Capital Radio, 12-4-23: Counting It Up
Taping my show last week means the Shane MacGowan tribute will have to wait a week. Instead, today's Capital Radio had a couple songs about December, and 25 musical numbers…
Capital Radio 11-27-23: November Darkness
The end of November brings the darkest days of the year, with sunset hereabouts approaching 4:45 p.m. Our show nearly stretched to that mark, starting with 13 tracks about the…
Capital Radio, 11-20-23: Thanksgiving, Etc.
The impending holiday brings “Almost Thanksgiving Day” and a slew of songs spelling out gratitude, from Sam & Dave to Big Star, Talking Heads to Leonard Cohen. Birthdays were celebrated…
Capital Radio 11-13-23: Tweedy’s World
A year after Bob Dylan issued his book “Philosophy of Modern Song” that mused on dozens of songs over the years, Jeff Tweedy takes a similar stab with his new…
Capital Radio 11-6-23: Sax, Time, & ‘Now & Then’
The end of Daylight Savings brought some songs about time, time, time. Then it was all about the vaunted “last song from The Beatles,” the cobbled-together “Here and Now.” You’ve…
Capital Radio, 10-30-23: Devil’s Night Edition
Devils dominated this year’s Halloween edition of Capital Radio, mostly because the show fell on the traditional Devil’s Night. And there are a lot of songs about beelzebub, it turns…
Capital Radio, 10-23-23: Big Ghost Takeover
Started with a salute to the recently departed, beginning with jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley, including works with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason to Linda Ronstadt — and we heard…
Capital Radio 10-16-23: Songs of the Eclipse
I guess it’s fitting that a show half dedicated to eclipses would itself be eclipsed by the failure of WiFi. Couldn’t get a signal to broadcast the show live for…
Capital Radio 10-9-23: Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The breakout of a new war had us brooding on the nature of the barbaric practice, before we moved to the notion of Columbus Day making way for the more…
Capital Radio 10-2-23: Hardly Strictly October
The leaves aren’t quite falling yet here in D.C. But we did drop a half dozen songs of October to start the show. Then it turned to birthdays of such…