Long before The Waiting Room radio show became the fully formed sinking ship we know today, the ninny-mouthed host one half of Drunk Country home-recorded a handful of test fraudcasts.

These recordings formed part of ½DC’s self-indoctrination into radio broadcasting & were to serve, so he thought, as practice in order to shape & hone his hosting chops, technical prowess & general radio wherewhithal.

However, on this evidence & the evidence of current shows, he still has a very long way to go before he reaches the outskirts of Professionalville.

In this first test recording you will find ½DC bimbling about randomly selected cover versions under the umbrella of the now extemely popular Drunk Covers series. Call this #1, if you must, although he & Ms Hope Eternal (the founder of, but now departed from, TWR) did broadcast a proper inaugural Drunk Covers a few weeks previous. Unfortunately, technology & its potential as it was back then (+ their understanding thereof), there exists no recording of this joyous event.

Instead, clasp your headholes around this lot & re-visit what was when all were innocent & everso slimmer.

Drunk Covers #1 Playlist

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)

Shimmy Disk Special

Here, then, be the 2nd test Drunk Country Gent fraudcasts, brought to life by one half of Drunk Country, your erstwhile tongue-fat captain of the flippantly bipolar The Waiting Room Radio Show.

This time around one half of Drunk Country celebrates the seminal & legendary record label Shimmy Disc & its genius-in chief Mark Kramer — or, simply, Kramer.

The incorrect 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 an elephantine sized effort of enjoyable shambolism & general mouth-minus-brain gibbery.

Welcome, then, to another Drunk Country Ramble with a Drunk Country Gent.

Shimmy Disc Special Playlist

01. California (Jad Fair & Kramer; Roll Out The Barrell, Shimmy 012)

02. I Must Be In Love (Syd Straw & Marc Ribot; Rutles Highway Revisted, Shimmy 041)

03. Whizz Kid (Daniel Johnston; Laurie EP, Seminal Twang 13)

04. Sensitive Artist (King Missile; Fluting On The Hump, Shimmy 003)

05. Love Bomb (Dogbowl; Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain, Shimmy 043)

06. Fourth Of July (Galaxie 500; This is Our Music, Rough 156, 1990)

07. Hard Acid Rain (Rebby Sharp; In One Mouth & Out The Other, Shimmy 032)

08. Companion (Milksop Holly; Milkweeds, Shimmy 094)

09. Burn & Rob (Paleface; What Else Do You Do? Shimmy 034)

10. Folk Song (Bongwater; The Power Of Pussy, Shimmy 040)