Vlog 031 - Kurt Vile | BRMC | Adele | Gordon Lightfoot ...

With most of the late night TV shows in repeat mode, it was up to the web to offer up some compelling music content last week, and deliver it did, with an excellent four song set from Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile recorded for Pitchfork’s “Don’t Look Down” music series. “Jesus Fever” is the track we sample, taken from the group’s excellent new album “Smoke Ring For My Halo”. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are a band that have been difficult to pin down musically over their decade-long career; their latest release sees them returning to their more hard rocking psychedelic roots with songs like “Conscious Killer” which was caught by the Carson Daly camera crew recently. We step back a couple of releases and dip into a bit of the T-Rex-like “Berlin” from 2007, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as well as the decidedly countrified “Ain’t No Easy Way”, recorded at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in 2005. “Rolling In The Deep” is the first single from British sensation Adele’s second album “21” and she’s been performing it all over TV these last few months. We play a snippet from her Letterman performance from February 21st, and also reach back into the RockPeaks archive to bring you a bit of her breakthrough hit “Hometown Glory” from Jools Holland in 2008, as well as “Chasing Pavements” from her Grammy Award performance in early 2009. The arrival in trading circles of a complete copy of Gordon Lightfoot’s historic 1972 BBC In Concert taping was cause for celebration last week – kudos to both the Beeb for airing it and to Nightfly for the capture and author. We play selections from two of the disc’s sixteen songs: “Early Morning Rain” as well as the magnificent “Canadian Railroad Trilogy”. One of Gary Wright’s musical highpoints was no doubt the March day in 1976 when he received a gold record for his intergalactic opus “Dream Weaver”, a song whose title was inspired by the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. It was George Harrison who turned Wright onto the Yogi’s writings, after the latter played piano on 1971’s “All Things ...