Bonnie Simmons Show
Nov 21, 2019 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.
8:00 PM |
| Jimmy LaFave This Land Cimarron Manifesto Red House Records 2007 Rock
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8:05 PM |
| The Youngbloods Quicksand Best Of The Youngbloods RCA/BMG HERITAGE 1988 Rock
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8:07 PM |
| Van Morrison In Search Of Grace Three Chords And The Truth Exile 2019
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8:11 PM |
| The Avett Brothers Tell The Truth Closer Than Together Republic Records 2019
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8:13 PM |
| Yola Shady Grove Walk Through Fire Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch 2019
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8:16 PM |
| Dusty Springfield Wishin' And Hopin' Silver Collection Universal Music 2007 Rock
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8:18 PM |
| Billy Bragg Must I Paint You a Picture Workers Playtime Cooking Vinyl 2006
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8:24 PM |
| Al Green You Ought To Be With Me Greatest Hits Hi Records Under Exclusive License to Fat Possum Records 1975
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8:30 PM |
| Darrell Scott Frisco Depot Modern Hymns Appleseed 2008
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8:34 PM |
| Shelby Lynne/Allison Moorer Every Time You Leave Every Time You Leave Cooking Vinyl 2017
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8:37 PM |
| Robert Earl Keen What I Really Mean What I Really Mean eOne Music 2005 World
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8:40 PM |
| Tyler Childers All Your'n All Your'n Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records 2019
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8:44 PM |
| Emmylou Harris How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower All I Intended to Be Nonesuch 2008
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8:48 PM |
| Ruthie Collins Joshua Tree Joshua Tree Curb Records 2019
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8:54 PM |
| Opera Chillout Boléro, M. 81, Extract Opera Chillout, Vol. 2 Blanco y Negro Music 2016
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8:56 PM |
| Graham Parker Passion Is No Ordinary Word Squeezing Out Sparks + Live Sparks Arista 1996
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9:00 PM |
| Graham Parker Soul Corruption Live! Alone in America Legacy Recordings 2014
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9:04 PM |
| Mark Knopfler Redbud Tree Privateering Universal Music 2012 Rock
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9:08 PM |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions Shipbuilding The Best Of The First 10 Years Universal Music 2007 Rock
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9:12 PM |
| Gregory Alan Isakov Berth Evening Machines Suitcase Town Music under exclusive license to Dualtone Music Group, Inc. 2018
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9:16 PM |
| Joni Mitchell Come In From the Cold Hits Reprise 1996
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9:25 PM |
| Talking Heads This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Remastered LP Version ) The Best Of Talking Heads Rhino/Warner Bros. 2004 Rock
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9:30 PM |
| Talking Heads Road To Nowhere (Remastered LP Version ) The Best Of Talking Heads Rhino/Warner Bros. 2004 Rock
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9:34 PM |
| Tones And I Dance Monkey Dance Monkey Bad Batch Records 2019
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9:41 PM |
| Foy Vance You Get To Me From Muscle Shoals Gingerbread Man Records 2019
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9:46 PM |
| The Temptations It's you that i need The Origins Vintage Jukebox 2018
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9:48 PM |
| Foy Vance The Strong Hand The Strong Hand Atlantic Records UK 2019
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9:52 PM |
| Aretha Franklin Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Respect - The Very Best of Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2007
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9:55 PM |
| Leonard Cohen Ain't No Cure For Love The Collection Columbia 2008 Rock
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