Bess & Erica’s Rock ’N’ Roll Music Hour

Well this was a difficult show to put together. I enjoyed the 2 years my grandmother and I devoted to doing our special show but in observance of the one year anniversary of her death I think it's time to bring our show to a close. It doesn't mean I won't do episodes to honor her and my grandfather's birthday but I felt it time to end Bess & Erica's Rock 'N Roll Music Hour. It just isn't the same without her and never will be. So on this episode I bid farewell to our wonderful show and spent 12+ hours putting together all my favorite parts of ALL 24 episodes we did together. I hope you enjoy this special show and just a HUGE thank you to everyone that was involved in making our show so special (in order of appearance on the show): Fast Mollasses Nora Lee Hayter Loyd Lanning The Hazelwoods Ethan Shane Sunshine CJ Ramone Denver Dalley Miwi La Lupa Josh from Grimey's Shannon Pollard Cheetah Chrome Linnea Quigley Dave Cantrell Jennifer Armstrong   I covered her song: "A Little Girl's Dream of Nashville" And thank you as always to every single listener and fan of our show and us. We love you. Goodnight.   And as always please download all our songs for FREE here: https://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1

On this episode we have a very special guest named Jennifer Armstrong. She is a lovely lady and artist from the UK. Jennifer creates incredible art works using just torn paper and crayon and you must check her out! She has sold hundreds of paintings and her art is even owned by notable celebrities! Her personal story of how she came to be is awesome. I cover: "Plug in Baby" by: Muse Thank you SO much Jennifer for being a part of my podcast! Self portrait of her The one and only Debbie Harry and Alice Cooper both holding their pieces of artwork Jennifer made of and for them!! Too cool!   Check her amazing art out HERE: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.crawford.100046 Download this cover I did and all my covers for FREE here: https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1/plug-in-baby Happy 100th Birthday Eddy Arnold! playlist: https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1/sets/happy-100th-birthday-eddy

On this episode I talk Record Store Day and about my new RSD cover song release at Grimey's and chat a moment with past special guest Sunshine about her experience at Record Store Day in her own state of Iowa! My cover song release! "Cut Here" by: The Cure The Cure's Torn Town/Mixed Up artwork: As always download my new cover song and all my covers at: soundcloud.com/erica-case1 And as always HUGE thank you to Grimey's Preloved and New Music in Nashville!! Please continue to support them in their move to East Nashville!  

This week I had a great interview with Portland Oregon DJ, Post-Punk/Dark Wave expert, and festival coordinator Dave Cantrell! He is in charge of running Oregon's only Post-Punk/Dark Wave music festival: Out from the Shadows! We took a bit to chat about his DJ career, his love for discovering that genre of music and how he got where he is as a festival coordinator! I chose The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" as my "Post-Punk/Dark Wave" cover! Also please go check out his festival if you live in the Oregon area! GET TIX HERE IT STARTS APRIL 5-7! https://www.facebook.com/events/344833359367170/ And please go check out his Dark Wave/ Post-Punk compilation album release and pick up the vinyl AT: https://accidentpronerecords.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-under-the-floorboard-vol-1   Thanks for a great interview Dave! and download this and all my covers HERE: soundcloud.com/erica-case1  

On this month's episode we have special guest, California artist/illustrator/popular Instagramer: Sam Karkanen! She took a moment to audio respond to a few questions I asked her about her artwork and social media presence!  I also asked her to choose the song I covered for this episode and she chose a favorite of mine by one of my idols: Joan Jett. Which I thought was so cool considering we don't personally know each other and she could read me so well, ha! I sing: "Bad Reputation" By: Joan Jett Here's a few of my favorite pieces: Thank you SO much Sam for taking the time to be on my show and I love your work so keep it up and stay fuckin' awesome!  

On this episode we celebrate the first birthday of Bess' since her passing. We miss her so much so this was really a tough one, but I felt it only appropriate since we have done birthday episodes for Floyd to do this one for Bess! Today we celebrate your incredible talent and birth January 31st, 81 years ago. My mother Tara sings: "Satin Sheets" by: Jeanne Pruett I sing: "The Ballad of Bessie Lanning" acoustic by: Me, Erica Case I love you so much granny. Happy Birthday from here on earth from all of us.   

It's November again and time to celebrate my grandfather Floyd Lanning's birthday, which was on the 9th! It would be his 94th, to be exact, if he were still living. I also had the honor and pleasure of sitting down with past special guest/ Eddy Arnold's grandson, Shannon Pollard, and having him as my guest co-host!  And he took part in the celebration by honoring his graparents' wedding day that happened this month as well on the 28th! What a wonderful and special episode we got to share along with sharing the sentiment of honoring our amazing and talented grandparent's. As I mentioned on Shannon's guest episode, Eddy Arnold was my grandfather's musical idol so this is pretty cool I got to share a couch with his own grandson. Thank you so very much Shannon!   Intro: "Boquet of Roses" - Eddy Arnold Cover by: my grandfather, Floyd Lanning   I cover: "Jim, I Wore a Tie Today" - Eddy Arnold (download FREE at: http://soundcloud.com/erica-case1 ) My grandfather in the 70's and his guitar A lovely wedding card from Eddy and Sally's wedding day in the 40's Eddy Arnold and his guitar   Get all my grandfather's music and Eddy covers at: https://soundcloud.com/floydlanning Keep up with all things Eddy Arnold at: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=official%20eddy%20arnold%20site  

It's that time of year again to have a Halloween special and Bess wouldn't have this year any different. So, I was lucky enough to get in contact with legendary scream queen Linnea Quigley, and talk about her iconic horror films she's been in and her upcoming work.   I cover: "Partytime" (Zombie version) by: 45 Grave   Linnea as Trash in Return of the Living Dead (1985)   Linnea with Dinah Cancer the lead singer of 45 Grave

On this episode we have the one and only Cheetah Fucking Chrome from one of the roudiest punk bands that ever was, the Dead Boys! I got to catch a cool phone interview with him while he was off tour in his home town of Austin, Texas. I cover: "Caught with the Meat in Your Mouth" - the Dead Boys Also pick up their 40th anniversary re-release of their debut album called: Still Snotty: Young Loud and Snotty at 40 at https://www.amazon.com/Still-Snotty-Young-Loud-At/dp/B074BNVCFC And as always find my covers I do for the show at: https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1

Well, if you know me or if you keep up with us on social media you've heard of the painful passing of the better half of this show, and my grandmother Bess. She made me promise I wouldn't stop playing my music or going on so here I am carrying on the show and she appointed and approved her daughter/my mother Tara Lanning to stand in as a co-host tonight and from time to time. On this episode we celebrate her beautiful life and legacy by sharing covers we dedicate to her, some of her classic guitar pickin', and sharing some wonderful recordings of her and I that have never been posted before. We hope you all enjoy. We miss you and love you more than any words could ever express Bess.   Live recordings featured in the episode: "Kansas City" - Fats Domino "Walk & Talk" - Norma Jean "Hey, Good Lookin'" - Hank Williams "Sweet Fern" - The Carter Family "Fox on the Run" (guitar riff she's played for years)   My mom, Tara Lanning covers: "Little Rich Boy (Little Rich Girl)" by: Marty Robbins I cover: "My Little Lady" by: Jimmie Rodgers When we went to see Jerry Lee Lewis for her birthday Representing all of us as a trio when we played "Mule Skinner Blues" together Sweet picture of Tara and Bess   As always get ALL our covers for FREE here: https://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1 https://soundcloud.com/taralanning777   *And shout out to Chris Hardwick and his Nerdist Podcast: http://nerdist.com/podcasts/nerdist-podcast-channel/ for featuring us and telling people to listen to our show! Thank you Chris we love you!

On this episode we have a VERY special guest!:Shannon Pollard, president of Plowboy Records AND Eddy Arnold's grandson! We were lucky enough to call him up for a phone interview. We all cover Eddy Arnold songs of course: I brought back my grandmother Bessie Lanning's cover of: "I Walk Alone" (Feat. Me) I cover: "It's a Sin" I also brought back my mother, Tara Lanning's cover of: "Tip of My Fingers" Thank you again SO much Shannon for taking the time to speak with us and making this episode special! Keep up with everything Eddy Arnold and Plowboy Records at: http://www.plowboyrecords.com https://www.facebook.com/Official-Eddy-Arnold-Site-162885280408/ Instagram: @officialeddyarnold And go get that Eddy Arnold tribute record it's badass! https://play.spotify.com/album/0MKJXubNko7Yk9NGGrvtKO?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open May Eddy Arnold's legacy live on!   Get ALL our covers for FREE download at: https://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1 https://soundcloud.com/taralanning777

On this episode I talk about my awesome experience LIVE reviewing Perfume Genius at their show here at the Exit/In here in Nashville, TN. In short the show was EPIC, artful, and Perfume Genius' music is worthy of being in a score to a film.   I cover: "Queen" by Perfume Genius, of their album: Too Bright My grandmother, Bessie, covers "Big Boss Man/High Heeled Sneakers" by: Jimmy Reed/Tommy Tucker       SEE all the photos I took at the Perfume Genius / Serpentwithfeet show here!: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.677772822334291.1073741828.664642440313996&type=1&l=c3ad334ed8     Get their new album No Shape and keep up with them at: http://perfumegenius.org/   As always download ALL our covers FREE here!: soundcloud.com/erica-case1 soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial   BIG thank you again to Grandstand, Jeremy, and Shane for this oppurtunity to live review an awesome band! (and the podcast outro is "Slip Away" off their new album No Shape)  

On this episode we talk about my grandmother's EP Record Store Day release and debut her own autobiographical song she just finished writing! This is everything that came inside! (available for purchase at ericacase.bandcamp.com)   As always shout out to Grimey's Preloved and New Music in Nashville,TN for letting me host all my releases there all the time and to Grimey's TOO for having my release on their table!   Download ALL our covers/original songs here: My grandmother's EP: https://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial/sets/bessie-lanning-ep and my covers and songs: soundcloud.com/erica-case1

On this episode I do a FULL track-by-track review of one of my favorite artist's new album that came out on the 17th of this month. Conor's publicist and I couldn't work out an interview in time due to him being busy on tour but I am happy I could do an album review anyway for this month's episode! My grandmother and I as always do a cover each. She does: "Heartaches by the Number" by: Ray Price and I do: "Napalm" - by: Conor Oberst from Salutations (and the show outro is the song Salutations, the title track from the album) Make sure you buy/stream his amazing new album on iTunes and Spotify and go get the vinyl at: http://www.conoroberst.com/   And as always go download all our covers FREE at: http://soundcloud.com/erica-case1 http://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial  

On this episode we celebrate Black History in music and overall! I cover "They Hung Him on a Cross" by Lead Belly My grandmother sings her own version of a gospel classic: "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" And my mom and guest host, Tara Lanning sings: " I Can't Stop Loving You" by Ray Charles We hope you enjoy our show and that we can celebrate all the progress people of black history have made each and every day!   And as always download our covers for FREE here!: http://soundcloud.com/erica-case1 http://soundcloud.com/taralanning777 http://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial  

This might be our best episode yet! It's a birthday special for my amazing, talented grandmother Bessie who is turning 80 years old!!!   On this show we celeberate her birthday by singing songs she pesonally chose for this episode and she shares some beautifully colorful life memoirs along with some laughs. Then we have VERY special guest Miwi La Lupa: singer, songwriter, and bassist for his own music as well as Conor Oberst's solo work! Him and his team were awesome enough to take time out of their busy tour schedule to share a wonderful little interview with me. I feature his song: "Plagued by Rules (No Wolves)" from his new album Beginner's Guide  I cover: "Cold Moon" - Miwi La Lupa from Ended up Making Love "Sweet Dreams" - Patsy Cline/Tammy Wynette   Then my grandmother and I sing: "Apartment #9" - Tammy Wynette "Everyday He's With Me" - Bessie Lanning   Please check out my grandmother's award winning poetry at: www.poetry.com Keep up with Miwi La Lupa's tour and buy his NEW album and merch HERE!: http://www.miwilalupa.com/shop And as always download all our covers for FREE on our Soundclouds www.soundcloud.com/erica-case1 & find my grandmother's original songs here: www.soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial

Once again we have a special Christmas episode for December and we share some of our favorite Christmas songs: I sing: "Blue Christmas" in the style of Elvis Presley my grandmother plays: "Green Sleeves" My mom Tara sings: "Oh Holy Night" a great cover she did a few years ago with a friend on guitar that I went in and added some back up vocals special just for this episode. We hope everyone has a wonderful and Merry Christmas and holiday!!!

This is a HUGE episode! Not only is it in celebration of my grandfather, Floyd Lanning's birthday, we have another special celebrity guest! I was lucky enough this episode to catch a fantastic interview with Denver Dalley of The Desaparecidos, fronted by Conor Oberst also of the band, Bright Eyes.   He was awesome enough to call me on his only day off tour and chat about what he's been up to since the Desaparecidos had to cancel their own tour, knowing Conor from when they were teens, and his major contribution and composition in the band. I cover: "Buy a Little Time With Her" - Floyd Lanning (off his album Pretty Boy Floyd) "Man and Wife, the Former (Financial Planning)" - Desaparecidos "Gossimer Thin" - Conor Oberst (off his new album Ruminations) My mom covers: "Tips of my Fingers" - Eddy Arnold My grandmother Bessie covers: "Beginning of Goodbye" - Floyd Lanning (also off his album Pretty Boy Floyd) And the show ends with my grandfather's version of "Tips of My Fingers" solo on acoustic guitar. The birthday cake my mom made for one of my grandfather's birthdays   One of my favorite photos of him. He was an avid bodybuilder. PRETTY BOY FLOYD by Floyd Lanning DOWNLOAD FREE HERE: soundcloud.com/floydlanning Buy the physical copy here: http://ericacase.bandcamp.com/ And buy the '45 vinyl @ Grimey's Preloved and New Music in Nashville, TN. As always download ALL our covers for FREE here!: soundcloud.com/erica-case1 soundcloud.com/taralanning777 soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial   And keep up with us here: http://www.ericacase.com

This is a BIG DEAL episode! We have our FIRST celebrity guest: CJ Ramone from the most iconic Punk band EVER, THE RAMONES!!! I had the honor and privilege of interviewing one of the last living Ramones members and the last member to join the band before their retirement in 1996. I can't say thank you enough to him for letting me interview him! I feature his song: "Last Chance to Dance" off his 2014 album of the same title. It's a great album. My personal favorite off of it is "Till the End" Check it and everything else he's up to out at: http://www.cjramone.com I cover: "You're the Only One" - CJ Ramone "Pet Sematary" - The Ramones My grandmother, Bessie covers: "Long Black Veil" - in the style of Johnny Cash And since this is a Ramones themed episode I hung out with my amazing life-size doll of Joey Ramone just for the occasion! As always download all our covers from the show on our Soundclouds!: http://soundcloud.com/erica-case1 http://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial Check out the radio interview I did! https://www.sparemin.com/myrecording/4002?_branch_match_id=317889032294976829 And check us all out and keep up with us at: http://www.ericacase.com  

This month's episode is very special! 13 years ago from Sept. 12th the one and only Johnny Cash left this earth but left us with his legacy to cherish forever. This episode is dedicated to celebrating his life and music so it's all about the covers! 1. "I Still Miss Someone" 2. "Guess Things Happen That Way" 3. "Cocaine Blues" 4. "Green, Green Grass of Home" 5. "Dark as a Dungeon" 6. "Send a Picture of Mother" 7. "Egg Suckin' Dog" 8. "Ring of Fire" 9. "Jackson" and last but certainly not least, the cover song that started it all: 10. "Cry! Cry! Cry!" This is a photo of our past guest Nora Lee Hayter the oldest living relative to the Carter Family and her sister with Johnny Cash.   We sure covered a bunch of his amazing songs so we all hope you enjoyed this special show! Find ALL covers from the show on our Soundclouds and keep up with us all on my website: https://soundcloud.com/erica-case1/ https://soundcloud.com/bessielanningofficial https://www.ericacase.com