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
The end of November brings the darkest days of the year, with sunset hereabouts approaching 4:45 p.m. Our show nearly stretched to that mark, starting with 13 tracks about the 11th month, from Tom Waits to The Avett Brothers. That gave way to songs about darkness — and there were a lot from Simon &
The impending holiday brings “Almost Thanksgiving Day” and a slew of songs spelling out gratitude, from Sam & Dave to Big Star, Talking Heads to Leonard Cohen. Birthdays were celebrated of Joe Walsh, turning 76 today; as well as Meredith Monk, Norman Greenbaum and Joe Biden— each of whom are turning 81 (One worry regarding
A year after Bob Dylan issued his book “Philosophy of Modern Song” that mused on dozens of songs over the years, Jeff Tweedy takes a similar stab with his new “World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life, and Life that Changed my Music.” We played about half of 50 songs Tweedy wrote about
The end of Daylight Savings brought some songs about time, time, time. Then it was all about the vaunted “last song from The Beatles,” the cobbled-together “Here and Now.” You’ve heard the finished product, but what about the other version from a Seattle band that came out a couple months ago? Plus songs titled “Now
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
