Music You Can’t Hear On The Radio
with John Weingart
Sunday Evenings from 7:00-10:00 PM
WPRB in Princeton, New Jersey
(103.3 FM & WPRB.com)

SENDING NEW MUSIC

I am always happy to hear music that performers, record labels or others like and think might fit well on Music You Can’t Hear On The Radio. Nevertheless, many of the CDs I receive never make it onto my show because I have only three hours a week in which to choose from all the new music and the thousands of records and CDs from past months, years or decades that I still love. What I do choose to play is of course impossible to quantify and difficult to define. Although the show is centered around folk music and bluegrass, I will include any other kind of music if I like the song or tune. I gravitate toward bluegrass-traditional and progressive, old-timey, interesting versions of older folk songs and blues, songs about unusual people or events, and newer songs about history or politics particularly if they’re somewhat subtle and not too heavy-handed, and I always like to hear songs about New Jersey or from musicians who live or were raised in the Garden State. Also, I like anything – sung or spoken – that is funny. Finally, I try to play music from artists who will soon be performing in New Jersey, Bucks County or Philadelphia. On the other hand, as a 57-year-old DJ, I am rarely moved by new love songs from singer-songwriters much younger than I am, nor do I tend to play songs about Texas or songs about the life of musicians on the road.

To gain more of a sense of my taste, please look at some of the Radio Playlists and Recommended Music sections of this website. Also, please note that I am not a critic. If I don’t play a particular album or artist, it could be because I don’t like it, but more likely it just means I didn’t manage to fit it in. And take solace in the fact that very little that I like ever achieves any significant commercial success.

Please send music you would like me to hear to:

John Weingart
79 Rittenhouse Road
Stockton, NJ 08559