by billquinn | Apr 1, 2014 | Sunday Morning Sunshine
As I write this blog I’m in St. Louis enjoying a welcome vacation with family and friends. No matter how often I come back to the city of my birth I’m reminded how this city, and my family, have planted my musical roots, and why coming back to a place of strong...
by billquinn | Mar 18, 2014 | Sunday Morning Sunshine
To my parents and their parents the radio was a central part of life. As a child of the 60s and 70s, the central part of my daily routine was television. I loved to read as much as any child (more, actually – my mother recalls seeing me at the kitchen table...
by billquinn | Mar 10, 2014 | Sunday Morning Sunshine
I’m not quite certain when I first heard the term “desert island discs,” but it was probably while in college and most likely during one of the wonderful “What If” sessions with college radio buddies. If you’re not familiar with the term let me explain. You’re...
by billquinn | Mar 3, 2014 | Sunday Morning Sunshine
Out of all the concerts I’ve attended in my life one of the most memorable was seeing Billy Joel perform at my alma mater, the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1978 (perhaps it was 1979?) in support of The Stranger LP, a hugely successful record, part of the rock...
by billquinn | Feb 17, 2014 | Sunday Morning Sunshine
Typically when thinking of the musical term “standard,” most associated with those brilliant songs from the canon of The Great American Songbook and the classic singers that performed them, what comes to mind are images of nattily dressed men in suits, ties loosely...
by billquinn | Feb 10, 2014 | Sunday Morning Sunshine
On Sunday Morning Sunshine I’ve always made it my mission to not only play the music and artists we know and love, those who originally brought us the enduring music from The Great American Songbook, but to also highlight singers and musicians whose talent and...
