#0086 – Music for Melancholy

Melancholy is this show’s theme. More precisely, how music moves me from feeling melancholy to feeling more upbeat. We all feel melancholy from time to time, for many different reasons. Lost or unrequited love, loss of a dream, even a rainy day. whatever the reason we have all been there.

When I feel melancholy I like to first live with it for a while, then listen to songs that sweep the melancholy away.

The Weightless Mix

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:21:47 — 149.7MB)Subscribe: RSS Yepper, so I took 6 days last month to head down to a free place to stay in Lake Tahoe NV/CA, and spent 4 of the 6 days driving through parts of  northern CA into the Sierras, and out into central-western Nevada. Driving … Read more

#0062 – File under: Know Bo

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (90.6MB)Subscribe: RSSConfession:  Since around 1987 with the whole Bo Jackson/Bo Diddley campaign, I’ve been pretty fascinated with Bo Diddley.  When The Man passed away about two months back, I spent a good several weeks playing through a wide collection of material that he either wrote, played or helped … Read more

#0028 – File under: Guitar Heroics

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (108.8MB)Subscribe: RSSI’ve put in almost 24 hours of solid playing time in the past couple of weeks between Guitar Hero III and Rockband.  Songs here include awesome tracks by Poison, Social Distortion, Mountain, Blue Oyster Cult, Bon Jovi, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, The Killers, The Who, Kaiser … Read more