KAFM (Grand Junction, CO)
- Sky Is Crying-Joanna Connor (If you like the emotive singing and guitar wailing of Stevie Ray Vaughan's rendition, give Connor's version a listen. She plays and sings it with considerable feeling, as well.)
- Black Crow-Holly Hyatt & Jon Burden (A haunting acoustic number for guitar, bass, and vocalist.)
- September Gurls-Big Star (One of the band's best examples of tuneful, sing-along power pop; it still mystifies me that it wasn't a hit.)
- I Live For You-Kevin Whalum (Some of 2016's best jazzy, subtle vocals; I would have guessed this was a Michael Franks track from the '70s.)
- Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major: IV. Allegro con spirito (Philadelphia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti, conductor) (A fitting finale for a symphony; the orchestra handles the movement's many arpeggios deftly. The movement weaves major and minor key themes together effectively.)
- Antonin Dvorak: Humoresque No. 2 (Orion Weiss, piano) (An interpretation that proves that "warm" and "forceful" aren't always contradictory terms. I hear more of the warmth here.)
- Spill The Wine-Eric Burdon & War (In 1970, if you were in your teens or twenties and were trying to convince someone from an older generation that current rock music was more accessible than it seems, you wouldn't likely have used this tune as evidence. This is one of the quirkiest, jazziest melodies set against equally quirky talk-sing vocals. I'll never forget the first time I heard this song as a kid. I heard Burdon muse, "I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie--and that I was the star of the movie. This really blew my mind..." I thought, "What on Earth...?" I kept listening, though, and the tune stayed with me for weeks afterward.)
- Keep On Moving-Little Johnny Hamilton And The Creators (An early incarnation of the band that became War. As the DJ mentioned, this sounds like The Impressions. It's a catchy, concise groove about missing someone.)
