Every year in March I dedicated my show to celebrating Women's History Month. I would do one episode that exclusively featured female artists and one girl group episode. I'll have to dig one or two of those up. For now, I've found one in which I heavily feature women.
Actually, I very deliberately chose to play half women and half men on a regular basis. Up until that time, it seemed that 90% of vintage soul played on the radio was music by men. In fact, I found it very difficult to even purchase music by women. This was one of the challenges I faced in our pre-internet download society. Record labels readily reissued recordings by male soul artists but good luck finding stuff by women (other than a handful of vocalists). It's gotten a lot better in the past 5 years but it's still not great.
This particular episode was aired in the early days of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
I have to post this in sections because I don't know any other way to do it. Sorry.
Also I apparently had a cold when doing this episode. Sorry again.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Soul Kitchen - August, 2003 - Jimmy McCracklin
Hello Gang,
I've had many requests over the years to post some of my shows on line. It's a great deal of work to transfer them from cassette to CD and then to sound file and so on. I've decided though to post a few random clips of episodes.
Basically I'm not really weeding out my favorites (because that would also take too long). I simply grabbed whatever tapes were convenient and began transferring.
I hope you enjoy. See the audio player at the bottom of this post for listening.
I used to be very insistent on making all of my flyers by hand. I felt it was very "punk rock". Eventually I gave in to technology. I think I've finally found a way to combine technology with my old fashioned analog method.
In an effort to personalize the music to my listeners (and hopefully teach a little soul history) each week I would highlight certain artists on their birthdays. Something that has disturbed me about SOME soul record collectors/DJs is that I often witness a disconnect between appreciating the music and awareness of the history and artists who made the music. This was something I tried to combat on my show.
This particular episode featured the Jimmy McCracklin Blue Plate Birthday Special.
I also included the Community Billboard which some folks might find boring. However, I chose to include it in case some long term Oly residents find it interesting. It's VERY Olympia.
I've had many requests over the years to post some of my shows on line. It's a great deal of work to transfer them from cassette to CD and then to sound file and so on. I've decided though to post a few random clips of episodes.
Basically I'm not really weeding out my favorites (because that would also take too long). I simply grabbed whatever tapes were convenient and began transferring.
I hope you enjoy. See the audio player at the bottom of this post for listening.
I used to be very insistent on making all of my flyers by hand. I felt it was very "punk rock". Eventually I gave in to technology. I think I've finally found a way to combine technology with my old fashioned analog method.
In an effort to personalize the music to my listeners (and hopefully teach a little soul history) each week I would highlight certain artists on their birthdays. Something that has disturbed me about SOME soul record collectors/DJs is that I often witness a disconnect between appreciating the music and awareness of the history and artists who made the music. This was something I tried to combat on my show.
This particular episode featured the Jimmy McCracklin Blue Plate Birthday Special.
I also included the Community Billboard which some folks might find boring. However, I chose to include it in case some long term Oly residents find it interesting. It's VERY Olympia.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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