Feel your Feelings
On the 17th episode of Judy’s Jungle, we join up with Nate Dalton all the way from Berkeley California. Aaron Calvert joins in, Aaron takes comfort in Oakland, not far from the home of the lumber yard veggie dog!
As the music kicks in, we are immersed into time travel. How do you embrace these new sounds? the ones your friends share with you? that silent nod of the head and the soft tap of the foot. The half smile from across the room.
Nate takes us on an adventure through a smoky dirt road. Songs of love, regret, and songs of finding yourself in the middle of nowhere. The voyage can go anywhere. Nate can find a song and share a jam that humbles all of us, New York City can sing a murder ballad and Merle Haggard reminds us that not all days are the same. That beautiful voice of Bülent Ortaçgil, Washington Phillips from 1927, and points out to us how important Kate Wolf has and always will be.
I have known Nate since we were both angst and gentle teenagers. Driving up and down the west coast, staying up late, listening to records while they were sprawled all over the floor, telling stories, and listening to each other laugh. During the episode we talk about the comfort of speedos, how it is important to be in tune with yourself, and Nate and Aaron talk about the wondrous beaches of the Bay Area. It was so wonderful to have Nate join us for an episode, it was so nice to hang out and catch up. This was super fun and one killer jam just rolled into another. I am looking forward to hanging out with both Nate and Aaron in the future. I am also looking forward to hear Nate's long player when he finally releases it. Thank you Nate, Thank you Aaron....love you guys so much. As we pass through life on a day to day basis it's important to remember, "feel your damn feelings" and also, "it's okay not to feel okay." Good friends told me that once.
*songs curated by Nate dalton
"spiral" by Vangelis from the album spiral, RCA records 1977
"surrender" by Diana Ross from the album 1971 Motown records
"watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters S/T 1973 on Columbia Records
*"The Way I Am" by Merle Haggard from the album The Way I Am, 1980
*"Anlamsiz" by Bülent Ortaçgil from the album Benimle Oynar Mısın?, 1974
"I found out" by Kaleidoscope from the album Beacon from Mars 1968 released on Edsel records
*"Lift Him Up That's All" by Washington Phillips recorded in 1927, available on the Dust-to-Digital release Goodbye, Babylon, 2003
*"Banks of the Ohio" by The Kossoy Sisters from the album Bowling Green, 1956
"a bag of blues" by Jimmy McGriff from the record Time Waltzes on 1967 on solid state records.
*"Telluride" by Kate Wolf from the album Back Roads, 1976
"The Blues" by Julie Driscoll, Brian auger, and the trinity 1969 Atco Records
"Back at Judy's Jungle" by Brian Eno from the record Thing Tiger mountain by strategy 1975 Island records.
