We know them as flying saucers and UFOs, But they’re calling them by the much clunkier acronym UAP in Congressional hearings this year. They’ve inspired a lot of songs over the decades, from Woody Guthrie and Ella Fitzgerald to Jefferson Airplane, Radiohead and Parliament. We played 26 of them today on Capital Radio, on an
I’ll always remember that grim afternoon 53 years ago when my eighth grade teacher informed me that Jimi Hendrix had died. Sept. 18 was also the day we lost Earl Van Dyke of Motown’s Funk Brothers and bluesmen Blind Willie Johnson and Jimmy Witherspoon. So they were represented on Capital Radio today, before a bunch
The 22nd anniversary of 9/11 brought a lot of songs about the event that came out in the years that followed, from artists as divergent as Leonard Cohen, Juliana Hatfield, Kate Bush, Jay-Z and Joe Strummer. Also noted the recent passing of Gary Wright in his work backing George Harrison, B.B. King and Harry Nilsson if
The death of Jimmy Buffett had me looking for gems – very early (“Come Monday”) to much later (a Crowded House cover; a spin on an Al Anderson tune) for today’s Capital Radio broadcast. Birthdays were noted for the Byrds’ Gene Parsons (78 today), Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers (72) and, uh, former Mets catcher Mike
Started with some tunes about the end of the summer, from John Prine, the Doors, the Kinks, Dusty Springfield, Kirsty MacColl and the Cure, among others. Then in a season marred by “Try That in a Small Town,” Capital radio offered some better songs about small towns from Marah, the Waco Brothers, the Go-Go’s, and
The anniversary of Hawaii becoming the 50th state comes at a time when we have an abundance of concern for the island neighbors following the devastating wildfires in Maui. So there was a set of music inspired by the islands, from The Beach Boys and Elvis Presley, naturally, but also Neil Young, The Strokes, Johnny Cash
What turned out to be practically a memoriam edition of Capital Radio began with salutes to David LaFlamme of It’s a Beautiful Day, who died Aug. 6 at 82, and Sixto Rodriguez, the mystery man behind the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” who lived to see how important his 1970s music was to another
Started this week’s show with a salute to Paul Reubens who died a week ago at 70 and played a few tracks from shows I saw last week — from Jason Isbell, Regina Spektor and Aimee Mann among others. Birthdays today included Rashaan Roland Kirk (born this day in 1935), B.J. Thomas (1942), Billie Burke
It was the final pop-up fill-in for The Allison Transmission, which will be thankfully returning to its regular 10 a.m. slot on Monday. And we had a lot of birthdays to cover, from Louis Armstrong, born this day in 1901, to Frankie Ford (1939) and Timi Yuro (1940). We had a handful of familiar examples
Mondays 1pm etHost: Roger Catlin CAPITAL RADIO – 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
