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“Back in the old folky days, the air was magic when we played…” So sang Neil Young in the early ‘70s, lamenting the end of his first great band, Buffalo ...read more
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After last week’s focus on early Summer 1980 from the perspective of singles and albums, we figured it would make a nice show to complete the coverage by ...read more
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Taking the Bad with the Good - Springtime in 1980
In today’s show we go back thirty years to see what the music scene looked like at the same time in ...read more
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Yet another trip back to the ‘70s, and what a long, strange trip it is…
Rarely, if ever, has there been such a golden era for popular music than at the ...read more
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Either I’m obsessed, with a prejudice to the music of my own youth, or the early ‘70s really were a golden age for popular music. We just finished doing a ...read more
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Last show we played some awesome singles that were charting during the Memorial Day weekend of 1970. This show, we figured we’d dig up some awesome album ...read more
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As the sixties faded into a memory, the hit single still held sway in the early ‘70s. By 1970, the general appeal of the peace and love movement had gone ...read more
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Wow. Things were a lot cooler in 1960 than I might have presumed. While there was some awful crap on the pop radio (and I play some of this for you to gag ...read more
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This weekend, a local organization called NYRMA (New York Roots Music Association) is putting on a show dedicated entirely to the music of Hank Williams. ...read more
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Thirty years ago, the music scene was going through a significant transition period.
The result was a lot of competition between artists, and a lively ...read more
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