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May 8, 2025
Moby Grape member Jerry Miller was from Tacoma before moving to the Bay Area. I only recently discovered their cool vibe. And a shoutout to my dad on his 89th birthday. Love you, Dad. Click here to listen
May 1, 2025
Judy Collins was the CSNY muse in Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. She's from Seattle, and today is her birthday, so I featured her in the first hour. Click here to listen
April 24, 2025
Sunny Day Real Estate is a Seattle based band that I learned about from Rocky Votolado in an interview a few years ago. You'll like them in the third hour of this show. Click here to listen
April 17, 2025
I've alway loved Dire Straits, and happy to feature Mark Knophler singing about Seattle. Click here to listen
April 10, 2025
Telekenisis is the band name of Michael Benjamin Lerner, and extremely talented artist from Seattle featured in the third hour of the show. Click here to listen
April 3, 2025
Deadwood Revival, an awesome Peninsula duo, was included in an interview in the first hour, as was some of their music. Thanks, guys, looking forward to the live show on Saturday. Click here to listen
March 27, 2025
This is the Maldives, the band from Seattle, not the archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. This show included them (sans dog) and a bunch of new bands to Notes by Northwest. You're welcome. Click here to listen
March 20, 2025
The Oh Wells are a classic American folk-rock band consisting of singer-songwriters Brian Kerrigan and Ira Merrill who formed during the pandemic as they sent songs back and forth to each other over the internet. Click here to listen
March 13, 2025
Among the PNW bands he fronted, Chris Cornell rocked it with Audioslave, which I played during the third hour of this show. Click here to listen
March 6, 2025
In my quest for variety, here's a new to Notes x NW band from Seattle, Velvet Hog. Click here to listen
February 27, 2025
Towns van Sandt's Pancho & Lefty was covered by former Vancouver resident Willie Nelson on tonight's episode. Click here to listen
February 20, 2025
This was an all covers show, including a G&R (PNW connection is Duff McKagan, from Tacoma) and Queen of the Stone Age covering Dylan songs. Click here to listen
January 16, 2025
Folk Uke is a PNW legacy duo, consisting of Woody Guthrie's granddaughter and Willie Nelson's (Vancouver, WA in the late 1950's) daughter. They perform a Woody Guthrie song in hour 2 of the show. Click here to listen
January 2, 2025
Will Worden is an up and comer in the folk country genre; he was featured in the first hour of today's show. Click here to listen
December 12, 2024
Faustina Masigat is an excellent Oregon artist featured on this show; she's on the Mama Bird Records label. Click here to listen
December 5, 2024
Rosalie Sorrells was originally from Idaho, where she packed up her kids and guitar, leaving her husband for a music career. Click here to listen
November 21, 2024
The Daily Flash was one of the first alternative bands from the Seattle area. The song highlighted on this promotional poster was featured in hour three of this episode. Click here to listen
October 10, 2024
Earwig isn't from the PNW, but their song Seattle was featured on today's Notes by NW. Click here to listen
October 3, 2024
Elliot Smith was another tortured soul from the PNW who left us some great music, and left us too soon. Click here to listen
September 26, 2024
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
September 19, 2024
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.
September 12, 2024
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
August 29, 2024
The Murder City Devils formed, broke up, and formed again on SubPop Records, the pioneering label for Seattle music. Click here to listen
August 22, 2024
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
August 15, 2024
Margo Cilker is a fantastic singer songwriter from Southern Washington featured in this show's second hour. Click here to listen
August 8, 2024
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
August 1, 2024
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
July 11, 2024
Mamabird Recording artist Dean Johnson was one of the newish artists featured on this program. Click here to listen
July 11, 2024
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
June 27, 2024
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
June 27, 2024
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
June 13, 2024
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
June 6, 2024
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
May 30, 2024
Carolyn Mark hails from BC, and is my continuing attempt to feature new artists with talent and a good vibe. Click here to listen
May 23, 2024
The Dandy Warhols were included in the third hour of the show, partially because of their clever name. Click here to listen
May 16, 2024
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
May 9, 2024
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
May 2, 2024
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.
April 25, 2024
Three hours of PNW music, including Sub Pop artist Tiny Vipers, AKA Jesy Fortino.
April 18, 2024
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.
April 11, 2024
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.
April 4, 2024
Sleater Kinney--a freeway exit in Olympia, or a cool band? I'll let the listener decide.
March 29, 2024
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.
March 28, 2024
Jesse Roper hails from Victoria, BC and reportedly is a Notes by Northwest listener, eh. He was featured on this program.
March 21, 2024
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.
March 15, 2024
Sitting in for Scotti Ducati, I played a mix of music including Jerry Jeff Walker in honor of my friend Keith's 70th birthday.
March 14, 2024
Richmond Fontaine, from Portland, was one of the featured artists on the show.
February 1, 2024
What's Stevie Ray Vaughn got to do with the PNW? His blazing cover of Hendrix' Little Wing on this episode of the show.
January 25, 2024
Moby Grape started in California, but bandmember Jerry Miller hails from Tacoma, and was a member of The Frantics, also featured on this show.
January 18, 2024
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".
January 4, 2024
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.
November 9, 2023
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.
November 2, 2023
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.
October 26, 2023
October 19, 2023
October 5, 2023
That's Stephen Stills and Seattle born Judy Collins who were featured on this show.
September 28, 2023
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.
September 21, 2023
This is The Head and the Heart, from Seattle, who were featured in the third hour of the show.
September 14, 2023
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.
August 24, 2023
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.
August 24, 2023
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.
August 17, 2023
My 65th birthday show featured a few songs by Pearl Jam and an Eddie Vedder solo.
August 10, 2023
July 27,2023
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.
July 27,2023
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.
July 12,2023
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.
July 5,2023
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.
July 1,2023
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.
June 24, 2023
The show was devoted to artists performing at Music in the Park in Sequim this summer, most of whom are locals.
June 16, 2023
That's Seattle native Ricki Lee Jones who was featured on this program with her cover of Gloria from Live at Redrocks
June 9, 2023
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
April 29, 2023
This is Mudhoney, a Seattle grunge band featured on this program. Click here to listen
April 22, 2023
Norfolk & Western is a group from Portland I really like, and featured on this show. Click here to listen
April 15, 2023
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 8, 2023
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
April 1 2023
This is a mellow version of the show, including a new to me band from Portland, the Spinanes, pictured here. Click here to listen
March 25 2023
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
March 18 2023
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
March 11, 2023
This is a general show with a variety of music from The Wailers of Tacoma to Grammy Winner Brandi Carlile.
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March 4, 2023
This is a general show with a variety of music, including CSN with Suite: Judy Blue Eyes about Seattle native Judy Collins.
November 27, 2022
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.
November 19, 2022
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.
November 12, 2022
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.
November 5, 2022
A mélange of PNW music. Pictured above is the bridge in Aberdeen under which Kurt Cobain expressed his early angst.
October 15, 2022
Celebrating a mix of artists with a PNW connection, including Moby Grape, pictured here.
October 8, 2022
This show is dedicated to my mom for her 85th birthday. She doesn't like grunge but listens nonetheless. (Not her in the photo)
October 1, 2022
A little country music from the PNW. Loretta Lynn actually got her start in WA.
September 17, 2022
One year anniversary featuring some of my favorites from the past year.
September 3, 2022
A melange of music with a PNW connection, including Foo Fighters, pictured above.
August 27, 2022 Women
All women artists from the PNW from Rosalie Sorrells to Brandi Carlile to Folk Uke, pictured above.
August 20, 2022--Thing
August 13, 2022--Tacoma
August 6, 2022--General
July 30, 2022--Seattle Songs
Music either about Seattle, or with Seattle in the title, just for something a little different.
July 23, 2022--Woody Guthrie Music
Includes covers by Woody's contemporaries, modern artists, the new Guthrie generation and all new songs based on Guthrie lyrics.
July 16, 2022--Woody Guthrie audio documentary
This special program celebrates the 110th anniversary of Woody's birth.
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June 26 Episode
This show ran the spectrum including a few artists I haven't played before
June 11 Episode
General show that starts with artists to be featured in Sequim's Music in the Park.
April 30 Episode
Interview with Peter McKee, banjo player, founder of the band Clallam County, and fan of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger . Click here to listen
April 9 Episode
Portland native Diane Schuur. This was a generic show featuring a variety of musicians with PNW ties.
March 26 Episode
That's a young Burl Ives, who lived his last years in Anacortes, WA.
March 19. Quincy Jones Special
Features Quincy as solo artist, producer and arranger including Ray Charles, Sinatra, Michael Jackson and more.