Hi Music Friends,
I’ll try and regularly post playlists here, and soon I’ll add a widget to make them searchable by Artist, Album or Date. And once that’s done, I’ll try and add in the last 20 years of assorted playlists from a whole bunch of past shows. Music Nerds Paradise!

Weds Night Mix – July 6 2022
You are getting sleeeeeepy. Midsummer Night Dreams: reveries, yearning, heartbreak, memories, and sand…don’t dream it’s over.

Weds Night Mix – June 29 2022
Trying to balance anger and hope. We’ll see how it goes.

Weds Night Mix – June 22 2022
Trying to get in the Summer mood with Darrell Scott, Dar Williams, Scott Miller, new Patty Griffin, a little preview of the Black Opry Review at the Freight (6/30/22), and low-key sprinkled with LGBTQ+ artists for Pride month. Yum!

Weds Night Mix – June 15 2022
A bit of Bloomsday celebrating, on the eve of the best literary holiday ever; music associated with Ulysses, James Joyce and Dublin. A few Sunny songs not really about the weather… And a handful of miscellaneous tunes that suit my mood this week.

Weds Night Mix – June 8 2022
New songs from Wynonna & Waxahatchee, Tedeschi Trucks, S.G Goodman, Edgar Winter, Steep Canyon Rangers…plus treasures from Kelly Joe Phelps, Amy Winehouse, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ray Charles, Nina Simone Jimmy LaFave, Tony Rice, Mavis Staples, and more.

B2 Weds Night Mix – June 1 2022
A new track from Amanda Shires, but mostly old friends to provide a little rest in these weary times.

Weds Night Mix – May 25 2022
New sounds for the waning days of the fund drive! New (and new-old) music from Amythyst Kiah, Joy Oladukun, Mavis & Levon, Eli Paperboy Reed, Nicki Bluhm, Bret McKenzie and more. A neo-trad-70’s-mashup set from a handful of young Irish vocalists, and a sideways goodbye to Vangelis.

Weds Night Mix – May 18 2022
Fundraise We Must – but our pleas for cash are nonetheless accompanied by some fine music from The Felice Brothers, Sturgill Simpson and Willie Nelson, Jesse deNatale, Jesse Malin, Stevie Wonder, Sam & Dave, Allison Moorer, Duffy, and Molly Tuttle, among many others. Come for the tunes, stay for the sparkling cyanide.

Weds Night Mix – May 11, 2022
The subtext is outrage, but the music is fairly chill. A few new tracks from Phoebe Bridgers, Bonnie Raitt and Caroline Spence…but special yumminess from Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Libba Cotten and Lil Naz X!

B2 Weds Night Mix – May 4, 2022
This show starts out a little bit dark and gothic, but with the help of Willie Nelson, Jim Lauderdale, Madeline Edwards, and Patty Griffin finds its way to the light. Then kind of settles down into a misty blue. I guess it all evens out in the end.

B2 Weds Night Mix – April 27, 2022
Try as I might, I could not find a thread to stitch together all the various tracks on this show. So, let’s just call it the “Love is Like a Bottle of Gin” show.

B2 Weds Night Mix – April 20, 2022
Sometimes I make myself cry with my own mixes…If you need a little catharsis, tune in for so many flavors of crazy.

B2 Weds Night Mix- April 13, 2022
An orderly chaotic mess of songs that have been swirling around in my brain this week. A nod to John Prine on the second anniversary of his death, a Rabbit Song, Magnetic Fields, a pile of covers, Midnight Sun and Moonbeams.

B2 Weds Night Mix – April 6, 2022
A restless mix that starts electric and winds down into unchained heartbreak, melancholy, self-deception, hope & a tiny touch of torment. Be careful.

B2 Weds Night – March 30 2022
New tunes from Adia Victoria, Father John Misty, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and the Neville Brothers. Plenty of older songs as well from the Stones, Rickie Lee Jones, Ron Sexsmith, the Hank Dogs, etc. And for some reason – possibly mythic – horses and hair.

B2 Weds Night Mix – March 23, 2022
Some new releases to get excited about: Mavis Staples and Levon Helm (Recorded in 2011, coming soon!), unreleased Son House material from 1964! Waxahatchee! (Not sure which I like more, the song or saying the name Waxahatchee…). Belle and Sebastian?

B2 Weds Night Mix – March 16, 2022
Dreamy, girly, strong and kickass, nerdy, nostalgic. broken-hearted and stout-hearted…This show has it all!

B2 Weds Night Mix – March 9 2022
New music from Bonnie Raitt, Amanda Anne Platt, Charlie Crockett, and the Cowboy Junkies. Classics from Stevie, Al, Mavis, Gladys, Patty, Sarah, Shawn and Leonard. All in the service of KPFA’s WinterFund Drive!
- Feb 5, 2017 – Pig in a Pen
- Nov 10, 2016 – the Bonnie Simmons Show
- August 7, 2016 – America’s Back 40
- May 8, 2016 – Panhandle Country
- March 31, 2016 – The Bonnie Simmons Show
- February 18, 2016 – The Hear & Now
- January 14, 2016 – America’s Back 40
- December 27, 2015 – America’s Back 40
- December 20, 2015 – America’s Back 40
- Sept. 6, 2015 – Pig in a Pen
- August 27, 2015 – The Hear & Now
- August 9, 2015 – Pig in a Pen
- July 26, 2015 – Pig in a Pen
- July 12, 2015 – Pig in a Pen
- June 28, 2015 – Pig in a Pen
- June 25, 2015 – The Hear & Now
- June 21, 2015 – America’s Back 40
- January 4, 2007 – the Hear & Now
June 22, 2006 – The Bonnie Simmons Show
An interview and live performance from the extraordinary songwriter and producer, T Bone Burnett, taped last week at the Great American Music Hall where T Bone was performing. Betty Beasley will be filling in for Bonnie this Thursday, but she’ll be playing the interview Bonnie did with T Bone Burnett shortly after 8:00PM.