It took a while, but in 1982-83 I finally started writing songs and playing music for real, although "real" is relative as the results were pretty primitive. But the energy and intent was there! The first version of Last Roundup; East Village sights and sounds, early demos.

Songs included in this episode:

• Bargain Bin by Last Roundup - early demo (Dec 1982)
• Bordeline by Last Roundup - early demo (July 1982)
• You Don't Have To Worry - song demo cassette (1983?)
• Summer Of My Wasted Youth - Middlescence

Back in New York, 1982. Ladies love outlaws until they learn to love themselves. Working a day job and learning the importance of a good cast iron skillet. Discovering country music.

Songs in this episode:

• The We That Never Was - rough demo, 2004?
• Like Jean Seberg In Breathless - written & recorded for this episode

Life as a London art student & music fan circa 1980-81, in a squat with punk legacy that included first rehearsals by the Raincoats. Fashion illustration attempts; encounters with a past love and a future one, 

Songs in this episode:

• Apple Green - 1991 demo A One Way Ticket To My Life
• Four Years Ago - early demo (1983-4?)   here

1980. He wore a tank top in winter and summer. But I loved him.

Songs in this episode:

• Dark Angel - original demo version + The Shams from Quilt
• Don't Make Me Laugh (B. DeMain/A. Rigby)  demo rough

1979: The Clash; a homemade club in lower Manhattan...and my first band.

Songs in this episode:

• Slow Burner - The Old Guys
• If You Won't Hang Around - The Sugar Tree (also 18 Again)
• Victory - Stare Kits live at Tier 3 1979
• Tycoon - Stare Kits live at Tier 3 1979

You never forget your first broken heart...or your first trip to England.

Songs used in this episode:

• The Leader from The Sandinista! Project
• Questions I Can't Answer sample from Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me
• Stratford on Avon 

1977. Friends, family, fashion illustration and trying to figure out where I fit into it all. Oh, and the Sex Pistols are coming.

Songs used in this episode:

• Yankee Wheels from The Stiff Generation & Faulkner, Dylan, Heinz & Me
• Always With Me from Little Fugitive and the Shams' Quilt

Art school, black jeans from Trash & Vaudeville, and my first trip to the Bowery with a boy named Bob.

Songs used in this episode:

• Bob  live version from Faulkner, Dylan Heinz & Me + studio version The Old Guys
• Dancing With Joey Ramone  from Little Fugitive

Babysitting, booze and boys; tall boots and the majesty of rock. Amy ventures on her own to downtown Pittsburgh, falls in love and plans her trajectory to NYC.

Songs used in this episode:

• Girls Got It Bad from Little Fugitive
• Dirty Bridge (Elliot Easton/A. Rigby) from Middlescence

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In this first episode, Amy's teenage daughter poses a question that sends the songwriter and musician looking back towards her Catholic girlhood in 60s/70s Pittsburgh; early musical obsessions and attraction to New York City.

Amy's songs used in this episode

• Playing Pittsburgh from The Old Guys
• Housecleaning from A One Way Ticket To My Life

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