Tuesday, 27 April 2021

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, April 25th, 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 Santa Clara, California, pop.130,000.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Joan Osborne: It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself.

This week's program gets a grade of “A+” for the inclusion of one of Dan Fogelberg's most poignant tunes (which, incidentally, was incorrectly identified on KSHE's website as being The Rolling Stones' Time Waits For No One), but if it hadn't been for that i may, just may, have managed a “B+”. There were two dreadful numbers (Meat Loaf and J.D. Blackfoot), and then there were Ted Nugent with his puerile cock-rock fiasco and Jimmy Barnes' cliche-driven disaster, and they threatened to sink the whole show. But let us not be hasty. There was enough fabulous music to make the whole thing worthwhile. Apart from Dan's song, i think the highlight of the morning was The Kings' number, which never fails to have me bopping in my chair. There were quite a few other highlights and so, with reservations, 'twas a wonderful four hours.

I commented recently that The Klassics Show rarely played solo female artists and along came Carolyne Mas this week to prove me wrong yet again. Although i'd heard the name, i'm not at all familiar with her music, although apparently back in the day she was marketed as a female Bruce Springsteen. Marketing types are not really famous for having imaginations, of course.

Here's the playlist, plus a portrait of the distaff side's answer to The Boss:



Nazareth – Star

Rush – The Analog Kid

Ted Nugent – Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

String Driven Thing – Starving In The Tropics

Firefall – You Are The Woman

Carolyne Mas – Still Sane

Eddie Money – Runnin' Away

The Rolling Stones – She's A Rainbow

The Who – The Song Is Over

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Third Stone From The Sun

Fleetwood Mac – She's Changing Me

Jethro Tull – The Whistler

Brewer & Shipley – Witchi-Tai-To

April Wine – Sign Of The Gypsy Queen

J.D. Blackfoot – The Song Of Crazy Horse

Dire Straits – Skateaway

Santana – She's Not There

The Doors – The Wasp

Stillwater – Women (Beautiful Women)

Supertramp – Sister Moonshine

Dan Fogelberg – There's A Place In The World For A Gambler

The Kings – This Beat Goes On / Switchin'

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Workin' For MCA

Atlanta Rhythm Section – Sky High

Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown

Nazareth – This Flight Tonight

Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Man

Sammy Hagar – (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

Meat Loaf – You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

The Marshall Tucker Band – This Ol' Cowboy

Wings – 1985

Chilliwack – Arms Of Mary

Max Webster – Battle Scar


Yeah, yeah, i know: another lengthy playlist from me this week, even with three multi-disc sets. Buck up, though: it could have been longer if i hadn't spent so much time on CNN and YouTube.....


Various Artists – Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration

Paula Cole – Harbinger

Various Artists – Respect: The Soul Generation Soundtrack (2 CDs)

Roxy Music – Stranded

Various Artists – Morris On

The Beatles – Past Masters Volume Two

Supertramp – Crisis? What Crisis?

Curved Air – Air Cut

Terje Rypdal – Crime Scene

Runrig – The Ones That Got Away

Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

The Move – Message From The Country

Jeff Beck – Blow By Blow

Florence + The Machine – High As Hope

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds Of Fire

Allan Holdsworth – Metal Fatigue

The Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach (2 CDs)

Talk Talk – Natural History: The Very Best Of Talk Talk

Alison Krauss & Union Station – New Favorite

Luna – Luna

Kate Bush – The Other Sides (4 CDs)

Various Artists – The Busby Berkeley Album

Various Artists – Tower Of Song: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy

Bill Bruford's Earthworks – All Heaven Broke Loose

Deanna Durbin – The Ultimate Collection

Various Artists – Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s

John Lennon – Mind Games

Zaz – Zaz

Stéphane Grappelli – Live At The Cambridge Folk Festival

Jon & Vangelis – Page Of Life

Keane – Under The Iron Sea

Genesis – Foxtrot

Bonnie Raitt – Fundamental

Caro Emerald – Acoustic Sessions

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