Camper Van Beethoven made their “SNAP” debut in support of 1987’s “Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.” The wisecracking ensemble rambles through selections old and new in a semi-acoustic session rife with cheerful chaos.

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Harry Dean Stanton was already three decades into his career as an actor’s actor when he began touring regularly as a song interpreter with a small acoustic trio.

Joined by top-shelf sidemen Steven Soles and Kenny Edwards, Stanton dropped into Deirdre’s studio on June 24, 1987, to share a commanding set of covers in both Spanish and English. Included is “Canción Mixteca,” which Stanton legendarily performed in Wim Wenders’s “Paris, Texas.”

LA’s Concrete Blonde were fresh off an ill-fated tour with Cyndi Lauper when they careened into SNAP in April 1987.

They serve up a characteristically paint-peeling performance punctuated by grade-A banter between Deirdre and frontwoman Johnette Napolitano.

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Love Tractor made their long-overdue SNAP debut in June 1989, as part of the long-running promotion for their “Themes from Venus” album.

The 11-song set draws evenly from that 1988 album as well as the three which preceded it.

For a moment, LA’s legendary Dream Syndicate seemed to be victims of the major-label doldrums. After a failed engagement with A&M records, they took a hiatus and made a triumphant return with their 1986 album, “Out of the Grey.”

That same year, the newly-reformed band dropped in on Deirdre for their inaugural performance on SNAP.

Suzanne Vega visited SNAP in April 1985 for her second-ever live radio appearance. Ahead of her now-classic self-titled debut album, Vega offers perfectly rendered takes of songs from that record, as well as an early appearance of one of her most iconic numbers.

An essential and long-unheard document of Vega at a crucial moment in her early career.