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Music From the Radio Free Athens Crew: June 20, 2020
< < Back toLike most everything else, Radio Free Athens has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Although you won’t get to hear your favorite DJs on the air for a while, we will be supplying faithful listeners with playlists in the meantime. Find them below!
From R@T
I have been going through boxes of stuff lately trying to purge myself of things that need to go. I came across a cassette of the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band that I have not heard in a while. It is where I started when working on this week’s playlist. I have also thrown in some songs about dads since Sunday is Father’s Day. Somehow it finished with three Johns.
I had to relocate here in 2003 before I fully understood how important Ohio’s music is to the rest of the planet. This week’s list consists solely of performers from Ohio – some you know, the rest you need to. Alan Freed notwithstanding, there’s a reason the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located here -not that I’ve ever been). Please enjoy, and thanks for checking out our playlists. Featuring:
Pretenders
Angela Perley
The Outsiders
Rachel Sweet
The Tough and Lovely
Devo
The Waitresses
The Raspberries
Ali Zjana
The Lemon Pipers
Water Witches
Pere Ubu
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
The D-Rays
The O’Jays
The Isley Brothers
The Valentinos
Bobby Womack
Zapp & Roger
The High Definitions
Megan Wren
Pure Prarie League
Doc Robinson
Boz Scaggs
Nancy Wilson
The National
From DJ Grumpy Grandma
Kind of along the lines of Michael T.’s playlist for this week, but much lazier, I present something I could never actually play on the radio: over an hour of the best DEVO tracks reinterpreted Percy “Thrills” Thrillington style — MUZAK! I’ve been loving these tracks, and I hope you will too (I think you will, as long as you’re not Chrissie Hynde, my fellow person in a female bodied avatar from the northeast OH 330-area code region who does NOT like muzak)!