KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Mar. 28th, 2021

[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 an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Chicago again.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Lord, if i had to listen to commercial radio all the time i think i'd shoot myself in the head. (Although i'm a lousy shot, i'd probably miss.) (And the only gun i possess is a plastic Luger anyway.) Some of the ads are amusing but most are obnoxious. Ah, well, it's only four hours a week.... Or only one hour, if you remove all that pesky music.

Last week i alluded to an apparent misogyny at KSHE, whereby very, very few solo female artists make an appearance: the only two i could think of were Janis Joplin and Cheryl Dilcher. I forgot someone: Stevie Nicks. Of course, she's easy to overlook as her solo output is so forgettable. Janis dropped in this week – but with Big Brother & The Holding Company, not solo. The Wilson Sisters were here, too, but with Heart. I think this anti-female bias should be investigated! It's not that there are no candidates, no lack of rock steady chicks like Joan Osborne, Pat Benatar or Melissa Etheridge out there....

Anyway, this week's instalment. It pains me to grade this one a “mere” B. There was nothing wrong with it – and in fact not a single number that pissed me off (which is unusual) – but it wasn't superb, either. There were superb songs, for sure: in the first hour alone we had the triple whammy of Tull, Steely Dan and Pat Travers. Then wonderful songs by The Eagles and Bob Dylan and one of my very favourite Cat Stevens numbers. But the musical masterpieces were few and far between. All very nice schtuff, but....

Plus there seemed to be even more server glitches than usual, by which the song that KSHE's website says they're playing, isn't what's actually coming through the Altec Lansings. Oh Captain was by Wiggy Bits, not Chuck Berry. The Bob Dylan song was not by Johnny Vortex (who?); The Animals' number was not by Stir, and how could they confuse Badfinger with Thin Lizzy? Good grief....

Welcome to Missouri. Have a playlist:

Doucette – Mama Let Him Play

Jethro Tull – Nothing Is Easy

Steely Dan – My Old School

Pat Travers – Off Beat Ride

Queen – Liar

The Who – Magic Bus

Bryan Adams – Lonely Night

The Little River Band – Man On Your Mind

Wiggy Bits – Oh Captain

Heart – Love Alive

Firefall – Mexico

The Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night

Journey – Look Into The Future

The Charlie Daniels Band – Midnight Wind

Eagles – On The Border

Henry Gross – One More Tomorrow

Kenny Loggins – Love Has Come Of Age

The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man

Canned Heat – On The Road Again

The Doors – Peace Frog / Blue Sunday

Eddie Money – Maybe I'm A Fool

Pink Floyd – One Of These Days

Cat Stevens – Oh Very Young

Loggins & Messina – Peace Of Mind

Grinderswitch – Pickin' The Blues

The Electric Light Orchestra – Poker

The Stabilizers – One Simple Thing

Bob Dylan – Positively 4^th Street

Nantucket – Quite Like You

The Animals – Monterey

Badfinger – Perfection NOT The Boys Are Back In Town!

Chilliwack – Roll On

Asia – Only Time Will Tell

Big Brother & The Holding Company – Piece Of My Heart

David Bowie – Rebel Rebel

The J. Geils Band – Musta Got Lost

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Restless

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Roll Me Away

Oh, and here's what gave the Spriggs Towers' laser a workout this week:

Curved Air – Second Album

The Doobie Brothers – The Captain And Me

The Moody Blues – Gold (2 CDs)

Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel

Greg Kihn Band – Best Of Beserkley '75-'84

Blondie – No Exit

Jon & Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo

Zaz – Paris

Roy Wood – Mustard

John Fogerty – Revival

The Beatles – Past Masters, Volume One

Django Reinhardt & Stèphane Grappelli – Souvenirs

Happy Rhodes – Building The Colossus

Luna – Luna

Howard Jones – The Best Of Howard Jones

Jeff Beck – Rock 'n' Roll Party

The Walker Brothers – Portrait

Dave Swarbrick w. Martin Carthy & Diz Disley – Rags, Reels And Airs

Sheila Chandra – The Zen Kiss

Cyndi Lauper – Twelve Deadly Cyns

Dan Fogelberg – River Of Souls

The Sutherland Brothers – Lifeboat / When The Night Comes Down

Roxy Music – Flesh + Blood

Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release

The Pretenders – Greatest Hits

Court Yard Hounds – Court Yard Hounds

Various Artists – A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 24

Ivie Anderson – An Introduction To Ivie Anderson: Her Best Recordings 1932-1942

Wishbone Ash – Live In Tokyo (shh, it's a bootleg....)

Neverending White Lights – Act I: Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies

Saga – Images At Twilight

Manfred Mann's Earthband – Chance

Frida – Djupa Andetag

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Mar. 21st, 2021

[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 an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Chicago – zip code 60602, to be precise.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Albert Einstein: If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I was pondering, the other day, the fact that The Klassics Show and KSHE in general play very few solo female artists. Sure, the play groups with female lead singers occasionally – just today we had Renaissance (with Annie Haslam) and Heart (the Wilson sisters) and although she wasn't on today's Jefferson Starship track, Grace Slick. But solo? Cheryl Dilcher and Janis Joplin are the only two who come to mind. I was planning to write something about misogyny in the radio industry and what happened? Janis Joplin shows up! Nice.... (Incidentally, the guitarist on Janis's track was John Till, who lives in my town. I've never met him but i know his son, Mike – in fact i taught Mike how to do cryptic crossword puzzles.)

Grace Slick, now. Loved her in Jefferson Airplane and some of the music she made with Jefferson Starship was brilliant but apparently she had a love / hate relationship with the latter ensemble, especially after Micky Thomas joined as singer: she kept quitting and re-joining. She wasn't on today's track and i'm glad: it was a low point of the morning, Mr Thomas's caterwauling really was annoying. Also annoying was the Joe Perry “rock 'n' roll for dummies” number. Surprisingly, this morning's REO Speedwagon song wasn't annoying at all, just boring and banal.

I'm grading this morning's instalment an “A+”. Yes, sure, Dan Fogelberg showed up which would have automatically given it supersonic status, but i think i merited irrespective of that. For one thing, it was such a delightful surprise to hear Fairport Convention! Although i've heard Fairport on KSHE before – on my friend and their former dee-jay Tommy T's overnight show – i don't recall them ever stopping in on a Sunday morning before. Plus we had one of The Who's finest moments, along with ELO, Wings, The Moody Blues and The Byrds. Just magic.

A couple of technical notes: contrary to what the KSHE website posted, It Keeps You Runnin' was not The Black Crowes' Black Moon Creeping, and Motherless Children was not Queen's Fun It.

Here's poor old Janis, and the playlist:

Queen – Keep Yourself Alive

The Joe Perry Project – Let The Music Do The Talking

Kenny Loggins – Lady Luck

The Doobie Brothers – It Keeps You Runnin'

Firefall – Livin' Ain't Livin'

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Lookin' Out For #1

The Little River Band – It's Not A Wonder

REO Speedwagon – Keep The Fire Burnin'

The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed

The Electric Light Orchestra – Ma-Ma-Ma Belle

Bryan Adams – It's Only Love

Jefferson Starship – Mary

Wings – Listen To What The Man Said

Starcastle – Lady Of The Lake

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Manic Depression

Eddie Money – Love The Way You Love Me

Journey – Line Of Fire

Renaissance – Midas Man

The Steve Miller Band – Living In The U.S.A.

Eric Clapton – Motherless Children NOT Fun It by Queen

Heart – Little Queen

The Doors – Moonlight Drive

The Michael Stanley Band – Misery Loves Company

Dave Mason – Look At You Look At Me

Fairport Convention – Matty Groves

Steve Hackett – Narnia

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)

Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself

The Who – Love, Reign O'er Me

Dan Fogelberg – Missing You

Bruce Springsteen – No Surrender

Yes – Love Will Find A Way

Atlanta Rhythm Section – Mixed Emotions

Janis Joplin – Move Over

John Parr – Naughty Naughty

The Moody Blues – New Horizons

The Byrds – Mr Tambourine Man

Ambrosia – No Big Deal

My own personal playlist isn't an especially long one this week, partly because of the three multiple-disc sets and also because work has been busy – and that's okay with me, but it does interfere with my music-listening time.

Fairport Convention -- Nine

Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue

Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again

Various Artists – Dylan Covered

The Beatles – Revolver

Kate & Anna McGarrigle – La Vache Qui Pleure

Bert Jansch – Avocet

The Yardbirds – Greatest Hits

Kate Bush – Before The Dawn (3 CDs)

Sarah Fimm – Karma Phala (2 CDs)

The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies

James Taylor – Hourglass

Sharon Shannon – Sacred Earth

Texas – By The Hush

Strawbs – A Choice Collection Of Strawbs

Talk Talk – Laughing Stock

Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance

Jeff Beck – Blow By Blow

Great Big Sea – Play

Stėphane Grappelli – Afternoon In Paris

Various Artists – Summer Festivals '98

Garmarna – Guds Speleman

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame

Led Zeppelin – Box Set 2 (2CDs)

Marillion – Clutching At Straws

The Beat – I Just Can't Stop It

Renaissance – Scheherazade And Other Stories

Elvis Costello – The Very Best Of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years

Stan Rogers – The Very Best Of Stan Rogers

Tori Amos – From The Choirgirl Hotel

Sky – Sky

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Mar. 14th, 2021

[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 an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from San Francisco.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Kingsley Amis: Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Hidden away in this week's ad-stravaganza (amongst the spots for used cars, sleep aids and real jewellery real cheap) were a couple of nice surprises: i'd never heard a schlafly.com spot here before: when i was in St Louis, Schlafly beers were some of the best beers i've ever tasted. Too bad they don't distribute their wares outside Missouri and Illinois. The Bank Of America was on this morning, too, for the first time that i can recall. In some way, my bank here has a kind of partnership with them whereby they were the only bank where i was able to use my debit card. I didn't need to do so very often but i was always impressed by the friendliness and the service.

As for that schtuff of lesser importance – the music – it's definitely a grade of A for this week's program.

What a great way to start, too! Jeff Beck is my second favourite guitarist ever, and yet, incredibly, i don't have the album Freeway Jam comes from. I rectified that using the Amazon app on my iPad during the first commercial break. (Yes, yes, i hate Amazon, too, but i know not where else to go now that all of the record stores closed.)

Beyond that, what to say? You may never have heard of The Blue Jays – not the baseball team. They were a Moody Blues spin-off featuring Justin Hayward and John Lodge and, somewhat predictably, everything i've heard of theirs has sounded like a Moody Blues' “B” side: perfectly listenable, but hardly earth-shaking. Fortunately there was a lot of earth-shaking music today. I love that Crosby & Nash song (although the KSHE web page said that it was Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf – thank god it wasn't!) Other highlights ... well, where to start. Big Country, Eagles, Todd, Greg Kihn, Heart, all seventeen-plus minutes of Iron Butterfly and of course a song that changed music forever, Like A Rolling Stone.

In fact, there was really only one song that irked me today, and that was the Blood, Sweat & Tears. I actually liked their debut album when Al Kooper was their driving force, but when he left the band they seemed to embrace clichés as a musical style – the jazz charts? Pshaw, pshaw, i say: third-rate Chicago. Plus i have a personal dislike of their singer, David Clayton Thomas, a whitebread Ray Charles – i met him once and he was a complete pillock.

Anyway, here's the playlist, and a pic for which i apologise in advance:

Jeff Beck – Freeway Jam

The Grateful Dead – Friend Of The Devil

The Outlaws – Ghost Riders In The Sky

Blue Jays – I Dreamed Last Night

The J. Geils Band – Hard Drivin' Man

Phil Collins – I Cannot Believe It's True

Graham Nash & David Crosby – Immigration Man

Big Country – In A Big Country

Eagles – James Dean

Todd Rundgren – It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference

Bruce Springsteen – I'm Goin' Down

The Greg Kihn Band – Jeopardy

Heart – Kick It Out

Blood, Sweat & Tears – Go Down Gambling YUCK!

Billy Thorpe – In My Room

Charlie – Johnny Hold Back

The Blue Őyster Cult – In Thee

The Cars – It's All I Can Do

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge

Journey – La Do Da

Pete Townshend – Let's See Action

Deep Purple – Knocking At Your Back Door

Tom Cochrane – Life Is A Highway

The Rolling Stones – It's All Over Now

Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida all 17 minutes!

Montrose – Jump On It

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

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

Traffic – Light Up Or Leave Me Alone

Bloodrock – Kool Aid Kids not bad at all!

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

Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Listen To Her Heart

The Hawks – It's All Right, It's Okay

My own personal playlist isn't an overly long one this week, even though i had an extra couple of days off for reasons that are none of your business.

Nick Lowe – Basher: The Best Of Nick Lowe

Various Artists – A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 23

Kiki Dee – Gold (3 CDs)

Marc Jordan – Mannequin

Kathy Mattea – Coal

Camel – I Can See Your House From Here

Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg

Various Artists – The British Invasion, Vol. 7

Robin Bullock – Green Fields

T. Rex – T. Rex

Jackie De Shannon – The Definitive Collection

Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks

Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Love Over And Over

City Boy – Anthology

A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea

Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor

Peter Gabriel – Rated PG

Cat Stevens – Laughing Apple

Peter Green – In The Skies

Love – Forever Changes

Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands

Peter Hammill – Clutch

The Chieftains – The Chieftains 4

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'

John Kirkpatrick – Make No Bones

Zap Mama – Sabsylma

James Taylor – October Road

Jethro Tull – Catfish Rising

Paul Young – Wherever I Lay My Hat: The Best Of Paul Young (2 CDs)

Tony Banks – A Curious Feeling

Steeleye Span – Now We Are Six

Zaz – Paris, Encore! (DVD)

10 c.c. -- The Best Of 10 c.c.

Godley & Creme – Cry: The Very Best Of Godley & Creme

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Mar. 7th, 2021

 [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 an American address. Evidently at some point this week i got my kicks on Route 66 because last week i was in Chicago and this week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was in L.A.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Frank Zappa: The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.

To get the important stuff – the ads – out of the way first, i've mentioned before how strange it seems to me to hear hospitals advertising on the radio. We had none today but we did have dermatologists, which is almost as odd. Fortunately we also had Bart Inman. And nothing from insurance salesman Big Lou or used car dealer Pickle Man. Nice!

Michael Stanley was an artist who was extremely popular in St Louis and throughout The States, but i don't ever recall hearing his music, either solo or with his band, until i started listening to KSHE back when dinosaurs ruled the earth. I liked it, and although i never bought any of his albums, there was nothing wrong with it at all. (I looked for a best-of collection once but there doesn't seem to be one available.) Michael died of lung cancer last week at the age of 72, and as a tribute the first two songs this morning were his – and they were two of his best, and then there was a darned good selection from The Michael Stanley Band towards the end of the show. Uman's voice was definitely cracking when he announced it, R.I.P., Michael. (I know that i'm cynical about the record industry: i expect that, now that he's gone, we'll be inundated with re-issues, previously-unreleased radio broadcasts and compilations.)

Apart from the slight pall that lay over the program because of that news, it was an excellent one today, undeniably worthy of a grade of A. Okay, there was REO Speedwagon and their miserable and cringeworthy attempt at pop-rock balladry, but otherwise there wasn't a duff track anywhere. I even liked the Derek & The Dominos piece and, let's face it, their album was mostly a cocaine and drug-fuelled mess. But then there was some brilliant music, including the extraordinary Hocus Pocus by Focus, which was definitely the highlight of the morning for me, plus Cat Stevens, a Todd Rundgren twofer, and Paul McCartney's favourite song of all time, God Only Knows. (It must be nice to be so definite: i like the song but i couldn't choose one favourite song of all time – i'd have trouble choosing a top 500!)

Anyway, here's the playlist, and Michael Stanley.

Michael Stanley – Let's Get The Show On The Road

Michael Stanley – Rosewood Bitters

Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn

Pink Floyd – Free Four

Nick Lowe – Cruel To Be Kind

Cat Stevens – Father And Son

Todd Rundgren – Can We Still Be Friends

Robbin Thompson – Brite Eyes

Bruce Springsteen – Cadillac Ranch

John Mellencamp – Hot Night In A Cold Town

The Guess Who – Hand Me Down World

Jefferson Starship – Girl With The Hungry Eyes

Bad Company – Gone, Gone, Gone

Derek & The Dominos – Have You Ever Loved A Woman

Robert Palmer – Give Me An Inch Girl

Santana – Hold On

Gregg Allman – Come And Go Blues

Def Leppard – Hello America

Phil Collins – I Don't Care Anymore

Loverboy – Hot Girls In Love

Firefall – Goodbye, I Love You

Bruce Springsteen – I'm A Rocker

Asia – Here Comes That Feeling

The Little River Band – I'll Always Call Your Name

Kenny Loggins – Heart To Heart

Focus – Hocus Pocus

REO Speedwagon – I Need You Tonight

Crosby, Stills & Nash – Helplessly Hoping

Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light

Prism – Hello

Eddie Money – Gimme Some Water

The Spencer Davis Group – I'm A Man

Kansas – Hold On

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

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows

Rare Earth – I Just Want To Celebrate

Foreigner – Headknocker

U2 – I Will Follow

The Michael Stanley Band – Don't Stop The Music

Queen – I'm In Love With My Car

Bruce Cockburn – If I Had A Rocket Launcher

The Charlie Daniels Band – In America

My personal playlist for the week is a pretty hefty one – i had the week off and was able to listen to a lot of music i hadn't heard in a long time. It could have been even longer if not for all the running around i had to do....

The Albion Band -- Acousticity

Eagles -- Desperado

Blowzabella -- Vanilla

Marillion -- With Friends From The Orchestra

Alison Krauss & Union Station -- Paper Airplane

Marcia Ball -- Gatorhythms

Various Artists -- The British Invasion, Vol. 6

Zaz -- Sur La Route (DVD)

Talk Talk -- History Revisited: The Remixes

The Waterboys -- Room To Roam

June Tabor -- A Quiet Eye

Imogen Heap -- I Megaphone

Dan Fogelberg -- The Innocent Age (2 CDs)

The Home Service -- A New Ground

Jane Siberry -- Bound By The Beauty

Various Artists -- Evangeline Made: A Tribute To Cajun Music

The John Kirkpatrick Band -- Force Of Habit

Rory Gallagher -- Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77 (2 CDs)

The Kinks -- Schoolboys In Disgrace

Colin James -- Hearts On Fire

Phil Collins -- ... Hits

Rod Stewart -- Vagabond Heart

Art Garfunkel -- Simply The Best

James Taylor -- (Live) (2CDs)

Joan Osborne -- Pretty Little Stranger

George Harrison -- Brainwashed

Dead Can Dance -- Spleen And Ideal

Mike Oldfield -- Songs Of Distant Earth

Terje Rypdal -- Chaser

Tangerine Dream -- Phaedra

The Incredible String Band -- Wee Tam And The Big Huge (2 CDs)

Maddy Prior w. Hannah James & Giles Lewin -- Shortwinger

Mary Chapin Carpenter -- Time*Sex*Love*

Various Artists -- All Through The Year

The Sugarcubes -- Stick Around For Joy

Ten Years After -- Essential

Cornershop -- When I Was Born For The 7th Time

Dave Whetstone – The Resolution

Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol – Another Fine Mess: Live In New York '84

Rory Gallagher – Songs For Romy (a bootleg, ssh!)

The Beatles – Live At The Hollywood Bowl

Supergrass – In It For The Money

David Bowie – Hunky Dory

Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring

City Boy -- Anthology

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Feb. 28th, 2021

[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 an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Chigago again.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Irving Berlin: Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

It may just have been my imagination, but it seemed to me that there were more ads (thus less music) than usual this morning, including one for Mercy Hospital ("Your life is our life's work") and hearing hospitals advertise for customers is something that really bemuses me. I keep having to remind myself that the U.S.A. is a foreign country.

An excellent start to today's show with one of my favourite Stephen Stills songs, and there were quite a few favourites to follow and of course Dan Fogelberg, which means that we grade this edition an "A+".

The song by The Who that followed is definitely not one of their best but later on Uman played Dr Jimmy which definitely is a top fave Who number, so all is forgiven. In fact today's show was full of less-than-stellar songs by performers i love, as well as the usual complement of brilliant music by Neil Young, Tull, Arlo Guthrie and Steely Dan. There was, in fact, only one sour moment: Ted Nugent's dreadful number about the joys of going out into the wild and slaughtering furry woodlnd creatures. I'm looking forward to the day when the animals start fighting back...

Stephen Stills --Change Partners

The Who -- Don't Let Go The Coat

Z.Z. Top -- El Diablo

Ian Hunter -- Cleveland Rocks

Long John Baldry -- Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock 'N' Roll

Bad Company -- Electric Land

The J. Geils Band -- Come Back

The Little River Band -- Emma

Black Sabbath -- Fairies Wear Boots

The Who -- Doctor Jimmy

Traffic -- Empty Pages

Arlo Guthrie -- Coming Into Los Angeles

Molly Hatchet -- Dreams I'll Never See

Fandango -- Feel The Pain

Poco -- Company's Coming / Slowpoke

Rush -- Finding My Way

Procol Harum -- Conquistador (live)

Grand Funk Railroad -- Footstompin' Music

Spooky Tooth -- Cotton Growing Man

Steve Walsh -- Every Step Of The Way

Jethro Tull -- Cross-Eyed Mary

Ace -- Found Out The Hard Way

Neil Young -- Cowgirl In The Sand

Dan Fogelberg -- Face The Fire

Toto -- Girl Goodbye

Sammy Hagar -- Cruisin' And Boozin'

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -- Free Girl Now

Bachman-Turner Overdrive -- Down Down

Bruce Springsteen -- Darlington County

Ted Nugent -- Fred Bear

Steely Dan -- Deacon Blues

Billy Joel -- Get It Right The First Time

The Moody Blues -- Dear Diary

Yeah, yeah, i know: another lengthy playlist from me this week:

Martin Carthy -- Shearwater

Kate & Anna McGarrigle -- Matapedia

Carbon Leaf -- Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat

Various Artists -- The British Invasion, Vol. 5

The Kinks -- Misfits

Chicago -- Chicago VII

Yes -- Fragile

Paul McCartney -- Wingspan: Hits And History (2 CDs)

Dan Fogelberg -- Captured Angel

Richard Thompson -- You? Me? Us? (2 CDs)

Sinéad O'Connor -- Throw Down Your Arms

Bob Marley & The Wailers -- Live!

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble -- Live Alive

Frank Zappa -- Hot Rats

The Beatles -- Yellow Submarine

The Fixx -- One Thing Leads To Another: Greatest Hits

Jorma Kaukonen -- Quah

Dervish -- The Great Irish Songbook

Atlanta Rhythm Section -- ARS: The Best Of Atlanta Rhythm Section

Radiohead -- O.K. Computer

The Beach Boys -- Greatest Hits Volume Three

Dixie Dregs -- Night Of The Living Dregs

Kate Bush -- The Kick Inside

Hooters -- One Way Home

Garmana -- Hildegard von Bingen

Little Johnny England -- Mercs & Cherokees

Jefferson Airplane -- Crown Of Creation

Dire Straits -- Alchemy (2 CDs)

Runrig -- The Ones That Got Away

Zaz -- Recto Verso

The Kinks -- Soap Opera

Kim Mitchell -- Shakin' Like A Human Being

Genesis -- Live: The Way We Walk Vol. 1 -- The Shorts

Alanis Morissette -- Jagged Little Pill

ABBA -- More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits

The Albion Band -- Stella Maris

Jerry Douglas -- Traveler