Variety Mix; Langhorne Slim (recorded 2005-06-11)

Any points are in 91.7k, exp, ocarville, river right there, preceded by the ravenettes. And I'm Jack Walters now down in the KEXP Performance Room with Langhorn Slim, welcome to KEXP. Thank you, Jack. You are welcome. And you are playing the crocodile tonight with S, that's Jen from Chris' Weird, and also comedy by Eugene Merman and Ron Lynch. Can you tell me a little bit how that show works with the comedy and the music? It doesn't work at all. It's been a disaster. No, just kidding. Thanks for the heads up. Just kidding. Well, I start, and I play a half hour set, then Ron is doing about four shows with Eugene and I who are doing about a month together.

And then Eugene does his stand-up, his stand. He does stand, it's sort of like a multimedia comedy. He's got some audio, like phone calls that he, I don't want to blow any surprise, sure. But he's got a great bit that he does. It's audio, he shows some videos and stuff like that, and then he does some stand-up as well. OK. And then S play in as well. Indeed. All right. Well, no comedians here at KEXP today, but we do have Langston Slim. Can you start us out with a couple songs? I would love to, Jack. Thank you. Here we go. I was alone, alone as can be. I was alone, but I was not lonely. Well, it's true.

Mama, what you got to say to me, darling, if it's true, well, now I'm about to send you a free. Well, when did this sheetin' startin' how long have you been springin' them lies? I knew it times your heart was weak, but I suspected that you had it spines. I was alone when I heard a knock upon my door, girl, I was a ringin' from the phone. I knew it's you callin' back the more, baby, it's true. You got to say to me, oh, honey, if it's true, well, now I'm about to send you a free. I have not been smitten since the day you left.

All of the letters that you've written me, they scared me half to death. Something happened to your baby. You started acting very strange. You moved all the way after Seattle wrote me poetry about the rain, but sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night. I have a bad dream, I need you. So, I was gonna try to think of something that rhymed with that whole Seattle bit to try to bring it a little closer, but instead, I think I just ruined everything that I've been working for all my life. Okay. Alright, sorry about that, Jack. I tried, man.

No worries. You worked out great. Okay, good. Thank you. Should I do another? One more, yeah. Sure. There's a story I've heard told, comes from the banks where the odds sailboat goes. I don't know if it's true, but I'd say so. Surely in it, you will recognize somebody that you know. There was a girl from New Orleans. She could be sweet, but brother, she could be me. Her there was very little in between.

She kissed gentlemen's lips beneath the sweet olive trees. They never knew their woman. She never knew her man, and I wanna know my woman, one her to know her man. When you know too many people, your heart's bound to go bad, our darling don't be bad. One dude she knew got sick with hurt. He overheard his babies feel then a dirt, so he hit a twenty-two beneath his shirt, and went to pay her a visit at the place in which she were.

Now if you find someone you love a lot, I'd recommend you give it everything you got. Either way you'll be sitting, pissing in a pot, but at least it will be with someone you love and you trust. Nobody knows their woman, nobody knows their man, I gotta know my woman, care for her to know her man. Just wanted to get beyond the initial shaking of my own sweat and nervous hand, or else I might consider being bad. Ringhorn Slim Live in the studios of KEXP, he is playing tonight at the Crocodile, along

with S plus comedy from Eugene Merman and Ron Lynch. Sound really good. Thank you man. I wanna hear about what happened to your guitar. It got destroyed. Run over? It got run over, that is correct, yeah. I'm only gonna laugh about it now to keep from crying about it now. I was gonna say, this is an heirloom guitar or something? A bit of an heirloom, yeah. My grandfather, I think my mom is listening to this right now in Pennsylvania and she gives me a lot of, though in a nice way, she wants me to be an organized, upstanding young man. So she might call me about this and yell at me, so I hope that that doesn't happen. But in any case, let me tell you the story. I was trying to clear out the van straightened it up a bit, which is not something that I usually do as some of my friends when I'm traveling with can tell you. So I was doing that. I got everything out of the van, pretty much everything out of the van, pretty much everything

in the van, slammed the door, got back into the van and laid down. Then my friend Eugene was pulling out of the parking lot. We heard a little thud and Ron said, Eugene, stop for a second there. And he ran out of the van and said, Langhorn, you might be a little bit upset about this. And he brought back the guitar case where pretty much could have been broken glass or shards of wood in there. So. No way to bring it back to life, it's, no, no, no, not like maybe japano or something could put it back together. But I don't think that there's anybody around these days that could put that thing together, which it really sucks, but I'm trying to be optimistic about it in the sense that perhaps it's like a, I'm in Seattle for the first time. I'm doing KEXP, it's like a rebirth of some sort of sensational thing. Maybe what happened.

This is like a behind the music where there always has to be a rebirth, you know, in the stories. So that's great. Where'd you get this guitar from to play today? This guitar, my friend Ryan of the epox. These are the epox, by the way. Hello. And these are my friends that came to, you know, to show me some Seattle support that I know from New York City who are out here recording a record and a great, great band. And so my friend Ryan brought this guitar for me today so that I can play some songs for you guys. Well, sure. Appreciate that. You released an EP last year called the Electric Love Letter and just released your debut full length called When the Sun's Gone Down. Where was the new album recorded? It was recorded at my friend Malachi de Lorenzo's place pretty much. Who's a good friend of mine from Brooklyn as well, also friends with these guys. Another friend of ours, Chris Taylor. And then the guy that runs the label that I'm on, Narnack Records, his name is Shaheen. So about three different apartments, loft spaces in, in Brooklyn, New York. We recorded it.

Wow. So recording in apartments, what kind of gear was it, was it kind of stripped down? I can't tell you. Can't tell. It's a trade secret. No, no. There were, there were high, you know, modern day recording devices involved, computers and things like that. But thankfully, my friends know how to use them to suit my kind of sensibility, I guess. So yeah. I got a little defensive there, so yeah, no. Well, your music draws from like some American root styles like bluegrass and country blues and such. What, how did you get interested in that kind of thing originally? Oh, I don't, I'm not sure I was there. Not really. I wasn't exactly raised on it. My father would pick my brother up every Sunday and we would go see a movie or go watch like a football game or something like that. And he was very into like the Beatles and Rolling Stones and, you know, Otis, I got Otis writing from him. I want my favorite. And my mom was very into Barbara Streisand and musicals and, so I got very different kinds.

Oh, mom, if you're, I know she's into other sorts of things too, but I'm a, okay, and I don't hear the Barbara Streisand. Well, you'll hear it if you play, if you play the track three backwards and, you know, you have a few words. That's a good idea. I don't know. Yeah, I was, I was brought up with all different kinds of music. And then I guess when I was, when I went to high school, I had a girlfriend all throughout high school. Her father introduced me to the Harry Smith folk anthology and, you know, was sort of blown away by that. Kind of the touchstone there. Yeah. Yeah, sure. To this day, it's still some of the most amazing recorded stuff I've ever heard. Absolutely. When, when did you first start writing? Straight out of the womb. No. I don't know. I played, I used to like, I think I wrote some, I think I was writing songs in my head before, you know, write things on paper and stuff like that and hum things to myself. But I think I started playing guitar maybe at like 12 or 13. So it's playing like Polly and Smalls like Teen Spirit and that.

Oh, yeah. And then it turned differently. The new album from Langhorn Slim, when the sun's gone down, that's out on Narnack. Yes. Records out in New York. How'd you hook up with them? They came to see me. We're persistent. And then they played me there, you know, they're sort of catalog, which blew me away that they wanted an acoustic kind of folky dude with it. It's kind of different than the rest of their catalog. It's kind of different than the rest of their catalog. It's familiar with their stuff. I was very flattered by them being as into me as it seemed very, they seemed really enthusiastic about what I was doing. So that's great. It seemed like a good place for me today. Great to hear. We're chatting with Langhorn Slim live at KEXP. Do you have time for a couple more songs? I would love to play a couple more. Right. Okay. Well, tell me someday if we talk, are you afraid of being haunted? And by the docks, sorry, Jack, can we edit that out?

Can we edit that live? We'll edit that out. Okay, sorry. Here we go. Tell me someday if we talk, are you afraid of being haunted? And by the docks, we'll take a walk and discuss things we haven't never wanted. And with the money that you've made, have your behaviors changed. And when someone gets fancy and you get antsy, we're used to run to me. So long, my only love, in which direction have you gone? And by the time the sun's gone down tonight, you'll know that you're the only one. And by the time the sun's gone down tonight, you'll know that you're the only one. Now running to some people and they ask me how you are.

I'll tell them that you're doing well and hope that they step in front of a car and tell me someday if we talk. But I said it did that major leave. I know it's sometimes I don't something but somehow I've got no memory. So long, my only love, in which direction have you gone? And by the time the sun's gone down tonight, you'll know that you're the only one. And by the time the sun's gone down tonight, you'll know that you're the only one. And by the time the sun's gone down tonight, you'll know that you're the only one. Okay, one more song, I, right, right, okay, here we go.

This one will be happy, it'll make people smile, I hope. I'm sorry about that. Precious, the readily Jones, I want to take you home, I got to take you Lord, I never do you wrong. I want to take you to the seashore, I want to take you back to my house, and got a house by the seashore, don't figure out where to take you in a house. The precious, the readily Jones, I want to take you home, I got to take you Lord, I never

do you wrong. I want to take you to the seashore, I want to take you back to my house, and got a house by the seashore. Go for your way to take you, baby, I never fake you, but I just mind making you do it, a little and a half, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, So here you walkin' my way, here you askin' my friend, my name, I got to call you baby, you shake me up your many shiver and smile. The precious, the readily Jones, I want to take you home, I got to take you Lord, I never do you wrong. I want to take you to the seashore, I want to take you back to my gate, I want to take you to the loosey, go for your way to take you darling, I never fake you, but I just mind making you do it, a little and a half, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, So here you walkin' my way, here you askin' my friend, my name, I got to call you

baby, you shake me up your many shiver and smile, ask a lot, I'm ready to tame the wild, darling I might be dumb but I am not in denial, oh yeah, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, Laying Horn Slim live on 90.3, 91.7 KEXP, spending the globe at KEXP.org, you can see him live tonight at the crocodile and see how it along with S, that's Jen, from Chris' Weird and comedy on the bill as well, from Eugene Merman and Ron Lynch, yeah,

that was a toe-tapper, that was a little bit happier, and Danny Kelly, if you're listening to this, you're on the list for the show tonight, excellent, no problem, that's what we're here for. I forgot to call him back, so yeah, I'll call him when I leave the station here. It's great, that one I know is on the album, how many of the other three that you played today are on the album, just two, I believe, okay, the last two, okay, great, good to know. Eugene, sorry, Wayne Horn Slim live here at KEXP, thanks for taking the time today. Thank you so much, man, this was great. Yep, and thanks to our engineer Tom Hall and Richard Lang on the board, and now let's take it back to the years studio, 90.3, 91.7, KEXP, Seattle. Please hit the bell.

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