You guys are then new Paul & Linda McCartney

As I've said already in my top 5 singles for the decade 2010-2019 and not going anywhere . . .

Ruth Barnes explores the life, loves and music of the singer-songwriter Judee Sill.

"...a prime example of radio doing what it does best: shining a light on the shadowy corners of human experience. It was about playing songs and telling stories. It was a revelation." - The Independent 11.09.14

First broadcast on 9th September 2014 BBC Radio 4
Presented by Ruth Barnes
Produced by Eleanor McDowall


The Lost Genius of Judee Sill

Part remix, part mashup... A well-known vocal track with a completely different instrumental arrangement. 



Mulatto/Albino/Mosquito/Libido

"The Greatest Passion Play." recorded in 1986 by Elephant 6 founding members Robert Schneider and Bill Doss from the yet to be released album - "Warm Milk & Chocolate". 

Robert Schneider writes:

JETHRO CRIMSON (My first song "The Greatest Passion Play"): Exactly 30 years ago, in the summer of 1986, I was 15 and had gotten my mind blown by the anti-society sentiments of John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” LP (my existential conversion would peak later that year with XTC’s “Dear God”). Heavy listening to post-Syd Pink Floyd and other 1970s prog heroes and summer reading of King Arthur, plus the existence of girls, pushed me to the creative brink, I just couldn’t hold in the rock and roll any more! My family was on summer vacation at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico--still a regular camping spot for our fam--and I walked off into the desert with my nylon-string guitar and sat on a sunny, snake-free rock and, in the most sincere and cosmic way you can imagine, wrapped all my young prog-rock ambitions and naïve socio-political and mystical thoughts into this eight-minute manifesto of (actually decently catchy) folk-pop. 
 
Upon returning to Ruston, I rented a Fostex X-15 cassette four-track for the weekend from Haymaker’s Guitar Store, the most magical place in town, where I spent every day of my childhood and teenage years when I wasn’t playing video games or recording. Super-cool owner Eddie Haymaker put up with me and encouraged me since I was a little kid, and didn’t mind too much letting me kick around and pick up playing tips and experiment on the synthesizers after school. My guitar teacher there, Gene Williams (most rad dude in Ruston btw, that all of my friends idolized--he was just a little older than us and a genius hippie metal-head who turned us all on to the most obscure aspects of classic rock), had given me the heads-up that the $5/day four-track rental was most cost-effectively utilized if you rented the machine from Haymaker’s when they opened on Saturday morning—the store was closed Sunday, so you didn’t have to turn the four-track in until Monday before closing time, almost three days of recording for five dollars (my weekly allowance)! 
 
My pretty-recently-new best friend and musical partner Bill Doss (we met at Haymaker’s Guitar Store that summer) volunteered to help me engineer—he had used a four-track before, and owned a microphone—and we needed a private place far from the uncool ears of parents and little sisters to set up and start tracking. I had noted that the bus stop area at Ruston High School, which was partially covered and sort of a huge echoing concrete space, had an unused electric outlet (I used to fantasize about setting up and blowing the eardrums out of the kids during lunch hour with some crazy loud power chords). It was the weekend with no kids around so we set up there, in a corner huddled behind a row of vending machines so nobody would hassle us, and recorded the acoustic guitar and lead vocal tracks, with Bill smiling and engineering, telling me he couldn’t believe I had written this whole long song (he always gave me so much confidence, I miss that). 
    
By the time I returned the four-track to Haymaker’s on Monday after school, the piece had evolved into a cascade of harmonized guitar solos, somber piano chords, dramatic analog delay harmonies, and a lifelong addiction to recording and writing songs… I’m not claiming that it's great, but it was my first.

The Greatest Passion Play (1986).Marbles

Here is an original song with several instruments, arranged just so.

Soft synths, some Roland-y guitars (one real, one fake).

Cautionary Tale

Put together anonymously by a clearly devoted Fab Four fan, The Beatles Anthology Revisited is an 18-part, 28-hour podcast telling the band's story entirely in their own words, those who were there, and various TV and radio newsreels of the time. There are also Beatles tunes, of course, most released, some buried treasures.
It's both exhilarating and exhausting, but, if you take a break every four or five hours, your life will finally have meaning. 
Bottom line, it's everything you ever wanted to know about The Beatles, and a little bit more...

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Beatles Anthology Revisited #1

Written by Wyatt Funderburk
Performed by Wyatt and Mandy Funderburk

Based on The Story Of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Wyatt and Mandy Funderburk "Ferdinand" (Demo)

Help Me Murry

One Year

Colin Blunstone - I Hope I Didn't Say Too Much Last Night (bonus)

Music journalist and musician John Borack returned to The Time Machine along with singer-songwriters Johnathan Pushkar sharing his latest single and Kimo Nevius talking about his upcoming Maui performance with singer-songwriters Gail Swanson and Cheryl Rae.   John discussed his latest book "Shake Some Action 2.0 - An Updated Guide To The 200 Greatest Power Pop Albums 1970-2017" and disc jockeys Tanya Teal and Michael McCartney got to play a great deal of Power Pop on the broadcast.

John Borack And Johnathan Pushkar Interviews On The Time Machine

This is and older one - kind of experimental, but fun.  Free for download.  If the link here expires, here's a mediafire link.

http://www.mediafire.com/?gcij4y2f300d63o

Composed, produced, and written by M. Lederer.

Wyatt and Mandy Funderburk "Ferdinand" (Demo)

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