Capital Radio 11-13-23: Tweedy’s World
A year after Bob Dylan issued his book “Philosophy of Modern Song” that mused on dozens of songs over the years, Jeff Tweedy takes a similar stab with his new…
Capital Radio 11-6-23: Sax, Time, & ‘Now & Then’
The end of Daylight Savings brought some songs about time, time, time. Then it was all about the vaunted “last song from The Beatles,” the cobbled-together “Here and Now.” You’ve…
Capital Radio, 10-30-23: Devil’s Night Edition
Devils dominated this year’s Halloween edition of Capital Radio, mostly because the show fell on the traditional Devil’s Night. And there are a lot of songs about beelzebub, it turns…
Capital Radio, 10-23-23: Big Ghost Takeover
Started with a salute to the recently departed, beginning with jazz composer and pianist Carla Bley, including works with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason to Linda Ronstadt — and we heard…
Capital Radio 10-16-23: Songs of the Eclipse
I guess it’s fitting that a show half dedicated to eclipses would itself be eclipsed by the failure of WiFi. Couldn’t get a signal to broadcast the show live for…
Capital Radio 10-9-23: Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The breakout of a new war had us brooding on the nature of the barbaric practice, before we moved to the notion of Columbus Day making way for the more…
Capital Radio 10-2-23: Hardly Strictly October
The leaves aren’t quite falling yet here in D.C. But we did drop a half dozen songs of October to start the show. Then it turned to birthdays of such…
Capital Radio 9-25-23: Waiting for the UFOs
We know them as flying saucers and UFOs, But they’re calling them by the much clunkier acronym UAP in Congressional hearings this year. They’ve inspired a lot of songs over…
Capital Radio, 9-18-23: P.F. Sloan and More
I'll always remember that grim afternoon 53 years ago when my eighth grade teacher informed me that Jimi Hendrix had died. Sept. 18 was also the day we lost Earl…
Capital Radio, 9-11: Remembering That Day
The 22nd anniversary of 9/11 brought a lot of songs about the event that came out in the years that followed, from artists as divergent as Leonard Cohen, Juliana Hatfield,…