---Retroactive #919--December 29, 2012: Fishtrap--Early In the Mornin Sunny Crownover--Love Me Right Scott Walker--Phrasing R.B. Greaves--Home to Stay Corin Tucker Band--Kill My Blues The Harbinger Complex--Tomorrow's Soul Sound The Trinikas--Remember Me ///Fontella Bass (1940-2012)--I Want Everyone to Know; You Don't Know What the Lord Told Me; Rescue Me/// Tweed Funk--Smooth Taste Neil Young with Crazy Horse--Born In Ontario Mike Wheeler--Join Hands Mary Chapin Carpenter--New Year's Day Slaid Cleaves--New Year's Day (live, 2010) Todd Snider--New York Banker Tiger High--Get the Picture Barbara Acklin--Be By My Side Graham Parker & the Rumour--Coathangers The Blues Broads--Two Bit Texas Town (live) Maria Muldaur--Me and My Chauffeur Blues Jeremiah Lockwood, Ethan Miller & Luther Dickinson--Dreidel (includes 'Iko Iko') (live) Reverend Horton Heat--Where In the Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush? Scott Cossu--Nostalgia In Times Square Jimmy Cliff--Guns of Brixton; Reggae Music Delbert McClinton--I Had a Real Good Time
---Retroactive #918--December 22, 2012: Maddy Prior & the Carnival Band--A Boy Was Born Low--Little Drummer Boy Sufjan Stevens--Xmas Spirit Catcher Esther Phillips with Johnny Otis & Mel Walker--Faraway Christmas Blues The Blind Boys of Alabama with Tom Waits--Go Tell It On the Mountain David Friesen/Jeannie Hoffman with Jerry Hahn--Santa Claus Is Coming to Town Marti Jones & Don Dixon--Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday John Zorn--Christmas Time Is Here Ray Charles & Betty Carter--Baby It's Cold Outside Tingstad & Rumbel--What a Wonderful World A Rubber Band Christmas--Rubber (The First Noel) Karl Blau--Dance of the Reeds Bryan Adams--Reggae Christmas Sloan--Merry Xmas Everybody Rhonda Vincent--Christmas Time at Home Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--All I Want for Christmas Gary U.S. Bonds--'Tis the Season to Be Lovin' You Yogoman Burning Band--Christmas Manifesto Darlene Love with the Brian Setzer Orchestra--Sleigh Ride Jesse Ed Davis--Santa Claus Is Getting Down Solomon Burke--Christmas Presents from Heaven Babs Gonzales--Be-Bop Santa Claus Albert King--Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' Bob Dylan--Do You Hear What I Hear Steve Irvings--The Twelve Daze of Christmas Barbra Streisand--Jingle Bells? The Persuasions--This Time of Year Big Star--Jesus Christ Charlie Haden & Hank Jones--God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Mary J. Blige--Someday at Christmas Rick Holmstrom--Sleigh Ride Gladys Knight & the Pips--Let There Be Peace on Earth (And Let It Begin With Me)
---Retroactive #917--December 15, 2012: ///Ravi Shankar (1920-2012)--Reflection; Bangla Dhun (live, NYC, 8/71)/// Whiskeytown--Houses On the Hill Neko Case--Deep Red Bells Mem Shannon--My Baby's Been Watchin' TV Nicole Mitchell--Snowflakes Debbie Friedman--The Latke Song (live) Gefilte Joe & the Fish--Hanukah Rocks Woody Guthrie--Hanukkah Dance Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--I Don't Know What You Want Anisteen Allen--Baby, I'm Doing It Au Pairs--We're So Cool Dash Rip Rock--Beck Moi Tchew Tiger High--Lightspeed John Nemeth--Funky Feelin' (Tommy Folen, bass solo) (live, 2/12) Debbie Davies--I'll Feel Much Better When You Cry Professor Longhair--You're Driving My Crazy; Bald Head (1979 version) James Booker--One Hell of a Nerve (live); Tico Tico (live) The Brown Edition--Snow Day The Blues Broads--It Won't Be Long (live) Graham Parker & the Rumour--Live In Shadows
---Retroactive #916--December 8, 2012: Hank Williams--Window Shopping Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens--Jordan River Mary Chapin Carpenter--Transcendental Reunion ///Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)--Run, Run, Run to Bethlehem The Dave Brubeck Quartet--Blue Rondo a la Turk (live, 2/63)/// Big Mama Thornton--I Smell a Rat The Jim Basnight Thing--Lattes Myshkin's Ruby Warblers--Lucky Bobby Blue Bland--Who Will the Next Fool Be Charlie Rich--There's Another Place I Can't Go; Finally Found Out; Feel Like Going Home (solo demo, 1973) Terri Lyne Carrington--Wistful Amy Arena--New Religion Manfred Mann's Earth Band--Meat Corin Tucker Band--Kill My Blues The Blasters--Well Oh Well Nanette Workman--Tell Somebody Artichoke--The Market of Farms Candye Kane--Sweet Nothin's Brenda Lee--Let's Jump the Broomstick; Fool #1; Dynamite Tomas Ramirez--Sitting With the King Richard Thompson--I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (live, solo, 2004) Deanna Bogart--Pianoland Curtis Salgado--A Woman or the Blues
---Retroactive #915--December 1, 2012: Oh Susanna--Little White Lies Eric Lichter--Subway to the Sun Ken Stringfellow--110 or 220v Suzie Vinnick--Queen Bee The Tams--Untie Me Bobby Womack with Lana Del Ray--Dayglo Reflection Graham Parker & the Rumour--That Moon Was Low Sam Brown--Stop Cassandra Wilson with Fabrizio Sotti--Almost Twelve Cassandra Wilson--Iconic Memories; I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Scott Cossu--Nutville The Brown Edition--Chicken Shack Derek & the Dominos--Anyday X-Ray Spex--Genetic Engineering Mudhoney--Burn It Clean Titus Andronicus--Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape With the Flood of Detritus The Angela Strehli Band--Big Town Playboy John Nemeth--She Belongs to Me (live, 2/12) Little Richard--Every Hour; Jenny Jenny; Medley: Ain't That a Shame/I Got a Woman/ Tutti Frutti (live, Paris, 6/64) Dan Penn--Do Right Woman, Do Right Man Joel Harrison & Lorenzo Feliciati--Small Table Rules Doris Troy--You Give Me Joy Joy Little Bill & the Blue Notes--The Stumble (live) Dash Rip Rock--Tugboats
---Retroactive #914--November 24, 2012: John Cale--Living With You Alejandro Escovedo--Big Station Bettye LaVette--I'm Tired Andrew Bird--Railroad Bill The Lee Boys--Going to Glory Sarah Vaughan & her Quartet--Autumn Leaves Ike & Val Woods--Let's Move to the Groove Z.Z. Hill--Everybody Has to Cry Deanna Bogart--Blues at 11 The Asylum Street Spankers--Right and Wrong (live) Lindi Ortega--Don't Wanna Hear It Corin Tucker Band--None Like You Bill Evans--Turn Out the Stars (live, 10/68) ///The Jimi Hendrix 70th Birth Anniversary Special: Rara Avis--If 6 Was 9 Emmylou Harris--May This Be Love The Terry Quiett Band--Hear My Train A-Comin' (live, 3/12) Nigel Kennedy--Fire Dick Dale--Third Stone from the Sun Michelle Shocked--House Burning Down Jimi Hendrix--Bleeding Heart; Stepping Stone The Jimi Hendrix Experience--I Don't Live Today (live, 5/69); Like a Rolling Stone (live, 10/12/68, 1st show)///
---Retroactive #913--November 17, 2012: Ann Rabson with Bob Margolin--Let's Get Drunk and Truck Jenny Reynolds--Simple Man Van Morrison--End of the Rainbow ///Terry Callier (1945-2012)--Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun); Fix the Blame/// Bill Haley & Haley's Comets--Crazy Man, Crazy The Beat Farmers--Lost Weekend Ike & Tina Turner--Nutbush City Limits The Ike & Tina Turner Revue--My Man-He's a Lovin' Man (live, 1967) Tina Turner--What You Get It What You See (live, 3/09) Matthew Shipp Trio--Rainforest Family--Top of the Hill Barbara Pittman--Sentimental Fool John Nemeth--Love Me Tonight (live, 2/12) Redd Kross--The Nu Temptations Mitch Woods--Down Boy Down (live) Sheila Jack--I've Got to Have You Graham Parker & the Rumour--Mercury Poisoning; Lady Doctor; A Lie Gets Halfway 'Round the World... Maria Muldaur with Alvin Youngblood Hart--I'm Goin' Back Home Jean Shepard with Speedy West--Twice the Lovin' In Half the Time Matana Roberts Quartet--Thrills Count Basie & Tony Bennett--Are You Havin' Any Fun? Zaz--Ni Oui Ni Non Lazy Lester--I'm a Lover Not a Fighter Guided By Voices--King Arthur the Red
---Retroactive #912--November 10, 2012: Timi Yuro--Hurt Chuck Wiley--I Love You So Much Cat Power--Cherokee Ella Jenkins (Bucky Halker, vocal)--Which Side Are You On? The Shirelles--What a Sweet Thing That Was Mr. Nick & the Dirty Tricks--Worn Out Shemekia Copeland--Somebody Else's Jesus John Wesley Harding--Bastard Son Little Willie John--Need Your Love So Bad; There's a Difference; Until You Do Bob Wolfman--Transition Deanna Bogart--Boogie Woogie Boogie Koko Taylor--Don't Let Me Catch You (With Your Drawers Down) Mike Doughty--Jimmy Bell Johnnie Taylor--I Could Never Be President Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra--Institutionalized Young Guv & the Scuzz--Heal Over Time The Young Fresh Fellows--Monkey Say Patti Smith--After the Gold Rush Neil Young--Don't Let It Bring You Down Neil Young with Crazy Horse--Walk Like a Giant Nicole Mitchell--Journey On a Thread Ranch Romance--Lovesick Blues Esquerita--Rockin' the Joint Nick Lowe--Born a Woman Ruth Brown & the Rhythm Makers--Old Man River Walter Trout--Money Rules the World
---Retroactive #911--November 3, 2012: Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King--Poor Boy Ry Cooder--Take Your Hands Off It Sharon Lewis & Texas Heat--What's Really Going On? Bruce Cockburn--Call Me Rose Maria McKee--Breathe Marvin Gaye--You're the Man, Pts. 1 & 2 Yogoman Burning Band--LGBT (Got Your Back) The Flying Burrito Brothers--Close Up the Honky Tonks; Train Song (from two different live shows, SF, 4/69) Scott Cossu--Moira Stevie Wonder--Blowin' In the Wind (live, 10/92) Larry Graham & Graham Central Station (Ashling Cole, vocal)--Higher Ground Corin Tucker Band--No Bad News Tonight Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--When I'm President The Smoky Greenwell Band--99% Blues The Cake ('60s)--Baby That's Me The Mountain Goats--Cry for Judas Graham Nash/David Crosby--Immigration Man Bonnie Raitt--Nothin' In Ramblin'; Take My Love With You; Under the Falling Sky Wellstone Conspiracy--Quiet Dignity Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt with Steve Earle & Dar Williams--This Old Man Revisited Marion James--Corrupted World Andrew Bird--Spirograph
---Retroactive #910--October 27, 2012: ---Halloween Show Senayit--Cannibal Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere? The Stoics--Hate David Lindley & El Rayo-X--Werewolves of London Ellen McIlwaine--The Danger Zone Alex Chilton--Devil Girl Beat Happening--I Spy The Newcomers--Martian Hop Richard Thompson--Now That I Am Dead (live, solo, 9/91) Kathi McDonald--I Put a Spell On You The Vampires of Dartmoore--Crime and Horror The Preachers--Who Do You Love Bo Diddley--Bo Meets the Monster Redd Kross--Dracula's Daughter The Count Bishops--Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight (live, 5/79) Mary Lou Lord--Martian Saints Kim Fowley--Teenage Death Girl The Gaslight Anthem--Old Haunts Dead Moon--Unknown Passage Black Sabbath--Rat Salad The A-Bones--Mum's the Word Robin Lane--La La Alice Cooper--Ballad of Dwight Fry Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Voodoo Doll *Plus: A Star Trek anti-drug PSA, circa 1973
---Retroactive #909--October 20, 2012: The Brothers Jim--Electronic Friends Cassie Taylor--Goodbye Mighty Sam McClain--Real Thing ///B.B. Cunningham, Jr. (1942-2012): The Hombres--Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) Jerry Lee Lewis with Jimmy Page--Rock and Roll (Cunningham was the singer-organist with the Hombres and played bass in Jerry Lee Lewis' current touring band)/// Dum Dum Girls--I Got Nothing Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Country Joyride John Cale--Scotland Yard Laura Cantrell--Wasted Wanda Jackson--Kickin' Out Hearts Around; There's a Party Goin' On; Riot In Cell Block #9 Kronos Quartet--Peace Piece Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band--I Got the Reason No. 1 The Picketts--Chip Shop (There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis) The Corin Tucker Band--I Don't Wanna Go Young Guv & the Scuzz--Not My Flaws Heather Nova--Save a Little Piece of Tomorrow ///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bash: The Remains--I'm Talkin' 'Bout You The Rolling Stones--Little Queenie (live, 1969) Zora Young--Back In the U.S.A. The Zettlers--Beautiful Delilah Chuck Berry--You Can't Catch Me; Almost Grown (live, 1961); Oh What a Thrill/// Don Braden--No Complaints Rory Block--When You Love Me Ry Cooder--The Wall Street Part of Town Martha Wainwright--Radio Star
---Retroactive #908--October 13, 2012: Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt with Dar Williams--Memories Out of Mud Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--The Way You Look Tonight Sunny Crownover--Oh Yes I Will! ///Nick Curran (1977-2012) & the Nitelifes--Drivin' Me Crazy The Fabulous Thunderbirds--You Torture Me Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--One and Only Nick Curran & the Lowlifes with Phil Alvin--Flyin' Blind (Nick Curran's thundering sound propelled his own records and every artist he worked with. He will be greatly missed)/// Billy Joe Shaver--Texas Uphere Tennessee Lucy Kaplansky--The Beauty Way Quintus McCormick--Still Called the Bues Deanna Bogart--I Love the Life I Life ///The John Lennon Birthday Special: Billy Lee Riley--Nowhere Man Grazyna Auguscik & Paulinho Garcia--Because The Beatles--Not a Second Time; I'm Only Sleeping; Revolution 1 Lisa Lauren--Dear Prudence Marianne Faithfull--Isolation White Light Riot--Hey Bulldog Sean Lennon with Rufus Wainwright--This Boy (live, NYC, 10/01) Sean Lennon--Julia (live, NYC, 10/01) Bill Frisell--You've Got to Hide Your Love Away Natalie Deacon--Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory--New York City The Elastic Oz Band--God Save Oz (John Lennon vocal version) John Lennon--Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him; Instant Karma!///
---Retroactive #907--October 6, 2012: ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Finnigan & Wood--Highway Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps with Mike Finnigan--If I Can't Have You Shemekia Copeland--Can't Let Go John Fahey--Layla Susanna--Freeze A.C. Newman--Do Your Own Time McDonald & Giles--Tomorrow's People-The Children of Today Maria Muldaur--Tricks Ain't Walkin' The Avett Brothers--Paul Newman vs. the Demons Albert Ayler (The Soul Singers, vocal)--New Generation The BellRays--Chainsong Young Guv & the Scuzz--Wounds of Love Savoy Brown--Tell Mama Rick Holmstrom (Mavis Staples, vocal)--Owe You Everything Animal Collective--Today's Supernatural Toots & the Maytals--54-46, That's My Number (live) C.O.C.O.--Blackout! Roy Brown--Higher and Higher
---Retroactive #906--September 29, 2012: James Carr--Pouring Water on a Drowning Man Jim White--Crash Into the Sun Cat Power--Human Being Billy Joe Shaver--Good Christian Soldier Rickie Lee Jones--Seems Like a Long Time June Madrona--Roll On Columbia (Part 2) Cassie Taylor--Bought Borrowed Stolen ///Andy Williams (1928-2012)--Canadian Sunset The English Beat--Can't Get Used to Losing You/// Marion Meadows--Sand Dancers Sunny Crownover--Cook In Your Kitchen Amos Milburn--Birmingham Bounce Divine Fits--What Gets You Alone Bob Dylan--Pay In Blood Marianne Faithfull--Angel Dinosaur Jr.--Pierce the Morning Rain The Corin Tucker Band--Neskowin Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--What For Jerry Lee Lewis--The Alcohol of Fame; Milkshake Madamoiselle (2nd version) Jerry Lee Lewis with the Nashville Teens--Down the Line (live, 4/64) Rockpile--Let's Talk About Us (live, 7/80) Sonny Rollins--Strode Rode Bettye LaVette--Your Turn to Cry Michael 'Iron Man' Burks--Valley of Tears Lloyd Jones--Doin' What It Takes Hazel McCollum with the El Dorados--Annie's Answer Mink DeVille--Soul Twist
---Retroactive #905--September 22, 2012: Hans Theessink & Terry Evans--How Can People Act Like That Lucy Kaplansky--Gone Gone Gone Steve Forbert--That'll Be Alright Antony & the Johnsons--Cut the World (live, 2011) Susanna--Oh, I Am Stuck Rick Holmstrom--Cruel Sunrise Ray Charles--Drown In My Own Tears; What'd I Say (both live, 5/59) Either/Orchestra--The Eighth Wonder Deanna Bogart--Death Ray Boogie Betty Wright--Good Lovin' Jimmy Cliff--World Upside Down Young Guv & the Scuzz--Not In It for the Good Time It's a Beautiful Day--White Bird Mighty Sam McClain--Can You Feel It? Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Matchbox Blues Ani DiFranco--God's Country; Hello Birmingham The Nerves--One Way Ticket Nervebreakers--What Am I So Flipped? Robin & Linda Williams--My Lucky Day Bruce Springsteen--Death to My Hometown Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Trapped (live, 8/84) The Jaco Pastorius Big Band--Teen Town Debbie Davies--Down Home Girl
---Retroactive #904--September 15, 2012: ---All '60s Show Janie Grant--Triangle Tim Hardin--You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie Arlo Guthrie--Valley to Pray Claudine Clark--Disappointed Lenny O'Henry--Across the Street Green--Sparkle The Kinks--I'm Not Like Everybody Else Sunday & the Menn--You Cheated The Beach Boys--Wild Honey The Jive Five featuring Eugene Pitt--I'm a Happy Man ///Lyricist Hal David (1921-2012): Dionne Warwick--Are You There (With Another Girl) Gene Pitney--(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance Aretha Franklin--I Say a Little Prayer Tom Jones--What's New Pussycat?/// Gene Ammons--My Romance Cannibal & the Headhunters--Devil In Disguise Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Wild Life Quicksilver Messenger Service--Gold and Silver The Sonics--High Time The Chiffons--Nobody Knows What's Going On In My Mind But Me The Hysterics--Won't Get Far The Hour Glass--Cast Off All My Fears The Who--Pictures of Lily The Shangri-Las--Out In the Streets Buffalo Springfield--Pretty Girl Why B.B. King--Stop Leading Me On; Paying the Cost to Be the Boss King Curtis--Hung Over; Memphis Soul Stew Don & the Goodtimes--You Did It Before The Starlets--You Don't Love Me Hank Ballard & the Midnighters--Finger Poppin' Time *Plus: Commercials from the '60s, including Tommy Roe hawking toothpaste and a show with Terry Knight & the Pack and the McCoys on the bill
---Retroactive #903--September 8, 2012: Rosie Flores--Wrong Side of His Heart Tish Hinojosa with Rosie Flores--We Mostly Feel That Way Benyaro--What About Us Bud Harmon--Working Man Blues Dennis Pedersen--I Wish I Had a Job to Shove Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers--Heart Like a Wheel Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--Saint Ladyhawke--Vaccine Bob Livingston--Not Fade Away (live, Bangladesh, 1991) Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Maybe Baby Buddy Holly--Learning the Game (overdubbed version) Dafnis Prieto--Sensaciones ///Singer-songwriter-guitarist Joe South (1940-2012): Joe South--I'm Snowed Joe South & the Believers--Walk a Mile In My Shoes Swamp Dogg--These Are Not My People/// Shonen Knife--Ghost Train Dinosaur Jr.--Rude Jimmy Cliff--Rebel Rebel Michael Franti--Subterranean Homesick Blues Dorothy Moore--Ode to Billie Joe Patsy Cline--There He Goes; Don't Ever Leave Me Again Bobby Womack--The Bravest Man In the Universe Mr. Nick & the Dirty Tricks--Look But Don't Touch Curtis Salgado--Love Man Otis Redding--Hard to Handle; Gettin' Hip; I'm a Changed Man McCoy Tyner--Just Feelin' (live, San Francisco, 5/07) Fiona Boyes--Chain Gang Jesse Gee--Don't Mess With My Money
---Retroactive--September 1, 2012: Thanks to Steve McLellan of KAOS' Laugh Tracks fame for filling in; Randy Hodgins and Steve now produce the show quarterly and have an election special slated for Friday, Nov. 2 at 8pm Pacific time. KAOS audio streams at www.kaosradio.org
---Retroactive #902--August 25, 2012: Billie & De De Pierce--Jelly Roll Reva--Summer The Isley Brothers--Summer Breeze Johnny Rawls--Hand Me Downs Bonnie Raitt--Down to You The Blasters--Rock My Blues Away Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band--Synesthete Song The Satisfactions--Daddy You Gotta Let Him In Dinah Washington--What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry; Cool Kind Papa (live, 7/50); You Didn't Want Me Then Eddie Palmieri--Bug Brownout--Stormy Weather Can--Millionenspiel MC5--Call Me Animal Debbie Davies--Goin' to a Gaggle Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Crazy Love Them--I Like It Like That Van Morrison--On Hyndfort Street; Bring It On Home to Me (live, 1973); Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) April Stace--Blue Mountain Ike & Tina Turner--He's the One Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Gambling Blues Jimmy Rogers--Big Boss Man Lisa Haley & the Zydekats--Living In Hard Times Marion James--I Fell
---Retroactive #901--August 18, 2012: Sharon Shannon with Jackson Browne--A Man of Constant Sorrow Susanna Hoffs--Raining Mr. Nick & the Dirty Tricks--I'm Shakin' Bobby Womack--Stupid Barbara Carr--You Give Me the Blues Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers--Country Blues The Posies--Golden Blunders Elvis Costello & Elmo--A Monster Went and Ate My Red 2 Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Accidents Will Happen (live) Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint--Broken Promise Land ///Von Freeman (1933-2012) & Ed Petersen--Lover/// Beth Hart--Good As It Gets Raw Spitt--Raw Spitt Shonen Knife--Pop Tune Nervebreakers--I Love Your Neurosis Michael 'Iron Man' Burks--Storm Warning Ladyhawke--The Quick and the Dead Vince Taylor & his Playboys--Brand New Cadillac Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Global a Go-Go The Clash--This Is England; Guns On the Roof; City of the Dead (live, 12/78) Poncho Sanchez--Cantaloupe Island Dorothy Moore--Institutionalize The Hard Way--Time Machine Deanna Bogart--In the Rain Patti Smith--Nine
---Retroactive #900--August 11, 2012: Antony & the Johnsons--You Are My Sister (live, 2011) The Kennedys--Cradle to the Boat ///Pianist Ernest Lane (1931-2012): Robert Nighthawk--Black Angel Blues/// The Brothers Jim--Gone Marion James--Mr. Blues ///Johnnie Bassett (1935-2012)--Feeling Lucky/// Meena--I'm Leaving You The Dandy Warhols--Sad Vacation The Corin Tucker Band--Riley Pamela Hines Trio--Show Type Tune The Previous--The Sun; Get Normal Moe Tucker--Hey Mersh! Bo Diddley--Bo Diddley's Dog (live, 7/83) Dave Edmunds--Down Down Down Debbie Davies--Don't Put the Blame on Me Jimmy Cliff--Children's Bread Kendl Winter--Do You Leave the Light On The Impressions--Woman's Got Soul Lloyd Jones--I'll Be Right on Down Miriam Makeba with the Skylarks--Make Us One Quintus McCormick--What Am I Gonna Do? Samantha Crain--Scissor Tales; Wichitalright; Bananafish Revolution Houston Person--In a Mellow Tone Jack White--Sixteen Saltines Belles Will Ring--Mad Love
---Retroactive #899--August 4, 2012: Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers--Get It While You Can June Tabor & Oysterband--The Leaves of Life Freddie Scott--Run Joe The Minus 5--The Amazing Dolphin Boy Mose Allison--Certified Senor Citizen Liz Mandeville--Roadside Produce Stand The Beach Boys--The Private Life of Bill and Sue Veda Hille--One Hot Summer Funkadelic--I'll Bet You Abdullah Ibrahim Trio--Water From an Ancient Well (live, 12/97) The Yockamo All-Stars--Blow, Blow Tenor Alejandro Escovedo--Party People Barbara Carr--Come On Home Squeeze--If I Didn't Love You The Gits--Guilt Within Your Head Future of the Left--Goals In Slow Motion Guided By Voices--Billy Wire Ladyhawke--Blue Eyes Walter Trout--The Sky Is Fallin' Down Shonen Knife--Paradise The Ronettes--What'd I Say (live) Ronnie Spector with Joey Ramone--You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory Ronnie Spector--Something's Gonna Happen Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes with Ronnie Spector--You Mean So Much to Me (live, 10/76) John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension--Recovery Marshall Crenshaw--Knowing Me, Knowing You (live, 7/92) The Blasters--Fun on Saturday Night Mary Bridget Davies--Thunder and Lightning
---Retroactive #898--July 28, 2012: Quintus McCormick--I Gotta Go Eleni Mandell--Who You Gonna Dance With Hank Thompson--Simple Simon (1950s transcription disc) Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart--I've Been Wrong, I've Been Right Meshell Ndegeocello--Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear NRBQ--It Was a Accident Carmen McRae--Thou Swell (live, 5/61) Tweed Funk--A Real Mother for Ya Debbie Davies--Done Sold Everything Dan Bern with Common Rotation--The Year-By-Year Home Run Totals of Barry Bonds; Home Matthew Shipp Trio--Psychic Counterpart Elizabeth Hummel--The Turning Point Jimmy Cliff--One More The Dandy Warhols--Alternative Power to the People Can--Midnight Sky Streetwalkers--Run for Cover Wild Flag--Romance Junior Wells with Buddy Guy & Otis Spann--Trouble Don't Last Always Buddy Guy--Someone Else Is Steppin' In; She Got the Devil In Her Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones with Buddy Guy & Junior Wells--Mannish Boy (live, 11/81) Matana Roberts--Nomra Bobby Womack--Deep River Marion James--Next Time You See Me The Uniques--You Ain't Tuff
---Retroactive #897--July 21, 2012: Lady Bianca--A Woman Never Forgets Rory Block--Twelve Gates to the City Chris Smither--I Feel the Same (2012 version) The Brothers Jim--Slow Down Shonen Knife--Psychedelic Life Johnny Adams--Chasing Rainbows Guided By Voices--Hang Up and Try Again Darlene Love--Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home; Stumble and Fall Darlene Love & the E Street Band--A Fine, Fine Boy (live, 10/09) Sonny Stitt/Booker Ervin/Don Patterson--C Jam Blues ///Keyboardist Jon Lord (1941-2012): Deep Purple--Lay Down Stay Down (live, 4/74); Lazy/// Tim Buckley--Get On Top The Right Now--He Used to Be Lee Fields--Moonlight Mile Mary Stuart--Ruby Tuesday Sue Foley--Stupid Girl Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones--Hoochie Coochie Man (live, 11/81) The Rolling Stones--Surprise, Surprise; Do You Think I Really Care The Tiptons--Salvatore Liz Mandeville--4:20 Blues The Green Pajamas--I Feel That Way All the Time The Blasters--Love Me With a Feeling
---Retroactive #896--July 14, 2012: Lee Dorsey--Holy Cow The ABC & D of Boogie Woogie--Bonsoir Boogie! (live, 9/10) ///Vocalist Kay Kay Greenwade (1955-2012): Kay Kay & the Rays--Hey Big Boy; There'll Come a Time/// Dan Bern with Common Rotation--Gamblin' With My Love Rachel Harrington--Get You Some ///The 100th birth anniversary of Woody Guthrie: Neil Young & Crazy Horse--This Land Is Your Land Jonatha Brooke--Little Bird Jay Farrar/Will Johnson/Anders Parker/Yim Yames--V.D. City Woody Guthrie--I Ain't Got No Home (4/40); Dust Bowl Refugees (3/40); Do Re Mi (4/47)/// The Detroit Cobras--Heartbeat (the Gloria Jones song, not Buddy Holly's, which they have also recorded) The Soft Boys--I Wanna Destroy You Is/Is--Loose Skin hyperLung--There Is a Very Real Problem With All Radio In Seattle Right Now (live) Betsy Holt--I've Got the World On a String (2002 version); Love Is the Way Sister Betsy--Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Roger McGuinn & Calexico--One More Cup of Coffee The Byrds--Natural Harmony; Have You Seen Her Face Anat Cohen--What a Little Moonlight Can Do (live, 7/09) Debbie Davies--The Fall Bobby Womack--Whatever Happened to the Times Marion James--I'm Just What You're Looking For Future of the Left--Failed Olympic Bid Holly Golightly--Second Place
---Retroactive #895--July 7, 2012: Kendl Winter--Summertime Counting Crows--Ballad of El Goodo Liz Mandeville--Sand Baggin' Johnny Rawls--Long Way From Home Jon Cleary--Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--The Real Deal Ringo Starr--Early 1970; Anthem Ray Wylie Hubbard--Coochy Coochy Joy of Cooking--Hush Terry Garthwaite--Ticket to Chicago Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble--Hymn For a Hip King Yogoman Burning Band--Do Your Dance The Delmonas--I Feel Alright Ohio Express--Yummy Yummy Yummy Talking Heads--A Clean Break (Let's Work) (live, 11/77) Tweed Funk--Dancemaker Bonnie Raitt--Split Decision Craig Caffall Band--That's When You Got It Made Nicole Fournier--Self Respectin' Woman Walter Trout--Turn Off Your TV Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Open the Door, Richard; Choo Choo Ch-Boogie The Vivien Garry Quintet--A Woman's Place Is In the Groove Ritchie Valens--Dooby Dooby Wah Alejandro Escovedo--Common Mistake The Right Now--Should've Told Me
---Retroactive #894--June 30, 2012: Eric Bibb--Bo Weevil Chris Smither--What They Say Kiya Heartwood--Change (Is Gonna Come) Greg Brown--Downtown Shawn Colvin--American Jerusalem The ABC & D of Boogie Woogie--Down the Road a Piece (live, 9/10) Champion Jack Dupree & Mr. Bear--Walking the Blues Zora Young--Wang Dang Doodle Omar & the Howlers--Built for Comfort Koko Taylor with Willie Dixon--Insane Asylum Sarah Wilson--She Stands In a Room Rory Block--Let Us Get Together Right Down Here Andre Williams & the Sadies--America (You Say 'A Change Is Gonna Come') Is/Is--Bomb Me Robbie Robertson--How to Become Clairvoyant; Axman The Band--Stage Fright Ruthie Foster--It Makes No Difference Dmitry Baevsky--Ojos de Rojo Rachel Harrington--Hippie In My House Can--Deadly Doris Rick Estrin & the Nightcats--Lucky You Sonic Youth--Peace Attack
---Retroactive #893--June 23, 2012: Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart--If You Change Your Mind Dr. John--Revolution Gretchen Parlato--How We Love The Green Pajamas--Another One of Those Nights Guided By Voices--No Transmission Tweed Funk--All Over You Liz Mandeville--My Mama Wears Combat Boots Rhett Miller--This Summer Lie Helen Humes--All Night Long; Bill Bailey; E Baba Le Ba (Be Baba Leba) (live, 8/50) Lynne Arriale--Dance Negativland--Drink It Up Alejandro Escovedo--Can't Make Me Run Best Coast--The Only Place Sista Monica Parker--I'm a Woman Nathaniel Mayer--Summertime The Kinks--Did You See His Name? (BBC); One of the Survivors; Did Ya Ray Davies and Mumford & Sons--Days/This Time Tomorrow Jonathan Richman--Stop Your Sobbing Kate Rusby--The Village Green Preservation Society Tomas Ramirez--On the Boulevard Arrington de Dionyso--Raven Sings the World Open Inez & Charlie Foxx--Searching for My C.C. Johnny Rawls--Don't Need a Gun to Steal Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials--House of Cards Erma Franklin--Piece of My Heart
---Retroactive #892--June 16, 2012: Nick Drake--Tow the Line Blah Blah Blah--Crazy Fools Bonnie Raitt--Used to Rule the World Mike & the Censations--I Need Your Lovin' Rory Block--I Belong to the Band Aloe Blacc--Life So Hard Blackrock--Blackrock 'Yeah, Yeah' Rachel Harrington--Makin' Our House a Honkytonk Andre Williams & the Sadies--I'd Do Most Anything for Your Love The Pretty Things--Get a Buzz Helium--Walk Away The Yoko Miwa Trio--Mox Nix (live, 10/10) The Beach Boys--Our Sweet Love; Cool, Cool Water/Version 2 (10/67) Brian Wilson--Your Imagination Moe Tucker--Lazy Is/Is--Hate Smile The Happen-Ins--The Kids Don't Dance Paul McCartney--Try Not to Cry; Why So Blue Paul & Linda McCartney--Monkberry Moon Delight The Beatles--For No One Rockestra with Paul McCartney--Lucille (live, 12/79) Chubby Checker--Back In the U.S.S.R. The Chad Lawson Trio--Michelle The Right Now--Tell Everyone the Truth Tommy Scott--Rockin' and Rollin' Lee Fields--I Still Got It
---Retroactive #891--June 9, 2012: Big Maybelle--Pitiful The Hi-Rhythm Hustlers--Ooh-ee Baby M. Ward--First Time I Ran Away ///Vocalist Lou Pride (1950-2012)--I'm Com'un Home In the Morn'un (uptempo version); Phony People/// Deidre McCalla--Everyday Heroes and Heroines Ani DiFranco--Which Side Are You On? ///Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Welch (1946-2012): Fleetwood Mac--Lay It All Down; Hypnotized/// The Pamela Hines Trio--Complications Kevin & Dustin Welch--Marysville (live, 6/11) Irma Thomas--I Won't Cry (live, 4/76) Steve Cropper with Delbert McClinton--Right Around the Corner The '5' Royales--Don't Be Ashamed (To Call My Name) Can--Mushroom (live, 1972) Rhett Miller--Out of Love Jean Shy & the Shy Guys--Livin' the Blues (live) Flamin Groovies--Slow Death (1971 demo) Howlin' Wolf--Who Will Be Next; Shake for Me; I'll Be Back Someday (second and third songs are 1964 television performances) The Elvin Jones Jazz Machine--Island Birdie (live, 6/91) Brownout--Oozy Curtis Salgado--Gettin' to Know You The Frumpies--Be Good The Whyte Boots--Nightmare
---Retroactive #890--June 2, 2012: Peter Mulvey--Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation Rory Block--I Feel Just Like Goin' On Barbara Dane--Little Maggie (live, 1959) ///Vocalist-songwriter Robin Gibb (1949-2012): The Bee Gees--Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You; New York Mining Disaster 1941/// The Right Now--Good Man Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials--Musical Mechanical Electrical Man The Meters--Funkify Your Life Bonnie Raitt---Marriage Made In Hollywood Mary Louise Knutson--Bernie's Tune ///American guitar giant Doc Watson (1923-2012): Doc & Merle Watson--Down Yonder Doc Watson--Deep River Blues (live, 1970) Doc Watson with David Holt--The Train That Carried My Girl from Town (live, 3/01)/// Amy Ray--Give It a Go Lyres--Don't Give It Up Now Joey Ramone--New York City Belles Will Ring--A Thousand Odes to You Tracey Thorn--Hormones Bill Wyman--A Quarter to Three Gary U.S. Bonds--Daddy's Come Home; Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks; Quarter to Three Joe Krown--13th Ward Boogie Teeny Tucker--Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Plank Spank Joe Louis Walker--Too Drunk to Drive Drunk *Plus: Doc Watson on radio and the unifying power of music
---Retroactive #889--May 26, 2012: ---All Texas Show Bill Neely--Rock & Roll Baby Townes Van Zandt--Waiting Around to Die (1969 version) Gretchen Phillips--Lylas The 13th Floor Elevators--I Had to Tell You Eric Dahl--The Dumbest Game Gary Primich with Kent Dykes--Midnight Ramblin' Man Ruthie Foster--The Titanic Bob Livingston--Dance Like It's a Holiday Black Forest Fire--Don't Need an Angel Willis Alan Ramsey--Ballad of Spider John; Mr. Lemon (live) Nick Curran & the Nitelifes--The Groovy Jam Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Reel Rock Party Johnny Moeller with Lou Ann Barton--Everybody's Got to Cry Sometime Joe Tex--Skinny Legs and All Moonlight Towers--I Sleep Alone Brownout--Andy y Dando Kiya Heartwood--Feelin' Good Ray Wylie Hubbard--Train Yard Lyle Lovett--Well All Right Buddy Holly--Wishing Etta Britt with Delbert McClinton--Leap of Faith Esteban "Steve" Jordan--Louie Louie Alejandro Escovedo--Man of the World Tomas Ramirez--Rev It Up Willie Nelson with Lukas Nelson--Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her Joe Ely--Fingernails Sonny Parker--She Sets My Soul On Fire Ella Mae Morse--The Patty Cake Man Carolyn Wonderland--No Exception
---Retroactive #888--May 19, 2012: ///Bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn (1941-2012): Booker T. & the MGs--Chicken Pox; Time Is Tight Otis Redding--Love Man/// ///Donna Summer (1948-2012)--I Feel Love/// Andre Williams & the Sadies--One-Eyed Jack Janiva Magness--Whistlin' In the Dark Paul Thorn--What the Hell Is Goin' On? Pete Townshend--Corrina, Corrina The Who--Sunrise Chuck Leavell with Candi Staton--The Blues Is All Wrong Mud Morganfield--Money (Can't Buy Everything) The Carol Morgan Quartet--Glyph Lynne Arriale--Sea and Sand ///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash: Fairport Convention--Percy's Song Curtis Stigers--Things Have Changed Suzie Varrick--Quit Your Lowdown Ways The Band with Bob Dylan--Down In the Flood (live, 12/71) Falco--It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Lyle Swedeen--It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Eliza Gilkyson--Jokerman (live) Eric Bibb--The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan--Blind Willie McTell; Under the Red Sky; Bob Dylan's 115th Dream///
---Retroactive #887--May 12, 2012: Robin Lane--Behind My House Belles Will Ring--The Coldest Heart Bettye LaVette--Almost (live, 9/99) ///Michael Burks (1957-2012)--Salty Tears (The great singer-guitarist Michael 'Iron Man' Burks was born in Milwaukee andraised in Camden, AR)/// The Detroit Cobras--Cha Cha Twist Alejandro Escoved0--Sally Was a Cop The Dreamletts--Really Now Eric Burdon--Gotta Serve Somebody The Animals--It's My Life Roxy Coss--Enlightenment Denny Brown--Payday Loan Annie Laurie--Rockin' and Rollin' Best Coast--Why I Cry Dead Moon--Down the Road L7--Lion's Share The Germs--Lexicon Devil Wanda Jackson--Who Shot Sam? Paul Kelly--Careless (live, 9/94) Alabama Shakes--Hang Loose Society's Children--Mr. Genie Man Stevie Wonder--Free; Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours (live, 10/09); Another Star (live, 1995) Stevie Wonder with John Legend--Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (live, 10/09) Vernon Kelly with Kiko Loureiro--Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing Susie Arioli featuring Jordan Officer--Blue Skies Etta James with Harvey Fuqua--We're In Love Ernie K-Doe--Here Come the Girls Delaney & Bonnie--Soul Shake Eric Ambel--Total Destruction to Your Mind The Raybeats--Big Black Sneakers
---Retroactive #886--May 5, 2012: Anne Weiss--Too Long at the Fair Guy Clark--Cinco de Mayo In Memphis Jose Feliciano--Rain Lee Fields--Who Do You Love Big Mama Thornton--My Man Called Me Mildred Bailey--I Love to Take Orders from You The Hive Dwellers--Lynch the Swan Eux Autres--Broken Record The Choir--I Only Did It 'Cause I Felt So Lonely Syl Johnson--Well Oh Well Ronnie Spector--Darlin' Dr. John--Getaway Lisa Hilton--Rainy Night House Lois--Hey! Antoinette Delbert McClinton--B Movie Box Car Blues (live, 12/82) The Rolling Stones--Dead Flowers (live, 1995) Wild Flag--Racehorse Cannibal & the Headhunters--Land of 1,000 Dances (album version) Los Lobos--Mas y Mas Afrika Bambaataa & James Brown--Unity, Pt. 1 Bootsy Collins with Rev. Al Sharpton--JB-Still the Man Big James & the Chicago Playboys--The (Big) Payback (live, 11/09) James Brown--There It Is, Pt. 1; Good Rockin' Tonight Nicole Mitchell--Momentum Sandy Lee & the Wantons--Ballin' Keen Willie May--Old Friends JW-Jones--You Got Caught Coke Weed--Kid
---Retroactive #885--April 28, 2012: Grace Woodroofe--Always Want Peter Mulvey--Mood Indigo Dar Williams--You Will Ride With Me Tonight ///Bassist-songwriter Chris Ethridge (1947-2012): Gram Parsons--She (Chris Etheridge was the original bassist for the Flying Burrito Brothers and wrote songs with Gram Parsons, including the lovely 'She')/// Andre Williams & the Sadies--Hey Baby! Janiva Magness--You Got What You Wanted Andrew Bird--Orpheo Looks Back Blossom Dearie--Give Him the Ooh-La-La; Rhode Island Is Famous for You Cephas & Wiggins--Police Dog Blues Joe Krown--Monkey On My Back Ann Peebles--Bouncin' Back; Somebody's On Your Case Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Resistance The Morells--Trans Am (live, 2/84) The Shy--Vista Cruiser Sly & the Family Stone--I'm an Animal The Dirty Ghosts--19 In '71 M. Ward--Me and My Shadow Angelo Spence et Les Hauts Sommets--Bo Diddley (live) Kay Kay & the Rays--Enron Field Omar & the Howlers--Alligator Wine The Beach Boys with Willie Nelson--The Warmth of the Sun Willie Nelson--Louisiana Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel--Shame on You Lynne Arriale--The Dove Marion Williams--Come Out the Corner The Flaming Lips--Are You a Hypnotist??
---Retroactive #884--April 21, 2012: ---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show Kate Wolf--Sitting on the Porch Eric Bibb--Sinner Man The Afrosoul-tet--Soul Rockin' ///'American Bandstand' host Dick Clark (1929-2012): Chuck Berry--School Day (My late mother Shirley bought me one of my first records: an EP with Dick Clark's photo on the cardboard cover; 'School Day' was one of the great tracks on the EP)/// Claire Holley--Dandelion Garland Jeffreys--Love Is Not a Cliche Mary Bridget Davies--Wanna Feel Somethin' Tommy Spurlin & the Southern Boys--Hang Loose ///Levon Helm (1940-2012)--Got Me a Woman The Band--Stuff You Gotta Watch; The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; Don't Do It (the last two live, NYC, New Year's Eve 1971-72--out and out brilliance from singer/drummer Levon Helm)/// Lady Bianca--It Hurts to Be In Love Curtis Salgado--He Played His Harmonica Van Dyke Parks--Come to the Sunshine Iggy Pop--The Horse Song; Sixteen The Stooges--Little Doll; 1970 Lisa Mills--Countryside of Life Esther Phillips--When Love Comes to the Human Race Wilson Pickett--Don't Cry No More
---Retroactive #883--April 14, 2012: ---Eighteenth Anniversary Show Lambchop--The Good Life (Is Wasted) Etta Britt--I Believe Big Boy Myles & the Sha-Weez--Just to Hold Your Hand The Halo Benders--Blank Equation Bratmobile--Yeah, Huh? Guided By Voices--How I Met My Mother The Noses--Circular Motion Lee Fields--It's All Over (But the Crying) Tara Priya--Devil's Gonna Drag You Down Otis Taylor--Banjo Boogie Blues The Carol Morgan Quartet--April In Paris The Lovely Bad Things--I Just Want You to Go Away Coke Weed--Golden Apples Marianne Faithfull--Broken English Mott the Hoople--The Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll Little Richard--Bama Lama Bama Loo Ann Cole & the Claudiettes--I Want to Be a Big Girl Junior Parker--The Outside Man Dustin Welch--Don't Tell 'Em Nothin' The Butchies--What's It Gonna Be Dusty Springfield--Losing You; The Look of Love; I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore Pete Wingfield--Eighteen With a Bullet Lynne Arriale--Yada, Yada, Yada Ray Charles--Mary Ann Harvey Sid Fisher--F-Word! The Emeralds--Wanna Make Him Mine Mud Morganfield--Love to Flirt Slim Gaillard--Potato Chips
---Retroactive #882--April 7, 2012: The Demolition String Band--Been Doin' Time; Questioningly Ramones--Danny Says Mary Bridget Davies--Wonderwall Omar & the Howlers--Bad Seed Toots & the Maytals--Monkey Man Lula Reed--Rock Love Eric Bibb--Money In Your Pocket Heartless Bastards--Late In the Night The Kingbees--Once Is Not Enough Joe Krown--All That and Then Some Dr. John--Take Me Out to the Ballgame Claire Hammil--Baseball Blues The Baseball Project--Look Out Mom Mabel Scott--Baseball Boogie The Byrds--America's Great National Pastime Curtis Salgado--What You Gonna Do?; She Didn't Cut Me Loose The Blue Nile with Rickie Lee Jones--Easter Parade Bruce Springsteen--We Are Alive Janiva Magness--There It Is Ronnie Self--Boppin' the Blues Carl Perkins--Where the Rio de Rosa Flows; Caldonia; Lend Me Your Comb Terri Lyne Carrington--Michelle M. Ward--Primitive Girl Dirty Ghosts--Surround the Controls Willie May--Showtime
---Retroactive #881--March 31, 2012: Kiya Heartwood--The Tower The (Nat) King Cole Trio--I Used to Love You (But It's All Over Now) (live, 11/49) Peter Mulvey--Time to Spend ///Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs (1924-2012): Bill Monroe & his Bluegrass Boys--Blue Moon of Kentucky Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys--Don't Get Above Your Raisin' (Earl Scruggs, who pioneered the three-finger banjo picking style, is on both cuts)/// Chip Taylor & the New Ukrainians--Screw All the Perfect People Amy Ray--When You're Gone, You're Gone Lady Bianca--He Said the Same Thing to Me, Too Andrew Bird--Eyeoneye Imperial Teen--Last to Know Alison Brown--The Inspector Lee Fields--Faithful Man Don & Dewey--Justine Grace Woodroofe--Bear The Ramblin' Ambassadors--The Savage Heavenly--Boyfriend Stays the Same El Vez--Black Magic Woman (Mujer de Magia Negro) Mud Morganfield--Loco Motor Heather Myles--It Ain't Over Martin Etzioni with Richard Thompson--It Don't Cost Much Richard & Linda Thompson--Withered and Died Fairport Convention--Jack O'Diamonds; Hanks for the Memory (Shazam/Pipeline/Apache/Peter Gunn) Richard Thompson--Hand of Kindness Poncho Sanchez--Grand Central Katya Chorover--Brother Flower Veda Brown--Short Stopping Jerry Lee Lewis--Mexicali Rose (fast version) Tara Priya--Run Like Hell
---Retroactive #880--March 24, 2012: ---All '60s Show The Pharoahs--Heads Up, High Hopes Over You McKinley Mitchell--The Town I Live In (1962 version) Nina Simone--A Monster Arthur Alexander--I Hang My Head and Cry The Cryan' Shames--Mr. Unreliable Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans--Zip-a-Dee Doo-Dah Thee Midniters--Do You Love Me Dionne Warwick--I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself The Troggs--I Can't Control Myself Jimmy Soul--My Baby Loves to Bowl The Bonzo Dog Band--I'm the Urban Spaceman Barbara Lynn--I'm Sorry I Met You Alvin Cash & the Registers--The Philly Freeze The Magic Sam Blues Band--Every Night, Every Day eden ahbez--Myna Bird Gloria Taylor--You Got to Pay the Price The Flying Burrito Brothers--Hot Burrito No. 2 Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Catch Me Daddy (live, 6/68) The Yardbirds--Happenings Ten Years Time Ago Moody & the Deltas--Everybody Come Clap Your Hands B.B. King--Every Day I Have the Blues (live, 11/64--introduction by Pervis Spann of WVON/Chicago) The Sonics--Money (That's What I Want) Aretha Franklin--It Was You; You Keep Me Hangin' On The Merry-Go-Round--Gonna Leave You Alone Jonna Gault & her Symphonopop Scene--What If They Gave a War and No One Came? The Kinks--Johnny Thunder Otis (Redding) & Carla (Thomas)--Knock on Wood (Rahsaan) Roland Kirk--Some Kind of Love Etta James--842-3089 (Call My Name) The Rolling Stones--Who's Been Sleeping Here? The Rugbys--You, I The Precisions--If This Is Love (I'd Rather Be Lonely) *Remembered: Two wonderful professors who passed away in recent weeks: Dave Hitchens (1939-2012) and Sigurd Christiansen (1942-2012)
---Retroactive #879--March 17, 2012: ///Red Holloway (1927-2012): Ruth Brown--Am I Blue (Red Holloway, saxophone solo. Holloway's long career began in the 1940s; he recorded as a leader from 1963-2009)/// ///Big Walter Price (1914-2012) & his Thunderbirds--Pack Fair and Square/// Trotsky Icepick--The Conveniences of Life Lady Bianca--Stealin' Nils Lofgren--Irish Angel The Chieftains with Cady Coleman--The Chieftains In Orbit Conway Twitty--Danny Boy Hickory Wind--Morrison's Jig Roxy Coss--I Think So Janiva Magness--Whoop and Holler David Johansen--Donna New York Dolls--Bad Girl Bikini Kill--Hamster Baby Thee Headcoatees--Tear It to Pieces Jo Jo Gunne--Take Me Down Easy The Ramblin' Ambassadors--Meat Sweats Nick Lowe--Drive-Thru Man; House for Sale Nick Lowe & his Cowboy Outfit--Maureen Brinsley Schwarz--Nervous On the Road (But Can't Stay at Home) Rockpile--So It Goes; I Knew the Bride (both live, 7/80) Sarah Wilson--At Zebulon Otis Taylor--Romans Had Their Way Eux Autres--Down Your Street Heartless Bastards--Only for You Keb' Mo'--Just Lookin'
---Retroactive #878--March 10, 2012: Mirah with Kane Mathis--Gone Are All the Days (live) Mud Morganfield--Go Ahead and Blame Me Melissa Ruth & the Likely Stories--Write Me a Love Song ///Vocalist-guitarist Louisiana Red (1932-2012)--Red's Dream David Maxwell & Louisiana Red--New Jersey Women Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint--See That My Grave Is Kept Clean/// Nada Surf--Jules and Jim Janis Martin--Love Me Love Toni Price--What's It Take? (live); Sunflower; Like You Used To Dave Specter--Azulado ///Guitarist Ronnie Montrose (1947-2012)--Heads Up Montrose--Connection/// The Raincoats--Balloonacy (live, 12/82) Lone Madrone--Mine Diamond Blue Rose--Blue Rose Boogie Mary Bridget Davies--Real Thing Sly--Out Of Sight Sly & the Family Stone--I Want to Take You Higher; Luv 'n Haight Mary Lou Williams & her Orchestra--Carcinoma Cat Power--Empty Shell Bob Marley & the Wailers--Concrete Jungle Slapp Happy--Sort Of *Plus: Louisiana Red on hanging out with Jimmy Reed and Homesick James Williamson
---Retroactive #877--March 3, 2012: ///Guitarist Chris Reimer (1985-2012): Women--Upstairs; Sag Harbor Bridge/// Chip Taylor & the New Ukrainians--Be Kind Janiva Magness--I'm Alive Dakota Staton--Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street Jerry Warren & the Trembers--Rompin' Leo Kottke--Stolen Big Joe Turner with the Freddie Slack Trio--Blues on Central Avenue Eux Autres--Home Tonight Yo La Tengo--Moby Octopad Yelena Eckemoff--Resurrection of a Dream ///Davy Jones (1945-2012)--A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You (live, 7/03) Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart--Cuddly Toy (live, 7/76) The Monkees--When Love Comes Knockin' (At Your Door); Forget That Girl; Gonna Build a Mountain (live, 6/67)/// Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Work, Baby, Work Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--You Can't Take My Life Lou Reed--Adventurer; Busload of Faith Johnny J. Blair--What Goes On Garland Jeffreys--The Contortionist Booker T. Jones with Lou Reed--The Bronx The Velvet Underground--Beginning to See the Light The Yoko Miwa Trio--Who Loves the Sun (live, 10/10) Teeny Tucker--I Live Alone Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--Stick 'Em Up Honey The Lovely Bad Things--Dinosaur Song
---Retroactive #876--February 25, 2012: Robin & Linda Williams--That's the Way Love Goes Buffy Sainte-Marie--It's My Way Otis Taylor--Look to the Side Ruthie Foster--Ring of Fire Johnny Cash & the Tennessee Two--So Doggone Lonesome Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts--This Little Girl's Gone Rockin' The Wailers--Sack O'Woe (live, 1961) Denny Brown--Can't Go Home Tonight Lady Bianca--For Real Guided By Voices--The Unsinkable Fats Domino Fats Domino--Blue Monday; I'm Ready (both live, 10/86); I'm In Love Again David Maxwell--Marie ///Bassist Michael Davis (1943-2012): MC5--Sister Anne/// The Young Fresh Fellows--Barky's Spiritual Store Nils Lofgren--Ain't Too Many of Us Left Sam & Dave--Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody Kitty Clementine--It's Been Real George Harrison--Don't Let Me Wait Too Long; Apple Scruffs Dark Dark Dark--Long Long Long Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore--Don't Bother Me Traveling Wilburys--Maxine Edward Simon--Slippin' and Slidin' Lone Madrone--Fishin' Boat Wanda Jackson--Funnel of Love Heartless Bastards--Simple Feeling The Soul Sisters--I Can't Stand It
---Retroactive #875--February 18, 2012: Shearwater--Believing Makes It Easy Gina Forsyth--What I Did On Mardi Gras Day The Band Courtbouillon--The Bosco Blues Dr. John--Iko Iko ///Whitney Houston (1963-2012)--It's Not Right But It's Okay/// Galactic--Julou Wynonie Harris--I Want My Fanny Brown Nina Simone--That's All I Ask Johnny J. Blair--Big Town Winding Down Yoko Ono with DJ Spooky--Rising Charlie Haden & Hank Jones--Deep River Earl King--You Can Fly High Irma Thomas--Hittin' on Nothing Riff Raff (UK/'70s punk)--Cosmonaut Dale Watson & the Texas Two--My Baby Makes Me Gravy Patti Smith Group--Revenge Shirley & Lee--Keep On Lovely Bad Things--New Waves Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias--Carnival Time Tender Trap--You and Me Eleanor Murray--Little Warrior (live) Pegi Young & the Survivors--Doghouse (Smokey Robinson &) The Miracles--That's What Love Is Made Of Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Don't You Just Know It Davell Crawford--House That Jack Built C.J. Chenier--Red Shack Zydeco Allen Toussaint (as Tousan)--Whirlaway Candye Kane--Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody Tonight The Wild Tchoupitoulas--Meet de Boys on the Battlefront Sugar Boy Crawford & his Cane Cutters--Jock-a-Mo (Iko Iko)
---Retroactive #874--February 11, 2012: Truckstop Honeymoon--Your Mother Is a Sociopath Ruthie Foster--Aim For the Heart The Hoopties--Unknown Causes Katya Chorover--Possession Otis Taylor--Yell Your Name Kable--Think Before You Speak Nils Lofgren--60 Is the New 18 Kitty Clementine--Blow That Horn Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Woman Love; Race With the Devil Gene Vincent--Git It The Yoko Miwa Trio--Mr. B. G. (live, 10/10) June Tabor--Night and Day Nick Lowe--Cupid Must Be Angry Lucinda Williams--2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (live) Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell--I Hope You Shed a Million Tears Thea Gilmore--Razor Valentine The Isley Brothers--Live It Up, Pts. 1 & 2 Big Star--O My Soul Angela Alexander & J.D. Saddler--Don't Make Me Kill You Teeny Tucker--Make Room for Teeny Lou Ann Barton--The Doodle Song; Shake Your Hips (live); You Can Have My Husband Ikebe Showdown--Kumasi Walk Richard & the Young Lions--Open Up Your Door Heartless Bastards--Got to Have Rock & Roll Roy Wood & Wizzard--See My Baby Jive
---Retroactive #873--February 4, 2012: David Maxwell--David In the Dark Kate Campbell--New Blues Joyce Williams--The First Thing I Do In the Morning Lucy Kaplansky--When I Get to the Border; Manhattan Moon ///Seventies soul set dedicated to Don Cornelius (1936-2012), TV's "Soul Train" creator, host and producer: Marvin Gaye--What's Happening Brother The Trammps--Hold Back the Night Candi Staton--Young Hearts Run Free/// Ringo Starr--Samba Guided By Voices--Doughnut For a Snowman Lone Madrone--Victory Dance Mary Osborne--I Found a New Baby Joe Ely--Live Forever; Midnight Shift (live, 1980) The Maxines--Heartbeat Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside--Danger Sloan--Everything You've Done Wrong The Jimmys--HaDaYa HaDaYa Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Mojo Kings The Sinners--The Truth The Everly Brothers--Long Time Gone; Love Hurts; Bird Dog Ani DiFranco--Promiscuity Kathleen Edwards--Change the Sheets Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers--Sakeena's Vision Nada Surf--Waiting for Something Sean Costello--T-Bone Boogie (live) Joe Louis Walker--I'm On to You Ann Peebles--It's Your Thing
---Retroactive #872--January 28, 2012: ---All-Michigan Show Del Shannon--Liar The Puppets--I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore Root Doctor featuring Freddie Cunningham--Heavenly Faces Rodriguez--To Whom It May Concern Jackie Wilson--Am I the Man John Lee Hooker--Boogie Rambler Aretha Franklin--Can't You Just See Me The Scott Morgan Band--Detroit The Wanted--In the Midnight Hour The Detroit Cobras--Heartbeat Stix & Stoned--Rouge Plant Blues Stewart Francke--Born In a Fever Sean Jones--Transitions Steve Cropper with Bettye LaVette--Say It The Shy--Say What You Say The Boss Mustangs--Mrs. McKee Nathaniel Mayer--I Want Affection (Not the House of Correction) Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--I'd Rather Go to Jail Marshall Crenshaw--She Can't Dance (1982 version) Funkadelic--Can You Get to That Dennis Coffey with Mick Collins & Rachel Nagy--I'll Bet You Cradle--Peter Porno The Bob Seger System--Ivory Wilson Pickett--She's So Good to Me (Iggy &) the Stooges--Gimme Danger MC5--I Just Don't Know ? & the Mysterians--Smokes Windy & Carl--Birds The Marvelettes--The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game The Temptations--(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need Chris Clark--Love's Gone Bad Jr. Walker & the All-Stars--Pucker Up Buttercup Martha & the Vandellas--Nowhere to Run *Plus: Session musician and CBS Orchestra bassist Will Lee on Motown's masterful James Jamerson, Jr.
---Retroactive #871--January 21, 2012: ///Rock'n'Roll pioneer Johnny Otis (1920-2012): Joe Swift--That's Your Last Boogie Little Richard--Little Richard's Boogie Marie Adams & the Three Tons of Joy--Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me) The Johnny Otis Show--Willie and the Hand Jive (Records produced by Johnny Otis, who also sang or played piano or vibes on them)/// Lucinda Williams--I'm So Happy I Found You; Big Red Sun Blues Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside--Whole Wide World (live) Wreckless Eric--Take the Cash (K.A.S.H.) Nicole Mitchell--There Thao & Mirah--Hallelujah Suzie Vinnick--Save Me for Later Ron Sexsmith--Middle of Love Gina Forsyth--Just Like Eddie Nils Lofgren--Love Stumbles On Mr. Gnome--Wolf Girls Chain & the Gang--Detroit Music, Pts. 1 & 2 Ted Hawkins--Having a Party The Soul Stirrers--Peace In the Valley Sam Cooke--Sad Mood; Shake Sam Cooke with King Curtis & his band--Somebody Have Mercy (live, 1/63) The Yoko Miwa Trio--Seasons of Wither (live, 10/10) ///Etta James (1938-2012)--Groove Me; Pushover Chuck Berry with Etta James--Rock'n'Roll Music (live, 10/86)/// Ruthie Foster--Set Fire to the Rain
---Retroactive #870--January 14, 2012: Kable--There's No Problem Here Bobby Charles--Better Days Ani DiFranco--Splinter Sandra Hall--I Miss You So The Dirty River Boys--Off the Trail The O'Jays--Give the People What They Want Pegi Young & the Survivors--Trouble In a Bottle Willie King & the Liberators--Let's Come Together (As One Community) Garland the Great--Strike a Match The Carol Morgan Quartet--Last Waltz Brave Combo--Mambo In a Brand New Year Gossip--2012 Sista Monica Parker--Living In the Danger Zone Eric Dahl--Sometimes the Trains Don't Roll Johnny J. Blair--I Like the Street (Electric Velvet version) Steve Cropper with Buddy Miller--The Slummer the Slum The Chi-Lites--(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People Nnenna Freelon with Pierce Freelon--Lift Every Voice and Sing Aloe Blacc--I Need a Dollar Bobby Blue Bland--Teach Me (How to Love You); Poverty; Jelly, Jelly, Jelly Charlie Haden & Hank Jones--Down By the Riverside The Staple Singers--Two Wings Pete Seeger--Hold On (Hand On the Plow) (live) J.B. Lenoir--Eisenhower Blues *Plus: Speech clips (1950s-1968) throughout the show from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., covering non-violence, anti-war and inspirational thoughts
---Retroactive #869--January 7, 2012: Spider John Koerner--What's the Matter With the Mill Judy Henske--Ace In the Hole (live) ///Bobby Purify (Robert Dickey, 1939-2011): James & Bobby Purify--Let Love Come Between Us; You Don't Love Me/// Eilen Jewell--I Remember You Eugene Hideaway Bridges--How Long Tracy Nelson--Lead a Horse to Water The Zombies--This Will Be Our Year Gina Forsyth--Sweet and Sunny South Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Run Little Joe Myra Melford's Crush--Chalk Sanskrit Elvis Presley--That's All Right (2010 remix); I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone (slow version); Stranger In My Own Hometown Kitty, Daisy & Lewis--I'm Going Back The Von Erichs--Smokewagon Mr. Gnome--Capsize Yo La Tengo--By the Time It Gets Dark Fairport Convention--Come All Ye; Matty Groves (live, 5/74) Sandy Denny--Until the Real Thing Comes Along; Listen Listen The Yoko Miwa Trio--This Could Be the Start of Something (Big) (live, 10/10) Father's Children--Kohoutek Dave Alvin--Murrieta's Head
