Some songs are hits. Some songs are deep album cuts. Few are eternal. In this episode of Swingtime, we dog-ear a couple dozen pages in the Great American Songbook and play the classiest of the classy tunes. Look sharp, starch that collar, straighten your tie, and be ready to light the lady’s cigarette at a moment’s notice. It’s Swingtime, pal.
A BalconyRadio Music Special – Songs Of Protest 2020
Music is there to help during times of strife. It’s also there to document them. This week, we’re putting together the best protest music we could find. Sit in with Balcony Radio as we pair the First Amendment with a couple dozen of the best songs that raise voices, fists, anger, frustration, hope, and everything in-between. Power to the people. The people have the power.
101 Series Lesson 143 – Psychedelic Country
Howdy, partner, it’s time to travel the dustiest, longest trail of all: the one connecting the chakras to the universe. Infinity is a bull you can’t ride for 8 seconds, friends. Collect your stardust filled bones and pull up to the campfire for a new episode of Blue Highway, venturing further through that great weird American music. This week, we put on the denim and frills and thumb a ride to the corner of country and psychedelia, blasting off with the cosmic cowboys of the late 60s and early 70s. Hold on to your hat, we’re not stopping for it on the way to Venus.
Soulville Ep 15 – A Little Psych Soul
During the Summer of Love it was hard not to get a touch of flower power on you. It was all over the place . . . even in our beloved rhythm & blues. Drop in for episode 15 of Soulville, we spin some of the floweriest jams of the late 60s and early 70s. Blow out your wig with jams that would power the Soul Train all the way to Woodstock. Dig: it.
Songs From The Yard Ep 15 – “Live” in the Yards
There are few places in time that you should be mad you missed out on . . . the Belle Epoque, Haight-Ashbury, Greenwhich Village come to mind. But the one you really missed out on was Jamaica in the 70s. Today for episode 15 of Songs From the Yard, our tribute to reggae (mon), we drop five on it for tickets to some of the best live music produced on the real Emerald Isle. Close your eyes and open your ears, the contact high is coming through the headphones.
101 Series Lesson 142 – Buddy Holly
It’s time to let the music live . . . in Lesson ??? of the 101 Series, we highlight the music of one of the original bards of rock and roll: Buddy Holly. The man who invented the singer-songwriter also managed to look cool in soda pop glass-thick frames, a skinny tie, and black and white. In just a few years, he wrote (literally) a thousand great songs. Enjoy a couple dozen with your boys on the Balcony.
Sock Rockin’ Beats Ep 14 – Pure Punk!!
Lace up your Docs because we know you’re feeling lucky, punk. Hop the turnstiles with your Balcony Radio droogs for a bumpy ride through all the sneering, ripped jean acne-riddled spiky haired no shower having music they used to call the punk rock. It’s episode 15 of our series Sock Rocking Beats . . . this week we find out how many songs you can get out of three chords and a drum set that barely fits in the van. Get a job, you damn kids.
Long Song Silver Ep 15
We at Balcony Radio are professional appreciator-ers. When someone reaches for an artistic statement, we’ve got to give it some attention. In episode 15 of Long Song Silver, we spin a handful of songs over 10 minutes that earned all those inches on the reel to reel. Check out tunes the late nite d.j. would play when it’s time to percolate another pot of coffee or blaze another one in the men’s room.
I Remember That Ep 15 – 60s & 70s Top 40 Faves
It’s time to step into the ol’ way back machine again for some stone cold solid gold oldies. In episode 15 of I Remember That, we provide the soundtrack to a joyride up and down the Sunset Strip. Fuel up the bitchin’ coupe and give that skinny hippy girl a ride to the ranch, we got the tunes ready for a little once upon a time in Balcony Radio.
101 Series Lesson 141 – The Byrds
Hey. You. Do you like REM? The Replacements? Tom Petty? The Jayhawks? Wilco? The Eagles? Then, guess what, buddy, you like The Byrds. All those bands owe a great debt to Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, David Crosby, Gene Clark and the rest of the flock for all that jingle-janglin’. In Lesson ??? of the 101 Series, we take flight with The Byrds. Stay in formation, we’ll be traveling eight miles high.
