Almost exactly 40 years ago--January 10th, 1968, to be exact--rising star Joni Mitchell was recorded live (from the soundboard, it seems like) at Club 47 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She had just been signed to the Reprise record label and her first album wasn't due to be released for several months. She performs several songs from that album, plus "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now", plus a number of songs she never officially recorded or released later.

The sound quality isn't perfect and there are a few glitches from the original reel-to-reel recording, but it's a wonderful performance by a young artist (who still refers to herself as Roberta at one point) just at the blossoming of her career.

The nearly hour-long performance will be aired this Monday, Feb. 4th, at around 10:30 PM.

A new Beatles song! Yay! Apparently axed from the Anthology sessions which brought us "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", this new tune, "Now and Then", like the other two has as its basis a John Lennon voice-and-piano demo given to the other three Beatles by Yoko. Work on the 'Beatles' version was never completed (though there is talk that McCartney may yet finish and release it) but it's well worth hearing as it is. I'll be airing both the demo and work-in-progress versions somewhere around 10:30 PM Monday, 1/28.
Ryan Shaw is a young singer who has that raw, 60's-style soul music sound down like you wouldn't believe. Think Sam & Dave, Junior Walker (especially "Shotgun"--Shaw does an update called "Do the 45"), and early Temptations. A good chunk of Shaw's first album "This is Ryan Shaw" will be featured during the show.  read more »