The B-Town Bee

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  • The Bright Light of the Dark End of the Street

    Pioneering radio show turns over the reins after more than three decades By Mike Leonard When program host Bill Weaver announced his retirement from the WFHB show, “Dark End of the Street” in late December, fans and friends of the program all seemed to say the same thing: “It’s the end of an era.” Dark…

  • You Wanna Boogie?Boogie Woogie Woogie With Me

    Singer/songwriter John Hartford made up that line, and you can drop it if you like at this year’s Bloomington Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Festival. By Mike Leonard Hartford’s little ditty paid homage to the playful double-entendre tunes of jazz and blues and whatever your wink-wink interpretation such references suggested. They all meant ‘having a…