WPKN Archives: Surrealistic Connections: New and vintage music

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Show:
Connections... with Eric Cocks

Original Aired:
Friday, January 15th, 2021
4:18PM to 6:52PM

Duration:
2 hours, 34 minutes

Posted:
Friday, January 15th, 2021 4:02PM

Tags:
hamsandwich new beatles psychedelic bowie kinks vinyl dylan wpkn toussaint mono connections hendrix nilsson bootleg vintage improvised humor elvis jimi demos beachboys squeaky chairs squeakychairs lauriespiegel mose mccartney bobdylan spontaneous adia


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Episode: Surrealistic Connections: New and vintage music

Jan 15, 2021 episode of Connections on WPKN with Eric Cocks. It’s spontaneous! It’s non-linear! New and vintage music by Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Dr. John, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, a rarity by The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Mose Allison, Lana Del Rey, Beck, Laurie Spiegel, Robin Gibb, Kimm Rogers, Allen Toussaint, Barbara George, Elvis Presley, Spirit, Angel Olsen, The Grass Roots, The Beach Boys, Herb Alpert, Kaitlin Aurelia Smith, Aldous Harding, Kenny Rogers and more. 

 

Plus new music by Paul McCartney, Nick Waterhouse, Arlo Parks, Ambar Lucid, Kelley Ryan, Cliff Hillis, Adia Victoria, Aaron Frazer, Tamar Aphek, The Crushing Violets, La Femme, The Squeaky Chairs, The Doodle Langs, miscellaneous thoughts and whatever happened in the moment. 

 

It’s more fun than the news! 

 

Sometimes the connections aren’t apparent until later… even to me. 

 

Thanks for tuning in! 

 

 

For info, updates and occasional videos, photos and articles, please join the Facebook page Connections on WPKN 

Show: Connections... with Eric Cocks

Connections... with Eric Cocks

Explores the connections between songs, songwriters, musicians, producers and people... often in surprising ways.

Vital, intelligent music with true artistic vision. Or just because it sounds good...

Includes extended features on specific artists such as Bob Dylan, The Kinks, The Beatles and far more. Also comedy by Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Eddie Izzard, Paul Krassner and others with a rock and roll renegade attitude. In depth explorations of early electronic music (and how it relates to current music). Vital new music that deserves to be heard. Surf music. Garage bands. British invasion. Rock and Roll. John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Jimi Hendrix, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, The Blues Magoos, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Dr Fiorella Terenzi, Beethoven, Bo Diddley, The Rolling Stones, Alex Chilton, Nilsson, Tom Petty, Lucinda Williams, Jon Brion, Aimee Mann, Tame Impala, Grimes, The Pretenders, Blondie, Caitlin Rose, Juana Molina, Mojo Mancini, Elliott Randall, Marshall Chapman, Jessy Lanza, Big Star, demos, rarities, unreleased new music and far more may be part of any given show. Also live interviews of performers, writers, producers, engineers, session musicians and people behind the scenes. Plus unexpected surprises...

Previous in depth interviews include Sam Phillips, Peppy Castro of The Blues Magoos, author/comedian Paul Krassner, Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, Neil Innes of The Rutles, Tommy James, legendary session musician Carol Kaye, Warren Zanes, Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals, Rod Argent of The Zombies, Oscar Winning Composer Alan Menken, Patty Larkin and more. All are available in archives for about 385 days. (Maybe that'll get extended some day.) Stay tuned for future interviews and special features.

The show will keep changing over time.

Tune in every 1st and 3rd Friday afternoon of each month at the new  time of  4 to 7 pm eastern. Also special editions at other times. Available live over the air at 89.5, online at http://wpkn.org, tunein radio or listen later in the WPKN archives.

For further info, updates, news, videos and special features, please check the FaceBook site: Connections on WPKN

Thanks for tuning in!

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