Took a loooong time, but the Head East tracks started coming after I created a new Pandora station.

I had a good selection of their songs seeded in my HorsHawkHatHanHelm station, but after about a week of steadily listening to that station, I never managed to get it to play anything beyond some version of Never Been Any Reason.
I did get a good amount of Horslips – an Irish band which really stylistically covered a lot of ground. Summer’s Most Wanted Girl leads off the playlist and has them sounding somewhat like Roxy Music or Sparks. Juliana Hatfield was also well represented with everything from Blake Babies to some of her cover work – Olivia Newton-John’s “Deeper Than the Night” made the cut.
And I made some space for Hawkwind’s “Kiss of the Velvet Whip.” (I should write more about the seminal psychedelic rock outfit – maybe in a later posting.)

I pulled the Head East tracks out of the previously mentioned station along with the Nick Heyward tracks as he was getting no love either. The new station “HeadHeyward” initially gave me a good deal of NH’s tracks (also Haircut 100, Aztec Camera, Split Enz & Squeeze), but it wasn’t playing Head East. Instead I was offered Aerosmith, Bad Company, Angel, Thin Lizzy, Boston etc. – which was fine, but I was on a quest. Finally the breakthrough came with a latter day track from 2013’s ”Raise a Little Hell” – not a preferred track, but I gave it the thumbs up and that seemed to get the ball rolling. Got a couple of tracks from 1977’s Gettin’ Lucky (playlist includes “Show Me I’m Alive”) and I was sated when I heard Get Up and Enjoy Yourself from their 4th, eponymously-titled record from 1978..

Tweets this week led me to include a track from Agitation Free’s “Malesch” (1972), Big Big Train’s latest “The Likes of Us” and Iron and Wine’s collaboration with Fiona Apple “All In Good Time”

You may also find:
a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers track from their debut
Tracks from Dressy Bessy, Liz Phair & Susan Werner (another Philly Folk Fest Fave) which I assume were played as similar tracks to the Juliana Hatfield ones I had seeded
Billie Holiday, Charlie Haden, Freddie Hubbard & Allan Holdsworth representing the “H” stations
The Mountain Goats’ “Until I Am Whole” (WTF Podcast episode #366 with John Darnielle)