response 1 of 39:

Nov 9 05:37 UTC 2005

Jerry Douglas was featured in a live studio session on two of 
the Late Junction programmes from last week, on BBC Radio 3. 
Douglas is a star player on the dobro, aka the resonator guitar,
which my carpooler had not encountered before.

response 3 of 39:

Nov 9 23:14 UTC 2005

Today's listening was the Late Junction programme from Monday.
Blues guy Otis Taylor had a song which was one of those whack-you-on
the-head, go buy it now experiences.  I haven't fully picked out what
is going on here, even though I replayed the track a few times.
Amazon says that Taylor is "bonding acoustic Delta blues with 
Appalachian country blues."  Might be just a trace of 60s psychedelia
in there, too, with the organ sound, and then there's the bits that
remind me of Czech folk/experimentalist Iva Bittova. 
 
I'm trying to resist impulse purchases these days -- my house is
too full of impulse purchases.  I'll let you know how it works out.
 
In the ordinary old Late Junction wonderfulness that was the rest
of the programme, DJ Verity Sharp opened with Bob Dylan, went on
to cover some African tracks which had my butt wiggling in my 
office chair, followed by a singer/songwriter named Laura Viers
and then Alfred Brendel with a Beethoven piano sonata.  
Somewhere in there was a lengthy Steve Reich composition, and then 
the show closed out with a folk accordion tune from a new album
by Brian Peters, a fave of mine, from a new album that I haven't
got yet.   
 
Life is good.  
 
Here's the playlist, for those who like things to click on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/latejunction/pip/9ku4p/

response 5 of 39:

Nov 22 17:18 UTC 2005

Er, um..   Right now I'm running last week's Mike Harding folk show 
from BBC Radio 2, and it starts with a rather appealing tune, sort of 
old-timey with a female singer.

I look at the playlist: it's from Tara Nevins' album MULE TO RIDE, which
I got years ago, I think, and tossed into a box as uninteresting a long
time ago.  Sigh.  Time to go digging for it.  

response 7 of 39:

Dec 4 06:29 UTC 2005

  
unfortunately .... 
  
  http://www.annarboralive.com/arlo/index.html
  
didn;t deliver
  
suposed to be forem the ark, live. but it wasn't.
  
i lkie arlo guthrie and his dad woody. i met woody once. (in a sam hill dream)
but that's another story....
  
supposedly, the tape will be broadcast.  
  
  
wth   total recorder    and    winamp   i get teh best of the best.
  

response 9 of 39:

Feb 10 17:54 UTC 2006

 Lately I've been occasionally listening to a music streaming service
 called Pandora ( http://www.pandora.com )  [requires Flash.]

 The way the site works is you type in the name of an artist, album
 or song that you like and that you wish to hear music similar to.
 The site then tries to match the properties of that song or artist
 with other music in its database, which it streams to your computer.
 As each song is played you can fine-tune the process by telling the
 Pandora Flash applet that you like the song it's playing, that you
 don't like the song it's playing, and/or to skip to the next song.

 The idea is that with enough fine tuning it will help you find music
 that you will like but that you didn't know about.  So far I've found
 the quality of the recommendations has been mixed but it's definitely
 introducing me to artists I didn't know about previously.

response 11 of 39:

Mar 3 04:05 UTC 2006

Had an entertaining listen and chat this afternoon with Fee and Chris,
the hosts of the "Cool As Folk" radio show from Reading University.

(http://www.1287am.com, and they have a IRC chat so you can talk 
with the DJs and maybe other listeners.)

Unfortunately they are closing the programme after another two
installments.  Highlight of the show for me was a track from
"Okavango", the new album collaboration from a Belgian band, Fluxus,
and a Welsh band, Hoover the Dog.   Lots of reed sounds -- accordions
and pipes.  They also played some Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson,
Oysterband: it's a fairly English emphasis. 

response 13 of 39:

Mar 30 21:23 UTC 2006

((Ooops.  Allan is a Scottish participant in another forum where 
  I originally wrote this...))

response 15 of 39:

Jun 9 22:16 UTC 2006

Charlie Gillett has announced that he cannot return to his 
Saturday Night program on BBC Radio London, due to health problems:

http://www.charliegillett.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2440

Charlie Gillett was one of the two key DJs in spreading the "world
music" concept into the English-speaking world -- the other was Andy
Kershaw.  I first got introduced to Gillett through a great
internet-only show he hosted on the late, lamented www.wen.com back in
2000; I started listening to his show occasionally on the Internet
around 2003.

A key feature of the two-hour Saturday Night show was "Radio
Ping-pong, where Gillett and a musician guest would take turns
spinning tracks at each other, as one does with visiting friends.

Gillett hopes to continue doing his 30-minute weekly show for the BBC
World Service, which is also available via the internet.

response 17 of 39:

Oct 4 16:43 UTC 2006

Followup on resp:15 :: It's possible that last Saturday was the final
world music show in Charlie Gillett's timeslot on Radio London.  
Charlie departed his show abruptly in May due to health problems, as
described above in resp:15.  Numerous guest hosts have been keeping the
show alive since then, most notably Gerry Lyesight with his "Planet
Mambo" format, which mixes in a lot more jazz than Charlie used to play.
 
But the BBC has not announced any plans for the timeslot beyond last
Saturday, and the link to the replay of Saturday's show is very 
well hidden:  I can only get to it from Charlie's own page at 
http://www.charliegillett.com, not from the usual BBC pages.
In Charlie's discussion forum, both Charlie and Gerry write that they
think the show's run is over, as the BBC hasn't told Gerry, or anyone else
in the world music community, to do a show for this coming Saturday.

Why all this fuss over a retiring DJ?  Charlie Gillett, on his Saturday 
Night show on Radio London, was one of the two key DJs in developing the 
"world music" concept as we know it today.

response 19 of 39:

Mar 29 16:45 UTC 2007

Ken pointed out that I should post in here about a station that I
discovered recently.  It's WHFR, a low power station from Henry Ford
Community College on 89.3, and on the net.

Their website is: http://whfr.fm and includes links to listen to them
online, in one of two different stream types, and a jpeg of their
broadcast schedule, showing variety of music they feature.

This is pledge drive week, so they are talking more than usual right now,
but still playing a decent amount of music.

response 21 of 39:

Apr 25 04:01 UTC 2007

WHFR is an excellent station.  I listened a lot when I lived in the Taylor
area.   Since WDET and CBC2 / Winsor have cut my favorite music offerings I
am now strictly satellite radio and WCBN

response 23 of 39:

May 24 04:17 UTC 2007

I've hit my annual-or-so burnout on BBC listening.  The last several
years I've taken a one-month break after the coverage of the 
Celtic Connections festival in late January, but this year I 
kept going.  Now it's just feeling like an obligation though, 
so it's time for a break.   I'll probably cheat and keep an eye 
on the playlists, to see if there's anything I would die to have
missed.