"Still Transmitting" b/w "Ashes to Ashes"

Alright, listening public-- Here are the last two cuts from the 7th-ish Roadkill Buttsteak recordings, from  September 2012, a day or so from Torrey Smith and the Baltimore Ravens executing a jaw-dropping Sunday night comeback against the Pats at whatever they call that big purple-y stadium by Camden Yards.

"Still Transmitting" is a hat-tip to "Straightaways"-era Son Volt.  Thinking a lot of goldrush/ boomtown '90s Baltimore when I wrote it, it's another song about just keeping at it, whatever "it" is, and generally enjoying the ride.  I also figured I'd tack on the demo version, so you could see what, if anything, Roadkill gets in advance by way of song structure, and how much these things evolve as they go.  "Are you receiving?", indeed!

We also did us a little David Bowie cover, in the usual slapdash fashion, with too much slathered on, or not enough.  But what a fine tune, and fun to play.  Back in the "Let's Dance" era, I remember going with my sister into the old music store on White Plains' Post Road, and he asking the guy to get the "Scary Monsters (...and Super Creeps)" cassette from the display case.  I sort of got this song at the time, but I preferred his MTV stuff, if any at all, and it took decades for the album to sink in....  Such is life.

jk

"Still Transmitting":         https://app.box.com/s/2ndefb66hzfrcm7rqr47


"Ashes to Ashes":          https://app.box.com/s/273lqmozxapmuap8p9rm


"Still Transmitting" (demo):  https://app.box.com/s/blen8ddldw4kdq4yfev9

"Caroline, Yes" b/w "The Ghost In You"

Summer wanes and whaddaya get?  Well this week, there's a sweet ol' RKBS original instrumental, name of "Caroline, Yes".  We are oh so clever for making this here wordless reply to the Beach Boy's "Caroline, No", aren't we?  In any event, it's a nice lil' song, and we do hope you get to digging this one, too...

The other goodie continues our ongoing '80s revisionist history: a measured, somewhat "MTV Unplugged" version of the Psychedelic Furs' A-No.-1 classic, "The Ghost in You", from their last good album, "Mirror Moves", in 1984.

JK

"Caroline, Yes":          https://app.box.com/s/bupsgqu658amy17j0w0t


"The Ghost in You":    https://app.box.com/s/i37log22lz83tjbno0lb

"Hot Rod" b/w "The Killing Moon"

One original for you cats, and a cover...

"Hot Rod" is the "original"-- a character study admittedly heavily influenced by the dearly departed Phil Lynott (he of the great Thin Lizzy).  It came together last year and immediately earned itself a soft spot in my heart.  This on account of the excuse to bust out the dumb rock thump, the guitarmonies and the wah-wah, but mostly on account of the subject matter.  Gives me a warm late '90s Baltimore feeling all through my sullen bones, it does.  "Hope you dig it, Jack!"

"The Killing Moon" is cover of Echo & the Bunnymen's dark classic from their '84 masterwork, "Ocean Rain", gussied up with a little REM-style Rickenbacker, tinkling piano and some swoops of pedal steel.  I'd mentioned last time how nice the drums sounded in that torn-up, post-tenant/ pre-renovation room at Stately Roadkill Manor?  Check 'em out on this one!

jk

"Hot Rod":                          https://app.box.com/s/su6ax7nd2h3u91vrcvmc


"The Killing Moon":            https://app.box.com/s/guteahq16x5vljw9z7ph

"Nicky, I Never Knew" b/w "Dominique"

Briefly, a couple more originals are up next, via me and Señor Roadkill.  As with the rest of this batch, the drums were recorded at the Roadkills' Charm City Manor back in autumn '12, in a great-sounding room downstairs, post-tenant and pre-renovation.  There's really not much to say about the songs otherwise.  You decide:

"Nicky, I Never Knew":        https://app.box.com/s/t3cvwg69omdaikb7dpk2

"Dominique":                        https://app.box.com/s/gkrg88p1scqyeaehgita