TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT: Ralph Carney and Mike Gamble make insane music together, live and w/records

TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT : The Outside World welcomes Guest Hosts and newly escaped (one from the Bay Area and one from Brooklyn)
RALPH CARNEY and MIKE GAMBLE! -- playing live with whoever happens to drop by the studio (like ALEX CALLENBERGER), and playing some pretty warped records and unreleased material. You lucky listener! See what you get when you stay up late and leave the radio on? 
Also possible: a live set from The Crenshaw. No, seriously. Very possible!  It's late-night free-form radio for all of you late-night free-form listeners, making bread, painting, driving cab, working graveyard at Plaid, writing or grading papers. This show is for you. Just because you're up. And so lucky to hear live spontenaciousness from some of this town's most inventive transplants (welcome them to Portland! 503-231-8187)

Some background and other fairly interesting shit:
Carney was the saxophonist for Tin Huey, but it was his reputation as a multitalented musician that led Carney to record and perform with such artists and musical groups as The B-52’s, Les Claypool, Stan Ridgway, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Richman, Dieselhed, Marc Ribot, They Might Be Giants, Yo La Tengo, Black Francis, to name just a few. One of his most prominent collaborations during the ‘80s would be his work with Tom Waits.

 “Ralph’s great,” said Waits, “he’s guided by some other source of information. He’s like a broken toy that works better than before it was broken.”

 Allen Ginsberg, another artist Carney collaborated with, also complimented Carney’s innovative style, stating that his “Circle of Fifths continuously evolves in horns’ circular breathing (like the Australian didgeridoo) matching voice-text power to make the most perfect poetry music recording I’ve done.”

 Carney’s saxophone, pan pipes, and even some of his violin playing can be heard on Wait’s early albums Bone Machine, Rain Dogs, and Black Rider, and Carney would go on to be a member of the Orangj Symphonette with two other Waits alumni, Joe Gore and Matt Brubeck.

 In more recent years, Carney has collaborated with his nephew Patrick Carney, the drummer of The Black Keys, for the 2008 album Attack & Release. He also released another solo album Ralph Carney’s Serious Jazz Project via Akroncracker Records in 2009, and on August 9th, 2015, Carney joined up with The Kronos Quartet at the Cabrillo New Music Festival to perform a rendition of Carney’s powerful and hauntingly melancholy song, “Lament for Charleston.”

 When asked about his upcoming projects, Carney shared that he already has some musical ventures cooking in Portland. “I know a couple of guys up there,” Carney said, and mentioned no other than Portland locals Mike Coykendall and Garth Klippert.