This week’s art is a pencil and ink depiction of the view pulling into Union Station in Chicago in the dead of Winter. It’s inspired by photos I took last December when taking Amtrak on our way to the city of wind.

With last week’s drawing, I started out doing  a pencil sketch on illustration board, but even with my trusty Blackwing Palamino, I was not happy with the level of detail and clarity.

So I reverted to my comic book artist days and “inked” much of the drawing with cheap markers from Five Below. Rather than erase the pencils, I blurred them with a tissue to give the piece some tonal qualities that I liked. I really liked the depth and texture that I got combining the pencil and ink, and this week I decided to do it again, on purpose this time.

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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 bit a departure as I suggested Mr. Pye put together a show made of psychedelic tunes from the last decade, and he topped my ida by assembling a show that, save for the opening track, is entirely comprised of trippy music released in the past six months. The opener is from 2019, but The Claypool Lennon Delirium have a new album coming out in a few weeks too. Check out this mind-expanding playlist…

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The Claypool Lennon Delirium “Blood And Rockets”
Ringo Starr “Choose Love”
They Might Be Giants “What You Get”
Jope Jackson “Made God Laugh”
U2 “Easter parade”
Suzi Quatro “Choose Yourself”
Flea “A Plea”
Gorillaz “The Mountain”
Shardik “Into The Mouth of the Great Nothing”
The Protomen “The Good Doctor Pt. 2”
The Dream Machine “Night Owls”

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 brings you a two-hour mixtape of recordings by the band, YES, after the departure of their original lead singer, Jon Anderson. You will hear the voices of Jon Davison, Benoit David and Trever Horn, and the show kicks off with a track from the latest album by YES, which is due out in June.

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YES post-Anderson

“Aurora”
“Into The Storm”
“Fly From Here (complete, original)”
“One Second Is Enough”
“Subway Walls”
“The Gift Of Love”
“Hour of Need”
“Living Island”
“Sister Sleeping Soul”
“The Game”
“The Man You Always Wanted Me To Be (demo)”
“Words On A page”
“The Western Edge”
“Believe Again”
“All Connected”

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 8 PM, tune in for a classic edition of The Comedy Vault. That’s followed by two-hour blocks of Curtain Call and Beatles Blast at 9 PM and 11 PM, and then an overnight assortment of our Haversham Recording Institute programs at 1 AM.