Notes by Northwest

Northwest Passages--The Final Forest-Part 3 21.04.2024 6:04 ↓

Before Forks, a small town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed “Logging Capital of the World” and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way...

Northwest Passages-The Final Forest-Part 4 21.04.2024 4:43 ↓

Before Forks, a small town on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, became famous as the location for Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book series, it was the self-proclaimed “Logging Capital of the World” and ground zero in a regional conflict over the fate of old-growth forests. Since Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William Dietrich first published The Final Forest in 1992, logging in Forks has given way...

Notes by Northwest-April 11, 2024 12.04.2024 2:58:32 ↓

It got louder as the three hours progressed.  Tacoma sound in the first hour (albeit with a Stooges cover of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen), contemporary mellow-ish in the second hour, and pretty grungey in the final hour, including a solo Kurt Cobain and a Nirvana song to commemorate the passing of Kurt Cobain 30 years ago.  We're all getting old.

Yet another not Notes by Northwest 30.03.2024 2:28:52 ↓

This is a 2.5 hour fill in for another host, so I played a variety of some of my favorites, some of which are included on Notes by NW, some not. 

Notes by Northwest-March 21, 2024 22.03.2024 2:54:43 ↓

This was a general interest episode with no particular theme, just some of my favorites with a PNW connection. 

Not Notes by NW 20.03.2024 2:36:15 ↓

I filled in for another host on Friday, March 16, and here's the show.  The first 2 hours includes a bunch of my musical choices, including the Stones and Jerry Jeff Walker. Enjoy. 

Notes by Northwest January 18, 2024 19.01.2024 3:00:19 ↓

This program includes a composition by Seattle musician Jon Pontrello, who performs a ballad about the sinking of the SS Clallam in the waters between Diamond Point and Whidbey Island 120 years ago this month in which 55 souls perished. Oh, yes, and a bunch of raucous stuff in the third hour.    Everything in balance.  Thanks for listening. 

Notes by Northwest: January 4, 2024 07.01.2024 2:36:09 ↓

You'll only hear the music from that show....I was off the air for two months over the holidays and didn't record the live show due to operator error. At the end of the program I featured three Nivana songs, inspired by having read Nivana drummer and Foo Fighters lead singer, Dave Grohl's excellent autobiography, Storyteller .  He's funny, humble, and a great person.  Oh,  yes,...

Notes by NW November 2, 2023 Beatles and the PNW Episode 03.11.2023 2:53:46 ↓

This was a really fun show, as it included covers of Beatles songs by PNW artists, and the first hour culminated with the debut of the first new Beatles song in decades, Now and Then, which began as a lousy demo by John Lennon in 1978.  Yoko Ono gave it to the surviving Beatles in 1994, and George added some guitar to the Lennon tracks.  But the technology then wasn't like it is today.  Throu...