Fun show tonight with some Skynyrd ! But before that Kirsten interviews Jimmie Dale Gilmore ahead of his Auckland show with Butch Hancock, I play some brand new tunes from Tamaki Makaurau's Louisa Nicklin & Kathy Bates Motel, that gorgeous Strokes cover by Julia Jacklin, recorded live at Laneway and heaps more.
Some dark musings on the State of The US of A from Ryan Bingham, Drive By Truckers and Purple Mountains as well as a couple of genuine New Zealand Folks songs from Louis Jarlov and The Lonesome, and Piha Crew The Loggerboys. Song of the year from Tami Neilson. Kendall Ellise, Lone Justice and 1970's beaut - Bachman Turner Overdrive fresh out of the bargain bin.
Mixed bag for sure. Rory Gallagher, John Lee, Muddy & Townes mixed in with brand new tunes from the newly renamed Chicks, Brooke Taylor & Hayley Thompson-King. Some classic old kiwi shizz from Glen Moffat and The Sou'westers as well as continuing to froth over Purple Mountains and The Drive By Truckers latest. Emmylou too.
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." Episode 383, featuring the Sound of Sydney courtesy of Carlos Avilés along with Higher Porpoise by Jon Bernais.
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A soundtrack for creative minds and people who spread gratitude in a confronting way.
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." This notion that the obstacles that prevent us from achieving our goals can be used—and in some cases may even be necessary—to achieve those very goals seems not just Pollyanna-like but also paradoxical.
One of the most useful concepts that demonstrate this is the concept of changing poison into medicine. That is, from the Buddhist perspective, all people are endowed with the innate ability to create value out of any situation, no matter how awful or tragic. Unlike the idea that every cloud has a silver lining—that something positive can always be found in everything negative—the principle of changing poison into medicine explains that we can transform even the most horrific tragedy into the very thing we need to become happier than we currently are.
~ universal harmony ~
A soundtrack for creative minds and those who spread gratitude in a confronting way.
It’s one of our most natural bodily functions, we spend a third of our lives doing it, so why is sleep, or lack thereof, an issue for millions of people around the world? It might surprise you that understanding the science of sleep and how it can affect our performance in all areas of our lives, is one of the most important things we can learn.
Featuring friend segments! The Sound of Sydney with our good mate Carlos Avilés, who has graced the show since 2016 and he's delivered week-on-week without fail. Jon Bernais gave us Higher Porpoise mid lockdown and he's proven to be as unpredictable as the pandemic.
~ universal harmony ~
A soundtrack for creative minds and those who spread gratitude in a confronting way.
It's a sunny Friday morning in the bFM studio and Rachel and Zoë are coffee'd up and raring to go.
They kick off by chatting movies with Fabian Fanboy.
They then elegantly segway into the Travelling Tunes segment with Dr. Kirsten Zemke who this week takes them down the glorious rabbit hole of television theme songs, including the likes of Hawaii Five-0 and Twin Peaks.
Then they're joined in studio by the one and only, force of nature Disciple Pati to talk about her fantastic new release, ATMA. All of this good stuff is of course interspersed with the usual fantastic tunes picked by Rachel.
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