This week I decided to go back and created a small painting based on one of my digitally-assaulted photographs from many years ago in this feature. Orignally this was part of my “Stark Charleston” series of high-contrast, black and white photos of our fair city.

Fourteen years later I decided to reverse-engineer it, add the color back and paint it in acrylic on cheap canvas board.

I think it came out okay. It was basically an excercise to keep the fingers from atrophying.

To see it bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday afternoon on The AIR, we bring you new episodes of Nigel Pye’s Psychedelic Shack, and 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 delivers his usual mix of psychelic music, including vintage nuggets and new trippy tunes. Here’s today’s playlist…

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Goat Generator “Black Magic”
5 Gentlemen [France] “Dis-Nous Dylan”
Asida “Armada”
John Wooley & Just Born “Look And You Will Find”
Crystal Garden “Peach Fuzz Forest”
Cave Dwellers “Meditation”
Soultons “Ran Down Soul”
The Bruthers “Bad Way To Go”
Magic Mushrooms “I’m Gone”
The Ides of March “I’ll Keep Searching”
The Traits “High On A Cloud”
Merry Dragons “Universal Vagrant”
Sound Barrier “My Baby’s Gone”
The Lea Riders Group “Dom Kaller Oss Mods”
The Jefferson Handkerchief “I’m Allergic To Flowers”

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 devotes his two hours to newly-released Prog Rock,  with new tracks from Jon Anderson, David Gilmour and more, plus newly-released live cuts from Jethro Tull, King Crimson and others.  Here’s the playlist…

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Jon Anderson “Once Around A Dream”
David Gilmour with Richard Wright “Luck and Strange Barn Jam”
Gavin Harrison, Antoine Fafard “Spontaneous Plan”
Nightwish “An Ocean of Strange Islands”
Big Big Train “East Coast Racer (live in London)”
Tony Levin Band “Give The Cello Some”
King Crimson “The Sheltering Sky (live)”
Jethro Tull “Thick As A Brick (live)”
YES “Gates of Delirium (live)”
Pallas “Ratracing (live)”

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.

At 8 PM you can hear an hour of songs from the very funny, very nasty Rusty Warren on a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we devote ten hours to the first five episodes of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. We will be alternating between Prognosis and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat for the next several weeks, because we’re going to be pulling the early episodes of those shows from the server soon to make room for newer programs. After they’ve been offline for a year or so, we’ll bring them back into rotation but for now, you can hear them Monday evening into Tuesday morning, and then those episode will go on hiatus.