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We kick off another spotlight of Black Music Month here on Howling at the Moon with an all too short feature of one the giants of jazz, Sonny Rollins, whom we recently lost sadly. These tracks are all pulled from some of his Blue Note recordings from the late 1950's, where he was first featured as a leader of the groups, which included Donald Byrd, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and Horace Silver.

Side A

Howling at the Moon (opening theme)-Hank Williams Decision-Sonny Rollins How are Things in Glocca Morra?-Sonny Rollins Reflections-Sonny Rollins (Thelonious Monk composition)

Side B

This week we return to the "scene of the crime" for my 40th College Reunion. So why not revisit some the songs that made up the soundtrack for that time period? And why not poll some classmates for suggestions? And thus an episode was born, with musical memories galore! What were you listening to from 82-86? Let us know!

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Burning Down the House-Talking Heads Let's Dance-David Bowie Hungry Like the Wolf-Duran Duran Pulling Mussels from a Shell-Squeeze Come on Eileen-Dexy's Midnight Runners Save it for Later-English Beat What I Like About You-The Romantics Axel F-Harold Faltermeyer

Side B

It’s a bit of the new and a bit of the old on tonight’s episode of Howling at the Moon, which to be honest is often the case! On Side A we have a new track from Lenny Kaye’s forthcoming solo album (his 1st), as well as a cool collaboration between Tom Waits and Massive Attack, along with a couple of recent covers as recommended by Will Hermes. Side B is our blast from the past, featuring the Faces in concert at the BBC from 1973.

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams  Going Local-Lenny Kaye Coming Home Baby-Fleshtones Celluloid Heros-Kinks Fade into You-Gregory Alan Isakov & Sylvan Esso Hey/Ya-Liz Uninvited Boots on the Ground-Tom Waits & Massive Attack 

Side B

The Faces in Concert@BBC 1973

And just like that we are putting another month to bed, and looking ahead to May! But to send it on its way, we found some great tracks that helped define the college radio sound of the early to mid 80’s, courtesy of a great new compilation just out on Cherry Red. You may recognize a fair number of the bands on tonight’s episode, but with a few exceptions, you may have not heard these cuts. This was a fun one to put together, and since we only focused on the first disc of the set, we got lots more to share in future episodes!

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams

Hanging Around-Al Bloch

She Don’t Know Why I’m Here-The Last

Getting Out of Hand-The Bangs

What She’s Done to Your Mind-Rain Parade

Nothing is Wrong (demo)-dB’s

I am the Cosmos-Chris Bell

Mr. Roland-Tommy Keene

Side B

Saturday at 3pm-Darius & the Magnets

Gardening at Night-R.E.M

Left in the Dark-The Vertabrats

And She Rides-Long Ryders

Everything’s Turning Up Down Again-Wire Train

Office Skills-Plasticland

Steps to the Door-True West

True-The Fans

April 23rd Playlist

We dug into the Americana archives for this episode of Howling at the Moon. Many years ago I did an Americana centric program on Skidmore College’s station, so I built a vast collection of stuff from which to choose. Sadly we needed to pay tribute to another gifted singer-songwriter who left us too soon, Jon Dee Graham, which happens in the “third half” of the program.

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Who Will Keep the Water Running Here?-Frog Holler Please Don’t Hurry Your Heart-Caitlyn Cary I’ll Be Faithful to You-NGSB featuring Emmylou Harris Take Me in Your Lifeboat-NGDB featuring Del McCoury Some Dark Holler-NGDB featuring Dwight Yoakum How’s the World Treating You-James Taylor & Alison Krauss Legend in My Time-Laura Cantrell

Side B

We are back "live" this evening with a new episode, featuring some old skool electro and a bunch of cool new tracks that we've sourced from Will Hermes Substack. Side A begins with a mix of classic electro inspired by the sad news of the passing of hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, followed by some vintage dance music from the 80's and 90's. On Side B, we focus on new tracks including cool covers of songs from the Cure and Joy Division. Good stuff for a steamy, stormy Thursday wherever you might tune in..

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Numbers-Kraftwerk Planet Rock (Instrumental)-Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force Bag Lady (I Wonder)-Ebn O'zn State Farm-Yazoo What Have I Done to Deserve This?-Pet Shop Boys (featuring Dusty Springfield) No One Knows We're Dancing-Everything But the Girl

Apologies for taking an extra week to post this playlist, time got away from me..this photo is the cover of the program from a fab Kinks tribute performance I attended at the Cohoes Music Hall, which inspired the first have of this episode. And since we were featuring one of the greatest and yet criminally underappreciated British bands, we figured we should do the same with an American act on the flip-side, and what better example than NRBQ? So there you have it. Remember that all episodes air live on RadioRadioX on Thursdays 7pm EDST, and eventually get archived on our SoundCloud page.

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Dead End Street-The Kinks Stop Your Sobbing-The Kinks Till the End of the Day-The Kinks She's Got Everything-The Kinks I'm Not Like Everybody Else-The Kinks Dedicated Follower of Fashion-The Kinks Days-The Kinks Gallon of Gas-The Kinks Better Things-The Kinks

The "64 Thing" as my wife has called it, kicks off today, so we thought it was grand idea to riff off that theme for the beginning of our episode this evening. We round out the fun with a bunch of new music, much of it released in the last couple months. We also want to invite folks who are located in or near the Capital District to join us on Saturday for the Vinyl Slam & Swap, detailed above! Feel free to post questions about any and all of it in the comments queue.. As always this episode airs at 7pm DST tonight on RadioRadioX.com

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Mission Impossible Theme-Lalo Schifrin Basketball-Kurtis Blow Sucker M.C.'s-Run DMC James Brown Mix-Coldcut Funky People-Studio 68 featuring Dani Turner Should I Stay or Should I Go-Living Colour Ca Plane Pour Moi-The Reducers

So it being Women's History Month, we made the easy decision to play some of our favorite female singers and songwriters, along with several up and comers "trainspotted" by Will Hermes. Here's how it all sorts out, listen tonight at 7pm DST on RadioRadioX!

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Baby Steps-Liz Cooper Can't Be Sure-The Sundays Instead of Here-Mitski Echoes-Laura Misch Sunday Morning-Beth Gibbons Who Loves the Sun-Matt Beringer & Rosanne Cash fantasmagoria-Daniela Andrade Black Boys on Mopeds-Fontaines DC

My wife celebrates her birthday in a few days, so it seems appropriate to pay a mini musical tribute to her, which we do in the "3rd half of the program" as Click & Clack used to say! The rest of the selections were dredged from the extensive digital archives we have built up over the decades, some good ones we haven't heard in quite some time, hopefully you will agree...

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Let the Mystery Be-Greg Brown Let the Beauty Be-Bob Mould Beauty Fades Away-Caitlyn Cary Six Blocks Away-Lucinda Williams Luna De Miel-Alejandro Escovedo Tell Me About Your Drugs-Robyn Hitchcock High Ball Stepper-Jack White Marie Provost-Nick Lowe

Side B These Times We're Living In-Dave Alvin & Guilty Women Following the Northern Star-Rhiannon Giddens Wrecking Ball-Mandolin Orange Falling in Love Again-Alison Krauss & John Prine By the Time it Gets Dark-New Mendicants The Last of the Callaghan's Set-Barra MacNeils Funk #49-Los Straitjackets T.U.S.A.-Masters of Reality Try a Little Tenderness-Otis Redding

Tonight’s episode is a bit like the classic game pictured above, Twister! This is taken at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport. We twist ourselves musically in various positions tonight and the result will hopefully be a winner!

Side A

Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams

Rubber Band Man-Mumford & Sons
When My Time Comes-Dawes

Within Everything-Brian Blade & Fellowship Band
Sing Me to Sleep-Allison Moorer
Everybody Needs Love-Mavis Staples
Angels With Dirty Faces-Los Lobos
Goodbye Blue Sky-Pink Floyd

Side B

So when I asked Image Playground to create an animation of me at Mardi Gras, this is what came back! Not sure about that headdress, but I suppose with enough Sazerac's, I could be persuaded! In any case on tonight's episode we feature the music of N'awlins and beyond both classic and recent. Although Mardi Gras is over and done for this year, we hope we keep the party going a bit longer...

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Mama Told Papa-Clifton Chenier Madame Pitre-Buckwheat Zydeco Mardi Gras in New Orleans-Rockin' Dopsie Big Chief-Professor Longhair Just Kissed My Baby-The Meters No Cowboys in Texas-Whip Appeal Two of Hearts-Sabine Macalla Turn-Greazy Alice

Side B Slow Down Kamikaze-Anna Moss True at Once-Bruisey Peet Disguise-Burnt Sugar Hip Drop-The Explosions It's Later Than You Think-Rebirth Brass Band w/Kermit Ruffins Saturday Night Special-Lesa Cormier & Sundown Playboys Yr Gonna Be Happy-Silver Synthetic Carmela-Abby and the Arsonists

This fella greeted us one of the mornings we spent in Palm Springs, CA last week, escaping the worst of the cold snap that had our home region in its icy grip! It was a wonderful trip, and we will look for any excuse to return in the future, cold or otherwise! This week's episode once again cribs heavily from Will Hermes Substack, where he regularly posts extensive playlists of new songs that have tickled his eardrums. Most of these tracks have been released in the last 45 days, so they are pretty fresh! Nice mix of legacy artists and newbies just cracking the scene! Here are the deets..

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Death of Love-James Blake Been Undone-Peter Gabriel Slip Jigs & Jenny's-Saltaire Site Unseen-Courtney Barnett & Waxahatchee Destination-Neko Case & Young Fresh Fellows Embarrassed Teen-Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo

Side B Puddles-Not for Radio Don't Know Why-smush Good Things Will Come-Sault As of Yet-Quiet Signals Femme Fatale-Mon Laferte Let Me Grow and You'll See the Fruit-Dry Cleaning Josh Tillman & the Accidental Dose-Father John Misty Love is All Around-Husker Du

The definition of juxtaposition can be found here, and while our attempt above with this photo is not spot on, I think it fits our theme tonight. We learned on Monday that the legendary Jamaican drummer and musician Sly Dunbar had passed at the age of 73. His influence on popular music is immense and his catalog is vast and varied. We cherry picked several of our favorites, but urge you to dig much deeper. When Frank Sinatra recorded the album Sinatra at the Sands in 1966, he had recently turned 50, which apparently he was struggling with a bit. He would die at the age of 83. While we often put two or more divergent artists or musical styles together for an episode, this might be one of the most odd pairings. We hope our listeners will hang in for the duration. All episodes air on RadioRadioX.com beginning at 7pm EST.

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Double Barrel-Ansel Collins Police and Thieves-Junior Murvin Jokerman-Bob Dylan Destination Unknown-Sly and Robbie Sinsemilla-Black Uhuru Pull Up to the Bumper-Grace Jones Murder She Wrote-Chaka Demus & Pliers

That whirling dervish pictured above is none other than Joanna Peterson Palladino Resnick, lead singer of the Off the Record Trio, who performed this past Sunday in celebration of their CD release! They gifted us with a high octane performance from several eras of the rock and soul canon, and made us forget the snowy weather and the fact that the Bills lost again! Tonight's episode also pulls from several eras and genres, but will likely not produce the same levels of unabashed joy that OTR gives with every performance. But hey, listen anyway eh? 7pm tonight on RadioRadioX.com

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Suite Sioux-Freddie Hubbard Walk on the Wild Side-Jimmy Smith Across 110th St-Bobby Womack Crumbs off the Table-Glasshouse Boogie Down-Eddie Kendricks

So much like the fact that I just noticed this antenna perched in a very high tree in our neighborhood the other day, I only just discovered the beautiful song "Weather Report Suite" by the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, who passed on Saturday. All credit for my knowledge of this song goes to my neighbor Phil, who mentioned in a text message to me regarding the death of Bob. I was familiar with the album "Wake of the Flood", from which the song originated, but had never heard it for some reason. It's included in tonight's episode along with several Neko Case songs, as we were blessed to see her perform this week at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. Side A is full of some of what our friends at Uncut Magazine hail as the best from 2025, we may or may not agree, you tell us!

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Day One-Bon Iver featuring Dijon & Flock of Dimes Out in the Dark-Jeff Tweedy No Fear-Big Thief Farmers Market-Pulp Rock City-Horsegirl Van Pelt Parties-Patterson Hood & Wednesday