The Vinyl Experience - Summer Solstice

VE 179 Summer Solstice Miles Davis: Summertime The Band: Time To Kill XTC: Season Cycle Ray La Montagne: For The Summer B52s: June Bug The Kinks: Wonderboy Love: The Good Humor Man Lovin Spoonful: Rain On the Roof Small Faces: Itchycoo Park Tony Bennett: Lazy Afternoon Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows Wilco: Sky Blue Sky Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town Today on the VE--celebrating the summer solstice with songs to roll out the season. I'm PC and this is the VE: Miles Davis: Summertime The Band: Time To Kill XTC: Season Cycle Happy Sumer Solstice from the VE. "Season Cycle" came from XTC's album Skylarking. That record, and the one before it, Stage Fright by the Band were produced by Todd Rundgren, some 16 years apart. Rick Danko's song " Time To Kill' captures the easy free feeling of early summer with many sweet days ahead---- God Willing And The Creek DOn't Rise...that's the title of Ray La Montagne's 2009 LP featuring the song "For The Summer' Ray La Montagne: For The Summer B52s: June Bug "Cosmic Thing" was one of the great LP comeback stories..for The B52's...from it, "June Bug." Summer Solstice Celebration. spining some records from the 60s that havent lost innocence, or freshness. As the Kinks sing, "everybody's looking for the sun...." The Kinks: Wonderboy Love: The Good Humor Man Lovin Spoonful: Rain On the Roof A couple of American bands--Love and Lovin Spoonful...sandwiched in between British legends The Kinks...and this summer essential by Small Faces.... Small Faces: Itchycoo Park The VE Summer Solstice celebration continues with a couple of great word-picture songs, by artists who come from far corners of the galaxy..but still places where summer comes... Tony Bennett: Lazy Afternoon Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows As dissimilar as Pink Floyd and Tony Bennett are, they seem to be on the same page when it comes to summer daydreaming. From Ummagumma, early Floyd and "Grantchester Meadows" fly-swat and all...and from an early June night at Carnegie hall in 1962, Tony Bennett in his prime, with the tulip trees a bloomin and the beetle bugs a zoomin on a Lazy Afternoon. Summer is a state of min dtoo. If you're havin gtrouble getting into it, take refuge in these songs by Wilco and then Oasis... Wilco: Sky Blue Sky Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis, from the LP with the summer tite What's The Story Morning Glory..and Wilco with the title cut of 2008's Sky Blue Sky. Finally on the VE...if all we've heard hasn't convinced you that it won't be long till summer comes--this one will do it. Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town

And that's the VE...Thin Lizzy makes it official...summer's here and the time is right....to download some VE shows you may have missed in the PRN archives and on demand at rtds.ca. Please spread the word around via facebook, follow me on twitter, I'm PC