Family things came up, so no show tonight. I look forward to talking with y’all next week.
Stay Strong!
Papa Jojo
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Family things came up, so no show tonight. I look forward to talking with y’all next week.
Stay Strong!
Papa Jojo
Happy New Year! Welcome back for another edition of the Papa Jojo Radio Show! I hope everyone enjoyed a fun and fulfilling holiday season. Today is Dolly Parton’s birthday, so stay tuned for a Dolly block in the 6:00 hour.
This post will be updated through the 8 O’Clock hour.
We’re back on the air tonight! Look for a little bit of Dolly Parton as it is her birthday today. Gonna play a bunch of other stuff, so let’s see where the mood takes us!
Papa Jojo
Happy 2023! I planned to be back on air last week but the day job got in the way. It seems the same for tonight. Pinning hope on next week, 19 January, for the 2023 edition to kick off.
Stay tuned!
Welcome back for another edition of the Papa Jojo Radio Show! I hope y’all enjoyed a great Thanksgiving in the US, and those outside enjoyed the World Cup. RIP Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac.
This post will be updated through the 8 O’Clock hour.
UPDATE: Fin
Sufjan Stevens’s catalogue feels wild and untamable. In just a year span, between September 2020 and 2021, the singer-songwriter and Asthmatic Kitty Records founder debuted almost five hours of music: the pensive, electronic album The Ascension; the ambient, mournful Convocations; and the film-obsessed A Beginner’s Mind, where he and artist Angelo De Augustine wrote songs about a string of horror and action-adventure movies. In the aughts, Sufjan’s Michigan and Illinois albums earned a massive following impressed not just by his heartfelt lyrics, elaborate arrangements, and affecting singing, but by the way songs like “Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!” and “Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)” imparted a sense of geography and history, however subtle. It was then, in 2006, with Illinois sales sailing past 100,000 units, when he released a delightfully quixotic array of projects, including Songs for Christmas, a five-volume set of holiday tracks the performer had originally gifted to friends. The song selection revealed him as a sophisticated collector of carols, and the expedition in the originals — from the ramshackle folk of “We’re Going to the Country!” to the boisterous big-band sound of “Get Behind Me Santa!” and “Christmas in July” — mapped all the creative turns it took to get from the embryonic ideas in his 1999 debut A Sun Came to the big mainstream breakthrough.
Holiday albums are the back roads in Sufjan Stevens’s catalogue, the less-traveled trails joining the points of interest where the rest of the audience congregates. They’re also a place where the elaborate detail and abrupt stylistic shifts and secular-spiritual dualities in his art feel most unfettered, being products of a friends-and-family tradition the rest of us heard only years after the fact. By the time you figured this out, Sufjan was already miles away. If Illinois was your first encounter, you might’ve scratched your head at the winding, calamitous, synth-drenched tunes on his 2010 album, The Age of Adz, a sharp detour for fans pining for more “Chicago.” Another holiday package — 2012’s 58-song Silver & Gold — traced that evolution, getting from the gorgeous, rustic Dessner brothers collaborations “Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)” and “Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One” to the glitchy, psychedelic epic “The Child With the Star on His Head.” It’s a strange journey, but the artist sees his now 100-song seasonal undertaking in a different light; ten years in, Sufjan Stevens, who once met Steven Spielberg and introduced himself as a Christmas songwriter, feels that it’s imperative for him to leave the project behind.
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I know few places in the world celebrate Thanksgiving like we do here in the States, yet I wish you all glad tidings and thank you for being you.
Campus is closed at Chattanooga State for the holiday, and anyway I’m hosting the festivities at my place for the first time in about 20 years, so no Papa Jojo Radio Show this week.
Rest assured I am still working on how to get the show on even when I’m not there. And stay tuned here for news I think you can use.
Dear Friends, Happy Thanksgiving!
Dear friends,
Papa Jojo is under the weather and won’t be on air tonight. Keep listening to WAWL.org and stay tuned for more.
Welcome to another edition of the Papa Jojo Radio Show on WAWL.org! Pleased as punch to be back with y’all!
The show pays tribute to some artists recently lost: Loretta Lynn, Mimi Parker from the band Low, and Jeff Cook from the band Alabama.