Johnny & Andy's Christmas Club

I'm a huge fan of Christmas music and I was notably frustrated when my Real Player crashed this morning after I had recorded the annual Johnny & Andy's Christmas Club show on WDCB. Of course it crashed before saving the file. I've been recording this show every year since about 2003 and to miss a year is terribly disappointing. Not only that but for whatever reason WDCB decided to broadcast the show only once this year and at 7AM on Christmas Day. I also learned that another local area station, WXRT, had just last week their show on the air. I don't really listen to XRT so I had no way of knowing they were doing their show there. Double disappointment. To compound the problem even further, these shows are not available ANYWHERE. Thus, I have decided to play a small part in making these shows available.

I considered making them available as downloads from a hosting website such as 4shared. But I like the idea of streaming the audio instead. I would love to upload them to soundcloud but I already have an account there with a limited amount of upload time remaining. And these Christmas Club shows are all 2-3 hours long. So I'm going to try uploading them to YouTube. Hopefully there will not be any copyright issues by uploading them there. Most of the songs these guys play on their show are obscure and would pose no problems. However, they do throw in a few commercially available tracks that may or may not be problematic. Well, that will be for YouTube to decide. If I have any problems with my first upload then I will consider other options. I just want to get these out there for everyone to enjoy!

I will start with their show from 2014. As soon as it's live on YouTube I will link to it here.

The Folk Festival, WDCB 90.9 FM

I don't listen to much radio anymore. At least not with a physical, traditional AM/FM receiver. There are radio programs I listen to online that I used to tune in on a radio. They are much easier to record this way and sound better. I don't have to worry about a cassette not being long enough to record a longer show.

One of the programs that I still enjoy listening to is "The Folk Festival" found on WDCB 90.9 FM public radio from the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn IL. The show is live on Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 9pm.

I've been listening to the show since the days George Brown used to host it. He passed away suddenly and then Lily Kuzma took over as host. The show is basically 2 hours of mostly Contemporary Folk/Americana music with occasional tinges of international folk and studio guests who give interviews and perform live versions of their songs.

I have not listened to the show for a while now due to the music selection being less interesting than in the past and the imbalance of talk vs. music when the guests come on. But I do have plenty of shows that I recorded over the years and will be providing links to those programs here on this blog.

I don't have much information on the shows other than the dates they were first broadcast. If you want to know the names of particular songs or artists you will probably find them mentioned at some point in the program.

Stayed tuned for links to the shows!