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The Jewel Case: Cryptozoology (11-14-19)

In Hour 1 alone, we'll be visiting Muscle Shoals, Chicago, Berlin, Queens, Louisiana, France, Belgium, Jamaica, and the UK (which has to be some kind of record). After THAT? Theme time. This week's theme is CRYPTOZOOLOGY: 2 hours of tunes about mythical beasts and mysterious critters from all over the map. Join the expedition. We'll leave the door unloched for you. Sorry- that was the best I could come up with at the moment.

  • The Tyrones- Blast Off
  • Candi Station- Heart on a String
  • Chicago Afrobeat Project- Chupacabra
  • Iggy Pop- The Passenger
  • Run-DMC- Beats to the Rhyme (HB Joseph “Run” Simmons)
  • Buckwheat Zydeco- Pour Tout Quelqu’un (HB Buckwheat Zydeco)
  • Edith Piaf- L’etranger
  • Frank Alamo- Heureux Tous les Deux
  • Plastic Bertrand- Ca Plane Pour Moi
  • Gasoline- We Don’t Play Gasoline
  • Sleater-Kinney- A New Wave
  • Roots Radics- Communist Dub
  • Babe Ruth- King Kong

————--THEME: Cryptozoology————--

  • Wolfmother- White Unicorn
  • Queen- Dragon Attack
  • The Atomiks- Mothman
  • Zoot Sims- Pegasus
  • The Police- Synchronicity II
  • Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat- Chupacabra
  • Bom Gusto- Chupa Cabra
  • Tino Contreras- Quetzalcoatl
  • Steve Earle & Supersuckers- Creepy Jackalope Eye
  • The Sensational Alex Harvey Band- Water Beastie
  • Some Velvet Sidewalk- Loch Ness
  • Blue Oyster Cult- Godzilla
  • Kesha- Godzilla
  • Ani Difranco- Sasquatch
  • Tupperwear- Mokele Mbembe
  • Amon Duul II- Cerberus
  • Los Straitjackets- Sasquatch
  • Metallica- The Thing That Should Not Be
  • Clutch- Release the Kraken
  • Plate Fork Knife Spoon- Kraken
  • Centaur Job Interview
  • Buck 65- Centaur
  • Ed Harcourt- Minotaur
  • Thee Oh Sees- Minotaur
  • Dave Edmunds- The Creature From the Black Lagoon
  • Fu Manchu- Grendel, Snowman
  • Kieran Kane & Kevin Welch- Jersey Devil
  • Sammy Kaye- The Reluctant Dragon
  • Guided By Voices- Dragons Awake!
  • Pink Martini & Saori Yuki- Puff the Magic Dragon

Join Tod Weidner on Thursday, 8-11pm for The Jewel Case, a weekly celebration of all manner of musical goodness: deep cuts, forgotten treasures, and curiosities with a new theme each show spanning all genres, eras and locales. 

A lifelong Miami Valley resident, Tod Weidner grew up in Ludlow Falls before moving to Dayton in the early 1990s. Tod has been heavily involved in the Dayton Music Scene for over 20 years, as both a solo performer and a member of such bands as The Motel Beds, Shrug, The American Static, and Set The Controls, to name just a few.