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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Fanny and Stas -- Second Story stories -- weekdays at 5.

The best of Storytelling with Fanny and Stas tales will be heard from 5-7 Weekdays on EnlightenRadio.org

Go to our new player page if you can't see the player on the home page (on small screens)  -- player.enlightenradio.org

Also -- yesterday's broadcast -- where I accidentally TURNED THE SOUND OFF, will be re-broadcast Wednesday at noon.

Progress is slow -- which reminds me -- that's the title of James Boyd's new episode of Recovery Radio

Monday, April 23, 2018

Enlighten Radio Podcasts: Winners and Losers: A conversation with Kevin Card...

Enlighten Radio Podcasts: Winners and Losers: A conversation with Kevin Card...: Download this episode (right click and save) Kevin Carden serves as Town Recorder for Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. He is a technical...

Sunday, April 22, 2018

A Winners and Losers Special -- 10 AM Sunday -- Kevin Carden on the County Commission elections

Folks

The Winners and  Losers Radio Program has been on hiatus. The  Enlightenradio.org radio station has been undergoing substantial reconstruction.Expect its full return, but in a revolutionary new format, by the end of  May.

Today, however we host a special WL broadcast with Kevin Carden, Town Recorder for Harpers Ferry who is running for the County Commission in Jefferson County.

The situation in the County is a mess, especially since a gang of fools won 3 seats in the last round. Kevin will hopefully explain what's at stake for citizens in the up coming elections, primary and general.

Today, 10 AM. Go to enlightenradio.org and click on the player. Start listening.

California Explosion is STILL on deck, here in Almost Heaven Springtime West Virginia.

cheers

Friday, April 20, 2018

California Country, Storytelling and Recovery

Folks:

Today begins the beginning of  countryside California, with Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, and Buck Owens leading the charge. Live recordings from the EnlightenRadio.org concerts vault. Plus a trip down the oft-forgotten paths of LA R&B from wayback. The Robins, The Flames, The Penguins, The Coasters, and more.



Not only that! The latest storytelling shows with Fanny and Stas, and powerful Recovery stories from James Boyd's recovery radio are in the 24/7 California Explosion rotation. Hopefully the new Whats Playing App will go live this week. Look for it on http://whatsplaying.enlightenradio.org.


Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Recovery Radio: Recovery Radio: The Playground ( Documentary)

Recovery Radio: Recovery Radio: The Playground ( Documentary): Download this episode (right click and save) This episode of Recovery Radio was  broadcast live on  EnlightenRadio.org April 17, 2018...

Sunday, April 15, 2018

California explosion part seis -- plus more!

Today begins the latest evolution of 24/7 California Explosion -- of live performances!

The Headliners:


  • Taj Mahal--Immigrating to Los Angeles in 1964, Henry Saint Clair Fredericks uses the stage name Taj Mahal, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments. He incorporates elements of world music into his works and has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50-year career. 
  • Jackson Browne -- The southern california herald and Morpheus  of Melancholy -- Like Taj, a professional R & R singer-songwriter and bandman for nigh on 50 years.
  • Van Morrison -- This is a cheat, since Van lived in Fairfax, California only briefly a long time ago. But everything he says of Ireland is true of Northern California! The Los Angeles river sings a Celtic tune in the wet season. Hah
  • Keb' Mo'--Born in Compton, California --4-time Grammy winner and a(nother) major re-inventor of  the blues medium. From Papa John Creech till now, he has injected the blues into nearly every style of life and music, across the world. He finally gave up California and moved to Nashville. Oh well.


Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Recovery Radio: The Healing Forest: Recovery Radio Welcomes Paula ...

Recovery Radio: The Healing Forest: Recovery Radio Welcomes Paula ...: Download this episode (right click and save) This episode of Recovery Radio was broadcast on EnlightenRadio.org April 10, 2018 at the Re...

Monday, April 9, 2018

California Explosion Part Cinq -- Non-Stop Mac-Zappa -- and NEW STORYTELLING

Good morning everyone:

We proceed with the April California Explosion focusing on Fleetwood Mac and Frank Zappa for the next 48 hours.

Fleetwood Mac was born in London, but was reborn in Los Angeles to become one of the highest selling bands of all time. Enlighten Radio's live concert recordings include both pre and post the Buckingham/Nicks transformation from blues  to California Rock.

Frank Zappa -- no one speaks for Frank but Frank -- and there is an ocean of live recordings. Zappa was an LA immigrant, like many, and some of his origin in gritty Baltimore remained -- but Zappa belonged in California, and knew it.

At Noon today and Wednesday,  Fanny and Stas tell stories about Stephen Hawking, the famous scientist who passed away March 14.

woof woof


Friday, April 6, 2018

California Back Alley Blowup -- Part Quatro

The latest storytelling shows from Fanny and Stas, and James Boyd's  Recovery Radio are circulating this month on EnlightenRadio.org, along with part quatro of the California Explosion:


24/7 for the next 48 hours:

Jack Johnson --- He's Hawaiian but graduated from Santa Barbara. Also professional surfer.
Counting Crows -- from Berkeley, California! Watch out when they are drunk on stage -- things get a bit adult. Recovering the satellites of American culture.

Dwight Yoakam -- The Western in Country and Western from Bakersfield, following the lead of Buck Owen.

Elvin Bishop -- born in Glendale -- a mile or so from where  I lived in Echo Park. A pre-Boomer, and classic guitarist for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. ARG -- also coming up soon. We may not be able to cover california in just a month.

And of course, the Firesign Theater continues.

cheers.

EnlightenRadio.org


Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Recovery Radio Amid the Continuing California Explosion



9 AM This morning: James Boyd's Recovery Radio highlights addiction as a family disease.

California Explosion part tres:

John Mayer
The Byrds
Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods

Lost concerts and undergrounds: 24/7 for 48 HOURS!!

cheers

John

Sunday, April 1, 2018

California Explosion Part deux -- BB King, Bonnie Raitt, and Boz Scaggs

CAlifornia MOnth is Underway.

The EnlightenRadio.org bottomless collection of live recordings focuses on California for April. For the next 48 hours a marathon concert featuring BB King, Bonnie Raitt, and Boz Scaggs -- all either born in or adopted by California --- share the stage. Not only that, they appear in a fugue rotation, votexing 30 years of performance into a  sky of stars  worthy of William Blake -- California is the future, or there may not be one.


Also this week:

Storytelling with Fanny and Stas: Mondays at noon.

Recovery Radio: James Boyd -- Tuesdays at 9 AM

Check out podcasts at podcasts.enlightenradio.org, or at democracyroad.podbean.com

cheers

John