Past  Episodes

Episode 148 is Part 1 of a 2 part Top 5 Show that featured Chuck Levin of Wayland, Massachusetts’ Top 5 Songs That He Wished Would Continue Much Longer. His Top 5 included songs by Blind Faith, The VooDoo Dolls, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Family. In keeping with the theme of song length all the other songs on the show were two minutes or less. The Beatles were featured in the cover set. Other artists featured are Todd Snider, Roger Miller, BR5-49, The Jam, Janelle Monáe and more!

Episode 148 is Part 1 of a 2 part Top 5 Show that featured Chuck Levin of Wayland, Massachusetts’ Top 5 Songs That He Wished Would Continue Much Longer. His Top 5 included songs by Blind Faith, The VooDoo Dolls, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Family. In keeping with the theme of song length all the other songs on the show were two minutes or less. The Beatles were featured in the cover set. Other artists featured are Todd Snider, Roger Miller, BR5-49, The Jam, Janelle Monáe and more!

After attending a fantastic concert put on by Billy Strings in Lexington, Kentucky I was inspired to do an entire show on progressive Bluegrass featuring music from it’s beginning to present day. Artists featured were Sierra Hull, Newgrass Revival, Béla Flack, Ganstagrass, Alison Krauss, Sam Bush, Carolina Chocolate Drops and of course Billy Strings!

The 146th episode featured new music from Mother, Mother and Khruangbin. Other artists featured were Albert Lee, Dallas Wayne, Dada, David Gilmore, Little Richard, Deer Tick, The 1975, Darrell Scott and more!

With episode 145 we finished up our three episode series on the music of 1975 that was based on Asa Hardcastle of Sheffield, Massachusetts’ list of his top five songs from his top five albums of 1975. In the third installment of the series we continue to focus on the year in music from the standpoint of albums. We featured the three leading albums from 1975, the three middle albums from 1975 and the future of rock ‘n’ roll going forward.

Episode 144 began with three sets of minimalist rock which I soon abandoned as my tongue grew fatigued repeatedly saying "minimalist". The cover set featured covers I like of songs that I don't. Among the artists featured were Paramore, Joe Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Morphine, The Shins, The Meters, Say She She and Etta James to name a few.

After skipping a week Episode 143 resumes counting down Asa Hardcastle of Sheffield, Massachusetts’ Top 5 Songs From His Top 5 Albums From 1975. In episode 141 we focused on Asa’s Top 5 songs and in this episode we focused on the albums. We also dug deep into the making of “Bohemian Rhapsody” and looked at whether or not a similar three part song by 10cc served as any type of inspiration for Freddie Mercury when he wrote “BR”.

Episode 142 starts out with country and goes on to feature sets of blue collar rock 'n' roll, my favorite top 40 songs of the week as well as a homemade mash up that combines the Avalanche's "Because I'm Me" and Honeycone's 70s soul hit "Want Ads”. Featured artists included BR5-49, Garth Brooks, The Kinks, Soon E Mc, The Roots, Hope TD Janelle Monáe and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.

Episode 141 features life long Berkshire native Asa Hardcastle’s Top 5 songs from his Top 5 from the year of his birth: 1975. About the task of assembling the list Asa said, “This was WAY harder than I thought. 1975 seems to have a ton of great albums. I am still second guessing some of my choices here. I was also surprised how few female artists I had to choose from. These are all from albums that I own.”

It was a relaxed night of music with no particular theme on Episode 139. It included new music by Caroline Polachek, St. Vincent and Childish Gambino. Three Jesse Winchester songs were featured in the cover set. Other artists heard from were Wilco, William Bell, Charlotte Day Wilson, Taylor Swift, Buddy and Julie Miller, The Sad Bastards Of Brooklyn and Maktub to name but a few.

Episode is an archival show featuring the first artist spotlight segment since The Can You Feel It Radio Show returned to the air in May 2023. Sadie Fine, an exciting young alt-pop singer/songwriter based in Clarksville, Tennessee was featured in interview and music. Also featured were sets of great, instantly lovable pop songs from every decade from the 1960s to present day as well as a set of music by three seminal alt-pop female singers from the 1990s.

We featured a listener submitted Top 5 from Jack Fortune Royce of Louisville, Kentucky in Episode 137. Jack submitted his Top 5 Love Songs. Jack’s selections included songs by Tower Of Power, Orleans, The Beatles, Earth, Wind and Fire and Al Green. The show also featured a special 36 minute documentary on Leonid and friends, a really awesome Russian Chicago tribute band.

Episode 136 featured some Louvin Brothers sounding music and a set of Louvin Brothers covers as well as tracks by Albert Lee, My Morning Jacket, David Byrne, Thomas Dolby, Jason Isbell, Angaleena Presley, The White Stripes, The Handsome Family and The Louvin Brothers themselves.

The theme for episode 135 was spoken word music. It began as kind of a lark, just sort of looking for some kind of a theme and the production and songs that I found turned out to be as interesting as any show I’ve worked on yet. Artists featured include: Rodney Crowell, James Brown, Gorillaz, the doors, MC 900 ft. Jesus, John Prine, R.E.M., The Shangri-Las, Tom Waits and more!

A new recurring segment of The Can You Feel It Radio Show, The Top 5 list, made its debut in Episode 19 and I decided to re-air the show again this week. I had submitted the first Top 5 list just to get the ball rolling but and all top-five lists since have been submitted by listeners. To date I’ve received 24 Top 5s! My Top 5 list was, “Top 5 Songs That Appear Together On An Album And Must Always Be Played Together”. It featured pairs of songs by ZZ Top, Reckless Kelly, Train, Dire Straits and BR5-49.

David Watson of Clarksville, Tennessee’s Top 5 Songs That Feel Like A Hug When You Need It Most was the centerpiece of episode 133. David’s Top 5 included songs by Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Billy Joel, Mac Miller and Billy Idol. We also featured two songs and an interview snippet from a new, up-and-coming Clarksville artist, Sadie Fine, a set of three covers from the year 2002 and two sets of music by artists from Murray, Kentucky and Murray State University.

The Beatles opened and closed episode 132. We heard a great collaboration between Todd Rundgren and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer which led into the cover set for the night which were all covers performed by Weezer. We even had a bit of grunge with the Screaming Trees. Other artist featured were The Brothers Johnson, The Black Keys, Todd Snider, Blackalicious, Lianne La Havas just to name a few.

Episode 131 is the final episode in our series nine part series devoted to musical artists jumping genres, the final of three shows devoted to the music of our champion genre jumper “Weird Al” Yankovic and it featured a special appearance by “Weird Al” drummer and archivist Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz who talked about the development of weird Al’s music through the years and how much more sophisticated Al’s song parodies and “in the style of” originals have become and what it takes to record in all those styles of music.

Episode 130 is the eighth in our nine part series of musical artists jumping genres and the second of three shows devoted to the music of our champion genre jumper “Weird Al” Yankovic. In part two our "Weird Al" bio continues, his music gets more sophisticated and funnier. We look at the difference between “Weird Al’s” song parodies vs his song satires. We also look at how, for a song parody artist, often times the cultural trends he satirizes with his lyrics often lose relevance faster than the hit song he uses as the vehicle for the lyrics. But they're still as funny as ever.

Amber Steady of Waterford, Connecticut’s Top 5 Songs That Inspire Me To Write Book One Of My Book Series was the centerpiece of Episode 74. Amber is presently writing a fantasy book series and her song selections were all related to fantasy books of related to her book and it’s characters in some way. The rest of the show was all songs relating to literature, books or reading. Even the cover set! Among the artists featured were
Coheed & Cambria, Imagine Dragons, Radiohead, Nick Lowe and Jill Tracy