[Jim Price]

Hello Everyone,

Here is the recap of the December 5 edition of "The Homegrown Rocker," which airs every Sunday night from 8 to 10 PM on Q94 Classic Rock!

We returned to the mailboxes for this week's program to check out more new local and regional recordings that have arrived recently. We debuted numerous new tunes, including some new holiday season local and regional music! Making their debuts were new songs from The Semi-Supervillains, Denny & Ken, Welcome 2 Earth, Paper Plants, Sumpn Fierce, Blind Choice, God's Green Apples, Endbringer and Troll Teeth! We also debuted new holiday songs from Antonio Andrade and the songwriting duo of Bill Dann & Jack Servello! We also updated "Local Music News," dug into the archive for both a 2011 seasonal number by The Embalmed plus a 1997 tune by the Buzz Poets for "Local Music Flashback" features, stepped "Across State Lines" to hear a tune by Brooklyn, New York's Sunlord, and reviewed Doctor Smoke's Dreamers and the Dead album in "The Professor's CD Corner!" (For those who missed the program, a four-part podcast of this show is available for listening or download from Q94's website, www.q94classicrock.com. Click on "The Professor's Classroom," and then scroll down to "Homegrown Rocker Podcast" and look for the four show segments marked with the date, 120521.)

Here is this week's playlist:

HOUR ONE:

BLOOD UNION - "Lit"
DONNY BURNS & THE 3RD DEGREE - "Thinkin' Straight"
BILL DANN & JACK SERVELLO - "Christmas Cat-astrophe"
DENNY & KEN - "Roadblocks and Wrong Turns"
THE SEMI-SUPERVILLAINS - "Play That Rock'n'Roll"
WELCOME 2 EARTH - "Full Circle"
PAPER PLANTS - "Bombshell"
THE JADED LIPS - "It's Not Me"
ANTONIO ANDRADE - "Jingle Bell Rock"
MOONSHINE JASMINE - "Hang On There Ryder" (live)
SUMPN FIERCE - "Good Daze"
YIGGA DIGGA - "Better Way"

HOUR TWO:

IMAGES OF EDEN - "My Promise"
THE EMBALMED - "Coming Black Winter" (2011, Local Music Flashback)
BLIND CHOICE - "Nothing Left"
DOCTOR SMOKE - "What Lies Beyond"
GOD'S GREEN APPLES - "Slow"
THE BUZZ POETS - "Psycho" (1997, Local Music Flashback)
SUNLORD - "Forbidden Witch" (Across State Lines)
THE HEATHEN PARADE - "Dead Heat (for Dead Last)"
ENDBRINGER - "Legendary"
TROLL TEETH - "Barbs on a Wire"

On our next program, we'll welcome our final in-studio band guests of 2021, as area young gun rockers Neon Hotel join us! We'll meet the band members, discuss their music, live show and career thus far, plus hear some recorded songs from them! We'll also update "Local Music News," dig a "Local Music Flashback" from the archive, and step "Across State Lines" to hear a song from an independent band or artist from outside PA! Hear the "Homegrown Rocker" this Sunday night (December 12) on Q94 Classic Rock - 94.3 FM and online at www.q94classicrock.com!

Upcoming guests and specials:

DEC. 19 - CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
DEC. 26 - 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIAL
JAN. 2 - SHERRY DILLING (ArtsAltoona)
JAN. 9 - DEVIN SHERMAN
JAN. 16 - WAX MEKANIX
MARCH 20 - JO JO STELLA

(All dates are subject to changes as circumstances warrant.)

Bands and artists wanting to submit news items for "Local Music News" may email their news to homegrownrocker@gmail.com. Indicate "MUSIC NEWS" in the subject heading!

Bands and artists interested in having music aired on the show are invited to send their broadcast-quality recordings to: The Homegrown Rocker, 2513 6th Avenue, Altoona, PA 16602 (ATTN: Jim Price). You can also email digital song files or inquiries about the show to homegrownrocker@gmail.com. And bands and musicians interested in being guests on the program can email their interest to homegrownrocker@gmail.com as well!

Jim Price

In Local Music News...

ArtsAltoona has announced that they will be hosting their first Open Mic Night. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Blank Canvas area at the ArtsAltoona Center. Performers of all types are welcome, including comedy, music, poetry, storytelling and additional talents. Participants will have time for three songs, or 15 minutes, whichever comes first. The ArttsAltoona Center is located at 2212 6th Avenue in Altoona, at the site of the former Simpson-Temple United Parish facility.

After more than two decades of entertaining audiences, Pittsburgh-based swing and rock ensemble Neon Swing X-perience has announced that they will be taking an indefinite break so that group members can pursue other projects. Formed in 1998, Neon Swing X-perience has performed throughout Pennsylvania and across the country, including shows at New York's Central Park, The Derby in Hollywood, the Viva Las Vegas Festival in Las Vegas, and numerous Pittsburgh area locations. The group's final show will be next July at the Westmoreland Arts and Heritgae Festival near Greensburg.

And the Pittsburgh music scene mourns the passing of one of its leading ladies of the blues. Jill West passed away on Thanksgiving Day after a battle with cancer at age 68. Jill was a popular and well-respected performer who fronted several groups through the years, most recently Jill West and Blues Attack, who issued several albums. Off stage, Jill worked as a pediatric nurse at Pittsburgh’s UPMC Children’s Hospital.
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