Don't miss the next Zen Arcade, and the triumphant return of Three Songs! On this segment, I ask a musician, writer, or other person of interest to give me three songs to play, and he or she calls in to chat about them on the air.
My guest next week will be Franz Nicolay!
As the keyboard player for The Hold Steady, Nicolay has proved the piano's rightful place in rock and roll like nobody else since Professor Roy Bittan. He also shows his range with the punk cabaret of World/Inferno Friendship Society, the deranged klezmer of Guignol, and a little of everything on his new solo album, Major General.
Here's Franz doing a solo take (with banjo!) on a great Drive-By Truckers tune. Sorry for the lousy sound quality, but this was too good not to post.
