Medicine Ball Caravan on KRVS

A quite nice and varied tribute album to the many configurations of Fleetwood Mac is being released and we'll unleash a few tracks off of it on today's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN (11am-noon Central Standard or live streaming & an archived podcast later from www.krvs.org). Included are contributions from Lee Renaldo w/ J. Mascis, Billy Gibbons & Co., The Crystal Ark and Karen Elson (joined and produced by Beck). Also: some local sounds by imagineIAM, The Botanist and Fights.

Wednesday's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM locally or www.krvs.org) offers loads of backyard music by the likes of Corey Ledet, Jeffery Broussard, Bas Clas, Feu Follet, Chris Smither, Michael Juan Nunez & the American Electric, Ryan Montbleau and Anders Osborne. Also: an interpretation of classic blues by Led Zeppelin and accapella group, The Persuasions covering Frank Zappa. A splendid hour guaranteed for many!

Music programming with news and interviews on local arts and events, CD and concert ticket giveaways and live in-studio performances. BROADcasting is the operative word here. You can hear just about any form of music on the program ranging from Old-Timey and Bluegrass to classic and contemporary songwriters, Pop, Blues, Soul, Rock, Jazz, Poetry and the Avant Garde.

This week's worth of MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN broad (& web)casts (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM or www.krvs.org) begins with music by Wilco, Neko Case, Nilsson, Yes, Tom Waits and Ahmad Jamal. Also: the latest by Carbon Poppies, Joey Ramone and Little Hurricane and nice instrumental tracks by both Nick Lowe and Sonny Landreth.

Thursday's MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN lineup (11am-noon Central Standard on 88.7FM locally or www.krvs.org) includes the latest releases by Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys, Joss Stone, Nick Waterhouse, Dr. John, Dayna Kurtz along with some vintage Soul, Rock & Blues thrown in the mix by Johnny Taylor, Ike Turner, Rudy Ray Moore, Ray Charles, Lightnin' Hopkins, Clifford Curry, Eric Burdon, The Floyd Dakil Combo and The Roughnecks (pre-Velvets Lou Reed).