Big Leather Couch

I received a nice email from my guest who missed the show on Monday. Joshua Stedman had some email problems and was traveling back from Colorado and just missed the date on his calendar.

I was disappointed the other night and stumbled a bit through the first 15 minutes until Chris Huff got my emergency email and called in earlier than scheduled.

I even received a call from Phfrankie "I will be there when a guest does not show" Bondo to help out. And just like last time, as soon as Phfrankie called Chris called in. I thanked him in private, but want to do so here in public...you rock Phfrankie!

Our most excellent friend TRAVIS from "Trav's Thoughts" is back to talking Dancing after taking a week off.

I have not been following the show as closely as I have in the past, but I know exactly what is going on from Travis' posts.

This Kate Gosselin diva is hopefully gone this morning. She being the mother of the 8 children who, along with her estranged husband (back when they were together) decided to cash in on having 8 kids and fed their kids to the wolves (not Travis, the publicity wolves), and then both cheated on each other and turned their lives into fodder for the world.

She acts like this diva b*ch on the program and when the judges criticize her for basically walking around the dance floor she gives them stares that would stop a clock...stop complaining about being tired because your kids came to visit their mother and leave the show...

OK, sorry for that rant...

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MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2010
10pm Eastern; 9pm Central; 8pm Mountain; 7pm Pacific

This week:
JOSHUA STEDMAN
and
CHRIS HUFF
sit on
THE COUCH

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2010
10pm Eastern; 9pm Central; 8pm Mountain; 7pm Pacific

This week:


Chris Huff
sits on
The Couch

Chris Huff is unique in today’s musical arena. You will be hard pressed to label his music as he works in so many different genres. Pop, rock, reggae, Chris handles them all as if they are his priority.

A New York boy now living in Buck’s County, PA, Chris has sung and played classical, jazz, folk, and opera and even studied some bluegrass. He has also scored some films and done children’s songs along the way.

He and I will discuss his experience with David Bowie and his time on the road with the touring company of Les Misérables. Like I said, you can not stick Chris into one cubbyhole.

I will play a sampling of Chris’ music throughout the show and remember, 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 Chris, 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 here on The Big Leather Couch and you can download to your iTunes, from my iTunes page HERE.

Wanted to share a new artist who just came into my knowledge. I am working to get him onto MUSIC ON THE COUCH in the next few weeks. As always, let me know what you think of him. His name is Tristan Clopet

...the gift of a Serial Killer!

That is correct...the woman who loves me, also knows me very well.

For Valentine's Day, Nancy gave me the Season One AND Season Two DVD collections of Dexter, starring Michael C. Hall, the Showtime series about a serial killer whose victims are serial killers. You might also remember Mr. Hall from the HBO series Six Feet Under.

I do not have Showtime, so I was only able to watch the edited version of the show CBS ran last summer. Those episodes were so choppy with the edits of language and graphic violence, that at times, it was almost impossible to follow why certain things happened.

Now, I own the 8 DVDs that make up the first two seasons of the show. Friday evening Nancy and I sat and watched the first episode and she has immediately been drawn into the story, wanting to know more and more about how Dexter became Dexter.

On her card she wrote that this gift would give us hours of enjoyment on our next "Weekend To Nowhere".

"Weekend To Nowhere" is a concept I have done before and introduced Nancy to a few months ago. Basically, you make sure you have all the food and beverages you need for a weekend, you shut the door and the world out and you spend Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday alone together enjoying videos and music and other things not to be mentioned here - hehehehe....

They work great in the winter or when you have a miserable weather weekend...but they can be done at any time.

It is a bit more difficult planning them around the weekends Nancy's sons are with their dad...and we have had some 'real-life' interruptions due to the boys needing their mom even on those weekends (don't ask!)...but we are planning one in the next few weeks and Dexter will certainly be the center of our viewable 'enjoyment' time.

Here is the schedule of shows Chris is listing at the moment...
Thu Feb 19 9:00 PM The Tun Tavern Atlantic City, NJ
Sat Feb 21 3:00 PM John and Peter's Place New Hope, PA
Sat Feb 21 8:00 PM John & Peter's Place New Hope, PA With Jessica Paris and NY Funk Exchange
Sat Feb 21 9:00 PM O'Donnell's Sea Isle City, NJ
Fri Feb 27 8:00 PM Village Tavern Montgomeryville, PA
Fri Mar 6 9:00 PM The Tun Tavern Atlantic City, NJ
Thu Mar 19 9:00 PM The Tun Tavern Atlantic City, NJ
Fri Mar 20 6:00 PM Paddy Whacks - Welsh Road Philadelphia, PA
Sat Mar 21 5:00 PM New Castle Farmers Market New Castle, DE

Marla Cilley is better known as The FlyLady, the larger than life self-help guru who helps women around the world stay organized and do housework.

On December 7, 1999 someone asked Marla for help and the FlyLady mentoring group began. Now, almost a decade later she has nearly one million “FlyBabies” and is BlogTalkRadio’s most listened to personality.

Jason Sadler of IWearYourShirt.com is spending 2009 as a human billboard.

Sadler is selling the upper-half of his wardrobe (shirts). He’s selling every day of the year at face value, so January 1 was $1 and December 31 is $365.

On July 28th, he will be wearing a Got Blogstein? t-shirt. We’ll prep him on what we want him to do in our shirt that day and then check in with him again on July 28th.

All that, plus:

• Dangerous Lee co-hosts

• Vinny Bond sits on his Big Leather Couch to chat live with the listeners

• Justin the Weatherman delivers a forecast

• Bernadette Giacomazzo files a PopCultureMadness.com report

• and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

Welcome back to new music...

If you enjoyed the taste of Raphael Saadiq last week and want to check him out live, here is his touring schedule:
Sat/Feb-28 San Diego, CA House of Blues
Mon/Mar-02 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues
Tue/Mar-03 SF,CA The Fillmore
Thu/Mar-05 Seattle, WA The Showbox @ The Market
Fri/Mar-06 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
Sat/Mar-07 Vancouver, BC Richard's On Richards Cabaret
Tue/Mar-10 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater
Wed/Mar-11 Kansas City, MO Voodoo Lounge @ Harrah's Casino
Thu/Mar-12 Chicago, IL Park West
Fri/Mar-13 Minneapolis, MO Fine Line Music Cafe
Sun/Mar-15 Detroit, MI City Theatre
Mon/Mar-16 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
Tue/Mar-17 Montreal, QC Cabaret du Musse Juste Pour Rire
Thu/Mar-19 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
Fri/Mar-20 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of The Living Arts
Sat/Mar-21 NYC, NY Fillmore
Mon/Mar-23 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
Tue/Mar-24 Washington DC 9:30 Club
Thu/Mar-26 Charlotte, NC Wachovia Atrium
Sat/Mar-28 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse

Are you a fan of The Offspring? If so, The Offspring debut their video for "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" from their 8th studio album, Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace on Spinner.com. "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" was directed by Lex Halaby. Check it out HERE.

This week we introduce you to Chris Huff.
We are in pocession of his first CD North Cathedral Way.

From his bio:
Chris Huff is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer specializing in hooky retro pop songs that combine different genres. His sound has been described as "Bob Dylan and David Bowie jamming in Jamaica"; his songs have also been favorably compared to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Woody Guthrie, Kurt Cobain, Martin Sexton, and Dr. Dog.

Chris's musical background goes something like this: started on classical piano, moved to jazz bass with a big band, strummed some folky guitar after a bike accident as therapy, sang a cappella, opera, and gospel both solo and with award-winning choirs and ensembles, studied bluegrass in Kentucky, immersed himself in the electric guitar (focusing on anything pre-Van Halen), and hit the streets singing and playing in bars, clubs, restaurants, and wherever would have him (venues including Carnegie Hall and CBGBs).

Along the way he has played and sung with progressive rock bands, large soul groups, little alternapop combos, scored for independent film, and written and performed children's songs and new age Kirtan chant. So, at this time in history where mixing and matching genres to create endless subgenres is all the rage, Chris is uniquely qualified for this sort of work with his eclectic, all-encompassing musical background and multi-faceted, flexible writing and singing voices.

For some people, this kind of genre-hopping might indicate a lack of focus but for Chris it serves to highlight his core musical philosophy. "I think of what I do as musical gumbo," he says. "In the way the great jam bands pool together all of their musical influences to produce something new, my main goal with my Death and Texas LP was to create a retro pop album that pulled from a variety of sources. It would be almost like listening to a mix tape except, of course, all the songs would be performed by the same person."

Chris has opened for Hamell on Trial, Brooks Williams, Stanley Jordan, and played "The Killing Moon" live with Echo and the Bunnymen. He has also worked as a sideman with Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul, and Mary), Amanda Green (lyricist of Bway's High Fidelity), and Chuck Hammer (Lou Reed, David Bowie, TV/film composer).