Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

In an alternate reality version of 2020, we might have spent damn near the entire episode celebrating the 45th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen 's Born To Run. Unfortunately, the 2020 we did get continues to kick us in the collective 'nards, then laugh as we gasp for breath. This week alone, marked by senseless acts of police brutality & vigilante violence in Kenosha, and the RNC's funhouse mi...

On this week's show, we've got brand new music from Old 97's & The Waterboys , Television being revolutionized by Luna , and the improvisational summit of Mac McCaughan & Mary Lattimore . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM...

This week's show boasts tracks from Orville Peck 's major label debut, new music from Grammy-winning blues rocker Fantastic Negrito , a bumper crop of outstanding under-the-radar alt.country & a visit from some family & friends. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at...

On this week's show, we do our part to keep a legendary NC music venue open. If you'd like to help, please check out Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover to Benefit Cat's Cradle . We also give it up for a couple of records we dig that not only turn 10 years old this week, they topped our 2010 Top 10 list. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of...

On this week's show, we treat you to a preview of the new Lemon Twigs record, offer an overview of the sorely underrated Los Lobos side hustle known as Latin Playboys , whet your musical appetite with a sampling of PJ Harvey 's Dry demos, and chill with a trio called Muzz . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodl...

As a young man of few dollars & even fewer means, my friends & I would sometimes pool our meager resources together when things looked bleak. What we managed to scrape together would result in a surprisingly festive feast, an impromptu party, or some other damn magical celebration of surviving another day of being young & broke. That's kindasorta how I felt when putting together this w...

On this week's show, we proudly present an extended preview of The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me Deluxe Edition box set, dig into the new record from Detroit's post-punk powerhouse Protomartyr , dig some hypnotic new grooves from the second collaborative summit of Ethio-jazz godfather Mulatu Astatke & Australian Ethio-jazz-hip-hop-funk octet Black Jesus Experience, and make good on our long...

On this week's show, we pour one out for the late, great Ennio Morricone , bear witness to Margo Price tapping into her inner Stevie Nicks , and pop open a 6-pack of tracks each from a couple of world-class badass digital compilations - Pandemophenia from Chicago's Bloodshot Records & Father/Daughter Records ' Adam Schlesinger tribute album, Saving for a Custom Van .  All this & much, much...

Enjoy an extended set of summer jams , sandwiched between some night music from the official unofficial house band of summer , and some other pretty chill grooves . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 &...

Year-end Top 10 contenders? Quite possibly! Here are some of the albums we dug from the first half of 2020, plus we spend quality time with new records from HAIM & Khruangbin . All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, N...

99.9% of the music in this episode is new (or at least it was at the time of recording). We spend quality time with brand new records from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever & Steve Earle & The Dukes , as well as sprawling epics from The Waterboys & Bob Dylan. We bear witness to the triumphant return of Kathleen Edwards & Orville Peck's leap from indie to major label. Plus, we get a g...

The world's been turned upside down by the Thanos-snap of COVID-19 , the president continues to defy logic & good sense at every turn, and the horrific & inexcusable death of George Floyd reverberates throughout the world with a louder-than-ever dialogue about police brutality , police reform & systemic racism that will hopefully bring about some long overdue change. It's gonna be a lo...

This episode found us spending quality time with new records from Chicano Batman & Damien Jurado , as well as the first record in 13 years from Devil Doll . PLUS.... We gave away mad prizes. All this & much, much less! The episode was scheduled to air on 5/2/20, but tech issues at our previous radio home ( Plaza Midwood Community Radio - a Charlotte-based grassroots internet radio station)...