Tag: Singer-Songwriter Series

It’s Friday in The Lounge With Our Rock, Blues & Ballads Playlist, Smokey Robinson’s Final Spin as Our Singer-Songwriter, and ‘Live’ Buffalo Springfield Later, on July 21, 2023

Good morning, music lovers. We kick things off with a multi-artist playlist later this morning, then give Smokey Robinson his final spin as our featured singer-songwriter. Buffalo Springfield closes out the festivities.

Here’s your musical lineup:

11:00 a.m. Rock, Blues & Ballads: Various Artists

This is a couple of hours of eclectic multi-artist music we threw together back at the inception of the station with J.J. Cale, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, Long John Baldry, Steve Winwood, George Harrison, Ry Cooder, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Linda Ronstadt, Aretha Franklin, Wings, Neil Young, Gregg Allman and more!

4:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson takes his final spin as our featured singer-songwriter for this week. Tomorrow, we’ll introduce a brand new artist.

8:00 p.m. Buffalo Springfield Live at The Teen and Twenty Club, Huntington, Beach, CA, August 11, 1967 NEW!

Tonight we take a trip in the wayback machine for some live Buffalo Sprngfield, this time without Neil Young in the mix.

Before, in between and after our programming we’ve got that wide Open Stream with The Music Mermaid. Join your friends from Greece, Iceland, France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Ohio, Maine, Russian Federation, Ireland and beyond. Music is a universal language.

It’s Finally Friday!

Our ‘Folk Music From A-To-Z’ EP, Smokey Robinson, and Al Green are in The Lounge on Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Good morning, music lovers! We are at midweek and we’ve got both the parents of folk and the members of the great folk revival in The Lounge today, along with Smokey Robinson and Al Green.

Here’s your midweek lineup:

9:00 a.m. Folk Music From A-To-Z: Various Artists

Folk is the original protest genre, and it made a huge revival in the sixties, particulary in the Greenwich Village music scene. Today we’ve got pretty much all the players who’ve contributed, including John Prine, Dave Van Ronk, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary, Odetta, Cat Stevens, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Beatles, Arlo Guthrie, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, The Band, Eric Andersen, Tom Rush, Judy Collins, Nanci Griffith, Jesse Winchester, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Lead Belly, Tim Hardin, The Kingston Trio, Simon & Garfunkel, Richie Havens, Jackson Browne, Guy Clark, James Taylor, The Carter Family, Harry Chapin, Linda Ronstadt (& The Stone Poneys), Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan and more!

4:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Smokey Robinson

Smokey Robinson drops by The Lounge for his second spin as our featured singer-songwriter today. Give a listen.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Al Green

The reverend Al drops by to give us a little soul and R & B to close out the formal programming for the day.

After today, it’s all downhill as we make our way to the weekend! We’ll help you get through the midweek morass with this great music today. And, as always, it’s 100% free of charge to all with absolutely no commercial interruption.

Midweek In the Mermaid Lounge!

We’re In The Lounge and ‘Under The Influence’ for Several Hours, J.D. Souther’s AOW is Ending, and We Introduce Smokey Robinson as Our New Singer-Songwriter, July 15, 2023

Good morning, stoners and others! We kick off the programming with our ‘Under the Influence’ EP this morning, bid farewell to Black Rose, and intro Smokey Robinson as our featured singer-songwriter tihs evening.

Here’s your mindbending musical menagerie:

10:00 a.m. Under the Influence: Various Artists

Don’t say you’ve never been here. Come on. You can be ‘under the influence’ with both legal and illegal substances. Just ask Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Arlo Guthrie, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Donovan, Glen Frey, John Lee Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Linda Ronstadt, Little Feat, The Traveling Wilburys, The Temptations, Small Faces, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, The Beatles, Neil Young, New Riders of The Purple Sage, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, Dave Van Ronk, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Jackson Browne, Steve Winwood, Led Zeppelin, Harry Chapin, The Band, The Fraternity of Man and more!

4:00 p.m. Album of The Week: Black Rose by J.D. Souther FINAL AIRING!

This is the final spin on this amazing J.D. Souther release, so get in on it while you can. Tomorrow, we’ll have a brand new selection for you!

8:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Smokey Robinson NEW!

It is reported that Wiliam “Smokey” Robinson has written or co-written about 4,000 songs in his illustrious career, some for his own band, The Miracles, and his solo career, but many for others like The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Mary Wells and others. Tonight we introduce him as this week’s featured singer-songwriter.

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Saturday in The Lounge!

It’s Finally Friday With Our ‘Paint It Black’ Playlist, a Stephen Stills Send-Off, and The Beatles With Some Friends Later Tonight, July 14, 2023

Good morning, music lovers! You’ve made it to the end of the work week (I’ve got one more day to go) and we’ve got some great stuff from The Mermaid Lounge coming your way!

Here’s today’s musical menagerie:

11:00 a.m. Paint It Black: Various Artists

Today’s opener is songs about the color black in the title, lyrics or both with The Hollies, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, The Move, Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac, k.d. lang, Tom Rush, Fairport Convention, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Long John Baldry, J.D. Souther, Guy Clark, Nina Simone, The Beatles, Steely Dan, Stephen Stills, Curtis Mayfield, Lucinda Williams, John Lee Hooker and more!

4:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Stephen Stills FINAL AIRING!

Today we bid farewell to Stephen Stills as our featured singer-songwriter. Tomorrow we’ll have a brand new selection here for you.

8:00 p.m. The Beatles: Songs With Character UPDATED!

We’re back with the Man in the Mack, Bungalow Bill, Maxwell and his silver hammer, Eleanor Rigby, a barber who works on Penny Lane, a chick named Polythene Pam, a dog named Martha, Lucy who loves to fly around the sky with diamonds, and more. The Beatles had a lot of characters, and tonight we’re going to meet them.

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Finally Friday!

Midweek Brings Our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ EP, Stephen Stills as Our Singer-Songwriter and More Live Heartbreakers, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Good morning, musicologists! Today we open the festivities with our ‘A Little Bit O’ Soul’ multi-artist EP and close them with The Heartbreakers’ Fillmore event!

Here’s your musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. A Little Bit O’ Soul: Various Artists

It’s Motown and Muscle Shoals and everything in between with this EP. You’ll hear Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Ronettes, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Jimmy Ruffin, The Drifters, Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Carla Thomas, James Brown, The Shirelles, Etta James, Curtis Mayfield, Sam & Dave, The Staple Singers, Nina Simone, LaVern Baker, The Supremes, Sam Cooke, Edwin Starr, Fontella Bass, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Irma Thomas, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Eddie Floyd, Joe Tex, Wanda Jackson, Ann Peebles, Percy Sledge, Al Green and more!

4:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Stephen Stills

From Buffalo Springfield, to Crosby, Stills & Nash, to CSNY and Manassas, we give you the full range of Stephen Stills long, storied career today as our featured singer-songwriter.

8:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers Live at The Fillmore, Part Two, San Francisco, January 31-February 7, 1997

This wasn’t just a concert. It was an event. The Heartbreakers were The Fillmore’s house band for twenty sold-out nights and changed the script every single night. We give you volume two of this amazing series of shows tonight.

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Midweek Madness!

On Sunday We Deliver J. D. Souther’s AOW, Our ‘Ode To Morning’ Multi-Artist EP, and Stephen Stills as Our Singer-Songwriter, July 9, 2023

Good morning, music lovers! Yes, we are deviating from the norm a bit here because we celebrated Ringo’s 83rd birthday yesterday, but we’re back on track with some great programming today!

Here’s Sunday’s lineup:

9:00 a.m. Album of The Week: Black Rose by John David (J.D.) Souther NEW!

Throughout his career, J.D. Souther has been primarily known as a songwriter who has been recorded by many artists, including The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt. Today he owns our Album of The Week because we believe he’s more than that. He’s a singer-songwriter (and his turn will be coming up soon) of extraordinary talent, and Black Rose is one of the best albums ever recorded.

11:00 a.m. Ode To Morning: Various Artists

For the first time, we had our ‘Here Comes The Night’ and ‘Ode To Morning’ EP’s fall back-to-back. Today we pay homage to the sunrise with Cat Stevens, Hoyt Axton, The Beatles, Neil Young, The Rascals, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, James Taylor, Gram Parsons, Simon & Garfunkel, Chris Hillman, Taj Mahal, Dan Fogelberg, Linda Ronstadt, Harry Chapin, Three Dog Night, Ry Cooder, Tim Buckley, Muddy Waters, Jonathan Edwards, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Pure Prairie League, Badfinger and more!

8:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Stephen Stills NEW!

Tonight we introduce the one-and-only Stephen Stills as our featured singer-songwriter for the week. The guy’s talent cannot be denied, in spite of some of the personal mud slinging that has gone on between members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. We also trace his career as a solo artist, as well as with Crosby, Stills & Nash (pre-Young) his band, Manassas.

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Sunday Funday!

We’ve Made It to Friday With Jeff Lynne’s Final Spin as Singer-Songwriter, Founding Father Chuck Berry In the Spotlight, and New ‘Live’ Allman Brothers Later On, July 7, 2023

Good morning, work warriors! We’ve made it to the end of the week and everything from here is, as they say, downhill! We’ve got a great lineup for you today here in The Mermaid Lounge, including a brand new ‘live’ performance by The Allman Brothers Band!

Here are Friday’s musical festivities:

9:00 a.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Jeff Lynne FINAL AIRING!

Jeff Lynne takes his final spin as this week’s featured singer-songwriter, and we will miss him. We give you his music as the founder of Electric Light Orchestra, and as a founding member of The Traveling Wilburys, the greatest supergroup ever. Tomorrow, we’ll introduce a brand new artist to carry the torch!

12:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Chuck Berry

Speaking of founding fathers, this guy is one of the founding fathers of rock n’ roll, baby. John Lennon once said if you could give rock n’ roll a different name, it would be Chuck Berry. Mr. Lennon should know, in fact, and today we put Chuck Berry In the Spotlight.

8:00 p.m. The Allman Brothers Band Live at The Cow Palace, Daly City, CA, December 31, 1973

The Brothers give us a New Year’s Eve concert to be remembered at The Cow Palace just outside of San Francisco. It’s just what you’d expect from one of the greatest blues-rock bands on the planet.

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Celebrate Friday!

Midweek Brings the ‘Color My World’ EP, Jeff Lynne as This Week’s Featured Singer-Songwriter, and Diana Ross & The Supremes In the Spotlight on Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Good morning, music lovers! We’re at midweek and we’ve got a great lineup for you today, including The Supremes to close out our programming later.

Here’s the midweek lineup:

9:00 a.m. Color My World: Various Artists

We kick the day off with songs about all colors of the spectrum in the title, lyrics or both. You’ll hear from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Donovan, Booker T. & The MG’s, Electric Light Orchestra, Procol Harum, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Amy Winehouse, Sam & Dave, Badfinger, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane, The Hollies, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, Cream, Marvin Gaye, Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, J.D. Souther, Linda Ronstadt and more!

4:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Jeff Lynne

One of the best returns for his second spin as our featured singer-songwriter as the leader of ELO and as a key member of The Traveling Wilburys.

8:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Diana Ross & The Supremes

They were originally founded as The Primettes back in the early 60’s, but eventually became one of Motown’s premier bands and put girl groups on the map.

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We’re at Midweek!

We Start a New Month With Our ‘What’s in A Name’ EP, Bob Dylan’s Final AOW Spin, and the Multi-Faceted Jeff Lynne as Our Featured Singer-Songwriter, Saturday, July 1, 2023

Good morning, musicologists, and welcome to the dog days of summer here in The Mermaid Lounge! We kick off a new month in fine form today. Read on for details!

Here’s your musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. What’s in a Name: Various Artists

One of our newer EP’s is airing this morning. We just introduced this one last month, and you’ll hear Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Them, Janis Joplin, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Donovan, Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin, Carly Simon, Warren Zevon, Laura Nyro, Bobbie Gentry, The Kinks, Three Dog Night, The Association, Joni Mitchell, Badfinger, Linda Ronstadt, Steely Dan, Chi Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, Tony Joe White and more!

4:00 p.m. Album of The Week: Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan FINAL AIRING!

We say farewell to Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline today, undoubtedly one of his best albums ever. Tomorrow, we’ll have a brand new selection for you!

8:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Jeff Lynne NEW!

Here’s a guy who doesn’t get the attention he should. Most people know him as the leader of Electric Light Orchestra, but Jeff Lynne is more than that. He’s one of the most prolific singer-songwriters on the planet. Before ELO, there was a sixties band called The Move, which recorded and released the original version of Do Ya. He was a founding member of The Traveling Wilburys. And finally, he’s a record producer who worked with both George Harrison and Tom Petty over his long career. Tonight we introduce him as this week’s featured singer-songwriter.

For most people it’s a long weekend where we’ll celebrate our alleged freedom (although all I see from the GOP are rights being rolled back). All that propaganda aside, it’s absolutely not propaganda that we play the best music on the planet totally free with no commercial interruption on a 24/7 schedule. Give us a shot.

Welcome to July!

We End the Month in Style and Kick Off the July 4 Weekend With Petty’s Top 100 Songs and Townes Van Zandt’s Final Turn as Our Singer-Songwriter on Friday, June 30, 2023

Good morning, musicologists! We kicked off Memorial Day weekend with The Beatles Top 100 and today we kick off July 4th weekend with Tom Petty’s Top 100.

Here’s today’s musical lineup:

10:00 a.m. Tom Petty’s Top 100 Songs

I might add, in no particular order. That would be too tall a task. This is Petty as founding member of The Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch and The Traveling Wilburys, as well as a solo artist. We celebrated our ‘other’ House Band at the beginning of summer, and we celebrate (mostly) The Heartbreakers today as we enter the dog days of summer.

8:00 p.m. Singer-Songwriter Series: The Music of Townes Van Zandt FINAL AIRING!

Today is Townes Van Zandt’s final turn as our featured singer-songwriter, but it won’t be the last time you hear from him here. We’ve gotten our hands on some great live performances. Tomorrow we’ll have a brand new singer-songwriter to introduce.

In between our only two pieces of programming today, we’ve got our big, wide Open Stream courtesy of The Music Mermaid. We never really know what she has in store for us. That’s entirely up to her, but we do know that she has impeccable taste in music.

Petty’s Top 100!