Plastic Magic podcast #256 and #257 from New Year's Eve's Eve 2012

Hey everybody, Happy New Year! On this night which was new year's eve's eve, Dec. 30th, 2012, for those taking notes, I broadcasted and podcasted two shows, well three if you count the "mystery hour" which was The Firesign Theater....

The first was a plan 'ol episode of Plastic Magic, which was broadcast over both KXUA 88.3FM and WBCQ 5110KHz shortwave 7PM-9.30PM EST and went a little something like this: C.A. QUINTET (1969), BLUES IMAGE (1969), TRAPEZE (1970), THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND (1972), CATAPILLA (1972), TEN YEARS AFTER (1970), THE ANIMALS (1968), FEVER TREE (1970), GRATEFUL DEAD (1966), CAPTAIN BEYOND (1973), THE ULTIMATE SPINACH (1967), AUDIENCE (1971),  and much more. Download it here: podcast#256

(artwork "promul i daeormes" by Wayne Neblett...green photo by Ron Sitton)For the later half of the night, 9.30PM-1AM, I did a feature show featuring some incredible music from some old friends. Stories both from me and an over the phone chat with drummer Jonathan Taylor. This is very rare, mostly home recorded blues, jazz and rock and roll from Arkansas. Some of the recordings on this podcast maybe so rare that the band are the only ones who have another copy of it! Musicians you will here on this are: JEFF DAVIS, JONATHAN TAYLOR, MARK JONES, SCOTT PINNEY, PHILLIP CAFFEY, CHUCK BROUILLETTE, RONNIE ROUSE, JASON ABLES, CLARE STARR, JEFF GRAY, JOEL LINN, MATT DICKSON, PAUL BURNHAM, KEEFE JACKSON, PHILLIP EUBANKS (yeah, that's me), NANCY WARREN, CAROL REED, KENNY WOODALL, JAMES "RED" HUTSELL, RON SITTON, WAYNE PASCAL and a few more named in the broadcast. Bands and "projects" heard here: GRASS, GRASSMUSIC FOR THE ERA, promul i daeormes, BEN.BEN, BAR B Q BLUES BAND, SHUFFLE BAND and so on. Download it here: podcast #257 The History of Grass

Plastic Magic Feb 27, 2011 podcast honoring black history month

Yes folks, another massive 3 hour (plus) podcast loaded down with some great music! This week again in honor of black history month, I dug out some rare jazz, blues, funk and soul records for ya. This week was: LITTLE RICHARD, MILES DAVIS, PROFESSOR LONGHAIR, WAYNE SHORTER, HAMIET BLUIETT, FATS DOMINO, BIG WALTER HORTON, CAREY BELL, CHUCK BERRY, JOHN COLTRANE, BUKKA WHITE, EARL GAINES, CURTIS MAYFIELD, FUNKADELIC, REDD FOX and much more. Download this link> Plastic Magic Feb. 27, 2011 podcast

Plastic Magic Feb. 20th, 2011 podcast Black History Month Show pt. 1 (this year)

hey kids, I am happy to report that I am posting this from my own computer at my own house for a change! This would maybe only make sense if you knew my home computer flipped me the bird last Oct. Yeah, I know, I know... OK well anyway, this is the first of two episodes this year honoring black history month. Beatbachs did not show up for his 8pm timeslot this week so I stayed on a little long making this a 3 hour show (and podcast).....On this show you will hear: BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND, CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD, THE CLOVERS, THE TEMPTATIONS, RICHARD PRYOR, MAGIC SLIM AND THE TEARDROPS, THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS, TED TAYLOR, THE CYCLONES, BO DIDDLEY, GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS, THE RONETTES, MARION BROWN, FUNKADELIC, ARCHIE SHEPP, and much more including a documentary recording from the Student Non-violent Coordination Comm. (SNCC) of Albany, GA from 1961 called "Freedom in the Air" of which we will listen to the second half of that documentary next sunday. But for now here is this week's podcast for Plastic Magic 2-20-11

Plastic Magic podcast #53 (Feb. 28, 2010)

hey hey everybody out there in podcast land! On this show I played almost all jazz. There are a few old 45's in there from 1950's and 60's R & B like: DEE CLARK, LAZY LESTER, LaVERNE BAKER and the GLIDERS, WALTER FULLER'S CLUB ROYALE BAND and LITTLE WILLIE JOHN.  But mostly long pieces of "avant-garde", "free jazz" and "jazz rock fusion" from the likes of : HENRY THREADGILL SEXTET(1988), THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO (1969), MAX ROACH (1961), MILES DAVIS (1969), PHAROAH SANDERS (1970), ARCHIE SHEPP (1969) and so on. This is not the show that I normally do. I really love jazz and fig'r'd this to be a good time to do a show like this. I tried to keep it from getting too far out...well anyway...HERE TIS: podcast #53 (jazz)

Plastic Magic podcast #50 Feb. 7th 2010 (black history month special vol. 4)

Hey kids, this is the first of 4 special shows on Plastic Magic for black history month. I decided to devote the whole month to blues, jazz, and heavy soul music. This show ended up blues heavy. I had a call come in the studio tonight saying this was the best show I've done...but you can decide that for your self! On this episode we listened to: LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS, SUN RA (1972), JIMMY DAWKINS (1971),  THE METERS, STEVIE WONDER (1974), JOHN LEE HOOKER (1969), THE OHIO PLAYERS (1972), JOHN COLTRANE (1966), TOWER OF POWER (1974), J.B. HUTTO AND THE HAWKS (1968) and much more...Next week we will be exploring the sexy sounds of Funkadelic so don't miss it! For tonights show DOWNLOAD THIS LINK: 2-07-2010 Black History Month Vol. 4 also if upon listening to this podcast makes you want to listen to more of the same, check out the shows from last Feb. too (located on the left side of screen under podcast archives). The reason the heading of this entry says "vol. 4" is because 1-3 was last year. Have fun with it!

Tony Williams Lifetime (1971)

Black history month is Febuary. Which is right around the corner. Tune in. Sunday nights 6-8pm KXUA 88.3fm