Love Letters

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Love Letters 46 - Live Epics 2

Another show of nothing but concert recordings of epics.

1. ABWH - Close to the Edge
2. IZZ - Deafening Silence
3. Raimundo Rodulfo - Suenos
4. District 97 - Mindscan
5. Magma - Mekanik Zain
6. Discipline - Into the Dream
7. Genesis - Supper's Ready

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Love Letters 47 - Letters from Women

In honor of International Women's Day, this week Love Letters spotlights recordings of live performance from some of the women of prog!

1. Touchstone - Shadow
2. Curved Air - Situation
3. Kayak - Hold Me Forever
4. Karnataka - Strange Behaviour
5. IZZ - Where I Belong
6. Magenta - Envy
7. Magenta - Anger
8. Minimum Vital - Song a Cinq
9. Halloween - Arthur contre Morgane
10. Suzanne Vega - The Queen and the Soldier
11. Laurie Anderson - O Superman
12. Conqueror - The Great Escape [not live]
13. Steve Hackett - Intro>Every Day
14. Adrian Belew - e
15. Ars Nova - Pairi-Danza
16. Hiromi - Time Control or Controlled By Time
17. District 97 - Can't Take You with Me
18. Information Superhighway - Slow and Awake
19. Iona - I Will Give My Love an Apple
20. Blackmore's Night - Play Minstrel Play
21. Mostly Autumn - Shrinking Violet
22. Renaissance - Midas Man

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Love Letters 48 - A Letterhead

Another thematic show this week with live recordings of songs about your noggin.

1. California Guitar Trio - Blockhead
2. IQ - Headlong
3. Mostly Autumn - Noise from My Head
4. Egdon Heath - Head in the Sand
5. Fish - Hold Your Head Up>Lucky
6. Steve Hackett - Tubehead
7. Pendragon - Eraserhead
8. Adrian Belew - Fish Head [not live]
9. Laurie Anderson - Hothead
10. Spacehead - Fire Dragons
11. Phish - The Horse>Silent in the Morning>Fluffhead
12. Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
13. Cathedral - The Monsterhead Suite [not live]
14. Rudess Morgenstein - Screaming Head
15. 801 - Diamond Head

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Love Letters 49 - A Celtic Letter

Grab some Beamish and Jameson, and get your St. Patrick's Day celebration going with some live recordings of celtic-influenced prog.

1. Fish - Shadowplay
2. Horselips - Hall of Mirrors
3. Horselips - Silver Spear
4. Horselips - High Reel
5. Celtus - The Awakening
6. Celtus - Cathedral
7. Iona - Woven Cord
8. Great Big Sea - The Night Pat Murphy Died
9. Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood
10. Altan - Ta Mo Chleamhnas A Dheanamh
11. Blackmore's Night - Fires at Midnight
12. Wolfstone - Psycho Woman
13. Mostly Autumn - Mother Nature
14. Wolfstone - Wild and the Free>Clueless
15. Genesis - The Musical Box
16. Iona - Encircling
17. The Pogues - Thousands are Sailing
18. The Pogues - The Sunnyside of the Street
19. Horselips - Everything Will Be All Right
20. Great Big Sea - End of the World
21. Great Big Sea - Excursion Around the Bay
22. Great Big Sea - Fortune Set
23. Fish - Internal Exile>Market Square Heroes

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Love Letters 50 - March Birthday Celebration

Live performances from birthday boys Tony Banks, Chris Squire, Carl Palmer, David Gilmour, and Peter Gee this week.

1. Pink Floyd - Mother
2. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Tank>Drum Solo>The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits
3. Strictly Banks - Queen of Darkness
4. Strictly Banks - Another Murder of a Day
5. Yes - Long Distance Runaround>The Fish
6. Steve Hackett - Firth of Fifth
7. Genesis - Cinema Show
8. Pallas - The Cross and the Crucible
9. Pendragon - The Mask
10. Pendragon - Total Recall
11. Carl Palmer - In a Moroccan Market
12. Strictly Banks - An Island in the Darkness
13. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

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Love Letters (51) Smackdown - The Extended Solo

Shawn Bishop of Behind the Lines,  Woody Harris of Soundscape, and musician Rob Clearfield of District 97 and Information Superhighway join me for an extended look at the extended solo in concert settings and to debate the question - "extended solos - do they soar, or are they a bore?"

1. Yes - Mood for a Day
2. Bruford Bortslap - Duplicity
3. PFM - Celebration>Drum Solo>The World Became the World
4. Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
5. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Piano Improvisation>Take a Pebble
6. Yes - Yours is No Disgrace
7. Rush - Leave That Thing Alone>O Baterista
8. U-Z - Zero 3>Red
9. Djabe w/Hackett - Acoustic Medley
10. Liquid Trio Experiment - Universal Mind>The Chicago Blues & Noodle
Factory>Fade Away or Keep Going
11. Yes - Starship Trooper

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Love Letters 52 - April Birthday Celebration

Happy birthday to Fish, Mark Kelly, Eddie Jobson, Steve Howe, Tomas Bodin, Mike Portnoy, Richie Blackmore, and to Love Letters.

1. Fish - The Perceptions of Johnny Punter
2. U-Z - Alaska>Presto Vivace>In the Dead of Night
3, Liquid Tension Experiment - Biaxident
4. Dream Theater - Won't Get Fooled Again
5. Blackmore's Night - Morning Star
6. Blackmore's Night - Home Again
7. GTR - Jeckyl & Hyde
8. GTR - Here I Wait
9. Steve Howe Trio - The Haunted Melody
10. Asia - Time Again
11. Asia - An Extraordinary Life
12. Steve Howe - Second Initial
13. Steve Howe - Corkscrew
14. Steve Howe - The Glory of Love
15. Steve Howe - Dorothy
16. The Flower Kings - Silent Inferno
17. Marillion - Incommunicado
18. Marillion - White Russian
19. Bobby and the Red-faced Monarchs - Ph.D. of Carbon

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Love Letters 53 - Speechless 3

It's time once again to pay tribute to a former Dividing Line program and go all instrumental. Happy birthday Tasha!

1. Emerson Lake & Powell - Mars Bringer of War
2. Rob Martino - The Third Enigma
3. Stuart Hamm - Radio Free Albemuth
4. Umphrey's McGee - YYZ
5. Ohmphrey - Shrooms 'n Cheese
6. Steve Hackett - Clocks
7. Blackmore's Night - Beyond the Sunset
8. The Flower Kings - Circus Brimstone
9. Travis Larson Band - Burn Season>Times Like These
10. National Health - Flanagan's People
11. Bone - Big Bombay
12. Chad Wackerman Trio - All Sevens
13. Yak - The Battle of Pogles Wood
14. Kansas - Musicatto
15. Camel - Lunar Sea>Raindances

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Love Letters 54 - Orchestral Letters

Live recordings from bands augmented by at least a string section, and usually a full orchestra in this week's episode.

1. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Abaddon's Bolero
2. Caravan & The New Symphonia - The Love in Your Eye
3. Kansas - Point of Know Return
4. David Gilmour - Castellorizon>On an Island
5. Trey Anastasio - Divided Sky
6. Steve Hackett - The Palace of Theseus [not live]
7. Steve Hackett - A Form of Wax [not live]
8. Steve Hackett - By Paved Fountain [not live]
9. Steve Hackett - Titania [not live]
10. Renaissance - Mother Russia
11. Yes - I've Seen All Good People
12. Rick Wakeman - Tutorture 1485
13. Rick Wakeman - Catherine of Aragon
14. Kansas - Nobody's Home
15. Camel - Sanctuary>Fritha>The Snow Goose>Friendship
16. Emerson Lake & Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
17. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb

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Love Letters 55 - Stick It to Me Again!

It's everything you ever wanted to know about the Stick but were afraid to ask in this week's Love Letters as I feature an interview with Emmett Chapman, inventor of the instrument, master Stick player Tom Griesgraber, and director/producer of the new DVD Stick Night Live, Dan Chapman.

1. Tony Levin - Elephant Talk
2. Emmett Chapman - Improv
3. Agent 22 - All Along the Watchtower
4. Interview with Emmett Chapman, Tom Griesgraber, and Dan Chapman with excerpts from Stick Night Live
5. Agent 22 - Step To
6. Lams & Griesgraber - Rebecca
7. Steve Hackett - Emerald and Ash
8. Steve Hackett - Ghost in the Glass
9. Larry Tuttle - Breakfast Etude
10. Rob Martino - The Third Enigma
11. Stick Men - Crack in the Sky
12. Cabezas de Cera - Indomable

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Love Letters 56 - Latin Letters

Cinco do Mayo is actually a bigger deal in the US than it is in Mexico, but with that coming up, I thought this might be a good time to explore live recordings from Latin American prog bands, concert recordings from Latin America, and artists with at least a heavy Latin influence.

1. DiMeola & DeLucia - Mediterranean Sundance>Rio Ancho
2. Los Jaivas - Un Domingo por la Manana
3. Tryo - Valparaiso Psichodelico
4. Tryo - Vive
5. Cabezas de Cera - Tercera Llamada
6. Cast - Reality or Misanthropy Medley>Moving Universe
7. Steve Hackett - A Tower Struck Down>Lucridus
8. Steve Hackett - Darktown>Camino Royale
9. Raimundo Rodulfo - Intro>Brainstorm
10. Raimundo Rodulfo - Amistad
11. Tryo - Terra
12. Deus Ex Machina - Hostis
13. Cabezas de Cera - Peregrino
14. Cabezas de Cera - Al Mictlan
15. Stick Men - Indiscipline (en Espanol)

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Love Letters 57 - May Birthday Celebration

Happy birthday to Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hogarth, Andy Latimer, Brian Eno, and more in this week's episode.  Plus new live releases from Soft Machine, The Decemberists, Credo, and From.Uz.

1. Magenta - Man the Machine
2. Marillion - The Invisible Man
3. H Band - See Emily Play
4. H Band - You Dinosaur Thing
5. Camel - Lady Fantasy
6. 801 - Third Uncle
7. Steve Hackett - Chinese Jam
8. Steve Hackett - Concerto in D
9. Steve Hackett - Hairless Heart
10. Soft Machine - The Nodder
11. Soft Machine - Two Down
12. The Decemberists - Why We Fight
13. The Decemberists - June Hymn
14. Credo - Round and Round
15. From.Uz - Stone Salad
16. Rick Wakeman - Merlin the Magician
17. Rick Wakeman - Children of Chernobyl
18. Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Dentures of the Gods
19. Moraz Bruford - Blue Brains
20. Bruford - The Sahara of Snow

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Love Letters 58 - Letters from Progsburgh

A thematic show this week looking at cities and towns.

1. 21st Century Schizoid Band - A Man, A City
2. Marillion - This Town>The Rakes Progress>100 Nights
3. Kevin Gilbert - Joytown
4. California Guitar Trio - Happy Time in Fun Town
5. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Cheeseballs in Cowtown
6. The Pogues - Dirty Old Town
7. Bruce Cockburn - Tibetan Side of Town
8. H - Working Town
9. Ohmprey - The Girl from Chi Town
10. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
11. Tinyfish - Motorville
12. Steve Hackett - Petropolis
13. Steve Hackett - Mexico City>Black Light
14. Steve Hackett - Darktown
15. Mangrove - City of Darkness
16. Chad Wackerman Trio - The City
17. Frank Zappa - City of Tiny Lights>Baby Snakes
18. Laurie Anderson - City Song
19. PFM - Picture of the City>Bollate Guitar Jam>Bollate Keyboard Jam
20. Fish - Jumpsuit City
21. Umphrey's McGee - Dump City
22. District 97 - Presto Vivace>Back in NYC

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Love Letters 59 - Racy Letters

A thematic show about racing this week, specifically Duke's dream about his race with the devil.  Give a listen to hear how he fares.

1. Genesis - Duke's Travels
2. Great Big Sea - Helmet Head
3. Al DiMeola - Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway
4. Polydactyl - Route 666
5. Steve Hackett - Racing in A
6. Rush - Red Barchetta
7. Marillion - This Strange Engine
8. Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
9. Brand X - Access to Data
10. Tinyfish - The Big Red Spark
11. Stick Men - Vroom Vroom
12. Rush - Between the Wheels
13. Kansas - Down the Road
14. Knight Area - Momentum
15. Tinyfish - Ride
16. Tinyfish - Driving All Night
17. Rush - Ghost Rider
18. IQ - The Magic Roundabout
19. Marillion - Marbles I
20. Bill Bruford's Earthworks - Turn and Return
21. IQ - Frequency
22. Marillion - Marbles II
23. IQ - Corners
24. Rush - The Pass
25. Marillion - Marbles III
26. Mostly Autumn - Passengers
27. Kansas - Mysteries and Mayhem>Lamplight Symphony Excerpts>The Wall
28. Marillion - The Damage>Marbles IV
29. Harry Chapin - 30,000 Pounds of Bananas

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Love Letters 60 - Acoustic Letters 3

Mellow out this week with some live acoustic performances.  New albums from the Montreal and California Guitar Trios (playing together), Marillion, and John Hackett & Nick Magnus are featured.

1. Montreal and California Guitar Trios - Blockhead
2. Marillion - Easter
3. Janison Edge - Julie Lies
4. Tryo - Valparaiso Acustico
5. Tryo - Puerto
6. John Hackett & Nick Magnus - Fantasy
7. John Hackett & Nick Magnus - Nappy Time
8. John Hackett & Nick Magnus - Double Helix
9. Fish - State of Mind
10. Fish - Tilted Cross
11. Kayak - See See the Sun>What's in a Name
12. Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
13. Steve Hackett - Idyll
14. Steve Hackett - Aubade
15. Steve Hackett - Meditation
16. Anthony Phillips - Master of Time
17. Anthony Phillips - Which Way the Wind Blows
18. Anthony Phillips - Now What
19. Umphrey's McGee - Uncommon>Divisions
20. California Guitar Trio with Fareed Haque - Dance of the Maya
21. John Hackett & Nick Magnus - Hands of the Priestess [not live]
22. Montreal and California Guitar Trios - Breizh Tango
23. Montreal and California Guitar Trios - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
24. Rob Clearfield - The Gate
25. Peter Hammill - Stranger Still
26. Magenta - Demons
27. Magenta - Morning Sunlight
28. Tryo - Nguillatun
29. Marillion - Go!
30. Marillion - Interior Lulu
31. Pendragon - The Voyager