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For All of Your LIC Radio Needs…

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It feels a little inappropriate that I should be starting this site. After all, LIC Radio was Walker’s baby. He brought together a community both of listeners and broadcasters that has been a source of light-hearted diversion in good times, and a source of comfort and connection in dark times. Yeah, I know I might be making it sound too significant for a platform that used to host a segment called “Fart of the Week,” but sometimes you need to get your head into the gutter in order to gaze at the stars. In any event, a while back a friend hit me with a “hey, what’s that song” kind of query, and asked if there was some kind of way I could post the playlists from the shows. Hence this blog. It may lack bells and whistles, and not nearly enough pornography to justify any use of bandwidth, but if you listen to a show (at least one of the “You Know Who…” segments) and want to know what that song was or who that artist was, it’s here. And if you didn’t listen to the show, there’s a link t...
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You Know Who... Is in Stitches

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  Jim and Tammy... You Gotta Go In case anyone was wondering, the appointment with my surgeon went well today. He was pleased with how my x-rays looked and he thought the incision was healing nicely. Thanks for your concern.   So, today was either Indigenous Peoples’ Day or Columbus Day depending on your political affiliation. I’m sure that will also have an impact on whether the news Jim Bakker’s death elicited a tear or a belly laugh. Strange times in a divided country.   Consequently, we got the show started today with songs about colonialism, genocide, bigotry, murder, social apathy, and religious hypocrisy. You know, fun stuff.   Fear not, we there’s some good, rousing tunes in the middle. Also, for your edification, the show ends with a nice showcasing of the talents of jazz/R&B drummer Paul Humphrey, who was born on this day in 1935. A man of considerable and broad talents, off the top of my head, I think he is one of only a few drummers to play both Fran...
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You Know Who... Is Hip

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So we are officially in “Sober ‘Tober” now, even if I started a couple weeks early for medical reasons. Unlike the last show, I did not attempt to come up with substitute intoxicants for today, so I think I sounded more focused, if not enthused. I even laid off on the opioids, that I legitimately was prescribed for actual pain, so as not to sound sluggish. On the upside, it’s been five days since having hip replacement surgery, which means five days of nothing to do but sit at home and wallow in my own filth and listen to tunes for consideration for today’s show. It is packed to the gills with killer music and is pretty eclectic. I don’t think there’s anything else to say. Let the music speak for itself.   Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 10/5/2026     Derek Trucks Band “Kam-Ma-Lay”  ( Rubén Blades , Javier Colon, Yonrico Scott, Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie) Magnolia Street Pub, Spartanburg, SC , 10/5/01 Studio version released on Joyful Noise ...
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You Know Who... 8 Something

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Jukka Tolonen So I am due to have hip replacement surgery in just over a week, and the reason that I didn’t do the show yesterday was that I had a doctor’s appointment to get medical clearance for the procedure. Evidently, my doctor saw something that he didn’t like too much on my EKG and sent me over to see my cardiologist (who I haven’t seen in far too long). Evidently I need to have something called a “nuclear stress test” on Thursday to make sure I am healthy enough for surgery. Consequently, I have decided to start “sober ‘tober” a little early. So if I seem unenthused and fried, it is because I decided to take some edibles and see if that would work for the broadcast. I don’t remember much except for confusing Max Schmeling with Max Baer.     Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 9/22/2026     Jukka Tolonen Band “Tiger” (Jukka Tolonen) Popstudio Live, Helsinki, FI, 9/22/75 Studio version released on Hysterica   (Love, 1975)   Evidently, today is Natio...
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You Know Who... Has a House Guest

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From Mad #4, 1953. Art by Wally Wood. Today was such a treat. I so enjoy the remote shows with Brett. It gives me some leeway to go outside of my normal process (and pawn off some of the work to somebody else). Today, however, I actually got to have him in my “studio” for the first time in almost a decade, which was cool. It was a wonderfully spontaneous show. See, Brett’s visit to LIC was a relatively last-minute thing, and he had little time to construct, revise, and finalize his playlist. As such, his theme was deliberately obvious (oftentimes, the game is for me to figure out how the songs are related to one another), but it was fun to play with, and also a bit of a continuation of a discussion we had on the last show we did together.   One might say the show was “super.” (ducks)   Click here to check it out: LICRadio 9/14/2026     Miles Davis “Right Off” (Miles Davis) Paul's Mall, Boston, MA, 9/14/72 Studio version released on A Tribute to Jack Johnson   (C...
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You Know Who... Quite Likes Squeeze

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Man of the hour, Glenn Tilbrook Photo by Fin Costello Did you know that today was National Trail Mix Day? No. Neither did I, and nor do I care much now. I’m not sure that it would have inspired any interesting song choices had I known sooner. I will concede that the first part of the show was pretty lean. I haven’t bought a lot of records lately. I will say that I was pleased to obtain Weird Al’s Polka Party . Even though it is considered one of his less inspired efforts, I’d rather listen to that than, say a… I don’t know, Ray Stevens record? And I had to talk them down in the price, if you can believe that. The thrift shop down the street was asking something ridiculous like forty bucks for it. I think I’d just come back from LIC Bar or something and had the drunken audacity to tell them that their pricing was completely screwed up and was willing to pay twenty for the Weird Al, a Greg Kihn record, and a random old LP of sound effects that I will probably never use. They agreed. I le...
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