Tag: The Grateful Dead

Echoes From the Canyon, Our Weekly “Live Dead,” Final Airing of our Album of the Week, and Happy 70th to Mike Campbell on Saturday, February 1, 2020

Good Morning, Ungovernables! The big news is that we celebrate the 70th birthday today of Tom Petty’s sidekick, Mike Campbell. And we celebrate in style with a great play list.

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Here’s your Saturday line-up:

Album of the Week: It’s a Good Night For Singin’ by Jerry Jeff Walker

We bid a fond farewell to this Jerry Jeff Walker gem. Tomorrow we choose a new album.

2:00 p.m.      Echoes From the Canyon: Various Artists

The birth of the California sound we’ve come to know and love.

6:00 p.m.     Tom Petty & Mike Campbell: The Heartbreakers’ Dynamic Duo

Today we pay tribute to Mike Campbell on his 70th birthday, a very important cog in the Heartbreakers’ wheel. Not only was he Tom Petty’s songwriting partner, but he’s one of the best damned guitarists in the history of rock music. And he is about to release his first album with The Dirty Knobs in March. We’ll be all over that one.

10:00 p.m.    Our Weekly “Live Dead” Episode: Dick’s Picks, Volume 32

Tune us in. You will not regret it. I swear.

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Cosmo’s Factory’s Last Hurrah, Leon Russell Debuts & Another “Live Dead” on Saturday, January 25, 2020

Good Morning, Ungovernables! Today is Cosmo’s Factory‘s last hurrah before we choose a new Album of the Week tomorrow. Leon Russell makes his debut today.

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Here’s your Saturday line-up:

2:00 p.m.     Album of the Week:  Cosmo’s Factory, Creedence Clearwater Revival

5:00 p.m.    Leon Live! Leon Russell at The Long Beach Arena 8-28-72

We welcome Leon Russell’s first live appearance on #BecomeUngovernable Radio.

10:00 p.m   Live Dead: The Grateful Dead From The Universal Ampitheater 7-1-73

Tune us in. NO charges. No commercials. No politicians. No bullshit. Just great music 24/7.

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The Yardbirds Live, Dr. John in the Spotlight, “Live” Dead, Our Folk Music Playlist & Album of the Week, Saturday, January 18, 2020

Good Morning, Ungovernables! That headline’s a mouthful, isn’t it? Like a musical run-on sentence…but in a good way. It means lots of good programming.

Folk Music Collage

Here’s today’s line-up:

11:00 a.m.      The Yardbirds Live at B. B. King’s  Blues Club

2:00 p.m.        Folk Music from A to Z: The House List

Hear Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Joni Mitchell, Jakob Dylan, Tim Buckley and many others!

5:00 p.m.        In the Spotlight: The Music of Dr. John

7:00 p.m.        Album of the Week: Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

This will be Dark Side of the Moon’s final run before a new Album of the Week is posted tomorrow! Don’t miss it!

10:00 p.m.     “Live” Dead: The Grateful Dead Live From The Nashville Municipal Auditorium (12/16/78)

Pull up a tab and hang out with us. The music’s great.

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We’ve Added Some Great, New Music to the Rotation!

We’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks, sourcing and adding new music to the standard #BecomeUngovernable Radio rotation. We currently have about 20,000 songs rotating, with about 30K in the cue waiting.

Some of the new additions include Pink Floyd, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Dillard & Clark, Don Covay & The Jefferson Lemon Blues Band, Sam & Dave, The Undertakers, and Lesley Gore.

We have also added a couple of new Grateful Dead gigs for our Saturday night “Live Dead” shows, and have added to the libraries of Ry Cooder, Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Jeff Walker and others.

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The New “Sixties Rotation” Debuts, “Live” Dead, and The Final Airing of “Chicken Skin Music,” on Saturday, January 4, 2020

Good Morning, Ungovernables! We’ve got a really cool new rotation which debuts today called The Sixties Rotation. It is not to be missed!

The Sixties Rotation

Here’s today’s line-up:

2:00 p.m.      The Sixties Rotation

Nearly five hours of the best of the Sixties, as always uninterrupted and with no commercial breaks.

10:00 p.m.    Album of the Week: The final airing of Chicken Skin Music by Ry Cooder

On Sunday, we’ll introduce our new Album of the Week.

11:00 p.m.    Saturday Night “Live” Dead: The Boston Music Hall 1976

TIME CHANGE FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, PEOPLE.

“Live” Dead will be back at 10 p.m. next Saturday!

What are you waiting for? Do it.

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The Beatles Live in Stockholm, Soul Music ’66, Laura Nyro in the Spotlight, “Hypnotic Eye” finale, and “Live” Dead, Saturday, December 28, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! Welcome to the weekend, and what a great music weekend it will be.

Beatles-Live in Stockholm

Here’s your line-up:

11:00 a.m.     The Beatles: Live in Stockholm 1963

2:00 p.m.       Sweet Soul Music 1966: Various Artists

Hear Carla Thomas, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Joe Tex, The Temptations, Aaron Neville, and man others.

5:00 p.m.       Album of the Week: Hypnotic Eye, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

This will be our final airing. A new album will be airing on Sunday.

10:00 p.m.     “Live” Dead: The Grateful Dead Live From the Mars Hotel (1974)

11:00 p.m.       In the Spotlight: The Music of Laura Nyro

Don’t forget to tune us in!

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The Premiere of “Live Dead,” Otis Redding In the Spotlight, The All-Girl Revue 3, and A Final “Heart Like A Wheel,” Saturday, December 21, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! Today is the premiere of our new Grateful Dead live show, Live Dead, beginning at 10 p.m. EST. Don’t miss it!

Grateful Dead Capitol Theater Ticket 6-24-70

It’s Open Stream until 2 p.m., then the fun starts here!

2:00 p.m.     In the Spotlight: The Music of Otis Redding

5:00 p.m.     The All-Girl Revue Three, Various Artists

Hear from Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Phoebe Snow, Norah Jones, The Shirelles, Janis Joplin and more!

8:00 p.m.     Album of the Week: Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like A Wheel

This is the final airing of Heart Like A Wheel; a new album premieres tomorrow!

10:00 p.m.   Premiere of Live Dead: The Grateful Dead Live at The Capitol Theater in New York, June 24, 1970

More than three hours of great music from the world’s ultimate jam band!

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Album of the Week, The Allman Bros and The Grateful Dead Live, and Elvis Presley Makes His Debut, Thursday, December 12, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! We have another airing of Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, some brand new “live” music, and The King makes his debut on #BecomeUngovernable Radio.

Elvis Nashvlle Sessions 1956

 

Here’s today’s line-up:

11:00 a.m.    Album of the Week: Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, Little Feat

This is the fourth studio album by Little Feat, released on August 9, 1974

2:00 p.m.      The Allman Bros Band: Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival, July 3 & July 5, 1970

5:00 p.m.      The Grateful Dead: Live at the Avalon Ballroom, (1966)

9:00 p.m.      Elvis Presley – Music City: The 1956 Nashville Recordings

Elvis Presley’s Nashville recording sessions came before Nashville was a real hub of the record industry, and when he was truly The King.

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The New Album of the Week, The Grateful Dead, The All-Girl Revue Too, and Strike Watch, Sunday, December 8, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! It’s Sunday and we’ve chosen our new Album of the Week, we have the Dead live in Honolulu, and our final airing of Strike Watch.

The Grateful Dead on stage

Here’s your Sunday line-up!

11:00 a.m.    Strike Watch with Adam Rice: Exposing Act Blue

This will be the final airing of Strike Watch for this cycle.

2:00 p.m.      Album of the Week: Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, Little Feat

The fourth studio album by Little Feat was released on August 9. 1974. Background vocals on this album were provided by Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris, and additional musicians included the Tower of Power Horns. The members of this great band are:

5:00 p.m.      The Grateful Dead, Live in Honolulu, January 23, 1970

9:00 p.m.      The Return of the All-Girls Revue Too!

It’s Sunday, and a day of rest. Turn it up.

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We Got the Blues With Big Joe Turner, Taj Mahal in the Spotlight, The Grateful Dead, and Echoes From the Canyon, Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Good Morning, Ungovernables! We have a great line-up here on this day before Thanksgiving.

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Here is your line-up:

11:00 a.m.     The Blues Train: Big Joe Turner with Roomful of Blues & Dr. John

2:00 p.m.       The Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks, Volume 32

5:00 p.m.       Echoes From the Canyon

Hear the Lovin’ Spoonful, The Mamas & The Papas, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, and so many others who were instrumental in creating the California sound.

9:00 p.m.      In the Spotlight: The Music of Taj Mahal

So, pull up a tab and sit awhile.

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