Bottomless Pit with Marshall Crenshaw

Bottomless Pit #105 Salute to Duke/Peacock Records

#105- (7/6/13) Aug. 27, 2016- Duke/Peacock Records The slightly oddball thing about this one is that it’s a 2016 rerun version of a show from 2013- I couldn’t find the original show files.. Anyway, this is, musically one of the best BPs EVER, for my money- it’s a salute to the great record man/show-business entrepreneur Don Robey of Houston, Texas ca. 1949- 69 and his incredible family of record labels: Peacock, Duke, Back Beat, and all the others. We honor the legacy, celebrate the history, and revel in the sounds of The Blind Boys of Mississippi, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Johnny Ace, Willie Mae Thornton, The Sensational Nightingales, and all the rest. This one will, or should, definitely make you say God Bless America! https://marshallcrenshaw.com +++++ THE BOTTOMLESS PIT I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.) I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.  It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.  I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!.. MC

Bottomless Pit #123 -- “A Salute To the Fender Stratocaster” (11/23/13)

#123- original air-date: Nov. 23, 2013 Starting with the very first Bottomless Pit show back in 2005, “A Salute To the Fender Stratocaster” was an occasionally-recurring feature segment on the show throughout its entire history. On this episode I decided to go big and do the salute for all three segments- i.e. the entire show…  Over the years of course, a staggeringly diverse range of artistes have embraced the Stratocaster- this show begins at the very beginning with Sammy Pruitt, Thumbs Carlisle, Johnny “Guitar” Watson, Otis Rush, et. al., and from there we go to other points on the map, mainly NYC, and hear Nile Rodgers, Robert Quine, Leni Stern, and of course many more. What could go wrong??.. https://marshallcrenshaw.com +++++ THE BOTTOMLESS PIT I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.) I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.  It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.  I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!.. MC

Bottomless Pit #244 "A Salute to Tony Bennett", (9/10/16)

#244- September 10, 2016 A Tony Bennett salute! Tony’s gone now, but was alive and well on the original air-date of this Bottomless Pit show. Here’s my original post about it from back then: On this week’s Bottomless Pit, for nearly the full hour, we shine the audio spotlight on the utterly great Tony Bennett, who celebrated his 90th birthday on August 3rd. Phyllis Schlafly is dead and gone but Tony Bennett still lives, breathes, and sings! Sometimes there’s Righteousness in this world… Apologies for taking a cheap shot at Mrs. Schlafly, but I couldn’t resist; I think she’d just passed away when I wrote that post. Her name doesn’t come up at all during the program itself, I promise. Then the show shifts gears for part 3: We'll also hear some selections from a great CD that I just got my hands on (a friend gave me his copy, actually), called "Panorama City". It's a collaboration between Double-Naught Spy Car (genius, eclectic LA Rock band), and brilliant singer-songwriter Stew. This music will have you awe-struck and laughing and the same time. All this and more on this quite-good installment of The Best of The Bottomless Pit.. https://marshallcrenshaw.com +++++ THE BOTTOMLESS PIT I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.) I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.  It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.  I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!.. MC

Bottomless Pit # 168 -- Bill Frisell & Joe Meek (2014)

This show revolves two favorite recording artists of mine, (1) guitar genius Bill Frisell, and (2)  the troubled, infamous, and pioneering UK record producer Joe Meek. During Pt. 1,  I pick up where I left off from the previous week’s show with a salute to Bill’s 2014 album, “Guitar In the Space Age”- I really flipped for that one when it came out.  This is what I had to say about Pts. 2 and 3 in the show’s original blog post: Then we'll hear a bunch of stuff that was filtered through the brilliant and deranged mind of legendary record producer (and murderer), Joe Meek. The building in London where he "Lived, Worked, and Died" is a National Historic Site!... His story is a tragic one, but the music lives on.. https://marshallcrenshaw.com +++++ THE BOTTOMLESS PIT I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.) I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.  It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.  I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!.. MC

Bottomless Pit #224 "Americana" (Mar. 12, 2016)

Best of Bottomless Pit w/ Marshall Crenshaw #224 “Americana” - from Mar. 12, 2016 Most of what I played over the years could be described as Americana of one kind or another- on this show we get into the “Americana”, genre, with Kurt Vile, Porter Wagoner, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, et. al. +++++ THE BOTTOMLESS PIT I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.) I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.  It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.  I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!.. MC