WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 26, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm austinrich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Why, thank ya kindly for droppin' by the campfire!
	9:01pm Bruce S.: hey all
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:01 Right kindly to see ya, Bruce S!
	9:02pm Krys O.: Hello!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:02 That was a lovely program, Krys O! Thank you, thank you!
	9:03pm Bruce S.: why it's mighty kind of you to say so
	9:03pm Krys O.: Used to see Mac Wiseman on the Opry on CMT in the 90s.
	9:03pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Thank you!
	9:05pm Arvo: Howdy! I realized this morning I did not reply to your bit about listening to Edith Piaf whilst camping. I think it's cool. I have not gone camping in several years. I haven't listened to Edith Piaf that much lately, but I did have a best of type CD that I used to listen to a lot. In the early 2000s there was a lot of Leadbelly, Piaf, Nina Simone, and also Merzbow.
	9:07pm Imaginos: I should write another crossover with the Frontier Gentleman
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:07 That would be pretty cool.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:05 I stand by camping with Edith Piaf music. It's a great way to spend your afternoon.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:03 Very cool! I do like some of the tunes on this album.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: It's been a dumb day and a dumb month. So I'm ready to radio!
	9:10pm Bruce S.: can you tell me more about Mid Valley? what is it? please
	9:10pm Krys O.: Andy Metcalfe's bass is so tasteful.
	9:11pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 The month is almost over.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:10 The Mid-Valley is one of those large, unincorporated parts of the county, that seems to encompass a number of climates and terrains, somehow. We usually try to explore the Mid-Valley, through music and stories, collage and cut-ups... or just playing songs, occasionally. It's mostly an excuse to play some stuff I'm into lately.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:10 It's SOOOOO good. I've been really enjoying this album lately.
	9:14pm Krys O.: My friend Wm. Berger, a venerated WFMU dj and musician in his own right used to talk about the quality of an artist like Robyn Hitchcock that was "wacky, but desperate." Syd Barrett was of that ilk too. Berger came up with the term lo-fi.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:14 I guess he does sort of hit a Syd Barrett sort of vibe. I've just been in awe of his singing and lyrics lately.
	9:16pm Bruce S.: thanks Austin, I was so taken with last weeks show I went back to an album I first heard during covid and have been listening to pretty regularly, hair birth by Evicshen todays show sounds great also
	9:16pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 The Soft Boys covered Syd's Vegetable Man.
	9:16pm Arvo: Wm. was great, and I remember him saying something about Hitchcock.
	9:17pm Amygdala: I reckon I'll be visiting the very pleasant Mid-Valley more often. Lovin' this!
	9:17pm Krys O.: I adore the Ink Spots. Swooooon.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Last year we started our "Way Our West" journey. Here's a link to the first installment. wfmu.org...
	9:17pm Arvo: I am also a fan of the Ink Spots!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:17 Seriously! They are the best.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @9:17 I'm so glad to have you drop in, Amygdala! Have some coffee!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:16 I'll need to find that! Very cool.
	9:18pm Arvo: I came very close to playing Gigolo Aunt by Syd last week...
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:16 I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:18 Speaking of: here's a link to the show Arvo did last week: wfmu.org...
	9:21pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Well, your archive was good too! Authentic noir pulp!
	9:22pm Imaginos: I wonder if the dowser was scamming her
	9:22pm Amygdala: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 Thanks - much obliged! Gotta pass on the java though - 20 cups per day is my limit.
	9:23pm Arvo: Songs about coffee.... I know a few... But I know zero off the top of my head where they are calling it a "cuppa Joe". Going to have to look into it some time.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @9:22 I understand. My limit used to be, "Well, Just One More." But now I use a "one less than I think I should" equation, which is sort of tricky to work out.
	9:24pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Don't Start Me Talkin" by "The New York Dolls" The Dolls were miles ahead of the Sex Pistols in so many ways IMO.
	9:24pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Don't Start Me Talkin" by "The New York Dolls" good to hear something from the second albumor a change
	9:24pm Arvo: Well anyway, thanks again for the overtime last week, was fun.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 I do love the Dolls quite a bit. They have so many songs that fit so many occasions!
	9:25pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Howdy! I started listening to that show over the weekend. Realize I need to seek out and listen to more Shit & Shine! Arvo- thank you kindly for the postcard……great doodle of a Sucked Orange!
	9:26pm Arvo: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 I like The Pistols enough, but The Dolls came first, that is certain. JM! Glad you got the card! Shit & Shine is all over the place, usually I enjoy it. From Texas I think?
	9:27pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "The Well [Excerpt]" by "Frontier Gentleman" The cattlemen don't cotton to strangers!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 JM! thanks for joinin' the campfire!
	9:28pm Arvo: For several years I thought I had slept in the hotel room that Johnny Thunders died in, but I was lied to by a barmaid and a few others somehow. They all seemed to perpetuate the same lie.
	👻 9:28pm Heather: Welp, just got Old Scratch settled with their feedbag. Just rattle your tin cups if you reckon you're thirsty for a dram of moonshine. Nice there's enough firelight to see my crafts here. Howdy, yall!
	9:29pm Bruce S.: the Dolls played at the Mercer Arts center in the early 1970s before there was a CBGB
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:28 Well howdy, Heather! Thanks for passing the Moonshine.
	9:29pm Arvo: ↳ Heather @9:28 🤠
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:28 Nice to see you, Heather. How goes the voices for Lost Christobel?
	9:31pm Bruce S.: I don't really like the term punk rock anymore I think it should just be called Rock and Roll now
	9:34pm Imaginos: Moonshine... Rum punch.... Either way
	9:35pm Krys O.: I watched Big Country (Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Burl Ives, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, and even creepy Chuck Connors) recently and it was a classic tale about cattlemen vs ranchers. There's a climactic shootout at the end that tries to tie it all up with a nice bow, but just seems really odd.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:35 I don't know that one. I'll have to take a look.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:35 (I'm a sucker for westerns. I think my parents primed me, so to speak.)
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: (For context, the Frontier Gentleman's tales were originally broadcast in 1958.)
	9:38pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Lots of fond memories of watching Westerns with my dad. He liked many different types of movies, but I think he enjoyed cowboy movies best.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:38 When I was caregiving for George, we had a cable channel that was just westerns all day long. It was the only channel he cared for. We watching a lot of movies together.
	9:39pm Arvo: I think Unforgiven is always going to be my favorite western. I would love for it to be some rare 60s western, but so far, I haven't seen anything that would beat Unforgiven.
	9:40pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo @9:26 Yes from Texas. Not the easiest band to keep track of.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:39 That's a pretty good one. I like movies, so it's hard to say if I have a fave "genre," but I often find at least one or two things to enjoy, even in a bad movie.
	9:41pm Bruce S.: my favorite westerns are the Good the Bad and the Ugly and McCabe and Mrs Miller
	9:42pm Arvo: True Grit, both the version with John Wayne and the version with Jeff Bridges also made an impression. I watch plenty of bad movies. Today I went to the theater and saw Ghostbusters and Immaculate, a nunsploitation horror movie with a humorous ending.
	9:42pm Bruce S.: I guess Shane was a good one too
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Lost" by "Meat Puppets" While I used to dismiss the Meat Puppets as a younger person, I've grown to really love them as I get older.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:42 Shane rules!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:41 Yeah, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is pretty great.
	9:43pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Noted! Haven't seen that one.
	👻 9:46pm Heather: ↳ Arvo @9:29 Hi Arvo!
	👻 9:47pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 Hi Imaginos! Scheduling issues here ughhh but it is on the radar still!!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I know I say this every year, but this year, I resolve to listen to more Jam. (Maybe some Style Council, if I'm in a pinch.)
	9:47pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:47 That happens
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:47 In my case I'm just depressed, but I think the results are the same, unfortunately.
	👻 9:48pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:47 Herding cats.... but people are into it! Just hard to coordinate.
	9:49pm JM in Texas: The newer True Grit, the “horse trading dialogue” of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is just phenomenal!
	👻 9:49pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I'm so sorry. That happens, too.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 I think both versions of True Grit are pretty good. I still need to read the book, which I guess is more like the newer version?
	9:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:48 The more people who are involved the harder scheduling gets
	👻 9:50pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 So true! Plus herding myself....
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Underground" by "Tom Waits" For better or for worse, I know this album inside and out. I should probably listen to other Tom Waits albums, but... well... just one more spin....
	9:54pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 I haven’t read it but the book came out the year I was born (1968)
	9:55pm Krys O.: Need to depressurize before bed. Thanks, Austin and all!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Rambling Man" by "Melvins & Hank Williams III" I've seen The Melvins MANY times over the years, and during this era, when they were touring and recording three albums while on tour, I saw them a few times. When they were touring with Leif Garret, he sang this song with them.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:55 Sleep well!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:54 I've heard it's really good.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: "Rambling Man" might be one of the few perfect songs.
	9:56pm Krys O.: p.s. Coogan's Bluff was on recently and it reminded me of my precious favorite McCloud. Westerns and detective stories. Perfect together.
	👻 9:59pm Heather: Old Scratch is hitched to that tree yonder. Listening with soft ears, no doubt.
	10:01pm Imaginos: You would love Haunted Honeymoon
	👻 10:03pm Heather: Yassss waack kween!! I'm not sure how that goes with frontier music but I think you've got this!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: A live mistake on the air proves this isn't pre-recorded... unless I put that in to seem more authentic?
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:03 (It will forever be the Hand Jive to me.)
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: (For context, the adventures of The Frontier Gentleman take place "just after the American Civil War has ended," but during that brief period when the "old west" was still happening.)
	👻 10:05pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:04 I'm down with a hand jive, too!
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Look Around You" by "The Resistance" This is from a demo tape of an obscure Eugene, Oregon band, that I don't think was around for long, and I don't think they did more than this tape. But damn, this tape rules!
	10:09pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 Sleep well. It is quite important.
	10:10pm Bruce S.: thanks Austin Rich thought I could make it to the end but I'm just to tired,great show see you next time thanks all you great folks
	10:10pm Mr. X: Checking in, waving...
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @10:10 Thanks Bruce S! See you next time.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 Mr. X! Hooray!
	👻 10:11pm Heather: I'd spend all my money at Madame Verdi's place, just like that guy said.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Black Jack" by "Manual Sex Drive" I hosted this band on Mid-Valley Mutations when they were on tour, and I knew them from years before that, when they toured through a previous radio show, way back when. I do love this band, but I have no idea if they are still around. You should see them, if you can. They put on a wild show!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 She does like to hit you. And some people are into it, apparently.
	👻 10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 I mean, that voice alone...
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Black Jack" by "Manual Sex Drive" They stayed the night at my pad, after the radio show, and true to form, I don't think we slept until the sun came up. Those guys work hard, and play hard. (As the saying goes.)
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: One thing we know about The Frontier Gentleman: he likes to drink, but only after the sun goes down. And he usually sticks to that rule, in all the stories we've heard.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Coming Quiet" by "Jandek" Astonishingly, for a reclusive musician who famously did not play live for decades, I have managed to see Jandek live twice in the years since he started touring. The shows are as baffling and intriguing as his albums are.
	👻 10:19pm Heather: Wow, no sorry for your loss, no nothing...
	10:20pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]" by "Frontier Gentleman" I'm all worked up over Madam Verdi! Plus I love to roll the dice!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Money Money Money" by "9th Life" Another Eugene, Oregon band that is no longer around. I only saw 9th Life a few times, but their shows were spectacular and wild. The drummer played a junkyard set of things he found in wrecked cars. He played standing up. Both the drummer and guitar player sang. They jumped and screamed and they were the best thing I've ever seen. I wish I could see them again. I am sad I can't find the tape I had, but I do seem to have some digitized songs.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Loved the medly of "Money" and "If I Were a Rich Man," very clever.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 The drummer for 9th Life runs / owns a bar in Eugene now: The Cowfish.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hangin' Tree" by "The Now Time Delegation" A criminally under-heard "In The Red" album from the early 00s...
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Guilty as charged. Never heard of them. Sounds kind of like Allman Brothers meets PJ Harvey.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:19 The Frontier Gentleman is a gentleman, but he isn't considerate.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 You might dig the record. I love it, but I'm biased.
	👻 10:31pm univac: Hello, there.
	👻 10:31pm univac: I've been lurking and loving it.
	👻 10:31pm Heather: I do love this accent! Here's a dram to whet your whistle! Hi univac! Moonshine?
	👻 10:31pm univac: Anyone have any gin?
	👻 10:32pm univac: ↳ Heather @10:31 But a bit o' moonshine might just hit the spot.
	👻 10:33pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:31 Let me check Old Scratch's saddlebags for a flask... Ah! Here ya are, fellow cowpoke. Hope lilac flavor suits ye. Rochester speciality.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: The Frontier Gentleman finds the shoe on the other foot!
	👻 10:37pm univac: ↳ Heather @10:33 Mmm. Lilac. I hear their wood's real pretty in the heart. Purply-like.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I have finally broke down and I'm sipping a shot of bourbon in the Lava Lamp Lounge. Cheers!
	👻 10:39pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:37 They're fragrant and delicious! Being in the Flower Flour (Flour Flower? I should know that.) City means we have weird gin flavors!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: The Frontier Gentleman gets called out for his bad "English" accent.
	👻 10:41pm univac: Gotta run and get my grub! Nice sharing a fire with you all for a bit.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Twenty Questions" by "Beasties Boys" I was a rabid Beastie Boys fan when this collection came out. It got a lot of play in the late 90's / early 00s in my house.
	10:42pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "Rambling Man" by "Melvins & Hank Williams III" Morpheus, son of Hypnos, summons me. Reckon I'll hit the bedroll. I really enjoyed my time here in Mid-Valley (West) - love the ol'-timey western stuff; brought back nice memories of moseying around back roads of the desert southwest with my gal. 'night y'all - see y'all at daybreak!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Another clue that The Frontier Gentleman might be queer: the way he says, "You're half right," when he is told a woman is the source of his problems.
	👻 10:42pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:41 Grub well, univac! Can't tear me away from a fire so here I stay.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @10:42 Sleep well!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:41 Enjoy the meal!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I, Professional Gambler" by "Atom and His Package" Atom & His Package are the best. I am easily amused.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Last Chance" by "Third Floor Strangers" If Power Pop is your bag, you could do worse than explore the "Teenline" compilations that the "Hyped to Death" label assembled 15 years ago.
	👻 10:49pm Heather: I so want her to not have been a confederate spy.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:49 I mean, we don't know why she did what she did. If she was a spy in a war that's over, does it matter?
	👻 10:51pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 It's true we don't know the why! Hanging hope on that, too. I like her.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Deadwood would be a perfect destination for someone like her, and many folks like her were in Deadwood.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: (We might go a few minutes over.)
	👻 10:52pm Heather: I'm moving on to Deadwood with her and I'm beating this guy up who wants his money back.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's Okay, It's Time To Go" by "Evolutionary Jass... This was one of the best bands to play in PDX, period, when I lived there. I saw them a few times, but I got to work a wedding as a DJ, where they were the band performing the music for the wedding, and it was magical.
	👻 10:58pm Heather: Good night! Gotta go currycomb Old Scratch and polish the tack. Thank yall for a lovely time round the old campfire.
	11:00pm Mr. X: Thanks, Austin!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:00 Thank you! (And thanks everyone else for tuning in! See ya next time!)
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Life's A Gamble" by "Penetration" One of the seven million bands named "Penetration."

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 26, 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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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Well "The Well"
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:00:06 (Pop-up)
Lester Flatt & Mac Wiesman	Homestead On The Farm	Lester 'n' Mac	RCA Victor	1971	0:00:18 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:07:07 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians	Winchester	Element of Light	Midnight Music	1986	0:08:09 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:12:59 (Pop-up)
The Ink Spots	Java Jive "Java Jive" by "The Ink Spots"	The Ink Spots	Decca Records	1946	0:15:54 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:18:47 (Pop-up)
The New York Dolls	Don't Start Me Talkin	Too Much Too Soon	Mercury Reocrds	1974	0:20:54 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:24:07 (Pop-up)
Sado-Nation	I'm Trouble "I'm Trouble" by "Sado-Nation"	History Of Portland Punk Vol. 1	Zeno Records	2000	0:27:38 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:33:58 (Pop-up)
Meat Puppets	Lost "Lost" by "Meat Puppets"	II	SST Records	1984	0:37:49 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:41:06 (Pop-up)
The Jam	Going Underground "Going Underground" by "The Jam"	Going Underground	Polydor	1980	0:45:25 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:48:14 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Underground "Underground" by "Tom Waits"	Swordfishtrombones	Island Records	1983	0:49:57 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Well [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			0:51:55 (Pop-up)
Melvins & Hank Williams III	Rambling Man	The Crybaby	Ipecac Recordings	2000	0:53:03 (Pop-up)

The Gambling Lady "The Gambling Lady"
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:02:37 (Pop-up)
The Smith Brothers	When This Cruel War Is Over	Songs Of The Civil War	Cricket Records	1959	1:02:37 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:04:45 (Pop-up)
The Resistance	Look Around You "Look Around You" by "The Resistance"	Uprising	Self-Released	1985	1:06:43 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:09:14 (Pop-up)
Manual Sex Drive	Black Jack "Black Jack" by "Manual Sex Drive"	Music Is Dead	Self-Released	2016	1:10:40 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:13:28 (Pop-up)
Jandek	Coming Quiet "Coming Quiet" by "Jandek"	Foreign Keys	Corwood Industries	1985	1:15:37 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:17:07 (Pop-up)
9th Life	Money Money Money "Money Money Money" by "9th Life"	9th Life	Self-Released	1994	1:19:16 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:20:55 (Pop-up)
The Now Time Delegation	Hangin' Tree	Watch For Today	In The Red Records	2001	1:24:05 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:34:33 (Pop-up)
Suburban Studs	Questions "Questions" by "Suburban Studs"	Once Upon A Time Vol 004 - UK April to July '77	Self-Released	2009	1:35:00 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:37:50 (Pop-up)
Beasties Boys	Twenty Questions "Twenty Questions" by "Beasties Boys"	The Sounds of Science	Grand Royal	1999	1:38:59 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:41:18 (Pop-up)
Atom and His Package	I, Professional Gambler	Attention! Blah Blah Blah	Hopeless Records	2003	1:42:16 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:44:25 (Pop-up)
Third Floor Strangers	Last Chance	Teenline Vol. 3	Hyped to Death	2010	1:47:12 (Pop-up)
Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:49:41 (Pop-up)
Evolutionary Jass Band	It's Okay, It's Time To Go	What's Lost	Mississippi Records	2007	1:52:48 (Pop-up)

Frontier Gentleman	The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]	Frontier Gentleman			1:58:55 (Pop-up)
Penetration	Life's A Gamble "Life's A Gamble" by "Penetration"	Life's A Gamble	Virgin Records	1978	1:59:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:38pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm austinrich: ↳ Imaginos @8:57 Why, thank ya kindly for droppin' by the campfire!
	9:01pm Bruce S.: hey all
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:01 Right kindly to see ya, Bruce S!
	9:02pm Krys O.: Hello!
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:02 That was a lovely program, Krys O! Thank you, thank you!
	9:03pm Bruce S.: why it's mighty kind of you to say so
	9:03pm Krys O.: Used to see Mac Wiseman on the Opry on CMT in the 90s.
	9:03pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:03 Thank you!
	9:05pm Arvo: Howdy! I realized this morning I did not reply to your bit about listening to Edith Piaf whilst camping. I think it's cool. I have not gone camping in several years. I haven't listened to Edith Piaf that much lately, but I did have a best of type CD that I used to listen to a lot. In the early 2000s there was a lot of Leadbelly, Piaf, Nina Simone, and also Merzbow.
	9:07pm Imaginos: I should write another crossover with the Frontier Gentleman
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:07 That would be pretty cool.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:05 I stand by camping with Edith Piaf music. It's a great way to spend your afternoon.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:03 Very cool! I do like some of the tunes on this album.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: It's been a dumb day and a dumb month. So I'm ready to radio!
	9:10pm Bruce S.: can you tell me more about Mid Valley? what is it? please
	9:10pm Krys O.: Andy Metcalfe's bass is so tasteful.
	9:11pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 The month is almost over.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:10 The Mid-Valley is one of those large, unincorporated parts of the county, that seems to encompass a number of climates and terrains, somehow. We usually try to explore the Mid-Valley, through music and stories, collage and cut-ups... or just playing songs, occasionally. It's mostly an excuse to play some stuff I'm into lately.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:10 It's SOOOOO good. I've been really enjoying this album lately.
	9:14pm Krys O.: My friend Wm. Berger, a venerated WFMU dj and musician in his own right used to talk about the quality of an artist like Robyn Hitchcock that was "wacky, but desperate." Syd Barrett was of that ilk too. Berger came up with the term lo-fi.
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:14 I guess he does sort of hit a Syd Barrett sort of vibe. I've just been in awe of his singing and lyrics lately.
	9:16pm Bruce S.: thanks Austin, I was so taken with last weeks show I went back to an album I first heard during covid and have been listening to pretty regularly, hair birth by Evicshen todays show sounds great also
	9:16pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 The Soft Boys covered Syd's Vegetable Man.
	9:16pm Arvo: Wm. was great, and I remember him saying something about Hitchcock.
	9:17pm Amygdala: I reckon I'll be visiting the very pleasant Mid-Valley more often. Lovin' this!
	9:17pm Krys O.: I adore the Ink Spots. Swooooon.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Last year we started our "Way Our West" journey. Here's a link to the first installment. wfmu.org...
	9:17pm Arvo: I am also a fan of the Ink Spots!
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:17 Seriously! They are the best.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @9:17 I'm so glad to have you drop in, Amygdala! Have some coffee!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:16 I'll need to find that! Very cool.
	9:18pm Arvo: I came very close to playing Gigolo Aunt by Syd last week...
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:16 I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:18 Speaking of: here's a link to the show Arvo did last week: wfmu.org...
	9:21pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Well, your archive was good too! Authentic noir pulp!
	9:22pm Imaginos: I wonder if the dowser was scamming her
	9:22pm Amygdala: ↳ Austin Rich @9:18 Thanks - much obliged! Gotta pass on the java though - 20 cups per day is my limit.
	9:23pm Arvo: Songs about coffee.... I know a few... But I know zero off the top of my head where they are calling it a "cuppa Joe". Going to have to look into it some time.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @9:22 I understand. My limit used to be, "Well, Just One More." But now I use a "one less than I think I should" equation, which is sort of tricky to work out.
	9:24pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Don't Start Me Talkin" by "The New York Dolls" The Dolls were miles ahead of the Sex Pistols in so many ways IMO.
	9:24pm Bruce S.: ↳ Song: "Don't Start Me Talkin" by "The New York Dolls" good to hear something from the second albumor a change
	9:24pm Arvo: Well anyway, thanks again for the overtime last week, was fun.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 I do love the Dolls quite a bit. They have so many songs that fit so many occasions!
	9:25pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 Howdy! I started listening to that show over the weekend. Realize I need to seek out and listen to more Shit & Shine! Arvo- thank you kindly for the postcard……great doodle of a Sucked Orange!
	9:26pm Arvo: ↳ Krys O. @9:24 I like The Pistols enough, but The Dolls came first, that is certain. JM! Glad you got the card! Shit & Shine is all over the place, usually I enjoy it. From Texas I think?
	9:27pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "The Well [Excerpt]" by "Frontier Gentleman" The cattlemen don't cotton to strangers!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:25 JM! thanks for joinin' the campfire!
	9:28pm Arvo: For several years I thought I had slept in the hotel room that Johnny Thunders died in, but I was lied to by a barmaid and a few others somehow. They all seemed to perpetuate the same lie.
	👻 9:28pm Heather: Welp, just got Old Scratch settled with their feedbag. Just rattle your tin cups if you reckon you're thirsty for a dram of moonshine. Nice there's enough firelight to see my crafts here. Howdy, yall!
	9:29pm Bruce S.: the Dolls played at the Mercer Arts center in the early 1970s before there was a CBGB
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:28 Well howdy, Heather! Thanks for passing the Moonshine.
	9:29pm Arvo: ↳ Heather @9:28 🤠
	9:31pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:28 Nice to see you, Heather. How goes the voices for Lost Christobel?
	9:31pm Bruce S.: I don't really like the term punk rock anymore I think it should just be called Rock and Roll now
	9:34pm Imaginos: Moonshine... Rum punch.... Either way
	9:35pm Krys O.: I watched Big Country (Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Burl Ives, Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, and even creepy Chuck Connors) recently and it was a classic tale about cattlemen vs ranchers. There's a climactic shootout at the end that tries to tie it all up with a nice bow, but just seems really odd.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:35 I don't know that one. I'll have to take a look.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:35 (I'm a sucker for westerns. I think my parents primed me, so to speak.)
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: (For context, the Frontier Gentleman's tales were originally broadcast in 1958.)
	9:38pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Lots of fond memories of watching Westerns with my dad. He liked many different types of movies, but I think he enjoyed cowboy movies best.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:38 When I was caregiving for George, we had a cable channel that was just westerns all day long. It was the only channel he cared for. We watching a lot of movies together.
	9:39pm Arvo: I think Unforgiven is always going to be my favorite western. I would love for it to be some rare 60s western, but so far, I haven't seen anything that would beat Unforgiven.
	9:40pm JM in Texas: ↳ Arvo @9:26 Yes from Texas. Not the easiest band to keep track of.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo @9:39 That's a pretty good one. I like movies, so it's hard to say if I have a fave "genre," but I often find at least one or two things to enjoy, even in a bad movie.
	9:41pm Bruce S.: my favorite westerns are the Good the Bad and the Ugly and McCabe and Mrs Miller
	9:42pm Arvo: True Grit, both the version with John Wayne and the version with Jeff Bridges also made an impression. I watch plenty of bad movies. Today I went to the theater and saw Ghostbusters and Immaculate, a nunsploitation horror movie with a humorous ending.
	9:42pm Bruce S.: I guess Shane was a good one too
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Lost" by "Meat Puppets" While I used to dismiss the Meat Puppets as a younger person, I've grown to really love them as I get older.
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:42 Shane rules!
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @9:41 Yeah, McCabe & Mrs. Miller is pretty great.
	9:43pm Arvo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Noted! Haven't seen that one.
	👻 9:46pm Heather: ↳ Arvo @9:29 Hi Arvo!
	👻 9:47pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:31 Hi Imaginos! Scheduling issues here ughhh but it is on the radar still!!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I know I say this every year, but this year, I resolve to listen to more Jam. (Maybe some Style Council, if I'm in a pinch.)
	9:47pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:47 That happens
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @9:47 In my case I'm just depressed, but I think the results are the same, unfortunately.
	👻 9:48pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:47 Herding cats.... but people are into it! Just hard to coordinate.
	9:49pm JM in Texas: The newer True Grit, the “horse trading dialogue” of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) is just phenomenal!
	👻 9:49pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @9:48 I'm so sorry. That happens, too.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:49 I think both versions of True Grit are pretty good. I still need to read the book, which I guess is more like the newer version?
	9:49pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather @9:48 The more people who are involved the harder scheduling gets
	👻 9:50pm Heather: ↳ Imaginos @9:49 So true! Plus herding myself....
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Underground" by "Tom Waits" For better or for worse, I know this album inside and out. I should probably listen to other Tom Waits albums, but... well... just one more spin....
	9:54pm JM in Texas: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 I haven’t read it but the book came out the year I was born (1968)
	9:55pm Krys O.: Need to depressurize before bed. Thanks, Austin and all!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Rambling Man" by "Melvins & Hank Williams III" I've seen The Melvins MANY times over the years, and during this era, when they were touring and recording three albums while on tour, I saw them a few times. When they were touring with Leif Garret, he sang this song with them.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:55 Sleep well!
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @9:54 I've heard it's really good.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: "Rambling Man" might be one of the few perfect songs.
	9:56pm Krys O.: p.s. Coogan's Bluff was on recently and it reminded me of my precious favorite McCloud. Westerns and detective stories. Perfect together.
	👻 9:59pm Heather: Old Scratch is hitched to that tree yonder. Listening with soft ears, no doubt.
	10:01pm Imaginos: You would love Haunted Honeymoon
	👻 10:03pm Heather: Yassss waack kween!! I'm not sure how that goes with frontier music but I think you've got this!
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: A live mistake on the air proves this isn't pre-recorded... unless I put that in to seem more authentic?
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:03 (It will forever be the Hand Jive to me.)
	👻 10:05pm Austin Rich: (For context, the adventures of The Frontier Gentleman take place "just after the American Civil War has ended," but during that brief period when the "old west" was still happening.)
	👻 10:05pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:04 I'm down with a hand jive, too!
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Look Around You" by "The Resistance" This is from a demo tape of an obscure Eugene, Oregon band, that I don't think was around for long, and I don't think they did more than this tape. But damn, this tape rules!
	10:09pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:09 Sleep well. It is quite important.
	10:10pm Bruce S.: thanks Austin Rich thought I could make it to the end but I'm just to tired,great show see you next time thanks all you great folks
	10:10pm Mr. X: Checking in, waving...
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Bruce S. @10:10 Thanks Bruce S! See you next time.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 Mr. X! Hooray!
	👻 10:11pm Heather: I'd spend all my money at Madame Verdi's place, just like that guy said.
	👻 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Black Jack" by "Manual Sex Drive" I hosted this band on Mid-Valley Mutations when they were on tour, and I knew them from years before that, when they toured through a previous radio show, way back when. I do love this band, but I have no idea if they are still around. You should see them, if you can. They put on a wild show!
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:11 She does like to hit you. And some people are into it, apparently.
	👻 10:15pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 I mean, that voice alone...
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Black Jack" by "Manual Sex Drive" They stayed the night at my pad, after the radio show, and true to form, I don't think we slept until the sun came up. Those guys work hard, and play hard. (As the saying goes.)
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: One thing we know about The Frontier Gentleman: he likes to drink, but only after the sun goes down. And he usually sticks to that rule, in all the stories we've heard.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Coming Quiet" by "Jandek" Astonishingly, for a reclusive musician who famously did not play live for decades, I have managed to see Jandek live twice in the years since he started touring. The shows are as baffling and intriguing as his albums are.
	👻 10:19pm Heather: Wow, no sorry for your loss, no nothing...
	10:20pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "The Gambling Lady [Excerpt]" by "Frontier Gentleman" I'm all worked up over Madam Verdi! Plus I love to roll the dice!
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Money Money Money" by "9th Life" Another Eugene, Oregon band that is no longer around. I only saw 9th Life a few times, but their shows were spectacular and wild. The drummer played a junkyard set of things he found in wrecked cars. He played standing up. Both the drummer and guitar player sang. They jumped and screamed and they were the best thing I've ever seen. I wish I could see them again. I am sad I can't find the tape I had, but I do seem to have some digitized songs.
	10:22pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:21 Loved the medly of "Money" and "If I Were a Rich Man," very clever.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:22 The drummer for 9th Life runs / owns a bar in Eugene now: The Cowfish.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hangin' Tree" by "The Now Time Delegation" A criminally under-heard "In The Red" album from the early 00s...
	10:27pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:25 Guilty as charged. Never heard of them. Sounds kind of like Allman Brothers meets PJ Harvey.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:19 The Frontier Gentleman is a gentleman, but he isn't considerate.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:27 You might dig the record. I love it, but I'm biased.
	👻 10:31pm univac: Hello, there.
	👻 10:31pm univac: I've been lurking and loving it.
	👻 10:31pm Heather: I do love this accent! Here's a dram to whet your whistle! Hi univac! Moonshine?
	👻 10:31pm univac: Anyone have any gin?
	👻 10:32pm univac: ↳ Heather @10:31 But a bit o' moonshine might just hit the spot.
	👻 10:33pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:31 Let me check Old Scratch's saddlebags for a flask... Ah! Here ya are, fellow cowpoke. Hope lilac flavor suits ye. Rochester speciality.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: The Frontier Gentleman finds the shoe on the other foot!
	👻 10:37pm univac: ↳ Heather @10:33 Mmm. Lilac. I hear their wood's real pretty in the heart. Purply-like.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: I have finally broke down and I'm sipping a shot of bourbon in the Lava Lamp Lounge. Cheers!
	👻 10:39pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:37 They're fragrant and delicious! Being in the Flower Flour (Flour Flower? I should know that.) City means we have weird gin flavors!
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: The Frontier Gentleman gets called out for his bad "English" accent.
	👻 10:41pm univac: Gotta run and get my grub! Nice sharing a fire with you all for a bit.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Twenty Questions" by "Beasties Boys" I was a rabid Beastie Boys fan when this collection came out. It got a lot of play in the late 90's / early 00s in my house.
	10:42pm Amygdala: ↳ Song: "Rambling Man" by "Melvins & Hank Williams III" Morpheus, son of Hypnos, summons me. Reckon I'll hit the bedroll. I really enjoyed my time here in Mid-Valley (West) - love the ol'-timey western stuff; brought back nice memories of moseying around back roads of the desert southwest with my gal. 'night y'all - see y'all at daybreak!
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: Another clue that The Frontier Gentleman might be queer: the way he says, "You're half right," when he is told a woman is the source of his problems.
	👻 10:42pm Heather: ↳ univac @10:41 Grub well, univac! Can't tear me away from a fire so here I stay.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Amygdala @10:42 Sleep well!
	👻 10:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:41 Enjoy the meal!
	👻 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I, Professional Gambler" by "Atom and His Package" Atom & His Package are the best. I am easily amused.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Last Chance" by "Third Floor Strangers" If Power Pop is your bag, you could do worse than explore the "Teenline" compilations that the "Hyped to Death" label assembled 15 years ago.
	👻 10:49pm Heather: I so want her to not have been a confederate spy.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather @10:49 I mean, we don't know why she did what she did. If she was a spy in a war that's over, does it matter?
	👻 10:51pm Heather: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 It's true we don't know the why! Hanging hope on that, too. I like her.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: Deadwood would be a perfect destination for someone like her, and many folks like her were in Deadwood.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: (We might go a few minutes over.)
	👻 10:52pm Heather: I'm moving on to Deadwood with her and I'm beating this guy up who wants his money back.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It's Okay, It's Time To Go" by "Evolutionary Jass... This was one of the best bands to play in PDX, period, when I lived there. I saw them a few times, but I got to work a wedding as a DJ, where they were the band performing the music for the wedding, and it was magical.
	👻 10:58pm Heather: Good night! Gotta go currycomb Old Scratch and polish the tack. Thank yall for a lovely time round the old campfire.
	11:00pm Mr. X: Thanks, Austin!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:00 Thank you! (And thanks everyone else for tuning in! See ya next time!)
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Life's A Gamble" by "Penetration" One of the seven million bands named "Penetration."

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 26, 2024

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