Featuring Music From The Past, The Present, and The Future with Leahy, Denielle Bassels, Susan Aglukark, Judith Owen and Leland Sklar

 

Playlist For Corby`s Orbit Show of 18 September 2020

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

( Brought to you by Urgent Tinas, Bold Livias, and Gay Annas )

This show is dedicated to the memory of Toots Hibbert of Toots & The Maytals

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 

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5:00 Signal Releases & Mixed Semaphors

*Melanie Brulée ~ The Mess NEW RELEASE

*Big Little Lions ~ Distant Air NEW RELEASE

*Lori  Cullen ~ Both Sides Now NEW RELEASE

*Crack Of Dawn feat. Melba Moore ~ Tiempo M.NEW RELEASE

*Joel Plaskett ~ On The Rail ~ Emergencies, False Alarms, Castaways, etc. 1999-2910

*Cootes Paradise ~ Knack For That ~ Downstream NEW RELEASE

*Paul Reddick feat. Monkeyjunk`s Tony D. ~ Smokehouse ~ Live In Italia NEW RELEASE

Mickey Baker ~ Milk Train ~ The Wildest Guitar 

Ashanti Command feat. Sinead O`Connor ~ Summer's End ~ The Avengers Sdtrk

5:40 Toots Suite / Jimi-tations of Life 

Toots & The Maytals (Toots Hibbert ~ 8 December 1942 – 11 September 2020)~ Revival Reggae / Gold & Silver / Time Tough / Thy Kingdom Come / Just Like That (DJZiu Remix 2006)

Musiq ~ Are You Experienced? / Prince ~ Purple House / Robert Randolph & The Family Band ~ Purple Haze / The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ I Don`t Live Today (live)

6:20 Light Like Lightning, Heavy Like Thunder

 Merle Haggard ~ I Think I`m Gonna Live Forever ~ Big City 

* Lynn Miles ~ Merle ~ We`ll Look For Stars NEW RELEASE

* April Verch ~ Simple Gifts ~ Top Of The Hill NEW RELEASE

Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite ~ Birds Of A Feather ~ 100 Years Of Blues (Alligator) NEW RELEASE

*Beth Anne Cole ~ Canoe / Song For Leonard ~ Perhaps The Gods Of Love NEW RELEASE

*The Barrel Boys | Spadina Gal / Upgraded Love  ~ Mainline  NEW RELEASE

*Dan Pitt ~ Long Lake ~ Monochrome NEW RELEASE

*Robert Lee feat. Mingjia Chen ~ Wild Wind ~ Ascension NEW RELEASE

6:45 Rise & Shine

*Isabel & The Uncommons ~ Each Day A Little Less NEW RELEASE

Shane Koyczan & The Short Story Long ~ Help Wanted ~ A Pretty Decent Cape n My Closet

Illustration by Jonathan Calugi

Total Top New Tunes Get A Shine and Show

 

Lynn Miles' Newest Release We'll Look For Stars Guarantees Durable and Extended Wear

 

The atelier of Ottawa passionista Lynn Miles has just unveiled her new ready-to-hear line for 2020. Lifting off from the runway on July 3, We’ll Look For Stars is her 15th release and is already peaking at number one on the Euro-American chart for August (popping Bob Dylan out of first place). It is a summer/fall collection of all-original songs that has arrived wrapped in a crisply designed, astro/nautically-themed navy blue jewel-box. The sharply tailored variety of song styles is threaded together with snugly-fitting precision around Lynn’s guitar and piano patterns, and her dramatically velvety vocals.

The new tunes substantially warm the inner ear, and the lyrics are fastened on with delicate but sturdy velcro hooks that easily unclasp into persistent questions: Whom amongst your friends is really an old soul? Do we drink to forgive or do we drink to regret? Where were you the day Merle Haggard died? Closure is advisedly of the sort that only profound kindness and perseverance can provide.

She is aided again by the stitching and hemming talents of home-towner Dave Draves at Little Bullhorn Studio, where the 2018 album by The LYNNeS was also fashioned. As a production team, Lynn and Dave (“if only the world knew our genius”) seem to have tried to eliminate all superfluous fabric and accoutrements, accessorizing sparsely to maintain focus on the material itself, with some favourite stylistic accents: a touch of Rebecca Campbell’s vocal sparkle and Greg Leisz’s gauzy Weissenborn on “A Heart Can Only Take So Much,” James Stephens’ looming fiddle on the barbed political rocker “Main Street,” and the electric vibrato underpinning that combines with a finely-woven string threnody, imparting a taut yet lush grace to the album closer, “Because We Love.”

Beginning with the title tune, Lynn is rustling her heart up, over an undulating piano, to broker commitments between the pursuit of those inspirations that are “wild and brave and sad and gold” and staying the course of safety – using the far constellations as guidance, in a way that subtly evokes our own current strategies for surmounting virally-transmitted distress. Although it was recorded between December 2019 and May of this year, none of the material was composed from within the pandemic framework, and yet Lynn’s characteristically pragmatic perspectives seem to offer sound load-bearing strategies and sympathies for the class of 2020.

Embroidering ever wider circles of empathy into the straightforward roughness of the divinely human creations that she discovers out in the world, Lynn consistently develops heartbreaking observational motifs that are as poignant and elliptical as the ones that she designs for the characters that she observes within herself.

Survival of the conscience is for her the essential thematic course to be navigated. Disconsolate imaginings of perfection, possibilities, and potentialities serve as useful alignments but ultimately, her bottom line emerges as “sometimes the best thing to do is let go.” Still, in many of the songs, the majestic “Old Soul,” the elegiac “Merle,” and the rejuvenating “In The Wilderness,” Lynn brings forth memories and bold hopes for that buoyant space where “every game was truth or dare / (and the) whole wide world hung in the air”.

This album conforms to a broad dress code which, combined with its meticulous artisanship, guarantees durable and extended wear, whether at such social events as are still legal, adorning the international arenas of critical acclaim, or worn as comfortable aural evening apparel, privately or within a shared intimate bubble. It will feature neatly in that section of your musical closet labelled “I-Didn’t-Know-I-Needed-It-Until-I-Heard-It.”

Originally published at Roots Music Canada

Playlist For Show of 11 September with Dan MacDonald and Raha Javanfar

 

Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby 

( Brought to you by Lullaby Goodbyes, Elementary Lamentations & Wayfaring Farewells )

Guests: Dan MacDonald, Ross Griffiths and Raha Javanfar

This show is dedicated to the memory of my brother, Gregory Joseph Corby, and honours the cultural joys and legacies created by Ronald "Khalis" Bell of Kool & The Gang and Dame Commander Of The British Empire, Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, aka Mrs. Emma Peel.

5-7 p.m. Fridays online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .  

Podcast here https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED. 
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5:00  Corby's Obits

Kool & The Gang feat. Ronald "Khalis" Bell (November 1, 1951 – September 9, 2020) ~ Get Down On It (Live 1981)

Marius De Vries ~ The Avengers Theme ~ The Avengers Soundtrack ( 1998) for Diana Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020)

5:15 Smackdown Dabs

* Mo Kenney ~ Unglued ~ The Details

 * Jeremy Dutcher - Nipuwoitin / Pornok Maka ~ Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa 

* Catherine Durand - Toit De Pierre - La Pluie Entre Nous

5:30 Three Songs For My Brother, Greg (12 June 1953 - 13 April 1998)

Hal Ketchum - I Miss My Mary Tonight - Greatest Hits

Eric Clapton - Pilgrim - Pilgrim

The Staple Singers ~ What Are They Doing (In Heaven Today)? ~ Singing His Praises 
(Yvonne Staples 1936 - April 10, 2018).

5:45 Afromantic Essences

* Surefire Sweat ~ World Music 

* Okavango ~ Hadar Kirki ~ Okavango African Orchestra

* Dan MacDonald feat. Njacko Backo ~ Atlantic Ocean ~ Rural / Urban NEW DISK 

6:00  Fiddle Fidelity

* Dan MacDonald w. Ross Griffiths Interview / Drover Lads /The Old Grey Goose / Medley (live) / The Reel Of Cluny 

6:20 Luck Of The Thirteenth  

* The LYNNeS ~ Blame It On The Devil ~ Heartbreak Song For The Radio 

* Raha Javanfar ~ It Ain't Gonna Happen / Interview / Morning Came Too Soon 

Albert King ~ Born Under A Bad Sign ~ Born Under A Bad Sign 

6:45 Calling The Future By Name

King Ayisoba feat. Konthene Kwabena ~ Modern Ghanaians ~ Sono Mama Maison vol. 1

* Eliana Cuevas feat. Rich Brown~ El Manantial ~ Golpes Y Flores

Abdullah Ibrahim as Dollar Brand ~ Sunset In Blue ~ African Piano 

This Friday's Show Brings Back The Orbital Vibe

 

Playlist For Corby`s Orbit Show of 4 September 2020 with David Lee, Q & A, Jocelyn Barth and David McEathron

 

Commissioner Of Selection: Paul Corby

( brought to you by Seismic Asimov, Scorch Orwell,and Bradbury Bars ) 

5-7 p.m. online http://www.radioregent.com/ and at tunein.com .and replayed on

Blues & Roots Radio on Tuesday at 9 pm and Wednesday at midnight

  

Canadians in Asterisk’d RED.

Guests: David Lee, Tony Quarrington and Zoey Adams of Q & A, Jocelyn Barth and David McEathron

Podcasts at https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-corby/

Videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CorbysOrbit?feature=mhee

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5:00 Rewilding Of The Jazz Musos

* Junestone ~ Who Cares? (@TUJF 4 pm Monday) / Interview with David Lee / Planting Pearl ~ Somewhere Over The Rainbow (@TUJF 6 pm Monday) / The Beelays ~ Get To Me  (@TUJF 2 pm Saturday) / The Maddie Zed Band ~ Round Midnight (@TUJF 2 pm Monday) Tickets for Toronto Undergraduate Jazz Festival here

5:30 Revivals`Arrival

*  Ronley Teper ~ Crazy Times ~ NEW RELEASE

Busy Signal feat. Josey Wales ~ Bring Back The Vibe ~ Parts Of The Puzzle

Bob Marley & The Wailers (Ziggy Marley Remix) ~ Small Axe ~ B Is For Bob

Tony Allen ( July 20th 1940 – 30 April 2020) ~ Jekalewa ~ Nu Afrobeat Experience

5:45 Tony Tones and Zoey Zones

 

* Q&A ~ How Do I Love You? / Interview with Tony Quarrington and Zoey Adams / Something Like Spring  (live) / Tomorrow Can Wait ~ One More Thing (Sonic Peach) NEW RELEASE

6:00 Collective Lenses

* Collective Order ~ I Hear You / Interview With Jocelyn Barth ~ Collective Order vol. 3 

6:15 Hand Crafted Buckles & Leatherbound Volumes 

* David McEathron with Ian Siydock ~ Midnight For Leadbelly / Maybe, Just Maybe / Interview / The Tears That I Gave Her ( live ) / His Mother Named Him Angel ( live ) ~ Abandoned Companions & The Abandoned Companions Companion Piece NEW DISK

6:45 Epidemiological Exigencies

* Emilyn Stam & John David Williams ~ Honeywood ~ Honeywood NEW RELEASE

Emilyn and John's Physically-Distanced-Backyard-CD Release Concert in Toronto's East End - Saturday Sept 12, with Nathan Smith and Alan Mackie

* Michael Reinhart ~ Nola ~ eCHO

* Noah Derksen ~ Land Of The Free ~ America, Dreaming