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Notes by Northwest
You can listen to archived Notes by NW shows, featuring three hours of music with a connection to the PNW, from the 1960s through today. Radio Cascadia currently airs on KPTZ 91.9FM in Port Townsend, with a focus on local artists including alt, country and singer songwriters.
Episodes
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Interview with Dan Brubeck-Brubeck Brothers Quartet
The Field Arts & Events Hall had its debut performance this week, the Brubeck Brothers Quarter, featuring two of the sons of a jazz pioneer, Dave Brubeck. This…
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Notes by NW July 1, 2023
Summer is here in Sequim! This show included some CW songs with artists with a PNW connection, a nod to Canada Day, a shout out to my friends from Maple Valley…
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June 24, 2023 Notes by Northwest: Music in the Park Edition
This show is dedicated to the artists featured at this summer's Music in the Park, mostly musicians from the Peninsula including favorites like Black Diamond…
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Notes by NW June 16
This was a mix from The Stooges with their cover of the Kingsmen's Louie Louie, to Mark Knopfler, checking the PNW box with a solo effort called Seattle. Also…
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Notes by Northwest June 10, 2023
The first part of the show featured covers of Woody Guthrie songs, including a new release by the Dropkick Murphys from Okemah Rising (Okemah being the…
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May 27, 2023 Notes by NW
I just listened to this show again, and really like the selections, ranging from a few covers of Woody Guthrie songs to Odo Abby, who is credited with bringing…
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April 22, 2023 Notes by NW
After a few ''operator errors" at the beginning of the show, it was smooth sailing of a mix of PNW music from the 1950s til today.
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Notes by Northwest-April 29, 2023
This was a true variety show, with Country Joe McDonald kicking it off with his version of Roll On Columbia, to some groups I haven't played a lot, like…
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Notes by NW: April 15, 2023
We took a tour from early Woody Guthrie to some mellow sounds for the first hour, and then ramped it up a bit, ending with PJ and Nirvana, with selections from…
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Notes by NW: April 8, 2023
The first hour of the show was on the mellow side, including Burl Ives (Anacortes, WA); Louis Armstrong (from soundtrack to Sleepless in Seattle), and Bing…
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Notes by NW: April 1, 2023
A mixture of music with a PNW connection, a bit on the mellow side this time. And I'm continuing to feature songs from two iconic grunge albums released 30…
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March 25, 2023: Notes x NW and Tribute Show to Aretha Franklin
The first hour is a typical Notes by NW program, and the second hour was a tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, on what would have been her 81st…
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NW Passages Episode 21-Telemachus Part 1
Telemachus, archetype of the boy left behind, is portrayed in this novel by Bobby Bacca, whose father, M.M.Bacca, the famous poet, has died. Bobby, an artist…
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NW Passages Episode 22-Telemachus Part 2
Telemachus, archetype of the boy left behind, is portrayed in this novel by Bobby Bacca, whose father, M.M.Bacca, the famous poet, has died. Bobby, an artist…
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NW Passages Episode 23-Telemachus Part 3
Telemachus, archetype of the boy left behind, is portrayed in this novel by Bobby Bacca, whose father, M.M.Bacca, the famous poet, has died. Bobby, an artist…
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NW Passages Episode 24 Telemachus Part 1
Telemachus, archetype of the boy left behind, is portrayed in this novel by Bobby Bacca, whose father, M.M.Bacca, the famous poet, has died. Bobby, an artist…
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Northwest Passages Episode 26: Patriarchy Blues Part 2
Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She is the incumbent Washington State Poet Laureate and Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing…
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Northwest Passages Episode 27-Patriarchy Blues Part 3
Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She is the incumbent Washington State Poet Laureate and Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing…
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Northwest Passages Episode 28-Patriachy Blues Part 4
Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She is the incumbent Washington State Poet Laureate and Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing…
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Northwest Passages- Episode 25 Patriarchy Blues Part 1
Rena Priest is a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation. She is the incumbent Washington State Poet Laureate and Maxine Cushing Gray Distinguished Writing…
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March 18, 2023 Notes by NW
Pete SeegerRoll on Columbia. The KingsmenMoney Jelly roll mortonSeattle Hunch The wailersSeattle Kenny LogginsCelebrate me home TimberboundMile and a half…
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March 4 Notes by Northwest
A general mix of PNW music from Woody Guthrie, Ricki Lee Jones and Everclear. Woody Guthrie Roll Columbia Roll Kingsmen Shout The miracle workers Psycho Diana…
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 19: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
We are continuing to feature passages from Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, which has been described as his “opus”. It’s a story about an…
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 20: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
This episode completes passages from the Ken Kesey book, Sometimes a Great Notion, which chronicles the story of a tough logging family, the Stampers, in a…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 13: Turnaround Time
Author David Guterson chronicles his love of the beauty of the PNW as a lifelong hiker. In this excerpt from early in the book, he tells of some his first…
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 14: Turnaround Time by David Guterson
We continue with Guterson's sketches about hiking in the PNW which for the author is as much a spiritual journey as it is a physical one.
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 15: Turnaround Time by David Guterson
The author of Snow Falling on Cedars chronicles his journeys in the wilds of the Pacific NW in these series of sketches about the people and the land.
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 16: Turnaround Time by David Guterson
Today’s segment is a poem entitled A Narrow Road to the Interior speaks not only to the interior of the PNW forest, but the journey to the interior of the soul…
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 17: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
For the next four weeks, we will feature passages from Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, a story about an Oregon logging family set in the 1960s. If the…
Notes by NorthwestNorthwest Passages Episode 18: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Today we will continue to explore the passages from the Ken Kesey novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, published in 1964. In the passage we will hear today, the…
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November 26, 2022 Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
Seattle guitar legend Jimi Hendrix would have turned 80 on November 27 had he not died at age 27 in 1970. This program features some of the musicians who…
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November 12, 2022 Notes by Northwest
Playlist The Highwaymen Roll On Columbia Stompin Tom Sasquatch song Hank Cramer I guess he's rather be in Colorado Buck Owens Streets of bakersfield Rosalie…
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October 22 Notes by NW: Tracing the DNA of Puget Sound Bands
Playlist Woody Guthrie Roll On Columbia Sonics Have love will travel Wailers Sack o Woe Kingsmen Shout Daily Flash Forever to Love Fleet foxes White Winter…
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October 15 Notes by Northwest
Playlist Highwaymen Roll On Colombia Burl Ives Big Rock candy mountain Bing Crosby Don't fence me in Ranger and the Re-Arrangers Walk don't run Judy Collins…
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Notes by NW-October 8, 2022
Playlist Judy Collins Roll On Columbia Kingsmen Money Paul revere and the raiders Steppin Stone The miracle workers Psycho Charlie Ryan hot rod lincoln Jeff…
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Notes by NW-Country Music of the PNW-October 1
Playlist Peter McKee Roll On Columbia Rosalie Sorrels borderline heart Loretta Lynn Portland, Oregon Tammy Wynette Apartment #9 Alison Krause Pastures of…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 10: The Boys on the Boat Part 2
The Boys on the Boat is the story about the underdog University of Washington rowing team who wins the 1936 Olympic gold. The story’s main character, Joe…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 11: The Boys on the Boat Part 3
On this episode, you’ll hear a passage about a defining race that helped the University of Washington rowing team set their place on the world stage at the…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 12: The Boys in the Boat Part 4
In this final episode for the book, Brown does a masterful job of capturing the excitement of the Olympic finals, where a rag-tag US team from the University…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 5: The Good Rain Part 1
NW Passages features passages from books or poetry with a PNW connection. This is the first episode from Timothy Egan’s classic book about the Pacific…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 6: The Good Rain part 2
NW Passages features passages from books or poetry with a PNW connection. Timothy Egan has written several books about the PNW, and this 1990 is considered to…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 7: The Good Rain Part 3
NW Passages is the new series features passages from books with a connection to the Pacific Northwest, and this month, we will feature selections from Timothy…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 8: The Good Rain Part 4
This final episode of The Good Rain finds Egan on the western most part of the Olympic Peninsula, in La Push. The seemingly constant winds from the Pacific…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages Episode 9: The Boys on the Boat Part 1
The Boys on the Boat is the story about the University of Washington rowing team who, against all odds, wins the 1936 Olympic gold. The story has a special…
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September 17, 2022 Anniversary Show
Here's the playlist of artists I've come to enjoy in the first year of Notes by Northwest: Woody Guthrie Roll On Columbia Wailers Lucille Kingsmen Louie Louie…
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September 3, 2022 Notes by Northwest
Playlist: Penny whistlers | | Roll On Columbia | The miracle workers | | Way Back When | Mason Burns | | Come on Baby | Kristina Lao | | Mice | Rumour Mill | |…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages-September #1: The Canoe and the Saddle by Theodore Winthrop
Theodore Winthrop was a New Haven, CT dandy who ventured west to California, the Oregon and Washington Territories, and British Columbia in 1853 to explore the…
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NW Passages-September #2: The Canoe and The Saddle
We’re continuing this week with The Canoe and The Saddle, the account of Theodore Winthrop’s journey to the Washington Territory in 1853, where he shared his…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages-September #3: The Canoe and the Saddle by Theodore Winthrop
In this episode, we will continue the journey across 1850s Washington Territory as told by Theodore Winthrop, the Connecticut dandy who trekked across the PNW…
Notes by NorthwestNW Passages-September #4: The Canoe and the Saddle by Theodore Winthrop
In this segment from The Canoe and the Saddle, author Theodore Winthrop relates another spiritual moment inspired by the natural beauty of the Washington…
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August 27, 2022 Women of the Pacific NW
The entire show is dedicated to female artists: Judy Collins Roll on Columbia Rosalie Sorrells If I could be the rain Loretta Lynn Don't come home a drinking…
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August 20--Artists from Thing Festival in Port Townsend August 26-28,2022
Steve Einhorn Roll on Columbia Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Pull yo’ pants up Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Careless whisper The Dip Advertising The Dip Never my love…
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Notes by NW August 13: Tacoma Songs and Artists
Playlist: Woody Guthrie Roll On Columbia The Frantics werewolf Ventures secret agent man Wailers Tall Cool One Kingsmen Money That's what I want Sonics Have…
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August 6 Notes by Northwest
Here's the playlist for this dog days of summer episode: Highwaymen Roll On Columbia Timberbound End of my line Rosalie Sorrells Home Ain't in The Hall of Fame…
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Notes by NW-All Seattle
All the music on this program either has "Seattle" in the title, or is about an area of Seattle, just for fun. Here's the playlist: The Pennywhistlers Roll On…
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Woody Guthrie Tribute Part 2
This features covers of Woody Guthrie songs by his contemporaries, by some current artists, songs by the next generations of Guthries, and some new songs based…
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Woody Guthrie Special
This audio documentary chronicles the life and the music of the father of American folk music on the 110th anniversary of his birth in Okemah, Oklahoma. The…
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July 9 Notes by Northwest
This program featured music and artists I've never played before on the show. I hope you hear something new and interesting. Playlist Pennywhistlers Roll On…