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Tony Williams Photo by Jan Persson I had tentatively been amassing recordings all week for this show, but it wasn’t until this morning that I was certain that I could do it. You know, computer issues and whatnot. Not to go too much into it, but after over a week of it being temperamental, today it seemed like it was finally willing to take a charge. In any event, I leaned a little harder on the “leftovers and backburners” folder, but the show must go on. And yeah, I started the show with Tony Williams again. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?   Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 6/29/2026     The New Tony Williams Lifetime "Fred" (Allan Holdsworth) Gabe & Walkers, Iowa City, IA, 3/3/76 Studio version released on Believe It   (Columbia, 1975)     Men at Work “Be Good Johnny“ (Colin Hay, Greg Ham) From Business as Usual   (Columbia, 1981)     Bonzo Dog Band "Sport (The Odd Boy)" (Vivian Stanshall) From Keynsham   (Liberty, 1969) ...

Tony Williams Photo by Paul Bergen Whatever combination of meds, tequila, and cheap rosé I was on today, I think it was by far the best batch of psycho-babble that I’ve ever allowed to stream out of me. Maybe I won’t feel that way tomorrow.   There was some good music too.   Click here to check it out: LIC Radio 6/22/2026     Tony Williams “Life of the Party” (Tony Williams) New Morning, Paris, FR, 6/22/88 Studio version released on Foreign Intrigue   (Blue Note, 1985)     The Romantics “I’m Hip” (Coz Canler, Jimmy Marinos, Wally Palmar, Mike Skill) From In Heat   (Nemperor, 1983)     Rod Stewart “You’re Insane” (Rod Stewart, Phil Chen) From Foot Loose & Fancy Free   (Riva, Warner Bros., 1977)     Michael Stanley Richard Thompson Band “I Feel So Good” (Richard Thompson) Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 3/20/94 Studio version released on Rumor and Sigh   (Capitol, 1991)   Michael Stanley Band “Calcutta Auc...

James Blood Ulmer 1940-2026 Photo by Franz Schellekens Today Brett and I provided wonderful examples of the fallibility of human memory. I was forgetting songs from albums that I owned and for some reason I thought that The Posies’ “Open Every Window” was a cover of a Burt Bacharach and Hal David tune. Maybe I was thinking about “Look Out Any Window,” except that was a Bruce Hornsby song. Well, never mind. Brett had some impressive brain farts too, but appropriately I cannot recall them right now.   I know that I have been on a James Blood Ulmer kick lately, but that is only because I have stumbled onto a bunch of his recordings recently, and also that he fucking rules. That said, I had to recognize his passing on June 3 rd , news that strangely was not made public for almost a week.   Brett’s segment focused (if you can say that it was focused) on quirky pop forms: folk pop, sunshine pop, power pop, etc. We talked a bit about the phenomenon of Italian songs being rewritten as...

Boz Scaggs Photo by Clayton Call You know what was special about today’s show? Absolutely nothing. Still plowing though the same stack of records that I have accumulated over the last several months. Still doing the same old excavations for music created on this very day in history. Still digging out tunes to play for the birthday boys and girls. Well, rather in this case, only one birthday boy.   So I take that back. You know what made today special? Boz muther-fuckin’ Scaggs. One of the greatest voices ever that could credibly sing soul, blues, country, and rock, sometimes all on the same album. Plus, he wrote songs that could make you weep, rock out, or just straight-up make panties drop. I do wish that I had pulled his birthday tribute together a lot sooner. It turns out that several recordings I thought I still had in my possession were lost in the great hard drive crash of 2020. There was a lot of scrambling both before and during the show. Still, there was enough for a fitti...

Ronnie Wood Photo by Rick Diamond Happy Pride Month, everybody! I hope everyone is getting ready for this month-long celebration, however you want to do it. It is an interesting bit of synchronicity that not only is it the birthday of the British long-time LGBT rights activist Tom Robinson, but that he was performing stateside on this day in 1979, and we have tape of it to boot!   Another birthday boy who will receive our tribute today is Ronnie Wood, who was born on this day in 1947, and it seemed right to focus on him. I think people need to be reminded that his career was more than just being a junior member of the Rolling Stones. Now, calling him a “junior member” may be unkind, but it is true that he did not join the band until the tail end of its glory years, and that his work with that group, particularly writing, is largely overshadowed by the Glimmer Twins (i.e. Jagger and Richards). Long before that, however, he already showed that he could be a reliable side-man with the...