Outsider Art w Finster & Yingst + Mountain Goats on The Jukebox

John Thompson Adam Again, Finster, Folk Art, Howard Finster, John J. Thompson, Outsider Art, REM, Talking Heads, vigilantes of love, Yingst February 15, 2023

JJT performing at Rev. Finster’s Rock N Revival in Cleveland TN, Nov 2022

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True Tunes host John J. Thompson recently traveled to Cleveland, TN, to speak at a festival in honor of Rev. Howard Finster – the enigmatic painter, pastor, and musician who first came to international prominence when his art was used on album covers by Talking Heads, R.E.M., and Adam Again, and is considered by some to be the father of contemporary folk art. Painter and woodcut printmaker Kreg Yingst, whose art has graced recent album projects by Vigilantes of Love and others, presented at the festival as well and joined John for a conversation. Plus, we crank up the Jukebox to check out one of the most prolific and accomplished outsider musicians of the last three decades; John Darnielle and his band, The Mountain Goats.

The artwork for this limited edition vinyl reissue of Vigilantes of Love’s Killing Floor was created by Kreg Yingst

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Music On This Episode:

(Compiled by Bruce A. Brown)

Opening segment

Howard Finster – Intro to Adam Again – Homeboys

Phil Keaggy & Rex Paul – Full Circle (True Tunes podcast theme version)

Talking Heads – And She Was intro edit with Spencer Tweedy – “DP2301 Contact Sheet 128”

Danielson – Did I Step On Your Trumpet?

Bill Mallonee & The Big Sky Ramblers – You Old Cow-Puncher

(https://billmalloneemusic.bandcamp.com/album/lead-on-kindly-light-this-world-one-more-2020)

The Mountain Goats – In League with Dragons (Jordan Lake Sessions Volume 2)

TTL Set

R.E.M. – Tricycle

Leon Russell – Stranger in a Strange Land

Larry Norman – Reader’s Digest

The Way – If You Will Believe

Petra – This Means War!

77’s – Do It for Love (Stadium mix)

The Choir – About Love

Vigilantes of Love – Skin

Adam Again – In a New World of Time

Jukebox

R.E.M. – 2JN

The Mountain Goats – Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums

The Mountain Goats – California Song

The Mountain Goats – Old College Try

The Mountain Goats – Weekend In Western Illinois

The Mountain Goats – The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

The Mountain Goats – Against Pollution

The Mountain Goats – Pale Green Things

The Mountain Goats – Is. 45:23

The Mountain Goats – Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water, Triumph Of

“Poker Face” excerpts

The Mountain Goats – Harbor Me

Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf

The Mountain Goats – Dark In Here

JJT & Kreg Set

R.E.M. – What Love Can Do

Bruce Cockburn – World of Wonders

Idealogy – Within

Vigilantes of Love – Real Down Town

Vigilantes of Love – Earth Has No Sorrow (Heaven Can’t Heal)

Closing

Phil Keaggy & Rex Paul – Full Circle (True Tunes podcast theme version)

Howard Finster – Hit Religion

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