3 Chords & the Truth
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI'M THE MIGHTY FAVOG, and welcome to Revolution 21 . . . and its freeform show, 3 CHORDS & THE TRUTH. 3 Chords & the Truth is good music and a good time. 3C&T shares the Revolution 21 empire with Revolution 21's Blog for the People, which -- like the show -- is a mixture of . . . EVERYTHING. The serious and the foolish. Rock . . . and roll. And blues in the night.
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3 Chords and the Truth: <i>Watching the world go by</i>
October 04, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBWe're sittin' in the bunker, watching the world go by DUCK! It's that kind of world these days, and 3 Chords & the Truth is here to help you cope with it. Good music helps with everything. When you have a president who, in just one day, called on the Chinese communists to investigate the former vice president of the United States -- a potential electoral opponent of said president -- and then run a network television commercial accusing congressional Democrats of plotting a coup against h...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>The Now Sound?</i>
September 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBThe Now Sound? This week, not so much. The newest selection is from 21 years ago. Old happens. No, this edition is the "then sound," with music from wildly varying genres and several different "thens." Frankly, I like it that way. Increasingly, "now" is not something to which a sane man wishes to aspire. "Now," we're at one another's throats. We as an American nation . . . aren't. We are as divided as we've been since Vietnam, and maybe since Fort Sumter. "Now," we are dry kindling, and w...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>Wafting across the aether</i>
September 21, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBThis week, 3 Chords & the Truth wafts across the aether, which has much more class and aesthetic value than the oh-so-pedestrian "ether," into your ears and your very soul. We become one with the magic of the night . . . the wonder of the music. The Big Show defies the insanity surrounding us with beauty, joy, eclecticism and some small measure of intelligence. This week, as every week, our humble little program stands as a sign of contradiction to the stupidity that seeks to engulf us. T...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>Still the same . . . or something</i>
September 13, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBI feel like the Big Show is a Bob Seger thing . . . still the same. Forget that. We actually don't have any Bob Seger on the show this week. We are, however, still the same -- in that we're rarely the same week to week. Which, conversely, makes 3 Chords & the Truth still the same in programmatic non-sameness. Or something like that. I am starting to not make sense. Which might make me president of the United States, and no one wants that. Then again, nobody wants the present president of ...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>Really?</i>
September 07, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBThere was a hurricane. And, like, it moved north, you know, and wasn't. . . . Not headed anywhere near Alabama. But then the president tweeted. And. . . . Then . . . then . . . he was wrong. But truth is a casualty when he's wrong and reality must be bent to make lies into something like the truth in this crazy, mixed-up land. I swear to God, what's a poor music show to do in the middle of a loony bin? I'm talking about 3 Chords & the Truth here. PITY THE Big Show that just wants t...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>And it's all right?</i>
August 30, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBWe all, I think, had a close call with apocalyptic crazy last week, and it's all right. For now. I think. The sun has continued to rise, and it appears we will make it to September. I think. That is, hurricanes and Washington willing. Anyway, we're counting our being here to do yet another installment of 3 Chords & the Truth as a victory, which we're celebrating in the usual manner -- with really great music, eclectically presented. IT'S THE BEST music. Unbelievably beautiful music. You...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>We had a good run, eh?</i>
August 24, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBThe lunatic tweets like an ass. The lunatic speaks out his ass Remembering blame and crazy claims and gaffes Got to keep the loonies on the path The lunatic has cast a pall The lunatics have so much gall TV news keeps his crazy rants in our ears And every day the lunatic spews more And the crazy train is off the rusted tracks again And if this is the end of the damn line And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you here on 3 Chords & the Truth It's the Big Show, y'al...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>Music box</i>
August 17, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBWhat is the Big Show? The program, 3 Chords & the Truth, is basically an internet-enabled, really eclectic, Favogian frickin' music box. Like a radio. I assume you're listening on something that roughly approximates a box. And that there's music coming out of it. Voila! Music box. And in the case of the Big Show, it's a good music box. Or a box filled with good music. However you'd like to phrase it. It's certainly a box radiating eclectic music, carefully curated. I'm told I should use...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>WHOA!</i>
August 03, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 127 MBDid you know there may be a race of men who live in the trees? WHOA! That's just one of the shocking developments you'll hear on this week's edition of 3 Chords & the Truth. In fact, this episode of the show is chock full of surprises, unexpected endings and edge-of-your-seat musical moments. IT'S TRUE! So if you don't want to miss out on one WHOA! moment after another, DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL!!! Even if your podcast-listening device doesn't actually have a dial. Just do what we say, and ...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>No static a-tall</i>
July 27, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBDid your old man ever ominously warn you about giving him any static? Mine did. It usually didn't work. I gave him static. Well, pally, today we live in a world with nothin' but static. Static here, static there, static static static everywhere. This week on 3 Chords & the Truth, I seek to make static amends by proclaiming this here program a static-free zone. There will be no static here, only good music. And from the Great Beyond, Daddy now is saying "So NOW you decide to stop being an...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>The Big Show has landed</i>
July 20, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 127 MB"One of these days, Alice! Pow! Straight to the moon!" One of these days came 50 years ago today. Pow! We went straight to the moon. Oddly enough, it wasn't Ralph Kramden's fist that got us there. No, it was three brave astronauts who climbed atop a gigantic Saturn V rocket four days before, blasted off into the heavens and took the whole damned planet with them for a lunar joyride. July 20, 1969. It was a Sunday. I was 8 years old -- almost 8 and a half. Halves are very important when yo...
3 Chords and the Truth: <i>Cooler than average</i>
July 13, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBEmbrace the chill. 3 Chords & the Truth, you see, is cooler than average. Way cooler than average. Cool music, cool concept, cool production values . . . and a moderately acceptable host. That works out, when you do the math, to cooler than average. If you grade on a curve -- that is, factor in what you hear on the radio in most locales -- the Big Show is way cooler than average. That's what I'm sayin'. And that's what you'll hear, right here on this here program. It's 3 Chords & the Tr...
Four Songs: Yesterday Once More
March 21, 2008 07:40 - 37 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week on Four Songs: five songs. It was necessary, one of the songs is by John Denver, and a "make good" was in order. IN MY DEFENSE, I didn't pick the music. That was done according to what was hot with the record-buying public . . . in April 1975. Unfortunately, John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" was big back then. Unsurprisingly, I would have picked differently. But they don't let 14-year-old kids program Top-40 radio stations, and that's how old I was when this episode of ...
On dem first day of Christmas . . .
February 13, 2008 08:52 - 4 minutes - 4.09 MBHere's another special audio presentation: A bit of nostalgia recorded off the TV in the early '70s in Baton Rouge. I remembered this recording when I heard of the death of Jules d'Hemecourt, a journalism professor when I was in school at LSU . . . and the man behind "The Cajun 12 Days of Christmas" when he was news director at Channel 33 in Baton Rouge. This must have been recorded by me, off the air, sometime around Christmas 1973. Maybe '74. D'Hemecourt, who also was the Channel 33 news ...
The tale of the tape
March 21, 2007 20:33 - 12 minutes - 8.71 MBHere's a special audio presentation -- don't worry, the podcast will post as usual Friday -- from Revolution 21. I thought you just might want to hear this . . . a ghost in the machine, as it were. What it is, is a recording of legendary Alabama radio host Joe Rumore from Oct. 28, 1949 on WVOK, Birmingham. And it's an extraordinary look back 58 years across the tidal wave of change and cultural revolution that radically transformed America. It's a look at who we used to be, and at a kinder...