Tuesday, November 29, 2011

GM MUSIC BOX/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 28 NOV. 2011


Singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan has recently released her superb sophomore solo recording, Passenger, produced by Joe Henry. It's a growth from her 2009 debut, Sea Sew, with excellent musicianship, arrangements and stronger songs. It's her singing, however, that gives her the edge - her delivery, with her Irish lilt, is, well, lovely. Absolutely. Hannigan's a songwriter to keep an eye on (and that's not too hard!).
BW SUBBAGE/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Instant This/ WILL MARTINA (’11, The Dam Levels)*

Blues For the Double Vee/ JENNY SCHEINMAN (’11, Mischief & Mayhem)

Floored/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’10, Initiate)

Strike/ TAYLOR HO BYNAM SEXTET (’11, Apparent Distance)*


Sidi Mansour/ SIR RICHARD BISHOP (’09, The Freak of Araby)

Red Shoes (live)/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time)

The Water Under the Moon/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’05, Darkness at Noon)

Cursed Sleep (live)/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY WITH HAREM SCAREM AND ALEX NEILSON (’08, Is It the Sea?)

Odd Said the Doe/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)

Knots/ LISA HANNIGAN (’11, Passenger)*


The End/ THE LOWER 48 (’11, Where All Maps End)*

Old Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)

Michigan Girls/ CALIFONE (’03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)

Emily (live)/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (w/ Cameron Grieder) (’00, Live at 33 1/3)

City Bird/ JESCA HOOP (’11, Snowglobe ep)*

Dead Horse/ ROBIN HOLCOMB (’06, Rogue’s Gallery)

Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’07, All Is Well)

Save Yourself/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’10, epic)

One Stolen Moment/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)


Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

I’m on Fire/ WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78’S (’08, Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels)

State Trooper/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (’82, Nebraska)

Ramblin’ Man/ HANK WILLIAMS (’53)


Back of a Crowd/ TOM WAITS ('11, Bad As Me)*


*new or recent release