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A Rare Solo Turn From Daryl Hall, New Music From Japanese Game Show And Neil Young

Saturday, November 1: We provide an extensive overview of the late Jack Bruce’s career, spanning from his work with Cream and German trumpeter Michael Mantler, as a solo artist and with Robin Trower.

Monday, November 3: Released in 1978 Along The Red Ledge is the seventh studio album from Hall & Oates. On this recording the duo began moving toward the sound that would make it a radio staple in the 1980s. Featuring guest appearances from King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen, Todd Rundgren and George Harrison, the album featured no major radio hits but is among the best material Hall & Oates released in the 1970s. We’ll hear from that recording as well as from Emma Donovan and The PutBacks’ new LP Dawn, which has been called “a gritty, uniquely Australian record, simultaneously classic and contemporary.”

Tuesday, November 4: Released in 1979 X-Static came just one year before Daryl Hall and John Oates experienced the widespread mainstream success that would carry them through much of the 1980s. Featuring the core band that would accompany them on some of their most successful recordings, including guitarist G.E. Smith (Bob Dylan) and drummer Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Tears For Fears), the album features the single “Wait For Me.” We’ll hear from that release as well as from Interpreting The Masters Vol.1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates, the 2010 release from The Bird and The Bee, featuring vocalist Inara George.

Wednesday, November 5: Recorded in 1977 and produced by King Crimson’s Robert Fripp, Daryl Hall’s Sacred Songs was caught in limbo for three years before its 1980 release. Considered uncommercial by Hall’s record label, the album was a far cry from the fare he had released with Hall & Oates and would go on to achieve a strong cult following in subsequent decades. We’ll hear from this album and from King Crimson’s 1973 album Lark’s Tongue In Aspic.

Thursday, November 6: Listen for our sax blowout to celebrate the bicentennial birthday of Adolphe Sax with selections from Bruce Springsteen, Morphine, Moon Hooch, Steely Dan and others. 

Friday, November 7: It’s our New Month, New Music feature with selections from new releases by Neil Young, Bob Dylan with The Band, and Foo Fighters.

Saturday, November 8: Blacknuss is a 1972 recording by saxophone great Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Kirk was reluctant to do what many of his contemporaries had done and record jazz arrangements of pop tunes. He turned that reluctance into one of his best and most quietly political recordings, featuring versions of songs such as “My Girl” and “Make It With You,” the album is a statement about the nature of music and race in the early 1970s. We’ll hear from that as well as from Live At Fillmore West, the classic 1971 release from King Curtis.

Monday, November 10: We’ll hear from the 1969 self-titled debut from Irish blues-rock band Taste, featuring guitarist and saxophonist Rory Gallagher as well as from Gallagher’s impressive 1971 solo debut.

Jedd Beaudoin is host/producer of the nationally syndicated program Strange Currency. He has also served as an arts reporter, a producer of A Musical Life and a founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in Pop Matters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.