Playlist 5-13-16
A Friday the 13th show was chock full of birthday salutes to those still with us -- Stevie Wonder, Danny Kirwan and Overend Watts, among them -- and those who…
Playlist 5-6-16
Started off with more Prince, dominated by a bootleg of a 1984 birthday show and one cut from one of his "HitNRun" albums from last year. Then moved to Santogold,…
Playlist 4-29-16
First show in two weeks dominated of course by the death of Prince. But there were other deaths noted: that of Lonnie Mack and Billy Paul, who died last week…
Playlist 4-15-16
Started with some soul instrumentals, then a bunch of The Feelies, in advance of their show in town Saturday. Also playing the area that night, Robbie Fulks, so we heard…
Playlist 4-8-16
The death of Merle Haggard this week necessitated close listening to his output -- and he put out a lot. Not only did he have a great, expressive voice, the…
Playlist, 4-1-16
An April Fool's Day edition of the radio show actually found a few songs about the day, but many more about fools in general and one about April. Started with…
Playlist 3-25-16
Hey, it's Aretha Franklin's 74th birthday! So we saluted her. Also: following a short Easter set, a look back at this week's concert by The Who, including some of the…
Playlist 3-11-16
A shorter show this week following a week’s absence is a full salute to producer George Martin, who added so much to the recordings of the Beatles, but began his…
Playlist 2-26-16
I had planned to play big chunks of three artists tonight, but I guess I was surprised that they were all I played. Ray Charles because there was a White…
Playlist 2-19-16
Started with a long birthday salute to Smokey Robinson, paused to remember Dan Hicks and put on some Junior Brown, Rhett Miller and James Hunter in conjunction with shows around…