Bobby Smith: On Summer of Sound and what's up at XRAY

Published: July 7, 2022, 11 p.m.

b"Hey. I have recovered enough from back surgery to make it over to my desk and start a whole new round of Coffeeshop Conversations episodes via Skype and other methods.\\nI hope to be sitting in the Artichoke Caf\\xe9 in another month. I said hope to.\\nI know that today our guest is Bobby Smith, XRAY radio DJ (and he\\u2019ll make some news about that). He\\u2019s archivist for the Albina Music Trust who, along with World Arts Foundation will be presenting a series of concerts and discussions and spoken word events all over town this summer. They\\u2019re calling it Summer of Sound.\\nIt's a celebration of Portland\\u2019s Black music\\u2026past and present.\\nWe\\u2019ll find out all about that and all of Bobby\\u2019s fine work. Meet Bobby Smith."