John Cale, Spy Songs & RIP Wayne Shorter

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For more than 60 years, John Cale has continued to make exciting, challenging and culturally relevant music, including his most recent release, Mercy. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot talk with the Velvet Underground legend about his new music, collaborations and legacy. Plus, the hosts share some of their favorite spy songs and bid farewell to jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

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Featured Songs:

John Cale, "STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Capitol, 1967
John Cale, "EVERLASTING DAYS feat. Animal Collective," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (beauty elsewhere) feat. Actress," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "TIME STANDS STILL feat. Sylvan Esso," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "NIGHT CRAWLING," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
John Cale, "MOONSTRUCK (Nico's Song)," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
The Velvet Underground and Nico, "Femme Fatale," The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
The Velvet Underground and Nico, "I'm Waiting for the Man," The Velvet Underground & Nico, Verve, 1967
John Cale, "Dying On the Vine (Fragments)," Artificial Intelligence, PVC, 1985
John Cale, "MERCY," Mercy, Double Six, 2023
Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man," ...And I Know You Wanna Dance, Imperial, 1966
Tony Allen, "Secret Agent," Secret Agent, World Circuit, 2009
The Fugs, "CIA Man," Virgin Fugs, ESP-Disk, 1967
Gene Vincent, "Private Detective (feat. The Shouts)," Private Detective (feat. The Shouts) (Single), Columbia, 1964
Rockwell, "Somebody's Watching Me," Somebody's Watching Me, Motown, 1984
The Untouchables, "I Spy (For the F.B.I.)," Wild Child, MCA, 1985
Lori & The Chameleons, "The Lonely Spy," To the Shores of Lake Placid, Zoo, 1982
Desmond Dekker & the Aces, "007 (Shanty Town)," Action!, Lagoon, 1968
The dB's, "A Spy In the House of Love," Like This, Bearsville, 1984
Big Boys, "Detectives," The Skinny Elvis, Touch and Go, 1993
Steely Dan & Tom Scott, "Aja," Aja, ABC, 1977
Wayne Shorter, "Speak No Evil," Speak No Evil, Blue Note, 1966
Poster Children, "She Walks," Flower Plower, Limited Potential, 1989

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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.
0:08.0	While bottling my blah blah blah blah.
0:28.0	You're listening to Sound Dependence, and this week we're sharing some of our favorite songs about
0:33.1	Espinoge. I'm Jim D. Riatis, and I'm Greg Cutt, but first a conversation with the music legend John
0:40.0	Kale. Much of our audience probably already knows who John Kale is, but for those who don't, his career
0:45.8	as a songwriter, musician, and artist spans over six decades began with a velvet underground where
0:52.0	he played a crucial role in crafting the band's unique trademark sound. Several great solo studio
0:58.4	and live albums followed, and he's dabbled in everything from drone to avant-garde to classical
1:03.6	music ever since. Let's get into the conversation. Well, we are thrilled to welcome to Sound Dependence
1:09.2	once again, John Kale. Once again, how lucky have we been, Greg, that we've been able to chat with
1:14.8	John several times. We even had a dinner, a sad opinion donor dinner. Oh man. That was a good night,
1:20.1	huh John? That was a good night, yeah. Mercy, wow, what a record. Ten years in the making. I hadn't
1:27.1	realized that until I was reading some of the bio stuff, because I remember we chatted with you
1:31.8	when Shifty Adventures in Nookie World came out, and now we have this new record that was ready to go,
1:38.6	and then the world ended, got delayed. Something like that, yeah. It took two and a half years.
1:45.2	Yeah. I was not sure I finished it, and after listening to it for a few months, and suddenly
1:53.2	lockdown happened, and it was the wrong place to try and put this thing together. Two and a half
2:00.7	years later, you've got all these other musicians that are in the picture. The other artist that came
2:07.0	into view, a lot of them I worked with before, but on the ground, I was familiar with a lot of those
2:12.9	musicians. I was really happy to work with them again. So they all brought their own style with them.
2:19.4	I was really happy about how they all contributed to the album.
2:23.1	Some great guests on here, Panda Bear and Avatar, from Animal Collective.
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