Dick Slessig Combo has been played on NTS in shows including Séance Centre, featured first on 28 September 2022. Songs played include Wichita Lineman, Rhythm Box Intro and Intro / Song.

Mark Lightcap, guitar; Carl Bronson, bass; and drummer Steve Goodfriend.

After the dissolution of his magnificent slowcore trio Acetone following bassist Richie Lee’s passing in 2001, guitarist Mark Lightcap turned his attention to the Dick Slessig Combo, his hypnotic band with bassist Carl Bronson and drummer Steve Goodfriend of Radar Brothers. Originally formed in 1990 and reactivated as Acetone wound down, the group specialized in gently sprawling live meditations on songs like Kraftwerk’s “Computer Love,” the Bee Gees’ “Jive Talkin’,” George McCrea’s “Rock Your Baby,” and Bobby Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe.” Describing a live performance at the Portland Art Museum in his 2010 book about Van Morrison, When That Rough God Goes Riding, author Greil Marcus describes the connection the Combo established with Morrison’s own incantatory seances, writing that the band’s repeating circular pattern (emphasis mine) “wasn’t from the tune, it was the tune, the thing itself.”