Radio Wowsville 1/29/12: Keep Yourself Up!

One of the highlights this week: A 10 minute "radio broadcast" from Lester Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys, a fake side band created in the '70's by Staunton country music legends the Statler Brothers.

Funnier than Ray Stevens, wilder than Homer and Jethro, drier than Sheb Wooley and way more out of tune than Little Jimmy Dickens, these Rainbow Valley honky-tonkers plied their tirades on an essential and hilarious platter called "Alive at Johnny Mack Brown High School."

Genius, thy name is Statler.

You can hear a webstream of this episode of Radio Wowsville (and other fine WTJU shows) by clicking right here.

1. "I Went to the Hospital" - Cass McCombs - A [Monitor: 2004]
2. "Brains" - Lower Dens - Nootropics [Ribbon Music: 2012]
3. "Goin' Down to Liverpool" - The Bangles - All Over the Place [Epic: 1984]
4. "Madeleine" - Lissy Truffle - Lissy Truffle [RCRD LBL: 2012]
5. "Teenage Dreams" - Nada Surf - The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy [Barluk: 2012]
6. "Work" - Cate Le Bon - CryK [Control Group: 2012]
7. "Lipsmack" - LA Font - Sharks [Sister City: 2011]
8. "Dr. Baker" - Beta Band - The Three EPs [Astralwerks: 1998]
9. "Be My Ambulance" - Sneakers - In The Red [Not Lame: 1978]
10. "Heavy Metal" - White Rabbits - Milk Famous [White Iris: 2012]
11. "This Will Be Our Year" - Memory House - Single [Sub Pop: 2012]
12. "Need" - V - 45 [1982]
13. "I Want Two Wings" - Rev. Utah Smith - 78 [Checker: 1944]
14. "Mary is Alone" - Dry Ice - New England Teen Scene Unleased [Arf Arf: 1968]
15. "East" - Billy Paul - Goin' East [Philadelphia International: 1971]
16. "Oblivion" - Grimes - Visions [Arbutus: 2012]
17. "Les Fleur (Fug re-edit)" - Minnie Riperton - Original Block Party Beats [EMI]
18. "Life Goes On" - Utopia - Deface The Music [Bearsville: 1980]
19. "Hey Bulldog" - Bill Deal and the Rhondels - The Very Best of... [Heritage: 1970]
20. "Draygo's Guilt" - The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall [Beggar's Banquet: 1984]
21. "Ballad of Richard Speck (live)" - Cheap Trick - Bun E.'s Basement Bootleg [1975]
22. "Saturday Morning Radio Show" - Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys - Alive at the Johnny Mack Brown High School [Mercury]
23. "I'm Gonna Take What He's Got" - Etta James - Tell Mama [Cadet: 1968]



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