Tonight’s local music radio show on WBKM.ORG will run from 9-11pm US Eastern time Thursday April 5. It can be streamed from the website or here: WBKM It will go as follows.
Song before: What Sarah Said – Death Cab For Cutie
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. Let’s begin with a band who have been playing around, but I had not caught up with until last night.
1.) Reprise (Marthasville) – J Bengoy
2.) Pet Names – J Bengoy
3.) Turn Me Around – J Bengoy
4.) So Good (I Could Die) – J Bengoy
I really enjoyed their show last night and am happy to play some of their music. This next artist will be at Higher Ground on Sunday. I want to dedicate this song to my brother Ken.
5.) Brothers And Sisters – Joe Adler
6.) A Quiet Pun – Joe Adler
7.) The Mime – Joe Adler
8.) Spit N Fire Blues – Joe Adler and the Rangers of Danger
That last song was recorded live at Nectar’s and the rest are from the Many Things & Many Scenes album. This next band are releasing their new album called Luck tonight at ArtsRiot Here’s a sample of it.
9.) Hannah Wants To See You – Clever Girls
10.) Get Out – Clever Girls
11.) Tomorrow – Clever Girls
12.) Heavy – Clever Girls
I’ve seen them play many of those songs and am so happy to have recorded versions to share with you. This next band are releasing a new album on Saturday at The Monkey House. I don’t have it yet so here are some of their older songs.
13.) Black Oil – Doom Service
14.) Fear Of A Bot Planet – Doom Service
15.) Welcome To The Hellmouth – Doom Service
16.) Monsters Are Due – Doom Service
I love the old X-Files reference in Oil and Bot reminds me of the new episode called Rm9sbG93ZXJz from last month. It’s worth checking out if you haven’t seen it. I’ll get their new album on the air soon. OK, this next band also played at ArtsRiot last night with J Bengoy, as part of Big Heavy World‘s 105.9FM The Radiator Rocket shop live show.
17.) Popular Crowd – SWALE
18.) Waterlanding – Swale
19.) Good Medicine – Swale
20.) Every Last One Of Us – Swale
The last song simply has the steady chant of We Can All Be That Way. Thanks Amanda Gustafson for dedicating that to my mom, Carol Lewis, who passed away on Monday. Swale are so amazing and such wonderful people. Speaking of wonderful people, let’s take an in depth look at politics in America.
Lauren Costello is a truly amazing artist. I hope you enjoyed that. Let’s close tonight with a set from another great band.
22.) So They Say – The New Siberians
23.) 1965 – The New Siberians
24.) Black 17 – The New Siberians
25.) Notes To Future Self 1 – The New Siberians
That is the last song on Black, Blue & White so I will have to pick a new album to play all the way through, starting next week. 1965 is from their first album and the other two are from Black, Blue & White.
Well, I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?
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Songs after:
Lords Of The Backstage – Fish
Blind Curve – Fish
Childhood’s End – Fish
White Feather – Fish
Cordelia – The Tragically Hip
Something On – The Tragically Hip
Family Band – The Tragically Hip
New Orleans Is Sinking – The Tragically Hip
Try To Love Part 1 – Dam Kat
Try To Love Part 2 – Dam Kat
Alone – Children in Paradise
He’s Dying – Children In Paradise
Hope In The Dark – David Rosane & The Zookeepers
Freeway – David Rosane & The Zookeepers
Judgment Day – David Rosane & The Zookeepers
Stardust For Dessert – David Rosane & The Zookeepers
regular programming
Tonight’s local music radio show on WBKM.ORG will run from 9-11pm US Eastern time Thursday March 15. You can stream it from the website or here: WBKM It will go as follows.
Song before Run Run Away – Slade
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. Burlington has long had a love affair with the music of Leonard Cohen. Let’s begin with a new song written about the legend.
Great song from the Siberians album Black, Blue & White. LA was recorded at Robot Dog Studio in January. Cool new song from Underground. Jeremy is so great. OK, let’s head over to Robot Dog for an interview and live performance by Bad Smell.
5.) All Things Over Others – Bad Smell
6.) Casio Funk – Bad Smell
7.) Baroque-n – Bad Smell
8.) Give It Up To The Night – Bad Smell
9.) Complacent – The Brand New Luddites
10.) Garabato Funeral – Mal Maïz
11.) Superstar – Original Cast
12.) Acolytes – The Brand New Luddites
Great stuff from the Luddite Bots. Cool song from Maiz Vargas Sandoval. I like to play Superstar at this time of year. Monday would have been my father’s birthday and that is one of the few pieces of music that we both loved. Here’s a cool new song.
Swale will be at The Skinny Pancake Burlington on Saturday. Great songs from Joe and Gabrielle. I’ve only caught Adam once and the band is really good. This next duo are really talented.
1881 write such great pop songs. Nice jams from Binger and the MC. Ray and Russ are amazing. Here’s a cool recent song.
21.) I’ve Come To Love – Carraway
22.) You Can Love If You Want To – Peg Tassey MUSIC
23.) Curve Ball Dreamer – Zola Turn
24.) Clear Wide Wail.
Three of those songs are quite old and still wonderful. I’m sure the Carraway song will hold up over time too. Here’s a song that features Raph and Jane that was mentioned in the interview.
Classics from Aaron and Chin. I hope to catch up with the Tory’s sometime soon. I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?
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Songs after:
Change Of Heart – Fish
Opiated – The Tragically Hip
Never The Heroes – Judas Priest
Dead Flies – Alice Cooper
Traitor’s Gate – Judas Priest
Attack Of The Mad Axeman – Michael Schenker Group
Guardians/Rising From Ruins – Judas Priest
Immortal – Kimberly White Project
Children Of The Sun – Judas Priest
Another Life – Iron Maiden
When You Were Mine – The Church Band
Provider Reprise – MIDLAKE BAND
Megaphone – Joshua Glass Music
regular programming
Tonight’s local music radio show on WBKM.ORG will run from 9-11pm US Eastern Time December 7, 2017. You can stream it from the website above or our Facebook page link here: WBKM It will go as follows
Song before: Two Places At Once – The Church
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. If you’ve listened in at WBKM in the past few days you may have noticed that we shifted our format to be local music, but I’m still going to be in every Thursday to give you my take. Let’s begin with a legendary local performer who has been in Nebraska for the last couple of years, but still comes back and plays for is. Here is a song from her brand new album Where Amanda Is King.
1.) Hartford – Hana Zara
2.) Editor In Chief – Ryan Power
3.) Magenta Man – Rue M.
4.) The Sea Widow – Hana Zara
I’ve given the new album a couple of glancing listens and Widow and Hartford jumped out, but I think the whole album is pretty amazing. Thanks Hana! Classic song from Rue who always put on amazing shows. Cool new song from Ryan’s album They Sell Doomsday which came out in October. OK, let’s play the next song on Black, Blue and White.
Such a great song about this time of year. That version was recorded at Robot Dog Studio a couple of weeks ago. I’m just getting to know Kelly Ravin’s new album Engine. I thought Crutch would sound good after the Siberians song then had to toss in the Swale song for obvious reasons. OK, here is the title song from Kelly’s album.
9.) Engine – Kelly Ravin
10.) Empress Of Ireland – Thompson Gunner
11.) The Mime – Joe Adler
12.) You Will Fall – Kelly Ravin
Some of Kelly’s songs are more country but Fall is all out rock and roll. Great song from Joe. Empress is pretty epic and was recorded live one night at Nectar’s. OK, let’s keep rocking. This is from an album coming out soon but I got an advance copy so I can play you a few songs.
That’s another cool new song from Zeus. That’s a classic from Homes. I saw an acoustic version of the Druids last week and it was cool. That’s a full rock as usual version from the Robot Dog session we did earlier this year. OK, this next song was recorded live at Nectar’s a few years back.
17.) I Think I’m Turning Into A Robot – Wave of the Future
18.) Robots Making Love – Pinhead
19.) RobotsImprovingRobots – The Tsunamibots
20.) Joey Is A Robot – Zeus Springsteen
That song is so much fun when they play live and I’m happy I have a copy now so I can share it with you. What can I say, our town just loves robots. OK, let’s keep rocking with another Burlington classic.
All of those songs were from the past 4-5 years and sound so great. OK, let’s keep rocking.
25.) Full Moon Flowers – Zeus Springsteen
26.) The Mountain Carol – The Mountain Carol
27.) The Last Carol – The Cush
28.) Mary – Plan B
Plan B played around in the 80’s and that is such an epic song about searching for the good life. I want to send that out to my friend Mary Wolcott who just took off to go to France and spend a lot of time at the Louvre. Way to go. Lovely song from The Cush. I caught Mountain at Radio Bean on Monday and they were amazing. More on that soon. Thanks Zeus!! Well, I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?
Ta ta, farewell, see you next week nudge nudge wink wink…
Songs afterr
White Feather – Fish
Cemetery Sideroad – The Tragically Hip
Gold In California – The Red Telephone
Courage And Sorrow – Dam Kat
Devil Inside Me – Dam Kat
Dance On A Volcano/Los Endos – Genesis
Try To Love Part I – Dam Kat
Try To Love Part II – Dam Kat
Poet’s Moon – Fish
I Write A Poem – Dam Kat
Until We Sleep – David Gilmour
Edgar Allen Poe – Lou Reed
The Ghost In You – The Psychedelic Furs
No Regrets – Saga
New York My Lovely – Joshua Glass Music
regular programming
Matt The Gnat and the Gators with Miss Saxy pic by Tim Lewis
Tonight’s local music radio show on WBKM.ORG will run from 9-11pm US Eastern time Thursday October 5th. You can stream it from our Facebook page link here: WBKM It will go as follows.
Song Before: I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. It’s been a tough week to be a music fan what with the shootings in Las Vegas by a man who’s mind just broke, then the untimely death of Tom Petty. The only think I can think of to do is to celebrate the people who are out there making art and music and spreading love and joy every day. Let’s begin tonight with a new band that I don’t know a lot about but are engaging the world with their music.
It gives me no end of comfort to know that Swale are out there making and playing great songs like that. Jakals are from Boston and came to visit The Monkey House last Saturday and put on a wonderful show. That song really stood out. I caught Bardela at the Monkey House on Tuesday and loved how Arty LaVigne and Cooie DeFrancesco‘s voices blended. The other two guys in the band were pretty good too. Cool song from Carol. OK, let’s head over to Robot Dog Studio for another edition of WBKM live at Robot Dog.
5.) Done Saving Bones – Matt the Gnat and the Gators
6.) A Cut In The Night Sky – Matt the Gnat and the Gators
7.) Frozen Winning Streaks Of A Gambler – Matt the Gnat and the Gators
8.) Paper Doll – Matt the Gnat and the Gators
9.) A Monster’s Holiday – Matt the Gnat and the Gators
I want to thank Ryan Cohen for making us sound great and thank Matthew Bryan Hagen and Caroline Marie for such an amazing performance! Also, thanks to Burlington Beer Company for the tasty libations. Matt just had a birthday so Happy Birthday Matt again. OK, lets move on to the next song on the album I’m playing all the way through, song after song week after week. It is an album that features Matt on guitar.
North are about to release a beautiful new album called Most Every Night at the Monkey House on Saturday. Gneiss are at Red Square tomorrow evening. The Primates just released their new album We’re Here Now. I love it when they do Hurricane live and am happy to have a copy of the song that I can play. The Breaks are so great, whether they are in their usual mode or the Sabbath mode. OK, these next two bands will play with North on Saturday.
Sometimes it’s easy to feel lost and like there is no home and that song touches on that. Just remember, we all feel that way and can help each other make a home in our vibrant community. Joe is a true treasure and brings us lots of music. That’s such a great song. Cool songs from Mountain and Rabbit and I can’t wait for Saturday. So, a few weeks ago The Tsunamibots made me the director of robot propaganda and I thought I better try and live up to the title.
18.) Robotic Meltdown – The Tsunamibots
19.) Robots Making Love – Pinhead
20.) I Think I’m turning Into A Robot – Wave of the Future
21.) Rise Of The Robots (Reprise) – The Tsunamibots
I hope you enjoyed that fun set by such creative musicians. This next song was recorded at Robot Dog Studio and features Matt Hagen on bass.
Such a fun song from the Siberians. Druids played a great version of that one last week at the Monkey House. Francis are a treasure and that song always rocks. Great rocker from Hen. Well, I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?
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Songs after:
Torch Song/Slainte Mhath – Marillin
Refugee (live) – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Don’t Come Around Here No More – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Shout (live) – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Yardsale – Lendway
Mother’s OK – Split Tongue Crow
Candle In The Wind – Kate Bush
Ball Of Confusion – Love And Rockets
Parisienne Walkways – Greg Lake and Gary Moore
Parallels – YES (official)
Tear In Your Hand – Tori Amos
Runnin’ Down A Dream – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
The Story In Your Eyes – The Moody Blues
Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Falling Further In – October Project
Don’t Do Me Like That – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Happy X-mas (War Is Over) – Joshua Glass Music
regular programming.
Tonight’s local music radio show on WBKM.ORG will run from 9-11pm US Eastern time Thursday September 28 and can be streamed from our website or this Facebook page link WBKM It will go as follows.
Song before: Train In Vain – The Clash
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. What a crazy week, it’s been like summer and in the ’90’s and suddenly today it’s a chilly fall day. You’ve got to love Vermont. Let’s begin tonight with a band who are about to release a new album called Most Every Night.
It’s so cool that the Breaks did the whole album of Sabbath songs in a surf style. I’m playing it all the way through song after song week after week. Cool song from Phil’s upcoming album. Great song from The Parts. Thanks Near North for sending me a copy of your new album on blue vinyl. It sounds great. OK, let’s head over to Robot Dog Studio for another edition of WBKM Live At Robot Dog.
1.) Intro->Accidental Graveyard-> The Dead Shakers
2.) Taung Child -> – The Dead Shakers
3.) Superpowers -> – The Dead Shakers
4.) Medfield – The Dead Shakers
Thanks to Ryan Cohen from Robot Dog for making us all sound so great and thanks Burlington Beer Company for the libations. I especially want to thank The Dead Shakers for taking us on a rocking journey. OK, this next band have been playing around for ages and Mr. Charlie Frazier is a local legend. He has kept Vermont’s desire for the music of The Grateful Dead going for years.
5.) Intros -> – Blues for Breakfast, the band
6.) Scarlet Begonias -> – Blues For Breakfast
7.) Music Never Stopped – Blues For Breakfast
Vermont loves the music of the Dead and Mr. Charlie’s dedication to the blues. So, this weekend it was so hot I’m sure lots of people headed to the beach.
Great song from Sean Toohey and Matt Hutton. Druids are Sean’s new band and they are playing Saturday at The Monkey House so go check them out. I miss Lendway. All last week was beach weather. It’s getting late in the year and darkness is coming earlier.
I’m psyched that the Bees have that recorded so I can play it for you. Burlington is The Queen City and I rock it as many nights as I can. I caught Wren Kitz and his band at Club Metronome last week and they were stunning. Lauren Costello plays in Wren’s band and in The Dead Shakers. Great songs from Andriana and David. Josh Shedaker plays in The Dead Shakers and in this next band. He just lost his grandmother so we want to send him lots of love.
That’s a classic from the ’80’s. I love the truth in Joe’s song that we are all brothers and sisters and that we should take care of each other in times of pain and in times of joy. Great rockers from Seth and Dino. We all have a limited amount of time on this world so please spend it well.
Classic song from Anais. Clever are at The Monkey House tomorrow so go check them out. Great songs from Siberians and The Cush. I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?
Tonight’s local music radio show will stream at WBKM.ORG and (FB) on Thursday July 13th from 9-11pm US Eastern time and will go as follows.
Song before: Do It Again – The Kinks
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. Last Friday Swale finally released their new album There’s No One Here. It’s a double album with red vinyl and lots of amazing artwork. There are a ton of fantastic songs on the album Let’s begin tonight with what is almost the title song.
1.) Loser – Swale
2.) High Flying Bird – Anders Parker
3.) One From Two – Linda Bassick
4.) Lowdown – Vedora
Vedora rocked our town for a couple of years and Caroline is still out there making similar sounding music. Great song from Linda. Cool song from Anders album The Man Who Fell From Earth. That’s such a fun and sad song from Swale. They excel at that, as you will hear throughout the course of the evening. OK, here is the next song on Action, the EP I am playing all the way through song after song week after week. It’s the third EP in their “album” Lights, Camera, Action.
5.) Mass Murderer – 1881
6.) Cereal – Carraway
7.) Bird In A Cage – Swale
8.) The Nighthorses – The Cush
When listening to the new Swale album something about Bird reminded me of the Cush song so I thought it would be fun to play them back to back. That’s an interesting way to spell the Carraway song. Great stuff from 1881. This next band are playing at Sidebar tonight.
9.) Taung Child Mastered – The Dead Shakers
10.) Spastic Tactics – The Edd
11.) Counting On A Ghost – Elephants Of Scotland
12.) Lead Me To Your Love – The New Siberians
Great song from Siberians Black Blue and White album. Great song from Elephants. Nice trippy song from the Edd who will play a show for us in a few weeks. I loved the Shakers the one time I saw them. Last night I went to Nectar’s and saw these two bands, and need to get some music from the other one who played.
13.) Cascade – Andriana Chobot
14.) Megaphone – Josh Glass
15.) Silver Dollars – Banana Schlitz
16.) Felon – Swale
Another great new Swale song that they have been playing at shows for a while now and I finally get to play it for you. Banana will be at the Flynn Exposure series tomorrow at 5 or so. Josh and Andriana were amazing last night. Mal Maiz and Haley Jane were lots of fun too. We are in the middle of summer and this song is so appropriate.
17.) Endless Sunkissed Lover – Gneiss
18.) Break A Leg – David Rosane And The Zookeepers
19.) Elevator – Swale
20.) It’ll Be OK – Let’s Whisper
I love how positive and fun that song is. Super poppy song from Swale about a frightening event. David and the band will be at American Flatbread next Wednesday. Gneiss are at Red Square next Thursday. Here is another song I have heard for a while around town that I now get to share with you.
21.) All Down Tonight – Swale
22.) Brothers And Sisters – Joe Adler
23.) Catch And Release – Clever Girls
24.) Control – Ratboys
Ratboys are from Chicago and came and played a show on Saturday at Sidebar with Clever Girls. Both bands were great. Joe and his band played a great version of that one a week ago in Winooski. Great song from Swale. This next singer is performing tonight for the first time in ages and I could not be more excited!
25.) Boys Club – Peg Tassey
26.) 25 Mile Per Hour Blues – Better Things
27.) 22R – Cave Bees
28.) Drug Laws – Swale
I love how hard that song rocks continuously. Bees and Things will be at the Monkey House on Saturday. I love Peg. I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?
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Songs after:
Market Square Heroes (live) – Fish
Waiting For The World To End – The Depth And The Whisper
Natural Science (live) – Rush
Crime Of The Century – Supertramp
Mad As The Mist And Snow – The Waterboys
Amazing Journey/Sparks (live) – The Who
Dying Stars – Slingshot Dakota
Lily (live) – Kate Bush
Parisienne Walkways (live) – Greg Lake with Gary Moore
Tonight’s local music radio show will run from 9-11pm Thursday June 29 over the air at 107.1FM and can be streamed at WBKM. It will go as follows:
Song before: Stairway To The Stars – Blue Oyster Cult
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From our small city to the great big world, these are the Sounds Of Burlington. Last Sunday I went over to The Monkey House for one of the Show Up Shows to raise money for a good cause. Sean Hood played a gorgeous version of this song.
1.) Birds Of Park Slope – Eastern Mountain Time
2.) Liar – Maryse Smith
3.) Let Me Be – Peter Burton
4.) The Territory – Hana Zara
I miss Hana and hope she comes to see us again soon. I finally saw Peter’s band The Original Q last night at Nectar’s. They played a great version of that song, only with more bass, drums, and guitar. Maryse was back in town in May. It’s great when we are lucky enough to get to see her play. Great song by Mountain. OK, here is the next song from Lights Camera Action and is the last song on the Camera EP. We’ll move on to Action next week.
5.) Adam And Eve – 1881
6.) Giant Mosquitoes – Cold Sweat
7.) Every Time I Hear That Mellow Saxophone – Big Joe Burrell & The Unknown Blues Band
8.) Waiting For You – SWALE
9.) Eve & Adam – Cricket Blue
Cricket are pretty amazing and are playing at Farnham Ale & Lager VT tomorrow at 7. Swale have a new album, There’s No One Here, coming out July 7th and we are all waiting for them. After seeing Q last night I walked up Church st and stopped for a moment at the statue of Big Joe to reflect on the wonderful music that he put into out town. I want to keep playing it and keeping it alive. It’s definitely mosquito season here in VT so I had to play the Sweat song. Great song from 1881. This next artist is pretty amazing and will be at Foam Brewers next Wednesday.
10.) True Hue – Ivamae
11.) Relax – Joe Adler
12.) Detective Norman – Sad Turtle
13.) Mirror Mirror – Joe Adler & The Rangers Of Danger
That was recorded live at Nectar’s a while ago. He and the band will play in the rotary inside the traffic circle in Winooski next Wednesday. That should be interesting. Turtle are playing Saturday night at Radio Bean. Joe and his new band a.m. rejoice go on just before. This next band are doing a stripped down version of themselves tomorrow at 7:30 at Light Club Lamp Shop since their bass player is out of town. That should be interesting.
14.) By Design – The Nancy Druids
15.) The Call – Swillbillie
16.) Oh Dirty Blondes – Dirty Blondes
17.) Sugar Coated Candy Stix – Dino Bravo VT
Swillbillie are playing Nectar’s on Friday and are bringing Dino and the Blondes along. That will be a loud fun rocking show! This next performer was in a couple of Burlington bands in the ’90’s and just put our some new music.
18.) You’re the Target – Casey Merlin Rae
19.) Getting Laid In New Hampshire – Better Things
20.) Burning Bridges – Blue Button
21.) Monsters Are Due – Doom Service
Doom may or may not be playing a secret show that may or may not happen this weekend. If you like that song you may or may not want to check in with them. Great rockers from Blue, Better and Casey. This next band have a show coming up in a few weeks.
22.) Again Over Again – Banana Schlitz
23.) Jan Michael Vincent – Chin Ho
24.) Papertrain – David L Jarvis
25.) Chop Wood Carry Water – Zola Turn
I saw Zola many times in the ’90’s and they rocked hard every time. Dave played in the ’90’s and has a new band called Agent 802. Classic from Ho. I’m just getting to know the Banana album. It’s been sunny and rainy and the gardens in Vermont are putting the green in our name.
26.) The Naked Garden part J – Peg Tassey MUSIC
27.) The Road – Anders Parker
28.) Mary – Plan B
29.) The Naked Garden – Peg Tassey
Peg will be getting one of her bands, Peg Tassey ~ The Kissing Circle ~ Reprise, back together soon and will play a show and I am beyond excited. Mary is a classic from Burlington’s late ’80’s and early ’90’s. Great rocker from Anders. I hope you enjoyed checking out the music of our town. Let’s do it again next week, shall we?