---Retroactive--December 25, 1999:
///Mucho thanks and gratitude to Soul Kitchen's Shannon Wiberg
for hosting, as I was in Michigan and it would be the last time I would
see my loving grandmother, Ruth Phillips, who did so much for me.
Sending you my love, Grannie--I will miss you.///
---Retroactive #279--December 18, 1999:
The Drifters--White Christmas
Aaron Neville--Such a Night
The Sackville All-Stars--Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Joan Baez--Coventry Carol
Bryan Bowers--Fisher's Hornpipe
Emmylou Harris--Christmas Time's a-Comin'
Luscious Jackson--Let It Snow
Stan Freberg--Nuttin' for Christmas
Nat King Cole & his Trio--All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Lou & Peter Berryman--Christmas In the Snow
Michele Hendricks--Christmas Blues
Arturo Sandoval--Funky Cha Cha
The Ravens--White Christmas
Billie Holiday--I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Stephanie Sayers--Candy Fisted Christmas
Low--Silent Night
The Salem Travelers--A Letter for Christmas
The Vince Guaraldi Trio--What Child Is This
Bobby Lloyd (Hicks) & the Skeletons--Do You Hear What I Hear/You Really Got Me
The Make Up--We're Having a Baby
Mary Karlzen--Run Rudolph Run
The Blue Moon Boys--Santabilly Boogie
Jimi Hendrix--Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne
They Might Be Giants--Santa's Beard
Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Rock'n'Roll Santa Claus
Ringo Starr--Winter Wonderland
Chuck Berry--Merry Christmas Baby
The Guillermo Gregio Trio--1-2-3-4 Jump
Odetta--Look the World Over; Careless Love/St. Louis Blues
Professor Longhair--Stagger Lee
James Booker--Professor Longhair Medley: Bald Head/Tipitina; Pixie; King of the Road
Johnny Cash--Here Was a Man
Dinah Washington--Silent Night
Jerry Jeff Walker--Here Comes Santa Claus/Up on the Housetop
Hugh Hopper & Mark Hewins--Snake River
Frank Sinatra--Winter Wonderland
Charles Brown--Christmas In Heaven (1994 version)
Clarence Williams' Blue Five with Louis Armstrong & Eva Taylor--Santa Claus Blues
Marc Wilson & Mark 'Kaz' Kazanoff--Good King Wenceslaus
*Plus: A protester against the WTO talks police brutality in Seattle
---Retroactive #278--December 11, 1999:
Mighty Sam McClain--Time Is Running Out
Billie & De De Pierce--Careless Love
Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time
///Don 'Sugarcane' Harris (1938-1999):
Don and Dewey--Just a Little Lovin'///
///Rick Danko (1942-1999):
The Band--Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (live)///
Paul & Paula--Holiday for Teens
Junior Kimbrough--I Feel Alright
Bill Ware/Y2K Jazz Quartet--Silk Flowers
The Platters--It Isn't Right
Eve Cornelious & the Chip Crawford Trio--Air Mail Special
Andre Williams--Poor Mr. Santa
George Harrison--Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
Low--Just Like Christmas
Terry Allen--Xmas on the Isthmus
Lou & Phil Berryman--Do You Believe In Me
The Clark Sisters--Christ Is Born Today
Steve Goodman--The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over
The Specials--Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--White Christmas Blues
Hadda Brooks--I'll Be Home for Christmas
Scott Walker--Jackie
The Other Quartet--On the Inside
Brenda Lee--The Crying Game
Charlie Rich--Finally Found Out; July 12, 1939; Down and Out
Cassandra Wilson--Baubles, Bangles and Beads; Run the Voodoo Down
Bill Frisell with Cassandra Wilson & Elvis Costello--I Still Have That Other Girl
The Squirrel Nut Zippers--Carolina Christmas
Bugs Eat Books--Not a Pine Tree
Ella Fitzgerald--Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney
Sir Mack Rice--Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'
Louis Jordan--May Everyday Be Christmas
Malachi Thompson--Nefertiti
Charlie Byrd--Mistletoe and Holly
Narvel Felts--I'd Trade All My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)
Veda Hille--A Peculiar Value
Ronnie Dawson--Tied Down
Dead Moon--Christmas Rush
The Balloon Farm--A Question of Temperature
*Plus: Stevie Wonder Christmas Greeting ('70s); Dr. Kirk Murphy on police attacking Seattle protesters
---Retroactive #277--December 4, 1999:
Little Bill--Never Been to Mississippi
Ted Hawkins--Cold and Bitter Tears
The Duffy Bishop Band--Pain
John Trudell--Blue Indians
The Geisels--Christ, It's Christmas Again
Low--Long Way Around the Sea
Gaye Adegbalola--Prove It On Me Blues
Bob Dylan--Watching the River Flow
Malachi Thompson--Rising Daystar
Matt Monro--Walk Away
Sugar Pie DeSanto--Slip In Mules (live)
The Hollies--Look Through Any Window
Ringo Starr--The Christmas Dance
Danielle Howle--Passing Through
Ola Dixon--Baby I'm Gone
Elvis Costello--Night Time
Five Gears In Reverse--I'm Sorry If I Didn't Get You What You Wanted for Christmas
Dub Narcotic Sound System & the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Banana Meltdown
The Johnny Burnette Rock & Roll Trio--Honey Hush
Woody Guthrie--Hobo's Lullaby
Simon Joyner--It Will Never Be This Way Again
Ronnie Spector with Joey Ramone--You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
Bruce Cockburn--Last Night of the World
Francine Reed--I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
Hugh Hopper & Mark Hewins--Vortex One
Sonny Boy Williamson II--Slowly Walk Close to Me
Joan Armatrading--Shapes and Sizes (live)
Little Richard--I Brought It All On Myself; It Ain't Watcha Do; Ready Teddy
Little Richard & Fishbone--Rock Island Line
Alice DiMicele--Dismantle
John Prine--Christmas In Prison (live)
Cyrus Rego--The Very First
Walter Wolfman Washington--Fever
Sub Debs--Picture Phone
New York Dolls--Human Being
The Royal Crown Revue--She Walks on Fire
*Plus: The Radio Nation show's take on the WTO protests in Seattle
---Retroactive #276--November 27, 1999:
Andy Bey--Like a Lover (O Cantador)
Veda Hille--All Fur
Cora Fluker--Dry Bones In the Valley
Kieran Kane with Emmylou Harris & Lucinda Williams--This Dirty Little Town
The Miracles--Shop Around (live, 1961)
Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--One and Only
Japancakes--Elevator Headphone
The Replacements--Swingin Party
The Joe Maneri Quartet--Swing
The Drifters--Drip Drop
Kathi McDonald--A Soulful Prayer
Marvin Gaye--What's Going On
Casey Neill--Dancing on the Ruins (Of Multi-National Corporations)
Curly Williams & her Georgia Peach Pickers--Georgia Boogie
Dona Oxford--Big Hands, Big Feet
The Persuasions--Slip Sliding Away
Rosetta Howard & Harlem Hamfats--Rosetta Blues
Doc & Richard Watson--Columbus Stockade Blues
The Magnetic Fields--All My Little Words
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin' (1966 version)
Willie Alexander--Eat What You Can
The Vibes--Keep on Truckin'
Ike & Tina Turner--I Smell Trouble; Ooh Poo Pah Doo (both live, 1971); Nutbush City Limits
Gaye Adegbalola--Front Door Blues
///The Jimi Hendrix Birthday Bash:
Neville & Sheena Staples--Up From the Skies
The Make Up--Hey Joe
Jimi Hendrix--Lover Man (live, 8/69)
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Stepping Stone (live, 1/1/70, first show)///
---Retroactive #275--November 20, 1999:
Amos Milburn--Everybody Clap Hands
Carrie Newcomer--The Prelude
Buddy Miller--It's Been a Change
Ruth Brown--Hangin' By a Shoestring
///Doug Sahm (1941-1999):
The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm--My Dearest Darling (live at Antone's, Austin)
The Sir Douglas Band--Someday; Ain't That Loving You
The Sir Douglas Quintet--She's About a Mover (live at Club Foot, Austin)///
Derf Recklaw--Watusi Wu/Break of the Century
The Chantays--Pipeline
Henry Kaiser & Sergei Kuriokhin--Rattlesnake Roundup
Odetta--Blues Everywhere I Go
Kinnie Starr--Woven
Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Coo Coo
Paul Bascomb--Pink Cadillac
The '5' Royales--Right Around the Corner
Mary Coughlan--Dilemma
Paula West--Fixing a Hole
The Make Up--Call Me Mommy
John Trudell--Devil and Me
Willie Mitchell--Young People
Catie Curtis--World Don't Owe Me
John Prine with Iris DeMent--(We're Not) The Jet Set
Johnny Preston--Cradle of Love
Jon Lloyd--Zilch, Zero, Zed
Stan Kenton with June Christy--Tampico
June Christy--Swingin' on Nothing
Jean Shepard--Don't Fall In Love With a Married Man
Etta Jones--I May Be Wonderful; Blues In the Night
Graham Parker--In Bloom (live); Don't Ask Me Questions (live, Tokyo);
3 Martini Lunch (live, Philadelphia) (all three are solo performances)
Claudine Clark--(The Strength) To Be Strong
The Junior Wells Blues Band--In the Wee Hours
Billy Bragg--Rule Nor Reason
Buddy & Ella Johnson--Satisfy My Soul
Elliott Sharp--City of Sand
Sub Debs--Give It Up
Robyn Hitchcock--Sally Was a Legend
Trudy Lynn--I Should Have Known
The Starlites--Valarie
Jan Van De Mel & friends--From a Window
---Retroactive #274--November 13, 1999:
Katy Moffatt--Big Fool
Mose Scarlett, Jackie Washington & Ken Whiteley--Nobody Lovin' Me
The Hot Club of Cowtown--When I Lost You
Darlene & Co.--7-11
James Brown--My Thang
John Corbett & Heavy Friends--Cold Sweat
Gaye Adegbalola--She Just Wants to Dance
Lucky Peterson--Ode to Billie Joe
The Philosopher's Stone--Filament
Otis Clay--That's How It Is (When You're In Love)
The Who--I Can See for Miles
The Velvet Underground--Femme Fatale
The Meat Purveyors--What Goes On
Merle Haggard--Brain Cloudy Blues
Dennis Driscoll--Foggy Day Ilwaco
Ronnie Spector--She Talks to Rainbows
Jan Van De Mel and friends--I'll Keep You Satisfied
XTC--Fruit Nut
Francine Reed--455 Rocket
Blues Torpedos--Move Over Daddy
Mavis Staples--Gotta Serve Somebody
Prince with Rosario Dawson--1999 (Inevitable Mix)
Los Straitjackets--State Fair
Steve Bailey & the Blue Flames--Dear Dad
Joe Morris--Shipshod
Neil Young--I Am a Child (live, 1986)
Booker T. & the MGs with Neil Young--Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay (live, 1993)
Booker T. & the MGs--Heads or Tails
Mose Allison--Mountains; The Seventh Son
Sheila Jordan & Harvie Swartz--I Got Rhythm/Anthropology
Clyde McPhatter--I Never Knew
Marshall Crenshaw--Television Light
Ola Dixon--(I) Need Your Love So Bad
Little Willie John--Suffering with the Blues; I'm Shakin'; Uh Uh Baby
Elliott Sharp--Hotfoot
Fastbacks--We Can Be
Sand on Stars--I Think It Was Rome
Laurette Langille--Won't Kill Me
Percy Mayfield--Two Years of Torture
---Retroactive #273--November 6, 1999:
Sunnyland Slim--Recession Blues
Veda Hille--The Williamsburg Bridge
Iggy Pop--Miss Argentina
Back Porch Blues--Dark of Night Blues
///Ella Mae Morse (1924-1999)--The Thrill Is Gone///
///Frank Frost (1936-1999)--Nothin' I Wouldn't Do For You///
///Hoyt Axton (1938-1999)--Della and the Dealer///
Brokeback--The Wilson Avenue Bridge at the Chicago River, 1953
Cannon's Jug Stompers--Walk Right In
Gus Cannon--Boll-Weevil
Brooke Harris Wolff--I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--Comin' Back Strong
Wilson Pickett--Stone Crazy World
Girl Trouble--Storm Warning
The Move--Night of Fear
Dona Oxford--I'm on Fire
Terry Callier--Until Tomorrow
Ani DiFranco--Carry You Around
John Prine with Iris DeMent--In Spite of Ourselves
Glen Canyon--I'd Rather Drink Than Drive
Chizmo Charles--Good Times
The Clash--Complete Control (live, 6/81)
The Rebirth Brass Band--Shake Your Body Down to the Ground
Joe Morris--Vapor
B.B. King & Bonnie Raitt--Baby I Love You
Bonnie Bramlett--You Send Me
Rory Block--Kassie Jones
Rickie Lee Jones--Dat Dere
Chris Connor--My Shining Hour; Good Morning Heartache; Flying Home
Blues Torpedoes--I Can't Deny
Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band--Turn On Your Lovelight (live)
Ola Dixon--Baby Please Set a Date
The Steve Lacy Seven--Stamps
Quasi--Empty Words
Hank Thompson--Simple Simon (1950s transcription disc)
The Temptations--Happy Landing
The Scott Lee Quartet--We're Tired and We're Out of Here
---Retroactive #272--October 30, 1999:
---Halloween Show
The Minus 5--Scary Moon
Os Mutantes--Ave, Lucifer
Billie Holiday--Gloomy Sunday
Lester Bangs & the Delinquents--Kill Him Again
Otis Spann--It Must Have Been the Devil
Carmaig de Forest--Can I Die for You Baby (KAOS performance, 4/98)
Karen Monster--Gimme Danger
Sandy Denny--Let's Jump the Broomstick
Jackie Morningstar--Rockin' In the Graveyard
Rockapella--Zombie Jamboree
The Sensualists--The Biggest Man Alive
The Coasters--The Shadow Knows
Them--I Put a Spell On You
Koko Taylor with Willie Dixon--Insane Asylum
Ella Fitzgerald--Ol' Devil Moon
Richard Thompson--Now That I Am Dead (live, solo)
Dead Moon--Graveyard
The Wildbunch--I'm a Demon
John Anderson--Haunted House
Bessie Smith--Haunted House Blues
Floyd--Burn Me Some Smokes
Cream--Strange Brew
Kim Fowley with Deb Agolli--We're Not Having a Good Time
Jessica Bailiff--Perception
The Halo Benders--Scarin
Dub Narcotic Sound System & the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Love Ain't On the Run
Delbert McClinton--Just a Little Bit; Shot from the Saddle
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--There Goes My Heart; Snatch and Grab It
John Entwistle--Nightmare (Please Wake Me Up)
Warren Zevon--Werewolves of London (live, solo)
Screamin' Jay Hawkins--Feast of the Mau Mau
The Delta Rhythm Boys--Dry Bones
Michael Fennelley--Over My Dead Body
The Phantom--Love Me
The Viscounts--Harlem Nocturne
Bruce Hack & Esther Nelson--Abracadabra
Yind--Track 4
The Strawbs--New World
Robyn Hitchcock--Sinister But She Was Happy
The Microphones--Don't Wake Me Up
Bo Diddley--Who Do You Love?
Frenchy--Ribcage Mambo
The Dominoes featuring Clyde McPhatter--The Bells
Five Horse Johnson--Bleachin' Bones
---Retroactive #271--October 23, 1999:
Flora Molton & the Truth Band--Vacation In Heaven
Sam Bush with Emmylou Harris--Song for Roy
Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate--Take This Hammer
Four Tops--Stranger On the Shore
Sleepy John Estes--Denmark Blues
Veda Hille--3x Thin
Augie Meyers & the Western Head Band--Today I Started Loving You Again (live, 1975)
Wayne Hancock--Johnson City
Shelly Berg--L'Impossible
The Five Stairsteps--O-o-h Child (some copies credit 'and Cubie')
Quasi--The Star You Left Behind
Aretha Franklin--You and Me
E.C. Scott--I Ain't Never Loved Nobody
Free--Mr. Big
Buddy Miller--Somewhere Trouble Don't Go
Cecil Gant--Deal Yourself Another Hand
The Whole Bolivian Army--Crack In the Tree
Jimmy Ruffin--96 Tears
The Volebeats--Lonely Way to Go
The Sonics--Keep a-Knockin' (demo)
The Minders--Yeah Yeah Yeah
Backporch Blues--Dirty Dealer
Gus Cannon--Salty Dog
Low--Over the Ocean
Guillermo Gregorio--Red Skies
Ted Hawkins--I Got What I Wanted; California Song
Carol Fran--I'll Never Be Free
Gil Scott-Heron--Ain't No New Thing
///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bash:
Flamin' Groovies--Around and Around
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio--You Never Can Tell
Chuck Berry--Brown Eyed Handsome Man; Little Queenie; You Can't Catch Me///
Bill Ware & the Y2K Jazz Quartet--Off the Hook
The Meat Purveyors--Little White Pills
The Wailers--You've Had Your Chance
Muddy Waters--You Can't Lose What You Never Had
Lannie Garrett--Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
Tommy McLain--Sweet Dreams
Chris Thomas King--Hey Hey (What Can I Do)
---Retroactive #270--October 16, 1999:
---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show
Los Straitjackets--Close to Champagne
Little Milton with Susan Tedeschi--Mother Earth
Francine Griffin--It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
///Ray Charles & Milt Jackson (1923-1999)--Cosmic Ray; Hallelujah! I Love Her So///
Doc & Richard Watson--Milk Cow Blues
Julie Miller--Ride the Wind to Me
Big Star--You Get What You Deserve
The Hot Club of Cowtown--Always and Always
Dennis Driscoll--Sad Song
Creole Zydeco Farmers--You Don't Miss Your Water
Pierre & Anne-Lyse--Tourne Toi
The Rolling Stones--Connection
Dave Hole--Chicken Stuff
The Wild Magnolias--Life Is a Carnival
Cindy Lee Berryhill--Every Someone Tonight
Gus Cannon--Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor
Hank Thompson--Yesterday's Mail (1950s transcription disc)
Carla Cook--Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)
Bert Wilson & Rebirth--Ambrosia
Anita O'Day--S'Wonderful/They Can't Take That Away from Me; Love Me or Leave Me
Marvin Gaye--Sad Souvenirs
The Galaxies--Along Comes the Man
Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--Howl at the Moon
Gino Washington--Come Monkey With Me
Sara Hickman--Optimistic Fool
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters--Finger Poppin' Time
The Meat Purveyors--More Man
Woody Guthrie--Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (Folkways version)
Eddie Cusic--Gonna Cut You Loose
---Retroactive #269--October 9, 1999:
---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show
The Sisters--All Grown Up
Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Connection
Mance Lipscomb--Shine on Harvest Moon (live)
Roy Milton & the Solid Senders featuring Camille Howard--Pack Your Sack, Jack
Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--You've Met Your Match
The Nighthawks--Guard My Heart
Annette Lowman--The Work Song
Alex Chilton--All I Really Want Is Money
Larry Williams--Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Bubblegum Crash--A Hard Day's Night
The Cathy Lemons Blues Band--Hard Headed Man
The '5' Royales--Help Me Somebody
Rufus Thomas--Down Ta My House
Cornerstone--Lonesome Town
Buddy Miller--Does My Ring Burn Your Finger
The (Nat) King Cole Trio--When I Grow Too Old to Dream
The Junior Wells Blues Band--Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Joan Baez--The Drifter's Escape
Cadallaca--Firetrap
Irma Thomas--Wish Someone Would Care
Paul 'Lil Buck' Sinegal--Standing In the Rain
Greg Kihn--Waterloo Sunset
Joe Morris--Drawn to the Magnet
Kelly Joe Phelps--Piece By Piece
Swamp Mama Johnson--Funky Special
Maceo Parker--Elephant Foot
///The John Lennon Birthday Bash:
The Beatles--All I've Got to Do; Revolution 1; Twist and Shout (live, London, 11/63, Royal Variety Show)
Hamell On Trial--John Lennon
Toots & the Maytals--Give Peace a Chance
John Lennon--It's So Hard; Stranger's Room (demo for 'I'm Losing You'); Goodnight Vienna (demo)
Paul McCartney--Strawberry Fields Forever/Help!/Give Peace a Chance (live, Liverpool, 1990)///
---Retroactive #268--September 25, 1999:
Etta Baker--One Dime Blues
Abner Jay--Bluetail Fly
Helen Humes--If I Could Be With You (live, 8/50)
Muddy Waters--Baby Please Don't Go (live)
The Hot Club of Cowtown--I Can't Tame Wild Women
Dinah Washington--September In the Rain
Johnnie Taylor--Next Time
Leon Russell--Down In the Flood
Cindy Lee Berryhill--Damn, I Wish I Was a Man (live, 1998)
The Ladybugs--It's the Last Time
Joe Clay--Duck Tail
Marine Research--Parallel Horizontal
Luther Allison--Soul Fixin' Man (live)
The Count Basie Orchestra directed by Grover Mitchell--I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
X--The World's a Mess-It's In My Kiss
R. L. Burnside--Everything Is Broken
The Susan Tedeschi Band--It's Up to You
Wilson Pickett--Better Him Than Me
The Go--It Might Be Bad
Rare Breed--Beg, Borrow and Steal
Buffy Sainte-Marie--House Carpenter
Jeff Pitson--Dangerous Variations
Roxy Music--Re-make/Re-model
Deborah Coleman--Fine and Mellow
Suzzy Roche--Eggshell
Jerry Lee Lewis--Jailhouse Rock; I Could Never Be Ashamed of You; Out of My Mind
Irene Kelley--Jealousy
The Shirelles--Boys
Los Straitjackets--Kawanga!
Famous Monsters--Destroy Puny Earthlings
Bobby Blue Bland--Ain't It a Good Thing
The Thomas Chapin Trio--Changes Two Tires
Rez Abbasi--Monk's Dream
Hank Thompson--When You're Lovin', You're Livin' (1950s transcription disc)
The Traveling Innerlights--It Will Be Grand
Sam Butera & the Witnesses--Harlem Nocture
Mary Chapin Carpenter--Party Doll
---Retroactive #267--September 18, 1999:
///Katie Webster (1936-1999)--A Little Meat on the Side; Lord, I Wonder (live)///
///Beau Jocque (1952-1999) & the Zydeco Hi-Rollers--Just One Kiss; Hot Tamale Baby///
Cindy Lee Berryhill--Witness (live, 1998)
Richard & Linda Thompson--A Heart Needs a Home (live, 3/75)
The Volebeats--Speedboat
Solomon Burke--Don't Deceive Me
Donald Byrd--That's All There Is to Love
Stevie Wonder--Too High
Elliott Murphy--Last of the Rockstars
New York Dolls--Subway Train
Aaron Moore--Confusing World
John Trudell--Johnny and Joe
Nomy Lamm--Sorry Her Lot
The White Stripes--Jimmy the Exploder
Charles Mingus--Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me
The Hot Club of Cowtown--There'll Be Some Changes Made
Donovan--Sunny Goodge Street
The Mummery--Quaker Gun
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Come Spy With Me
Dennis Driscoll--You Won't See Me
Ben E. King--Amor
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Stand Up for Yourself
Roy Buchanan--Jungle Gym
Ani DiFranco--My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage; Up Up Up Up Up Up
Bruce Springsteen--Lift Me Up
Marshall Crenshaw--Bruce Is King
Any Trouble--Growin' Up (live, 5/80)
Ray Charles--You've Got a Problem; Never Ending Song of Love
Ray Charles with Kenny Carr--Stranger In My Own Hometown
Freakwater--Burying Geraldine
The Nighthawks--Tiger In Your Tank
---Retroactive #266--September 11, 1999:
---All '60s Show
Etta James--Don't Cry Baby
The Impressions--I've Been Trying
Nick Drake--Mayfair
The City--Why Are You Leaving
The Drifters--What to Do
Sam Cooke--Shake
The Kinks--House In the Country
The Righteous Brothers--Koko Joe
Janis Joplin--Maybe
Betty Everett--You're No Good
Tom Rush--So Long
Dusty Springfield--Who (Will Take My Place)
David McWilliams--The Days of Pearly Spencer
Thelonious Monk--Don't Blame Me
Lou Rawls--Street Corner Hustler's Blues/World of Trouble (live, 1966)
The Cryan' Shames--I Wanna Meet You
Chris Connor--Jump for Joy
Gino Washington--Romeo
Jackie Lomax--Sour Milk Sea
The Starlets--You Don't Love Me
The Counts--Trick Bag
The Wailers--Out of Our Tree
Jimi Hendrix--Spanish Castle Magic (live, 8/69)
Ruth Brown--Takin' Care of Business
Fairport Convention--Chelsea Morning
James Brown--Bring It Up (Hipster's Avenue)
The Steve Miller Band--Dime-a-Dance Romance
Red Garland--Saint James Infimary
The Incredible String Band--First Girl I Loved
The Beatles--Rocky Raccoon (alternate take)
Aretha Franklin--Night Life
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Frying Pan
Sun Ra & his Arkestra--Rocket #9
Cold Blood--I'm a Good Woman
The Who--Tattoo
Marianne Faithfull--Come Stay With Me
Earl Gaines--The Best of Luck to You
Gary U.S. Bonds--Trying to Get to My Baby
Timi Yuro--Hurt
The Belairs--Mr. Moto
The Left Banke--She May Call You Up Tonight
Sly & the Family Stone--I Ain't Got Nobody (For Real)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk--The Black and Crazy Blues
Bob Dylan--Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (live, 1963)
Little Jimmy Dickens--May The Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas--When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
*Plus: The Who for Great Shakes; The McCoys' American Heart Association PSA; The Byrds/Albert King concert ad
---Retroactive #265--September 4, 1999:
Carla Cook--Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
The Arizona Smoke Revue--Factory
Pete Seeger--Which Side Are You On?
The Hot Club of Cowtown--Darling, You and I Are Through
Zora Young--Brain Damage
Los Straitjackets--My Heart Will Go On
Johnny Cash--Cry, Cry, Cry
The Pretty Things--We'll Play House
Cindy Lee Berryhill--This Way Up (live, 1998)
Pee Wee Crayton--Early Hours
John Trudell--All Nite Cafe
Jane Ira Bloom--Climb Inside Her Eyes
Willie Nelson--Sad Songs and Waltzes (1973 version)
Dennis Driscoll--Fall In Love
Francine Griffin--If I Were a Bell
Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Karoline
Kapt. Kopter & the (Fabulous) Twirlybirds--Rain
The Dynatones--Never Felt Like This Before
Nick Vigarino/Kathi McDonald--Poor People
Joe Ely--I Keep Gettin' Paid the Same
The Casey Neill Trio--Araby
Fairport Convention--Medley: The Lark In the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss the Feathers
Richard Thompson--Crawl Back (Under My Stone)
Paris Washboard--Blue Because of You
Charles Brown--Stumbled and Fell In Love
Maria Muldaur & Charles Brown--Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
B.B. King--Mean Ole World
The Pretenders--Legalise Me
Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Take Your Time; Ready Teddy
Otis Redding--The Glory of Love; Tell the Truth; The Boston Monkey
Toots Hibbert--Hard to Handle
Bill Ware & the Y2K Jazz Quartet--Orbits
Patsy Cline--I'm Walking the Dog; Honky Tonk Merry Go Round; I'm Moving Along
Danielle Howle--Old
NRBQ--All Night Long
The Greenhornes--End of the Night
---Retroactive #264--August 28, 1999:
Booker T. & the MGs--Soul Dressing
The Hang Ups--Second Story
Lenora Zenzalai Helm--The Life That You Live May Not Be Your Own
Paul Jones--Hard Way to Go
Rebecca Riots--Dumpster Diver (live)
Chuck Berry--Rock and Roll Music
Julie Miller--Maggie
Los Lobos--Just a Man (live)
Laverne Butler--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
The Jerome Harris Quintet--Followthrough
John Prine--The Oldest Baby In the World (live)
The Undisputed Truth--Smiling Faces Sometimes
Dennis Driscoll--Honey Toast
Nolan Strong & the Diablos--Yeah Baby, It's Because of You
Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate--Catfish Blues
Blues Monsters--Left Me Blues
Julian Dawson--Spark
Richard Thompson--Uninhabited Man
Jason Traeger--Quick Fix
The Wildbunch--Taxi to Nowhere (live)
Amy Denio with the Tone Dogs--Secret Crush
Mighty Sam McClain--New Man In Town
Nels Cline & Gregg Bendian--Mars
Marion Williams--In the Upper Room; Wake Me, Shake Me
Van Morrison--In the Midnight; John Henry
Dinah Washington--A Slick Chick on the Mellow Side; I've Got You Under My Skin (live, 8/54);
You've Been a Good Ol' Wagon
Jocelyn Robert--Roots
Robyn Hitchcock--Broken Heart
The Volebeats--Beautiful Night
Catie Curtis--What's the Matter
Chizmo Charles--Tired of Waiting
The Palace Guard--Falling Sugar
Francine Griffin--With a Twist of the Wrist
*Plus: Norman Solomon on George W. Bush's 'recreational' drug use and those he now imprisons as the governor of Texas
---Retroactive #263--August 21, 1999:
Scott Appel--Hazey Jane #1
Julie Miller--Orphan Train
Arthur Adams--Rehabilitation Song
Polkaholics--Who Stole the Kishka?
Zydeblue--Zydeco
Ada Brown & Fats Waller--That Ain't Right
Ellen Whyte & Reflex Blue--I Can Tell
They Come In Threes--Where Rev Lived
Eddie Johnson--My Buddy
Jimmy Cliff--I'm Gonna Use What I Got (To Get What I Need)
Wilson Pickett--Toe Hold
Richard Thompson--Yankee Go Home
Fairport Convention--A Sailor's Life (acetate/outtake)
The Staple Singers--I'm Just Another Soldier
Graham Parker--Short Memories (live, solo)
Shemekia Copeland--Ghetto Child
Jon & the Nightriders--Diamond Head
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Heartbreakers' Beach Party
Husker Du--Celebrated Summer
The Mountain Goats--Treetop Song
Rebecca Pearcy--Pocket
John Trudell--Dizzy Duck
Maceo Parker--Going In Circles
Black Heart Procession--Square Heart
Carrie Smith--Ill Wind
Chet Baker--Almost Blue
Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach--The Long Division
Elvis Costello--Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Lipstick Vogue
John Lee Hooker--My Crying Days Are Over; Crazy 'Bout That Walk; C.C. Rider
Spaceheads--Magic In the Space Age
Marianne Nowottny--Afraid of Me
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--My Human Gets Me Blues
Buddy Knox--Rock House
The Seeds--Can't Seem to Make You Mine
Shirley King--Everyday I Have the Blues
*Plus: Juan Gonzalez on continuing U.S. Navy manuevers (bombing) in Puerto Rico
---Retroactive #262--August 14, 1999:
Edmonia Jarrett--So This Is Love
Chizmo Charles--Bed Bugs Boogie
The Young Fresh Fellows--Two Headed Fight
Shirley King--Woke Up This Morning
Richard Thompson--Dimming of the Day (live, solo)
Patty Griffin--Poor Man's House
Jocelyn Robert--Home
Zydeblue--Zydeco Punch
Wayne Hancock--Brand New Cadillac
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Duff
The Exciters--Do Wah Diddy
Alberta Adams--Born With the Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee--Walk On (live, 1961)
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson--H2Ogate Blues
Bob Dylan--George Jackson (solo version)
The Volebeats--Blue Green
Laverne Butler--Backwater Blues
Andre Williams--Put a Chain On It
Andre Williams & the Sadies--Psycho
Julia Lee--Julia's Blues
The Sonics--Wailers House Party (1964 demo)
The Hentchmen--Club Wagon
Kelly Joe Phelps--Wandering Away
Doc & Richard Watson--Walk On Boy
Debbie Davies--Walking By Myself
Eddie Lockjaw Davis--Stolen Moments
The Previous--No More Fighting
The Ronettes--Is This What I Get for Loving You
Johnny Nash--You Got Soul
John Hiatt--The Same Thing; Shredding the Document; Riding With the King
Joan Baez--Through Your Hands
Maria Muldaur--(It) Feels Like Rain
Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel--Hot Head
Susan's Room--Hammerhead
John Jackson--Matchbox Blues
---Retroactive--August 7, 1999;
---Retroactive--July 31, 1999:
Probably hosted by Shannon Wiberg of Soul Kitchen,
then heard on Mondays, 5:30 to 8pm on KAOS. Thank you.
---Retroactive #261--July 24, 1999:
Leo Kottke--Too Fast
Big Joe Williams--Sugar Diabetes Blues
Doug Sahm--I'll Take Care of You
Laverne Butler--The Blues Are Out of Town
The Remains--Like a Rolling Stone (live)
Satan's Pilgrims--Badge of Honor
Debbie Davies--Half Caf-Decaf
The Kinks--Around the Dial
The Modern Lovers--Roadrunner
Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel--Four Folk Songs
Jackie Wilson--To Be Loved
Greg Brown--Butane Lighter Blues
Etta James--You Go to My Head
Zydeblue--Kick Up Some Heat
The Artistics--Hope We Have
Catie Curtis--Gave Me Love
Ted Hawkins--Bring It Home Daddy (live)
John Wesley Harding--You So and So
The Casey Neill Trio--Hallowed By Thy Ground
Francine Griffin--It's Crazy
Jane Ira Bloom--Chagall/How Deep Is the Ocean
Annie Ross--Ev'rytime
Buddy Guy--She's 19 Years Old (live); Strange Brew
The Rolling Stones--Jigsaw Puzzle
Marianne Faithfull--As Tears Go By (1987 version)
Louis Armstrong--Laughin' Louie
Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton--No Variety Blues
Louis Armstrong & Jack Teagarden--Rockin' Chair
Joe Morris--Blue Spots There
Patricia Barber--Touch of Trash
Muddy Waters--Walkin' Thru the Park (live, 1971)
Swamp Mama Johnson--Sistershake (live, 1999)
Robert Gordon with Link Wray--Summertime Blues
*Plus: KAOS' Juli Kelen chats with Barbara Bernstein (KBOO/Portland) about the conflict between
the Pacifica Radio Foundation and KPFA/Berkeley
---Retroactive #260--July 17, 1999:
John Lee Hooker--How Long?
Patty Larkin--Wolf at Your Door (live)
Kelly Joe Phelps--The House Carpenter
The Wynton Marsalis Septet featuring Marion Williams--In This House (Prayer)
Etta James--Number One
Sugarsmack--Turn to You
Muddy Waters--Garbage Man (live, 1971)
Billy Rogers--Body and Soul
Mirah--Tumwater Falls (live)
Jim Stafford--Cow Patti
Joni Mitchell--Don's Solo/Dreamline (live/features percussionist Don Alias)
The Jam--Smithers-Jones
Leadbelly--Jim Crow #2
Richard Thompson--She Moves Through the Fair (live, solo)
Jonatha Brooke--Where Were You (live)
Brooke Harris Wolf--A Wish and a Goal
Charlie Rich--A Little Bit of You
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee--Careless Love (live)
Laverne Butler--Hit the Road, Jack
Bill Morrissey & Greg Brown--Summer Wages
Butch Hancock--You Coulda Walked Around the World
Cecil Payne--Hold Tight
Chuck Jackson--Any Other Way
Dion--Daddy Rollin' (In Your Arms)
Martha & the Vandellas--My Baby Loves Me; Jimmy Mack (single mix); I Gotta Let You Go
Terraplane Blues--Nobody Knows
Satan's Pilgrims--Harem Nocturne
Luke McDaniel--My Baby Don't Rock
Elizabeth Cotten--Shake Sugaree (live, 1983)
The Mark DuFresne Band with Billy Stapleton--Crow Between Two Hats
Nels Cline & Gregg Bendian--Venus
John Wesley Harding--William and Nancy's Parting
Rebecca Pearcy--When You Were Mine
Francine Griffin--Anthropology
Lone Justice with Bono--Sweet Jane (live)
---Retroactive #259--July 10, 1999:
The Duffy Bishop Band--Just a Whisper
Mighty Sam McClain--Honey Chile
Francine Griffin--Don't Be On the Outside
Kym Tuvim--Just Like Falling
Tiny Moore & Jethro Burns--Groovin' High
Los Lobos--Are You Experienced
Swamp Mama Johnson--Enough of You (live, 1999)
Jane Ira Bloom--It's a Corrugated World
Ray Charles--Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
Janis Ian--Ready For the War (live)
Andre Williams & the Sadies--Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Minutemen--King of the Hill
Carlos del Junco--Junco Partner
Kris Wiley--Two Long Leg
Sister Rosetta Tharpe--I Want a Tall, Skinny Papa
The Sonics--Skinny Minnie
The Volcanos--Ravin' Blue
Mavis Staples--I'll Fly Away
Alberta Adams--Just a Lucky So and So
The Masqueraders--I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else
Albert Ayler--Holy, Holy
Willie Dixon--Study War No More
Big Twist & the Mellow Fellows--Slave for Love
Koko Taylor--Wang Dang Doodle (1966 version)
Betsy Holt--Walkin' Down the Line (KAOS live performance, 6/96)
Woody Guthrie--When the Curfew Blows; Do Re Mi
Ringo Starr & the Roundheads--Back Off Boogaloo (live, 1998)
Roger McGuinn--You Bowed Down
Byrdhouse (Roger McGuinn & Crowded House)--Eight Miles High (live, 1989)
The Byrds--Lay Down Your Weary Tune; Ballad of Easy Rider (alternate version); Natural Harmony
Bill Ware/Y2K Quartet--Speak with Helen
Senayit--Amanda's Song
Mirah--Million Miles
Jay McShann--Trouble In Mind
Curtis Salgado--Why Don't I Care
Clyde McPhatter--Just to Hold My Hand
Alejandro Escovedo--Sacramento and Polk
---Retroactive #258--July 3, 1999:
Sand on Stars--Song for Collin's Film
John Jackson--Deep In the Bottom Blues
The Burns Sisters--I Am a Patriot
Koko Taylor--Blues Power
Mose Allison--Night Club (live)
Francine Griffin--Two Little Words
Marcia Ball--American Dream
The Byrds--Chimes of Freedom
Jeff Pitson with Wally Schnalle--The Sky Turned Green
Louis Armstrong--What a Wonderful World
Joel Mabus--Ain't America Beautiful
James Brown & Afrika Bambaataa--Unity, Pt. 1
Randy Newman--Political Science
Uketrance--Chicken
Kris Wiley--Countdown to Heartache
Zydeblue--Creole Marie's
The Red Rockers--Eve of Destruction
Sleater-Kinney--One Song for You
K.C. Douglas--Black Cat Bone
Delbert McClinton--Thank You Baby; B Movie Boxcar Blues (both live, 12/82)
Alberta Adams--Tell You Like It Is
The Pointer Sisters--Steam Heat (live)
TS Monk--A Chant for Bu
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Run Joe; Chicky Moe Craney Crow
Louis Jordan--I'm a Good Thing
Kevin Jones--As a Spotted Owl
Blondie--Kung Fu Girls
Bill Haley & his Comets--Burn That Candle
The Band--Tears of Rage; Knockin' Lost John
Robbie Robertson--In the Blood
Shawn Colvin--Twilight (live)
Aretha Franklin--The Weight
The Vandermark 5--Fact and Fiction
Aaron Kruse--Timespan
Rebecca Pearcy--Set to Bleed
John Lee Hooker--I Bought You a Brand New Home
Jessie Hill--Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Pt. 1
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson--Song for Bobby Smith
---Retroactive #257--June 26, 1999:
Rosie Flores & Ray Campi--If Teardrops Were Pennies
Shemekia Copeland--Big Lovin' Woman
Otis Redding--These Arms of Mine
Buddy Miller--That's How Strong My Love Is
The Duffy Bishop Band--Rockandaheartbreak
Tyrone Davis--After All This Time
Bob Seger & the Last Heard--Chain Smokin'
Zydeblue--Going Back to New Orleans
The Pretenders with Emmylous Harris--She
Jae Sinnett--Find Her Keep Her
The Delcos--Arabia
Carmen McRae--I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
Jerry Lee Lewis--Good Rockin' Tonight (1962 version)
Alberta Adams--He May Be Your Man
The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter--Don't Dog Me
Man or Astro-Man?--Flotation Devices for Frequencies Yet to Be Detected
Alice Cooper--School's Out
The Crabs--Market Size
The Dave Clark Five--Having a Wild Weekend
Katie King--I Love Paris
Kris Wiley--Iceman-One for Albert
Greg Brown--Small Dark Movie
Neal Casal--Basement Dream
Oh Susanna--Tangled and Wild
Andre Williams & the Sadies--Pardon Me (I've Got Someone to Kill)
Sonny Rhodes--Back Where You Come From
Danny O'Keefe--Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
Eddie Harris--Deacceleration
Helen Humes--Be Baba Leba; Exactly Like You
Big Bill Broonzy--Spreadin' Snakes Blues; I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
Memphis Minnie--Looking the World Over; In My Girlish Days; Nothing In Rambling
Lucinda Williams--Me and My Chauffeur
Buffalo Springfield--On the Way Home
Jane Voss--No Hard Luck Kid
How's Bayou--Louisiana
Paul 'Lil' Buck' Sinegal--Winding Roads and Pine Trees
Albert Ayler--Saints
Marshall Crenshaw--Soldier of Love
The Mark DuFresne Band with Billy Stapleton--Addicted
Toni Price--Comes Love
--Retroactive #256--June 19, 1999:
Pearl Dixon--Little Rock Blues
Brock Cahill--Taps
Brooke Harris Wolff--The 'In' Crowd
Art Garfunkel--The Things We've Handed Down
Jesse Winchester--Sweet Loving Daddy
Swamp Mama Johnson--Another Day (live, 1999)
? & the Mysterians--Smokes (live)
Paula Robison--Acontece (It Happens)
The Isley Brothers--This Ol' Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
The Juke Jumpers--Sunglasses After Dark
The Duffy Bishop Band--Change Your Address
Cry Cry Cry--Down By the Water
Los Lobos--Papa Was a Rolling Stone/I Can't Understand (live)
Shelly Berg--Tenderly
Peter Himmelman--This Father's Day
Rebecca Pearcy--You Go On
John Jackson--Death Don't Have No Mercy
The Wailers--Long Gone
Linda Dunn--Stand Down
Big Mama Thornton--Baby Please Don't Go/Got My Mojo Workin' (live, 1969)
Morgan Guberman--Line Drawings
The Kinks--Nothing to Say; Who'll Be the Next In Line; Look Through Any Doorway
The Beach Boys--The Little Girl I Once Knew; Heroes and Villains (demo); I Know There's an Answer
Paul McCartney & Wings--Give Ireland Back to the Irish; My Carnival
Rockestra with Paul McCartney--Lucille (live, 12/79)
Sheila Wilcoxson--Sweet Misery
The Gourds--Ghosts of Hallelujah
Space Cossacks--Journey to the Stars
Adrian Belew--Oh Daddy
Kreidler--Tuesday
The Casey Neill Trio--Saints of the Ditches
Darcie Deaville--Icy Barrel of a Loaded Gun
Chris Knox--The Song of the Would-Be Messiah
*Plus: Live phone interview with Warren Argo, organizer of the Port Townsend Blues Festival
---Retrtroactive #255--June 12, 1999:
John Jackson--Diddy Wah Diddy
Darcie Deaville--Who Needs You
Pat Drummond--The Kelly Option
Beck & Emmylou Harris--Sin City
Chris Chandler & Martin Sexton--Hard Times/9th Ward, New Orleans
Cassandra Wilson--Angel (live) (Jimi Hendrix's 'Angel,' not Carolyn Franklin's,
which Wilson has also recorded)
The Persuasions--Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
The Mark DuFresne Band with Billy Stapleton--Hell Is What You Make It
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Old School
O.V. Wright--Ace of Spades
Eddie Burns--I Call It Love
Ray Charles--Them That Got
Jeanie Bryson--'Deed I Do
Ani DiFranco & Utah Phillips--Stupid's Pledge/Direct Action
Alberta Adams--I Can Be Good
Emily Syrja--Allison Beals and her 25 Eels (Em reads Shel Silverstein, live on this show)
The Byrds--I See You
Alejandro Escovedo--Everybody Loves Me
Lucy Kaplansky--End of the Day
Neal Casal--No One Said a Word
Nick Drake--Fruit Tree; Which Will
Geri Allen--New Eyes Opening; Vertical Flowing
Chick Corea & Return to Forever with Flora Purim--Spain
*Note: Shorter show (two hours) today so that KAOS could do a live music broadcast from the 21st annual Super Saturday
festival at The Evergreen State College
---Retroactive #254--June 5, 1999:
Asie Payton--Can't Be Satisfied
Elvis Costello--Poison Moon (demo)
Evie Sands with Lucinda Williams--Cool Blues Story
Beau Jocque & his Zydeco Hi-Rollers--Morning Train
Marianne Faithfull--Broken English
Dan Bern--Little Russian Girl
Alberta Adams--Goin' Home (Tomorrow)
Grady Gaines & the Texas Upsetters--Soul Twist
Del Shannon--Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)
Marion Meadows--Last Call
Maria Muldaur--Lying Song
Bobby Blue Bland & B.B. King--Let the Good Times Roll (live)
Patti Smith Group--Distant Fingers
Francisco Aguabella--Milestones
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (1999 version)
Chris Connor--I Am Gonna Go Fishing
Penelope Houston--Crushing
Bruce Cockburn--If a Tree Falls
Emily Kaitz--Shallow End of the Gene Pool
The Casey Neill Trio--A Mighty Love
///WABX-FM/Detroit Air Ace Dave Dixon (1939-1999) interviews the MC5's Rob Tyner in 1990 (excerpt)
MC5--High School///
The Sonics--Think (1964 demo)
Clyde McPhatter--Rock and Cry
David Bromberg--Mr. Bojangles (live)
TS Monk--Smile of the Snake
Howlin' Wolf--Shake for Me; Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
Dakota Staton--Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street; This Bitter Earth
Gary U.S. Bonds--Not Me; Out of Work; School Is Out
Frank Black & Gary U.S. Bonds--Go Home, Girl
Pete McCann--Grimlock
Oh Susanna--Black Dirt Road
Corey Harris--Sweet Black Angel
Shirley Horn--This Can't Be Love
Chris Isaak--Graduation Day
Otis Blackwell--Let's Talk About Us
*Plus: Howlin' Wolf 1968 interview clip
---Retroactive #253--May 29, 1999:
---All Texas Show
Nanci Griffith--Are You Tired of Me Darling
Jeff Talmadge--Train Sounds Like Tomorrow
The Shake Russell/Dana Cooper Band--Deep In the West
Gary P. Nunn--Austin Pickers
Bobby Blue Bland--I Woke Up Screaming
Angela Strehli--Hey Miss Tonya
The Silvatones--Roses Are Blooming
Ronnie Dawson--Just Rockin' and Rollin'
Rosie Flores--Little Bit More
Rene & Rene--Lo Mucho Que te Quiero
Greezy Wheels--So Sad, What a Dilemma
Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Song for Renee (Gate's Tune)
Freddie King--Going Down
Ella Mae Morse--Rip Van Winkle
The Dicks--I Hope You Get Drafted
Joe 'King' Carrasco & the Crowns--Current Events (Are Making Me Tense)
Michael E. Johnson & the Killer Bees--C.I.A. (live, 1989)
Stacey Earle--Show Me How
Steve Earle--Ellis Unit One (live)
Kelly Willis--Got a Feelin' For Ya
The Bobby Fuller Four--Nervous Breakdown
Johnny Winter--Hustled Down In Texas
Brooks, Hunter & Walker--Boogie Rambler
Tish Hinojosa--Atlantico (live)
Skinned Knees--Seems So Funny
Willie Nelson--Still Is Still Moving to Me
Angels on Acid Orchestra--Untitled
T-Bone Walker--First Love Blues; You're My Best Poker Hand
The Sir Douglas Quintet--Too Little, Too Late (live)
Doug Sahm--Hell of a Spell
Bobby Patterson--What a Wonderful Night for Love
Asleep at the Wheel--Choo Choo Ch-Boogie
Kimmie Rhodes--Git You a Job
Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Call on Me (live, 5/67)
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--You're From Texas
The Hot Club of Cowtown--Just Friends
Joe Ely with Butch Hancock--If You Were a Bluebird (live, 4/89)
Tom Faulkner--Lost In the Land of Texico
Ornette Coleman--Free Jazz (excerpt)
Toni Price--Lowdown and Up
Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Listen to Me
Lightnin' Hopkins--Abilene
Townes Van Zandt--No Place to Fall
---Retroactive #252--May 22, 1999:
Andy Bey--Believin' It (Half and Half)
Lone Justice--This World Is Not My Home
Gil Scott-Heron--Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Carlos del Junco--Big Boy
LaVern Baker--Substitute
Jad Fair & Kramer--Our Cause to Worry
Link Wray & his Ray Men--The Swag
Ellen McIlwaine--Danger Zone
Gladys Knight & the Pips--Friendship Train
Susie Ibarra & Assif Tsahar--What Is Not
Evie Sands--I Ain't Done Yet
Phil Ochs--Cops of the World
Living Colour--Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing
Cul de Sac--Into the Cone of Cold
The Casey Neill Trio--Scrounge Around
Senayit--Blues
Chairmen of the Board--(You've Got Me) Dangling on a String
General Johnson--Don't Walk Away; Patches (live, 6/93)
The Showmen--39-21-46
Von Freeman & Ed Petersen--Four
Catie Curtis--Come to Me
Rosanne Cash--Manic Depression
///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash:
Ian & Sylvia--This Wheel's On Fire
Ted Hawkins--Blowin' In the Wind
Savage Grace--All Along the Watchtower
Mike Ness--Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Bob Dylan--Talking World War III Blues; If Not for You; Foot of Pride
Traveling Wilburys--If You Belonged to Me///
John Butcher & Phil Durrant--Revolt
Rebecca Pearcy--Nights Like Tonight (KAOS performance, 5/17/99)
The Mekons--Now We Have the Bomb
Buck Owens--Open Up Your Heart
The Kathy Kallick Band--I Won't Do It Again
*Plus: Malcolm X speech clip (Detroit, 1963)
---Retroactive #251--May 15, 1999
Corey Harris--Teabag Blues
Tim O'Brien with Kathy Mattea--Wagoner's Lad
Kym Tuvim--Secret History
Bruce Springsteen--The Promise (1999 version)
Odetta--Sail Away Ladies
///Shel Silverstein (1932-1999)--Quaaludes Again///
Dana Gillespie--The Sky Will Still Be Blue
Earl Gaines--Let Me Down Easy
Bonnie Raitt--Spit of Love (live)
The Crown Project--La Plus Belle Africaine
Little Junior's Blue Flames--Mystery Train
The Delmore Brothers--Freight Train Boogie
Elizabeth Cotten--Freight Train (live, 1983)
The Who--5:15
Zora Young--Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones
Wilson Pickett--(Get Me Back on Time) Engine Number Nine
The Waco Brothers--Good for Me
Carmaig de Forest--You Make It Easy
Rosie Flores--'59 Tweedle Dee
Los Illegals--Little Wing
John Hammond with Soozie Tyrell--Warm It Up to Me
The Casey Neill Trio--Okonogan County
Rebecca Pearcy--Simple Summer
Cecil Payne--Tune Up
The Ramones--Don't Come Close
The Nutley Brass--Beat on the Brat
Betty Carter--Caribbean Sun (live, 1979)
Rockin' Dopsie--Flip, Flop and Fly
Big Joe Turner--Morning, Noon and Night
Taj Mahal--The Big Blues; Ain't That a Lot of Love (live, 12/68); The Celebrated Walkin' Blues
The Sonics--Hold It (demo, 1964)
Clyde McPhatter--Deep Sea Ball
The Crabs--Classic Crabs
Jeanette Wrate & the Northern Lights Ensemble--Shadow of My Tango
T Bone Burnett--Having a Lovely Time, Wish You Were Her
Wendy Bucklew--Out of the City
Procol Harum--Piggy Pig Pig
---Retroactive #250--May 8, 1999:
Katie King--Temptation
Tom Waits--Pony
Elizabeth Cotten--Jumpin' Jack (live, 1983)
Alejandro Escovedo--California Blues
Bob Dylan & the Band--You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (1967 version)
The Crabs--Tumbling Away
Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew--Bayou Pom Pom
Katie Webster--C.Q. Boogie
Faye Adams--So Much
The Jesse Davis Quintet--Nola
Sly & the Family Stone--Family Affair
Loretta Lynn--One's On the Way
Malvina Reynolds--World In the Pocket
Greg Brown--Dream On (live, 10/82)
Faces--Bad 'n' Ruin
Sam Phillips--Holding On to the Earth (1998 version)
The Temptations--War
Rebecca Pearcy--El Nino
John Lennon--I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier (early take)
Howard Armstrong--Louie Bluie Blues
Nick Drake--Fly
The Chicago Underground Trio--Othello
Pete Seeger--Odds on Favorite; What Did You Learn In School Today (live, 6/63); Where Have All
the Flowers Gone (live, 7/62)
Robert Johnson--Stop Breakin' Down Blues; The Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Mary Lou Williams--Aries
The Mary Lou Williams Trio--All God's Children Got Rhythm
Mary Lou Williams' Girl All-Stars--Boogie Mysterioso
Chris Chandler with Catie Curtis--No One I Could Talk About This With
Stevie Wonder--A Place In the Sun; Feeding Off the Love of the Land
James Carr--Everybody Needs Somebody
Clyde McPhatter--Long, Lonely Nights
David Hillyard & the Rock Steady Seven--Playtime
Patty Griffin--Blue Sky
The Make Up--Born on the Floor
Jorgen Ingmann--Echo Boogie
The Majors--A Wonderful Dream
---Retroactive #249--May 1, 1999:
Angeline Crawford--Breathe
Chris Chandler with Dar Williams--To Be More Beautiful/Sofas and #2 Pencils
Charles Brown--Who Will the Next Fool Be
Blues Project--I Can't Keep From Crying
Jaime Anderson--Mama Come Quick
Greg Brown--Whatever It Was
Townes Van Zandt--Dead Flowers (live)
Muddy Waters--Young Fashioned Ways
Mimi Fox--Cherokee
The Quintones--Down the Aisle of Love
Julian Dawson with Lucinda Williams--How Can I Sleep Without You
The Beach Boys--'Til I Die (alternate mix)
The Crabs--Sand and Sea
Lurrie Bell--Drivin' Through the Darkness
Rebecca Pearcy--Mr. Sandman
Ian Hunter--Irene Wilde (live)
The Nutley Brass--Blitzkrieg Bop
The Last Word--I Can't Stop Loving You
Old Time Relijun--Burning Head
Arnie Carruthers--Demo Tune
Big Maybelle--Gabbin' Blues; Pitiful; Jinny Mule
James Brown--Love Don't Love Nobody (including studio dialogue)
Peter Himmelman--Steak/Listen Up (live)
The Consuelo-Jon Quintet--Java Jive
*Note: Abbreviated show today as KAOS carried a broadcast of the 30th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
---Retroactive #248--April 24, 1999:
Bill Kirchen--Fly On Your Jacket
Bonnie Lee--Fast Life
Katie King--All I Really Want to Do
Alejandro Escovedo--Guilty
The Young Fresh Fellows--Roller Coaster By the Sea
Merrilee Rush & the Turnabouts--Hush
Junior Thompson--Rabbit Action (some sources say the
artist on this song is actually Jimmy Haggett)
Man or Astro-Man?--Interstellar Hardrive
Corey Harris--Eh La Bas
Toni Price--Out the Front Door
Jeanette Wrate--Sofia's Flykt
Faith Hill--Piece of My Heart
Spade Cooley with Tex Williams--Better Do It Now
The Esquires--And Get Away
Dub Narcotic Sound System--Dub Narcotic Express
The Pandoras--In and Out of My Life (In a Day)
Manfred Mann--5-4-3-2-1
Greg Brown--Our Little Town
Stacey Earle--Weekend Runaways
Cheryl Wheeler--If It Were Up to Me
Curtis Salgado--Wiggle Outta This
Lucinda Williams--Sundays
Ruth Brown--Never Let Me Go
Block--Catch a Falling Star
Sun Ra--Watusa/Discipline 27-11
Willie Nelson--Pride Wins Again; So Much to Do
Blossom Dearie--Everything I've Got; Rhode Island Is Famous for You
Dave Frishberg--I'm Hip (live, 9/86)
///The Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller Songbook:
The Robins--Framed
Chuck Jackson--I Keep Forgettin'
Chris Connor--Kansas City
Skeeter Brandon & Hwy 61--I'm a Hog for You
The Chicago Loop--(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me
The Primitives--You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)
The Coasters--Shoppin' for Clothes (Kent Harris song produced by Leiber-Stoller)
Peggy Lee--Is That All There Is
John Mellencamp--Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley--Treat Me Nice (movie version)
LaVern Baker--Saved
The Drifters--On Broadway///
Wally Schnalle--That Place
The Amen Corner--(If Paradise's) Half as Nice
---Retroactive #247--April 17, 1999:
---Fifth Anniversary Show
Darlene Love--Strange Love
Skip James--Crow Jane
Rosie Flores--The Man Downstairs
Greg Brown--Four Wet Pigs
Joaquina--Last of the Cut n' Pasters
Steve Forbert--It Isn't Gonna Be That Way
Cassandra Wilson--Traveling Miles
Mimi Fox--A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
The Robert Cray Band--1040 Blues
Killer Joe--Busted
Adrienne Blanton & the Singers of Faith--God's True Love
Mel Torme--Love for Sale
The Rolling Stones--Slave
Rosanne Cash--My Baby Thinks He's a Train
Stacey Earle--Next Door Down
Corey Harris--Introduction to the Greens/Basehead
Shirley Temple--Animal Crackers In My Soup
Dave Bartholomew--The Monkey
Buckwheat Zydeco--I Bought a Racoon
Greg Brown--Hurt So Nice
Susie Ibarra & Assif Tsahar--Muchacho Loco
Hellacopters--Down Right Blue
(Iggy &) the Stooges--I Need Somebody
Seven Stooges--I Wanna Be Your Dog
Ella Fitzgerald--Rock It for Me; Air Mail Special
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan--Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Just Before Dawn; When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
Roy Clark & Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Four O'Clock In the Morning
The Jazz Mandolin Project--Flux
The Beatles--Any Time at All
The Make Up--Walking On the Dune
Skanatra--High Hopes
The Marvelettes--Too Many Fish In the Sea
Aretha Franklin--Rock Steady
---Retroactive #246--April 10, 1999:
///Joe Williams (1918-1999) with Red Holloway--Going to Chicago Blues
Joe Williams with Count Basie--Everyday (I Have the Blues)
Jumpin' Joe Williams with Red Saunders--CHI (Chicago)///
Katie Webster--I'm Still Leaving You
Chris Connor--S'Wonderful
Van Morrison--New Biography
Kelly Willis--Heaven Bound
The Wailers--Wailin'
Claire Martin--Out of My Continental Mind
Larry Coryell--'Round Midnight
Sir Mack Rice--Mustang Sally
Jo Ann Kelly--Long Black Hair
Tracy Nelson--Trust No Man
Corey Harris--Diddy Wah Diddy
The Beach Boys--Sail On Sailor
Stacey Earle--Simple Gearle
Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys--Buddy, I Ain't Buyin'
The Lively Ones--Surf Rider
Billy Preston--Should've Known Better
Greg Brown--Spring and All
Rebecca Pearcy--Sweetest Disaster
Amos Milburn--Please Mr. Johnson
Fats Domino--Till It Happens to You
Cindy Lee Berryhill--Aquamarine
The Pretty Things--Don't Bring Me Down
Flamin Groovies--Doctor Boogie
The Ray Brown Trio--Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Richard Berry--Mad About You
The Fat Boys--Louie Louie
Julie London--Louie Louie
Al Green--Love Ritual
Dusty Springfield--The Look of Love
Bunny Wailer--Cease Fire
Bessie Smith--On Revival Day (A Rhythmic Spiritual); Yes Indeed He Do; Hustlin' Dan
Love Sculpture--I Believe to My Soul; Sabre Dance
Dave Edmunds--This Little Girl of Mine; Down Down Down; Never Been In Love
The Roscoe Mitchell Quartet--Three Sides of the Story
Carlos del Junco--Mess Around
---Retroactive #245--April 3, 1999:
Dana Gillespie--Back to the Blues
Larry Crane--Pale Wind
Lee Dorsey--Can You Hear Me
The Mountain Goats--Fresh Berries for You
Joe Ferry--Christine Keiler
Paul deLay--Ain't Foolin' Around
The Velvet Underground--Here She Comes Now
Evie Sands--I Can't Let Go
Lucy Kaplansky--Somewhere Out There
Gary Burton--Moonchild/In Your Quiet Place
The Sex Pistols--Anarchy In the U.K. (live, SF, 1/78)
Airport Noises--Happy Vacant Stares
Laura Wetzler--Taken By Surprise
Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Street Corner
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald--I'm Puttin' All My Eggs In One Basket
The Chambers Brothers--Crazy 'Bout the Ladies/Pretty Girls Everywhere
Ruth Brown--Cabbage Head
The Louvin Brothers--Stuck Up Blues
Neil Young--I've Been Waiting for You
Karrin Allyson--Joy Spring
The Kathy Kallick Band--Moods of a Fool
Husker Du--I'm Not Talking to You Again
Paul Revere & the Raiders--Crisco Party/Walkin' the Dog (live, 1964)
The Hot Club of Cowtown--You Can't Break My Heart
Marvin Gaye--'T' Stands for Trouble; That's the Way Love Is
Muddy Waters--Forty Days and Forty Nights
Billie Holiday--I'll Get By
Carl Perkins--Honky Tonk Gal
Merle Haggard--I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
Carmen McRae--Yardbird Suite; Monkery's Blues; I've Got the World on a String
Carmen McRae & Louis Armstrong--You Swing, Baby
Richard Thompson--Cold Kisses; Waltzing's for Dreamers; Jerusalem on the Jukebox (live, 1988)
Mary Lou Lord--1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Bucky & John Pizzarelli--Two Funky People
The Nightcrawlers--Little Black Egg
Earl Gaines--Don't Take My Kindness for a Weakness
Jeanette Williams--Break My Heart
---Retroactive #244--March 27, 1999:
Tom Russell with Iris DeMent--Throwing Horseshoes at the Moon
Mimi Fox (Angela Bofill, vocal)--Born to Be Blue
Mighty Sam McClain--Lonesome Road
The Lonesome Strangers--Number Nine
Lone Justice--Working Man Blues
Senayit--Colorado
Greg Brown--Mose Allison Played Here
Mose Allison--One of These Days
Dana Gillespie--Travelling Man Blues
The Cramps--Shortenin' Bread
Steve Wilson--Small Portion
The Flamingos--Lovers Never Say Goodbye
Blossom Dearie--The Party's Over
Bo Diddley with Jerome Green--Say Man-Back Again (alternate take)
The Steve Gibbons Band--No Spitting On the Bus
Ike & Tina Turner--I Wish It Would Rain
The Saxons--Camel Walk, Pt. 2
Barbara Manning--Your Pies
Prince--Chaos and Disorder
The Make Up--Pow! To the People
The Chieftains with Joni Mitchell--The Magdalene Laundries
Ani DiFranco--Trickle Down
Cephas & Wiggins--Illinois Blues
Ray Charles--Makin' Whoopee (live, 9/64)
Red Garland--Body and Soul
James Moody--Benny's From Heaven (live/includes a birthday greeting from Bill Cosby)
Sue Foley--The Forest
Dolores Keane--Never Be the Sun
Emmylou Harris--The Price You Pay
Brinsley Schwarz--(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Nick Lowe--Big Hair; Man That I've Become; Marie Provost
Aretha Franklin--Every Little Bit Hurts; Here We Go Again; Mr. DJ (5 for the DJ)
Sun Ra--Call for All Demons
Lach--Ungrateful
---Retroactive #243--March 20, 1999:
---All '60s Show
Norma Tenega--Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
Joan Baez--The Gospel Ship
Matt Monro--My Kind of Girl
Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--The Last Time
The Mothers of Invention--Cheap Thrills
Muddy Waters--My Love Strikes Like Lightning
Dionne Warwick--I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Love Sculpture--In the Land of the Few
Sam & Dave--I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
Astrud Gilberto--A Certain Sadness
The Rolling Stones--Backstreet Girl
Jean Shepard--The Root of All Evil (Is a Man)
The Bill Evans Trio--Gloria's Step
Tim Rose--Hey Joe
Nina Simone--Tomorrow Is My Turn
The Bar-Kays--Soul Finger
Elvis Presley--Stranger In My Own Hometown
Aretha Franklin--Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around)
The Wildweeds--No Good to Cry
The Who--Happy Jack
Jacqueline Taib--7 Heures du Matin
Dillard & Clark--Kansas City Southern
The Stokes--Young Man, Old Man
Mimi & Richard Farina--The Sellout Agitation Waltz
Jimmy Cliff--Miss Jamaica
Rahsaan Roland Kirk--Expansions
The Kinks--Come On Now
Joe Tex--I Believe I'm Gonna Make It
Creedence Clearwater Revival--Fortunate Son
The Soul Sisters--I Can't Stand It
Howard Tate--Stop
MC5--Kick Out the Jams (live, 10/68)
Jack Bruce--Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune
Sugar Pie DeSanto & Etta James--Do I Make Myself Clear
Simon & Garfunkel--Richard Cory
Frank Sinatra--Mrs. Robinson
Sarah Vaughan--Sometimes I'm Happy
Wilson Pickett--Soul Dance Number Three
Sly & the Family Stone--Soul Clappin'; I'm an Animal
Tracy Nelson--Candy Man
Savoy Brown--Train to Nowhere
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Los Pescadores
The Animals--Inside Looking Out
Bob Dylan--Maggie's Farm
Earl Gaines--You Belong to Me
The Monkees--Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky; Pleasant Valley Sunday
The Elgins--Heaven Must Have Sent You
Magic Sam--That Ain't It (alternate version)
Traffic--Smiling Phases
---Retroactive #242--March 13, 1999:
Big Sandy--Dedicated to You
Dana Gillespie--Who's Got the Blues to Blame
Lucinda Williams--Hard Road
Johnny Adams--I Don't Want to Do Wrong
SF Seals--Joltin' Joe DiMaggio
Dinah Washington--A Foggy Day
Terrence Simien--I Need Some Lovin'
Horace Silver--Que Pasa (trio version)
Terry Allen--Rio Ticino
The Consolers--Give Me My Flowers
Greg Brown--Billy From the Hills
Susie Ibarra & Assif Tsahar--Ambrosia
The Tremeloes--Here Comes My Baby
Romeo Void--Flashflood
Paul deLay--Beautiful Bones
Mose Allison--I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You
Genya Ravan--Under Control
Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Tippin' In
Ellen Whyte & Reflex Blue--Climbin' Up
Emmylou Harris--Sleepless Nights
Jimmy Holiday--How Can I Forget
Curtis Mayfield--On and On
Nancy Kelly--Yesterdays
Earl Gaines--Now Do You Hear
Betty Harris--Cry to Me
The Kathy Kallick Band--I'd Jump the Mississippi
Sonny Boy Williamson II--Too Close Together
Omar & the Howlers--One Room Country Shack
---Retroactive #241--March 6, 1999:
The Kathy Kallick Band--Don't Mind Me
Mem Shannon--Who Are They
Ann Peebles--Miss You
///The Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield (1939-1999)--What Have I Done to Deserve This
Dusty Springfield--Am I the Same Girl; Willie and Laura Mae Jones; Just One Smile///
Emily Remler--In a Sentimental Mood
Rufus--Swing Down Chariot
The Who--Postcard
The Mountain Goats--Alphabetizing
Phoebe Snow--Harpo's Blues
Robert Jr. Lockwood--Terraplane Blues
Tom Russell with Iris DeMent--Acres of Corn
Smart Brown Handbag--This and Every Sunday
The Pretenders--Sense of Purpose
Vi Redd--Salty Papa Blues
Ruth Brown--Be Good to Me Tonight
Bruce Springsteen--Growin' Up (Columbia Records audition, 1972)
Robert Mitchum--The Ballad of Thunder Road
Dead Moon--Walking On My Grave
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--I Hate Long Goodbyes
The Toshiko Akyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band--Studio J
Lloyd Price--Personality; I Wish Your Picture Was You
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Texas Playboys Theme; Sugar Blues; Little Joe the Wrangler
Katie Webster & Vasti Jackson--Love Deluxe
The Waco Brothers--Fire Down Below
Christine Collister--Lowish Time
Jack Teagarden--Beale Street Blues
Edmonia Jarrett--In Love In Vain
Mia Boyle--Do Not Cry
Robin Flower--Sometimes Coffee Tastes Like Chocolate
John Trudell--Restless Situations
Booker T. & the MGs--Slip Slidin'
Roky Erickson--Unforced Peace
---Retroactive #240--February 27, 1999:
Chris Smither--Hold On (II)
Alvin Youngblood Hart--Pony Blues
E.C. Scott--The Forecast Calls for Blues
Howlin' Wolf--Well That's All Right
Jack Ingram--Big Time
The Sir Douglas Quintet--Down On the Border
Edmonia Jarrett--How Am I to Know
Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach--The Sweetest Punch
Kinzel & Hyde--You Hear I'm Talkin'
The Marcus Shelby Trio--The Sophisticate (I)
Herbie Hancock--Cantaloupe Island
Paula Lockheart--High Blood Pressure
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (live, 1/1/70, second show)
The Sonics--Do You Love Me
Sleater-Kinney--Burn, Don't Freeze
Elvis Presley--Are You Lonesome Tonight (live and cracking up, 8/22/69)
Spinners--Living a Little, Laughing a Little
Katie Webster--Whoo-Wee Sweet Daddy
The Meters--I Need More Time
Andras Jones--Before the Show
The Move--Message From the Country
Shirley Horn--Travelin' Light
Brother Jack McDuff--The Scratch
Dexter Gordon--Three O'Clock In the Morning
Joe South--These Are Not My People
Mildred Bailey--Georgia On My Mind; That Ain't Right
John Fahey--Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino--I Want You to Know; Swanee River Hop; Yes My Darling
Randy Newman--You Can't Fool the Fat Man
Sweet Miss Coffy--St. James Infimary
The Waco Brothers--Pigsville
Houston Person & Ron Carter--Anthropology
The Soul Clique--Belligerent Politics
Satisfact--Vortex
Earl Gaines--Show Me Something
The Rolling Stones--It's All Over Now
---Retroactive #239--February 20, 1999:
Allen (Toussaint) & Allen (Orange)--Tiddlewinks
Camille Howard--Shrinking Up Fast
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders--Camille's Boogie
Kim & Reggie Harris & Magpie--Cash for Your Trash
Richard Shindell--Sing Me Back Home
Kinzel & Hyde--'Cause You Don't Love Me
Richard & Linda Thompson--Dark End of the Street (live, 4/75)
Little Milton--Grits Ain't Groceries
Bill Kirchen--Swing Fever (live, 1997)
Ira Sullivan--Circumstantial
The Nashville Teens--Tobacco Road
Sly & the Family Stone--Thank You for Talkin' to Me Africa
Mott the Hoople--All the Way From Memphis
Dead Moon--Poor Born (live, 1997)
Sue Foley--Live Together
Earl Gaines--Mercy On My Soul
///Buddy Knox (1933-1999)--Party Doll///
Gail Davies--Where Love Comes From
T-Model Ford--We Don't Understand
Bill Withers--I Don't Want You On My Mind
The Wailers--Limbo Twist (live)
Stevie Wonder--I Wish (live, 1995)
The Peechees--New Moscow Woman
The Misako Kano Quartet--Bath Talk
Johnny Cash--I Still Miss Someone; Cocaine Blues; Wanted Man (all three live)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band--Delilah (live, 1975)
Buffy Sainte-Marie--A Soulful Shade of Blue; Fallen Angels
Nicky Hopkins--Banana Anna
George Harrison--Awaiting On You All; Cockamamie Business
The Beatles--Think for Yourself; Roll Over Beethoven (live, 8/64)
Nina Simone--Forbidden Fruit; Marriage Is for Old Folks; Fine and Mellow (live, 1959)
Black Tape for a Blue Girl--The Green Box
Andras Jones--April 19th (live, 1998)
Huevos Rancheros--Bo Diddlius
---Retroactive #238--February 13, 1999:
The Carter Family--Lonesome Homesick Blues
Loudon Wainwright III--I Eat Out
Anita O'Day--Ace In the Hole
Al Green--L-O-V-E (Love)
Julian Dawson--Every Tear's a Weapon
Dinah Washington--Never Never
Los Lobos--Kiko and the Lavender Moon
Bob Dorough--It Could Happen to You
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston--Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
Steve Earle--Valentine's Day
Derf Recklaw--Awakening Into Awareness
Hadda Brooks--That's My Desire
The Mills Brothers--Across the Alley from the Alamo
Louis Jordan & the Tympany Five--Boogie Woogie Blueplate
Art Tatum--Body and Soul
Sam Cooke--Cupid
Pansy Division--Valentine's Day
New York Dolls--Give Her a Great Big Kiss
Dakota Station--I'd Go Back Home
B.B. King--Bad Case of Love
Lucinda Williams--Passionate Kisses
Hank Williams--Baby We're Really In Love
Shel Silversten--Liberated Lady 1999 (originally released in 1972)
Gina Chiala's Soapbox--Bandages
Helen Humes--Among My Souvenirs
Wardell Gray--Blow Blow Blow
Yoko Ono--Yangyang
Irma Thomas--Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool For You Baby) (live, 8/90)
Tennessee Ernie Ford--Kissin' Bug Boogie
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--A Love She Can Count On; Yester Love; A Fork In the Road
Steve Goodman--Two Lovers
Lou Ann Barton--The Doodle Song; It's Raining (1989 version)
Marcia Ball/Lou Ann Barton/Angela Strehli--Bad Thing
Malachi Thompson--Cancerian Moon
Burning Sky--Tribal Stomp
John Wesley Harding--50/50 Split
(Willie) Wisely--Lady of Love
The Stereos--I Really Love You
Amos Milburn--In the Middle of the Night
June Tabor--You Don't Know What Love Is
Chet Baker--My Funny Valentine
---Retroactive #237--February 6, 1999:
Edmonia Jarrett--The Jazz In You
Steve Gillette--Two Ten Train
Paul deLay with Zora Young--Come on Home
Wynonie Harris--Here Comes the Night
Delbert McClinton--Somebody to Love You
The Hentchmen--(Cryin' Just Like) Otis
Otis Redding--You Don't Miss Your Water
Cecil Gant--Crying to Myself
Selina Martin & the Vertical Brothers--Space Woman
Ari Brown--Oui Lee
Allen Toussaint--What Do You Want the Girl to Do
The Wayouts--Green Everleaves
James Blood Ulmer--Pressure
Talking Heads--I Zimbra
The Knickerbockers--One Track Mind
Little Milton--Room 244
Wanda Jackson--Mean Mean Man
Satisfact--Locate
Rockie Charles--Oh Darling, What You've Done to Me
Ray Charles--At the Club
The Murmurs--White Rabbit
James McMurtry--Sixty Acres
Justin Robinson--Master Scott
Joe Ely--Boxcars (live, 1980); Up On the Ridge
Warren Smith--Rock & Roll Ruby
Bob Marley & the Wailers--Could You Be Loved (12" mix)
Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Double Talkin' Baby; I Sure Miss You; Pink Thunderbird
///The Gerry Goffin/Carole King Songbook:
The Byrds--Wasn't Born to Follow
Dusty Springfield--Don't Forget About Me
The Chiffons--One Fine Day
The Drifters--Some Kind of Wonderful
Maxine Brown--Oh No, Not My Baby
Nils Lofgren--Goin' Back (live, 1975)
Carole King--Hey Girl///
William Parker--Thot
Andras Jones--Religious
Jan Stentz--Them There Eyes
Cathy Jean--Tallow Shuffle
J.D. Crowe & the New South--Come Back Sweetheart
---Retroactive #236--January 30, 1999:
---All Michigan Show
Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise--Comin' Down
Belita Woods--That's When I'll Stop Loving You
Del Shannon--To Love Someone
The Reflections--(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet
The Temptations--Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
Betty Carter--The Good Life
The Volumes--I Love You
? & the Mysterians--Can't Get Enough of You Baby
Aretha Franklin--96 Tears
The Hentchmen--Polish Girl
Rhythm Corps--Common Ground
Culture Vultures--Strange Modern World
George Benson (saxophonist)--I Should Care
Gallery--Big City Miss Ruth Ann
The Woolies--Who Do You Love
Destroy All Monsters--Nobody Knows
Little Sonny--Sad Funk
John Lee Hooker--Crawlin' Kingsnake (1949 version)
Sheila Jordan & Harvie Swartz--Alone Together
Kenny Burrell--Chitlins con Carne
The Shy--1,000 Eyes
The Chenille Sisters--Mama, I Want to Make Rhythm
Tommy James & the Shondells--Mirage
Barbara Lewis--Make Me Your Baby
The Rationals--Barefootin'
The Stooges--1969
Iggy Pop--Louie Louie
The Romantics--She's Got Everything
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Sock It To Me-Baby
Lyn & the Invaders--The Boy Is Gone
Milt Jackson--Now's the Time
Jack Scott--What In the World's Come Over You
The Supremes--When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
The Contours--First I Look at the Purse
Kim Weston--Looking for the Right Guy
Spinners--It's a Shame
Four Tops--Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Windy & Carl--Depths
Cristina--Ticket to the Tropics
Little Willie John--Drive Me Home
MC5--Come Together (live, 6/68)
The Amboy Dukes--Journey to the Center of the Mind
Bob Seger--Need Ya
Jackie Wilson--Talk That Talk
Sir Mack Rice--Feels Good
*Plus: Garry Tallent & Allen McGrier on legendary Motown bassist James Jamerson, Jr.
---Retroactive #235--January 23, 1999:
///Charles Brown (1922-1999)--So Long; I've Got a Right to Cry
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers--Driftin' Blues
Elvis Costello--Get Yourself Another Fool///
Ani DiFranco--Angry Anymore
The Jaguars--The Way You Look Tonight
The Wailers--High Wail
Lonnie Liston Smith--Angels of the Night
Bob Dylan--Everything Is Broken
Bob Mould--Compositions for the Young and Old
Tracy Chapman--Born to Fight
Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Honky Tonk Hiccups
George Harmonica Smith--Good Things
Mecca Normal--Step Into My Sphere (live, 1997)
Big Joe Turner & Roomful of Blues--Red Sails In the Sunset
The Klezmer Conservatory--Oy, Si'z Gut
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
The Huntington Cads--Outer Orbit
Carla Thomas--Dime a Dozen
Neil Finn--King Tide
The Hotclub of Cowtown--I Had Someone Else Before I Had You
Kendra Shank--You Say You Care
The Blasters--I'm Shakin'
New York Hardbop Quintet--Martin Scores Easy
Ruth Brown--Love Contest; I Don't Breakdance
The Persuasions--I'm a Hog for You; I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
The Soul Stirrers--I'm So Glad (Trouble Don't Last Always)
Sam Cooke--Trouble Blues
Lucinda Williams--Jambalaya (On the Bayou); Still I Long for Your Kiss
Bobby Blue Bland--Someday; I'm Bobby 'B'
Etta James--Something's Got a Hold On Me (live, 5/86); Life, Love and the Blues
Etta James & Harvey Fuqua--I Hope You're Satisfied
The Barrett Deems Big Band--One for Otis
Simon Joyner--New Year's Song
Pat McLaughlin--Days Run Together
---Retroactive #234--January 16, 1999:
Weslia Whitfield--From This Moment On
Ted Hawkins--Part Time Love
Tom Faulkner--Do Bee's Dance
NRBQ--12 Bar Blues
Joy Lynn White--I Lost It
Elliott Smith--Bled White
Michelle Willson--In the Driver's Seat
Red Garland--Birks Works
Otis Redding--That's What My Heart Needs
Veda Hille--Six Feet of Silence
Eartha Kitt--Champagne Taste (live)
Procol Harum with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra--Conquistador; A Salty Dog (both live, 11/71)
Jimmy Witherspoon--I've Been Treated Wrong
Sweet Honey In the Rock--Dream Variations
Oliver Sain--Stop Breaking Down
T-Model Ford--To the Left to the Right
Libby Kirkpatrick--Proprioception
Girl Trouble--Sister Mary Motorcycle
Heather Myles--Rock at the End of My Rainbow
New York Hardbop Quintet--Basia's Dream
Leadbelly--Matchbox Blues; Haul Away Joe
Susanna Hoffs--Walking On a Wire
The Bangles--James
Janis Joplin--Raise Your Hand; Maybe (both live, 3/69)
The Everly Brothers--Love Hurts; Poor Jenny; Lay Lady Lay
Bob Luman--Let's Think About Living
Gil Scott-Heron--Winter In America (live, 1982)
The Misako Kano Quartet--Waltz for Rachel
Selina Martin & Vertical Brothers--Come Live With Me
The Vaughan Brothers--Tick Tock
*Plus: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on non-violence
---Retroactive #233--January 9, 1999:
Buckwheat Zydeco--Madame Coco Bo
Marcia Ball--Mama's Cooking
Heather Myles--Who Did You Call Darlin'
Honey & the Bees--You Be You
James Taylor--Line 'Em Up
Esther Phillips--From a Whisper to a Scream
Hampton Hawes--Takin' Care
The Sandpebbles--Love Power
The Clovers--Love Potion #9 (album version)
Patty Griffin--Flaming Red
Fastbacks--Wait It Out
Percy Mayfield--Louisiana
Abbey Lincoln--The World Is Falling Down
The Huntington Cads--Theme from the Maneater
The Staple Singers--Touch a Hand, Make a Friend
George Jones & Tammy Wynette--Golden Ring
Tall Dwarfs--Ride a White Swan
The Noses--The Shot Clock (Love Like a Free Throw)
The Jam--It's Too Bad
Deborah Coleman--Love Moves Me
The Previous--Mercury, NV
Patricia Barber--Company
The Misako Kano Quartet--Mao
Mississippi Fred McDowell--Get Right Church
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Diddy Wah Diddy
Linda Jones--Can You Blame Me
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Trouble In Mind; You Don't Care What Happens; Get Along Home Cindy
Kate McKenzie--What's the Matter With the Mill?
Elvis Presley--You're a Heartbreaker; I Can Help; If I Can Dream
The Eagles (1950s R&B group)--Trying to Get to You
Rachel Sweet--Baby Let's Play House
Roy Campbell & the Pyramid Trio--Song for Alan
The Frumpies--Intertube Tomorrow
The Whole Bolivian Army--Harvest Sun
Blind Willie McTell--Broke Down Engine Blues
Chris Isaak--Flying
---Retroactive #232--January 2, 1999:
Hazeldine--A Song for You
D+--Don't Worry About Me
The Band--Book Faded Brown
Lurrie Bell--Blues and Black Coffee
Rebecca Moore--Telegram Sam
Jessie Mae Renfro--I Must Tell Jesus
The Remains--Why Do I Cry
Johnny Thunder (1960s)--Just Me and You
Marc Cary--Mae'trix
The (Nat) King Cole Trio--All for You; Come to Baby, Do
James P. Johnson--Mule Walk Stomp
Ella Mae Morse--Shoo Shoo Baby
Guy Davis--False from True
Senayit--Fall
Jennifer Kimball--Fall at Your Feet
The Byrds--The World Turns All Around Her
Memphis Slim--Nat Dee Special
Patsy Cline--Ain't No Wheels On This Ship (live, 1958)
Big Star--In the Street
Peace, Bread and Land--Abaca
Elaine Stritch--Easy Street
Muddy Waters--Don't Go No Further
William Parker--Macchu Picchu
Stephen Stills--Old Times, Good Times
Iris DeMent--Let the Mystery Be (live, 1997)
Wilbert Harrison--Let's Work Together, Pts. 1 & 2
Sandy Denny--Walking the Floor Over You; Bruton Town (BBC); Nothing More (live, 11/77)
Fairport Convention--Sir Patrick Spens (BBC)
Herbie Hancock--All Apologies
Eddie Lockjaw Davis--The Rev
Hazel Dickens/Carol Elizabeth Jones/Ginny Hawker--Jealous Heart
Marvin Gaye--Come Get to This
Lyres--Running Through the Night
Huntington Cads--Besame Mucho