Rules Free Radio Aug 15 2023

On the next Rules Free Radio with Steve Caplan. we’ll pay tribute to two artists we lost recently. One had an extraordinary story of discovery long after his recordings in the early 70s. His name is Rodriguez and In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until a 2012 documentary was released. It’s called  Searching for Sugar Man, and it’s about the circumstances that made him hugely popular in South Africa, unbeknownst to him. The documentary gained him long-overdue recognition at home in the US and he toured and got to connect with his overseas audience. In the third hour, we’ll play some of his songs and mix in a lot of music by other artists in a similar vein and time.

The other one is Robbie Robertson from The Band. By comparison he and they are quite well known. A lot of people have recorded his music and we’ll listen to some of those artists doing his songs as well as The Band and his solo work. That’s in the second hour.

We’ll start with a mix of some new releases and toss in some classics in the first hour with The Young Hasselhoffs, The Make Three, Annie Hart, Mary Strand, Slaministas, Mikaela Davis, Cornelius, and others. The Searchers, The Bangles, The Doughboys, Cocktail Slippers, and more!

The Young Hasselhoffs – Dear Departed

The Make Three – Black Cloud

The Dangtrippers – Talk About Love

Annie Hart – Boy You Got Me Good

The Bangles – In a Different Light

Cocktail Slippers – Like a Song Stuck in My Head

Mary Strand – The Me I Need To Be

Slamdinistas – We Say Goodbye

The Searchers – Needles And Pins

Mikaela Davis – Promise

The Doughboys – The Tears of a Clown

Candy Claws – Illusion (Fern Lake)

Cornelius – Sparks

Klee – Gold

New Order – Blue Monday

We Are Scientists – Less From You

Robbie Robertson – Somewhere Down The Crazy River

The Band – Don’t Do It

Levon & The Hawks – Honky Tonk

Levon & The Hawks – He Don’t Love You (And He’ll Break Your Heart)

Pointer Sisters – The Shape I’m In

My Morning Jacket – It Makes No Difference

Gomez – Up On Cripple Creek

The Band – The W.S. Walcot Medicine Show

Blues Traveler – Rag, Mama, Rag

Steve Reynolds – Stage Fright

The Staple Singers – Weight

The Band – Life Is A Carnival

The Band w Bob Dylan – Down In The Flood

Rodriguez – Sugar Man

Tim Buckley – Pleasant Street

Rodriguez – I’ll Slip Away

Dion – Daddy Rollin’ (In Your Arms)

Jose Feliciano – Hitchcock Railway

The Stone Poneys – December Dream

Joni Mitchell – Sisotowbell Lane

Tommy Flanders – Morning Misty Eyes

Rodriguez – To Whom It May Concern

Patty Griffin – Cold As It Gets

Jesse Colin Young – Four in the Morning

Rodriguez – Cause

Van Morrison – Astral Weeks