Here’s what’s on tap for WXPN’s Thanksgiving Programming

Kid…we realize you’ve got a busy day ahead of you on Thursday, whether you’re spending Thanksgiving cooking dinner for family and friends, or you’re stuck at work or otherwise separated from the ones you love.

Maybe you’re on an epic trip from New York to Kansas to Chicago with a gregarious co-traveler. Maybe you’re watching law enforcement take 27 eight-by-twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was.

Pop cultural references aside, we here at WXPN hope to make your day as stress free as possible, and we’ll do that the best way we know how: through music. Here’s a run-down of what you’ll hear on our airwaves and webstream from the crack of dawn to the late night hours on Thanksgiving. Listen all day at 88.5 FM in Philadelphia, or XPN.org anywhere there’s an internet connection!

6 a.m. to noon: Sleepy Hollow Thanksgiving with Chuck Elliot.

Noon to 2 p.m.: MIdday with Helen Leicht, including a full broadcast of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”.

2 to 4 p.m.: World Café with Talia Schlanger welcomes Ruston Kelly, aka Mr. Kacey Musgraves, for an interview and performance.

4 to 8 p.m.: Highs in the 70s with Dan Reed, featuring a full playback of The Last Waltz, famously recorded on Thanksgiving day 1976.

8 to 10 p.m.: An encore of World Café with Talia Schlanger rebroadcasts our session with Kacey Musgraves.

10 to 11 p.m.: XPN Music Mix

11 p.m. to 1 a.m.: Echoes with John Diliberto.