Here is the playlist for the episode, Beginning Again, which aired on 2 January 2026:Title | Artist  | AlbumIntro: Beginning Again | Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express | Straight AheadBackground Track: Positive Activity | Matthew Halsall | Changing EarthAbout To Begin | Robin Trower | Bridge of SighsBegin The Begin | R.E.M. | Life’s Rich PageantResolution | Virginia Plain | Strange GameResolution | Prince | Planet EarthAdvice For the Young at Heart | Tears For Fears | The Seeds of LoveAlan Watts Blues | Van Morrison | Poetic Champions ComposeBe Still | Herbie Hancock | Future 2 Future Strength, Courage & Wisdom | India Arie | Acoustic SoulFeeling Good | Nina Simone | I Put A Spell On You 

Here is the playlist for the episode entitled Global Rhythms, which aired on 26 December 2025:Title | Artist  | AlbumBeautiful Seven | Osibisa | WoyayaBackground Track: Paris | Groove Armada | Soundboy RockYulunga (Spirit Dance) | Dead Can Dance | Into The Labrynth Distant Thoughts | Hiroshima | Third GenerationThe White Winds & The White Boats | Andreas Vollenweider | The White WindsHall of the Stairs & Hall of the Mosaics | Andreas Vollenweider | The White WindsStone Flower | Santana | CaravanseraiFlora’s Song | Airto Moreira | FreeMoon Go-Go | Cascadia ‘10 | Pharaohs of Elysium

Here is the playlist for the episode Turning Back Toward The Light that aired on 19 December 2025:Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Lights in the Sky | George Winston | ForestLight and Song | William Ackerman | A Winter’s Solstice, Vol. 5Light | Michael Kiwanuka | KIWANUKAEngravings II | Ira Stein & Russell Walder | A Winter’s Solstice, Vol. 1At First Light | Ralph Towner | At First LightLight In You | Emma Ninel | UpstairsInsideBeyondToward The Light | Chris Spheeris & Anthony Mazzella | BrioPart of the Light | Ray LaMontagne | Part of the LightIn This Small Spot | Tim Story | Windham Hill Piano SamplerToward The Light | Nighttime | Turning Wheel EP20 Degrees Below | Paul McCandless | A Winter’s Solstice ReunionLight My Fire | Eliane Elias | Light My FireNollaig | Billy Oskay & Micheal O Dohmnaill | A Winter’s Solstice, Vol. 1

Here is the playlist for the episode Myths, Legends & Mysteries, which aired on KMRE-FM on 12 December 2025: Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Mysterious Island | Micky Hart | Planet DrumHypnotized | Fleetwood Mac | Mystery To MeComing Home | Fleetwood Mac | Heroes Are Hard To FindBermuda Triangle | Fleetwood Mac | Heroes Are Hard To FindTales of Brave Ulysses | Cream | Disraeli GearsSysyphus Pt. 2 | Pink Floyd | UmmagummaIcarus | Paul Winter Consort | IcarusMysterious Signals | DJ Mibor & Chocolate Soul | The Soundtrack of My LifeThe Mysterious Disappearance of Louis LePrince | The Rachels | SelenographyMary Celeste | Keaton Henson | The Lucky EPMary Celeste | Tyler Stokes | StokesThe Battle of Evermore | Led Zeppelin | Led Zeppelin IV

Here is the playlist for the episode, Miles Away, that aired on 5 December 2025:Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track #1: Miles To Go | Bill Paul Williams | Miles To Go25 Miles | Edwin Starr |  Miles Away | Fleetwood Mac | Mystery To MeMiles Away | Jackson Browne | I’m AliveBackground Track #2: Mile | Flingu |  Nothing Like A Hundred Miles | James Taylor | In The PocketMiles From Our Home | Cowboy Junkies | Miles From Our HomeMany The Miles | Sara Bareilles | Little VoiceBackground Track #3: Miles (Love’s Silent Dawn) | Roy Ayers Ubiquity | A Tear To A Smile½ A Million Miles From Home | Albert Hammond | Albert HammondA Thousand Dusty Miles | Spencer Bohren | Makin’ It Home To YouA Million Miles Away | Rory Gallagher | TattooA Million Miles Away | Michael Shrieve | Abraxas PoolBackground Track #4: Miles Away | Schwarz & Funk  | Eivissa LoungeMiles From Nowhere | Cat Stevens  | Tea For The Tillerman

Here is the playlist for my Thanksgiving 2025 radio show:Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Thanksgiving | George Winston | DecemberThankful | Johnny Lang w/Michael McDonald | Turn AroundThanks | The James Gang | The James Gang Runs AgainEasy To Be Hard | Three Dog Night | Suitable For FramingHouse of Living | Heartsfield | The Wonder of It AllGive A Little Bit | Supertramp | Even In The Quietest MomentsShare The Land | The Guess Who | Share The LandGive A Damn | The Staples Singers | We’ll Get OverHammer And a Nail | Indigo Girls | Nomads – Indians - SaintsBrother’s Keeper | Glen Hansard | This Wild WillingGive It Up | Hothouse Flowers | HomeTake Me To The Alley | Gregory Porter | Take Me To The AlleyWhat The World Needs Now | Tank and the Bangas and Friends | What The World Needs Now Love Is The Answer | Todd Rundgren w/Utopia | Oops! Wrong Planet

Here is the playlist for the episode, Taking Flight, which aired on 21 November 2025:Title | Artist  | AlbumIntro Track: Flight Over Rio | Timax | Cocktail HourBackground Track: Flight | Michael E | Island LifeThis Flight Tonight | Joni Mitchell | BlueEight Miles High | The Byrds | Fifth DimensionFlight #303 | Feist | Monarch: Lay Down Your Jeweled HeadFlight 602 | Chicago | Chicago IIIYogic Flying | Matthew Halsall | Changing EarthFly By Night | Rush | Fly By NightFlying High In The Friendly Skies | Marvin Gaye | What’s Going On?Flying | Chris Isaak | Speak Of The DevilFlight Time | Donald Byrd | Black ByrdFlying | Michael Nesmith | Infinite Rider On The Big DogmaFlying Cloud | The Doobie Brothers | What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits

Here is the playlist from the episode Free As A Bird Vol. I (Folk) that aired on 14 November 2025:Title | Artist  | AlbumIntro Track: Albatross | Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood MacBackground Track: Song To A Seagull | Don Sebesky | Giant BoxSong To A Seagull | Joni Mitchell | Song To A SeagullBird Flew By | Nick Drake | Family TreeShe’s A Bird | Country Joe & The Fish | CJ FishWhite Bird | It’s A Beautiful Day | It’s A Beautiful DayBroken Bird | David Crosby & Graham Nash | Whistling Down The WireThis Bird Has A Broken Wing | Sun Kil Moon | Among The LeavesBirds Over Water | Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter | Oh, My GirlBirds | Kokin Gumi | Zen GardenBirds | Neil Young | After The Gold RushBird On A Wire | Leonard Cohen | Songs From A Room Birds In Flight | George Winston | Windham Hill - A Summer’s Solstice 2Boats & Birds | Gregory & The Hawk | Gregory & The Hawk EPSeagull | Bad Company | Bad Company

Here is the playlist for the episode, It's About Time Vol. 1 that aired on 7 November 2025 on KMRE-FM 88.3:Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Time To Lounge | Alkemix | Rendezvous LoungeSpace Intro | Steve Miller Band | Fly Like An EagleFly Like An Eagle | Steve Miller Band | Fly Like An EagleIf I Could Turn Back The Hands of Time  | Tyrone Davis | Turn Back The Hands of TimeDoes Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? | Chicago | Chicago Transit AuthorityTime Bomb | Lake | Lake The Beauty of Time Is That It Is Snowing (Psychedelic B.B.) | Steve Miller Band | Children Of The FutureRight Place Wrong Time | Dr. John | In The Right PlaceTime To Space | Loggins & Messina | Mother LodeTimes Like These | Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Ghost Of A DogWiser Time  | The Black Crowes | Amorica N Perfect Time | Sheila E. | Writes Of PassageEv’ry Time We Say Goodbye | John Coltrane   | My Favorite Things Some Other Time | Tony Bennett/Bill Evans | The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album

Here is the playlist for DJ DrZen's Music Box & Travelogue show for Halloween 2025:Title | Artist  | AlbumOpening Track:  Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun | Pink Floyd | A Saucerful of SecretsParabrahm Greeting/Dwellers of the Threshold | White Witch | White WitchWelcome To My Nightmare | Alice Cooper | Welcome To My NightmareIntro Monologue: Devils Food | Alice Cooper w/Vincent Price | Welcome To My NightmareWaking The Witch | Kate Bush | Hounds of LoveBloodletting | Concrete Blonde | BloodlettingOne of These Days | Pink Floyd | MeddleAll You Zombies | The Hooters | AmoreDead Man’s Party | Oingo Boingo | Dead Man’s PartyThe Witch Queen of New Orleans | Redbone | The Essential RedboneDevil’s Haircut | Beck | OdelayThey Are Night Zombies!! | Sufjan Stevens | Come On Feel The Illinoise!Werewolves of London | Warren Zevon | Excitable BoyKill Devil Falls | Phish | JoyI Put a Spell On You | Nina Simone | I Put a Spell On You

Here is the playlist from DJ DrZen's Music Box & Travelogue show entitled Cafe' del Mar, which aired on KMRE-FM 88.3 on 24 October 2025.Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Adios Ayer | Jose Padilla | Café del Mar Vol. 6Get Back To Serenity (Beach Mix) | Vargo | Café del Mar Dreams Vol. 2Dub In Ya Mind (Beach Mix) | Afterlife | Café del Mar Vol. 6Altogether Blue | Horns of Plenty | Café del Mar 20thAnniversaryVoyeur De Luxe | Plastyc Buddha | Café del Mar Dreams Vol. 2Homebase | dZihan & Kamien | Café del Mar Vol. 5Castillos de Arena | Deep & Wide | Café del Mar Dreams Vol. 2Troubled Girl | Karen Ramirez | Café del Mar Vol. 4Gambarra | Cantoma | Out of TownAdios Ayer | Jose Padilla | Café del Mar Vol. 6

Here is the playlist from the episode CSNY 1975 - What If? that aired on 17 October 2025.Title | Artist  | AlbumBacking Track: Tamalpais Hight (At About 3) | David Crosby | If I Could Only Remember My NameTurn Back The Pages | Stephen Stills | StillsDanger Bird | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | ZumaBittersweet | David Crosby & Graham Nash | Wind On The WaterMama Lion | David Crosby & Graham Nash | Wind On The WaterPardon My Heart  | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | ZumaNew Mama | Stephen Stills | StillsDon’t Cry No Tears | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | ZumaHomeward Through The Haze | Crosby, Stills Nash & Young | The David Crosby Box SetIn The Way | Stephen Stills | StillsNaked In The Rain | David Crosby & Graham Nash | Wind On The WaterThrough My Sails | Neil Young & Crazy Horse | ZumaMyth of Sisyphus | Stephen Stills | StillsTo The Last Whale: I. Critical Mass, II. Wind On The Water | David Crosby & Graham Nash | Wind On The Water

Here is the playlist from the episode entitled Astral Traveling that aired on 10 October 2025.Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Ho Doi | Yulara | All In OneEternal Caravan of Reincarnation | Santana | CaravanseraiWhere Have I Known You Before? | Chick Corea | Here Have I Known You Before?Journey In Satchidananda | Alice Coltrane | Journey In SatchidinandaAstral Traveling | Pharoah Sanders | ThembiA Far Away Place | Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra | When The World Was OneOn Jupiter | Sun Ra & His Arkestra | On JupiterDistant Hills | Oregon | Distant HillsA Love Supreme, Pt. 1 Acknowledgement | John Coltrane  | A Love Supreme Naima | Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin | Love Devotion Surrender

Here is the playlist for my Episode entitled Goin' To The Country; a musical exploration of songs inspired by the "Back To The Land" movement during the 1960's and 1970's. Title | Artist  | AlbumBacking Track: Woodstock | Lisa Hilton | Twilight & BluesGoin’ Up The Country | Canned Heat | Livin’ The BluesWoodstock | Matthews Southern Comfort | Later That Same YearGoing To The Country | Steve Miller Band | Number 5Country Comfort | Elton John | Tumbleweed ConnectionLong Way Home (Live In The Country) | Dan Fogelberg | Home FreeAre You Ready For The Country | Neil Young | Harvest Out In The Country | Three Dog Night | It Ain’t Easy House In The Country | Blood, Sweat & Tears | Child Is Father To The ManUkiah | The Doobie Brothers | The Captain & MeBe Free | Loggins & Messina | Mother LodeColorado Song | The Ozark Mountain Daredevils  | The Ozark Mountain DaredevilsCountryside | 100 Year Thing | Chris Stills

Here is the playlist from DJ DrZen’s Music Box & Travelogue show on 26 September 2025, featuring New Orleans Musicians. The Music Box & Travelogue show airs every Friday night from 11pm to Midnight Pacific time on Community Powered @KMRE-FM 88.3, on the worldwide web @KMRE.org and on the Tune In app. DJ DrZen’s Music Box & Travelogue - 26 September 2025 - New Orleans Musicians Vol. I  Playlist Background Track: Big Chief Pt. 1 | Professor Longhair | Mardi Gras In New OrleansMama Roux | Dr. John | Gris-GrisDoctor Doctor | The Radiators | Law Of The FishShe’s Alone | The Subdudes | The SubdudesEternelle | Helen Gillet | ReBelleVieux Caribe | Johnny Sketch & The Dirty Notes | Sketch Malas Vibras | The Iguanas | If You Should Ever Fall On Hard TimesDesperation | Johnny Sansone | Into Your BluesDance | Erica Falls | HomeGrownWhere I Belong | Galactic & Irma Thomas | Audience With The QueenCrescent City Sneaux | Susan Cowsill | Lighthouse

Here is my broadcast from Friday September 19th with a curated playlist to ease us into the change of seasons as we approach the Autumn Equinox here in the northern hemisphere.  Tune in to my show from 11pm-Midnight Pacific time on Fridays on Community Powered KMRE 88.3 FM on the radio dial, on the worldwide web at KMRE.org and on the Tune In app! Autumn Equinox Playlist - 19 September 2025Title | Artist  | AlbumBackground Track: Summer’s End | Oregon | In StrideIndian Summer | Poco | Indian SummerIf I Could Make September Stay | Michael Franks | Time TogetherVariations | Gabriel Lee | SeasonsHarvest Breed | Nick Drake | Pink MoonFrom The Morning | Nick Drake | Pink MoonColors/Dance | George Winston | AutumnAutumn Town Leaves | Iron & Wine | Weed Garden‘Tis Autumn | Chet Baker | ChetHarvest Moon | Neil Young  | Harvest MoonSeasons | Dave Mason | Let It FlowSweet Seasons | Carole King | MusicSeasons  | Elton John | Friends Soundtrack

Enjoy some fabulous tunes by bands that recorded on the Capricorn Records label! The Music Box & Travelogue show with DJ DrZen airs every Friday night from 11pm to Midnight Pacific time on KMRE-FM 88.3 on the radio dial, on the worldwide web at KMRE.org and on the Tune In app.Here is the playlist from the Capricorn Records show broadcast on 12 SEPT 2025Title | Artist  | Album:Backing Track: Jessica | Allman Brothers Band | Brothers & SistersRevival | Allman Brothers Band | Idlewild SouthQueen of Hearts | Gregg Allman | Laid BackRain In Spain | Sea Level | Sea LevelRefried Funky Chicken | Dixie Dregs | Free FallFooled Around And Fell In Love | Elvin Bishop | Have A Good TimeA Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come & Gone) | Captain Beyond | Captain BeyondSleepwalk | White Witch | White WitchWalkin’ (For Your Love) | Widespread Panic | Widespread PanicCrazyhorse Mongoose | Galactic | Crazyhorse MongooseSoulsine | Gov’t. Mule | The Deep End

DJ DrZen’s Music Box & TravelogueEpisode 4 - Wanderlust PlaylistTitle | Artist  | AlbumBacking Track: Aerial Boundaries | Michael Hedges | Aerial BoundariesBorn To Wander  | Rare Earth | EcologyRoad Fever | Foghat | Rock & RollThe Road’s My Middle Name  | Bonnie Raitt | Nick of TimeWanderlust  | Nick Gallant | WanderlustWanderlust  | David Sylvian | Dead Bees On A CakeAcross The River   | Bruce Hornsby | A Night On The TownMagnetic North   | Zachary Cale | False SpringMidnight Rider   | Gregg Allman | Laid BackRamblin’ (Wo)man   | Cat Power | JukeboxWanderlust  | Frank Black | Fast Man Raider ManComing Home | Leon Bridges | Coming Home

Title | Artist  | Album | Run TimeBacking Track: After The Dance (Instrumental) | Marvin Gaye | I Want YouRuler of My Heart | Irma Thomas | Soul Queen of New Orleans | 2:35Sunday Kind of Love  | Etta James | At Last! | 3:17Nowhere To Run | Martha Reeves & The Vandellas | Dance Party | 4:05Rescue Me | Fontella Bass | Now I Found A Good Thing | 2:50Mr. Big Stuff  | Jeannie Knight | Mr. Big Stuff | 2:45Tell Me | Sharon Jones & Dap Kings | 100 Days, 100 Nights | 2:46Clean Up Woman | Betty Wright | The Essentials – Betty Wright | 2:47Chain of Fools | Aretha Franklin | Aretha: Lady Soul | 2:50My Guy  | Mary Wells | Mary Wells Sings My Guy | 2:54Walk On By | Dionne Warwick | The Dionne Warwick Collection | 2:58Private Dancer | Tina Turner | Private Dancer | 4:57Band of Gold | Freda Payne | Soul Hits of the 70’s | 2:57If I Were Your Woman | Gladys Knight | AM Gold - 1971 | 3:11I’ll Take You There | Mavis Staples - Staple Singers | Be Altitude: Respect Yourself | 4:49Feel Like Makin’ Love | Roberta Flack | Roberta Flack Essentials | 2:58

This week's episode of DJ DrZen's Music Box & Travelogue, featured songs by bands/musicians from  my home state of Ohio.Playlist:Background Track: Yadig –Thirds | James Gang | 1971 Music –Homegrown | Ekoostik Hookah | 2002 Message of Love – Pretenders II | The Pretenders | 1981 For The Love Of Money –  | The O’Jays | 1973 It’s Your Thing –It’s Our Thing | The Isley Brothers | 1970 He Can’t Love You –Heartland | Michael Stanley Band | 1981 Love Rollercoaster –Honey | Ohio Players | 1975 Philmore –America Eats Its Young | Funkadelic | 1972 Fear Is Never Boring-The Bears | The Bears | 1985 Whip It –Freedom of Choice | Devo | 1980 Lowdown –Silk Degrees | Boz Scaggs | 1976 Let It Whip – Keep It Live | Dazz Band | 1982 April Morning-Haunted Melodies | Rasaahn Roland Kirk | 1999 Talkin’ Bout A Revolution –Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman  | 1988