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On this edition of the program, David Fleming speaks with Bob Cowsill. The Cowsills had big hits with Indian Lake, The Rain the Park and Other Things, and Hair, and with six siblings and their Mother singing, recording, and touring, they were the real-life inspiration for The Partridge Family.

David Fleming speaks once again with Don Dannemann, one of the founders and lead vocalists with The Cyrkle. They’ll be in the region soon, with more at affordablemusicproductions.com. On this edition of the program we'll look at some of The Cyrkle's songs - AWAY from the biggest hits.

David Fleming welcomes back John Cafiero, of Osaka Popstar. He was on not too long ago to talk about the new EP, EAR CANDY. On this edition of the program, we’ll hear about the rerelease of Osaka Popstar and the American Legends of Punk – and once again – some REALLY fun covers.

David Fleming speaks with Chloe Agnew, one of the original members of Celtic Woman. We'll hear a bit about Celtic Woman... as well as her recent solo release, "Reimagined." We start the program with Riverside's Peter Curtis, and some INCREDIBLE reimagining of some well known tunes from a variety of genres. The common element - it's all music which made him think of the pandemic in some way. Some quite tongue in cheek, with others quite beautiful and thoughtful. It's all solo guitar, with the exception of the wonderful jazz standard, "The Nearness of You." This one with saxophone accompaniment, and all on Peter's latest release, "Pete's Pandemic Playlist."

David Fleming continues his conversation with guitarist Steve Vai, talking about the majority of the tracks on his newest release, "Inviolate," a PHENOMENAL instrumental album. With quite a few albums out under his own name, "Inviolate" rises to, or maybe eclipses "Passion and Warfare," though that's a tough call to make. Let's just say that it's way, way, way, way up there.

David Fleming speaks with Steve Vai about his newest release, “Inviolate.” We’ll also hear about a few tracks from the cd/album – “Zeus in Chains,” “Little Pretty,” and “Teeth of the Hydra.” The latter is titled as it is because it’s played ON The Hydra – a monster guitar with three necks - a (four-string) bass, a seven-string guitar, and a twelve-string guitar. Some of the areas are fretless, with a variety of pickups. There’s also a small harp-string section, and midi plug ins to accommodate synthesized sound FX. With “Zeus in Chains,” this is yet another “riff or run captured on an unplugged guitar connected to an iphone next to the bed late at night” moments. He has a lot of those. And it was in listening to it as he progressed… the song TOLD him it would be called “Zeus in Chains.” The conversation starts talking about a jam Vai enjoyed for a long, long time before realizing it came from Steve Lukather. It became the roadmap (for a number of wonderful reasons) to creating a solo - which was the perfect way to begin a conversation about an instrumental album.

We’ll hear about some approaches to things which come across as much deeper than one might expect. Or at the very least, we’ll hear about things approached in a unique fashion or unique reason. I enjoyed this one at SO many levels!