Turning the clock back after Daylight Savings Time ends can be trecherous, particularly when it causes the sun to go down even before the work day is over. So we have songs about November, turning back the hands of time, time itself, and the encompassing darkness all around. But there is cheer, too, in the
Tributes for Jack DeJohnette, who died Sunday at 83, and Dave Ball, the other half of Soft Cell, who died last week at 66, began this week’s Capital Radio. There were birthday salutes to songwriter Dallas Frazier (without playing “Elvira”), but also to Floyd Cramer, Bonnie Lou, Kelly Osbourne and Teddy Roosevelt. It was
The Halloween focus on Capital Radio was on that hairy subset, the werewolves. And there were a lot of them, in a 21-song salute that included everybody from the Cramps to Paul Simon. We began with a lot of tributes, to soul master D’Angelo, Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley and folkie Bob Franke, who all died
It was Columbus Day in some of the country and Indigenous Peoples’ Day in other parts, including mine. And we had the songs to enable them to duke it out on Capital Radio today (the Native Americans won). We began with a salute to John Lodge of the Moody Blues, who died last week at
Alfred Lord Tennyson, who died 133 years ago today, didn’t live long enough to hear any of his poems turned to music. But the longest-serving British poet laureate inspired a number of singers, some of whom just put his words to song. We heard 10 related, or semi-related songs in this regard on the first
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
