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No, not that Alice. We’re talking about that band from Phoenix. You know, Alice Cooper? Well, anyway, that band with Vincent Furnier as frontman. Who later legally adopted the name of the band, Alice Cooper. But we’ll get to that in the show.

Well, Alan Hull, that is. The singer-songwriter and frontman of english folk-rockers Lindisfarne, whose influence has been compared to the likes of Richard Thompson and Ray Davies. We’ll cover both his band and solo careers.

Imagine starting a Blues band, having a major Beat hit, going into psychedelic, creating one of the first concept albums, going full Prog Fusion including a crossover classical/Rock album, taking a short break, and starting into the next decade with a major synthpop hit. Sounds busy? Well… this week’s featured band did it all, and…

Well, it may not be easy being green, but this week it will be easy to listen as we take a shot at the somewhat wobbly-ly defined genre of Easy Listening. Often pigeonholed as “elevator music,” it actually really is not (the frequency-gated drizzle one hears in elevators and similar places is usually called Muzak,…

This week, we will have a look at the band that fell apart before parts of it fell into Bad Company. Well, it fell together again after its first falling apart, for a bit. It’s all a bit complicated. But feel Free to listen in!

This week we will take a look at the work of Jefferson Airplane the band, not the defunct airplane manufacturer of whose existence the band had not even heard when they picked their name. To be clear, we’re looking at Jefferson Airplane, not the three similarly-named bands former members thereof would later form. That out…

Actually, Robben Ford is the topic of tonight’s show, the versatile Blues, Jazz and Rock guitarist with only one face, but lots of versatility. We’ll take you across his solo and band work as well as some of his extensive sessions for and with other artists.

No, that is not to insinuate that this particular John Williams had anything to do with the James Bond series of films. Rather we are talking about the Australian classical guitarist Jazz drummer Jazz bassist drummer saxophonist singer—sorry. Orchestral music, right? The American pianist classical conductor violinist composer, film scorer and conductor, John Williams. Not…

We have been a bit heavy on the topics lately, so we’ll just have a set of danceable bits this week. Bring your heavy-duty shoes!

This week, we’ll look at the common factor involved in Vinegar Joe and The Power Station. And what he did on his own. And what all of that has to do with Little Feat.