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Listen to the intro for Strange Roots Radio with Cordovas, which will air at 10 pm CT Sunday nights starting Jan. 17, 2021.
Nashville’s Cordovas, the psychedelic country rock band with history from Los Angeles to Baja, Mexico to Music By God City, has joined WMOT’s Americana adventure with their own show, Strange Roots Radio. It’s two hours of deep-cutting exploration from the American South and beyond, exploring the fringe of the American canon’s fabric, according to the band’s shamanistic front man and voice of SRR, Joe Firstman.
Strange Roots Radio will launch on January 17 and air weekly on Sunday nights from 10 pm until midnight.
Welcome to Liner Notes, a collection of audio thumbnail essays that tell the story behind seminal albums that you know and love.
In the early 1990s, the music scene was dominated by a fusion of jazz and hip-hop loops. To no surprise, new artists were adding a dimension to this already exciting form.
Digable Planets, founded by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, Craig “Cee-Knowledge the Doodlebug” Irvin and Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Veiria, entered the music scene in the early 1990s. Their debut album release “Reachin’” in 1993 was a chart-topper, leading to their radio and commercial success. The group won a Grammy for best new artist, selling over a half million units.
After ten years of getting kicked out of bars in New York, Stuffy Shmitt finally figured out that “his brain was on fire” because he was actually suffering from bipolar disorder. He made the move to Nashville six years ago and, as he points out in his bio, “finally got my head screwed on tight enough to make a new record.”
Stuff Happens is Shmitt’s first in eight years, although he did release two full length albums in 2012!
Stuff Happens came out earlier this month and I wanted to include it before I take a little holiday hiatus from Liner Notes. The eleven song collection runs the gamut from bleak and beautiful ballads, like “Mommy and Daddy” about the realization that your parents are actually old now, an eight and a half minute acoustic guitar/harmonica jam called “The Good Land” to manic rocker, “Sweet Krazy” showing off the mad guitar skills of Aaron Lee Tasjan and Brian Wright.