Capital Radio 9-5: Labor Day Edition
Let’s talk about the working man and the working woman this Labor Day with songs from Big Bill Broonzy and Woody Guthrie to the Replacements, The Clash and the Isley…
Capital Radio 8-29: Clap Your Hands
In many way, it’s our first instrument: hand clapping percussion. It’s certainly enlivened a number of great songs over the decades, even as it encouraged to clap along. So played…
Capital Radio 8-22-22: Elvis to WattStax
Recent D.C. shows by Elvis Costello with Nick Lowe and the Los Straightjackets, and by Blondie with The Damned dominated a chunk of the show. There were birthdays to note…
Capital Radio 8-15-22: From Saul to Lamont
A trip to Nebraska’s biggest city warrants a number of songs about that place as well as some of the music experienced there, from a roadhouse country band (pictured) that…
Capital Radio 8-8-22: Tunes 50 Years Back
Awash in nostalgia while preparing for a 50th high school reunion this weekend, the music of 1972 dominated the show — songs from the first half of the year mostly,…
Capital Radio 8-1-22: Welcoming August
Time to turn the calendar! And, perhaps due to its unpopularity, there seems to be fewer songs about August than any other month. Even some songs with August in the…
Capital Radio, 7-25-22: Running, Monkeys
That weird dash by Josh Hawley, not long after he encouraged rioters outside, brought something unusual to the otherwise solemn House Committee Investigating Jan. 6: laughter. It also inspired a…
Capital Radio, 7-18: Birth, Death, Delfonics
Started with a salute to William “Boogie” Hart, the enduring voice behind the Delfonics, who died last week at 77. Also noted the passing of Happy Mondays bassist Paul Ryder,…
Capital Radio, 7-11-22: Celebrating Summer
I was intent on celebrating July, hot days and summer in general while we’re still smack in the middle of it. And while there aren’t a whole lot of non-Fourth…
A Capital Radio Fourth, 7-4-22
The 246th birthday of the Union comes at a fraught time. So we celebrated and challenged the nation, in our way, on the July 4th edition of Capital Radio --…