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Dusty Gems Ep 3

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Sometimes gold is where you find it – sometimes you come across a diamond in the rough. Often times its created by a name you’re not sure of but maybe you’ve heard it before. This is the show dedicated to dusting off the lost gems by forgotten singer-songwriters. The names may not be familiar but the songs will stay with you and set your voice to hummin’ and your mind to remembering.  

Maybe, just maybe, some songs are meant to be forgotten just so you can really appreciate how awesome they are . . . click on the link to check out all the rays of sun that shined through this show:

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101 Series Lesson 24: Jimi Hendrix

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We move from one guitar hero last week to another guitar hero this week as The 101 Series serves up a huge dose of Jimi Hendrix. We’ve got for you two hours of screamin’ solos, soaring sounds and general burning to the ultimate degree. Ear plugs will be needed for those close to the amps. Those further back can just listen to a master of feedback with a stack of Marshalls.

The left handed gypsy, ladies and gentleman: Jimi! Click on the link to see what songs Jimi pulled out of the purple ether in this show:

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Deez Rhymes Ep 3

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Alright. Now it’s time to start your week by tripping out on hip-hop. Put on your colors and get your attitude on, G. It’s episode 3 of our journey into the world of classic and more recent lyrical shots, Deez Rhymes. We’ve got all the beats to make your week complete – and it’s completely uncensored. Work up a sweat in grid-lock or on a hot night and burn a bong or blunt downtown. You can’t say no.

We don’t necessarily endorse the lyrical content of most of these songs . . . we do, however, recommend you shut the fuck up and enjoy some beats. Click the link to check out the dome rockers we played in this show:

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101 Series Lesson 23: Chuck Berry

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Now, students, we give you a lesson in rock ‘n’ roll history as we take an extended listen to the man that got ’em all rockin’. Often imitated, but never duplicated! The innovator and originator – it’s the one and only Chuck Berry. You’ll hear all the great songs you  know, all the great songs you forgot, all the great songs you never knew about. So, pile up your DA and put on your party dress. It’s time for ROCKIN’ TONIGHT!!

In this episode Chuck duck walks all over your asses for two hours of music badassedness. Click on the link to check out the songs that lead to your beloved Beatles and Stones:

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101 Series Lesson 22: Credence Clearwater Revival

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Hello students. It’s time to get some serious dancin’ and rockin’ as we go stompin’ in the swamps with Credence Clearwater Revival for Lesson 22. It’s loud, loaded with blues and screams like a banshee. These are qualities worth exploring in our view. We’ll listen to some deep album tracks, live gems and familiar favorites. So it’s time to get some serious work done and do it with some gut-bucket. Put on your sweatbands.

We admit it, we’ve got Creedence tapes in the car, man . . . Click on the link to check out the songs John whipped up for you down in Cosmo’s Factory:

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Blue Highway Ep 3

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Seems we’ve been on this road before but it’s been so very long since we’ve seen each other. Welcome home, friends and neighbors. It HAS been awhile but it’s time for Episode 3 of Blue Highway–a ride through classic, contemporary, alternative country and folk. Time to spend an afternoon in the sunshine and sing a few of our favorite tunes. Bring your fiddles and guitars and jam along with us. 

Country music is more than mullets. It’s got big fuckin’ hats, too. Click on the links to check out the songs we dug out of the old, weird America:

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This Pill Makes You Small Ep 3

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Step in to the rabbit hole and fall to inner space. Turn on the lava lamp, polish up your crystals and prepare for the next journey through the record crates of psychedelia. It’s Episode 3 of our multi-coloured exploration into garages and basements everywhere. We go for extremes in this show as there aren’t too many you’ve heard of. But that makes it all the more interesting when you party like it doesn’t matter. So get a dose of some good psyche and just space out, man…

You don’t need drunks to enjoy this episode, just to enhance it. Click on the links to check out the tunes we picked for this show while sitting on top of towering purple mushrooms putting blue cats:

 This Pill Makes You Small Episode #3 Playlist

 

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101 Series Lesson 21: The Black Keys

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Students, are you ready to rock? Are you ready to kick the world’s ass so hard it’ll get sent into the next millennium? Well, fasten your seat belts and get ready for hyper rock action as The 101 Series reaches maturity with Lesson 21 and a workout with The Black Keys. Two guys who sound like fifty are ready throw it in your face for 90+ minutes – we hope you’re ready as well. Your instructors barely manage to get through before falling to our knees. Seal up your blast suits. It’s going to be a burnin’ ride!

Goddamn, do these two make so much noise. Keep it down, guys, people are trying to sleep upstairs. Click on the links to play all the fuzz we picked for this show:

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Soulville Ep 3: Stax Records

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For this installment of Soulville we decided to do a review of one of the greatest record labels in the history of music – Stax Records. We crate-dig through the history of Stax and listen to the famous and near-famous artists who put deep grooves into little plastic discs with big holes. It all started in Memphis and went around the world. Get your fine clothes on, coif those dos and get ready for some serious soul.

Drop the needle and spin that record. Just shut up and get some serious soul in your life. Click on the link to check out the songs that blew the minds of all your precious Beatles and Stones:

 Soulville

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101 Series Lesson 20: Crosby, Stills & Nash (& Young!)

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Hello again, students. This week’s lesson will concern mainly David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. But, obviously, a part of their career included someone who’s been featured in this classroom before, Neil Young. (CSN and sometimes Y!) So the lesson will be liberally peppered with Mr. Young. But mostly the three voices that had their first gig at Woodstock and boxed their way through dressing rooms and rehab facilities around the world. 

They may not get along in the studio, but these guys do pretty well when the tape is rolling . . . click the link to check out all the three (or four) part harmonies:

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