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Old Blues News
Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy at Chess Studio Chicago 1963 Last week, I mentioned meeting Muhammad Ali and the tongue-tying...

James Pagliasotti
Apr 122 min read
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High Street Forever
Classic Improv on Freeform Radio Well, the cannabis leaf is added, but there was a certain sense of the psychoactive in the performances...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 292 min read
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Spanish Peaks Speaks
Chip and Elaine Baker late of KSPK-FM in Walsenburg, Colorado Rock the Rockies is a euphemism rarely realized, but Chip and Elaine Baker...

James Pagliasotti
Jan 172 min read
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Talking Sam Kopper and Karma
Sam Kopper at WBCN-FM Boston c. 1969 We had a great Zoom interview with Sam Kopper last week about his long career in broadcasting, both...

James Pagliasotti
Sep 29, 20241 min read
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Jim Santella RIP
Jim Santella c. 1972 - credit: bmhof.org We have a sense of impatience about this project and for good reason. So many of the great...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 30, 20241 min read
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Bank Shot
We had the pleasure a few weeks ago of talking with Steve Postell, he of the famed group of studio musicians known as Immediate Family (...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 26, 20241 min read
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WFMU-FM Lives On!
There are a lot of great stories in the history of radio. Being focused on freeform radio as we are, we can assure you there are many...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 19, 20241 min read
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WFMU-FM True Freeform Radio
Then there is WFMU-FM radio, and there is nothing else like it. The About Us section of their website tells it better than I ever could:...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 14, 20241 min read
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All That Jazz
Phil Schaap Jazz Collection; Special Collections Library; Vanderbilt University - credit: NYT History we've observed is what is stored in...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 12, 20241 min read
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Musicians and Artists and Sales
How to ‘splain it? Garth Brooks sold more albums than Elvis Presley, more than Led Zeppelin, more than the Eagles, even more than Michael...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 6, 20243 min read
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First Steps
First Steps - Pablo Picasso 1943 We took the first steps in our Freeform Radio project a few years ago. We built a website (HERE) as a...

James Pagliasotti
Aug 6, 20243 min read
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Tony Pigg Rest In Peace
Tony Pigg c. 1977 - photo credit: Lucinda Scala Quinn in the New York Times The Last DJ for us is that rare and special breed of the...

James Pagliasotti
May 19, 20241 min read
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RIP Jim Ladd (reprinted from the Los Angeles Times December 18, 2023)
credit: jimladdrocks.com Jim Ladd, disc jockey who was a fixture of L.A. rock radio in the 1970s, dies at 75. Jim Ladd spun vinyl and...

James Pagliasotti
Dec 19, 20232 min read
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Real Radio Trifecta
KVNF-FM Radio in Paonia, Colorado Fifteen hundred people live in the country comfort town of Paonia, Colorado, and the population of...

James Pagliasotti
Nov 10, 20233 min read
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Passing
Dusty Street courtesy KSAN Jive 95 Dusty Street died last week. Her former colleague, Scoop Nisker, passed away a few weeks ago. They...

James Pagliasotti
Nov 1, 20232 min read
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Mary Turner RIP
The famed KMET deejay passed away. Read her obituary HERE. Mary Turner - credit: LARadio.com

James Pagliasotti
May 28, 20231 min read
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Baby You Can't Drive My Car
Not anymore. Not with that old, scratchy, battered AM radio band that drove the dreams and heartbeat of so many teenage listeners to Top...

James Pagliasotti
May 18, 20231 min read
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Best Ever
credit: michaelbloomfield.com Bob Dylan called him, "the best guitar player I ever heard." Being the astute musicologist he is, Bob has...

James Pagliasotti
Apr 18, 20233 min read
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History of Car Radios
(Abbreviated from https://citroenvie.com/history-of-the-car-radio/) One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 29, 20234 min read
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Play It Like An Artist
Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bickel at the Newport Folk Festival 1963 Bob...

James Pagliasotti
Mar 29, 20235 min read
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