BONUS- Looking Back: A Low Profile Mixtape

BONUS- Looking Back: A Low Profile Mixtape

Author: Markly Morrison April 22, 2021 Duration: 2:10:59
Instead of a new episode this time around, here’s some music representing the artists who have been featured on the program so far, from the most recent back to the first episode. Hang out for a couple hours, enjoy the jams, and if you like a song or artist, dig it: There’s a Low Profile episode about them for you to devour. See y’all in a couple weeks with more new shows as season 4 continues to blow minds across the galaxy.Low Profile with Markly MorrisonLooking Back Mixtape 4-22-2021Negativland “Drink It Up”Alice Stuart “Freedom’s The Sound”Jeffrey Lewis and the Voltage “Except For The Fact That It Isn’t”Briana Marela “Give Me Your Love”Lavender Country “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You”Oval “Ah!”The Music Tapes “Please Hear Mr. Flight Control”Swamp Dogg “Kiss Me Hit Me Touch Me”The Julies “Boy Wonder”Karl Blau “Mockingbird Diet”The Microphones “Between Your Ear and The Other Ear”Jib Kidder “New Crimes”David Grubbs “Gloriette”Donnie and Joe Emerson “Thoughts In My Mind”Holy Modal Rounders “Random Canyon”Ashley Eriksson “When The Earth Was Flat”Eugene Chadbourne “Honey Don’t”CW Stoneking “On a Desert Isle”Washington Phillips “Mother’s Last Word to Her Son”Cornershop “United Provinces of India”Heatwarmer “American Dog”Chumbawamba “This Girl”Nick Krgovich “Country Boy”Amps For Christ “Sweet William”Terry Cashman “Cooperstown”Scott Dunbar “Forty-Four Blues”Bobby Frank Brown “My Dog Is Every Bit as Good as Me”Soul-Junk “Soft Adult Contempt”Susan Cadogan “Love My Life”Cleaners from Venus “A Girl With Cars In Her Eyes”Bob Dorough (on a Miles Davis album) “Nothing Like You”The Gift Machine “Telemetric Mayhem”Old Time Relijun “Dark of the Male, Light of the Female”Gary Wilson “Gary’s in the Park”Margo Guryan “Someone I Know”Larry Norman “Sweet Song of Salvation”Pete Drake “I’m Blue”

There’s a whole world of essential music made by people who never became household names. Low Profile with Markly Morrison seeks out those artists, producers, and behind-the-scenes figures, blending their stories with the music they created. Host Markly Morrison, an audio journalist and musician based in Olympia, Washington, approaches these conversations as oral history-less about fame and more about the craft, the context, and the often overlooked contributions that shaped sounds we love. You’ll hear intimate, detailed interviews that pull back the curtain on influential work, paired with the tracks that define these careers. The show originates as a radio program on KAOS 89.3 FM but finds its enduring home as a podcast distributed by Ruinous Media, allowing these deep-dive stories to be savored anytime. Each episode is a chance to discover not just new music, but the rich human experiences behind it, focusing on the genuine artistry that exists far from the glare of the mainstream spotlight. This podcast is for anyone who believes the most compelling stories in music are often the ones you haven’t heard yet.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Low Profile with Markly Morrison
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89. Anne-Tina [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:18
Today, we’re examining a hidden gem from 1984 lovingly crafted by a nineteen year old keyboardist living in Denmark by the name of Anne-Tina, whose debut album was reissued in 2025 on Frederiksberg Records. To help us ex…
88. Shudder To Think [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:39
After moving to D.C. in 1985, then 16-year-old Craig Wedren helped shape Shudder To Think into a standout act within the Dischord Records scene, evolving from a raw hardcore-adjacent sound into a complex style that event…
Kento Oiwa - Olympia Music History Project [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:03
Musician Kento Oiwa interviewed by Markly Morrison for the Olympia Music History Project. Formed in the mid-1990s by Japanese immigrants Kento Oiwa and Michiko Swiggs, IQU was a group unlike anything folks in Olympia–or…
Low Profile Classic: Swamp Dogg [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:36
Swamp Dogg is coming to Olympia this weekend 7/13/2025! First, he'll be performing at Scherler Sundays, it's a free show that starts at 3pm. After that, Olympia Film Society will be hosting a free 8pm screening of the ne…
Pat Maley - Olympia Music History Project (Bonus) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:59
Today, instead of your usual Low Profile programming, I’m sharing an interview I conducted with Pat Maley in 2023 for the Olympia Music History Project. The whole transcript is available at olympiamusichistory.org . Pat…
87. Dick El Demasiado (Season Finale) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:12
When I first developed an interest in rough-around-the-edges cumbia music, a friend (thanks Matt!) introduced me to the music of Dick El Demasiado, purveyor of “cumbias lunaticas.” Over the years I’ve managed to glean a…
Olympia Music History Project: John Foster [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:53
It’s been a minute since I’ve put out a new show, and so I thought maybe I’d let you in on what has been keeping me so busy. A couple years ago, I started working on an oral history project funded by the city- appropriat…
Margo Guryan (Revisited) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:27
It's an election day bonus episode! Today we’re gonna be digging way back in the archive to episode 4: Focusing on Margo Guryan. This was recorded in early 2019, when I was still figuring out this show’s format. At that…
86. April March [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:52
If there was such a thing as the American ambassador to 60s French Pop it would have to be Elinor Blake, better known as April March. Elinor began her professional career in the world of animation back in the early 80s b…
85. Chris Schlarb of Psychic Temple [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:18
Psychic Temple is the extended-family project of Chris Schlarb, the proprietor of the retro-chic Big Ego studio in Long Beach, California. Chris is an old friend of mine, going back to the turn of the century when I live…