The withdrawal of Neil Young and, more recently, Joni Mitchell, from Spotify means internet concerns like CygnusRadio.com are the places you can still readily find their music. I played a set of them, often playing together, or the others’ songs.
Also noted this week’s critter-centric holidays, from The Year of the Tiger kicking off the Lunar New Year Tuesday, to Groundhog Day Wednesday. But Thursday is the anniversary of the Iowa plane crash in 1959 that took Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Was shocked to find Valens’ audio promo for the ill-fated Winter Dance Tour.
Had a big set on the trip South that obviously hit the Carolinas and Georgia; and we hear from some of the giants noted in memorials along the way — The Allman Brothers Band, Ma Rainey, Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Little Richard — in -places like Macon, Ga.’ Columbus, Ga., and Greenville, Fla.
It was pointed out that Tuesday is also World Play Your Ukulele Day, hence a couple of tracks saluting that tiny instrument. Here’s what I played on the radio this afternoon, which you can hear in its entirety here: