"Guitar"

“Guitar” (broadcast 8/20/21)

Bill Frisell: Lift Off 
Hank Garland: Sugarfoot Rag 
Eddie Hill: The Hot Guitar 
Les Paul & Mary Ford: Bye Bye Blues 
Elvis Presley: Mystery Train
Joe Maphis with Larry Collins: Flying Fingers 
Eddie Cochran: Twenty Flight Rock 
Link Wray: Rawhide
The Shadows: The Wonderful Land
Jet Harris: Man With The Golden Arm 
The John Barry Orchestra: The James Bond Theme
Booker T. & the M.G.'s: Green Onions 
Lonnie Mack: Wham! 
Chuck Berry: Go Go Go
The Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought The Law 
The Mothers Of Invention: Hungry Freaks, Daddy 
Jimi Hendrix: Burning Of The Midnight Lamp 
The Beatles: The End 
The Velvet Underground: Rock & Roll 
Jerry Reed: Guitar Man
T. Rex: Bang A Gong (Get It On)
Led Zeppelin: Rock And Roll 
Heads, Hands & Feet: Country Boy 
The Ventures: Honky Tonk, Part 1 & 2
Eric Weissberg & Deliverance: Concrete Canyon Boogie 
Cyril Jordan ID
The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action 
David Bowie: Rebel Rebel [Mix 1; Acetate] 
JJ  Cale: Cocaine
Gene Casey & The Lone Sharks: Who's Sharing The Moon 
Mac Gayden: Morning Glory 
The Pirates: Castin' My Spell 
The Ramones: I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement 
Rich Stim ID 
MX-80 Sound: You're Not Alone 
The Cramps: Human Fly  
Sandy Denny: I Wish I Was A Fool For You
Gary Lucas: “Origin of Evening Bell” 
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Evening Bell 
Huw Gower & Magic Muscle: Free As A Bird 
Nashville Pussy: Struttin' Cock 
Danny Gatton: Elmira St Boogie 
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban: Secret Love 
Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, 
Marc Mann & Prince: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Mark Dagley: Pretty Flower Of The Valley
Arlen Roth: Stranger On The Shore (w/Cindy Cashdollar) 
Duane Eddy: Peter Gunn ("Twang" Mix with The Art Of Noise)
PSAs 
Duane Eddy: Peter Gunn ("Twang" Mix with The Art Of Noise) 
The Rolling Stones: The Last Time

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Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President