Early Friday morning highlights:
KCAT (Pine Bluff, AR)
- So Very Hard To Go-Tower Of Power (Well-sung honest lyrics about the pain of a relationship ending. Not surprisingly, there has always been a home for this hit on the radio since 1973.)
KCBS (Los Angeles, CA)
- Cult Of Personality-Living Colour (The powerful vocals and fierce guitar shredding hold up more than three decades later. Unfortunately, these lyrics are all too accurate. It's disturbingly easy for aspiring leaders to draw people in and keep them as followers for all the wrong reasons.)
KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA)
- Hideous Towns-The Sundays (Harriet Wheeler sings negative lyrics in a disarmingly sunny voice. This is from one of 1990's strongest albums, "Reading, Writing, And Arithmetic.")
WNHN (Concord, NH)
- Sound-Lee-Lee Konitz (An appealingly upbeat saxophone-driven instrumental with a title of which Richard Henry Lee would have approved in "1776.")
WRUV (Burlington, VT)
- Silent Cube-Matthew Shipp (This piano jazz falls somewhere between accessible and avant-garde. It's fitting accompaniment for middle-of-the-night anxiety.)
