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This show finds us returning to the year 1969, as one of the most socially tumultuous decades of the century drew toward an end.
As usual, the times ...read more
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Pop music might have started to suffer in the late ‘70s, but album releases were flourishing, probably better than at any other time in history.
Just a ...read more
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The previous week, our show featured music from the late summer of 1969, and the response was nearly overwhelming.
To keep in stride, I felt compelled ...read more
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As the end of the last summer of the ‘60s neared, the quality of popular music refused to diminish with the warm weather.
Most notably, Steve Winwood ...read more
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Due to events both historic (Woodstock’s Anniversary) and current (the passing of Willy DeVille), we interrupted our coverage of album tracks from 1979.
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It was forty years ago this weekend that the burgeoning hippie counter culture had seen its identity gel into something that was culturally, politically ...read more
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I have to say that it hit me hard when I learned of Willy DeVille’s passing. It would be an exaggeration to call him a personal friend, but I did feel ...read more
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We continue our coverage of album tracks from the year 1979 by focusing on a few albums that may have been overlooked by the passage of time. I nonetheless ...read more
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Last week, we took a glance at a few hit singles from the summer of ’79. The songs were incredibly diverse – sometimes great, sometimes flat-out awful (see ...read more
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If you were to judge the Summer of ’79 exclusively by its hit singles (as we attempt to do today) you’d think that music was in a slump at that time. After ...read more
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