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

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84. Bob Log III [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:55
Bob Log III is a one man band from Tuscon, Arizona. He tends to tour at least half the days of the year all over the planet, bringing a party, and doing it all by himself, ever since his old band Doo Rag broke up while o…
83. African Head Charge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:54
Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah is the percussionist and vocalist behind African Head Charge, the experimental dub project he co-founded with legendary studio wizard Adrian Sherwood in the late 1970s. With dozens of albums to his c…
82. Danielson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:16
The band Danielson started when Daniel Smith worked with his siblings to satisfy a requirement for his senior thesis three decades ago. If you’re not familiar with their music, one thing you’ll notice throughout today’s…
81. Mayo Thompson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:20
Mayo Thompson is the founding member of The Red Krayola, an experimental rock group that has existed in various formations since 1966. He’s collaborated with The Raincoats, Pere Ubu, and the Fall as a record producer, is…
Questionable Music at KAOS (Patreon snippet) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:32
Markly brings his weekly pub trivia game "Questionable Music" to the radio in this exciting segment from the new two-hour Patreon release featuring Markly Morrison and Jack Habegger being interviewed by KAOS station mana…
High Llamas [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:10
Friend of the show Sean O’Hagan returns to the Low Profile to discuss “Hey Panda,” the first release from The High Llamas in eight years. When we last spoke in 2021, he had dropped the High Llamas moniker and forged a ne…
80. Lora Logic of X-Ray Spex and Essential Logic [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:06
Once upon a time in England, a teenager named Susan Murphy brought her saxophone to audition for a new punk band called X-Ray Spex- a group that was not looking for a sax player. Despite that fact, she made the cut, and…
79. Death (the band from Detroit) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:03
About fifty years ago, three brothers started a garage band in Detroit. Their sound was forward-thinking and ferocious, and their band name – Death – played no small part in killing their music career. That didn’t stop t…