Adult Listening #8 features the very finest grown-up music from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s, whipping through genres like R&B, folk, rocksteady, African funk, country and more in a head-snapping manner reminiscent of a 67-minute force-feeding of some of the greatest moments in musical history.

Listen to the show on Mixcloud.

Track listing:

NATHANIEL MAYER – I Had a Dream
JOE MEAH – Dee Mmaa Pe
AZAM SHAIK – Naam Ke Nawab
THE CRYIN’ SHAMES – Please Stay
SKIP SPENCE – Broken Heart
EMILY FAIRLIGHT – Drag The Night In
PRINCE FRANCIS – Rock Fort Shock
DENNIS ALCAPONE – Power Version
PLAINSONG – Even The Guiding Light
KACY & CLAYTON – A Lifeboat
MICHAEL HURLEY – Just a Bum
THE IDITAROD – The Roots of the Butterfly Bush
TOM RAPP – For The Dead in Space
GEORGIANA STARLINGTON – I’m Coming Down
SAMMI SMITH – I Miss You Most When You’re Right Here
TAMMY WYNETTE – Singing My Song
INSECT TRUST – Miss Fun City

Enjoy the latest in global decade-hopping, with the finest in R&B, folk, country, blues and much more. It’s most certainly for grown-ups, so please listen accordingly.

Stream Adult Listening #7 on Mixcloud.

Tracks:

ELIA Y ELIZABETH – Se Oculta El Sol Muere Una Flor
TOBACCO CITY – Blue Raspberry
JOE S. MAXEY – Right On!
THE MAR-KEYS – Last Night
ALELA DIANE – Dry Grass & Shadows
LAL WATERSON – The Scarecrow (demo version)
KAY ADAMS – Husband Stealer
BEDOUINE – One of These Days
MODERN NATURE & ITASCA – Harvest
PETER WALKER – Tune On Karen Dalton’s Guitar
MELANIE – Do You Believe
BLIND BLAKE – Rope Stretchin’ Blues
THE CARTER FAMILY – Motherless Children
BLIND WILLIE McTELL – Don’t Let Nobody Turn You ‘Round
ROBBIE BASHO – Seal of the Blue Lotus

Back after a break of 6 months’ time, ADULT LISTENING #6 returns with another hour+ of music for discerning adults from wild locales such as Canada, England and the United States – to say nothing of Ghana. British folk, Mississippi blues, Canadian country heartache and Mr. Lee Hazlewood as well.

Stream Adult Listening #6 on Mixcloud.

Track listing:

VIS-A-VIS – Cherie Bondowe
DAVID WIFFEN – I’ve Got My Ticket
JESSIE MAE HEMPHILL – She Wolf
WILLIE DUNN – I Pity The Country
JACKSON C. FRANK – Blues Run The Game
THE SADIES – A Good Flying Day
JULIE DUROCHER – Bad News
TOBACCO CITY – LSD
TRUMMORS – Late Arriver
KACY & CLAYTON – Bend in the Water
MOUTH PAINTER – Yesterday Said
STONE ANGEL – The Bells of Dunwich
THE MINOR BIRDS – The Parting Glass
DRY HEART – Cabin on the Clifftop
LEE HAZLEWOOD – Think I’m Coming Down

Lost troubadours, barroom hustlers, ass shakers, lonesome strummers – it’s what makes up an Adult Listening episode, and it forms the bedrock of Adult Listening #5. You’ll hear everything from Dick Curless to Connie Converse to Maxine Funke to Spyder Turner to the Fruit Jar Guzzlers, with a healthy quotient of new material from the aforementioned Funke, along with Fiver and the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition, Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams and more.

Stream Adult Listening #5 on Mixcloud.

Track listing:

CONNIE CONVERSE – John Brady
THE GLADIATORS – Sweet Soul Music
LEE HAZLEWOOD – Forget Marie
DICK CURLESS – Loser’s Cocktail
SUSAN CHRISTIE – Paint a Lady
SAMMI SMITH – Never Been To Spain
MAXINE FUNKE – Anzac Day
EMILY FAIRLIGHT – Body Below
FIVER WITH THE ATLANTIC SCHOOL OF SPONTANEOUS COMPOSITION – Sick Gladiola
KACY & CLAYTON and MARLON WILLIAMS – Plastic Bouquet
SPYDER TURNER – Ride in My 225
MONK HIGGINS & THE SATELLITE’S – Mister Luckee
HENSON CARGILL – Skip a Rope
JIM ED BROWN – Barroom Pal, Goodtime Gals
ALTON ELLIS – Dance Crasher
SON HOUSE – Dry Spell Blues Pt. 1
FRUIT JAR GUZZLERS – Stack-o-Lee
HARRIS NEWMAN – Opera House Stomp

An hour of Canadian cosmic Americana, tortured Australian torch songs, classic country, solo instrumental guitar, early 60s soul, Rhode Island ghost folk and much more. It’s music for discerning adults who can handle all of it – because they’re adults. 

Stream Adult Listening #4 at Mixcloud.

Track listing:

KACY & CLAYTON and MARLON WILLIAMS – Light of Love
ESTHER ROSE – Keeps Me Running
BELLE PLAINE – Taxes and Death and You
GRACE CUMMINGS – Sleep
CORY HANSON – Angeles
COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS – Old Flowers
BARRY WALKER JR. – Derr of the Schwann (Break of the Dawn)
KAREN DALTON – Reason To Believe
FIVER – Train Leaves Here This Morning
THE BYRDS – You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
ALLYSEN CALLERY – November Man
TOWNES VAN ZANDT – Rex’s Blues
CONNIE SMITH – If I Talk To Him
IKE & TINA TURNER – I Idolize You
GWENIFER RAYMOND – Hell for Certain
NEIL YOUNG – Vacancy

Rooted almost entirely in the 20th century, Adult Listening episode #3 is a selection of music for discerning adults who recognize true quality when they hear it. You’ll hear mature sounds from the likes of Loretta Lynn (pictured), Skip James, Fela Kuti & Africa ’70, Furry Lewis, Susan Christie and much more. 78rpm treasures, country barnburners, African floor-stompers, glassy-eyed folk beauties and more.

Stream Adult Listening #3 on Mixcloud.

THE GLADIATORS – Chatty Chatty Mouth
FURRY LEWIS – Kassie Jones, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
SUSAN CHRISTIE – Rainy Day
SHIDE & ACORN – Eleanor’s Song
SKIP JAMES – Drunken Spree
KITSOS HARISIADIS – Delvino kai Tsamourgia
JOHNNY BLAINE – Pop-Top Cans
AL LOWDEN – I’ll Never Be a Lawyer
BERNIE WALDON – Bright Lights and Go-Go Girls
LORETTA LYNN – Hello Darlin’
ART NEVILLE – Little Girl From The Candy Store
TIMMY THOMAS – Rainbow Power
GIRMA BEYENE – Yebeqagnal
FELA KUTI & AFRIKA ‘70 – Zombie
BARRY WALKER JR. – Trinity Payload

One episode is a lark – two episodes is a trend, folks – and ADULT LISTENING #2 returns a week after the first episode with more eclectic and raw sounds for discerning adults. Of special note this time are Greek rembetikas, South Texas polkas, scratched-up 78rpm blues, 21st century solo guitar wizardry, 60s & 70s country music, howling gospel and much more.

(It’s currently on Mixcloud)

Track listing:

JENNIFER CASTLE – Theory Rest
REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON – God’s Got It
CAROL JONES – Problem Child
TWO FRIENDS – Family Reunion
U-ROY – Wake The Town
MARKOS VAMVAKARIS – O Isivitas (The Lifer)
PENNSYLVENIJOS ANGLEKASEI – Butkiskiu Polka
FAT KNUCKLE FREDDY – The Archangels
C JOYNES – Angelina Baker
DOCK BOGGS – Pretty Polly
MARGIE BOWES – Big City
JERRY JEFF WALKER – I’m Gonna Tell On You
FREEZONE – Indian Squaw Blues
SALTY DOG SAM – Lonesome Road
SEXTETO BOLONA – Aurora En Pekin (Daybreak in Peking)
HERMANOS SILVA – El Caminito
ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE COTONOU – Sé Wé Non Nan

A new year, a new spin-off podcast for Dynamite Hemorrhage Radio. This one’s gonna stick! It’s got the smarmy title of ADULT LISTENING. The whole idea behind this program stems from a lifetime of music collecting and accumulation that spans a dozen different genres, none of which fits all that well together – but baby, we’re going to make it work.

I want this show to focus on everything from instrumental guitar to 78rpm records from 1920s Greece to R&B to Cambodian pop to rocksteady to deep country & blues, African, and whatever else I think we all should listen to together. Mostly older, but some newer. All phenomenal music for adults to enjoy.

Stream Adult Listing #1 on Mixcloud.

Track listing:

DERRICK MORGAN – Forward March
JENKS “TEX” CARMAN – Hillbilly Hula
WILLIE NELSON – Me & Paul
LYDIA MENDOZA – Mal Hombre
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS – Tim Moore’s Farm
CHARLEY PATTON – High Water Everywhere
PENNY & THE QUARTERS – You and Me
JOE SIMON – Someone To Give My Love To
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER – Call Him Daylight
ROS SEREYSOTHEA – I Want To Shout
NAFTULE BRANDWEIN – Freit Sich, Yiddelach (Be Happy, Jews)
ROB NOYES – Cheap Gold
GWENIFER RAYMOND – The Three Deaths of Red Spectre
MAMMAN SANI – Samari Da Yan Matan
LAL & MIKE WATERSON – Bright Phoebus