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Hello and welcome to a new edition of the PB Podcast. It’s been six months since I started the podcast – and this is the 32nd podcast that I’ve uploaded, including the special jazz and blues podcasts. I’m impressed, anyway. Today’s show features acts from Amy Winehouse to Elvis Costello. Amy was a great talent…

Hello and welcome to a new edition of the PB Podcast. I’m posting this on Sunday, November 2 – the morning after we turned back our clocks on hour. That should mean an extra hour’s worth of sleep, but if you’re like me, your dog hasn’t grasped the concept and still wants to go for…

Last week I put up the first Blue Note podcast to celebrate their 75th anniversary. I liked that so much that I put together a second Blue Note jazzcast – here it is. We start on a Maiden Voyage with Herbie Hancock and end on Two Worlds with Tony Williams. In between are songs from…

It’s a great, cool autumn day here. With all the rain and wind, most of the leaves have fallen, so I’ll be dedicating most of the day to raking leaves.I always listen to music while doing chores around the house, and today’s podcast will make for a good hour’s of background music as I gather…

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the PB Podcast. This year is Blue Note’s 75th anniversary, so I decided to have a podcast dedicated to Blue Note. After I finished the podcast I realized that I didn’t include some of my all-time favorite Blue Note records, so also did a Part 2, which…

“We got our own way of talking” on today’s PB Podcast. Don’t want to give away the ending (Spoiler alert) but we’ve got some great tunes on this week’s podcast. “If it’s square we ain’t there” begins with a set of Bob Dylan covers, then we head to the 1960’s with The Left Bake and…

Against a real background of climate change, on today’s podcast we take an emotional weather report, and spend quite a bit of time in the 1980’s with Wreckless Eric, the Jam, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Lyres and more. Please leave comments and encourage others to listen. Enjoy! Download here

Hey all — Some links to recent favorite articles. A couple of music articles and a couple of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. It’s how the world works. From the Wall Street Journal: SAT Scores and Income Inequality. No one is surprised by this, I’m guessing. Mo’ money = better opportunities…

Hello and welcome to today’s PB Podcast. Today’s podcast starts with a tune from the War on Drugs from their most recent album – a favorite of mine in 2014. “Burning” is one of the excellent songs from the record. So I thought, Why not look at songs that have Fire in them to complete…

Hello and welcome to a special edition of the PB Podcast. I had a request for a Blues for a Rainy Afternoon podcast, and I am happy to oblige. I’ve been looking to add a blues podcast, and this is the easiest way to do it. The problem with the blues (at least from most…