Playlist 1-2-15
The first Friday Night Rock show of 2015 started with a too brief salute to the late David Ruffin began a show-opening set of soul, with more of the new…
Playlist 12-26-14
Started with the great new D'Angelo album, paired with some of its antecedents, then moved on to salute Joe Cocker, who died this week and Ian McLagan of the Faces,…
Playlist 12-19-14
Back after a couple weeks absence, there were a lot of things to take note of: The 50th anniversary of the recording of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," the 50th…
Playlist 11-28-14
There were Thanksgiving leftovers at the radio show, too, before we got into what Bob Dylan played in town this week and looked forward to shows in the coming week…
Playlist 11-14-14
Started off the Friday Night rock show with a reprise of Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" in honor of his show here Sunday. Went into some mid-60s…
Playlist 10-31-14
A four hour show on Halloween was sort of a test: Could I play three hours of holiday music? Oh yes. We learned a lot of things: There were certainly…
Playlist 10-17-14
It's Chuck Berry's 88th birthday, so there was a lot of the pioneer of rock and roll and his wittily written songs. Then there was a lot of Jayhawks, since…
Playlist 10-10-14
I wasn't scheduled to go on tonight, but nobody else was coming in, and I had a lot I wanted to play. Some Paul Revere and the Raiders, because of…
Playlist 10-3-14
Started with a real grab bag of instrumentals and old songs, celebrated the start of the postseason. A salute to baseball's postseason went into some Dylan and Dylan covers, which…
Playlist 9-19-14
The vote in Scotland moved us to play an hour or so of Scottish bands including Teenage Fanclub, The Vaselines, Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand. There were long sets…