Trashcan Sinatras – Live at Knuckleheads Saloon – Kansas City, Mo. – October 14, 2007 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Trashcan Sinatras for a Thursday night. I remember when I first heard their debut album Cake in 1990. The first thing that struck me was how fresh the lyric
July 19, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 19, 1951 – In Korea, more talks of truce talks – more bending, negotiating, compromising – the nature of getting two sides to sit down at one table. It was looking like
July 18, 2005 – CNN Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 18, 2005 – 13 years ago it was about sentencing domestic terrorists and quickly approaching hurricanes. Life in prison was the sentence for domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph for bombing a Women’s clinic in Birmingham Alabama in
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros – Live at Glastonbury 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros in what was one of their first live gigs, at Glastonbury in 1999. Having only gotten together in June of that year – this set at Glasto took place on
Phil Wilson – in session for Janice Long – 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – Phil Wilson in solo session tonight. As founding member of The June Brides (I ran their 1985 session earlier this past week), Wilson went the solo route after the band broke up in 1986. In
July 16, 1992 – Ross Perot Drops Out Of Presidential Election Bid – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 16, 1992 – Ross Perot, remember him? If you around, this day in 1992 you certainly did. You heard all about him. He was the self-made Billionaire-businessman-turned-Presidential-Hopeful who pledged to “shake
Composer at the keyboard – American composer/conductor Morton Gould in an album of his own compositions – recorded for Decca Records in 1940.
July 13, 1981 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 13, 1981 – On this side of the Atlantic it was the uproar over Mediterranean Fruit Flies – on that side of the Atlantic it was about Long, Hot summers and Britain under
