Category Archives: Blogs

Here's a great idea for a Fogotten 45 from Martha in Oelwein!ZZ Top's 1983 release, 'Eliminator' set them on a path to enormous success due to the slight change in the band's sound and the invent of M...

A great suggestion from listener, Doug! Dave Edmunds - Slipping AwayEnglishman Dave Edmunds didn't spend much time on the U.S. charts, but did make it to the Top 40 twice! The first was in 1970 with "...

I celebrated early on Sunday in Amana at the Craft Beer Bash that I blogged about in Here's To Beer: Shawn Foxx's Beer blog 115 and 116. It was a lot of fun with a lot of great breweries and people wh...

This is 100% my wife's fault for bringing this to my attention, but you'll near ever Toto's "Africa" the same way after hearing this!

Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of BeethovenKeyboardist, songwriter, producer Walter Murphy hit it big when he contemporized a classical composition of Beethoven's... "A Fifth Of Beethoven" is a play on words...

I'm looking forward to enjoying unlimited samples of the 50+ breweries coming to Amana on Sunday for Craft Beer Bash! I blogged about this last week, but as a reminder, our sister station Rock 108 wil...

Big thanks to Trucker Trevor for giving me an update on what Willie from Willie Ray's Q Shack has been up to. Willie was a major help after the derecho hit the Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas and t...

It's National Coconut Day! Harry Nilsson - CoconutA song about a woman who has a stomach ache after drinking a concoction of coconut and lime, calls her doctor who suggests drinking the same to cure i...

Bon Jovi - Bed Of RosesAfter a fairly long hiatus as a band, Bon Jovi got back together to record a more mature rock album, refelecting their musical growth as well as their less glam image. 'Keep The...

I saw this and it blew me away. At first, you think, "Well, of course the chipmunk is coming up to you.... You have food and it knows it." The more the chipmunk came back, it learned she wasn't a thre...