That Record Got Me High Podcast

Returning guest and long-time friend of the show Tom Lawery brings us Sub Pop band (by way of the Carolinas) Band Of Horses and their second album, 2007s 'Cease To Begin'. Both evocative AND rocking, it's a record that delivers big riffs in a beautiful, indie-guitar pop package.
Songs discussed in this episode: Luther (Kendrick Lamar and SZA cover) - Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell; Trinidad - Geese; The Funeral - Band Of Horses; One Big Holiday - My Morning Jacket; They'll Only Miss You When You Leave - Carissa's Wierd; Is There A Ghost, Ode to LRC - Band Of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You - CeeLo Green; No One's Gonna Love You, Detlef Schrempf, The General Specific - Band Of Horses; Tears Of Rage - The Band; Lamb On The Lam (In The City), Islands On The Coast - Band Of Horses; Goin' Against Your Mind - Built To Spill; Mississippi - Bob Dylan; Marry's Song - Band Of Horses; Seven Bridges Road (Live) - The Eagles; Act Together - Ron Wood; Act Together (Live, 2007), Cigarettes, Wedding Bands, Window Blues - Band Of Horses; When I Get Old - Descendents

Technically Jeff Beck's seventh solo album - but only the second to bear only his name on the front cover - 1975s 'Blow By Blow' became a million-selling top-5 album, and proved once and for all there was truly nothing Jeff Beck could not do with a plank of wood and six strings. This week's guest, Filmmaker/Musician Peter Spirer (Rugged Entertainment), joins Rob as they attempt to unpack this instrumental classic.
Songs discussed in this episode: Freeway Jam (Live, 1976) - Jeff Beck With The Jan Hammer Group; Devil's Road - Sacred Cowboys; Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt; Spanish Boots - Jeff Beck; Blues Jam - The Rolling Stones (with Jeff Beck); Da Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart; You Know What I Mean - Jeff Beck; She's A Woman - The Beatles; She's A Woman - Jeff Beck; Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith; Constipated Duck, Air Blower - Jeff Beck; Stroll On - The Yardbirds; Pink Moon - Nick Drake; Scatterbrain - Jeff Beck; Frame By Frame - King Crimson; Lookin' For Another Pure Love - Stevie Wonder; Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck; 'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk; Thelonious, Freeway Jam, Freeway Jam (Live, 1976), Diamond Dust - Jeff Beck; Horrors - Hummingbird; The Lonely Ones - Z Toyz

His songs have been covered by HUNDREDS of bands over the years, and he's rightly been nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll". John Lennon may have said it best, "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
This week's guest, New Orleans musician Smitti Supab (Captain Buckles), brings us 'The Great Twenty-Eight' by the late, great Chuck Berry.
"Hail, hail rock and roll!"
Songs discussed in this episode: School Days - The Beach Boys (Live, Knebworth 1980), Iron City House Rockers, Bobby Vee, Jan and Dean, AC/DC; Cringe, Hurry Up, Bus Station Blues - Captain Buckles; Johnny Be Goode, Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry; Roll Over Beethoven - The Beatles; Too Much Monkey Business - Chuck Berry; Too Much Monkey Business - The Kinks; Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan; Havana Moon, School Days, Rock and Roll Music - Chuck Berry; Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles; Reelin' and Rockin', Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry; Surfin' U.S.A. - The Beach Boys; Beautiful Delilah - Chuck Berry; Beautiful Delilah - The Kinks; Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry; Memphis Tennessee - John Lennon and Chuck Berry with Yoko Ono; Nadine, Maybellene, No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry; Raindrops on Mardi Gras - Captain Buckles

For this special BONUS episode, Audio Engineer, Producer, Teacher and lead singer of Indiana's Zero Boys, Paul Mahern, brings us some of his favorite Teenage Tragedy Songs. Also known as Splatter Platters, Death Discs...etc, this style of songs lamenting teenage death scenarios - often in melodramatic fashion - peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s but still pack a twisted punch today. Let the teardrops fall!
Songs discussed in this episode: Last Kiss - Wayne Cochran (1961); Johnny Better Get - Zero Boys; Henry Lee - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Ft. PJ Harvey); Henry Lee - Dick Justice; New Rose - The Damned; Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls; Chain Saw - Ramones; Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton; Telstar - The Tornados; Tribute To Buddy Holly - Mike Berry and the Outlaws; Ode To Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry; Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles; Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People; Detroit Rock City - Kiss; Angie Baby - Helen Reddy; Rocket USA - Suicide; Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats; Come Back Jonee, Auto Modown - DEVO; Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols; The Water Was Red - Johnny Cymbal; Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean; Teen Angel - Mark Dinning; Leah - Roy Orbison; Warm Leatherette - Grace Jones; Warm Leatherette - The Normal; Timothy - The Buoys

We FINALLY dipped our toes into the George Clinton/P-Funk universe, as this week's guest Adrian Herrera - aka DJ Blacksmith - brings us 1976s 'Hardcore Jollies' by Funkadelic.
"If you got funk, you got style
You're funkin' and you're styling all the while
When you got funk, you got class
You're out on the floor movin' your ass"
Songs discussed in this episode: Comin' Round The Mountain (Live, 1976) - Funkadelic; Pais Tropical - Jorge Ben Jor; Hell Before Sunrise - Oscar Herrera; Fuck Wit Dre Day - Dr. Dre; So What - Miles Davis; Give Up The Funk - Parliament; Hit It And Quit It, One Nation Under A Groove, Comin' Round The Mountain, Smokey, If You Got Funk, You Got Style - Funkadelic; Ms Jackson - Outkast; I'm Never Gonna Tell It, Hardcore Jollies, Soul Mate - Funkadelic; Soul Mate - D'Angelo (Live, GQ Plugs In Behind The Scenes); Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic; Walking In Rhythm - Blackbyrds; You Scared The Lovin' Outta Me, March To The Witch's Castle, Adolescent Funk - Funkadelic; Rockit - Herbie Hancock; DAISIES - Justin Bieber; Helter Skelter - The Beatles; Cosmic Slop - Axiom Funk