Whether it's called the "Shuffle Show," or the "Spinning Songbook Show (to rip off Elvis Costello's touring show), or anything else in a similar vein, this week's World Music Show (2/23) falls into this same category. And that's ok, because when it comes down to it, isn't it great that in a mere two hours, you can musically travel to different parts of the globe right from the comfort of, well, wherever you happen to listen to the show?

A long time ago, at another radio station in a faraway land, I worked a Sunday morning shift from about 7:00 a.m. until Noon. During that shift, I had to play a national show called "Flashback," in which the host would play songs from the 1970s and 80s (though, to me at the time, that wasn't much of a "Flashback." In any event, while dreaming up this week's World Music Show (2/16), I remembered that job I had and thought, "Hmm, how would that apply to World Music?" 

Do you miss hearing The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. during the Metropolitan Opera season? Well, now you can catch it every Sunday at 12:00 Noon on our HD-2 station! Also, With Good Reason now follows the Treatment at 12:30 p.m.

Straight ahead on In Your Ear, meaty jazz fusion from Kip Williams’ Richmond-based super group Bop Nation. But before that - we’re charmed once again by an Illinois singer songwriter with a marshmallow voice and a tasteful guitarist who helps bring her songs to life. We get started with the enchanting Wil Maring and her roadmate Robert Bowlin.