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This Week's Theme: Some Of My Favorite Records You May Not Have Heard Before Last week's show of selections from the Trouser Press Record Guide dove into my alt-music past. After a week of listening to those records, I decided to make a show focused on some of my favorite albums that are not very … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 31 (August 28, 2022): Some Of My Favorite Records You May Not Have Heard Before
This Week's Theme: Was It A Top 40 Hit? My move back into fully developed Faux Shows started last week, after a few months of simpler shows, with a theme that used my favorite music reference - Joel Whitburn's Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. I enjoyed that research so much that this week and … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 22 (June 26, 2022): Was It A Top 40 Hit?
This Week's Theme: Better Late Than Never As I mentioned last week, the next few Faux Shows are going to have a lot less content due to constraints on my time. The themes of the shows are going to be less complex for a while and require a lot less research. The shows are also … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 18 (May 8, 2022): Better Late Than Never
This Week's Theme: Bassist Richard Davis One of my favorite themes is a celebration of the often overlooked, highly influential session musicians and other background figures that helped create the music of the 20th century. Stars get all of the recognition, but most of them can not make the music they are known for without … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 15 (April 10, 2022): Bassist Richard Davis
This Week's Theme: Embrace The Unknown The last two Faux Shows have been filled with music I know very well so I decided to go exploring this week. Discovering new music is the main reason I began the Radio Faux Show. I find the discovery of new music exciting. It isn’t always a successful journey, … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 8 (February 20, 2022): Embrace The Unknown
This Week's Theme: In Memoriam 2021 (Part One) Hundreds of musicians, songwriters, producers, and recording artists died in 2021. Some of them were legends while others were best known from the work of others. There is no way to include all of these artists in one Faux Show, but I can at least go with … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2, 2022): In Memoriam 2021 (Part One)
This Week's Theme: Saxophones This week's Faux Show is a Super-Theme and every song features saxophones. The songs selected cover a wide range of saxophone use across many decades. As usual, the songs are presented in mini-themes when possible. The songs selected are not meant to represent the history of saxophones throughout the last one … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 17 (June 27, 2021): Saxophones
This Week's Theme: A Whole Bunch of Birthdays There are 27 artists on this week's Faux Show whose birthday is October 3, and there were even more I did not include. These artists present a variety of music across genres and eras, including three pop/rock icons, one living legend, and one guitar god. Happy Birthday … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 31 (October 3, 2021): A Whole Bunch of Birthdays
This Week's Theme: Around the World in 30 Songs Almost every Faux Show includes one of my favorite mini-themes, Let's Take a Trip Around the World. My fondest memories of my time as a deejay 30+ years ago include discovering music from other countries. From a purely musical perspective, the different instrumentation, rhythms, melodies, and … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 25 (August 22, 2021): Around the World in 30 Songs
This Week's Theme: Drummer Roger Hawkins From a completely musical point of view, if I could have lived the life of anyone in history then Roger Hawkins would be on my list. Hawkins was one of the original members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, aka The Swampers, and served as the main drummer for … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 1, Number 14 (June 6, 2021): Drummer Roger Hawkins
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