WCWP radio studio's have been on lock down since mid-March due to the  pandemic, luckily though thanks to the help of Dan Cox I have been able to keep the radio show alive recording from a home studio. Without trying to sound to cocky I believe the show has never sounded better and my enthusiasm for it is at an all time high. Lately I have been reading a number of books on creativity as well as listening to various podcasts such as Amon Sul and True Tunes. Also the you tube visits with Malcolm Guite to his library are veritable life savers.

These have helped give me the shot in the arm that I need when a certain amount of cabin fever begins to creep in. When I was doing the show out of the station I would usually bring along maybe sixty or seventy albums with me to have a good choice so that the show would not sound stale or repetitive. Now that I am recording in my home studio that choice is greatly expanded, so the show sounds better and better each time I open up the microphone. Now don't get me wrong I really miss the interaction with the other DJ's each week, I also miss wandering around the lower east side of NYC and going to the various clubs like the Rockwood Music Hall or the Mercury Lounge and seeing the kids that I play on the radio doing their thing live. Over all though I am one happy camper and although online concerts are not the same as a real live gig they will have to suffice for now. By the way for those of you who have an artistic bent be sure to check out the Hutchmoot Homebound conference coming up in October. In just a tad under two more months "Rock N Soul Gospel will be entering its 40th year on 88.1fm WCWP. The show can be heard every Friday from 9 till 11pm NY time and Sundays from 8pm until 10pm on WCWP.org, those are NY time by the way. As always it is my firm commitment to whoever listens that I will play the very best rock n roll on the radio.

Back in mid-March Long Island University closed its campus due to the covid 19 virus. It also closed down the studios of 88.1fm & WCWP.org, Luckily I had enough back logged programs to tide me over until I was, with major help from my station manager and long time friend Dan Cox, able to set up a home studio to continue to produce new shows. Now I am able to record programs with material from a vast music library at hand. I would usually bring up about 100 CD's to the station, now I have much more of a song choice to work with. Since the home studio has been in effect I feel like I have been given a new thrust of creativity and the shows are better then they ever were before. In just a little over three months the show will enter its 40th year on the air at WCWP and it is my intention now more than ever to play and to share with my listeners the absolute best rock n roll on the radio. How could I possibly do otherwise, actually why in the world would I want to do otherwise. With music from artists like Glass Hammer, Dave Bainbridge, Phil Madeira, Phil Keaggy, Dave Brons and others I can do just that and that is just what I intend to do. I find at my age, I'm in my seventies by the way, I have little to no tolerance for artists who claim to be Christians and yet put out 2nd and 3rd rate material and expect people to put up with it simply because the connect they name Jesus with it. Unfortunately the Western Church seems to have fallen into this mindset which is a true shame. I don't mean everyone in the Western Church has fallen into this habit but many have and it is a shame. I am also seeing that the Eastern Church is producing art not only music but literature and other forms of media of a magnificent nature. Check out Rock N Soul Gospel every Friday at 9pm & Sunday at 8pm, those are NY times by the way at 88.1fm & WCWP.org

Since for the time being Rock N Soul Gospel is playing automated shows due to the Covid-19 situation. I wanted to share some recent amazing music with you via video. Enjoy this music and we will be back live as soon as possible!!! God be with you my friends!!!

Today is the second day of March 2020, next month will be the 52nd anniversary of my very first radio show. It happened aboard the USS Long Beach CGN9 cruising around on the way to the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Viet-Nam back in 1968. The very first song that I played was "The Supernatural" by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers with Peter Green on lead guitar. It was and is an amazing song which still gives me the chills every time that I hear it even today. It became the opening song for the two years that I did that program on KCGN radio, part of the armed forces radio network in Viet-Nam. Fast forward 52 years and my present radio show "Rock N Soul Gospel" is well into its 39th year on the air at 88.1fm & WCWP.org, the station of Long Island University Public Radio. My opening theme is a tune called "Check It Out" by After The Fire, a British band that was on fire back in the '80's. 39 years later I still get pumped up whenever I hear this song. "RNSG" started out as, for lack of a better term, the atypical Christian Rock show and has developed into a program of music by artists who happen to hold to a Christian world view. To be very honest I have very little interest in what passes for Christian music these days. I tend to find it contrived and boring. The worst offense I could hand my listeners would be is to play boring music, why should I waste their time and mine for that matter. Fortunately the music that I get to play every week is some of the absolute best rock n roll the I have ever heard and I am now 70 years old. Artists like Phil Madeira, Frank van Essen, Mark Lettieri, Tony Gerber & Phil Keaggy and others just continue to kick my butt every time I hear them.. For some of the best music around check out "RNSG" every Friday at 9pm and Sunday at 8pm on 88.1fm & WCWP.org