This week’s art is a meandering watercolor that I did when people who gave half a crap were watching The Super Bowl. I couldn’t have cared less, so this was a better use of my time, even with MG-afflicted fingers.

Usually when we take the train to Chicago, like we did in December, if we get stuck with a roomette, I’ll be sleeping uncomfortably on the top bunk and I’ll wake up around 5 AM. With nothing better to do, and not wanting to wake up Mel, I will just pull back the curtains a bit and watch the sunrise (if we’re lucky enough to be on the East-facing side of the train). This usually happens as we’re speeding through Indiana, where those poor folks can’t afford mountains, so the landscape is vastly different from what we have here.

Since I wasn’t terribly inspired, but wanted to make some art to distract myself from other things, I decided to slap some watercolors onto a new textured paper and, without reference, do my impression of what it looks like watching the sun rise from the Amtrak Cardinal in the Winter weather of Indiana.

It came out better than it had any right to.

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Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR,  we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM we do the same with Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

At 2 PM, Nigel Pye brings us a Valentine-ish episode of Psychedelic Shack, with the entire hour devoted to the Welsh Psych/Blues band, Love Sculpture (featuring an embryonic Dave Edmunds). Here’s what you’ll hear…

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Love Sculpture

“Sabre Dance”
“Mars”
“Morning Dew”
“Three O’Clock Blues”
“Don’t Answer The Door”
“In The Land Of The Few”
“Seagull”
“Why (How Now)”
“Farendole”
“Brand New Woman”
“The Stumble”
“People People”
“Summertime”

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM.

At 3 PM, Herman Linte explores the Art Rock/Prog Rock/Proto New Romantic Sounds of Roxy Music, with a two-hour retrospective on Prognosis…

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Roxy Music

“Love Is The Drug”
“Do The Strand”
“Virginia Plain”
“The Thrill of it All”
“Out of the Blue”
“All I Want Is You”
“Tryptich”
“Prarie Rose”
“Angel Eyes”
“Jealous Guy”
“Mother of Pearl”
“Oh Yeah”
“Re-Make Re-Model”
“Ladytron”
“Avalon”
“He’ll Have To Go”
“Bitter-Sweet”
“Casanova”
“Same Old Scene”
“Over You”
“Dance Away”
“Both Ends burning”
“If There Is Something”
“In Every Dream Home A Heartache”
“More Than This”

You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

Tonight at 9 PM we bring you our Monday night line-up featuring two hours each of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast, plus six hours overnight with an assortment of our programming from Haversham Recording Institute. The Haversham stuff starts at 1 AM and tonight it’s a three sterling editions of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat.