What’s Going On
A look back at the monumental achievement of Marvin Gaye, at what Rolling Stone Magazine calls the greatest album of all time, What’s Going On.
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Some of our recent programs:
Odi et Amo
An hour-long sampling of music inspired by literature, from countless centuries ago to today.
Prisoner of Love
A look at Russ Columbo’s Prisoner of Love in context of the slave trade of 1200 years ago, plus a sampling of Simone Kermes, Abbey Lincoln, Etta James and Billie Holiday.
Qiyan
A look back through the centuries to the origin of our musical motifs of being a slave to love.
Lupines!
A look at the wildflowers that help make June the magnificent month it is, with music to settle, soothe and stimulate.
Alpha Waves
A brief explanation of the brain circuitry brought about by the kind of delicious musical programing we find here with Adagio.
Phototropic
A tribute to the osprey, and to basking in the early morning red-spectrum sunlight for the boost of all the brain’s feel good chemicals.
Catbird
A tribute to one of the most melodic creatures that shares our musical planet with us.
George Carlin
A spring tonic for a return to base, and along the way, a glimpse into the prescient genius of George Carlin.
No. 18
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed.
60 BPM
A sampling of Helen Merrill, Jimmy Scott, Angèle Dubeau, Lang Lang and Jeff Buckley with a 5000 year-old vignette of Babylon.