Episode: January 9, 2026

In the Box is my radio show. It airs every Friday on AshevilleFM.org, 103.3 FM, a slot I’ve held for the station for the last ten years. While the initial “concept” for In the Box was for it to be all 45s all the time, over the last ten years it has morphed into “music I am currently interested in that I think will fit together to make an entertaining radio show, which, given my record proclivities, retains a 45 focus.”

I’ve been doing radio shows on different community radio stations since 1996, with the odd year off here and there, but it’s more years on than off. Much like my live DJing, it’s hard to know if I do a radio show to play the records I have collected or if I collect the records I do to keep my radio show going. I know that whenever I am listening to records, part of me is waiting to hear something I can play on the air or at a gig.

This is a recent sample episode, which has a nice variety of segments, some decent DJ patter, and pretty good flow. This is not presented exactly as it was live on-the-air—bits of chat patter are filtered out (you don’t need to hear me read outdated underwriting or concert calendar announcements). Also, when I post a show on the blog I won’t be able to resist tightening up loose seques if possible. Still, with all that editing, we only lost about five minutes of the shows two hour length.

Two weeks’ worth of archives are up at the website, ashevillefm.org, where you can also see the playlists for every In the Box going back to 2015, when I co-hosted it with my old Admiral DJ partner Greg. Greg now does his own show on WYXR out of Memphis called Strange Mysterious Sounds, which is well worth exploring. (https://wyxr.org/programs/strange-mysterious-sounds/)

But for the best deal in unedited In the Box archives, download the Asheville FM app for your mobile device, where every show from 2021 is up there for you to stream and enjoy for whatever contribution you wish to make to our community radio station. 

Below, in the spoiler zone, is the setlist. A word to people who follow peoples’ radio shows but then just read the setlist instead of listening to the program: you can do what you want, but you’re not really getting the experience. Ditto to someone who decides whether or not to listen to the show simply by reading the setlist. Ideally, you listen to the show and then maybe check out the setlist. Part of the experience of listening to a good radio show is letting its narrative unfold in real time. Segues are little reveals, tiny magic tricks, doors you walk through to some new space. You look in advance, you diminish the energy. That said, do as you please.

Thanks for listening, Box Buddies – I love my radio show and put the majority of my creative energy to making it happen, so I am genuinely grateful to anyone who engages with one of my shows.