WMM presents Chase The Horseman + Mike McCoy + David Burchfield

Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

New & MidCoastal Releases +
Chase The Horseman + Mike McCoy
+ David Burchfield

Mark plays New & MidCostal Releases from: Chase The Horseman, Jo MacKenzie, Katy Guillen & The Drive, Ebony Tusks, David Burchfield, Various Blonde, Quiet Takes, Soultru, Nick Siegel, Mike McCoy’s Trompe-l’oeil, Lido Pimienta, X, Diet Cig, Chuck Prophet, and Billy Porter.

At 10:30 we talk to Chase The Horseman film composer, band leader, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer, & producer. They have composed music for over 40 films and as producer collaborated with Teri Quinn, Heidi Lynne Gluck, KD Kuro, and Nan Turner. Recently Chase created the music for two feature-length episodes of the Hulu original series, “Into the Dark.” In February Chase released “Poor Song,” a cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs track by Karen O. On May 1 Chase released, a quarantine cover of “Midnight, The Stars and You” written by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly Stanley. The most famous version was recorded in 1934 by Ray Noble & his Orchestra with an uncredited Al Bowlly on vocals. This was used in the ballroom scene and closing of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining based on the novel by Stephen King. All of the profits of this single will be donated directly to service industry workers in Kansas City and Midwest Music Foundation on a 50/50 basis. www.chasethehorseman.bandcamp.com

At 11:00 Mark talks with Mike McCoy, from Austin, Texas. Mike McCoy was born in Kansas and is a singer, songwriter, band leader, and social commentator. Mike McCoy has been making music for more than 30 years, playing country-roots to punk to performance art and power pop. Mike founded the KC band Cher UK (Cargo/FistPuppet) & (Red Decibel/Columbia Records) in the mid 1990s and fronted the Black Rabbits of Lawrence, Kansas, and two Austin, bands: American People and the Service Industry. Mike is a religion studies and art-history graduate of TCU. He has worked as a fund-raising researcher at Yale, and a carpenter and designer in Austin. Last year Mike’s newest band: Mike McCoy’s Trompe-l’œil released “Eyein’ Lies” on July 19, 2019, one of WMM’s 119 Best Recordings of 2019.

At 11:30 David Burchfield joins us from Denver to share music and details about his new album, “State To State” to be released June 5, 2020. State to State is filled with layers of guitar, upright piano, shuffling percussion, stately fiddle and the detail-rich lyrics of a troubadour who’s seen his share of these United States. “I’d made two previous albums right out of college, and then more or less quit to move to Colorado and become an elementary-school teacher,” David says. “I was in my second year of teaching when a truck hit me while driving my scooter home one night.” Rushed to the hospital, Burchfield awoke to find he’d escaped with only a broken nose and a concussion. Above all, he was left with a potent reminder of life’s brevity and a fresh sense of urgency. Once again, he picked up the guitar, and out poured “You’re OK, It’s Alright,” the first of the songs that now comprise State to State. www.davidburchfield.bandcamp.com

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