Welcome Back! The Strombo Show Sunday, September 21st, 2014

A huge welcome back to a new season of The Strombo Show!  Also making a return tonight is the illustrious Bob Mackowycz, who rejoins George on the air to once again chat about "The M word" .. music.

Tonight, the talk will focus on this year's Polaris Music Prize Short List.  This year's gala will take place on Monday, September 22nd. 

Care to wager on who will take away this year's prize?

Of course, it wouldn't be The Strombo Show without a nod to the gods of Rock and Roll ...

... Ten O'Clock with Tom (Waits

... and of course, The Big Lie Down, when George tucks you quietly into bed with the mellowest of tunes ....

You can hear The Strombo Show on CBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights, from 8 to 11 pm.  

See you there.  ;)

Tonight On The Strombo Show - Dan Mangan And The Crackling

Tonight on The Best Of The Strombo Show!

Dan Mangan And The Crackling join George in The Broom Closet for a chat and an acoustic set.

Alex "The Can Con Don" Narvaez  will join George in celebrating twenty years of Rage Against The Machine.

 It wouldn't be The Strombo Show without the Nod To The Gods

... The Magnificent Seven, the top seven tunes of the week ...

.. Ten O'clock With Tom (Waits) ..

.. and lastly, the Big Lie-Down or the Collective Horizontal, where George tucks you in to bed with the mellowest of tunes.

You can hear The Strombo Show on CBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights, from 8 to 11 pm.  

See you there.  ;)

Bruce Sprinsteen "Thunder Road" and Dallas Green Tonight On The Strombo Show

Tonight George revisits Bruce Springsteen's 1975 "Thunder Road", as the Nod To The Gods. 

Dallas Green also stops by the Broom Closet to chat and to perform an acoustic set.

As always there will be the Magnificent Seven, the top seven songs of the week,

 Ten O'Clock With Tom (Waits),

and lastly, George tucks you into bed for The Big Lie Down, or The Collective Horizontal, with the mellowest of tunes.

You can hear The Strombo Show on CBC Radio 2 on Sunday nights, from 8 to 11 pm. See you there!  ;)

The Strombo Show - May 5th, 2013

The Wooden Sky stop by to chat with George and perform a few songs. The Toronto band, who were originally known as Friday Morning's Regret, have pumped out three LPs and two EPs in the past five years.  They are now working on their follow up to last year's release.  Watch for it later this year.

Nelson George will chat about his new film "Finding the Funk".  The film takes us on a journey,  exploring the roots of funk in the sixties and its evolution throughout the seventies and eighties.  








On that note, James Brown, the Sex Machine himself, would have turned eighty on May the 
third.  

 

iTunes has been around for ten years?  Really?  iTunes has changed the way we buy and sell our music.  Listen in to hear its story.









 

 Don't worry,  there will  still be the Magnificent Seven, the list of the seven hottest songs of the week as well as 

Ten O'Clock with Tom, the weekly tribute to Tom Waits. 









 
The Strombo Show is on CBC Radio 2 Sundays from 8 pm  until 11 pm.  See you there.

The Strombo Show - Sunday, April 28th, 2013

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Teenage Kicks join George on the show  to chat about their upcoming first full length LP.  With two successful EPs and a few years behind them, the band have put together what promises to be a kickass full length debut LP. In case you were wondering - they did name themselves after the classic song by The Undertones.

 

Eric Alper (yes, That Eric Alper!) is back on the show for 
"Three Degrees of That Eric Alper".  Listen in for the big reveal of what he has come up with this time.










 
Richie Havens, the American folk / R & B icon will be honoured after his recent passing.  Perhaps best known as being the opening act at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, Mr Havens will be remembered for a musical career spanning almost 45 years. 

Shotgun Willie Nelson's upcoming 80th birthday will be celebrated.













The Magnificent Seven will be featured as always along with Tom Waits.


Lastly, George will tuck you in for The Big Lie Down with  Mississippi Delta Blues Masters






 Charley Patton







 


  




Robert Johnson 










 
 





Son House.














The Strombo Show is on CBC Radio 2 Sundays from 8 pm  until 11 pm.  See you there. 

The Strombo Show - Sunday, April 19th, 2013

Tonight on The Strombo Show!

The Highest Order will chat with George about their brand new debut LP, "If It's Real".  Three former members of One Hundred Dollars (Kyle Porter, Paul Mortimer and Simone Schmidt) and Simone TB were touring the west coast when they decided they had such a good thing going, they would stay together.  Stop by and hear what they have put together over the past year.

The Kostanzas ' lead singer, Amanda Macchia, will stop by to discuss Record Store Day. Hopefully you had a chance to stop by your friendly neighbourhood record store yesterday and do your part to revive vinyl.

Rita MacNeil, the Canadian music icon, will be remembered on The Strombo Show this week.  The First Lady of East Coast Music will be sadly missed by generations of Canadians.

Rush  was inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame  this week at a gala ceremony which included a performance of their music by the Foo Fighters. Get more on the story tonight.







Along with the Magnificent Seven and the weekly Tom Waits feature, George will tuck you in with more featured British artists - this week the Smiths and Blur.

 
 











The Strombo Show is on CBC Radio 2 Sundays from 8 pm  until 11 pm.  See you there.