Capital Radio 12-8-25: Put the Lights on the Tree
Decorating the indoor shrubbery provides baby steps into the Christmas crush. So half the show today was about trees, Tannenbaum, trimming and what’s waiting beneath, from Peggy Lee to Brenda…
Capital Radio 12-1-25: At December’s Door
Reaching the last month of a fraught year brings deeper meaning to the Hag’s “If We Make It Through December,” which brought another dozen and a half songs about the…
Capital Radio 11-24-25: Part Two of Dylan’s Epic
News of the death of Jimmy Cliff today at 81 brought a couple of his best-known songs to the top of today’s Capital Radio, followed by a nod to Gary…
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…