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the Allison transmission 09.19.23

if synesthesia is seeing the color or shape of sound , what’s the word for the mechanism that makes some music tasty and other music distasteful? for me , being spoonfed the same thing over and over certainly gives even music I love a bitter aftertaste. freeform radio…streaming…like the old days…mistakes intact…surprises possible. that’s what

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Capital Radio 9-18: P.F. Sloan and More

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

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the Allison transmission Trapper Dave edition 09.18.23

there are seasonal truths with which we must deal…the way too early opening of hallowe’en pop-ups, pumpkin spice everything and the quarterly return of trapper dave calabrese. we actually look forward the last of these three perenials . as trapper wrests the controls of the transmission on monday at 10am the allison transmission-made fresh daily

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the Allison transmission (guts)

a bonus narrowcast package airing at 9 am monday. the wayback and reale-ity radio and other nonsense will be available an hour earlier than usual. and archived? well, I guess, yes the allison transmission-made fresh daily cygnusradio.com Chick A Boom Boom Boom (featuring David “Fathead” Newman) Mocean Worker Sound Of Love David Sancious & Tone

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the loco archives 09.17.23

this sunday (09.17) at noonish on cygnusradio.com’s loco archives show, two great shows from the 34 plus year history of thelocalbandsshow as aired on wplr…original commercials, concert calendar and your hosts the one and only james velvet and rick allison part one aired September 17th 2006 You’ll hear :James velvet…bad spectrum…spike priggen…hello strangers…t v neats…the

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Random Rock Records September 16, 2023

Hugo Montenegro, The SharkThe Children, Dreaming SlaveBitter Blood Street Theatre, Feline WomanEdent’s Children, Don’t Tell MeBetter Daze, There’s A TimeMashmakahn, Come AgainChob, We’re Pretty QuickBob Seger System, Innervenus EyesMacondo, Get It On GirlMike Johnson, Velvet PrinceFields, While The Sun Still ShinesSir Douglas Quintet, It’s The Man Down ThereBarefoot Jerry, That’s OK He’ll Be Your Brother

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