Capital Radio 1-12-26: Saga of Good vs. ICE
The death of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir Saturday at 78 led the show with some of his best known songs. (I wrote a separate piece about Weir on Substack…
Capital Radio 1-5-26: Songs of the Invasion
The weekend’s imperialist invasion of Venezuela by the United States colored a lot of the show, with songs from The Clash and Jesse Wells to Elvis Costello and Neil Young,…
Capital Radio 12-29-25: Those We Lost This Year
After only a cursory nod to the impending New Year, with just three songs about the end of the year, the last Capital Radio of the year turned its attention…
Capital Radio 12-22-25: Xmas’s Friendly Beasts
Yes, Virginia, there were Christmas songs on today’s Capital Radio, but those that had to do with friendly beasts — the animals in the manger, those powering the Santa sleigh…
Capital Radio 12-15-25: Raul Malo, Holidays
The death of Raul Malo a week ago at 60 colored a lot of today’s Capital Radio, from his work over the decades with The Mavericks to start the show,…
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…