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This is a replay of a show we recorded in June of 2014 celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the movie Purple Rain. We ran it as a tribute to Prince, who had passed just a few days earlier. It features Pepe Willie, the man who discovered Prince (we also play a bit of a track…

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This is a replay of a show we broadcast in the Fall of 2015 that previewed the upcoming reunion of legendary jazz group Rio Nido. Rio Nido formed in 1977 and the original trio featured vocalist Prudence Johnson, guitarist Tom Lieberman, and guitarist Tim Sparks (our in studio guest for the show.) Tim Sparks is…

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The kick off to our 3rd season features Mr. Rich Dworsky, bandleader and piano man for Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion radio show. Besides working with Garrison for over 23 years, Rich has several other projects and has recently released a CD called “All In Due Time.” The CD features tunes in a variety of…

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We are celebrating almost two years of the Wall of Power Radio Hour tonight by replaying last year’s first anniversary show. While we prepare for our third season we want to share highlights from our first year of shows. Tonight’s show features interviews and music from 2014 including guests Tom Arnold, Steve McClellan, Willie Walker,…

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This is a replay of a show that first aired last February, the week after celebrated New York Times journalist, and Twin Cities native, David Carr passed away with his boots on in the newsroom at the NYTimes. Paul Metsa chatted with three Twin Cities journalists who knew and worked with Mr. Carr. They included…

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Paul Metsa’s Wall of Power Radio Hour – March 19, 2016-Paul Metsa interviews legendary Twin Cities musician Lonnie Knight. Lonnie started playing guitar in the early 1960’s after his folks bought him a guitar from a door to door salesman. His first band the Rave-On’s recorded a song called in the mid-60’s that we play…

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Paul Metsa interviews legendary rock and roll photographer Elliott Landy who is celebrating the release of his beautiful photo book The Band Photographs 1968-1969 (Backbeat Books.) Speaking on the phone from his longtime home in Woodstock, NY, Elliott chats with Paul about how he got into the rock and roll business, his meeting with legendary…

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Paul Metsa interviews legendary rock and roll photographer Elliott Landy who is celebrating the release of his beautiful photo book The Band Photographs 1968-1969 (Backbeat Books.) Speaking on the phone from his longtime home in Woodstock, NY, Elliott chats with Paul about how he got into the rock and roll business, his meeting with legendary…

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Paul Metsa interviews author, music critic, journalist Bob Mehr about his terrific new book Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. Mr. Mehr talks about how he fell into music writing and explains in great detail the almost decade long quest to get the Replacement’s story into print. A fascinating interview about one of…

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Paul Metsa interviews filmmaker and social activist Gay Dillingham who was in Minneapolis showcasing her film Dying to Know: Timothy Leary and Ram Dass. The film traces the last days of LSD guru Timothy Leary as he reunites with his former colleague Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert.) They met at Harvard in the early 1960’s…

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Paul Metsa interviews blues singer Renee Austin. Ms. Austin, grew up in Texas singing in church. Years later, she moved to Minneapolis and became a part of the Twin Cities music scene. She was signed to Blind Pig records and played at clubs and festivals around the U.S. In 2005 she lost her voice and…

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Paul Metsa interviews one of the Twin Cities first call drummers. Bobby Vandell talks about his childhood in St. Cloud, MN, his first gigs, his love of hockey, and his career that has seen him with Mambo’s Combo for years at Bunkers Bar, playing with Bonnie Raitt and Chuck Berry, to playing Wembley Stadium with…

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Paul Metsa chats with lifer musician Andy Lindquist. Originally from Grand Forks, North Dakota, Andy started playing guitar as a kid and eventually found himself in the Twin Cities and old enough to be playing the barroom rock and roll circuit in the Upper Midwest. He had a couple of Major Label Development deals that…

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Paul Metsa interviews Josh Horwitz, the Executive Director of Stop Handgun Violence, the Washington D.C. based organization working to implement sensible gun laws in the United States. They chat about a variety of issues surrounding gun laws including mental health, access to firearms, and public safety issues. The week before the interview Josh was invited…

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Paul Metsa interviews Peter Frampton’s touring keyboardist and guitar player (and a former member of the Paul Metsa Group)Rob Arthur who was in town visiting friends and relatives. Rob lives in Los Angeles when he is not on the road with Peter Frampton. Paul and Rob chatted about Rob’s musical background, growing up in Anoka,…

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Paul Metsa interviews legendary sound man and rock and roll philosopher Monty Lee Wilkes. Monty got his interest in sound when his father Howie Wilkes (who band Milkbone is heard on the show) took him to a Grateful Dead concert in the early ’70’s. From there, he started working mixing sound and doing roadie work…

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I recorded the most fascinating interview yesterday with Ms. Beverly Oliver, known as the “Babushka Lady” in JFK Conspiracy circles. She worked as a singer in the early 60’s at the Colony Club in Dallas a few doors down from Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club as a singer (that she sang a few bars of Sunny…

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This show is our Pete Seeger Tribute. It aired on May 3, 2014 which would have been Pete’s 95th birthday. Our guests include legendary Twin Cities folksinger Charlie Maguire who chats about Seeger’s influence on him, as well as performing with him. Charlie and Paul then play If I Had A Hammer live in the…

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We are in Guitar Heaven this week with Tim Sparks, a man I consider to be the greatest acoustic steel string guitarist in the world. Sparky joined us for the whole hour helping to promote the upcoming reunion of Rio Nido at the Dakota Jazz Club on Friday, December 11th (two shows at 7 and…

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Paul Metsa’s Wall of Power Radio Hour – November 21, 2015 Our guest this week is author Rick Shefchik. His newest book, “Everybody’s Heard About the Bird” (UofMN Press) chronicles the exciting 1960’s MN Rock and Roll Scene including bands like the Trashmen, the Castaways, and the Electra’s among others.

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It’s the Wall of Power with Paul Metsa! Our guest in the studio for the whole show is Twin Cities Radio Legend Brian “BT” Turner. We chatted about BT’s formative years in high school in Robbinsdale, MN, his time in the Air Force, his love of radio, the landscape of modern media, and his take…

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Wall Of Power Radio Hour – October 24, 2015 by AM950’s Podcasts

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