The Paleface Parabola Jumpin' JB

A Brian Eno quote that I heard from Annie Clark (aka St Vincent): Music is a car that you can crash over and over again and walk away safely.
We can certainly apply that notion to this week’s Paleface Parabola radio razzmatazz. It’s caper 124, a show like any of the previous 123 but for the fact that while we have an established template for the programme, no two shows are musically the same and the likelihood of a radio/audio car crash, because we prefer performing live without a net and I personally like my weekly bagel with butter and not toasted. A vital component of any self respecting quest.
Here’s your weekly teaser
90 seconds of the Mystery Man’s choice of the Cort-3 Mustaphas 3, plus Spirit, Dexter Gordon, Joe Henderson, Bo Diddley, This Side Up, and The Playmates.
To conclude,please remember and don’t ever forget that there’s no expiration date on fun. S’lainte and a pint raised to Free FM 89.0 from Hamilton, NZ.

Revelation. Inspiration. Dedication. One nation... under a groove. Free your mind and caper 123 will follow.
As I yell at inappropriate times, Hookey Do!! We do us on this hour and 58 minutes of genre hopping. Marshall Crenshaw, Roy Brown, Joe Henderson, House of Hamill, The Aggrolites, and the Mystery Man’s moment of glory saves the Wales. As in the band Calan.
And wait, there's more! Banter, bluster and blarney and now you, who sit in judgment concerning our to and fro.
So prime your ears and post up. We’ve come to bring cheer to every ear and joy to every girl and boy. Cmon everybody, get happy!

As record collectors ourselves, the Mystery Man and I are by no means immune to the joys of hearing the healing joys of music - especially music that you’ve never heard before, that changes your life for the better.
Nineteen songs later, on this week’s episode, we’ve brewed up an hour and 58 minutes of musical hopscotch that puts extra red in your tomatoes. Chuck Willis, Toots & the Maytals with Bunny Wailer, The Aggrolites, The Staple Singers, and the Court’s order is sustained via San Salvador (a piece I’ve never heard until we played it).
That’s just five of the aforementioned 19 and you won’t need silly looking 3D glasses to listen. Our noise, your ears. Welcome to our gang.

Caper 121. I remember starting with Lyle Lovett and his Large Band and closing up our case to take to the Judge and Jury with the Mael Brothers aka Sparks. Sparks being a prime suspect above how if you live long enough, a quintessential cult band becomes viable in their late 70s.
Also in the bright white spotlight of musical joy this week is the Mystery Man’s pick to click of the week, Planxty, and extra special mentions of the likes of The Lamplighters, solo Alex Chilton, new Dion music, and enough gusto to sail the seven seas without the aid of an onboard motor.
Live on the gold standard of rogue element of society community radio, Free FM 89.0 which hums along from Hamilton NZ Wednesday evening from 10 to midnight and on more podcast portals than the authorities can count, 'til we meet and greet again on April 10.
In the meantime, add some music to your day, our music in this case. It heals and it works.

This is your one and only warning... We’re taking attendance this week on our caper in absentia.
The beyond excellent Ricardo - ex-superstar of Free FM’s The Outer Limits Frequentcy - is tall in the saddle for this one-week return to our safe haven for rogue elements of society. Like him! Like us! Ricardo has a great sense of humor, skills with his pen, and top notch with his music choices.
Feel no fret, the Mystery Man and I will return next week with a brand new Parabola, reinvigorated and ready to roar.
In the meantime, put your ears on Ricardo this week and we’ll all be better for it.

Caper 119 was done in a hurry because I’m in a hurry, as a window to a brief respite from the pressure cooker I cook in normally looms.
Our prodigal rascal Ricardo is returning to fill in for us on the show next week and I’m ecstatic that the likes of his calibre will sit in.
As for this week, New Jersey music from the soon-to-be stars Billy Hector and the Atlanta Cafe Band, magnificence from Metheny, Chubby Checker, Willy Deville with Mark Knopfler, Terry Evans with Ry Cooder, and some Hocus Pocus from Spies who Surf!
So dig Ricardo next week on the Parabola and the Mystery Man and I will be back to love you long time in two weeks – a fortnight, as you say in Aotearoa.