WFMU: The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from June 4, 2019

Listener comments!
	♥ 10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Kris. i hope you and Larry attack the tributes from different angles but I’m sure I’ll be hearing duplicates tomorrow.
	♥ 10:01pm chresti: Hey long home and Kris! Matt!
	♥ 10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey chresti
	♥ 10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Kris had you gone to see Roky live since the Stomp
	♥ 10:03pm Franco Twinkie: Hail Roky!
	10:04pm Kris Holmes: yes, i saw him in 2011, wait, what year was the Stomp?
	♥ 10:04pm Little Danny: Hey Kris, hey all
	♥ 10:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Franco
	♥ 10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Matt!
	♥ 10:04pm Little Danny: For some reason I thought you were on the West Coast this week, Kris
	♥ 10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: He played at the “hurricane” stomp in 2017
	♥ 10:06pm Matt from New Orleans: And in 2008 as well
	10:06pm Kris Holmes: in a couple weeks time Dan
	10:06pm Kris Holmes: Dang, I forgot all about seeing him that first night in 2017!!
	10:07pm Kris Holmes: possibly better than 2011 because of the backing band
	♥ 10:07pm Little Danny: Well I'm delighted to find you here
	♥ 10:08pm Little Danny: Roky played Marfa a coupla years ago
	10:08pm Kris Holmes: I passed on seeing him in Marfa in 2016, Dan you passed on that also iirc?
	10:09pm Kris Holmes: I won't even miss a show while we're in LA, fly out Wed come back Sun
	♥ 10:09pm Little Danny: Yeah, I can't deal with reunions or late-career resurgences in the flesh. Too much potential for painfulness
	♥ 10:10pm Little Danny: Man I'm an asshole
	10:10pm Kris Holmes: I was glad to see him in 2011 but it wasn't actually all that musically
	10:10pm still b/p: Is there a genuine concert venue in Marfa? Or just a nightspot where a name might perform?
	10:10pm Kris Holmes: Ballroom Marfa
	♥ 10:10pm Matt from New Orleans: true enough danny. I always hope for the best when I attend the stomp.
	♥ 10:11pm Franco Twinkie: The first time I went to San Francisco in 1966 on a family vacation You're Gonna Miss Me was very big on both KFRC and KYA. It made me jump up and down in the back seat of our Oldsmobile.
	♥ 10:12pm Little Danny: Surprisingly there are concert-sized venues, still b/p. I mean a coupla places that can hold several hundred people. But none of them are ideal
	10:12pm still b/p: And it WAS your father's Oldsmobile.
	♥ 10:13pm Little Danny: That's so great, Franco. The Elevators were huge in Texas, and they were huge in San Francisco. But almost nowhere else in their day
	♥ 10:14pm Franco Twinkie: Yup. Mom and dads car. After all, I was only 11 years old.
	♥ 10:14pm Little Danny: "huge" being relative, of course
	♥ 10:14pm Matt from New Orleans: I think the 2017 set was better than the 2008 set I saw as Roky was more comfortable on stage and the band was better. I can’t actually remember who backed him at both shows and whether it was the same musicians but it sounded better the second time.
	10:15pm Kris Holmes: I think it was essentially Eve & The Exiles in 2017
	♥ 10:16pm Franco Twinkie: What year was he backed by Okerville River? That's when I saw him in L.A.
	10:17pm still b/p: Just looked at Marfa population, curious about the attention-buzz effect. Steadily dropping, though, and a significant drop back in 1999 to 2000. Wha' happened then? Or maybe just a counting procedure difference?
	♥ 10:20pm Little Danny: @still b/p: For all the attention it gets, few people actually move to Marfa. But I don't know what happened in 1999-2000. That was just before the international buzz machine got going
	10:24pm Kris Holmes: Okkervill River was earlier in the 2000s, that was apparently the best time to catch his comeback. I saw Okkervill River sometime in the late 2000s & they were fantastic sans Roky.
	♥ 10:29pm Little Danny: Had no idea "Baby Blue" was released as a 7"
	10:30pm Kris Holmes: flip of She Lives In A Time Of Her Own, beautifully fragile version
	♥ 10:31pm chresti: Isn't Marfa where there are Donald Judd works?
	♥ 10:31pm Little Danny: @chresti: yes indeed
	♥ 10:35pm Franco Twinkie: The one that still makes me wonder if I made the right decision was i think 1981. I had to make a choice: Muddy Waters AND Willy Dixon at The Roxy, or Roky down the block at The Whisky. Muddy was sad, Willy was great, but Roky burned The Whisky to the ground. That's the show he did a shrieking, blood curdling cover of Heroin. Regrets. oh well.
	10:36pm Kris Holmes: oh man, what a choice
	♥ 10:40pm Franco Twinkie: Go for broke, Kris!
	♥ 10:42pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m laying down Kris. I’ll still be listening but not chatting. 10 CDs. I have it as well.
	10:43pm Kris Holmes: Right on Matt!
	10:45pm Kris Holmes: Also, the old conundrum Franco of the Whisky or the Roxy!
	♥ 10:48pm chresti: Is there a recording of that performance, Franco?
	♥ 10:50pm Franco Twinkie: When The Elevators hit the ground in '66 I was laying on the floor watching TV while my mom was ironing. They came on and did of course You're Gonna Miss Me. I thought they were beatniks 'cause a couple of them were wearing dark shades.
	♥ 10:51pm Franco Twinkie: Yes Dear, I's in that towering pile in the living room.
	11:11pm Carmichael: Heya Kris. Thanks for the Roy Head. Gotta do it right!
	11:16pm Kris Holmes: I love Roy Head! Well until he went country.
	♥ 11:19pm Franco Twinkie: That's my life, James. The ladies always tellin' me what to do!
	11:19pm Kris Holmes: JB telling it like it is
	♥ 11:22pm Franco Twinkie: Go to the store. Rake the leaves. Fix this, fix that. Makes me want to scream!
	11:24pm Carmichael: Happy wife, happy life.
	11:25pm Carmichael: Like the Irish song goes, “we’ll give ‘em the slip, and we’ll take a sip of the rare ol’ mountain dew.”
	♥ 11:29pm chresti: Listen to Carmichael carefully, Franco. In reality, I'm not included in the who Franco's referring to
	11:30pm geezerette: Hello! There are SO MANY of these kickass soul singers I've never heard of. Collier's great!
	♥ 11:31pm Franco Twinkie: True that...kinda.
	♥ 11:32pm Franco Twinkie: Geezette!
	11:34pm geezerette: Love this song. Lyrics are wonderful.
	♥ 11:35pm chresti: For me, that jug sound and the background singing, does it every time
	11:35pm geezerette: Franco! Chresti!
	♥ 11:40pm chresti: I never heard of Gino Scorza, either. Hi again geez!
	♥ 11:42pm Franco Twinkie: That Gino Scorza was the anti-elevator sound of Texas. Jaunty horns and a whirring organ.
	11:42pm Kris Holmes: Gino Scorza extremely obscure San Antonio artist
	11:42pm Carmichael: Ha ha, chresti. That’s why I like you!
	11:43pm Carmichael: Watch the opening to The Commitments. Roy Head sets the mood.
	11:44pm geezerette: Sounds like summer.
	11:49pm Carmichael: Tell It Like It Is is one of those perfect pop songs.
	11:50pm Kris Holmes: it really is
	♥ 11:51pm chresti: One of my favorites.
	11:53pm Carmichael: I was discussing my top five with Gaylord, and that wad locked in at #3.
	11:53pm Carmichael: *was
	♥ 11:54pm chresti: Thanks Kris, fantastic Roky stuff.
	11:54pm Kris Holmes: You are welcome
	11:55pm Carmichael: Yeah, I never listen long enough to say thanks. Thanks!
	11:56pm geezerette: Fun! Thanks,Kris!
	♥ 11:57pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you for the love shown to Roky. Good night.

The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from June 4, 2019

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June 4, 2019: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor Elevators Tribute

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	Approx. start time
The Spades	You're Gonna Miss Me "You're Gonna Miss Me" by "The Spades"		Zero	7"	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Reverberation (Doubt)		IA	7"	0:04:44 (Pop-up)
The Spades	We Sell Soul "We Sell Soul" by "The Spades"		Zero	7"	0:07:49 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Fire Engine		IA	7"	0:10:45 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	I've Got Levitation		IA	7"	0:13:17 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	She Lives (In a Time of Her Own)		IA	7"	0:22:09 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Before You Accuse Me		IA	7"	0:25:20 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Baby Blue		IA	7"	0:27:41 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Slip Inside This House		IA	7"	0:32:55 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	I'm Gonna Love You Too		IA	7"	0:37:00 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Splash 1		IA	7"	0:42:13 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	May The Circle Remain Unbroken		IA	7"	0:46:06 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Livin' On		IA	7"	0:48:42 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	Tried To Hide		IA	7"	0:52:05 (Pop-up)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators	You're Gonna Miss Me	The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators	IA	LP	0:54:25 (Pop-up)
Nobody's Children	Don'tcha Feel Like Cryin'		Bullet	7"	0:58:46 (Pop-up)
MC5	Kick Out The Jams "Kick Out The Jams" by "MC5"		Elektra	7"	1:00:48 (Pop-up)
Jamison	Changes "Changes" by "Jamison"		AV International	7"	1:03:26 (Pop-up)
Eddie & The Showmen	Squad Car "Squad Car" by "Eddie & The Showmen"		Liberty	7"	1:06:00 (Pop-up)
Roy Head Trio	Tush Hog "Tush Hog" by "Roy Head Trio"		Back Beat	7"	1:07:50 (Pop-up)
Stars Of Joy	Don't Let The Devil Ride		Designer	7"	1:13:47 (Pop-up)
James Brown	It's A New Day "It's A New Day" by "James Brown"		King	7"	1:17:35 (Pop-up)
Three Degrees	There's So Much Love All Around Me		Roulette	7"	1:22:01 (Pop-up)
Betty Lavette	He Made A Woman Out Of Me		Silver Fox	7"	1:24:10 (Pop-up)
Mitty Collier	Everybody Makes A Mistake Sometimes		Chess	7"	1:26:33 (Pop-up)
Gino Scorza	Tell It Like It Is "Tell It Like It Is" by "Gino Scorza"		Amtrex	7"	1:32:38 (Pop-up)
The Manhattans	I Betcha (Couldn't Love Me)		Carnival	7"	1:35:02 (Pop-up)
Gino Scorza	What Am I Gonna Do (Without You Baby)		Amtrex	7"	1:37:37 (Pop-up)
Young Hearts	I've Got Love For My Baby		Minit	7"	1:40:30 (Pop-up)
The Mark IV	Since God Made Woman, Nobody Rest		Mercury	7"	1:43:47 (Pop-up)
David T Walker	Love Vibrations "Love Vibrations" by "David T Walker"		Zea	7"	1:48:46 (Pop-up)
Lee Mitchell	Best Shot "Best Shot" by "Lee Mitchell"		Full Speed Ahead	7"	1:51:36 (Pop-up)
Lionel Hampton and His Inner Circle of Jazz	Greasy Greens		Glad Hamp	7"	1:54:11 (Pop-up)
The Honey Drippers	Impeach The President		Alaga	7"	1:58:08 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Kris. i hope you and Larry attack the tributes from different angles but I’m sure I’ll be hearing duplicates tomorrow.
	♥ 10:01pm chresti: Hey long home and Kris! Matt!
	♥ 10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey chresti
	♥ 10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: Kris had you gone to see Roky live since the Stomp
	♥ 10:03pm Franco Twinkie: Hail Roky!
	10:04pm Kris Holmes: yes, i saw him in 2011, wait, what year was the Stomp?
	♥ 10:04pm Little Danny: Hey Kris, hey all
	♥ 10:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Franco
	♥ 10:04pm Franco Twinkie: Matt!
	♥ 10:04pm Little Danny: For some reason I thought you were on the West Coast this week, Kris
	♥ 10:05pm Matt from New Orleans: He played at the “hurricane” stomp in 2017
	♥ 10:06pm Matt from New Orleans: And in 2008 as well
	10:06pm Kris Holmes: in a couple weeks time Dan
	10:06pm Kris Holmes: Dang, I forgot all about seeing him that first night in 2017!!
	10:07pm Kris Holmes: possibly better than 2011 because of the backing band
	♥ 10:07pm Little Danny: Well I'm delighted to find you here
	♥ 10:08pm Little Danny: Roky played Marfa a coupla years ago
	10:08pm Kris Holmes: I passed on seeing him in Marfa in 2016, Dan you passed on that also iirc?
	10:09pm Kris Holmes: I won't even miss a show while we're in LA, fly out Wed come back Sun
	♥ 10:09pm Little Danny: Yeah, I can't deal with reunions or late-career resurgences in the flesh. Too much potential for painfulness
	♥ 10:10pm Little Danny: Man I'm an asshole
	10:10pm Kris Holmes: I was glad to see him in 2011 but it wasn't actually all that musically
	10:10pm still b/p: Is there a genuine concert venue in Marfa? Or just a nightspot where a name might perform?
	10:10pm Kris Holmes: Ballroom Marfa
	♥ 10:10pm Matt from New Orleans: true enough danny. I always hope for the best when I attend the stomp.
	♥ 10:11pm Franco Twinkie: The first time I went to San Francisco in 1966 on a family vacation You're Gonna Miss Me was very big on both KFRC and KYA. It made me jump up and down in the back seat of our Oldsmobile.
	♥ 10:12pm Little Danny: Surprisingly there are concert-sized venues, still b/p. I mean a coupla places that can hold several hundred people. But none of them are ideal
	10:12pm still b/p: And it WAS your father's Oldsmobile.
	♥ 10:13pm Little Danny: That's so great, Franco. The Elevators were huge in Texas, and they were huge in San Francisco. But almost nowhere else in their day
	♥ 10:14pm Franco Twinkie: Yup. Mom and dads car. After all, I was only 11 years old.
	♥ 10:14pm Little Danny: "huge" being relative, of course
	♥ 10:14pm Matt from New Orleans: I think the 2017 set was better than the 2008 set I saw as Roky was more comfortable on stage and the band was better. I can’t actually remember who backed him at both shows and whether it was the same musicians but it sounded better the second time.
	10:15pm Kris Holmes: I think it was essentially Eve & The Exiles in 2017
	♥ 10:16pm Franco Twinkie: What year was he backed by Okerville River? That's when I saw him in L.A.
	10:17pm still b/p: Just looked at Marfa population, curious about the attention-buzz effect. Steadily dropping, though, and a significant drop back in 1999 to 2000. Wha' happened then? Or maybe just a counting procedure difference?
	♥ 10:20pm Little Danny: @still b/p: For all the attention it gets, few people actually move to Marfa. But I don't know what happened in 1999-2000. That was just before the international buzz machine got going
	10:24pm Kris Holmes: Okkervill River was earlier in the 2000s, that was apparently the best time to catch his comeback. I saw Okkervill River sometime in the late 2000s & they were fantastic sans Roky.
	♥ 10:29pm Little Danny: Had no idea "Baby Blue" was released as a 7"
	10:30pm Kris Holmes: flip of She Lives In A Time Of Her Own, beautifully fragile version
	♥ 10:31pm chresti: Isn't Marfa where there are Donald Judd works?
	♥ 10:31pm Little Danny: @chresti: yes indeed
	♥ 10:35pm Franco Twinkie: The one that still makes me wonder if I made the right decision was i think 1981. I had to make a choice: Muddy Waters AND Willy Dixon at The Roxy, or Roky down the block at The Whisky. Muddy was sad, Willy was great, but Roky burned The Whisky to the ground. That's the show he did a shrieking, blood curdling cover of Heroin. Regrets. oh well.
	10:36pm Kris Holmes: oh man, what a choice
	♥ 10:40pm Franco Twinkie: Go for broke, Kris!
	♥ 10:42pm Matt from New Orleans: I’m laying down Kris. I’ll still be listening but not chatting. 10 CDs. I have it as well.
	10:43pm Kris Holmes: Right on Matt!
	10:45pm Kris Holmes: Also, the old conundrum Franco of the Whisky or the Roxy!
	♥ 10:48pm chresti: Is there a recording of that performance, Franco?
	♥ 10:50pm Franco Twinkie: When The Elevators hit the ground in '66 I was laying on the floor watching TV while my mom was ironing. They came on and did of course You're Gonna Miss Me. I thought they were beatniks 'cause a couple of them were wearing dark shades.
	♥ 10:51pm Franco Twinkie: Yes Dear, I's in that towering pile in the living room.
	11:11pm Carmichael: Heya Kris. Thanks for the Roy Head. Gotta do it right!
	11:16pm Kris Holmes: I love Roy Head! Well until he went country.
	♥ 11:19pm Franco Twinkie: That's my life, James. The ladies always tellin' me what to do!
	11:19pm Kris Holmes: JB telling it like it is
	♥ 11:22pm Franco Twinkie: Go to the store. Rake the leaves. Fix this, fix that. Makes me want to scream!
	11:24pm Carmichael: Happy wife, happy life.
	11:25pm Carmichael: Like the Irish song goes, “we’ll give ‘em the slip, and we’ll take a sip of the rare ol’ mountain dew.”
	♥ 11:29pm chresti: Listen to Carmichael carefully, Franco. In reality, I'm not included in the who Franco's referring to
	11:30pm geezerette: Hello! There are SO MANY of these kickass soul singers I've never heard of. Collier's great!
	♥ 11:31pm Franco Twinkie: True that...kinda.
	♥ 11:32pm Franco Twinkie: Geezette!
	11:34pm geezerette: Love this song. Lyrics are wonderful.
	♥ 11:35pm chresti: For me, that jug sound and the background singing, does it every time
	11:35pm geezerette: Franco! Chresti!
	♥ 11:40pm chresti: I never heard of Gino Scorza, either. Hi again geez!
	♥ 11:42pm Franco Twinkie: That Gino Scorza was the anti-elevator sound of Texas. Jaunty horns and a whirring organ.
	11:42pm Kris Holmes: Gino Scorza extremely obscure San Antonio artist
	11:42pm Carmichael: Ha ha, chresti. That’s why I like you!
	11:43pm Carmichael: Watch the opening to The Commitments. Roy Head sets the mood.
	11:44pm geezerette: Sounds like summer.
	11:49pm Carmichael: Tell It Like It Is is one of those perfect pop songs.
	11:50pm Kris Holmes: it really is
	♥ 11:51pm chresti: One of my favorites.
	11:53pm Carmichael: I was discussing my top five with Gaylord, and that wad locked in at #3.
	11:53pm Carmichael: *was
	♥ 11:54pm chresti: Thanks Kris, fantastic Roky stuff.
	11:54pm Kris Holmes: You are welcome
	11:55pm Carmichael: Yeah, I never listen long enough to say thanks. Thanks!
	11:56pm geezerette: Fun! Thanks,Kris!
	♥ 11:57pm Franco Twinkie: Thank you for the love shown to Roky. Good night.

The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from June 4, 2019

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