Volume, Contrast, Brilliance
Saturday November 8th, 2025 with Steve Kirkland
FUNDING DRIVE SHOW #3

Try Just a Little Bit Harder (live) (comp: Chip Taylor, Jordan Ragavoy)
Janis Joplin with Full-Tilt Boogie - Pearl (Bonus track on reissue) - 1999. Columbia Legacy, recorded in 1970

Tvist (Musical Bed)
Maza Mezé - Hypnotika - 2002, CBC Records

The Clouds are Casting SHadows from the Sunlight
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Ghost Nation - 2025, Full Time Hobby

Search Bar Hi Hat (instrumental)
SML - Small Medium Large - 2024, International Anthem Recording Company

Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac cover... you know, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac)
Slash - Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival - 2025, earMUSIC

Hot Head
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station - 1980, Virgin

Anthem (Leonard Cohen cover)
Mavis Staples - Sad and Beautiful World - 2025, ANTI-

Bongo Man
Count Ossie And The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Grounation - 1972, New Dimension

Jraad
Noura Mint Seymali - Yenbet - 2025, self-released

Collect Yourself
Sloan - Based on the Best Seller - 2025, YepRoc Murder Records

Everybody is Fantastic
The Spanish Amanda - Paint, Sing, Burn Down Everything - 2025, self-released

Do I Move You?
Nina Simone - A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings - 2025, Eektra, recorded in 1993

Birdland (Alternate Take)
Patti Smith - Horses (Bonus Track on 50th Anniversary Edition) - 2025, Arista, recorded in 1975

Interactive CKCU

Steve Kirkland (host)
Come On Down... Help Keep Us Up

6:23 PM, November 8th, 2025

Gee
Though I miss the Cape Breton ocean - even a cold and beautifully raging ocean - it’s great to be back in CKCU Land listening to you (listening to you since ‘83…) god bless Steve and CKCU 93.1… dial and donate, listeners - independent radio is a great cause…

6:31 PM, November 8th, 2025

mk
Sounding good.. donate !

6:36 PM, November 8th, 2025

Steve Kirkland (host)
Hi Gee... Many Thanks for your donations, your kind words and your kindred spirit!! I'm blessed just being able to be here every week. Cheers

6:53 PM, November 8th, 2025

Mike Mercer
Hello There e-transfred my donation of $50 dollars for your show Steve & CKCU!

6:53 PM, November 8th, 2025

Wally
It's always great to hear Steve on a Saturday evening, please give him the support and click and donate so he reaches and maybe exceeds his goal. Thanks Steve!

7:01 PM, November 8th, 2025

Steve Kirkland (host)
Thank YOU Wally, for your decades-long love of CKCU, your unwavering appreciation and your generous support... and all the music you bring yo my attention and let me share on this program. Cheers

7:14 PM, November 8th, 2025

Gee
Listening to “Bongo Man” by Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari. Man! It reminds me of the first time I heard Albert Ayler (here on CKCU, as a matter of fact - on Rabble Without A Cause, as a matter of fact!). I ask you: where in Ottawa will you ever hear such important interesting music? Maybe at our fabulous Ottawa International Jazz Festival. But if not there, then it will be here, people - on the Mighty 93!

7:18 PM, November 8th, 2025

Steve Kirkland (host)
You tell 'em GeeI (I've been wondering are you related to a certain legendary CKCU jazz programmer?)

7:28 PM, November 8th, 2025

Wally
If anyone is reading the comments and donates $25 or more, I will send them 10 free CDs - we can get Steve over his goal

7:32 PM, November 8th, 2025

Wally
Just leave a comment if you want my offer tonight and I will contact you

7:36 PM, November 8th, 2025

Steve Kirkland (host)
Wow... generous offer Wally. Nice one.

7:43 PM, November 8th, 2025

Gee
Ya gotta live Nina Simone!!

7:46 PM, November 8th, 2025

Gee
…and Patti Smith!! Only on CKCU FM will you hear poetry and soul in succession!!

7:47 PM, November 8th, 2025

mikep
you and the ckcu t shirt make each other on the donate page. i can help with a drop in the bucket of cash, and deliver it. for the station that relies on volunteers and i rely on. promise note of 50 bucks. note

7:51 PM, November 8th, 2025

Steve Kirkland (host)
THANK YOU All! Cheers

7:55 PM, November 8th, 2025

Steve Kirkland (host)
Thanks mike p!!

7:56 PM, November 8th, 2025

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