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Join Andy Kimbel as he features some great talent form the world of singer songwriters. Great tunes plus a special live guest in the studio from London.lus

Tune in and join Andy Kimbel as he presents a fabulous hour of singer songwriters and  very special guests from the UK live in the studio, "Mango Days".  This is the first in a series of shows featuring discussions, songs,  and live studio guests.  
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Jackson Browne and David Lindley played an outstanding set at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 2006. This show is in tribute to David Lindley died at the age of 78 on March 4 2023.

David Lindley was known by many as Jackson Browne's accompanist playing pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, fiddle and a variety of other stringed instruments.  
 We're sad to hear the news of David Lindley's death on March 4th.  As Rolling Stone Magazine stated: "David Lindley, Multi-Instrumentalist Who Shaped the Sound of Soft Rock, Dead at 78".  In addition to Jackson Browne, David Lindley collaborated with the likes of , Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Toto, Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt,  Joe Walsh, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, Curtis Mayfield, Dolly Parton and Ry Cooder.
An active musician since the Sixties, Lindley was a popular session musician whose skillset when it came to playing string instruments like the fiddle and guitar made him a must-have collaborator.  He played in the band "Kaleidoscope" in the 60's and in 1981, formed his own band  El Rayo-X.  Jackson Browne produced their first album. . 
Several days after his death, Browne shared a touching tribute for Lindley, saying he fave his “personality and his inspiration to so many of my songs.”
“We started to play my song ‘These Days,’ and my world changed,” Browne wrote on Instagram on March 17. “His playing was so emotional, and immediate – it cast a spell over me and everyone there. It didn’t matter that he had never heard the song before. What he was playing made it more emotional and more real than it had ever sounded in the years I had played it alone.”
“One of the most talented musicians there has ever been,” Graham Nash wrote. “David could play pretty much any instrument you put in front of him with incredible versatility and expression.”
Lindley could often be found in the studio working alongside other members of The Section, a crew of session musicians who shaped the sound of soft rock in the 1970s. “They were some of the most creative musicians around,” David Crosby, who hired Lindley in 1975, told Rolling Stone back in 2013. “You never had to tell them what to play. You sang them a song and got the fuck out of the way.”
 Enjoy this special tribute to David Lindley as we listen to him accompany Jackson Browne at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in August of 2006. 
 
 

Andy Kimbel performs live in concert on the fly. Yes, Improv. And he said he ”didn’t know the tunes well enough to pull it off.” ”Acoustic Guitar Wizard” Andy Kimbel... Check it out

"His always expressive guitar playing that ranged from frolicking and exuberant to driving and soulful. Whether picking, plucking, or using a skillful slide, Kimbel brings to the stage vision of the roots of American Music that conjures up everything from rambling railroad trains to dark and lonely nights of solitary traveling"...  Big Shout Magazine
"Those who continue to enjoy roots-based folk and blues are drawn to Andy Kimbel as are many music fans who have come to acknowledge and appreciate his musicianship, natural raw talent, and endearing stage presence.. ." WBAI New York
"Andy Kimbel tells his story with voice and guitar, drawing on the techniques that have sustained itinerant blues artists for generations. For this fingerstyle guitarist, the instrument is a portable orchestra, with bass lines, chords, and fragments of melody to support his vocals.” . . .Hawaii Public Radio
"Andy Kimbel is an acoustic blues guitar fingerpicker and string-bender!... "  "Intelligent, soulful songwriting and dazzling guitar work." . . . . Acoustic Guitar Magazine
” He keeps his audiences enticed with a great flow and versatility as his fingers move effortlessly across the neck of the guitar while picking rhythm patterns and leads simultaneously improvising with his own song compositions and a selection of traditional standards.“. . . Philadelphia Inquirer
Who are they all talking about?  Our Andy and Amanda Show Show co-host of course....
Over the last 33 years, Andy Kimbel as an “indie” artist, and on occasion with his backing AK Express band, has performed over 2000 shows at a variety of venues from large festivals and concert halls to smaller more intimate folk clubs, house concerts and listening rooms as well as several television and radio show appearances that included a regular spot on QVC playing to a half million people prime time Wednesday nights earlier in his career. 
Andy delivers spirited, dynamically-packed performances while showcasing both self-penned original songs and strong interpretations of early classic country-blues and early 70's based folk while captivating audiences with his highly reviewed acoustic guitar work. Whether it be a performance for 40 people at a folk club or house concert, thousands at a festival or millions on television, Kimbel makes the stage his home and it shows.
 
 
 

Join Andy as he touches upon the Super Bowl upset, a few news headlines, some great tunes. Country music singer songwriter Kevan Michaels joins Andy later in the show!

- Super Bowl wrap up
-  The scenes are chaotic: Russian tanks veering wildly before exploding or driving straight into minefields, men running in every direction, some on fire, the bodies of soldiers caught in tank tracks.Russian military bloggers are calling it a fiasco, and worse.
-  Turkey cracks down on building contractors as quake death toll reaches grim milestone.  
- Turkish authorities have arrested or detained a number of property developers as the death toll from last week’s horrific earthquake soared past 36,000
-  The Hubble Space Telescope captured images of a mysterious show playing out on Saturn’s rings — ghostly, fleeting “spokes” that appear to move along the planet’s rings. And scientists can’t yet explain why the phenomena happen.
- Have you seen "Ageless Love", a film that was featured on the Andy and Amanda Show last week?  Definitely   look for it on Amazon and other streaming services.  .  Very well done!
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January Jobs Report A+, Andy and Amanda at the movies with guests Beth Caponigro and Nick Runfolo who star in the film ”Ageless Love” Now streaming everywhere.

Come on in and join the conversation as The Andy and Amanda Show talks behind the scenes at the movies, Super Bowl 57 and a special preview of  their adaptation of " A Few Good Men" staring Tom Cruise and Donald Trump!.  Join the show!

The Andy and Amanda Show- Andy Kimbel performs live!

In partnership with Taylor Guitars, Andy Kimbel proudly plays several of their models.  In these live recordings, Andy performs with the Grand Pacific Builders Edition 517.  
Check out this show that features Andy Kimbel on the fly, improvising as he moves from tune to tune!  As a special bonus, check out the live in-studio recordings at the end.... 

A full regular season’s worth of surprises, inevitabilities, overreactions and underreactions has led us to where we are -- the start of a 14-team NFL postseason.

-The hay is in the barn on the league's playoff teams. At this point, we know who and what all of these teams are. Or do we?
-Inflation is expected to have declined in December, but it may not be enough to stop the Fed! The pace of consumer inflation is expected to have fallen slightly in December from the prior month because of a sharp drop in gasoline and energy prices, but the annual rate is still likely to remain uncomfortably high. According to Dow Jones, economists now expect a decline of 0.1% in the consumer price index on a monthly basis, but inflation is still expected to climb at a 6.5% rate from the prior year. Oh boy!
- The drafters of our Constitution were well aware of the threat of foreign influence over U.S. office holders when they wrote the Emoluments Clause, which prohibits anyone holding a position of trust with the United States government from receiving any emoluments — i.e. profits and benefits — from any foreign state..  Hmmm....  Trump’s tax returns show he was a bigger risk than we realized.  If Congress had known about Trump's foreign bank accounts earlier, they could very well have looked into them. Before the beginning of the Trump presidency, he was likely in violation of the Emoluments Clause on the day he took office.
-   Lots to talk about, but it is the Friday show.  Let's try and keep it light and have some fun on the Andy and Amanda Show!  515-605-9888

Did Joe Biden Steal Top Secret Classified Documents and Lie About it?... Nonsense. Will Donald Trump be Indicted? Yep, by several jurisdictions yet. The Countdown has begun!

Donald Trump Lied about  stealing  top secret and classified documents, Donald Trump refused to turn  those documents over, even lied to his own attorneys, Donald Trump allegedly  still has documents hidden somewhere from empty file folders.
 Donald Trump is a deceitful self serving scam artist.  Are we done yet?  Hell no!
The GOP's first bill exposes the false promise of right-wing populism.  Republicans' IRS bill doesn’t help the middle class. It helps rich tax cheats! The GOP’s first policy bill would defund President Biden's efforts to provide assistance to the IRS crack down on tax cheats. It’s a bill that’s predicated on disinformation, whose only real constituency is wealthy people who don’t want to pay their fair share. And it underscores how the Republican Party’s so-called populism isn’t about empowering the working class  it’s about exploiting them!  
- N.Y. Republicans call on lying Rep. George Santos to step down.  Have any  GOP House members done the same?  Interesting ey'? 
- Trumpism is no longer just America’s problem. Brazil’s rioters are part of a global effort to subvert democracy. The similarities between the images of Jan. 8 and those of the Jan. 6, 2021, coup attempt in the U.S. suggest the use of a similar playbook. Like Donald Trump, Bolsonaro engaged in relentless misleading information campaigns designed to discredit his country’s electoral system. 
- Not so sure we'll touch upon these topics as the Andy and Amanda Show is unscripted, raw live talk radio (515-605-9888).  Approaching three years and almost 500 episodes, the two co- hosts and their show coordinator Cornell Butler have never met and  do the show from the UK , California and Delaware.  Lots of fun , great guests and enjoyable sometimes insightful conversation. Tune in!