WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 21, 2024

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	🎸 ♥ 7:18pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	♥ 8:56pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Thanks for comin' by the campfire!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Krys O! Sit and stay a spell!
	♥ 9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: ""Nebraska Jack" Part 1" by "Frontier Gentleman" Alright! Another awesome tale from the Gentleman
	9:01pm ramencity: hi-de-ho!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Time for my Tuesday mutation.
	9:02pm laurapanic: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 I feel weird already.....this must be the mutations
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:01 Yay! It's the Ramen City Kid!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 Mr. X! Thanks for comin' by.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 It'll pass. Just dance a little, and you'll be fine.
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Herb: 🤠
	9:04pm laurapanic: SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE AUSTIN #meetingsyoudontwanttoattend I Lol'd
	9:06pm ramencity: ↳ laurapanic @9:04 It's the social contract: we attend lots of pointless meetings, and in return we can get tomatoes in January...
	9:08pm Geoff-U: Happy Tuesday!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: I have often said that there have "almost never" been any meetings worth attending. I say "almost" because maybe I'll get to go to a cool meeting someday... but it hasn't happened yet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:08 Geoff-U! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: Three dollars for a bottle of Whiskey. Not bad.
	♥ 9:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Going to grab a rum punch and enjoy the show
	9:09pm Mr. X: "Keep Out!" ... What could go wrong?
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:09 Certainly reading signs never done no one no good. What kind of fool are ye?
	9:10pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Horse" by "Pere Ubu" Cleveland's finest.
	♥ 9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:09 Depends on the year and the whiskey
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Horse" by "Pere Ubu" A very underrated Pere Ubu album. It's sort of mellow and weird in all the right ways.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:10 Good point. I forgot to do a calculation to see how much that would be today.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:10 There is something in the water in Ohio. And the music is better for it.
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Do we know what year Frontier Gent is set in?
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 I think he encounters a wide range of people and places that were active during "the old west" period, so I would say that it is "post Civil War" and pre-1920. But the specific dates seem to get fudged to make a better set of stories.
	9:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Good old genuine rust-belt rust.
	9:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Hard to calculate the inflation in a fudged time zone.
	9:17pm Mr. X: This episode is funnier than some of the others.
	9:17pm laurapanic: I like to drop calves
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:16 I think the stories tend to be in the earlier end of that spectrum, but I'm fairly sure that some of the stories would have to take place later, given who is in them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:17 Yeah, Nebraska Jack has a very "uncouth tongue."
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: 17 Children, Six wives. The mind boggles. Does he have time for anything else?
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Kids" by "The Faction" Both the "skull and crossed skateboards" tattoo on my arm and my bruised tailbone speak to a time when I had very different priorities.
	9:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 That's what happens when skateboards cross paths.
	9:23pm Mr. X: Oregawn
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 Oh, sorry. Five wives.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Some of the pronunciation in this show cracks me up.
	9:23pm Geoff-U: I bruised my coccyx once while skateboarding. It was awful and took weeks to heal
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:23 I walked funny for a LONG time after that. Work the next day SUCKED, and I recall at least of week of sleeping funny.
	9:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 you know it doesn't take long right? *smirk and then he leaves the house, child rarin' is for the women folk.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Krys O.: ↳ Geoff-U @9:23 Ack! I did that the one and only time i went ice skating. Had to go to the hospital. My feet require terra firma.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:24 True. But it does sound like he rarely leaves the property, with the keep out sign, and...
	♥ 9:25pm Imaginos: Reminds me of the OB.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Krys O.: Good night, all!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: I'm glad Rosie gets on his case for his "uncouth tongue."
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:26 Sleep well, Krys O!
	9:27pm laurapanic: why is she speaking broken English?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:27 It's a show from 1958 and the actors are insensitive? (Shrug)
	♥ 9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Yup. Very much so. Almost as bad as that episode of the Black Chapel
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Whiskey Bottle" by "Uncle Tupelo" When I was in High School, my first girlfriend was the cousin of Jay Farrar (of Uncle Tupelo, and other stuff.) She would get free copies from Jay of all their albums and singles. We would listen to these albums almost constantly when we dated, and those albums really remind me of her and those days. I still love these albums, but I don't listen to them as much.
	9:32pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 I mean as a character. DId I miss that he has wives who are native Americans? I assume that is the character they are going for?
	9:33pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:32 we may not know
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:32 Oh, yes, sorry. He spent so long with Native Americans he prefers their company, so he married five native women.
	♥ 9:36pm Imaginos: I'm going to be going to sleep soon, too.
	9:38pm ramencity: I got to hop to the next campfire - see you cowpokes soon!
	9:43pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Promise Me" by "Melvins" The only grunge band you'll ever need.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Promise Me" by "Melvins" A band that I've had on my show many times - Guyve - are big Melvins fans. They made friends with the soundman at Grumpy's Bar in Minneapolis, who apparently records all his shows. So Cam from Guyve gifted me a thumbdrive with MANY live Melvins shows, recorded at Grumpy's, doing a wide range of their own songs (and many, many covers). It's a good resource to pull from, occasionally.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:43 I've seen them MANY times. They usually put on a very good show, but sometimes... they will intentionally do a noise show as they watch people leave in large numbers. It's sort of fun.
	9:46pm laurapanic: Everyone loves the Melvins. Heavy music uncles you love.
	9:46pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 got it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: From the sounds of it, Jack needs someone to be "mean" to him.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Half of What" by "...And You Will Know Us By The ... There was a time when I knew this album, back to front, and could sing every song. Saw them play a bunch, too. When I started on the radio, this album was still new, and I played it almost all the time. The first few albums by this band are EXCELLENT. But they loose the story pretty quickly after that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Austin Rich, and Mutants
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:50 coelacanthø! Thanks for joining the campfire!
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: "She'll take an axe to you." I think I'm in love.
	9:54pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 I have an axe in my wardrobe. True.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:54 Noted!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: I'm sure there's a certain logic to that. "If they know where their axe is, then of course, they must know where everything else is, too." Something like that?
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm coelacanth∅: i used to have an axe earring made of copper but a friend broke it in half
	9:56pm laurapanic: we had this recreational , indoor axe throwing place open in my town. They sell it as 'great teambuilding". OK.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm coelacanth∅: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:56 (it was a bit smaller than the one i used for firewood - which was stolen by a park ranger)
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:56 Very cool! I feel like I read about one near-ish to The Mid-Valley, but I'm not sure the community wants to know I'm likely to be throwing axes at a moments notice.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:57 Bummer. On both counts.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 eh, i have no axe to grind
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:58 Zing!
	9:59pm Mr. X: When I was a kid, my dad used to take us to see logger olympics. The axe-throwing was always a crowd pleaser.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm coelacanth∅: i'd like to watch some axe throwing; but i'd rather watch an archer... duckduckgo.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: "Dan's Bloody Bucket" is pretty evocative. What could that be in reference to?
	10:10pm Mr. X: Unconvincing cat vocals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 Agreed! But I guess the way you get convincing cat vocals in 1958 "on cue" is not pleasant to think about, either.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Heather: Howdy pardners! Sorry for my tardy arrival. Old Scratch had some errands we had to do on the way but we tuned in on the old transistor radio while we rode on in.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Escape Artist" by "My Dad Is Dead" An underrated record, that I first heard via The Ramen City Kid. (We were roommates for many years.) I think My Dad Is Dead is one person, home-recording. I quite fell in love with this album, and would listen to it on long bus rides back and forth to work, back in the day when you would just listen to albums on walkmen.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Heather: ↳ laurapanic @9:54 I have an axe in my coat closet! I've not had to use it... yet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: All of my axes are with my camp gear, or near the fire-pit. (And I only have one near the fire-pit.) Am I missing out on something by not having one in my bedroom?
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 Glad to be here! Anyone care for a dram of moonshine or a canapé? Couldn't come empty handed!
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 I had an Aiwa walkman that got stolen during band practice. But we deduced who did it and went to his house, and his girlfriend made him give it back to me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 Woah! That is not how I expected that story to turn out! I remember how expensive Walkmen used to be. Loosing one was a big deal.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Mine is on the ground floor but maybe I should relocate it to the bedroom? Hm. I have a hatchet in the basement and another in the garage. Only the garage one makes sense. It's for firewood.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: The Irish were often mis-treated in America. I can only imagine how hard life was for The Cat Man in The Old West, selling cats.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Running From The Enemy" by "Stinking Lizaveta" As I recall, this is a Husband and Wife metal "trio" (with a friend on drums). I think all their songs are instrumentals, at least on the albums I have. I saw them once, and they are very good live. I have no idea if they are still together, but it's a nice literary reference wrapped in a band name, too, so that's nice.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Very prog.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 Yeah, I guess so? They seemed like old metalheads to me, but I guess the venn diagram of metalheads and prog folk is nearly a circle.
	10:25pm laurapanic: has anyone uttered "catastrophy"
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:25 Not yet, but it does seem inevitable, doesn't it?
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Just that there were some complex time signature changes and elaborate key changes in that tune, which I associate with prog.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Cat Came Back" by "The Phantom Surfers" I'm waiting for the day that the guys in The Phantom Surfers are unmasked and we discover that they are actually a bunch of famous actors that wanted to do something without being mobbed by fans.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ...Then there was the time when I hitchhiked with a cat.
	10:32pm Mr Fab: I'm listening, too! Just busy doin stuff. Thanks for The Phantom Surfers, love that tune.
	10:33pm Mr Fab: I'm having cats thrown at me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Everyone needs a little something that helps get them to "normal."
	10:37pm Mr Fab: maybe the cat man is on his way to Katmandu. (sorry)
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: In spite of the name "Maggie's Place," I did not go with any of the songs you would think might be inspired by that name.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 If I every get out of here, I'm going to Katmandu, too.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: "You can change to the bad whiskey now. No one will notice." Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: "Ken-Doll." Is there a possible Barbie tie-in here?
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Blue Room" by "Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang" My old radio neighbor - who had the show before me - was a gal named DJ Victrola, and we would both get very excited about this two-CD collection, whenever it came on. I miss her, as she lives in PDX, but I do hope to see her sometime this year, if all goes well.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: "For my leg." I think I might need some Whiskey. For my leg, you see.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 That's generally why I need whiskey.
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: "Ow! My Leg." It's perfectly fine. "Yep... but I'm afraid if I don't have any whiskey, it won't be."
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: There are a lot of comical images in this story. I wish I was a good artist, because i would probably draw some of the scenes from this one.
	10:47pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 Can't say I'm a big fan of westerns, but I like any show with snappy dialogue like this.
	10:47pm Mr. X: The axe again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: Apparently, an axe is the tool that ensures a good marriage.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Heather Z: A adore cats. I'm a total cat lady. But I might also yell if I walked into a room in MY house if it were full of 63 cats, unbeknownst to me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:48 *I. I haven't taken to calling myself A. Yet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 I thought perhaps you were inspired by Mr. A. Square from the "Flatland" novel, and you decided to change your name.
	10:51pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Sell Or Be Sold" by "Minutemen" Good one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Not yet. But you never know with me!
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:51 Any excuse to play The Minutemen.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: That is the closest the Frontier Gentleman has ever gotten to "flirting" on this show. I still maintain that he doesn't swing that way, but I'm not sure a show from 1958 could be explicit in that way.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Heather Z: Clink! 🍻
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Heather Z: Night all! Thanks for another fun show, Austin!
	10:59pm Mr. X: Goodnight, fellow muties! Thanks for the show, Austin!
	11:00pm Mr Fab: Thanks to Austin "Tex" Rich!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listenin', everyone! Ya'll are the best. Make sure, if'n yer too liquored up, to bed down for a spell before you go home, so's you don't get in trouble with the partner.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cat Walk" by "John Coltrane" I don't know a lot about Jazz, and I try to learn as much as I can, but this Coltrane album certainly treats me right, when I wanna listen to something cool.
	11:06pm Mr. X: If only congregants from the Church of Coltrane would show up at my door, instead of those dang Jehovas, I might be more inclined to let them in.
	🎸 ♥ 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:06 There seems to be more to talk about, with Coltrane, anyway.
	🎸 ♥ 11:25pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 21, 2024

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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May 21, 2024: Way Out West Chapter Thirteen

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Nebraska Jack "Nebraska Jack"
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 1	Frontier Gentleman			0:00:20 (Pop-up)
The Depressions	Family Planning "Family Planning" by "The Depressions"	Once Upon a Time Vol 007 - UK October to November '77	Self-Released	2009	0:00:26 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 2	Frontier Gentleman			0:07:37 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu	Horse "Horse" by "Pere Ubu"	Ray Gun Suitcase	Tim Kerr Records	1995	0:09:34 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 3	Frontier Gentleman			0:14:24 (Pop-up)
The Faction	Kids "Kids" by "The Faction"	Epitaph	Trash Records	1986	0:17:20 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 4	Frontier Gentleman			0:20:13 (Pop-up)
The Red Krayola	Wives in Orbit "Wives in Orbit" by "The Red Krayola"	Singles	Drag City	2004	0:23:17 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 5	Frontier Gentleman			0:26:05 (Pop-up)
Uncle Tupelo	Whiskey Bottle "Whiskey Bottle" by "Uncle Tupelo"	No Depression	Rockville Records	1990	0:28:52 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 6	Frontier Gentleman			0:40:06 (Pop-up)
Melvins	Promise Me "Promise Me" by "Melvins"	Live at Grumpy's Bar, Minneapolis, MN, 09 February 2003	Unreleased	2003	0:42:38 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 7	Frontier Gentleman			0:46:05 (Pop-up)
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead	Half of What	...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead	Trance Syndicate Records	1997	0:48:58 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 8	Frontier Gentleman			0:51:46 (Pop-up)
Magnapop	In The Way "In The Way" by "Magnapop"	Hot Boxing	Play It Again Sam Records	1994	0:54:02 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"Nebraska Jack" Part 9	Frontier Gentleman			0:56:33 (Pop-up)
Ramones	We're A Happy Family "We're A Happy Family" by "Ramones"	Rocket to Russia	Sire	1977	0:56:57 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 1	Frontier Gentleman			1:05:38 (Pop-up)
Gene Vincent	Cat Man "Cat Man" by "Gene Vincent"	Rockin' Bones: 1950's Punk & Rockabilly	Rhino Records	2006	1:05:39 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 2	Frontier Gentleman			1:07:59 (Pop-up)
My Dad Is Dead	The Escape Artist "The Escape Artist" by "My Dad Is Dead"	Let's Skip The Details	Homestead Records	1988	1:10:52 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 3	Frontier Gentleman			1:14:31 (Pop-up)
Stinking Lizaveta	Running From The Enemy	Slaughterhouse	Compulsiv Music	1997	1:19:01 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 4	Frontier Gentleman			1:23:31 (Pop-up)
The Phantom Surfers	The Cat Came Back	The Great Surf Crash of '97	Lookout! Records	1996	1:26:09 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 5	Frontier Gentleman			1:36:23 (Pop-up)
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang	The Blue Room	Eddie Lang And Joe Venuti Volumes I & II	JSP Records	1989	1:38:31 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 6	Frontier Gentleman			1:41:46 (Pop-up)
Terry Noland	Come Marry Me "Come Marry Me" by "Terry Noland"	MCA Rockabillies	Big Tone Records	1993	1:43:36 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 7	Frontier Gentleman			1:46:10 (Pop-up)
Minutemen	Sell Or Be Sold "Sell Or Be Sold" by "Minutemen"	What Makes A Man Start Fires?	SST Records	1983	1:49:33 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	"The Cat Man" Part 8	Frontier Gentleman			1:51:14 (Pop-up)
They Might Be Giants	Drinkin' "Drinkin'" by "They Might Be Giants"	Long Tall Weekend	Self-Released	1999	1:52:47 (Pop-up)

John Coltrane	Cat Walk "Cat Walk" by "John Coltrane"	Dakar	Prestige	1963	2:02:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:18pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	♥ 8:56pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 9:00pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Thanks for comin' by the campfire!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Krys O! Sit and stay a spell!
	♥ 9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: ""Nebraska Jack" Part 1" by "Frontier Gentleman" Alright! Another awesome tale from the Gentleman
	9:01pm ramencity: hi-de-ho!
	9:01pm Mr. X: Time for my Tuesday mutation.
	9:02pm laurapanic: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 I feel weird already.....this must be the mutations
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:01 Yay! It's the Ramen City Kid!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:01 Mr. X! Thanks for comin' by.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:02 It'll pass. Just dance a little, and you'll be fine.
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Herb: 🤠
	9:04pm laurapanic: SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE AUSTIN #meetingsyoudontwanttoattend I Lol'd
	9:06pm ramencity: ↳ laurapanic @9:04 It's the social contract: we attend lots of pointless meetings, and in return we can get tomatoes in January...
	9:08pm Geoff-U: Happy Tuesday!
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: I have often said that there have "almost never" been any meetings worth attending. I say "almost" because maybe I'll get to go to a cool meeting someday... but it hasn't happened yet.
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:08 Geoff-U! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: Three dollars for a bottle of Whiskey. Not bad.
	♥ 9:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Going to grab a rum punch and enjoy the show
	9:09pm Mr. X: "Keep Out!" ... What could go wrong?
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:09 Certainly reading signs never done no one no good. What kind of fool are ye?
	9:10pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Horse" by "Pere Ubu" Cleveland's finest.
	♥ 9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:09 Depends on the year and the whiskey
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Horse" by "Pere Ubu" A very underrated Pere Ubu album. It's sort of mellow and weird in all the right ways.
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:10 Good point. I forgot to do a calculation to see how much that would be today.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:10 There is something in the water in Ohio. And the music is better for it.
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:11 Do we know what year Frontier Gent is set in?
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 I think he encounters a wide range of people and places that were active during "the old west" period, so I would say that it is "post Civil War" and pre-1920. But the specific dates seem to get fudged to make a better set of stories.
	9:15pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:13 Good old genuine rust-belt rust.
	9:16pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 Hard to calculate the inflation in a fudged time zone.
	9:17pm Mr. X: This episode is funnier than some of the others.
	9:17pm laurapanic: I like to drop calves
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:16 I think the stories tend to be in the earlier end of that spectrum, but I'm fairly sure that some of the stories would have to take place later, given who is in them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:17 Yeah, Nebraska Jack has a very "uncouth tongue."
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: 17 Children, Six wives. The mind boggles. Does he have time for anything else?
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Kids" by "The Faction" Both the "skull and crossed skateboards" tattoo on my arm and my bruised tailbone speak to a time when I had very different priorities.
	9:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 That's what happens when skateboards cross paths.
	9:23pm Mr. X: Oregawn
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 Oh, sorry. Five wives.
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Some of the pronunciation in this show cracks me up.
	9:23pm Geoff-U: I bruised my coccyx once while skateboarding. It was awful and took weeks to heal
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:23 I walked funny for a LONG time after that. Work the next day SUCKED, and I recall at least of week of sleeping funny.
	9:24pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 you know it doesn't take long right? *smirk and then he leaves the house, child rarin' is for the women folk.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Krys O.: ↳ Geoff-U @9:23 Ack! I did that the one and only time i went ice skating. Had to go to the hospital. My feet require terra firma.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:24 True. But it does sound like he rarely leaves the property, with the keep out sign, and...
	♥ 9:25pm Imaginos: Reminds me of the OB.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Krys O.: Good night, all!
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: I'm glad Rosie gets on his case for his "uncouth tongue."
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:26 Sleep well, Krys O!
	9:27pm laurapanic: why is she speaking broken English?
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:27 It's a show from 1958 and the actors are insensitive? (Shrug)
	♥ 9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 Yup. Very much so. Almost as bad as that episode of the Black Chapel
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Whiskey Bottle" by "Uncle Tupelo" When I was in High School, my first girlfriend was the cousin of Jay Farrar (of Uncle Tupelo, and other stuff.) She would get free copies from Jay of all their albums and singles. We would listen to these albums almost constantly when we dated, and those albums really remind me of her and those days. I still love these albums, but I don't listen to them as much.
	9:32pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:27 I mean as a character. DId I miss that he has wives who are native Americans? I assume that is the character they are going for?
	9:33pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:32 we may not know
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:32 Oh, yes, sorry. He spent so long with Native Americans he prefers their company, so he married five native women.
	♥ 9:36pm Imaginos: I'm going to be going to sleep soon, too.
	9:38pm ramencity: I got to hop to the next campfire - see you cowpokes soon!
	9:43pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Promise Me" by "Melvins" The only grunge band you'll ever need.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Promise Me" by "Melvins" A band that I've had on my show many times - Guyve - are big Melvins fans. They made friends with the soundman at Grumpy's Bar in Minneapolis, who apparently records all his shows. So Cam from Guyve gifted me a thumbdrive with MANY live Melvins shows, recorded at Grumpy's, doing a wide range of their own songs (and many, many covers). It's a good resource to pull from, occasionally.
	🎸 ♥ 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:43 I've seen them MANY times. They usually put on a very good show, but sometimes... they will intentionally do a noise show as they watch people leave in large numbers. It's sort of fun.
	9:46pm laurapanic: Everyone loves the Melvins. Heavy music uncles you love.
	9:46pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 got it!
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: From the sounds of it, Jack needs someone to be "mean" to him.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Half of What" by "...And You Will Know Us By The ... There was a time when I knew this album, back to front, and could sing every song. Saw them play a bunch, too. When I started on the radio, this album was still new, and I played it almost all the time. The first few albums by this band are EXCELLENT. But they loose the story pretty quickly after that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Austin Rich, and Mutants
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:50 coelacanthø! Thanks for joining the campfire!
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: "She'll take an axe to you." I think I'm in love.
	9:54pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 I have an axe in my wardrobe. True.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:54 Noted!
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: I'm sure there's a certain logic to that. "If they know where their axe is, then of course, they must know where everything else is, too." Something like that?
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm coelacanth∅: i used to have an axe earring made of copper but a friend broke it in half
	9:56pm laurapanic: we had this recreational , indoor axe throwing place open in my town. They sell it as 'great teambuilding". OK.
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm coelacanth∅: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:56 (it was a bit smaller than the one i used for firewood - which was stolen by a park ranger)
	🎸 ♥ 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:56 Very cool! I feel like I read about one near-ish to The Mid-Valley, but I'm not sure the community wants to know I'm likely to be throwing axes at a moments notice.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:57 Bummer. On both counts.
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @9:58 eh, i have no axe to grind
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:58 Zing!
	9:59pm Mr. X: When I was a kid, my dad used to take us to see logger olympics. The axe-throwing was always a crowd pleaser.
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm coelacanth∅: i'd like to watch some axe throwing; but i'd rather watch an archer... duckduckgo.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: "Dan's Bloody Bucket" is pretty evocative. What could that be in reference to?
	10:10pm Mr. X: Unconvincing cat vocals.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 Agreed! But I guess the way you get convincing cat vocals in 1958 "on cue" is not pleasant to think about, either.
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Heather: Howdy pardners! Sorry for my tardy arrival. Old Scratch had some errands we had to do on the way but we tuned in on the old transistor radio while we rode on in.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Escape Artist" by "My Dad Is Dead" An underrated record, that I first heard via The Ramen City Kid. (We were roommates for many years.) I think My Dad Is Dead is one person, home-recording. I quite fell in love with this album, and would listen to it on long bus rides back and forth to work, back in the day when you would just listen to albums on walkmen.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 Nice to see you in the chat, Heather! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Heather: ↳ laurapanic @9:54 I have an axe in my coat closet! I've not had to use it... yet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: All of my axes are with my camp gear, or near the fire-pit. (And I only have one near the fire-pit.) Am I missing out on something by not having one in my bedroom?
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 Glad to be here! Anyone care for a dram of moonshine or a canapé? Couldn't come empty handed!
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:12 I had an Aiwa walkman that got stolen during band practice. But we deduced who did it and went to his house, and his girlfriend made him give it back to me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:14 Woah! That is not how I expected that story to turn out! I remember how expensive Walkmen used to be. Loosing one was a big deal.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 Mine is on the ground floor but maybe I should relocate it to the bedroom? Hm. I have a hatchet in the basement and another in the garage. Only the garage one makes sense. It's for firewood.
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: The Irish were often mis-treated in America. I can only imagine how hard life was for The Cat Man in The Old West, selling cats.
	🎸 ♥ 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Running From The Enemy" by "Stinking Lizaveta" As I recall, this is a Husband and Wife metal "trio" (with a friend on drums). I think all their songs are instrumentals, at least on the albums I have. I saw them once, and they are very good live. I have no idea if they are still together, but it's a nice literary reference wrapped in a band name, too, so that's nice.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Very prog.
	🎸 ♥ 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 Yeah, I guess so? They seemed like old metalheads to me, but I guess the venn diagram of metalheads and prog folk is nearly a circle.
	10:25pm laurapanic: has anyone uttered "catastrophy"
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:25 Not yet, but it does seem inevitable, doesn't it?
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 Just that there were some complex time signature changes and elaborate key changes in that tune, which I associate with prog.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Cat Came Back" by "The Phantom Surfers" I'm waiting for the day that the guys in The Phantom Surfers are unmasked and we discover that they are actually a bunch of famous actors that wanted to do something without being mobbed by fans.
	10:30pm Mr. X: ...Then there was the time when I hitchhiked with a cat.
	10:32pm Mr Fab: I'm listening, too! Just busy doin stuff. Thanks for The Phantom Surfers, love that tune.
	10:33pm Mr Fab: I'm having cats thrown at me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:33 Everyone needs a little something that helps get them to "normal."
	10:37pm Mr Fab: maybe the cat man is on his way to Katmandu. (sorry)
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: In spite of the name "Maggie's Place," I did not go with any of the songs you would think might be inspired by that name.
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:37 If I every get out of here, I'm going to Katmandu, too.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: "You can change to the bad whiskey now. No one will notice." Ha!
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: "Ken-Doll." Is there a possible Barbie tie-in here?
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Blue Room" by "Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang" My old radio neighbor - who had the show before me - was a gal named DJ Victrola, and we would both get very excited about this two-CD collection, whenever it came on. I miss her, as she lives in PDX, but I do hope to see her sometime this year, if all goes well.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: "For my leg." I think I might need some Whiskey. For my leg, you see.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:43 That's generally why I need whiskey.
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: "Ow! My Leg." It's perfectly fine. "Yep... but I'm afraid if I don't have any whiskey, it won't be."
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: There are a lot of comical images in this story. I wish I was a good artist, because i would probably draw some of the scenes from this one.
	10:47pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 Can't say I'm a big fan of westerns, but I like any show with snappy dialogue like this.
	10:47pm Mr. X: The axe again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Austin Rich: Apparently, an axe is the tool that ensures a good marriage.
	🎸 ♥ 10:48pm Heather Z: A adore cats. I'm a total cat lady. But I might also yell if I walked into a room in MY house if it were full of 63 cats, unbeknownst to me.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:48 *I. I haven't taken to calling myself A. Yet.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 I thought perhaps you were inspired by Mr. A. Square from the "Flatland" novel, and you decided to change your name.
	10:51pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "Sell Or Be Sold" by "Minutemen" Good one.
	🎸 ♥ 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:51 Not yet. But you never know with me!
	🎸 ♥ 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:51 Any excuse to play The Minutemen.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: That is the closest the Frontier Gentleman has ever gotten to "flirting" on this show. I still maintain that he doesn't swing that way, but I'm not sure a show from 1958 could be explicit in that way.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Heather Z: Clink! 🍻
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Heather Z: Night all! Thanks for another fun show, Austin!
	10:59pm Mr. X: Goodnight, fellow muties! Thanks for the show, Austin!
	11:00pm Mr Fab: Thanks to Austin "Tex" Rich!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listenin', everyone! Ya'll are the best. Make sure, if'n yer too liquored up, to bed down for a spell before you go home, so's you don't get in trouble with the partner.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Cat Walk" by "John Coltrane" I don't know a lot about Jazz, and I try to learn as much as I can, but this Coltrane album certainly treats me right, when I wanna listen to something cool.
	11:06pm Mr. X: If only congregants from the Church of Coltrane would show up at my door, instead of those dang Jehovas, I might be more inclined to let them in.
	🎸 ♥ 11:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:06 There seems to be more to talk about, with Coltrane, anyway.
	🎸 ♥ 11:25pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 21, 2024

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