Playlists
222 World Music – Roots Music
A nicely varied collection covering East, West, North and South and featuring original artists and music from their localities, some traditional, some incorporating modern updates. Went down well with the cavern audience, and listener numbers were up there with our best, 38 at one point and over 30 the whole way through.
The show gave the presenters many more pronunciation challenges than usual, but the team rose to the task, and I don’t think we called anyone a jam doughnut. As promised, here’s the playlist with all the names spelled as they appeared on the packaging, which has meant some cajoling of WordPress to get the right diacratic symbols.
I did not speak for this show, as I am still recovering from a bad cold, liable to cough or sneeze without warning and generally sound like a badly-maintained door.
088R Hook, Line and Sinker
A second selection of tracks with memorable musical hooks, opening phrases that grab your attention and make you want to Turn It Up.
Peaked at 21 listeners, perhaps affected by it being Mother’s Day in the UK – but nowhere else – and the time change for US listeners caused by Europe and the UK having not gone to DST while the US has. One of these days we’ll stop doing this.
221 Ladies of Jazz
A very nice and laid-back collection of players and singers from the last fifty years, all ladies performing in the jazz genre. Assembled by Hugh, who reckons it’s one of his best, and the team agreed.
220 IWD 2023
Our contribution to International Women’s Day, and fortunately this time we were able to have Root Beer host it, as we do whenever possible.
Some old favourites, and some new tracks too, all performed by women, in most cases written by women and about women.
077R Pink Floyd 3
The third out of four parts for our History, covering Animals and The Wall. Well attended and an enthusiasic crowd on the Plaza discussed ailments, beer, cooking and also the music
219 Ten Years After
Some early Blues-rock for a change, and a band that got a big lift from their appearance at Woodstock, Ten Years After. Guitar speed merchant Alvin Lee was their frontman, and a reputation for really entertaining live shows got them noticed. We looked at their years on the Deram label, covering their biggest successes.
046R Pink Floyd part II
The second part of our four-part History of Pink Floyd, curated by Malaclypse and newly-polished for the occasion. Covering Atom Heart Mother to Wish You Were Here, lots of longish tracks, but plenty to keep the audience interested. 20 connections/listeners for a lot of the show, very encouraging 🙂
218 MOULa Thirteenth Anniversary
Given the laundry list of items associated (by retailers for the most part) with thirteenth anniversaries, it was surprisingly difficult to find enough tracks – so the criteria were widened a bit. Given a list of lace, furs, textiles. Citrine, Opal, Malachite, Moonstone, chrysanthemums and white rose, I allowed a bit of slack to include fabric, weaving, cloth and clothes, all nondescript roses and yellow, since citrine is yellow quartz. That let me assemble a nice set of tracks, with assistance from the stashes of Hugh and Malaclypse, who also assisted with notes.
We had up to 34 connections to the stream, a good number for RFD and very good for any niche Internet radio channel. Our thanks to all our listeners
085R Moula Anniversary
This show is based on our first ever MOULa Anniversary show but with many updates to address the pass of time and the different presenters. Sadly, Malaclypse’s connection failed for reasons we are not yet sure of, and I had to do the show solo. This is something that has not afflicted us for several years now, and is the reason we give a brief warning about it at the start of the show. We had a large gap of silence in the first few minutes, which was regrettable. Good listener numbers despite that, and a good response from the cavern too.
Links to cavern artists :-
Jet Blast
https://www.facebook.com/jetblast50/about/
Turjan (Alain Pachins)
as Aylahn
https://aylahn.bandcamp.com/
Aylahn’s D’marnah blog
https://aylahn.wordpress.com/dmarnah/
as Cialyn
https://cialyn.bandcamp.com/
Krossfire
archive found here
http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/artist/krossfire
Edison Rex – Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/EdisonRex
Piboc (Olivier Maurey)
http://www.age-des-sons.com/
217 Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
A nice set of tracks from a band that, despite it’s several big hits, was never big in the album charts on either side of the Atlantic. Very prog rock in places, but with a good number of big hit singles, which we covered.