We pulled Appetite for Destruction off the shelf for one song and never put it back. Three hours of Guns N’ Roses, from Welcome to the Jungle to Yesterdays, and we still ran out of time.
Part three of our Dolly Parton deep dive covers 1974 to 1978, from Love Is Like a Butterfly through Here You Come Again to Heartbreaker. That’s the stretch where she went from Porter Wagoner’s duet partner to crossover star. It’s also pledge drive time at WORT 89.9 FM, so pledge at wortfm.org/donate and help keep community radio on the air.
Agent K spent this week losing an increasingly unfair series of contests to an alien drilling robot named Steve — don’t ask, just listen. Three hours of blues, rock, and everything adjacent follows, from Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan through Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Springsteen, and a hard turn into Talking Heads, The Cure, and Depeche Mode.
Round two of the Dolly Parton deep dive: her early RCA Victor albums, from the gospel of Golden Streets of Glory to My Tennessee Mountain Home.
It’s been three years since Tool hit this air — three years too long for a band that used to get played every single week. Dolly’s deep dive takes a one-week breather while Rolling with Scissors reconnects with Opiate through Lateralus in a full Solid Block.
Long live the queen. Program 1362 of Rolling with Scissors traces Dolly Parton’s raw, formative years from 1967 to 1970.
Part two of our Billy Joel deep dive takes us from 52nd Street through The Bridge, where missing vinyl forces an audible pivot into Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road deep cuts.
Calling an audible for The Days Between. We honor Jerry Garcia’s birthday and legacy with a four-album studio marathon featuring Workingman’s Dead, American Beauty, Blues for Allah, and Terrapin Station—plus history, Chicago ’95 memories, and free beers.
An algorithmic lie from Facebook turns into a wildly unpredictable four-album palette cleanser on Episode 1358 of Rolling with Scissors, featuring complete record plays from Metallica, ZZ Top, Madonna, and Prince.
Better late than never! Fire on the Keys (Episode 1357) kicks off our multi-part deep dive into the catalog of Billy Joel. Inspired by a recent interview with Rick Beato, we’re digging into the early archives—from Cold Spring Harbor to The Stranger.