Tag: Tom Petty & The Hearbreakers

Monday Brings Three Dog Night, Our ‘What’s In a Name’ EP, Plus Dylan & The Heartbreakers, January 20, 2025

Good morning, musicologists. On our national day of disgrace, we urge you to turn off the inauguration and do anything else. You can spend your day here instead.

Here’s your Monday, Monday musical lineup:

10:00 a.m. In The Spotlight: Three Dog Night NEW!

This has been on my to-do list for ages and I’m finally happily delivering. These guys were a veritable hit machine with 21 Top 40 singles between 1969 and 1975; three went to number one. They are certainly on our list of favorite seventies artists.

2:00 p.m. What’s In a Name: Various Artists

This one comes back from hiatus today as we bring you songs about people, some real and some imaginary. You’ll hear from Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Them, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, 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, James Taylor, Tony Joe White and more!

8:00 p.m. Bob Dylan with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at The Cal Expo Amphitheater, Sacramento, CA, June 12, 1986

What could be better than this combination? This was Dylan’s True Confessions Tour. Bob Dylan asked his manager, “Can we find a band that’s cool?” I think he pretty much delivered. It began a musical friendship between Dylan and Petty that would eventually result in The Traveling Wilburys.

We’re here, and we’re happy we’re not in D.C. where ugly returns to our nation today. Here in The Lounge, it’s all about freedom, peace and unity. No ugly here. Just great music. The button is below.

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We’re at Friday With Our ‘Looks Like Rain’ Playlist, Live ELO, and The Beatles ‘Songs With Character’, January 3, 2025

Good morning, musicologists! We’ve got a great set of programs for you today as we head to the weekend once again! Before, in between and after we’ve got our big, wide Open Stream running 24/7.

Here’s your Friday lineup:

10:00 a.m. Looks Like Rain: Various Artists

It’s not quite an EP, but there are a hell of a lot of songs about rain out there from artists like The Beatles, Poco, Gordon Lightfoot, The Everly Brothers, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Carole King, Irma Thomas, Ann Peebles, The Eurythmics, Fats Domino, Led Zeppelin, Ray Charles, Warren Zevon, The Searchers, Taj Mahal, The Band, Traffic, Linda Ronstadt, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and more!

4:00 p.m. Electric Light Orchestra Live at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, February 3, 1976

Jeff Lynne’s great ELO is live early on from Winterland.

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

Undoubtedly one of our favorite playlists with songs about the man in the mack, Lucy who flies around the skies with diamonds, a lonely woman named Eleanor Rigby, a dog named Martha, and a guy named Bungalow Bill. And that’s just for starters.

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Hey, Bungalow Bill!

We Ring in The New Year With The Grateful Dead at Midnight, Then It’s Tom Petty’s Top 100 Songs and Bruce Springsteen ‘In the Spotlight’, Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Happy New Year, music lovers! We post this early because we have a special midnight airing of The Grateful Dead live from Winterland on New Year’s Eve 1970, then we give you Tom Petty’s Top 100 songs and a Bruce Springsteen ‘Spotlight’ feature.

Here’s your New Year’s lineup:

12:00 a.m. LIVE DEAD: The Grateful Dead Live at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, December 31, 1970

We ring in the new year at midnight with a live performance by The Grateful Dead from the iconic Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.

10:00 a.m. Tom Petty’s Top 100 Songs

We gave you The Beatles in chronological order over the Christmas holidays; now we give you Tom Petty’s Top 100 songs on New Year’s Day as we celebrate his work with The Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch, The Traveling Wilburys and as a solo artist.

8:00 p.m. In The Spotlight: The Music of Bruce Springsteen

We close out the programming this evening with The Boss ‘In the Spotlight’.

Before, in between and after our scheduled programming, we give you our big, wide Open Stream uninterrupted by commercial advertising and overly-chatty DJ’s. The button is below!

Happy New Year!

We Close Out Fillmore Fest With A Bang With The Heartbreakers & Music From The Final Days, Monday, May 6, 2024

Good morning, music lovers! Since we’re operating on an ‘eight days a week’ basis, we took an extra day for Fillmore Fest and we’ll close it out in style

Here’s your Fillmore Fest lineup:

10:00 a.m. The Fillmore: The Last Days

Bill Graham’s vaunted Fillmore closed in 1971, a couple of years after The Fillmore East, both the victims of the penchant for booking large arena venues for concerts. The final shows include performances by Hot Tuna, Boz Scaggs, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Cold Blood, The Elvin Bishop Group, The Grateful Dead and more!

6:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, January-February 1997

The Fillmore, of course, was reborn in San Francisco and other cities as well and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers took advantage of the small venue to play a legendary run of 20 sold-out nights in 1997 where they tore up the big arena set lists and allowed the attendees to write down song requests for the band. They played over 100 different songs during their 20-night run, including a series of covers paying tribute to those who inspired them that were simply amazing. Some of those covers included the Kinks’ You Really Got Me, The Dead’s Friend of The Devil, Bill Withers’ Ain’t No Sunshine and J.J. Cale’s Call Me The Breeze. There were also special guests, like John Lee Hooker and Roger McGuinn, who joined them on stage. We usually play this selection in three parts, but today it’s a one-sitting event to close out Fillmore Week.

Hell, it’s Monday all over again. What could be better than pulling up a new tab and joining our final day of Fillmore Fest? The button’s below.

Farewell, Fillmore Fest!

Our ‘Ode To Morning’ EP, Our AOW, and The Hearbreakers Live in Chicago Are All On Tap For Thursday, January 18, 2024

Good morning, musicologists! We are, once again, on the downslide to the weekend and we aim to get you there with some great music at the end of this week.

Here’s your Thursday musical lineup:

9:00 a.m.  Ode To Morning: Various Artists

Yes, yesterday we started with songs about night time. Today, just the opposite with Cat Stevens, Hoyt Axton, The Beatles, Neil Young, The Rascals, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, James Taylor, Gram Parsons, Simon & Garfunkel, 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, Chris Hillman and more!

4:00 p.m.  Album of The Week: Jesus Was A Capricorn by Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson is back this afternoon with our Album of The Week.

7:00 p.m.  Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at The Victoria Theater, Chicago, IL, April 19, 2003

The Heartbreakers rip it up at The Vic in Chicago to close out the night’s programming.

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Merry Christmas From The Mermaid Lounge Where The Only Programming is Tom Petty’s Top 100! December 25, 2023

Good morning, holiday revelers and Petty-ologists, and a very Merry Christmas. Today, we feature the late and very great Tom Petty’s Top 100 Songs

Here’s your Christmas programming:

10:00 a.m. Tom Petty’s Top 100 Songs

Our picks for Doctor Tom Petty’s top 100 songs from his legendary days with The Heartbreakers, his beginnings (and renewal) with Mudcrutch, his stint with the greatest supergroup on the planet, The Traveling Wilburys, and his solo career. Not to be missed.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Tuesday Bluesday Brings ‘The Best of Chicago Blues’ EP, Our AOW, and The Blues…Heartbreakers Style, October 10, 2023

Good morning, bluesologists and welcome to another Tuesday Bluesday in The Mermaid Lounge. We’re kicking things off with our Chicago blues EP and closing them out later with The Heartbreakers delivering da blues.

Here’s your musical lineup:

9:00 a.m. The Best of Chicago Blues: Various Artists

The historic Maxwell Street Market was the birthplace of an electrified, industrialized blues that they called The Chicago Blues, helped along by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Bo Diddley who frequented the area. In addition to them, you’ll hear Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, Albert King, Little Walter, Koko Taylor, Lowell Fulson, Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, Sonny Boy Williamson, Son Seals, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield, Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Otis Spann and many more!

4:00 p.m. Album of The Week: Duets by Emmylou Harris

We switch to country for this great compilation album, the only non-blues programming for the day. But there’s a synergy here because the blues and country were parents to the child they named rock n’ roll.

7:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Sing The Blues

Dr. Tom Petty had a vision for the band’s future that had them sitting around in chairs playing the blues in the elder years, just like the photo on this blog. Unfortunately for us all, Tom never got there, but The Heartbreakers had a great appreciation for the blues and its musicians and they played plenty of blues while he was on the planet. We’ve got it for you tonight as we continue to celebrate Tom Petty Month.

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Welcome to Tuesday Bluesday!

Friday We’ve Got ’27 and Gone’ Along With Roger McGuinn’s Final Spin, and ‘Live’ Heartbreakers From The Fillmore, August 18, 2023

Good morning, weekenders! We are at the end of the work week and we are cooking with charcoal here in The Mermaid Lounge today. We’ve got a great lineup.

Here’s your musical lineup for Friday:

11:00 a.m. 27 and Gone: Various Artists

The infamous members of the 27 Club (musicians who died at the age of 27) come back with some haunting melodies today. You’ll hear Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Amy Wnehouse, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (The Gratefu Dead), Brian Jones (The Stones), Pete Ham (Badfinger) and more!

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

Roger McGuinn takes his final spin this afternoon as our featured singer-songwriter. Tomorrow, we’ll introduce a brand new musical genius!

8:00 p.m. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at The Fillmore, San Francisco, March 15, 1999

This is not the band’s infamous 1997 20-night residency, but their trip through the Fillmore on the 1999 High Grass Dogs tour in support of Wildflowers. Not to be missed!

We’re at the cusp of the weekend here, folks. For some of us, there’s one more day. But for many this is the beginning! Kick off your shoes and socks and turn on the tunes. We’re on 24/7 and we’re totally free. We’re also free of commercial advertising!

27 and Gone!

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!

Monday Brings Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash in Nashville ’69, the ‘By the Numbers’ Playlist, and ‘Live’ Little Feat, May 15, 2023

Monday rolls around again every week, unfortunately, but we’ve got some great music to get you through starting with Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash’s Nashville sessions, vintage 1969, our ‘By the Numbers’ multi-artist playlist and Little Feat bringing up the rear.

Here’s your Monday, Monday lineup:

11:00 a.m. Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash: The Nashville Sessions, February 1969

Recorded at Columbia Studios in Nashville on February 17 and 18, 1969. Their duet Girl From the North Country would appear on Dylan’s Nashville Skyline album in April of that year.

3:00 p.m. By the Numbers: Various Artists

A playlist with numbers as the topic in the title, lyrics or both from Three Dog Night, Chicago, Mudcrutch, J. J. Cale, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Eddie Cochran, Asleep at The Wheel, The Beatles, The Grass Roots, The Byrds, Stevie Nicks, Rosanne Cash, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Wilson Pickett, Paul Simon, Johnny Rivers, The Doors, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and more!

7:00 p.m. Little Feat Live at Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, July 20, 1973

Little Feat closes the programming day out live from Ebbets Field in Colorado, vintage 1973.

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Monday, Monday