Fine Tuning preview: 3/31/19
This Sunday in the album spotlight on Fine Tuning I'll be featuring "My Finest Work Yet," the new studio release from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird...and yes, I do think this album is Andrew's finest work yet! Also in the mix will be a birthday tribute to Marvin Gaye (who would've turned 80 on April 2), plus a 50th anniversary tribute to Dusty Springfield's fabulous "Dusty In Memphis" album, released on March 31, 1969. Fine Tuning: Sundays from 4 - 6 p.m. on ann arbor's 107one
Fine Tuning preview: 3/24/19
This Sunday in the album spotlight on Fine Tuning I'll be featuring singer-songwriter Patty Griffin's new self-titled album. After a successful battle with breast cancer, Griffin returns with one of the most poignant & beautiful collections of songs in her career. Also in the mix will be lots of tunes by Roxy Music, the Cure and Radiohead, part of the 2019 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Fine Tuning: Sundays from 4 - 6 p.m. on ann arbor's 107one.
Fine Tuning preview: 3/17/19
This Sunday on Fine Tuning I'll pay tribute to the legendary session musician Hal Blaine, who died earlier this week at the age of 90. Blaine was a member of the Wrecking Crew, the group of session musicians who in the early 1960s began dominating rock ’n’ roll recording in Los Angeles. Along with guitarists Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco, bassists Carol Kaye and Joe Osborn, and keyboardists Leon Russell and Don Randi, Blaine played drums on thousands of recordings through the mid-1970s, including hit singles by the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, the Ronettes, the Association, the Byrds, the 5th Dimension, Simon & Garfunkel and Herb Alpert. Fine Tuning: Sundays from 4 to 6 p.m. on ann arbor's 107one.
Fine Tuning preview: 3/10/19
This Sunday in the album spotlight on Fine Tuning I'll be featuring "Signs," the fourth studio release by the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Also in the mix will be new tracks from the Black Keys (they're back!), Adia Victoria, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and Mavis Staples. Fine Tuning: 4 to 6 p.m. Sundays on ann arbor's 107one.
Fine Tuning preview: 3/3/19
This Sunday on Fine Tuning I'll be featuring a two-part tribute to Mark Hollis, frontman of the British art-rock group Talk Talk. Hollis died earlier this week at the age on 64. After recording synth-pop/new wave hits "It's My Life," "Talk Talk" and "Life's What You Make It," the group moved in a different direction on their last two albums (1988's "Spirit of Eden" and 1991's "Laughing Stock"), which are far more experimental & utterly uncompromising. Robert Plant, Radiohead, Elbow and Duran Duran are just a few of the artists who've praised the influential work of Mark Hollis. Fine Tuning: Sundays from 4 to 6 p.m. on ann arbor's 107one.
