Brown Mountain Lights

10/11/2025

Saturdays show haiku:

mellow beginning
Soulful blues groove emerges
dark spacey ending

Getting ready for our fall fund drive ☮️💟☯️

Brown Mountain Lights

10/04/2025

Let’s celebrate Halloween
all month long.

Tune in for surprise 👻
spooky song each week!

11 am
103.3 FM
Asheville FM

09/12/2025

Your algorithms needing a reset?

Happiness is seeing these Georgian women wander through the Caucuses mountains singing old folk songs with such enthusiasm and joy

Our CD-albums are available here: https://georgianarts.comBecome a member: https://www.youtube.com/c/TrioMandili/joinFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/trio...

09/12/2025

By Bridget Arnwine In Ron Carter’s Universe, the upright bass is a scepter. On every tour, stage, and recording, magic begins the moment he engages the instrument and plucks the first string. With more than 2,200 recordings to his credit, Ronald Levin Carter – nicknamed The Maestro for the depth...

09/06/2025

As summer persists,
so too does the joy
of Mark Volman……….

even as he has left us for more happy mischief on another plane.

The Brown Mountain Lights crew are sad but so happy to have had decades of joy together with the Turtles and Flo and Eddie

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesWho But I · Flo & EddieThe Phlorescent Leech & Eddie / Flo & Eddie℗ 1974 Flo & Eddie, Inc.Released on: 2008-02-...

09/04/2025

Epic weekend for Asheville FM

Record fair on Sunday

Join us for collectible vinyl

Regular sonic happenings on Saturday at 11am at 103.3 fm

& www.AshevilleFM.org

08/16/2025

1975
an incredible year
of ideas, culture
and change

This Saturday
11 am
Asheville FM

08/14/2025

Best Albums of 1975

Our show’s huge crew of producers has narrowed it down to 13….

with a giant list of honorable mentions

listen Saturday at 11 for a core sample of 1975

Asheville FM

08/12/2025

What does the year 1975 say about the American story?

excess, simplification, back to roots, or something brand new?

Join us this Saturday at 11 for an audio exploration of America mid decade

Asheville FM

08/10/2025

1975 was a complex year of brooding intensity and transition.

With the disastrous and humiliating evacuation of Saigon, the US faced a turning point unlike any it had experienced since the end of World War 2.

While the Carter presidency was in the incubator, a more coherent and rising conservative movement stewarded by Nixon would continue to grow even more powerful.

Bands like the Ramones, Television and Pere Ubu were formulating a revolutionary strategy to blow the lid off of the way music would sound.

Bryan Ferry, Patti Smith and John Cale seemed to embrace and embody the tension of the moment.

Meanwhile, disco is emerging to dominate pop culture.

Ironically, punk and disco merge later for some exciting music in the late 70s and early 80s.

The loft scene in 1975 was keeping jazz alive and performers like David Murray and Amina Claudine Myers would reinvent free jazz and ignite a new improv underground that would inspire a new generation of musicians like John Zorn and William Parker.

Intellectual minds like Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, JG Ballard and Michel Foucault brought some clarity to the moment, even while the deepest questions would continue to plague us.

I was a robust 6 then….so it will provide an absolutely foggy version of the events.

Join us Saturday August 16 as we take a mostly musical tour of 1975

08/06/2025

Akiko Kawamoto was born in Los Angeles in 1926. She moved to Japan with her family along with a US built Baldwin piano in 1932. Akiko took lessons and played the piano daily until the war broke out.

80 years ago today, an atomic blast destroyed her home in Hiroshima.

She did not survive, but her piano did.

Survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are referred as Hibakusha.

11 pianos also survived the blasts.

These hibaku pianos serve as symbols of peace and are played to commemorate the losses and promote peace and disarmament.

I am so grateful for the chance to play this incredible piano in front of the atomic bomb dome in Hiroshima, Japan. I thought for sure I would have to stop o...

07/25/2025

sounds for your journeys

interior & geographical

Saturday 11am

Asheville FM