Sonic Cafe that was the classic Lido Shuffle from Boz Scaggs. Welcome to episode 291 “The car is fine - as long as the radio works”. I’m your host Tom Ferguson. Crusin’ and crankin’ tunes. That’s what this show is all about. Whether your car is running or not, we’re gonna get you movin’ to the groove of these road worthy songs from over the past half century. You’ll hear jams from Jeff Beck, Porcupine Tree, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton and many more. Don’t know what kind of car you want? Listen for Rex Havens. He can tell you then kind of car you need in every imaginable situation. So let’s put it in gear and get started with the inventor of rock and roll guitar Chuck Berry with his 1964 single No particular place to go. Here at the Sonic Cafe.
Song 1: Lido Shuffle Artist: Boz Scaggs LP: Silk Degrees Yr: 1976 Song 2: No Particular Place To Go Artist: Chuck Berry LP: 60's Ultimate Collection Yr: 1964 Song 3: Fill-Er-Up Artist: Sparks LP: Big Beat Yr: 2008 Song 4: Open Car Artist: Porcupine Tree LP: Deadwing Yr: 2005 Song 5: When Your Cars Name Descibes You Artist: Rex Havens LP: Yr: Song 6: Can't Get my motor to start Artist: Nick Mason LP: Fictitious Sports Year: 1981 Song 7: 45 Artist: Elvis Costello LP: When I was Cruel Yr: 2002 Song 8: Drive Artist: R.E.M. LP: Automatic For The People Yr: 1992 Song 9: Freeway Jam Artist: Jeff Beck LP: Live at the Hollywood Bowl Yr: 2017 Song 10: No Money Down Artist: Sammy Kershaw LP: The Blues Got Me Yr: 2016 Song 11: Well, well, well Artist: Duffy LP: Later With Jools Yr: 2018 Song 12: She's Waiting Artist: Eric Clapton LP: The Clapton Chronicles Yr: 1999 Song 13: Drive Artist: Adrian Belew LP: Side Three Yr: 2006 Song 14: Highway 75 Artist: Chris Joss LP: Monomanics Vol. 1 Yr: 2010 Song 15: Cars Trucks Buses Artist: Phish LP: Billy Breathes Yr: 1996 Song 16: White Car Artist: Yes LP: Drama Yr: 1980
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)