---Retroactive #868--December 31, 2011: Patricia Barber--The New Year's Eve Song Joe Williams--What Are You Doing New Year's Eve The Beach Boys--Surf's Up (completed version, 2011) Melissa Ferrick--This Time of Year ///Sean Bonniwell (1940-2011): The Music Machine--Masculine Intuition; The People In Me; Talk Talk/// Ash Gray & the Girls--Your Gun Is Out Bonnie Raitt--Me and the Boys The Viscounts--Night Train Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble--Balladesque; Mal-Lester Tom Waits--New Year's Eve Suzie Vinnick--Get Some Eric Dahl--What About the Friends I Left Behind Jo Ann Campbell--Happy New Year Baby Bobby Charles--Keep Cookin' Mama Rockpile--Switchboard Susan (live, 7/80) Stewart Francke--Heart of a Heartless World Kay Kay & the Rays--Crossfire The Liverbirds--Diddley Daddy Bo Diddley--Mona (I Need You Baby) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--She's the One (live, Houston, 12/78) Nicole Mitchell--Curly Top Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings (Georgie Fame, vocal)--Rhythm King Chris Connor--Miser's Serenade Jona Lewie--You'll Always Find Me In the Kitchen at Parties Jimmy Cliff--Wonderful World, Beautiful People (live, solo, 2011) Pegi Young & the Survivors--Med Line
---Retroactive #867--December 24, 2011: Minnie Tee--Have a Cool Yule Keb' Mo'--Shoppin' On Christmas Eve Etta Jones--Ring the Bells Don Dixon--I Saw Three Ships (live) Bobby Goldsboro--Look Around You (It's Christmas Time) The Patti Smith Group (as r.e.f.m.)--White Christmas Gina Forsyth--Christmas In China Santo & Johnny--Twistin' Bells Judith Owen with Harry Shearer--Christmas With the Devil She & Him--Sleigh Ride Ringo Starr--The Little Drummer Boy The Beantown Swing Orchestra--Santa Claus Is Coming to Town The BellRays--Gimme Some Funk for Christmas Charro--(Mamacita) Donde Esta Santa Claus? Etta James--Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas B. Bumble & the Stingers--Nut Rocker Ella Jenkins--Harmonica for Hanukkah The Davis Sisters--Christmas Boogie The Everly Brothers & the Boys Town Choir--The First Noel The Everly Brothers--Christmas Eve Can Kill You Loudon Wainwright III--Suddenly It's Christmas (live, 2010) Low--Silent Night A Rubber Band Christmas--Deck the Halls With Rubber Syd Straw--The Christmas Twist Three Aces & a Joker--Sleigh Bell Rock Martin Mull--Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope Stevie Wonder--One Little Christmas Tree Al Kooper--Winter Wonderland John Wesley Harding--Talking Christmas Goodwill Blues Carole King--Chanukah Prayer Kisswhistle--Verhanukkah Yogi Yorgesson with the Johnny Duffy Trio--I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas Darlene Love--White Christmas
---Retroactive #866--December 17, 2011: Suzie Vinnick--Sometimes I Think I Can Fly Chris Smither--Coventry Carol Vic Chesnutt--Band Camp Shelby Lynne--Xmas Katya Chorover--Little Bird Kay Kay & the Rays--Texas Justice Suicide--Dream Baby Dream The Strange Tones--Holly Jolly Christmas The Kinks--Australia The Shy--Hey Santa! Kate Bush--Wild Man Stewart Francke--Sidewalk Dimes Johnny J. Blair--It's In Your Hands/Variations on Satie Professor Longhair--Everybody's Blowing, Pt. 1; Tipitina (1974 version) James Booker--Pixie; Blues Rhapsody (live) Little Joey Farr--Rock'n'Roll Santa Mary Lou Lord & the Raging Teens--Bang Bang The Marcus Roberts Trio--Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Ry Cooder--Christmas Time This Year Chain & the Gang--Can't Get Away Warren Haynes--Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday The Fleshtones--Six White Boomers
---Retroactive #865--December 10, 2011: ///Howard Tate (1939-2011)--Either Side of the Same Town; Stop; She May Be White (But She Be Funky)/// Eric Dahl--Book of Love Louis Prima--Shake Hands With Santa Claus Louis Prima with Sam Butera & the Witnesses--Just a Gigalo/I Ain't Got Nobody Maria Muldaur--Get You Next to Me Carol Morgan--Where Are You? ///Guitarist Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011)--Living the Blues Howlin' Wolf--Sittin' On Top of the World; Wang Dang Doodle/// Cradle--Sally and Johnny Mr. Gnome--We Sing Electric Willie May--Frog Legs James McMurtry--We Can't Make It Here Brenda Lee--Some of These Days; Talkin' 'Bout You ///Dobie Gray (1940-2011)--Out On the Floor/// She & Him--Christmas Wish Charlie Rich--Pass On Me; Big Boss Man Ted Lyons--Santa's Moonlight Sleighride The dBs--Christmas Time Carole King--Christmas In the Air Kay Martin & her Body Guards--I Know What You Want for Christmas Mike Doughty with Rosanne Cash--Holiday (What Do You Want?)
---Retroactive #864--December 3, 2011: Nikki Sudden--Fall Any Further Teddy Thompson--The Next One Sista Monica Parker--Unstoppable! ///The Paul Motian (1931-2011) Band--Mumbo Jumbo (Drummer-composer Motian was in the classic Bill Evans Trio with pianist Evans and bassist Scott LaFaro)/// ///Drummer Thomas Roady (1949-2011): The Skaggs Family--Christmas Time's A Comin' (Roady was on tour with Ricky Skaggs and family at the time of his passing)/// McKinley Mitchell--Trouble Blues Voices--Fall In Love Again Lindy Lane & the Sinners--Low Grades and High Fever Cassandra Wilson--Forty Days and Forty Nights; Angel (Carolyn Franklin's 'Angel,' not Jimi Hendrix's, which Wilson has also recorded) Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey--Black Wall Street The Happen-Ins--Be Your Fool Chelsea--Right to Work Deer Tick--Main Street Johnny J. Blair--Love That's Here to Stay Katya Chorover--Dirty Old Town Pert Near Sandstone--Solid Gone Solomon Burke with Little Richard--Everybody's Got a Game Little Richard--Chicken Little Baby; Ready Teddy; The Girl Can't Help It Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band--Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (Going Back to Birmingham) Mary Louise Knutson--You Don't Know What Love Is Screaming Lord Sutch--Flashing Lights Deanna Bogart--Won't Be Long Dave Keller--Too Weak to Fight Syl Johnson--Take Me Back Diunna Greenleaf--I Can't Wait The Butterflys--Good Night Baby
---Retroactive #863--November 26, 2011: The Tonemasters--Goin' With the Flow Mike & the Censations--There's Nothing I Can Do About It Best Coast--When I'm With You Jim Page & the Spokes--Tent City Mr. Gnome--Bit of Tongue Subdebs--Hypnotized Pieta Brown--Blue Rider Ray Charles--Worried Life Blues The Shirelles--Everybody Loves a Lover Carole King--Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday Kay Kay & the Rays--Stop the Killing Nicole Mitchell--More Than I Can Say Lightnin' Hopkins--Jake Head Boogie Sleater-Kinney--O2 ///The Jimi Hendrix Birthday Bash: Arthur Lee with Band-Aid--You Want Change for Your Rerun Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real--Pali Gap/Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--Fire Laurie Anderson--1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be) The Make Up--Hey Joe Gil Evans--Stone Free (live, 2/80) Junior Brown--Sugarfoot Rag (featuring his great array of Hendrix licks) Friend'n'Fellow--Purple Haze Los Illegals--Little Wing Jimi Hendrix--Astro Man The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Up From the Skies; Are You Experienced; Burning of the Midnight Lamp/// *Plus: Chat from WKNR/Detroit radio: The Jimi Hendrix Experience opens for the Monkees, 7/67
---Retroactive #862--November 19, 2011: Fiona Boyes--The Preacher Joe Ely--The Highway Is My Home ///Doyle Bramhall (1949-2011)--Sugar (Where'd You Get Your Sugar From); Life By the Drop Marcia Ball--Thibodaux, Louisiana (Songwriter-singer-drummer Bramhall co-wrote the second and third songs)/// Civil Twilight--Come As You Are Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Chocolate Jesus Clyde Bernhardt & his Kansas City Buddies--Cracklin' Bread Sista Monica Parker--Fierce Force of Nature Cindy Bradley--One Moment More Graham Parker--Dark Days; In Bloom (live, solo) Graham Parker & the Rumour--Soul on Ice Is/Is--So Long The Zutons--Why Won't You Give Me Your Love? Wilco--I'm a Wheel The BellRays--Maniac Blues Deer Tick--Let's All Go to the Bar Ike & Tina Turner--Five Long Years (Kent version); A Fool In Love (live, 1967); Workin' Together Tina Turner--The Acid Queen; Keep Your Hands Off My Baby The Headhunters--Salamander Stewart Francke--You Want What You Don't Got (And You Don't Want What You Got) Etta James--Too Tired Carolyn Wonderland--What Good Can Drinkin' Do Olof Arnalds--Solitary Man Ted Taylor--Daddy's Baby *Plus: Radio spot for Ike & Tina Turner'sCome Together (1970) album
---Retroactive #861--November 12, 2011: Laura Ainsworth--Fantastic Planet of Love Marshall Crenshaw--Better Back Off (live, solo, 2/01) Mary Flower--I'm Dreaming of Your Demise Root Doctor featuring Freddie Cunningham--Time Zone Willie May--Plenty of Problems Maxine Brown--Whatever Happened to Our Love Little Willie John--Let Them Talk; Spasms; Look What You've Done to Me Lara Price--Fever Mary Louise Knutson--Bluesette Garland Jeffreys--Coney Island Winter The Skatalites--New York Minute Kay Kay & the Rays--No Mama's Boys Mr. Gnome--House of Circles Yuck--Doctors In My Bed Ronnie Dawson--You Got a Long Way to Go Maria Muldaur--I'll Be Glad The Symptoms--Let Her Dance (live, 10/78) Rockpile--Queen of Hearts (live, 7/80) Buffalo Springfield--Down to the Wire (Neil Young vocal version) Carolann Ames--Love Is a Rose Neville Skelly--There's a World Neil Young--Don't Be Denied (live, 1973) Neil Young International Harvesters--Flying On the Ground Is Wrong (live) The Tommaso-Rava Quartet--Cronaca Familiare The Pleasure Seekers--Gotta Get Away William Shatner with Ian Paice & Johnny Winter--Space Truckin' Vampire Weekend--Cousins
---Retroactive #860--November 5, 2011: The Lucy Hammond Band--Talk to Me Gospel Music--This Town Doesn't Have Enough Bars for Both of Us Dale Watson & the Texas Two--The Hand of Jesus ///Singer-songwriter Liz Anderson (1930-2011): Merle Haggard & the Strangers--The Fugitive (I'm a Lonesome Fugitive); This Town's Not Big Enough (Great tunes penned by Liz Anderson)/// Feebeez--Walk Away Carmel--More More More Billy Gayles--I'm Tore Up Dennis Taylor (Delbert McClinton, vocal)--Since I Fell for You Lee Roy Parnell with Delbert McClinton--South By Southwest Delbert McClinton--Heartbreak Radio Walter Beasley--Expressway The Butterbean Jazz Quartet--My Old Man Joni Mitchell--Don't Interrupt the Sorrow Bo Diddley--I'm Bad The Steve Gibbons Band--No Spitting On the Bus The Chocolate Watchband--Are You Gonna Be There (At the Love-In) Fiona Boyes--Drink to Your Health Rachel Harrington--Hickory Wind The Black Crowes--She Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris--Ooh Las Vegas; The Angels Rejoiced Last Night The Flying Burrito Brothers--Hippie Boy Nicole Mitchell--Center of the Earth Lou Reed & Metallica--The View John Lee Hooker--She's Mine (Keep Your Hands to Yourself) Thee Mighty Caesars--Baby Mutilated Everybody's Heart Tom Waits--Raised Right Men
---Retroactive #859--October 29, 2011: ---Halloween Show Marti Brom--Spook House Bobby Bare, Jr.--Rock'n'Roll Halloween Darlene & Co.--Vampiress Stephin Merritt--The Song from Venus Roky Erickson & the Aliens--I Think of Demons Koko Taylor with Buddy Guy--Born Under a Bad Sign The Crazy World of Arthur Brown--Prelude/Nightmare Henry Threadgill & Make a Move--Burnt Til Recognition Lester Bangs & the Delinquents--Day of the Dead The Spells--The Age of Backwards The Bees--Voices Green and Purple The Strawbs--New World William Shatner with Dave Davies--Mr. Spaceman Imelda May--Psycho Bill Kirchen--Rockabilly Funeral The Jim Jones Revue--Burning Your House Down Deer Tick--The Bump David Bowie--Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) Beat Happening--Zombie Limbo Time Howlin' Wolf--I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) Candye Kane--Walkin' Talkin' Haunted House Screamin' Jay Hawkins--I Put a Spell on You Michelle Willson--Voodoo Voodoo Nomy Lamm--Spell #9 Charlie Feathers--Cockroach The Cramps--I Was a Teenage Werewolf Rob Jungklas--Ghost
---Retroactive #858--October 22, 2011: Paul Geremia--Mama Don't Allow No Lowdown Hangin' Around (live) Richie Havens--To Give All Your Love Away Fiona Boyes--Mean World ///Miracles guitarist-songwriter Marv Tarplin (1941-2011): Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Doggone Right Marvin Gaye--Ain't That Peculiar (Tarplin's lovely playing graced these songs, and he co-wrote them)/// Tom Russell--When Sinatra Played Juarez Pieta Brown--Mercury Mel Robbins--Save It Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--I'll Get Along Somehow; Last Call (For Alcohol) The Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra--It Could Happen to You Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Your Heart Is as Black as Night Nick Lowe--Somebody Cares for Me The Hard Way--The Solution Eddie & the Hot Rods--Teenage Depression Carrie Clark & the Lonesome Lovers--What Have We Done Johnny Winter with Derek Trucks--Dust My Broom Ted Hawkins--Don't Make Me Explain It; Who Got My Natural Comb?; Ladder of Success (1985 version) The Four Casts--Stormy Weather Ana Popovic--Count Me In Riley--Field of Green; Grandma's Roadhouse The Carol Morgan Quartet--Booker's Waltz Maria Muldaur--Soulful Dress Faces--Had Me a Real Good Time
---Retroactive #857--October 15, 2011: ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Eric Andersen--Rollin' Home Mary Flower--Scrapper's Blues Carolyn Wonderland--Only God Knows Dave Alvin--Harlan County Line The Bottoms Up Blues Gang--Show Your Love The Harry J. All Stars--Liquidator Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks--Tigers Wanda Jackson--Shakin' All Over; Rock Your Baby; Hard Headed Woman Lou Ann Barton--Mean Mean Man Dale Watson & the Texas Two--Gothenburg Train Young Marble Giants--Constantly Changing ///George 'Mojo' Buford (1929-2011): Muddy Waters--Walkin' Blues; Hoochie Coochie Man (both live, Paris, 1972) (Mojo Buford, harmonica on the second song)/// Peter Wolf Crier--Beach Veronica Falls--The Fountain ///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bash: The Shadows of Knight--Let It Rock Chuck Berry--Rockin' at the Philharmonic; Thirty Days; St. Louis Blues/// The Remains--Why Do I Cry (studio demo, 5/66) Warren Haynes--Sick of My Shadow Jo Ann Campbell--Boogie Woogie Country Girl The Jim Jones Revue--Premeditated The Avengers--Paint It Black
---Retroactive #856--October 8, 2011: Jimi Lee--Ease Your Mind (live) Ray Bonneville--Mississippi Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Well, Well ///Guitarist-vocalist Bert Jansch (1943-2011)--One to a Hundred; Texas Cowboy Blues Pentangle--Sally Go Round the Roses/// Pieta Brown--I Don't Mind Ron Sexsmith--Heavenly Diunna Greenleaf--Double Dealing T-Model Ford--Love Me Mary Louise Knutson--In the Bubble The Cynics--Gehenna Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--I Like Funky Music ///The John Lennon Birthday Bash: Curtis Stigers--Jealous Guy Larry Williams--Slow Down Rhett Miller & Murry Hammond--I'll Cry Instead (live, 2011) The Beatles--I Just Don't Understand (BBC); You Can't Do That (live, Melbourne, 6/64); Yer Blues Kati Mac--Dear Prudence Meat Puppets with Alison Scott--Tomorrow Never Knows Debbie Poryes & Bruce Williamson--In My Life The Persuasions--The Ballad of John & Yoko Chairmen of the Board--Come Together John Lennon--Old Dirt Road; Oh Yoko! John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Power to the People/// *Plus: Beatles and Lennon interview clips, 1964-1974
---Retroactive #855--October 1, 2011: Carolyn Mark & NQ Arbuckle--The 2nd Time The Avett Brothers--Kind of In Love The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band featuring Rick Zito--Albatross Judee Sill--Jesus Was a Cross Maker Mike Doughty--Day By Day By Roy Milton & his Solid Senders--Oh Babe Carolyn Wonderland--Victory of Flying Leon Thomas--Song for My Father; Shape Your Mind to Die Dennis Coffey--Space Traveller Bootsy Collins with George Duke & Ron Carter--The Jazz Greats (A Tribute to Jazz) Nancy Sinatra--Burnin' Down the Spark The Shy--Just a Little While XTC--Life Begins at the Hop Candye Kane--You Can't Hurt Me Anymore Johnny Winter--Got My Mojo Workin' Luke Temple--In the Open Eleanor Friedberger--My Mistakes Ellen McIlwaine--Wings of a Horse; Everybody Needs It; Can't Find My Way Home Ray Barretto--Trav'lin Light Nick Lowe--Restless Feeling Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--An Old Rock On a Roll Kirsty MacColl--There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis Roy Brown--School Bell Rock The Jim Jones Revue--Foghorn
---Retroactive #854--September 24, 2011: Ray Bonneville--Good Times Diunna Greenleaf--Sunny Day Friends Kathi McDonald--It's My Birthday ///Bill Morrissey (1951-2011)--Car and Driver (live, 1989); Letter from Heaven Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown--He Was a Friend of Mine/// ///Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith (1936-2011) & the Northern Blues Legends--Cry for Me Baby Pinetop Perkins & Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith--I Would Like to Have a Girl Like You Muddy Waters--I Want to Be Loved (1977 version) (Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith sang or played drums or harmonica on these great tunes)/// Ikebe Shakedown--Tujunga Melissa Ferrick--You Let Me Be Ani DiFranco--Do Re Me (live, solo, 9/96) Bruce Springsteen--41 Shots (American Skin) (live, solo, 9/09); My Beautiful Reward Pieta Brown--Closing Time Pavement--Elevate Me Later Peter Wolf Crier--Hard Heart Dum Dum Girls--Heartbeat (Take It Away) Jerry Lee Lewis--What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me); Jambalaya; Hold On, I'm Coming (slow version) The Moaners--Talk About It Nora Jean with Little Bobby--Good Blues Cindy Bradley--Pink Slip Mighty Sam McClain & Knut Reiersrud--Love One Another Nina Simone--Lilac Wine Etta James--Shakey Ground
---Retroactive #853--September 17, 2011: ---All '60s Show The Regents--Runaround Three Aces & a Joker--Booze Party Karen Dalton--Sweet Substitute The Who--Substitute Little Willie John--Like Boy, Like Girl The Soul-jers--Gonna Be a Big Man The Shangri-las--Give Him a Great Big Kiss Kai Ray--I Want Some of That Love--Orange Skies Sonny Boy Williamson II--Movin' Out Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood--Paris Summer Toussaint McCall--Nothing Takes the Place of You The Electras (NH)--Greenfields Ray Charles--I Believe to My Soul (live, 3/62); Busted (live, 9/64) The Animals--Mess Around Bettye LaVette--Nearer to You Denise & Co.--Take Me As I Am The Barbarians--Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl The Great Society--Outlaw Blues (live, 1966) Ike & Tina Turner--Bold Soul Sister The Youngbloods--Beautiful Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva--Swinging On a Star Donovan--The War Drags On Della Reese--Compared to What The Zombies--Is This the Dream Mackey Beers & the Rockitts--That Jim The Id--Those Ever-Lovin' Baby Blues The Wailers--Bama Lama Bama Loo Evie Sands--Take Me For a Little While The Newbeats--Run Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) Thelonious Monk--Four In One (live, 2/64) The Incredible String Band--Blues for the Muse Wilson Pickett--A Man and a Half The Kinks--Milk Cow Blues *Plus: KSAN-FM/SF and Stokely Carmichael opposing the Vietnam War
---Retroactive #852--September 10, 2011: Charlie Feathers--We're Getting Closer to Being Apart Linda Thompson--Je Veux Plus te Voir (I Don't Want You Anymore) Elmore Nixon--A Hepcat's Advice Candye Kane--You Can't Take It Back from Here Howlin' Wolf--I'll Be Around ///Arranger-composer Wardell Quezerge (1930-2011): Professor Longhair--Big Chief, Pt. 1 Earl King--Trick Bag Jean Knight--Mr. Big Stuff/// Arnold McCuller--Gods and Monsters Dakota Staton--Hurry Home Mike Garson--Ashes to Ashes Rosie Flores--Bandera Highway; Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts--This Cat's In the Doghouse Peter Wolf Crier--Settling It Off The Fast Camels--The 2 Day Week The Jeff Beck Group--Got the Feeling Danielle Howle & the Tantrums--Subclassic Dave Alvin--Run Conejo Run Demetria Taylor--Bad Girl B.B. King--In the Middle Of an Island; Growing Old B.B. King & Dr. John--There Must Be a Better World Somewhere Eilen Jewell--Kalimotxo Imelda May--Let Me Out Booker T. Jones with Matt Berninger & Sharon Jones--Representing Memphis Ivan Appelrouth--Magic's Time Mike Doughty--Strike the Motion Melissa Ferrick--Seconds Like These The Unusuals--I'm Walkin' Babe
---Retroactive #851--September 3, 2011: John Hiatt--Cherry Red Billie & De De Pierce--Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out ///David 'Honey Boy' Edwards (1915-2011)--Pony Blues; My Baby's Gone/// Eleanor Friedberger--I Won't Fall Apart On You Tonight Otis Redding--You Left the Water Running; Snatch a Little Piece Marti Brom--Write Me In Care of the Blues Patsy Cline--So Wrong; Hungry for Love Dennis Taylor--Stepping Up Tommy Keene--Factory Town Nat Couty & the Braves--Woodpecker Rock JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys--If You Let Me The Pretenders--Tattooed Love Boys (live, 2009) The Jim Jones Revue--High Horse Dennis Coffey--Plutonius Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--It's All Downhill Bump Kitchen--Don't Say Don't (live) The Corin Tucker Band--Doubt The Wagoneers--Down the Line Jenny O.--I'm Gonna Love You Too Buddy Holly--That's My Desire; Love Me; True Love Ways Nelda Swiggett--Heart of the Moment Ry Cooder--No Banker Left Behind Mel Tillis & the Statesiders--Sawmill Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Fantasy Meets Reality Dropkick Murphys--We Got the Power
---Retroactive #850--August 27, 2011: Michelle Willson--I Know How to Do It Dinah Washington--You Let My Love Grow Cold; Destination Moon ///Songwriter-singer Nickolas Ashford (1946-2011): Big Mama Thornton--Let's Go Get Stoned Aretha Franklin--You're All I Need to Get By Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell--Ain't No Mountain High Enough (three fabulous songs by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson)/// ///Saxophonist Gil Bernal (1931-2011)--Easyville Duane Eddy--Rebel Rouser (Bernal played on these tunes and the two Robins songs in the Leiber set)/// ///Songwriter-producer Jerry Leiber (1933-2011): The Robins--Riot In Cell Block #9; Framed The Coasters--Charlie Brown Elvis Presley--Treat Me Nice (Four terrific songs by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)/// Ivan Appelrouth--The Uptown Downtown Groove Candye Kane--Love Insurance Steve Earle--Waitin' On the Sky The Smithereens--Rings On Her Fingers The Ettes--I Stayed Too Late Peter Wolf Crier--Krishnamurti Marcia Ball--That's How It Goes Them--Don't Start Crying Now; Little Girl Van Morrison--(Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball; Cyprus Avenue Marianne Faithfull--Madame George Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble--Shades of the Prairie Prophet Steve James & Del Rey--Tap That Thing Demetria Taylor--Trying to Make a Living Eilen Jewell--That's Where I'm Going Don & Dewey--Bim Bam Shirley & Lee--Don't You Know I Love You Eddie Cochran--Weekend
---Retroactive #849--August 20, 2011: Eleanor Friedberger--Owl's Head Park Slapp Happy--A Little Something S.O.U.L.--Tell It Like It Is Richard Berry & the Pharoahs--No Huggin' and a-Kissin' The Chiffons--I Have a Boyfriend Elvis Costello--Let's Misbehave Elvis Costello & the Attractions--This Year's Girl Ron Sexsmith & Elvis Costello--Everyday I Write the Book (live, 9/09) Ron Sexsmith--Michael and his Dad Booker T. Jones--Harlem House Colin Gilmore--White Man In Hammersmith Palais Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Cool'n'Out The Clash--London's Burning The Butchies--For Kay Arnold McCuller with Thelma Jones--Gasoline and Matches Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Searching for My Baby ///20th Anniversary of the International Pop Underground Convention, held in Olympia, August 20-25, 1991: Rose Melberg--My Day (live, Olympia, 8/91) Beat Happening--Knock On Any Door Heavens to Betsy--Axemen Girl Trouble--Leaving Here Bratmobile--You're Fired Some Velvet Sidewalk--Curiosity (live, Olympia, 8/91) Fugazi--Merchandise/// Dennis Taylor--Back at the Teddy Bear Lounge Tommy Keene--Running for Your Life Syl Johnson--I've Got Love Imelda May--Sneaky Freak
---Retroactive #848--August 13, 2011: Mary Hopkin--Gold and Silver 'Cripple' Clarence Lofton--Strut That Thing Hope Waits--You Crossed the Line ///Bassist Marshall Grant (1928-2011): Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two--Big River; It's Just About Time/// Eilen Jewell--Over Again Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole--Richard's Two-Step (live) Candye Kane--Have a Nice Day Bump Kitchen--I Told You So (live) Debbie Poryes & Bruce Williamson--You Bet I Do The Heptones--Fatty Fatty Billy Stewart--Fat Boy Saffire the Uppity Blues Women--Dump That Chump (live, 10/97) The Music Machine--Double Yellow Line Dave Edmunds--I Knew the Bride PJ Harvey--Man-Size Old 97s--The Actor The Icons--X-Ray Dennis Coffey--7th Galaxy Samantha Crain--Traipsing Through the Aisles; We Are the Same Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--Devils In Boston Le Tigre--Much Finer The Hard Way--Free Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble--Sketches Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Won't Let Me Go Terry Reid--Rich Kid Blues Demetria Taylor--I Can't Take It No More
---Retroactive #847--August 6, 2011: Arnold McCuller--All Good Karen Savoca--Almost Fine Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Dance to the Bop Jenni Muldaur--Lost Someone Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Way Overdue Bootsy Collins with Dr. Cornel West--Freedumb (When-Love-Becomes-a-Threat) ///Eugene McDaniels (1935-2011)--Outlaw; Cherrystones Gene McDaniels--Tower of Strength John Legend & the Roots--Compared to What (McDaniels' magnificent song, first recorded by Les McCann & Eddie Harris)/// Ivan Appelrouth--Blues a la King The Previous--Drug War Andras Jones--The Six Million Dollar Ken Shonen Knife--Catnip Dream Deb Callahan--Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter Chris Stamey--The Summer Sun The Sonics--Cheap Shades The Cynics--Crawl The Jayhawks--She Walks In So Many Ways The Students--I'm So Young The Ronettes--Soldier Baby of Mine Ronnie Spector--Try Some, Buy Some; She Talks to Rainbows; Back to Black Dennis Taylor--Lee's Lick Garland Jeffreys--Ghost Writer
---Retroactive #846--July 30, 2011: Gillian Welch--Silver Dagger The Hard Way--I Like Elephants SueAnn Carwell--Hold Me Tonight The Left Banke--Bryant Hotel Marion James--24 Hours Eugene Hideaway Bridges--I'm Holding On ///Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)--Love Is a Losing Game; Help Yourself The Jolly Boys featuring Albert Minott--Rehab/// George Cables--5 Will Get Ya 10 Little Willie John--Inside Information Gal Costa--Logus Pe Booker T. Jones--The Hive The Morells--Gettin' In Shape (live, 5/82) Johnny J. Blair--If I Could Dress Like Clive Owen The Greenhornes--Lies The Rondelles--Boy I Know Deerhoof--Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain The Junior Wells Chicago Blues Band--Vietcong Blues Buddy Guy--Stay All Night; Living Proof Buddy Guy with Keith Richards--The Price You Gotta Pay Sarah Wilson--To New Orleans Eilen Jewell--Home to Me Chuck Berry--You Came a Long Way from St. Louis Bettye LaVette & Hank Ballard--Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go El Rego--Vimado Wingnan Delbert McClinton--New York City
---Retroactive #845--July 23, 2011: Robbin Thompson--One Horse Town Alice Stuart with Mickey Raphael--Up In the Canyon ///Producer-songwriter Jerry Ragovoy (1930-2011): Howard Tate--Get It While You Can (1967 version) Janis Joplin--My Baby B.B. King--Ain't Nobody Home Lorraine Ellison--Stay With Me/// Don Cole--Snake Eyed Mama The Johnny Nocturne Band featuring Brenda Boykin--Baby, I'm Doin' It John Platania/Kendel Carson/Chip Taylor--Sugar Sugaree Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble--Mesopotamia Darlene Love--Lord, If You're a Woman; A Fine, Fine Boy The Blossoms--That's When the Tears Start The Icons--No Hammer (Recession Blues) Old 97s--Visiting Hours The Fiery Furnaces--Charmaine Champagne Dennis Coffey featuring Lisa Kekaula--Somebody's Been Sleeping Cedric Watson et Bijou Creole--Old Time Two-Step (live) The Parting Gifts--Sleepy City Samantha Fish/Cassie Taylor/Dani Wilde--Bitch Ben Waters with Mick Jagger--Watching the River Flow The Rolling Stones--I'm Free; We Love You Chuck Leavell--Walk a Little Closer Hope Waits--Get Behind the Mule Marti Jones--Slave Andre Williams--Is It True? Jackie Wilson--Doggin' Around
---Retroactive #844--July 16, 2011: EG Kight--I'm In It to Win It Kelsie Love--He Will Fall Mighty Mo Rodgers--Gone Fishin' David Bromberg with Dr. John--You Don't Wanna Make Me Mad Beyondo--Come On and Let Me In Eilen Jewell--Hooked Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Howlin' Ernestine Anderson--Someone Else Is Steppin' In Denise LaSalle--The Night We Called It a Day; It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings Buddy DeFranco--For Keeps ///60th Anniversary of Rosetta Tharpe's live concert/wedding in Washington, D.C., July 3, 1951: Sister Rosetta Tharpe--Rock Me; God Don't Like It/// Lonnie 'The Cat'--The Road I Travel Jeremy Vogt Band--Therapy Didn't Work Holly Golightly--Nothing You Can Say Roxy Music--Editions of You The Cynics--I Need More Paul Weller--That's Entertainment (live, 12/05) Booker T. Jones--Crazy Rory Gallagher--Cruise On Out Gillian Welch--The Way It Goes Richard & Linda Thompson--Wall of Death Lonnie Mack--Why; Omaha; Susie Q Debbie Poryes & Bruce Williamson--Easy Living Robert Pollard--Garden Smarm Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Baby I Like The Skeletons--Rockaway Beach (live, 1/92)
---Retroactive #843--July 9, 2011: Little Miss Higgins--Beautiful Sun Jo Ann Kelly--Ain't Seen No Whiskey Chain & the Gang--Youth Is Wasted On the Young Ann Peebles--Give Me Some Credit Baby Gramps--It Ain't Easy Father's Children--Who's Gonna Save the World The Ohio Players--Summertime The Corin Tucker Band--It's Always Summer Martin Hayes--Lucy Farr's Rose Laughlin--Pastures of Plenty Woody Guthrie--Dust Bowl Blues; Why, Oh Why? Nellie 'Tiger' Travis--Why You Lie Like That Old 97s--I'm a Trainwreck Arctic Monkeys--Library Pictures Dennis Coffey featuring Mayer Hawthorne--All Your Goodies Are Gone Eddie Bo--Hook and Sling, Pt. 1 Marcia Ball--The Party's Still Going On Mason Ruffner--Can't Stop Lovin' You Sister Betsy--Give It Up or Let Me Go Betsy Holt--Real Deal Roger McGuinn--Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair The Byrds--Chestnut Mare; Tiffany Queen Jack DeJohnette--Tango African Alice DiMicele--Rock Star Bob & Gene--It's Not What You Know (It's Who You Know) The Strangeloves--Night Time
---Retroactive #842--July 2, 2011: Thee Midniters--Are You Angry? Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers--Ain't Got Nobody Billie Poole--Them Blues Conrad Korsch with Rosanne Cash--Firefly Jimmy Ricks--Summertime ///Wild Man Fischer (1944-2011)--The Taster/// Tracy Nelson--Victim of the Blues Scott Walker--Cowbells Shakin' Neil Young International Harvesters--Let Your Fingers Do the Walking (live) Swamp Dogg--God Bless America for What Roxy Coss--July Ringo Starr & the Roundheads--I Was Walkin'; Back Off Boogaloo (both live, 1998) Eilen Jewell--Warning Signs Beat Happening--Revolution Come and Gone Hoodoo Gurus--Only In America The Icons--Dancin' In the Jailhouse Buffy Sainte-Marie--She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina Mark Growden--Star Spangled Benz/Molly Rose Waltz Ruby & the Romantics--When You're Young and In Love Louis Jordan--What I Say Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--How Long Must I Wait for You?; Azure-Te (Paris Blues); I Want You to Be My Baby Ella Mae Morse--Buzz Me Larry Coryell with the Wide Hive Players--The Last Drop Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer--Highway 80 (She's a Mighty Good Road) Otis Spann--Moon Blues
---Retroactive #841--June 25, 2011: Willie Dixon--Walkin' the Blues Gina Sicilia--Crazy 'Bout You Baby Finis Tasby--Little Red Rooster Rose Laughlin--Shady Grove Thao & Mirah--Squareneck Leon Russell--Of Thee I Sing ///Clarence Clemons (1942-2011)--Spirit Dance Pezband--Let's Dance! Clarence Clemons & the Red Bank Rockers--Resurrection Shuffle Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Spirit In the Night (live, 11/75) (Clarence Clemons, saxophone on all tracks)/// Robert Pollard--Dunce Codex EG Kight--I Can't Turn Him Off Father's Children--Everybody's Got a Problem Dennis Coffey featuring Kings Go Forth--Miss Millie Booker T. Jones--Down In Memphis The Zombies--Summertime The Undertones--Here Comes the Summer Marion James--Feel It The Kinks--Muswell Hillbilly; Polly; Alcohol (live, 1972) Yo La Tengo--Fancy Greg Kihn--Waterloo Sunset Ray Davies--You're Asking Me The Jessica Williams Trio--Freedom Trane The Cynics--Rock Club
---Retroactive #840--June 18, 2011: Shaun Murphy--Mississippi Water Fairport Convention--Down In the Flood (live, 5/74) ///Benny Spellman (1931-2011)--Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) Ernie K-Doe--Mother-In-Law (Benny Spellman sang the bass vocal on K-Doe's biggest hit)/// ///Carl Gardner (1928-2011): The Robins--I Must Be Dreamin The Coasters--Girls Girls Girls, Pt. 2; Young Blood/// Alice DiMicele--Common Ground Eilen Jewell--Queen of the Minor Key ///Cornell Dupree (1942-2011)--Freedom Jazz Dance Brook Benton--Rainy Night In Georgia (Cornell Dupree, guitar--on two of his 2,500 recording sessions)/// Debbie Poryes & Bruce Williamson--Speak No Evil Wings--Love Is Strange Paul McCartney--Somedays; It's So Easy The Arctic Monkeys--Brick By Brick Shawn Pittman--This Time Ben Waters with PJ Harvey--Lonely Avenue Betsy Holt--I Been Tryin' John Trudell--Somebody's Kid (Ryko version) The Isley Brothers--Yes Indeed! Rory Gallagher--Rue the Day The Beach Boys--Graduation Day (studio version) The Wilsons--Monday Without You Brian Wilson--Kiss Me Baby; Do It Again (both live, 2000) Larry Coryell with the Wide Hive Players--Torchlight Buddy Miller with Patty Griffin--I Want to Be With You Always Love Inks--Can't Be Wrong
---Retroactive #839--June 11, 2011: Lloyd Jones--Last Fair Deal Gone Down John Platania/Kendel Carson/Chip Taylor--I Can't Let Go Charles Lloyd--TM The New Pornographers--Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk Eddie Hinton--Love Attack; Shout Bamalama Drive-By Truckers--Where's Eddie ///Asbury Jukes keyboardist Kevin Kavanaugh (1952-2011): ///Epic Records promotion wiz/Cleveland International founder Steve Popovich (1942-2011): Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes--Got to Be a Better Way Home Ian Hunter--Cleveland Rocks/// The Jessica Williams Trio--The Seeker ///Producer-engineer Martin Rushent (1948-2011): Buzzcocks--Noise Annoys; Why Can't I Touch It?/// Hank Williams--Fly Trouble Vicci Martinez--Hold Me Darlin' (live) The Magic Sam Blues Band--That's All I Need Dennis Coffey featuring Fanny Franklin--Don't Knock My Love The Icons--Fool Me Once The Cynics--Junk Marcia Ball--This Used to Be Paradise Eliza Gilkyson--2153 Nick Drake--Saturday Sun; Place to Be; At the Chime of a City Clock Field of Blue--Fruit Tree Father's Children--Father's Children Sweet Claudette--Shaking Up the Bucket
---Retroactive #838--June 4, 2011: Hot Tuna--Mama, Let Me Lay It On You (Baby, Let Me Follow You Down) LaVern Baker--You Said The Raveonettes--Ignite Ron Sexsmith--Disappearing Act Ray Charles--You Don't Know Me (live, 9/64) Tracy Nelson--You'll Be Mine Howlin' Wolf--Crazy About You Baby Chain & the Gang--It's a Hard, Hard Job (Keeping Everybody High) Greg Brown--Speaking In Tongues The Menahan Street Band--Every Day Is a Dream ///Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011)--Billy Green Is Dead; Whitey On the Moon; Your Daddy Loves You (live, 1981) Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson--The Bottle/// Rory Block--Kokomo Blues Willie Wright--Right On for the Darkness Curtis Mayfield--The Makings of You The Impressions--We're a Winner Fairport Convention--John the Gun (live, 5/74) Thao & Mirah--How Dare You Gary U.S. Bonds--Dear Lady Twist; Out of Work Gary U.S. Bonds with Southside Johnny--Fannie Mae Jeff Beck (Gary U.S. Bonds, vocal)--New Orleans (live, 6/10) Mary Poryes & Bruce Williamson--Moment's Notice Raymond LeFevre--Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline) Rita Chiarelli--French Kiss Cee Lo Green--(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care Nellie 'Tiger' Travis--Ain't Gonna Raise No Grown Ass Man
---Retroactive #837--May 28, 2011: ---All Texas Show Willis Alan Ramsey--Satin Sheets Townes Van Zandt--Two Girls (live, 2/95) The Meat Purveyors--Little White Pills Greezy Wheels--Don't Come Home When You're Mad at Me Joe 'King' Carrasco & the Crowns--Party Weekend (Gee Bee version) Alejandro Escovedo--Mountain of Mud Okkervil River--White Shadow Waltz Chip Taylor--Jesus Christ-Don't Let the Cactus Fall John Platania/Kendel Carson/Chip Taylor--Monica (These Fingers Move for You) Area Code 512--Waltz Across Texas Mary Cutrufello--Sunny Day (acoustic version) Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real--Four Letter Word Johnny Copeland--Everybody Wants a Piece of Me Eugene Hideaway Bridges--I Got the Blues (live, 2009) Marcia Ball--Sugar Boogie Delbert McClinton--Let Me Be Your Lover (live, 12/82) Lou Ann Barton--It Ain't Right Joe Ely--I Had My Hopes Up High The LeRoi Brothers--Moon Twist The Sir Douglas Quintet--Blue Norther Meat Puppets--Hour of the Idiot Lightnin' Hopkins--Daddy Will Be Home One Day Rosie Flores--My Own Kind of Hat Eliza Gilkyson--Slouching Towards Bethlehem Ornette Coleman--Enfant The Black Angels--Yellow Elevator #2 The 13th Floor Elevators--Reverberation (Doubt) Buddy Holly--Crying, Waiting, Hoping Willie Nelson--The Ghost ('Naked' version) Wayne Hancock--Goin' to Texas When I'm Through
---Retroactive #836--May 21, 2011: Mark Growden--Bones Thao & Mirah--Rubies and Rocks The Genies--Who's That Knocking Curtis Salgado--Old Enough to Know Better The Kills--Satellite Huevos Rancheros--Gump Worsley's Lament Tracy Nelson with Angela Strehli--Howlin' for My Baby The Paul Butterfield Blues Band--East-West (live, Hollywood, 1966) Wadada Leo Smith's Organic--Silsila ///Bob Dylan's 70th Birthday Bash: Deb Callahan--Cold Irons Bound Traveling Wilburys--Like a Ship Pieta Brown--Dirt Road Blues Kodiak--Everything Is Broken Marilyn Scott--It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) Doug Sahm--Love Minus Zero/No Limit Janet Planet--Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat The North Mississippi Allstars--Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again Ben Carruthers & the Deep--Jack O'Diamonds Bob Dylan--Series of Dreams (1989/released 2008); I Shall Be Free (Witmark demo); Black Diamond Bay/// *Plus: Historian Howard Zinn reading Dylan's 'Masters of War'
---Retroactive #835--May 14, 2011: Koko Taylor--Stop Watching Your Enemies Eliza Gilkyson--Belle of the Ball ///John Walker (1943-2011): The Walker Brothers--The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)/// Rory Block--Mississippi Man The Move--Until Your Mama's Gone Okkervil River--Your Past Life as a Blast Rita Chiarelli--Rest My Bones The Jessica Williams Trio--Just Words The Mahavishnu Orchestra--The Dance of Maya The Plimsouls--Lost Time (live, 10/81) Marion James--My Mama Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--Piranha The Susan Tedeschi Band--I Don't Want Nobody Versus--Saturday Saints Duke Tumatoe & the Power Trio--Tie You Up (live) Thea Gilmore--Bad Moon Rising The Blue Ridge Rangers--Workin' On a Building Mavis Staples--Wrote a Song for Everyone John Fogerty--It Ain't Right Creedence Clearwater Revival--Effigy Matthew Shipp--Gamma Ray (live) Emmylou Harris--Lonely Girl Shawn Elliott--Don't Ask Me to Live Without You *Plus: Remembering Carter: Capitol Records A&R man John S. Carter (1945-2011)
---Retroactive #834--May 7, 2011: Gina Sicilia--Gimme a Simple Song Richard X. Heyman--Golden In This Town Cee Pee Johnson--The 'G' Man Got the 'T' Man Syl Johnson--We Do It Together Curtis Salgado--Cookie Dough Raina Rose--Nashville Christy Moore--Don't Forget Your Shovel Moving Hearts--Irish Ways and Irish Laws; What Will You Do About Me Debbie Poryes & Bruce Williamson--Lost Souls Mark Growden--John Hardy Los Lobos--Yo Canto Marcia Ball--Look Before You Leap Nick Lowe--Big Kick, Plain Scrap Tight Bros from Way Back When--Inside Looking Out Thee Headcoatees--Dirty Old Man Jerry Lee Lewis with Mick Jagger--Dead Flowers Eddie Cleanhead Vinson--Just a Dream (On My Mind) Camille Howard--Please Don't Stay Away So Long Stevie Wonder--Bird of Beauty; I'm Wondering; Do I Do The Seamus Blake Quartet--Rain Your Love Down Ronnie Earl & Duke Robillard--West Side Shuffle Nellie 'Tiger' Travis--You Must Be Lovin' Someone Else The Strokes--Metabolism Chain & the Gang--(I've Got) Priviledge Sparks--Lighten Up, Morrissey Graham Parker & the Rumour--Help Me Shake It
---Retroactive #833--April 30, 2011: ///Hazel Dickens (1935-2011) & Alice Gerrard--T.B. Blues (They're at Rest Together) Hazel Dickens/Carol Elizabeth Jones/Ginny Hawker--Old River Hazel Dickens/David Patrick Kelly/Bobby McMillen--Conversations With Death/// Emmylou Harris--My Name Is Emmett Till The Feelies--Later On Meat Puppets--Baby Don't ///Phoebe Snow (1950-2011)--No Show Tonight; Harpo's Blues (live, 1977)/// The Jessica Williams Trio--Lonnie's Lament ///Producer Huey P. Meaux (1929-2011): Jivin' Gene & the Jokers--Breaking Up Is Hard to Do The Sir Douglas Quintet--Oh What a Mistake Barbara Lynn--You'll Lose a Good Thing/// Hawkwind--Interstellar Overdrive Mars Classroom--It Had to Come from Somewhere Eliza Gilkyson--Looking for a Place ///Poly Styrene (1957-2011): X-Ray Spex--I Am a Poseur; Identity/// James Brown--Ain't It Funky Now; Give It Up or Turnit a Loose James Brown with the JBs--It's a New Day (live, 7/71) Martha High--The Big Payback Cold Sweat--Cold Sweat Ani DiFranco--32 Flavors Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--Cartoon People Tracy Nelson--Stranger In My Home Town Thao & Mirah--Folks
---Retroactive #832--April 23, 2011: Yank Rachell--Moonshine Whiskey Diana Jones--Poverty Dalton Reed--Never Never Land Edie Brickell--Pill Paul Simon--So Beautiful or So What ///Bassist Gerard Smith (1975-2011): TV On the Radio--Will Do/// Barefoot Jerry--Watchin' TV (With the Radio On) ///Violinist-composer Billy Bang (1947-2011)--Pieta (live, solo, 3/97); Tunnel Rat (Flashlight and a .45)/// ///Keyboardist-singer Kent Morrill (1941-2011): The Wailers--Tall Cool One (1959 version); Lucille; Dirty Robber (live, 1961)/// Dana Fuchs--Faster Than We Can Harlem--Spray Paint The Patiokings--Step Down The Kills--Heart Is a Beating Drum Roy Orbison--Ride Away; Mean Woman Blues Roy Orbison & the Roses--Devil Doll Rory Block--Shake 'Em On Down Richard X. Heyman--Fire In the Country Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays--He Rocks Me, He Rocks Me Not Chain & the Gang--For Practical Purposes (I Love You) Matthew Shipp--The Crack In the Piano's Egg John Mellencamp--Easter Eve Sonny Boy Williamson II--309 The Spiders--21 (3 x 7 = 21) *Plus: Dick Clark interviews the fabulous Wailers on 'American Bandstand' (6/11/59)
---Retroactive #831--April 16, 2011: ---Seventeenth Anniversary Show Nellie 'Tiger' Travis--Before You Grab This Tiger By the Tail (2011 version) Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real--The Truth Doc Watson--Deep River Blues (2002 version) Irma Thomas--Old Records Boyd Bennett & his Rockets--Seventeen Hot Tuna--Easy Now Revisited Tracy Nelson with Marcia Ball--Shoot My Baby Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--Funky to the Bone Drive-By Truckers--The Weakest Man Dum Dum Girls--There Is a Light That Never Goes Out The John Schroeder Orchestra--Hungry for Love Martin Mull & his Fabulous Furniture--Licks Off of Records Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Honky Tonk Hiccups Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Junco Partner Is/Is--Eating Hourglasses The Swinging Iggies--Lady Gaga Ian Dury & the Blockheads--Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Kelley Hunt--The House of Love Nick Lowe--Skin Deep Johnny Rawls--My Guitar The Beatle-ettes--Only Seventeen Buick MacKane--Loose (Iggy &) the Stooges--Search and Destroy Iggy Pop--Five Foot One The Stooges--Head On (rehearsal, 1973) Roxy Coss--The Slow Ascent The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--My Terrible Friend The Sex Pistols--Seventeen Ella Mae Morse--Seventeen Joe Tex--I'm a Man Johnny Sayles--I Can't Get Enough (Of Your Love) *Plus: Doc Watson talking about the first records (78s) he owned
---Retroactive #830--April 9, 2011: ---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show M. Ward--Vincent O'Brien The Mountain Goats--Beautiful Gas Mask Kate McGarry--Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets Claudia Schmidt--Coming Home to You Raw Spitt--Midnight Rider Marcia Ball--We Fell Hard The Black Angels--Telephone Tony Weeks & the Tony Weeks Band featuring Tony Weeks--At Home Football, Etc.--Halftime Carl Perkins--Lonely Heart; Somebody Tell Me; Dixie Fried Billy Swan--Blue Suede Shoes Helen Humes--Central Avenue Boogie The Blasters--Cry for Me Chain & the Gang--Why Not? Bo Diddley--Gun Slinger Lucinda Williams--Buttercup Rufus Thomas--Let the Good Times Roll Charlie Karp--Taxed to Death Rory Block--The Breadline Junior Parker--Taxman Betty Davis--Bottom of the Barrel Henry Gray--Lucky, Lucky Man Girl Trouble--Common Law Loners The Pick-ups--River Is a-Risin'
---Retroactive #829--April 2, 2011: Dino Valenti--Strange World Martha High--Why You Calling Me Joe Bonamassa--Dust Bowl Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers--I've Been Gone Johnny Rawls--Burning Bridges Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--Bullfight (Change Your Mind) ///Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011)--After Hours Muddy Waters--Can't Get No Grindin' (What's the Matter With the Mill); Cross-Eyed Cat; Blow Wind Blow (live, 10/71) (Pinetop Perkins, piano or electric piano on all four tracks)/// Gregg Allman--I Can't Be Satisfied Gil Evans--Zee Zee (live, 2/80) SF Seals--Doc Ellis The Baseball Project--Fair Weather Fans; Ichiro Goes to the Moon The Persuasions--Life Is a Ball Game Tracy Nelson--Feel So Bad June Tabor--Pharoah Richard Thompson--A Love You Can't Survive Richard Thompson/Clive Gregson/Christine Collister--Here Without You Fairport Convention--Cajun Woman The Pamela Hines Trio--Let's Fall In Love Gina Sicilia--Wish the Clock Would Stop Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real--Peaceful Solution New York Dolls--I'm So Fabulous The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--Heaven's Gonna Happen Now *Plus: Garrison Keillor reads Walt Whitman
---Retroactive #828--March 26, 2011: Kelley Hunt--Deep Old Love Drive-By Truckers--I Do Believe Rachel Harrington--You Don't Know ///Ferlin Husky (1925-2011)--Gone (1957 version)/// ///Steel guitarist-songwriter Ralph Mooney (1928-2011): Buck Owens--Under Your Spell Again Jerry Lee Lewis--Crazy Arms/// ///Singer Ronnie Hammond (1950-2011): The Atlanta Rhythm Section--Free Spirit; Jukin'/San Antonio Rose/// ///Drummer Joe Morello (1928-2011): The Dave Brubeck Quartet--Pennies from Heaven (live, 2/63)/// Roxy Coss--Lately Cathie Vitale Elkins--War Song Swamp Dogg--Sam Stone Steve Earle--Ben McCulloch Is/Is--Death Threat The Black Angels--Phosphene Dream Nick Lowe--Withered On the Vine; Switchboard Susan Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In the Shop--I Knew the Bride (live, 1977) The Morells--Let's Eat (live, 12/82) The Brinsleys--There's a Cloud In My Heart Brinsley Schwarz--Home In My Hand (live) Dick Oatts--Tune for T Yuck--The Wall Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--Moonlightin' Ann Peebles--Slipped, Tripped and Fell In Love Chain & the Gang--Livin' Rough
---Retroactive #827--March 19, 2011: ---All '60s Show The Rumblers--Boss Pearls Before Swine--Playmate Dee Dee Warwick--You're No Good The Zombies--What More Can I Do The Shangri-las--Never Again Willie Colon--Che Che Cole The Rolling Stones--Connection Sly & the Family Stone--I Can't Turn You Loose Brian Hyland--The Joker Went Wild Howlin' Wolf--You'll Be Mine The Who--Call Me Lightning Syl Johnson--Double Whammy Millie Rogers--There You Go Moby Grape--Come In the Morning The Roy Haynes Quartet--Raoul Johnny Winter--I Hate Everybody The Pretty Things--Rosalyn Ike & Tina Turner--Chicken Shack The Beatles--Tomorrow Never Knows The Small Faces--Don't Burst My Bubble The Dartells--Hot Pastrami Chris Farlowe & the Thunderbirds--Buzz With the Fuzz The Bumps--Hey Girl Nancy Sinatra--Lightning's Girl Wynn Stewart--Uncle Tom Got Caught Pat Downey & the Vistas--Real Live Lover Aretha Franklin--Come Back Baby Dyke & the Blazers--We Got More Soul Solomon Burke--Party People The Beach Boys--How She Boogalooed It The Sonics--I'm Going Home Pentangle--Light Flight The Kinks--Yes Sir, No Sir William Bell--Everybody Loves a Winner Sun Ra & his Astro Infinity Arkestra--Bimini The Ramsey Lewis Trio--The 'In' Crowd Sam & Dave--You Got Me Hummin' The Animals--Dimples (live, 12/63) The Cinderellas--Please Don't Wake Me Dusty Springfield--Breakfast In Bed *Plus: Commercials and announcements from the '60s
---Retroactive #826--March 12, 2011: Orville 'O.J.' Jenkins--How Beautiful Union Must Be Henry Johnson--Who's Going Home With You Gina Sicilia--Before the Night Is Through The Afrosoul-tet--Aphro Bugaloo Carmaig de Forest--Dark Place The Extra Lens--Rockin' Rockin' Twilight of the Gods Tara Priya--For Love The (Nat) King Cole Trio--Pitchin' Up a Boogie; Bop Kick; (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 Matthew Shipp--Virgin Complex (live) The Pogues--Whiskey In the Jar Dropkick Murphys--Black Velvet Band Black 47--Paddy's Got a Brand New Reel Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers--Erotolepsy Is/Is--Pretty Girl Yuck--Shook Down The Fast Camels--Der Nazi Tea Ry Cooder--Boomer's Story; The Girls from Texas; Smack Dab In the Middle (live, 12/76) Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban--Los Twangueros Roxy Coss--A New Time Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore--I'm Shakin' Skinny Millionaires--Night of the Creeps Kelley Hunt--I'm Ready Finis Tasby--Georgia Slop
---Retroactive #825--March 5, 2011: The Wailin' Jennys--What Has Been Done First Aid Kit--It Hurts Me Too NRBQ--This Old House ///Eddie Kirkland (1923-2011)--I Must've Done Something Wrong; Mojo In Her Backbone (live, 9/73)/// Lou Reed--Legendary Hearts; How Do You Think It Feels (live, 12/06) Genya Ravan with Lou Reed--Aye Co'lorado Sonny Rollins--Did You See Harold Vick? Broadcast--City In Progress Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--The Thrill Is Gone Lucinda Williams--Seeing Black Bright Eyes--Haile Selassie North Mississippi Allstars--New Orleans Walkin' Dead Drive-By Truckers--Dancin' Ricky Fats Domino--The Fat Man; All By Myself; When My Dreamboat Comes Home Lloyd Price--Rock'n'Roll Dance The Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Mardi Gras In New Orleans (live, 7/85) Smiley Lewis--Shame, Shame, Shame Aaron Neville--Don't Let Him Ride Shirley & Lee--That's What I'll Do Roy Montrell--(Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone The Debbie Poryes Quartet--I Should Care Deerhoof--Super Duper Rescue Heads! Nikki Sudden--Empire Blues
---Retroactive #824--February 26, 2011: Los Straitjackets--Lurking In the Shadows Rachel Harrington--You'll Do Willie Wright--Lack of Education Tony Furtado--Toe the Line Rosie Flores & Ray Campi--Separate Ways Nora Jean Bruso--If You're Looking for Someone The Wailers--You Weren't Using Your Head Mary Cutrufello--Lovin' You Beats All I've Ever Seen (acoustic version) Johnny Cash--Engine One-Forty-Three; Don't Take Your Guns to Town Ray Charles with Johnny Cash--Why Me, Lord? The Pamela Hines Trio--Moon Germs Scott Askew--Apple Pie Eden Brent--My Man Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers--The Chelsea Clinic Physical The Fleshtones--Right On Woman The Shirelles--Sha La La Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & the True Loves--Take My Love With You Jimmy Lynch--Notions of Mr. Motions The Paladins--Mercy Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods--Uranium Rock Lynn Miles--Fearless Heart Doris Troy--So Far Fats (Domino) & Dave (Bartholomew)--Jump Children The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm--My Girl Josephine (live) Brian Bromberg--Shag Carpet The Afrosoul-tet--Afro Revolt Eilen Jewell--I'm a Honky Tonk Girl The Extra Lens--Adultery Marah--Within the Spirit Sagging
---Retroactive #823--February 19, 2011: Eleni Kelakos--To the Bone Sweet Claudette--Not Another Moment Lefty Frizzell--Run 'Em Off ///Bassist Alex Napier (1949-2011): The LeRoi Brothers--Check This Action/// Toni Price--Chain of Love George Harrison--Tired of Midnight Blue; Wah Wah ///The George Shearing (1919-2011) Trio--Nature Boy; Homeward Bound Chris Connor--Lullaby of Birdland/// The Miracles--Way Over There Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Special Occasion; More Love Laura Nyro--Ooh Baby Baby Bright Eyes--Jejune Stars The Tammys--Egyptian Shumba Little Walter--Dead Presidents Morgan & the Organ Donors--What I Want The Parting Gifts--Don't Wanna Hurt Me Vic Chesnutt--Fa-La-La Buffy Sainte-Marie--Men of the Fields; Too Much Is Never Enough; My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying First Aid Kid--Universal Soldier Roxy Coss--The Cherry On Top Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--Under Pressure Martha High--Stay Tonight Kelley Hunt--Too Much History *Plus: One of the Vox wah-wah pedal ads, played between the George Harrison songs
---Retroactive #822--February 12, 2011: Sean Costello--Your Love Is Amazing Lara Price--I Didn't Miss a Beat Syl Johnson--I Know Rock Hudson with Arthur Greenslade & his Orchestra--Gone With the Cowboys Lee Allen--Rockin' at Cosimo's Wanda Jackson--You Know That I'm No Good Roomful of Blues--That's a Pretty Good Love Nina Simone--Trouble In Mind; To Be Young, Gifted and Black (live, 10/69) Dr. Lonnie Smith & David 'Fathead' Newman--Mixed Business The House Band--Pharoah Ray Charles--Unchain My Heart Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band--Ask the Elephant! Gang of Four--She Said 'You Made a Thing of Me' Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers--Heaven In Stereo Flamin Groovies--Comin' After Me Irma Thomas/Marcia Ball/Tracy Nelson--People Will Be People Irma Thomas--I Did My Part; No Use Talkin'; You Can Have My Husband (But Don't Mess With My Man) (1960 version) Andras Jones--Frankenstein Valentine Chet Baker--It's Always You Sarah Wilson--Love Will Tear Us Apart The Pamela Hines Trio--Fools Rush In Maryann Price with Dan Hicks--What About the Sugar? The Extra Lens--How I Left the Ministry Loudon Wainwright III--It's Love and I Hate It (BBC) Lisa Lauren--Can't Buy Me Love North Mississippi Allstars--Jumpercable Blues Gossip--Gone Tomorrow
---Retroactive #821--February 5, 2011: Bert Jansch--Lost Love Joseph Spence--Diamond on Earth Memphis Minnie--You Need a Friend ///Charlie Louvin (1927-2011)--Robe of White The Louvin Brothers--The Christian Life; You're Running Wild; Cash on the Barrelhead/// Lynn Miles--Something Beautiful Willie Wright--Nantucket Island Gospel Music featuring Cassie Ramone--Are Your Parents Still Together? Carole King--I Can't Hear You Dave Hanlon's Cookbook--Knuckleheads Ball ///Composer John Barry (1933-2011): Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Goldfinger (live)/// Rufus Thomas--The World Is Round (But It's Crooked Just the Same) (1971 version) The Parting Gifts--Born to Be Blue Morgan & the Organ Donors--Wild The Luv'd Ones--Up Down Sue Joe Ely--Dig All Night Sterling Harrison--There's a Rat Loose In My House Martha High--Heat of Love The Everly Brothers--Don't Blame Me; When Will I Be Loved; I'm On My Way Home Again Emmylou Harris with Don Everly--Everytime You Leave Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3--Sickie Boy Mary Gauthier--Goodbye Roxy Coss--Wandering One Bob Marley & the Wailers--Kinky Reggae Dillard/Hartford/Dillard--Two Hits and the Joint Turned Brown The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter--Hot Ziggety John Lee Hooker--Grinder Man Caroline Smith & the Good Night Sleeps--Closing the Doors
---Retroactive #820--January 29, 2011: ---All Michigan Show Barbara Lewis--Just the Way You Are Today Melvin Davis--I Must Love You Wilson Pickett--Stagger Lee The Volebeats--When You're There Nolan Strong & the Diablos--That's What You're Doing to Me The Shy--Who's Gonna Get You to Heaven Del Shannon--Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun) Aretha Franklin--With Everything I Feel In Me The Falcons--You're So Fine The Parliaments--Look at What I Almost Missed Regina Carter--Full Time Bettye LaVette--Ain't Nothing Gonna Change Me Bob Seger & the Last Heard--Vagrant Winter Sufjan Stevens--All for Myself The Underdogs--Love's Gone Bad The Rationals--Barefootin' The Stooges--Not Right (alternate vocal) Junk Monkeys--I Couldn't Smile Sheila Jordan--Dat Dere Marshall Crenshaw--Don't Disappear Now The Woolies--Who Do You Love The White Stripes--The Big Three Killed My Baby MC5--Teenage Lust The Truncheons--Come On Sonic's Rendezvous Band--Space Age Blues (live, 1975) Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder--Rock'n'Roll Geri Allen--Red Velvet In Winter ///Gladys Horton (1944-2011): The Marvelettes--Strange, I Know; Playboy/// The Four Tops--Something About You The Contours--First I Look at the Purse Mary Wells--You Lost the Sweetest Boy *Motown set dedicated to founder Gladys Horton of the highly underrated Marvelettes and to bassist supreme James Jamerson, Jr. *Plus: Aretha Franklin PSA for the University of Detroit
---Retroactive #819--January 22, 2011: Robert Wyatt/Gilad Atzmon/Ros Stephen--What's New? Meat Puppets--Plateau Martha High--He Said, She Said Duffy Bishop--What I'm Doing Wrong Wanda Jackson--Nervous Breakdown J.B. Lenoir--The Mojo Bobby Blue Bland--It's My Life, Baby; Cry, Cry, Cry Gil Scott-Heron--I'll Take Care of You Cindy Blackman--Beyond Games Dave Hanlon's Cookbook--House of Cards Willie Wright--I'm So Happy Now The Parting Gifts--Staring James Kinds--Crack Headed Woman Bad Religion--Cyanide Morgan & the Organ Donors--Outside Our Town Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3--The Afterlight Etta James--Your Good Thing (Is About to End); Let's Burn Down the Cornfield Lucinda Williams--Jackson; Ramblin' On My Mind Carrie Rodriguez with Lucinda Williams--Mask of Moses The Sadies--Choosing to Fly Randy Hobbs--You Better Run Corey Wilkes & the Abstrakt Pulse--Villa Tiamo The Soul Stirrers--It Won't Be Very Long Sam Cooke--Laughin' and Clownin'; I'll Come Running Back to You Kermit Ruffins--Ain't That Good News
---Retroactive #818--January 15, 2011: ///Debbie Friedman (1951-2011)--Birchot Havdalah/// ///Margaret Whiting (1924-2011)--A Tree In the Meadow Margaret Whiting & Bob Hope--Blind Date/// ///Bobby Robinson (1917-2011), producer and founder of record labels Fire, Fury and Enjoy: Elmore James--Shake Your Moneymaker Les Cooper & the Soul Rockers--Wiggle Wobble Wilbert Harrison--Kansas City (Records produced or co-produced by Bobby Robinson)/// Allen Toussaint--You Will Not Lose Colin Gilmore--Good Times Stay The Spells--(I) Can't Explain The Boulevard of Broken Dreams Orchestra--The Boulevard of Broken Dreams Leadbelly--We're In the Same Boat, Brother; Bourgeois Blues (Library of Congress version) Lynn Miles--Save Me Little Steven--Guns, Drugs and Gasoline Eux Autres--Rosehill Toots & the Maytals--We Shall Overcome Champion Jack Dupree--Freedom Deb Callahan--I Feel the Spirit Barbara Lynn--Never Found a Man (To Love Me Like You Do); I'm a Good Woman (1992 version) The Pamela Hines Trio--Christopher Street James Brown--Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud, Pt. 1 Pops Staples--Why Am I Treated So Bad? (live) Eden Brent--Someone to Love Syl Johnson--I'm Talkin' 'Bout Freedom *Plus: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech clips, 1963-68, throughout the show
---Retroactive #817--January 8, 2011: Big Maybelle--My Country Man The Black Keys--Set You Free Conqueroo--Banana and the Cat ///Gerry Rafferty (1947-2011)--Family Tree; Get It Right Next Time Stealers Wheel--What More Could You Want/// Thee Headcoatees--Don't Try and Tell Me Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3--Luckiness John Campbell--Look What Love Can Do Shawn Colvin--Even Here We Are (live); Tuff Kid Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica--Let's Dance Roy Brown--Up Jumped the Devil Yo La Tengo--Winter a Go-Go The Hitmen--Ice Age The Jam--'A' Bomb In Wardour Street Quasi--Bye Bye Blackbird Steve Nardella--Marie's the Name (His Latest Flame) Wanda Jackson--Too Much Elvis Presley--Milkcow Blues Boogie; Tomorrow Is a Long Time; So Glad You're Mine Marti Brom--A Fool Such as I Streetwalkers--Crawfish Sarah Wilson--Possibility Mary Timony--Blood Tree The Parting Gifts--My Mind's Made Up Morgan & the Organ Donors--Arrogant Man Mavis Staples--Last Train
---Retroactive #816--January 1, 2011: Kathi McDonald--You Got to Move James Kinds--If You Need It Syl Johnson--Sockin' Soul Power ///Teena Marie (1956-2010)--Square Biz/// ///Billy Taylor (1921-2010) & Gerry Mulligan--Laura Nina Simone--I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (There will, sadly, always be a need for Billy Taylor's most famous song)/// ///Robin Rogers (1955-2010)--What Are We Worth/// Dennis Driscoll--New Year's Day Bettye LaVette--Wish You Were Here Lynn Miles--Little Bird Keith Levene--2011 Ella Fitzgerald--Holiday In Harlem The Bottle Rockets--Brand New Year The Sonics--Don't Back Down Bruce Springsteen--Wrong Side of the Street Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Lusty L'il Lucy Eden Brent--Later Than You Think Loudon Wainwright III--Muse Blues Sandy Denny--The Sea Captain; No End (solo, alternate take); Walking the Floor Over You Sandy Denny & the Strawbs--Nothing Else Will Do Fairport Convention--Fotheringay Fotheringay--Winter Winds Cindy Blackman--Vashkar Samantha Crain with Matthew Milia--Santa Fe Lightnin' Hopkins--Happy New Year Pink Martini--Congratulations-A Happy New Year Song The Heartbeats--After New Year's Day
