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  • 447 - Van Duren - New, Archival Concert: Chemical Fire - Van Duren Live 1978

    447 - Van Duren - New, Archival Concert: Chemical Fire - Van Duren Live 1978
    Apr 29 2026
    Memphis native Van Duren has a gift for creating melodic rock with an unique edge. His 1978 album, Are You Serious? is perhaps the greatest album you’ve never heard. He played with members of the legendary band, Big Star, and formed his own great group, Good Question. More recently, he’s issued some fine albums with Vickie Loveland, under the Loveland Duren moniker. And, he was the subject of the documentary, Waiting: The Van Duren Story, which is available to stream now on Amazon Prime.

    Van Duren’s latest offering is a live concert, broadcast over the radio, entitled Chemical Fire: Van Duren Live 1978 - available digitally for the first time at Duren's Bandcamp site: vanduren.bandcamp.com

    We chat the odd circumstances surrounding this recording. For instance, the fact that the audience was in one room and the band was in another! There were also no fixes, this is Duren and band, live as it happened on the radio.
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    28 min
  • 446 - Peter Case - New Album, My Life to Live - Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop

    446 - Peter Case - New Album, My Life to Live - Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop
    Apr 12 2026
    Peter Case’s 5-decade career in music has had many twists and turns, starting with the influential band the Nerves in the late Seventies, then the Plimsouls, who had an early eighties MTV hit with “A Million Miles Away.” Peter’s first, self-titled solo album from 1986 helped jump start the roots movement of the mid-80’s.

    13 solo albums and now My Life to Live, from Sunset Blvd Records - Case's first, full-length live album, recorded at a familiar venue, McCabe’s Guitar Shop.

    We chat about the unique venue, plus how he rearranged a couple of his classic Plimsouls' songs for this album.
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    26 min
  • 445 - Doug Kistner of Studio D'Lux - Star-studded album harkens back to the glory days of Yacht Rock

    445 - Doug Kistner of Studio D'Lux - Star-studded album harkens back to the glory days of Yacht Rock
    Apr 3 2026
    Singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Doug Kistner has played with Trans Siberian Orchestra, John Waite, and even Blood, Sweat and Tears. But, his new project assembles an impressive list of ace musicians into Studio D’Lux and their first album is titled, appropriately, The Allstar Project.

    These all stars include Liberty Devitto, Billy Joel’s original drummer; several members of Chicago, including horn player Lee Loughnane and guitarist Keith Howland; plus legendary bassist Leland Sklar, and Eliott Randall and Jon Herrington, who’ve both played with Steely Dan. The result is an album that harkens back to the late Seventies / early Eighties, yet still sounds fresh.
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    25 min
  • 444 - John McCutcheon and Tom Paxton

    444 - John McCutcheon and Tom Paxton
    Mar 18 2026
    Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon are stalwarts of the folk music scene, and they’ve both issued successful Children’s records. Now, during the Pandemic, the two friends decided to “meet up” the only way they could, over Zoom - every Monday at 2pm. This virtual partnership produced over a hundred songs, with the first batch being issued in 2023 as Together.

    Now comes, appropriately titled, Together Again, 14 more collaborations that play on both men’s strengths as storytellers.
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    31 min
  • 443 - Ted Neeley of Jesus Christ Superstar, One Last Screening in Yellow Springs, OH.

    443 - Ted Neeley of Jesus Christ Superstar, One Last Screening in Yellow Springs, OH.
    Feb 24 2026
    Ted Neeley played the lead role in both the stage performance and the film adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar. His piercing, multi-octave range and golden locks made for something we hadn’t seen before: a hunky rock n’ roll Messiah. Also starring the smoldering Yvonne Elliman, as Mary Magdalene, and the soulful, gut wrenching performance of Carl Anderson as Judas. Neeley was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for his spellbinding portrayal.

    Now, you get to see that iconic film on the big screen once again as the Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs will do a run of Jesus Christ Superstar on the big screen, March 27th, 28th and 29th. And, flying in for the festivities is Ted Neeley himself. To talk about it, we welcome Ted, alongside tour manager, Frank Munoz.

    Ted talks screening the film over 400 times. Unfortunately, the ending never changes. This upcoming run at the Little Art Theater will be the final appearance in southern Ohio. You can purchase tickets and VIP passes at tedneeley.com
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    23 min
  • 442 - Maria Muldaur - New Album, One Hour Mama, salutes blues legend Victoria Spivey

    442 - Maria Muldaur - New Album, One Hour Mama, salutes blues legend Victoria Spivey
    Oct 28 2025
    You could say Maria Muldaur has done it all - blues, country, folk, rock, jazz, jug band, even kids music. She’s also garnered many awards, including being nominated six times for Grammys.

    Her latest project is a true labor of love. One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey, out now on Nola Blue Records, gives Muldaur a chance to honor one of her mentors. While Victoria Spivey is not a household name, she certainly paved the way for the freedom that female artists have today. Muldaur is also joined by a couple of old friends, Elvin Bishop and Taj Mahal.

    Muldaur reveals how Spivey helped get her her first big break in the music business, and what words of wisdom she was given along the way.
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    30 min
  • 441 - Dar Williams - Latest Album, Hummingbird Highway

    441 - Dar Williams - Latest Album, Hummingbird Highway
    Oct 3 2025
    New England singer/songwriter Dar Williams has been putting out music for 35 years. She’s also written several books, including What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities – One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, & Open-Mic Night at a Time.

    Her latest album, Hummingbird Highway, is a true, tour de force, covering everything from jangly folk, to breezy jazz, and bluegrass, and it’s out now on Righteous Babe Records.

    She talks about the wild diversity of inspiration that influenced the songs on the new record, including everything from olive trees of democracy to, of all things, drunken Santas!
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    28 min
  • 440 - Bob Cowsill of the Cowsills - New Archival Album, Cocaine Drain

    440 - Bob Cowsill of the Cowsills - New Archival Album, Cocaine Drain
    Sep 29 2025
    The Cowsills, an entire family of talented musicians, first hit the charts in 1967 with “The Rain, the Park & Other Things.” Then came “We Can Fly,” “Indian Lake” and “Hair.” The group was the inspiration for the hit TV series, The Partridge Family, then many years later, was the subject of their own documentary called Family Band.

    Omnivore Recordings issued the groups excellent reunion album, Rhythm of the World in 2022, then dug back into the archives, issuing Global, an album that was originally supposed to come out in the mid 90’s.

    But wait, there’s more. The “Cocaine Drain” Album, a long-bootlegged series of recordings done in the late 1970’s under the tutelage of famed producer Chuck Plotkin, but never officially released, until now. The newly restored album also contains five additional bonus tracks. The album is further proof that, although their hits dried up, the Cowsills continued to grow and create excellent music.

    We chat again with leader Bob Cowsill about the circumstances leading up to these recordings, working with Plotkin, who was pulled away from the sessions by Bruce Springsteen, and why, ultimately, these songs were never issued - until now.
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    29 min