KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, March 29th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was back in Cheney, Kansas. I'm not quite sure how i got there, though, as the Canada / U.S. Border is now closed to all but essential travel. Maybe i'm essential!]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Kenny Rogers: I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

It could be my imagination, but it seemed to me that there were fewer ads and a lot more music on today's program. This would make sense, i suppose, as a lot of the Klassics Show's advertisers are concert halls (all now closed) and restaurants and bars (open only for take-out and delivery these days). Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot of great music. I'm grading the show an “A+” because the inclusion of Dan Fogelberg automatically makes it that, but really, without Dan i don't think i could have gone much higher than “B.”

There were some big problems. I don't dislike Grand Funk Railroad but their song today – which wasn't about gay sex (I Can Feel Him In The Morning sung by a man?) but rather a musing upon God in general and war-is-hell in particular – was downright cringe-worthy. I'm on record as stating that, after about 1966, The Animals (under the leadership of wanker-in-chief Eric Burdon) produced some pretty embarrassing schtuff – like this morning's dreadful track. And Peter Frampton ... well, jeez. I liked his work with Humble Pie but solo? I must be one of the few people of my generation (i.e., old as fuck) who does not own a copy of Frampton Comes Alive. He was a good guitarist for sure but his solo work is just too cliché-ridden and tedious. (I'm expecting a load of rotting cabbages to be flung my way because of that statement, btw.)

There was, as usual, a lot of really enjoyable but far from brilliant music. I'd include Gypsy, Michael Stanley, Ambrosia and Starz in that list, and who the heck is/was Bill Quateman? Also, disappointingly, there was nothing by some of the program's regulars, like Elton John, Jackson Browne, Steely Dan or Billy Joel.

There were a few magical moments, of course: the entire 17-minute version of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” was a wonderful surprise; my all-time fave April Wine song; Jethro Tull and Robin Trower and ELO and Manfred Mann.... A great song by Poco i'd never heard before. It's always lovely to hear early Tull, Robin Trower and Manfred Mann – whose band must be one of the greatest interpreters of Springsteen ever. (And of Bob Dylan, too, for that matter.)

Still the highlight of my week, and here's a pic of opening act Gregg Allman (R.I.P.), and the playlist:

Gregg Allman – Come And Go Blues

Poco – Company's Coming / Slowpoke

Robert Palmer – Give Me An Inch Girl

Gypsy – Dead And Gone

Dan Fogelberg – Missing You

Asia – Here Comes The Feeling

Michael Stanley Band – Misery Loves Company

Grand Funk Railroad – I Can Feel Him In The Morning

Robbie Robertson – Showdown At Big Sky

Phil Collins – I Don't Wanna Know

Montrose – I Got The Fire

Bruce Springsteen – I'm A Rocker

Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do

Charlie – Johnny Hold Back

UFO – Lights Out

Jethro Tull – Nothing Is Easy

Kansas – Fight Fire With Fire

.38 Special – You Keep Runnin' Away

Starz – She's Just A Fallen Angel

Ambrosia – No Big Deal

Dave Mason – Only You Know And I Know

Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Jesse Colin Young – Ridgetop

The Alan Parsons Project – I'd Rather Be A Man

The Beatles – I Need You

Sammy Hagar – Run For Your Life / Danger Zone

The Animals – San Franciscan Nights

April Wine – Say Hello

Jefferson Starship – Mary

The Electric Light Orchestra – Roll Over Beethoven

Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Spirits In The Night

Robin Trower – Victims Of The Fury

Bill Quateman – Shot In The Dark

Roger Daltrey – It's A Hard Life / Giving It All Away

Dire Straits – Skateaway

It was the first full week of the closing of civilization (as we know it) so i was flailing about a bit with no professional help when i chose my own personal playlist. Here it is and obviously an amateur job. And it's another long list, thanks to self-isolating. I was okay with the music and the social distancing, though, as i'm not that social at the best of times:

Free – Tons Of Sobs

Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig

Rocket 88 – Rocket 88

King Crimson – Thrak

Trees – The Garden Of Jane Delawney

Rob Hyman et al – Largo

The Lovemongers – Battle Of Evermore (EP)

The Electric Light Orchestra – The Lost Planet

Ian Anderson – Homo Erraticus

The Albion Country Band – Battle Of The Field

The Beatles – Love

Steeleye Span – Please To See The King

Blodwyn Pig – Getting To This

Players – Players

Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back

The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies

Wishbone Ash – Argus

Yes – Union

Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers

Lindisfarne – The Very Best Of Lindisfarne

Dan Fogelberg – The Innocent Age

Peter Hammill – Thin Air

Natalie Maines – Mother

The Cure – Greatest Hits

Steve Earle – El Corazón

The Beatles – Let It Be

Jeff Beck – Emotion & Commotion

French Frith Kaiser Thompson – Live, Love, Larf & Loaf

Fish – A Feast Of Consequences

Curved Air – Air Conditioning

Siouxsie And The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

Sandie Shaw – The Very Best Of Sandie Shaw

Cat Stevens – The Very Best Of Cat Stevens

Mike Oldfield – Islands

Max Webster – Max Webster

Seether – Holding Onto Strings Better Left To Fray

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – Live Alive

Rory Gallagher – Check Shirt Wizard: Live In '77

Caro Emerald – The Shocking Miss Emerald

Terje Rypdal – Odyssey

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, March 22nd, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was back in Cheney, Kansas – where i was becoming a regular at China's Bar & Grill, but of course it, along with almost everything else, was closed thanks to coronavirus. I had to pack a lunch.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Mark Twain: Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

A grade of “A+” is inevitable this week. As you probably know, such a grade is automatic whenever Uman (i.e., John Ulett, the host) plays either Rory Gallagher or Dan Fogelberg and Dan was here but even without him there was so much fabulous music – and nothing annoying – that that rating would have been merited regardless. I have often stated that this radio show is the highlight of my week. After the week we have just had, with everything shutting down, thousands of people now out of work and everyone in fear, slipping and falling and landing in mud would have been a highlight. And yes, i did that on Thursday. This was a lot better.

Just in the first hour alone there were several much-loved numbers. Overall, there were for sure a few songs that i'd be hard-pressed to rate as brilliant. Michael Stanley, for example, whose music i enjoy but who would never make it onto any top-100 list chez moi. And what about the group Alexis? Even the host admitted that they were a one-hit wonder and that their song wasn't even that big a hit. It was all right, but nothing more.

Then we had almost every single performer in my list of fave classic-rock artists: Tull, Neil Young, Yes, Hendrix, The Kinks, Jackson Browne, Genesis (not the Peter Gabriel version, but that's okay), Rod Stewart when he was still relevant, Chicago when they were still relevant.... The list goes on. I couldn't possibly pick a favourite song from today's show, but it was amazing to hear the full, seven minute version of Fleetwood Mac's “Oh Well.” Gad, i love this program!

Here's a curious instance of synchronicity: my friend Tommy, who used to be the overnight man at KSHE until they eliminated that position a few years ago (the overnight deejay on almost every radio station in the world has been replaced by some dude called Otto Mation) and now works as morning man at KRRR in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was talking about Paul Kossoff, the brilliant but doomed lead guitarist in Free and Back Street Crawler, a couple of days ago. He suggested that i should email Uman and ask to hear some of his music on The Klassics Show. I jokingly replied that i'd Tweet him instead. I didn't get around to it, but what did he play this morning? A song by Crawler, which is what Back Street Crawler became after Koss's tragic demise. I'm not sure how relevant this is to anything but it's kinda cosmic tra la.

Anyhoo, here's a pic of Paul Kossoff, and the playlist:

Jethro Tull – The Whistler

Jackson Browne – For Everyman

Yes – Wonderous Stories

The Grateful Dead – Friend Of The Devil

The Climax Blues Band – Hey Mama

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing

Dave Mason – Look At You Look At Me

Neil Young – Cowgirl In The Sand

The Clash – Lost In The Supermarket

The Kinks – Destroyer

Genesis – Man On The Corner

Todd Rundgren – Can We Still Be Friends

Firefall – Mexico

The Michael Stanley Band – Hearts On Fire

Lou Gramm – Midnight Blue

Rod Stewart – Handbags And Gladrags

Janis Joplin – Move Over

Chicago – I'm A Man

The J. Geils Band – Musta Got Lost

Charlie – L.A. Dreamer

Steve Hackett – Narnia

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Lookin' Out For #1

Alexis – Fly By Night

John Parr – Naughty Naughty

Roy Buchanan – Can I Change My Mind

The Rolling Stones – Neighbours

Gypsy – Don't Get Mad (Get Even)

Ambrosia – Nice Nice Very Nice

Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue

Stanley Clarke – Rock 'N' Roll Jelly

Jesse Colin Young – California Child

Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well

Dan Fogelberg – Face The Fire

Canned Heat – On The Road Again

Steely Dan – The Caves Of Altamira

The Stabilizers – One Simple Thing

Nantucket – Quite Like You

Kansas – People Of The South Wind

The Beatles – The Night Before

Crawler – Sail On

Loverboy -- Jump

Thanks to the coronavirus-related shutdown of both of my usual clinics (a.k.a. pubs, taverns, inns, alehouses, taprooms, whatevers) (along with almost everything else) on Tuesday, i was forced to come up with my personal playlist for the week almost single-handedly. Although i'm a rank amateur, i don't think i did too badly, although sandwiching Kiri Te Kanawa between The Doobie Brothers and Court Yard Hounds maybe wasn't the best idea i've ever had. It's also a long list because, well, with the “clinics” all shut, i've been doing a lot of self-isolating:

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame

James Taylor – Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon

The Doobie Brothers – One Step Closer

Kiri Te Kanawa – French Opera Arias

Court Yard Hounds – Court Yard Hounds

Elbow – Little Fictions

Jethro Tull – A Passion Play

The Kinks – Everybody's In Show-Biz

Mark Knopfler – Sailing To Philadelphia

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

Richard & Linda Thompson – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight

Barbra Streisand – The Broadway Album

Kate Bush – The Sensual World

Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Paula Cole – Revolution

10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe

Roy Wood – Mustard

The Hooters – Hooterization: A Retrospective

Wings – Band On The Run

Jane Siberry – A World Without Music

Bill Bruford – One Of A Kind

Eliza Gilkyson – Land Of Milk And Honey

Various Artists – Hard Cash

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

James Taylor – James Taylor

Bruce Springsteen – The Rising

Marc Jordan – Mannequin

Linda Ronstadt – Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

Roy Wood Wizzo Band – Super Active Wizzo

Richard Thompson – Henry The Human Fly

Renaissance – Novella

The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies

Radiohead – OK Computer

Sheryl Crow – Threads

Various Artists – Big Blue Ball

The Doobie Brothers – Farewell Tour

Various Artists – Songs Of Our Native Daughters

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release

Alan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, March 15th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from somewhere i've never been before: Dearing, Kansas (pop. 395).]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Ian Rankin: I am, of course, a frustrated rock star. I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

The coronavirus impacted the Klassics Show this week – along with practically everything else, of course! Today's was originally supposed to be a live broadcast from Syberg's restaurant on Gravois Ave. (https://sybergs.com/locations/gravois/), but St Louis County has prohibited gatherings of over 250 people and the station was expecting far more than that, so.... Perhaps when COVID-19 has run its course, they will re-schedule. Further, it's the Sunday before St Patrick's Day, and, traditionally Uman plays a disproportionate amount of Irish classic rock on the program: Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, Horslips, etc., but, as the St Patrick's Day parades and celebrations have been cancelled all over the region, there was none of that today. Well, okay, there was U2, but they don't count as i can't stand Bono and his guitarist – what's his name? The Rasp or The Hedge or something....

In fact, the U2 number was probably this morning's only really annoying song, although i do feel that the CSNY comeback album was a disaster waiting to happen. Otherwise, though, everything was great. We had Dan Fogelberg (and one of my favourites of his songs – about one of my favourite American states) and that automatically means a grade of “A+” but i think that grade would have been merited either way.

I have often suggested, usually facetiously, that the Klassics Show is the highlight of my week, but in this past week full of false information, panic buying (the toilet paper apocalypse, tcha!) and apprehension, i'm thinking it may be the literal truth this time. Here's the playlist. Stay safe, everyone, keep calm, be kind to each other and wash your hands.

Jefferson Starship – Stranger

The Doobie Brothers – It Keeps You Runnin'

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'

Lake – Time Bomb

George Harrison – Sue Me, Sue You Blues

Kansas – It Takes A Woman's Love (To Make A Man)

Rainbow – Street Of Dreams

The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today

The Grateful Dead – Estimated Prophet

Steely Dan – Everyone's Gone To The Movies

Dan Fogelberg – Illinois

The Beatles – I'm A Loser

The Charlie Daniels Band – In America

The Little River Band – It's A Long Way There

Randy Meisner – Deep Inside My Heart

The Who – Athena

The Cars – It's All I Can Do

The Electric Light Orchestra – Poker

Utopia – Love In Action

The Marshall Tucker Band – Ramblin'

The Rolling Stones – It's All Over Now

Manfred Mann's Earthband – Don't Kill It Carol

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – American Dream

Blind Faith – Had To Cry Today

Sammy Hagar -- 20^th Century Man

Nantucket – California

Jay Ferguson – Shakedown Cruise

Robert Palmer – Every Kinda People

Eddie Money – Get A Move On

U2 – Two Hearts Beat As One

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced?

Yes – Tempus Fugit

Pete Townshend – Let's See Action

Giuffria – Call To The Heart

Wings – Magneto & Titanium Man

Gerry Rafferty – Right Down The Line

Boz Scaggs – Dinah Flo

Hellfield – Too Long

Black Sabbath – Fairies Wear Boots

My four different bartenders, oops, i mean, occupational therapists, ordered me to play these albums this week – just as a precautionary measure:

The Doobie Brothers – Minute By Minute

Vince Guaraldi – The Very Best Of Vince Guaraldi

The John Renbourn Group – Live In America

Paul Simon – In The Blue Light

Donovan – Neutronica

Rory Gallagher – Check Shirt Wizard: Live In '77

Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Real Deal: Greatest Hits 2

Camper Van Beethoven – Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

Cat Stevens – Tea For The Tillerman

The Keef Hartley Band – The Battle Of North West Six

The Oyster Band – Step Outside

Wolfscote – Turn The Glass

The Mothers Of Invention – Uncle Meat

Van der Graaf Generator – Trisector

Rod Stewart – A Night On The Town

Rush – Roll The Bones

Wizzard – Wizzard Brew

Colin James – Miles To Go

Various Artists – Mozart: Musical Masterpieces

Max Webster – The Best Of Max Webster

Rush – Vapor Trails

Fairport Convention – Shuffle And Go

Jethro Tull – Aqualung

The Kinks – Sleepwalker

David Lindley – El Rayo-X

Elvis Costello – This Year's Model

Green Day -- ¡Uno!

Donovan – The Hurdy Gurdy Man

Peter Hammill – Chameleon In The Shadows Of The Night

The Kinks – Lola vs Powerman And The Money-Go-Round

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, March 8th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Cheney, Kansas, again.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Pete Townshend: When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was colour and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

If it hadn't been for the Dan Fogelberg song – which automatically means a grade of “A+” -- this week's edition would have been a tough one to rate. Honestly, i don't think i could have gone much higher than “B+”. There were some songs that i love, certainly: great schtuff by Steely Dan, The Kings, The Kinks, The Allman Bros., The Beatles and Pete Townshend and a few others; my all-time favourite Elvin Bishop song; probably the last great Supertramp tune, and a wonderful song by The Animals before their singer, Eric Burdon, became a self-serving, posturing bellend.

But then there was (ugh) Blood, Sweat & Tears and lord they destroyed that lovely Laura Nyro song. I liked a lot of BS&T's debut album, but then Al Kooper quit and David-Clayton Thomas took over as lead vocalist and they became unlistenable (at least to me). (I met D-CT once and i thought he was a complete – pardon my language, vicar – arsehole, but lest you think that my opinion of him as a man colours my opinion of his music, it ain't true – i liked a lot of the music he was making when he was based in Toronto, both solo and with his group The Shays.)

Overall, though, the problem was that there was too much music that was “merely” nice and not enough that was exceptional. I like “Dear Diary” by The Moody Blues, for instance, but you'll never convince me that it's one of their better numbers.

Here's the list and a picture of the world-famous Cheney Reservoir:

Willie Nile – It's All Over

Ambrosia – Livin' On My Own

Bob Dylan – Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Steely Dan – Black Cow

Frank Marino – Strange Dreams

Todd Rundgren – Love Of The Common Man

The Kings – This Beat Goes On / Switchin' To Glide

The Kinks – Sleepwalker

Charlie Daniels – Trudy

The Allman Brothers Band – Whipping Post

Poco – Blue Water

Blood, Sweat & Tears – And When I Die

Roy Harper – The Game

Gamma – Voyager

The Beatles – No Reply

Rod Stewart – Blondes (Have More Fun)

John Mellencamp – China Girl

Bob Welch – Hot Love, Cold World

Pete Townshend – And I Moved

Bob Seger – If I Were A Carpenter

The Animals – It's My Life

Dan Fogelberg – Aspen / These Days

The Little River Band – Statue Of Liberty

The Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia

Jethro Tull – Sossity, You're A Woman

The Marshall Tucker Band – This Ol' Cowboy

Peter Gabriel – Red Rain

Elvin Bishop – Travelin' Shoes

The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band – Trouble In Paradise

Molly Hatchet – Fall Of The Peacemakers

Supertramp – It's Raining Again

Santana – Hold On

The Moody Blues – Dear Diary

Robin Trower – I'm Out To Get You

Atlanta Rhythm Section – Neon Nites

I visited clinics four times this week: Bentley's once and Crabby Joe's thrice. Here are the albums my therapists told me to put under the laser. They really helped, too!

Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands

The Oyster Band – Step Outside

Rhiannon Giddens – There Is No Other

Cat Stevens – Buddha And The Chocolate Box

A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea

Wendy Carlos – Clockwork Orange

Court Yard Hounds – Amelita

Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown

The Beatles – Help!

Florence + The Machine – High As Hope

Rory Gallagher – Blueprint

Roy Wood – Mustard

Kim Mitchell – Shakin' Like A Human Being

Highly Strung – When The Winds Begin To Sing

Collective Soul – Afterwords

Kate Bush – The Dreaming

Pink – Greatest Hits ... So Far!!!

Various Artists – Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration

London Grammar – If You Want

Jeff Beck – Truth

Peter Gabriel – So

Steeleye Span – Tempted And Tried

Mark Knopfler – Sailing To Philadelphia

The Doobie Brothers – The Doobie Brothers

Marillion – This Strange Engine

The Doobie Brothers – Livin' On The Fault Line

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

The Kinks – Preservation Act I

James Taylor – American Standard

Fairport Convention – Angel Delight

Max Webster – Max Webster

Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories

Be+Bop Deluxe – Electrical Language

Def Leppard – Adrenalize

Various Artists – The Earth Greets The Sun: Gamelan Music From Bali

Amazing Blondel – Fantasia Lindum

Afro Celt Sound System – Flight

Dead Can Dance -- Spiritchaser

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, March 1st, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from somewhere i've never been before, Montemorelos, Mexico. Huh? KSHE streams to Mexico but not to Canada? How odd....]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Dr Seuss: They say i'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes i think progress progresses too fast.

Well, wow. As my regular reader will know, the inclusion of anything by Dan Fogelberg automatically means a grade of “A+” and dear Dan was here this morning, so there ya go. However, this week's edition was brilliant and an “A+” would have been merited anyway, it was full of music that i love.

A special tip of the Hatlo Hat to the host, John Ulett (a.k.a. Uman) for beginning the show with The Beach Boys (a band i don't ever recall hearing on The Klassics Show before) and one of the most beautiful love songs ever written, God Only Knows. (Hard as this may be to believe, it's even more romantic than that St Valentine's Day staple, Fuck Me Like You Hate Me by Seether!)

It wasn't all beauty, light and grace. There were some annoyances. Donovan is an artist who has written a lot of gorgeous music, but Atlantis is embarrassing; i could quite happily live the rest of my life without ever hearing that Molly Hatchet song ever again; i like a lot of schtuff by The Marshall Tucker Band but today's selection was one of their worst (Incidentally, did you know that there's no one named Marshall Tucker in that band? I only learned that about three years ago, from my friend Tommy T who was, oddly enough, a deejay at... KSHE.); and, well, i've moaned before about REO Speedwagon. They're hugely popular in St Louis and i've tried, i really have, but i just can't seem to like anything of theirs. A failing on my part, probably....

But, as for the good bits, they were fantastic. Favourites by Steely Dan (with Timothy B. Schmidt on backing vocals), Jeff Beck, The Police – a band i don't really listen to much any more, not sure why, maybe because Sting became so full of himself – The Who and their extraordinary power, Rod Stewart when he was still a hero, ELP, The Allman Brothers, Arlo Guthrie....

Here's the playlist, and you may recognise these guys:

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows

The Grateful Dead – Alabama Getaway

The Good Rats – Back To My Music

Off Broadway – Bad Indication

Steely Dan – Aja

Donovan – Atlantis

The Charlie Daniels Band – Passing Lane

Stephen Stills – Turn Back The Pages

Jeff Beck – Blue Wind

Spooky Tooth – Cotton Growing Man

The Police – Canary In A Coalmine

Bruce Springsteen – Darlington County

The Who – Dr Jimmy

Elton John – Harmony

Dan Fogelberg – False Faces

Jay Ferguson – Cinnamon City

Big Country – In A Big Country

Journey – La Do Da

Michael Nesmith – Joanne

Bubble Puppy – Hot Smoke & Sassafras

Jerry Garcia – Sugaree

Dave Edmunds – Slipping Away

Leon Russell – Tight Rope

Rod Stewart – True Blue

Molly Hatchet – Whiskey Man

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge

The Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky

Poco – Indian Summer

The Marshall Tucker Band – Can't You See

Arlo Guthrie – Coming In To Los Angeles

Bobby & The Midnights – Too Many Losers

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Hey You

Steve Walsh – Every Step Of The Way

Wiggy Bits – Oh Captain

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen – Hot Rod Lincoln

Titus Groan – Hall Of Bright Carvings

REO Speedwagon – Keep The Fire Burnin'

John Mellencamp – Hot Night In A Cold Town

Bad Company – If You Needed Somebody

Kansas – On The Other Side

My own personal musical medicine this week:

Various Artists – Dylan Covered

Caro Emerald – The Shocking Miss Emerald

Various Artists – Hard Cash

Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank

Various Artists – Songs Of Our Native Daughters

Dervish – The Great Irish Songbook

Chelsea Williams – Boomerang

Fairport Convention – Shuffle And Go

Susan Tedeschi – The Best Of Susan Tedeschi

The Albion Band – The Vice Of The People

Mike Oldfield – Live At Montreux 1981 (DVD)

French Frith Kaiser Thompson – Live, Love, Larf & Loaf

Focus – Hamburger Concerto

Survivor – Vital Signs

Maddy Prior w. Hannah James & Giles Lewin – Shortwinger

Amazing Blondel – Evensong

Enya – Dark Sky Island

Blues Traveler – Four

Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge

Renaissance – A Song For All Seasons

Players – Players

Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

Nick Lowe – Basher: The Best Of Nick Lowe

Faces – The Best Of Faces: Good Boys ... When They're Asleep ...

Saga – Saga

Steeleye Span – Storm Force Ten

Rory Gallagher – Against The Grain

Various Artists – Flower Power Hits Of The 1960s

Sandy Denny – The Best Of Sandy Denny

Peter Gabriel – Ovo

Dixie Chicks – Taking The Long Way

Paul Simon – The Essential Paul Simon

Al Stewart – The Best Of Al Stewart

Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom

Jackson Browne – The Next Voice You Hear: The Best Of Jackson Browne

Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat

Eagles – Their Greatest Hits

Dixie Chicks – Home

Sandy Denny – Sandy