Well hello friends. It's me, your old pal Will. Welcome to Season 5, Episode 20 of Vinyl-O-Matic. Our journey continues through albums with titles that begin with the letter D as in Delta. If you'd like to follow along with the program, you can point your browser in the direction of vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e20. We begin the program with some lo-fi folk love.

That was too little, but it's not too late. We just heard The Dream Syndicate with bassist Kendra Smith on vocals performing "Too Little, Too Late" from their groundbreaking 1982 album The Days of Wine and Roses. Before that, we had a selection from the original motion picture sound track to The Days of Heaven on Michael Nesmith's label Pacifc Arts. The number was Doug Kershaw's "Swamp Dance". Both Kershaw and Leo Kottke contributed tracks that featured scoring by the late great Ennio Morricone. The Moody Blues with the London Festival Orchestra brought us "The Morning: Another Morning" from their lushly orchestral Days of Future Passed on Deram Records from 1967. Starting things off, we had Palace Brother (Will, Ned, and Paul Oldham) with "I Send My Love to You" from their sophomore release Days in the Wake from 1994 on Drag City Records (DC50 for those of you playing along at home). Next up, let's listen to a live version of Japan's number 18 best selling single of all time.

Welcome back. If you cast your minds back to the top of that last set, you will recall that we hard from Pinky and the Killers with a live version of "Koi no Kisetsu" from a 1970 King Records release entitled De Luxe. If friend of the show Trane is listening, perhaps he could provide us with a translation. That was followed up with a selection from the soundtrack to the 1996 Jim Jarmusch film Dead Man. "Do You Know How to Use This Weapon?" features Neil Young playing Old Black and a pump organ, along with Gary Farmer and Johnny Depp providing dialog. Belle and Sebastian's "Roy Walker" is a fine poppy number from their 2003 Rough Trade release Dear Catastrophe Waitress. Rounding things out, we had an excellent slow-build track from Death Cheetah entitled "Tired Blood" from a self-released 2017 double vinyl album, coincidentally mastered by Ned Oldham. And now, are you free to do what you want, any old time?

Heavy, man. We just heard from the super group of sorts VHÖL featuring Mike Scheidt of YOB, John Cobbett and Sigrid Shele of Hammers of Misfortune, and the excellent Aesop Dekker on drums. "3AM" is the name of the track from their 2016 Gilead Media release Deeper Than Sky. Prior to that was Banarama and Fun Boy Three with their rendition of the Velvettes "He Was Really Saying Something" from 1983's Deep Sea Skiving. Ray Charles did a swingin' rendition of Irving Berlin's "Marie" from 1961's Dedicated to You on ABC-Paramount. And sure enough, that was The Rolling Stones with "I'm Free" from their fifth US album December's Children released in 1966 on London Records.

Up at the beginning of that set, we had more from Mr. Young in the form of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young. Sure I could've played one of the mega-hits from that album but I opted the last track on Déjà Vu, "Everybody I Love You" beacause I do love you, the listener. Wonderful popsmith weirdo R. Stevie Moore brought us "Cool Daddio" from a 2013 re-release of his 1978 album Delicate Tension. That was followed up by Nadja's magical musician Aidan Baker collaborating with Claire Brentnall from Manchester's Shield Patterns. We heard the title track "Delirious Things" released on Pleasance Records in 2017. Finally, we heard from the glorious Bobby Gentry and her song "Morning Glory" from her 1968 sophomore album The Delta Sweete. If you have any questions or comments, drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. Archived episodes, show notes, podcast platform links and more can be found at vinylomatic(dot)com. When next we meet, our journey continues down the river of albums with titles that begin with the letter D as in Delta. Join me, won't you?