Bonnie Simmons Show
Nov 11, 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.
8:04 PM |
| R.E.M. Radio - Acoustic (Radio Song 1) Out Of Time UMG - Concord Records 2016 Rock
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8:08 PM |
| Bruce Robison Border Radio Dave Alvin Cheater's Game Premium Records 2013 World
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8:11 PM |
| Greensky Bluegrass The Radio Blues Tuesday Letter Big Blue Zoo 2006
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8:14 PM |
| Elvis Costello Radio Radio The Very Best of Elvis Costello Warner Music 1999
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8:19 PM |
| The Band Don't Do It A Musical History UMG - Capitol Records 2005 Rock
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8:26 PM |
| Gregg Allman Morning Dew Duane and Gregg Allman Akarma 2014 Rock
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8:29 PM |
| Susan Tedeschi Looking For Answers The Best of Susan Tedeschi - Episode One Tone Cool/Artemis 2005
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8:33 PM |
| Brandi Carlile You and Me On The Rock Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth You and Me On The Rock WMG - Atlantic Records 2021
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8:39 PM |
| Carolyn Wonderland Crack In The Wall Tempting Fate Alligator Records 2021
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8:42 PM |
| dee eye zee Fresher Fumes Ignorance Is Louder And Less Articulate Highbias Entertainment 2005
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8:42 PM |
| Sly & The Family Stone In Time Sylvester Stewart Higher! (Amazon Exclusive) SME - Epic/Legacy 2013
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8:47 PM |
| Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Simple Life Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) UMG - Fantasy 2019
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8:52 PM |
| Southern Avenue Move On Ori Naftaly, Tierinii Jackson Move On WMG - BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 2021
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8:55 PM |
| John Craigie Don't Ask CRAIGIE JOHN HARROLD III Don't Ask Zabriskie Point Records 2020
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8:59 PM |
| Thomas Puggård-Müller Cherry Red After Hours ORCHARD - Storyville Records 1998 Jazz
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9:04 PM |
| Dar Williams Berkeley Dorothy S. Williams Berkeley WMG - BMG Rights Management (US) LLC 2021
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9:08 PM |
| Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters New York New York / Open Up Your Door Organic Records 2021
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9:12 PM |
| Joy Of Cooking Closer To The Ground Toni Brown Closer To The Ground UMG - Capitol Records 2011 Rock
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9:17 PM |
| Maria Muldaur I'm Vaccinated & I'm Ready For Love I'm Vaccinated & I'm Ready for Love! Stony Plain Records 2021
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9:22 PM |
| Poi Dog Pondering Natural Thing Natural Thing Platetectonic Music 1999 Rock
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9:28 PM |
| Patti Smith Dancing Barefoot Carl Smith, Kral, Ivan Kral, Patti Smith Outside Society Arista/Legacy 2011
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9:33 PM |
| Melissa Crabtree Message from a Soldier The Day I Fell in the Water Melissa Crabtree 2012
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9:38 PM |
| Emily Yates Smoke Break If You Have to Ask: Warrior Songs, Vol. 1 Warrior Songs 2016
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9:41 PM |
| Slaid Cleaves Still Fighting the War Still Fighting The War Music Road Records 2013 World
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9:43 PM |
| Mary Gauthier The War After the War Mary Gauthier, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Ashleigh Smith, Robin Kaufmann, Rebecca Sakaki, April Rodriguez, Ximena Rozo, Christina Coyle Rifles & Rosary Beads MERLIN - Proper Records 2018
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9:49 PM |
| Jason Isbell Dress Blues Jason Isbell Sirens of the Ditch (Deluxe Edition) MERLIN - New West Records 2007 Rock
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9:53 PM |
| Ruthie Foster War Pigs Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward Joy Comes Back ORCHARD - Blue Corn Music 2017
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9:58 PM |
| George Benson My Latin Brother G. Benson Bad Benson/Beyond The Blue Horizon SME - Epic 2002
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