Recently Unearthed: Live from Daryl's House

Hey, have you seen this show? If so, why didn't you tell me about it sooner?! I love TMZ...it's a guilty pleasure. Our local TV station is kind of unpredictable with their air times of TMZ so when I set my DVR to tape it, I usually have it tape a couple hours extra because sometimes it might run late or not even run at all.

One day, after I watched TMZ, I was busy doing something and just left the recording running and this other show came on called Live from Daryl's House. It caught my attention because Grace & the Nocturnals was being featured that day. Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) has always had music that I never had a problem listening to, but I never was a huge follower or anything. When I was younger I had enjoyed Live at the Apollo quite a bit. I have appreciated his musical talents, but have not declared myself an official fan. Grace & the Nocturnals had a show scheduled locally so that caught my attention and I left the show playing.

I was pleasantly surprised by the show. I am not a fan of talk shows. With the exception of The Graham Norton Show, I despise talk shows. Luckily, this show does not spend a lot of time talking. If you haven't seen Live from Daryl's house, I'll give you a quick breakdown of a typical show:

Daryl lives in a big old house in New England/New York. Each week he has a musical guest come to his house and they play a couple of the artist's songs and a couple of his/Hall & Oates' songs. They chit chat a little, usually have a quick demonstration of food preparation or some other type of "educational" content and then they get right back to the music. It's only a 30 minute show so they don't spend long talking. It's just enough to learn a little bit more about the artist that's visiting that day and sometimes a little bit more about the history of Daryl Hall.

Well, I've mentioned this show to a few of my friends and none of them have seen it. My mom is a music fan and I mentioned it to her and she almost slapped me for not telling her about it right away.

I think you should check it out. You never know who will be on there. Sometimes it'll be someone from the past (Smokey Robinson, for example) and sometimes it'll be someone you might not have necessarily heard of before. Even when the guests were musicians I would usually avoid (John Rzeznik, would be one), I have enjoyed each show.

Check it out online or check your local TV schedule. It plays on a Fox station here in Kansas City, but I don't know how it'll be in your area. You can also watch episodes on the website for the show I linked above. Here's one of my favorite episodes (Fitz & the Tantrums):