The Roots of Rock and Roll

Coming Soon

Airs at: Fri, 10/17/2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Hosted by:

dalefarr, Dave Johnson, Mike Fisher

Produced by:

KBOO

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Every Friday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.

Early Rock & Roll, Doo-Wop, Rhythm & Blues and Rock of the 70s.

Dale Farr plays rare and vintage recordings from the birth of Rock & Roll, Rhythm & Blues, Doo-Wop, and Rockabilly, thru the 50s and early 60s.

Mike Fisher plays vintage rock and roll, blues & soul from many eras and genres each month. Mike also helps out on The Songcircle and has programmed and hosted roots rock shows for 30+ years on WMNF Tampa and KBOO community radio stations.

On fifth Fridays, Kim Paris will feature musical nuggets from the mid-'60s to the mid-'80s, including some rare live tracks from archive.org. Kim has been on-air in Portland for 4 years and hosted radio shows in the late '70s and early '80s in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Topic tags:

Music

Genre(s):

Rock and Roll, Soul, Blues

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

The Seeds, and more Nuggets

Airs at: Fri, 06/26/2015 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Roots of Rock and Roll

We focus today on MId to late 60s garage and psych rock, and talk to direcor Neil Norman of the new documenatry film on The Seeds, called Pushin Too Hard. Pushin Too Hard will be playing at the Hollywood Theater on July 16th 7pm , $10 admssion. Here's the descrip... Read more