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  • End of the Year Podcast

    The post-Christmas podcast – hope everyone had a good Christmas – we had family over to our house this year. It all went well, but we’ve got tons of leftovers that we’ll be eating until well into 2015. We let it all hang out in this week’s podcast with the Hombres to kick things off.…

  • My Father’s Birthday

    Hello and welcome to another edition of the PB Podcast. Today would have been my father’s 95th birthday. Happy birthday, Dad. On today’s podcast we start out with a band from Boston, then to Los Angeles, Liverpool and Cincinnati. From there we head to London, Texas, Texas again and Indianola, Mississippi. The 3rd set is…

  • Ho ho ho – Merry Christmas

    Hello boys and girls, When I was younger I used to put together mix tapes (quel surprise!), and of course I used to put together Christmas mix tapes for the holidays. I’ve done 2 or 3 of these and thought about doing one for this Christmas. I put together the first set but then deleted…

  • Mid-December Edition

    Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the PB Podcast. Let’s stay away from the horrible news this week and escape into some great music. On today’s show, we start with Lyle Lovett and Father John Misty before going into some TV themes (far different from “Gilligan’s Island”). From there it’s new Bryan Ferry,…

  • Pearl Harbor Day

    Around these parts it’s actually Larry Bird’s birthday, but Happy Pearl Harbor Day. I’m currently reading Perfidia by James Ellroy, which takes place during that month in 1941. On today’s podcast we’ll end with the world (it’s going up in flames), but before that are sets of great music that includes Dr. John, Sharon Jones,…

  • The other music

    Hello and welcome to another special edition of the PB Podcast. Today we explore what I’ll call “the other music”, music I listen to that usually does not appear on the regular podcast. This is music that my wife yells at me for playing, so I’ve pretty much eliminated it from the podcast (although not…

  • No turkeys here – all meat edition

    I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving day holiday – or last few days if you don’t celebrate. Time for a new edition of the PB Podcast. We get right into some great music with Jackie Wilson and LaVerne Baker, followed up by Raphael Saadiq, Quantic with Alice Russell and Betty LaVette. We trip from…

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving, or the day before Black Friday. Just enjoy the time with family and friends, and to help, listen to this new podcast, celebrating the 65th anniversary of Prestige Records. Prestige Records was founded back in 1949 by Bob Weinstock, who had opened a record store next to a jazz club. He decided to…

  • All Over the Place

    Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the PB Podcast. On today’s show we have both ends burning as we go all over the place. We stop at an airport and make a sedan delivery with acts including Roxy Music, Sleater-Kinney, the Black Angels, Neil Young, Wet Willie, Elvis Presley and many more. Thank…

  • It’s turning colder

    Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the PB Podcast. It looks like we’re getting ready for winter – some snow a couple of weeks ago and temperatures that did not get to 40 F yesterday (4 C). I still love New England, though. On today’s show we start with lies – Your Lies,…

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