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“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Jerry Garcia Band, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA February 7, 1980 MSC>DAT>CDR>WAV>SHN, all of first set except very beginning of Sugaree and the first two songs of the second set. Remainder of the source is from MAC (Taped by Lee Bittner, Audio Technica 801 mics > Sony […]

Questions about the country’s foreign policy and the role the intelligence community has traditionally played in those decisions have become daily and dire in the past few weeks.  Surreal News favorite former CIA analyst, author and whistleblower Mel Goodman (above) will be joining Steve and Lew to hopefully explain how the bizarre talk coming out of the […]

New music abounds as we’ll hear the latest and greatest from Alison Krauss, Tift Merritt, The Travelin’ McCoury’s, Natalie Hemby, The Band of Heathens and Jenny Lewis singing with Paul Shaffer and The World’s Most Dangerous Band. We’ll also get a sampling from artists performing in the area over the next week or so, hearing […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead, San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA January 30, 1987 SBD > MC > C > DAT > CD > EAC > SHN EAC/SHN by Darryl Hinko (flyerfanatic) Thanks to Caleb Miller for the source discs. Now The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium: Disc 1 – […]

Candace Clement (above) , the Internet Campaign Director at Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund, will join Steve and Lew this week to talk about an initiative that group is mounting to resist some proposals made by the incoming administration.  Among those issues will be maintaining net neutrality and protecting consumers by ensuring web access […]

Hawaii Bob and the guys are on a well deserved day off today, so I’ll be sitting in, trying to live up to the stellar radio type example that they’ve set! You’ll want to tune in and listen to the lyrics as we have two hours of music lined up in recognition of the topic […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Still hard to find a Dead concert this time of year, so here we have: Zen Tricksters, Showcase Live, Foxboro, MA January 24, 2009 SBD > Zoom H4 > WAV (44.1) > USB > Audacity 1.3.2 > WAV tape/xfer – corey the groundhog (china_c_a_tATyahooDOTcom) http://www.zentricksters.com/ http://www.myspace.com/zentricksters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Tricksters […]

HI.  I’ll be doing my annual MLK/Civil Rights Special this Thursday, Jan 17 at our new time from 2-4pm.  In addition to the usual musical fun I have added some new info :  The Green Card and Julius Rosenwald who both figure into the civil rights history but are not well-known.  I didn’t know about […]

Today on the Tuesday Drive Home we’ll hear brand new releases from Delbert McClinton, Otis Gibbs, Dale & Ray, The Mavericks, and Son Volt. We’ll also touch on a handful of other artists with music from 2016 that we’ve yet to hear, along with a sampling from artists performing in our area over the upcoming […]

   Tracy and Annie will be out of the Studio today. Sven will be sitting in with you taking you Beyond the Mountain with an exciting journey of music. Tune in and give a listen 4-6pm. It’s another HAPPY MONDAY on WSLR.