CBS Radio – Time Of Reason – August 31, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Europe in the midst of reconstruction and rejuvenation. Two years after the end of World War 2, a devastated Europe struggled to get back on its feet. Food was scarce, the infrastructure was
Joe Ely (1947-2025) One of the leading figures in Roots Rock and Country Prog. Joe Ely in tribute today. He passed away yesterday from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia at 78. Joe Ely was a leading light in the Texas Progressive Country movement and enjoyed a genre-crossing career, performing
December 16, 1992 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 16, 1992 – The view from Somalia. As US troops landed in the war-torn town of Baidoa, and together with UN Peacekeepers began the process of delivering food supplies to starving locals. Fears of resistance
Nixon And Watergate – Group W Broadcasting – January 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. The scandal which led to an impeachment and the impeachment which led to a resignation. Beginning as a seemingly bungled attempt at breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s
The Clash – the only band that mattered. The Clash to get Monday rolling – recorded live at Shea Stadium on October 13, 1982 and broadcast on December 31st by NBC Radio’s The Source. Along with The Sex Pistols and The Damned, The Clash were some of the first examples
Leon Russell – Slipping Into Christmas – 1972 Leon Russell tonight. Okay – it’s that time of year again. And you are probably getting bombarded by Christmas music. Well . . .maybe not getting bombarded by the right kind of Christmas music. Like last year at my old site, I’ll
December 15, 2000 – World Briefing – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 15, 2000. A day where a lot was going on the world, and much of it, if you lived in the U.S., you missed. And as so often is the case, while we
Paul Sacher (L) – Willy Burkhard (R). -Two leading lights in Swiss Music Back to the Swiss Radio Archives tonight for a performance of Die Schwarze Spinne – Suite by Will Burkhard, performed by the Basel Radio Orchestra, conducted by Paul Sacher from a broadcast of May 16, 1955. Composer
A few words from Tom Wolfe this weekend, from the program Comment in 1971. In the 1960s and early 70s, people who weren’t initially drawn to literature or literary criticism found the writer/journalist Tom Wolfe a wordsmith whose work you couldn’t put down. At a time when literary boundaries were
The John Coltrane Quartet this Sunday – recorded live by Sveriges Radio at the Konserthuset in Stockholm on November 19, 1962. featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones, drums. An artist I don’t post nearly as much as I should, John Coltrane has been such
