Playlist Archive

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

Trying to balance anger and hope. We’ll see how it goes.

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!

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.

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.

A new track from Amanda Shires, but mostly old friends to provide a little rest in these weary times.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Sometimes I make myself cry with my own mixes…If you need a little catharsis, tune in for so many flavors of crazy.

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.

A restless mix that starts electric and winds down into unchained heartbreak, melancholy, self-deception, hope & a tiny touch of torment. Be careful.

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.

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?

Dreamy, girly, strong and kickass, nerdy, nostalgic. broken-hearted and stout-hearted…This show has it all!

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!