One of our favorite segments each week on the Trail 103.3 is Vinally Friday – a day when your favorite on-air personalities bring a piece of their personal vinyl collection into the Trail studio for a few spins and stories. The significance is manifold: Not only do we get to feature some lesser-known tracks (and look […]
Vinally Friday – 12/21
Friday on the Trail turntable: • Craig enlightens us with the 2018 debut album from perhaps the first-ever all-female rock band. Yep … a project 45 years in the making from Ace of Cups • Alanya gets us in the holiday spirit with John Denver’s 10th studio album, “Rocky Mountain Christmas” •Robert follows up with […]
Vinally Friday – 12/14
Whoever said punk rockers can’t fall in love? In what had increasingly become a macho genre dominated by loud guitar and political sneers, The Buzzcocks made an unusual presence on the scene. Starting with their first public appearance opening for the Sex Pistols in 1976, the English band was determined to carve a niche for […]
Vinally Friday – 12/7
The temptation to follow the Beatles into psychedelic pop-rock was powerful, indeed. But somehow, someway, the Rolling Stones managed to make like Bob Dylan and find the strength to turn back from the abyss and culminate instead on the roots rock that made them unique and lovely unto themselves. The result, thank God, is the […]
Vinally Friday – 11/30
This week on the Trail turntable: • Craig will kick off the day with the most celebrated solo release from an American rock and jazz drummer most known for his work backing Jimi Hendrix. Buddy Miles has a pair of solo releases to his name when he dropped what would become his masterpiece, Them Changes, […]
Vinally Friday – 11/16
This week on the Trail turntable: • We hadn’t heard of either one of them, but apparently it’s a big deal that Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have collaborated at long last. The former is the founding guitarist for ’80s roots-rock band, The Blasters; the latter is a West Texas country pioneer, formerly of […]
Vinally Friday – 11/9
This week on the Trail turntable: • Perhaps he hasn’t looked outside this week, or maybe he’s just hopelessly optimistic, but Craig seems to have motorcycling on his mind. How do we know? Because he’s picked an album with close ties to one of the more emblematic motorcycle films of all time, “Easy Rider”. The […]
Vinally Friday – 11/2
Sometimes in politics it’s not about right and wrong – it’s just a matter of who seems to be yelling the loudest. In the lead-up to next week’s mid-term election, that award goes not only goes, strangely, to a man already in office – but to a man who isn’t actually even up for reelection. […]
Vinally Friday – 10/26
As much as we love it, nothing triggers the feeling of the endless time warp like the holiday season. Most of this has to do with family roles: No matter how much we age, when we meet our family around the dining table it’s nearly impossible to avoid slipping into old patters and behaviors. The […]
Vinally Friday – 10/19
This week on the Trail turntable: • Craig will open up the day with the second album by The Butterfield Blues Band, East-West. Released in 1966, East-West continues to be regarded as one of the more influential rock and blues albums of the era, with a focus on traditional covers and the guitar-based work of […]
