Kensington's Premium Blend

20/01/2024

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 197 Playlist (“Aviary”)
(available for broadcast 26 January 2024; as podcast 27 January 2024)

Flamingo
Gary McFarland & Co.
Does the Sun Really Shine on the Moon?
Skye Records SK-2

White Bird
It’s a Beautiful Day
It’s a Beautiful Day
Columbia CS 9768

Hummingbird
Seals & Crofts
Summer Breeze
Warner Bros. 2-2629

Swallow
The Wailin’ Jennys
Firecracker
Red House Records RHR CD 195

Skylark
Monica Mancini
The Dreams of Johnny Mercer
Concord Records CCD 4937-2

Ornithology
Lucie Horsch & Fuse
Origins
Decca 485 3192

Yardbird Suite
Charlie Parker
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
Savoy Jazz SVY 17149

When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along
Carmen McRae
Jazz for Kids
Universal Music Classics & Jazz 06007 5327522

Bluebird (acoustic version)
Miranda Lambert
Single
Vanner Records/Sony Music

Blackbird
Bettye LaVette
Blackbirds
Verve B0031706-02

Yellow Cedar Waxwing
Brennen Leigh
Prairie Love Letter
Self-released 211982E2

Lyin’ Eyes
The Eagles
One of These Nights
Asylum Records 7E-1039

A Robin or a Wren
Jeff Tweedy
Love Is the King
dBpm Records DBPM 005-20 CD

13/01/2024

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 196 Playlist
(available for broadcast 19 January 2024; as podcast 20 January 2024)

Sylvie
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Folkways: A Vision Shared – A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly
CBS Records CK-44034

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Marvin Gaye
In the Groove
Motown/Universal 0555206

I Ain’t Got No Home
Bruce Springsteen
Folkways: A Vision Shared – A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly
CBS Records CK-44034

The Last Waltz Suite: The Weight
The Band w/The Staple Singers
The Last Waltz (Deluxe Version)
Warner Bros./Rhino 73925

If I Ever Needed Someone
Van Morrison w/Mavis Staples
Duets: Re-Working the Catalogue
RCA 88875-06844-2

Sail Away
Randy Newman
Sail Away
Reprise MS 2064

How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
Wynton Marsalis w/Ellis Marsalis
Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance
Columbia CK 46143

Hey Jude
Wilson Pickett
Hey Jude
Atlantic SD 8215

Boo’s Blues
Julian Lage
Squint
Blue Note B003332501

A Change Is Gonna Come
The Neville Brothers
Yellow Moon
A&M Records CD 5240

Driving Along
Harry Nilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson
RCA 82876 57265 2

The Moonbeam Song
Harry Nilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson
RCA 82876 57265 2

Sunny’s Tune (from Johnny Handsome)
Ry Cooder
Music by Ry Cooder
Warner Bros. 9 45987-2

Doodlin’
Sarah Vaughan
No Count Sarah
Mercury SR 60116

06/01/2024

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 195 Playlist
(available for broadcast 12 January 2024; as podcast 13 January 2024)

El Dorado
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
City of Gold
Nonesuch 075597906998

Evangelina
Colter Wall
Little Songs
La Honda Records/RCA 19658-81135-1

Something in the Way She Moves
James Taylor
Greatest Hits
Warner Bros. M5 3113

Duo for Saxophone & Oud
Sophie Alour w/Mohamed Abozekry
Joy
Music from Source MFSOU297845

Winterlude
Bob Dylan
New Morning
Columbia KC 30290

Evening Song
Jakob Bro
Balladeering
Loveland Records LLR012

The Fez
Steely Dan
The Royal Scam
ABC Records ABCD-931

Liberty
Lindi Ortega
Liberty
Shadowbox Music Inc. 39497

Jam Man
Chet Atkins
Almost Alone
Columbia CK 67497

H***y Tonk Nighthawk
Colter Wall
Little Songs
La Honda Records/RCA 19658-81135-1

Sous tous les toits du monde (Under the Rooftops of the World)
Sophie Alour w/Mohamed Abozekry
Joy
Music from Source MFSOU297845

Next Rodeo
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
City of Gold
Nonesuch 075597906998

Seminole Wind
James Taylor
Covers
Hear Music HRM-31043-01

30/12/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 194 Playlist
(available for broadcast 5 January 2024; as podcast 6 January 2024)

Shadow Dancer
Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel
American Acoustic
Narada ND-45862

Francesca
Roy Harper
Flat Baroque & Berserk
Harvest/Chrysalis CHR-1160

Gallows Pole
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin III
Atlantic SD 7201

I Know
Fiona Apple
When the Pawn…
Epic 88985415301

Oh, Lady Be Good!
Taj Mahal
Savoy
Stony Plain Records SPCD1470

Summertime
Amanda Shires w/Bobbie & Willie Nelson
Single
ATO Records

Crazy
Willie Nelson
…And Then I Wrote
Liberty CDP-7243-8-32464-2-7

Big Time in the Jungle
Old Crow Medicine Show
O.C.M.S.
Nettwerk America 0 6700 30349 2 0

Secrets of the Big Sky
Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel
American Acoustic
Narada ND-45862

Ain’t No Use in Tryin’
Trampled by Turtles
Songs from a Ghost Town
Banjodad Records BR01/13

Crowded Table
The Highwomen
The Highwomen
Elektra/Low Country Sound 075676851748

How Does It Feel?
Roy Harper
Flat Baroque & Berserk
Harvest/Chrysalis CHR-1160

23/12/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 193 Playlist (“Double Exposures”)
(available for broadcast 29 December 2023; as podcast 30 December 2023)

How Deep Is the Ocean?
Bill Evans Trio
Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans
Craft Recordings CR00299

The Peacocks
Bill Evans Trio
Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans
Craft Recordings CR00299

The First Cut Is the Deepest
Yusuf/Cat Stevens
The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Island Records 840 148-2

The First Cut Is the Deepest
Sheryl Crow
The Very Best of Sheryl Crow
A&M Records B0001525-10

Domain Domain
Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze
Sira
Motema Music MTM-91

Kailen
Ablaye Cissoko & Constantinople
Traversées
Ma Case CONS1811

Woodstock
Crosby, Stills & Nash
The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Time Life 25805-D

Woodstock
Matthews’ Southern Comfort
Later That Same Year
Decca DL 75264

I’ll Be Here in the Morning
Townes Van Zandt
Townes Van Zandt
Tomato TOM-7014

I’ll Be Here in the Morning
Erika Wennerstrom
A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
Partisan Records

Allegro (1st movement) from Symphony 25 in G minor, K. 183 (Mozart)
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Single
ATO Records

Seeking Unreality
Rodrigo y Gabriela
In Between Thoughts…A New World
ATO Records 0621

16/12/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 141 Playlist (“Winter Solstice & Christmas”)
(available for broadcast 22 December 2023; as podcast 23 December 2023)
Note: This is a repeat of a past show.

Angels We Have Heard on High
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
A Festival of Carols in Brass
CBS Masterworks MK-7033

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Enya
And Winter Came…
Reprise 512383

Riu, Riu, Chiu
Celtic Nots
Deep Midwinter
Celtic Nots NOTS03

Spiritual Dance (Hildegard of Bingen)
Empire Brass
Passage: 138 B.C. – A.D. 1611
Telarc CD 80355

Personent hodie
Young Women’s Chorus of San Francisco
Rejoice!
Young Women’s Choral Projects of SF

Star Carol
Simon & Garfunkel
Old Friends
Columbia/Legacy 64780

Sleigh Ride
Nashville Mandolin Ensemble
Gifts
Sony Music Distribution 67799

Winter Solstice
The Tea Party
Splendor Soils
Chrysalis/Capitol 89419

Silent Night
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
A Festival of Carols in Brass
CBS Masterworks MK-7033

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Beegie Adair
Jazz Piano Christmas
Green Hill GHD 5588

The Yule Fiddler (Christmastime Is Coming ‘Round Today)
Patty Gurdy & Fiddler’s Green
Frost & Faeries
LC/Patty Gurdy 24625

Ring Out, Solstice Bells
Jethro Tull
Songs from the Wood
Chrysalis CHR 1132

Joy to the World
Boston Camerata, directed by Joel Cohen
An American Christmas
Erato 92874-2

Greensleeves
Vince Guaraldi Trio
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Fantasy FCD-30210-2

Wassail, Wassail
Mannheim Steamroller
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Symphony
American Gramaphone AG3012-2

In dulci jubilo
Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band
A Tapestry of Carols
Saydisc 366

Hallelujah, from Messiah (G.F. Handel)
Academy & Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Neville Marriner
Handel: Messiah
Decca 417735-2

09/12/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 192 Playlist (“A French Touch”)
(available for broadcast 15 December 2023; as podcast 16 December 2023)

The Partisan
Leonard Cohen
Songs from a Room
Columbia CS 9767

The Palace of Versailles
Al Stewart
Time Passages
Arista AB-4190

Waltz 2 from Jazz Suite No. 2 (Shostakovich)
Richard Galliano
Valse(s)
Decca 4855107

Minor Swing
Django Reinhardt w/Stephane Grappelli & the Quintette of the Hot Club of France
Djangologie, Vol. 6/1937
Pathé 2C 054-16006

Sous le ciel de Paris (Under the Paris Sky)
Jill Barber
Chansons
Outside Music 23339 90832

Près de Paris/Reels
Pierre Bensusan
Près de Paris
Rounder Records 3023

Bossa Dorado
The Rosenberg Trio
Seresta
Hot Club Records HCRCD 259

Ainsi soit-il (So Be It)
Paris Combo
Paris Combo
Boucherie Productions BP3411

The Paris Match
The Style Council w/Tracey Thorn
Café Bleu
Polydor 557 915-2

Dame Lombarde
Pierre Bensusan
Près de Paris
Rounder Records 3023

L’oiseau
Erik Truffaz
Clap!
Blue Note 556375-2

Complainte pour Ste.-Catherine
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Warner Bros. BS 2862

A French Touch
Richard Galliano
New Jazz Musette
Ponderosa Music & Art CD 133

02/12/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 191 Playlist
(available for broadcast 8 December 2023; as podcast 9 December 2023)

Landfill
Margo Price
Strays
Loma Vista 00888072475038

Cabaret
Gordon Lightfoot
Summer Side of Life
Reprise MS-2037

A Dream for the Wild
Colm Mac Con Iomaire
Dare to Be Wild (Original Soundtrack from the Movie)
Plateau Records 5043552

The Finnish Line
Colm Mac Con Iomaire
And Now the Weather
Plateau Records 5043182

Carolina
Taylor Swift
Where the Crawdads Sing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Decca B0036566-02

Saddle in the Rain
John Prine
Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums
Atlantic R2 643404

The Montague Processional
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
The Lovers’ Waltz
Angel 7243 5 55561 2 7

I Almost Forgot About You
Melissa Carper
Daddy’s Country Gold
Self-released

Ramblin’ Man
Allman Brothers Band
Dreams
Polydor 838 417-2

Midnight Rider
Gregg Allman
Laid Back
Capricorn Records CP 0116

Can’t Get Out of This Mood
Samara Joy
Linger Awhile
Verve B0036472-01

Unconditional
William Ackerman & Trevor Gordon Hall
Four Guitars
Self-released

24/11/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 190 Playlist (“Peaceful, Easy Feelings”)
(available for broadcast 1 December 2023; as podcast 2 December 2023)

Peaceful, Easy Feeling
The Eagles
The Eagles
Asylum Records WPCR-78006

Astrakhan Café
Anouar Brahem Trio
Astrakhan Café
ECM Records ECM 1718

Twilight and Shadow
Howard Shore w/Renee Fleming
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Reprise Records 9362-48521-2

You’re Kind
Paul Simon
Still Crazy After All These Years
Columbia PC 33540

Variations on the Kanon
George Winston
December
Windham Hill WT-1025

I Only Want to Be with You
Shelby Lynne
Just a Little Lovin’
Lost Highway B0009789-02

Thor and Liv
Johan Söderqvist
Kon-Tiki (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Sony Classical 88883723342

Hymne
Vangelis
Opera sauvage
Polydor 829 663-2

Castles in the Air
Don McLean
Believers
Millenium BXL1-7762

Everything I Do
John C. Williams
John Williams Plays the Movies
Sony Classical S2K62784

Peace
Horace Silver Quintet
Blowin’ the Blues Away
Blue Note BST 84017

Birches
Bill Morrissey
Night Train
Philo PH 1154

Homeward Bound
Simon & Garfunkel
The Best of Simon & Garfunkel
Columbia/Legacy CK 66022

18/11/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 189 Playlist (“Old School’s in Session”)
(available for broadcast 24 November 2023; as podcast 25 November 2023)

I Wish I Knew
Zoot Sims
Waiting Game
Impulse! AS-9131

Boperation
Fats Navarro
The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings
Blue Note CDP 7243 8 33373 2 3

Bedtime for Bix
Pearl Django w/Lance Buller
New Metropolitan Swing
Fret Records FJCD 113

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority
Columbia C2K 00008

Two Years of Torture
Ray Charles
The Genius of Ray Charles
Atlantic SD-1312

Me and Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin
Pearl
Columbia/Legacy C2K 90282

Nobody Wins
Kris Kristofferson
The Essential Kris Kristofferson
Columbia/Legacy 512906 2

Mis’ry and the Blues
Jack Teagarden
Mis’ry and the Blues
Verve B0000606-02

Vehicle
The Ides of March
Vehicle
Warner Bros. WS 1863

Bellarosa
Clifford Brown
Memorial Album
Blue Note BLP-1526

The Conversation
Pearl Django
Modern Times
Modern Hot Records MHR011

Suspicious Minds
Elvis Presley
From Elvis in Memphis
RCA/Legacy 88697514972

11/11/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 188 Playlist (“Underrated Songs & Overlooked Gems of the 1980’s”)
(available for broadcast 17 November 2023; as podcast 18 November 2023)

Beat 70
Pat Metheny Group
Letter from Home
Geffen Records 9 24245-2

Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Bonnie Tyler
Faster Than the Speed of Night
Columbia BFC 38710

The Marriage
Billy Bragg
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
Elektra 9 60502-2

Conflict
Mike Oldfield
QE2
Virgin FE 37358

Stranger
Electric Light Orchestra
Secret Messages
Jet Records ZK 38490

Watermark
Enya
Watermark
Reprise Records 9 26774-2

Marches (From the Vannes Country)
The Chieftains
Celtic Wedding
RCA Red Seal 6358-1-RC

Help!
Tina Turner
Private Dancer
Capitol ST-12330

Dirty Pool
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Texas Flood
Epic 88985431221

Mr. Chow
Acoustic Alchemy
Red Dust & Spanish Lace
MCA Records MCAD-5816

Beaujolais
Alan Parsons Project
Stereotomy
Arista AL9-8384

House Carpenter
Tony Rice
Church Street Blues
Sugar Hill Records SH-3732

04/11/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 187 Playlist
(available for broadcast 10 November 2023; as podcast 11 November 2023)

Bye, Bye, Blackbird
Ron Carter
Dear Miles
Blue Note 0946 3 92547 2 9

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks w/Neko Case
Boardwalk Empire, Volume 2: Music from the HBO Original Series
ABKCO/HBO 8985-2

Furnace Room Lullaby
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
Furnace Room Lullaby
Bloodshot Records BS 050

Like I’ve Never Been Gone
Robert Plant
Pictures at Eleven
Swan Song SS 8512

Mama Just Wants to Barrelhouse All Night Long
Bruce Cockburn
Night Vision
True North TN-11

Six Days on the Road
Taj Mahal
The Essential Taj Mahal
Columbia/Legacy 82876745002

Don’t Leave Me Here
Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
TajMo
Concord Records CRE00432

Old Folks
Grant Green
Grantstand
Blue Note BST 84086

Maybe Sparrow
Neko Case
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Anti- 86777-2

Temporary Like Achilles
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde
Columbia C2L-41

Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues
Bonnie Raitt
Takin’ My Time
Warner Bros. BS 2729

There’ll Be Some Changes Made
Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks w/Kathy Brier
Boardwalk Empire, Volume 2: Music from the HBO Original Series
ABKCO/HBO 8985-2

28/10/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 186 Playlist (“Mandolin in the Main”)
(available for broadcast 3 November 2023; as podcast 4 November 2023)

Mandolin Wind
Rod Stewart
Every Picture Tells a Story
Mercury SRM 1-609

Mandolin Rain
Bruce Hornsby & the Range
The Way It Is
RCA Victor AFL1-5904

Quadro Pavan & Galliard
Butch Baldassari & John Mock
Cantabile
Soundart Recordings SAR-1251

Pneumonia
David Grisman Quintet
The David Grisman Quintet
Kaleidoscope Records F-5

Thunder Walk
George Benson
Giblet Gravy (Expanded Edition)
Verve 0600753458952

Middle of the Woods
Sierra Hull
25 Trips
Rounder Records 1166100579

Watson Allman
Sam Bush
Glamor and Grits
Sugar Hill Records 3849

Daylight
Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange)
Such Jubilee
Yep Roc Records YEP-2417

When Doves Cry
Sarah Jarosz
Single
Sugar Hill Records

My One and Only Love
Erik Soderlind
Happening
Prophone PCD 106

Don’t Pick Me Up
Sierra Hull
Daybreak
Rounder Records 11661-0658-2

Cantabile in D
Butch Baldassari & John Mock
Cantabile
Soundart Recordings SAR-1251

23/10/2023

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21/10/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 185 Playlist (“The Renaissance-Folk Rock Blend”)
(available for broadcast 27 October 2023; as podcast 28 October 2023)

Saltarello (Dufay)
Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall
Dinastia Borja (The Borgia Dynasty)
Alia Vox AVSA 9875

Gamble Gold (Robin Hood)
Steeleye Span
All Around My Hat
Chrysalis 3210912

The King Must Die
Elton John
Elton John
Uni Records 73090

Gallyard (Alberti)
Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall
Elizabethan Consort Music, 1558-1603
Alia Vox AVSA 9804

Jenny
Kate Rusby
Philosophers, Poets and Kings
Pure Records PRCD53

Meet Me on the Corner
Lindisfarne
Fog on the Tyne
Elektra EKS-75021

Galliard (Holborne)
Members of the Academy of Ancient Music
Music from the Time of Elizabeth I
L’Oiseau-Lyre DSLO 606

Everglow
Kate Rusby
Hand Me Down
Pure Records PRCD64

Border Song
Elton John
Elton John
Uni Records 73090

Saltarello and Piva (Dalza)
Rolf Lislevand Ensemble
Diminuito
ECM New Series 2088

Bonny Light Horseman
Bonny Light Horseman (Eric D. Johnson, Anais Mitchell, Josh Kaufman)
Bonny Light Horseman
37d03d 008

Black Jack Davy
Steeleye Span
All Around My Hat
Chrysalis 3210912

Greensleeves (Anon.)/Eccho or Allmane (Pilkington)
Ronn McFarlane & William Simms
Two Lutes: Lute Duets from England’s Golden Age
Sono Luminus DSL-92155

15/10/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 184 Playlist
(available for broadcast 20 October 2023; as podcast 21 October 2021)

So Long Song
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet
Heaven on My Mind
Challenge Records LC 3407

A Song I Used to Play
Arild Andersen
Selected Recordings
ECM B0001794-02

Yesterday
The Beatles
Help!
Apple/Parlophone/Capitol 0946 3 82415 2 2

The Ghost of the St. Louis Blues
Maria Muldaur & Her Garden of Joy
Good Music for Hard Times
Stony Plain Records SPCD-1332

Trinity River
Charley Crockett
The Man from Waco
Son of Davy SOD-12

Wild Old Dog
Patty Griffin
American Kid
New West Records NW6278

Pull the Moon
Caitlin Canty
Quiet Flame
Tone Tree Music/Caitlin Canty

Catalina
Paolo Fresu w/Dino Rubino & Marco Bardoscia
Tempo di Chet
Tuk Music 029

Shenandoah
Johnny Smith
The Man with the Blue Guitar
Roost LPS 2248

The Man from Waco
Charley Crockett
The Man from Waco
Son of Davy SOD-12

Sunken Waltz
Calexico
Feast of Wire
Quarterstick Records QS78

Ooh, Las Vegas
Gram Parsons w/Emmylou Harris
Grievous Angel
Reprise MS 2171

Fields of Gold
Frode Alnaes, Arild Andersen, & Stian Carstensen
Høstsløv (Autumn Holiday)
Kirkelig Kulturverksted FXCD 311

The Mistral Noir
Daniel Herskedal
Slow Eastbound Train
Edition Records EDN1057

07/10/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 183 Playlist
(available for broadcast 13 October 2023; as podcast 14 October 2023)

Baja
Bill Frisell
Guitar in the Space Age
Okeh 88843074612

Isolation
John Lennon
Plastic Ono Band
Apple Records/Universal Music Group 0602507354541

Please, Please Me
Bill Frisell
All We Are Saying…
Savoy Jazz SVY17836

The Room at the Top of the Stairs
Leo Kottke
Peculiaroso
Private Music 01005-82111-2

West Virginia Waltz
Sierra Ferrell
Long Time Coming
Rounder Records 1166101289

Hammer on Hammer
Jethro Tull
Rök Flöte
Inside Out Music IOM662

Living in the Past
Jethro Tull
Stand Up
Chrysalis RP2 559417

Kristine from the 7th Grade
Ben Folds
What Matters Most
New West Records NW5686

Blue, Red and Grey
The Who
The Who by Numbers
MCA Records MCA-2161

If She Could Only See Me Now
Deer Tick
Emotional Contracts
ATO Records ATO0642

The Pioneers
Bill Frisell
Four
Blue Note B003528501

Naked Ladies & Electric Ragtime
Michael Chapman
Fully Qualified Survivor
Harvest SW-816

Blue Railroad Train
Doc Watson
The Essential Doc Watson
Vanguard VMS 73108

The Last Tear
Lilly Hiatt
Lately
New West Records NW5594

30/09/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 182 Playlist (“Going West”)
(available for broadcast 6 October 2023; as podcast 7 October 2023)

Wild West End
Dire Straits
Dire Straits
Warner Bros. BSK 3266

Big Red Sun Blues
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Rough Trade ROUGH US 47

Farewell, Cheyenne
Ennio Morricone
Once Upon a Time in the West (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
RCA NL 70032

The Hanging Tree
Marty Robbins
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Columbia/Legacy CK 65996

Obsessed with the West
Brennen Leigh feat. Asleep at the Wheel
Obsessed with the West
Signature Sounds SIG-CD-2137

Hoedown at Alice’s
Steve Martin
The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo
Rounder Records 11661-0647-2

Cool
Cal Tjader
West Side Story
Fantasy 3310

Saddle Tramp
Marty Robbins
Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Columbia/Legacy CK 65996

Our Lady of the Desert
William Tyler
Goes West
Merge Records MRG645

Tequila Sunrise
The Eagles
Desperado
Asylum Records SD 5068

Orange Blossom Special
Hot Club of Cowtown
Continental Stomp
Hightone Records HCD 8163

Idaho
Gregory Alan Isakov
This Empty Northern Hemisphere
Suburban Home Records SH156-1

Prairie Fire
Marty Robbins
More Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
Columbia PC 8272

The Long Highway
Mark Knopfler
Gravy Train: The B-Sides, 1996-2007
Vertigo 00602435817088

23/09/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 181 Playlist
(available for broadcast 29 September 2023; as podcast 30 September 2023)

T-Bone Blues
T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Blues
Atlantic SD 8256

Ramblin’
Aretha Franklin
The Delta Meets Detroit: Aretha’s Blues
Rhino Records R2 72492

You Got the Silver
Susan Tedeschi
Hope and Desire
Verve Forecast B0005111-02

You Can’t Always Get What You Want
The Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed
ABKCO/London 8584-1

Shotgun Blues
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn
Rounder Records 11661-36408-1

My Home Is in the Delta
Muddy Waters
Folk Singer
Chess CH-9261

Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)
Aretha Franklin
The Delta Meets Detroit: Aretha’s Blues
Rhino Records R2 72492

This Is Not America
David Bowie w/Pat Metheny Group
Best of Bowie
Virgin 7243 5 41930 2 6

American Flowers
Birds of Chicago
American Flowers
Signature Sounds SIG-CD-2091

Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl
Muddy Waters
Folk Singer
Chess CH-9261

Can I Get a Witness?
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
London LL 3375

Your Mind Is on Vacation
Mose Allison
I Don’t Worry About a Thing
Atlantic SD 1389

16/09/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 180 Playlist (“Autumnal”)
(available for broadcast 22 September 2023; as podcast 23 September 2023)

When Fall Comes to New England
Cheryl Wheeler
Driving Home
Philo PH 1152

Sea
George Winston
Autumn
Windham Hill Records C-1012

Eternity Theme
Eleni Karaindrou Ensemble; La Camerata String Orchestra
Eternity and a Day: Film by Theo Angelopoulos
ECM New Series 1692

September in the Rain
Roy Hargrove Big Band
Emergence
EmArcy 0602527079240

Autumn Leaves
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly!
Vee Jay Records SR-3022

Looking at the Rain
Gordon Lightfoot
Don Quixote
Reprise MS 2056

September Song
Lou Reed
Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
A&M Records SP 9-5104

October
U2
October
Island Records ILPS 9680

Late November
Sandy Denny
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
A&M Records SP-4317

Windy and Warm
Doc & Merle Watson
Sittin’ Here Pickin’ the Blues
Rounder Records 1166 11617 2

Autumn Serenade
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Impulse! A-40

Autumn Leaves
Eva Cassidy
Songbird 20
Blix Street Records G2-10211

09/09/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 179 Playlist (“Soul Food and Other Fare”)
(available for broadcast 15 September 2023; as podcast 16 September 2023)

Soul Dressing
Booker T. & the MG’s
Soul Dressing
Stax/Sundazed Records LP 5042

Blue Greens and Beans
Gene Ammons
Blue Gene
Prestige/Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-192

Memphis Soul Stew
King Curtis
The Best of King Curtis
ATCO SD 33-266

Rhubarb Pie
John Fogerty
Déjà vu (All Over Again)
Geffen Records B0003257-02

Savoy Truffle
Ella Fitzgerald
The Reprise Years
Rhino Records/Warner Jazz 8122787832

The Honeydripper
Jack McDuff
The Honeydripper
Prestige PR 7199

I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl
Nina Simone
Nina Simone Sings the Blues
RCA Victor LSP-3789

You Don’t Miss Your Water
Otis Redding
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Volt SD 412

A Taste of Honey
Lizz Wright
Dreaming Wide Awake
Verve Forecast 0602498815533

Pass the Peas
The J.B.’s
Food for Thought
People PE 5601

Chitlins con Carne
Kenny Burrell w/Stanley Turrentine
Midnight Blue
Blue Note BST 84123

02/09/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 178 Playlist (“Tangos and Twosomes”)
(available for broadcast 8 September 2023; as podcast 9 September 2023)

Tango to Evora
Loreena McKennitt
The Visit
Quinlan Road QRCD104

Just Like a Summer Cloud
Kacy & Clayton
The Siren’s Song
New West Records NW6402

Last Tango on 16th Street
Boz Scaggs
A Fool to Care
429 Records FTN16032

El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Columbia MFSL1-173

Jersey Bounce
Tommy Emmanuel & Martin Taylor
The Colonel & the Governor
Mesa/Bluemoon Recordings 899653002307

Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Vaughan’s Golden Hits!!!
Mercury MG-20645

The Last Thing on My Mind
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
The Essential Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
BMG/RCA BG2 66858

Tennessee Blues
Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Sleep with One Eye Open
Nonesuch 527603-2

Diamond Girl
Seals & Crofts
Diamond Girl
Warner Bros. BS 2699

Tango Till They’re Sore
Madeleine Peyroux
Secular Hymns
Impulse!/Verve B0025437-02

Verano porteño (Piazzolla)
Daniel Barenboim w/Rodolfo Mederos & Hector Console
Mi Buenos Aires querido: Tangos Among Friends
Teldec 0630-13474-2

Pancho & Lefty
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
Walking the Line
Epic FE 40821

26/08/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 177 Playlist
(available for broadcast 1 September 2023; as podcast 2 September 2023)

Tubular Bells
California Guitar Trio
Echoes
Inner Knot INK 7716

Rhythms of Hope
Jean-Luc Ponty
Mystical Adventures
Atlantic SD 19333

Brelydian
Bob Brozman, John McSherry, & Donal O’Connor
Six Days in Down
Riverboat Records TUGCD1057

Unbound
Robbie Robertson
Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
Capitol 7243 8 54243 2 8

Up on Cripple Creek
The Band
The Band
Capitol STAO-132

Joanna
Todd Mosby
Four Guitars
William Ackerman 5639601844

Sonidos de aquel dia (Sounds of That Day)
Sharon Isbin & Stanley Jordan
Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions
Sony Classical 88697842192

Junk
Paul McCartney
McCartney
Capitol/Apple Records 00602508464720

Walk, Don’t Run
California Guitar Trio
Yamanashi Blues
Discipline Records DR 9301 2

Cristofori’s Dream
David Lanz
Cristofori’s Dream
Narada Lotus ND-61021

Since I Fell for You
Barbra Streisand
The Essential Barbra Streisand
Columbia C2K 86123

Cast Your Fate to the Wind
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
Fantasy 8089

19/08/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 176 Playlist (“Tony’s Favorites")
(available for broadcast 25 August 2023; as podcast 26 August 2023)

Lucky to Be Me
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
Concord/Fantasy 7231281

Body and Soul
Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
Duets II
Columbia 88697974892

Corner Pocket
Count Basie & His Orchestra
April in Paris
Verve 5214022

Once Upon a Time
Tony Bennett
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Columbia CS 8669

We’ll Be Together Again
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
Concord/Fantasy 7231281

Duke’s Place
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
The Great Summit
Roulette Jazz 7243 5 24546 2 4

The Lady Is a Tramp
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Classics
Sony Music 1175341

The Shadow of Your Smile
Tony Bennett
The Movie Song Album
Columbia CS 9272

Somethin’ Stupid
Frank & Nancy Sinatra
Nothing But the Best
Reprise R2 438652

Dream Dancing
Tony Bennett & Bill Evans
The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings
Concord/Fantasy 7231281

I Wanna Be Around
Tony Bennett
I Wanna Be Around
Columbia CL 2000

Piano Improvisation No. 3
Duke Ellington
Piano in the Foreground
Columbia/Legacy CK 87402

Because of You
Tony Bennett & k.d. lang
Duets: An American Classic
Columbia 82876809792

12/08/2023

House of Hamill is the Pennsylvania-based trio that specializes in Celtic music. Fiddler Rose Baldino and guitarist/fiddler Brian Buchanan began playing as a duo in 2014, and since 2019, Caroline Browning, who plays bass and mandolin, has been a group member. House of Hamill has won rave reviews for its concerts and recordings that combine traditional Celtic fare, original songs, and some surprising Celtic-flavored covers of rock songs by the likes of Queen and Radiohead. There'll be three tunes featuring House of Hamill on the upcoming installment of KPB.

12/08/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 175 Playlist
(available for broadcast 18 August 2023; as podcast 19 August 2023)

Superb Owl
House of Hamill
Folk Hero
House of Hamill

Sullivan Street
Counting Crows
August and Everything After
DGC DGCD-24528

Toulouse Street
The Doobie Brothers
Toulouse Street
Warner Bros. BS 2624

Long Train Runnin’
The Doobie Brothers
The Captain and Me
Warner Bros. BS 2694

Ladder to the Sun
House of Hamill
Folk Hero
House of Hamill

Rocky Mountain High
Regina Carter’s Freedom Band
Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground
Tiger Turn 1001

Rocky Mountain High
John Denver
Rocky Mountain High
RCA Victor LSP-4731

Lanesboro
Anat Fort Trio
And If
ECM 2109

The Lucky One
Alison Krauss & Union Station
New Favorite
Rounder Records 11661-0495-2

Pound a Week Rise
House of Hamill
Folk Hero
House of Hamill

The Unquiet Grave
Siobhan Miller
Strata
Songprint Recordings SPR001

Stuck in the Middle with You
Gerry Rafferty
Rest in Blue
Parlophone/Rhino 0190296700132

05/08/2023

KENSINGTON’S PREMIUM BLEND
Program 174 Playlist (“Girls from the North Country”)
(available for broadcast 11 August 2023; as podcast 12 August 2023)

Girl from the North Country
Ane Brun
Leave Me Breathless
Balloon Ranger Recordings 7022237

It Might as Well Be Spring
Caity Gyorgy
Featuring
La Reserve Records MZCF-1454

A Case of You
k.d. lang
Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Nonesuch 2 79847

Coyote
Joni Mitchell
Hejira
Asylum 7E-1087

Hand in My Pocket
Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill
Maverick/Reprise 9 45901-2

Fernando
ABBA
Arrival
Atlantic SD 18207

Come Down in Time
Radka Toneff & Steve Dobrogosz
Fairytales
Odin MC-03

Never Gonna Give You Up
Gunhild Carling w/Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
Self-released
5QDDMJ002

The Way You Look Tonight
Karin Krog & Steve Kuhn
Break of Day
Meantime Records MR-22

O Nach Eisdeadh (O That You Should Listen)
Karen Matheson
Downriver
Vertical Records VERTCD075

Goodnight, California
Kathleen Edwards
Asking for Flowers
Zoe Records 01143-1115-2