The death of Mark Volman Friday at 78 brought an hour of his music on Capital Radio this week, with The Turtles, Flo & Eddie, Frank Zappa, T. Rex, the Boss, the Ramones and others. But we also paid tribute to Bruce Loose of Flipper, Rick Davies of Supertramp and Tom Shipley of Brewer &
Labor Day brought songs of work, unions and workers on a holiday Capital Radio. But there was also a set about wigs — flipping, tightening and falling off. Among birthday celebrations, it was the centenary for alto sax ace Art Pepper. Sly & The Family Stone drummer Greg Errico was turning 77; Archie Bell, 81;
Yes, Elvis Costello turned 71; Jeff Tweedy was 58. So there were was big birthday tributes to both. We also had salutations for jazz man Wayne Shorter, Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, turning 57; and had shoutouts for Shock G of Digital Underground and Terminator X from Public Enemy. It was the 50th anniversary
We remembered a number of artists who’ve died in recent weeks, with retrospecitves of the underrated Terry Reid, who died Aug. 4 at 75; Derek and the Dominos co-founder Bobby Whitlock, who died Aug. 10 at 77; and Tex Mex ace Flaco Jiménez, who died July 31 at 86. Also noted: the passing of country’s
Kenny Gamble, half of Philly International’s famed writing and production team Gamble & Huff turned 82 today, so there was an array of some of their greatest tunes. It was also the 71st birthday of Joe Jackson, and we blew out candles for Eric Carmen, producer Shel Talmy, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie,
Finally getting around to posting a couple of radio shows from the beginning of the month, pre-recorded before I was out of the country for a couple of weeks. Aug. 4 was the anniversary of the first ever Billboard Hot 100 so we revisited some of the well known and not so well known songs
Mondays 1pm etHost: Roger Catlin From Washington DC comes the urgent sounds of recorded import, from blues moans of a century ago to the digitized homegrown innovations of today’s youth, with punk, soul, rockabilly, country, doo wop and pop in between. And don’t forget Bobby Womack.Hosted by Roger Catlin, onetime Hartford Courant rock critic and
