Strange Currency

This week, you’ll hear a preview of our November featured artist, Pink Floyd.

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We’ll remember legendary drummer Ginger Baker, who died Sunday at age 80 after a lengthy illness. Baker is perhaps best known as the drummer for Cream, featuring Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton. But he was a versatile player who favored jazz and whose musical life saw him collaborating with African music legend Fela Kuti, post-punk icons Public Image Ltd., and space rock outfit Hawkwind. We’ll hear selections from throughout Baker’s career on this episode, including his work with Masters of Reality. 

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Listen for selections from Volunteer, the 2018 studio album from Old Crow Medicine Show as well as songs from Gillian Welch’s Time The Revelator. We'll also remember Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who died Monday at age 78. In addition to his work with the Dead, Hunter also collaborated with Bruce Hornsby, Los Lobos and Bob Dylan. 

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We’ll remember singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle, who died on August 23 at the age of 38. He is the son of musician Steve Earle and produced a series of critically acclaimed recordings since 2007. In addition to music from several of his releases we’ll hear selections from Jason Isbell, Centro-Matic and Old ‘97s. 

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We’ll remember some of the musicians who died in 2020, including John Prine, Edward Van Halen, Peter Green, and Bill Withers.

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Listen for selections by Beth Bombara, The Bird and The Bee and more artists featured on our Best of 2019 list. We'll remember Canadian musician and author Neil Peart of the band Rush. Peart, who joined the band in 1974, became the group's primary lyricist and later authored several books, including the travel diary Ghost Rider. He died Tuesday, January 7, at the age of 67 following a three-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer. 

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(Photo: Rush's Neil Peart performs at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2013 - Kevin Winter/Getty Images/via NPR)

This week, we'll remember Peter Green, a founding member of Fleetwood Mac, who passed away July 25 at the age of 73. 

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Released in 1973, Genesis’ Selling England By The Pound provided social commentary on the changing face of life in Great Britain and featured several tracks which would become staples of the band’s live show for decades to come. Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett has just released a live album on which he revisits the LP in its entirety and performs one song started during those sessions but which he did not finish fully writing until decades later. We’ll hear from Hackett’s new effort as well as selections from the original Genesis LP. 

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(Photo: Selling England By The Pound, by Genesis – Cover art)

Listen for music from Loaded, the 2008 release from The Wood Brothers as well as selections from Shack-Man, the 1996 LP from Medeski, Martin and Wood, featuring Chris Wood of The Wood Brothers.  

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Ode To Joy is the latest release from Wilco and is being heralded as one of the group’s best records within the last decade. We’ll hear selections from it as well as songs from the latest by Texas band Fastball from the album The Help Machine. 

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(Photo: Wilco’s album Ode to Joy)

Released in 1989, Steady On was the acclaimed debut album from singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin. Colvin recently re-recorded the album as an all-acoustic affair we’ll hear selections from her reimagining of that release as well from Aaron Lee Tasjan’s Karma For Cheap: Reincarnated, his re-imagining of his 2018 set, Karma For Cheap. 

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Released in 1973, Takin’ My Time was Bonnie Raitt’s third album and featured her take on songs written by artists as diverse as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Randy Newman. We’ll hear songs from that collection and from Shawn Colvin’s 2015 effort, Uncovered. 

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(Photo: Bonnie Raitt’s 1973 album, Takin’ My Time)

Jackson Browne’s 1973 sophomore release, For Everyman, was notable for its inclusion of “Take It Easy,” a song that Browne started but was ultimately finished by his friend Glenn Frey of the Eagles, and “These Days,” a song Browne wrote as a teenager and which has been covered by a wide range of artists. We’ll hear selections from that album as well as from Paul Westerberg’s Come Feel Me Tremble. 

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Hosted by Jedd Beaudoin

Strange Currency mixes and matches the old with the new, the familiar with the less familiar. Though we can all build our own playlists, it's still fun when someone does the heavy lifting for us. Host Jedd Beaudoin scours the wild terrains of new releases and searches the outback of classic cuts to bring you a thought-provoking listening experience each time.

We celebrate the first day of Spring with music from Grateful Dead, Mitski, Hot Chip, and many more! 

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This week, you’ll hear holiday music from John Prine, Los Lobos, Slade, and others.

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It’s our annual Valentine’s Day celebration with music from The Haden Triplets, Aimee Mann and Jason Isbell. 

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Listen for music from The War on Drugs, Drive-By Truckers, and Aaron Lee Tasjan.

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(Photo: 'Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!' from Aaron Lee Tasjan - Courtesy New West Records)

Released in 1980, Terminal Jive was the second release from the band Sparks to be produced by disco/electronic music legend Giorgio Moroder. It found the brothers Ron and Russell Mael experimenting with dance music and emerging with one of their most beloved albums. Listen for selections from that as well as music from The Dream Syndicate’s 1986 album Out of the Grey. 

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Listen for music from The Cure’s 1987 double LP Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me as well as selections from that year’s Introducing The Hardline According To Terrence Trent D’Arby from New York-born singer-songwriter Terence Trent D’Arby.  

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Listen for selections from Reunions, the latest by Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit as well as selections from Ron Sexsmith’s 2008 LP Exit Strategy of the Soul. 

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King’s Mouth: Music and Songs is the latest release from The Flaming Lips and features narration from The Clash’s Mick Jones on several pieces. Listen for selections from it as well as music from All Is Dream, the 2001 record from Mercury Rev featuring former Flaming Lips guitarist Jonathan Donahue. 

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Omoiyari is the new release from Athens, Georgia-based artist Kishi Bashi for music from it as well as from Cy Dune, the new project from Akron/Family’s Seth Olinksy. 

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Listen for music from John Hiatt’s Crossing Muddy Waters and Warren Zevon’s The Wind. 

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Released in 2001, Burnside on Burnside captures blues legend R.L. Burnside in peak form across numbers such as “Jumper on the Line,” “Skinny Woman” and others. We’ll hear music from that recording as well as from John Lee Hooker’s 1966 LP It Serves You Right To Suffer, the sole recording he made for the jazz label Impulse! 

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(Photo: Burnside On Burnside by R.L. Burnside, album cover art – Fair use)