Heard Monday nights from 9 til Midnight on KZSU-FM, 90.1, Stanford. You can hear it on the internet via KZSU's live webcast. If you don't have a RealAudio or Windows Media player, you can get them via the links at the webcast site.
A Brief History...
"The Plywood Lounge" made its debut on September 30th, 2002. Prior to this program, Smitty Ray Barlow was a host of "Soul Heaven" on KZSU. This program, billed as a "gourmet Soul showcase" featured the underplayed and overlooked aspects of Soul Music from Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Jackson, andaround the world. "The 3-Way Blues Caravan" began airing in July, 1998 on KZSU. Maintaining its rigid stance of "no focus, no emphasis", The 3-Way is able to play blues and blues-oriented material from the entire spectrum of recorded music. The show, sometimes co-hosted by the beloved Bones d'Ivory, includes blues news, a live music calendar, interviews, and and of course, "The Howell Norfolk Millennium Report". Since 1996, Mr. Norfolk provides random updates on the people and phenomena that shape and are being shaped by the new century.
The program traces its roots back to "The Smitty Ray Barlow Show", which aired from 1995-98 on Geronimo Radio, a cable fm station in Marin County, California. During its heyday, it was Marin's only blues radio program.
A volunteer, student-run department of Stanford University, KZSU broadcasts 24 hours a day. Its 500 watt signal emanates from a disaster-proof building in the foothills near Palo Alto, California. The signal reaches from San Jose in the south, to parts of San Francisco in the north, and east to Berkeley and Fremont. Repeated on cable systems in Marin, Vallejo, and Monterey, KZSU reaches the entire Bay Area. And with LIVE webcasting, KZSU is available over the internet to the rest of the world.
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