HOMEGROWN ROCKER 9/30/12

[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the September 30 edition of Rocky 104.9 and Rocky 99's weekly local music program, "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 9 to 11 PM during Steelers football season on WRKY-FM (www.rocky1049.com) and WRKW-FM (www.rocky99.com).

This week, with our guest having to postpone his appearance, we took the opportunity to empty the “Homegrown Rocker” mailboxes to check out several new recordings that have arrived in recent weeks. We heard new songs from Dave Kephart, The Hawks Blues Band, Brandi Hari, Jason O, Drew Dodson w/Sean Osborn, Neon Swing X-perience, Jordan White and The Dylanistas. We also updated “Local Music News,” dug into the archive for a 1993 song by Pittsburgh’s Torn and Frayed for this week’s “Local Music Flashback,” and stepped “Across State Lines” to check out a song by Virginia’s Madrone. And lastly, we reviewed two CD’s in “The Professor’s CD Corner,” as we dissected Philip Masorti’s Another Year and Ceramic Jesus albums and featured tracks from both!

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

RAIN MUST FALL – “Radio”
TABLE TEN – “Lift Me Up”
DAVE KEPHART – “She Likes to Ride”
THE HAWKS BLUES BAND – “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” (live)
BRANDI HARI – “Diamonds and Gold”
THE BADLEES – “Anodyne”
JASON O – “I Quit My Day Job”
PHILIP MASORTI – “Great Indoorsman”
DREW DODSON w/SEAN OSBORN – “Sing Along” (live)
THE BACKYARD ROCKERS – “Tara’s Song”

HOUR TWO:

NORMAN NARDINI – “Son of a Gun”
FELIX & THE HURRICANES – “Coming Home to You”
NEON SWING X-PERIENCE – “Tragically Uncool”
PHILIP MASORTI – “Breathe Again”
JORDAN WHITE – “Bloodshot”
TORN AND FRAYED – “Tennessee” (1993, Local Music Flashback)
MADRONE – “Bullet and a Reason” (Across State Lines)
THE DYLANISTAS – “Pop Stars”
SYNESTHESIA – “Solace of Shadows”
WHERE THE TRUTH LIES – “Make Your Stand”
PAINTED BY MILLIONS – “I Didn’t Think”

On our next program, our guest will be one of the luminaries of the Happy Valley music scene, as singer, songwriter and keyboardist John “JT” Thompson will join us! “JT Blues” will share his story with us, and we’ll check out tracks from his latest CD, This Way That Way. John will also set up his keyboard and play a song or two live for us! Along the way, we will also update “Local Music News,” dig into the archive for another “Local Music Flashback,” and review Little Buddy’s Bridgeport Train CD in “The Professor’s CD Corner!” John “JT” Thompson on the “Homegrown Rocker” this Sunday night!

Upcoming guests and specials include:

OCT. 14 – ALEX RAMSDELL
OCT. 21 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS FOOTBALL)
OCT. 28 – DANIEL COLLINS/STATE COLLEGE THEN & NOW
NOV. 4 – TUKURPA
NOV. 11 – PAUL SHIMMEL
NOV. 18 – (NO SHOW DUE TO STEELERS FOOTBALL)
NOV. 25 – ACOUSTIC JAM SPECIAL
DEC. 2 – LOOK LEFT
DEC. 23 – CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
DEC. 30 – 2012 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL PT. 1
JAN. 6 – 2012 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL PT. 2

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…

A benefit concert in Lewistown last night raised more than $3,000 to help out an area musician seriously burned in an accident earlier this week. The “Beautiful Gathering” benefit at the Bierhaus in Lewistown was quickly organized after Tuesday’s accident, in which A Beautiful Mess drummer Harry Bleyer sustained second- and third-degree burns to nearly 80 percent of his body after a propane tank exploded near him in his Lewistown garage. Bleyer continues to receive treatments at an Allentown burn center, where he is listed in critical condition. Bands and artists who performed at last night’s benefit concert included It Is Written, Timber Tantrum, Ronnie Henry, Salt of the Earth, Drop Dead Sarcasm, Ganister, The Sorta Kindas, Johnny Unit, Junkhouse (formerly Represent The Lie) and Bleyer’s band A Beautiful Mess (with Ganister’s Randy Wilson filling in on drums). Other benefits and other fundraisers for Bleyer are in the planning stages; more details for these will be announced as information becomes available.

If you are interested in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or its memorabilia, Penn State Altoona has a special lunchtime presentation happening Monday, October 1. The campus will present a lecture by Howard Kramer, Curatorial Director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Monday from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. Kramer's lecture is titled "Close Encounters with the Stars and Artifacts of Rock." Kramer has been the curatorial director at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland since 1996. He joined the museum after working in the music industry for over 15 years. Admission to this presentation is free.