Pirate Radio 13

09/08/2025

09/08/2025

SUPERTRAMP FOUNDING SINGER AND SONGWRITER RICK DAVIES DEAD AT 81

Davies wrote some of Supertramp's biggest hits, including "Bloody Well Right" and "Goodbye Stranger." Read the band's tribute to him below.

09/07/2025

This week in 1970, Black Sabbath released the single for Paranoid. Flanked by "The Wizard" on the B-side, the track went on to peak at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the UK Singles Chart (marking their only top 10 hit to date). 🤘

09/06/2025

Mark Volman, co-founder of the 1960s band The Turtles, best known for their No. 1 hit “Happy Together”, died on September 5, 2025, in Nashville after a brief illness. He was 78.

With bandmate Howard Kaylan, Volman also performed as Flo & Eddie, touring with Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and providing backing vocals for artists like T. Rex and Bruce Springsteen. Beyond music, he earned degrees later in life, taught at Belmont University, and published his 2023 memoir Happy Forever.

Diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2020, he continued performing on the Happy Together tours into 2025. He is remembered for his vibrant stage presence, humor, and lasting impact on rock and pop music.

09/06/2025

09/05/2025

09/05/2025

Susan Tedeschi: “When I was little, my dad would play me Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mississippi John Hurt, a lot of that country folk-blues kinda vibe. And I liked it, but it wasn’t my main thing. But then when I graduated college, I had some friends running a blues jam and they asked me to come sing.

"So I started diving into the record stores and bought all these records by T-Bone Walker, Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson. That’s when I started diving into the blues on a massive level. They just really got me hooked.

“And they also got me playing electric guitar: I didn’t really play anything other than acoustic until I started getting into the blues. It was an exciting time. That music was soulful and inspiring, and I was really angry that growing up, we didn’t have that kind of music on the radio.

"But I’ve realised since that what we’re spoon-fed on radio is kinda all the baloney, the weakest of the lot. So you have to search out the really great stuff, the really soulful stuff. People can relate to the blues. It moves them. It can help to heal you. I think the blues can be very beneficial on a medicinal level.”

📸 Jeff Bender "Just Won’t Burn" Promo Shoot 1998.

09/03/2025

Ladies and Gentlemen,
THIS TICKET IS FRAUDULENT! A SCAM! I had 2 serious strokes just over a year ago and I’m not physically able to perform anymore.
I do not have ANY concert dates booked. PLEASE BEWARE OF FAKE PROMOTIONS LIKE THIS ONE BELOW!
-Stuart D. Baker / Unknown Hinson

09/01/2025

Emmylou Harris with Linda Ronstadt performing on stage at the annual Banjo, Fiddle and Guitar Festival at Long Beach State University, James Burton plays guitar, April 1975 in Long Beach, California. (Photo By Dan Reeder)