Friday, January 17, 2020

FM dial scan highlights CXXII

Five standout tunes from Thursday and Friday:

KDHX 88.1 FM
  • Sure As Night-Joan Shelley (Moving vocals and acoustic guitar.  Lyrically, this is a sad tale of having your heart broken and not moving past it.  I was reminded of Dar Williams and Mary Chapin Carpenter as I listened.)
  • Perfidia-The Ventures (The title suggests the tune is going to be a heartrending song about betrayal.  You'd never guess that, however, from these two minutes of sunny surf-style/spy movie guitar music.)
WSIE 88.7 FM
  • Cruising For Bruising-Basia (Can this relationship be saved?  Maybe, but the lyrics are ominous.  Although it's one of Basia's best-known tracks, it should have been a bigger hit in 1990.)
  • We Will Meet Again-The Fred Hughes Trio (A Classical influence serves this sorrowful piano-anchored number well.)
WFUN 95.5 FM
  • I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love-The Emotions (An infectious 1976 groove; it's somewhat faster than--but still compatible with--the group's big hit of the following year, "Best Of My Love.")