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Tag Archives: Tom Waits
What Planet Is This?! Show #104 (I think) + Tom Waits Birthday Special
One of the weirdest and most famous and yet very listenable musicians that you’ve never heard of, Tom Waits’ solo career dates back to the late sixties, when he started playing at night clubs, influenced by greats like Bob Dylan, … Continue reading
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What Planet Is This?! Show #97 (I think)
Would you believe me if I said I typically spend at least one hour preparing each show? It usually takes me around an hour and a half, in fact. “Why does it take so long?” You might ask. Well, a … Continue reading
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What Planet Is This?! Show #85 (I think)
Since I was out last week, I figured I’d step up my game for this week. I know I say stuff like that all the time, but all those other times I was full of crap. Read more at WhatPlanetRadio.wordpress.com.
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Tagged A Game Of Inches, Arcade Fire, Ben Webster, Booker T. Jones, Broken Bells, Crazy, Cyclical Fears, Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson), Goldfrapp, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Groovin' At Small's, Haze On The Hills, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Kaada, Kelly Jefferson Quartet, Lush Life, Lyle Lovett And His Large Band, Miles Davis, Molly Johnson, Moog Island, Morcheeba, Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Nikki Yanofsky, Northern Star, Out Of Nowhere, Pilots, Sarah Harmer, Short Order, Sonny Greenwich, The Crunge, The Deep Dark Woods, The High Road, The Postal Service, The Tea Party, This Town Has Got Me Down, This Traveling Around, Tom Waits, Trent Reschny, We Will Become Silhouettes, Will He Be Waiting For Me, Will O' The Wisp
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What Planet Is This?! Show #83 (I think)
I like to keep things nice and simple around here at What Planet Is This?!. That’s why tonight will have no surprises. We will not have any jazz, no folk, no popular music, no soul, no weird stuff, no new … Continue reading
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Tagged A Case Of You, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Aykedashem Iebe, Buck 65, Charles Mingus, Cowboy Bebop, David "Fathead" Newman, David Braid, David Myles, Ethiopian music, folk, funk, Greenville, How You Like Me Now, Ice, In Memory Of You, It's Alright, Jane Monheit, jazz, Keep The Bugs Off Your Glass And The Bees Off Your Ass, Keep The Spirits Singing, Kelly Jefferson, La Murga Panamena, Lucinda Williams, Medeski Martin & Wood, music, Out Of Love, pop, Pump Up The Jam, Rainwater Motivational, Ron Hynes, Seal, Sonny's Dream, Sore, soul, stars, The Bad Plus, The Heavy, The Lost Fingers, Theme For Lester Young, Tlahoun Gessesse, Tom Waits, Valdy, Warm Beer And Cold Women, When I Was A Cowboy, Willie Cólon, Yuki Kajiura
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What Planet Is This?! Show #76 (I think)
May already, eh? Wait a minute… it’s the 4th of May! May the Fourth be with you. Now that I got that out of my system (well, I’ll probably have to continue to say it repeatedly throughout the day, but … Continue reading
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Tagged African Tarantella, Amelia Curran, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Bawlers, Be Here To Love Me, Brazil, Bruca Maniguá, Buck 65, Buena Vista Social Club presents Ibrahim Ferrer, Chick Corea & Bela Fleck, cjtr, Coral Egan, Dat Dere, Day One, Enchantment, Feels Like Home, Hunter Hunter, Ibrahim Ferrer, Invitation, It Dreams, Jakalope, Jazz Jamaica, Joe Cool's Blues, Joshua Redman Elastic Band, Just In Time, Just My Imagination, Leonard Cohen, Magnify, Master Song, Momentum, Motorcity Roots, Never Let Go, Night And Day, Nobody Cares, Norah Jones, Oleo, Oliver Jones, Oliver Nelson, Orphans, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Songbook, Ray Charles, Return To Cookie Mountain, Riverwide, Sarah Slean, Sarah Vaughan, Screecher, Shirley Eikhard, Snoopy & Woodstock, Songs Of Leonard Cohen, Stefon Harris, Stolen Moments, Talkin' Honky Blues, Thanks For The Beautiful Land On The Delta, The Birth of Soul Vol. 1 (1952 - 1954), The Company Store, The House That Trane Built, Tom Waits, Tonight, TV On The Radio, Verve Remixed 2, What Planet Is This?!, Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix), Wicked And Weird, Wynton Marsalis & Ellis Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis Septet, Your Wish Is My Wish
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What Planet Is This?! Show #75 (I think) + LONG-PLAY WEDNESDAY!
Remember when people listened to the radio? Well, people still turn on the radio, of course, but it’s a much different beast than it once was. The radio was the common person’s biggest or only connection to the outside world. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anywhere I Lay My Head, Apache, Atoms For Peace (Four Tet Remix), Beck, Better Things, Bongo Rock, Bowls, Breath (In The Air), Cali Fever, Caribou, Carla Bley, cjtr, Confirmation, country, dub, Dub Side Of The Moon, Easy Star All-Stars, Evidence (Justice/Rhythm-a-Ning), Farewell Ride, folk, funk, Green Grass, Groove Blues, Guerolito, Honeysuckle Rose, I Learned The Hard Way, I'm Ready, Jason Collett, jazz, Live, Live at the Jazz Workshop, Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, Muddy Waters, Mule Variations, My New Loneliness, Night Suite, Oh Little Fire, On The Road Again, Orgōne, Pony, pop, Rat A Tat Tat, Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass, Rob McConnell & The Boss Brass Again!, Rock Me, Sarah Harmer, Saved By Saskatoon, Scarlett Johansson, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Sheila Ann, Speak To Me, Swim, The Deep Dark Woods, The Eraser RMXS, The Lord Is Listenin' To Ya Hallelujah!, The Straight & Narrow, The University of Calgary Jazz Ensemble, Thelonious Monk, Thom Yorke, Tom Waits, Total Destruction, Vanderpool Vanderpool, What Planet Is This?!, Willie Nelson, Your Brand Of Country
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What Planet Is This?! Show #70 (I think)
Music is an ephemeral thing. Even if The Guess Who plays American Woman a total of 13,000 times, each of those times is special. It’s a moment in time that can never be replicated exactly. Even if James Brown famously … Continue reading
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Tagged All The World Is Green, Beck, Beep Beep Beep, Benny Carter, Birdland, Brandy, cjtr, Clark Terry, David Braid Sextet, Day One, Dengue Fever, Eightcubed, Emmylou Harris, experience, Gen's Song, Hank Williams, Imelda May, Isn't It Romantic, It's Not The End Of The World, James Brown, John Southworth, Kirk MacDonald, Lazy River, Les Arbuckle, Let's Walk Let's Talk, Lost On The River, Louis Armstrong, Mark Knopfler & His Band, Missing, Movin' On, musicians, No Longer There, One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula, Pallin' With Al, PDF Format, Pea-eyes, Petty Too, recording, Richard Groux And The Co-Accused, Sarah Slean, Smoker's Song, song, Soul Eyes, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Such Great Heights, The Cat Empire, The Guess Who, The Music Room, The Postal Service, Tiga, Tom Waits, Weather Report, What Planet Is This?!, You Go To My Head
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What Planet Is This?! Show #67 (I think)
Good evening, life forms. This is your captain speaking. Tonight’s trip will involve a usual dose of grooviness, marked by high highs, brief lows and colours that can only be seen with your open mind, not by your easily-deceived eyes. … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Toussaint, Anti-, Big Fun, Bill Evans, Blood Money, Casablanca, Casks of Gold, Cease Fire Pt. 2, Chali2na, Coleman Younger, Colin Greenwood, Con Conrad, David Myles, Deniece Williams, Derrick McKenzie, Ed O'Brien, ESC, Free, Funkadelic, Henry Redd, Hit The Road Jack, J. Russel Robinson, Jamiroquai, Jay Kay, Joel Plaskett, Joni Mitchell, Jonny Greenwood, journey, Kathleen Brennan, Kyrie Kristmanson, Ladies Of The Canyon, Mortal Bliss, Mothership Connection, Nathan Watts, Nathan Williams, Nonesuch, Out Of Love, Parliament, Phil Selway, Rainy Night House, Rainydayz Remixes, Ray Charles, Real Heroes, Reckonerz, Reprise, Seal, Singin' The Blues, Sola Akingbola, Sony Soho Square, soul, Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication, Susaye Green, Symmetry, The Bright Mississippi, The Kyrie K Groove, The Part You Throw Away, The Quail, The Rusty Augers, The Very Best Of Ray Charles, Thom Yorke, Toby Smith, Tom Waits, Travelling Without Moving, trip, Turn Time Off, Untitled, Use The Force, Warner Bros., WEA, What Planet Is This?!
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What Planet Is This?! Show #63 (I think) LONG-PLAY TUESDAY!
You know that feeling – when you get a new album – you hang on to it all the way home (or keep a watchful eye on it as you drive) from the record store. You finally get home, can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 Days 100 Nights, A Few Of My Favorite Things, Airbag, Anti-, Arts & Crafts, Beastie Boys, Beck, Big In Japan, Bosco Mann, Cali Fever, Calvin Hardaway, Captive, Caribou, Colin Greenwood, Countryman, Crazy Queen, Dan Hastie, Dan Snaith, Daptone, Darren Cardoza, Devin Williams, Do You Mind Too Much If I Don't Understand, Easy Star, Easy Star All-Stars, Ed O'Brien, Elmer Gill, Epitaph, Ethan Phillips, Fanny Franklin, Forere Motloheloa, Ghost Range (E-Pro), Graceland, Guerolito, Have A Talk With God, Homelife, Homer Steinweiss, How Long Is Forever, Interscope, Jason Collett, Joel Bowers, Jonny Greenwood, Kathleen Brennan, Lake Superior, Lost Highway, Love's In Need Of Love Today, Lowside Of The Road, LPs, Merge, Michel Legrand, Moods And Grooves, Mule Variations, My Favorite Things, Nobody's Baby, Odessa, Oh Little Fire, Orgōne, Oscar Hammerstein II, P Walk, Paul Simon, Phil Selway, Rada, Radiodread, Rat A Tat Tat, Rave On Sad Songs, records, Richard Rodgers, Sarah Harmer, Sean O'Shea, Sergio Rios, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Shawn Lee, Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, Songs In The Key Of Life, Stevie Wonder, Stewart Killen, Sun, Swim, Tamla, The Boy In The Bubble, The Dust Brothers, The Last Fool, The Thief, Thom Yorke, Tom Waits, Ubiquity, vinyl, Vinyl records, Warner Bros., Watch What Happens, What Planet Is This?!, Willie Nelson, Zoë
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