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…
Playlist 2-5-16
The deaths of so many giants in music in 2016 dominated the first show in two weeks (there was no time to do last week's show because of the length…
Playlist, 1-22-16
There was as much David Bowie on the show tonight as there was snow on the ground. In the midst of the big D.C. blizzard, the music went on after…
Playlist 1-1-16
First show of the new year was a weird one - a half hour prelude followed 90 minutes later by the conclusion. It was all because Janel and Anthony's show…
Playlist 12-25-15
Began and ended the Christmas night show with Nutcracker variations. Tried to exclude all carols and Santa references as possible, but still wanted to consider the day. "The Worst Christmas…