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Soul of the Blues

June 21, 2023 by Ray Brown

Blues falling down like rain! The blues will rain all over you when you tune in the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues this Thursday from 12-2pm on AshevilleFM! Listen live at 103.3fm or stream it live and for 2 weeks after it airs anytime you want at ashevillefm.org! Plenty of new music from bands like rockabilly phenoms from down under-The Barnestromers, Samantha Fish/Jesse Dayton collaboration, Chicago’s Larry Taylor and the Taylor Family, Philly blues from Paul Boddy &The Slidewinders Blues Band and blues rocker Chris Duarte! Also, got some Chicago vintage blues from James Wheeler! Asheville rocker, Andrew Scotchie, will be in the studio with me this week discussing his new album and playing a few tunes for ya! You won’t wanna miss the Blueshound this week on Soul of the Blues for 2 hours of mind jiggling, butt wiggling blues, baby!

AFM News Hour reports on “job threatening pressure” from mayor during December water outage

June 20, 2023 by Mark West

In this week’s Civic Roundup for Wednesday, June 21, 2023, we report on the Asheville City Council meeting of June 13, at which extensive reports were presented on the system-wide water outages over the Christmas holiday last year. Concerns with water pressure, lack of water, or discolored water began on Dec. 24 when temperatures fell, causing the water production facility’s filtration and settling basins to freeze.

The system normally would be able to keep up with the water demand when the facility went offline, according to officials, but the winter storm led to numerous water line breaks that depleted the system’s water level. Overly optimistic estimates of when the restoration of service would occur, according to multiple sources made under pressure from the mayor’s office, led to confusion and frustration on the part of the public.

According to reporting in the Asheville Watchdog, the city has a longstanding history of water woes. The origin of the city’s run-down water infrastructure dates to the Great Depression and the mountain town’s insistence on paying off a massive debt load. The city funneled every available dollar to repaying that debt, ignoring infrastructure needs and using water revenues to that purpose. The depression-era debt was paid off in 1976.

In 2022, an estimated 27 percent of the water from the city’s two main reservoirs was lost to leaky pipes, and there were more than 720 “boil water advisories” in various parts of the city between 2017 and 2021, usually caused by breaks in water mains.

Listen to our report to hear Mike McGill, of WaterPIO, a water system communication firm, regarding misleading messaging and its results, with McGill pointing to direct orders and “job-threatening pressure” from Mayor Esther Manheimer for the water department to say on Dec. 27 that service would be restored within 24-48 hours, even though employees expressed concerns that meeting such a time frame would be “highly unlikely.”

African-American Music Appreciation Month 2023, Vol. 3

June 20, 2023 by Erik Mattox

Join The UnCola tonight at 8PM est on 103.3 Asheville FM, as we have curated another great show in honor of African-American Music Appreciation Month 2023 – two hours of forgotten music by exclusively African American artists.

Radio Active Kids June 14! Dawn Carol subs for Sagan!

June 16, 2023 by Sagan

Hi there y’all! I’ll be taking the week off of Radio Active Kids this week. Have no fear, though! Dawn Carol of Asheville FM‘s #ComeOnInMyKitchen will be subbing for me, and she’ll have an awesome mix of great tunes & other cool stuff! Be sure to tune in live from 8-10 ET on Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & as always listen to the podcast at https://anchor.fm/radio-active-kids!

Soul of the Blues

June 14, 2023 by Ray Brown

When the blues come knockin’, you gotta let them in! Let in the blues when you tune in the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues this Thursday from 12-2pm on AshevilleFM! Listen on the radio at 103.3fm or stream it live and anytime you want for 2 weeks after it airs at ashevillefm.org! Lots of new albums to share from Irish blues artist-Grainne Duffy, Australian rockabilly from The Barnestormers, the new collaboration by Samantha Fish with rockabilly star-Jesse Dayton and a tribute to the great Eddie Taylor by his talented children! Also got some Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Will Ray and Robben Ford for your listening pleasure! For the Notcho’ Blues Artists this week I’ll be playing The Beatles Abbey Road! Join the Blueshound this week for 2 hours of mind zapping, butt flapping blues!

African American Music Appreciation Month 2023 Vol. 2

June 13, 2023 by Erik Mattox

Join The UnCola tonight at 8PM est on 103.3 Asheville FM for our 2nd volume of African American Music Appreciation Month 2023 with 2 hours of forgotten soul, funk, jazz, disco, reggae, rock, folk, hip-hop, and more from African American artists.