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Yeasayer give you a free tune!

Posted at 11:52 AM on November 23, 2009 by Barb Abney

Today on our Song Of The Day podcast we're featuring a tune from Yeasayer's forthcoming sophomore record, Odd Blood. You can grab the tune "Ambling Alp" free!

If you're a new subscriber to the Song Of The Day podcast you will also receive new music from No Bird Sing, A Place to Bury Strangers, Orenda Fink and Thao w/the Get Down Stay Down. Later this week we'll be featuring new music from Chuck Prophet, Alec Ounsworth and new local music from Har Mar Superstar.

Spend a little time with Yeasayer while listening to an in-studio performance from last year.

Today In Music History: A Salute To Roy Acuff

Posted at 7:13 AM on November 23, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Today in:

1964 - The BBC banned the Rolling Stones from its airwaves after the band arrived late for two radio shows.
1976 - Ten hours after his last arrest, Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested again after brandishing a Derringer pistol outside Elvis Presley's Graceland's home in Memphis, demanding to see the 'King'. When police arrived they found Lewis sat in his car with the loaded Derringer pistol resting on his knee.
1979 - Keith Richard's girlfriend Anita Pallenburg was cleared by a court of shooting a man found dead at her home.
2008 - Guns N' Roses released their long-awaited album, "Chinese Democracy."

History highlight:

Today in 1992, American country music singer Roy Acuff died aged 89. Known as the "King of Country Music," he was the first living artist elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. Acuff started his career in 1932 working for Dr. Hauer's Medicine Show, hired as one of its entertainers to draw a crowd to whom Hauer could sell medicines. In 1942, Acuff co-founded with Floyd Rose the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company, Acuff-Rose Music, which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers. Acuff is often credited with moving the genre of country music from its early string band format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. From Roy Acuff and his Smokey Mountain Folks, we played "Wabash Cannonball."

Monday Coffee Break: Short and Sweet

Posted at 8:16 AM on November 23, 2009 by Steve Seel (24 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

(updated below)

In honor of the short week this week (for many folks, that is - our hearts go out to those working in service or retail who will be on the clock Thursday and/or Friday), the topic for today's 9:30 Coffee Break is "short and sweet"; songs that are over practically before they've even gotten rolling. As usual, make your requests below, or here.

Update: Given the topic, we had the time to play plenty of songs. Your requests that we went with:

1) The White Stripes, "Fell In Love With A Girl"
2) Elvis Presley, "A Little Less Conversation"
3) Minutemen, "Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing"
4) The Beatles, "Maggie Mae"
5) The Bees, "Voices Green And Purple"
6) The Pixies, "Allison"
7) They Might Be Giants, "Minimum Wage"
8) The Replacements, "Run It"
9) Neutral Milk Hotel, "A Baby For Pree"
10) Guided By Voices, "Teenage FBI"
11) Magnetic Fields, "Asolutely Cuckoo"
12) Ramones, "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"
13) Tom Waits, "Bend Down The Branches"

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