Bonnie Simmons Show
Sep 2, 2021 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Music
The Bonnie Simmons Show
8:00 PM Pacific Time: Thursdays
Bonnie Simmons
has been programming her mix of singer/songwriter, folk, rock, country
and R&B on KPFA since the very late 1980’s. One of the best loved
personalities of Bay Area music radio, she was raised in New York, and
then moved to San Francisco from Denver in 1968 and became a pioneer of
free form radio. During her eight years, from 1970 to 1978, at the
legendary KSAN, she served as Program Director, Music Librarian, and
Disc Jockey.
After leaving KSAN, she worked at Warner Bros as National Album Director, promoting Prince as well as the first Dire Straits and Rickie Lee Jones albums, amongst others, and also worked at Hightone Records. She moved in and out of radio at KFOG, LIVE 105, KOFY-FM, KVRE, KDBK “Double 99” and KUSF.
As the Audio Director for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she created the disc jockey audio exhibit and many of the exhibits involving sound at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.
On a local level, Bonnie spent several years working as a sandwich-maker at Ozzie’s Soda Fountain in Berkeley, and currently hosts her eclectic weekly show on KPFA. Bonnie managed the band Cake for eight years, and represented Noe Venable and Etienne de Rocher for many years. For the past 14 years, she has been happily involved in Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the extraordinary free festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and has been the Executive Director of The Bill Graham Memorial Foundation since 2009.
8:01 PM |
| Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Can't Let Go Can't Let Go UMG - New Rounder 2021
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8:04 PM |
| Roy Orbison Working For The Man Roy Orbison In Dreams: The Greatest Hits Legacy Recordings 2013
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8:07 PM |
| Billy Preston Will It Go Round In Circles Billy Preston, Bruce Fisher '70s Pop #1's Universal Music 2007
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8:14 PM |
| Yola Starlight Starlight Easy Eye Sound 2021
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8:18 PM |
| Stevie Wonder Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours Lee Garrett, Syreeta, Lula Mae Hardaway, Stevie Wonder You've Got Mail Atlantic Records 1998
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8:22 PM |
| Tom T. Hall That's How I Got To Memphis Greatest Hits Universal Music 1972
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8:25 PM |
| Tom T. Hall Kentucky, February 27, 1971 In Search Of A Song UMG - Mercury Nashville 2019
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8:28 PM |
| Tom T. Hall Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs In Search Of A Song UMG - Mercury Nashville 2019
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8:31 PM |
| Sturgill Simpson Turtles All the Way Down Cuttin' Grass High Top Mountain Records 2020
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8:33 PM |
| the Civil Wars From This Valley Madeira Philip Kamm, Williams Joy Elizabeth, White John Paul Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us Mercyland Records 2012 Rock
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8:36 PM |
| Fisk Jubilee Singers;Rodney Atkins Working On A Building Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album) Curb Records 2020
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8:45 PM |
| Randy Newman Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) (Remastered LP Version) Randy Newman Good Old Boys (US Release) Rhino/Warner Bros. 2003 Rock
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8:53 PM |
| Van Morrison And It Stoned Me Van Morrison Moondance Warner Music 2013
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9:01 PM |
| Joni Mitchell Chelsea Morning - Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 2/1/1969 Chelsea Morning (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, 2/1/1969) Rhino/Warner Records 2021
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9:03 PM |
| The Milk Carton Kids Younger Years Younger Years Anti/Epitaph 2018
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9:07 PM |
| Rickie Lee Jones The Gospel of Carlos, Norman and Smith Rickie Lee Jones, David Kalish Balm in Gilead Universal Music Ireland Ltd. 2009
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9:11 PM |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Angel Dream (No. 2) Tom Petty Angel Dream (No. 2) WMG - Warner Records Label 2021 Rock
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9:13 PM |
| Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Perennial Bloom (Back To You) Perennial Bloom (Back To You) UMG - Fantasy 2021
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9:20 PM |
| Tom Waits I Can't Wait To Get Off Work [And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue] Small Change Rhino/Elektra 2008 Rock
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9:23 PM |
| The Rolling Stones Salt Of The Earth Mick Jagger, Keith Richards Beggars Banquet Digital Distribution Turkey 2011
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9:28 PM |
| Foy Vance Hard Work Foy Vance From Muscle Shoals Gingerbread Man Records 2019
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9:32 PM |
| Lee Dorsey Working in the Coal Mine Allen Toussaint The New Lee Dorsey Arista 2008
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9:34 PM |
| Sam Cooke Chain Gang Sam Cooke The Best of Sam Cooke Rarity Music 2015
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9:37 PM |
| The Isley Brothers Work To Do (Album Version) O'Kelly Isley, R. Isley The Essential Isley Brothers Epic 2004
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9:41 PM |
| Gillian Welch I Just Want You To Know I Just Want You To Know WMG - Acony Records 2020
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9:43 PM |
| Jules Shear Wish Me Well Wish Me Well Funzalo Records 2021
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9:47 PM |
| Adia Victoria Magnolia Blues Magnolia Blues WMG - Atlantic Records 2021
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9:50 PM |
| The Jaynetts Sally Go Round the Roses Rmg's Top Doo-Wop Cloud Hits Volume 1 Resnik Music Group 2013
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