Tonight's artist will be pianist Nicky Hopkins. Even if you don't know his name, you've heard his playing. Some examples:
Nicky Hopkins - Piano Shuffle
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and some contemporary Bluegrass.
How Close Was Israel to Bombing Iran?
New evidence has now surfaced from former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that Israel came close to attacking Iran three times over the past few years – if you believe what “major” news media reported about the story. But you shouldn’t believe it.
When they started to make M*A*S*H*, I thought, "Good. Bob got a little break there. He'll deliver this film, put a few bucks in his pocket, and get out of debt."
I go out to the set, it was like the third day, and there he is with this picture of the Last Supper in his hand, and he's laughing at it.
I'm thinking, "Jesus, now it's going to be blasphemy, and they won’t want to release it."
Tonight's Evenng Blues (Weekend Edition) will be hosted by me. It will feature an eclectic mix of artists and music including Jimi Hendrix, The Coasters, Freddy Fender, The Kinsgmen, The Grateful Dead, Bob Maley, Leadbelly, and The Rolling Stones that I'm calling not quite country.
Some examples:
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Glendale Train
Absorbing, but distressing, piece in the Guardian about how the people of Hawaii are being poisoned unto birth defects and death by pesticide-spewing transnational GMO simians who, controlling both the legislature and the courts, seemingly will not be stopped.
Most people know that 23 states have legal medical marijuana and four states have legal recreational marijuana (Ohio will vote on legal pot this November).
What most people don't know is that Central and South American countries, the ones who have suffered the most violence from drug prohibition, are moving far ahead of us in the fight to end this costly and losing war.
This evening's music features one of the Three Kings of the blues guitar, Albert King.
On a Dreary Morning in May of 1920 Seven Men Carrying Winchesters and pistols boarded the Norfolk and Western's No. 29 at Bluefield, West Virginia, bound for the little mining town of Matewan on the Kentucky border.
- Robert Shogan
There were a few comments yesterday mentioning that the scheduler wasn't working so I did a series of tests last night and found that the scheduler is indeed working. I think there is a general misunderstanding on how the scheduler works and that is mostly my fault for not explaining it well enough and for not supplying a FAQ with a thorough explanation.
Greetings C99 pilgrims.
The state of affairs sure does produce anxiety.
