Episode 10: “From Here To Shanghai” by Gene Greene

Public domain music isn't exactly my style but then again Episode 10 of Low Elo was edited and arranged by Dave due to the fact that I was unexpectedly out of town at the time of recording. That said... this is a pretty cool little track.

Eugene Delbert Greene lived from 1857 to 1930 and was better known as Gene Greene. He was an American entertainer, singer and composer, nicknamed The Ragtime King. As a vaudeville star he made some of the earliest sound recordings of scat singing (wordless improvisation) in 1911.

Greene was closely associated with the song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi. It was one of the extremely few anti-war music-hall songs during the First World War with most such songs being fiercely pro-war. This reflected the views of Chicago's large German population at the time. That said the song was also well known, and very controversial, in Britain.

Modern recordings of Greene are very scarce.

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Episode 9: “Cone Of Light” by The Almighty Defenders

Episode 9 is all about change and who better to turn to when change is looming than to Low Elo and League of Legends? To help spread the gospel, here's a track from a collaborative called The Almighty Defenders.

This album this track is from was written, recorded and mixed in one week following the Black Lips expulsion from India. They flew directly into King Khan's legendary studio in Berlin. It was both bands’ first major collaboration since a US tour 4 years earlier. The result, could be argued to not be a ‘gospel’ record in the traditional sense, sure. Instead, it's a record of pure spirituals from six wise magicians. This isn’t a tribute to a ‘god’, but a testimony to good taste - a church of the mind that's brimming with soul. How such demonic dudes can sound so angelic, we have yet to comprehend, but they somehow manage to bring the true spirit of gospel and make it as raw and beatific as the likes of the Velvet Underground. Exactly how two of the most respected and influential rock’n’roll bands of this decade would do it up.

If you'd like a copy of "Cone of Light" by The Almighty Defenders, I'd like to direct you to the Free Music Archive where you may download it and listen at your liesure. Click here.

Episode 8: “Look For Danger” by Waylon Thornton

What better way to celebrate a Dignitas League of Legends victory here at the Low Elo podcast than to listen to a little track by Waylon Thornton out of Florida?

He's a pretty indie dude with a taste for lo-fi surf rock and who can't appreciate that? Waylon Thornton is the main songwriter behind Waylon Thornton and the Heavy Hands and Damage Brain. He also releases music under his own name and takes some pretty cool pictures which he infrequently updates his Tumblr with.

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