Underwater Sunshine

Omigod. So much great music and none of it from 1969. Welcome back time travelers! Phones are smart and people are stupid and we’re finally home. (smile) Thankfully, the Music is always good no matter when we are.

In which the boys finally wrap up Woodstock, somehow managing to cover a 3-day festival in only 6 weeks. What can we say? We’re talkers. Day 3 stretches into Day 4 with Edgar Winter, Blood Sweat & Tears, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sha-Na-Na, and Jimi Hendrix.

Day 3 at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair gets off to explosive start with Joe Cocker and never really lets up. We can’t help ourselves so we only deal with half of it in our penultimate Woodstock podcast. But you still get Country Joe & The Fish, Ten Years After and THE motherfucking BAND!!! It’s an experience. Get some!

The seemingly endless 2nd day of Woodstock finally comes to close with a soul-baring Janis Joplin Set and a powerful close by the Jefferson Airplane book-ended around furious historic and impossible-to-top sets by Sly & The Family Stone and The Who. Along with Santana some 14 hours earlier, Sly & The Family Stone and The Who play the greatest sets at Woodstock in my opinion.

Day 2 at Woodstock finally starts to cook until the Dead arrive in all their acid-drenched glory and somehow manage to both break the stage and fry all the electronics at the same time, causing the world’s biggest rock concert to grind to a screeching halt. Zaniness ensues.

In which Day 2 at Woodstock begins more in fits and starts than anything else. The acoustic folk music of Day 1 was supposed to give way to the electric rock and roll of Day 2 but instead, the biggest rock concert ever got stuck in, of all things, traffic. Dig.

If you ever do something really cool and all your friends come over along with all their friends and a few hundred thousand friends of friends of friends so it’s basically the most people ever in one place and some bands play and everybody gets really fucking high and has a good time (except for a guy who gets run over by a tractor and someone who doesn’t take their insulin) and then fifty years pass without anything like that really ever happening again...we’ll probably decide to do some podcasts about that shit too. Day 1. Woodstock. Dig it.

If Scott Fitzgerald had heard Emotions And Math, his book might’ve had an entirely different heroine. We have...so we do. Margaret Glaspy is simply fucking amazing and we spend a podcast talking about just that.

In which the boys reflect upon the brilliant visionary music of both New Delhi/London-based Prateek Kuhad and Brooklyn’s own Wilder Maker as seen through their performances on the last and first days of April’s Garden Sessions. We listen and discuss.

In which the boys can’t seem to stop having fun with Garden Sessions so this week we delve into Eric Hutchinson and Bear Cub. You’re gonna dog this. Or dig this.

In which the boys talk to the completely awesome Kiley Lotz, the brilliant singer/songwriter behind Petal, check out her Garden Sesh, and then have an epic chat with the legendary Cyndi Lauper and her bandmates-for-the-night Hollis Brown all about growing up in Queens and playing rock and roll.

James is out of town recording this week so we spend this podcast on Garden Sessions and interviews with Maria Taylor, Cameron McGill, and Ryan Hamilton. You’re not going to want to miss this one. We talk about stuff. PS. Thanks to Courtney Barnett for the title assist.

In which we talk not a whit about Spock, Dr or Mr, and instead concentrate solely on Superstar’s brilliant 1988 release Palm Tree, which is either their masterpiece or…well, not, depending on whether you simply happen to think some other record is…or, I suppose, isn’t, as the case may be. How do you feel about run-on sentences? I love them sometimes…but…well, not all the time.

We continue the epic tale of the Bellshill Glasgow kids we began in the "Teenage Superstars" episode by taking a deep dive into the music of one of my all-time faves: Joe McAlinden and his amazing band SUPERSTAR. This is music that’s completely out-of-print and unavailable. You can’t hear it on Spotify and it’s nearly impossible to find a copy of this album anywhere. There’s really only one place you can easily hear this music and that is RIGHT HERE. Underwater Sunshine presents….SUPERSTAR!

We stick with the Garden Sessions for one more week, this time featuring the incredible Twinspeak music of Ganessa & Tiffany James’ band Onliest, our interview with Roan Yellowthorn, and the wild visionary folk music of Teddy Thompson. You’re gonna flip. Dig it.

We stick with the Garden Sessions but this time we begin by announcing one of the bands we discovered playing their Garden Session who are going to be playing the next Underwater Sunshine Fest in November...SKOUT! Plus we play the Garden Session and our interview with Fort Frances and finish up with some Amy Vachal and a little Matt Sucich. Dig the good word!

We go back to the Garden Sessions and visit with the bands Fairhazel (from London by way of Boston), Wild Pink (straight outta Brooklyn!), and finish with our pal Taylor Carson (all the way from Portland, Oregon, which - oddly enough because it’s landlocked - does actually have a port).

It begins with a breathtaking version of “Bleed” and goes from there. In order to get in the mood for the release of more Garden Sessions, the Sunshine Boys finally release the long awaited Sesh and interview with Stew & The Negro Problem, pretty much Adam’s favorite band in existence. We talk some shit, they play some magic, and on top of that you get a little of the end of their Bowery Electric set and THEN...we rock a little Kasey Anderson for good measure. It don’t get any better than this. Get sum.

It’s time. One last look at a few artists playing the Fest and then...here comes the Sun! This week we check out Fairhazel , Amy Vachal, Eric Hutchinson, Wild Pink, and...Cyndi Lauper.