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Love Letters #106 - 3RDegree Interview Special

I'm joined on this episode by Robert Pashman, Pat Kliesch, and Eric Pseja of 3RDegree.  Hear their thoughts on the forthcoming album - The Long Division, the incentives for their crowd-funding effort, their many DVDs, and live performance in general.

1. 3RDegree - Top Secret
2. Landmarq - Entertaining Angels
3. Echolyn - A Little Nonsense
4. 3RDegree - That Time of the Night [not live]
5. 3RDegree - 13>Dancing Over Scarlet Mist
6. 3RDegree - Home in the Clouds
7. 3RDegree - Scenery
8. The Enid - Judgement>In the Region of Summer Stars
9. Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
10. King's X - Moanjam
11. Rush - Analog Kid
12. 3RDegree - Done It Again

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Love Letters 107 - May Birthday Celebration

Live recordings from birthday artists Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hogarth, Christina Booth, Andy Latimer, and more.  Plus new live recordings from IQ, Marillion, and Brit Floyd.

1. Rick Wakeman - The Breathaliser
2. Rick Wakeman - Unknown Title
3. IQ - Born Brilliant>Frequency
4. H Band - Nothing to Declare
5. Marillion - Senses Working Overtime
6. Brit Floyd - Time
7. Brit Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky
8. 801 - Rongwrong>Sombre Reptiles
9. Peter Gabriel - A Song Without Words
10. Genesis - Entangled
11. Genesis- Squonk
12. World Drummers Ensemble - A Coat of Many Colors
13. Earthworks Underground Orchestra - The Wooden Man Sings and the Stone Woman Dances
14. Camel - Metrognome
15. Camel - Unevensong
16. Magenta - Gluttony
17. IQ - Capricorn

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Love Letters 108 - Acoustic Letters 5

It's time once again for another all-acoustic show.  This one has newer recordings from Moraz-Bruford, Mangrove, and Hiromi.

1. California Guitar Trio - Yamanashi Blues
2. Moraz Bruford - Children's Concerto
3. Moraz Bruford - Split Seconds (Early Version)
4. Rick Wakeman & Dave Cousins - Can You Believe
5. Rick & Adam Wakeman - Summers End
6. Matt Stevens - Rusty
7. Montreal and California Guitar Trios - Circulation>Chacarera
8. Al DiMeola - Turquois
9. Mangrove - Zone 1>Zone II>Zone III
10. Steve Hackett - Classical Jazz>Sapphires
11. Steve Hackett - Mexico City>Black Light
12. Peter Hammill - Shell
13. Peter Hammill - Faculty X
14. 3RDegree - The World in Which We Lived
15. Rob Clearfield - The Painter
16. Nick D'Virgilio - Shining Star
17. Nick D'Virgilio - Karma
18. Marillion - The Answering Machine
19. Fish - Incomplete
20. Fish - Change of Heart
21. Marillion - 80 Days
22. Unitopia - One Day
23. Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer - Wooly Mammoth
24. Francis Dunnery - Good Life
25. Hiromi - Sicilian Blue
26. Janison Edge - Old Man
27. Tryo - Preludio>Vertigo
28. Mangrove - Here Comes the Flood
29. Umphrey's McGee - That's the Way
30. Anthony Phillips - Last Goodbyes
31. Anthony Phillips - Collections
32. Fromuz - Babylon Dreams

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Love Letters 109 - Festive Epics

Live epics from festivals!

1. IZZ - Deafening Silence from Calprog 2008
2. Neal Morse - Stranger in Your Soul from 3 Rivers Progfest 2008
3. Discipline - Into the Dream from Progday 1997
4. Moon Safari - Other Half of the Sky from RoSFest 2011
5. John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension - Mother Tongues from New Universe Music Festival 2010
6. Seyes - Close to the Edge from Electric Garden Festival 2011
7. District 97 - Mindscan from Calprog 2010

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Love Letters 110 - June Birthday Celebration Pt. 1

Live performance from some artists having a birthday this month, including Tony Levin, John Mitchell, Martin Orford, Nick Barrett, Ian Mosley, and more.  Plus new live recordings from Ohmphrey, Caravan, and Rush (which is actually quite old but just released).

1. Pendragon - Victims of Life>Higher Circles
2. Tony Levin Band - Sleepless
3. Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
4. Liquid Trio Experiment - Close Encounters of the Liquid Kind
5. Laurie Anderson - My Compensation>Washington Street>Pieces and Parts
6. Caravan - Fingers in the Till>It's Not Real
7. Ohmphrey - Firestarter
8. Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
9. Marillion - Deserve
10. Marillion - Especially True
11. Rush - Here Again
12. IQ - Just Changing Hands
13. Kansas - Hold On
14. It Bites - The Ice Melts Into Water
15. It Bites - Midnight
16. Fish - Voyeur
17. Big Country - Inwards
18. Pendragon - Sister Bluebird

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Love Letters 111 - June Birthday Celebration Pt. 2

In addition to some of the artists covered in last week's episode, this week we also celebrate the birthdays of Patrick Moraz, Ian MacDonald, Steve Morse, Stanley Clarke, and Clive Nolan.  Plus more new live material from Ohmphrey, Marillion, IQ, Pallas, and Rush.
1. IQ - Human Nature
2. Refugee - Papillon
3. Yes - Apocalypse>Siberian Khatru
4. Moraz Bruford - Hazy
5. Arena - Sirens
6. Caamora - Rescue
7. Ohmphrey - 20/20
8. Steve Hackett - Camino Royale
9. Steve Hackett - The Court of the Crimson King
10. Marillion - The Only Unforgivable Thing
11. Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior>El Bayo de Negro>Lineage>Romantic Warrior
12. Dixie Dregs - Take It Off the Top
13. Pallas - Ratracing
14. Rush - Working Man

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Love Letters 112 - The Canadian Perspective 2

It may be too hot to wear a toque for those of us in the northern hemisphere, but that doesn't mean you can't start your Canada Day celebration with some live music from Canadian prog artists.

1. Great Big Sea - Donkey Riding
2. Miriodor - Cheval fou
3. Miriodor - Piege
4. Maneige - Mambo Chant
5. Jerome Langlois - La Rafiot Rafistole
6. Loreena McKennitt - The Highwayman
7. Rush - Mystic Rhythms
8. Rush - Der Trommler
9. Contraction - We Made It
10. Contraction - Le Chat Bruinne (Star Child)
11. Nathan Mahl - Carpe Diem
12. Offenbach - Jam
13. Offenbach - L'Hymne a l'Amour
14. Bruce Cockburn - Call It Democracy
15. Visible Wind - A Moment in Time
16. Visible Wind - Solitude
17. Hamadryad - Still They Laugh Pts 1&2
18. Hamadryad - Action
19. Spaced Out - Furax
20. Rene Young - One of These Days [not live]
21. Rush - Summertime Blues
22. Rush - Crossroads>Limelight
23. Great Big Sea - Hangin' Johnny

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Love Letters 113 - The (ugly) American Perspective 2

Live performance from artists from the USA in honor of Independence Day.

1. Kansas - Song for America
2. The Bears - Success
3. Glass Hammer - When We Were Young
4. District 97 - The Actual Color
5. Agent 22 - If's Jam
6. IZZ - Star Evil Gnoma Su
7. The Mahavishnu Project - A Lotus on Irish Streams
8. 3RDegree - Peel the Paint
9. Kevin Gilbert - Smash
10. Djam Karet - Dream Portal
11. Travis Larson Band - Thin Air
12. Bahner Slick Duo - Dinosaur Fiction
13. Liquid Tension Experiment - Universal Mind>Keyboard Solo>Universal Mind
14. Curlew - The Ole Miss Exercise Song
15. Umphrey's McGee - Example 1
16. Harry Chapin - Taxi
17. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Big Country
18. Spock's Beard - Go the Way You Go
19. Stuart Hamm - A New Peace

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Love Letters 114 - July Birthday Celebration

Live performance from some July prog birthday artists including Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, John Wetton, Al DiMeola, Richard Wright, Chris Fry, and much more.  Plus new New Goblin and New Goblin with Steve Hackett.

1. Asia - Only Time Will Tell
2. Pink Floyd - What Do You Want from Me>Learning to Fly
3. Echolyn - Here I Am
4. Yes - For Everyone
5. Al DiMeola - Elegant Gypsy Suite
6. Rush - Anthem
7. Rush - Presto
8. Rush - Stick It Out
9. New Goblin - Goblin
10. New Goblin with Steve Hackett - Profondo Rosso
11. Squackett - A Life Within a Day [not live]
12. Chris Fry - Secret Garden [not live]
13. Magenta - The Journey
14. Strawbs - The Antique Suite
15. Dream Theater - Diary of a Madman
16. Marillion - The Web
17. Arena - Spectre at the Feast>Skin Game
18. Liquid Tension Experiment - Osmosis>Pardigm Shift

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Love Letters 115 - Half Under the Covers 5

These live recordings are not technically from the original artist, but it's tough to consider them covers either.  We're half under the covers again!

1. Peter Hammill - My Room
2. Jon Anderson - Piano Songs
3. World Drummers Ensemble - B'Boom
4. Rick Wakeman - Space Oddity>Life on Mars
5. Wakeman & Cousins - The Hangman and the Papist
6. GTR - Pennants
7. Tony Levin Band - Back in NYC
8. California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin - Waters of Eden
9. Nick D'Virgilio - City of the Sun
10. New Goblin with Steve Hackett - Improvisazione>Watcher of the Skies
11. PFM with Ian Anderson - My God
12. Glass Hammer with Rich Williams - Portrait
13. Umphrey's McGee with Adrian Belew - Thela Hun Ginjeet
14. Jerome Langlois - Le Ballon II
15. Soft Machine Legacy - The Nodder
16. Phil Collins Big Band - The Los Endos Suite
17. Fish - Incommunicado>Market Square Heroes
18. H Band - Estonia
19. Keith Emerson Band - The Barbarian
20. Greg Lake - Lucky Man
21. Greg Lake - 21st Century Schizoid Man
22. 21st Century Schizoid Band - Starless
23. Peter Hammill - House with No Door