Way back in the beginning, when Ms Hope Eternal was, quite literally, running the show, & long before one half of was on board fully as her trivia-based foil, an experiment in radio-voice podcasting (or, as one put it at the time, fraudcasting) was undertaken.
a Drunk Country Ramble with a Drunk Country Gent, as was said experiment Christened, was intended as a series of practice runs to stretch/flex/develop the inexperienced radio technical/production + presenting chops of ½DC in preparation for the impending co-host role.
Originally a series of six 1-1½hr episodes were planned, (patterned thus: Cover Versions, Shimmy Disc Special, Cover Versions, Daniel Johnston Special, Cover Versions, King Missile Special), but said co-host role came to fruition much quicker than expected. Therefore, the aDCRwaDCG series was abandonned after just two.
Each episode, podcast via this here podbean contraption, received quite a lot of attention & averaged out at about 1000 downloads each. Which is nice.
What isn’t so nice is the shoddy amateurism & plethora of um’s, err’s & pregnant mind clunks/tongue trips what are heavily in evidence; the two episodes were recorded ‘as live’, very late at night/early hours of the morning, without notes or citation, & soaked in alcohol. Nothing, then, really, has changed.
Here, for documentation/curiosity value, then, be those shows for your considerable listening displeasure.
Welcome, you, to Drunk Country.
Episode One - 28 April 2007
Tracklisting
01. We’re Going To Be Friends (Bree Sharp/The White Stripes)
02. I Don’t Wanna Grow Up (Petra Haden & Bill Frisell/Tom Waits)
03. High & Dry (Jorge Drexler/Radiohead)
04. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On our Grieviences (Clem Snide/Daniel Johnston)
05. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Bongwater/The Weavers)
06. Into My Arms (David Fridlund/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds)
07. Modern Love (Last Town Chorus/David Bowie)
08. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Lancaster Orchestra/The Smiths)
09. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (The Staple Singers/Bob Dylan)
10. God Only Knows (Mandy Moore & Michael Stipe/The Beach Boys)
Episode Two - 03 June 2007
taken from the original podpage post: the correct formation of words, the inconvenience of concrete fact vs. partially remembered detail divided by guesswork, jetlag, Kentucky bourbon, & the onset of a no doubt debilitating man-flu, all ably contributed to a Bank Holiday Weekend motorway traffic log-jam… sized effort of enjoyable shambolism & general mouth-minus-brain gibbery.
Tracklisting
01. California (Jad Fair & Kramer; Roll Out The Barrell, Shimmy012)
02. I Must Be In Love (Syd Straw & Marc Ribot; Rutles Highway Revisted, Shimmy041)
03. Whizz Kid (Daniel Johnston; Laurie EP, Seminal Twang 13)
04. Sensitive Artist (King Missile; Fluting On The Hump, Shimmy003)
05. Love Bomb (Dogbowl; Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain, Shimmy043)
06. Fourth Of July (Galaxie 500; This is Our Music, Rough 156)
07. Hard Acid Rain (Rebby Sharp; In One Mouth & Out The Other, Shimmy032)
08. Companion (Milksop Holly; Milkweeds, Shimmy094)
09. Burn & Rob (Paleface; What Else Do You Do? Shimmy034)
10. Folk Song (Bongwater; The Power Of Pussy, Shimmy040)
Your comments, derision & gaffaws are appreciated.
x ½DC
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Who’s the theme song by? It’s lovely.
Thank you, um, Uncle Fester, for the question.
We’re fairly sure the track is mentioned in one of the episodes but, for the sake of repitition, here’s a brief historicalisation.
The strangled twang in question is a rough as arseholes semi-demo (hence length, hisses, pops & clicks) & has been lovingly committed by we, the titular Drunk Country (one half of + the other half of’s musi-pursuit).
Its actual birth name is
aiming for the lights out at sea
& is about a year old. Bless.
It was rescued from the Audacity cutting room floor when a Drunk Country Ramble with a Drunk Country Gent was conceived & in some need of a musi-intro theme.
Stripped of slo-hand claps & various melody meanders, the track was shortened from about 3mins to approx. 1min to fit the need.
It was originally intended as a ’round’ — i.e. in the tradition of such Musical Round Songs (like Alouette, Gentille Alouette), where a verse starts then repeats after the first or second bar & creates an overlapping, progressive build. Ambitions aside, we now quite like it as a stripped bare acoustic piece.
A new mix (albeit containing the same crackling, shoddy demo source), replete with a vinyl/record player hiss pop swish & glockenspiel accompaniment, can be found as the opening & closing theme for The Waiting Room’s Drunk Covers series.
We hope that answers far more questions than your original, single-stringed enquiry warranted.
½DC