Minnesota Morning at KMSU 89.7 fm

Minnesota Morning at KMSU 89.7 fm Minnesota Morning is a radio program on KMSU 89.7 FM hosted by Karen Wright, weekdays from 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. The show features news, interviews, music, etc

04/28/2024

I have not been updating playlists because KMSU now has RDS so listeners can see what is playing. Plus, I don't have time to update every day. So sorry.

05/26/2023

Friday, April 21, 2023
Guest: Master Gardener Barb Lamson
Playlist:
Prof. Louie & the Crowmatix - Whispering Pines
Bill Kitchen/Austin LeLone - Let's ROck
JD McPherson - Bloodhound Rock
Chuck Prophet - That's How Much I Need Your Love
Aaron lee Tasjan - 12 Bar Blues
Yola - Hold On
Prince - 1000 Light Years from Here
Kool & the Gang - Get Down
The O'Jays - Time to Get Down
Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You
Bad Bad Hats -Wide Right
Owl City - Adam, Check Please
Home Free - Everybody Walking this Land
Kodi Lee/Colin Hay - Hello World
Chiliwack - Gone GIrl
Kate MIller-Heidke - The Last Day on Earth
Prince - When Doves Cry
Boy Genius - Not Strong Enough
The Mountain Goats - Training Montage
Trampled by Turtles - It's so Hard to Hold On
Prince - Nothing Compares 2U
Emmitt Rhodes - Mother Earth
Memphis Slim - Mother Earth
John Denver - Earth Day Every Day

05/26/2023

Thursday, April 20, 2023
Guest: EDED Jane Dow, Mankato Zero Waste/styrofoam recycling
Playlist:
Ray Paul - Temptation Eyes
Paul McCartney - Love Song to the Earth
Joshua Radin - A World to Explore
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Olivia Newton-John - Don't Cut Me Down
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Jack Johnson - The Three R's
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Pete Deeger - My Dirty Stream
The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son
James Taylor - Gaia
Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth
Joan Baez - Rejoice in the Sun
Loudin Wainwright - Hard Day on the Planet
The Beach Boys - Don't Go NEar the Water
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Blues
Randy Newman - Burn On
Jackson Browne - Before the Deluge
Crazy Horse - After the Gold Rush
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rains a Gonna Fall
Marvin Gaye - The Ecology

05/26/2023

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Guest: Mel Hoffman, Su***de Prevention
Playlist:
Gary Louris - True Blue
Home Free/Don McClean - American Pie
Everything but the Girl - Nothing LEft to Lose
Kate Bush - Babooshka
Aimee Mann - That's Just What You Are
The HEavy Heavy - In My Dreams
David Byrne/Yo La Tengo - Who has seen the Wind?
John Denver - Eagle & the Hawk
Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
Red Sovine - Lay Down Sally
Jon Conlee - Rose-colored Glasses
Gretchen Peters - Just Droppe In
Olivia Newton-John/Chloe Lattanzi - Window in the Wall
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
k.d. lang - The Air that I Breathe
Boby Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Uncle Kracker - Drift Away
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
The War & Treaty - Lover's Game
Buddy & Julie Miller - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Pieta Brown - Before Gas & TV

05/26/2023

Monday, April 17, 2023
Playlist:
Justin Moses - Fall Like Rain
Sierra Ferrell 0 In Dreams
Allison Russell - Everything I Wanted
Heartsfield - House of Living/Just the Wind
Poco - Call It Love
Dave Mason, et. al. - Feelin' Alright
Crosby Stills Nash - Bluebird
Gordon Lightfoot - Somewhere USA
Carole King - Sweet Seasons
Feist - Redwing
Beth Orton - See through Blue
Inara George - Accidental
Erin McKeown - Aspera
The Ditty Bops - Breeze Black Night
Aaron Lee Tasjan - Up All Night
Phosphorescent - New Birth in New England
Jeremy Messersmith - Fast Times in Minnesota
The Heavy Heavy - Miles & Miles
The Bird & the Bee - Polite Dance Songs
Elizabeth & the Catapult - Race U
Good MOrning Bedlam - Elemental
Bobby Goldsboro - Everybody's Talkin'
Tony Orlando - Tie a Yellow Ribbon
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
The Monkees - Theme Song
Toomorrow - Spaceport

05/26/2023

Friday, APril 14, 2023
Guests: MN musicians Good Morning Bedlam, Tori and Isaak Elker, and Master Gardener Barb Lamson
Playlist:
Ray Paul - Oh Woman Oh Why
Goanna - Back to the Wall
Olivia Newton-John/John Secada - Lost Inside Your Heart
John Farnham - You're the Voice
Kodi Lee/Colin Hay - Hello World
Australian Crawl -Easy on Your Own
Spoon - Wild
Good Morning Bedlam - Elemental
The War & Treaty - Lover's Game
Ike & Tina Turner - Nutbush City
Delbert McClinton - Givin' it Up for Your Love
John Hiatt - Tennessee Plates
Jackson Browne - Downhill from Everywhere
Joe Ely - The Road Goes on Forever
John Prine - Hello, in There
Gordon Lightfoot - Cotton Jenny
Buddy Guy/Jason Isbell - Gunsmoke Blues
Aretha - RESPECT
Dovie Gray - Drift Away
Good Morning Bedlam - Sticks & Stones/The Zoo
Paul Thorn - I Backslide on Friday

05/26/2023

Thursday, April 23, 2023
Guests: Becky Buller, MN Music Hall of Fame inductee and EDED Katherine Huded, Recycling Partnership/Circular Economy
Playlist:
Olivia Newton-John - Gaia
John Denver - Earth Day Every Day
Charlie DOre - Pilot of the Airwaves
Dolly Parton/Miley Cyrus - Rainbowland
Patti LaBelle - New Attitude
Todd Rundgren/Rick Wakeman - I Saw the Light
Linda Ronstadt - Heatwave
Mac Davis - I Believe in Music
Good MOrning Bedlam - Dancing Fool
Becky Buller - Millworker
Taylor Ashton - Running Up that Hill
The Hill Benders - Pinball Wizard
ELton John/Leon Russell - Monkey Suit
Good Morning Bedlam - Lulu
Iris DeMent - House where Nobody Lives

05/05/2023

Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Guest: Katie Gag, Asst. Dir. of Early Learning, Center for Learning (ages 3-5), MAPS opening
Playlist: (Paul Bulger Day Sponsor - Women through the Decades)
Ella Fitzgerald - Can't We Be Friends
Diana Ross - Stop in the Name of Love
Joan Amatrading - Show Some Emotion
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Sheryl Crow - A Change Would Do You Good
Esperanze Spalding - Rdio Song
BIllie HOliday - Blue Moon
Nina Simone - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
Pat Benatar - Evening
Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
Brittany Howard - Sky High
Lena Horne - Summertime
Ike & Tina - Got My Mojo Working
Aretha - Young Figted & Black
Tracy Chapman - Talkin' bout a Revolution
Good Morning Bedlam - Haunting/Sticks & Stones
The Pretenders - Private Life
Rovert Plant/Alison Krauss - GOne Gone Gone
Dessa - Dixon's Girl
Sarah Vaughn - Ain't MIsbehavin'
Martha REeves - Heat Wave
Jefferson Airplane - White
Lauryn Hill - Everything is Everything
Shawn Colvin - Get Out of this House
Lake Street Drive - Hypotheticals

05/05/2023

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Guest: Al Batt
Playlist:
The Honeydogs - Sans Sucre
The Suburbs - Turn the Radio On
The Heavy HEavy - Man of the Hills
The Spinners - Rubberband Man
Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
Smokey Robinson - How You Make Me Feel
The Jackson 5 - ABC
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
The War & Treaty - Lover's Game
Ondara - American Dream
Aldous Harding - Fever
The Highwomen - High Women
The Highwaymen - Highwayman
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
Allison Brown/Indigo Girls - Carolina in the Pines
Gordon Lightfoot - Cotton Jenny
kd lang - Helpless
Shelby Lynne - I Only want to be with You
Joss Stone 36-
The Beatles - You Can't Do That
Smash Palace - Upside Down World
The Beat Farmers - Bigger Stones
The Rubinoos - Mr. Sandman/Sugar Sugar
Willie Nelson - Always on My Mind
Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
Good Morning Bedlam - Elemental

05/05/2023

Monday, April 10, 2023
Guest: YWCA Director, Celceli Polzin
Playlist:
The Chicks - Wide Open Places
Olivia Newton-John/Vanessa Amorosi - True to Yourself
Cliff Hillis - Wouldn't It Be Good
Ray Paul - Lady Be Mine Tonight
The Red Button/Peter Noone - Ooh Girl
The Grip WEeds - Shape of Things to Come
SPlitsville - Gremlin with Mags
John Prine - That's the Way that the World Goes 'round
John Denver - Sunshine on My Shoulders
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Stevie Wonder - You are the Sunshine of My Life
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
Kate Bush - Running Up that Hill
Antje Duvekot - Merry-go-Round
The Pointer Sisters - Fairy Tale
Karla Bonhoff - Baby Don't Go
Maria Muldaur - Life's Too Short Medley
Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
Tom Rush - No Regrets
The Byrds - You ain't Going Nowhere
John Hiatt - Cry to Me
Gretchen PEters - When You're Old
Alison Krauss - The Lucky One
Red Molly - Homeward Bound
Greg Brown - Spring Wind
Sarah Jaroz - Ring them Bells
Sam Bush - In Tall Buildings

05/05/2023

Friday, April 7, 2023
Guest: Matt Brown, SMNP reporter on theater with Paul Hustoles/Something Rotten and Brittney O'Keefe, Josh Peek visit to MNSU
Playlist:
Tim Grimm - The Leaving
Kelly Stoltz - Prank Calls
The Heavy Heavy - Go Down River
Hiss Golden Messenger - Sanctuary
Spoon - My Babe
Kelly Stoltz - Team Earth
Trampled by Turtles - So Hard to Hold On
Cordova - This Town's a Dog
Daniel Romano - When I Learned Your Name
Kelly Stoltz - Kimche Taco Man
Chuck Prophet - I Bow Down
Cammp - Otter
Gary Louris - Almost Home
Tiny Time - Tip Toe through the Tulips
The Turtles - Happy Together
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out of this Place
Kelly Stoltz - Iceberg Lettuce
Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn
Dawes - Who Do You Think You're Talking To/
Dessa - Velodrome
Delta Rae/Lindsey Buckingham - If I loved You
Home Free - Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Ray Stevens - Guitarzan
Paul Thorn - I Backslide on Friday
Aaron Lee Tasjan - Up all Night

05/05/2023

Thursday, April 6, 2023
Guest: Reginald Haslett-Marroquin, Regenerative Poultry Farming, EDED
Playlist:
Paul Thorn - Weeds in My Roses
Guy Clark - Home Grown Tomatoes
John Harford - Goin' Back to Dixie
Roger MIller - WHere Have all the Average People gone?
Feist - In Lightning
The War & Treaty - Lover's Game
Cordovas - Hi8gh Feeling
The Honeydogs - Devices
Tim Grimm - 25 Trees
Tish Hinojosa - By the Rio Grande
Gretchen Peters - Billy 4
Kate Wolf - Here in California
Shelby Lynn - Wall in Your Heart
Wreckless Eric - Whole WIde World
The MOnkees - Listen to the Band
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man
Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
Smash Palace - Juliet to Me
Bruce Springsteen - Nightshift
Three Dog Night - Joy to the WOrld
The Beach Boys - California Girls 1965
ABBA - Waterloo - 1974
Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love
Olivia Newton-John/Chloe Latannzi - Window in the Wall
Elvis - Crying in the Chapel 1965
Dessa - Congratulations

05/05/2023

Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Guest: Ryan Rader, MN Musican with "The Hoppers"
Playlist:
Greg Greenway - Get out of the Left Lane
The Nields - Easy People
Tracy Grammar - Hey How
The Duhks - Annabel
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage
Corb Lund - Cows Around
Owl City - Kelly Time
Five for Fighting - 100 Years
Olivia Newton-John/Vanessa Amorosi - True to Yourself
Sister Scissors - Take Your Mama
B-52w - Rock Lobster
LaRoux - Nobody Said it Was Easy
Alan O Day - Undercover ANgel
Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island
Andrew Gold - Lonely Boy
Three Dog Night - Shambala
The Wailin' Jennys - Loves Me Like a Rock
Graeme James - Bittersweet Symphony
Restless Heart - Big Iron Horses
Dan Seals - Five Generations of Rock County Wilsons
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - Can't Let Go
The Heavy Heavy - All My Dreams
Buddy Holly - Rave On
Herman's Hermits - I'm into Something Good
The Hoppers -
Elton John- Skyline Pigeon
George Harrison - Crackerbox Palace
Smash Palace - Win it All

05/05/2023

Tuesay, April 4, 2023
Guest: Al Batt
Playlist:
Professor Louie & the Crow Matix - Whispering Pines
James Cotton - Saint on Sunday
John Prine/Amanda Shires -Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, Loud Music
Wilco - Radio Cure
Old Crow MEdicing Show - Wagon WHeel
Dawes - When My Time Comes
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What you Want
John Farnham/Olivia Newton-John - It's a Long Way to the Top
Kodi Lee/Colin Hay - Hello World
The War & Treaty - That's How Love is Made
Storm & Stone- Run
Olivia Newton-John/Dolly Parton - Jolene
Elvis - If I Can Dream
Yusuf - Here Comes the Sun
Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Dolly Parton & Miley Cyrus - Rainbowland
Michael Franti - Everyone Deserves Music
Jeremy Messersmith - Everybody Gets a Kitten
Futurebirds - Rodeo
Dessa - Into the Spin/I'm Hoping I'm Wrong
Nickel Creek - Hayloft
Becky Buller - Millworker

05/05/2023

Monday, April 3, 2023
Guest: Dessa, MN Musician
Playlist:
Greg Greenway - Hello, Hello, Hello
Poco - Keep on Tryin'/Ghost Town
The Hoppers - Maybe Baby
RIcky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou
Bill Haley & his Comets - Shake Rattle & Roll
The Heavy Heavy - Guinnevere
Brooks & Dunn - My Maria
Hank Williams, Jr - Family Tradition
Trampled by Turtles - It's So Hard to Hold On
Yola, the Highwomen, et. al. - Hold On
The War & Treaty - Jubilee
Melody & Gardot - Morning Sun
Paul Thorn - Snake Farm
Chiliwack - Gone Girl
U2 - Staring at the Sun
Feist - Love who we are Meant to Be
Olivia Newton-John/Vanessa Amorosi - True to Yourself
Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock
Dessa - Dixon's Girl/Congratulations
The Bird & the Bee - Polite Dance Song
Owl City- Adam, Check Please
Good Morning Bedlam - Sticks & Stones
Dessa - Blush/Velodrome/The Crow

05/05/2023

Friday, March 31, 2023
Guest: Master Gardener, Barb Lamson
Playlist:
Alice Howe - What Abot You
The Jayhawks - Take Me with You
Bonnie Raitt - Le'ts Give 'em Something to Talk About
George Harrison - Crackerbox Palace
The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius
Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
Rahel Baiman - Lovers & Leavers
Boy Genius -$20
Gretchen Peters - Independence Day
Jesse Wi******er - Rhythm of the Rain
Olivia Newton-John/Vanessa Amorosi - Be True to Yourself
Elton John/Stevie Wonder - Finish Line
Darryl Hall & John Oates - 70s Scenario
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Prince - Sign o the Times 1987
Mary Jane Alm - Outbound Train
Kim Richey - A Place Called Home
Karla Bonhoff - Home
Dale Ann Bradley/Rebecca Lynn Howard - Love Train
Darin & Brooke ALdridge - Once in awhile
Willie, Vince, et.al. - Roll Me Up & Smoke Me
They Might be Giants - Istanbul
Squeeze - Cool for Cats

05/05/2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023
Guest: Julie Westerlund, One Watershed/One Plan Coordinator
Playlist:
Greg Greenway - Get Out of the Left Lane
Frank Turner - SIster Rosetta
The Decemberists - Calamity Song
Feist - Borrow Trouble
Kings of Convenience - Fever
Mrs. Miller - These Boots are Made for Walking
William Shatner/Steve Hillage - Rocket Man
Ben FOlds Five - Video Killed the Radio Star
Kodi Lee/Colin Hay - Hellow World
Olivia Newton-John/Vanessa Amorosi - True to Yourself
Miley Cyrus/Dolly - Rainbowland
Richard Ashcroft - Bittersweet Sympony
Jackson Browne - A Little Too Soon to Say
Elton John/Stevie Wonder - Finish Line
Trampled by Turtles - It's So Hard to Hold On
John Prine - Illegal Smile
Emmy Lou Harris - Roses in the Snow
Olivia Newton-John, et. al - Live On
Mary Gauthier - Amsterdam
Terry Draper - I Have a dream
Dawes - From a Window Seat
Tracy Chapman 59 - Talkin' bout a Revolution
David Gray - You're the World to Me

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