Category: Radio

Lori McKenna is a local talent with a national following. She’s a married mom who began her career at a coffee house in a neighboring town on open-mic night.

One of Lori’s earliest boosters was Dick Pleasants, a disc jockey at WUMB in Boston. After a long illness, Dick passed away recently. Lori will be appearing tonight in a tribute concert at the Somerville Theatre. Which is, curiously and incorrectly, listed as being in Cambridge.

https://wumb.org/watch-wumbs-remembering-dick-pleasants-concert-live-online/

The show will be carried live and I’ll be tuning in. Also appearing will be Tom Rush, one of the grand, old names in New England Folk music. His cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Urge for Going” is a classic recording.

Fun fact: When Taylor Swift is in the area, selling out shows at Gillette Stadium, she sometimes stays at Lori’s house.

We didn’t get an end-of-summer show from the Back of the Station Wagon, but Tom Hanks is here now to DJ his way with a Happy Halloween special from Boss Radio 66!

Staying on the subject of DJ’s and beaches, Tomboy Hanks will be returning soon to Boss Radio 66 with his summer wrap-up show.

Denro’s brother is living the radio DJ dream I lived for a while, but gave up, so long ago. He’s covering the overnight shift on MVY Radio, on Martha’s Vineyard. Yeah, the island off the Cape Cod shore where the Obamas have an expensive house, but without any top secret documents in the basement.

Monday night Rich played one of my very favorite “recent” (2010) tunes, and I didn’t even request it.

This one you can click (or tap).