Radio Free D'ni
Bringing Music to the Cavern
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Yep, it’s Peter Gabriel this Sunday. From his beginnings with Genesis, through the 1990s with some nice live work and world music collaborations. One does not need to be a fan of the man, it will be interesting!
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This week, we will have a look at the Soul/Funk group with horns in it: Tower of Power. Active since 1968 and the two founding members still leading the band, they are not exactly a hit factory, but have left a hefty footprint in the fabric of Rock, among other things by lending out their…
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Singer-songwriter-guitarist and occasional actor James Taylor will be featured this week. Come for the Carole King song that made him an item, stay for his string of major hits from 30 years later!
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Actually, that’s in the eighties, as we will be looking at his output in that decade. The bad news is, it’s the 1980s. The good news is, he paid for an actual drummer.
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This week, we’ll have A Night at the Opera Musical Theatre, featuring the music of Steven Sondheim.
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This week’s theme is the odd track out—bits that are so far away from an artist’s regular output that they should, by all standards, have been by another aritst.
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This week, we’ll look at the work of the much-acclaimed writer of multi-dimensional and canine hits, as well as her own recordings. She was a bit under-appreciated during her lifetime. We’ll hear how her work holds up in these times.
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This week, we will listen to what happens when bands decide to harmonize. That includes both historic and recent attempts at making the audience believe that the band’s members are not, in fact, going at one another with fists and knives when not posing for publicity pictures. And a few examples of bands already good…
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A wide variety of live takes from various genres, eras, areas and venues is this week’s theme.
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This week’s offering showcases cases of interesting instruments—that is, instruments one would not normally associate with the genre of music they are being used in. Come for the oboe and cello, and stay on for the bass harmonica and the bagpipes…