Friendly Rich & Nichol Robertson are behind the clever cover concept Gordon Heavyfoot – their s/t 6-track EP is out today!
GORDON HEAVYFOOT
Get a copy of the Gordon Heavyfoot 6-song EP via Bandcamp right here. Listen to a few tracks below. Check for upcoming tour dates near you – including a Halloween show in Toronto at Handlebar on October 31 – in the Links section below where you'll also find a link to a feature on the Doomed & Stoned site.
Anika – who scored Jim Jarmusch's "Father Mother Sister Brother" – hits the Dance Cave with Avishag Cohen Rodrigues opening at 7 pm.
Writes Anika....
"In very exciting news, I scored the music for the latest Jim Jarmusch film, "Father Mother Sister Brother," along with Jim and some of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop crew (With whom i did the Nico, Desertshore project). The film just won the Golden Lion in Venice (Congrats to Jim, the cast and all his crew for this much deserved achievement) and premieres in the States on the 3rd October 2025, in NYC. Check the film once it's out in local cinemas and on Mubi." – Anika
Check out a few songs from Anika's recent performance in Paris following her videos for "Walk Away" and "Hearsay" off her latest album Abyss out now via Sacred Bones Records and the trailer for Jim Jarmusch's new film "Father Mother Sister Brother" starring Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Vicky Krieps and Mayim Bialik. There's also some footage from a March show by Avishag Cohen Rodrigues at The Rockwell in Somerville below.
Tickets for Anika's show with Avishag Cohen Rodrigues at the Dance Cave tonight (Monday, September 29) are $33.33 advance. Get 'em via Tickeweb right here.
Looks sweet but sound library ace Gerhard Narholz cooked up some dark horror soundtrack vibes with John Fiddy on bass.
Neither the jacket design nor the generic title "Descriptive Solo Bass Instruments" of this 80s-looking sound library recording gave much away about what was in-store. But the German Sonoton label typically has high-standards and I found that out first hand back in the mid 80s when I stumbled onto Sam Sklair & Gus Galbraith's trippy futuristic electro treat "The Micro Chip Revolution" (SON 168) which is still my fave Sonton release and deserves to be reissued on vinyl (listen here).
While it was extremely unlikely that "Descriptive Solo Bass Instruments" would be in the same league, the fact that it involves "Mac Prindy," one of the many aliases of the prolific Gerhard Narholz (aka Sammy Burdson, John Epping, Norman Candler, Xyco, etc) along with UK sound library veteran John Fiddy & British jazz bass ace Christopher Laurence, was at least promising. Add to that the track titles, "Demon Dance," "Tyrannosaurus" & "Dissolution" and there was reason enough to look past the cheesy powder blue script sleeve typography to plonk down a dollar for it.
This time the risk paid off as Herr Narholz and associates delivered the deep dark horror soundtrack vibes for Sonoton SON 157 on a few enjoyably creepy albeit short tracks amongst the anticipated load of shlock you typically encounter with production music releases. Just the sort of thing you hear in movie just before something bad happens. Have a listen below.
Ronnie Wood's new Fearless collection covers his solo output, tracks with the Stones, Faces, Jeff Beck and four new recordings.
RONNIE WOOD – FEARLESS
THIS DOUBLE-ALBUM ANTHOLOGY FEATURES STANDOUT MOMENTS FROM ALL SEVEN OF HIS SOLO STUDIO ALBUMS, AS WELL AS CO-WRITES AND ESSENTIAL MOMENTS WITH THE ROLLING STONES, THE FACES, ROD STEWART, RONNIE LANE, THE JEFF BECK GROUP AND MORE.
‘FEARLESS’ ALSO PLAYS HOST TO RONNIE’S FIRST NEW SOLO MATERIAL SINCE 2010's ‘I FEEL LIKE PLAYING,’ INCLUDING A VERSION OF ‘A CERTAIN GIRL’ FEATURING CHRISSIE HYNDE, A FRESH RECORDING OF ‘TAKE IT EASY’ AND A BRAND-NEW COMPOSITION TITLED ‘MOTHER OF PEARL.’
You can get a copy of Ronnie Wood's Fearless 2LP anthology right here. Check the tracklist of the vinyl version (with omits The Birds and The Creation tracks) along with clips of "Mother Of Pearl," The Falcons' "You're So Fine" and Ronnie'recollection of how "Stay With Me" was written, a BBC performance of the tune with Rod Stewart from 1972 followed by a rip through "I Can Feel The Fire" with Keith Richards and Ian McLagan from Kilburn in 1974.
FEARLESSANTHOLOGY 1965-2025 2LP
SIDE A
1. PLYNTH (WATER DOWN THE DRAIN) (NICKY HOPKINS/RONNIE WOOD/ROD STEWART) JEFF BECK GROUP BECK-OLA (1969)
2. FLYING (RONNIE LANE/ROD STEWART/RONNIE WOOD) FACES FIRST STEP (1970)
3. GASOLINE ALLEY (ROD STEWART/RONNIE WOOD) ROD STEWART GASOLINE ALLEY (1970)
4. EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY (ROD STEWART/RONNIE WOOD) ROD STEWART EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY (1971)
5. STAY WITH ME (ROD STEWART/RONNIE WOOD) FACES NOD'S AS GOOD AS A WINK … TO A BLIND HORSE (1971)
SIDE B
6. OOH LA LA (RONNIE LANE/RONNIE WOOD) FACES OOH LA LA (1973)
7. I CAN FEEL THE FIRE (RONNIE WOOD) RONNIE WOOD I'VE GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO (1974)
8. FAR EAST MAN (GEORGE HARRISON/RONNIE WOOD) RONNIE WOOD I'VE GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO (1974)
9. I CAN SAY SHE'S ALRIGHT (RONNIE WOOD/BOBBY WOMACK) TAKEN FROM RONNIE WOOD NOW LOOK (1975)
SIDE C
10. DANCE (PT 1) (MICK JAGGER/KEITH RICHARDS) THE ROLLING STONES EMOTIONAL RESCUE (1980)
11. EVERYTHING IS TURNING TO GOLD (MICK JAGGER/KEITH RICHARDS/RONNIE WOOD) THE ROLLING STONES SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES (1981)
12. BLACK LIMOUSINE (MICK JAGGER/KEITH RICHARDS/RONNIE WOOD) THE ROLLING STONES TATTOO YOU (1981)
13. NO USE IN CRYING (MICK JAGGER/KEITH RICHARDS/RONNIE WOOD) THE ROLLING STONES TATTOO YOU (1981)
14. PRETTY BEAT UP (MICK JAGGER/KEITH RICHARDS/RONNIE WOOD) THE ROLLING STONES UNDERCOVER (1983)
SIDE D
15. WHADD'YA THINK (RONNIE WOOD) RONNIE WOOD NOT FOR BEGINNERS (2001)
16. THING ABOUT YOU (RONNIE WOOD/BILLY GIBBONS/BERNARD FOWLER) RONNIE WOOD I FEEL LIKE PLAYING (2010)
17. MOTHER OF PEARL (RONNIE WOOD) ORIGINAL COMPOSITION (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
18. A CERTAIN GIRL FEATURING CHRISSIE HYNDE (NAOMI NEVILLE) ORIGINAL RECORDING BY ERNIE K-DOE (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
19. TAKE IT EASY (HOPETON LEWIS) ORIGINAL RECORDING BY HOPETON LEWIS (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
20. YOU'RE SO FINE (LANCE FINNEY/WILLIE SCHOFIELD/ROBERT WEST) ORIGINALLY PERFORMED BY THE FALCONS (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
Elvis Costello will be playing his best loved tunes at Massey Hall on Friday as part of his "Radio Soul!" tour.
Here's the scoop...
Elvis Costello has extended his “Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello” tour with 22 new East Coast and Midwest dates starting September 18th in Bethlehem, PA and running through October 22nd in Omaha, NE and he'll make a Toronto stop at Massey Hall this Friday (September 26) with special guest Charlie Sexton at 8 pm. Click for a live clip right hereand another onehere.
As the playful billing suggests, the show will feature numbers drawn from record releases from “My Aim Is True” in 1977 to “Blood & Chocolate” in 1986, along with other surprises.Those nine years saw the first appearance of some of Elvis Costello’s most renowned compositions from “Watching The Detectives” to “I Want You”, along with songs that have remained in The Imposters’ live repertoire over the last 20 or more years, including “Alison,” “Man Out Of Time” and “Brilliant Mistake.”
Asked about the surprising theme of this tour, Costello responded:
“For any songwriter, it has to be a compliment if people want to hear songs written up to fifty years ago. Among them, “Radio Soul,” the first draft of what eventually became “Radio Radio.”
Here's an entertaining early theatrical version of "Radio Radio" along with the young Elvis Costello's first television interview along with his recent sit-down chat with author Peter Guralnick about the other Elvis discussed in Peter's new book "The Colonel and The King"
Check out the video for "Ridin' With The Devil" off the new album Hot Roddin' with Deke Dickerson & The Whippersnappers
Here's the scoop...
Filmed on location in the Los Angeles riverbed, Southern California, here's the BOPFLIX official music video for Californian rockabilly band DEKE DICKERSON & THE WHIPPERSNAPPERS (USA) new track 'Ridin' With The Devil (Goin’ Fast As I Can Go)' from the new release 'Hot Roddin’ With…Deke Dickerson and the Whippersnappers' on Ecco-Fonic Records. Watch the clip below.
Singer/songwriter Grey DeLisle and her friends recorded their fave Cindy Walker tunes for It's All Her Fault.
Grammy winning singer/songwriter and voice actor Grey DeLisle gathered a few friends together to record a tribute to legendary country songwriter Cindy Walker ("You Don't Know Me, Dream Baby, Bubbles In My Beer, Blue Canadian Rockies, etc). The resulting 13-track collection, It's All Her Fault: A Tribute To Cindy Walker – due October 10th via Hummin'bird Records – involves contributions from Rosie Flores, Kelly Willis, Mandy Barnett, Jolie Holland, Gail Davies and of course Grey DeLisle who doubled as executive producer of the project.
If DeLisle had the time and financial resources, it could've easily been 20 volume set considering how prolific Cindy Walker was over the course of her five decade plus career as a tunesmith in which she wrote more than 500 songs with numerous top-10 hits recorded by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys, Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Bing Crosby, Webb Pierce, Jim Reeves, Gene Autry, Eddy Arnold, Al Dexter, Roy Orbison and Willie Nelson who put out a tribute album of his own, You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker, released on March 16, 2006 just seven days before she died near her home of Mexia, Texas at the age of 88. Streaming proceeds will be directed to the Cindy Walker Foundation to help with the renovation of her home.
Listen to Kelly Willis singing "I Don't Care" which Walker co-wrote with Webb Pierce in 1955 following the track listing for It's All Her Fault. Pierce's original recording spent 12 weeks on top of the C&W Best Sellers chart and Ricky Skaggs hit big with it again in 1982.
Also, watch three "Soundie" clips of Cindy Walker performing "Bearcat Mountain Gal" from 1942, "Ti-Yi-Yippie-Aye" and "Election Day" both from 1944 below. And check out Grey DeLisle's latest solo release, The Grey Album released earlier this year on her own Hummin'bird Records label which you can get via her site listed in the links section along with a couple of recent articles about the release of It's All Her Fault.
It's All Her Fault – A Tribute To Cindy Walker
1. Katie Shore - You're From Texas
2. Summer Dean - Don't Talk To Me About Men
3. Kimmi Bitter - Hey, Mr. Bluebird
4. Amythist Kiah - Goin' Away Party
5. Mozzy Dee - It's All Your Fault
6. Rosie Flores - You Don't Know Me
7. Kelly Willis - I Don't Care
8. Brennen Leigh, Grey DeLisle - You've Got My Heart Doing a Tap Dance
9. Melissa Carper - Take Me In Your Arms
10. Mandy Barnett - Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
Irene Torres presents a set of Peruvian music at the Supermarket after sets from Gigi Marentette, Jane Bunnett & Dánae Olano & Barbra Lica starting at 4pm.
Check out "La Ceiba" off the forthcoming Antibalas album Hourglass out via Daptone Records on October 24.
Here's the scoop...
Long overdue and right on time- we are excited and honored to share with you “La Ceiba” - our first single off the new album “Hourglass” and it is a heater.
Like many of our songs- it has multiple meanings. La ceiba is the tree of life to indigenous peoples in both sides of the Atlantic, a portal to connect with spirits and place of shelter and safety. Ceiba is also a town in Puerto Rico where a military installation has just been reactivated after 21 years of dormancy, a clear sign that the task of making peace is an ongoing one.
We hope you dig the song. You can save / preorder the new album right here. Listen to "La Ceiba" below.
Toronto soul belter Tanika Charles presents songs from her Reasons To Stay album live at Hugh's Room tonight at 8 pm.
Tanika Charles
Hugh's Room (296 Broadview Ave)
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm
$30+ in advance, $37+ at the door
Since emerging on the international scene in 2017 with her debut Soul Run, two-time JUNO nominee Tanika Charles has revealed herself to be one of the best kept secrets in soul music. Both on stage and off, Toronto-based Charles presents an immutable charm, at times endearingly abrasive and honest in her vulnerabilities. Hugh’s Room has been a long-time fan of Charles and we are thrilled to welcome her on Friday. September 19. Get tickets via Show Pass right here. Watch the video for "Don't Like You Anymore" off her latest album, Reasons To Stay, below.
Tanika Charles – Reasons To Stay
Two-time Juno awards nominated and three-time Polaris Prize listed, Canadian soul star Tanika Charles unleashes the new album “Reasons To Stay” via independent soul specialist label Record Kicks.
Soul music at its best is a high form of alchemy. The transformation of pain into beauty, perseverance into celebration. With her fourth studio album, “Reasons To Stay,” Tanika Charles demonstrates a new level of mastery, mining the depths of a life spent running away from the unfulfilled promises and a broken home, to give us her most raw and intimate offering to date. By coming to terms with past trials and ensuing tribulations, Ms. Charles delivers a modern Soul classic.
Playing like a series of intimate letters to members of her family, to herself and to the listener, “Reasons To Stay” is an examination of the skeletons dangling in the family closet, and the damaged relationships at the root of a woman’s journey to acceptance and self love.
“I love this album. I love singing these songs. I love the conversations that have begun with them. It’s forced me to face the root causes of some of the insecurities I carry to this day. It’s about trauma, but it’s not a victim story. It’s making peace with the baggage I carry and finding a way to thrive in spite of it.”
Backed by the tight-knit team of Scott McCannell (Lydia Persaud, Henry Nozuka), Kyla Charter (Aysanabee) and Chino de Villa (Jessie Reyez), a guest feature from Quebec-based singer/songwriter Clerel, and vocal support from Aphrose and Claire Davis, Tanika Charles’ “Reasons To Stay” is steeped in experience, pulling threads from past eras to weave a record that feels retro futuristic and timeless.
Masterfully mixed by Monophonics’ frontman Kelly Finnigan, whose trademark analogue grit saturates Tanika’s sheen, “Reasons To Stay” also winks at the Hip-Hop heads perennially digging in crates. It captures the essence of Blues, Jazz, and Gospel-influenced R&B before spilling into Psychedelia and back, with a rawness and urgency that compels you to flip the record over again.
This is Tanika Charles, as compelling as ever, soul laid bare.
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Two-time Juno Awards R&B/Soul Recording of the Year nominee and three-time Polaris Music Prize long-list nominee Tanika Charles in synonymous with Canadian Soul music. She has embraced the sound and aesthetic of the genre without gimmick, whilst pushing the boundaries of what audiences can expect. Her music revels in honesty and attitude, her live show is high energy and endearing, and she continues to organically win audiences over one album, one stream, and one encore at a time.
Her previous studio albums – “Soul Run” (2017), “The Gumption” (2019), and “Papillon De Nuit” (2022) - have propelled her to international acclaim. Extensive touring across North America and Europe has further solidified her reputation, with standout performances at festivals such as Trans Musicales in France, Fusion Festival in Germany, Mostly Funk & Soul Festival and Jazz Festival in the UK, Holy Groove Festival in Switzerland, and Canarias Jazz Festival in Spain.
She has also shared the stage Estelle, Mayer Hawthorne, Haitus Kayote, Lauryn Hill, Bedouin Soundclash and Macy Gray. Tanika’s meteoric rise and undeniable artistry have been widely championed by outlets such as KCRW, KEXP, BBC6 Music, Exclaim!, CBC Music, Uncut Mag, PopMatters and Albumism further solidifying her position as a global soul sensation.
Kitschy Mama will be spinning lesser known gems today from harp hero Lazy Lester, King Size Taylor, The Del Prados and many more! Starts at 2 pm Eastern.
Kitschy Mama sez....
"Hey Folks! This week on Retro Obscuro, Weirdo Oldies tune in for good ole' junk by King Size Taylor, Lazy Lester, The Del Prados and many more rarities! Git some today – Thursday (September 18) – from 2pm to 4pm ET on WFMU-FM Rock 'n' Soul Radio Listen live & chat!" Check it out right here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156258
View the playlist for Retro Obscuro show number 221 archived here.
