I got the radio on

Published: Fri, 05/03/24

I'm going to be on the radio Saturday afternoon and I'd love it if you tuned in, as we used to say when radio was a thing.

The show is called Licks & Lyrics and it's on WCOM 103.5 FM in Carrboro, North Carolina, at 3 p.m. EDT.

It's a one hour show and it's all me, singing some songs and talking with the host, Dan Friedman. I'm excited to be able to play a bunch of songs, rather than the two or three at a time I usually get to play at open mics. I mean, I've been practicing and everything!

Now, it'd be great if you could for real tune in, maybe while you're cruising around town in your hooptie like in the song I quoted in the subject line of this email, but it's a low-power radio station and I think you have to be leaning against the building to hear it on your actual radio.

It's in the same building as the Cat's Cradle if you're in the Triangle and you want to do that.

But if not, or you just don't want to spend an hour leaning against a building in a strip mall in beautiful downtown Carrboro, the good news is you can listen online. There's a "play" button at the bottom of every page on the WCOM website, like the one I linked a few paragraphs up, but if that's too far for you to go, here it is again: Licks & Lyrics.

I have had the experience of that play button not working—I listen to WCOM, a great station—so if that happens to you, this is a pretty reliable backup: http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wcom-hifi.mp3. Incidentally, for a valuable prize*, what song does the subject line of this email reference? Reply to answer.

* Prize not actually valuable.

As far as I can tell, Licks & Lyrics isn't archived, so this is like one of those ephemeral art things, like mandala sand painting or when you blow an amazingly huge bubble with about six pieces of Bubble Yum and you're like "Hey, cmrrr, lrrrkit thrrrs!" and even if nobody turns around before it pops it was still exquisite for those few seconds and you'll always have that.

You'll always have that.

Come on out

It's another new open mic for me this week. Tonight, in fact.

LOJO: Log Off, Jam On

Boxyard, Research Triangle Park

Friday, May 3, 5:30 p.m.

The Boxyard is a place with restaurants and stores in repurposed shipping containers that form a big square. There's a stage and lots of tables and chairs inside that square.

LOJO starts earlier than most open mics because it's meant as an after-work event for the workers in RTP. It's an open mic that can also be a jam session if you want it to be.

I'm not much of a jam session guy, but who knows. Maybe I'll recruit some other players for a negative-six-minute version of Time Traveler's Blues.

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Don't forget, you can give a spin to my single There Goes the Neighborhood at Spotify or wherever you stream music, probably, or on YouTube. Wouldn't that be fun?

Thanks for the boost.

Your friend,

The King Teen

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