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
Emmanuel Macron’s decisive win for French president over his right wing opponent is all it took to celebrate France, Paris and the French language for an hour or so. When you’re playing French pop, I learned very quickly, there’s no getting away from Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy. Then, building off of a past show
Tax Day meant songs about the nation’s least favorite occasion, from the Beatles, Charley Patton, Sharon Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Paycheck, among others. Then a meditation on money itself, from Elmore James to the Pet Shop Boys with Lefty Frizzell, The Notorious B.I.G. Randy Newman and of course, Barrett Strong. Noted the birthday of
Saw Santana the other day, so played a few of their classics. Remembered a bit of the work of Bobby Rydell, who died last week at 79. But mostly played a lot of songs regarding Easter, from Patti Smith Group to Jefferson Airplane and a couple of takes from Bob Dylan, who tends to have
Ah, April is here, and so we hear about it from Deep Purple, Ron Sexsmith, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin. Just as important, baseball’s Opening Day is Thursday, so there was a lot of songs about the game, from a 1908 reading of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (with extra verses) to Chuck Berry,
