Tonight the boys go back to the Billy Joel Well to talk about an album they both know as well as any album in either of their collections.
Rich and Danny are once again joined by their spiritual big brother, Mike Stiles, to avail themselves of the grace, beauty and easy grooves of Yacht Rock. Don’t miss Mike’s demonstration of how to use an 8-Track tape player!
Rich and Danny wish Jackson Browne a happy 77th birthday with the first of two Jackson Browne shows (the second will come sooner than later). Not much else to say about the show, but they think you'll really like it.
Danny takes the week off so Rich can sit with Kristi Pursell and Annie Larson, his beloved wife, to debrief about their experiences at Farm Aid 40, which was in Minneapolis on September 20th, and even share some of the performances from the show. Maybe not surprisingly, it gets pretty emotional right off the bat, because this is a cause that is dear to all three of them.
It's Farm Aid week in Minnesota, with the 40th edition of the all-star concert being held on September 20th at Huntington Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. Rich is going to Farm Aid, and if you listen to the beginning of the show, he explains exactly why this is so significant to him. There's a lot of great music from the Farm Aid performers on this show, and Rich also speaks with Kristi Pursell in her role as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives about the farm economy, and why an event like Farm Aid is so important.
Tonight’s show is programmed and co-hosted by Jonathan Reppe, who won the chance to work with Rich & Danny at a recent fundraiser. As it is right around Labor Day, Jonathan chose to focus on a man who dedicated his life to extending summertime as long as possible. While Danny is not all that familiar with JB, Rich is right in his element. All three have a great time, because it’s impossible to play Jimmy Buffet and not have a good time.
Both Rich and Danny are card carrying members of the E Street Nation, so this is something regular listeners should have seen coming pretty clearly. This week marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Born to Run. The boys mark the occasion by breaking the album down. It’s not quite having your face simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but this does mark the 3rd time Bruce has had a show devoted to him. Another feather in your cap, Boss.
Neither Rich or Danny claim to be massive fans of Elvis Costello. They both really like his music, but for whatever reason they have only been cursory fans. This show is as much about them discovering some of Elvis Costello’s music as it is presenting the stuff they like. Also there’s a whole thing in there about the pronunciation of Steve Nieve’s name.
Rich and Dany are joined one more time by the owner and Big Head Honcho at KYMN Radio, Jeff Johnson, to finish their three part series on the book published by Bob Dylan in 2022, The Philosophy of Modern Song. The guys play songs that Dylan wrote about and read excerpts from the book, and give their own takes on the songs as well. This is one of those ideas that was just ready made for The Weekly List.
A week after his passing, Rich and Danny use their show to pay their respects and express their gratitude and admiration for one of the defining musicians of their time.
Recorded on the day another hard rock giant passed away, Rich and Danny wax poetic about the hard rock Australian band from Scotland. Despite the fact that there is a little bickering (mild by their standards), they agree on the fact that neither of AC/DC’s singers was better than the other, and both eras of the band have great merit. All in all, it’s a pretty fair and balanced show. Even if Angus and Malcolm Young are both ugly as sin.
Back together in the studio for the first time in weeks, Rich and Danny belatedly celebrate Debbie Harry’s 80th (!) birthday with a show devoted to her groundbreaking band, Blondie. Do you want proof that Daniel G. Moir is all about the music, and nothing else? Rich tries several times to talk about how beautiful Debbie Harry is, and each time Danny shrugs it off with a comment about the use of a Major 7th chord in the bridge of one of their songs, or how Chris Stein got his guitar tone. Danny just has a different outlook on life than most of us. Again, it’s like he’s Canadian.
A while back, Rich asked Danny if he would have any interest in doing a Heart show. Danny declined. So, Rich reached out to the guys’ spiritual big brother, Mike Stiles, who readily agreed. So, tonight, Rich and Mike team up to do a song about one of the greatest classic rock bands of them all.
Rich and Danny are joined by former Twin Cities newsman, fixture on KYMN in the morning and all round super hero Tim McNiff, for a friendly debate. The music that came from the United Kingdom in the 1960’s, was the best music being made in the world. Right…?That is the position taken by our guy Tim, while Danny and Rich counter with some truly wonderful music that was made right her in the U.S. during that same time. You’re going to want to give this a listen and then weigh in on this.
With Memorial Day a few days behind us, it is officially summer. So what better way to kick the summer off than with a show about The Beach Boys.One of the hosts is admittedly not as fond of the band as the other, but Rich still finds a lot about the Beach Boys to love, especially talking about how much he really dislikes Mike Love. The music is terrific, they get to explore the true genius of Brian Wilson, and Rich gets to rip a guy he finds to be totally vile. It’s the perfect summer show!
This week, Rich and Danny take a deep dive in to the weird, devolved, techno world of Devo. There’s nothing else to say. You can’t translate robotic movements to the written word. It is recommended that you listen to this show while wearing your red energy dome and a sleeveless turtleneck with the collar pulled up to your nose.
Rich and Danny spend more than an hour-and-a-half digging into the brilliant music made by Huey Lewis & The News. They explore the nuances and attention to detail for which the band was famous. They discuss the groups undeniable influence on all pop music over the past thirty years, and even select their favorite bands of the 21st century that they see as the heirs apparent to the Huey Lewis & The News legacy. Okay, none of that is true, but the guys do celebrate Huey Lewis & The News as the everyman band that hit it big.
This week Rich and Danny finally feel ready to pay homage to one of the great musical minds of our time. Quincy Jones passed away in November, and the boys have taken the time to bring together what they feel is a good representation of his career through the music that he wrote, produced and arranged. And folks the music this week is just superb. This show doesn’t get to work with a catalog that is this deep and this diverse very often. Rich and Danny take full advantage of its magnificence.
Rich and Danny take some time (but not enough time) to wish the great Willie Nelson a happy 92nd birthday. Really, this show is them playing a bunch of his songs and just kind of marveling at the depth and breadth of his crazy remarkable career. Listen to them fanboy if you want, but the music on this show is – obviously – amazing.
