Category Archives: WRTC Playlists

After a lapse of nearly two years, I’m back on the airwaves, playing music on a show on Washington DC’s premiere pirate station, Radio CPR, 97.5 FM. I’ve got no show name and worse, have no DJ name so far (Jolly Roger on a pirate station is too corny, even for me). But I made [...]

The irony about the last Friday Morning Rock radio show is that I couldn’t possibly play all the songs I really wanted to play since I had packed away all of my CDs a couple of weeks earlier and all I had were things on my laptop and a few old tapes of old shows. [...]

Oh, how sorry I am to let the website languish as it has these past months. I’ve been jotting down setlists for the Friday Morning Rock show at WRTC but haven’t been posting them in a timely manner. Now that I’m revving up the old website, time to catch up on playlists, especially as the [...]

Started with some O’Jays and other R&B, new and old. Moved to mark Mardi Gras weekend that transitioned into a little set of Randy Newman. Included a big dollop of Radiohead’s new one. Noted the start of the baseball season with the Baseball Project and closed with a lot of rockin’ Wanda Jackson. Here’s what [...]

Started with another half dozen goodies from the Oxford American Southern Music sampler Vol. 12, played a big chunk of the new Bright Eyes, as well as new stuff from Twilight Singers, Iron & WIne, Delicate Steve, Destroyers and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Joy Formidable,Tennis and Wanda Jackson, old and new. To herald shows [...]

Began with a salute to two artists who died this week, the lead singer of the Marvelettes and Charlie Louvin, the last surviving member of the Louvin Brothers. Then played a lot of the Decemberists and Wanda Jackson’s  new albums and new stuff from Destroyer, John Vanderslice and Deerhoof. Closed with the annual salute to [...]

The snowstorm meant the jazz DJ before me didn’t show up at all. So I got in a little early to play a little something for that audience, leading into Friday Morning Rock. The 80th anniversary of Sam Cooke’s birth on Saturday gave occasion to play nearly an hour of his best stuff, topped by [...]

Normally a show before Christmas brings all holiday tunes, particularly one scheduled on Christmas Eve. But I wanted to note the death of Captain Beefheart, and the Christmastime anniversaries of deaths by Joe Strummer and James Brown before diving wholly into the caroling, including cuts from Bob Dylan and Sufjan Stevens to Mindy Smith and [...]