Elizabeth McQueen

Brennen Leigh // Noel McKay // Lisa Pankratz

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with country music collaborators Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay to talk about musical experiences they had as kids that are still influencing their lives today. And she talks to drummer Lisa Pankratz about a classic song that inspires the way she approaches her music.

You can check out Brennen Leigh’s Indiegogo campaign for the project where she sings the songs of Lefty Frizzel here.

You can listen to the songs from Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay’s studio 1A Session here

You can listen to Noel McKay’s MyKUTX DJ set here.

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John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants

This week guest interviewer Bill Childs, host of Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child, sits down with John Flansburgh and John Linnell from They Might Be Giants to hear about the impact of the Batman theme and a evolving charm of a song from a record inspired by the Pogo cartoon. Along the way they also chat about kid record collections and the power of riffs and lyrics.

Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child airs Sunday nights at 6pm on KUTX.

And here is the They Might Be Giants performance from May 14th, 2015 in Studio 1A.

For those you who want to hear the original Pussywillows version of Hillbilly Drummer Girl, here it is!

And here is the TMBG video of their version of “Whence that Wince.”

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Toro y Moi // Gordon Moakes

In this episode of “This Song” Elizabeth sits down with Chaz Bundick, aka Toro y Moi aka Les Sins, and Gordon Moakes, who played bass with Bloc Party and now plays with Young Legionnaire. He also has a podcast called Exploded Drawing, where artists talk about one of their favorite 90’s records. Both musicians spoke about songs and records that showed them the possibilities of where they could take their music.

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Hal Ketchum // Pokey Lafarge

On this episode of “This Song,” Elizabeth McQueen sits down with Hal Ketchum to hear how the music of Van Morrison has inspired him since his days as a teenage drummer playing rowdy clubs. And Pokey LaFarge talks about how Lefty Frizzel’s imperfect yet compelling singing influenced his own music.

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This Song: Magna Carda

On this episode of This Song, Elizabeth McQueen sits down with the members of Magna Carda — Megz Kelli, Dougie Do, Eric Nikolaides, Derek Van Wagner and Michael Gonzales — and hears about each of their important songs–everything from the Soulquarians to Sir Duke.

Magna Carda has a new record out called Like it Is, which you can download for free from Bandcamp.

This Song was recorded by Cliff Hargrove and edited and produced by Elizabeth McQueen with help from David Sanger. The theme song is “Mahout” by Hard Proof.

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Brian Beattie //Kathy McCarty //Ray Benson

In this episode of “This Song” we hear Brian Beattie talk about a song that blew him away and made a shelf in his brain, Kathy McCarty talks about a song that opened her up to the possibility that songwriting wasn’t just for people from the olden times, and Ray Benson explores a song that showed him the power of one note played with emotion.

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Mojo Nixon // Kat Edmonson // Aaron Behrens

This Song — Mojo Nixon, Kat Edmonson, Aaron Behrens

Welcome to the first ever “This Song” podcast! This week we have three amazing artists!

Mojo Nixon: The rock musician, DJ, lover of Elvis and natural born iconoclast talks about why “Sweet Soul Music” by Arthur Conley is the song that still makes him feel like an exuberant 10-year-old.

Kat Edmonson: Fresh off the release of her new record “The Big Picture,” the former Austinite talks about how Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn” inspired her recording of “Rainy Day Woman.”

Aaron Behrens: The former Ghostland Observatory singer has struck out his own with Aaron Behrens and the Midnight Stroll He talks about how when he was a kid, Curtis Mayfield’s “We People Darker Than Blue” from the Dead Presidents Volume 2 soundtrack opened his eyes to the possibilities of music.

Our intro and outro music is “Mahout” from the local Austin band Hardproof Afrobeat.

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