Thursday morning highlights:
KAFM (Grand Junction, CO)
- What Goes Around (Comes Around)-Robert Finley (The chorus sells this uptempo blues tune, in my opinion, along with the lyrical attitude, "Why would anyone have a problem with me if I'm not harming anyone?")
KGSP (Parkville, MO)
- Annabelle-Gillian Welch (When life rarely gives you a break, it's understandable that you'd be driven to believe in a more just afterlife. Sidebar: Props to the legal ID singer whose jingle aired between this and Styx's "Come Sail Away." I thought I was hearing the beginning of Queen's "We Will Rock You" until a woman sang, "K-G-S-P, Parkville!")
KSJN (Minneapolis, MN)
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major: I. Moderato (Trondheim Soloists; Alisa Weilerstein, cello) (A movement--and a performance--of considerable vim and vigor.)
KVSF (Santa Fe, NM)
- Rocks, Lime-Robert Edwards (Rhythmically, this melodic trombone piece reminds me of "Birks' Works" by Dizzy Gillespie.)
WUMB (Boston, MA)
- Turn Yourself Around-Heather Maloney (A brave admission about needing a support system.)
WWHM (Sumter, SC)
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me)-Al Green (To many listeners, Green is best known for "Let's Stay Together." I'd contend that "Here I Am..." deserves the same level of airplay, for its memorable hook and the way the tune builds. UB40 covered it, but Green's version is stronger.)
