On the radio

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I was lucky enough to be the guest DJ on my brother Jordan Mitchell's radio show yesterday. He's got a 2 and one half hour slot on KDVS, Davis, CA on Wednesdays. His show is called Music for a Porch Life, and is consistently excellent.
If you missed it (ha ha) you can download the stream here, and have it on your computer FOREVER, to listen to at your whim!

MUSIC FOR A PORCH LIFE

I've never been on the radio in a musical capacity before. I won a poetry contest (actually, a couple) at the end of highschool, and had to read my winning poem on the radio (my poem contained the word "cocksuckers" so I had to change it, so I replaced the offensive word with the less offensive and completely ridiculous "carrotsuckers") but since then I haven't really had any experince.

I approached the show like I was making a giant mix tape, and then it became second nature for me. First Nature. I made a list of all the songs that I love that I thought fit into the constraints of my brother's show; "Dark bars, dusty roads, murder ballads and songs about trains".
Then we prepped the show in a listening station the night before, fitting the songs together by tempo and subject matter and feel. Just like making a mix tape back in the old days, where you actually had to LISTEN TO THE WHOLE SONG before you put the next on on. (Not like making CD mix where you don't have to listen to any music while throwing it together).
My take on Music for a Porch Life is more feminine, and has more echo and buzz than twang. Mazzy Star, Concrete Blonde, Jason Molina.....and more of the most melancholy bittersweet beautiful songs ever.

" A love song is never simply happy.
It must first embrace the potential for pain.
Those songs that speak of love without having within their lines an ache or sigh are not love songs at all but rather they are hate songs disguised as love songs and they are not to be trusted."


-Nick Cave
"the Secret Life of the Love Song"
Please enjoy!