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Shirley Songs, Domestic Abuse Songs, Stagger Lee Answer Songs and then we successfully break the radio sound barrier of playing one song per minute...
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:51:03
Starting off with answer songs done by New Orleans musicians then the roots songs covered by Commander Cody and Barrence Whitfield. The rest is my...
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:11:08
Songs that seem like audio derivations of others. From Ellington and Chick Webb to the LIght Crust Dough Boys. From Ernie Vincent's Dap sound to ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 03:33:09
Starting with Richard Berry Sound-Alikes and some of the lesser known Larry Williams songs with a stop for one of the more unusual Louisiana tra...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 02:54:41
Lyrics made of lists, New Orleans music and mostly music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 03:04:01
A Mardi Gras edition with songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Also, songs about shoes other than "Blue Suede Shoes," a bl...
- Added: Feb 12, 2018
- Length: 03:26:20
Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 03:21:51
There is a tremendous amount of current culture that we now call "Americana" that came from the 1950s to 70s era. Something fundamental to definin...
- Added: Jan 14, 2018
- Length: 03:57:17
Other than marinating in water, there's not much similarity between Louisiana Swamp Pop music and California Surf music. Oh yeah, both were featur...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 02:49:42
I need to update my brainware, I broke the station four times during the show. Ehhh. I think it worked out anyway.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 02:55:29
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- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 02:56:51
Substituting for California girl, Peggy Lou, so just songs about the idea fo "California."
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 01:57:35
Late Saturday in the French Quarter music. Songs about "Sittin,"" an autoharp player inspired by Jimi Hendrix, a string harp in a blues song and ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2017
- Length: 03:50:25
A broader range of music to explore the idea that music can be the abstract unspoken common bond in societies when the spoken bonds are fractured b...
- Added: Nov 05, 2017
- Length: 05:24:29
It's not much of a show.
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 01:31:41
A couple songs about rocket ships from two women's groups and variations on the standard, Maybelline. Plus a handful of songs by Billy Lee Riley a...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 03:02:11
Heartfelt feelings about radio surrounded by instrumental songs (on top of lyrics). A nice little set of that other regional music of the Pacific ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 03:49:30
A bunch of mini sets of music including girl groups (without that irritating Phil Spector sound) and girl groups from Detroit (without that pretent...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 02:51:01
Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:50:25
Substituting for Peggy Lou after I cancelled Hurricane Nate. Trying to mimic her light touch and California sensibilities ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 01:31:37
I think this show worked as a deep dive into late Saturday night radio. Starting the night with the novelties of me juggling chopsticks and shoes ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:50:33
Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2017
- Length: 02:52:04
Esoteric and topical enough?
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 04:25:07
The burst of musical creativity from the 1950s to 70s and how the British band successfully marketed Americana to Americans.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 02:48:30
An economic history of New Orleans doesn't involve military statues or big men to build a mythological story and capture the romantic's view of her...
- Added: Aug 28, 2017
- Length: 03:45:50