Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Online radio sampler highlights CCLXI

Seven standout tunes heard today:

KMJI (Texarkana, AR)

  • Lifetime-Maxwell (An easy-to-digest slow jam.)

KPUP (Patagonia, AZ)

  • When You Say Nothing At All-Alison Krauss & Union Station (Heartfelt lyrics about how reassuring it is to know that your beloved has your back--without any words exchanged.)
  • Just Blue-The Weepies (Somehow, the guitar underpinning offers a ray of hope.  Lyrically, this is a sound way to acknowledge one's sadness over a breakup without sounding completely unable to recover.)

WCLK (Atlanta, GA)

  • The Distance-Kerry Wilkins (Continuous smooth jazz guitar playing with appealing bursts of overlaid bass.)
  • Murky Moon-Kayla Waters (Pleasant, uptempo smooth jazz piano playing.  Fattburger's "Good News" sounds compatible to me after this.)

WXYG (Sauk Rapids, MN)

  • Watching And Waiting-The Moody Blues (An honest acknowledgment that even at our most misanthropic, we still crave at least occasional human connections.)
  • You're So Vain-Carly Simon (More than 50 years later, these are still some of the cleverest lyrics about wishing people would get over themselves.)