CHARLIE'S FIFTEEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BROADCASTING LOCAL MUSIC ON KOOP 91.7 FM

On December 23, 1994, during KOOP Radio's first week on the air, two tenderfoot radio deejays launched KOOP's only all local music show, The Austin Music Tour, which ran for one or two years before I replaced it with Around the Town Sounds, a similarly packaged show, but designed to be run by a collective of individuals rather than only one or two hosts.

I went by Charles rather than Charlie on The Austin Music Tour in order to avoid confusion with my cohost Charlie Caldwell, even though he was known to the listening public by his pseudonym Dee Stallings. I tackled the first set, a Christmas and Jesus-themed collection of tunes, mostly in the Americana mode, and Dee followed with another set of mostly Americana tunes, although some glossy pop rock from Eric Johnson began his set.

Today's show begins with three tunes from those first two sets from just over fifteen years ago. The first song, from an offshoot of the Butthole Surfers, is decidedly not in the Americana vein, and when first aired on The Austin Music Tour it demonstrated our intention to showcase all genres of Austin music from the most traditional styles to the most avant-garde, unlike other local music shows of the day which tended to be either all mainstream rock or all Americana (country, folk, blues, r&b, roots rock, or combinations of these). This eclecticism has remained a key ingredient in the continuum from The Austin Music Tour through Around the Town Sounds, and with this focus I sincerely hope we've kept you well-informed and entertained these many years.

Charlie Martin

Artist or Band / "Song Title" / Album

Set 1 - From the first Christmas Eve Eve on KOOP, fifteen years ago:
01. The Jackofficers / "An Hawaiian Christmas Song" / Digital Dump
02. David Rodriguez / "The True Cross" / Landing 92
03. Robert Jacks & Kim Longacre / "Apocalyptic Horses" / Across the Great Divide - Songs of Jo Carol Pierce

Set 2 - A Germanic salute in memory of some Austin music icons who left us over the past fifteen years:
04. Deborah Harry and the late Robert Jacks / "Der Einziger Weg" / Der Einziger Weg
05. the late Karen Kohler / "Bilbao-Song" / Jam and Spice - The Songs of Kurt Weill
06. the late Steve Barton / "Leiermann" / Aria 2 - New Horizon

Set 3 - Many shades of Austin Braziliana - new discoveries and old favorites from the past fifteen years:
07. Arto Lindsay (with Austin's Stephen Barber on keyboards) / "Predigo" / Invoke
08. Dos Santos / "Morro do alto iluminado" / Retrato
09. Sambaxé / "Tem Dendê" / Macacada
10. Filé / "D'Jalma's Samba" / Hang on to Your Chapeau!
11. Live Action Brass Band / "Bocoxé" / Horn to Horn

Set 4 - Some favorite guests on The Austin Music Tour and Around the Town Sounds from the past fifteen years:
12. Golden Arm Trio / "Crossing Over" / Motherbone Variations
13. Dah-veed / "I'm Only 4" / Blind Hips in Motion
14. Maneja Beto / untitled track #3 / Maneja Beto demo EP
15. Govinda / "From My Cocoon" / Echoes of Eden

Santa Claus is Back in Town-Rusty Wier

Christmas in a Honky Tonk-Bill and Bonnie Hearne

Mason Dixon’s on the Line-Jerry Jeff Walker

Baby It’s Cold Outside-Christine Albert and Chris Gage

Hot Texas Christmas Day-Asleep at the Wheel with Dale Watson

Little Cajun Drummer Boy-Evan Johns and his H-Bombs (Champ Hood on fiddle)

Boogie Woogie Santa Claus-Angela Strehli

Christmas Fais Do-Do-Marcia Ball

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree-Lou Ann Barton

All You Filthy Heathens Are Making Baby Jesus Cry-Jeremiah Filthy and the Bigamy Brothers

In Exelsis Deo-David Garza

Christmas at Fat Aunt Bette’s-Andrea Perry

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (to tune of Sunshine of Your Love)-Freddie Steady 5

Merry Christmas, Darling-The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Blue Christmas-Johnny Dee and the Rocket 88s

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch-Trish and Darin Murphy

What a Merry Christmas This Would Be-Willie Nelson

Let’s Make Every Day Christmas Day-Paul Ray

Christmas on the Chisholm Trail-Cactus Pryor (from a 1958 45)

Christmas in the Center of the Earth-Wow

All I Want for Christmas-Timbuk3

Kiss This Christmas Goodbye-Sara Hickman

There Were Angels-Walt Wilkins

A Special Wish-B.W. Stevenson

Happy Chanukah, happy holidays, and happy weekend, everyone! Today I played a little Chanukah nosh, a little Latin, some alt-indie-pop-rock, a bit o' swing/jazz, and a whole lot more.

Here's what you heard on today's Around the Town Sounds:

(*title*artist*album name)
4:30pm

Audiometry/Built By Snow/Noise
Temporarily Insane/River City Seven/Purely Organic
Fall In Two/Smiling Knights/The Smiling Knights
TV/Zom Zoms/One Brain
Our Sun Is Always Rising/Quiet Company/Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon
The Name/The Eastern Sea/EP
Hit Miss/Collin Herring/Ocho
The Ocean Was No More/Some Say Leland/Fifty Miles Into the Main
Cassandra/All Hail/Truth, Love, War

5:00pm

Hartley Lake/NS/NS/Pleticulous Thoughts
Summer Nocturne No. 3/Hello Lovers/Gone With the Wind
Pining/Darling New Neighbors/Rocket
Dignificada/Vanessa Lively/A Chain Unbroken
Si Me Qieres/Cerronata/Raices y Ramas
Cumbia Mundial/Sarah Fox & Joel Guzman/Latinology

5:30pm

Ocho Candelikas/Galeet Dardashti & Lauren Checchio/Hill Country Hannukah
Lo Mir Freilachsein/Rubinchik's Yiddish Ensemble/Hill Country Hannukah
Baby Won't You Please Come Home/JWW & The Prospectors/Handmade EP
Cecilia/Jonathan Terrell/Trials & Stimulations
Gloryland Bus Driver/Lee Barber/Thief & Rescue
Better Place For You/Leo Rondeau/Down at the End of the Bar
Outskirts of Town/The Swingsters/EP 2009

Thanks for listening! Tune in next week to hear RUSH program! And two weeks from now, Charlie Martin is back at the helm celebrating a big KOOP anniversary show!

Kinky-Kinky Friedman

Mississippi Delta Blues-Kenneth Threadgill

Texas Echo-David Ball

New Mexico Rain-Bill and Bonnie Hearne

Mary’s Down from the Mountain-Shake Russell

Mr. Bojangles-Jerry Jeff Walker (version with strings, from The Bitter End Years)

Tuczon-The Shakin’ Apostles

Cowboys and Indians-Bob Livingston

Little Bird-Danny Britt

The Dutchman-Marvin Dykhuis

Happy Doin’ What We’re Doin’-Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands

No More Weekends in Warsaw-Secret Six (featuring Jesse Sublett)

I’ve Just Seen a Face-Roky Erickson and the Explosives (Beatles cover)

2000 Light Years from Home-Larry Wilson and his Blue City Knights (Stones cover)

Isla de Ninos-Elisa Ferrari (plays a Church of the Friendly Ghost event tomorrow, 8 P.M., at Salvage Vanguard Theater; Twigs & Yarn also performs)

Everybody Wants To Be a Cat- Jitterbug Vipers with Emily Gimble

Sugar Foot Stomp-Austin Jazz Workshop