Capital Radio 11-17-25: Pennies and Dylan’s JFK
To mark the moment the U.S. Mint stopped making pennies, we had a half dozen songs about the copper coin. We paid tribute to Todd Snider, who died Friday at…
Capital Radio 11-10-25: ‘Nebraska ’82’ and More
The songs that spooked the Boss — spare demos of death and bad deeds that became the “Nebraska” album — are the subject of a new movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me…
Capital Radio 11-3-25: Daylight Savings Darkness
Turning the clock back after Daylight Savings Time ends can be trecherous, particularly when it causes the sun to go down even before the work day is over. So we…
Capital Radio 10-27-25: Demolition Horror Show
Tributes for Jack DeJohnette, who died Sunday at 83, and Dave Ball, the other half of Soft Cell, who died last week at 66, began this week’s capital Radio. …
Capital Radio 10-20-25: Song of the Werewolf
The Halloween focus for this show was on that hairy subset, the werewolves. And there were a lot of them, in a 21-song salute that included everybody from the Cramps…
Capital Radio 10-13-25: Paul Simon’s Birthday
It was Columbus Day in some of the country and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in other parts, including mine. And we had the songs to enable them to duke it out…
Capital Radio 10-6-25: Tunes from Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson, who died 133 years ago today, didn’t live long enough to hear any of his poems turned to music. But the longest-serving British poet laureate inspired a…
Capital Radio 9-29-25: Walking Through Italy
A recent hike through Italy inspired half of this week’s Capital Radio, with songs about walking, Italians, pilgrims and the treasures of Rome. It included pop songs sung in Italian…
Capital Radio 9-22-25: Autumn Comes A’Knockin’
The autumnal equinox occurred in the middle of the Sept. 22 Capital Radio, so naturally there were songs about the end of summer, the coming of fall, and the thing…
Capital Radio 9-15-25: Who Put the Bomp?
Asking the musical question “Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)” this week (preceded by its musical answer decades later from Chuck Prophet) led to all manner of…