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ok, it’s obvious you people want stuff to be convenient.  we here at Open Sky are totally down with that philosophy of life.  sooooo…….now you can listen to Bruce’s red-eyed new radio show Gratuitous Echo when YOU want to.  because we know that listeners are not just boss…. they ARE the boss!  and so here’s the deal.  on our home page here, (1) go up to DJs.  click.  (2)  click on BVD  (3)  there on bruce’s page, you’ll find…..the GE of that week.  go ahead and party with it!  it’s there for you if you want it at 830 in the morning or 830 at night.   you screeched, and we heard!

and this saturday night at 9 PDT, the 4th GE will drop, and it will replay on wednesday night at 9.  but if those times don’t work for you…….

Gratuitous Echo….the radio show that is already shamelessly shilling for a dispensary sponsorship!

…JABBED!

See you on the dance floor…maybe this Summer?

one of the GREAT british guitarists, singers, and songwriters, the remarkable Peter Green went to sleep on July 25th and forgot to wake up.  he was 73 years old.

 

everybody knows Fleetwood Mac.  but not many know that the band was created by Green back in ’67, along with drummer mick FLEETWOOD and bassist john MACvie.  and many of us don’t know that that first version of the Mac was EXTREMELY popular, at least in the UK.  they were STARS, mainly because of Green, who was really good. the author of Black Magic Woman (yep, that’s a fleetwood mac song covered by santana) and a revered guitarist (none other than B.B. King once said Peter was the only guitarist who could give him chills), it’s obvious we need to pay tribute to his memory and legacy.

 

so yes….a tribute show is coming.  it’s currently in production, stay tuned for details……should be ready to roll by thursday?

 

 

 

one of the GREAT singer songwriters has passed on.  yep, a victim of the corona bug.  john prine was 73, and his death wasn’t a shock.  his family announced last week that he had been admitted to a nashville hospital, and that things weren’t going well.  john, in his seventies, had danced with cancer often these last few years, so he fit the profile of a person who was going to struggle with this virus.  and sure enough….the bug was too much.

hey, john effing prine was too much!  so if you feel like doing some prine time today, here are some quick suggestions that can’t miss.  his first record now can be seen as a towering achievement in folk rock acoustic coolness.  called John Prine, it’s just way good.  also terrific listens are Sweet Revenge from ’73, his “best of ” record called Prime Prine will obviously work, and then you got The Missing Years from ’91, and the awesome Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings from ’95.  all really really really really good records.

yes, a tribute show is gonna get done.  what the heck, it’ll be far more rewarding than watching another crummy science fiction flick on NF!

 

 

Our crack street team in the heart of the Mississippi Delta town of Clarksdale spotted this Jive graffiti outside Red’s Juke Joint. 

That’s one sano AC install…