Sunday 4 March 2018

KSHE Klassics, March 4th, 2018



Quotation du jour ~ Dan Fogelberg: Off in the nether lands/I heard a sound/Like the beating of heavenly wings/And deep in my brain/I can hear a refrain/Of my soul as she rises and sings/Anthems to glory and/Anthems to love and/Hymns filled with early delight/Like the songs that the darkness/Composes to worship the light.

Now this is just plain weird. Remember that last week i was listening from Clifton, New Jersey? This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Manila in The Philippines! I thought that KSHE didn't stream their audio to anywhere outside the USA, but obviously not. Maybe just not to Canada? Odd, too, that the targeted ads weren't in Tagalog. They were the usual ones for America-wide corporations: Walgreen's, ABC-TV, The Home Depot, etc.

It was a good show, too, if maybe not absolutely oh-wow-holy-shit amazing as it can be. Well, it kicked off with a Rorysong, and that's always a good sign. (I wonder if it was a nod towards the fact that it would have been Rory's 70th birthday on Friday? I should Tweet to John (Ulett, the host) and ask.

It was also the first Klassics Show since KSHE's new owners, Hubbard Radio, took over. They have promised not to mess with the station's format. So far, i'm happy. Normally i hate corporate radio – corporate everything, really, but Hubbard is a small Minnesota outfit and i can live with that. It was a seamless listening experience, too – no connection failures at all, no system crashes.

Oh, look, there's the birthday boy:


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Rory Gallagher – Country Mile
Molly Hatchet – Dreams I'll Never See
The Moody Blues – I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock 'N' Roll Band)
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
REO Speedwagon – Music Man
Roger Daltrey – It's A Hard Life / Giving It All Away
Ten Years After – I'd Love To Change The World
B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone
Pousette-Dart Band – Amnesia
Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride
The Spencer Davis Group – I'm A Man
Flash And The Pan – Hey, St Peter
Trooper – Round Round We Go
Trapeze – Black Cloud
The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man
Foghat – Drivin' Wheel
Ambrosia – Time Waits For No One
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah – Lake Shore Drive
Rod Stewart – Handbags And Gladrags
Brownsville Station – The Martian Boogie
Alice Cooper – Hello Hooray
The Band – The Weight
The Animals – It's My Life
Billy Joel – The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
The Atlanta Rhythm Section – I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
David Bowie – The Jean Genie
Budgie – I Ain't No Mountain
The Boomtown Rats – I Don't Like Mondays
Touch – Black Star
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown
Canned Heat – Going Up The Country
Little Feat – Feets Don't Fail Me Now
Blend – The Prize
Jefferson Starship – Stranger
Chilliwack – Fly At Night
Blackfoot – Highway Song
Sammy Hagar – (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

It was a rough week at World Headquarters. Here's what we played to help ease the pain:

The Beatles – Let It Be … Naked
Eliza Carthy – Rough Music
Afrocelt – Volume 3: Further In Time
Poco – Crazy Loving: The Best Of Poco 1975-1982*
The Allman Brothers Band – Brothers And Sisters
Garfield – Out There Tonight
Rory Gallagher – Deuce
John Mayer Trio – Try!
Colin James – Bad Habits
Electric Light Orchestra – Zoom
Jack Bruce – Harmony Row
Steve Earle – Jerusalem
Robin Trower – B.L.T.
Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
Saga – Full Circle
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
The Tea Party – Seven Circles
Whippersnapper – Tsubo
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg – No Resemblance Whatsoever
Martin & Eliza Carthy – The Moral Of The Elephant
Genesis – Foxtrot
Peter Gabriel – Security
Rory Gallagher – BBC Sessions
T. Rex – The Slider
Talking Heads – Remain In Light
Dick Gaughan – Gaughan

*can't really say i'm a huge fan of Poco's, but I adore their song “Rose Of Cimarron.”

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