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MONDAY, APRIL 26, 2010
10pm Eastern; 9pm Central; 8pm Mountain; 7pm Pacific

This week:
PIERRE LACOCQUE of Mississippi Heat
and
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ
sit on
THE COUCH

Mississippi Heat emerged in 1991 on a night at the Cafe Lura in Chicago. Since then the band has built an incredible following. Veterans of the Ecaussinnes Spring Blues Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Lucerne Blues Festival and more, this band reaches down and grabs you by the gut and does not let go.

The just released Let's Live It Up! (April 20) is the bands 9th album. 14 songs guaranteed to make you want to get up and boogie. We will speak with Pierre Lacocque, harpest and leader of the band about the new CD and recording with legends Carl Weathersby (Albert King) and John Primer (Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters). There is some rich history to this band and we will discuss it with Mr. Lacocque.

If Chicago-style blues makes you smile, don't miss this one.

Then we get to speak with Ms. Carrie Rodriguez about her brand new release Love & Circumstance (April 13th), a covers album that includes a song written by her father, and once performed by her great aunt.

From her start as a teenager and a violin, Ms. Rodriguez is now touring the world with the likes of Chip Taylor (famed songwriter of "Wild Thing) and Lucinda Williams.

Eight albums in eight years has brought Ms. Rodriguz to this album written by the likes of Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt and Ry Cooder, to name a few. She puts her stamp on every choice.

How did she choose the songs for this CD and her recent tour with Los Lonely Boys & Alejandro Escovedo will be two subjects we discuss.

We will take your calls and questions for both guests at 1.347.633.9400.

The live interactive chat room opens 20 minutes before show time. Follow this link HERE and click on the Chat Now icon.

Remember, unless you take the two minutes to register, you will not be able to participate in the chat room or send me questions to ask Pierre or Carrie, but you will still hear the show.

So tune in on Monday evening or, you can always listen anytime after the show ends from the player HERE or the one on the upper left and you can download to your iTunes and even subscribe to the show for weekly automatic downloads, from my iTunes page HERE.

The feed has now been added to PodBean.com, PodcastAlley.com and Bulbrry.com

One Night Only – Barbra Streisand And Quartet At The Village Vanguard –September 26, 2009 will be released on DVD and DVD/CD Combo Pack as well as Blu-Ray Disc by Columbia Records on May 4.

One Night Only covers the entire experience of Ms. Streisand’s first cabaret performance in 48 years.

The DVD immerses the home viewer in a tiny West Village nightclub, privy to the best sight lines and sound imaginable, to share an exclusive and intimate evening that prompted the New York Times to marvel, "...Ms. Streisand was booked for one night at the Vanguard — legal capacity 123, absurdly small for an artist who has sold over 71 million albums in the United States alone.... But outnumbering the boldface names were two busloads of ticket-lottery winners, ordinary fans from around the world. Some said they had never been able to afford a Streisand ticket before, but on this night they rubbed elbows with Oscar winners, The Secretary Of State and a former president...."

Carrie Rodriguez' new studio album, Love & Circumstance will be released in the US & Canada on Tuesday, via Ninth Street Opus Music. Produced by Lee Townsend (Bill Frisell, Loudon Wainwright III) and featuring her world-class touring band augmented by guest appearances from Buddy Miller, Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, and Aiofe O’Donovan.

A collection of others songs that she makes hers. Songwriters covered include: John Hiatt (& the rest of his Little Village era crew, Nick Lowe, Ry Cooder, & Jim Keltner), Buddy & Julie Miller, David Rodriguez (her father), M. Ward, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, Sandrine, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard, Townes Van Zandt, and Hank Williams.

We are arranging to get Ms. Rodriguez to sit on The Couch with us very soon and will be reviewing this new CD next Monday.

MONDAY, April 12, 2010
10pm Eastern; 9pm Central; 8pm Mountain; 7pm Pacific

This week:
TRISTAN CLOPET
SIT ON
THE COUCH

He enrolled at the University of Miami and despite making the dean’s list at one of America’s best private universities, Tristan took a big leap of faith and made music his full time gig. "Why put my life on hold? Why do anything else if this is what I love to do and I think I can make a living at it too?"

Tristan will be sitting on The Couch with me and discussing PURPLE, his second EP, released in early January, a recent nine-city tour, and the continuation of his popular “Living Room Sessions” series, where each week Tristan records a cover of his favorite songs and posts it on his web site, YouTube and MySpace.

I will take your calls at 1.347.633.9400.

The live interactive chat room opens 20 minutes before show time. Follow this link HERE and click on the Chat Now icon.

Remember, unless you take the two minutes to register, you will not be able to participate in the chat room or send me questions to ask Tristan, but you will still hear the show.

So tune in on Monday evening or, you can always listen anytime after the show ends from the player HERE or the one above and you can download to your iTunes, from my iTunes page HERE.