Tag: Stephen Stills

It’s Thursday and We’ve Got ‘Travelin’ Fever,’ The Who ‘In the Spotlight,’ and Live Stephen Stills, On September 11, 2025

We jump into the programming with our ‘Travelin’ Fever’ multi-artist EP, the it’s on to The Who and some live Stephen Stills!

Here’s your Thursday lineup:

9:00 a.m. Travelin’ Fever: Various Artists

We start out with music about hitting the road with Canned Heat, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Steve Miller Band, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Dan Fogelberg, Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Eagles, Paul McCartney & Wings, 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 Beatles, The Guess Who and more!

4:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of The Who

Surely one of the biggest and most influential bands in all of music during the sixties and seventies. We’ve got them ‘In the Spotlight’ this afternoon.

8:00 p.m. Stephen Stills Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK, October 20, 2008

We close out the programming with the legendary Stephen Stills in a solo performance at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London.

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On Saturday, It’s ‘Music From Laurel Canyon,’ a Stephen Stills ‘Spotlight,’ and Joni Mitchell Live in Brussels, August 16, 2025

Good morning, music lovers and welcome to the weekend! We kick it off in style with the music that challenged the British Invasion rule of the U.S. charts.

Here’s your Saturday musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. Music From Laurel Canyon: Various Artists

Two decades of musicians lived and worked in Laurel Canyon, where they cross-pollinated styles and birthed country-rock. You’ll hear The Byrds, The Mamas & Papas, Buffalo Springfield, The Beach Boys, The Doors, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, The Monkees, CSNY, John Mayall, The Eagles, J.D. Souther, Harry Nilsson, Canned Heat, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, James Taylor, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and more!

4:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Stephen Stills

One of the greats of the music world from the Buffalo Springfield, to CSNY, to Manassas, and as a soloist, joins us in The Mermaid Lounge this afternoon.

8:00 p.m. Joni Mitchell Live at Cirque Royale, Brussels, Belgium, August 26, 1983 NEW!

We close with a new-to-the-station live performance by Joni Mitchell on her Refuge world tour.

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We Close The Month With ‘Ladies Day Out,’ Live Stephen Stills, and a Steve Winwood ‘Spotlight’ Feature, Saturday, May 31, 2025

Welcome, weekenders! We’re closing the month in style as we turn the studio over to the women of music this morning, followed by Stephen Stills live at The Capitol Center, and a Steve Winwood ‘Spotlight’ covering his vast musical career.

Here’s your Saturday musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. Ladies Day Out: Various Artists

We kick off the day with the ladies in charge. You’ll hear Linda Ronstadt, Valerie Carter, 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, Dolly Parton, Dusty Springfield, Ann Peebles, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash, Eva Cassidy, Wendy Waldman, Shawn Colvin, The Ronettes, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Phoebe Snow, Susan Tedeschi, Nicolette Larson and many, many more!

4:00 p.m. Stephen Stills Live at The Capitol Center, Passaic, NJ, March 23, 1979

Later this afternoon, we give you some great live Stephen Stills. Always a treat.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Steve Winwood

We close with legendary artist Steve Winwood and his music from The Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith, Traffic, and his solo career!

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It’s Tuesday With the ‘Ladies Sing The Blues’, Then It’s Live Paul Butterfield in Boston, and Bloomfield, Kooper and Stills Together On March 11, 2025

Good morning, blueologists, and welcome to another great Tuesday Bluesday here in The Lounge. We start off with five hours of uninterrupted blues from the ladies, then we move to vintage live Paul Butterfield and a great trio of blues-rock artists ‘in session.’

Here’s your Tuesday Bluesday lineup:

9:00 a.m. Ladies Sing The Blues: Various Artist

From old to new, you’ll hear Billie Holliday, Big Mama Thornton, Ruth Brown, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin, Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Marcia Ball, Ellen McIlwaine, Susan Tedeschi, Irma Thomas, Tracy Nelson, Etta James, Linda Ronstadt, Sippie Wallace, Bessie Smith, Shawn Murphy, Angela Strehli, Aretha Franklin, The Blues Broads and more! This playlist is also scheduled for an update, so stay tuned!

4:00 p.m. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live at The Unicorn Coffee House, Boston, MA, Spring 1968

We’re not sure of the exact date, but we know it happened because it’s right here. This is an iconic band in another of those iconic Boston music venues that is no more. It’s a Wayback Machine event.

8:00 p.m. Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills Recorded at CBS Columbia Square Studios, Los Angeles, CA, May 1968

Another Wayback Machine event that took place after Bloomfield and Kooper had finished working with Bob Dylan on his Highway 61 Revisited album, and after they played in the backing band for Dylan’s 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival where he used electric instruments for the first time and ruffled quite a few feathers in the folk music world. The result was an album that peaked at number 12 on the Billboard 200, where it remained for 37 weeks.

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Spend Monday With Live Stephen Stills, a Steve Winwood Mashup, and a Shawn Colvin ‘Spotlight’, November 4, 2024

Good morning, music lovers and welcome back to the work week. We’re here in The Mermaid Lounge to help get you through with some great music!

Here’s your Monday, Monday lineup:

10:00 a.m. Stephen Stills Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK, October 20, 2008

We open the day’s programming with Stephen Stills in a live performance from Shepherd’s Bush.

4:00 p.m. Traffic, Blind Faith, Spencer Davis Group Super-Jam

Haven’t aired this one for a bit. What do all three bands have in common? The legendary Steve Winwood, of course!

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin may well have her feet firmly planted in folk, but she’s got the knack for crossing over into the blues, country and good old rock n’ roll.

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We’re at Midweek With Songs About Water, Live J. J. Cale, and Stephen Stills ‘In Session’ on Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Good morning, musicologists everywhere and welcome to hump day. We start out with ‘Water, Water Everywhere’ today, followed by J. J. Cale and Stephen Stills.

Here’s your midweek musical lineup:

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

Today we start out with songs about water in all its forms with Paul McCartney, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Otis Redding, The Doobie Brothers, Valerie Carter, Bob Dylan, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Al Green, Loggins & Messina, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Linda Ronstadt, Spirit, Bonnie Raitt, The Grass Roots, Carole King, Tom Rush and more!

4:00 p.m. J. J. Cale Live at Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK, October 6-8, 1994 NEW!

We’ve got some vintage J. J. Cale on a 1994 tour from Hammersmith Apollo in London coming up this afternoon.

8:00 p.m. Stephen Stills in Session at A & R Studios, New York, NY, April 26, 1968

Legend has it that Stills was accompanying Judy Collins to her recording session at A & R, but she finished with time left on the clock. Stephen Stills is rumored to have paid the engineer privately to help him cut this album full of demos, later called Just Roll Tape.

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Steve Winwood Begins, Stephen Stills Ends, and Somewhere In Between It’s Either ‘Heaven Or Hell’ on Friday, August 16, 2024

Good morning, musicologists! We end the work week with a bang to day with two legends opening and closing, and our ‘Between Heaven and Hell’ playlist.

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

10:00 a.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Steve Winwood

A Mermaid Lounge legend in our eyes. We don’t think the guy has made a bad song ever in his life. Today he’s front and center as a member of The Spencer-Davis Group, Blind Faith, Traffic and as a solo artist. That resume alone puts him in the Legend category.

4:00 p.m. Between Heaven & Hell: Various Artists

Not an EP, but a good one nevertheless with The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, The Grass Roots, Emmylou Harris, Roberta Flack, Elvis Presley, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Fats Domino, Bruce Hornsby and more!

8:00 p.m. Stephen Stills Live at The Capitol Theater, Passaic, NJ, March 23, 1979

We close out the programming with another musical legend in Stephen Stills. Tonight we’ve got him live from the Capitol Theater.

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It’s Sunday and We’ve Got Jackson Browne, Stephen Stills, and The Founders All On Tap For Today, April 7, 2024

Good morning, musicologists and welcome to Sunday in The Mermaid Lounge. We continue to air some of our EP’s in the evening hours just to ensure all this great stuff is available globally to all our listeners.

Here’s today’s musical lineup:

10:00 a.m. Jackson Browne with David Lindley Live at RCA Studios, New York, NY, September 27, 1973 NEW!

We’ve got a great live in-studio performance of Jackson Browne with David Lindley that was broadcast on WPLI-FM in New York to start off the programming.

3:00 p.m. In the Spotlight: The Music of Stephen Stills

Yeah, there was a lot of drama with CSNY. If you were on Twitter you heard about it. But their greatness cannot be diminished. Neither can the brilliance and influence of a guy named Stephen Stills. He’s In the Spotlight today with CSNY, Manassas and as a solo artist.

8:00 p.m. The Founders: Various Artists

Just who invented rock n’ roll? That’s a tough one because all these folks played a part in that effort. It was not a one-man or -woman event. You’ll hear them all, including Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, Hank Williams, Bill Haley & His Comets, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Roy Orbison, Robert Johnson, Carl Perkins, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters and more!

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Sunday Funday!

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!