakewalk" from our Fortune and Death CD, and "This Moment" from a gig in Brattleboro, Vermont. We conclude the show with "I Want a Roof Over My Head" with Vince Snyder on mandolin and "Waltze of the Tennis Players."Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #10

It's Our ProblemMost of the songs on this podcast were recorded live a few weeks ago. Dan Wallack has joined the band on bass, and Jordy's taking his new cajon out for a spin for the first time."Shauri Yako" is Zulu for "it's your problem" or "it's up to you." The program proceeds with Lonnie (my guitar hero!) Johnson's "Falling Rain Blues" and then Kim doing "Lookin' for Answers" by Susan Tedeschi. We also do "Diggin' a Hole," which I wrote with Alex Panshin, "Like a Hurricane" from our Available Light CD, and we end with our most original arrangement of half a dozen or more old hokum tunes, "Keep on Truckin'."Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #9

Four Wheels and a Revved Up MotorThis episode we've got two special guests to the podcast, "Brother Ben" Wachtel and Mike Stanley. We set up two mikes and caught the vibrations right out of the air, plus we launch a new feature where we include a song from one of our CDs. Listen for Labor of Love, Rev It Up and Go, Gotta Find Her, Lime in the Coconut, Jim Dandy, Pipeline and Wagon Wheel.Listen now: Subscribe: Download: RFE Podcast #8

Josh and Kim Can DuetFrom "I Remember You" to "Hold on to Me, Babe," RFE plays a set of intimate numbers during this podcast. The show also includes performances of "Lilac Wine," "Sand and Foam," "I Heard the Bluebird Sing," "The Irish Rover," "A Heart Needs a Home," and "Stone Cold Dead in the Market."A few word about listening and subscribing:-You can always simply come here to listen using the player above.-You can download an mp3 of the podcast by clicking the title bar of this post, saving the file to your disc, and then playing it using any player you choose.-If you want to subscribe using iTunes (or another Podcatcher or another RSS reader) you can copy this link without the quotes "http://feeds.feedburner.com/RFEPodcast" into the "Advanced" pulldown menu in the "Subscribe to" window. It should be similar in other podcatchers and readers.-You can also click this symbol to subscribe any number of ways.For those of you new to the world of RSS (and we're pretty new, too) the term means Really Simple Syndication, and it's a way that your computer, or more specifically some software on your computer, will automatically find when a new article is posted on a blog, podcast or web site. If you want to automatically get updates of our podcast and you don't know how, there are plenty of resources on line to learn how to subscribe to RSS feeds.

"Josh and Jordy Get the Blues"Jordan and I got a pretty bad case of the blues, so I pulled out my slide guitar for this program. After checking into Rob Stoner's "Hotel 1-2-3," we woke unexpectedly from the "Night Dream Blues." The "Steel Guitar Rag" provided some relief, but after setting out "Across the Borderline"(Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson) we found ourselves "Buried Alive in the Blues" by Nick Gravenites. We took another detour with my instrumental, "Lemurs and Chameleons" before accepting that the blues really are the only friend you can always count on with Steve Earle's "My Old Friend the Blues."Enjoy the program and let us know what you think!Listen:   Click the symbol to subscribe in iTunes or any reader. In iTunes you may also following link in the "Advanced" menu to "Subscribe to Podcast" and place http://feeds.feedburner.com/RFEPodcast for the URL. The same applies to most podcatchers. By subscribing you can hear all our past and future podcasts and download them automatically!

All right, folks. Here's episode 5. This podcast is a work in progress, a chance to experiment, a chance to play and be heard. This is our first episode in the ubiquitous mp3 format, which we hope will allow more of you to more easily tune into our podcasts and listen.Episode 5 is good fun, as usual. Kim and Jordan join me for a 25 minute set of music, beginning with "Labor of Love" and then moving from Peter Stampfel's "If You Want to Be a Bird" and Lieber and Stoller's "Framed and Riot in Cell Block #9" to Daniel Lanois's "Under the Stormy Sky," our "Rolling Blackout Blues," and concluding with Kim doing an a capella version of Tracy Nelson's "Down So Low" followed by a duet of Junoon's "Ghoom Tana."This show will take you somewhere.Part of the experiment, by the way, is setting up a nice format for this podcast, and making it easier for you to subscribe. We'll keep you posted on how to do that in the new format here.

The fourth in our series of band performance podcasts is now available. We're going to keep them coming twice a month, so get tuned in and stay tuned!This episode hear Kim and me joined by our solid-in-the-groove percussionist Jordan Russ and our good friend Vince Snyder tearing it up on mandolin and harmonica.This show begins with the so-sad-it's-funny "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" and gets better with every song. Kim sings about her longing for a life on the range in "Down Home Cowboy," and then I sing an up song about feeling down, my "Real Down Blues." The "Bird of Paradise" flies in from Rhodesia after that, followed by a raucous "Rag Mop" and finally "I Want a Roof Over My Head and Bread on the Table" which Kim copped from Helen Humes.I promise you'll love the show.P.S. This will be the last of our AAC file shows for a while, as we'll move to the more accessible MP3 format starting with episode 5. So if you don't have iTunes and are having trouble playing this show and the previous three, do tune in again on December 15th and beyond and have another shot at listening.

Our third podcast is up. In this episode you will hear me on guitars and vocals, Kim singing too, and Jordan on djembe.We open the show with Ponte Bone's "Frio City Road Polka," which is one of the more inexplicable and fun songs we know, and take it from there:"Never Let Me Go," an acoustic take on our "Pirates at the Helm," and Kim doing Lil Green's gem "Give Your Mama One Smile"; plus I sing "Drive All Night," and we end with the Danny O'Keefe ecologically oriented completion of a song Bob Dylan started but left half finished, "Well Well Well."Happy listening!

Here's our second podcast. Download and enjoy! And drop us a line to let us know what you think.

Here's a link to our first podcast episode. I'm still learning how to set up the RSS feed which will allow you to subscribe to our show, but enjoy this for now, and stay posted for updates on how to subscribe, and also new shows.