KRLX mix #7 (2/24/2018)

The prostitution. The graffiti. The garbage strikes. The crime. Life in 1970s New York wasn’t all strolls on the High Line and avocado toast for brunch. The music, though! That gritty time produced a wealth of musical pearls, from the plaintive storytelling of Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” to Isaac Hayes’s swaggering “Theme from Shaft.” If you’ve yet to cross 110th Street, now’s the time.