KCRW Broadcast 709

Fanatic. I hope you’ve been doing great and listening to a lot of music. I’m about to leave for the last three shows of the year, which will be in Honolulu. I’ll come back from that and get back to work on things at the office and get ready to sign copies of my new book Sic, which we will put on sale as soon as they return from the printer, hopefully before the end of the year.

I wanted to give you a heads up on two 12”s Larry Hardy of In The Red Records and I have put together which Larry will be unleashing next month. It was almost the entire year to get them back from the pressing plant. These two projects, a long time in the making, were cut from the original masters, our versions sonically out do the originals and we added unreleased tracks from the sessions to both. Mastered by Mikey Young, previously on 7”, recut onto 12”, they sound awesome. Okay, the lead up was pretty good, who's on the records? Not wanting to put the cart in front of the horse, I’ll probably tell you in the show notes for 11-19-22. They will be out for Black Friday on 11-25-22. We reckon you’re going to be extremely stoked. We’ve sent copies of the records to the artists and I sent one of each to Ian MacKaye. I’m waiting to hear about what he thinks.

Kid Congo’s book Some New Kind Of Kick is SO GOOD! Very happy he put his amazing story on a page. Well written and what a life. Here’s more info.

The Hammered Hulls album is out!

A new C.I.A album out on Jan 20!

And besides all that, we have a tremendous show lined up for you with a blazin’ way to end our October shows. We’ve got a ton of new bands for next month, so get ready for that.

Jerry Lee Lewis passed away. I had some interesting conversations with him many years ago both at his house in Mississippi and in NYC.

One of the most intense people I’ve ever met, that’s for sure. We hope you dig the show. Until November, have a good week and stay Fanatic.

–– Henry