It’s Local 518 Thursday! January 26th

It’s Local 518 Thursday on WEXT Radio! Click on the artist/band and song featured on the WEXT Radio Local 518 Show to find out more about them, and support by listening to & purchasing the songs. Miss the show? Listen to it and previous ones at the WEXT Radio Local 518 Show webpage. Have music you want us to hear? Submission guidelines can be found at the webpage link too. Send us stuff!

At 11:00pm, tune in WEXT Radio at 97.7 and 106.1 FM, at 89.1’s HD2 station, via online stream at www.wextradio.org, or by using the free app for iOS and Android devices. You can also ask Siri and Alexa to “play WEXT Radio” too!

On WEXT Radio tonight, I’ve got Local 518 ear candy on the playlist by…

Lovelock – “Babe“
Shadowlight – “Crazy Daisy“
10:01 – “Janey Girl“
Reeya Banerjee – “Need You There“
Nocturnal Houses – “In the Zone (Acoustic)“
Joe Gorman – “Gettin Ready For Love“

The Attic Classic: PHOEBE HENRY learned the power of music through a beat-up nylon string guitar she rented while in Mexico in her early teens. Her songwriting reflected the self-taught nature of playing that guitar – interesting melodies in songs that connected to listeners through sharing of life experiences.

Her music was an organic blend of country and folk, with pop, jazz, rock, and gospel influences sprinkled in, which appealed to a broad audience. After winning a songwriting competition in 2005 her career surged. By the time she was 18, she had released 3 CD’s worth of songs, and had played venues as small as coffeehouses to large stadium-sized events.

The Attic Classic “Knots” comes from the EP version of Phoebe’s 2007 release ‘Glitter and Gold.’

Recording videos in a bathroom was a thing for a while right? Here’s Phoebe with a tune, played while in a tub…