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Earwig isn't from the PNW, but their song Seattle was featured on today's Notes by NW. Click here to listen
Elliot Smith was another tortured soul from the PNW who left us some great music, and left us too soon. Click here to listen
The spirit of Jimi lives on in Ayron Jones, with a bit on Lenny Kravitz thown in. Listen for him, and other raucous bands in the 3rd hour. Click here to listen
This may or may not have been the 3rd anniversary of the show. A new to me band featured was The Daily Flash, a PNW "garage band" with a cool sound that was created in the 1960's. Long live rock and roll.
The Dandy Warhols were featured on tonight's show, and by coincidence, I took this photo earlier in the week in Copenhagen. Note the lineup. Click here to listen
The Murder City Devils formed, broke up, and formed again on SubPop Records, the pioneering label for Seattle music. Click here to listen
Henry Cooper was featured on a Seattle jazz album that I found, and I played the song Guitar Baby, the lyrics include something about being bald and in diapers, which I think appropriate for a radio station in Sequim, WA. Click here to listen
Margo Cilker is a fantastic singer songwriter from Southern Washington featured in this show's second hour. Click here to listen
Tacoma native Neko Case was included in a truncated version of the program due to a tech issue not of my doing, for a change. In April 2003, Case was voted the "Sexiest Babe of Indie Rock" in a Playboy.com internet poll. Click here to listen
Queens of the Stone Age was founded in Seattle in 1996. Here's a shot of frontman Josh Homme from that era. You can hear their acoustic song in hour 3. Click here to listen
Mamabird Recording artist Dean Johnson was one of the newish artists featured on this program. Click here to listen
Woody Guthrie was born this week in 1912, and I dedicated the first hour of the program to his music. This photo is from the Woody museum in Topanga, CA at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Click here to listen
Nick Delffs is a Portland artist that I played for the first time on today's program along with his previous group, Shaky Hands. Their music deosn't reflect this alleged malady. Click here to listen
This is Father John Misty, who's more somber than misty. And not a priest. He was featured in the third hour of this show. Click here to listen
The third hour of the show was dedicated to my father in honor Father's Day, kicking it off with Old Man Inuit by Willie Thrasher, a PNW song about honoring our ancestors. Click here to listen
Girl Trouble is an issue for teenage boys and one of the Tacoma bands featured on this show. First hour was ALL Tacoma artists. Click here to listen
Carolyn Mark hails from BC, and is my continuing attempt to feature new artists with talent and a good vibe. Click here to listen
The Dandy Warhols were included in the third hour of the show, partially because of their clever name. Click here to listen
The second hour kicks off with a Stones song to celebrate their Lumen Field show this week. Pictured here is Mick realizing the fact he has a 7 year old son and forgot to pick him up from school. Click here to listen
The first two hours was a devotion to Mother's Day with PNW artists' songs about moms and strong women. That's my mom being silly, above. Click here to listen
Obo Addy, a Ghanaian drummer and dancer, is credited with bringing world music to the PNW and was featured in the second hour of the show.
Three hours of PNW music, including Sub Pop artist Tiny Vipers, AKA Jesy Fortino.
The first two hours featured songs by Everett, WA native Carol Kaye, a remarkable bass player in the 1960s-70's pop', jazz, and rock scenes.
The third hour of the program included a solo cover of a Beatles's song by Kurt followed by a Nirvana song to commemorate Kurt's passing 30 years ago.
Sleater Kinney--a freeway exit in Olympia, or a cool band? I'll let the listener decide.
This is Fatboy Slim, and I played Rockafeller Skank on this fill-in (not Notes) show. I'm pretty sure someone called the station to complain, as they likley mishead the lyric, "funk soul brother" which he says about 1000 times in the song.
Jesse Roper hails from Victoria, BC and reportedly is a Notes by Northwest listener, eh. He was featured on this program.
The Dropkick Murphys collaborated with Woody Guthrie's daughter, Nora, to created Okemah Rising, and album of their music put to Woody's lyrics. Look for it in the third hour of the show.
Sitting in for Scotti Ducati, I played a mix of music including Jerry Jeff Walker in honor of my friend Keith's 70th birthday.
Richmond Fontaine, from Portland, was one of the featured artists on the show.
What's Stevie Ray Vaughn got to do with the PNW? His blazing cover of Hendrix' Little Wing on this episode of the show.
Moby Grape started in California, but bandmember Jerry Miller hails from Tacoma, and was a member of The Frantics, also featured on this show.
Keeping in the grunge theme, this show featured a few by Pearl Jam in the 3rd hour, including a live cover of "Rockin' in the Free World".
You'll only hear this show's music, without my melodious voice. My production skills got rusty in 2 months. In honor of Dave Grohl's autobio that I read over the holiday, the show ended with Nirvana songs.
In the second hour of the show, I debuted two song released this week by up and coming star Will Worden who also began his European tour this week.
The first hour of the show included Beatles covers by PNW artists and culminated with today's release of Now and Then, the new Beatles song. Here are the boys in Seattle at the Edgewater Hotel in 1964.
That's Stephen Stills and Seattle born Judy Collins who were featured on this show.
The first hour of the show featured a live in-studio interview with the Randall Wolf band from Sunny Sequim. We talked music and they played a few live songs.
This is The Head and the Heart, from Seattle, who were featured in the third hour of the show.
Telekinesis was one of the PNW groups featured. Its moniker is a pseudonym for sole member Michael Benjamin Lerner, who single-handedly writes and performs the majority of the outfit's material.
The Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle features PNW and other artists from around the world which was highlighted in the fist two hours of this Notes by NW program.
This was a 3-part show, the first hour featuring Ginny Holladay, a local musician, poet and performer; "regular" PNW music; and featured artists from The Thing festival in Port Townsend.
My 65th birthday show featured a few songs by Pearl Jam and an Eddie Vedder solo.
Jeff Beck is not from the PNW, but he and Seal did a cover of Hendrix's Manic Depression on a tribute album in the early 90s. RIP, Jeff.
Notes is now 3 hours, with more PNW music. This show included Noah Gunderson's cover of the Stones' As Tears Go By, in honor of Mick Jagger's 80th birthday this week. Noah is from Seattle. Mick is not.
This episode ran the PNW gamut, including two by Alice in Chains. An AI version of Ranier Fog included vocals the the former lead singer, who died 20 years before the release.
This special edition featured an interview wijth Dan Brubeck of the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, the debut act at the Field Center in Port Angeles. Includes some of the group's jazz greats.
Summer's in full swing in Sunny Sequim. This program includes a duet with Loretta Lynn and George Jones. Here's her statue at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville where I was this week.
The show was devoted to artists performing at Music in the Park in Sequim this summer, most of whom are locals.
That's Seattle native Ricki Lee Jones who was featured on this program with her cover of Gloria from Live at Redrocks
Today's show had a bit of a country twang, including the late Jef Jaisun with "I Smell Like 90 Weight". Click here to listen
This is Mudhoney, a Seattle grunge band featured on this program. Click here to listen
Norfolk & Western is a group from Portland I really like, and featured on this show. Click here to listen
2023 is the 30th anniversary of the release of Vs. by Pearl Jam and In Utero by Nirvana. I've been playing selections from each for the past 12 weeks. Click here to listen
April 5 was the anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain from Nirvana and Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, in 1994 and 2002. Layne is pictured here. Click here to listen
This is a mellow version of the show, including a new to me band from Portland, the Spinanes, pictured here. Click here to listen
The first half of the show was Notes by NW, and the second half was a tribute to Aretha Franklin on her birthday, and in celebration of the Diva Piano donated to the radio station. Click here to listen
A mix of PNW music from the Wailers to Kenny Loggins. Pictured here is Band of Horses. The band is not comprised of horses. Click here to listen
This is a general show with a variety of music from The Wailers of Tacoma to Grammy Winner Brandi Carlile.
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This is a general show with a variety of music, including CSN with Suite: Judy Blue Eyes about Seattle native Judy Collins.
Jimi Hendrix would have been 80 on November 27--see the photo respresentation. This show features his musical influences, his original music, Jimi covers and an interview with the curator of the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle.
This show is mix of different genres. Above is the Black Tones from Seattle. Their album Cobain and Cornbread features Ghetto Spaceship from the show.
A mélange of PNW music. This is a photo of Lavender Country, the first gay country band who put out its first album in 1973 and the second in 2022.
A mélange of PNW music. Pictured above is the bridge in Aberdeen under which Kurt Cobain expressed his early angst.
Celebrating a mix of artists with a PNW connection, including Moby Grape, pictured here.
This show is dedicated to my mom for her 85th birthday. She doesn't like grunge but listens nonetheless. (Not her in the photo)
A little country music from the PNW. Loretta Lynn actually got her start in WA.
One year anniversary featuring some of my favorites from the past year.
A melange of music with a PNW connection, including Foo Fighters, pictured above.
All women artists from the PNW from Rosalie Sorrells to Brandi Carlile to Folk Uke, pictured above.
Music either about Seattle, or with Seattle in the title, just for something a little different.
Includes covers by Woody's contemporaries, modern artists, the new Guthrie generation and all new songs based on Guthrie lyrics.
This special program celebrates the 110th anniversary of Woody's birth.
This show ran the spectrum including a few artists I haven't played before
General show that starts with artists to be featured in Sequim's Music in the Park.
Interview with Peter McKee, banjo player, founder of the band Clallam County, and fan of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger . Click here to listen
Portland native Diane Schuur. This was a generic show featuring a variety of musicians with PNW ties.
That's a young Burl Ives, who lived his last years in Anacortes, WA.
Features Quincy as solo artist, producer and arranger including Ray Charles, Sinatra, Michael Jackson and more.
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