The Ledge #575: Second Quarter Report

With tonight's show being the last broadcast of June, and especially as it is also the last day of the month, it's pretty clear that it needed to be a second quarter recap. There's over two hours of great music that has come out in the last three months, similar to the first quarter recap show of March 31.

The material ranges from the fantastic power pop of Paint Fumes and Jagger Holly to veteran rockers such as Ian Hunter and The Waco Brothers. There's some rootsy rock and roll from Tommy Stinson, Deer Tick and The Baseball Project. The music comes from not only the usual US, UK, and Canadian artists but also from Australia, Austria, France, and Germany. 

As for this week's "52 weeks of Teenage Kicks" series, I have a very special cover by German punkers Die Toten Hosen. Way back in the early 90s they had a fantastic covers record called Learning English, Lesson One, where they invited members of the original bands to assist them with their remakes. 2017 saw the relese of Learning English, Lesson Two that continued that format. For their version of "Teenage Kicks", they featured original Undertones guitarist Damian O'Neill! I also included the two brand new covers I had previously played over the last quarter by Jeremy Porter & The Tucos and The Waco Brothers.

As I do every week, I must again plead with y'all for more versions of "Teenage Kicks". If you are a musician, or have any contact with artists that could record their own take on the classic, please contact me!

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1. Die Toten Hosen - Teenage Kicks

2. Jeremy Porter and The Tucos - Teenage Kicks

3. The Waco Brothers - Teenage Kicks

4. He Who Cannot Be Named - Funny Farm

5. Cowboys In The Campfire - That's It

6. Tony Valentino - Try It

7. Arthur Alexander - One Life (Is All You Got)

8. Ian Hunter - Defiance

9. The Damned - Bad Weather Girl

10. The Baseball Project - The Yips

11. Deer Tick - Forgiving Ties

12. Country Westerns - Grapefruit

13. Dropkick Murphys - Gotta Get To Peekskill (feat. Violent Femmes)

14. Justine and the Unclean - You and Me Against You and Me

15. The Darts - Snake Oil

16. Bully - All I Do

17. Miesha and the Spanks - Dig Me Out

18. Cable Ties - Time for You

19. Jagger Holly - Automatic

20. Paint Fumes - Starting Over

21. sparkle*jets u.k. - No One Rides for Free

22. The On and Ons - Let Ya Hair Down!

23. The Anderson Council - Alone With You

24. The Master Plan - Second Generation Woman

25. Guardian Singles - Pit Viper

26. Pardoner - Are You Free Tonight?

27. Lone Wolf - Ready To Break

28. Crocodiles - Love Beyond The Grave

29. Single Mothers - Sad Dumb Game

30. Hamburg Ramones - Punk Rock Radio

31. The Bloodstrings - Heartache Radio

32. Graham Day And The Gaolers - A Rose Thorn (Sticking in Your Mind's Eye)

33. The Reverberations - Fly My Kite

34. Berlin Blackouts - Rabble Rousers

35. Les Lullies - Pas De Regrets

36. Mudhoney - Little Dogs

37. Thought Patrol - Indigo Girl