Capital Radio, 1-1-24: New Year’s Remembrance
A baker’s dozen of New Year’s songs, including three different “New Year’s Resolutions” and the Ramones’ unexpected salute to the new calendar (“2024 hours ago…”) began a holiday edition of…
Capital Radio 12-25-23: Today’s Holiday
Cutting into the annual 24 Hours of Christmas programming for my own holiday edition of Capital Radio, I tried o concentrate on somber, more solemn numbers appropriate for the day…
Capital Radio 12-18-23: Christmas Excess
The last show before Christmas warrants the annual avalanche of holiday songs, starting with the Bosstones, Aimee Mann and Nick Lowe, shifting to '60s oddities from Bobby Goldsboro and Brian…
Capital Radio 12-11-23: Fairytale of Shane
Things don't always go right when you pre-record a show. Sometimes, last week's show repeats by mistake, which it did today. And as happy as I was with that show,…
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…