Walking St. Paul’s Blvd with Michael McDermott (+ Peter Himmelman on the Jukebox)
Not everyone walking St. Paul’s Boulevard makes it out alive. No one survives it unchanged. This mythological road plays home to a haunting cast of characters, and our guide on this episode of the True Tunes Podcast is none other than the road’s creator – and street-sweeper: singer, songwriter, and seeker, Michael McDermott. No one tells a story like this Chicago native. Maybe that’s because so few who walk the path he’s walked live to tell their tales. McDermott has been crafting some of the most inspiring, and heartbreaking gritty folk-rock this side of the Graceland Cemetery since he burst onto the scene in 1991. His latest may be his best yet – and that’s saying something.
While in this soul-searching, folk-rock mood, we crank up Peter Himmelman on the True Tunes Jukebox and hear from another – very different – master of the genre. Himmelman has tapped into the therapeutic, spiritual, communal powers of song for decades – from radio hits like “Woman With The Strength of 10,000 Men” to Grammy-nominated children’s music, and beyond.
Find our review of McDermott’s album What In The World HERE.
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Check out our 2019 conversation with McDermott at the True Tunes 30 Year Class Reunion HERE
MUSIC USED ON THIS EPISODE:
Michael McDermott:
This World Will Break Your Heart (Out From Under)
Marlowe (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
My Own Little World (Michael McDermott)
What If Today Were My Last (Orphans)
Murder in The First Degree (620 W. Surf)
A Wall I Must Climb (620 W. Surf)
Fool’s Avenue (620 W. Surf)
Leave It To The Angels (Gethsemane)
Morning Never Comes (Bourbon Blue)
The Gang’s All Here (The Westies – Six On The Out)
The Things You Want (What In The World…)
Butterfly (Willow Springs)
Too Corrupt for Heaven (Too Holy for Hell) (Stories, Lies and Legends)
The Ballad of Johnny Diversey (Stories, Lies and Legends)
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (Someone Else’s Clothes)
When the Irish Were Kings of New York (Bourbon Blue)
My Father’s Son (Noise From Words)
God Help Us (Out From Under)
Sacred Ground (620 W. Surf)
I Know a Place (Hit Me Back)
What In the World…(Acoustic version) (What In The World…)
No Matter What (What In The World…)
St. Paul’s Boulevard (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
New Year’s Day (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
Where The Light Gets In (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
The Arsonist (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
All That We Have Lost (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
Sick of This Town (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
Pack the Car (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
Peace, Love and Brilliant Colors (St. Paul’s Boulevard)
Unanswered Prayers (House Arrest: The Live Quarantine Sessions)
Folksinger (Willow Springs)
Peter Himmelman:
This Is My Offering (Press On)
The Fifth of August (Sussman Lawrence version)
Woman With The Strength Of 10,000 Men (From Strength to Strength)
Only Innocent (From Strength to Strength)
Beneath the Damage and the Dust (Flown This Acid World)
11 Months in the Bath of Dirty Spirits (Skin)
Steak (Improvised) (Stage Diving)
Love of Midnight (Stage Diving)
Sacrificial (There Is No Calamity)
I’m Bored (My Lemonade Stand)
It Seems We Never Rest (Press On)
“Bones” Incidental music bridge
Suite for Tambourine and Hand Claps (Press On)
Phil Keaggy & Rex Paul – Full Circle (Exclusive True Tunes podcast Instrumental version)
Visit Michael McDermott’s Official Website HERE
Visit Peter Himmelman’s Official Website HERE
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