It seemed like a particularly busy day for birthdays to note today, including Johnny Thunders (in 1952), post-punk’s Ian Curtis (1956), reggae’s Gregory Isaacs (1951), country’s Cowboy Copas (1913) and…
Doesn’t seem that the babyfaced performer known as Beck could possibly be turning 54 today, but there you go. Other birthdays celebrated today: Louis Jordan, Jimmie Johnson, Crickets bassist Joe…
We celebrated that big North American holiday of independence today — Canada Day, with a number of its leading lights — Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ian Tyson and…
Back with a new show for the first time in a month, we begin with a slight survey of where we’ve been, mostly concentrating on Ireland. Then it was time…
It was the 74th birthday of Stevie Wonder that dominated the show today, which had a lot of representation from my hometown of Detroit, as it happens. Also born this…
We struck a certain tone in celebrating the life of guitar slinger Duane Eddy who died April 30 at 86 — specifically the commanding, vibrating low E on his red…
D.C. favorite son Duke Ellington was born here 125 years ago today, so we began Capital Radio with a handful of his selections, largely from 90 years ago — about…
We began Capital Radio with nearly 90 minutes of music from Dickey Betts, one of the last living members of The Allman Brothers Band, who died last week at 80,…
Tax Day brings The Beatles’ “Taxman,” of course, but also another dozen songs about taxation, ten more songs about paying the man; and 17 additional tracks about the root of…
It’s not often one can react in real time to an event being simultaneously celebrated nationwide. But our regularly scheduled Monday afternoon edition of Capital Radio coincided nicely with the…