The Weekend Begins With The Sixties Rotation, Linda Ronstadt, and The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Saturday, March 30, 2024

Good morning, weekenders and welcome to The Mermaid Lounge where we give you our ‘Original Sixties Rotation’ to start, followed by Heart Like A Wheel, and closing with The Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Here’s your musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. The Original Sixties Rotation: Various Artists

Nothing like The Sixties from a musical perspective, and we’ve got the early-to-mid portion of the decade this morning with The Beatles, The Monkees, Simon & Garfunkel, Sonny & Cher, The Everly Brothers, The Searchers, The Drifters, Dusty Springfield, The Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Bob Dylan, The Animals, Petula Clark, The Rolling Stones, Procol Harum, The Turtles, Del Shannon, The Temptations, James Brown, Fontella Bass, The Box Tops, Them, The Left Banke and more!

4:00 p.m. Album of The Week: Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt FINAL FINAL!

Today we not only say farewell to a brilliant album but also to our Album of The Week features, which has been in place for five years. Time to move on, but we will be featuring albums as part of our standard rotation.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Tedeschi Trucks Band

What we have here is the best damned blues-rock and on the planet led by a brilliant blues singer in Susan Tedeschi, and the best blues-rock guitarist in the business in Derek Trucks.

The weekend is here, people and we are geared up for a great weekend of music as we make several programming changes. But there are things that never change: We never charge for our musical programming, and we don’t ask for your personal information. We’re all about the music, not making money.

We’ve Got Some ‘Live’ Ones Today: The Heartbreakers, Jesse Winchester and Stevie Wonder, Friday, March 29, 2024

Good morning, music lovers! We’ve got a lot of wide Open Stream punctuated with some great live performances tossed in for good measure. Read on for the details!

Here’s your Friday lineup:

We’ve got a new addition to our trove of Heartbreakers’ live performances this morning. We’ve aired music from this venue before, but this one is from 1993. Check it out.

3:00 p.m. Jesse Winchester Live at The Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA, May 26, 1977

I saw Jesse Winchester open for Emmylou Harris here at Boston’s Music Hall back in the mid-seventies. I loved him so much that I when he came back as a headliner, I saw him nearly every trip he made to Boston. A great singer-songwriter with great audience rapport.

8:00 p.m. Stevie Wonder Live at The O2 Arena, London, UK, September 11, 2008

We close out the ‘live’ programming this evening with a great performance by Stevie Wonder. We’re on a hunt for more ‘live’ Stevie, as well as other soul and R & B artists. We hope to deliver this year.