McCabe's at 50

McCabe's at 50

Three-hour Special on Legendary Santa Monica Venue airs on KCRW Dec. 31, 9 am to Noon

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- 89.9 FM KCRW-Santa Monica and KCRW.com celebrate the history of McCabe's Guitar Shop in a three-hour music special produced by the station, McCabe's at 50. Originally broadcast on Thanksgiving, it will be repeated on air and online from 9 am to noon PST on Wednesday, December 31, 2008.

The little guitar repair shop founded 50 years ago morphed unpredictably into one of LA's most treasured and now venerated concert rooms.

Inspired by the McCabe's 50th Anniversary Reunion Concert at UCLA's Royce Hall in October 2008, the program is hosted by current concert director Lincoln Myerson, and features interviews with all five of McCabe's concert directors, as well as Robert Riskin, the current owner who's been there since the store's beginning; former owner Walter Camp; current employees, and many of the artists who've come to define McCabe's, including T Bone Burnett, Dave Alvin, Loudon Wainwright and Peter Case, among others.

The show features exclusive, rare live performances recorded at McCabe's during different eras of the venue's evolution from Bill Monroe to the Ditty Bops. Current soundman Wayne Griffith, who's mixed McCabe's concerts for 35 years, recorded most of these sessions and provided the live recordings. See below for a full list of featured artists and interviewees.

McCabe's never had a business plan, beginning as a guitar repair shop and evolving organically into a music school, a community center for local musicians (from roots and folk to rock and cowboy punk), and one of the best rooms to experience music in an intimate space. Hear the history, the philosophy, the influences, as well as musical gems from their archives. The special is archived at KCRW.com.

Visit KCRW.com/McCabes for playlist, slideshow, timeline, links to music by participating artists and an update on McCabe's today.

McCabe's at 50: A KCRW Music Special is produced by Ariana Morgenstern (producer/Morning Becomes Eclectic); Lincoln Myerson (producer/host); Sarah Spitz (supervising producer); recorded, edited and mixed by JC Swiatek, additional editing by Mario Diaz.

   FEATURED ARTISTS:   * = live at McCabe's    Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys *   Woody Guthrie   The Rooftop Singers   Joseph Spence   The Rising Sons (Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal)   Elizabeth Cotton   The Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt   The Chambers Brothers   Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee   Dave Grisman   JD Crowe and the New South *   Odetta   Doc Watson   Jackson Browne   Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt *   John Fahey   Jesse Winchester *   John Hiatt *   Flaco Jimenez   Los Lobos   Dave Alvin *   Richard Thompson *   Bill Monroe *   The Plimsouls   Peter Case *   Loudon Wainwright III *   Rosanne Cash *   Gillian Welch *   Dwight Yoakam   Dan Hicks *   The Blind Boys of Alabama *   NRBQ   Blast Band   Eastmountainsouth *   The Swell Season *   The Ditty Bops *    INTERVIEWEES:    Walter Camp (former owner)   Robert (Bob) Riskin (longtime owner)   Bobby Kimmel (1st Concert director)   Wayne Griffith (soundman)   Nancy Covey (2nd concert director)   T Bone Burnett   Richard Thompson   Louie Perez   Dave Alvin   Loudon Wainwright III   Peter Case   John Chelew (3rd concert director)   Zachariah Love (4th concert director)   Ruth Barrett (teacher/musician, Amanda's mom)   Amanda Barrett (The Ditty Bops)   

KCRW-FM, licensed to Santa Monica College, is National Public Radio's flagship station for Southern California. The station serves Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura Counties, as well as parts of San Diego, San Bernardino, Kern, and Santa Barbara Counties and the greater Palm Springs area. KCRW.com streams more than 1.5 million hours online every month, and listeners download about 1 million audio and video podcasts per month.

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CONTACT: Sarah Spitz of KCRW.com, +1-310-314-4627, sarah.spitz@kcrw.org

Web Site: http://www.kcrw.com/

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