The second hour of Thursday's Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio brings special guest Tracey Santa, who with DJ B The T Jr. will explore the world of Jerker Emanuelson and Sound Asleep Records.Living an obscuro rockers dream, Jerker has been releasing music on Sound Asleep Records since 1994. 69 releases in 31 years. Single artist LPs/CDs, a couple of singles, dozens of compilations. All financed by the meagre revenue stream from small batch releases and his 36 years running a hardware store in a small town in southern Sweden. Jerker spent a junior year abroad in Nashville in the mid-80s and caught the Americana bug, befriending some of the major underground figures in the garage-country-pop sphere. These folks still populate his catalogue and releases, but Sound Asleep have released songs on everyone from the Incredible Casuals to Doug Yule (Velvet Underground) to Roy Loney (Flamin' Groovies).Our guide Tracey Santa has been writing, recording, and playing over the past four decades in a number of guises: as a founding member of the Exploding Pintos and 84 Rooms in San Francisco, as a solo artist in Boston and New Orleans, as a mandolinist in the Cletus Butterfoam Experience, a bassist in Warren Zanes Lady Costume, and most recently on Colorado’s Front Range with the Wild Hares. Santa and the Wild Hares most recent recording Naugatuck Valley Boy is available on BandCampSanta has released over a dozen recordings in the U.S and abroad and been described as a country crooner, a garage rock minimalist, and an acolyte of Nick Lowe and the Flamin’ Groovies. Melody Maker once suggested that he sounded “like R.E.M. recorded in a telephone kiosk in the Nevada desert.”A native son, Santa began his musical misadventures in the Nutmeg State. He eagerly awaits royalties accruing from folksinger Al McKnight’s version of his song “What You Going to Do (If the Earth Breaks Down),” performed and broadcast on New Haven’s WTNH-TV when Santa was 15. These and other tales unfold in his memoir The Tompo of the Ringing, one of Pop Matters Best Books of 2022, and described by Greil Marcus in 2023 in a Real Life Top Ten Column: “as entertaining a music life book as I’ve ever read.”

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