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I am head bowed when you're listening to the strange currency from k m u w coming up this hour on the show we have music from Jeff back from his brain you release a loud hailer also hear from Alice Cooper going back to early in Alice Cooper's career for the easy action LP good to a new tune from Haley Bon or singer songwriter out of sync Paul Minnesota got a coming release called The Impossible Dream also hear from Lydia love was the 1st single from her upcoming release real will get things started now by going back to the early 1980 s. Before release by Toya this is being led by the vocalist we'll Wilcox the song is I want to be free. The. Just on the for the. Low low low thank. You. Caravan palace on strange currency on jet boat when it has queens and you can find it on the LP panic caravan Palace is a French outfit that has been making a little bit of a splash here in the United States with its electro swing style and we heard from sparks before then the band founded in Los Angeles California well over 40 years ago and it's really called Half Nelson the band changed its name at the suggestion of a record company executive who thought that Half Nelson was not a commercially viable name Oddly enough neither was sparks at least on the shores the band has always been much more popular in France and other parts of Europe as well as England and we heard from one of the classic sparks releases a mid seventy's record called the kimono my house that is this town ain't big enough for the both of us and many fans have noted over the years that spark Spears a little bit of a resemblance stylistically to Queen Interestingly enough the bands were both founded about the same time and really didn't have a chance to influence each other instead they seemed to strike on a sound that was very similar at a similar time at the top we heard from the band Toyah from an early eighty's release called Anthem that is I want to be free toying with the project of singer toy Wilcox who later married Robert Fripp of King Crimson and we will hear another tune from that release coming up a little bit later on this hour with a musical on the way from Alice Cooper will go back to a kind of rare record from Alice Cooper called Easy Action we'll hear from Minnesota singer songwriter Haley Bonner it to a tune from the band Spain and here a new track by Lydia loveless along the way right now it's Jeff Beck his latest recording is loud hailer and this is The Ballad of the jersey wives. 3 in September newsreader when. 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Toyah on strange currency on Jed Baldwin that he's jungles of Jupiter and you can find that on the early eighty's release anthem we heard from sparks before that from one of their band's critical albums kimono my house here in heaven before that Alice Cooper going back to the early days when Alice Cooper was a band rather than just Alice Cooper himself below your means find that on the Easy Action released and Alice Cooper currently part of the Hollywood Vampires with guitarist Joe Perry who recently collapsed after a performance at east Hollywood Vampires continuing to to air while Joe Perry presumably recuperates from whatever his ailment was rumored to be a cardiac arrest but the family and of the band has had nothing further about his health we heard from Haley Bonner at the top cold you queen you can find it on her brand new record impossible dream we still have music coming your way this hour from Lydia loveless she has a new album coming out later on this year hold it real we hear the 1st single tune called longer and right now it's Jeff back his latest recording is loud hailer and this is scared for the children. That by. The you're the it by. The or with. With. our 2 2 war. 2. Get. Lanced for a taste of the they. Get the. Like. Why would they let alone we. Let Jeff back on strange currency on Judge Bode when it he's scared for the children and you can find that on loud hailer brand new record from Jeff Beck guitarist whose career goes back more than 50 years now starting off in the Yardbirds than the Jeff Beck Group and as a solo artist as well as spending time with Beck Boger and peace and the of course has also done many many sideman duties gooding stands with Roger Waters Mick Jagger and his old bandmates in the Jeff Beck Group Rod Stewart we still have music coming your way this hour from Libya loveless and after a short break we'll hear from the big. Strange currency on jet boat when that is the 1st single from her upcoming album real the track is called. Longer and at the top Spain with the tune spiritual route by Josh Hayden and that was later recorded by Johnny Cash and Spain has a new release out called Carolina we'll hear from that on upcoming episodes of the show and you can also see a recent interview conducted with Josh Hayden on the strange currency corner of the k m u w website and we do want to take a moment right now to remind you that strange currency is a production of k m u w you can find out more about this show and all our programming by visiting the k m u w website k m u w dot org You can find strange currency on Facebook facebook dot com slash strange currency i.c.t. Follow me on Twitter and we do welcome your questions and comments at Info k m u w dot org We'll see in a bit. Me. Me . And. Write. This true. No. You can't. He's. The. One. On. Us we get. To see a new ring is the. Same . And you see. Them for fun. No. Game. You know which is to. Get. Me. 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