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This week, Justin was assigned the year 2005 and selected Lucero's Nobody's Darlings to discuss.

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Song clips featured on this episode:

Lucero - Watch It Burn

Lucero - Bikeriders

Lucero - Nobody's Darlings

Cover Story is back with all new episodes! We are kicking off the 2nd Season of Cover Story with a very vibrant episode: “Nature is Funny." Our Side B takes us from the gritty, early days of Punk where we zero in on Iggy Pop and The Stooges and their incredible influence on some of our favorite musicians like Kurt Cobain, Joey Ramone, and Patti Smith. Our Side A takes us on a circuitous route to Nigeria as co-host Matt Filler connects the dots from David Byrne to Hot Chip and helps answer the question, “Who was William Onyeabor and why is his song, 'Atomic Bomb', so good?” And, since this is our first episode after a two year Covid induced hiatus, we also enjoy a brief return to Muff’s Corner…Won’t you join us? 

Welcome to Part 2 of my song-for-song interpretation of Exile On Main St where I provide my explanations for each selection. I wanted to think about the album differently, as if its 18 songs were 18 individual ideas that influenced thousands of future bands in sometimes not so obvious ways. Instead of the Black Crowes, Pearl Jam, and White Stripes, we get You Am I, Wilco, and Maria McKee.

I spent over three years writing and editing Don't Call It Nothing: The Lost History of '90s Roots, Rap & Rock 'n' Roll and the book is now available to you for the low, low cost of free! The book is part autobiography, part biography, part social history, and all music history. It’s an excellent reference tool for the best American music of the decade, largely driven underground in favor of terrible grunge, emo, Britpop, nu metal, and rap rock.

And as a reward (punishment?) for finishing his damn book, LD created a song-for-song interpretation of Exile On Main St. 18 songs that individually match the aesthetic of the 18 songs on Exile. Oh, and to add a level of difficulty, most of the songs are from the 1990s — this makes sense given this podcast — and even the 3-4 that were recorded in the 2000s are by bands who began in the ‘90s. Enjoy!

On this week's show, we... 

• nerd out over last week's Son Volt show at The Visulite Theatre & The Outlaw Tour's stop at PNC Music Pavilion
• spend quality time with Mac McCaughan's new solo joint 
• celebrate 30 years of Nirvana's Nevermind 

All this & much, much less!

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Don't Call It Nothing Episode 6 now live! We revisit 1993, the year Uncle Tupelo released the best rock album *and* best country album and did so facing up to the juggernaut that was suburban minivan country rock a la Garth Brooks and The Eagles. 

• Meredith was referencing "An Empty Corner" when she sang "You've got family out there." Did you catch it?
• Wilco is going back on tour, rescheduling a whole bunch of previously canceled dates, and here is their schedule. Also, did you know that there's a feature to request a song? Pretty sweet!
• The Tweedy Show has been the livestream highlight of the pandemic - you can watch all past episodes on the @StuffInOurHouse IGTV, but you can see them with comments preserved on YouTube.
• Here's the hundredth episode in which they adopted all of the clients, here is the union that has formed, and here is the Tweedy Show website with some of the merchandise they've sold for charity.
• Looks like Gary Louris of the Jayhawks livestreams through Patreon.
• Touring has started again, and it looks like Sue Tweedy is at least trying to bring Tweedy Show fans along.
• Here's an example of some of the stuff in the Tweedy house: this gruesome medical kit, mentioned as Susie's favorite thing in an interview she graciously granted Meredith.
• Take a listen to Nels's newest release!
• Here's Pat Sansone's photography book 100 Polaroids.
• And here is Pat's most recent production project, dedicated to its co-producer Josh Shapera who passed away in late 2020.
• Here's Meredith's Single Song Shows thing Mary mentioned. It's also on YouTube.
• John Stirratt's hotel Tourists Welcome looks cute, and we wish we could go there now.
• Jeff Tweedy's book How To Write One Song came out during the pandemic, and it is delightfully encouraging.
• Here is the Facebook Group called A Shot in the Arm full of kindhearted, welcoming folks.
• Here is our fellow Wilco podcast: Alpha Bravo Charlie, the Alphabetical Wilco.
• "Love is the King" by Jeff Tweedy, featuring Sammy and Spencer Tweedy, came out during the pandemic, too. (And it ended up on Barack Obama's playlist.)
• AZLyrics.com reflects George Saunders's contribution to "A Robin or a Wren."
• Sammy, Spencer, and Jeff Tweedy were all in the Lincoln in the Bardo audiobook. Look at this cast list!
• Here is Fox 8 by George Saunders.
• This conversation with Nick Offerman was very, very fun, and we're sorry if you missed it.
• Here's the Largo's Instagram account - Tweedy pal "Flanny" manages it.
• And here's the Conan episode of The Tweedy Show.
• A big thank you to our contributors: Portola Studios, Greta Stromquist, and Adam Nash.
• And a big thank you to all of YOU!

Christian and I reference "Tim & Gend" quite a lot in this episode so just for context I'll explain that. Tim Warwood & Adam Gendle are two UK pro snowboarders who dominated the local snowboard scene when I started snowboarding at 16. They went onto become filmmakers and TV presenters and they now host a podcast of their own (edited by yours truly) called Tim & Gends Weekend podcast. check it out here...

https://tim-and-gends-weekend.simplecast.com/episodes 

Follow Christian here...

https://djbbq.com 

https://www.instagram.com/djbbq/ 

Christians Mixtape on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/60HW8PaBmoIvr6KZcCS6pv?si=s6il77WoQhOvyNuwCBATGQ

Christians Mixtape on Apple Music

https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/mixtapes-with-mike-christian-stevenson/pl.u-06ox7YWTRRyo0

Nobody Knows  6:31 Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir 

Mayonaise (Remastered)  5:49 Smashing Pumpkins 

Helplessly Hoping  2:42 Crosby, Stills & Nash 

Sandusky  3:44 Uncle Tupelo 

Bad Girl (Part 1)  2:24 Lee Moses

What You Won't Do for Love  4:46 Bobby Caldwell

Do I Do (1982 Musiquarium Version)  10:28 Stevie Wonder

Disintegration  8:20 The Cure

Green Mind  4:57 Dinosaur Jr. 

Livin' On a Prayer  4:10 Bon Jovi 

The boys are not trying to break your heart, but they will entertain you. Lucas and Cail are joined by Mack Gordon from Theatre In the Dark for a deep-dive into this seminal record from one of Chicago's finest.

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• Grab tickets for "War of the Worlds" until November 21st.

Because we're gluttons for punishment, we're taking a break from work this Labor Day weekend with songs about the last thing you want to think about this weekend - work.

Haunting melodies for the long, dark night shift of the soul.
Anthems to shout when the whistle blows. 
Laments for when the job blows.
Tunes to whistle while you work.
plus some new songs that have nothing to do with work.

All this & much, much less!

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.