Category: Flavor Packets
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Flavor Packet: Player Pianos and Their Cinematic Spell
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Flavor Packet: Watching TV Makes You Smarter
My friend Steve Portigal shares three songs that he learned about from television. If you’ve ever been down a Shazam rabbit hole after catching a great tune on a TV show, this set is for you. It’s a strong, soulful set, with music from Billy Stewart, Buddy Guy, and the Old 97’s.
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Flavor Packet: Luminaries We’ve Lost
Today’s theme is Luminaries We’ve Lost in 2023. The show honors the uniquely talented Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou, the multi-instrumentalist rock legend David Lindley, and Arhoolie Records founder and exponentially productive curious human Chris Strachwitz. Bonus material: I came across the BBC Radio Documentary The Honky Tonk Nun a while back. It’s a…
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Flavor Packet: Google That Song
Patrick Castro is joining us as guest DJ again. This time, he has questions. Tough ones! Gotta Google it to learn more. Also, a question: what’s your go-to food ritual when your significant other is out of town?
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Flavor Packet: Entrance Anthems, Ready Set Go!
Today’s Wednesday Flavor Packet is three songs created to get 20,000 people pumped — the house lights are down, the team is appearing, the moment of truth has arrived, let’s get ready to rumble. Here’s Gary Glitter, The Alan Parsons Project, and AC/DC, setting the tone for go-time.
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Flavor Packet: Clever Girls With Wry Smiles
Guest DJ Danielle Malik shares three boundary-pushing tracks by Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul, The Knife, and Sudan Archives — music from women “whose brains I just adore.” Listen in and find out why. + Flavor Packets are published Wednesdays. Full Saturday Morning Flavor episodes drop every other weekend. Next: Saturday May 6, 2023. Guest DJs welcome. If you have a…
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Everything, Anytime: the SMF Archives Are Alive
. We’re now 4 months, 7 mini-episodes and 10 full episodes into Saturday Morning Flavor. As things progress, I’ve been doing some things as a matter of production hygiene that you might appreciate. First, the SMF Megamix is a Spotify playlist of everything from all Saturday Morning Flavor episodes. It’s at 250 songs and counting,…
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Flavor Packet: México Mágico, a Threefold Story of Love
Listen with the Spotify app to hear the stories and full songs. What’s the best way to learn a new language? My friend Andrew Bourne has a hunch. Last year he traveled to México and fell in love with a “girl, a country, and a language.” The problem: Spanish is her native tongue, but he…
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Flavor Packet: Musical Head Whip / I Was Wrong
Today’s show is a 180 on some of my longstanding musical assumptions: Listen to find out how Matias Aguayo, Brave Combo, and Lizzo proved me wrong. Flavor Packets are published Wednesdays. Full Saturday Morning Flavor episodes drop every other weekend. Next: Saturday April 22, 2023. Let’s play together: Guest DJs welcome. If you have a…
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Flavor Packet: Can “Hee Haw” Fix a Broken Country?
Flavor Packets are mini-episodes: one theme, three songs, every Wednesday. In today’s show, Can “Hee Haw” Fix a Broken Country? Tom Kress puts on his diplomacy hat and says Americana music — and the global sounds that influence it — can bring a nation together. His three songs make a good case. Flavor Packets are…