RADIOTHON IS COMING!!!
Kingston Coffee House 3/31 “Wild Thing” Replay-Playlist
Sixty years ago today, on April 1 1966, The Troggs recorded the song “Wild Thing” at Regent Sound Studio in London. The song, written by Chip Taylor, went on to be a No.1. This week, the songwriter passed away…
Kingston Coffee House 3/24/26 Replay-Playlist
On tonight’s Kingston Coffee House, we pay tribute to one of the greatest songwriters to emerge from Chicago’s folk music scene in the 1960s, award-winning author, cartoonist, songwriter Shel Silverstein.
Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, Playlist 122-Lorenz Hart (and Richard Rodgers), the Blue Moon Playlist
The theme of this show, specifically, is the career of the songwriting team of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, with an emphasis on Hart and Richard Linklater’s 2025 biopic about the night Hart experienced the beginning of the end of …
Kingston Coffee House “St. Patrick’s Day” Replay
“Green beer” music refers to the stereotypical, high-energy, and often Americanized pub songs played during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations…There’ll be none of that on my show tonight.
Picture This Playlist 121: The Lines Blur
Everything, everywhere, all at once in this show as the Ides of March rolls around with Oscar Night, St, Patrick’s Day just two days away, and some long and beautiful careers in popular entertainment to observe and appreciate …
The Kingston Coffee House 3/10/26 Replay and Playlist
On tonight’s Kingston Coffee House, I’ll be playing a set from one of my favorite songwriters Louisiana bayou legend Bobby Charles. In the 1950s, he wrote hits for Fats Domino and Bill Haley & the Comets, but his best songs were yet to come.
The Kingston Coffee House 3/3/26 Replay and Playlist
On tonight’s Kingston Coffee House, I’ll be playing a set from one of my favorite songwriters from the ’60s, the blue-eyed soul man Dan Penn .
Later in the show, I’ll play idiosyncratic selections from Judy Henske, Linda Perhacs, and Judee Sill.
It Might As Well Be Spring : Q&A with Matt Mania
… Van watched from the side of the stage. Later, in the men’s room, I heard a drunk Pierce Brosnan yell, “What the #&@$ was that @&#%e!!”