---Retroactive--December 27, 2008: Thanks to Joe Pollock (heard on KAOS' The Road Goes On Forever, American Anecdotes and more) for filling in on a moment's notice. We've had a lot of snow lately, and my car was just spinning its wheels on my extremely icy street--no way to get to the main roads. I appreciate it, Joe.
---Retroactive #714--December 20, 2008: Ron Sexsmith--Spiritude Steve Turner with Holly Golightly--A Beautiful Winter Amos Milburn--Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby Darlene Love--White Christmas The Bobs--Yuleman vs. the Anti-Claus Marah--New York Is a Christmas Kind of Town Jim Lauderdale--Holly and Her Mistletoe Sista Monica Parker--You Gotta Move Smash Mouth--Don't Believe In Christmas Lou Rawls--Good Time Christmas Peter Himmelman & David Broza--Lighting Up the World Dave Brubeck--Winter Wonderland Elvis Costello--Two Little Hitlers James White--Christmas with Satan Toni Childs--Mama's In the Kitchen Goree Carter--Rock Awhile The Hentchmen--Come On Santa Odetta--Shout for Joy (live, 2005) Art Carney--Santa and the Doodle-Li-Boop The Fleshtones--Super Rock Santa Mary Chapin Carpenter--Bells are Ringing (2008 version) The Boxmasters--Christmas In Prison Nicole Blackman--What I Want for Christmas Ingrid Lucia--'Zat You, Santa Claus Louis Armstrong & Velma Singleton--Baby It's Cold Outside (live) Esther Phillips--How Blue Can You Get; Into the Mystic Bela Fleck & the Flacktones--Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas A Rubber Band Christmas---Rubber to the World Graham Parker & Nona Hendryx--Soul Christmas
---Retroactive #713--December 13, 2008: Swamp Dogg--If I Die Tomorrow (I've Lived Tonight) Jackie DeShannon--L.A. Tab Benoit & Louisiana's LeRoux--Night Train (live) ///Vocalist Dennis Yost (1943-2008): The Classics IV--Stormy/// Bex Marshall--Too Much Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--All That You Need (live) Sleepy John Estes--Potato Diggin' Man Jacqui Naylor--Christmas Ain't What It Used to Be (live) Steve Earle--Satellite Radio The Atlantics--Sloop Dance Tim Neumark--Variations on Do You Hear What I Hear; Joy to the World ///70th Anniversary of the first Spirituals to Swing concert, Carnegie Hall, NYC, 12/24/38: Bill Broonzy--Done Got Wise (live) Joe Turner & Pete Johnson--It's All Right Baby (live)/// Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere--Imperfect World Roky Erickson--Burn the Flames Too Slim & the Taildraggers--Western Man Gaye Adegbalola--Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On Charlie Rich--Midnight Blues; No Home; Big Man Jerry Lee Lewis--I'll Make It All Up to You Rosie Thomas--River Wild Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire--Christmas Hell Bobby McNutt--Country Loving, Country Style Joe Louis Walker--Hustlin'
---Retroactive #712--December 6, 2008: Meatyard--The Water Is Wide Greg Copeland--A Woman and a Man Toni Childs--Revolution ///Odetta (1930-2008)--Chilly Winds; The Midnight Special (live, 2005/introduction by WFUV-FM/New York's Rita Houston)/// The Boxmasters--My Dreams of Christmas John Lee Hooker--Little Wheel Brenda Lee--Break It To Me Gently; Coming on Strong Joe Taylor--Floating Hearts Mary Chapin Carpenter--Christmas Carol Wilson Pickett--I'm In Love The Shy--I Found Out NRBQ--Dummy New York Electric Piano--Temple Tantrum Roxy Perry--That Night In Memphis The Beau Brummels--They'll Make You Cry Mirah--Don't Go Little Richard--Miss Ann; I Don't Know What You Got (But It's Got Me) The Fleshtones--I Still Believe In Christmas JJ Grey & Mofro--Orange Blossoms Rory Block--Deport Blues Bela Fleck & the Flecktones--We Wish You a Merry Christmas/It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Jeff Beck--Where Were You (live, 2007) Bart Davenport--Born to Suffer Buffalo Springfield--Rock and Roll Woman
---Retroactive #711--November 29, 2008: Leonard Patton--Redemption Song Chris Difford--Broken Family Bex Marshall--Kitchen Table Slim Harpo--I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis) ///80th Anniversary of Mississippi John Hurt's first recordings (1928): Mississippi John Hurt--Avalon Blues/// The Asylum Streeet Spankers--Leaf Blower (live) Sharon Clark & the Product of Time--It's Not Your Business Belle & Sebastian--Like Dylan In the Movies (BBC) The Clash--English Civil War (live, 10/82) The New Original Sonic Sound--You Got Your Head on Backwards King Khan & the Shrines--(How Can I Keep You) Outta Harm's Way Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans--Elsa ///The Jimi Hendrix Birthday Bash: Otis Taylor--Hey Joe Rickie Lee Jones--Up From the Skies Phil Brown--You Got Me Floatin' Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys--Good Old Rock and Roll Matt Haimovitz--Machine Gun Kimo Williams & Kimotion--Manic Depression Eric Burdon--I Don't Live Today The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Wait Until Tomorrow; Voodoo Chile (Jimi, laughing: "There's no more drinks." Fan, in disbelief: "The bar is closed?") Jimi Hendrix--Dolly Dagger///
---Retroactive #710--November 22, 2008: ///Jody Reynolds (1938-2008)--Beulah Lee; Thunder/// Lucinda Williams--Well Well Well Greg Brown--Coneville Slough John Lee Hooker, Jr.--One Eye Open Gaye Adegbalola--Queer Blues Edwin Starr--Agent Double-o-Soul Jim Ford--He Turns My Radio On (gospel version) The Silos--4 Wanted Signs Charles Brown--Let's Walk The Route 66 Big Band--Take the 'A' Train Mary Timony--Return to Pirates James Hunter--Tell Her Lila Nelson--Thanksgiving Steve Forbert--What Kinda Guy? Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Fish In the Dish Mavis Staples--I'll Take You There (live, 6/08) Bart Davenport--A Young One Ike & Tina Turner--I Idolize You; Son of a Preacher Man (live, 1969); Land of a Thousand Dances (live, 1971) Tina Turner--It Would Be a Crime; I Can't Stand the Rain (live, 1999) Steve Ramsdell--Barrio Alta The Stompers--Blue Moon of Kentucky The Wipers--Mystery The Old Haunts--Ruined View Dead Moon--Diamonds In the Rough Rory Block--Shetland Pony Blues Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs--I Wanna Hug Ya, Kiss Ya, Squeeze Ya
---Retroactive #709--November 15, 2008: The Wailers--Swing Shift Bobby Rush--I'm Tired Elizabeth Willis--(In) Love Detroit Junior--Call My Job ///Miriam Makeba (1932-2008)--Pata Pata (1967 version); African Sunset/// ///Drummer Mitch Mitchell (1947-2008): The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Manic Depression/// The Phil Markowitz Trio--Undercurrents Little Willie John--Now You Know; Take My Love (I Want to Give It All to You); You Hurt Me Typhanie Monique & Neal Alger--Fever Lou Reed--Lady Day (live, 12/06) Marcia Ball--Right Back In It The Kingbees--Shake-Bop Teddy 'McBear" McRae--Hi Fi Baby Sarah Borges--Same Old 45 The Seger Liberation Army--Chain Smokin' Alejandro Escovedo--Smoke The Pretenders--Break Up the Concrete Graham Parker--Fairground; OK Hieronymus Graham Parker & the Rumour--Fool's Gold Nick Lowe--Black Lincoln Continental Carla Bley--Liver of Life Deborah Coleman/Candye Kane/Dani Wilde--You Need a Great Big Woman (live) The BellRays--One Big Party
---Retroactive #708--November 8, 2008: Oh Susanna--Parallel Rail Bob Dylan--32-20 Blues Aimee Mann--Looking for Nothing Mississippi Fred McDowell--61 Highway Allen Toussaint--Am I Expecting Too Much Gaye Adegbalola--It Hurts Me Too Katie King--Alone Together Teddy Thompson--In My Arms ///Studs Terkel (1912-2008)--Blessed Be the Nation/// Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs--Bottom Below Taj Mahal with Ben Harper--Dust Me Down Garaj Mahal--Hotel Mose Allison--If You're Goin' to the City (1962 version); Middle Class White Boy (live, 1/00); Don't Get Around Much Anymore Ray Brown Jr. with Dr. Lonnie Smith--Everybody's Cryin' Mercy Ethan Daniel Davidson--King Coal Made a Mess of My Old Kentucky Home Irma Thomas with Henry Butler--The River Is Waiting Elmore James--Hand In Hand Curtis Salgado--Clean Getaway Bonnie Raitt--I Will Not Be Broken (live, 9/05); I Feel the Same; Give It Up or Let Me Go Ruth Brown with Bonnie Raitt--I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town The Tiptons--Anthem Ron Sexsmith--Hard Time Shirley Horn--Everything Must Change
---Retrotactive #707--November 1, 2008: Eden Brent--Darkness on the Delta Pete Seeger--False from True (2008 version) Sonny Terry with Johnny Winter & Willie Dixon--Burnt Child ///Dee Dee Warwick (1945-2008)--We're Doing Fine; With Every Tear I Cry/// Carl Hall--You Don't Know Nothing About Love Randy Newman--A Few Words In Defense of Our Country Jolie Holland--Mexico City George Clinton & his Gangsters of Love with Belita Woods--It's All In the Game Rent Romus' Jazz on the Line with Chico Freeman--Cameltrot (live, 10/92) Paula Maya--Sound Is Light Guided By Voices--Asphyxiated Circle The Blasters--Common Man The Emeralds--Love Is Rolling Carolyn Wonderland & the Imperial Monkeys--Harmonicar Eugene Church--Don't Stop Loving Me Stevie Wonder--Big Brother Steve Goodman--Election Year Rag Mavis Staples--Orientation; Freedom Highway (live, 6/08) Delbert McClinton--Lipstick Traces; Standing on Shaky Ground (both live, 12/82); Read Me My Rights Art Pepper + Eleven--Walkin' Shoes Pete Seeger--Waist Deep In the Big Muddy (2008 version) Robin & Linda Williams---Maybelle's Guitar and Monroe's Mandolin
---Retroactive #706--October 25, 2008: ---Halloween Show Screamin' Jay Hawkins--Potluck Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Voodoo Doll John Lilly--Haunted Honky Tonk Calexico--Hole In Your Head (Bend to the Road) Paula Lockheart--Howlin' at the Moon The Explosives--Headhunter T Bone Burnett--Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You The Dirtbombs--Race to the Bottom Jody Reynolds--Endless Sleep Thea Gilmore--Don't Set Foot Over the Railway Track The Morells--Out of Limits (live, 12/80) Blue Oyster Cult--Cities On Flame with Rock and Roll The Sonics--Psycho Michael Franti & Spearhead--Life In the City The Angela Strehli Band--Voodoo Voodoo Beat Happening--Hangman Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs--Three Times Under Count Five--They're Gonna Get You Wynonie Harris--Buzzard Luck Howlin' Wolf--Evil Procol Harum--The Dead Man's Dream Blue Cheer--Born Under a Bad Sign The Poppy Family--Where Evil Grows Nina Simone--I Put a Spell On You Jack Kittel--Psycho The Waterdogs--Experiment In Terror John Lee Hooker--Burnin' Hell Dr. John, the Night Tripper--Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya
---Retroactive #705--October 18, 2008: Joan Baez--I Am a Wanderer Debbie Davies--When You Got a Good Friend Iron and Wine--AB's Song Matt Weiner & Del Rey--Cousin Willy Family--Larf and Sing Katie Webster with Kim Wilson--Who's Making Love? ///Levi Stubbs (1936-2008): The Four Tops--I'll Turn to Stone; Are You Man Enough; Ask the Lonely Billy Bragg--Levi Stubbs' Tears/// Christian Howes--Falling Grace Jolie Holland--Palmyra The All Girl Summer Fun Band--Trajectory Thee Midniters--Money The Mojo Men--She's My Baby Mavis Staples--Eyes on the Prize (live, 6/08) ///The Chuck Berry Birthday Extravaganza: Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder--Let It Rock The Pretty Things--Oh Baby Doll Neko Case--Brown Eyed Handsome Man David Bowie-- Almost Grown (BBC) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Tulane Chuck Berry--The Jaguar and the Thunderbird; Sweet Little Sixteen; I'm a Rocker/// The Phil Markowitz Trio--Catalysis Jonathan Richman--I Like Gumby Tom T. Hall--That's How I Got to Memphis The Tielman Brothers--Record Hop
---Retroactive #704--October 11, 2008: ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Steve Winwood--Why Can't We Live Together? Tracy Nelson--Got Me Goin' Robin & Linda Williams--Going, Going, Gone Lonnie 'The Cat'--The Road I Travel Dave Edmunds--Trouble Boys Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles--The Day We Met Hank Mizell--Jungle Rock James Carr & Betty Harris--I'm a Fool for You Ella Fitzgerald--My Cousin In Milwaukee O.V. Wright--Gonna Forget About You Joe 'King' Carrasco & the Crowns--Put Me In Jail The Pretenders--The Last Ride Michael Hurley--I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop Ani DiFranco--Emancipated Minor Bert Wilson & Rebirth--Dee Dee's Rainbow Richard Thompson--The Wrong Heartbeat Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs--Indeed You Do Ron Sexsmith--This Is How I Know Al Green--Standing In the Rain The Detroit Cobras--Funnel of Love Wanda Jackson--I Wore Elvis' Ring; You Don't Know Baby Rosie Flores with Wanda Jackson--Rock Your Baby
---Retroactive #703--October 4, 2008: ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Calexico--Two Silver Trees Peter Lang--Guitar Rag Mable John--Meet Me Half Way Lloyd Price--Frog Legs (Take 1) Carrie Smith--Do Your Duty Jolie Holland--Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) Elvin Bishop--Struttin' My Stuff (2008 version) 10cc--The Wall Street Shuffle The Gourds--Decline-O-Meter Janiva Magness--I Want a Love Dr. John & the Lower 911--Stripped Away Mike Henderson--One Foot In the Honky Tonk The Sports--Who Listens to the Radio The Rebirth Brass Band--I Ate Up the Apple Tree The Leon Thomas Blues Band--Shake, Rattle and Roll Leon Thomas--Um, Um, Um; Just In Time to See the Sun Santana (Leon Thomas, vocal)--When I Look Into Your Eyes Big Maybelle--Way Back Home The Stoics--Enough of What I Need The Soft Boys--Insanely Jealous (alternate version) Irma Thomas with Dr. John--If I Had Any Sense I'd Go Back Home Cephas & Wiggins--Pigmeat Crave Randall Bramblett--Blue Road
---Retroactive #702--September 27, 2008: ///Nappy Brown (1928-2008)--There'll Come a Day; That Man/// ///Drummer extraordinaire Earl Palmer (1924-2008): Little Richard--Tutti Frutti; Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (Goin' Back to Birmingham) *These two tracks barely begin to scratch the surface of Earl Palmer's work. He played with everyone from Professor Longhair to Frank Sinatra; from Ritchie Valens to Bonnie Raitt; from Fats Domino to the Beach Boys/// Sarah Borges--Daniel Lee Michael Franti & Spearhead--A Little Bit of Riddim Ron Sexsmith--One Last Round The BellRays--The Fire Next Time Jerry Lee Lewis--Mean Woman Blues; High School Confidential (both with the Nashville Teens, live, 4/64) The Steve Allee Trio--Morning Glory ///The John Lennon Birthday Bash: The Beatles--One After 909; Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live, 8/65); And Your Bird Can Sing (alternate take) Rachel Unthank & the Winterset--Sexy Sadie John Doe & Virgil Shaw--Baby's In Black The Persuasions--Don't Let Me Down Teenage Fanclub--The Ballad of John and Yoko Jan Van De Mel & friends--Bad to Me Ike & Tina Turner--Come Together John Lennon--Out the Blue; Nobody Told Me John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Well Well Well///
---Retroactive #701--September 20, 2008: ///Richard 'Popcorn' Wylie (1939-2008): Jimmy 'Soul' Clark--If I Only Knew Belita Woods--You Do Your Thing (Wylie wrote and produced both songs)/// ///Norman Whitfield (1940-2008): The Temptations--Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) Gladys Knight & the Pips--You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You) (Whitfield wrote and produced both songs)/// Courtney Marie Andrews--We're Not Lily White Calexico--Fractured Air (Tornado Watch) Susan Tedeschi with Reggie Young & Jason Miles--It's Raining (live) Ray Charles--Living for the City Ray Charles with the Count Basie Orchestra--Every Saturday Night Peter Erskine--The Hand Speaks Hold Eden Brent--He'll Do the Same Thing to You The Morells--Pink Dominos (live, 12/82) Richard X. Heyman--Back to You The Treniers--Everybody Get Together Conor Oberst--NYC-Gone, Gone The Detroit Cobras--Ain't It a Shame Bruce Springsteen--Once Upon a Time In the West; Gypsy Biker Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere--Still Be Loving You Taj Mahal--I Can Make You Happy Ani DiFranco--Way Tight; Alla This Wayne Wallace--Come Running to Me Dressy Bessy--In Your Headphones Terry Allen--The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy) Rosalie Sorrels--He Comes Like Rain
---Retroactive #700--September 13, 2008: Tony Rice--Night Flyer Alberta Hunter--Boogie Woogie Swing Mary Lofstrom--You Hit the Spot JJ Grey & Mofro--On Fire Randy Newman--Harps and Angels Bessie Griffin--Move Upstairs Butch Hancock--Boxcars (live) John Trudell--Reason to This Aretha Franklin--Son of a Preacher Man The Steve Allee Trio--Conversation with Bill ///Jerry Reed (1937-2008)--Amos Moses Elvis Presley--U.S. Male Eric Johnson--Tribute to Jerry Reed/// Paul Kelly (soul)--Stealing In the Name of the Lord The Soul Children--Got to Get Away from It All George Clinton & his Gangsters of Love with Kim Manning & the Red Hot Chili Peppers--Let the Good Times Roll B.B. King--Don't Look Now But I've Got the Blues; Hummingbird Elvin Bishop with B.B. King--Keep a Dollar In Your Pocket Teegarden & Van Winkle--God, Love and Rock & Roll Irma Thomas with Jon Cleary--Too Much Thinking Gabriel Alegria--El Sur Maria Muldaur with Bonnie Raitt--Yes We Can Can Maria Muldaur--John Brown EG Kight--Pass the Plate Marion Williams--Heaven In My View Giant Sand--Muck Machine
---Retroactive #699--September 6, 2008: ---All '60s Show Sammy Turner--Pour It On Pippy Shannon--Shade of Red Mose Allison--Swingin' Machine The Drifters--I've Got Sand In My Shoes Fairport Convention--Million Dollar Bash Bob Dylan--Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Fire--Father's Name Was Dad Etta James--Nobody Loves You Like Me The Who--Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Buffalo Springfield--Go and Say Goodbye Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band--Do Your Thing Otis Redding--Pain In My Heart; Satisfaction Bert & Ray--Slow Drag Betty Wright--Thank You Baby Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure--Don't Mess Up a Good Thing The Kinks--Plastic Man Buck Owens--Think of Me Nancy Wilson--Tell Me the Truth Tiny Watkins--Soldier's Sad Story Leon Thomas--Damn Nam (Ain't Goin' to Viet Nam) Senator Bobby--Wild Thing The Beach Boys--All Dressed Up for School The Chymes--Quite a Reputation Patsy Cline--Foolin' Round; When My Dreamboat Comes Home (both live, 7/61) The La De Das--How Is the Air Up There? Ian Whitcomb & Bluesville--You Turn Me On (Turn On Song) Marvin Gaye--Hitch Hike The Breakaways--That's How It Goes Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford--I Need Your Lovin' (long version) Arthur Alexander--Soldier of Love *Plus: Clips of old commercials including Frank Zappa, the Bobby Fuller Four, Harry Nilsson
---Retroactive #698--August 30, 2008: Peter Case--Punch and Socko Irma Thomas with Dr. John--Be You Dar Williams--The Easy Way Glen Campbell--Sadly Beautiful Thinking Fellers Union Local 282--Another Clip Dressy Bessy--Ease Me Down Cecil Gant--Cecil's Jam Session Glenn Honeycutt--All Night Rock Curtis Salgado--I Don't Want to Discuss It (You're My Girl) Giant Sand--Stranded Pearl Don Braden--When I Fall In Love Anne Feeney--Dump the Bosses Off Your Back Pete Seeger--Eight Hour Day Lee Dorsey--Working In the Coal Mine The Kennedys--Sago Mine Thee Headcoatees--Big Boss Man Si Kahn--Momma Was a Union Woman (live, 2/04) Ella Jenkins--What's Your Trade? Billy Bragg--Farm Boy Alex Chilton--Lost My Job The Picketts--Overworked Overloaded Underpaid Van Morrison--End of the Land; Listen to the Lion (live, 1973); Cleaning Windows (live, 3/83) Them--Times Gettin' Tougher Than Tough The Greg Chako Collaboration Jazz Trio & Quartet--From This Moment On Maria Muldaur--War Raw Spitt--Who Do They Think They Are Beat Happening--Other Side Janiva Magness--Freedom Is Just Beyond the Door
---Retroactive #697--August 23, 2008: Del Rey--'Til I Give It to You Katie Webster--I Feel So Low ///Purvis Jackson (1938-2008): Spinners--They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play) The Persuasions--Cupid/// EG Kight--Then There's the Truth Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials--Open Invitation The Detroit Cobras--I've Got a Feeling Elvis Costello & the Imposters--My Three Sons Elvis Costello with the Metropole Orkest--Almost Ideal Eyes (live, 7/04) Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Clubland The Tiptons--Number Six Mississippi John Hurt--Spike Driver Blues Catie Curtis--Are You Ready to Fly? Ducks Deluxe--Coast to Coast The Milkshakes--Dull Knife The Gories--I Think I've Had It The Sonics--He's Waitin' The Avengers--Friends of Mine Michael Franti & Spearhead--Hey World (Remote Control Version) Bobby Owens & the Diplomats--Messing Around Dinah Washington & Brook Benton--Baby (You've Got What It Takes) Dinah Washington--Romance In the Dark; Me and My Gin (live, 7/58); Surprise Party Jean-Luc Ponty--No Absolute Time (live, 5/01) Jimmy LaFave--Not Dark Yet Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere--One of Those Days Pieta Brown--Still Around
---Retroactive #696--August 16, 2008: Cephas & Wiggins--Keep Your Hands Off My Baby Mirah--Lone Star Ruth McFadden--Pencil and Paper Link Wray & the Wraymen--Mary Ann (alternate take) ///Producer Jerry Wexler (1917-2008): Aretha Franklin--Rock Steady (alternate mix); Pledging My Love/The Clock/// NRBQ--I Got a Little Secret Tad Robinson--Up and Down World Irma Thomas with John Medeski--Somebody Told You (2008 version) Alphonse Mouzon--Starting All Over Again Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Mega Bottle Ride The Clash--The Right Profile Mink DeVille--Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl Nicole Willis & the Investigators--Invisible Man The Prisstines--Run Back to You ///Isaac Hayes (1942-2008)--By the Time I Get to Phoenix (single version); Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic (1995 version) Sir Isaac & the Do-Dads--Blue Groove Sam & Dave--When Something Is Wrong With My Baby Isaac Hayes & David Porter--Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One) The Isaac Hayes Movement--Birth of Shaft/// Paula Robison--Air on the G String Thea Gilmore--Water to Sky Marah--Songbirdz James Hunter--'Til the End
---Retroactive #695--August 9, 2008: Eric & Suzy Thompson--Blame It on the Blues Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere--To Make It Right Big Mama Thornton--Everybody's Happy (But Me) Little Johnny Burton--Talkin' About Me Shearwater--Leviathan, Bound Holly Golightly--Can't Stand to See Your Face Donna Hightower--I Ain't In the Mood Burning Sky--Little Wing The Previous--Corduroy (1993 version); He's In Love The Greg Chako Collaboration Jazz Trio & Quartet--Everybody's Got a Name Carmen McRae--It Takes a Whole Lot of Human Feeling Jules Mark Shear--Sea Shell Nick Lowe--Cracking Up Lonnie Brooks--One More Shot (live, 11/87) Curtis Salgado--Heartache Solomon Burke--A Minute to Rest and a Second to Pray Ronnie Spector with Susanna Hoffs--Dangerous Ronnie Spector--Tandoori Chicken The Ronettes--Walking In the Rain Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes featuring Ronnie Spector--You Mean So Much to Me David Johansen--Is This What I Get For Loving You (live, 2/82) The Jon Lang Sextet--Butterfly Lovers Song Lightnin' Hopkins--Bald Headed Woman The Detroit Cobras--Over to My House Arthur Lee with Band-Aid--Every Time I Look Up I'm Down or White Dog (I Don't Know What That Means!) Girl Trouble--The Track
---Retroactive--August 2, 2008: Austin Potter of Catch a Wave hosted. Thank you.
---Retroactive #694--July 26, 2008: Darrell Nulich--Feelin' Like Ramblin' The Avett Brothers--Tear Down the House Inara George with Van Dyke Parks--Dirty White Ted Hawkins--Revenge of Scorpio ///Johnny Griffin (1928-2008)--Nice and Easy; You Leave Me Breathless/// Sterling Harrison--Seven Days Mary Timony--On the Floor Mick Jagger with the Red Devils--Checkin' Up On My Baby The Rolling Stones--Goin' Home Carolyn Wonderland--Still Alive and Well Teenage Fanclub--Time Stops Wilson Pickett--Barefootin' The Patti Smith Group--Dancing Barefoot The Young Fresh Fellows--Teenage Dogs In Trouble Sandy Gaye--Watch the Dog That Bring the Bone Buddy Guy--When My Left Eye Jumps; I Smell Trouble; Show Me the Money Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band--Hey Lawdy Mama Steve Earle with Forro In the Dark--City of Immigrants Richard & Linda Thompson--Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song) Jimmy Stewart & his Nighthawks--Nothin' But a Nuthin' Maria Muldaur--License to Kill Gary Burton & Makoto Ozone--Something Borrowed, Something Blue Sugar Ray (Norcia) & the Bluetones--I Don't Know Janiva Magness--Don't Do It The Hentchmen--Broke Down
---Retroactive #693--July 19, 2008: Kim Richey--The Circus Song (Can't Let Go) Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Just a Lonely Clown The Felice Brothers--Whiskey In My Whiskey Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Everybody Cheats on You ///Jo Stafford (1917-2008)--Shrimp Boats/// Little Walter--Temperature Dorothy Moore--He Thinks I Still Care Lonnie Mack--Satisfied; Florence of Arabia; Turn On Your Lovelight Jimmy Reed--Baby What's Wrong The Virginia Mayhew Septet--Sandan Shuffle Tonio K.--Stop the Clock Rosco Gordon--That's What You Do to Me The Blasters--Border Radio Mudcrutch--This Is a Good Street The Okmoniks--Hey I'm OK Richie Furay--Dean's Barbecue Curtis Salgado--Both Sorry Over Nothing Rory Block--32-20 Blues Tony Joe White--Willie and Laura Mae Jones; Ice Cream Man; Even Trolls Love Rock & Roll Sam Moore & Conway Twitty--Rainy Night In Georgia Harri Stojka--Song for My Daddy Paul Kelly (rock)--God's Hotel (live, 9/94) Carlene Carter--I'm So Cool (2008 version) Dr. John & the Lower 911--Land Grab
---Retroactive #692--July 12, 2008: Jelly Roll Morton--Buddy Bolden's Blues (I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say) Donna the Buffalo--Silverlined Suzy Bogguss--Rosie the Riveter Lightnin' Hopkins--Mojo Hand The Avett Brothers--The Greatest Sum Will Taylor & Strings Attached with Ruthie Foster--Ocean of Tears (live) Dennis Wilson--Cocktails Paul Thorn--It Don't Get Any Better Than This Betsy Holt--Waiting In the Wings; Why Don't You Do Right (2005 version) Avery Sharpe--Steam Roger McGuinn--Cane Blues (No More Cane On the Brazos); Mr. Spaceman (live) The Byrds--Artificial Energy The Kennedys--Eight Miles High Margie Joseph--The Other Woman Got My Man and Gone Mighty Sam (McClain)--I Need a Lot of Lovin' Janiva Magness--That's What Love Will Make You Do Kevin Ayers--Wide Awake Booker T. & the MGs--Cruisin' Woody Guthrie--Dust Pneumonia Blues (Library of Congress version); Do Re Mi (Victor version); End of the Line Leadbelly with Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry--We Shall Be Free Oregon--If Marva Wright--You Are My Sunshine The All Girl Summer Fun Band--Down South, 10 Hours, I-5 Jim Basnight--Live In the Sun The Chesterfield Kings--Dawn
---Retraoctive #691--July 5, 2008: Solomon Burke--Tonight's the Night Garnet Mimms--Look Away Terry Garthwaite--Thinking of You; Slender Thread Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--All Just to Get to You (live) Candye Kane--Why'd You Have to Say That 'L Word'? Allen Toussaint--What Is Success Curtis Salgado--What's Up with That Steve Khan--Dr. Slump (live, 5/94) Dave Murphy--Right Time Eliza Gilkyson--Dream Lover Dr. John & the Lower 911--Save Our Wetlands Ringo Starr--If It's Love That You Want Barbara Lynn--I'm a Good Woman (1966 version with horns) Johnny J. Blair--Drive a Nail The Skeletons--I Dig Your Wig (live, 2/93) John Trudell--Teddy Bear Tears Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--That'll Just About Knock Me Out; Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Chuck E. Weiss--Saturday Night Fish Fry Katie King--Early In the Morning The Band--King Harvest (Has Surely Come) Wanda Jackson--Savin' My Love Jessica Williams--Finally Free Marcia Ball--Watermelon Time Alejandro Escovedo--Chelsea Hotel '78 Thee Midniters--Land of a Thousand Dances (live)
---Retroactive #690--June 28, 2008: Ann Cole--The Love In My Heart Sterling Harrison--Surprise, Surprise Tony Joe White with Shelby Lynne--Can't Go Back Home Barrence Whitfield with Ton Russell--I Just Wanted to See You So Bad The Old Haunts--Hung Up on the Down Side Sam Cooke--Summertime The Bitter Sweets--What a Lonely Way to Start the Summertime ///Ira Tucker (1925-2008): The Dixie Hummingbirds--Prayer Wheel; Bedside of a Neighbor/// L. Daniels--Nitecap Fontella Bass--Recovery The Bennie Maupin Quartet--Inner Sky Greg Brown--Speed Trap Boogie James Hunter--Don't Do Me No Favours Carlene Carter--The Bitter End Louis Prima--You're Just In Love Little Richard--Slippin' and Slidin' Koko Taylor--Keep Your Mouth Shut and Your Eyes Open ///The Willie Dixon Songbook: The Big Three Trio--Money Tree Blues Willie Mabon--The Seventh Son Nappy Brown--Who Christine Ohlman & Eddie Shaw--Howlin' For My Darlin' Muddy Waters--I Just Want to Make Love to You Willie Dixon--Wigglin' Worm; I Do the Job/// The Andras Kapsalis Trio--Lava Nora McMahon--Run Forever The BellRays--That's Not the Way It Should Be Betty Harris--I'll Be a Liar
---Retroactive #689--June 21, 2008: Kelly Joe Phelps--Big Shaky Otis Taylor--Absinthe Emmylou Harris--Moon Song Johnny Ace--So Lonely Billy Stewart--Summertime Simone--The Gal from Joe's Paul McCartney & Wings--The Mess (live) Paul McCartney & the Blockheads--I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra Bill Frisell--A Change Is Gonna Come (live) Saturday Nite Fish Fry--Let's Stick Together Alejandro Escovedo--Real As an Animal Moe Tucker--I Don't Understand Jody Reynolds--The Fire of Love Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--If You Can Want The Noses--Until Then Do I Wait Eliza Gilkyson--The Party's Over Ryan Purcell--Guantanemo The Felice Brothers--Love Me Tenderly The Beach Boys--Please Let Me Wonder Brian Wilson--Heroes and Villains; You Still Believe In Me (live, 1/02); The Little Girl I Once Knew (live, 2000) Andre Previn with Joe Pass & Ray Brown--Limehouse Blues Lou Ann Barton--Every Night of the Week Gossip--Yr Mangled Heart Janiva Magness--I'm Glad You're Mine Al Green--Just for Me Vampire Weekend--A-Punk
---Retroactive #688--June 14, 2008: Aimee Mann--Borrowing Time Richard Berry & the Pharoahs--Sweet Sugar You Terry Allen--Salivation Mable John--Look at Me James Hunter--She's Got a Way Eden Brent--Mississippi Flatland Blues Sylvia Hall--Don't Touch That Thing Nick Drake--Know; Parasite; Cello Song Bill Horist & Sam Mickens--Things Behind the Sun The Virginia Mayhew Septet--One for the Parking Fairy The BellRays--Infection The Dirtbombs--Pretty Princess Day The Symptoms--2-4-6-8 Motorway (live, 10/78) Mudhoney--And the Shimmering Light Carlene Carter--On to You ///The Ray Davies Birthday Bash: Ana Egge--Sitting In the Midday Sun Big Star--Till the End of the Day Kevin Tihista--Situation Vacant Steve Wynn--This Strange Effect Ray Davies--One More Time The Kinks--Too Much On My Mind; The World Keeps Going Around; 20th Century Man/// Larry Young--Monk's Dream Sam Phillips--Can't Come Down Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--Ranches and Rivers (live) The '5' Royales--Too Much Lovin' * This was the final Super Saturday (the state's largest one-day festival) held on the campus of The Evergreen State College--the tradition has ended
---Retroactive #687--June 7, 2008: ///Utah Phillips (1935-2008) & Mark Ross--Syracuse/Fly Away; Gordon Vales/Shadowmaker/// Eleanor Ellis--Leavin' Trunk Howlin' Wolf--Worried About My Baby (rehearsal take, 1970) The Felice Brothers--Wonderful Life Janiva Magness--You Sound Pretty Good The Impressions--Talking About My Baby Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Ain't It a Crime Dave Alvin--Black Haired Girl ///Jimmy McGriff (1936-2008)--All About My Girl The Jimmy McGriff/Hank Crawford Quartet--Could Be/// Otis Redding--Any Ole Way (live, 4/66) Flobots--Handlebars Andy Bey--Get It Straight (Straight No Chaser) Sue Foley/Deborah Coleman/Roxanne Potvin--Motor City ///Bo Diddley (1928-2008)--Road Runner; Bring It to Jerome; Bo Diddley Is Crazy Guitar Shorty--Don't Let It Go (Hold On to What You Got) Shirley & Company--Shame, Shame, Shame The Delmonas--Dangerous Charms New York Dolls--Pills The Animals--Story of Bo Diddley/// The Barney McClure Trio--Schizo Blues JW-Jones--Looking at the World The Old Haunts--Volatile
---Retroactive #686--May 31, 2008: ---All Texas Show Carolyn Wonderland--Long Way to Go Mike Morgan & the Crawl--97 Times Flaco Jimenez--Open Up Your Heart (live) Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Rock My Blues Away Eliza Gilkyson--Clever Disguise Jandek--We're All Through Chip Taylor--Dance With a Hole In Your Shoe Townes Van Zandt--Short-Haired Woman Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--Because of the Wind (live) Red Garland--Please Send Me Someone to Love Tish Hinojosa--Corazon Viajero (Wandering Heart) T-Bone Walker--My Baby Is Now on My Mind Bob Schneider--When the Sun Breaks Down on the Moon Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan with Lou Ann Barton--Good Lover Johnny Winter--Boney Maroney Joe Tex--S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) Marcia Ball--Married Life Johnny Carroll--Rock Baby Rock It The Floyd Dakil Combo--Dance, Franny, Dance Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--What's the Matter With the Mill (1946 version) Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies--Yes Sir! T Bone Burnett--Here Come the Philistines Delbert McClinton--Better Off With the Blues The Sir Douglas Quintet--Sugar Bee The Tex Mex Experience--Hippie Girl (My Little Groover) Sara Hickman--Enuf Justin Townes Earle--Hard Livin' Buddy Holly & the Crickets--I'm Looking for Someone to Love Will Taylor--When Sunset Falls Fastball--This Is Not My Life Roy Head--Neighbor, Neighbor Roky Erickson--Don't Slander Me Bobby Patterson--I'm a Slave for You
---Retroactive #685--May 24, 2008: Lonnie Johnson--Prisoner of Love (live, 1965) Marion Williams--The Lifeboat Is Coming Lori Sanders--Out of Your Mind John Trudell--Took a Little Walk Jenny Jenkins--Bus Angel The Mountain Goats--In the Craters on the Moon The Old Haunts--Hurricane Eyes Etta James--Baby, Baby Everynight James Hunter--Ain't Goin' Nowhere Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band--Yonder's Wall Mudhoney--What's This Thing? The Shy--Chalk It Up Pieta Brown--Not Scared The Bennie Maupin Quartet--Escondido Matt Jorgensen + 451--Power to the People ///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash: Eddie Spaghetti--Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You Joan Baez--Love Is Just a Four Letter Word Rick Holmstrom--Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Paul Zunno--All Along the Watchtower Lee Williams & the Spiritual QCs--When You Gonna Wake Up Loudon Wainwright III--Talking New Bob Dylan The Bottom Feeders--Shooting Star Eilen Jewell--Walking Down the Line Bryan Ferry--Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues David Bromberg--Wallflower (live) Yo La Tengo--I Wanna Be Your Lover Bob Dylan & the Band--Tough Mama Bob Dylan--Wicked Messenger; Union Sundown///
---Retroactive #684--May 17, 2008: Jesse Winchester--Step By Step Kimya Dawson--It's Been Raining Mississippi John Hurt--Stack O'Lee Blues Judy Henske--Columbus Stockade Rising Sun--One Night Affair Sista Monica Parker--Lip Service The Tex Mex Experience--Mama's Out Rockin Eliza Gilkyson--Runaway Train John Fogerty--Broken Down Cowboy; Natural Thing; Rockin' All Over the World Creedeence Clearwater Revival--Commotion Sonny Fortune--The End of a Love Affair Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--Slow You Down (live) Tammy Wynette--It Keeps Slipping My Mind Randy Newman--I'm Different Bettye LaVette--I Guess We Shouldn't Talk About That Now The Paul deLay Band--Trouble No More (live, 2004) Jerry Lee Lewis--Night Train to Memphis Neko Case & her Boyfriends--High on Cruel The Morells--Saturday Night (live, 12/80) The Dirtbombs--Sherlock Holmes Taj Mahal--Built for Comfort; Senor Blues; Nobody's Business But My Own (live, Big Sur, 1972) The Rising Sons--Bye and Bye The Virginia Mayhew Septet--I Thought You Loved Me Ruby Johnson--Keep On Keepin' On Robert Ward--The Real Deal
---Retroactive #683--May 10, 2008: Marcia Ball--Ride It Out Robert 'Dudlow' Taylor--Old Helena Blues Tom Waits/The Kronos Quartet/Greg Cohen--Diamond InYour Mind (live, 9/03) Anne Feeney--Goonies Bob Schneider--Brown (Willie) Wisley--Through Any Window Ann Peebles--Ain't No Business Like Your Business Ritchie Valens--We Belong Together; Ooh! My Head Ritchie Valens (as Arvee Allens)--Fast Freight Jessica Williams--Fantasia ///Eddy Arnold (1918-2008)--Anytime Dwight Yoakam--Cattle Call/// Dire Straits--Badges, Posters, Stickers, T-Shirts Ruth Brown--Go On, Fool Jason Webley--Ways to Love Jimmy Cliff--Vietnam The Animals--Help Me Girl; Talkin' 'Bout You (long version, includes 'Shout') Eric Burdon & the Animals--The Madman (Running Through the Fields) Eric Burdon & War--Bare Back Ride The Tommy Flanagan Trio--That Tired Routine Called Love Kathleen Edwards--I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory Elvis Costello & the Imposters--Drum and Bone Mudhoney--I'm Now Drive-By Truckers--Dimes Down
---Retroactive #682--May 3, 2008: The Eric Byrd Trio + 4--Get On the Right Track Baby Ray Charles--That's Enough Rory Block--I'll Be Gone The Sadies--A Good Flying Day Samuel James--Love and Mumbly-Peg Sue Foley--Me and My Chauffeur (live, 12/03) Chuck Berry--Away from You James Brown--I Know It's True James Brown & the Famous Flames--Licking Stick-Licking Stick Big Maybelle--Don't Leave Poor Me; Hair Dressin' Women Joey DeFrancesco--Down the Hatch The Dirtbombs--Leopardman at C & A Arcade Fire--The Well and the Lighthouse Grin--Love or Else Amy Rigby--Needy Men Carolyn Wonderland--Walk On The Delmore Brothers--Pan American Boogie Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--If You're So Smart, How Come You Ain't Rich? James Hunter--Two Can Play The Mother Truckers--Dynamite Vampire Weekend--Mansard Roof The Beach Boys--Student Demonstration Time Matt Jorgensen + 451--Ohio Pete Seeger--The Battle of Maxton Field; Last Train to Nuremberg; Get Up and Go Ani DiFranco--Waist Deep In the Big Muddy John Trudell--Francis Brown
---Retroactive #681--April 26, 2008: ---All '60s Show J.B. Lenoir--Oh Babe Vashti Bunyan--Train Song The Zombies--Beechwood Park Sam & Dave--May I Baby ///Vocalist Al Wilson (1939-2008)--I Stand Accused/// Patti Drew--Hard to Handle The Rolling Stones--She Smiled Sweetly The Troggs--Lost Girl Nico--No One Is There The Accents--Why Otis (Redding) & Carla (Thomas)--Tramp Sterling Harrison--Funny Life Georgie Fame & his Blue Flames--The 'In' Crowd Willie Nelson--Mr. Record Man The Beatles--I Don't Want to Spoil the Party Big Mama Thornton--I'm Feeling Alright The Factory--Lightning-Rod Man Neil Young & Crazy Horse--Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Gladys Knight & the Pips--The Nitty Gritty The Premiers--Get On This Plane The Small Faces--My Way of Giving Karen Dalton--How Did the Feeling Feel to You The Kinks--Got Love If You Want It ? & the Mysterians--I Need Somebody The Snow Men--Ski Storm, Pt. 1 Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Combination of the Two (live) Joe Jones--California Sun The Ronettes--I Wonder The Bill Evans Trio--Nardis The Hollies--I'm Alive The Wailers--San-Ho-Say Barbara & the Browns--Plenty of Room The Paul Butterfield Blues Band--Come On In The Guess Who--Shakin' All Over Brenton Wood--I Like the Way You Love Me *Plus: Jingles from classic radio: WKBW/Buffalo, WMCA/NYC, WPGC/Washington, D.C., KHJ/L.A.
---Retroactive #680--April 19, 2008: Little Sonny--The Creeper Returns Johnny J. Blair--Dumb Angel Candye Kane--That Ain't It Kathleen Edwards--Run ///Danny Federici (1950-2008)--Egg Beater Bruce Springsteen--4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (Danny Federici, accordion) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Paradise By the 'C' (live, 7/78) (Danny Federici, organ solo)/// Beloved Binge--Miso (I Don't Like People) Was (Not Was)--Big Black Hole Richard Underhill--Waiting for Something to Happen Dar Williams--Empire; What Do You Love More Than Love Jackson Browne--In the Shape of a Heart (live, solo) John Trudell--Madness And Bettye LaVette--What I Don't Know (Won't Hurt Me) Iggy Pop--Dum Dum Boys; The Villagers; Some Weird Sin The Stooges--Dirt Sean Jones--Allison Marcia Ball--Down In the Neighborhood Jeff Healey--Mess of Blues The Skeletons--Hardware (live, 4/91) Eden Brent--Fried Chicken
---Retroactive #679--April 12, 2008: ---14th Anniversary Show Rosie Flores--Stranger Nick Lowe--14 Days Gillian Welch--April the 14th, Pt. 1 Bessie Smith--I Used to Be Your Sweet Baby Family--Hey-Let It Rock/The Cat and the Rat Dave Edmunds--I'm Only Human Dusty Springfield--A Brand New Me Al Green--Keep Me Cryin' LaVon Hardison with David Rhys-Johnson--No More Nanci Griffith--No Expectations Veda Hille--Ace of the Nazarene The Pretenders--Thumbelina Matt Jorgensen + 451--India Drive-By Truckers--Two Daughters & a Beautiful Wife Iain Matthews--Da Doo Ron Ron Dakota Staton--Play Your Hands, Girls (1972 version) Billy Bragg--I Almost Killed You The Morells--Crazy Country Hop (live, 5/82) The Sensational Alex Harvey Band--Framed (live, 1975) The Ike & Tina Turner Revue--All I Could Do Was Cry/Please, Please, Please (live, 1967) Marian McPartland--Turn Around Levon Helm--Poor Old Dirt Farmer Jim Ford--36 Inches High Nenah Cherry--Trouble Man Nona Hendryx--Tax Exile The Yardbirds--I Can't Make Your Way
---Retroactive #678--April 5, 2008: The Mountain Goats--Heretic Pride Mavis Staples--Of Whom Shall I Be Afraid Eric Bibb with Ruthie Foster--Conversation Jonathan Richman--When We Refuse to Suffer Sister Wynona Carr--The Ball Game Jay Leonhart--Dodgers Carlene Carter--300 Pounds of Hongry Ray Davies--No One Listen Muddy Waters--Gypsy Woman; Double Trouble; The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll (#2) Walter Lang & Lee Konitz--Casa Do Tom Fleetwood Mac--Station Man Marcia Ball--My Heart and Soul Kathleen Edwards--Oil Man's War The Astors--Candy The East Bay Soul Brass--The Panther Roddy Jackson--I've Got My Sights on Someone New Richard Thompson--Rockin' Chair (live); Jealous Words Richard & Linda Thompson--Strange Affair Fairport Convention--If It Feels Good You Know It Can't Be Wrong (BBC) The Richard Thompson Band with John Kirkpatrick--Morris Medley/Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll (live, 1986) Maceo Parker--Advanced Funk (live, 2007) John Trudell--Like Temptation The Chesterfield Kings--Spanish Sun Marah--Old Time Tickin' Away
---Retroactive--March 29, 2008: Thanks to Catch a Wave's Austin Potter for filling in.
---Retroactive #677--March 22, 2008: Eddy Clearwater--A Time for Peace Karen Dalton--Right, Wrong or Ready Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Something's Changed American Music Club--The Victory Choir Leonard Cohen--Dear Heather Mirah & Spectratone International--My Lord Who Hums Z.Z. Hill--You Don't Love Me Perk Badger--Do Your Stuff Cat Power--Aretha, Sing One for Me Aretha Franklin--Don't Let Me Lose This Dream; As Good to Me as I Am to You; Why I Sing the Blues Ron Blake--Come Sun Casey Neill--Chainlink Fence Faces--Flying Del Rey--Poison Ivy Vampire Weekend--The Kids Don't Stand a Chance Drive-By Truckers--Self Destructive Zones Bettye LaVette--Choices Katydids--Stop Start Nick Lowe--Hope For Us All; Tonight; Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine Brinsley Schwarz--Don't Lose Your Grip on Love Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds--When Will I Be Loved (BBC) Jessica Williams--Billy's Theme No. 2 Billy Bragg--The Beach Is Free Nazz--Under the Ice
---Retroactive--March 15, 2008: The show was pre-empted, as Pacifica Radio carried the Winter Soldier gathering in Washington, D.C. Shame on the major media for not covering the voices of war and this event. Support the troops, right.
---Retroactive #676--March 8, 2008: ---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show Corey Harris--Just a Closer Walk with Thee Carla Thomas--Something Good (Is Going to Happen to You) Robyn Hitchcock--I Wish I Was Doing This Etta James--The Jealous Kind Veda Hille--Book of Saints The Chesterfield Kings--Streaks and Flashes ///Norman 'Hurricane' Smith (1923-2008)--Auntie Vi's/// ///The Jeff Healey (1966-2008) Band--Down In the Alley; Confidence Man/// Liam Finn--Remember When LaVon Hardison--Wade In the Water Warren Zevon--Life'll Kill Ya Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators--A Perfect Kind of Love Sterling Harrison--Don't You Mess with My Money Helene Smith--True Love Doesn't Grow on Trees Steve Earle--Jericho Road Southern Culture On the Skids--Mudbuggy The Young Fresh Fellows--Taco Wagon Cindy Wheeler--Walk On Sly & Billy Preston--Can't You Tell I Love Her Sly & the Family Stone--Runnin' Away; Loose Booty Big Maybelle--There! I've Said It Again
---Retroactive #675--March 1, 2008: ---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show Martha Wainwright--The Maker Angela Strehli & Maria Muldaur--Blue Highway Red Simpson & Junior Brown--Nitro Express Otis Taylor with Corey Harris & Don Vappie--Walk Right In ///Buddy Miles (1947-2008): The Jaynetts--Sally Go Round the Roses The Electric Flag--Sunny Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Stop (live, 1st show, 1/1/70)/// Cat Power--New York Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan--Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth Koko Taylor--Don't Go No Further ///Vocalist-organist Mike Smith (1943-2008): The Dave Clark Five--You Got What It Takes; Try Too Hard/// Little Walter--Got to Go Eliza Gilkyson--Angel and Delilah (live) Eric Bibb--Step By Step Chris Whitley--Perfect Day The Velvet Underground--Cool It Down Lou Reed--Paranoia Key of E; Average Guy Joe Scinta--Temptation Inside Your Heart Myshkin's Ruby Warblers--Candle to the Gun Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks--Baby Please Don't Go (live, 8/05) Candye Kane--Back With My Old Friends Pat Cupp--Long Gone Daddy
---Retroactive #674--February 23, 2008: Amilia K. Spicer--Only Love Can Break Your Heart Vashti Bunyan--Winter Is Blue John Lee Hooker--I'm Mad Marah--Wilderness The Fleetwoods--Runaround Bettye LaVette--Streets of Philadelphia My Morning Jacket--Behind That Locked Door George Harrison--If Not For You Heather Myles--You've Taken Me to Places I Wish I've Never Been Sterling Harrison--Ain't Nobody Home Jessica Williams--The Soul Doctor Johnny Cash--I Still Miss Someone; Rock Island Line (both live, 1964) Toni Price--Sorry About That; Ninety-Nine Pounds Michael Nesmith--Rio Nick Lowe--Nutted By Reality Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--100 Days, 100 Nights The Chesterfield Kings--Up and Down Lucinda Williams--Honey Chile Fats Domino--My Girl Josephine; The Big Beat; Walking to New Orleans (live, 10/86) Toots & the Maytals--Let the Four Winds Blow The Matana Roberts Quartet--For Razi Ana Egge--In the Backseat Patty Larkin--Hallelujah Chris & Shack--Goodies Del Shannon--Do You Wanna Dance The Hentchmen--Yesterday's Trash
---Retroactive #673--February 16, 2008: Reverend Gary Davis--Soldier's Drill, Pt. 1 Irma Thomas--Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor Yoko Ono--No, No, No The Deadstring Brothers--You Look Like the Devil Natalie Merchant & friends--There Is No Good Reason Danny Glover--My Name Is Not 'Those People' Shelby Lynne--I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore Steve Earle--Down Here Below Cyrus Chestnut--It's Now or Never The Carlisle Group--Hope for Peace Liam Finn--Energy Spent Cyril Neville & Tribe 13--Talkin' 'Bout New Orleans (live) Andy Pratt--Avenging Annie Clarence Reid--No Way Out Otis Taylor (Guy Davis, vocal)--Little Liza Jane Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks--Sputnik (live, 8/05) Buffy Sainte-Marie--Piney Wood Hills (1968 version) Donovan--Universal Solider (2007 version) Carl Perkins--Matchbox The Band--The Shape I'm In Nina Simone--Who Knows Where the Time Goes (live); Strange Fruit; Mississippi Goddam (live, 7/80) Janiva Magness--Do I Move You Art Hodes--Tin Roof Blues Cat Power--Lord, Help the Poor and Needy The Hollywood Flames--Little Bird
---Retroactive #672--February 9, 2008: Janis Ian--Danger Danger Ray Bonneville--I Am the Big Easy Dee Daniels--The Thought of You The Meters--Look-Ka Py Py Porter/Batiste/Stoltz--All We Wanna Do Patty Larkin--Beautiful ///The Gerry Goffin/Carole King Songbook: Carole King--He's a Bad Boy; Pleasant Valley Sunday (live, 2004) Little Eva--Down Home Taj Mahal--Take a Giant Step The Persuasions--Up On the Roof (live)/// The Kim Richmond Ensemble--Fuzzy Wuzzy John McCutcheon--Waist Deep In the Big Muddy Ian Hunter--Morons Mary Weiss with the Reigning Sound--Break It One More Time Love--Softly to Me Delbert McClinton--Squeeze Me In Eilen Jewell--Rich Man's World The Flatlanders--Now It's Now Again; I Thought the Wreck Was Over (live) Joe Ely--Firewater (Seeks Its Own Level); Long Snake Moan (live); Winterlude David Amram--Wind From the Indies Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators--Holdin' On Willie G--Stone Crazy Ray Charles--Ring of Fire (live)
---Retroactive #671--February 2, 2008: Billie & De De Pierce--John Henry The Avett Brothers--Die Die Die Steve Earle--Tennessee Blues Nellie Lutcher--Pa's Not Home, Ma's Upstairs ///John Stewart (1939-2008)--Missouri Birds; Dogs In the Bed/// Lightnin' Hopkins--Get Off My Toe Marianne Faithfull--Wilder Shores of Love Cat Power--Ramblin' (Wo)man ///Producer Ken Nelson (1911-2008): Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Bluejean Bop Wanda Jackson--Cool Love/// The Magnetic Fields--California Girls Liam Finn--Lead Balloon Marah--Angels of Destruction Betty Wright--Mr. Lucky Otis Taylor--Live Your Life ///70th Anniversary of Benny Goodman's groundbreaking Carnegie Hall performance, Jan. 1938: The Benny Goodman Orchestra--Swingtime In the Rockies (live, 1/16/38)/// NRBQ--It Comes to Me Naturally (live, 4/87) Charlie Musselwhite--Everything's Gonna Be Alright The Everly Brothers--Temptation; Take a Message to Mary; Gone, Gone, Gone Deborah Coleman--When Will I Be Loved The Brian Vanarsdale Quintet--Three and One Bob Mould--Again and Again Ann Peebles--Part Time Love
---Retroactive #670--January 26, 2008: ---All Michigan Show Thornetta Davis--Sunday Morning Sufjan Stevens--The Upper Peninsula Jeff Grand--We Get Down Eddie Burns--Sugar Girl Barbara Lewis--Don't Forget About Me The Amboy Dukes--Mississippi Murderer The Dirtbombs--I'm Through with White Girls Aretha Franklin--(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone Tim Tam & the Turn-Ons--Wait a Minute The Gerald Wilson Orchestra--Monterey Moods: Blues Betty Carter--Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love Johnny Powers with the band of Stan Getz & the Tomcats--Long Hair, Red Rose Lips Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder--It Ain't Easy Bettye LaVette--Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette) Sonic's Rendezvous Band--City Slang The Shy--Give Me Your Hands The Raconteurs--Broken Boy Soldier The Rationals--Guitar Army The Detroit Cobras--The Slummer the Slum (Iggy &) the Stooges--Shake Appeal MC5--Looking at You (original A-Square version) Little Willie John--There Is Someone In This World for Me Wilson Pickett--634-5789 (Soulsville, USA) Nolan Strong & the Diablos--Route 16 The Four Tops--Bernadette The Contours--Shake Sherry The Marvelettes--When You're Young and In Love The Temptations--I Want a Love I Can See The Detroit Experiment featuring Marcus Belgrave--Space Odyssey The Mutants--So American Bob Seger--Lookin' Back The Unrelated Segments--Story Of My Life *Plus: Anthony Jackson on the genius of Motown's James Jamerson, Jr.
---Retroactive #669--January 19, 2008: Deanna Bogart--Real Time Houston Boines--G Man Eilen Jewell--How Long Jim Lauderdale--Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat Reverend Billy C. Wirtz--The Visitor (live, 2006) Kim & Reggie Harris with Peter Yarrow and Bethany & Rufus--If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus Patty Griffin--Up to the Mountain (MLK Song) War--Don't Let No One Get You Down Charles Gatschet--Azalea Lucinda Williams--Stop Breaking Down; Everything Has Changed Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Beans and Corn Bread The Mothers of Invention--Trouble Everyday Bob Mould--Who Needs to Dream Marah--Santos de Madera Laura Love--This Train/Ezekiel and the Wheel John Mellencamp with Joan Baez--Jim Crow Bobby Blue Bland--This Man-Woman Thing; You're All I Need Garland Jeffreys--Don't Call Me Buckwheat Mavis Staples--My Own Eyes Noah Peterson--It's a Bossa Thing Tiger--Sea Shandy Raw Spitt--Songs to Sing Reverend Gary Davis--Slow Blues In E *Plus: Speech excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the show (covering 1963-68)
---Retroactive #668--January 12, 2008: Cat Power--The Moon Preacher Boy--Old Boyfriends Leadbelly--The Blood Done Sign My Name (Ain't You Glad) Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Out In the Cold Again James Brown--Get On the Good Foot ///Bonnie Raitt & Weepin' Willie Robinson (1926-2007)--Walking the Dog/// Patty Larkin--Traveling Alone Yo La Tengo--Can't Seem to Make You Mine Michael Jerome Browne--Old Smoky (live, 2006) The Bill Charlap Trio--Last Night When We Were Young Barbara Lynn--Sweet Sixteen; You Better Get Here Fast Lou Ann Barton--You'll Lose a Good Thing The Trade Winds--New York's a Lonely Town Alejandro Escovedo--Thirteen Years Theme; Ballad of the Sun and the Moon Roxy Music--In Every Dream Home a Heartache Unwound--Seen Not Heard Dakota Staton--Stop Doin' for Her The Soul Stirrers--I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always) Sam Cooke--Nothing Can Change This Love; Please Don't Drive Me Away; Havin' a Party The Persuasions--That's Heaven to Me The Tiptons--Calder's Circus Teddy Thompson with Iris DeMent--My Heart Echoes Levon Helm--Feelin' Good Tim O'Brien--How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
---Retroactive #667--January 5, 2008: John Fahey--Lewisdale Blues Screamin' Jay Hawkins--I'll Be There The Wailers--Mau-Mau Pieta Brown--Hey Run Johnny J. Blair--Journalistic Girl The Pretty Things--You Don't Believe Me Koko Taylor--Let the Good Times Roll (live) Dee Daniels--Love Me Tender Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill--That's All Right (live, 8/55) Elvis Presley--That's When Your Heartaches Begin; (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care The Little Willies--Love Me Cyrus Chestnut--Suspicious Minds Eilen Jewell--If You Catch Me Stealing Dave Alvin--Six Nights a Week Mother Truckers--Northbound Trail Buster Bennett--I Want to Boogie Woogie Marah--Wild West Love Song Thee Headcoats--You Can Choose Sloan--Delivering Maybes The Budos Band--Ride or Die Sandy Denny--North Star Grassman and the Ravens; Solo (both BBC) Ana Egge--Crazy Lady Blues Tina Adair--By the Time It Gets Dark Fairport Convention--She Moves Through the Fair; The Ballad of Easy Rider *Plus: Clips of Elvis Presley interviewed by Bob Hoffer, 9/56
