"Last Rose" by Anna Meredith. DoublePlusGood Thu Apr 30 with Lizbot on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Greetings!

Hello Hello!

Hi Number 6!

Back to a semblance of normalcy.

Howdy Lizbot & Number 6!

Hi RFM and Lizbot!

@Lizbot, catbirds are increasing in numbers. The best birds though were in the local park. I heard an Ovenbird singing (teacher Teacher TEACHER), my wife saw it. And she heard a Nashville Warbler singing

Double plus leftovers!

Ovenbird: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ovenbird/photo-gallery/296753061

Hi Rob from Maryland 🦀!!

@Number 6 - Define "normal"

Got any songs about colors of the moon? Theme show double whammy

Hi Zach 🌈💃🏽🦑🎶!!

@Zach 🌈💃🏽🦑🎶 - I did have one last week!: "The Moon Is Blue" by Colourbox!

Ha, not your normal radio estacion!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I feel like an ovenbird when the studio gets a bit too toasty!

@Number 6 - And thank goodness for that!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I like ovenbird's little shock of orange on its crest!

They're hopefully going to get a window unit in there soon.

@Number 6 - Fingers crossed!

They are cute with that orange. And, hopefully it's not toasty in the studio this afternoon

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Not too shabby in the studio today! Its gorgeous in Princeton today, and the sun just came out after a couple very rainy days! Just toastier in the studio than outside, but definitely livable today! We had that crazy heatwave two weeks ago during which Readie & I roasted!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I see by the photos the ovenbird frequents Massachusetts - Just spent a week in Northampton and Boston back in late March and weirdly saw almost no birds. It was eerie, especially in Western Mass!

Hi Lizbot and chatters, my new chat name. Streaming from my very cool 1st floor, usually listen to FM on warm and toasty winter 3rd floor.

I thought that an ovenbird was a turkey.

Oh no, it was suppose to be another name.

Hi SV In Like Flynn! haha, no worries! You can probably still change it!

@SV In Like Flynn - Yeah, I'm in the warmer 2nd fl iteration of this studio, where A/C dare not go!

@Lizbot, sun :-) heat :-(

And there's a lot of noise outside sometimes, so opening the windows isn't an option

@Lizbot, that is a bit eerie. We've been there in mid March and saw a Peregrine Falcon attack a Common Raven (or vice versa) over a reservoir. So there can be birds there

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Sounds bloody! Reminds me of how I watched a grisly scene of an osprey ripping apart a seagull on the end of dock while I was just relaxing watching the Barnegat Bay a couple summers ago!

@Number 6 - Yes! Outdoor noise sure was loud last week, but today most people left for the day, so it's fairly calm so far!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Yeah, i was in Northampton the summer of 2021 and there were birds. I was in a more green area with more parks nearby this time and saw no birds! So odd

@Lizbot, the raven/falcon thing wasn't bloody. They were just harassing each other (so actually not attacking)

We were in Amherst twice in May and the migrating birds (and emerging mayflies) were really nice

My new osprey friend that perches 30 feet from my boat, stay off my mast bird! https://www.flickr.com/photos/65258891@N00/55241033741/in/dateposted-public/

@SVILF, tres cool!!

This song: "Red Robin bobbing along, chirping and chirping on the green grass of spring still wet with winter's rain" could be the scene outside the studio window right now on this gorgeous final day of April!

Love these strings

@SV In Like Flynn - Oooh, he's watching you! Nice photo!

Hi all! @Rob we had an ovenbird in the library yesterday!

@SV In Like Flynn - I got a front-row seat to a lot of osprey comings and goings in the summer at the place I stay in LBI because its on the bayside, right next to an osprey nesting box. When a my father-in-law comes by, he cuts the engine and we sidle up to a closer vantage point to see the babies once they've hatched!

Hi addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum!!

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Nice!! BTW, I WISH I could have gotten to West Craft Fest last Sunday! Saturday was so wet, and I thought Sunday would be too, but it got downright sunny and gorgeous those last 2 or 3 hours of the fest!

@Lizbot I was so burnt out I stayed home actually. Seems like they had a great turnout though, a vendor I know had their best event ever!

@addie, wow! what books did it check out?

@lizbot, that's great that you get close to those ospreys

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - Wow, nice! I think ppl really were itching to get outside after the rainy first half of the weekend.

@addie 🐍🐍🐍 plum - I was pretty overwhelmed with other things last weekend, but then I saw the photos on the West CF page and was wishing I was there!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - It's so nice having the bay right there. I love to just sit still reading and watching egrets and ospreys. A LOT of snowy egrets drop by to hunt for food

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - And by "hunt" i mean stand aroudn in the shallows of the bay and zoom close overhead

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - We also see a lot of tiny sparrows skimming the fresh water nearby

@lizbot, i love watching herons and egrets hunt. i wonder what those sparrows are

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I don't know but they're tiny and they dip rapidly and skim the surface of a nearby pool over and over, I guess drinking it

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - When Hattie was little, we rented a little cabin in the very remote Little Gasparilla Island in Florida - a roadless, store-less tiny place with old cabins - and I have never seen so many varieties of herons in my life, including massive great grey herons...maybe one was a goliath heron? I'll have to find my photos!

@Rob my colleague captured the lil fella before he could browse the stacks.

@Lizbot, could those skimming birds be Chimney Swifts?

@Lizbot, those herons were surely all Great Blue Heron; Goliath Heron is only found in African and Asia

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - You're probably right! I see chimney swifts dipping around over the tower of a nearby elementary school in Philly, but I'm not used to seeing them up close!

@addie, maybe when the Ovenbird gets a library card it can browse the stacks?

@Lizbot, it was odd the first time or two I saw Chimney Swifts skimming the pond in a local park. I love watching them do that

RIP Gregg Foreman

That Cat Power song was lovely!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Yeah RIP Gregg. I was a live club DJ with a recurring DJ night called "Girl Gone Feral" at Silk City in the early 2000s Philly when Gregg DJ'd his recurring night, The Turnaround. So many memories of nights spent with him spinning, running into friends and even my cousins. He was a big part of that late 90s/early 2000s 60s soul revival

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I'm glad you enjoyed The Color and The Kids. I love that song but I can rarely play it because it always gets to me! It's so intense and beautiful. i remember walking to the train and walking aimlessly around my neighborhood listening to that Moon Pix album when it first came out and that song was my favorite

Just got home in Medford from Surfing in Holgate. Walked in and saw our 1st Red Headed Woodpecker. Such striking contrast with the black white and red!

Great set!

Hi Roy Cole!

You inspire Liz!

@Roy Cole - Re: the set - Aw, Thanks!

@Roy Cole - Re: Holgate - The closest I've gotten to LBI so far this year is the Pine Barrens a couple weeks ago, Went to Whitesbog Village and walked the dog along the bogs there. Near the end of the walk, i think i heard a woodpecker. Saw one in the Wissahickon recently too!

@Roy Cole - Holgate - Famous for being where Ween recorded "The Mollusk"!

An incredible place. My wife n I collect slag glass in the pine barrons! Such a dynamic place to discover all kinds of natural beauty.

There is a great band in philly called Pine Barons. They are amazing. Check them out. Frantic Francis would be a good place to start!

@Roy Cole - The Pine Barons is a great name! Never encountered it before! My old boss was in a Philly band called The Strapping Fieldhands and that had a song called "In the Pineys" that I'm fond of

Blue Red & Grey was on my Morning Run Warmup playlist for a while "it's 5AM somewhere"

I discovered a band called BurntMill Ghosts from "Central Jersey"

I run by Burnt Mill Road, where the Atco Ghost "resides"

@Roy Cole - If you haven't already seen it, you might enjoy the documentary "The Pine Barrens" by David Scott Kessler. I saw an early screening of it outside at dusk at Whitesbog's Village's stage with the Ruins of Friendship Orchestra playing a live score! Magical night! That was ages ago. My friend and Pineys conservationist Allen Crawford, (who has designed logos before for WPRB!,) is the narrator and main "character" so to speak

Hi Randy Marthins!

@Randy Marthins - haha, yeah, I had certain songs that were gentle that I could ease into my ealry morning with when I worked a very early morning job aand that one would fit the bill!

Hi Lizbot & Co! - I'm working on a seascape for my daughters new apt when she moves over to PA & away from the beach

Not my usual forté, but I've done some before with positive reviews

Will def look this up and watch. Thanks so much. So glad to be a part of this community. Thanks for sharing!

I liked the Red-tailed Hawk song

@Randy Marthins /@Roy Cole - I'm gonna have to make an all-Pineys playlist! I can add Burnt Mill Ghosts and The Pine Barons, as well as Ruins of Friendship Orchestra and "In the Pineys"

@Roy Cole - Glad to have you here! Definitely a well-researched doc with many years of work put into it. I think it really captures the feeling of being in the Pineys.

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I'm glad! I ended up with a few bird-themed songs that overlapped with the color theme today!

@Randy Marthins - That's so cool of you to paint a seascape for your daughter! How far into PA is she gonna be? If she's moving to the eastern side of the state, at least she won't be more than a couple hours drive form the shore!

Albert hall in Waretown is a must. So many wonderful musicians with tons of Pine Barrons history.

@Roy Cole - Oh wow, I gotta check that place out! My parents used to take me to the Batsto summer music festivals when I was a kid, and my mom & I would hit up the annual Cranberry Festival, which is the first place I remember ever encountering dulcimer music...and tart cranberry ice cream!

@lizbot - not far away; Huntingdon valley - basically up 73 & over

Not paint - pastel; paint is too Bob Ross for me

@Randy Marthins - Oh yeah, I've been through Huntington Valley. Yeah, she wont have super far to go. Still, I guess nothing beats living right by the shore!

I got one on my IG from a photo I took in OCMD

https://www.instagram.com/p/Czws2LYvH6j/?igsh=cXl1MXd0bnB1cGRs

@Randy Marthins - Ah! Having grown up going to OCNJ, I was always vaguely annoyed by the existence of a SECOND Ocean City, even though that's of course silly and it's pretty much the most generic shore town name one could come up with! I get the impression OCMD is larger but maybe not older

@Randy Marthins - Oh nice!! That reeeally captures the feel and look of sitting on a beach chair watching the ocean! I want to be there!

Thanks! It was taken from post-Labor Day early morning run on the beach

@Randy Marthins - After everyone had to schlep home!

hey now. had my ears on for a bit and good colorful sounds.

Hi Dale Hazelton!!

@Dale Hazelton - Glad you're digging it! Or as Donovan says "Dig the slowness"

Just so happened to be driving last week and heard Long Red Light on WPRB and had a hunch it was Sparks! Loved it in a Phillip Glass kind of way! Gonna have to seek out the extended version.

@SV In Like Flynn - Yes, I love when Sparks does that slow layering build! Long Red Light is from Mad!, the most recent album, but they especially do the slow build repetition Philip Glass style songs on the Lil Beethoven album from 2002. I love My Baby's Taking Me Home from that album

this sounds like blancmange.

singer has the same vibe.

@Dale Hazelton - huh, okay I can see that. I wonder if they were an influence on Simple Minds. They were contemporaries

Speaking of dulcimer...!

google a.i. says "Both bands were influential in the era’s electronic music scene, with Blancmange (known for "Living on the Ceiling") often mentioned alongside Simple Minds' early, experimental work from the New Gold Dream era." there we have it.

Yes. Beautiful!!!😍

@Lizbot, imagine a Marylander being annoyed at finding out about a smaller Ocean City in New Jersey

jk ;-)

@Dale Hazelton - Ah! Spot on!

I've surfed both

@Roy Cole - Hammered dulcimer and pedal steel guitar are both so pretty and hit that spot between bell tones and percussive sound!

Actually, it looks like OC NJ is more populous than OC MD (except in summer)

We're loving this cover of "Red"

The Ocean City (MD) Arts League has published two stories my wife wrote which were then illustrated by members, and another where she selected a painted then wrote a story to go with it

Yes. Ive played them a few times.

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - haha, yeah, I do not know how they roll (crab roll??) in Ocean City, Maryland, never been! But I assume it's like how Philadelphians sweat NYC while New Yorkers rarely give a thought to Philadelphia...although that's been changing in recent years as we're getting flooded with former New Yorkers looking for more affordable alternatives!

*painting

@Rob MD, but OCNJ can claim the summer residence of the Kelly family. I'm sure you remember Grace Kelly.

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I'm glad you're enjoying it! I'm such a sucker for Petra Haden's a capella covers!

Randy M, that's nice that your wife's stories were publixhed

@lizbot Phillies manager Don Mattingly was a NY Yankees, case in point

@SV In Like Flynn - Oh course! I regularly drive up Kelly Drive! AND I just visited the Japanese garden Prince Rainer had built in tribute to her in Monaco last summer while I was in the south of france for a family wedding! Monaco was. ahalf hour away, I couldn't resist!

@SV In Like Flynn - There is a house in my neighborhood that is rumored to have been purchased by Jack Kelly for his mistress back in the day!

@rob - she's a writer, I'm an illustrator, yet our daughter is the only thing we've collab'd on LOL

@SVILF, I've heard of her, yes ;-)

Kelly family is Philly royalty, all started by an Irish bricklayer I believe.

@Randy, all three of you are cool

@Lizbot you really get around, I must say. I love this theme, btw. Signed, Color Freak

@SV In Like Flynn - Nearly two decades I interviewed British pop artist Mika for WPRB. One of his early hit singles was a song called "Grace Kelly". I interviewed him at his Philadelphia show backstage when he was touring for that album, and he INSISTED Grace Kelly was not from Philly. That could not stand! I had to correct him! Philly blood runs deep!

Hi Laura Loewen!!

Thanks for the music..quietly standing in the corner of the room observing

@Laura Loewen - Thanks! Haha, yeah well now I have a Frenchman in my family with some insider tips on places to stay!

Oh, nice!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - That's cool about your wife the writer and artist!

@Carlos Ramone - that's me too, mostly

Hi Carlos Ramone!!

Just stopping by to say hi. Been listening since the start.

@Lizbot, that was Randy Marthins, not me!

@Carlos Ramone - Sometimes standing in the corner of the room quietly observing is the best place to be, especially at dusk!

My friend from the 80s Philly scene, Nancy Barile, is a descendent of Ben Franklin

Hi Amy Lee!! Glad to see you!

@Liz Sort of had an opportunity to meet Grace at a White Dog Cafe fundraiser for $200 just before her passing. But I was a broke 22 year old.

My mom was DAR, since her family is traced back to 1750s Michigan

@liz..started observing on porch after a drenchingdown pour…shortly a nice rainbow appeared..fit in nicely with theme

@Lizbot! Catching the end of your show

Hi Bike R!!

What a great show! Thanks so much for sharing Liz!

is he the one who did the wozard of iz?

Ty for Lizbot for all this colorful music!

Loved the Scots stuff

Thanks for a very colorful show, BCNU!

@SV In Like Flynn - Oh wow! I loved The White Dog back in the day when Judy still owned it. It's just not the same now. The new owners also own Moshulu...eh. It's lacking that crunchy grass-roots vibe and it isn't as cozy anymore. I used to go to Bars Through Bars fundraisers there. Would've been so cool to meet Grace!

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Thank you!!

Thanks, Number 6!

@#6…I heard a few people call you Ernest during your drive shows…is your identity compromised?.

@SV In Like Flynn - I can tell you first hand from having driven on those roads in Monaco - They are NO joke! So treacherous! steep mountainous seacliff roads with SHARP turns and lots of tunnels through the rock! I thought of Grace Kelly while on those!

Hi Carlos- That would be telling!

@Bike R - Glad you enjoyed the Scots! I often play Scottish bands without even making a point to...am again now with Donovan!...because so many of my favorite bands are from there, including ones I didn't get to today, like Orange Juice, The Shermans, Belle & Sebastian. et al

Our secret

@Dale Hazelton - Saw yr wizard of iz comment now - yes, i believe so....

Yeah!! Thanks, always a fantastic show!

Thanks, Bike R!

5:04 PM		Bill Nelson Do You Dream In Colour Bill Nelson Quit Dreaming (And Get On the Beam) Mercury 1980
5:07 PM		The Associates Green for Grief Double Hipness Union Square Music 1999
5:11 PM		Girlfriends and Boyfriends Colour Shining Bright Fallacy of Fairness Pop Era Records 2021
5:14 PM		Missing Persons Color In Your Life Color In Your Life 1986 3rd studio album
5:16 PM		Colourbox The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (7" Version) Colourbox (Remastered) 4AD 1985
5:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:20 PM		Say She She Pink Roses Prism Karma Chief Records 2022
5:23 PM		Delta 5 Colour Try / Colour Rough Trade 1980
5:25 PM		Green/Blue Gold R Paper Thin Feel It Records 2022
5:27 PM		Chimers Red Chair N Red Chair - Single 12XU 2026
5:29 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:31 PM		Volcanic Eruption Red Robin I've Got Something Going For Me / Red Robin Way Out 1970 Bonus rainbow mention! "Red Robin bobbing along, chirping and chirping on the green grass of spring still wet with winter's rain" could be the scene outside the studio window right now on this gorgeous final day of April!
5:34 PM		Yellow Sunshine Yellow Sunshine Yellow Sunshine Gamble 1972
5:38 PM		LA Carnival Color Cold Heat Pacific Avenue 1969 Funk-Soul band from Omaha, Nebraska, previously named The Leslie Smith Soul Band. Circa 1968-1970.
5:40 PM		Fats Domino Blue Monday Blue Monday / What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasing You 7” Imperial Records 1956
5:43 PM		Screamin' Jay Hawkins Orange Colored Sky At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins Epic 1957
5:45 PM		Cheer-Accident Redwood Creek Admission SKiN GRAFT Records 2025
5:48 PM		They Might Be Giants Pictures of Pandas Painting Here Come The ABCs Idlewild 2005 TMBG coming to Philly for a 3-day all-TMBG Fest at Union Transfer May 15th,16,17th!
5:50 PM		Half Waif Orange Blossoms Mythopoetics Anti/Epitaph 2021 "Drinking from the bottle Knowing what it does to me Seeing every color Sliding into shadow While I can, I will carry my own bags And I will call my father when I know that he's alone And I will plant a plot of yellow flowers They'll be a sign to whichever one of us survives And when I see the ghost of orange blossoms in the snow I'll know it was you, and I'm coming soon"
5:55 PM		Laura Nyro Broken Rainbow Walk the Dog & Light the Light Columbia 1993
5:58 PM		Cat Power Colors and the Kids Chan Marshall Moon Pix Matador 1998 R.I.P. Gregg Foreman, sometimes-Philly-DJ, mostly of the early 2000s with his Silk CIty night "The Turnaround", frontman of the band The Delta 72, and longtime Cat Power musical director. He passed away on April 21st, 2026
6:04 PM		Donovan Turquoise Turquoise / Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) Pye 1965
6:07 PM		Babe Rainbow Us and the Rainbow Today Eureka Music 2019
6:12 PM		Clariloops Grey Ruby Ester Mae Sun//Rain Melbourne-based Clariloops. AKA, Ruby Ester Mae, creates immersive ambient music that combines synthesised electronic sounds with clarinet
6:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:22 PM		Inara George & Van Dyke Parks Red Tailed Hawk Inara George For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. II V/A The Birdsong Project 2022
6:27 PM		Alina Estelle Hardin Cotton White Alina Estelle Hardin Grass Roots Record Co. - Family Album GRASS ROOTS RECORD CO 2007
6:29 PM		Snegg Band Fallen Color Family Album Grass Roots Record Company 2006
6:34 PM		Vashti Bunyan Rainbow River Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day Philips 1970 Debut
6:37 PM		The Who Blue, Red and Grey Pete Townshend The Who By Numbers MCA 1975 Sung by Pete Townshend, with the only instrumentation being Townshend on ukulele and John Entwistle playing horns. A group version of the song was recorded, but the recording was apparently lost. Even though Daltry is absent from the song, he names it as one of his favorites. Townsend said it reminded him of old Smiley Smile Beach Boys
6:42 PM		R.E.M. Green Grow the Rushes Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
6:44 PM		Felt Evergreen Dazed Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty Cherry Red Records 1982
6:44 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:51 PM		Petula Clark Neon Rainbow Memphis Pye 1970
6:53 PM		Anna Meredith Last Rose Anna Meredith Varmints Moshi Moshi 2015
6:57 PM		A Sunny Day In Glasgow Yellow TOUT NEW AGE Mis Ojos Discos 2007
7:02 PM		Cocteau Twins Pink Orange Red Tiny Dynamine - EP 4AD 1985
7:06 PM		Broadcast Colour in the Numbers Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006 - 2009 Warp Records 2024
7:10 PM		Agnes Obel Golden Green Agnes Obel Citizen of Glass Play It Again Sam 2016
7:14 PM		Stereolab Fiery Yellow Mars Audiac Quintet Duophonic 1994
7:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:21 PM		Sparks A Long Red Light Ron Mael MAD! Transgressive 2025
7:24 PM		Cocteau Twins Cherry-Coloured Funk Heaven or Las Vegas 4AD 1990
7:27 PM		Simple Minds Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Virgin 1982 5th studio album; More Scots! Glaswegians
7:31 PM		Kelly Moran Prism Drift Don't Trust Mirrors Warp Records 2025
7:36 PM		Petra Haden Red Robert Fripp Sing Crimson
7:42 PM		XTC Miniature Sun Andy Partridge Oranges & Lemons Virgin 1989
7:46 PM		Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Yellow Brick Road Safe As Milk Buddha Records 1967
7:48 PM		Mort Garson Ode to an African Violet Mort Garson Mother Earth's Plantasia V/A Homewood Records 1976
7:48 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:53 PM		Tunng A Million Colours Tunng Presents...Dead Club Full Time Hobby 2020
7:58 PM		Donovan Mellow Yellow Mellow Yellow Epic 1967 4th album

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