Acoustic Café: An ALL JAZZ show, featuring some of our finest jazz performers live in-studio
On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, it's a special show featuring the great jazz performances we've recorded in our...
Rob Reinhart is host of WDET's "Essential Music." The rest of Rob's week is spent producing the syndicated program "Acoustic Cafe," heard on 125 commercial and noncommercial radio stations, and online at Acafe.com. Since 1995, "Acoustic Cafe" has featured interviews and performances with songwriting greats, from Willie Nelson to Robert Glasper, Norah Jones to Joan Baez, Bob Seger to Ledisi, Emmylou Harris to Courtney Barnett and hundreds more.
Over the last 30 years, Reinhart has also owned a small ad agency, written and produced syndicated comedy for radio, voiced thousands of radio and TV commercials, consulted movie, television and internet media projects, and even been the voice of Radio Bonnaroo. He is also a partner in SongCraft Presents, a video songwriting series, creating new songs with interesting people in cool places!
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Playing ‘catch up’ with a ton of new music released since the Spring Fundraiser
This week's episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music featured a ton of new music issued since our recently concluded Spring...
Acoustic Café: Songs for this moment in history from Crys Matthews; archived performances from Katie Gavin, Mike Doughty + more
On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, guest Crys Matthews, plays songs from her new album "Reclamation". Crys calls herself...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Tunes you probably know in languages you may not… From Motown to Beyonce in Italian, Spanish, Japanese + more
This week's episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music showcases huge hits performed by the original artists in foreign languages! From classic...
Acoustic Café: Ottawa’s Leif Vollebekk shares new songs in studio, archived performances from Brandi Carlile, Shemekia Copeland + more
On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, our guest Leif Vollebekk tells us about the interesting discoveries he made during...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Smokey Robinson turns 85, new tunes from Yukimi, St. Motel + lots more
On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, Smokey Robinson turned 85 this week, so lots of appropriate music for...
Acoustic Café: Celebrating our many shows at The Leon Loft in Ann Arbor
On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, we look back at some memorable moments from The Leon Loft in Ann...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: The annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Show — heartbreak, misery and more!
On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, it's the annual Anti-Valentine's Day Show, featuring all the downsides of love...
Acoustic Café: MUNA front woman Katie Gavin’s solo debut; plus in-studio archives from Gregory Porter, Whitney + more
On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, pop band MUNA's front woman Katie Gavin plays songs from her solo debut...
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Lots of winners from last week’s Grammys; new Valerie June, Detroit’s Kalysta + more
On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, some of our favorites who picked up Grammy Awards last week...Plus, new...
Acoustic Café: Jeffrey Foucault with an amazing band; in-studio archives from Joan Baez, Aqualung + more
On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, our guest is Jeffrey Foucault, with his first new album in six years....
Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music: Remembering Marianne Faithfull, muse to many; also new Allen Stone, Owade + more
On this episode of Rob Reinhart's Essential Music, we'll mark the passing of Marianne Faithfull... a truly amazing life in...