A random episode of Music Without Boundaries during my seven-year stint at KPRI (102.1 FM) in San Diego. An Irish reel, a Scottish lament, a Brazilian reverie, some Mexican mariachi, and an AC/DC anthem in honor of San Diego Padres relief ace Trevor Hoffman. Toss in some Spirit, Springsteen, and Otis Redding, and this was no ordinary April Fool’s Day radio show.

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Of the eight radio stations I worked for between 1971 and 2007, my longest stint was a nearly seven-year run at KPRI (102.1 FM) in San Diego. I produced and hosted Music Without Boundaries, and they aired the program on Saturday mornings and (repeated) Sunday evenings. I probably would have continued for another seven years except they hired a new program director I called “St. Louis Slick,” who was scared of the show (new PDs always hated the show!) and took away my prime Saturday morning slot, isolating MWB back to Sunday nights only.

I quit on the spot and moved MWB to 91X. I didn’t know this would be my final show at KRPI when I recorded it and find it comical that some of my last songs were “Mistreating Daddy” and “What Good Am I?”

You can read all about my radio years in my memoir, Off My Rocker.

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I was honored to be asked to bring Music Without Boundaries to San Diego’s legendary progressive radio station 91X in 2005. I was 57 years old and immediately became the oldest show host in station history. Since it was an alternative rock station, their only request was that I keep the sound edgier (read: less folk music/ballads) than in MWB’s previous incarnations. Let’s just say I kept it intelligent. This playlist features music from the Australian Outback, Santo Domingo, Cameroon, Hawaii, and Senegal, as well as topical screeds from Nina Simone and Rodney Crowell.

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In 1993, I created a weekend specialty show called Music Without Boundaries, a freeform radio show that incorporated healthy portions of world music. It had a 14-year run on five different San Diego stations. My longest stint was at KPRI-FM (1998–2005), which aired the show on Saturday mornings and Sunday evenings. This playlist included music from Spain, Senegal, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Ivory Coast.

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