The Sonic Cafe - Sonic Café #499/Yeah, It’s That Good
Sonic Café—David Byrne with “Don’t Be Like That” from the new Who Is in the Sky LP. Welcome to our little coastal radio café; you’ve heard it from others and, yeah, it’s that good. I’m Scott Clark, and this is episode 499—one away from 500. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, though.
This hour we roll out a 60-year mix: Joe Cocker takes “Mustang Sally” for a spin, CAAMP owns their “Mistakes,” Greta Van Fleet brings “Flower Power,” and Little Milton serves a plate of “Grits Ain’t Groceries.” We’ve also got a Sonic Café twin spin asking, can you say “Chevrolet”? We can—first with Taj Mahal from ’71, then Robert Plant with a modern take. Great track.
Between the grooves, comedian Ronny Chieng reports on the biggest gap in human history, while astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us we’re all made of stars. And Sir Paul Mcartney? He stops by to tell us how Elvis, Sinatra, and Marvin Gaye all covered “Yesterday”… but none of them would cop to it. We’ll let Paul explain.
All that plus a few other surprises along the way. So let’s do this thing with a little Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu—Johnny Rivers from 1972—right here at the Sonic Café.