Category Archives: Capital Radio

Capital Radio

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

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Capital Radio 6-30: Fireworks and Such

Out traveling, so I haven’t been able to post the last show of June until now. It was dedicated largely to a holiday already passed (though some are still shooting off remaining firecrackers).  But it was also the birthday of, among others, Lena Horne, Stanley Clark, Florence Ballard and Andy Scott (from Sweet, turning 76!). 

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Capital Radio 5-26: Decoration Day

What they used to call Decoration Day was noted on Capital Radio last Monday (posted only now because I’ve been away). But there were two dozen songs about soldiers, war and repercussions of a military-based society.  We began by saluting Miles Davis, born that day in 1926, and had more birthdays later for early blues

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Capital Radio 12-18: Christmas Excess

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

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