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…
Capital Radio 9-25-23: Waiting for the UFOs
We know them as flying saucers and UFOs, But they’re calling them by the much clunkier acronym UAP in Congressional hearings this year. They’ve inspired a lot of songs over…
Capital Radio, 9-18-23: P.F. Sloan and More
I'll always remember that grim afternoon 53 years ago when my eighth grade teacher informed me that Jimi Hendrix had died. Sept. 18 was also the day we lost Earl…
Capital Radio, 9-11: Remembering That Day
The 22nd anniversary of 9/11 brought a lot of songs about the event that came out in the years that followed, from artists as divergent as Leonard Cohen, Juliana Hatfield,…
Capital Radio, 9-4: Labor Day, Buffett
The death of Jimmy Buffett had me looking for gems - very early (“Come Monday”) to much later (a Crowded House cover; a spin on an Al Anderson tune) for…
Capital Radio 8-28: Summer’s End
Started with some tunes about the end of the summer, from John Prine, the Doors, the Kinks, Dusty Springfield, Kirsty MacColl and the Cure, among others. Then in a season…
Capital Radio 8-21: Some Songs for Hawaii
The anniversary of Hawaiin statehood comes at a time when we have an abundance of concern for the island neighbors following the devastating wildfires in Maui. So there was a set…