Well, hello there again, partners . . . it's time for another fix of country sounds to stick under your hat. In episode 8 of Blue Highway, our tribute to Americana roots music, we sit back and enjoy some first class picking and strumming. Maybe you should

We at The Balcony did some calculating . . . about 92% of songs are about girls. Mom. Girlfriend. Platonic freeze-out. Summer romance. Post-summer romance. All about girls. So, in Lesson 108 we decided to do a show for the ladies. Literally. In this episo

We at The Balcony have been accused of being belligerent fogeys . . . always playin' that long haired dude rock from the 70s. Well, maybe that's right. Sorry. Can we make it up to ya? How about we spend two hours playing nothing but awesome ladies who are

Ok everyone. It's time to get some serious funk action going. We're going to do that now with the ultra-hot, Hardest Working Man In Show Business, Mr. "Please Please Me", Mr. "This Is A Man's World" . . . the one only, Mr. James Brown. It's a big dose of

From 1970-79 a man named Bob Dylan made a LOT of music. Some people like most of it, a few people like a lot of it and most people just liked "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." We, at the Balcony, have decided to focus on the better part of Dylan's 70's materia

Ladies and gentleman, it's time now to give it up and over to the greatest of all time: Soul Brother #1 - The Hardest Working Man In Show Business. For Lesson 107 of the 101 Series, we step aside and let the great James Brown show us how to do that funk r

So, around 1967 the entire world seemed to take a lot of drugs and start making weirder music. It was great. (One of the few things people world-wide can agree on is that taking drugs and making music is a good time.) In episode 7 of This Pill Makes You S

Some topics come in songs pretty often . . . girls, cars, death, The Man, being done wrong and drugs. In Lesson 106 we handle the last one on the list and focus on d-r-u-g-s. People have been writing songs about dope since people have been writing songs.

Not to surprise you, but . . . Balcony Radio is a small operation. Two mics. One mixing board. Three computer screens. One phonograph. One cat. Forty-five hundred LPs. Four thousand CDs. We play music. This show is called The FreeSpace. In two hours we pl

Sometimes a beautiful melody can be happy and inspiring. Sometimes it can say something horrible. Other times it says get out of my life because you're a jerk. For Lesson 105 of the 101 Series heartbreak gets the spotlight as we listen to great Kiss-Off