Necropolis

The No Show | Mar 30, 2010

PLAYLIST

THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“Get Off That Cell Phone and Drive” – Davis Tucker
“Cell Phone” – Victor Wooten
“Fat & Greasy” – Eugene Barry & The Pointer Sisters
“Instrumental” – Ali Farka Toure
“Ali’s Here” – Ali Farka Toure
Aided and abetted by NO SHOW “resident expert” Emily Levine, Steve trashes some of our most revered cultural phenomena: the Miss America Pageant, the Oscars, and the Olympics. The Broken News features "Cell Hell" in Kentucky and North Carolina (or maybe South Carolina. Do we really need two Carolinas? Isn’t one more than most of us will ever use?) Finally, the last of the Listeners’ Epitaphs and the induction into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis of Ali Farka Toure.

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