At one point, the brilliance of the Beach Boys seemed to have no top.
Principal architect Brian Wilson and a group of family and friends moved from strength to strength, releasing 1964 s I Get Around and When I Grow Up (To Be a Man), then 1965 s Help Me Rhonda and California Girls followed by 1966 s Wouldn t It Be Nice and God Only Knows. Everything came crashing to a halt after the release of
A follow-up album didn t arrive until September of the following year, with a historic stand-alone single they d already been working on as the lone stopgap. Wilson was stuck in a spiral of perfectionism that ultimately led to the shelving of an album he d intended to call
His killed me as a pre-punk boy. Like some free-reed instrument, it glowed more than pushed, transmitting a longing I couldn t yet name. Was the sweetest on KWFM radio in Tucson in the mid 70s. That voice sidled up swimmingly next to his male-peer stars, like the velvet country-rock throats of John Dawson (New Riders of The Purple Sage) and Jackson Browne, especially on the song of isolation The Story, a tune filled of songwriterly flourishes, raw violin and a foreshadowing narrative so great it transcended any potentialities as a formal radio song, yet there it was on free-form KWFM, regularly:
Written by Emily Morrow on May 1, 2021
What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being
on the air?
I was brought in to
the station by Rick McCarthy. He would hear all of the music I played at
the Leicester Post Office every day and thought of me when Nick DiBiasio had to
step down. So, it’s all Rick’s fault!
What is your favorite
WICN memory?
Having the Six String
Soldiers do a special concert in the studio for me was absolutely my best
memory!
FILL IN THE BLANK: The
best concert I ever saw was ?
Cherishing the Gerry Rafferty album City to City
A record collector/musician explains why the album City to City by singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty is such a timeless classic.
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Apr 26, 2021
Gerry Rafferty in a personal photograph given to Goldmine by his family (Photo taken in 1977 by Martha Rafferty) and his classic album, City to City.
A record collector/musician explains why the album City to City by singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty is such a timeless classic.
By Joe Matera
and the new single by Scottish singer-songwriter
Gerry Rafferty, “Baker Street,” is blasting out on the airwaves on my small transistor radio. The hypnotic sax hook, lyrical content, musical arrangement and the voice, it all engulfs me, striking a chord deep within my soul. This is music coming truly from the heart. It sweeps me away from my teenage existence into another world, a world so far away. And I’m hooked, big time. I hit the local record store and purchase the 7-inch sin
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