Do you want to know who really loves long songs? Really, really, really loves them? The DJ. You put on "Stairway" or "Hotel De California" and the DJ has time to take a piss, smoke a cigarette and refill the coffee pot. Or you can play an extra long track

If you really, really, really think about it . . . reggae is folk music for Jamaican people. And, just like in the folk scene, the main guy is named Bob. For the second part of Lesson 99 of the 101 Series, we follow Mr. Marley and his Wailers into the stu

Every once in a while you need to listen to some oldies. Tunes that are older than 30-35 years that now defines the lost art of oldies radio. For episode 7 of our oldies show I Remember That we go to the ringers - the mashers - the heavy hitters that hit

Time once again to listen to the music of another head on Mt. Rushmore. For Lesson 99 of the 101 Series we take a two-part journey into the smokey world of reggae music and the late, great Bob Marley and his band, The Wailers. For Part 1, we go "live" and

The Beatles are a band that had four frontmen . . .  and three songwriting brains (John & Paul, George and the two songs the drummer wrote). But, you know, sometimes the ol' brain has to take five and let someone else's song come through the amps. The Be

There are few artists in this world who belong on Mt. Rushmore. Fewer look like they're already carved out of granite. In Lesson 98 of the 101 Series we put the spotlight on an all-time legend: Mr. Willie Nelson. Pull up some rolling papers and a light, i

When The Greatest Rock Band In The World takes it to the stage it's always a killer show. 50+ years haven't slowed them down one bit. So, for episode 7 of Have The Rolling Stones Killed, we prove once again there's no slowing, stopping or staggering. This

Up to this point the 101 Series has been a rather straight-forward review of music for whatever topic we happen to be exploring. But now it's time to throw a little Shock in with Rock. We do this in Lesson 97 with a guillotine and the old soft-shoe and a

Hey, you there . . . our name is Balcony Radio and we'd like you to get under some covers with us . . . cover songs! Please don't throw that drink in our face! Pull up a stool and let us entertain you with some borrowed tunes. We call it Gimme Back My Son

Alright, people, it's time for another lesson in the 101 Series . . . this week we bow to the Lady Herself, Ms. Aretha Franklin. We'll start in the early jazz days, proceed to her inventing soul and r&b, take a gospel detour, flirt with her disco(ish) mat