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April 2025

Robert Cotter, Tiger Lily and the Mob
How an album featuring the pre-fame members of Chic spent 50 years in the vaults.
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Casey Kasem's Top 40 Countdown--April 21, 1973
For all you Quentin Tarantino buffs, this week's countdown features two tunes straight outta Reservoir Dogs. Lend me your ear. I promise not to cut it…
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10 Tips for Starting a Record Collection
Happy Record Store Day!
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Big Rembrandt and The Sugar Shack
Ernie Barnes was an author, an album cover artist and perhaps the only player in NFL history who was paid to paint rather than play. Here's his…
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March 2025

The King of the Chitlin' Circuit and the Kid from Oklahoma
Bobby Rush is a stone-cold legend–a blues singer from Pine Bluff, Arkansas whose life reads like an encyclopedia of blues history. So what took the…
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Dick Allen--Baseball Hall of Famer; Moonlight Tenor
The temperamental slugger enters Cooperstown the summer. Here's hoping they mention his doo wop band--the Ebonistics--on the plaque.
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How Woody Guthrie Wrote "Shipping Up To Boston" From Beyond The Grave
Plus a bonus St. Patty's Day playlist.
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Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 – March 6, 1976
This week's countdown is pretty evenly split between rockers grappling with heartache, middle age, and cocaine; and funky soul combos celebrating late…
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February 2025

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