As a belated celebration of Black History month the show howls to life with a deep dive into the music of a big musician with local ties: Eugene Smith. Tune in to hear a deep cut from the '64 CHUM charts with Jay & the Majestics, a scorcher from Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks in '65 (the year Eugene joined the band), one from his '81 album Warmin' Up, with the Warm Up Band, on Pickering Ontario's Warm Up Records (inner sleeve printed at Bennett Press, Collingwood), a jam of Eugene's that found its way onto an episode of Miami Vice starring Phil Collins and, to wrap up the segment on Eugene and this celebration of Black History month, a Black power anthem from the hardest working man in show business himself, featuring Eugene's dad on bass!
The rest of the show is comprised of a nod to two exemplary humans, one of which who lives in Grey County, that will be receiving honorary degrees from UofT, a digression into a little Southern Ontario queer history centered around a woman named Sara Ellen Dunlop and transmuted through the music of All We Can Give and Mamaquilla II, before wrapping up with a look ahead to Mariposa 2023 (Rufus Wainwright!) and Hackedepicciotto at the upcoming Electric Eclectics takeover of Heartwood in April.
Listen and enjoy!
