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Poco 1970 (Wikipedia, fair use)Country music is one of the original roots of rock n roll, but it wasn't until the late 60s when rock artists began incorporating country-specific sounds into their vocabulary with the use of fiddles, pedal-steel, country-styled lyrics and country rhythms. Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Credence Clearwater Revival, Poco, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Ozark Mtn. Daredevils, Townes Van Zandt, Commander Cody, Meat Puppets, Rank and File, Lucinda Williams, Supersuckers, Uncle Tupelo, Palace, The Jayhawks and more!

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

Metal has turned out to be one of rock's most diverse and long-lasting sub-genres. For this special 5th Thursday outing, we will follow the development of heavy metal from its roots in the mid 60s (Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Iron Butterfly) to its first golden era of the mid 70s to early 80s (Judas Priest, Motorhead, Angel Witch) to its commercial peak in the mid-late 80s (Def Leppard, Ratt, Metallica). The survey concludes with a selection of songs from heavy metal of the 2000s (Amon Amarth, Nightwish, Soilwork, Ghost).  

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: RATT’s 1984 album, Out of the Cellar – Fair use)

This week's episode will be a mixed bag of styles and eras.

Because a CD can hold about twice as much recording as a 33rpm record, artists began including bonus tracks at the end of an album's running time, anything from studio outtakes to live recordings, failed experiments, alternate versions, non-album singles and rarities. In general, a whole lot of fun. Bob Marley, Gene Vincent, Santana, The Cars, Echo & the Bunnymen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, The Soft Boys, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, The Stooges, Pretenders and more!

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

In honor of the late Neil Peart, Ric brings you this spotlight on the hardest working guys in music: the drummers. Keith Moon, John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Charlie Watts, Hal Blaine, George Hurley, Stewart Copeland, Bill Stevenson, Bill Bruford, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins, Grant Hart, Bill Ward, Dale Crover, Brendan Canty, Ginger Baker and more, along with a block of Rush and Neil "The Professor" Peart himself!

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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(Photo: Neil Peart, photographed in his natural habitat on April 3, 2011 in Nashville - Frederick Breedon IV/WireImage/via NPR)

These are just some of the outstanding new records this year. You'll hear all these and many more: The Mountain Goats "In League With Dragons", Steve Gunn "The Unseen In Between", Barrie "Happy To Be Here", Royal Trux "White Stuff", Kim Gordon "No Home Record", Bennie Sings "City Pop", Mekons "Deserted", Lana Del Rey "NFR!", The Hold Steady "Thrashing Through The Passion", The Black Keys "Let's Rock", Catfish & the Bottlemen "The Balance", Corridor "Junior."

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: The Mountain Goats - Brad (bradalmanac) [CC BY-SA 2.0])

Released in 2018, REM at the BBC is a massive box set containing 8 discs with over 100 songs totaling over 7 hours. Even for the hardcore fan, the collection's breadth can be overwhelming. Luckily, Ric has distilled the set into a manageable 2-hour chunk for your listening pleasure. We'll hear REM performances from various BBC broadcasts over the years, including Nottingham 1984, Milton Keynes 1995, several different Peel sessions and other radio programs taken from every period of the band's 30-year career.

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

Spearheaded by The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Southern rock became a staple of FM radio in the 1970s. Combining R&B, soul, blues, country, jazz, gospel, bluegrass, and hard rock, these artists stirred up a true melting pot of American styles with a distinctly Southern voice, often with virtuosic musicianship. In addition to the above-mentioned bands, we’ll hear from The Marshall Tucker Band, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Wet Willie, Outlaws, Black Oak Arkansas, Dixie Dregs, Molly Hatchet, Johnny Winter, Drive By Truckers, Charlie Daniels Band, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Blackfoot, The Steel Woods, The Black Crowes, and more! Thursday, April 23. 9-11pm on KRCB 91.1FM.

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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(Photo: The Allman Brothers - Capricorn Records / Public domain)

This will be the third installment of the series featuring two friends sitting around listening to records and talking about music. Michele has great taste in music and brings knowledge and fun to the proceedings. Who knows, maybe she'll bring in her vast culinary knowledge as well, making for a true rock n' roll feast!

Ric on the Radio can be heard every 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Courtesy of Michele Anna Jordan – John Youngblood)

This week’s episode celebrates quite an amazing collaboration of musical talent and genius. We are talking about five-time Grammy award winner Robert Cray, backed by the legendary Hi Rhythm Section and renowned drummer and producer Steve Jordan. BSC was there to capture an epic performance for the release of their latest album, Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm, plus an interview with Robert and Steve from a rehearsal at Royal Studios right here in Memphis.

Beale Street Caravan can be heard Wednesday nights at 11 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App from iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Five-time Grammy award winner Robert Cray, backed by the legendary Hi Rhythm Section on Beale Street Caravan)

We live our lives by the calendar and the clock, but time is also an abstraction, even an illusion. In this hour, TED speakers explore how our sense of time changes depending on who and where we are.

Hear TED Radio Hour Sunday mornings at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

This week on This American Life: In these dark, combative times, an attempt at radical counterprogramming. It’s a show made up entirely of delight. Stories about the young, the old, the animals… stories of delight lost, delight found, and delight reclaimed. An hour of delight, this week, on This American Life.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

This week on This American Life, during a time when everyone feels like they’re living in a holding pattern, stories of people stuck in some unusual and extreme situations.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

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(Photo: By Feòrag NicBhrìde - Public Domain)

Listen for music from John Hiatt’s Crossing Muddy Waters and Warren Zevon’s The Wind. 

This week, we visit the unglamorous world of catering, where Matt and Ted Lee immersed themselves for four years. Behind the canapés, flower displays and dessert trains, the two brothers reveal chaos, extreme conditions, and crazy makeshift kitchens. Plus, food anthropologist Valerie Gordon resurrects long-lost desserts from legendary restaurants. And we make Nadine Redzepi’s Danish Dream Cake.

Milk Street Radio can be heard Sunday nights at 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Matt and Ted Lee/Via Milk Street Radio)

Life is full of moments that shape us -- and if we're lucky, we might pick up some wisdom along the way. In host Guy Raz's final episode, TED speakers share some of the life lessons they've learned.

Hear TED Radio Hour Sunday mornings at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM. / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Shutterstock – via NPR)

In 1991, Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited made their second tour of the United States. It was a fascinating transitional moment in the band’s history. Mapfumo had recently added two musicians playing the metal-pronged, Shona mbira, enriching the band’s lineup of guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, brass and percussion. The band had now evolved into a kind of folk orchestra in which everyone sang, allowing for beautifully layered vocal arrangements. This recording, made by Afropop Worldwide at S.O.B.'s in New York City during that historic tour, is a true gem in the Afropop archive. It captures one of Africa’s most innovative and unusual artists and bandleaders at the height of his powers. One listen to this sublime recording and you will understand why producer Banning Eyre devoted some 15 years to writing the new book Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe.  

Afropop Worldwide can be heard Sunday nights at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

On the next Fresh Air,  Terry talks with three members of the band Ranky Tanky. They perform contemporary versions of songs from the Gullah tradition of the Georgia and South Carolina sea islands, music linked to West Africa. We’ll hear them perform in our studio. They have a new album.  Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

(Photo: Ranky Tanky - Reese Moore/Courtesy of the artist/via NPR)

For three teenagers from Gary, Indiana, podcasting was just a hobby -- until they learned a waste management plant was going up next to their school. How a fun hobby turned into serious journalism on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Mack Male [CC BY-SA 2.0])

Moving and breaking up – two experiences that can be pretty life changing. Tim Baker experienced them both in a short time after his former band Hey Rosetta! went on an infinite hiatus and he left the island of Newfoundland for the city of Toronto. He talks about and plays the surprisingly positive songs that were the result, on the next World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 /  streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org  / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App from the App Store & Google Play.

(Photo: Tim Baker – Britney Townsend/via World Cafe)

This week, it’s the Tim O’Brien Band, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, Alison Brown Band, The Honey Dewdrops, and Charles Wesley Godwin on Mountain Stage.

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce can be heard every Monday night at 10:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download our free KRCB Mobile App for your iOS or Android device from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Tim O’Brien Band on Mountain Stage)

On the next Fresh Air, actor Tim Roth, who stars in the new movie The Song of Names and the streaming tv series Tin Star.  He’s been in 3 Quentin Tarantino films:  Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Hateful 8.  Roth has some good stories about meeting and working Tarantino.   I hope you’ll join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo: Tim Roth - Georges Biard [CC BY-SA 3.0])

On the next Fresh Air, what does Ukrainian President Volodeemyr Zelenskiy have to say about Trump, Putin and the impeachment hearings? Last Saturday, Time correspondent Simon Shuster interviewed the Ukrainian president. Shuster will join us from Kyiv to talk about Zelenskiy, and ties between trump, his allies and oligarchs. Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo courtesy of Time)

This week on This American Life: Remember the days when you could go to a bar or barbershop and watch sports…. with other people? Sports stories from before the pandemic. From the football fields, boxing rings, and basketball courts of days past. This week, on This American Life.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

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(Photo: justinc [cc-by-sa-2.0])

As the pandemic set in, most of us hunkered down at home. But traveling nurses had to hit the road. Traversing the country to treat COVID on the next All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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To ring in 2020, host Raina Douris spins a playlist of songs all about new beginnings, changes, and fresh starts. We’ll hear from Tears for Fears, David Bowie, LCD Soundsystem, and more. Then in the second hour, we revisit some of the best live World Cafe performances of 2019, from guests like Michael Kiwanuka, Illiterate Light, and Yola. That’s coming up, on the next World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 /  streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org  / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo: Tears For Fears - Raph_PH [CC BY 2.0])

World Cafe returns to some of the year’s best interviews as 2019 comes to a close. Today, it’s Pete Townshend, who has a new album with The Who and has published his first-ever novel, The Age of Anxiety. Pete talks about how the book relates to The Who’s classic rock opera, Tommy, and what he’d now say to his younger self – the one who wrote the line, “I hope I die before I get old.” Then in the second hour, Raphael Saadiq discusses his latest album, Jimmy Lee, named for his late brother and reflects on working with Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, and Solange. That’s coming up, on the next World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 /  streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org  / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo: Pete Townshend - William Snyder/Courtesy of the artist)

This week on Beale Street Caravan we have acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider. Grammy-nominated blues man, Guy Davis, will be with us to deliver an installment of the Blues Hall of Fame, an exploration of the lives of the pioneers and innovators enshrined in the Blues Hall of Fame, here in Memphis, TN, brought to you by the Blues Foundation.

Beale Street Caravan can be heard Wednesday nights at 11 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App from iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Todd Snider - Jester Jay Goldman [CC BY-SA 2.0])

This week on This American Life: When we go home to our families, sometimes we buy them devices. It’s a good distraction. We can watch them arguing with technology. But then, there are those brave family members who head home with something important they have to get off their chests. And things get loud. That’s this week on This American Life.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

Toronto is Canada’s most cosmopolitan city--“like New York but mellower” in the words of Kofi Akah, son of the Ghanaian highlife legend Jewel Akah. Kofi is one of many superb African artists who have made Toronto their home over the years. That list is long, and it has included highlife star Pat Thomas, South Sudanese rapper Emanuel Jal, rising Congolese star Blandine, Malagasy guitarist Donné Roberts, and a hidden treasure of Ethiopian music, Fantahun Shewankochew. In this program, we take the pulse of Toronto’s African scene through music and interviews with Kofi, Emanuel, Blandine, Fantahun and many more. Produced by Banning Eyre.

Afropop Worldwide can be heard Sunday nights at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

After years of war and instability, Iraqis are getting to know their country better... through tourism. A tour of the ancient city of Babylon on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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(Photo: Part of what remains of the ceremonial entrance through the walls of the ancient city of Babylon. - Jane Arraf/NPR)

On the next Fresh Air – As a young woman, Tracey Edwards dreamed of sailing around the world.  In 1989, Edwards led an all-female crew in a 33 thousand-mile, round-the-world yacht race, one that journalists predicted the crew wouldn’t even finish. Dave Davies talks with Edwards. She’s the subject of the new documentary Maiden. Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

On the next Fresh Air, we speak with Washington Post investigative reporter Scott Higham, about newly-released federal data tracking the 76 billion opioid-based pain pills shipped to pharmacies over a six-year period. The records come from a still unresolved lawsuit by states and cities against drug companies. Join us

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(Photo: Patrick Sison/AP/via NPR)

Writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister re-trace the "Trail of Tears" — the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land by President Andrew Jackson. On the way, Sarah and her sister visit the land they would have grown up in had the Cherokees not been expelled, Andrew Jackson's home, and the land in Oklahoma where the Cherokee nation settled (and where Sarah and her sister were born). They reflect on their own American-ness and Cherokee-ness, and on the more difficult question: What's history good for, anyway?

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

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(Photo: Joshua)

In the 1970s, a New Jersey lawmaker proposed that residents put their glass, metal, and paper out on the curb in separate buckets. His neighbors thought his idea was garbage. But when they found out how much money it would save their town, they changed their minds.  Today, recycling is big business - but is it getting *too* big? We go inside a sorting facility to find out on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

Morning Edition from NPR News airs weekday mornings from 6:00 am - 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: Single-streammunicipal recycling facility – Courtesy USEPA)

Want to explore a new place from home? Then join the hosts of World Cafe, who travelled to Virginia a couple months ago for a musical adventure! First, we’ll hear a live performance from the Richmond band, Illiterate Light, and they’ll share stories from their completely bike-powered tour. Plus, Desiré Moses from World Cafe affiliate WNRN spins a set of some of the best music to come out of Charlottesville and Richmond. That’s coming up, on a “Sense of Place” edition of the World Cafe.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

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 (Photo: The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va., hosted live performances for World Cafe's Sense of Place episodes - Ashley Travis/WNRN)

In 1999, producer Trina Shoemaker became the first woman to ever win a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, for her work on Sheryl Crow’s “The Globe Sessions.” On the next World Cafe, she reflects on her decades-long career in a famously male-dominated industry, including her work with Crow, Emmylou Harris, and Brandi Carlile.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

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The way we eat has been changing— we go out less, we order in more, we cook more. So for this week, right after Thanksgiving, we bring you stories of people who really know their way around a kitchen.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

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(Photo: Getty Images – via This American Life)

A jellyfish sculpted from golf balls...a sea dragon made of suction cups. On the Oregon coast, a local woman is using plastic garbage that washes ashore to make art - and to raise awareness about the more than one million tons of trash estimated to be floating in the ocean. But will these enormous plastic sculptures make us rethink how much we use? The answer on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

Morning Edition from NPR News airs weekday mornings from 6:00 am - 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App for your favorite mobile device!

On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with Tegan & Sara - twins, singer-songwriters, and LGBTQ icons.  They have a new memoir about their tumultuous high school years in the mid-90s. And they have a new CD.  Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

(Photo: Tegan and Sara performing in 2016 in Australia - Illustration: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images and Angela Hsieh/NPR)

It’s double-trouble special guesting on tonight’s show. You’ll hear Emily Hamilton for the first hour; Beebout for the second. Both artists are sharing their cutting-edge new music and all the latest happenings from their musical worlds…

Aside from the live-action guests, Jon spins up some great local music from the KRCB FM Radio 91 archives. Cheers!

KRCB's North Bay Songwriters Radio Show airs every first, third, and sometimes fifth Thursdays, hosted by local songwriter, Jon Gonzales. Listen on-air at 91.1 & 90.9 FM / streaming @ radio.krcb.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photos: Christopher Beebout (left), Emily Hamilton (upper right) - Courtesy of the artists)

On this program, we survey the careers of two giants within their genres. Bunny Wailer is the last surviving member of the original Bob Marley and the Wailers trio. Right up to his 2016 tour, where we met him, this architect of reggae music has continued to carry the banner with new concerts and recordings. And he tells his story with bracing poetic candor. Meanwhile in Egypt, Hakim, the lion of shaabi music, remains a superstar and a player in that country’s turbulent pop scene. On a rare visit to New York, Hakim gives us a tour through his post-revolution songs and offers personal insights into Egypt’s equally turbulent politics.

Afropop Worldwide can be heard Sunday nights at 9:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: via Afropop Worldwide)

On the next Fresh Air – More in a series of favorite interviews from the decade that just ended.  We hear from two music icons: Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen. Join us.

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(Photo: Patti Smith – Getty/via NPR)

On the next Fresh Air, two New York Times reporters who covered the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings investigate parts of the story that weren’t covered in the hearings and spoke to people who were not interviewed in the related FBI investigation. Terry talks with Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, authors of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh.  Join us.

Fresh Air can be heard weekdays at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM (and again at 12:00 am Tuesday through Friday)! / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

This week, Tyler Childers, Johnny Staats & the Delivery Boys, Mary Gauthier, Miss Tess & The Talkbacks, and Bil Lepp perform on the Mountain Stage.

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce can be heard every Monday night at 10:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download our free KRCB Mobile App for your iOS or Android device from the App Store & Google Play!

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This week on the eTown airwaves we’re joined by Americana/country singer/songwriter Tyler Childers. Tyler fuses gritty original song lyrics with the folk, bluegrass and rock influences of his Appalachian upbringing. Also with us is “one-man-band” The Suitcase Junket, with his one of a kind sound created from an array of instruments all played at once. Rounding things out, we have a conversation with eChievement Award winner Chad Bernstein, founder of Guitars Over Guns, an organization that provides mentoring to at-risk youth through music and arts education as an alternative to the negative and harmful influences that typically dominate their environments.

eTown airs Wednesday nights at 10 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play.

(Photo: Tyler Childers – Courtesy of eTown)

U.S. immigration authorities continue to deport Iraqis despite the turmoil of anti-government demonstrations that have swept the country. Many of those Iraqis came to the U-S as children, and most arrive in Iraq without the documents or skills to get by. On the next Morning Edition, can they survive in a country they barely know?

Morning Edition from NPR News airs weekday mornings from 6:00 am - 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB App for your favorite mobile device!

In one state, a Jim Crow-era election rule that’s still in use is being challenged for discriminating against black voters. Un-doing the Mississippi plan on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

The coronavirus pandemic caused oil prices to plummet like never before. While the market has made something of a comeback, oil prices are still low -- partly because people are stuck at home. Uncertainty in the oil industry on All Things Considered from NPR News.

All Things Considered from NPR News, airs weekday afternoons from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

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