Capital Radio 8-31-26: Goodbye, Dolly Parton
The end of August isn’t the technical end of summer, but the impending September does seem to emphasize the end of the season, and so it was explored in the…
Capital Radio 8-24-26: Dave Marsh’s Greatest 40
The exhaust is just now dissipating from the noisy, wasteful and unnecessary Freedom 250 Grand Prix rattling the museums on the National Mall. So we begin Capital Radio with several…
Capital Radio 8-17-26: On the Beach
Beach Week came with sunny skies and a whole lot of heat (80 degrees at midnight?). But it also came with 30 songs of beach, surf and sand from Annette…
Capital Radio 8-10-26: What Leo Fender Wrought
For the first live show in two weeks, there were a lot of recent passings of musicians to note on Capital Radio, starting with Glen Hansard and including Jeff Conolly…
Capital Radio 8-3-26: The Songs of August
We began the Aug. 3 edition with the music of saxophone ace Plas Johnson, who recently died at 94 and whose work was on hundreds of recordings, none more famous…
Capital Radio 7-27-26: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
The smoke from Canadian wildfires were almost cleared by June 27. But not from the Capital Radio playlist! So there were songs about wildfires, smoke signals and all manner of…
Capital Radio 7-20-26: Man on the Moon
The anniversary of man stepping on the moon, on a summer afternoon 57 years ago meant more than a dozen songs about space, Major Tom and all things lunar. But…
Capital Radio 7-13-26: The Green Reflecting Pool
The shifting hues of the Lincoln Memorial Reflection Pool caused by the meddling megalomaniac at the White House inspired a lot of today’s Capital Radio. So there were a lot…
Capital Radio 7-6-26: Signs Along the Alps
A hiking trek to the Alps prompted some songs about Germany (or in that language), as well as a meditation on signs that have to be followed in order to…
Capital Radio 6-29-26: Ennui, America 250 Style
We began a prerecorded June 29 show with remembrances of South African artist Abdullah Ibrahim, who died June 15 at 91; Dee Palmer of Jethro Tull who died June 13…