Adobe And Teardrops Podcast

I recorded this on Monday and it's already been a hell of a week! I got to see Brandi Carlile SELL OUT Madison Square Garden. I have more thoughts (and videos) here.

See below for a little note The Sometimes Boys dropped me in honor of their last album (for now.)

Also, an experiment with sets!

1. The Sometimes Boys -- "Women of the World" AND "Unnatural Disasters" (The Perfect Home)
2. Alex Krug Combo -- "Merriment" AND "Arguing Wings" (Sleeping On the Woodlands)
3. Bendigo Fletcher -- "Chocolate Garden" (Memory Fever)
4. Dallas Burrow -- "Water and Wood" (Southern Wind)
5. Del Barber -- "Dancing in the Living Room" AND "Louise" (Easy Keeper)
6. Tanya Tucker -- "Seminole Wind Calling" AND "I Don't Owe You Anything" (While I'm Livin')
7. L'il Andy -- "Out on the Old Highway" AND "All the Love Songs Lied to Us" (All The Love Songs Lied To Us)
8. Reyna Tropical -- "Calor" AND "Lluvia" (Sol y Lluvia)
9. Bryony Jarman-Pinto -- "Saffron Yellow" AND "Alchemy" (Cage & Aviary)
10. Tenille Townes -- "Jersey on the Wall" (Single)

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From The Sometimes Boys:

Architect Love Letter started as a pretty, fingerpicked bluegrass figure one Labor Day evening during a jam session after a long day of BBQ and day drinking. When singer Sarah Mucho took it home, she envisioned a song about an architect building a perfect mate, which then transformed into an idea about building your best self. As she says, "There is a spiritual aspect with the tribal chanting or incantation in the choruses. Think the law of attraction concept...visualizing what you want in life while also taking action towards building it."

The idea is that in building our perfect home, or self, we are also trying to achieve some lost experience of paradise - because that is what 'home' means in so many religious texts. So musically, the song progresses from an assertion of building the perfect home, with expected song structures of verse, chorus - even a gospel bridge - into dissolving away in that home - when achieved, the structures from which we 'sweat and bleed' pass away into a wash of psychedelic color, texture - pure joy at finding the release of building the perfect home.

Every new beginning is some other beginning's end. I have Highwomen feelings and I wrote an article in The Boot!

Also, a little pop country!

1. The Highwomen -- "My Only Child" (The Highwomen)
2. Ma'aM -- "Sweet" (Can't Talk, Being Chased.)
3. Joseph Gallant -- "Better Buzz" (Single)
4. Jessi McNeal -- "Out of Reach" (The Driveway)
5. Charlotte Pike -- "Hurt Like This" (Single)
6. Adam Ezra Group -- "The Toast" (Better Than Bootleg Vol. 3)
7. Tacocat -- "Crystal Ball" (This Mess Is a Place)
8. Jimbo Pap -- "Submission (Nice Pants)" (It Can Always Get Worse)
9. The Hold Steady -- "Entitlement Crew" (Thrashing Thru the Passion)
10. Blue Vines -- "Lanch Party" (Fever Dreamy)

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Hello! I recently wrote an article on The Boot about the history of queer country music! There's so much more than I wrote about -- and even many more artists than I'm including on this episode.

If you read my blog or listen to this podcast, you know I'm not great at tact. So I'll also include the spicier takes that didn't make the cut since it's an article -- not an op-ed!

I cannot stress enough that these opinions are all my own.

For more background on the modern queer country community, see this article from Wide Open Country.

Lavender Country -- "Lavender Country" (Lavender Country)

k.d. lang and the Reclines -- "Big-Boned Gal" (Absolute Torch and Twang)

The Indigo Girls -- "The Rise of the Black Messiah" (One Lost Day)

Melissa Etheridge -- "Come To My Window" (Yes I Am)

Tracy Chapman -- "Fast Car" (Tracy Chapman)

Karen and the Sorrows -- "Guaranteed Broken Heart" (Guaranteed Broken Heart)

My Gay Banjo -- "Muscle For Money"

Sam Gleaves -- "Hot Pink House Trailer" (Fink, Marxer, & Gleaves)

Justin Hiltner -- "I'm Not in Love With You" (Watch It Burn w. Jon Weisberger)

Paisley Fields -- "Periwinkle" (Glitter & Sawdust)

Amythyst Kiah -- "Wildebeest" (Amythyst Kiah And Her Chest of Glass)

Brandon Stansell -- "Hometown" (Single)

Orville Peck -- "Hope to Die" (Pony)

Sarah Shook -- "What It Takes" (Years)

Mariel Buckley -- "I Wonder" (Driving in the Dark)

Loamlands -- "Some Boy You Don't Need" (Lez Dance)

The Highwomen -- "If She Ever Leaves Me" (The Highwomen)

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Labor Day plans, hospital visits, and a whole lot of Big Moods!

Music in this episode:

1. Wonderly Road -- "Knock Knockin'" (Single)
2. Lisa Bastoni -- "Never Gone to You" (How We Want to Live)
3. Panther Hollow -- "Letter" (Single)
4. Aloud -- "Live TV" (Single)
5. Isabelle Stillman -- "Nashville" (Middle Sister)
6. Charles Mingus -- "Moanin" (Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus)
7. Meanlife -- "Left Nothin' Behind" (Bad Vibes in the Womb)
8. Kelsey Waters -- "You Got This" (Single)
9. Kathleen Edwards -- "Hockey Skates" (Failer)
10. Eilen Jewell -- "Miles to Go" (Gypsy)

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The theme for this episode is…serendipity.

Music in this episode:

1. Dan Bern -- "Regent Street"(Regent Street)
2. Bleed the Rads -- "Zillow Blues" (Single)
3. Ward Hayden and the Outliers (formerly Girls Guns and Glory) -- "Viva Las Vegas" (Can't Judge a Book)
4. Matt Woods -- "Sitcoms" (Natural Disasters)
5. Mariachi Los Camperos -- "Estrellita" (De Ayer Para Siempre)
6. Sunny War -- "The Place" (Shell of a Girl)
7. Juliana Strangelove -- "Big Red Rocket" (Got No EP)
8. Dante Mazzetti -- "East Village Tattoo Queen" (Vol. 1)
9. Benjamin Shaw -- "How to Test the Depth Of A Well" (Should've Stayed At Home: A Collection of Oddities and Outtakes)
10. The Promised -- "We Could Be in Love" (Single)

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Rachel is somehow still alive after FlameCon! She's joined by co-host Bobbie Harder, whom you heard playing guitar with Tomasin and the Hot Dog Swarm. (That was Rachel and Bobbie's Willie Mae Rock Camp band.) We also get into movies, DJs featured on Law and Order: SVU, and rediscovering the joys of Titanic.

Music in this episode:

1. Esther Rose -- "Sex and Magic" (You Made It This Far)
2. Tattle Tale -- "Glass Vase Cello Case" (Sew True)
3. The 40 Acre Mule -- "Make Up Your Mind" (Goodnight & Good Luck)
4. Bleached -- "Heartbeat Away" (Don't You Think You've Had Enough?)
5. Chris Mossop -- "Sister Mary & Sister Josephine" (Single)
6. Yola -- "It Ain't Easier" (Walk Through Fire)
7. Ottoman Turks -- "Glass Bottles" (Ottoman Turks)
8. Tacocat -- "Hologram" (This Mess is a Place) (Lost Time)
9. Jason Hawk Harris -- "Red Room Blues" (Love & The Dark)
10. Starcrawler -- "Pet Sematary" (Pet Sematary Soundtrack)

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Rachel reflects on her last day of being 30 and has some thoughts on the new Sleater-Kinney lineup and album (and plays some of it for you.)

See Rachel at FlameCon! Get tickets here!

Music in this episode:

1. Ben Davis Jr -- "I Think You Should" (Suthernahia)
2. Sleater-Kinney -- "Can I Go On" (The Center Won't Hold)
3. Cody and the Blackouts -- "Sister Sister" (Gold)
4. Hawks -- "Here Comes the Cull" (Truth Will Out)
5. frog -- "Hartsdale Hotbox" (Count Bateman)
6. Delafaye -- "Tattoo Dream" (Delafaye)
7. Mal Blum -- "I Don't Want To" (Pity Boy)
8. Jason Tyler Burton -- "Date Night at the Dairy Queen" (Single)
9. Shawn Colvin "Ricochet in Time" (Steady On: 30th Anniversary Edition)
10. Nick County -- "If You Still Love Me" (Single)

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The best-laid plans of mice and men...

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Music in this episode:

1. Tim Higgins -- "Blight" (Single)
2. Team Dresch -- "Your Hands My Pockets" (Single)
3. T Buckley -- "Should've Bet on a Broken Heart" (Miles We Put Behind)
4. Kississippi -- "Easier to Love" (Sunset Blush)
5. Spirit Family Reunion -- "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo" (Ride Free)
6. The Painted Roses -- "Vice" (Single)
7. Angela Perley -- "Don't Look Back Mary" (4:30)
8. The Barren Spinsters -- "Punching Above Your Weight" (Ten Steps to Cynical Thinking)
9. One Way Traffic -- "(Your) Couch" (Turn Right)
10. Yasmin de Laine -- "Original Sin" (Single)

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Rachel went to the beach! And she accidentally recorded this with her laptop microphone, but that's okay because this episode is full of women who make it WORK.

See Rachel at FlameCon! Get tickets here!

Music in this episode:

1. Bobtown -- "No Man's Land" (Chasing the Sun)
2. Elaina Kay -- "Daddy Issues" (Issues)
3. Edan Archer -- "Six Wing Angel" (Journey Proud)
4. Charlie Marie -- "Rodeo" (Charlie Marie)
5. Leroy From the North-- "Fast Friends" (Health and Fitness)
6. Fantasy non fiction -- "Friends Like Strangers" (Single)
7. Josh Rennie Hynes -- "Chapter" (Patterns)
8. Fox and Bones -- "Running Free" (Single)
9. Tanya Gallagher -- "Barren Land" (One Hand on My Heart)
10. David Vaters -- "Red Sea" (Single)

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Rachel and a very special guest talk about parties with very special guests, beaches, and...Balto???

Music in this episode:

1. The Weakerthans - "Sun in an Empty Room" (Reunion Tour)
2. Lasers Lasers Birmingham - "Wild Animals" (Warning)
3. Will Bennett and the Tells - "Just Looking" (All Your Favorite Songs)
4. Erisy Watt - "Treasure Maps" (Paints the Sky)
5. Lauren Anderson - "Cake" (Won't Stay Down)
6. The Locksmiths - "Old Guitar" (Single)
7. Chuck Cleaver - "Bed" (Send Aid)
8. Brightwire - "Crystal Beach" (A Place to Call Home)
9. Yale Strom's Broken Consort - "Bring Out the Tray" (Shimmering Light)
10. De Lorians - "Daytona" (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)

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