Road Dog Dharma

Take a Journey with the Rev. around the United States of America.  Just lay your hands on the radio. Let the good vibes, traveling tunes and insightful interviews enlighten your mind and heal what ails you. Amen!

"Hmm – it is impossible not to like Reverend Freakchild, one of the blues great eccentrics, er, I mean individuals. This release is kind of a road trip roughly clockwise round the United States – yes, those are shades of Jack Kerouac in the title. It is three minutes into the album before there is any music, as quite a few of the listed 26 tracks are snatches of conversations with or interviews by various radio DJs. No, they don’t get boring, but they do give a good idea of the Rev’s personality – even when all his equipment, instruments, gig money and his clean laundry have been stolen, he can see the silver lining. He did at least get a song out of it - ‘Hippie Bluesman Blues’.

Musically, Freakchild runs from the psychedelic country-gospel-blues rock of ‘Roadtrance’ to a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s ‘White Freightliner Blues’ which then segues into The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, from JJ Cale’s ‘Call Me The Breeze’ to the venerable standard ‘Rollin’ & Tumblin’’, from Z.Z. Top’s ‘Jesus Just Left Chicago’ to the traditional ‘You Gotta Move’. And surely the good Reverend can be one of only a few who will have a track more or less consisting of his drummer talking about his time with Bob Dylan – no egos from the leader here. As I said, it’s impossible not to like Reverend Freakchild…" - Norman John Darwen / Flying Shoes (UK)

 Track Listing & Musicians featured:

1 Sacred Trip (tuning in… (0:47)

2 Tangled up in Blues with Cornel @ WNCD (2:06)

3 Roadtrance - Live in Concert @ the Cutting Room (7:13) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Guitar / Chris Parker: Drums

4 Dial It In! (Solo Acoustic) - Live on Air @ WBJB (2:31)

5 Call Me the Breeze - Live on Air @ WTJU (4:21) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar, Harmonica & Vocals / Patrick Coman: Guitar & Vocals

6 Live on Air with Richard Winham @ WUTC (2:38)

7 Inferno Avenue (4:16) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Guitars / Chris Parker: Drums

8 Carolina Meditation Mixdown @ WNCW (1:10)

9 All Across America (4:22) Reverend Freakchild: Guitar & Vocals / Drew Glackin: Lap Steel Guitar / Jon Bones Ritchie Robinson: Bass / Patrick Carmichael: Drums - First released on the album God Shaped Hole

10 Live on Air with Wildman Steve (4:28)

11 Dial It In! (Road Dog Dharma Remix) (3:17) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Guitar / Tim Kia: Bass / Hazel Miller: Backing Vocals / Chris Parker: Drums

12 Jesus Just Left Chicago - Live on Air @ WWOZ (4:59)

13 Just Lay Your Hands on the Radio! (0:25)

14 Howlin’ the Blues with the Blueshound @ KPFT (3:17)

15 White Freightliner Blues / Tomorrow Never Knows (4:31) Reverend Freakchild: Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Guitars and Lap Steel / Majordilemma: Backing Vocals / Chris Parker: Drums

16 Reverend Freakchild Day with Don O. @ KNON (1:18)

17 You Gotta Move (Trad.) Live on Air @ KGNU (3:40) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar & Vocals / Double Shot Jimmy: Harmonica & Vocals / Nolan Kemp: Drum and percussion / McGogoDeluxe aka Tim Dardis: Backing Vocals  

18 Talking Buddha & the Blues with Margot on the Colorado Sound (2:38)

19 Rollin’ & Tumblin’ (Trad.) (2:35) Reverend Freakchild: Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Harmonica / First released on the album Chaos & Country Blues

20 Please Stand By with Sleepy John @ KPIG (2:45))          

21 Hippie Bluesman Blues (Alt. Country Remix) (2:46) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Guitars, Bass, Harmonica & Backing Vocals / Chris Parker: Drums

22 Auspicious Coincidences with Inessa (1:04)

23 Live on Air @ KPOV Centerstage (0:42)

24 Keep On Trucking (4:06) Reverend Freakchild: National Steel Guitar & Vocals / Hugh Pool: Guitar & Backing Vocals / John Ragusa: Backing Vocals / Chris Parker: Drums / First released on the album Hillbilly Zen-punk Blues

25 Live on Air @ KDHX with Ron Edwards (1:27)

26 The Finish Line (4:08) Reverend Freakchild: Guitar & Vocals / Steve Sirockin: Organ