Tag: George Harrison

On Wednesday It’s ‘Water, Water Everywhere’, Bob Dylan & George Harrison ‘In Session’ and a Stone Poneys ‘Spotlight’ December 18, 2024

Good morning, musicologists! We’re at midweek and soon headed for the weekend, but today we’ve got a full slate of great music to get us through midweek.

Here’s your midweek music:

9:00 a.m. Water, Water Everywhere: Various Artists

The earth is 71% water, so it’s only fitting that we have a playlist about water. It features Valerie Carter, Paul McCartney, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison, Jackson Browne, Otis Redding, The Doobie Brothers, Bob Dylan, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Al Green, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Linda Ronstadt, Spirit, Bonnie Raitt, The Grass Roots, Carole King, Tom Rush, Donovan, America, Johnny Rivers and more!

4:00 p.m. Bob Dylan & George Harrison ‘In Session’ at Columbia Studios, May 1, 1970

On May Day, Dylan and Harrison headed into Columbia Stuios in New York and made music together. We’ve got the result for you today.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Stone Poneys

This was Ronstadt’s first gig after arriving in LA from her home in Tuscon, Arizona, laying the groundwork for a brilliant career that spanned decades and made her the Queen of Rock.

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Today We ‘Paint It Black’, Then It’s Harrison & Clapton Live in Japan and Brandi Carlile Later on Friday, November 29, 2024

Yeah, it’s Black Friday. We’re not selling anything. We’re giving you free music, so we start it all out with our ‘Paint It Black’ playlist…not quite an EP, but close!

Here’s your Black Friday anti-capitalist lineup:

10:00 a.m. Paint It Black: Various Artists

We’ve got an EP about colors and we’ve got a slightly smaller playlist for the color black. You’ll hear The Rolling Stones, The Wallflowers, James Brown, Three Dog Night, The Beatles, Warren Zevon, The Band, Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield, Lucinda Williams, John Lee Hooker, J.D. Souther, Jethro Tull, Guy Clark Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Tom Rush and more!

4:00 p.m. George Harrison & Eric Clapton Live at The Nagoya International Exhibition Hall, Nagoya, Japan, December 5, 1991

This afternoon we have two good friends, who also happen to be two stellar musicians, playing together on the same stage.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Brandi Carlile

Ten-time Grammy award winner Brandi Carlile closes the day’s programming with folk rock, alternative country, Americana and classic rock.

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Sunday It’s Bob Dylan & Friends, the ‘Color My World’ EP and Neil Young and POTR at Farm Aid, November 17, 2024

Good morning, weekenders! Today we spend some time celebrating Dylan’s 30th anniversary, then it’s songs about colors and Neil Young & Promise of The Real at Farm Aid 2019 in Wisconsin.

Here’s your Sunday Funday lineup:

9:00 a.m. Bob Dylan & Friends: The 30th Anniversary Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, October 16, 1992

We start the day with selections from the grand celebration for Dylan’s 30th year in the business with friends Tom Petty, George Harrison, Tracy Chapman, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, The Band and many more!

1:00 p.m. Color My World: Various Artists

Open stream with a theme, this one about colors. You’ll hear The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Taylor, Donovan, Booker T & The MGs, Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harum, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Amy Winehouse, Sam & Dave, Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane, John Hiatt, Linda Ronstadt, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Cream, Marvin Gaye, Lucinda Williams, J.D. Souther and more!

8:00 p.m. Neil Young and Promise of the Real, Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, WI, September 21, 2019

While touring as Neil Young’s back-up band, Lukas Nelson and POTR joined him on stage for a performance at Farm Aid 2019. We have it live for you tonight.

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We Start With The Traveling Wilburys, Then It’s Our ‘Travelin’ Fever’ EP and Wide Open Stream Tonight, Sunday, October 6, 2024

Good morning, music lovers. It’s Sunday Funday in The Mermaid Lounge and we continue on with our Tom Petty celebration with a great Traveling Wilburys entry.

Here’s your Sunday Funday lineup:

10:00 a.m. The Traveling Wilburys: The Bootleg Collection

Always a favorite, both the supergroup (and this is a true supergroup) and this playlist of outtakes, alternate takes and extended sessions. What we essentially have here is five friends who harnessed that friendship to create some of the most amazing music on the planet. Roy was the first to go. Then George. Then Tom. But their music rocks on.

2:00 p.m. Travelin’ Fever: Various Artists

Life on the road is a popular topic in popular music. Just ask Canned Heat, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Steve Miller Band, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Dan Fogelberg, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Eagles, Little Feat, The Band, Willie Nelson, Edwin Starr, Janis Joplin, Guy Clark, The Byrds, Asleep at The Wheel, Mudcrutch, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Rush, Buffalo Springfield, The Guess Who and more!

We then return to our big, wide Open Stream to take us through to morning. We’ll be back to close out our Tom Petty celebration with a Fillmore trifecta tomorrow! The button is below.

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Welcome to Finally Friday! We’ve Got ‘Great Beginnings’ and Then Two Great Live Shows From Linda Ronstadt and Van Morrison on August 30, 2025

Good morning, music lovers! Once again we are on the cusp of the weekend here in The Mermaid Lounge, and it’s a long weekend to boot! We start off with a great multi-artist playlist. It gets better from there.

Here’s your long-weekend lineup!

9:00 a.m. Great Beginnings: Various Artists.

It’s not an EP, but it’s oh, so close. We start off with songs that have great opening riffs from The Beatles, Elton John, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Electric Light Orchestra, Edgar Winter, The Doobie Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Guess Who, Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, George Harrison and more!

3:00 p.m. Linda Ronstadt Live at Rai Halle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 21, 1976

We give you the undisputed Queen of Rock live from Rai Halle in Amsterdam early in her illustrious career.

7:00 p.m. Van Morrison Live at The Grand Opera House, Belfast, Ireland, March 11-12, 1983

We close it out with Van “The Man” Morrison live from Belfast.

It’s a great day today here in The Lounge, partly because I have a day off from retail hell, a rare event for a Friday. And I get to listen to all this great music as I hang out here getting ready for the musical week. You should tune in too. It won’t cost you a penny, and there’s no commercial advertising…just music 24/7. No lie.

A Long Weekend of Great Music!

We Welcome June in The Lounge With Our House EP, and Live Music From Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris and George Harrison, Saturday, June 1, 2024

Good morning, music lovers. We kick off the month of June with our House EP and two sets of great live music.

Here’s your musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. The #BecomeUngovernable House EP: Various Artists

This is one of the first EP’s we ever put together. You’ll hear Barry McGuire, The Temptations, Edwin Starr, Peter Tosh, The Beatles, T. Rex, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Country Joe & The Fish, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Joan Baez, CSNY, Pink Floyd, The Animals, Ten Years After, Plastic Ono Band, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, Three Dog Night, Jimmy Cliff, Richie Havens, Marvin Gaye, The Association, Phil Ochs, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, The Band, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt and more!

4:00 p.m. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris Live at The Arena Di Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy, June 3, 2006

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris hit the road in support of their All The Roadrunning album.

8:00 p.m. George Harrison Live at The Capitol Center, Landover, MD, December 13, 1974

Tonight we feature George Harrison live on his Dark Horse Tour.

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Friday Brings Both Volumes of ‘All About Blue’ Along With George Harrison & Eric Clapton in Nagoya, April 5, 2024

Good morning budding weekenders! We are on the cusp of the weekend and we’ve got some good stuff going in today here in The Mermaid Lounge.

Here’s your end-of-the-work-week lineup:

10:00 a.m. All About Blue, Volume II: Various Artists

As my grandmother used to say, we start this day out ass-end over tea kettle by beginning with volume two. All about the color blue comes from The Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, The Kinks, Linda Ronstadt, Electric Light Orchestra, B. B. King, Little Feat, The Smithereens, Emmylou Harris and more!

3:00 p.m. George Harrison & Eric Clapton Live at The Nagoya International Exhibition Hall, Nagoya, Japan, December 5, 1991

A couple of guys (one who was a much better guy than the other) whose friendship transcended all kinds of personal drama together live in a great concert.

8:00 p.m. All About Blue I: Various Artists

We close with volume one from The Allman Brothers Band, Linda Ronstadt, Mudcrutch, Joni Mitchell, Jonathan Edwards, Paul McCartney & Wings, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Band, Fats Domino, Badfinger, Elvis Presley and more!

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ALL ABOUT BLUE.

It’s Friday With ‘Live’ Steely Dan, ‘Everybody But Bob’ and Our ‘Train Tracks’ Multi-Artist Playlist, March 22, 2024

Good morning and welcome to the end of the work week! We’ve got some early ‘live’ Steely Dan and two outstanding multi-artist playlists for you today.

Here’s your Friday playlists:

10:00 a.m. Steely Dan Live at The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA, March 20, 1974 NEW!

This live in-studio concert was part of a promotion run by ABC Dunhill Records around the release of Countdown To Ecstasy and the hits that were spawned by that album. It was broadcast live over now-defunct (sadly) rock station KMET.

3:00 p.m. Everybody But Bob: Bob Dylan Cover Songs

It should come as no surprise that the man who won a Nobel Prize for Literature for his songwriting would boast an impressive lists of artists who have covered his songs. You’ll hear Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, George Harrison, Linda Ronstadt, Joan Baez, Chrissie Hynde, Tracy Nelson, The Band, Johnny Winter, Shawn Colvin, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Fairport Convention, The Byrds, Hot Tuna and more.

8:00 p.m. Train Tracks: Various Artists

We close out the programming with a playlist of songs about trains, runaway and otherwise, with Steve Winwood, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, New Riders of The Purple Sage, the Doobie Brothers, J.J. Cale, Chicken Shack, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Rosanne Cash, Allen Toussaint, The Eagles, Paul Simon, The Guess Who, Lucinda Williams, Guy Clark, Joni Mitchell and more!

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The Final Work Day Brings Dylan & Harrison, Lennon & McCartney and Some ‘Live’ Bonnie Raitt, Friday, March 8, 2024

Good morning, music lovers! We are at the last day of the work week (for most; not all) and we’ve got a great lineup today along with a whole lot of wide Open Stream.

Here’s your musical lineup:

10:00 a.m. Bob Dylan & George Harrison: The Columbia Sessions, May 1, 1970

On May Day in 1970, Bob Dylan and George Harrison sneaked into Studio B at Columbia Studios in New York and recorded together for 12 hours. We’ve got it here.

4:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of John Lennon & Paul McCartney FINAL AIRING!

Today we not only bid a fond farewell to Lennon & McCartney, whose greatness cannot be denied, but also to the singer-songwriter series itself. It could very well be back again, but it has run its course for the time being.

8:00 p.m. Bonnie Raitt Live at The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, December 9, 1973

We close the programming in fine style with some great live Bonnie Raitt, vintage 1973.

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We’ve Got a Great Sunday On Tap With Queen, Our House EP and Birthday Boy George Harrison, February 25, 2024

It’s another Sunday here in The Mermaid Lounge and it’s also George Harrison’s birthday. We will celebrate that with our closing program. Before that it’s Queen’s new AOW and our multi-artist House EP.

Here’s your Sunday Funday lineup:

10:00 a.m. Album of The Week: Sheer Heart Attack by Queen NEW!

The band’s third studio album was released in November 1974, and was a departure from the progressive sound of their first two album. It focused instead on more pop-centric songs and traditional rock, eventually leading to the Queen ‘sound.’ The album propelled the band to mainstream popularity in the UK and the rest of the world. Happy 50th!

1:00 p.m. The #BecomeUngovernable House EP: Various Artists

The music of the sixties (primarily) and seventies was the inspiration for starting this experiment. You’ll hear Barry McGuire, The Temptations, Edwin Starr, Peter Tosh, The Beatles, T. Rex, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Country Joe & The Fish, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Joan Baez, CSNY, Pink Floyd, The Animals, The Plastic Ono Band, Paul McCartney & Wings, Joni Mitchell, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Three Dog Night, Jimmy Cliff, Marvin Gaye, Phil Ochs, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, The Band, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Linda Ronstadt and more!

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of George Harrison

Today we celebrate what would be George Harrison’s 81st birthday by putting him In the Spotlight featuring his muisc with The Beatles, The Traveling Wilbury’s and as a solo artist.

We’re not so simple anymore on Sundays as we expand our horizons. We keep collecting more music and we simply have to put it out there. We’re on 24/7. Programming is only part of what we offer. We have a great, big wide Open Stream of more than 27,000 songs continually rotating with no commercial interruption. Give us a shot.

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