Playlists
137R Dave Pegg 2
A second show to complete our run through the career of Dave Pegg, heavy on Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull, but also featuring quite a few of his many notable collaborations, along with some solo stuff.
The postshow began with a 2022 track from the new Jethro Tull album, The Zealot Gene, rather apposite for today. Yes, Ian Anderson has reformed a Jethro Tull, despite having very publically disbanded it a while ago.
261 Van Morrison part 1
A two-part collection assembled by Hugh,with part 1 containing early stuff from Them, live tracks from the middle of his career, and tracks from the last eight years of his output – and he’s still active.
Some technical difficulties hit us during the show, and the stream dropped at one point. 22 listeners max, with 15 coming back and holding on till the end.
133R Dave Pegg part 1
The first part of a two-part show on Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull fame, and we included some of his session work too. A smaller audience than usual, left us a bit puzzled. Surely not everybody is out being political in America?
260 Transports of Delight: Boats.
A great show, concentrating on boats as a means of transport, with contributions from Hugh and Malaclypse and assembled by myself. For some reason the audience was slow to build and didn’t reach our usual numbers – perhaps the end of Summer had everyone laid out? Peak listeners 15, so not that bad.
131R Miles Davis – the CBS Years.
Some preshow worries with Malaclypse’s hardware, but a quick bit of rewiring and we managed to make it on air amd the show was well received as a cool piece for a Sunday. Miles may have approved of that.
259 Jazz Now
A collection of recent releases (2020 – 2024) in the jazz genre, a selection picked by our resident experts Hugh and Nigel. Some lovely music, well appreciated by our audience too. Look up these bands if you like what we played.
132R Chicago part II
Covering the period from their recovery from the death of Terry Kath onwards, there were a lot of changes to go through and some lacklustre albums too. Hugh had selected the best tracks, and we updated the show with two tracks from the latest album Chicago XXXVIII: Born For This Moment, released in 2022.
258 The Sky’s the Limit
A great set of tracks put together by Hugh around the subject of the sky. Lots of slower stuff and a wide variety of styles, but all great music and well liked by our audience, which grew to 31 at one point and stayed at 28 for a long while. Very happy with that.
The Michael Feinstein track Skywriting was cut short in the main show, and the full track was added to the postshow. My fault, a bad reformatting of the wma original by Audacity.
130R Chicago part 1
A selection of tracks from the celebrated jazz-rock-pop band Chicago, going up to the eleventh studio album just before the death of Terry Kath. I’m a big fan of early Chicago, no surprise as I’m a jazz fan from way back, and I had a lot of input to this show – the second show is mostly Hugh. 23 listeners peak, a good number, for which we thank you.
Since I talked a lot about the covers, I’ve linked images of them to the album names. The ones we missed out are Chicago at Carnegie Hall, which is number 4 in the sequence (White Tile), and Chicago IX – Chicago’s Greatest Hits (Painted Billboard)
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257 Transports of Delight: Planes
Planes and the occasional spaceship featured in this show, which went together really well, and attracted up to 20 listeners, and some nice compliments from the cavern audience.