Bonnie Simmons Show
Sep 17, 2020 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 |
| Ani DiFranco Do or Die Do or Die Righteous Babe Records 2020
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8:04 PM |
| Jesse Colin Young Ridgetop - Jesse Colin Young KSAN's Live Jive Ksan Jive 95 2012 Rock
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8:13 PM |
| Dire Straits Walk of Life Walk of Life WMG - Warner Records Label 1900
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8:18 PM |
| John Craigie I Am California (feat. Gregory Alan Isakov) feat. Gregory Alan Isakov No Rain, No Rose Zabriskie Point Records 2017
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8:23 PM |
| Dave Alvin California Bloodlines West of the West Yep Roc Records 2006 Rock
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8:27 PM |
| Kate & Anna McGarrigle Talk to Me of Mendocino Kate & Anna McGarrigle WMG - Rhino/Warner Records 1900
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8:33 PM |
| The Mamas & The Papas California Dreamin' Platinum Masters Rolled Gold Classics 2012 Rock
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8:46 PM |
| Marvin Gaye California Soul The 50 Greatest Songs Universal Music 2007 Rock
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8:49 PM |
| Marvin Gaye I Got To Get To California M.P.G. Universal Music 1969
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8:52 PM |
| Laura Nyro California Shoeshine Boys (Album Version) The First Songs Columbia 1988 Rock
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9:03 PM |
| Warren Zevon Desperados Under the Eaves Desperados Under the Eaves WMG - Elektra 0591 1900 Rock
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9:08 PM |
| The Kinks Celluloid Heroes The Ultimate Collection WMG - Castle Communications 2017 Rock
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9:14 PM |
| Wilco California Stars What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994 - 2014 WMG - Nonesuch 2014 Rock
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9:24 PM |
| Was (Not Was) Spy In The House Of Love What Up, Dog? Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 2003
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9:28 PM |
| Los Lobos The Neighborhood The Neighborhood WMG - Warner Records Label 2009
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9:32 PM |
| Matt Rollings;The War and Treaty Wade in the Water (Feat. the War and Treaty, with the Blind Boys of Alabama) Wade in the Water (Feat. the War and Treaty, with the Blind Boys of Alabama) Found Records distributed by Dualtone Music Group, Inc. 2020
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9:35 PM |
| Steve Earle & The Dukes Heaven Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere Ghosts of West Virginia New West Records 2020
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9:36 PM |
| David Bromberg It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry Try Me One More Time Appleseed 2007 Rock
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9:51 PM |
| Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) - Acoustic Turn Off The News (Build A Garden) Fantasy 2019
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9:54 PM |
| Gillian Welch I Just Want You To Know I Just Want You To Know WMG - Acony Records 2020
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