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Big Mo Pod Show: “In Search of Good Company”
When I listen to the Big Mo Pod Show, I tend to almost free associate to memories which the songs sometimes evoke. The 5 songs this week came from, as usual, his Big Mo Blues Show this past Friday night. The theme of the pod show was “In Search of Good Company.” I’m not so…
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Thoughts on the Big Mo Pod Show: Theme “Music Changes Context”
I heard the Big Mo Pod Show, which relates to the quiz about 5 songs he played on the Big Mo Blues Show last Friday night. He got all the artists right, just missed 3 song titles! I had a couple of thoughts about the song lineup related to the theme “Music Changes Context.” Actually,…
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Big Mo Pod Show Theme: Subverting Expectations
I want to give a shout out to the Big Mo Pod Show Subverting Expectations that aired on May 11, 2024 following the Friday Big Mo Blues Show on May 10, 2024. What impressed me most and puzzled me a lot was the tune that Big Mo didn’t talk about on the podcast. The tune…
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Big Mo Pod Show 006 on KCCK Radio Iowa!
I got an update to the Big Mo Pod Show on Iowa’s only jazz and blues radio station KCCK 88.3 in Cedar Rapids (translator 106.9 in Iowa City). Last Friday on the Big Mo Blues Show, host John Heim (aka Big Mo) played a lot of tunes, which he gets quizzed about a day or…
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The Big Mo Pod Show on KCCK
There is a new show on the KCCK radio station at FM 88.3 broadcast out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa (106.9 in Iowa City). It’s called the Big Mo Pod Show, which is keyed to his previous Friday night Big Mo Blues Show which starts at 6:00 PM. The show generally quizzes the DJ, Big Mo…
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Biggish Events in Iowa in 1982
We’ve been watching for the house finch eggs to hatch sometime soon here. Remember they’re the ones who are nesting in the artificial Christmas tree on our front porch. The 2023 edition of the book Birds of Iowa Field Guide, written by Stan Tekiela says the house finch was first seen in Iowa in 1982.…
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KCCK Big Mo News and More
Well, ever since last fall, the Iowa jazz and blues radio station KCCK has been available only on channel 88.3 FM on our radio dial. Channel 106.9 has been out for months. We just found out that 106.9 is now working again and has been for over 3 weeks. It has been a translator channel…
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The Big Tomato On The Vegetable Hamburger, Please!
Sena bought a pretty big tomato at the grocery store the other day. When she picked it up, she said to a store employee that she was going to make a huge “vegetable hamburger” with it. Evidently, the guy didn’t know what to make of the name “vegetable hamburger” because he asked her why she…
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How About That Rad Composer and Bird Watcher Antonin Dvorak?
I thought I would share a couple of ideas about the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. I’m not a music expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I enjoy listening to classical music on the Music Choice Classical Masterpieces channel. Music Choice always have interesting bits of biographical information about the musicians. The items about…
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Black History Month: James Spaights Concert Pianist
I was thinking about my time as a student at Huston-Tillotson University in the 1970s (then Huston-Tillotson College) and remembered somebody who was a student there. His name is James Spaights. In honor of his stature in music as it connects to the Black History Month theme of African Americans and the Arts, I just…
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