Month: May 2015

CLA Radio 05/15/15: Gram Parsons

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday night, 05/15/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will focus on the musical world of Gram Parsons. Call it Cosmic American Music–everybody else does. The show will include Gram’s own material as he performed it; songs he covered, as performed by the original (or other) artists; songs that he wrote, as performed by others; and perhaps some other combination that escapes my memory–in short, the musical universe he inhabited. If you don’t know much about Gram Parsons, this won’t be much of a biographical introduction, although there will be a...

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CLA Radio 05/08/15: B.B. King

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday night, 05/08/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern) will focus on the music of B.B. King (who is apparently very ill), as well as excerpts from a great 2014 documentary called B.B. King: Life Of Riley, and music from a few of his primary musical influences. Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Here’s the Spotify playlist. (I’m also on Twitter.) Set list (all songs are B.B. King unless otherwise noted): Life Of Riley documentary (2014), clip 1 When Love Comes To Town (with U2)...

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CLA Radio 05/01/15: One-Hit Wonders (1955-1965)

The next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday night, 05/01/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern–and at 9:00 in Dallas) will consist of a very random sampling of one-hit wonders from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s (another theme suggestion from Breck Nichols). Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Here’s the Spotify playlist. (I’m also on Twitter.) Set list: Parenthetical information indicates peak chart date and position. The Three Chuckles: Runaround (Nov. 13, 1954, #20) Peggy King: Make Yourself Comfortable (Feb. 5, 1955, #30) Lenny Dee: Plantation Boogie (May 4, 1955, #19) Bonnie...

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