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Renny's Riot
Wednesday February 5th, 2025 with Ruthless Renny
Lost In Austin or The Buck Stops Here: Mike Buck's recordings, including his new album with Eve Monsees "...& Their Groovy Orbit". Eric Hisaw Band's new l.p. "Otra Vess" & Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trusees' "Work Release" recording.

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Renny's Riot (instr)
The Scarlet Drops - The Scarlet Drops 1984-1992 - 1989 What Wave/2021 Harriet Records/Bandcamp Canadian
Running Shoes
Fabulous Thunderbirds - What's The Word? - 1980 Chrysalis
Sugar Coated Love
Fabulous Thunderbirds - What's The Word? - 1980 Chrysalis
Check This Action
LeRoi Brothers - Check This Action - 1983 Amazing Records, Jungle Records, Demon Records
I Don't Wanna Stop
LeRoi Brothers - Lucky Lucky Me - 1985 New Rose Records
Shanghai Cobra (instr)
Big Guitars From Texas - Trash, Twang And Thunder - 1985 Jungle Records, Demon Records
Do The Dootz (instr)
Big Guitars From Texas - Trash, Twang And Thunder - 1985 Jungle Records, Demon Records
Gulf Coast Saturday Night
Ted & The Tall Tops - Ted & The Tall Tops - 1987 New Rose Records
Bad Boy
Ted & The Tall Tops - Ted & The Tall Tops - 1987 New Rose Records
Bad Girl
South Filthy - You Can Name It Yo' Mammy If You Wanna... - 2002 Sympathy For The Record Industry
L.A. County Jail
South Filthy - You Can Name It Yo' Mammy If You Wanna... - 2002 Sympathy For The Record Industry
Tried To Hide
Eve Monsees & Mike Buck - ...& Their Groovy Orbit - 2024 Serpent Records New
Lucky
Eve Monsees & Mike Buck - ...& Their Groovy Orbit - 2024 Serpent Records New
Purple Haze
Eve Monsees & Mike Buck - ...& Their Groovy Orbit - 2024 Serpent Records New
Strychnine
Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trustees - Work Release - 2025 Chaputa! Records New
One Step Closer
Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trustees - Work Release - 2025 Chaputa! Records New
Instrument Of Losers
Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trustees - Work Release - 2025 Chaputa! Records New
11 Months and 29 Days
Walter Daniels & The Del Valle Trustees - Work Release - 2025 Chaputa! Records New
Even When I Want To
The Eric Hisaw Band - Otra Vez - 2025 Bandcamp New
In With The Out Crowd (instr)
Eric Hisaw Band - Otra Vez - 2025 Bandcamp New
Heart Of Stone
The Eric Hisaw Band - Otra Vez - 2025 Bandcamp New
Dead Flowers
Steve Earle & The Dukes - The Other Kind [Back Out On The Road Again] - 1990 MCA Records
Steve Earle
Fiftymen - After Darkfall - 2002 Bandcamp Canadian
Transportation
Jean Caffeine's All-Nite Truckstop - Hard Work and a Lot of Hairspray! - 1992 Porch Music
That was the Liquor Talking
Jean Caffeine's All-Nite Truckstop - Jean Caffeine's All-Nite Truckstop - 1990 Porch Music
Marie
Townes Van Zandt with Willie Nelson - Mojo Presents: Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2003 Mojo Magazine
New Bluebird
Ted Roddy - Full Circle - 1995 Hightone
Oh Canada (instr)
Huevos Rancheros - Dig In! - 1995 Mint Records Canadian
No Telephone In Heaven
CATL. - CATL'S COUNTRY GOSPEL HOUR - 2024 Bandcamp Canadian
These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
Jet Puppy - Jet Puppy EP 1/Almost Live - 2023 Bandcamp Canadian
High Blood Pressure
Dangereens - Break Up / High Blood Pressure single - 2019 Bandcamp Canadian
Strip Club Truck Stop
The Sloe Gin Fizz - Sloe Gin Fizz - 2021 Bandcamp Canadian
Truckstop Bop
Eddy Blake and the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers - HTHB - 2015 Swamp Fly Canadian
Chez Moi
Les Lazy Lovers - Canicule - 2016 Bandcamp Canadian
Sophie
Les Lazy Lovers - Canicule - 2016 Bandcamp Canadian
Crazy Is Just What I Do
Confusionaires - From The Headache To The Heartache - 2020 Self released, Bandcamp Canadian
Love Gun (instr)
Leather Uppers - Love Gun single - 2010 Bandcamp Canadian
Interactive CKCU
Benoît
Waiting for your show with freshly bated breath.

1:26 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
Cool. Be careful with the bated breath, Benoît, I don't want anyone passing out from lack of oxygen.

1:35 PM, February 5th, 2025
Neil & Drake, The Dancing Labrador
Fabulous Thunderbirds were awesome live 3 times for me. Thx for some mid-week memories, Renny !!!

1:43 PM, February 5th, 2025
Lina Lost
Can you see me listening? I'm listening very intently.

1:44 PM, February 5th, 2025
N & DTDL
Bad Boy vs Bad Girl...........looks like the match of a lifetime........now I have bated breath lol

1:45 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
No problem Neil & Drake, The Dancing Labrador. Thanks for listening and representing the K9 human bond that the world need more of.

1:46 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
needs

1:46 PM, February 5th, 2025
N & DTDL
Just perusing the playlist. Townes Van Zandt with Willie Nelson........sweet; And I have not had my regular dose of Huevos Rancheros for awhile now. But hey.......killer playlist top to bottow......and all the usual suspects in attendance too; greetings to all

1:52 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Interesting thing re breathing and oxygen (I recently learned): We humans have no way of detecting oxygen levels (no organ for it); what we *do* have is the capacity to detect CO∨2; it's what's used to regulate our breathing. But that's also why, when people discover an in-the-ground, used-to-be-closed cave, they go on an explore, but sometimes there's no air, and... yes.

1:54 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
"Scuse me -- while I kiss this guy!" (Famous mis-hearing)

2:10 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Lots of "truck stop".

2:20 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
I did the second half of Friday Nite Truck Stop last Friday night. I had some truck stop tunes left over.

2:21 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Eric Hisaw Band's singer has a distinctive voice, phrasing...

2:26 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
truck stop: hah!

2:26 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
On the first track I play he reminds me of a cross between early Elvis Costello and Graham Parker.

2:28 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
At other times he's got a Steve Earle quality to his music and at other times a ZZ Top vibe.

2:30 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Eric Hisaw: all of which is pretty great!

2:32 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Heart of Stone: Now you see, this is an "interpretation". Bringin' something new to the table. Not just a cover. As opposed to when a singer/band simply says: I wanna play Purple Haze (for instance, as we heard earlier). That one's a cover. In my vocabulary...

2:34 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
I play quite a few covers on today's show. I've stopped marking down that they are covers. I'll mention it over the air but no longer on the playlist.

2:37 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
This Dead Flowers is, somehow, pretty well dead centre between a cover and an interpretation!

2:39 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
And hooray for playing Fiftymen! Their 3 CDs each play well, all these years on.

2:39 PM, February 5th, 2025
PeterB
Yeah! Diggin' the Stones covers, esp. Like B sed, not "just" a cover. (Though i thot Haze was pretty decent, given it takes a TON of nerve to even try. )

2:40 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
They were great. It really hurt when they broke up. I did manage to see them a couple of times but near the end every time I tried to see them it was sold out.

2:41 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
Benoît, did you know that there is a great live recording of them in Toronto selling on Bandcamp? (It's free too)

2:43 PM, February 5th, 2025
PB
OH, i *LIKE* when the cover is listed [in the playlist so we can figure it out] . Helps with the happy homework ;^)

2:44 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Yeah, as a listener I'd much rather have the date of the music than the underlining of the fact it's a cover.

2:45 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
PeterB, oh yeah, that Purple Haze was great, no criticism, it's just that they tried to do it, as compared to making it your own -- think of With a Little Help From My Friends by The Beatles, and THEN think of what Joe Cocker did with it!

2:48 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Renny, Bandcamp, no I didn't. Looking into it. Thanks

2:49 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Thanks again, found it, got a download link.

2:57 PM, February 5th, 2025
Bobby Calzone
Sorry im late

3:03 PM, February 5th, 2025
Bobby Calzone
I don't know where you find all.this stuff, man!?! Unbelievable... highly entertaining, enjoyable and so well curated! ... you know I call Mike Regenstref the Caretaker of Folk, Elorious Cain The Caretaker of Funk... dunno if it suits you, but I shall now refer to.ypu as The Caretaker of Rawk! Hallelujah! Amen!

3:06 PM, February 5th, 2025
Benoît
Bobby, when you can, listen on-demand. A particularly tasty show! Thanks, Renny!

3:11 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
Spell it right. If you want me to look after it I insist it be called by R O C K. I'm not ashamed of it. I will never call it "rawk". I don't care if people think I'm some kind of knuckle dragging caveman because I confess, nay, proclaim, my love for the music in all it's stupidity.

3:12 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
"I know it's only rock & roll but I love it!"

3:14 PM, February 5th, 2025
PeterB
B: Nods all 'round on covers. Majority are crappy/lame compared to iconic originals. But many are really good "executions" that take a lot of guts to even try. Few, a very few, rare, truly *own* it. Cocker a great example. Janis "Summertime". Recently 'I Doug That' has played an April Wine (of all the bands) GREAT cover of King Crimson "Schizoid Man", another example.

3:15 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
Friday Nite Truck Stop 10 until midnight every Friday night on CKCU 93.1 FM

3:16 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
Two listeners who would have loved this weeks show are hillbilly and Johnny Loan. If anyone hears from them, let them know they missed a good one.

3:18 PM, February 5th, 2025
Bc
Oops, sorrrrry, Mr. Rock! ;) if I spelled it rawk, it was in the sense of "raucous" cause it's not always R.O.C.K., and from memory, I haven't heard John Melon Camp on.ypur show... :)

3:23 PM, February 5th, 2025
Bc
How bout Monsieur Rock n Roll?

3:24 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
Lol!

3:25 PM, February 5th, 2025
Renny G (host)
This is for all you Kiss Army grunts. You guys scare me!

3:29 PM, February 5th, 2025
Lina Lost
Thanks for the KISS! And also, any version of Strychnine is greatly appreciated :)

4:04 PM, February 5th, 2025