Buried Treasures & RIP Robbie Robertson

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some new music that’s flying underneath the mainstream radar - buried treasures! They’ll also hear selections from their production staff and bid farewell to Robbie Robertson of The Band.

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Featured Songs:

Split System, "Alone Again," Alone Again (Single), Goner, 2023
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
The Band, "The Weight," Music From Big Pink, Capitol, 1968
Bob Dylan, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," Highway 61 Revisited, Columbia , 1965
The Band, "Tears of Rage," Music From Big Pink, Capitol, 1968
RVG, "Midnight Sun," Brain Worms, Fire, 2023
The Rain Parade, "Last Rays of a Dying Sun," Last Rays of a Dying Sun, Flatiron, 2023
Laufey, "From The Start," Bewitched, AWAL, 2023
Bonny Doon, "Let There Be Music," Let There Be Music, ANTI-, 2023
Khazali, "Magic," Magic (Single), Khazaliverse, 2023
Frankie and the Witch Fingers, "Mild Davis," Data Doom, Greenway, 2023
Bdrmm, "It's Just a Bit of Blood," I Don't Know, Rock Action, 2023
Santa Chiara, "Visa," Imported, Kill Rock Stars, 2023
Fightmaster, "Bad Man," Bad Man (Single), Fightmaster Industries, 2023
Poison Ruïn, "Pinnacle of Ecstasy," Härvest, Relapse, 2023
boice, "The Wound Collector," Nevermind the Hardships, Rattlecat Entertainment, 2022
The Clientele, "Blue Over Blue," I Am Not There Anymore, Merge, 2023
Special Interest, "Disco 1.5," Disco 1.5 (Single), Rough Trade, 2023
Spiritual Camp, "Nah, That Ain't It," Nah, That Ain't It (Single), Blue Grape, 2023
Solomon Linda’s Evening Birds, "Mbube," Mbube (Single), Gallotone, 1939

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0:00.0	Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free!
0:30.0	Your listening sound opinions and this week we'll share new under the radar music you need to hear.
0:42.0	Buried treasures, I'm Jim DeWergottas.
0:45.0	And I'm Greg Kott, but first we need to bid farewell to Robbie Robertson of the band.
1:00.0	That, of course, is the iconic The Weight as played by the band. The Band!
1:20.0	Yes, in honor of Robbie Robertson who died at age 80 on August 9th.
1:26.0	Another one of those that I didn't see coming didn't realize that Robbie was having health issues but apparently had some kind of illness that he succumbed to.
1:38.0	And we're here to pay a little bit of a tribute to Robbie because obviously a key figure in rock and roll.
1:44.0	age 16 he's joining the Ronnie Hawkins band. Ronnie Hawkins, for those of you who don't know, was this Arkansas Rockabilly artist and showman.
1:52.0	This guy would be doing back flips and moonwalks on the stage before Michael Jackson, a heck of a character.
1:58.0	Crazy guy and Robbie's a 16-year-old guitar phenom in this band along with Livon Helm, Rick Danco, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson.
2:08.0	The future members of the band. I won't take issue with you because you're Greg.
2:14.0	But the number of times the words iconic have been used, attributes to Robertson.
2:20.0	And also I love all of the, our media peers saying a founding band of Americana. These were all Canadians.
2:28.0	It's worth noting. Well, but I mean the sound and the approach to the music was.
2:32.0	Yes, they loved Americana music. And they were steeped in it. They were scholars.
2:36.0	And you know, Dylan picked Robertson out of the packs and this is guy I can relate to his guitar playing.
2:42.0	From 65 through 67, Robbie was a very close collaborator with Dylan and he brought the band in for the famed basement tapes.
2:50.0	But he also played on Blondon Blond. He was also there as part of that tour in 1966 where he was getting booed.
2:57.0	Dylan was getting booed every night on stage. For going electric.
3:01.0	For going electric, Robbie was a big part of the going electric part because he was playing all those guitar fills.
3:07.0	And guitar fills I think is an important aspect of Robbie's playing.
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