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Schedule in brief, scroll down for details: 
Thursday, 9 p.m.: BADFINGER on the Thursday Night Feature
Sunday, 1 p.m.: EMMETT MILLER on Hell or High Water
Sunday, 8 p.m.:  ELEMENTS OF A PROBLEM on the Backyard Barbeque

BADFINGER on the Thursday Night Feature, Thursday 9 p.m.-midnight
Tonight's TNF will be devoted to the genius of BADFINGER. Signed to the
Beatles' Apple Records in the late '60s, Badfinger went on to sell
millions of records and produce a string of AM radio standards in the
early 70s including: "No Matter What," "Day After Day," "Baby Blue" and
"Without You," a Badfinger original which became a #1 hit for Harry
Nilsson in 1972. But by 1975, BADFINGER were penniless and without a
record deal, having been defrauded of all their earnings by their manager
Stan Polley. Unable to support their families and embroiled in bitter
legal problems, BADFINGER's principal songwriter Pete Ham and bass
guitarist Tom Evans both hung themselves in desperation. Their lives were
tragic, but their Power Pop sound had an immeasurable influence on Big
Star, The Raspberries, Cheap Trick, The Shoes, The Posies, The dB's, and
The Shins just to name a few.

EMMETT MILLER on Hell or High Water, Sunday 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
This week we will feature the music and legacy of EMMETT MILLER.  Love him
or hate him, or more likely never heard him, Miller was arguably one of
the most influential performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s,
impacting country music and American pop singing in ways that continue to
reverberate today. Listen to Miller's original version of what became Hank
Williams' smash hit "Lovesick Blues" and decide for yourself. Nick Tosches
wrote of his music, "Emanation and transcendence of the bloodlines of
country and blues, jazz and pop, black and white, it stands unique:
prophecy and summation, birth-cry and howl everlasting of the chimera of
all that has come to be known as American music." The problem is that he
performed his entire career, until the end of the 1940s, as a blackface
minstrel man.  Tune in this Sunday and explore the good, the bad, and the
ugly that was EMMETT MILLER.
 
ELEMENTS OF A PROBLEM on the Backyard Barbeque, Sunday 8 p.m.
This week on the Backyard BBQ, we'll address a problem of alarming
dimensions! Now-local group ELEMENTS OF A PROBLEM cropped up in Hot
Springs before spreading to Arkansas, disseminated east, and can now be
found here in our own backyard! Not so much a problem, though -- rather
architects of alarmingly good soundscapes. Tune in and discover that our
newest transplants are also among our brightest and best.

Also this week and every week: 
-ORANGE COUNTY SPECIAL: traditional and neo-traditional music of the 
world, Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 
-BROKEN MUSIC: longer, more "difficult" pieces, Sunday 2-3 p.m.
-SPORTS RAP: live UNC sports talk, Sunday 9-10 p.m. 
-NEW SCIENCE EXPERIENCE: a live electronic mix, Sunday 10 p.m.-12 a.m. 
-THE NEW MUSIC SHOW: spotlight on new releases right out of the mail bin,
Monday 9-10 p.m.
-INSIDE TRACK: a new release is played in full, Wednesday 9 p.m.

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