Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Helsinki Phil. Concert – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: Helsinki Phil. Concert – Part 2 Over to Finland this week for a concert by The Helsinki Philharmonic, conducted by Olari Elts
Click on the link here for Audio Player: TBoneWalker1967-09-16MontereyJazzFestivalCA Tonight it’s the Original/One-And-Only/Accept-No-Substitutes T-Bone Walker, in concert at The Monterey Jazz Festival, recorded September 16, 1967. T-Bone Walker was probably one of the most influential and pioneering artists to straddle the worlds of Jazz and Blues in the 1940’s all
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Daily Bread in Session at 3FM Feb. 2, 2013 Something a bit different tonight. Daily Bread are a Dutch band who describe themselves alternately as Electropunk and Sexy Garage Dance. Together since 2009, they are getting ready to release their second album
Taking a break this week from our perusal of French Radio transcriptions for another dose of Americana, this time by way of Roy Harris, a composer whose work and recognition have been pretty much limited down to one symphony of late – but a composer whose work needs serious revisiting
A buck here, a buck there – it adds up: Become a Patron! Keeping the Americana theme going tonight with a portion of a concert given in Amsterdam by the sadly neglected, maligned and overlooked Moby Grape. Recorded by VPRO (the Pop Music wing of Radio Nederland), on February 12,
Click on the link here for Audio Player: LeonRussell1971-02-05CastleGroeneveldBaarnHolland Some enduring Americana tonight by way of Leon Russell (and The Shelter People), recorded on February 5, 1971 by VPRO in Holland. This was around the time (1970) Leon Russell exploded on the scene as part of the Mad Dogs &
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for February 15, 1971 – Laos Invasion Not bad enough public opinion railed against U.S. involvement in Cambodia in 1970, in 1971 the war now extended to Laos with U.S. and South Vietnamese troops crossing the border into Laotian territory amid
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1 – Frankfurt Radio Symphony – Part 1. Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2 – Frankfurt Radio Symphony – Part 2 Over to Paris this week for a concert by The Frankfurt Radio Symphony, conducted
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Strypes – Live At BBC Maida Vale – Feb. 10, 2013 I found this hard to believe at first. The Strypes are an Irish four-piece, firmly in the retro-Hard Rock/Blues mold. Guitar legend Jeff Beck is a huge fan, and is
Click on the link here for Audio Player: LBJ – State of The Union – 1965 This is the second State of The Union Address by President Lyndon Johnson, delivered on January 4, 1965. His address for 1964 laid the groundwork for the sweeping changes he was proposing by declaring
