Episode 17: A Death at WIDR Part 1

One year ago, almost to the minute, Some Kind of Jam officially died at WIDR in Kalamazoo. In honor of the four hour send off I'm reposting the show in its entirety in separate two hour segments this and next week. This is a temporary change of pace for the podcast and strictly in honor of the years spend at WIDR. The main difference you'll notice is the presence of talking stop sets reading back the 15-20 minute segments. A lot of the information won't exactly be relevant... I mean the concerts mentioned about 45 minutes in aren't happening this weekend. There are also some pretty great WIDR liners in there that I really miss playing in between songs to break things up and create a change of pace. Since the show is completely online these days I no longer do the read backs, so it's kind of a strange change of pace. That's also why there's no start time for the tracks, they'll be announced usually in groups of four.

For those of you that are regular listeners to the podcast you'll recognize some of the same artists and sometimes even the same exact song from previous episodes... sorry about that. I wasn't sure if I was going to repost the Death episode, so I pulled out some of my favorite tracks (such as Dark Meat's "One More Trip") for more recent podcasts and now they're showing up again. I promise you variety is the absolute top priority for the podcast and after these two episodes there won't be any redundancies whatsoever. Absolutely all of the big guns needed to be brought out for the last show on the airwaves though, so even if there are a few that are the same this may be the best playlist I've ever put together. I hope you enjoy it!

Artist / Track / Album

1. My Morning Jacket / One Big Holiday / Okonokos

2. Yonder Mountain String Band / Death Trip / Live at Bell's

3. Dark Meat / One More Trip / Universal Indians

4. Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 / Let's Start / Fela With Ginger Baker

5. Devil In A Woodpile / Has My Gal Been By Here? / In Your Lonesome Town

6. The Budos Band / Chicago Falcon / The Budos Band II

7. The White Stripes / Hello Operator / De Stijl

8. Grant Green / Ease Back / Blue Breakbeats

9. Luke Winslow-King Trio / Shiawassee Pen / Live on Some Kind of Jam

10. Umphrey's McGee / Bottom Half / The Bottom Half

11. Tom Waits / Ice Cream Man / Closing Time