Weird America radio

"WEIRD AMERICA RADIO" IS A STATION THAT CELEBRATES THE DIVERSITY AND WEIRDNESS OF AMERICAN MUSIC. THIS STATION WAS CONCEIVED IN 2007 AND IT ORIGINALLY WAS BASED ON THE ARTIST SEEDS DANIEL JOHNSTON, EUGENE CHADBOURNE, FRED FRITH, HALF-JAPANESE AND HOBOKEN'S YO LA TENGO WHICH ADDED UP TO SOME PRETTY WEIRD STUFF ! WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE FACT THAT AT ONE POINT I ALSO INCLUDED RUTGERS UNIVERSITY'S DANIELSON FAMILY, (BUT I LATER DELETED THEM, AS THEY MADE THE PROCEEDINGS JUST A LITTLE TOO WEIRD,) MAYBE THIS STATION SHOULD BE CALLED "WEIRD NEW JERSEY" ? IN 2009 I ADDED GLENN BRANCA AND ORNETTE COLEMAN. IN 2012, AFTER I MOVED TO MASSACHUSETTS, I ADDED BILLY CHILDISH AND THEE HEADCOATES, THE ALWAYS WEIRD COMEDIAN ROBIN WILLIAMS AND THE MULTI-MEDIA NEGATIVELAND, AS MY GOAL IS TO GET THIS STATION TO PLAY THE TRACK, "CHRISTIANITY IS STUPID" WHICH I HAVE NOT HEARD FOR 20+ YEARS ! FOR THE FINISHING TOUCH, I ADDED ALBERT AYLER, AN ARTIST I KNOW LITTLE ABOUT BUT I KNOW HAD A PRFOUND EFFECT ON JOHN ZORN AS A YOUNG MAN, MAYBE HE WILL HAVE A SIMILAR AFFECT ON YOU AS YOU LISTEN TO THIS STATION ? (Christmas 2015) http://www.pandora.com/station/225121385150195886

SXSW Blues radio

WHILE "BLUES ROCK RADIO" IS A RADIO STATION CONSTRUCTED IN TRIBUTE TO SOUTHERN ROCK MUSIC, THIS STATION FEATURES SONGS THAT ARE ARE IN TRIBUTE TO TEXAS BLUES/SOUTHERN ROCK. THE FOCUS IS ON BLUES-ORIENTED SONGS WITH ROCK INSTRUMENTATION RATHER THAN ON ROCK AND ROLL DRIVEN SONGS WITH A SOUTHERN TILT. I SUPPOSE THE KEY IS IN VIEWING STEVIE RAY VAUGHN AS A ROCK MUSICIAN WHO PLAYS BLUES-BASED MUSIC AS OPPOSED TO AS A BLUES MUSICIAN WORKING IN A ROCK IDIOM. THIS STATION FEATURES LITTLE FEAT, MARSHALL TUCKER AND DOUG SAHM. I HAD PREVIOUSLY INCLUDED THREE TUNES AS SONG SEEDS, ALL BY TOWNES VAN ZANDT: BLACK WIDOW BLUES, HUNGER CHILD BLUES, WHEN YOUR DREAM LOVER DIES, AS HE WAS ANOTHER GREAT TEXAS MUSICIAN BUT MAYBE THAT'S WHY THIS STATION DID NOT ROCK HARD ENOUGH. EVEN THOUGH HE'S A DEEPLY TOUCHING SONGWRITER, HE HAS BEEN EXTIRPATED FROM THIS STATION. MAYBE DOUG SAHM DOES NOT ROCK HARD ENOUGH EITHER AND SHOULD BE SENT OVER TO HIGH TIME RADIO WHEN TOWNES VAN ZANDT GETS MOVED OVER TO DYLAN FAN RADIO ? UPDATE: I deleted Marshall Tucker and added Leon Russell (December 25, 2015). http://www.pandora.com/station/223924231735912622

Blues Rock radio

FOR ME, THE PINNACLE OF BLUES ROCK WOULD BE THE BAR I WENT TO IN THE "COLLEGE TOWN" OF MISSOULA, MONTANA IN THE SUMMER OF 1996. I WOULD IMAGINE THAT ALL OF THESE SONGS WERE SELECTED BECAUSE THEY WOULD SOUND GOOD IN THAT SETTING. I THINK JEFF HEALEY'S "ANGEL EYES" IS THE ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS I HEARD THRU PANDORA. SIMPLY AMAZING ! This station was created in 2007 and it originally featured Gregg Allman, Dire Straits, Jeff Healey and Stevie Ray Vaughn, plus a couple of song seeds like Eric Clapton's "Double Trouble" and "Heavy Fuel" by Dire Straits. I returned to this station eight years later and decided to make it the ultimate white-boy blues station. (For black blues, please see my Clapton's Blues, Van Morrison Blues, Blues Club and Blues Performers stations.) I decided that Dire Straits wasn't really a blues band and so I moved them over to my Beachcombing radio station. Joe Bonamassa, who I was first exposed to thru Pandora, was added as an artist seed on February 9, 2015. I will be purchasing five CDs from him on my birthday, as he is quickly becoming my favorite guitarist after Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Carlos Santana. Lastly, I added Kenny Wayne Shepherd as a final artist seed and Johnny Winter's "Mama Talk to Your Daughter" as a final song seed. I think this station rocks and I never get tired of it! (March 23, 2015) UPDATE: I removed the song seeds by Clapton and Dire Straits. I also deleted the song seed from Johnny Winter, who I decided to add as an artist seed, and I resolved to uncheck all song selections by all three of these artists. Oh yeah, I also deleted Gregg Allman, who I decided was overwhelming the song selections chosen by Pandora for this station. I decided to listen to this station all night, on January 25th, 2016. http://www.pandora.com/station/224552967703406766

...thoughts about the 2016 election...

Speaker A: I watch the cable news channels all day long, and here's what I think: it seems to me that the people on FOX News are hysterics, but I think the people on CNN are clueless as to the threat extremist ideology poses to our way of life. I'm sorry to admit it, but I think Al-Jazeera TV provides the most accurate news information. They didn't dwell too long on the mass shooting in San Bernardino. I think if there are additional acts of terror, like the one at Inland Regional, Donald Trump will win the nomination - but I still think he will lose to Hillary Clinton, because Trump alienated women before he made his straightforward and sensible remark that we should have a temporary ban on Muslims traveling into the United States. Donald Trump shoots from the hip and talks a little off-the-cuff, but I don't think he's that wrong. I don't support him because I don't think he has personality of a politician and would not have the same moral commitment to the country that many of the other candidates would. My father and I both agree that John Kasich is the most professional candidate among the Republicans, but I don't think he has enough support to win the nomination. ========== Speaker M: I think Kasich has the most thoughtful and nuanced understanding of the role of government, of the R.s. But I also remember his bomb throwers days: they invented the dead-ender mess we have. I think whites have to get used to the idea that the USA is going to change dramatically. The middle class is disappearing, mostly slipping into poverty; and Asian, Hispanic and black citizens are having more babies than whites. Trump is saying whatever anxious whites will listen to. The ship of good times and shared prosperity has sailed. Thieves and liars walked away with enough loot to buy what people think. Americans made some colossal mistakes, and colossal mistakes have consequences. Americans bought into confidence men's wiles, and troubles are mounting. As a democrat, I blame my neighbors who got suckered, and dragged the rest of us into this losers game. Ground down in a stupid war, hustled out of the basic niceties of civilized nations, and all we can do is sit and watch R's policy inanities. I only hope the average Republican starts to understand what a suckers game they were sucked and into. ..... Trump is antithetical to an informed, intelligent conversation about anti-terror policy. ISIL idiots are baiting Western conservatives into another ruinous war. Trump is a self-serving fool. Working class white Americans have already gullibly given away their prosperity and future to the rich guys they foolishly identify with, gullibly dragging the rest of us into another losing proposition. America's death wish. ========== Speaker A: I know a man in his 60s, Bill Price, who lives across the street from my parents. I was in his house a few weeks ago on Thanksgiving Day and he showed me his computer set-up in his bedroom. He doesn't listen to CDs, he goes to Youtube and listens to "TRAP" music. I don't think I like it, but I wonder if you are familiar with this style of music ? I just got back from therapy in Duxbury, Massachusetts and I am about to eat lunch. I'm listening to Keith Jarrett's 6-CD collection of concerts recorded live at the Blue Note and I am watching Donald Trump's post-debate rally in Mesa, Arizona. I think my parents are going to vote for him. I personally believe he will re-instate the draft to fight ISIS and declare America bankrupt to eliminate the national debt, so I think he is a dangerous choice. I prefer John Kasich, he is the most professional Republican speaker but I don't think he will get the support necessary to win the nomination. If the election is between Trump and Hillary it will be a very close election, I believe, like the one between George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000. What are your thoughts on these two topics: TRAP and TRUMP ? ========== Speaker J: I don't know if i'm familiar with Trap. I will have to check it out. I can't stand Trump. He is just an idiot who spreads fear and stupidity. We don't live in a perfect world, we do have to be cautious of our enemies, but the key to fixing this is to be positive, work on fixing poverty and education problems.... just my 2 cents...

My Black Power radio station

I originally created this station in 2007 because I wanted to listen to black music from the 1970s and I felt that there were no viable commercial outlets to expose me to this music. I used to list to Kiss-FM growing up in my sister's room and there was a radio station in North Carolina that I used to listen to in the late 1990s when I lived in Winston-Salem, but I have always been unable to find succor in the minimal black music that is commercially available via the popular airwaves. Exposure to black music in modern America has shrunk steadily since the emergence of Rap, it's only featured in commercials, on television and in movies, but even then it is only given to us in charicature form thru Quentin Tarantino movies and such like. From this station's inception until about 2010, the time when I left NJ and moved to Massachusetts, I listened to this station frequently and at the time the station was dominated by militant black artists such as James Brown and Gil-Scott Heron, Richard Pryor and The Last Poets, but also popular artists like The Isley Brothers and Donny Hathaway. When I settled into my residence at the Castle Court apartments in 2011, I decided to dedicate this station to Curtis Mayfield and the various permutations of George Clinton's musical genius, including Parliament and Funkadelic. Jacob Goldfarb once said I have a funk "deficit" in my music-listening regimen but he has yet to hear this station, which I am sure will expose him to a lot of music that he thought was buried in the sands of time. Turn this one up and enjoy ! - ABN P.S. I also added Sly Stone's instrumental, "My Gorilla is My Butler" as a song seed to enliven the mix, as this track served to initiate me into the student life of Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson. (The sad truth is I stayed away from the Tewksbury dorms, I only eavesdropped once or twice on my way from Olin Hall to the room I shared with Amar Kakodkar at the "Toasters".) http://www.pandora.com/station/play/225505131888158894