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It's Saturday night and time to boogie! Tune into "Soul of the Blues" tonight from 6-8pm on ashevillefm.org and the Blueshound will bring you 2 hours of mind wooing, butt cooing blues! On tap tonight are songs from a Bonnie Raitt collection mainly from her earlier albums in the 70's and 80's. I'll play tracks from Duke Robillard's latest release "Low Down and Tore Up", piano boogie woogie queen Katie Webster's "No Foolin'", a recent release by Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart-"Don't Explain" and Buddy Guy's "Damn Right, I've Got the Blues".

#avlent Tonight! Pat Hinson is a man, he likes fudge, he has hands and what appears to be nose and he is on Your Only Option tonight! Tune in to learn what makes him tick. 828-259-3936.

Tune into http://ww.ashevillefm.org/t-bones-radio-active-kids tomorrow to hear music, stories, and interviews. Singer Bari Koral as Anna and the Cupcakes will be calling in to talk about her new CD. We will be speaking to author Garret Weyr who recently wrote the awesome book French Ducks in Venice. Featuring music and stories from Bill Harley's "High Dive", Mo Phillips "Monster Suit", La Bella Stella , Katherine Dines, "Hits", Muppets, "The Green Album", Cather Heller, "Your're Home To Me", Salteens, "Kid Songs", Shakedown Mambo, Howard Hanger Jazz Fantasy.

Irvin Mayfield, John Boutte and Anders Osborne are three musicians dedicated to carrying on the traditions of New Orleans music and culture. Mayfield's album "A Love Letter to New Orleans" tells the story of his evolution as a New Orleans artist, educator and most recorded and decorated jazz musicians of his generation. John Boutte started out singing in school, moved to the Army and then became a street singer in New Orleans learning his craft literally from the ground up.

Not the TV show from the 1960's, but rather today's show, it seems, as several family acts will be popping up on today's show. That would include The Everly Brothers; The Forester Sisters; Waylon Jennings and his wife, Jessi Colter; along with three other wedded couples, Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan; Johnny & Jonie Mosby; and Carl and Pearl Butler.
But it's not all just family. Got Conway Twitty in line, vintage Al Dexter, some Tim McGraw, Holly Dunn, and Clint Black, to name a few.
And of course, the UT Time Machine is revved up, making stops to this week in 1958, 1969, and 1974.

It just seems like a Ramsey Lewis kinda day. - spring like high temperature forecast for today and sunny here in AVL.. so I picked two of his LPs to feature plus some other groovy slabs of vinyl. Here is what today's show will feature:

-The Mil-Combo - "The Mil-Combo" - (Capitol T 579)
- Ramsey Lewis - "Les Fleurs" (Columbia 38787)
- Harold Betters - "Funk City Express" (Reprise 6241)
- Jean Luc Ponty - "Cosmic Messenger" (Atlantic SD 19159)
- Oscar Peterson - "The Paris Concert" (Pablo 2620 112)
- Ramsey Lewis - "Goin' Latin" (Cadet LPS 790)

Asheville FM Top 30 Charts:

1. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP (IN THE RED)
2. Jason Urick - I Love You (THRILL JOCKEY)
3. The Spits – s/t (V) (IN THE RED)
4. V/A - Bollywood Bloodbath (FINDERS KEEPERS)
5. Ty Segall – Singles 2007-2010 (GONER)
6. Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door (SACRED BONES)
7. David Lynch – Crazy Clown Time (PIAS)
8. Adanowksy - Amador (EVERLOVING)
9. Zombie Season – Our Living Funeral (self-released)
10. Fennesz/Sakamoto - Fluminia (TOUCH)
11. Jason Stein Quartet - The Story This Time (DELMARK)
12. Reigning Sound - Abdication… (SCION A/V)

This week's show features an interview with Kristian Williams, author of the books, "Our Enemies in Blue," "American Methods" and numerous articles on policing, torture, anarchism, cartoons and much more. Kristian speaks about his in-progress book on the Anarchism of Oscar Wilde, Wilde's experiences in prisons and his sexual politics.

Find articles by Williams on this and many other topics at www.kristianwilliams.com

Time to juice it up with some blues! Tune into "Soul of the Blues" tonight from 6-8pm on ashevillefm.org and the Blueshound will dish you up 2 hrs. of mind slinking, butt blinking blues! On tap for tonight are various artists doing their hits from the "Down Home Blues" collection, Delbert McClinton doing "Live From Austin, TX", that gorgeous red head Bonnie Raitt from her "Luck of the Draw" album, Watermelon Slim and the Workers, one of my favorite live abums ever-Lonnie Mack's "Attack of the Killer V" and the Notcho' Blues artist segment will feature some classic songs from the 60's.

#avlent Tonight! Down from the arctic north, Katie Hughes returns to teach us all a lesson about love, life and heart disease in Chi-town.  Tune in and call in 828-259-3936

We are very excited to be featuring the music of Gustafer Yellowgold and 23 Skidoo. They have a local gig in Asheville, NC tomorrow.

CDs being featured today are:

From Gusstafer Yellowgold: Infinity Sock, Mellow Yellow, Have You Ever Been Yellow?

From 23 Skidoo: Underground Playground, and Easy

We will also play music from The Baby Grands 11 and Big Round World from Trout Fishing In America

Listen in Sat. 8-10am on Ashevillefm.org

With hair like that, it's no wonder everyone was doing so much cocaine. So, put down your mirror and rolled up $100 bill, and tune in Friday from 7-9pm for part 2 of this crazy decade of music. This time, 1985-1989. See ya there.