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Actually, yes it is. Easy Listening, that is, back for a second show this week.

No, not that one. We’re talking about Jackson Browne. While he has not been much of a chart presence by himself, as a songwriter, he has helped populate the Billboart top 20 since the early 1970s and continues to do so to this day. Though we’re more concerned with the man himself in this show,…

This week, we will have a collection of songs about, well, secrets and lies. That’s it. That’s the whole theme. But don’t tell anyone…

This week’s show is all about what happens when you take a piece of wood, attach another piece of wood, and connect one end with the other with a few wires. Yes, you’ve got it pegged. It’s about guitars! No words needed. This is guitar instrumentals.

That’s Jerry Donahue. You may not have heard of him, but you almost certainly have heard him, being as he is a prolific session guitarist, aside from his gigs as a Hellecaster or with Fairport Convention.

You know Sunshine Pop. You know the bits that crossed over into psychedelia. Well, some of them, anyway. And you probably have heard all the big hits somewhere and somewhen on the radio. This weekend, we’ll play the bits you (most likely) didn’t hear.

Or, for the unmetric, 100 miles. Or Miles at 100. In other words, we will be celebrating the work of Miles Davis in the week of what would have been his 100th birthday!

Well, you don’t really have to. This week’s offering takes a look at, well, Funk. The thing that came out of the comingling of Psychedelic, Prog and Soul at the end of the 60s and pretty much dominated the 70s, during which decade it got usurped by Disco. We are, however, not looking at the…

Before there even was a transistor, there already were electronic musical (and some less-than-musical) instruments, and attempts to otherwise make music or something similar using electronic processing. Looking back from the post-DX7 era, the early history of electronic instruments is quite fascinating and starts a few decades earlier than most would likely expect. So, this…

The Vikings didn’t do it. Nor did a certain Genovese merchantman. Or the Polynesians. Anyway, Columbus never set foot on the continent and to his death claimed that the Caribbean was India. Others have looked for it, though, which can be somewhat confusing because most of them were already there. Anyway, that’s who we’ll be…