Author: ConservativeLA

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...

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)...

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...

Inspired by Rand Paul‘s pathetic performance on, and exit from Mr. Hewlitt‘s radio show, the next ConservativeLA Radio show (on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday night, 04/15/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern–and at 9:00 in Dallas) will consist of songs about Running. Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Here’s the Spotify playlist. (I’m also on Twitter.) Set list (there will also be some movie clips sprinkled in): CLAR Mash-Up: Runaway (feat. Rand Paul and Mr. Hewlitt) Roy Orbison: Running Scared Roy Ayers: Running Away The Spencer Davis Group: Keep On Running Otis Taylor &...

The next ConservativeLA Radio show, on Duane FM in the Hughniverse, Friday, 03/13/15, 7:00 Pacific/10:00 Eastern, was originally broadcast on 06/15/12. The topic is Home. No Spotify list this week. Hope you can stop by and listen, and join us in chat! Set list: Guy Clark: Ft. Worth Blues Alison Krauss: Miles To Go Rory Gallagher: Lonesome Highway Allman Brothers: Please Call Home George Jones: The Grand Tour Ella Fitzgerald: A House Is Not A Home Buck Owens: Close Up The Honky Tonks Ralph Stanley: Rank Stranger The Band: Tears Of Rage Ray Charles: I Got a Woman Richard...