‘Your Sunday Brunch’ Menu for June 30, 2013

How are you going to celebrate our nation's Independence Day?

On 'Your Sunday Brunch' we'll be playing lots of patriotic songs to get you ready for the Fourth of July. There's also concerts to get excited about this week, birthdays to commemorate and plenty of music news to tell you about.

It's also the last day of June so we'll cue up half an album for you at the start of the 8 a.m. hour.'Your Sunday Brunch' Menu for June 30, 2013

All-American Appetizers: 'Livin' in the U.S.A.-Steve Miller Band (at Red Rocks 8-4)

'U.S. Blues'-Grateful Dead (off their 'Steal Your Face' release in 1974)

Music News: 'Power To The People'-John Lennon (his sunglasses will be auctioned 7-26)

'Don't Be Cruel'-Cheap Trick (Elvis Presley's Cadillac will also be sold by Mecum Auction)

Rock Losses: 'Whip It'-Devo (drummer Alan Myers died of cancer on 6-24)

'In The Flesh'-Pink Floyd ('The Wall' stage designer Mark Fisher died at 66)

'Album Side Sunday'-America (debut release in 1971)

Concerts: 'Runaround'-Blues Traveler (at Red Rocks 7-4)

'Will The Wolf Survive'-Los Lobos (playing the Greeley Stampede on 6-30)

'Heaven'-Los Lonely Boys (opening for Los Lobos at Island Grove Park)

Fourth of July Songs: 'Saturday in the Park'-Chicago

'4th of July'-Soundgarden

Musical Birthdays: 'Good'-Better Than Ezra (bassist Tom Drummond turns 44)

'So Far Away'-Dire Straits (guitarist Hal Lindes born in Monterrey, CA 60 years ago)

Dessert: 'Iko Iko'-The Dixie Cups

Please join me from 7 to 10 a.m. for 'Your Sunday Brunch' on 101.9 KING FM-Grateful Mike