Make sure you stay up this week (1/18/14) to listen to Time For The Blues. This is one of those “don’t miss it” shows that’s going to feature a lot of amazing music, so call your friends and family and gather around the radio as we bring you some great music and some very bad jokes!
Listen: Ok, sure, I just borrowed that opener ("Listen") from the great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. And with all due respect to the legacy of Mr. Vonnegut, I think he'd be OK with me snaking that line for this week's World Music Show blog (1/18). And, I'm sure you'll forgive me for tweaking the headline a bit from "Think Globally/Act Locally," to what you see above. Again, I think everyone will be OK with that. The reason being is that there is some great World Music to be found right here in RVA.
Many years ago, when I was a struggling writer, I wanted to write a story that took place in South Africa while it was under the Apartheid system. Despite all the research and rough drafts I did, I never completed it--the scope was too big for me and my young brain to comprehend.
Be sure to join us this week (1/11/14) for Time for the Blues as Henry Cook and I bring you some of the best blues in our price range. We’ve lined up some great music, and I guarantee that the jokes will be just as bad as usual. Somehow it will all come together for what we hope will be a very entertaining hour. In this case, we're rewinding some classic blues!
In this age of digital downloads, instant messaging and up-to-the-minute updates on people's various or nefarious activities, it's nice to actually get a piece of mail. And it's even more exciting to get a package sent via Airmail all the way from Cyprus. Now, occasionally my inbox--both my physical and electronic one--get various packages of new music stuffed inside of it. While some gifts are good, others are not (and they mysteriously find another box to live in). That's why when a new CD that's really good comes my way, it's like a miracle of science.
Forget those other end-of-the-year "best-of" lists. Sure, they have a purpose and offer some valid recommendations, plus they have the luxury of showcasing all the new music that was released this year. But on this week's World Music Show (12/28), you'll get a better "best-of," compilation! How so? I'll take some of the new music that came my way and combine it with some of my favorite songs from the six seasons of hosting the World Music Show--hence, it's the annual "Raves & Faves" show, 2013 edition.
