Paradigms

The Skills for the New Millenium Tour is featured, including interviews from the road with the Permibus crew. Music by: The Who, Michelle Shocked, Rosalie Sorrels, Randall Bramblett, Danny Dollinger, Banjo Dan & The Mid-Nite Plowboys, Canned Heat, Van Morrison, Billy Bragg and The Blokes, Gaia Consort, and Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman.

Dr. Annette Goodheart joins us to discuss the healing properties of laughter and other forms of catharsis. To demonstrate her points, and just for fun, we will also be listening to humorous recordings by Jackie Mason, Mylo Redwater Smith, Porky Pig, Tom Lehrer, Monty Python, Charlie Ballard who also joins us for a bit of conversation, Ivor Cutler, Woody Allen, and Bill Cosby.

Complementary healing modalities, and creative economic models of health care are our topics, featuring interviews with Sukhada Repass, Mr. X, and Pamela Howard. Music by: The Band, Medicine Drum, Robbie Robertson, Catie Curtis, Gilberto Jobim and Milton Nasciemento, J. J. Cale, Johnny Clegg, Elliot Smith, Sinéad O'Connor, and Scott Ainslie.

Janis Ian joins us for an evening of talk and music, including some recently released live material.

Aikido practitioner and writer Paul Rest joins us tonight. Music by: Donald Fagen, Leonard Cohen, Harry Nilsson, Phil Ochs, Deep Forest, Paul Simon, J.D. Souther, Yello, Paolo Conte, Steve Forbert, and The Rhythm Rancher.

This episode focuses on the turning of the wheel, Samhain, the Witches New Year, which is known to most as Halowe'en. Tonight's interviews are with Tara McFarland and M. Macha NightMare, with a beautiful ancestor invocation from Macha. Music by: Velvet Hammer, Sarah McLachlan, Yoko Ono, Rodney Crowell, Jethro Tull, Jerry Garcia, Ralph Stanley, Gaia Consort, Moonrise, Patti Smith Group, Jeff Buckley, Native Flute Ensemble, Fleetwood Mac, and Will Millar.

Shanna Ratner, Principal and founder of Yellow Wood Associates, joins us in the studio to discuss sustainability in forestry, agriculture, water management, social capital and community capacity building. Music by: Ry Cooder, Terry Allen, Dana Lyons, Warren Zevon, Dire Straits, Robert Johnson, Scott Ainslie, Johnny Clegg & Juluka, Taj Mahal, Bow Thayer, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Joni Mitchell, and Laura Nyro.

Robert Klein joins Paradigms for the evening co-hosting an exploration of Jazz. Music by: Herbie Hancock, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Stan Getz w/Luiz Bonfa & Maria Helena Toledo, Coleman Hawkins Quartet, Miles Davis, Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins, Charles Mingus, and Charles Lloyd.

Philip Baruth is our guest in the studio tonight. Music by: Rodney Crowell, Lowell George, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Over The Rhine, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Steely Dan, Zucchero, Traffic, Janis Joplin, U2, De Dijk, and The Neville Brothers.

Holly Near is our guest tonight, with a five part interview and music from her new CD "We Came To Sing" along with a few older songs, and Malcolm Rollick is live in the studio!

Buffy Sainte-Marie is our guest tonight, with a three part interview and musical selections spanning her 40+ year career, featuring her newest album Running for the Drum and an album released in 1992, Coincidence and Likely Stories.

Steph Pappas in the studio playing amazing music and talking about life. Additional music by Big Brother & The Holding Company w/Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, and Harry Nilsson.

PMP is back live in the studio playing their own style of reggae. After more than 20 years of playing together this band is tight. Additional music by Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, Marvin Gaye, Sugar Minott, Earth Wind & Fire, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King & Tracy Chapman, and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

Teresa Tudury stopped by the wbkm studio as part of her east coast tour, sharing some music from her new CD "Such Fine Things" and discussing life and love and work and much more.

Jenna Woginrich is interviewed, and Gordon Goldsmith joins us in the studio. Additional music by Telefon Tel Aviv, Led Zeppelin, Outkast, Squarepusher, and Teresa Tudury.