Song of the Week - "Dog & Butterfly" By Heart

The Song of the Week premieres on Wednesday, 10am and 10pm, Central.

Or, listen to it now, played on original vinyl.

Vinyl Albums for Sale!

We are beginning to clean out our library. Check out these vinyl albums we are selling this month on Ebay. They are being sold under the name vinylvoyagerecords.

1) Lot of Two Journey Albums: "Evolution"(VG)  and "Frontiers" (VG)
2) "Voices of Liberty" a 1984 EPCOT Center album of patriotic songs. (NM)
3) Mystic Moods Orchestra-"One Stormy Night" with "naughty" album sleeve (VG+)
4) Joan Baez-"Diamonds and Rust" 1980 Half Speed Mastered Audiophile edition (VG+)
5) Vivaldi - "The Four Seasons" conducted by Trevor Pinnock (NM)
6) The Beatles - "The White Album" 1978 Special Edition on white vinyl (VG+)
7) Jethro Tull lot of 4 albums: "Living in the Past" (VG), "Thick as a Brick" (VG), "Stand Up" (VG+), "M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull" (VG+)

Next on BSC - Elvis songs selected by listeners!

Next on Blue Suede Connection, Dan and TL play songs selected by their listeners. Not to be missed. This episode streams at 3pm Saturday and repeats at 3am Sunday (all times Central)

More information about Blue Suede Connection can be found at their website: http://blue-suede-connection.blogspot.com

Review: "Tales From PA 6" by Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander

One of the new albums we are featuring this month is Tales From PA 6, by Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander.

Back in 2016, the duo released their first venture together, Dupont Back Porches. That album was spontaneous, quickly produced and recorded. It was raw, emotional and actually felt as if it were recorded on a porch and you were there for the making of it.

Tales From PA 6 sounds different. It is more polished. It is more thoughtful. It feels like these two have been playing together for years, actually. Their voices compliment each other and nicely underscore the stories they tell.

The title of the album is a reference to a road running through northeastern Pennsylvania, where they both live. The idea was to construct an album telling stories that may have occurred along that road. I have never been on that road, as far as I know. I have only been to the region once. But location does not matter here. We all have roads like this running near our homes, all pointed in the same direction.

The stories they tell are universal and articulate; powerful ruminations on life, family, love and death.  Working class values run deeply in each track, and the current political climate boils ever so slightly under the surface and actually explodes full-force in the last track, entitled "A Greater Generation." This track was inspired by the students from Parkland, forcing the nation to confront some ugly truths about life in America. "A greater generation waits," they sing. "To kick these bastards out."


That song is a powerful, hopeful reminder that where we are now is not necessarily where we will end up. It is a great bookend to an album that begins with the somber, but emotionally charged anthem "I Ain't Gonna Grow Old in this Place Anymore."

Spin the bottle..wiffle ball...catching fireflies 

while Daddy takes a powder and never says goodbye 

Ten jobs in 4 years and the bank closing in 

just a picture in a scrap-book now...a casualty of sin 

My mother working double shifts out at the Wal-Mart store 

well I ain't gonna grow old in this place anymore 

In between those two songs are stories about people and families you may have met along your road. "Amantha Ray" tells the story of someone who got up and left, leaving friends and lovers, "looking for something and ain't found it yet."  Likewise, "Morning Eyes" tells the story of someone wanting to leave, but can't:

When the head says run and the heart says stay 

it's time to find a bottle and look the other way 

Gotta burn it down to save it….toss the embers in the air 

Act like all this is normal….and like we do not care  

"As Good a Choice as Anyone" is about taking chances and not giving up, no matter how easy that choice would be:

You want to scream but it doesn’t make sense 

To waste your words in your own defense 

And you’re told to embrace the thing you hate 

Because good things come to those who wait 

Don’t give up 

A change is gonna come 

Don’t give up 

I can feel it rustling in the wind 

Take my hand 

We’ll go wandering through the dark 

We’re as good a choice as anyone 

To find the light again 

One of my favorite tracks is "Rolling On," again featuring both Flannery and Alexander, belting out an alternating chorus about "growing up" and "growing old" and featuring a plethora of characters who are familiar to each and everyone one of us; again highlighting the universal nature of these stories:

Every other Christmas / you try to make it home 

Trying to recognize the faces / that they send you on their phones 

Heads hung heavy / in the morning light 

The same empty bottles / and the same old fight 

Uber to the airport / and you fall into the bar 

Wondering how you managed / to even get this far 

All their eyes like slits / only open on a dare 

Looking for their love / not their thoughts and prayers 

But you’re rolling on...rolling in / Chasing away the childhood sin 

Growing up growing old / Tired of doing what you’re told

Tales from PA 6 is an exceptional album of rock-driven acoustic story-telling  It is clear that music is a passion that consumes them both. As a result, the songs in Tales from PA 6  are thoughtful, mature and empathetic stories that have a familiarity that rings true no matter what road you are on.


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You can listen to the whole album below and purchase it here by naming your own price.

Song of the Week - "Don't Make Me Over" by Dionne Warwick

This week we are going back to 1962 for the song that started the career of Dionne Warwick. The song is "Don't Make Me Over," played on an original 1967 copy of her Dionne! album.

The Song of the Week premieres on Wednesday at 10am (central) and repeats at 10pm. Or, listen to it below played on original 1967 vinyl.

A New Supersized Episode of AiV- The Hot Ones from 1978!

This is the first time we are featuring a double album on AiV. Join us as we spin The Hot Ones, a great double K-Tel album from 1978. Premieres on July 7th at 12:30 pm, central.

This episode can be hear throughout the month of July at the following times, central:

Saturdays 12:30 pm
Sundays 4 pm
Wednesdays 2 am

Elvis in 1977, Next on Blue Suede Connection

I really hadn't been exposed much to Elvis when I was growing up in the 70s. When he died in 1977, it barely registered. Now, 41 years after his death, I have developed an immense appreciation and respect for Elvis.

Still, Elvis was not taken seriously by the entertainment industry in 1977. Which is a shame, because he could still rock.

On the next episode of Blue Suede Connection, Dan and TL dispel the myths of Elvis in the final year of his life. This is a great episode, not to be missed.