Threads and Tangents Music Hour

With Valentine’s Day coming up later this week, I’m playing Break-Up and Anti-Love Songs. We'll hear: The Clash, Townes Van Zandt, Julie London, Big Love Car Wash, Mary Gauthier, Billy Bragg, Four Tops, Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Mary Flower, Joy Division, Jonathan Richman, k.d. lang, Albert King, and Neil Young. Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

We’ll hear sounds that gives a sense of author William S. Burroughs influence on music across generations and genres. We'll hear: Steely Dan, Hunter S. Thompson, Ornette Coleman, William S. Burroughs, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, Steppenwolf, Material, Tom Waits, and Patti Smith. Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week's all about Gypsy Jazz. The two icons of the style – Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli – were both born this week in the first decade of the 20th century.  . We'll hear: Quintette du Hot Club de France, Boulou & Elios Ferre, Pearl Django, Tommy Emmanuel, Nuage, Stéphane Wrembel, Charlie Haden & Christian Escoude, Stephane Grappelli & Vassar Clements, Jimmy Rosenberg & Bireli Lagrène & Angelo Debarre, Rosenberg Trio, Frank Vignola, David Grisman & Tony Rice, and Angelo Debarre.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week we'll hear more music from artists that walked over the rainbow bridge in 2025. 
We'll hear: Rick Derringer, Family, Tom Lehrer, Flaco Jiménez, Eddie Palmieri, The Turtles, Danny Thompson, Jack DeJohnette, Archie Fisher, Grateful Dead, Philip Upchurch, Todd Snider, Marilyn Mazur (nope, no relation), and Gabe Hirshfeld.
Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week we'll hear music from artists that walked over the rainbow bridge in 2025. This is week 1 of a 2-week Thread.
We'll hear: Sam & Dave, Barry Goldberg, Bluegrass 45, Susan Alcorn, The Jam, David Johansen, George Freeman, Michael Hurley, Amadou & Mariam, Savoy Brown, Gang of Four, Joe Louis Walker, and Jill Sobule.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week's Thread is winter. We'll hear: Cowboy Junkies, Rachel Portman, The Head and the Heart, Galaxie 500, Ruth Moody, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Ry Cooder, Brìghde Chaimbeul, Family, Molly Tuttle, The Replacements, Muddy Waters, and Fleet Foxes.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week's musical thread is the Festival of Lights, and that means an hour of Chanukah, or Hanukkah-adjacent, songs. We'll hear: Saffire, Josh Alan Band, Sally Fingerett, Emma’s Revolution, Dan Bern, The Klezmatics, Gefilte Joe & The Fish, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Slim Gaillard, Homer & Jethro, Kevin Whalen, Loudon Wainwright III, Woody Guthrie, The Minus 5, SONiA disappear fear, and Jeremiah Lockwood.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week is all about John Coltrane's 1965 album, A Love Supreme. I'll play the full four-part suite (though not all of it by Coltrane), plus pieces that were heavily influenced by Trane.We'll hear: John Coltrane, Marc Johnson, Kenny Garrett, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Alice Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders.To paraphrase the line from Orwell's Animal Farm: All episodes are equal, but some episodes are more equal than others. This one is special, check it out.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

This week we'll hear songs about getting old, or at least getting older, from: Del McCoury Band, Grateful Dead, Holly Cole, Nathaniel Rateliff, Old & in the Way, The Magnetic Fields, Tom Lehrer, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Eva Cassidy, Guy Clark, Neil Young, Utah Phillips, and Bob Dylan.Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org

On this week's Thanksgiving show we'll hear: Riff Ruffin, Chris Thile, DavePaul5, Graham Parker, Martha Wainwright, Thelonious Monk, James McMurtry, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Iggy Pop, Guy Davis, and Dan Bern.
Anything on your mind? Contact me at threadsandtangents@kmre.org