In honor of WGXC's 15th birthday, this episode of Music In Time explores the changes and growth that can take place over a decade and a half. Join host Evan McCormick as he spins a selection of song pairings: one track from an artist's debut album, and another from an album released 15 years after that debut. (Not such an easy task when you start researching artists that lasted 15 years, let alone that released an album in their 15th year!). The playlist explores how much music styles change -- all while staying true to their spirit -- not unlike this humble little station at the heart of this sonic community in the Hudson River Valley!

1. Simmer Down - Bob Marley & The Wailers (1965, The Wailing Wailers)
2. Redemption Song - Bob Marley & The Wailers (1980, Uprising)
3. Here We Are In The Years - Neil Young (1968, Neil Young)
4. Wonderin' - Neil Young (1983, Everybody's Rockin')
5. Clocks - Emmylou Harris (1970, The Gliding Bird)
6. Timberline - Emmylou Harris (1983, The Ballad of Sally Rose)
7. Breakdown - Tom Petty (1976, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
8. Into The Great Wide Open - Tom Petty (1991, Into The Great Wide Open)
9. Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (1978, The Kick Inside)
10. Constellation of The Heart - Kate Bush (1993, The Red Shoes)
11. Evergreen - The Brian Jonestown Massacre (1995, Methodrone)
12. One - The Brian Jonestown Massacre (2010, Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?)
13. Streets Of Fire - Destroyer (1996, We'll Build Them A Golden Bridge)
14. Another Savage Night At The Opera - Destroyer (2011, Kaputt)

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Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Host Evan McCormick uses different formats to play with the idea of music in time—sometimes focusing on a single album and detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release, sometimes putting together playlists that explore a theme or concept in songs through the years. Each broadcast asks: how is music shaped by its own historical moment, and, in turn, how does music shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he uses oral history interviews to understand how people remember and make sense of the past. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.