Episode #4: Create a Disturbance in Your Mind

What a fun night. Thanks so much for the stories, shenanigans, and spontaneous songwriting/performance opportunities, Judy Hill, James Andrews, Darrell, Diane, and Pizza Mike! And for making me laugh so hard I feel like I can pretend I have abs again, for a minute. The icing on the cake was when Pizza had to wash his shoes in Bayou St. John.

The ostensible theme of this week’s playlist was “local bands I love to go see live that I haven’t yet played” (sub-theme, for this week only: “what is available on Spotify?”) But if you’ve seen me stalking around your gigs and you’re not on here, it’s probably because said list is about four times as long as one show, TBC. 

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Episode #3: Nervous Chatter & the Sheiks of Arabi

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Ok! After wading through the carnage of Sunday night’s installment of Musician, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes, this was our playlist, approximately. (The second half of the program mostly consisted of people frantically yelling at me to find songs I’d never heard of, me cursing out various electronic devices, everybody staying properly hydrated, and all of us getting distracted by the best [i.e. dirtiest] stories once we were off-air. Ah, would that the FCC would take a holiday…)

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Episode #2: Bar Lurker Picks

Last night’s playlist from Musicians, Mentors, & Barroom Heroes on 102.3 WHIV FM! Local and non-local picks and dedications by/to patrons at the Old Arabi Bar and the Ooh Poo Pah Doo, also from miscellaneous musically-knowledgeable people that frequent the same haunts as I do. Including me. Sundays from 9-11 p.m., thanks for tuning in!

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