HOMEGROWN ROCKER 9/2/12 (FRED MYERS & REDNECK MAJORITY)

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the September 2 edition of Rocky 104.9 and Rocky 99's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 10 PM on WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com) and WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com).

Thanks to our guests this week, rising area country music force Fred Myers & the Redneck Majority (http://fredmyersrednecks.com/). We met the band members and learned their story, including their recent signing to an independent record label and plans to record and issue a new album soon. We also heard songs from the group’s first album, Wild For You. Along the way, we debuted new songs from Pat McGinnis, The Backyard Rockers and Walt & Jackie. We also updated “Local Music News,” dug a 1997 song by Pittsburgh’s Dharma Sons from the archive for this week’s “Local Music Flashback,” and reviewed the Mountain Road’s Country Rockin’ Blues CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner.”

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

SOUTH SIDE STRAYS – “Sprawl”
FELIX & THE HURRICANES – “Coming Home to You”
FRED MYERS & THE REDNECK MAJORITY – “Redneck Majority”
PAT McGINNIS – “Shades of Gray”
FRED MYERS & THE REDNECK MAJORITY – “Never Too Late”
THE BACKYARD ROCKERS – “Tara’s Song”
FRED MYERS & THE REDNECK MAJORITY – “What Do You Live For”
ED RHOADES – “Volcano”

HOUR TWO:

PURE CANE SUGAR – “Designated Driver”
MYCENEA WORLEY – “100 Days”
FRED MYERS & THE REDNECK MAJORITY – “Wild for You”
MOUNTAIN ROAD – “Nothing”
FRED MYERS & THE REDNECK MAJORITY – “He Rode On”
DHARMA SONS – “Hope You’re Happy” (1997, Local Music Flashback)
FRED MYERS & THE REDNECK MAJORITY – “I Love It”
WALT & JACKIE – “Steppin’ Stone”

Since the Pittsburgh Steelers begin their regular season with a Sunday night game at Denver next week, there will be no “Homegrown Rocker” next week. The show will return on Sunday, September 16, at our new football season air time of 9 to 11 p.m., and our guests will be Harrisburg area hard rockers Tukurpa! We will meet the band members and learn their story, and hear newly recorded tracks from them. Along the way, we will also update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for another “Local Music Flashback,” and review Images Of Eden’s Rebuilding the Ruins CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” Tukurpa guests on the “Homegrown Rocker” when it returns on Sunday night, September 16!

Upcoming guests and specials include:

SEPT. 23 – LOCAL AMERICANA SPECIAL
SEPT. 30 – ALEX RAMSDELL
OCT. 7 – JOHN “JT” THOMPSON
OCT. 21 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS FOOTBALL)
OCT. 28 – DANIEL COLLINS/STATE COLLEGE THEN & NOW
NOV. 11 – ACOUSTIC JAM SPECIAL
NOV. 18 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS FOOTBALL)

For regular updates on what is happening on the area music scene, pay a visit to Rockpage (www.rockpage.net). Rockpage features band links, a message board, "Homegrown Rocker" updates, live show and CD reviews in “JP’s Corner," and other local music scene information.

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on "The Homegrown Rocker" are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: WRKY Radio, One Forever Drive, Hollidaysburg, PA 16648; ATTN: Jim Price. Or drop the recordings off at the station during regular business hours, Monday-Friday 9 AM - 5 PM. You can also email me with inquiries about the show at profjp@rocky1049.com.

Jim Price

In Local Music News…

First, an update on former Gas Station Disco, Pushing Red and Kitty Whip singer Cryssie Mullins…As of June, Cryssie is now singing for a Birmingham, Alabama-based modern rock cover band called GypsyRiot. Cryssie’s former bandmates in Gas Station Disco played at Pellegrine’s in Altoona this past Sunday night.

Another feature has been added to next weekend’s Woody at 100 celebration at Penn State. Woody Guthrie’s daughter, Nora Guthrie, will offer a presentation on her father entitled “Woody in New York City” next Saturday, September 8 at 8 p.m. in Room 117 of the Osmond Building auditorium on Penn State’s University Park campus. The presentation will be free and open to the public. The Woody at 100 celebration, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of American songwriter Woody Guthrie, takes place at Penn State from September 6-8 and will feature various panels, workshops and musical presentations.

And final preparations are being made for next month’s second annual Patched Together benefit concert, which helps out the Healing Patch program of the Home Nursing Agency. This year’s Patched Together benefit will take place on Saturday, October 13 at Pellegrine’s in Altoona, and will feature a wide variety of musical performers plus other activities. Bands and performers slated to perform at this year’s Patched Together benefit include Felix & the Hurricanes, Chris Vipond & the Stanley Street Band, Jim Donovan and the Sun King Warriors, Rain Must Fall, Mama Corn, The Big Time, Rapid Fire, One Brick Shy, R2B2 and the Backyard Rockers. The show will be all-ages. A special compilation CD is being assembled featuring performers from both this year’s and last year’s Patched Together concerts.