– Steve Winwood – In concert at Manchester Opera House – 1997 – BBC 6 Music – Perennial favorites this weekend. Steve Winwood has been one of the cornerstones of Rock since he first appeared as frontman for The Spencer Davis Group and later as founder of Traffic. In those
More history this weekend – A Belgian Radio recording of a session featuring Orchestre National de Belgique conducted by André Cluytens and featuring pianist Aldo Ciccolini in a performance of Les Djinns by Cesar Franck – the performance was recorded December 19 and 21st 1962 at Palais des Beaux-Arts de
Jonathan Winters in conversation this weekend – one of three guests on the weekly radio program Sunday Night With Mitch Miller which ran on CBS Radio from the late 1950s to early 1960s. It was later called The Mitch Miller Show. This episode ran on July 16, 1961. Winters is
Horace Silver this weekend – with his quintet, featuring Brian Lynch on trumpet, Ralph Moore on tenor sax, Bob Mosley on acoustic bass and Carl Burnett on drums – all recorded during the Edmonton Jazz Festival at Shoctor Theatre in Alberta on August 17, 1984 and preserved for posterity by
Back in the deep-dark past of 2006, when MySpace was the go-to place to discover music, art, writing – virtually everything creative from all over the world, it was an embarrassment of riches as far as new bands and new music was concerned. You could spend hours, even days, plunging
Figures – you almost threw that photo out – crumpled and stepped-on and stuck in a bottom drawer. You wouldn’t have thought twice about it if you didn’t recognize the kid sticking his tongue out. That was you. That was the year you discovered Schlitz and you learned how to
Billy Joel – in concert at Nassau Coliseum – December 11, 1977 – WLIR-FM – Heading into much less frantic territory this weekend with a concert from Billy Joel, recorded at the Nassau Coliseum in New York on December 11, 1977. I ran across this one the other day, and
September 13, 1983 – A world in conflict. In Beirut, Marines were given authority to call for air support in case artillery attacks from Lebanese rebel groups. Earlier in the day, President Reagan extended the Marines authority to defend themselves by allowing them to call for airstrikes against any units
Pond at Primavera Sound to end the week – recorded during the 2017 festival on June 3rd 2017 and preserved live and for posterity by RNE. Pond is often heavily associated with fellow Perth-based psychedelic rock/pop band Tame Impala, as members of both groups are longtime close friends and collaborators.
For everyone who thinks the current situation over Medicare is something new, you’re wrong. The issue of Medicare has been raging since the days long before the FDR administration. The arguments for it are the same – the arguments against it are the same. On May 20, 1962, President Kennedy
