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Join me for The Early Years where you'll enjoy the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.

Thanks to everyone for their good wishes following the last minute cancellation of last week’s show. I hope you enjoyed the replay from the archives. Now it’s time to bring you another live, fresh edition.

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From this Saturday at 2am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 7am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day , it’s the described movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from 1969.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film).

Yes, Sunday is fast approaching once again, and that means that it'll soon be time to get out the fiddles, whistles and pipes and settle down for three solid hours of even more solid (solidly awesome!) Celtic music on Come by the Hills! We have all our usual features and even a special request. We've got some new songs (to the show at least,) and some old show favourites as well. So, hang out with me on Sunday at 8:00 PM Eastern for great Celtic music, or catch the replay on Friday at 4:00 AM Eastern, 9:00 AM in the UK and Ireland. Also, don't forget the archive!

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.

The Juke In The Back” focuses on the “soul that came before rock n’ roll,” the records that inspired Elvis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and countless others.
What’s more American than celebrating America’s birthday with some good ol’ red, white and Rhythm & Blues about THE Fourth of July staple: food? Dig in on an hour of classic R&B about hot dogs, cole slaw, potato salad, ribs and ice cream sung by Nat “King” Cole, Amos Milburn, Louis Jordan, the “5” Royales and many more. It’s the American “soul that came before rock n’ roll” on the Juke In The Back.

Yes, it's almost time for another brand new episode of Mushroom Fm's premier Celtic Music show, known round here as Come by the Hills. This week, as well as our usual features, we'll be showing off both the vocal and instrumental talents of artists and bands from around the folk and Celtic world. It promises to be a great show as always, so I hope you'll come out and join the folk revolution!

Join me for The Early Years where you'll enjoy the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.
June has morphed into July and we're in high Summer where I live.
Last week, I began a survey of 70s Summer songs. This week, I complete that 70s survey and return to summer songs from the 50s and early 60s. There are so many good ones!

Yet again, I’m back for another four hours of great music and conversation as we all get together for The Mosen Explosion on Mushroom FM.

If you’ve been listening to the show over the last couple of weeks, you will have heard me make mention of the fact that the provider of our listener line appears to have bitten the dust. And sure enough, ahead of last week’s show, the number stopped working, seemingly never to work again. It has ceased to be. Aw.

Over the past several weeks, the classic rock world has lost four important figures. On this week's journey through The Depths, you will hear from all of them: rare live recordings from Dr. John and Leon Redbone, as well as important tracks from Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Roky Erickson from the 13th Floor Elevators. You'll even hear a brilliant spoken word piece from Ken Nordine, who we lost earlier this year.