---Retroactive #616--December 30, 2006:
Memphis Minnie--Frankie Jean (That Trottin' Fool)
Buddy Miller--Worry Too Much
Catie Curtis--People Look Around
Karen Dalton--In My Own Dream
Todd Snider--Happy New Year
Professor Longhair--Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
Zora Young--Football Widow
Calexico--Letter to Bowie Knife
Pretty Girls Make Graves--Selling the Wind
Chris Smither--John Hardy
The deGrassi/Manring/Garcia Trio--Curan Brujo
The Avett Brothers--Sanguine
Janiva Magness--Stealin' Sugar
///James Brown (1933-2006)--King Heroin; Cold Sweat, Pts. 1 & 2
James Brown & the Famous Flames--Think (live, 10/62)
Led Zeppelin--The Crunge
Was (Not Was)--I Feel Better Than James Brown///
The Olympia Chamber Orchestra (Timothy Brock, conductor)--Largo
Esther Phillips--Makin' Whoopee; From a Whisper To a Scream
Bo Diddley--Diddley Daddy
The Patti Smith Group--Space Monkey
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint--The Sharpest Thorn
*Plus: James Brown 1970 tour radio promo; JB album ad voiced by the legendary WLAC/Nashville
R&B disc jockey John R. (Richbourg)
---Retroactive #615--December 23, 2006:
///Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun (1923-2006):
The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter--Honey Love
The Clovers--One Mint Julep
LaVern Baker--Soul on Fire
Ivory Joe Hunter--Empty Arms
The Chords--Sh-Boom
Ruth Brown--5-10-15 Hours
Big Joe Turner--The Chill Is On
(Seven records produced or co-produced by Ahmet Ertegun)///
Eric Marienthal--Christmas Time Is Here (Reprise)
Leo Kottke--Jack Gets Up
Nina Jo Smith--Make Love Not War
Fats Domino--Please Come Home for Christmas
The Jack Brokensha Quartet--The Christmas Waltz (For Debbie)
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee--Jet Plane Blues (live, 1961)
Monty Dale & the 2 x 2s--The Lil' Endless Summer
Robert Earl Keen--Merry Christmas from the Family (live)
Marah--Boozing It Up with Friends; Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Claudia Schmidt--Christmas Eve
Johnny Preston--(I Want a) Rock'n'Roll Guitar
James Brown & the Famous Flames--Hey America
Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--Rudolph the Rubber Nosed Reindeer
Jona Lewie--Stop the Cavalry
Mike Nichols & Elaine May--Merry Christmas, Doctor
Dinah Washington--Ol' Santa Claus
Marcia Ball--Please Come Home for Christmas
Three Weissman--Sclepp the Halls with Loaves of Hallah
Hilton Ruiz--O Come O Come Emmanuel
Shoes--This Christmas
Julie London--Come On-a My House
Joe Williams--Christmas Blues
The Ventures--Blue Christmas
Bill Kirchen--Santa! Don't Pass Me By
Lou Rawls--Christmas Will Really Be Christmas
---Retroactive #614--December 9, 2006:
Mary Flower--Old Guitar
Blind Boy Fuller--She's a Truckin' Little Baby
Leadbelly--Tom Hughes Town
Emily Druce--I'm So Glad
Marv Johnson--Don't Leave Me
Ray Charles--Roll With My Baby
Marah featuring Felicia Navidad--Baby, It's Cold Outside
Karrin Allyson with Nancy King--All You Need to Say (Never Say Yes)
Brenda Lee--You Can Depend On Me; A Marshmellow World; Bigelow 6-200 (alternate take)
Willy DeVille with Brenda Lee--You'll Never Know
Liam Sillery with the David Sills Quartet--Sloe Joe
Thee Headcoats--All My Feelings Denied
Shoplifting--Cover to Cover
Mott the Hoople--Death May Be Your Santa Claus
Hadda Brooks--I Feel So Good
The Youngbloods--Tears Are Falling
Bo Ramsey--Unseeing Eye
Memphis Slim with Canned Heat & the Memphis Horns--Down That Big Road
Charlie Rich--Double Dog Dare Me; Motels, Hotels; I Can't Go On
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra/Jim McNeely--We Will Not Be Silenced
LaVon Hardison--It's Alright with Me
The Avett Brothers--If It's the Beaches
The Steve Gibbons Band--Big J.C.
Heather Myles--Cadillac Cowboy
Wreckless Eric with the Blockheads--Clever Trever
---Retroactive #613--December 2, 2006:
Nick Curran & the Nite Lifes--Come Back
Claude Casey & his Pine State Cowboys--Pine State Honky Tonk
Irma Thomas--For Goodness Sake
Earl King--Life's Ups and Downs
Si Kahn--When the War Is Done
Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods--When the Welfare Turns Its Back On You
Lucinda Williams--Happy Woman Blues
Little Richard with the Upsetters--Keep a-Knockin'
Little Richard--Green Power; The Commandments of Love
Dr. Lonnie Smith--Bemsha Swing
The True Believers--Lucky Moon
Chairmen of the Board--Patches
Thee Midniters--Thee Midnite Feeling
Spider & the Webs--Mister Hypnotist
Nina Simone--Break Down and Let It All Out
Jim Price--Kids Nowadays
Cassandra Wilson--Easy Rider; New African Blues; It Would Be So Easy
Judith Owen with Cassandra Wilson--Enough
Bert Wilson & Rebirth featuring James Zitro--Marney
Furry Lewis--St. Louis Blues
Matthew Sweet--I've Been Waiting
The Shy--Eve of Destruction
The Modern Lovers--Astral Plane
Millie Jackson--Loving Arms (live)
*Plus: Little Richard's Royal Crown Hairdressing ad
---Retroactive #612--November 25, 2006:
///Robert Jr. Lockwood (1915-2006)--Driving Wheel
Robert Jr. Lockwood with Johnny Shines--Razzmadazz///
Brave Combo--Do Something Different
Delbert McClinton--Alright By Me
Laura Rucker--Cryin' the Blues
Blue Rodeo--Begging You to Let Me In
LaVon Hardison--Don't Fence Me In
NRBQ--Do the Primal Thing
James Luther Dickinson--Love Bone
Big Maybelle--Rain Down Rain
Ray Wylie Hubbard--Rabbit
Robert Ward--Blessings
Michael Franti & Spearhead--Yell Fire
///The Jimi Hendrix Birthday Bash:
Too Slim & the Taildraggers--Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (live)
Derek & the Dominos--Little Wing
The World Saxophone Quartet--Freedom
The Pretenders--Room Full of Mirrors
The Al Rowe Project--1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
Phil Brown--Manic Depression
The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Little Miss Lover (BBC); Red House (live, 10/68); Third Stone From the Sun///
---Retroactive #611--November 18, 2006:
Steve & Kristi Nebel--Initiation Rites
Martha Schuyler Thompson--As Far as I Can See
Baby Gramps--Go Wash an Elephant (live)
The Noses--Too Early (For Me)
///Ruth Brown (1928-2006)--Teardrops From My Eyes; R.B. Blues; Wild Wild Young Men///
Bo Ramsey--Jump, Baby, Jump
Junior Parker--Just to Hold My Hand
Trudy Lynn with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra--Payin' the Price
Alice Coltrane--Translinear Light
Graham Parker--They Murdered the Clown (BBC); Here It Comes Again
Graham Parker & the Rumour--Don't Get Excited (BBC)
Alejandro Escovedo--Break This Time
Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Jumps, Giggles and Shouts
Lou Ann Barton--Sugar Coated Love
The Band--The River Hymn
Karen Dalton--One Night of Love
Aretha Franklin--Dr. Feelgood (live, 2/71)
Ornette Coleman--Matador (live, 10/05)
Ike & Tina Turner--I Smell Trouble; Up In Heah; Crazy 'Bout You Baby
Tina Turner--When I Was Young; Fire Down Below
---Retroactive #610--November 11, 2006:
Buell Kazee--The Wagoner's Lad
Larry Williams--Just Because
Ann Peebles--Make Me Yours
Catie Curtis--Passing Through
Marshall Crenshaw--You're My Favorite Waste of Time (live, 1/92); She's Not You; Monday Morning Rock
Johnny Adams--I Don't Know You
Jacqui Naylor--Hot Legs
Dan Bern--Feel Like a Man
Curley Jim & the Billey Rocks--Rock'n'Roll Itch
The Joe Lovano Ensemble--Buckeyes
Holly Golightly--Til I Get
Robbie Fulks--I Told Her Lies
Sharon Jones--You Better Think Twice
The Young Fresh Fellows--Your Truth, Our Lies
Le Tigre--Tres Bien
Low and Dirty Three--Down By the River
Neil Young--Wrecking Ball; Shock and Awe
Jerry Lee Lewis & Neil Young--You Don't Have to Go
Buffalo Springfield--Expecting to Fly
Pearl Django--I'll See You In My Dreams
Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Loup Garou
Denise LaSalle--Risky Business
Tom Thumb & the Casuals--The Draft
d.A. Sebasstian--Rumble
---Retroactive #609--November 4, 2006:
Skip James--She's All the World to Me
The Avett Brothers--When I Drink
Tracey Dey--I Won't Tell
Robin McKelle--Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
Rory Block--Tallahatchie Blues; Milkcow's Calf Blues; Bye Bye Blues
Michael O'Neill--Dixie Chicken/Iko Iko
The Byrds--I Wanna Grow Up to Be a Politician
The BellRays--Lost Disciples
Chris Smither--Origin of Species
Amina Figarova--Photo Album
Roy Zimmerman--That Is the War on Terror
Neko Case--Set Out Running
The Carlisle Group--Change
Shuffle Demons--Pavin' My Road
Bruce Cockburn--This Is Baghdad; Peggy's Kitchen Wall
Joy Eden Harrison--This Is Grand
Shazam--Super Tuesday
The Flying Burrito Brothers--Do You Know How It Feels
Gram Parsons--A Song for You
Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris--Return of the Grevious Angel (alternate take)
Willie Nelson--$1000 Wedding
Don Lanphere--Act of Contrition
Jimmy Reed--Take Out Some Insurance
The Detroit Cobras--Just Can't Please You
---Retroactive #608--October 28, 2006:
---Halloween Show
Michelle Willson--Evil Gal Blues
The Amazing Crowns--Little Demon
Rocky & the Riddlers--Batman
The Old Haunts--Filled In
Amelia White--Skeleton Key
Johnny Fuller--Haunted House
Leslie West--I Put a Spell On You
Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson--My Daddy Is a Mummy (live, 2001)
Dion--Who Do You Love
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3--Ole! Tarantula
LaVern Baker--Voodoo Voodoo
Charles Mingus--Don't Be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too (live, 9/65)
Laika & the Cosmonauts--Fear
Kristen Miller--Ring of Fire
Benny Spellman--Fortune Teller
The Voodoo Organist--Swingin' Red Organ
NRBQ--Batman Theme (live, 4/88)
Some Velvet Sidewalk--Loch Ness
Cowboy Mouth--Voodoo Shoppe
Arrington de Dionyso--Khomuz 2 Frog Nutrient
The Lollipop Shoppe--You Must Be a Witch
Muddy Waters--Evil
The Cramps--What's Behind the Mask (live)
The Austin Lounge Lizards--Hillbillies In a Haunted House
The Raybeats--Tight Turn
Little Richard--Heebie Jeebies
The Sonics--Strychnine
Joey Gaynor--The Addams Family
Nick Lowe--Endless Sleep
Pretty Girls Make Graves--Bullet Charm
---Retroactive #607--October 21, 2006:
---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show
Leadbelly--Outskirts of Town
Julia Lee with Jay McShann's Kansas City Stompers--Come On Over to My House
Janiva Magness--Wasn't That Enough
///Freddy Fender (1937-2006)--Cajun Stomp
Freddy Fender (as Eddie con Los Shades)--Que Mala
Texas Tornados--La Mucura///
Greg Brown--Bucket
The Carlisle Group--Homeless
Leon Thomas--Balance of Life (Peace of Mind)
Rory Block--Terraplane Blues (2006 version)
Jerry Lee Lewis & Buddy Guy--Hadacol Boogie
Chris Kenner--Rocket to the Moon
Christine Cooper--S.O.S. (Heart In Distress)
Ronnie Dawson--This Is the Night
Girl Trouble--Railroad to Tears
The Ugly Beats--Done with Me
Wanda Jackson--Searchin'; Take a Look; Mystery Train
Tom Russell--Four Chambered Heart
Phil Brown--Love or Confusion
Deanna Bogart--Bite the Bullet
Mark Bilyeu--Antique Dreams
---Retroactive #606--October 14, 2006:
Jimmie Rodgers--Blue Yodel #6
Jonatha Brooke--Linger
Robert Parker--Across the Tracks
Roxy Perry--Back In Bluesville
Dale Ann Bradley--I Can't Stand the Rain
Guy Clark--Walking Man
New Bad Things--Serious Cat
Carol Fran & Clarence Hollimon--Emmitt Lee
Jim Page--Petroleum Bonaparte
The Mingus Big Band--Opus Four (live, 12/05)
Katie Webster--Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Reverend Gary Davis--Say No to the Devil
Rosie Flores--Boxcars
Cowboy Mouth--I Told Ya
Mott the Hoople--Honaloochie Boogie
Carolyn Mark & the New Best Friends--2 Days Smug and Sober
The Tonettes--No Tears
The Clean--Fish
Sue Foley--Absolution
Kristen Miller--October
///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bash:
David Grisman/John Hartford/Mike Seeger--Maybellene
Johnny Rivers--Brown Eyed Handsome Man (live, Whisky a Go Go, 1964)
Joe Jackson--Come On (live, Whisky a Go Go, 5/79)
Bulldog--Too Much Monkey Business
Anne Feeney--Too Much Monkey Business
Flamin Groovies--Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller
Chuck Berry--Memphis, Tennessee; My Mustang Ford; Roll Over Beethoven (live, 10/86)///
---Retroactive #605--October 7, 2006:
Sandy Denny--Blackwaterside (BBC)
Marti Jones--Silent Partner
The James Boys & Johnnie Johnson--A Dose of Rock'n'Roll
The Bigger Lovers--You Don't Feel Anything at All
The 77s--Dave's Blues
Rosanne Cash--World Without Sound
Muddy Waters--Lonely Man Blues
The Avett Brothers--Backwards with Time
Loudon Wainwright III--Not John
Nellie Lutcher--Only You
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3--Underground Sun
///The John Lennon Birthday Celebration:
The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey--Happiness Is a Warm Gun (live)
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs--And Your Bird Can Sing
Tiny Tim with Brave Combo--Girl
The Beatles--Slow Down; Glass Onion (alternate mix); Don't Let Me Down
Marianne Faithfull--Working Class Hero (live, 1989)
Kippington Lodge--In My Life
Brazil and Beyond--I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Lynne Arriale--Come Together
Thee Headcoatees--Run For Your Life
Sam Champion--It's Only Love
John Lennon--Bless You; Gimme Some Truth; Life Begins at 40 (demo, 1980)///
---Retroactive #604--September 30, 2006:
The Crows--I Love You So
Simon Joyner--Fluoride
Joy Eden Harrison--King of Midnight
Wynn Stewart--Rain, Rain
Ellen McIlwaine--Isn't That So?; Losing You (live, 1972); Nothing Left to Be Desired
Uncle Bonsai--Making Fun of Foreigners (live, 12/87)
Guy Clark--Tornado Time In Texas
Big Mama Thornton--School Boy
Alice Coltrane--Jaya Jaya Rama
Bo Diddley--Aztec
Buffalo Springfield--Special Care
Ranch Romance--She Must Be Obeyed
Macy Skipper--Goofin' Off (single version)
U-Men--Dig It a Hole
Dead Moon--13 Going On 21
Chris Smither--Diplomacy
The Ribbons--Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya
Jerry Lee Lewis--Sixty Minute Man (1957 version)
Jerry Lee Lewis with John Fogerty--Travelin' Band
Jerry Lee Lewis with George Jones--Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age
Janiva Magness--Workin' On Me Baby
Percy Mayfield--Prayin' For Your Return
John Bishop--Hurt Brothers
The Avett Brothers--Love Like the Movies
Big Star--September Gurls
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Got To Be the Way It Is
Gossip--Jealous Girls
---Retroactive #603--September 23, 2006:
Otis Clay--You Never Miss Your Water
Jacqui Naylor--Love for Sale
Angela Strehli--Lord, Don't Move the Mountain
Yo La Tengo--Mr. Tough
Ruth Brown--Somebody Touched Me
Jean Shepard--The Other Woman
Bob Dylan--The Levee's Gonna Break
Lee Dorsey--Confusion
Cowboy Mouth--Home
Thea Gilmore--Tear It All Down
Count Basie--The Kid from Red Bank
The Art Ensemble of Chicago--Big Red Peaches (live, 4/04)
Smiley Lewis--I Hear You Knocking
Ann Cole--Are You Satisfied
Chuck Grey--Rock'n'Roll Is In My Soul
Willie Nix--Baker Shop Boogie
Sonny Hall & the Echoes--My Big Fat Baby
Esther Phillips--Cherry Wine
Ricky Nelson--My Bucket's Got a Hole In It
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Change the World
Ani DiFranco--78% H2O
Johnny Cash--Further On (Up the Road)
Bruce Springsteen--Mrs. McGrath; Used Cars; Out In the Street
Misja Fitzgerald Michel--Central Park West
John Coltrane--It's Easy to Remember
Ray Charles & Cleo Laine--It Ain't Necessarily So
Ray Charles--Look What They Done to My Song, Ma
The JW-Jones Blues Band featuring David 'Fathead' Newman--Hallelujah I Love Her So
---Retroactive #602--September 16, 2006:
Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham & the Sweet Baby Blues Band--Comin' Back to South Chicago
Allen Toussaint--Pure Uncut Love
The Volebeats--If You Won't Tell Me
Angela Desveaux--Familiar Times
The Shy--Here With Me
Dixie Chicks--Everybody Knows
Syl Johnson--We Did It
Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham--Cry Like a Baby (live, 11/98)
John Trudell--Wildfires
Ornette Coleman--Sleep Talking (live, 10/05)
Suzanne Vega--In the Eye
Gil Scott-Heron--The Vulture (live, 1970)
Family--How-Hi-the-Li (BBC)
Rory Block--Walking Blues
The Mountain Goats--Move Over Goldsboro
Koko Taylor--Hey Bartender
New York Dolls--Runnin' Around
Arrington de Dionyso--Cacao Dance
Radio Birdman--Subterfuge
Oh Susanna--Cain Is Rising
Jerry Vivino--Red Moon
B.B. King--String Bean; Time to Say Goodbye (alternate take); The Lowdown
Hank Williams--Nobody's Lonesome for Me; The Log Train; Honky Tonk Blues
---Retroactive #601--September 9, 2006:
---All '60s Show
Irma Thomas--Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)
Gino Washington--I'll Be Around (When You Want Me)
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Many a Mile
James Brown--Out of the Blue (alternate take)
Sam Cooke--Soothe Me
Delaney & Bonnie--Dirty Old Man
Shirley Matthews & the Big Town Girls--Big Town Boy
Tim Hardin--Smugglin' Man
Them--Bright Lights, Big City
Joe Haywood--I Would If I Could
Aretha Franklin--Bit of Soul
The Move--Useless Information
Little Willie John--Mr. Glenn
Bob Dylan--Pledging My Time
The Shangri-Las--Train From Kansas City
Sonny Criss--Sunny
Gloria Jones--Tainted Love (Champion Records version)
Thee Midniters--Empty Heart
The Who--Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hands (U.S. single version)
Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto--In the Basement, Pt. 1
The Velvet Underground--One of These Days
Glenn Yarbrough--Baby the Rain Must Fall
Nick Drake--River Man
The Choir--I'd Rather You Leave Me
Janis Joplin--Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
The What Four--I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy
Marvin Gaye--Pretty Little Baby
The Sir Douglas Quintet--The Rains Came
The Wailers--Out of Our Tree
Stan Getz & Bill Evans--Melinda
The Honeycombs--I Can't Stop
The Kinks--Where Have All the Good Times Gone
The Mothers of Invention--Flower Punk
Dusty Springfield--Stay Awhile
The Small Faces--Patterns
*Plus: Radio commercials from the Mojo Men, the Noble Men
---Retroactive #600--September 2, 2006:
Otis Spann--I Got a Feeling
Robert B. Jones--Robert's New Catfish Blues
Rory Block--Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
Dave Frishberg--My Attorney Bernie (live, 5/05)
Guy Clark--Funnybone
Amy Rigby--The Trouble with Jeanie
Jo Ann Kelly--Ain't Nothin' In Ramblin' (live)
Greg Brown--Whippoorwill
Bob Brozman--One Steady Roll
Roy Eldridge--The Nifty Cat
///Jumpin' Gene Simmons (1933-2006)--Drinkin' Wine///
Barbara Pittman--I'm Getting Better All the Time
John Doe & Neko Case--Hwy. 5
Roy Brown--Rock-a-Bye Baby (1951 version)
The Blasters--Hollywood Bed (live, 2002)
Chris & Meredith Thompson--Hathaway
John Lee Hooker--Strike Blues
The Avett Brothers--Hard Worker
Thee Headcoatees--Mess of Pottage
The Waco Brothers--Plenty Tough-Union Made
Tex Rubinowitz--Bad Boy
Ann Peebles--Crazy 'Bout You Baby
The Greenhornes--It's Not Real
Roy Haynes & the Fountain of Youth Band--Mr. P.C. (live, 1/06)
Buddy Holly--Words of Love
Buddy Holly & the Crickets--It's So Easy
The Kingbees--Wishing
Otis Redding--I Love You More Than Words Can Say; Remember Me
Patsy Cline--There He Goes (live, 7/61); Too Many Secrets (live, 10/57); I'll Sail My Ship Alone
---Retroactive #599--August 26, 2006:
Jimmy Scott--Pennies from Heaven
Danielle Howle--Love Is a Fall
Marcus Randolph & Duane Snelling, Sr.--Sign of the Judgement (live, 3/01)
Andy Fairweather Low--Unbroken Love
The Beach Boys--All Summer Long
The Avett Brothers--At the Beach
Roxy Perry--Forgive and Forget
PF Sloan--Sailover
Big Maybelle--So Good to My Baby
The Reese Project--Scatastrophy
///Fifteenth Anniversary of the International Underground Pop Convention in Olympia:
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--They Don't Call Them Chihuahuas Anymore (live, Olympia, 8/91)
Scrawl--Clock Song (Go Go Girl) (live, Olympia, 8/91)
Beat Happening--Me Untamed
Mecca Normal--This Is Different///
The '5' Royales--Let Me Come Back Home
Jolie Holland--Moonshiner
Julie Collings--Simple Things
Chip Lind--It Stoned Me
Van Morrison--Things Have Gone to Pieces; Village Idiot
Charlie Parker--Charlie's Wig
The Diane Marino Quartet--My Little Suede Shoes
///Maynard Ferguson (1928-2006):
Dinah Washington--Ballad Medley: Alone Together/Summertime (Maynard Ferguson, trumpet)/Come Rain or
Come Shine (live, 8/54)///
Dinah Washington--My Song; I Don't Hurt Anymore
Thornetta Davis & Brett Lucas--Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
---Retroactive #598--August 19, 2006:
The Long Goners--My Doorbell
Inez & Charlie Foxx--Don't Do It No More
Doles Dickens (Joe Gregory, vocal)--We're Gonna Rock
NRBQ--Me and the Boys
Laura Cantrell--Poor Ellen Smith
Teddy Thompson--I Wish It Was Over
Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers--Man From the South (live)
Wanda Jackson--Blue Moon of Kentucky
Clifton Chenier--Tu Le Ton Son Ton (Once In Awhile)
The Del-Lords--How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
Rory Block--Rambling On My Mind
Taj Mahal--Sweet Mama Janisse (live, 2/71)
Dr. Lonnie Smith--Willow Weep for Me
Guy Davis--Fonza Curry
Ani DiFranco--Decree
The Band--We Can Talk
Drive-By Truckers--Gravity's Gone
Guy Clark--Expose
Camille Howard--Within This Heart of Mine
Mitch Woods--Big Easy Boogie
The BellRays--Snotgun
Girl Trouble--My Hometown
The Rooks--Reasons
John Hiatt--Lipstick Sunset
John Lee Hooker--Tupelo (live, 9/60)
Carrie Smith--Country Man
Tom Verlaine--Meteor Beach
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Radio Radio (Saturday Night Live, 12/77)
Elvis Costello--Twenty-Five to Twelve
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint--International Echo
---Retroactive #597--August 12, 2006:
Lauren Ellis--Afraid to Love
Alex Moore--Boogieing In Strasbourg
Joe Ely--Fools Fall In Love
///Jessie Mae Hemphill (1934-2006)--She Wolf///
///Arthur Lee (1945-2006) with Band-Aid--He Said She Said; Love Jumped Through My Window
The Make Up--Free Arthur Lee
The Sidewinders--Seven and Seven Is
Love--Que Vida!; Signed D.C.; You Set the Scene///
Joe Henderson--Out'n'In
Aeolian--Slowing Down
Joy Eden Harrison--Popsicle Town
Snooks Eaglin--Careless Love
The Soul Providers--Soul Jasper
Wendy Rene--Bar-B-Q
Big Star--Hung Up With Summer
Holly Golightly--You Ain't No Big Thing
Robert Earl Keen--Furnace Fan (live)
Andras Jones--Let Go Slowly
The Previous--You Better Love Me
Kenny Wheeler--My New Hat
Beth Orton--I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
Ronnie Spector & the E Street Band--Baby Please Don't Go
The Ronettes--Do I Love You?; (The Best Part of) Breaking Up
---Retroactive--August 5, 2006:
Thanks to Joe Pollock for guest hosting.
---Retroactive #596--July 29, 2006:
James Booker--Lawdy Miss Clawdy
The Handsome Family--All the Time In Airports
Hadda Brooks--Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
Johnny Cash--What Is Truth
Irma Thomas--Don't Blame Him
Cat Power--Love and Communication
Wire--Three Girl Rhumba
Thornetta Davis & Brett Lucas--Sister Friend Indeed
Andy Fairweather Low--One More Rocket
Koko Taylor--Put the Pot On
Nils Lofgren--Whiskey Holler
Sonny Rollins--Sweet Leilani
Joe Jackson--Home Town
The Forty-Fives--Stop at Nothing
The Shivvers--Baby's Blue Eyes; You're So Sure (both live)
Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays--Please Don't Stay Away
Sonic Youth--Reena
Paul Martin--Hurry Up
Lucinda Williams--Price to Pay
Eddie Hinton--That's the Way Love Is
Tracy Nelson--Every Night of the Week
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders--Milton's Boogie; Cryin' and Singin' the Blues; Coquette
Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Big Rock Candy Mountain (live, 1957); Call Me a Dog; Arthritis Blues
The Westwind Brass--In a Mist
Buddy Guy--On a Saturday Night; Good News (Good Rockin' Tonight); Suffering Mind
---Retroactive #595--July 22, 2006:
Tampa Red--Turpentine Blues
Arthur Gunter--Baby Let's Play House
Mirah & the Black Cat Orchestra--Monument
Jon Auer--Four Letter Word
///Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets featuring Sam Myers (1936-2006)--Changing Neighborhoods///
Del Thorne & her Trio--Down South In Birmingham
Jerry Lee Lewis--Tomorrow Night
Marshall Crenshaw--Starless Summer Sky
Janiva Magness--A Man Size Job
Nick Castro & the Young Elders--Voices from the Mountains
Alejandro Escovedo--She Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Joy Eden Harrison--Calico Cat
Guy Clark with Verlon Thompson--Diamond Joe
Sue Foley--Found My Love
B.B. King & Bobby Blue Bland--Don't Cry No More (live, 1974)
Dave Edmunds--Sabre Dance '94
Foster & Lloyd--Fair Shake
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--The Glory of Love
Bettye LaVette--Your Turn to Cry (Your Time to Cry) (live, 9/99)
Ray Charles--Yes Indeed! (live, 5/59)
Johnny Adams--It Ain't the Same Thing
Dion--You Better Watch Yourself
Red Garland--Hey Now
Martha & the Vandellas--Bless You
The Rolling Stones--Biggest Mistake
Sara Hickman--Mother's Little Helper
Chuck Jackson--Hand It Over; They Don't Give Medals (To Yesterday's Heroes)
---Retroactive #594--July 15, 2006:
Reverend Gary Davis--Twelve Sticks (live)
Charles Brown--Seven Long Days
Dorothy Moore--Stay Close to Home
///Milan B. Williams (1948-2006):
Commodores--Better Never Than Forever///
///Syd Barrett (1946-2006)--Octopus
The Soft Boys--Gigolo Aunt (live)///
///Rock journalist Paul Nelson (1936-2006):
New York Dolls--Looking for a Kiss///
Arrington de Dionyso--Bird Shadow
Mary Lee's Corvette--Verla
The Now Time Delegation--Bye Bye
Eric Reed--Stablemates
Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu
Flamin Groovies--Rockin' Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu
Harmonica Shah & Howard Glazer--Act Like You Love Me
Richard Thompson & Danny Thompson--I Misunderstood (live, 1992)
Betsy Holt--Bulldog Blues; Something I Can't Finish
The Byrds--Change Is Now
Denise LaSalle--Right Side of the Wrong Bed
The Diane Marino Quartet--Killer Joe
Woody Guthrie--Ranger's Command; Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya)
Arlo Guthrie--Dust Storm Disaster
Mary Gauthier--On Woody Guthrie; I Ain't Got No Home
Willis Alan Ramsey--Boy from Oklahoma
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--This Land Is Your Land
Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Woody's Last Ride
---Retroactive #593--July 8, 2006:
Peggy Seeger--Who Killed Cock Robin?
Memphis Minnie--I'm Not a Bad Gal
Graham Parker--Nation of Shopkeepers
Oakley Hall--Living In Sin In the U.S.A.
The James Boys & Johnnie Johnson--The Reason for the Blues
Deborah Coleman--Lie No Better
Buddy Miller--Shelter Me
The Wailers--The Wailer
The Impressions--Do You Wanna Win
J.J. Syrja--Souvenirs (performed live on this show)
Tom Russell with Gretchen Peters--Ash Wednesday
Supersuckers--Teenage Shutdown
Randy Weston & his African Rhythms Trio--Ballad for T
The Insect Trust--Trip On Me
Little Richard--She's Got It
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Everyone Knows
Zora Young--Daughter of a Son-of-a-Gun
Doug Sahm--Oh No! Not Another One
The Old Haunts--Into a New Room
Peter Lipa--I Wanna Be Your Man (live)
Ringo Starr & his All Starr Band--The No-No Song (live)
Beck--Burnt Orange Peel; Black Tambourine
Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake/William Parker--Unity Call
Terry Garthwaite--True Love (live, SF, 1980); You Don't Know
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Chug Chug Boogie; A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird
The Blue Dots--Saturday Night Fish Fry
---Retroactive #592--July 1, 2006:
///Johnny Jenkins (1939-2006)--Dimples///
///Arif Mardin (1932-2006):
Willie Nelson--Slow Down Old World (Arif Mardin, string arrangement)
Dusty Springfield--The Windmills Of Your Mind (Arif Mardin, co-producer)///
Kind of Like Spitting--That's What I Want to Hear
Phil Ochs--Outside of a Small Circle of Friends
Razzy Bailey--I Hate Hate
Harry Nilsson--Good Old Desk
Neko Case--Star Witness
J.B. Lenoir--Korea Blues
McCoy Tyner--One of Another Kind
The Joel Rafael Band--Last Train to Nuremberg
Eddie Turner--So Many Roads
Holly Near--Lives In the Balance
Aneel--America
John Gorka--War Makes War
Marc Cary--Ready or Not
///The Willie Dixon Songbook:
The Big Three Trio--Signifying Monkey
Big Mama Thornton--Little Red Rooster
Van Morrison--I Just Want to Make Love to You (live, 1973)
Muddy Waters--Hoochie Coochie Man
Koko Taylor--Wang Dang Doodle (1978 version)
Willie Dixon--I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live) (1988 version)
Willie Dixon with Charlotte Crossley--Good Understanding
French/Frith/Kaiser/Thompson--The Same Thing///
*Plus: Emily Syrja & Ina Vitale read today's Community Billboard
---Retroactive #591--June 24, 2006:
Ann Peebles--A Love Vibration
Butterbeans & Susie--What It Takes to Bring You Back
Eric Glatz & the Chefs--Ragtime Millionaire (live)
Harpswell Sound--Skitter
Delbert McClinton--Right to Be Wrong
Dinah Washington--Lover Come Back to Me
The Jayhawks--Somewhere In Ohio
The Shy--We All Bleed Red
El Vez--Maria's the Name (His Latest Flame)
Maria Muldaur--Serve Somebody
Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake/William Parker--Forever
Claudia Schmidt--Spinning
Cephas & Wiggins--All I've Got Is Them Blues
The Pretty Things--You'll Never Do It Baby
Gossip--Coal to Diamonds
The Hentchmen--La Sabre Radar
Nick Lowe--I Don't Want the Night to End
Howard Tate--Stop (live, 6/04)
Ike & Tina Turner--Stormy Weather
Lightnin' Hopkins--Automobile Blues
Joy Eden Harrison--Bullet on a Wire
The BellRays--Third Time's the Charm
Lena Horne--Maybe
Eddie Floyd--The Best Years of My Life
The Zombies--Girl Help Me
Sonny Rollins--Global Warming
Count Basie with Helen Humes--Dark Rapture
Helen Humes with Ellis Larkins' All-Stars--Deed I Do
Helen Humes--When I Grow Too Old to Dream
---Retroactive #590--June 17, 2006:
Darden Smith--Talk Me Down
Mose Allison--Parchman Farm
Thea Gilmore--Down to Nowhere
Marion Williams--Drunkards Down There
Elizabeth Hummel--Comfortable
Dr. John--You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez--Let's Leave This Town
Washboard Sam--I've Been Treated Wrong
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint--Ascension Day
Jessica Lurie--Solitaria
Big Maybelle--Too Tight Mama
Quasi--I Don't Know You Anymore
Johnny J. Blair--My Bonnie
Milt Trenier & his Solid Six--Rock Bottom
Carla Thomas--When Tomorrow Comes
Dixie Chicks--Lubbock or Leave It
The Old Haunts--Civil Savage
Paul McCartney--Riding to Vanity Fair
The Bobs--Helter Skelter
Brian Wilson--Surf's Up
The Beach Boys--Here Today (instrumental track); There's No Other (Like My Baby)
Ray Davies--All She Wrote; Stand Up Comic
The Kinks--Act Nice and Gentle; Complicated Life; People Take Pictures of Each Other
The Sir Douglas Quintet--Who'll Be the Next In Line
---Retroactive #589--June 10, 2006:
Fastbacks--All About Nothing
The Handsome Family--These Golden Jewels
John Lee Hooker, Jr.--I'm Leavin'
Ernestine Anderson--Down Home Blues
Guy Clark & Emmylou Harris--Immigrant Eyes (live, 9/95)
Richard Thompson--Killerman Gold Posse
Eliza & Vince--Weary Lonesome Blues
The BellRays--Tell the Lie
The Sonics--Dirty Robber
Harpswell Sound--Bang
///Billy Preston (1946-2006)--Greazee, Pts. 1 & 2; Higher; You're So Unique
Sam Cooke--Little Red Rooster (Billy Preston, organ)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--God (Billy Preston, piano)///
Janiva Magness--Bad Blood
NRBQ--Hot Biscuits and Sweet Marie
The Mona Reels--Are We Breaking Up Tonight?
Willy DeVille--Ballad of the Hoodlum Priest
Sarah Brown--Sayin' What I'm Thinkin'
Howlin' Wolf--Saddle My Pony; Who's Been Talkin'; Mr. Highway Man
Christian McBride--Boogie Woogie Waltz
The Shirelles--Mama Said; The Things I Want to Hear (Pretty Words)
Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham--Dark End of the Street (live, 11/98)
James Carr--You've Got My Mind Messed Up; I Gotta Go
---Retroactive #588--June 3, 2006:
Aimee Mann--Jimmy Hoffa Jokes
Guy Davis--Shaky Pudding
Lois--Sunrise Semester
Albert Lee--Working On Love
///Desmond Dekker (1942-2006)--007 (Shanty Town)
Natural Rhythm--007 (Shanty Town)///
Drive-By Truckers--Daylight
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint--Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?
Etta James--Strange Things Happening
Freddie King--Palace of the King
Booker T. & the MGs--Ode to Billie Joe
Ben Vaughn--Apt. 604
Slim Harpo--Got Love If You Want It
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs--Sunday Morning
Johnny J. Blair--I'm So Glad U Let Me In
Commander Cody--Seven Eleven (1977 version)
Howard Tate--Ain't Nobody Home (live, 6/04)
The McKinleys--Someone Cares for Me
Trudy Lynn with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra--Swing Boogie
Prince--Uptown
Gary U.S. Bonds--Twist Twist Senora; Club Soul City; I Wanta Holler (But the Town's Too Small)
Tom Verlaine--Rings
Dakota Staton--Summertime; Losin' Battle; I'm Tired of That
---Retroactive #587--May 27, 2006:
---All Texas Show
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Brain Cloudy Blues
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies--The Hesitation Blues
Kelly Willis--Take Me Down
Guy Forsyth--Long Long Time
///Billy Walker (1929-2006)--Charlie's Shoes///
Rosie Flores--Crazy Mixed Emotions
T-Bone Walker--Every Night I Have to Cry
Townes Van Zandt--A Song For (live, 9/95)
Patty Griffin--Carry Me
Ronnie Dawson--Wham Bam Jam
The 13th Floor Elevators--Fire Engine
Barbara Lynn--Sugar Coated Love
The Crusaders--Stomp and Buck Dance
Jim Colegrove--Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night
Johnny Winter--I'm Not Sure
Sara Hickman--Stupid Love
Slaid Cleaves--Devil's Lullaby
///Austin blues set for Clifford Antone (1949-2006):
The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm--Blessed Are These Tears (live/Clifford Antone, introduction)
Pete Mayes--I'm Ready (live)
Lou Ann Barton--Rocket In My Pocket
Angela Strehli--Austin's Home of the Blues///
Deadman--When the Music's Not Forgotten
Tish Hinojosa--By the Rio Grande
Will Taylor & Strings Attached--Tigris
Steve Earle--Guitar Town (live)
The Rockin' Rev--Rockin' Rev's Rock'n'Roll Ministry
Buddy Holly--Rock Around with Ollie Vee
Joe Ely--Not Fade Away (live, 1981)
The Bobby Fuller Four--Love's Made a Fool of You
---Retroactive #586--May 20, 2006:
///Grant McLennan (1958-2006):
The Go-Betweens--Finding You///
Big Joe Turner--Sun Risin' Blues
The Minus 5--Twilight Distillery
Jolie Holland--Springtime Can Kill You
Betsy Holt--Shaken Up Over You
Wynona Carr--Please Mr. Jailer
Richard Thompson--Medley: Wall of Death/Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues/Needles and Pins (live, solo, 1992)
Bo Diddley--Pills
Roseanna Vitro--Tryin' Times (live)
T Bone Burnett--Hollywood Mecca of the Movies
The Westwind Brass--Danzon
Rosanne Cash--Dreams Are Not My Home
John Fogerty--Wicked Old Witch
///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash:
A Whisper In the Noise--The Times They Are A-Changin'
Manfred Mann's Earth Band--Get Your Rocks Off
Oh Susanna--I'll Keep It With Mine
The Everly Brothers--Abandoned Love
Christopher Guest/National Lampoon--Those Fabulous Sixties
Nob Dylan & his Nobsoletes--Subterranean Homesick Blues
Solomon Burke--Maggie's Farm
Sertab--One More Cup of Coffee
Dave's True Story--If Dogs Run Free
The Golden Gate Strings--Mr. Tambourine Man
Mark Arm--Masters of War
Mary Lee's Corvette--Buckets of Rain (live, 9/01)
Bob Dylan--Precious Angel; Tombstone Blues (alternate take); Sugar Baby///
---Retroactive #585--May 13, 2006:
Martha Schuyler Thompson--Waterjar Girl
Tim Buckley--Sally Go Round the Roses
Mavis Staples--A Dying Man's Plea
Tom Verlaine--Orbit
T Bone Burnett--Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
The Standells--Rari
Rachel Sweet--It's So Different Here
The Noses--Alab Koo
///Soraya (1969-2006)--Stay Awhile///
Sam & Dave--Broke Down Piece of Man
Wanda Jackson--You're Right, I'm Left, He's Gone
Richard Berry & the Pharoahs--Besame Mucho
Matthew Shipp--Blue In Orion
Quasi--The Rhino
Neil Young--Lookin' For a Leader
Esther Phillips--Home Is Where the Hatred Is
The Persuasions--I Was Wrong
Nellie Lutcher--My Mother's Eyes
Kaleidoscope (U.S.)--Why Try
Carl Perkins--Tennessee
Trudy Lynn with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra--Left Me Singing the Blues
The Shivvers--Rather Be Lonely
Mary Wells--Strange Love; Coming Home
Reginald Jones--Drive Time
The Animals--Pretty Thing; Baby Let Me Take You Home
Sergio Mendes with Stevie Wonder & Grainha Leporace--Berimbau/Consolacao
Stevie Wonder--At Last; Cash In Your Face
---Retroactive #584--May 6, 2006:
Eliza & Vince--I Got Rhythm
Guy Davis--Blackberry Ramble
Lisa Karp with Dr. John--Everything's Broken
Leadbelly--Silver City Bound
Neko Case--John Saw That Number
The Move--No Time
The BellRays--Have a Little Faith In Me (2006 version)
James Cotton--High Compression
Girl Trouble--Hey Mrs. Jones
Shoplifting--M. Sally
Janis Martin--Drugstore Rock'n'Roll
Virginia Mayhew--Tenderly
Louise Grasmere--Nobody's Fault But Mine
Rosie Flores with Terry McBride--Somewhere Down the Line
The Spongetones--She Goes Out with Everybody
Roxy Music--Whirlwind
Matson Jones--Wrecking Ball
The Rolling Stones--Dead Flowers
Pharoah Sanders with Leon Thomas--Sun Song
Hal Harris--Jitterbop Baby
Don Terry--Knee Shakin'
Pretty Girls Make Graves--The Nocturnal House
Ken Hatfield--Sparticles
Bob Dylan--Sally Sue Brown
Arthur Alexander--A Shot of Rhythm & Blues; In the Middle of It All (1993 version); You Got Me Knockin'
---Retroactive #583--April 29, 2006:
Audrey Bryant--Let's Trade a Little
Kristen Miller--Mirror and Smoke
Eric Glatz--Walk-Don't Run
Eddie Bo--When the Saints Go Marching In
Trudy Lynn with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra--Blues Singing Woman
Chris Bell--I Am the Cosmos
Chris Whitley & the Bastard Club--Are Friends Electric?
Bettye LaVette--Heart of Gold
Sue Foley--Little Things
Greg Brown--If I Had Known
Rick Holland with Evan Dobbins--While We're Young
Howlin' Wolf--Killing Floor
Janiva Magness--I Give Up
Calexico--Lucky Dime
Barbara Lynn--I've Taken All I Can Take
The Shy--Black Slacks
The Morells--Red's
The Young Fresh Fellows--Dear Red
The Ringling Sisters--56 Reasons to Go Downtown
Rory Block--Big Road Blues
Judy Collins--So Early, Early In the Spring
Willie Nelson--It's All Your Fault
James Brown--Suds
Ben Allison--Tricky Dick
The Weavers--Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Pete Seeger--This Old Car; Study War No More
Bruce Springsteen--Erie Canal
Janis Ian--Who Killed Norma Jean
---Retroactive #582--April 22, 2006:
Alejandro Escovedo--The Last to Know
Precious Bryant--Wadn't I Scared
Arthur Prysock--Teardrops In the Rain
Rosanne Cash--Like Fugitives
Sarah Harmer--I'm a Mountain
The Motors--Airport
The Shivvers--No Substitute
Lafayette Gilchrist--Towards the Shining Path
Christine Kittrell--L & N Special
Evan's Mixed Bag--Soliloquy
Curtis Salgado--More Than You Can Chew
Koko Taylor--I Got What It Takes
Mecca Normal--To Avoid Pain
The BellRays--Time Is Gone
Deadman--Absalom! Absalom!
Blue Rodeo--Til I Am Myself Again
///June Pointer (1953-2006):
The Pointer Sisters--Save the Bones for Henry Jones
The Pointer Sisters with the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils--Wang Dang Doodle///
Drive-By Truckers--Easy on Yourself
Carol Fran--Tou' Les Jours C'est Pas La Meme
Dave Edmunds--(I Am a) Lover Not a Fighter; Get Out of Denver
The Reese Project--Planxty Kong
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight--Shine
Chick Webb & his Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald--Wacky Dust
---Retroactive #581--April 8, 2006:
---Twelfth Anniversary Show
Faye Adams--I'll Be True
Cassandra Wilson--Tarot
Sparks--Waterproof
The Louvin Brothers--The Great Atomic Power
The Blind Boys of Alabama--(Jesus Hits Just Like the) Atom Bomb
Adam Faith with the Roulettes--It's Alright
Alberta Adams--Half a Man
The Tall Boys--Quit Kickin' My Dog
The Clash--Atom Tan
Satan & Adam--Heartbreak
The Breakers--Don't Send Me No Flowers (I Ain't Dead Yet)
Pepper Adams--Three Little Words
John Trudell--All There Is to It
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?
Johnny Adams--D Jam Blues
Ryan Adams--To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
NRBQ--Girl Scout Cookies
The A-Bones--Bandstand Rocket
Belle & Sebastian--White Collar Boy
Gossip--Fire with Fire
Utah Phillips--The Telling Takes Me Home
Jackson Browne--Song for Adam
Lucy Kaplansky--The Tide
Omar Sosa & Adam Rudolph--Pilgrimage
Carmen McRae--(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
Merle Haggard--The Emptiest Arms In the World
///Gene Pitney (1941-2006)--I Must Be Seeing Things; She's a Heartbreaker; Town Without Pity///
*Plus: Sound clips from the 'Adam 12' TV show here and there
---Retroactive #580--April 1, 2006:
Chris Whitley & the Bastard Club--Bring It On Home
Danielle Howle--Oh Swear
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes--99 1/2
///Jackie McLean (1932-2006)--Outburst///
The Drifters--Fools Fall In Love
Janiva Magness--I'm Just a Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin')
///Buck Owens (1929-2006)--Act Naturally; Before You Go
Ray Charles--Crying Time
Emmylou Harris--Together Again///
Wanda Jackson--Good Rockin' Tonight
Wynonie Harris--Quiet Whiskey
The Eric Dolphy Quintet--On Green Dolphin Street
Eric Jensen--April Fool (radio edit)
Neko Case--Maybe Sparrow
Ted Hawkins--All I Have to Offer You Is Me
Los Lobos--River of Fools
Ann Cole--Plain As the Nose On Your Face
(Willie) Wisely--Love Is Wrong
John & Mary--We Have Nothing
Ronnie Lane--Roll On Babe
Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane--April Fool
Faces--Last Orders Please
Billie Holiday--I'll Look Around
Gail Davies--A Friend Like You
William Parker with the Olmec Group--Pok-a-Tok
Richard & Linda Thompson--Together Again
French/Frith/Kaiser/Thompson--March of the Cosmetic Surgeons
Richard Thompson--From Galway to Graceland (live, 1990); Little Blue Number
---Retroactive #579--March 25, 2006:
Mark Bilyeu--Backwater
Beth Orton--Rectify
Big Maybelle--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
Dion--Honky Tonk Blues
Dave & Kay Gordon--McRebel (live)
Shirley & Lee--Let the Good Times Roll
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Paper Boy
Deadman--Brother John
Hank (Williams) III--Thrown Out of the Bar
Martha Schuyler Thompson--World Without End
The Gene Harris Quartet--Blues for Jezebel
Junior--Communication Breakdown
Gossip--Holy Water
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters--Kansas City
Sky Cries Mary--Stretched
Bill Lloyd--Lisa Anne
Sleepy LaBeef--All the Time
Catherine Russell--The Late, Late Show
The Mona Reels--I'll Be Taking It All
Drive-By Truckers--Little Bonnie
Aretha Franklin--Yield Not to Temptation; (Blue) By Myself; Pullin'
The Reese Project--In the Belly of the Blues
Nick Lowe--Has She Got a Friend?; Lover Don't Go
Rockpile--Pet You and Hold You
Dave Edmunds--Television
Brinsley Schwarz--Nightingale
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?
---Retroactive #578--March 18, 2006:
---All '60s Show
Lazy Lester--I Hear You Knockin'
Jackie DeShannon--When You Walk In the Room
Fairport Convention--Eastern Rain
Family--No Mule's Fool
Aretha Franklin--Do Right Woman-Do Right Man
Spirit (California)--I'm Truckin'
Spirit (New York)--No Time to Rhyme
The Rolling Stones--The Singer Not the Song
Lorraine Ellison--You're Easy On My Mind
Savage Rose--Oh Baby Where Have You Gone?
Miles Davis--It's About That Time
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Universal Soldier
Bob Dylan--Man On the Street
Mable John--Your Good Thing (Is About to End)
The Sir Douglas Quintet--The Tracker
Jimi Hendrix--Jelly 292
The Shangri-Las--Remember (Walkin' In the Sand)
Bob Seger & the Last Heard--East Side Story
The Kinks--Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
The Johnson Sisters--I Found My Place
The Beatles--Boys
Thee Midniters--Jump, Jive and Harmonize
The Wailers--Livewire
James Brown--Ain't That a Groove
The Darby Sisters--Go Back to Your Pontiac
The Byrds--Time Between
The Zombies--She's Coming Home
Sly & the Family Stone--Sex Machine; Chicken
Irma Thomas--Ruler of My Heart
Ronny & the Daytonas--Sandy
The Beach Boys--Let Him Run Wild
The Canadian Squires--Leave Me Alone
Everything Is Everything--Witchi Tai To
*Plus: Ad clips including the Shangri-Las, the Stone Poneys, the Beach Boys & more
---Retroactive #577--March 11, 2006:
---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show
Calexico--Roka
The Minus 5--What a Gun
Marion Williams--Got On My Traveling Shoes
Van Morrison--Playhouse
Wanda Jackson--I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine
Th' Legendary Shack Shakers--No Such Thing
Ernestine Anderson--Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Marcia Ball--Red Beans; Down the Road (live)
The Meters--Liver Splash
The Joe Jeffrey Group--My Pledge of Love
The (Nat) King Cole Trio--Boogie a La King; You're Looking at Me; Solid Potato Salad
Barbara Lusch--Nature Boy
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Mama Don't Allow It
Janiva Magness--Can't Stop Crying
Delbert McClinton--Hammerhead Stew
Sarah Dougher--Art Lover
Lee Rocker--Race Track Blues
The Previous--Rip It Away
Pavement--Brinx Job
---Retroactive #576--March 4, 2006:
Sarah Harmer--Oleander
Big Mama Thornton--Sweet Little Angel
The A-Bones--Mark of the Squealer
Alice Stuart & the Formerlys--Big Boss Man (live, 2005)
Derek Martin--Soul Power
Paddock Attack--Number
Utah Phillips--Daddy, What's a Train? (live)
Sue Foley--Bad Luck Woman (live)
Evan's Mixed Bag--A Better Place
Roy Brown--Hard Times
Matson Jones--Exes and Ohs
Amy Arena--Excuse Me
Dave Alvin--Wanda and Duane
Drive-By Truckers--Sink Hole
Saffire the Uppity Blues Women--Tom Cat Blues
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--C Jam Blues
Young Marble Giants--Music for Evenings
The Velvet Underground--White Light/White Heat
Lou Reed--Men of Good Fortune (live, 2003)
Angel Corpus Christi--Lou Reed's Hair; Femme Fatale
The Valentinos--It's All Over Now; Baby, Lots of Luck
The Womack Brothers--Somewhere There's a God
Bobby Womack--Check It Out; You're Welcome, Stop On By
---Retroactive #575--February 25, 2006:
Vashti Bunyan--If I Were
Bill Morrissey--Just Before We Lost the War
The Chenille Sisters--Frank Mills (live)
Muddy Waters & Otis Spann--Flood (live)
///Ray Barretto (1929-2006)--A Deeper Shade of Soul
Dizzy Gillespie--Manteca (live, 3/61) (Ray Barretto, percussion)///
Janiva Magness--Don't Let Your Memories
Carl Perkins--Your True Love
Neko Case--Hold On, Hold On
The Shy--I'm Not Alone
Triptych Myth--Frida K. the Beautiful
Bo Dollis with Willie Tee & Dr. John--Street Talk
The Rebirth Brass Band--(I Feel Like) Bustin' Loose
Dirk Hamilton--How Do You Fight Fire
The Mona Reels--Selfish
Camille Howard--Why Did You Do It?
The Jam--Start!
Michelle Shocked--If Not Here
Johnny Cash--In the Jailhouse Now
Fats Domino--Honest Papas Love Their Mamas Better
Scott Askew--A Bucket O'Chicken
Just Plain Bill--It's All Too Much
Sonic Youth--Within You Without You
Dave Specter & Steve Freund--While My Guitar Gently Weeps
George Harrison--Beautiful Girl; Awaiting On You All (live, 8/71)
George Harrison with Leon Russell--Beware of Darkness (live, 8/71)
Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton--Something (live, 11/02)
---Retroactive #574--February 18, 2006:
Toni Price--Not Coming Home (live)
Big Shoulders--I Need Your Help
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--We Can't Agree
Odetta with the Holmes Brothers--Down By the Riverside (live)
Belle & Sebastian--We Are the Sleepyheads
Dion--Built for Comfort
Alice Stuart & the Formerlys--Hard Time Killin' Floor (live, 2/05)
The '5' Royales--Double or Nothing
Steve Khan--Fist In Glove
Otis Blackwell--Daddy Rollin' Stone
Wanda Jackson--Baby Let's Play House
Jerry Lee Lewis--Lovesick Blues
Ian Hunter--Gun Control
Gossip--Listen Up!
Marianne Faithfull--Before the Poison
The Mainliners--The Lonely One
Holly Gwinn Graham--Outsource This!
Buffy Sainte-Marie--The Big Ones Get Away; Guess Who I Saw In Paris
Nina Simone--Love Me or Leave Me; Suzanne
James Carter/Cyrus Chestnut/Ali Jackson/Reginald Veal--Trigger Cut
Irma Thomas--Back Water Blues; Love Don't Change; There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
NRBQ--One Big Parking Lot
The Wondermints--Proto-Pretty
---Retroactive #573--February 11, 2006:
Simon Joyner--Milk
Lynn Miles--8 Hour Drive
Bill Dees--Has Anybody Seen Me Lately
Dinah Washington--Raindrops
Lou & Peter Berryman--Homelessness
Guy Clark--Like a Coat from the Cold
The Meters--Lonesome and Unwanted People
The Dead Reckoners--You Tell Me
Lee Rocker--Say When
Neko Case--Lion's Jaws
Chris Stewart--High Fly
Leo Kottke--Power Failure
The Old Haunts--Walk Through the Woods
Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen--It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
The Minus 5--Out There On the Maroon
Candye Kane--Queen of the Wrecking Ball
Yoko Ono & Ima--New York Woman
Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Wear My Ring; Cruisin'
Gene Vincent--High on Life
Leah Callahan--Valentine
Peter Lipa with Jana Kirschner--Alright, Okay, You Win (live, 3/05)
Nils Lofgren with Bruce Springsteen--Valentine
Bastards of Jazz--Tango Noir
Kathleen Edwards--Pink Emerson Radio
Layla Zoe--What the Body Remembers
The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group--Be My Valentine
Big Maybelle--Goin' Home Baby
Suzy Bogguss with Ray Benson--Cupid Shot Us Both with One Arrow
---Retroactive #572--February 4, 2006:
Red & Miff's Stompers--Davenport Blues
John Renbourn--White House Blues
Caroline Lavelle--Banks of the Nile
Elizabeth Hummel--Flying Dream
Alex Chilton--I Wanna Pick You Up
Big Star--February's Quiet
Elmore James--Got to Move
Wanda Jackson--Trying to Get to You
Cookie & the Cupcakes--Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Al Green--I Want to Hold Your Hand
Evan's Mixed Bag--Day Ride
Jennifer Kimball--Can't Climb Up
John Trudell--Something About You
Wet Willie--Dixie Rock
James Cotton--My Baby
Carole King--Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll)
Joe Ely--She Never Spoke Spanish to Me
The Everly Brothers--Julianne; Medley: Take a Message to Mary/Maybe Tomorrow/I Wonder If I Care as Much
(live, 9/83)
Leo Kottke--Everybody Lies
Mahalia Jackson--I Wonder If I Will Ever Rest
Don Lanphere--There's Something About That Name
Chuck Prophet--Run Primo Run
The Mona Reels--It's Because They Are In Love
Richard Berry & the Lockettes--The Mess Around
---Retroactive #571--January 28, 2006:
---All Michigan Show
Stevie Wonder--I Don't Know Why
Denise James--Come Home to Me
Dee Edwards--(I Can) Deal with That
Ormandy--Good Day
Aretha Franklin--Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)
Eddie Burns--Paradise Valley
The Flaming Ember--Westbound #9
Wayne Kramer--One Piece at a Time
Johnnie Mae Matthews--Gonna Send You Back to Georgia (live, 9/73)
The James Carter Organ Trio--Camille (live, 5/04)
Bettye LaVette--Joy
Scott Morgan--Full of Fire
The Shy--My Father's Son
George Bedard & the Kingpins--Tight Shoes
MC5--Gold
Marshall Crenshaw--Tonight (live, 1987)
Burning Desire--Why She Had to Go
Claudia Schmidt--You Can Call Me Baby
The Detroit Cobras--Slippin' Around
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Shake a Tail Feather
Wilson Pickett--Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
Nolan Strong & the Diablos--Blue Moon
Bob Seger--Turn On Your Lovelight
Barbara Morrison--I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (live)
Geri Allen--A Place of Power
The Marvelettes--Don't Mess With Bill
Marvin Gaye--Pride and Joy
Martha & the Vandellas--You've Been In Love Too Long
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--In Case You Need Love
*Plus: Jack Bruce and Phil Chen on Motown's legendary bassist, James Jamerson, Jr.
---Retroactive #570--January 21, 2006:
Willis--Bourgeois Blues
Cat Power--Could We
Rufus Thomas--Willy Nilly
Doug Robertson & the Good Guys--Quiet Riot
///Prestige Records' Bob Weinstock (1929-2006):
Helen Humes--'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
Mose Allison--Lost Mind///
Buddy Miller--Worry Too Much (live)
Crowsdell--Down
Beat Happening--Bonfire
Sinead O'Connor--Y Mas Gan
Teenage Fanclub--The Town and the City
Odyssey the Band--Channel One
Mystechs--Football Hero
///Wilson Pickett (1941-2006)--It Ain't Easy; Cooke, Cole and Redding
Wilson Pickett with Booker T. & the MGs, the Mar-Key Horns and DJ Magnificent Montague
--The Midnight Hour (live, 1965)///
The Picketts--The Grass May Be Greener
Wanda Jackson--Ain't That Loving You Baby
Lee Rocker--Ramblin'
Ruth Brown--True
Bobby Blue Bland--Save Your Love For Me
Etta James--It Ain't Always What You Do (It's Who You Let See You Do It)
The Persuasions--Man Oh Man
Terri Lyne Carrington--Middle Way
Lucinda Williams--Lafayette; Sweet Side (live, 11/03); Metal Firecracker
--Retroactive #569--January 14, 2006:
Champion Jack Dupree--Poor Boy
Cindy Bullens--January Sky
The Cupons--Turn Her Down
Little Junior's Blue Flames--Sittin' at the Bar
J.B. Lenoir--Alabama Blues
Garland Jeffreys--I May Not Be Your Kind
Laurie Lewis--Train of Love
Richard Thompson--Miss Patsy
James Blood Ulmer--White Man's Jail
The Peter Paulsen Trio--Darktime
Encyclopedia of Fun--Why Can't You Sleep?
The Prowlers--Rock Me Baby
The Young Fresh Fellows--Think Better of Me
Gossip--Lesson Learned
Nick Vigarino/Kathi McDonald--Yardbird
The Sonics--Boss Hoss
Gas Huffer--Goat No Have
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion--Dr. King
Dianne Reeves--The House I Live In (live, 9/05)
The Soul Stirrers--Nearer to Thee
Sam Cooke with King Curtis & his band--Twistin' the Night Away (live, 1/63)
Sam Cooke--Don't Get Around Much Anymore; A Change Is Gonna Come
Matthew Shipp--The Encounter
Jimmy Webb--Sleepin' In the Daytime
The Staple Singers--Long Walk to D.C.
*Plus: Four excerpts of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking against the Vietnam War, 4/4/67
---Retroactive #568--January 7, 2006:
The Griswolds--Call My Job
Dr. John & the Lower 911--Clean Water
Bessie Smith--Down In the Dumps
Mary Lee's Corvette--You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (live, 9/01)
///Lou Rawls (1933-2006)--Morning Comes Around; Dead End Street (with monologue)
Sam Cooke--Bring It On Home to Me (Lou Rawls, harmony vocal)///
The Now Time Delegation--Bert's Apple Crumble
The A-Bones--A-Bomb Bop
The Kinks--Better Things
Layla Zoe--Jungle Room
Hiromi--Love and Laughter
Geeshie Wiley--Last Kind Words Blues
Amos Milburn--Good Good Whiskey
Mem Shannon--No Religion
The Charms--Talk Is Cheap
Carla Thomas--B-A-B-Y (live, 1967)
Jimmy LaFave--Elvis Loved His Mama
Elvis Presley--Tomorrow Night
Toshi Reagon--Heartbreak Hotel
Sandy Denny--I Wish I Was a Fool for You (For Shame of Doing Wrong); King and Queen of England (demo)
Sandy Denny & the Strawbs--All I Need Is You
Susan Cowsill--Who Knows Where the Time Goes
Fairport Convention--She Moves Through the Fair (live, 2/74)
Lafayette Gilchrist--New Jack
The Uptown Horns with Albert Collins--Sugar Melts When It's Wet
The BellRays--They Glued Your Head on Upside Down