Nick Morrison
Nick began working at KNKX as a program host in the late 1980’s and, except for a relatively brief hiatus, spent the next three decades with the station. He worked as a jazz and blues host, music director and production manager. Nick retired from KNKX in 2024.
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In 2018, Washington state officially recognized Cesar Chavez Day, celebrating the activist on his birthday. It's also the day the United States began formally observed daylight saving time during WWI. -
Two different blues harmonica players called themselves" Sonny Boy Williamson." The first was born on this day in 1914. Also on this date, Hymen Lipman received a patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. -
U.S. President John Tyler was born on this day in 1790. Seattle annexed brewing-loving Georgetown in 1910 and it's the birthday of jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker. -
Let’s all thank a fellow named Nathaniel Briggs who, in 1797, filed the first U.S. patent for a washing machine. But unfortunately, that filing didn't translate into Briggs' enterprise taking off. -
Blues singer Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland was born on this day in Tennessee. It's the day in 1915 when the woman know as "Typhoid Mary" was permanently quarantined and opening day of Seattle's Kingdome stadium. -
On this day in 1949, English rocker Nick Lowe was born. In 2018, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida organized the March for Our Lives. -
On this day in 1969, Florida teen Mike Levesque started the Rally for Decency in 1969 after an indecent on-stage incident with Jim Morrison. Singer/songwriter Don Covay was born in 1936. And in 2020 the West Seattle Bridge closed, making getting in an out of West Seattle a living hell. -
On this day, the British Empire passed the 1765 Stamp Act and a formative strike began on the Tacoma docks in 1886. In 1965, Bob Dylan released a new album, shocking his folk fans with an electric sound. -
Johann Sebastian Bach is born in 1685. A 1925 photo of a guy (Gunnar) and a dog (Balto) resurfaces a legendary dog sled relay to Nome, Alaska. -
Jazz pianist and NPR host Marian McPartland was born on this day in 1918. And what might be the Seattle Mariners' earliest Opening Day game took place in 2016.
