Programming

LATIN EXPLOSION Fans: BUY A BRICK this week! The WSLR Spring Membership Drive is here. Thank you Gerardo Velez and Bill Buchman for the Buy a Brick tracks! They’ll be on the show plus lots of salsa, Latin jazz and musica Cubana. Friday, 7-9am, WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, Listen live at WSLR.org or anytime at […]

Please join me for ‘The United States of Americana’ featuring some of my favorites: Youngbloods, Little Feat, Randy Newman, Jim Kweskin Jugband, Jesse Winchester, Chris Smither, Loving Spoonful and The Band….”took off my socks; took off my shoes; danced all night to the Jugband blues.” ….tune in , turn on and drop out of your […]

Grateful Dead Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT April 5, 1988 UltraMatrix SBD > Cassette Master (TDK MA-R90) All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller “Three sets of masters were used to make this show complete.” Disc 1 – Set 1: 1. tuning 2. Hell In A Bucket > 3. Sugaree > 4. Walkin’ Blues 5. […]

This Wednesday, April 7 at 9am, we’ll talk to Chuck Collins about his new book The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. For decades, a secret army of wealth enablers—who are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01%—has been developing into the shadowy ‘Wealth Defense Industry.’ In The Wealth Hoarders, […]

Trumpet master Arturo Sandoval, Bronx bandleader Bobby Sanabria plus two very different pianists: Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Emiliano Salvador. LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 7-9am, WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, listen live at WSLR.org or listen anytime at https://archive.wslr.org/. “Hot House!”

Missed it? Listen now at our WSLR Archives. On March 31 we heard our regular Tallahassee report from Jim Saunders of the News Service of Florida. Then we talked to J.J. Daiak and the prison reform recommendations he has made on his website Tough Enough on Crime. On the second half of our program, we […]

In the first hour: Grateful Dead Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA March 29, 1968 SBD > (4 Track) Master Reels > Dat (44.1k) All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller Warts and all…when they were rude, crude, electric, and VERY psychedelic!: One Set: 1. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 2. Death Don’t Have No Mercy 3. […]

Join me for two hours of Eclectricity as we trip the light fantastic with songs from artists who were born or died Mar. 22-31 in any year.  That gives us a lot of variety: from Sondheim to Grisman to Lady Gaga and Robt. Lockwood, Jr.  From Buck Owens to Beethoven.  Yahoo!!

On last week’s show I said “two one-set soundboards from consecutive years…but I forgot about this one! Grateful Dead Academy of Music, New York, NY March 22, 1972 SBD > Master Reel > Apogee AD500 > Dat (48k) All Transfers and Mastering By Charlie Miller Dave’s Picks 14 was 3/26/72. My first was 4/7/72… A […]

Did you know Linda Ronstadt had a Latin album? Check it out this Friday along with the music of bandleader Arsenio Rodriguez, pianist Hilton Ruiz and singer/leader Tito Rodriguez on LATIN EXPLOSION. Friday, 7-9am WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, stream wslr.org or listen anytime by typing WSLR LATIN EXPLOSION in your browser. “Vuela la Paloma!”