Voices In The Wind – Oscar Brand (L) – Odetta (Upper Right Corner) Robert Penn Warren (Center) Garson Kanin (Lower Right Corner) – just one episode. Somebody once told me our society was doomed once we stopped being curious. Curious about people, about places, about events, about the day-to-day. When
The ECM All-Stars (Jack DeJohnette -Top left – Collin Walcott (Top right) – Dave Holland (Right center) – John Abercrombie (Center center) – Steve Kuhn (Center – right) – Ralph Towner (Bottom Right) – Summit meeting at The Village Gate. Diving into some celebration this weekend – the ECM All-Stars
– NBC Radio – New World: Comic Books – July 1, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the 50s galloped on, and as the Cold War brought with it a certain fear, paranoia and fatalist look at life, our entertainment started taking on that general tone of dissatisfaction, rebellion
The Replacements – live in Chicago – July 4, 1991 – WXRT-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Replacements in concert this weekend. Recorded in Chicago on July 4, 1991 via the band’s soundboard. The Replacements, the band that Sire Records President once said: “when they’re good, they’re very,
It was all so routine; matter-of-fact – fait accompli. A Primary election – votes were counted. Robert Kennedy had enough votes to win the nomination at the convention in Chicago later on that summer. It was his victory and it was his night. Supporters, field workers; all the people who
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing; forever imbedded in our minds. Dire Straits to end the work-week -recorded no October 19, 1978 at Stadtshouwburg, Rotterdam, and broadcast by VPRO, Hilversum. In 1978, with everything else going on; music heading in the direction of loud, snotty and beer-soaked, along comes a
Robert Kennedy Assassination – KFWB/Group W – Los Angeles 7:45-8:45 am – June 5, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 5, 1968 – 58 years ago today. Most people woke up on this morning to the horrifying news that Robert Kennedy had been shot shortly after delivering a
Boygenius to put us in the direction of the weekend – recorded at the BBC’s fabled Maida Vale studios on November 2023. Boygenius is an American indie rock supergroup consisting of American singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. They debuted with their self-titled EP in 2018, and then returned
– NPR – National Town Meeting – Investigating The CIA – December 5, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seems National Security, Surveillance, The CIA and overdoing it have been matters of concern for a long time. In the 1970s there was that matter of involvement in overthrowing elected governments
Lunch with The Cars, this Friday Junior – recorded on June 18, 1978 at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland and broadcast by WMMS-FM. The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Music critic Robert Palmer of The
