Bottomless Pit with Marshall Crenshaw

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I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, but the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. ...I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand. #Crenshaw #bigband #swingera #drummers

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Bottomless Pit #123 -- “A Salute To the Fender Stratocaster” (11/23/13)

Sep 13 2024 60 mins

#123- original air-date: Nov. 23, 2013 Starting with the very first Bottomless Pit show back in 2005, “A Salute To the Fender Stratocaster” was an occasionally-recurring feature segment on the show throughout its entire history. On this episode I decided to go big and do the salute for all three segments- i.e. the entire show… Over the years of course, a staggeringly diverse

Bottomless Pit #244 "A Salute to Tony Bennett", (9/10/16)

Sep 06 2024 60 mins

#244- September 10, 2016 A Tony Bennett salute! Tony’s gone now, but was alive and well on the original air-date of this Bottomless Pit show. Here’s my original post about it from back then: On this week’s Bottomless Pit, for nearly the full hour, we shine the audio spotlight on the utterly great Tony Bennett, who celebrated his 90th birthday on August 3rd. Phyllis Schlafly i

Bottomless Pit #239 -- "Musical Legacy of the Town of Woodstock, N.Y." (2016)

Aug 23 2024 60 mins

Show #239- the Town of Woodstock, New York Over the years I almost never plugged my own projects on the show (sometimes I’d talk about them after the fact), but I did engage in cronyism many times. During this entire show I’m plugging, and exploring the contents of, a great book by my friend Barney Hoskyns, “Small Town Talk”. Here’s what I said about it at the time: It&#

Bottomless Pit # 168 -- Bill Frisell & Joe Meek (2014)

Aug 16 2024 59 mins

This show revolves two favorite recording artists of mine, (1) guitar genius Bill Frisell, and (2) the troubled, infamous, and pioneering UK record producer Joe Meek. During Pt. 1, I pick up where I left off from the previous week’s show with a salute to Bill’s 2014 album, “Guitar In the Space Age”- I really flipped for that one when it came out. This is what I had to say

Bottomless Pit #170- "Danelectro Guitars" (Nov. 15, 2014)

Aug 14 2024 58 mins

#170- Danelectro Guitars -- from Nov. 15, 2014 A salute to the Danelectro company, of Neptune City, NJ, it’s founder Nathan Daniel, and some of the great artistes who helped immortalize the brand, like Randy California, Rene Hall, Jack Bruce, Vinnie Bell, Joey Spampinato, and many more. Playlist: The Shadow Of Your Smile — Vincent Bell La Bamba — Ritchie Valens Workin' F

Bottomless Pit #286-"Rich Conaty Tribute: All-Brit Edition" (Oct. 1, 2017)

Aug 09 2024 60 mins

One of the last Bottomless Pit shows. Once the show switched to Sunday nights, I was then occupying part of what had been, for 30+ years, Rich Conaty’s time slot. His show, “The Big Broadcast” was a NY radio institution; he was a fanatic for, and authority on, early Jazz, and the Popular Music of the 1920s and 30s. His show was amazing, and he was a great guy. After he was go

Bottomless Pit #242- The Monkees (Aug. 8, 2016)

Jul 19 2024 59 mins

Best of Bottomless Pit w/ Marshall Crenshaw #242- The Monkees — original air-date Aug. 8, 2016 People of all ages agree that 1960s music is “the gift that keeps on giving”, and with that in mind, during pt. 1 of this show we throw the audio spotlight on The Monkees- they did a really nice reunion album during 2016, produced by the great, and tragically late, Adam Schlesinger.

Bottomless Pit #43 : "A Salute to the Fender Jazzmaster" (c. 2011-12)

Jul 12 2024 59 mins

#43- circa 2011-12: "A Salute to the Fender Jazzmaster" One from the very early days of the Bottomless Pit on WFUV (I don’t have the exact broadcast dates on the first few dozen shows because of the weird way I used to index them). This one starts off with a two-part salute to the Fender Jazzmaster, which is of course an iconic American object from the mind of American

Bottomless Pit #224 "Americana" (Mar. 12, 2016)

Jun 28 2024 62 mins

Best of Bottomless Pit w/ Marshall Crenshaw #224 “Americana” - from Mar. 12, 2016 Most of what I played over the years could be described as Americana of one kind or another- on this show we get into the “Americana”, genre, with Kurt Vile, Porter Wagoner, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, et. al. PORTER WAGONER- RUBBER ROOM CHESTER AND LESTER- I’M YOUR GREATEST FAN KURT VILE- I�

Bottomless Pit #190 "ESP-Disc Records" (May 16, 2015)

Jun 21 2024 60 mins

#190- from May 16, 2015 A salute to one of the greatest American record labels ever, ESP-Disc Records, a label that went where others dared not go. They elevated the culture. We hear The Fugs, Albert Ayler, Pearls Before Swine, Karl Berger, Sun Ra, The Godz, and many more. I only regret that I didn’t know about Patty Waters at the time, otherwise she’d have been included. (#190