Sonic Café, So Many Nights, from way down under that’s music from Cat Empire. So what’s up anyway? Welcome to our little coastal radio café, a place where the music really matters. I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 293. This time the Sonic Café presents a menu of really tasty music, and ahh that’s about it, really not much else to get in the way. Great tunes from the last 54 years, many of them you’ve probably never heard before. But they all work really well together. Listen for Roger Daltry, Hal 9000, Xavier Rudd, Geyster, Phantogram, Caspian, Everclear, Blackberry Smoke, and many more, including John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, released way back in 1966. We’ll let that one fly near the bottom of the hour, all in an eclectic music mix that eagerly welcomes the future, while remembering the great tunes that got us here. From the majestic Pacific Northwest we’re the Sonic Café, a place where the music really matters. From 1975 here’s Henry Gross, at the Sonic Café.
Song 1: So Many Nights Artist: The Cat Empire LP: So Many Nights Yr: 2007 Song 2: One More Tomorrow Artist: Henry Gross LP: Henry Gross (Yellow Album) / Plug Me Into Something Yr: 1975 Song 3: How Far Artist: Roger Daltrey LP: As Long As I Have You Yr: 2018 Song 4: Bay Bay Bay Artist: Hal 9000 Feat. Sylvie Marks LP: Ursula 1000: Ursadelica Yr: 2004 Song 5: The World As We Know It Artist: Xavier Rudd LP: Dark Shades of Blue Yr: 2008 Song 6: Along The Shore Artist: Geyster LP: Everytime I See Your Face Year: 2007 Song 7: Same Old Blues Artist: Phantogram LP: Three Yr: 2016 Song 8: I Never Want To Let You Down Artist: Lenny Kravitz LP: Strut Yr: 2014 Song 9: Further Up Artist: Caspian LP: You Are The Conductor Yr: 2010 Song 10: Sugar Noise Artist: Everclear LP: Black Is The New Black Yr: 2015 Song 11: Didn't Want To Be This Lonely Artist: The Pretenders LP: Hate For Sale Yr: 2020 Song 12: Like An Arrow Artist: Blackberry Smoke LP: Like An Arrow Yr: 2016 Song 13: Dancing On You Artist: King Tuff LP: Was Dead Yr: 2013 Song 14: Friends Of Science Artist: Galactic LP: Ya-Ka-May Yr: 2009
About the Producer:
Scott Clark has always had a lot of music in his life. Growing up outside of Chicago, he was mesmerized early on by the radio of the sixties and seventies and began collecting records at a very early age. From 45’s and LP’s to cassettes and CD’s and now digital… he really never stopped. Today everything in his library is digitized because he got sick of lugging all that stuff around.
The concept for the Sonic Café is to deliver the high production values and feel of the radio he grew up listening to. But unlike the tight, repetitious playlists of those commercial stations, feature a massive range of artists, genres and tunes. The whole idea is to package it in an eclectic, engaging, no repeat format that brings both new and old together in a unique, entertaining, and most importantly fun and fast paced way. There’s really nothing on the radio today, or in the past, that compares with it.
About the Sonic Café:
The show is set in an imaginary cafe overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Central Oregon Coast. The cafe serves up eclectic, intelligent music, comedy and pop culture. The program originates from KYAQ radio located on the Oregon coast in the Pacific Northwest, so the imagery is not a huge stretch.
Each program is 58:00 minutes in length leaving room for station ID, promos and PSAs. Each episode is .mp3 encoded at a constant rate of 256kbps and ready for broadcast.
An episode is released each week. All episodes are evergreen; never focusing on time of year, weather, month, holidays, events etc. so each show is timeless. All music is presented in a no repeat format. Once a song airs in an episode it never airs again. Episodes may be downloaded and grouped together to quickly create program blocks of two, three, four or more hours in length.
The Sonic Cafe has a Facebook page (facebook.com/SonicCafeRadio) where complete show notes and playlists are presented for each episode. Listeners can also reach the show producers via email (SonicCafeRadio@gmail.com)