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#737 Buried Treasures & Folk Singer-Songwriter Joan Shelley

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A new year calls for new tunes. Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot are back with a new batch of Buried Treasures. They're always on the lookout for great new music beyond the FM dial and this week they share their latest finds. These artists might not be household names, but they're definitely worth adding to your collection. They'll also talk to folk singer-songwriter Joan Shelley about recording her latest album in Iceland and how her Louisville, Kentucky heritage manifests in her music.

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0:00.0

So now, ladies and gentlemen, it is star time. Are you ready for star time? I'm going Deorgatus.

0:32.3

And I'm Greg Kott. This week we're going to share

0:34.3

some of our favorite new music that's flying under the radar. From a Cameroonian

0:38.3

American multi-instrumentalist to a Seattle punk blues band, we've got new music you need to hear.

0:45.0

And we'll have a conversation and performance from singer-songwriter Joan Shelley.

0:50.0

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

0:55.0

You are listening to sound opinions and

1:00.0

you are listening to sound opinions and later in the show we're going to talk to Joan Shelley but first it's time for another round of buried treasures Jim a feature that we try to do as often as we can because we have a huge backlog of beloved music that we feel hasn't

1:15.4

gotten enough attention when it came out. I've always got a couple dozen tracks

1:19.5

in contention for these shows. You're going to lead us off. I am indeed. I'm going to start with a

1:24.2

band named Divino Nino, a band that originated in Columbia, eventually wound its way to Chicago because a couple of the guys in the band came here to art school.

1:37.0

A bilingual quartet that actually got going in Chicago about a decade ago.

1:42.0

Their new album is called FOM. You know, it has been

1:46.6

an incredible surge of mainstream Latinics music in the last couple of years with artists like Bad Bunny, Jay Balvin, Rosalilla, and we have a similar response to the

2:00.0

underground of Latinics music.

2:02.6

Remember that surge in Rockin Espennial in the early 90s, early 2000s.

2:06.7

I think we're having a similar underground response now.

2:10.1

This is a psychedelic album full of love ballads for lack of a better term.

2:15.6

They're kind of softies at heart, but they have this kind of woozy quality in the music.

2:20.8

And the title track, I I think especially speaks to how they approach their music.

2:26.8

This is kind of an Esca Val meets post-punk kind of vibe going on.

2:30.4

Your Space Age Bachelor Pad music with a little bit of a psychedelic rock band

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