Supposedly secret messages illegally sent through a commercial texting platform (and carelessly also sent to a journalist) remains the talk of D.C. and was the subject of half of Capital Radio today, with songs about messages, secrets and signal. Began the show by paying tribute to Eddie Adcock, banjo ace of The Country Gentlemen, who
A wealth of birthdays meant big sets for two D.C.-bred R&B giants, Billy Stewart and Don Covay, salutes to three (!) German rock figures, and a wide array of others, from Harry Houdini to Steve McQueen to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patterson Hood and Nick Lowe. A lot of the show was devoted to the 90th birthday
Our St. Patrick’s Day show started with a half dozen songs about the four-leaf clover — and none about the shamrock, although it came up in the 28 other songs for Ireland, which this year seemed to concentrate on the cities: Galway, Derry and of course Dublin. But also County Hell, which came up in
For the first show back after three weeks away, the names of the artists who died — and deserved a tribute — was up to 17. They include the 17-year-old singer of “Joltin’ Joe Dimaggio” who died at 100, the rocker David Johansen of the New York Dolls and Joey Molland of Badfinger and a
Cutting into the annual 24 Hours of Christmas programming for my own holiday edition of Capital Radio, I tried to concentrate on somber, more solemn numbers appropriate for the day rather than dazzle dazzle of jingle bells. Themes of “Christmas Day is Here” were much favored over “Christmas time is coming.” Nice to have Coltrane
The last show before Christmas warrants the annual avalanche of holiday songs, starting with the Bosstones, Aimee Mann and Nick Lowe, shifting to ’60s oddities from Bobby Goldsboro and Brian Hyland, and enduring rokcers from the Kinks and the Ramones. There was so much Yuletide, there wasn’t time for the usual birthday salutes, except for
Things don’t always go right when you pre-record a show. Sometimes, last week’s show repeats by mistake, which it did today. And as happy as I was with that show, I’m sadder that the today’s Shane MacGowan-dominated show didn’t go live. But here it is, a few hours later, in archived form. Besides our full-bodied
Taping my show last week means the Shane MacGowan tribute will have to wait a week. Instead, today’s Capital Radio had a couple songs about December, and 25 musical numbers in a sort of opposite of a countdown. There were a lot of birthdays to count up as well — including Southside Johnny, turning 75
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
