In Memory of Pete Stewart: Radio Something 2026/2/11

During my February 11, 2026, show, I paid tribute to WPKN’s dear friend and longtime programmer, Pete Stewart. He was one of the true craftsmen of freeform radio—thoughtful, intuitive, and quietly brilliant—and one of the gentlest souls to ever walk through the doors at WPKN.For many years, Pete’s van carried a bumper sticker that read, “Obey gravity, it’s the law.” It made me smile every single time I passed it. Somehow, it felt perfectly Pete.PlaylistCathy Kreger / Can't Find My Way Home / Grand Central Waltz / Passing Tone Music Traffic / Dear Mr. Fantasy / 60s Psychedelic Rock / Universal Music India Pvt Ltd. Penguin Cafe Orchestra / Music For A Found Harmonium / Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer) / Universal Music Mose Allison / I Live the Life I Love / Live 1978 / Liberation HallTerrance Simien's Krewe De Monifique / Tomber Amour Encore (Fell in Love Again) / Ancestral Grooves / Music Matters Records Sam Cooke / Twistin' The Night Away - Live / One Night Stand - Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963 / SME Ry Cooder / Little Sister / Bop Till You Drop / Warner Catalog and O/H Shakey Graves / The Perfect Parts / And The War Came / Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. Shawn Colvin / You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Live at the Bottom Line, NYC, NY - August 1993) / Cover Girl / ColumbiaJake Blount / Once There Was No Sun / Once There Was No Sun / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Norah Jones / Black Hole Sun - Live / ‘Til We Meet Again (Live) / Blue Note (BLU) Lucinda Williams / Big Red Sun Blues / Lucinda Williams (Deluxe) / Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.Norma Tanega / Walkin' My Cat Named Dog / Hippies: 60's & 70's Classics / Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group Nina Simone / Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter / The Essential Nina Simone / RCA/BMG Heritage Thomas Dolby / The Toad Lickers (feat. Imogen Heap) / A Map Of The Floating City / Non-Wea/Other Talking Heads / (Nothing But) Flowers / Naked / Parlophone UKYoung Dubliners / The Rocky Road To Dublin / St. Patrick's Day Party Jam! / MBO - The Music Business Organisation A/S Mimi And Richard Farina / Bold Marauder / Reflections In A Crystal Wind / Vanguard J.J. Cale / Anyway The Wind Blows / Forever Man / Reprise Bettye LaVette / Don't Get Me Started / LaVette! / Jay-Vee Inc.Keb' Mo' / Put a Woman in Charge (feat. Rosanne Cash) / Put a Woman in Charge (feat. Rosanne Cash) / Concord Records Charlie Musselwhite / Chan Chan (Charlie's Blues) / Continental Drifter / Virgin Catalog (V81) Taj Mahal / Hooray Hooray / Hooray Hooray / Nonesuch Toshi Reagon / Happy And Satisfied / Righteous Ones / Razor & TieGil Scott-Heron / Winter In America / The Bottle / Prestige Elite USA Jack Hardy / Winter Sunlight / Noir / Jack Hardy Miles Davis / Blue In Green / aboutJAZZ / Universal Music Division Decca Records France Lui Collins / Baptism of Fire / Baptism of Fire / Molly Gamblin MusicTerrance Simien's Krewe De Monifique / Caribbean Second Line / Ancestral Grooves / Music Matters Records Traffic / Dear Mr. Fantasy / 60s Psychedelic Rock / Universal Music India Pvt Ltd. Chris Smither / Hey, Hey, Hey / Chris Smither Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop ... /  Chick Corea & Bela Fleck / Bemsha Swing / Remembrance / Béla Fleck Productions