RAW impressions with Lou Barlow and Adelle Barlow

Lou's childhood friend Mark passed away this summer. Lou shares Mark's Insanity #1, a cassette full of prank phone calls etc. from 1982. Lou discusses with Adelle the many and profound impressions Ma…

While searching the depths of the attic for a very specific cassette, Lou finds the tape he was looking for in March. It's his first version of Tree, a song he wrote, at his mother's request, for his…

Which armpit smells more? Lou is in the studio working on the new Folk Implosion LP and having musical dreams. Loss, dreams and the heart are discussed.

Adelle added a meal plan plus more songs on t…

On the day after their very-first-live-show, Adelle and Lou provide listeners a recreation of the performance with added local references!

No tunes were harmed in this episode.

Handwritten lyrics!: …

Home from tour, Lou utilizes his cassette 4-track for a meditation soundtrack and a Gram Parson's cover (Blue Eyes).

Depression and recovering from tour are discussed.

The first ever RAW impressions li…

Another remote episode, Lou in Denver, Adelle at home...Lou plays Adelle a version of his song Repeat from his Brace The Wave L.P.

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Lou tries to cheer Adelle up by playing her a song that always makes her cry, 3 Babies by the late Sinead O'Connor. In Nashville, Lou sees the drum set used on Neil Young's Harvest and ends the show …

While In Louisville, Lou records a 90s mash-up he and Adelle conceived while on the Barlow Family General Tour (featuring Lou solo). The medley was recorded and mixed by Donnie Bott at BBD Labs!

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Lou is in Toronto, Adelle is home, do they learn how to negotiate the odd gaps, new complications and limitations of remote recording? Sorta! Adelle shares stories from home including Izzy's traumati…

Recorded July 13th in Indianapolis, Indiana on the Barlow Family General Tour (featuring Lou solo), Adelle and Lou grill Joyful Noise label-guy Karl Hoffstetter about his humble beginnings and grand …

Lou and Adelle interview friend and houseguest Ryan Jewell. Ryan is a percussionist and multi-instrumentalist in town to assist Lou with a new, kinda secret, project.The episode ends with a short and…

The Barlow Family General Tour (featuring Lou solo) concludes. Lou and Adelle discuss the end of the tour, Lou plays his solo nugget Imagined Life, they fall asleep, wake up and finish the episode be…

As the Barlow Family General Tour (featuring Lou solo) approaches the end, Adelle is overwhelmed with feelings of gratitude. Lou, Adelle and Izzy check in, late night, from Lou's cousin's house in Da…

Adelle and Lou, still on break from the Barlow Family General Tour, interview Grandpa Dave and Grandma Val. The retirees share their RAW impressions of Led Zeppelin, the Everly Brothers and the Greas…

 Adelle and Lou are in Wisconsin for a 3 day break from the Barlow Family General tour. Lou plays 3 covers of 3 songs from 3 Wisconsin bands: Mecht Mensch, The Frogs and Killdozer. 

Tour resumes on Ju…

Tired and tipsy, post-show in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Lou and Adelle manage to record a new episode! Subjects range from panties, the Catholic Church, masturbation, Adelle's mysterious spirituality and …

Lou and Adelle are in a bed, in a motel room in Ithaca, New York. Lou shares the possibly, probably, never heard before 4-track cassette 'demo' version of the Sebadoh classic Skull. Also, a definitel…

The Barlow Family General Tour (featuring Lou Barlow solo) PART 1 is over. The drive home after the last show in Brooklyn was brutal. Lou does a parody of the Hives hit Hate To Say I Told You So to e…

Too tired from tour to do MiniMusicMonday, Lou and Adelle present TinyTunesTuesday. Lou dips deep into his 'oeuvre' and plays the 2 song medley that comprises Poledo from Dinosaur Jr's You're Living …