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  Indigenous Sounds Monday November 10, from 9-11 EST., on WSLR 96.5 FM in Sarasota, Florida and WBPV 100.1 Bradenton, Florida will have Twilla Barnes a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Ms. Barnes is a professional genealogist who specializes in Cherokee genealogy, and blogger on the Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter website. Indigenous Sounds will also […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” Grateful Dead, Community War Memorial, Rochester N.Y.November 7, 1985 Soundboard MSC > Reel to Reel > DAT > CDR CDR via Dave Shepard EAC’ed, shn’ed & Patched by Charlie Connor 9/7/01 Audience patches: Charlie Connor’s Master Audience Cassette (Maxell MX90) FOB AUD>Beyer Dynamic M88’s>Sony TCD5M(CM)>Nak DR-10 Out […]

With less than a week before Election Day, Steve and Lew welcome Stephanie Costa (above), President of the Sarasota County Young Democrats to the show to talk about the work that group is doing this election cycle and provide some insight into the collective mind of that very important demographic — millineals. Later, Mary Alice […]

“There Is NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert!” As you may or may not know, John Zacherle, better know as television horror show host “Roland”(“ro-LAHND”) in Philadelphia and “Zacherley” in New York in the late 50s and early 60s, passed away this past Friday. Since tonight is Halloween, here is Zacherley introducing The Grateful Dead […]

Allegra Chapman (above) from Common Cause in Washington D.C. is joining Steve and Lew this week to talk about the rigging of elections. Not the imagined rigging that presidential candidate Donald Trump is alleging, but the real way some elections in this country are rigged by selective disenfranchisement of groups of voters who may not […]

2016 has stacked up to be a great year for new Americana Music and we’ve got a healthy sampling starting today at 4:00. Plus, we’ll get into the covers with The Band! Be sure to tune in!    

Grateful Dead, Eastown Theatre, Detroit, MI10/24/71 Master Soundboard Reel > Cassette > DAT > CDR EAC’ed / SHN’ed by Scott Clugston (“made possible thru the usual group of suspects/mental patients”) Neither this date nor 1972 are listed in the “Taper’s Compendium”, but it is a wonderful, early recording. Keith had only been playing with the […]

TONIGHT!!! THURS 10-20-16 stream live www.wslr.org or 96.5fm 100.1 fm 9 – 11pm east coast 6 – 8 pm west coast Free Wheelin Spirit of Sf Punk stay tuned for playlist…. it’s luck of the draw tonight, excerpts from past shows….