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You know start time are you ready to start trying. To. Be easy Chicago and p r x This is sound opinions I'm Jim to your goddess and I'm Greg this week we're going to share some of our favorite new music that's flying under the radar from a Cameroonian American mentalist to a Seattle punk blues band we've got new music you need to hear and we'll have a conversation and performance from singer songwriter Joan Shelley coming. That's all coming up and sound opinions. Sound Opinions is supported by this island pairing hearing music since 1988 Silent beer company Chicago Illinois listen critically enjoy response. You are listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to talk to Joan Shelley But 1st it's time for another round of buried treasures Jim a feature that we try to do as often as we can because we have a huge backlog of beloved music that we have here hasn't gotten enough attention when it came out that I've always got a couple dozen tracks in contention for the shows you're going to leave us off I am indeed I'm going to start with a band named Divino Nino a band that originated in Colombia eventually wound its way to Chicago because a couple the guys in the band came here due to art school a bilingual Corps Tet that actually got going in Chicago about a decade ago their new album is called foam you know it has been. A incredible surge of mainstream Latino x. Music in the last couple of years with artists like bad bunny Jay Bell Dean Rosalia and we have a similar response to the underground Latino x. Music remember that surge in Iraq going to spend you and oh yeah nice early 2000 and I think we're having a similar under ground response now this is a psychedelic album full of love ballads for lack of better term they're they're kind of softies at heart but they had this kind of woozy quality in the music and that the title track I think especially speaks to how they approach their music this is kind of an s.q.l. Meets post-punk kind of vibe going on your space age bachelor pad music with a little bit of a psychedelic. Rock Band approach romantic lyrics but a little tipsy a little ruse a little wobbly and I just love the vibe they get here here's a title track from foam by a band named give you know and sound pays. Taxes That is foam from Divino Nino unsound opinions a band with roots in Columbia you know I hate you but I have a 90 day reaction I was loving it and the vocals came in and they don't start that song until fairly late you know a 3rd of the way through 15 seconds and then I was like I don't like the singing yeah yeah there's sort of ballad and sort of romantics at heart you know that that's the but it's a cool Ok yeah instrumental I'd love it you know how do we choose Barry treasures I always like to illuminates because people are you know people write to us people write to me all that you goes to local music and yes it's called very treasures we do it several times a year this was in response I got a letter from Nashville in response to apparently something stupid I said on the show How could such such a thing happen I don't know frosty Horton is a record producer in Nashville and he said recently on the show you guys said how there's a lack of great Tennessee. Rock I'm thinking maybe it isn't I don't know it sounds like something I could have said oh yeah but it's always said you know with good spirit like Ok in light in me maybe we were talking sturgeon Simpson so frosty wanted me to hear of this band rain sticks it is led by Asher Horton who also plays bass in Sun seeker one of the 3rd Man Records bands on Jack White's label you know and this record elk Mont came out in August 28th scene but I thought Ok I gotta show Nashville some love since I slighted them however unintentionally rain sticks is the band and they are doing a sort of big star x t c power pop psychedelic thing a little bit of Pet Sounds a little bit a Rubber Soul or revolve or Beatles and Beach Boys and it's just it's just fantastic frosty you made the case for a great rock from Nashville rain sticks likes a little bit of mystery Greg in lieu of a bio they simply have on the web fireflies and 12 string moons and drum mission dead trees and wind chimes and damned if that's not what this track watercolor sounds like so the band brain sticks the song watercolors from the album on sound. Watercolors by rain sticks great sounds great from Nashville but Iraq no country always good to rip Tennessee I can't imagine saying anything like that because Tennessee does have a lot of great rock sometimes I'm so excited maybe I said I'm not and that's. Made the case any other band is great I want to go to an artist that I've been hearing about for a couple of years she has actually put out 5 piece in the last couple years 20182900 only 1000 years old goes by the name of b. Christy but she records under the name of Biba dooby dooby that is and now can you say that again Biba doobie I love that. It just sort of rolls off the tongue doesn't it at the same time I've been hearing from other listeners and callers and friends about this artist I think the song that really made her stand out was a very recent one came out in October I wish I was Stephen Melkus got some attention it's kind of pavement Yes And I think what it signaled was that b.b. Doobie had sort of reemerged initially coming out as a sort of a low 5. Bedroom artist into a fuller kind of incarnation of that sound where she's really doubling down on her love of ninety's alternative rock pavement and Stephen Malkmus being among the leaders of that movement in the ninety's but she's paying homage to that era in this latest e.p. That she's put out called space cadet and you can hear a little bit of that as well in the song I'm going to play it's actually the title track of that in a space cadet from people to the sound of and thanks. To That's Biba doomy with space cadet from her latest piano and one of them what I love and also it reminds me of the joke you know Shakespeare said to be or not to be yes an otter answered dooby dooby doo every right exactly I'm going to Seattle Gregg for a band called The Black tones 2 words because there's another band where black tones is one word this is a group of twins Eva Walker on guitar and vocals Cedric Walker her brother on drums it has got that sort of new raw ragged garage blues feel of the White Stripes obviously you know the paradigm of that sound over the last decade and a half combined with that classic Seattle garroting ish stomp in fact their album Cobain and cornbread Oh boy right complaining already they say is the description of the sound they were going for and they mailed it it's produced by Jack Indian you know giant of the Seattle scene who you know recorded Mudhoney Soundgarden nirvana that helped pave the way for that explosion as a member of Skin Yard this is a fantastic sounding album you know arrived in the mail on vinyl in the woods is a plus and I'm like wow this is a really cool cover and then I played it and now I'm going to play it for you this is the track ghetto space ship because you know Eva and Cedric are African-Americans and they're bringing a very black consciousness humorous but also activist approach to this music ghetto spaceship from Cobain and cornbread by the black tones. That was ghettoes spaceship by the black stones you can hear the joy they have in making that music now Greg you know again how do we pick our buried treasures I try to stay blind I try here not to look up anything about the band's background I don't be swayed everything gets the 15 2nd if it's great it gets the 2 track test every It's review. And I'm listening to it for fun such was the case with Cobain and cornbread when the album arrived and I didn't realize in July 21000 shows 712 we had a guest pick some favorite buried treasures so even Walker is the same evil Walker who is a d.j. At the great Kate Wow So even that was not patronage nepotism friendship anything this music blew me away and now great we have another guest to give us some very treasures pics we've invited Jade who's the morning host on The Current in Minnesota one of our favorite stations in the us to share a couple of her picks a.j. How are you good how are you guys doing good thanks for taking some time to do this yeah no problem I'm very excited so Jade you've got some buried treasures to lay on us yes I do I'm going to start out with one from Minnesota who has jumped on the scene fairly quickly and this is due a celeb and they are this new voice on the scene that has totally impressed to me they have a song called pretty kitten and I like to think of it as sort of the slightly dirty and updated version of The Arabian Nights tale and the know about it like a Aladdin has tender and he's trying to spit some game out Jasmine to get her to go on that magic carpet ride and or an alternate take on Veruca Salt Seether Yes I can tell you I see that it starts out so crisp and clean and then as the song goes on it just gets grittier and dirtier and fuzzier so that by the end of the song it's all distorted to the point where you can't really understand anything but you just have this sort of hazy feeling left over the song feels to me like taking a 2 minute hit of something and it's just like. Really good and by the end you're like I don't know what just happened let's give it a spin this. Pretty kitten from. Clark. Was killed in just minutes just such. A neat little one. That. People can instantly go on Spotify. I'm love Annette Jade that's a fantastic you know it reminded me of like the sort of experimental but still excessive but Solange is making Yeah they come from a Muslim culture and are really inspired by the Qur'an and that sort of poetic prose that you find there. Bring that into it and they actually started out their career as a spoken word poet so you can kind of feel that poetic quality but then they just want everything to feel really a mediate and kind of grungy and record a lot of things on their i Phone Wow So that so that hybrid between spoken word and music in Minneapolis St Paul is still going strong Yeah it's been starting for years you know that was our underground hip hop culture which I think a lot of people know from Rhymesayers an atmosphere but it continues yes through today it seems like a Midwestern thing too because it's it's really strong in Chicago as well where the spoken word scene is melding with the hip hop scene has really produced a lot of important art of celebs decade so that's pretty cool yeah I love that I love that the focus on the storytelling and the words and the repetition and yeah I can record it on my i Phone and still maintain the sound really good if you've got a pick for now and we need to hear call and leave a message on our hotline 88885900 or find us on Facebook or Twitter after a short break Greg and I'll dig up some more buried treasures and Jael have one more pick for us as well that's all coming up on Sound Opinions from Chicago and. 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Tomorrow morning beginning at 5 am on Delaware public media Welcome back to sound opinions I'm Greg caught with Jim dear a goddess and we're going through some of our favorite recent records that haven't gotten as much attention as they should and today we're joined by Jade from the currents in Minneapolis before we go to your next pick so you get inundated with music but these kind of deeper cuts you know give our listeners some advice on how they should find stuff that maybe isn't getting the attention it deserves but is really cool like I would use sort of what your discovery process like for this kind of music. Yeah a lot of times it's through Seen live shows and finding a favorite there or I know we live in a culture which is all about the singles and you see the You Tube video and you like it or through some algorithm it ends up on your Spotify or wherever you get your music but I think going back to the album the old school way you know just I mean I grew up in the going to the record store somebody hands you something and you fall in love with it through listening to all of the songs and then there's the one that speaks to you personally and I think there is still some benefit to going and listening to the full album even if people are really making albums anymore yeah that 7th track you know on the record that nobody ever gets to because they listen to the single and then they move on right yeah it's kind of lost the secret songs at the end of the album I kind of misread it we sort of have that anymore because nobody's seen on a cd to kind of listen the full way through exactly what you want to pick for Instead I do I do have another pick for you and this is an artist who I have gotten to see live and I did interview but this is the on. Tomko is her actual name but she performs under the name that and she has a song called Water me down which is the anthem for somebody trying to make fun of you be mean to you take you down a notch and you just let it roll off your back and so the lyrics when you listen to them are kind of depressing and sad but the sound of it is the story of celebration and party and I just I love her voice too she's got this really deep voice that kind of pulls you under like a tide I I've fallen absolutely in love with her let's hear water me down by vagabond. No you don't love me you don't. Want to. Stop. Was. Based on. Graves So meet you on the flight in March. With a take of the worst. When you brought it. Home from. Graham was. Martyr's. Vagabond. Oh and I love that track Jade it is super sensual you know I'm getting there's a jade a static here because both of your pics are a little in the kind of Portishead dream pop you know hazy wonderful sensual. No. I'm down I have sort of poor eyesight and I don't like to wear my glasses look tired. There's there's something to that oh that's fantastic Well thank you jade will listen we are on the current thanks for being on Sound Opinions Yeah thank you guys so much. All right Greg we have one more buried treasure pick each What do you guys you know Jim been to Bogota Colombia been to the Philippines as we're Biba do we is originally from her family is anyway not on a holiday vacation but on this show and now I'm going to Australia just. Absolutely from Australia pissed idiots is the name of the band punk garage band with a lot of soul in it. Yes p I s t idiots in 20172800 ticker is the latest e.p. In 2019 uniformally solid but what really makes the band stand out for me is the singer Jack sniff we all love. Damien Abraham Oh yeah a soulful dude who happens to play in a hardcore punk band and a very large band of us and similar in girth is Jack sniff and a man who sings a lot about the being the guy who was getting left out kicked out but will not go away and will not stay down you're not going to beat me down you're not going to prevent me from doing what I want and you can hear a little bit of that anxious for lack of a better word in the song I'm going to play and then the song revs up and you can feel him breaking through. That's trying to keep him wherever he wants to get it's pissed Didius with a song called ticker and sound opinions. That is pissed idiots with a song called ticker the title track from their latest e.p. Maybe I was in a Minnesota frame of mind having listened to Jade's pix but I was flashing on what if we had taken the replacements out of that 3 to be Year poll Taya bar that gave them birth in Minnesota and put them in an Ozzie pub Yes that's really what's happening here great stuff and a little bit of the saints soul fans a little early Greg I have one more pic and it comes courtesy of a student I had last semester at Columbia College and I love this you know when I have a young aspiring writer and music lover write a review but it blows my mind of a band that I have not heard and I am ashamed to say I had not heard Muna before this student review seeing them live on 2 were supporting their 2nd album saves the world Munaf saves the world and you and they all caps this is a proudly self identified queer girl band from Los Angeles 3 musicians electronic pop and and singer songwriter a you know they know John Wood description really does. Does them right they are singing about the concerns of being young and out there saying about the challenges for many young queer people and they are looking at their own challenges in life before they decide hey saving yourself is the key to saving the world and the title of their 2nd album saves the world had you been hip to them I am I love it oh I should listen to you we I don't know we've never talked about him on the show and they and they should have been this is a song number one fan by Move On Sound Opinions. Call. Yeah well that was good stuff to end on Jim it is just another indication with moon a number one fan of it there is so much great music out there yes you know and not a lot of people paying attention but you know to me it's so inspiring that we're never going to run out of this stuff no matter how bad it will get it's still going to be incredible stuff out there to listen to Yes You know I moved I had sold out of 1500 c. Venue here in Chicago and I'd never heard of the young for so much great music and it is indeed if you've got an album that is flying under the radar that everyone should hear let us know give us a call at 88885900 or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter coming up we're going to hang out with Joan Shelley at the good sound taproom in Philly and you're a live performance from her that's in a minute and Sound Opinions from w.b. Easy Chicago n.p.r. X. I'm coming up on the next on point the latest news on the u.s. Iran crisis Democratic presidential hopefuls debate in Iowa impeachment trial developments we'll take a look at a busy week in the news plus a continent in flames bushfires so hot they're creating their own thunderstorms We'll take a look at Australia's catastrophic fires and lessons for the world that's coming up next on point from n.p.r. . 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Welcome back to sound opinions I'm Greg caught with Jim dear a goddess and in this episode we've been highlighting some of our favorite buried treasures under the radar as we think we all should know more about and recently Jim and I sat down with an artist that we highlighted on buried treasures episode last year Louisville folk singer songwriter Joan Shelley I am in love with Joan Shelly's latest album you know she's coming out of his Bluegrass the folk tradition and other sort of a dreamy quality about the voice that draws on these ancient folk traditions and brings them very much into the light of what's going on in the world today vibe that I really really love well since 2010 great Joan has released 8 solo albums including like the river loves the sea last year's fantastic record she joined us at the Goose Island brew house in Philadelphia accompanied by Nathan Salzburg and we started the conversation by talking about where her performing career began Athens Georgia that eclectic music scene that gave birth to bands like r. Yam and the b. 52 Shelley played in bars while attending the University of Georgia determined to set yourself apart from an undergraduate student body of 30000 people she joined an activity that many of us probably would tend to shy away from rather terrifying but it helped steal her nerves for live performance and that was the skydiving club as a team formation skydiving team so I tried to do something other people maybe didn't want me to do my parents and. I join that club and have over 100 like jumps and we competed in everything oh my god thing really it's a thing Yes Were you scared of course I don't remember a single thing from the 1st jump and the way you do it you can either be tandem attached to somebody and they jump out and they've got the parachute but the way I did it I've never been in the air with anyone else attached to me so the 1st time you do it they hold you like a piece of luggage and just jump you out of it out of the plane so you don't go into a spiral and then you know eventually you get your altimeter you're looking at it and you throw your parachute a certain elevation and land by yourself and all of that I don't remember a single thing and I don't know how any gets through that it's amazing you're sol I Joe It would seem like there is no gate you could possibly do that would be carriers and that right right so far up there well anyway I live. Well speaking of gigs you're here with Nathan Salisbury your long time a company is what are you going to play we'll start with coming down for you. And so I can see. Yeah. Thank you thank you coming down for you John Shelley and Nathan Salzburg live in Philadelphia Goose Island brewhouse not a song about jumping out of an airplane but now that we mention it right before it's right it was a strange experience I read this fantastic quote talking about how much Kentucky is always in your music you were saying that the common denominator you thought was passion whether we're talking the bible thumpers of your or the as you put it the racetracks in the Derby and the bourbon and the moonshine Yeah right streams and Nathan actually did a bunch of recordings called Work Hard Play hard pray hard it's a good example of what goes on in Kentucky it's like this push to the extremes and . It can be it can be a good thing you know figure out your edges Well fashion you said Yashin is admirable but the middle way would be nice sometimes a little less Yeah a little less extremism. Like it's. Just. So. Great. 'd So you had to go away from Kentucky really to get some perspective like the river loves to see recorded about as far away from Kentucky as you can get in Reykjavik Iceland Yeah yeah I like that kind of distance and perspective traveling and touring is giving me a lot of perspective on Kentucky that I could come home and live there and I think if it hadn't been for all the travel I would have a hard time understanding what was good about it and what was going to be this fight you know like if I had. The will to go on there and Iceland was have a friend there an Irish guy who moved there and he became kind of the Irish mayor of Reykjavik. And he's a big booster for the place and you know music so he was insisting we come and record in the studio that Bjork helped set up and it's called green house and we had a few days there Nathan myself and James Elkington went over and it's kind of set up camp you said something interesting about Iceland too that really resonated with me because you said that you were working with him and then as you mentioned British ex-pat lives in Chicago now and you said that if you had come to Chicago it would have been limitless options and you wanted to limit those options in some way so yeah so how did that work. Well for instance that last song that we played I had written on banjo and I was like Ok we'll be recording with the banjo and we when we flew to Iceland we brought these guitars and I can find me a banjo over there in Iceland and they couldn't find you one it's an insult to Kentucky. Yeah I think they maybe they hid it from me. So I had to retune a guitar and play it like I would play a banjo so I had that same rhythm but that I liked in the end I think I liked it better than the way my banjo sounded so constraints can be you know happy answer is . Your most recent opinions and we're at the Goose Island brewhouse in Philadelphia with folk singer songwriter Joan Shelley I have a theory about this this record and I'm not the 1st critic to say this but. With haven which to me is a song questioning what is home and I think that kind of you answer it in different ways throughout this album and I completely is that it just so good reading for certain. I think a lot of my songs end up telling me that I don't know what I'm going to write until I write it kind of thing and it teaches me a lot about my mind and what I think about the world and that's something that always comes up it's like you know the things that you think of his home might. Taken away from you over the course of your life and so cultivating something that is central common to all your experience is where your body goes and what we build this community to that goes to that so. Like to be adaptable well and you've really tapped into the Certainly and Louisville musical community right I mean there seems to be a thriving community there that supports you that you support other musicians and labels kind of been noted for being a kind of a freak out post you know. Thing you know the for Coronation and road and then the sling and freak waters from there you know I mean that's these are not these are left of center artistic enterprises so if you were the careerist everybody would have said why are you in Nashville and obviously you feel more more at home and with that scene in Louisville Yeah I think there's a guy from Kentucky Tyler Childers is kind of blowing up right now and he is outspoken about this in a way I think was pretty good which was now everyone moves to Nashville to write about the town down the road what's happening to that town down the road that you left you know Mean time when everyone's being romantic about like we used to go down this and do that and those places are drying up and another Wendell Berry who's a writer from Kentucky to write about that to just that drain of going to the cities for and leaving you know what you romanticized behind to crumble and I think. Even the oval would do fine without me I like being there I like the freakiness I like that weird things that other places don't have and trying to like see them and you know be a part of them. We need to be. Oh then Marilee you friends in drinking my. Well a lot of your songs seem to draw this continuum like we're part of this continuum with music and it's people was that always a part of your life or was that something that you came to you know once he once he went away to college and started playing the bands in Louisville when he came back and things like it was. Wrote my 1st song as like a 8 year old and. For me music was. What I was doing well I thought I was like training to become a marine biologist or something it was like Here is the world that you're taught to achieve in and I just I had these 2 lives until I got to be an adult I made choices not like oh I'm you know not going to live to please my grandfather or some kind of like older model and as soon as I realized that thank God I had this creative life that I had been doing the whole time and thankful that the schools had after you know arts programs and things like that just so crucial I had that language so it wasn't like I was always musical and that was always my interest but it was songwriting rather than consume you know being a very a collector How about one more song the faith whatever you could want to go out and I think Ok. Great stuff beautiful song the fading from Joan Shelley accompanied by Nathan Salzburg Thank you Joan Shelley Thank you Nathan Salzberg been a pleasure having you here at the house in Philly thank you so much you guys. Great what do we have on the show next week next week when we have a classic album dissection of Brian Wilson's Beach Boys masterpiece Pet Sounds revisiting one of our favorite dissections ever for more sound opinions listen to the podcast wherever you find such things special thanks this week Shannon Smith Zach soulé and Stephen Foster for our session with Joe and Shelley in Philadelphia as always sound opinions are used by Brandon Panasonic Alex play Born On the contrary and Andrew Gill. And Sound Opinions everyone's a critic so now it's time to hear when you have to say. New manager 0. Hey what's up it's Mike's New York City Happy New Year want to weigh in on your songs about pot it's really a culture. And people that smoke pot there's a lot of drawbacks as far as you know lethargy and apathy and potential respiratory issues and the big one brain damage but that being said I love songs that celebrate the idea that we have already found what we wanted out of life with marijuana and our friends and our music and a song that really just epitomizes that for me is Shanti by John Edwards. Dropped that track kill the ball and enjoy the rest you Dave 0. He originally drummer. A play on 72 hits my red book I say I was. From the mother's. And I see that huge is not mention. 'd that joint my friend in that way in the sixty's. All those other peoples you mentioned were considerably later that were the 1st ones I've a meeting who don't pull that joint so well guards their children. Around. Me. Guard they are joined. By Also will. Say thank you my. Mother will. Join us live in the long. 0 Manning. I'm running along and. I'm calling from Atlanta and on your podcast. Today on pot on I would carry a little while you would leave out the door handle Oh wow. Thank you. 0 very. Good morning thanks for a great show while you're there singing about your sweetly maybe you wouldn't character. For your neighbors and worst progress was very good. Well our government will work last night I did it straight from us. Cause I wanted some of my private militia forces to cause fails to want to vote. For when I stopped my little secret hiding place and I checked out my little plastic bag. Because there wasn't a speck of that much these limbs and I felt my cold winters. Was not the most polluted city. Hey Jim And Greg the Suzanna from Chapel Hill North Carolina well the show is always. A start for your songs about pot feature you really should consider smoking pot in the hot city. Car paired with a gritty breakthrough in the sunshine. Really. Thanks for all your great work by. No more. To share your opinions on Sound Opinions 888-859-1900 will be back next week on Sound Opinions from Chicago and distributed by us. From the campus of Delaware State University this is 91 point one w. D.d. Itto over also broadcasting on 88 point one. Percent in collaboration with the University of Delaware and the brandy what a regular school districts This is Delaware public media source for n.p.r. News Claire o. Shot to fame in $27000.00 after the homemade video she made for her song pretty girl viral and I remember my 1st week of college it had a 1000000 views now that video has over 40000000 views Claire was released a full length album and she's touring with artists like Tame Impala she talks about what it's like to go from recording in your bedroom to a real studio an encore edition of my conversation with Claire o. On the next World Cafe. 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