Sonic Café with the King of New Orleans, that’s Better Than Ezra from 1996. So welcome to the king’s court, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 318. This time the Sonic Café brings you music fit for a king. Pulled from the last 50 years, every tune this hour is about King’s. Yeah. King’s Cross from Pet Shop Boys, King of the Mountain from Midnight Oil, King of You, by Wilco, you get the idea. Heck we’ve even got Weird Al Yankovic with King of Suede, his parody of the Police tune King of Pain. So all that plus from 1965, bluesman John Lee Hooker captured live with King of the World. And finally the self proclaimed King of Stupid Questions, comedian Dennis Regan steps up to the mic to tell us why, ahh he’s the King of stupid questions I guess. So kick back in on your throne, put on crown, ahh if you got one and join us as the Sonic Café presents Music Fit For King, from our little café in the majestic Pacific northwest, here’s Einstein’s Sister with King In Name Alone, we’re the Sonic Café.
Song 1: King Of New Orleans Artist: Better Than Ezra LP: Friction Baby Yr: 1996 Song 2: King In Name Alone Artist: Einstein's Sister LP: Einstein's Sister Yr: 2004 Song 3: King's Cross. Artist: Pet Shop Boys LP: Actually Yr: 1987 Song 4: King Of The Mountain Artist: Midnight Oil LP: Blue Sky Mining Yr. 1989 Song 5: The King of Stupid Questions Artist: Dennis Regan LP: Dry Bar Comedy Yr: 2019 Song 6: King of The World Artist: Toto LP: Falling In Between Yr: 2006 Song 7: King of You Artist: Wilco LP: Star Wars Year: 2015 Song 8: King Of The World [Live] Artist: John Lee Hooker LP: Hooker [Disc 3] Yr: 1965 Song 9: King Of The World Artist: Steely Dan LP: Countdown To Ecstasy Yr: 1973 Song 10: King Of Suede Artist: Weird Al Yankovic LP: In 3-D Yr: 1999 Song 11: Kingdom Of Izzness Artist: Dr. John LP: Locked Down Yr: 2012 Song 12: King Of Birds Artist: R.E.M. LP: Document Yr: 1987 Song 13: King Tide Artist: Neil Finn LP: Try Whistling This Yr: 1998 Song 14: Guitar Solo Artist: Lalo Schifrin LP: Bullitt Yr: 1968
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 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)
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