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Aug 22

The Road from the Garden

A celebration of Woodstock’s artists through live performances beyond the festival itself—from vintage television appearances and concert recordings to surprising collaborations decades later. The show aired in anticipation of WPKN’s third annual Woodstock Festival broadcast, featuring every minute of the original 1969 festival. PLAYLIST Crosby, Stills & Nash – Long Time Gone – Money for Nothing: Rock Classics – Atlantic Records Tim Hardin – Reason To Believe – Tim Hardin 1 – Polydor Jefferson Airplane – Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon – Live At The Fillmore East – SME Janis Joplin – Raise Your Hand – Essential Classics, Vol. 432: Janis Joplin – London Calling Creedence Clearwater Revival – I heard it through the grapevine – Ten songs for you, Vol. 2 – G Records Miley Cyrus, Melanie – Look What They've Done To My Song Ma – Look What They've Done To My Song Ma Melanie – Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Broadcast Version – Neighbourhood Songs – Easy Action Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary - Live At Monterey – Live At Monterey – SME Ten Years After – One Of These Days - Live - Frankfurt – Recorded Live – Chrysalis Records Paul Butterfield – Everythings Gonna Be Alright (Live) – Live – Floating World Joe Cocker – WHITER SHADE OF PALE (LIVE) – Live in Baden Baden Germany Crosby & Nash – Lee Shore – Live – Geffen* Joan Baez – Suzanne - Live – The Complete A&M Recordings – A&M Arlo Guthrie – Can't Help Falling in Love - Live – More Together Again (Remastered) – Rising Son Records Country Joe McDonald – New York City – Tribute to Woody Guthrie – 101 North Records Janis Joplin – Get It While You Can - Live – Joplin In Concert – Columbia Janis Joplin – Kozmic Blues - Live – Joplin In Concert – SME Sly & The Family Stone – Dance to the Music - LIVE – Higher! – SME Sly & The Family Stone – Stand! - LIVE – Higher! – SME The Who – Love Reign O'er Me - Live At Universal Amphitheatre 1989 – Live Greatest Hits – Geffen The Band – Back To Memphis (Live) [1995 - Remaster] – Live At Watkins Glen – Capitol Records The Band – I Shall Be Released - Live – Live At Watkins Glen – Capitol Records John Sebastian – Fishin' Blues [Live] – Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live
Jul 24

Mystery, Memory, and Red Red Wine

A free-ranging mix of music new and old, moving from Iris DeMent and Bruce Cockburn through reggae, cumbia, psychedelic Beatles interpretations, blues, hip-hop, French pop, and other uncategorizable pleasures. Along the way: Jah Wobble, Josephine Foster, Sabina Sciubba, Mudcat, De La Soul, and recent music from Jesca Hoop—including the achingly beautiful harmonies of the “The Lost Sky,” recorded in a new stripped-down, acoustic version. During the show, I mentioned a particularly wonderful live version with Jesca Hoop, Aoife O'Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, and Chris Thile, recorded during a performance of A Prairie Home Companion [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3xhLJmNb5o].
Jul 1

Summer Festivals and Juliette Greco

In this afternoon’s Radio Something, I will be celebrating the sounds of summer music festivals from around the world (Including headliners Greentea Peng, Ganavya, Madé Kuti, Ana Lua Caiano). In the third hour (2:20:00 to be exact), I’ll take a detour to Paris for a short set featuring the legendary “existentialist chanteuse” Juliette Gréco, whose extraordinary career spanned more than sixty years. I recently explored Juliette Greco’s life and music after hearing her name mentioned frequently during the celebrations of Miles Davis’s centenary in late May. Their relationship is now the inspiration for the upcoming film Miles & Juliette, produced by Mick Jagger. _________________________________________________________________ Artist / Song / Album / Label Laura Veirs / Flying Into Darkness / Flying Into Darkness / Raven Marching Band Laura Veirs / Drink Deep / Hello I Must Be Going / Raven Marching Band Aldous Harding / One Stop / One Stop / 4AD Aldous Harding / Train on the Island / Train on the Island / Flying Nun Records Donny Hathaway / Someday We'll All Be Free / Extension of a Man / Atlantic Records Belinda Carlisle / I Feel Free / Heaven on Earth (30th Anniversary Edition) / Geffen* Jon Batiste / FREEDOM / WE ARE / Verve The Nields / Tyrants Always Fall / Tyrants Always Fall / The Nields Vance Gilbert / (They Long To Be) Close To You / The Mother of Trouble / Disismye Music Susan Werner / Dreams/Jung / Dreams/Jung / Sleeve Dog Records Ganavya / Would Be Better / Would Be Better / LEITER Ganavya / Indo Blue / Aikyam: Onnu / yāttirai Greentea Peng / Jimtastic Blues / MAN MADE / AMF Records Greentea Peng / Make Noise / MAN MADE / AMF Records Mádé Kuti / Take It All In Before The Lights Go Out / Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From? / Mádé Kuti Mádé Kuti / Wait And See / Wait And See / Mádé Kuti Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek / Direne Direne / Direne Direne / Big Crown Records Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek / Cool Hand / Cool Hand / Big Crown Records Ana Lua Caiano / Manjericão - Live / Manjericão (Live) / Glitterbeat Records Ana Lua Caiano / Se Dançar É Só Depois / Se Dançar É Só Depois / Chinfrim Discos Mariaa Siga / Boukanack - Sensor Club Live Session / Boukanack (Sensor Club Live Session) / MADE IN AFRICA Mavis Staples / Beautiful Strangers / Beautiful Strangers / Anti/Epitaph Brother Wallace / No God In This Town / Electric Love / ATO Taj Mahal / You Put The Whammy On Me / Time / Resonatin' Records Juliette Gréco / Rue des Blancs Manteaux / La belle vie / Rym musique Juliette Gréco / Déshabillez-moi / Tubes Chanson Française / Universal Music Division Decca Records France Juliette Gréco / Sous le ciel de Paris / Blue / Puzzle Productions Greentea Peng / Meditation / MAN MADE / AMF Records
Jun 3

River Songs — Marking My Exit from River Life

This May 2026 edition of Radio Something was a passages-of-life show. After eight years of living on a boat on a river (the Quinnipiac, to be exact), I'm leaving this chapter of life behind to help care for my elderly mother. Ever since I first moved onto the boat, I've wanted to do a river show — about tides, movement, memory, crossings, change, and the currents that carry us through our lives. Today felt like the right day.
Apr 23

They Say It's Spring: Radio Something broadcast for April 22, 2026

This show was conceived on a bright spring morning, driving along Ridge Road and Skiff Street in Hamden and North Haven. I don't thank I've ever seen so much forsythia in full bloom—in the early morning sunlight—plus daffodils, tulip magnolia trees, and cherry blossoms. I feel like the yellow is still seared onto my eyeballs. Artist — Song — Release — Label Jonathan Richman — Le Printemps Des Amoreux Est Venue — Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild — Vapor P&D Jolie Holland — Springtime Can Kill You — Springtime Can Kill You — Anti/Epitaph Teddy Bear Radio — Latte & Forsythia — Springtime Relaxing Jazz Playlist — SIWORKMUSIC Vassell Meka — Flowers Dub — The Full Spectrum — Legacy Mekas Muzik Simon & Garfunkel — April Come She Will — Sounds Of Silence — SME Paraskevas Grekis — Avril - Hasaposervikos Dance — Greece-Grece/The Best Of Greek Music — Arcade Music Paris Rickie Lee Jones — Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most — Pop Pop — Geffen Lou & Peter Berryman — Forsythia — The Pink One — CORNBELT Pokey LaFarge — Daffodil Blues — Riverboat Soul — Free Dirt Records Cedric Burnside — Pretty Flowers — Pretty Flowers — Single Lock Records John Fahey — When The Springtime Comes Again — Death Chants, Breakdowns And Military Waltzes — Fantasy Records Veda Hille — This Spring/Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most — Little Volcano — Veda Hille Beaten By Them — Spring Bird — Kinder Machines — Logicpole Cœur De Pirate — Printemps — Cœur De Pirate — Wrasse Records Ron Sexsmith — Spring of the Following Year — Hermitage — WM Canada Kaia Kater — Sun to Sun — Sorrow Bound — Kingswood Records David Kuncicky — (Nothing But) Flowers — (Nothing But) Flowers — David Kuncicky Paris Combo — Avril — Attraction — Universal Music Division Polydor Emilíana Torrini — Miss Flower — Miss Flower — Groenland Records Bruce Cockburn — April In Memphis — Crowing Ignites — True North Records Jacqueline Taieb — Le printemps à Paris — Femmes de Paris, Vol. 1 — Silva Screen Records Pierolalune — Poisson d'avril — Au clair de l'année — Montagne et Musique De Dannan — The Flowers of Spring — The Best Of DeDannan — Shanachie Nkemjika — Forsythia — Forsythia — Nkemjika Ferre Gola — Poisson d'avril — QQJD, Vol. 3 — Ferre Gola Joanna Newsom — Sprout and The Bean — Sprout and The Bean — Drag City Records Angel Olsen — Spring — All Mirrors — Jagjaguwar A Hawk And A Hacksaw — The Sparrow — The Way The Wind Blows — The Leaf Label Glenn Jones — Forsythia — Vade Mecum — Thrill Jockey Nina Simone — Wild Is The Wind — The Best Of Nina Simone 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection — Verve Reissues Erin McKeown — They Say It's Spring — Sing You Sinners — TVP Records Mila Drumke Band — I Think the Spring — Radiate — Little Pro Records Young Iranian female voices — Song of Spring and Hope — Songs in the Mist — Kirkelig Kulturverksted Tom Waits — You Can Never Hold Back Spring — Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards — Anti/Epitaph Djivan Gasparyan — Lovely Spring — Moon Shines At Night — All Saints Records Claudia Schmidt — Fanfare For Forsythia — Out of the Dark — New Rounder Talking Heads — (Nothing But) Flowers — Naked — Parlophone UK Jolie Holland — First Sign of Spring — Wine Dark Sea — Anti/Epitaph Frank Kimbrough — Forsythia — Rumors — Palmetto Records
Feb 19

In Memory of Pete Stewart: Radio Something 2026/2/11

During my February 11, 2026, show, I paid tribute to WPKN’s dear friend and longtime programmer, Pete Stewart. He was one of the true craftsmen of freeform radio—thoughtful, intuitive, and quietly brilliant—and one of the gentlest souls to ever walk through the doors at WPKN. For many years, Pete’s van carried a bumper sticker that read, “Obey gravity, it’s the law.” It made me smile every single time I passed it. Somehow, it felt perfectly Pete. Playlist Cathy Kreger / Can't Find My Way Home / Grand Central Waltz / Passing Tone Music Traffic / Dear Mr. Fantasy / 60s Psychedelic Rock / Universal Music India Pvt Ltd. Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Music For A Found Harmonium / Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer) / Universal Music Mose Allison / I Live the Life I Love / Live 1978 / Liberation Hall Terrance Simien's Krewe De Monifique / Tomber Amour Encore (Fell in Love Again) / Ancestral Grooves / Music Matters Records Sam Cooke / Twistin' The Night Away - Live / One Night Stand - Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 / SME Ry Cooder / Little Sister / Bop Till You Drop / Warner Catalog and O/H Shakey Graves / The Perfect Parts / And The War Came / Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Shawn Colvin / You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Live at the Bottom Line, NYC, NY - August 1993) / Cover Girl / Columbia Jake Blount / Once There Was No Sun / Once There Was No Sun / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Norah Jones / Black Hole Sun - Live / ‘Til We Meet Again (Live) / Blue Note (BLU) Lucinda Williams / Big Red Sun Blues / Lucinda Williams (Deluxe) / Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Norma Tanega / Walkin' My Cat Named Dog / Hippies: 60's & 70's Classics / Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group Nina Simone / Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter / The Essential Nina Simone / RCA/BMG Heritage Thomas Dolby / The Toad Lickers (feat. Imogen Heap) / A Map Of The Floating City / Non-Wea/Other Talking Heads / (Nothing But) Flowers / Naked / Parlophone UK Young Dubliners / The Rocky Road To Dublin / St. Patrick's Day Party Jam! / MBO - The Music Business Organisation A/S Mimi And Richard Farina / Bold Marauder / Reflections In A Crystal Wind / Vanguard J.J. Cale / Anyway The Wind Blows / Forever Man / Reprise Bettye LaVette / Don't Get Me Started / LaVette! / Jay-Vee Inc. Keb' Mo' / Put a Woman in Charge (feat. Rosanne Cash) / Put a Woman in Charge (feat. Rosanne Cash) / Concord Records Charlie Musselwhite / Chan Chan (Charlie's Blues) / Continental Drifter / Virgin Catalog (V81) Taj Mahal / Hooray Hooray / Hooray Hooray / Nonesuch Toshi Reagon / Happy And Satisfied / Righteous Ones / Razor & Tie Gil Scott-Heron / Winter In America / The Bottle / Prestige Elite USA Jack Hardy / Winter Sunlight / Noir / Jack Hardy Miles Davis / Blue In Green / aboutJAZZ / Universal Music Division Decca Records France Lui Collins / Baptism of Fire / Baptism of Fire / Molly Gamblin Music Terrance Simien's Krewe De Monifique / Caribbean Second Line / Ancestral Grooves / Music Matters Records Traffic / Dear Mr. Fantasy / 60s Psychedelic Rock / Universal Music India Pvt Ltd. Chris Smither / Hey, Hey, Hey / Chris Smither Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop ... / Chick Corea & Bela Fleck / Bemsha Swing / Remembrance / Béla Fleck Productions

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Creator

Valerie Richardson, WPKN
Years Active

2026
Episodes

6
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© 2026 Valerie Richardson, WPKN