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| Celebrating Peter's birthday with "Early Roman Kings" off his latest album The Midnight Broadcast from Bandaloop Music. |
You're alone, or maybe with one other person, at night, on a long journey in a car, far away from the nearest town, driving in the darkness. Your eyes are on the headlights and the road, as the dashboard faintly glows, and the radio is on but only receiving static. A radio station begins to tune in. A broadcast is coming in and out of focus, of a DJ who's announcing records, a rock n' roll DJ with a voice from Finnegans Wake. The music starts, but what is it? A very strange and wild song is playing, strange, but familiar too. One song after another, all different, but all of a piece, like a transmission from the other end of world. Songs of cowboys, lovers, fighters, and shipwrecked sailors, hope, laughter and despair, ancient blues, gutbucket jazz, and singing machines, songs that sound like one microphone is listening in on a roomful of maniacs. Or on someone in the loneliest blue motel in the West. It's the Midnight Broadcast. Hypnotized, obsessed, radiant, you want to pull over and listen, but that might cause an accident.
Get Peter Case's great new album, The Midnight Broadcast from Bandaloop Music right here. Listen to "Early Roman Kings" below.
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