Good morning, music lovers! We kick off the month of August with a Macca ‘Spotlight’ (sans Beatles), a trip down Stax memory lane, and The Heartbreakers live in NOLA.
Here’s your Friday musical lineup:
10:00 a.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Paul McCartney
Macca without The Beatles, only as a solo artist and as the leader of Wings.
4:00 p.m. Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Stax Records Legacy
This one’s due for an update soon, but for today you’ll hear Albert King, Booker T & The MGs, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, The Staple Singers, Eddie Floyd, Isaac Hayes, and The Delfonics!
8:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Racecourse Fair Grounds, New Orleans, LA, April 28, 2012
One of our House Bands live this evening at a great New Orleans event that would become a staple for them.
We are kicking off a new month in style today with a great eclectic group of programs interspersed inside our big, wide Open Stream. We’re on 24/7 and we’re totally free. There’s no advertising and no strings. See for yourselves. The button is below!
Good morning, musicologists! Today it’s a five-hour trip back to the sixties, a celebration of Linda Ronstadt’s 79th birthday, and the harmonies of The Beatles!
Here’s your musical lineup:
9:00 a.m. The Original Sixties Rotation: Various Artists
We had back to the sixties with The Beatles, The Monkees, Sonny & Cher, Joe Cocker, Little Eva, Simon & Garfunkel, The Everly Brothers, The Searchers, Dusty Springfield, The Drifters, The Dave Clark Five, Johnny Rivers, Bob Dylan, The Animals, Petula Clark, The Rolling Stones, Procol Harum, The Turtles, The Temptations, Del Shannon, Fontella Bass, James Brown, the Blues Image, Booker T. & The MGs, The Four Tops, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Them, The Left Banke, Fats Domino, and more!
4:00 p.m. Linda Ronstadt: The Stone Poneys & The Early Solo Years
Today we celebrate our favorite musical muse as she enters her 79th year (actually, it was July 15). She may not be able to sing anymore, but her legacy and work lives on forever.
8:00 p.m. The Beatles: Three-Part Harmonies
They were masters at this, and tonight we bring the receipts with a great collection of songs!
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Good morning, musicologists, and we continue celebrating Women’s Month with our ‘Ladies Day Out’ EP, then it’s a great ‘Spotlight’ featuring Booker T & The MGs, and Kris Kristofferson live at Austin City Limits.
Here’s your Saturday musical lineup:
9:00 a.m. Ladies Day Out: Various Artists
The women of music are large and in charge for five hours. We’re featuring songs from Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Emmylou Harris, Petula Clark, Laura Nyro, Cilla Black, Irma Thomas, Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Etta James, Janis Joplin, Carole King, Maria Muldaur, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Eva Cassidy, Wendy Waldman, Shawn Colvin, The Ronettes, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Norah Jones, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Phoebe Snow, Susan Tedeschi, Nicolette Larson, Sheryl Crown, Valerie Carter, Dolly Parton, Dusty Springfield, Ann Peebles and more!
4:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Booker T & The MGs
The original Stax house band broke out to become one of the most influential instrumental R & B and funk bands in music. They helped to establish the Souther and Memphis soul genres. Today we put them ‘In The Spotlight’.
8:00 p.m. Kris Kristofferson Live at The Moody Theater, Austin, TX, September 14, 1981
We close out the programming with the late, great Kris Kristofferson recorded live at The Moody Theater for Austin City Limits.
We’ve made it to another weekend. The Orange Shitstain usually golfs, so things seem to quiet down so that we can rejuvenate ourselves before the next onslaught. This is a great place to be. Join us. The button is below.
It’s officially Labor Day today and we’d like to take the time to thank the labor movement, the people who brought you the weekend. We begin a brand new week with a new sixties-focused playlist called ‘One-Hit Wonders’ and take a trip to New Orleans later.
We have our ‘Down in New Orleans’ EP starting at 5:00 p.m. this afternoon!
Here’s today’s musical landscape:
12:00 p.m. One-Hit Wonders: The Sixties NEW!
One-hit wonders are wonderful things. Those who made them are never forgotten even though they may not have lasted decades like other musicians. In our sixties edition, you’ll hear The Amboy Dukes, Bobby Hebb, Desmond Dekker & The Aces, Bobbie Gentry, The Easybeats, Count Five, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Jose Feliciano, Mason Williams, Merilee Rush, Richard Harris, Thunderclap Newman, The Capitols, The Contours, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Standells, Tony Joe White, The Knickerbockers, The McCoys, Zager & Evans, The Youngbloods, Scott McKenzie and more!
Please visit the Playlist tab and scroll to the bottom. You’ll find a complete list of the tunes included in this playlist there.
5:00 p.m. Down in New Orleans: Various Artists
This is one great EP. It not only covers traditional New Orleans musical styles, but it highlights the rock n’ rollers who were born and raised in New Orleans. You’ll hear BeauSoleil, Clifton Chenier, Lucinda Williams, Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, The Neville Brothers, Tony Joe White, Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Allen Fontenot, Aaron Neville, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Chance Bushman, The Daywalkers, The Boogaloo Swamis, Kermit Ruffins, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Magnolia Sisters, The Meters, Queen Ida & The BonTemps, Boozoo Chavis and more!
I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but we here in the Boston area are finally getting some much-needed rain and the temp is down in the sixties, which is perfect in my mind. Great day to hunker down and hang out with some great musical artists before heading back to work tomorrow. Give it a shot.
Good Morning, Music Lovers around the globe. I’ve got an early start to my day, so we’ve got a bit of an early start to our music programming…and another of our multi-artist EPs.
We start off our musical journey with the legends of the American folk scene
Here’s your midweek line-up:
10:00 a.m. Folk Music From A-to-Z: Various Artists UPDATED!
We start today with the legends of folk, along with some folks who just happen to have dipped their toes into the folk music genre. Impressively, I might add. You’ll hear Tom Rush, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Bonnie Raitt, Nanci Griffith, Dave Van Ronk, The Beatles, Joan Baez, The Stone Poneys, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Wallflowers, Jesse Winchester, Eric Anderson, The Band, Emmylou Harris, Pete Seeger, Cat Stevens, Phil Ochs, Simon & Garfunkel, Odetta, Bruce Springsteen, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Prine, and many more!
7:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: Booker T. & The MGs
The history of this band is one for the books, folks, and I urge you all to read about it here. They came into play as the house band for Stax-Volt Records. The first iteration of band consisted of 17-year-old Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper (who was eighteen), Lewie Steinberg, and Al Jackson, Jr., and the rest is musicl history. Tonight we put them In the Spotlight.
We’ve got Portugal, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Russian Federation, Faroe Islands, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, and points beyond tuning in this morning. What are you waiting for?
It’s hard to tell what inspires me to do what I do, but I can tell you that I’ve been listening to music since I was a little kid. Before the Beatles gave me my own music, I was listening to my sisters’ music — Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and others. I remember watching my oldest sister dance on American Bandstand on our old black and white television. That was pretty cool back then.
On Monday, something prompted me to make this day music festival day in honor of Woodstock 1969 and its predecessor, The Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. But there was another festival that nobody seems to have recorded or documented. It was held at Watkins Glen in New York in 1973 and featured three giants: The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Grateful Dead. It was called The Summer Jam. In fact. the audience at Summer Jam was bigger than Woodstock, with 600,000 people in attendance. The closest we’ve come to finding a decent recording is a soundboard of The Grateful Dead’s performance, which we will feature on this coming Saturday night’s LIVE DEAD feature. At the end of the performance, both The Band and The Allman Brothers Band come up on stage with them.
Woodstock 1969 made music history, and the bands who played there are part of our station’s DNA.
Here’s today’s musical line-up:
11:00 a.m. Music From Woodstock: Three Days of Peace, Love and Music, August 15-18, 1969
Today we have four hours of music celebrating the legendary Woodstock festival. In spite of the fact that “Woodstock” has been recreated a few times, there was only one real Woodstock and it happened in 1969. You’ll hear Crosby, Stills & Nash (their first live performance ever), Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Canned Heat, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Joan Baez, Tim Hardin, John Sebastian, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Who and more!
7:00 p.m. Music From The Monterey International Pop Festival, June 16-18, 1967
Truth be told, this is the festival that sparked it all and made Woodstock possible. Large, outdoor festivals had never happened before Monterey. What few people also realize is this is where a guy named Otis Redding was introduced to the music world. You’ll hear The Big O, along with The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Bob Dylan, Scott McKenzie, The Animals (who made a great song called Monterey about this event), Simon & Garfunkel, The Association, The Electric Flag, Booker T & The MGs, and more. Many of these performers would also be at Woodstock 1969.
As we always say, this is a great day to tune us in. But then again, every day is a great day to tune us in because we don’t play music like other radio stations. We are different not only in content, but also in style. See for yourselves.
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