All Things Must Change 4/20/09

George Harrison sang “All things must change,” such is the nature of the universe. Well, change has finally come to our radio program, The Folk Sessions, Live.  After six years of broadcasting live from the KJZA studio first on Cortes, and now on Gurley, most every Saturday night, beginning Sat., May 30th, The Folk Sessions will become a one-hour taped show. No more sitting in the studio with my cd’s spread before me deciding what musical mood to create, what story to tell… no more yakking to the imagined listeners, driving hway 40, or driving to the store, or coming home from work or just being at home listening to their radio. No more trying to sneak in my lefty politics in our secret code alerting my fellow pinkos to the next bund meeting (I can’t remember am I a socialist or a fascist?)  I certainly will miss the immediacy of live radio, the coolness of hawearing those headphones listening to GREAT music and having a grand time.  Every year I’d ask myself if I wanted to do another year. Give up part of my Sat nights, have to prepare every sat for the show (I know that’s hard to believe that we actually “prepared”). And every year I’d say “You Bet.” It never stopped being fun. Thanks Mr Erickson for the opportunity…  The good news is I have an archive of incredible live music from the radio shows and from our concert series that I will put together into dynamite one-hour shows.  Folk Sessions Chapter 3 begins.