WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 20, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	12:06pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin, thanks for taking us to this Vortex of Mutations.
	12:07pm Mr Fab: Groovy concept for a show - Spring has sprung.
	🎸 ♥ 12:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:06 Good Morning, Mr. Fab! I'm gonna see if my old-fashioned DJ skills are still working, and do this on the fly!
	♥ 12:07pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): hay y'all hay What happened with Bill? This is a few weeks now that he's been MIA.
	🎸 ♥ 12:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:07 I'm not entirely sure where Bill is, but hopefully you don't mind a few birdsongs instead?
	♥ 12:09pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Austin Rich @12:09 Not at all; I'm enjoying what I'm hearing so far!
	🎸 ♥ 12:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:09 Excellent! Sometimes, you need to use all the power that Sheena can muster, to summon the birds!
	12:11pm Mr Fab: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:07 I spoke with Bill the other day. he's out of town, and not sure when he can get back. I said: no prob, we'll keep your seat warm until you get back.
	🎸 ♥ 12:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:11 I'm more than happy to use my free Thursday mornings to cover, until he's back in DJin' shape again.
	🎸 ♥ 12:14pm Austin Rich: Alternate Titles For This Show: One For The Etc. Cliche. Bird-Brained Earworms Sing For Spring. Maybe you've got a better one?
	12:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:14 This Show Is For The Birds My mom used to use that expression - if it was something she didn't like, she would say that it was "for the birds." But why are birds so bad?
	🎸 ♥ 12:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But a Bird" by "Cab Callo... How many songs does Cab have about food? I think there's at least one other...
	🎸 ♥ 12:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 My grandma would say that. I think my mom didn't BECAUSE her mom did.
	🎸 ♥ 12:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bird Bath" by "The Trashmen" The challenge for a show like this was to NOT just play Trashmen songs for an hour, but to try and STRETCH out instead. I still had to include at least one.
	12:22pm Mr Fab: Hasil Adkins had a whole album of songs about chickens. It's got one of my fave albums titles: "Poultry In Motion."
	🎸 ♥ 12:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:22 Oh, yeah! I need to track that down. I only have one Hasil record, and the rest are mp3s. But that one record is him live, and it's WILD!
	♥ 12:23pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "Bird Bath" by "The Trashmen" I love a song with a little water boarding in it!
	🎸 ♥ 12:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:23 We like to get political on this show.
	12:24pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:22 Ha, yeah, was just thinking you could probably get a whole show out of "Surfin Bird" covers. (Oh damn, now I gotta play Pee Wee Herman's version my next show...)
	♥ 12:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Belated hooray for the Cab track. Total classic from a total force of nature.
	🎸 ♥ 12:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @12:25 Absolutely! I love his stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 12:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:24 I thought of that! I could have easily done a full hour of Surfin' Birds.
	12:37pm Mr Fab: Cab, other cats like Louis (Jordan and Prima) and jump-blues in general needs some proper reviving. It's just so FUN. it kinda had a moment in the '90s when it was getting a little lumped in with the swing revival. I'll try to add some regularly.
	🎸 ♥ 12:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Bird (Sky High)" by "Fraction" This whole album is great! An under-rated gem of the psyche era.
	🎸 ♥ 12:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:37 I should play more Louis Jordan for sure! Thanks for the reminder.
	♥ 12:44pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ↳ Mr Fab @12:37 absolutely. Cab's smaller-band era was absolutely hardcore.
	🎸 ♥ 12:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Birds'd Crash" by "Roky Erickson" "This is Bob Dylan to me!" I think about Roky's music a lot. What a wonderful weirdo.
	🎸 ♥ 12:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Birdland" by "Patti Smith" Every once in a while, its good to remind yourself why Patti Smith is so rad.
	12:58pm Zapwai: Fantastic episode
	🎸 ♥ 12:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Zapwai @12:58 Ahhh, thank you. I'm sort of making it up as I go!
	1:07pm Zapwai: Ha, hello Austin Rich. Do you remember To Birdland and Hurry by Herbie Mann?
	🎸 ♥ 1:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Zapwai @1:07 Not offhand! I'll have to look that up.
	1:09pm wenzo: AR!
	🎸 ♥ 1:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @1:09 wenzo!
	1:10pm wenzo: AR!!
	🎸 ♥ 1:11pm Austin Rich: Now it's a party!
	1:12pm wenzo: 🎉
	1:12pm wenzo: 🎂
	1:12pm wenzo: 🍾
	🎸 ♥ 1:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "There's More Than One Way To Play A Birdcage" by ... When I lived in Portland, I was recruited to play in the Dead Air Fresheners, a band that performs in masks and doesn't usually mention who the band members "are." This recording was from before I played with them, but this doesn't sound far off from some of the stuff we did. In the years since, I've gotten permission to talk about my involvement with them, and I've had them on the show as guests many times over the years.
	🎸 ♥ 1:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Kristina (Fashioned of Humming Birds)" by "Cold P... Another PDX story: when I still smoked, the gent at the corner store that would sell me tobacco would be listening to the weirdest music. I chatted him up, and he told me he was a musician, who went by "Cold Pizza." The next time I went to get tobacco, he gave me a stack of cdrs of his music, which ranged from stuff like this, to weird electronic music, and all sorts of other drones and things. I tried to keep in touch, but soon it was hard to find him online. (I think he tapped out of social media after people left MySpace.) So: Jose, from Cold Pizza, if you're out there: I still play your stuff!
	1:23pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "There's More Than One Way To Play A Birdcage" by ... I think it was Eugene Chadbourne who would put a birdcage over his head and play it with a violin bow.
	🎸 ♥ 1:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:23 Oh, I should look that up! I have some of his stuff, but I could use more.
	🎸 ♥ 1:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Painted Bird" by "Mat Moss" One of the artists in this group passed away a couple years ago (I think), and most of the recordings went unreleased in their life. So this album - ROG - was recently released, collecting a lot of recordings that were rare and unheard at the time.
	♥ 1:27pm David The Splatter: Well... Afternoon, Austin and all.
	🎸 ♥ 1:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @1:27 David! Great to see you in the Digital Salon.
	1:29pm wenzo: It’s hard to imagine you were a smoker once with your smooth radio voice! I’ll keep an eye out for Cold Pizza albums…
	1:42pm Erik Oh Vert: “BirdTown” by David Thomas (& the pedestrians). “Loons” by Mader is fabulous!
	🎸 ♥ 1:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Erik Oh Vert @1:42 I will be playing some David Thomas in a moment! Thanks for listening.
	1:46pm Iratemix: Of course, Birdies by Pere Ubu !
	🎸 ♥ 1:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Iratemix @1:46 <taps side of nose>
	1:50pm Erik-O-Vert: oh yea, seems David was musing on the birds (& other animals over the years).
	1:53pm Mr Fab: ↳ Erik Oh Vert @1:42 “BirdTown” by David Thomas (& the pedestrians) - that's a great example of what i call "avant-bubblegum." Totally catchy pop tune, but pretty weird.
	♥ 2:03pm Andrew Waterloo: Spring just means nesting Canada Geese around here. Yah, lots of pretty birds and ducks.. but they don't nest where people try to walk.
	♥ 2:06pm Otis Fodder: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Caw Caw Tweet Tweet
	🎸 ♥ 2:11pm Austin Rich: I should have played that Cab Calloway song NEXT. Oh well...
	🎸 ♥ 2:12pm Austin Rich: How old is Lucy?
	2:13pm Mr Fab: Yeah, both Lucy and Charlie Brown sound like a middle-aged married couple.
	🎸 ♥ 2:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:13 That record is pretty weird, for a Charlie Brown comedy album.
	♥ 2:15pm Andrew Waterloo: Good thing they decided on casting children for the animated specials.
	🎸 ♥ 2:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Andrew Waterloo @2:15 Yeah. The clip I played was WELL before they had a chance of getting on TV.
	♥ 2:27pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @2:16 Tennessee Ernie Ford notwithstanding: youtube.com...
	2:29pm Zapwai: Bird's Lament by Moondog, 'nother great bird track :-)
	2:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Goony Birds" by "Martin Denny" I'll be doing an all-exotica special tomorrow morn. No Denny as it's all contemporary stuff, but bird cries a-plenty.
	🎸 ♥ 2:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:34 Nice! Tiki Friday is GO!
	♥ 2:36pm David The Splatter: ↳ Mr Fab @2:34 Aloha Fridays!
	🎸 ♥ 2:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Legless Bird" by "Lester Bangs & The Delinquents" According to the Biographies I've read, Lester was really nervous about recording music, as he had spent years reviewing records in Creem and Rolling Stone, and was nervous that musicians would take their shot at lambasting him for his work. And yes, there was some of that, for sure. A lot of people had strong opinions about Lester.
	🎸 ♥ 2:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bird In A Cage" by "Old 97's" Another band that I forget I like. For a long time I held out that there was only one good Old 97's album, but as I get older, I find that I'm aging into them.
	♥ 2:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @2:36 Former WFMU DJ The Hound knew him well: thehoundblog.blogspot.com...
	2:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:36 His voice held its own in that kinda Lou Reed/Tom Verlaine/Jim Carrol style.
	2:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ David The Splatter @2:36 You remember that series! Yep a throwback to Aloha Fridays.
	🎸 ♥ 2:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @2:44 I'll have to read that! I'm a bit of a Bangs nerd.
	♥ 2:51pm David The Splatter: ↳ Mr Fab @2:45 You happened to mention it last week or the week before, I think. But haven't listened to the archives yet.
	♥ 2:55pm David The Splatter: Elephant in the room? I thought today's show was about birds. :D Thanks for the music, Austin!
	♥ 2:56pm Otis Fodder: Cheers and Chirp Chirp, thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 2:56pm Austin Rich: I saw the Cramps, and they closed their set with a cover of Surfin' Bird, which I think might be one of the greatest things I've seen live on a stage. Lux and Ivy were something else when they performed.
	🎸 ♥ 2:56pm Austin Rich: TURN IT UP VERY LOUD.
	2:57pm Erik-O-Vert: thank you for this fun creative theme show! 👏👏👏 - & all that sailed with us today. (back in the day I compiled a C-90 cassette of all bird-related tunes). Cheerio.
	🎸 ♥ 2:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Erik-O-Vert @2:57 I would love to hear that!
	3:00pm Erik-O-Vert: ↳ Austin Rich @2:57 It was for an ornithologist pal. He appreciated it (yet it took a few listens…) haha.
	3:01pm Mr Fab: Great show Austin, and congrats for not playing The Byrds!
	♥ 3:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @2:56 I've seen it performed by the Cramps, the Ramones and the Trashmen. It took that last band almost half a century to come to the east coast.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 20, 2025

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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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March 20, 2025: Tweet, Chirp, Sing; The First Day of Spring

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Artist	Track	Approx. start time
Jim Reid	And Your Bird Can Sing "And Your Bird Can Sing" by "Jim Reid"
Music behind DJ: George Shearing Quintet	Lullaby of Birdland
Strawberry Alarm Clock	Birds In My Tree
Mandrake Memorial	Bird Journey "Bird Journey" by "Mandrake Memorial"
Chuck Jackson	Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
Don Woody	Bird Dog "Bird Dog" by "Don Woody"
Cab Calloway	A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But a Bird
John Hammond	As Free As A Bird Can Be
The Trashmen	Bird Bath "Bird Bath" by "The Trashmen"
Eddie Floyd	Big Bird "Big Bird" by "Eddie Floyd"
Music behind DJ: Ennio Morricone	Corsa Sui Tetti (from L'Uccello Con Le Piume Di Cristallo)
Fraction	This Bird (Sky High) "This Bird (Sky High)" by "Fraction"
Roky Erickson	Birds'd Crash "Birds'd Crash" by "Roky Erickson"	0:44:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Link Wray	Return of the Birdland "Return of the Birdland" by "Link Wray"	0:47:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Patti Smith	Birdland "Birdland" by "Patti Smith"	0:49:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Liliput	Birdy "Birdy" by "Liliput"	0:58:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ornette Coleman	Bird Food "Bird Food" by "Ornette Coleman"	1:01:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ken Nordine	Cat & Bird Blues "Cat & Bird Blues" by "Ken Nordine"	1:07:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Dead Air Fresheners	There's More Than One Way To Play A Birdcage	1:13:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cold Pizza	Kristina (Fashioned of Humming Birds)	1:17:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mat Moss	The Painted Bird "The Painted Bird" by "Mat Moss"	1:25:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic	The Rite Of Spring	1:29:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Men's Recovery Project	Remove Dead Birds	1:41:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ratatat	Bird Priest "Bird Priest" by "Ratatat"	1:43:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
That One Guy	Birds "Birds" by "That One Guy"	1:46:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Deerhoof	This Magnificent Bird Will Rise	1:48:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Homosexuals	Birds Have Risen I	1:52:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pere Ubu	Birdies "Birdies" by "Pere Ubu"	1:53:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band	Golden Birdies	1:56:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John S. Hall & Kramer	The Birds "The Birds" by "John S. Hall & Kramer"	1:58:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Metropole Orchestra	Birdseed Special (a.k.a. Canary Concerto)	2:00:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Kaye Ballard and Arthur Seigel	Bugs and Birds	2:07:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Fish and Bird "Fish and Bird" by "Tom Waits"	2:12:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elle Fitzgerald	Flyin' Home "Flyin' Home" by "Elle Fitzgerald"	2:16:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
They Might Be Giants	Birds Fly "Birds Fly" by "They Might Be Giants"	2:21:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Henry Vidal	Black Bird "Black Bird" by "Henry Vidal"	2:23:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Martin Denny	Goony Birds "Goony Birds" by "Martin Denny"	2:26:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lester Bangs & The Delinquents	Legless Bird	2:33:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Old 97's	Bird In A Cage "Bird In A Cage" by "Old 97's"	2:37:01 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
BOMF!	Three Little Birds "Three Little Birds" by "BOMF!"	2:40:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pixies	Bird Dream of The Olympus Mons	2:43:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Galaxie 500	Plastic Bird "Plastic Bird" by "Galaxie 500"	2:46:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charlie Parker Septet	Ornithology	2:49:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Cramps	Surfin' Bird "Surfin' Bird" by "The Cramps"	2:55:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 11:50am Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	12:06pm Mr Fab: Hey Austin, thanks for taking us to this Vortex of Mutations.
	12:07pm Mr Fab: Groovy concept for a show - Spring has sprung.
	🎸 ♥ 12:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:06 Good Morning, Mr. Fab! I'm gonna see if my old-fashioned DJ skills are still working, and do this on the fly!
	♥ 12:07pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): hay y'all hay What happened with Bill? This is a few weeks now that he's been MIA.
	🎸 ♥ 12:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:07 I'm not entirely sure where Bill is, but hopefully you don't mind a few birdsongs instead?
	♥ 12:09pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Austin Rich @12:09 Not at all; I'm enjoying what I'm hearing so far!
	🎸 ♥ 12:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:09 Excellent! Sometimes, you need to use all the power that Sheena can muster, to summon the birds!
	12:11pm Mr Fab: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:07 I spoke with Bill the other day. he's out of town, and not sure when he can get back. I said: no prob, we'll keep your seat warm until you get back.
	🎸 ♥ 12:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:11 I'm more than happy to use my free Thursday mornings to cover, until he's back in DJin' shape again.
	🎸 ♥ 12:14pm Austin Rich: Alternate Titles For This Show: One For The Etc. Cliche. Bird-Brained Earworms Sing For Spring. Maybe you've got a better one?
	12:18pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:14 This Show Is For The Birds My mom used to use that expression - if it was something she didn't like, she would say that it was "for the birds." But why are birds so bad?
	🎸 ♥ 12:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "A Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But a Bird" by "Cab Callo... How many songs does Cab have about food? I think there's at least one other...
	🎸 ♥ 12:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:18 My grandma would say that. I think my mom didn't BECAUSE her mom did.
	🎸 ♥ 12:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bird Bath" by "The Trashmen" The challenge for a show like this was to NOT just play Trashmen songs for an hour, but to try and STRETCH out instead. I still had to include at least one.
	12:22pm Mr Fab: Hasil Adkins had a whole album of songs about chickens. It's got one of my fave albums titles: "Poultry In Motion."
	🎸 ♥ 12:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:22 Oh, yeah! I need to track that down. I only have one Hasil record, and the rest are mp3s. But that one record is him live, and it's WILD!
	♥ 12:23pm ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore): ↳ Song: "Bird Bath" by "The Trashmen" I love a song with a little water boarding in it!
	🎸 ♥ 12:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ ThunderDumplin' (MW in Baltimore) @12:23 We like to get political on this show.
	12:24pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @12:22 Ha, yeah, was just thinking you could probably get a whole show out of "Surfin Bird" covers. (Oh damn, now I gotta play Pee Wee Herman's version my next show...)
	♥ 12:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Belated hooray for the Cab track. Total classic from a total force of nature.
	🎸 ♥ 12:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Rev. Turnip Druid @12:25 Absolutely! I love his stuff.
	🎸 ♥ 12:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:24 I thought of that! I could have easily done a full hour of Surfin' Birds.
	12:37pm Mr Fab: Cab, other cats like Louis (Jordan and Prima) and jump-blues in general needs some proper reviving. It's just so FUN. it kinda had a moment in the '90s when it was getting a little lumped in with the swing revival. I'll try to add some regularly.
	🎸 ♥ 12:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This Bird (Sky High)" by "Fraction" This whole album is great! An under-rated gem of the psyche era.
	🎸 ♥ 12:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @12:37 I should play more Louis Jordan for sure! Thanks for the reminder.
	♥ 12:44pm Rev. Turnip Druid: ↳ Mr Fab @12:37 absolutely. Cab's smaller-band era was absolutely hardcore.
	🎸 ♥ 12:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Birds'd Crash" by "Roky Erickson" "This is Bob Dylan to me!" I think about Roky's music a lot. What a wonderful weirdo.
	🎸 ♥ 12:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Birdland" by "Patti Smith" Every once in a while, its good to remind yourself why Patti Smith is so rad.
	12:58pm Zapwai: Fantastic episode
	🎸 ♥ 12:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Zapwai @12:58 Ahhh, thank you. I'm sort of making it up as I go!
	1:07pm Zapwai: Ha, hello Austin Rich. Do you remember To Birdland and Hurry by Herbie Mann?
	🎸 ♥ 1:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Zapwai @1:07 Not offhand! I'll have to look that up.
	1:09pm wenzo: AR!
	🎸 ♥ 1:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @1:09 wenzo!
	1:10pm wenzo: AR!!
	🎸 ♥ 1:11pm Austin Rich: Now it's a party!
	1:12pm wenzo: 🎉
	1:12pm wenzo: 🎂
	1:12pm wenzo: 🍾
	🎸 ♥ 1:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "There's More Than One Way To Play A Birdcage" by ... When I lived in Portland, I was recruited to play in the Dead Air Fresheners, a band that performs in masks and doesn't usually mention who the band members "are." This recording was from before I played with them, but this doesn't sound far off from some of the stuff we did. In the years since, I've gotten permission to talk about my involvement with them, and I've had them on the show as guests many times over the years.
	🎸 ♥ 1:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Kristina (Fashioned of Humming Birds)" by "Cold P... Another PDX story: when I still smoked, the gent at the corner store that would sell me tobacco would be listening to the weirdest music. I chatted him up, and he told me he was a musician, who went by "Cold Pizza." The next time I went to get tobacco, he gave me a stack of cdrs of his music, which ranged from stuff like this, to weird electronic music, and all sorts of other drones and things. I tried to keep in touch, but soon it was hard to find him online. (I think he tapped out of social media after people left MySpace.) So: Jose, from Cold Pizza, if you're out there: I still play your stuff!
	1:23pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "There's More Than One Way To Play A Birdcage" by ... I think it was Eugene Chadbourne who would put a birdcage over his head and play it with a violin bow.
	🎸 ♥ 1:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @1:23 Oh, I should look that up! I have some of his stuff, but I could use more.
	🎸 ♥ 1:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Painted Bird" by "Mat Moss" One of the artists in this group passed away a couple years ago (I think), and most of the recordings went unreleased in their life. So this album - ROG - was recently released, collecting a lot of recordings that were rare and unheard at the time.
	♥ 1:27pm David The Splatter: Well... Afternoon, Austin and all.
	🎸 ♥ 1:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David The Splatter @1:27 David! Great to see you in the Digital Salon.
	1:29pm wenzo: It’s hard to imagine you were a smoker once with your smooth radio voice! I’ll keep an eye out for Cold Pizza albums…
	1:42pm Erik Oh Vert: “BirdTown” by David Thomas (& the pedestrians). “Loons” by Mader is fabulous!
	🎸 ♥ 1:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Erik Oh Vert @1:42 I will be playing some David Thomas in a moment! Thanks for listening.
	1:46pm Iratemix: Of course, Birdies by Pere Ubu !
	🎸 ♥ 1:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Iratemix @1:46 <taps side of nose>
	1:50pm Erik-O-Vert: oh yea, seems David was musing on the birds (& other animals over the years).
	1:53pm Mr Fab: ↳ Erik Oh Vert @1:42 “BirdTown” by David Thomas (& the pedestrians) - that's a great example of what i call "avant-bubblegum." Totally catchy pop tune, but pretty weird.
	♥ 2:03pm Andrew Waterloo: Spring just means nesting Canada Geese around here. Yah, lots of pretty birds and ducks.. but they don't nest where people try to walk.
	♥ 2:06pm Otis Fodder: Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep Caw Caw Tweet Tweet
	🎸 ♥ 2:11pm Austin Rich: I should have played that Cab Calloway song NEXT. Oh well...
	🎸 ♥ 2:12pm Austin Rich: How old is Lucy?
	2:13pm Mr Fab: Yeah, both Lucy and Charlie Brown sound like a middle-aged married couple.
	🎸 ♥ 2:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:13 That record is pretty weird, for a Charlie Brown comedy album.
	♥ 2:15pm Andrew Waterloo: Good thing they decided on casting children for the animated specials.
	🎸 ♥ 2:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Andrew Waterloo @2:15 Yeah. The clip I played was WELL before they had a chance of getting on TV.
	♥ 2:27pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @2:16 Tennessee Ernie Ford notwithstanding: youtube.com...
	2:29pm Zapwai: Bird's Lament by Moondog, 'nother great bird track :-)
	2:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Goony Birds" by "Martin Denny" I'll be doing an all-exotica special tomorrow morn. No Denny as it's all contemporary stuff, but bird cries a-plenty.
	🎸 ♥ 2:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @2:34 Nice! Tiki Friday is GO!
	♥ 2:36pm David The Splatter: ↳ Mr Fab @2:34 Aloha Fridays!
	🎸 ♥ 2:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Legless Bird" by "Lester Bangs & The Delinquents" According to the Biographies I've read, Lester was really nervous about recording music, as he had spent years reviewing records in Creem and Rolling Stone, and was nervous that musicians would take their shot at lambasting him for his work. And yes, there was some of that, for sure. A lot of people had strong opinions about Lester.
	🎸 ♥ 2:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Bird In A Cage" by "Old 97's" Another band that I forget I like. For a long time I held out that there was only one good Old 97's album, but as I get older, I find that I'm aging into them.
	♥ 2:44pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @2:36 Former WFMU DJ The Hound knew him well: thehoundblog.blogspot.com...
	2:44pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @2:36 His voice held its own in that kinda Lou Reed/Tom Verlaine/Jim Carrol style.
	2:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ David The Splatter @2:36 You remember that series! Yep a throwback to Aloha Fridays.
	🎸 ♥ 2:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @2:44 I'll have to read that! I'm a bit of a Bangs nerd.
	♥ 2:51pm David The Splatter: ↳ Mr Fab @2:45 You happened to mention it last week or the week before, I think. But haven't listened to the archives yet.
	♥ 2:55pm David The Splatter: Elephant in the room? I thought today's show was about birds. :D Thanks for the music, Austin!
	♥ 2:56pm Otis Fodder: Cheers and Chirp Chirp, thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 2:56pm Austin Rich: I saw the Cramps, and they closed their set with a cover of Surfin' Bird, which I think might be one of the greatest things I've seen live on a stage. Lux and Ivy were something else when they performed.
	🎸 ♥ 2:56pm Austin Rich: TURN IT UP VERY LOUD.
	2:57pm Erik-O-Vert: thank you for this fun creative theme show! 👏👏👏 - & all that sailed with us today. (back in the day I compiled a C-90 cassette of all bird-related tunes). Cheerio.
	🎸 ♥ 2:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Erik-O-Vert @2:57 I would love to hear that!
	3:00pm Erik-O-Vert: ↳ Austin Rich @2:57 It was for an ornithologist pal. He appreciated it (yet it took a few listens…) haha.
	3:01pm Mr Fab: Great show Austin, and congrats for not playing The Byrds!
	♥ 3:01pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @2:56 I've seen it performed by the Cramps, the Ramones and the Trashmen. It took that last band almost half a century to come to the east coast.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from March 20, 2025

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