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2010 Playlists
---Retroactive #815--December 25, 2010:
Mahalia Jackson--Go Tell It on the Mountain (Apollo version)
Anuna--Riu Riu Chiu
Barry McLoughlin--Christmas Carol
Robin & Linda Williams--On a Quiet Christmas Morn
Pete Droge--On Christmas Day
Stevie Wonder--What Christmas Means to Me
Miss Rose & her Rhythm Percolators--I Want You for Christmas
The Mighty Blue Kings--All I Ask for Christmas
Rich Mullins--You Gotta Get Up
Ted Yoder--Do You Hear What I Hear
Eartha Kitt--Nothin' for Christmas
David Grisman--What Child Is This?
Shelby Lynne--Christmas Time Is Here
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans--The Bells of St. Mary
The Superions--Christmas Tears
Greta Matassa & Clipper Anderson--It's Christmas
Mavis Staples--In Christ There Is No East or West
The Shy--Another Year Gone By
The Butties--God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Ralph Stanley--Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
B.E. Taylor--I Saw Three Ships
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Christmas Spirits
John Prine--Silent Night All Day Long
Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--Little Rubber Boy
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper--Silent Night
Walter Brennan--A Good Year for Christmas
Esquivel--White Christmas
Chuck Cape--Carol of the Drum
The Hentchmen--Come On Santa
Brenda Lee--Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day
The Reigning Sound--That's All I Want
Les Paul--Jingle Bells
Laura Nyro--December's Boudoir
*Plus: Holiday greetings from Vic Dana, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder
---Retroactive #814--December 18, 2010:
Ramblin' Jack Elliott--1913 Massacre
Charlie Louvin--More Than a Name On the Wall
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Gonna Feel Much Better When You're Gone
Topsy Chapman & Lars Edegran--The Christmas Blues
New Havana Rhythm Kings--Joy to the Third World
El Vez--En El Barrio (At Christmas Time) (includes 'Champagne Supernova')
James Booker--Tipitina/Roberta; Black Night (both live)
Professor Longhair--Mean Old World; Junco Partner
Takao Iwaki--Fallin' Chestnuts
The Geisels--Christ, It's Christmas Again
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Time of the Season
Bobby Lloyd (Hicks) & the Skeletons--Do You Hear What I Hear/You Really Got Me
The Damned--There Ain't No Sanity Clause
The Parting Gifts--Bound to Let Me Down
Hollywood Jills--He Makes Me So Mad
///Don Van Vliet (1941-2010):
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Love You, Big Dummy; Fallin' Ditch///
Professor Gall--Whiskey Was the Medicine
Truckstop Honeymoon--Childhood Memories
Nat 'King' Cole--All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Artichoke--The Swarm
Old 97s--Champaign, Illinois
Pharoah Sanders--Greensleeves
Syl Johnson--Everybody Needs Love
Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Silent Night
The Holmes Brothers--Living Well Is the Best Revenge
David Ray--Lonesome Baby Blues
---Retroactive #813--December 11, 2010:
Kermit Ruffins--Happy Talk
///Flautist-saxophonist-composer James Moody (1925-2010)--Travel On
Ernie Royal & his Princes featuring James Moody--A Date With Kate///
Marti Brom--Forbidden Fruit
Jonathan Richman--If You Want to Leave Our Party Just Go
Richard Thompson--Here Comes Geordie (live)
Cathy Saint--Big Bad World
Brenda Lee--The Stroll; Tragedy; Just Because
Chuck Cape--Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
The Sonics--Cinderella
The Shivvers--When I Was Younger
Miss Rose & her Rhythm Percolators--What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin')
The Shy--That's Not Really Christmas
Little Games--Ain't Nothin' But a House Party
Mally Page--Heart and Soul of the Party
Pat Hare--Bonus Pay
Mountain--Taunta (Sammy's Tune)/Nantucket Sleighride
The Greenhornes--Left the World Behind
Eux Autres--Queen Turner
Charlie Rich--Can't Get Right; Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs; I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
Sarah Wilson--Himalayas
Warren Lee--The Uh-Huh
Floyd Smith--Soul Strut
The Now Time Delegation--Handle Me With Care
Samantha Crain--Toothpicks
---Retroactive #812--December 4, 2010:
Eleanor Murray--Scream
Champion Jack Dupree--When I'm Drinkin'
Paul Kelly--I Was Hoping You'd Say That
Junior Wells & the Aces--Messin' With the Kid (live, 1966)
Mavis Staples--You Are Not Alone
Truckstop Honeymoon--Cape Canaveral
Solomon Burke & the Souls Alive Orchestra--Good Rockin' Tonight (live, 5/94)
Joan Armatrading--Woncha Come on Home; You Rope You Tie Me; Show Some Emotion
Philip Glass--Etude No. 10
The Wailers--Mood Elevator
Nora Jean--Untrue Love
///The sick 30th anniversary of John Lennon's murder:
Sagittarius--My World Fell Down
John Lennon--Watching the Wheels (home demo)
Pert Near Sandstone with Ryan Young--I Am the Walrus///
The Barbarellatones--It's All Your Fault!
Pine Leaf Boys--Wild Side of Life
Eden Brent--Let's Boogie-Woogie
Erland & the Carnival--You Don't Have to Be Lonely
Little Richard with the Johnny Otis Orchestra--I Love My Baby
Little Richard with Fishbone--Rock Island Line
Little Richard--Ooh! My Soul!; Long Tall Sally
The Debbie Poryes Quartet--Prayer for a Child
The Decemberists--The Chimbley Sweep
Manfred Mann--Tired of Trying, Bored with Lying, Scared of Dying
Syl Johnson--I've Got to Get Over
The Corin Tucker Band--Half a World Away
---Retroactive #811--November 27, 2010:
Hank Williams--Mind Your Own Business
The Avett Brothers--Nothing Short of Thankful
Marti Brom--Get a Little Goner
The Sonics--The Hustler
Artichoke--Melissa
Janis Martin--Will You Willyum
Superchunk--Rosemarie
James Cotton (Slam Allen, vocal)--Change
Sufjan Stevens--Bad Communication
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Eyes of Green
Joanne Shaw Taylor--Can't Keep Living Like This
Ava Mendoza--The Furious Harpy Who Followed Me Everywhere
Old 97s--The Magician
Dave Specter with David Hidalgo--Rumba and Tonic
///The Jimi Hendrix Birthday Bash:
Tim Rose--Hey Joe
Show of Hands--May This Be Love/One Rainy Wish
Cyril Neville--Foxey Lady
Anni Piper--Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
The Bobs--Purple Haze (live)
Robyn Hitchcock--The Wind Cries Mary (live)
Gil Evans--Up From the Skies (live, 2/80)
John Lee Hooker--Red House
Aynsley Lister--Little Wing (2000 version)
Jimi Hendrix--Valleys of Neptune
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Power to Love (Power of Soul) (live, 1/1/70, first show)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Love or Confusion (alternate recording); Highway Chile///
---Retroactive #810--November 20, 2010:
Vienna Teng--Unwritten Letter #1
Brian Wilson--Someone to Watch Over Me
Eden Brent--Blues All Over
Tuck & Patti--'Deed I Do
The Basin Street Boys--Jumping at the Jubilee
Junior Wells & the Aces--Yonder's Wall (live, 1966)
Erland & the Carnival--My Name Is Carnival
Dr. John--You Swore
Donald Harrison featuring Dr. John--Hu-Ta-Nay
Nelda Swiggett--Salut Ledru Rollin
Samantha Crain--Blueprints
The Barbarellatones--Iggy Pop!
Joe Jackson--I'm the Man
The Greenhornes--Song 13
Lelia Broussard--Shoot for the Moon
Mavis Staples--Only the Lord Knows
Tina Turner--Paradise Is Here; Don't Turn Around
Ike & Tina Turner--A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday);
River Deep-Mountain High (both live, 2/71); Finger Poppin'
The Debbie Poryes Quartet--Lake Dream
Syl Johnson--Try Me (album version)
Deb Callahan--Sun Is Rising
Eddie Cleary--I Don't Care
Can--Oh Yeah
---Retroactive #809--November 13, 2010:
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Sunrise
Antony & the Johnsons--I'm In Love
The Chambers Brothers--Down In the Alley
Hurray for the Riff Raff--Slow Walk
Bryan Ferry--Alphaville
Jesse Winchester--It's a Shame About Him
Little Willie John--Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me; Drive Me Home; Uh Uh Baby
Robin Rogers--I Need Your Love So Bad
Gary U.S. Bonds--Let Them Talk
Oli Brown--Fever
The Budos Band--River Serpentine
Marti Brom--Not for Nothin'
Ann Peebles--I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Graham Parker & the Rumour--Protection
Superchunk--Crossed Wires
Grass Widow--Fried Egg
Neil Young--Peaceful Valley Boulevard; Hitchhiker
Buffalo Springfield--Burned; Flying On the Ground Is Wrong (demo)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse--Piece of Crap
Geri Allen--God's Ancient Sky
Solomon Burke--Everything About You
Queen Sylvia--Too Bad Baby
Raul Malo--Superstar
Janiva Magness--End of Our Road
---Retroactive #808--November 6, 2010:
Charlie Louvin--I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
Mavis Staples--Losing You
Samantha Crain--Religious Wind
Artichoke--The Commune
Bobby Patterson--Busy, Busy Bee
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--I Learned the Hard Way
Syl Johnson--I've Been Talked About
Delbert McClinton & Dick50--Never Saw It Comin'
Delbert McClinton--Under Suspicion
Eden Brent--Right to Be Wrong
The Debbie Poryes Quartet--My Heart Stood Still
The Corin Tucker Band--Handed Love; Thrift Store Coats
Sleater-Kinney--Call the Doctor
The Greenhornes--Underestimator
Junior Wells & the Aces--Feelin' Good (live, 1966)
Tony Joe White--Back to the Country (live, 1971)
Elvis Costello--Five Small Words
Deb Callahan--Gonna Get There
Doug Sahm & Band--Dealer's Blues
The Sir Douglas Quintet--I'm Glad for Your Sake (But I'm Sorry for Mine); Be Real;
You Never Get Too Big and You Sure Don't Get Too Heavy That You Have to Stop and Pay Some Dues Sometime
The Sir Douglas Band--San Francisco FM Blues; Juan Mendoza
The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm--When I Fall In Love
Jessica Williams--Wise One (live, 1/10)
Old 97s--Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You)
Versus--Scientists
Hoodoo Gurus--I Hope You're Happy
---Retroactive #807--October 30, 2010:
---Halloween Show
Eddie Turner--Miracles and Demons, Pt. 1
Robert Pollard--A Constant Strangle
Muddy Waters--I'm Ready
Jeff Beck (Joss Stone, vocal)--I Put a Spell On You
Bill Wright--You Got a Spell On Me
John Anderson--Haunted House
Horatio Lee Jenkins--Drunker Than Satan
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Hawk
///Saxophonist-clarinetist-percussionist Marion Brown (1935-2010)--Introduction (solo improvisation)/
Tokalokaloka///
The Scruffs--Demon Mine
The Cramps--The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon
Fiona Boyes--The Barrelhouse Funeral
Beat Happening--Pajama Party In a Haunted House
The Rezillos--Flying Saucer Attack
The Revillos--Voodoo
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Psycho
Oli Brown--Evil Soul
Professor Gall--Sister Teresa's Albany Cemetary
Eilen Jewell--This Haunted House
Johnny Otis--Castin' My Spell
Garland Jeffreys with Big Youth--Graveyard Rock
Adam Green--Goblin
Ava Mendoza--Penumbra: The Age of Almost Living
Howlin' Wolf--I Ain't Superstitious
Jimmy Durante--We're Going UFOing
The Need--2 Story Girl
The Sugarcubes--Delicious Demon
The Move--Disturbance
---Retroactive #806--October 23, 2010:
---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show
Barbara Dane & Lightnin' Hopkins--Let Me Be Your Rag Doll (live, 6/64)
Hurray for the Riff Raff--Take Me
Antony & the Johnsons--Thank You for Your Love
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Crazy World; Julia's Blues
The Zombies--I Could Spend the Day
Belle & Sebastian--I Want the World to Stop
///Singer-songwriter General (Norman) Johnson (1943-2010):
General Johnson--Patches (live, 6/93)
The Showmen--The Wrong Girl
The Chairmen of the Board--You've Got Me Dangling On a String
(General Johnson not only penned material for his groups the Chairmen and the Showmen. He also co-wrote
Clarence Carter's 'Patches,' Freda Payne's anthemic 'Bring the Boys Home' and the Honey Cone's 'Want Ads')///
Dar Williams--Are You Out There
The Budos Band--Mark of the Untamed
Michael Franti & Spearhead--Listener Supported; The Things That Help Me Get Through
Ted Hawkins--San Francisco; There Stands the Glass (1985 version)
Samantha Crain--Holdin' That Wheel
Little Johnny Christian--I Gotta Sad Feeling
Curtis Salgado--More Love, Less Attitude
James Cotton (Slam Allen, vocal)--Going Down Main Street
The Bar-Kays--Knucklehead
---Retroactive #805--October 16, 2010:
Clay Ross--Zydeco Mondo
Leah & the Moonlighters--I Am Waiting
Mavis Staples--Downward Road
Women--Group Transport Hall
Versus--Cicada
Okkervil River--Singer Songwriter
Raul Malo--Living for Today
Wanda Jackson--Silver Threads and Golden Needles; Fujiyama Mama
Regina Carter--Kothbiro
///Solomon Burke (1940-2010)--Meet Me In Church; Got to Get You Off My Mind (live, 1981);
Medley: Havin' a Party/Amen (live, 1981)///
The Thermals--Not Like Any Other Feeling
Squeeze--Mumbo Jumbo
Girl Haggard--Pick Up Lines
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Get Behind Me
///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bonanza:
Dave Edmunds--Let It Rock (live)
Ann Rabson--School Day
The Rolling Stones--Around and Around
Chuck Berry--The Thirteen Question Method; Almost Grown; Tulane///
Nelda Swiggett--No Tattoo
Robin Rogers--Hittin' on Nothin'
Gary U.S. Bonds--Pour Me
Eilen Jewell--Who Says God Is Dead
Mondo Topless--Nothing Can Bring Me Down
The Chimps--Busy Body (live, 1999)
Amy Rigby--Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again?
---Retroactive #804--October 9, 2010:
///Gospel pioneer Albertina Walker (1929-2010):
Dorothy Norwood featuring Albertina Walker--Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad///
Queen Sylvia--I Know I Ain't Number One
Tail Dragger--So Ezee
Professor Gall--The '50s Are Coming Around Again
Antony & the Johnsons--The Great White Ocean
Janiva Magness--Walkin' In the Sun
Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen--Have You Seen Her Face (live, 11/09)
Peter Himmelman--Georgia Clay
Eddie Turner--Booty Bumpin'
Samantha Crain--Up On the Table
The Pasties--Tonight
James Cotton--With the Quickness
Barbara Lynn--You're the Man
The Corin Tucker Band--Dragon
Bert Wilson & Rebirth featuring James Zitro--Calico Head
///70 minutes of John Lennon-related music for his 70th Birth Anniversary:
The Budos Band--Yad Reppirt (Day Tripper)
Dillard & Clark--Don't Let Me Down
The Beatles--You Really Got a Hold On Me (BBC); Baby You're a Rich Man; Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Morcambe & Wise with the Beatles--Moonlight Bay (12/63)
Bettye LaVette--The Word
Peter Lipa--No Reply
The Feelies--Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)
Isaac Scott--Help!
Sue Garner & Rick Brown--It's So Hard
The Holmes Brothers--I'll Be Back
Dr. Lonnie Smith--Come Together
Laurence Juber--In My Life
J.J. Barnes--Day Tripper
John & Yoko with the Mothers of Invention--Well (Baby Please Don't Go) (live, 6/71)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Isolation
The Plastic Ono Band--Cold Turkey///
*Plus: John Lennon interview clips throughout the second hour of the program
*Note: The show started early (9:40am) due to the unavailability of national programming scheduled for 9am;
Joe Pollock extended his The Road Goes On Forever show (9 to 9:40am) to make up the difference
---Retroactive #803--October 2, 2010:
Eels--I Like the Way This Is Going
Betty Davis--For My Man
The Moondoggies--What Took So Long
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Snake Song
Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Misfire
Wynonie Harris--Everybody Boogie
Ellen McIlwaine--All to You (1973 version); The Secret In This Lady's Heart
The Sadies--Whispering Circles
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez--We Come Up Shining
Geri Allen--Faith Carriers of Life
Eddie Cochran--Cotton Picker; Nervous Breakdown
Gary U.S. Bonds--Whine
Grass Widow--Shadow
Nada Surf--Bye Bye Beautie
The Who--Disguises
Mavis Staples with Donny Gerrard--We're Gonna Make It
Robin Rogers--You Don't Know
Betsy Holt--Few Know
Gil Scott-Heron--Running
Leon Thomas--Take the 'A' Train; A Night In Tunisia
Ava Mendoza--In My Dreams
Charlie Musselwhite--Dig the Pain
Frankie Lee Sims--Lucy Mae Blues
Versus--Into Blue
Chuck Prophet--Doubter of Jesus (All Over You) (live)
Fiona Boyes--City Born Country Girl
Patty Griffin--I Smell a Rat
Jodi Pederson--Stuck In the Middle With You
---Retroactive #802--September 25, 2010:
Marvin Etzioni with Lucinda Williams--Lay It On the Table
Dave Frishberg--Can't Take You Nowhere (live, 9/86)
Don Covay--The Usual Place
Johnny Cash--Guess Things Happen That Way
Ray Condo & his Ricochets--Ice Water
Amos Milburn--Down the Road Apiece
Girl Haggard featuring Hank Sinatra, Jr.--Drunk, Broke and In Love (The Hank Shuffle)
Carlene Carter--Tougher Stuff; Why Be Blue
The Henry Threadgill Zooid--Chairmaster
Swamp Dogg & Riders of the New Funk--Trash
Tara Linda--Never Say Never
Ellen Whyte--Four Way Stop
Alejandro Escovedo--This Bed Is Getting Crowded
Leon Russell--Hummingbird
Samantha Crain--Equinox
Peter Himmelman--Good Luck Charm
The Thermals--I Don't Believe You
///Think About It! Jerry Lee is 75:
Mudcrutch--High School Confidential (live, 5/08)
Wanda Jackson--Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Jerry Lee Lewis with Kid Rock & Slash--Rockin' My Life Away
Jerry Lee Lewis with Keith Richards--Sweet Virginia
Jerry Lee Lewis--Blue Suede Shoes (live, 8/20/66, first show); Keep Your Hands Off Of It (Birthday Cake)///
Jessica Williams--Simple Things (live, 1/10)
Dennis Driscoll--At the Library
Blonde Redhead--Not Getting There
James Cotton (Slam Allen, vocal)--Find Yourself Another Fool
Martha Davis--The Be-Bop Bounce
Marcia Ball--That's Enough of That Stuff (live)
Man or Astro-Man?--Television Fission
---Retroactive #801--September 18, 2010:
Big Charley Bradix--Boogie Like You Wanna
Mavis Staples--Creep Along Moses
Robin Rogers--I Know I Done Wrong
Gary U.S. Bonds--If I Live Through This; Shine On Lovers' Moon
The Budos Band--Black Venom
Cindy Bullens--In a Perfect World
Ray Charles--Joy Ride
Ray Charles & the Raelettes featuring Margie Hendricks--The Right Time
Geri Allen--Flying Toward the Sound
Tommy Facenda--High School USA (Seattle version)
Alex Chilton--The New Girl In School
Dash Rip Rock--Party 101
Chuck Willis--Hang Up My Rock'n'Roll Shoes
Mondo Topless--Left In the Dark
The National--Lemonworld
Eilen Jewell--Whispering Sea
Betsy Holt--Reelin' Down
The Blackberry Bushes--I'm on Fire
Bruce Springsteen--Spare Parts; Viva Las Vegas
Kenny Neal--Down In the Swamp
Dali Blu--Cuz He's In Love With Me
Larry Young--Visions
Ani DiFranco--Both Hands (2007 version); Shameless
Eels--Looking Up
Lowell Fulson--Reconsider Baby
---Retroactive #800--September 11, 2010:
---All '60s Show
Bob Moore & the Temps--Trophy Run
Meep Meep & the Roadrunners--Justine
Gloria Jones--Heartbeat
Jackie DeShannon--Needles and Pins
Creedence Clearwater Revival--Porterville
Joe Tex--I Don't Trust Myself Around You
The Wailers featuring Gail Harris--I Idolize You (live)
Procol Harum--The Devil Came from Kansas
Donovan--Superlungs My Supergirl (1969 version)
The Dells--There Is
Charles Mingus--They Trespass the Land of the Sacred Sioux (live, 9/65)
Bob Dylan--I Shall Be Free-No. 10
Love--She Comes In Colors
James Ray--If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
Maxine Brown--Ask Me
The Castaways--Liar Liar
Family--See Through Windows (BBC)
Roy Head--Drivin' Wheel
Jamo Thomas--I Spy (For the FBI)
B.B. King--Just Like a Woman (Rockin' Twist)
Brother John Witherspoon--That's Enough
Aretha Franklin--Dr. Feelgood
The Move--I Can Hear the Grass Grow
The Beatles--I'm Looking Through You (early take)
The Easybeats--Goin' Out of My Mind
Otis Redding--There Goes My Baby
Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Coo Coo
Sonny Simmons--Interplanetary Travelers
Buffy Sainte-Marie--A Soulful Shade of Blue
The Kinks--Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl
Fairport Convention--Meet on the Ledge
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs--I Couldn't Spell !!*@!
The Sonics--Do You Love Me
*Plus: Excerpts of '60s commercials featuring Peter & Gordon, Jay & the Americans and more
---Retroactive #799--September 4, 2010:
The Blackberry Bushes--Take It
Jerry Lee Lewis with John Fogerty--Bad Moon Rising
Ava Mendoza--Kiss of Fire
Dali Blu--I'm Addicted
Delbert McClinton & Dick50--People Just Love to Talk
Unwound--Everything Is Weird
Peter Himmelman--Sit Tight
Loudon Wainwright III--Central Square Song; Awful Hungry Hash House
Jessica Williams--Gail's Song (live, 1/10)
Betsy Holt--Harp Thing
Eels--The Man
Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore--New Boots
Andre Williams--All I Need
James Talley--Workin' for Wages
Moe Tucker--That's Bad
The Young Fresh Fellows--Mamie Dunn, Employee of the Month
Otis Spann--I'm a Dues Payin' Man
Joe Grushecky (as Joey G.)--Goodbye Steeltown
///The Buddy Holly Birthday Bash:
The Bunch--Learning the Game
Shoes--Words of Love
Tav Falco's Panther Burns--Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Tell Me How
Buddy Holly--Crying, Waiting, Hoping (apartment demo); Take Your Time; Everyday///
Nelda Swiggett--Jack and the Key Boo Ba
Tara Linda--Leavin' Texas (Drivin' Slow)
Sleater-Kinney--Start Together
The Len Price 3--Pictures
---Retroactive #798--August 28, 2010:
Samantha Crain--Lions
Fats Domino--You Can Pack Your Suitcase
The OK Jazz Band--Houlala Yo Okanisaka
John Prine--Fish and Whistle
Jennifer Kimball--Lightning Bugs
Diane Marino with Felix Cavaliere--Groovin'
Nina Simone--Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
Dinah Washington--I Wish I Knew the Name of the Boy; There's Got to Be a Change; Darn That Dream (live, 8/54)
Sonny Simmons--City of David
Teenage Fanclub--When I Still Have Thee
The Meters--You've Got to Change (You've Got to Reform)
Bobby Bare, Jr.--Your Goat Is on Fire
Filligar--Not Gonna Settle
Eilen Jewell--You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
Raul Malo/Pat Flynn/Rob Ickes/Dave Pomeroy--Bright Side of the Road
Them--My Lonely Sad Eyes
Van Morrison--A Town Called Paradise; Cul de Sac; You Make Me Feel So Free
Richard Davis & friends--Manhattan Safari (live, 8/90)
Ali Milner--Crystal Clear
The Young Veins--Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't
NRBQ--It's a Wild Weekend
Dakota Staton--That's No Joke
Oli Brown--Makes Me Wonder
---Retroactive #797--August 21, 2010:
///Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010) & Hank Jones--Angel Face; The Jitterbug Waltz
(Pianist Hank Jones passed away earlier in 2010)///
Alejandro Escovedo with Ian Hunter--Down In the Bowery
Tara Linda--Virtual Love Disaster (Donde Estabas?)
*Was my computer keyboard made in Arizona or something? I could really use
inverse punctuation marks and a tilde that's above the letter 'n'
JJ Grey & Mofro--All
Mose Allison--Look Here
The Clash--Capital Radio One; Capital Radio Two
Joe Strummer--It's a Rockin' World
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Bhindi Bhagee; Silver and Gold (Before I Grow Too Old)
Takao Iwaki--White Sands
The Casual Dots--Clocks
Carl Perkins--Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
Sarah Borges--Miss Mary
Charlie Musselwhite--Sonny Payne Special
All That--Wolf's Remedy
Spanky Wilson & the Quantic Soul Orchestra--Blood from a Stone
Bill Kirchen with Elvis Costello--Man In the Bottom of the Well
Elvis Costello & Mary Coughlin--Mischievous Ghost
Richard Hell & the Voidoids with Elvis Costello--You Gotta Lose (live, CBGB, 1978)
Elvis Costello--So Like Candy; Lovable
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Temptation
Jessica Williams--Soldaji (live, 1/10)
Marvin Etzioni & Maria McKee--You Possess Me
JW-Jones--Love Grows Cold
Doris Troy--Special Care
Renaldo Domino--Let Me Come Within
---Retroactive #796--August 14, 2010:
Booker T. & the MGs--Hip Hug-Her
Thea Gilmore--Seen It All Before
David Hidalgo & Louie Perez--Til the Hands Fall Off the Clock
Luther Allison--Please Send Me Someone to Love (live, 9/72)
Mike & Ruthy--Covered
Arcade Fire--City With No Children
Eilen Jewell--You Wanna Give Me a Lift
Todd Snider--Play a Train Song
Matt Jorgensen--Dialogue 2008
///JBs guitarist Phelps 'Catfish' Collins (1944-2010):
James Brown--Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved; Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine///
Dali Blu--Shake Me Up
The Books--I Am Who I Am
MC5--Poison
Samantha Crain--Two-Sidedness
The National--Bloodbuzz Ohio
John Hiatt--She Loves the Jerk; Rock Back Billy
John Hiatt & the Goners--Almost Fed Up With the Blues
Nick Lowe & his Cowboy Outfit--She Don't Love Nobody
Lou Ann Barton--Pink Bedroom
Raful Neal with Tab Benoit--Feels Like Rain
Nelda Swiggett--Mere Madness
Bobby Bare, Jr.--Jesus Sandals
Dash Rip Rock--Meth Lab Girl
---Retroactive #795--August 7, 2010:
Troy Turner--Brand New Cadillac
The Goodies (NY)--Sophisticated Boom Boom
Phil Alvin--County Fair
///Steel guitarist-instrumentalist Ben Keith (1937-2010):
Patsy Cline--Shoes; I Fall to Pieces
Neil Young--Here for You; Tired Eyes///
Shemekia Copeland--Circumstances
Andre Williams--Tricks
John Nilsen--Places I Go
Geoff Muldaur--Bad Feet
Geoff & Maria Muldaur--Cordelia
Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett--Sloppy Drunk
Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks--Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away
Georgia Anne Muldrow with Dudley Perkins--Summer Love
The Young Veins--Change
Blonde Redhead--Futureism vs. Passeism, Pt. 2
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--Come Saturday
The Ronettes--Chapel of Love
Ronnie Spector (as Veronica)--Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love
Ronnie Spector--Don't Worry Baby; Dynamite
Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics--Spirit Jazz
Big Jim Sullivan with Maggie Bell--Blind Man
///Guitarist-vocalist Phillip Walker (1937-2010)--Don't Be Afraid of the Dark///
Alejandro Escovedo--Silver Cloud
The Nerves--Paper Dolls
---Retroactive #794--July 31, 2010:
Michelle Shocked--Other People
Otis Taylor--Ain't No Cowgirl
Teenage Fanclub--Into the City
Memphis Minnie--Million Dollar Blues
Hans Chew--New Cypress Grove Boogie
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--Who Painted Whistler's Mother
The Pussycats--Dressed In Black
Shakura S'aida--Chasing the Sun
Todd Rundgren--Mad
Andreas Oberg--Papa Gato
Elliott Smith--No Name #1; Between the Bars
The Thermals--Ballad of Big Nothing
Lee Ritenour with Keb' Mo' & Taj Mahal--Am I Wrong
The Plimsouls--Hush Hush (live, 10/81)
Guided By Voices--Things I Will Keep
The Halo Benders--Don't Touch My Bikini
Hank Williams--Honky Tonkin' (MGM version)
Stephen Malkmus--Mama
Mary Chapin Carpenter--The Way I Feel
Margaret Johnson with Clarence Williams' Blue Five--Changeable Daddy of Mine
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines--Weather Bird
Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars--Back O' Town Blues (live, 5/47)
The Guiseppi Logan Quintet--Bop Dues
Shirley Ellis--The Nitty Gritty
John Nemeth--Name the Day
Bobby Bare, Jr.--Swollen But Not the Same
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--The Lowlife
The Clique--Superman
The Vipers featuring Deb Cleveland--Wild Women Don't Get the Blues
---Retroactive #793--July 24, 2010:
---KAOS Membership Drive Show
Deer Tick--Mange
Carl Holmes & the Commanders--Crossin' Over
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere with Aria Cavaliere--I Can't Stand It
The Young Veins--Take a Vacation!
Tennessee Ernie Ford--Catfish Boogie
Holly Golightly--I Hear You
Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Do You Mean It
Mitch Woods--Can't Stop Lovin' You
Alejandro Escovedo--Tender Heart
Mark Egan--Frog Legs
Shelby Lynne--Alibi
The Sadies--Idle Tomorrows
Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore--Dead and Lovely
Andre Williams--Just Call Me
Janiva Magness--I Want to Do Everything for You
Gregg Tripp--Time
Karen Lovely--Ask Your Heart
Gil Scott-Heron--On Coming from a Broken Home, Pt. 1
Steve James--Factory Girl
The Rolling Stones--Dancing In the Light
The Rolling Stones with Buddy Guy--Champagne and Reefer (live, 11/06)
Buddy Guy--The Things That I Used to Do (live, 1979); My and My Guitar; Texas Flood
---Retroactive #792--July 17, 2010:
Shakura S'aida--Missing the Good and the Bad
The Holmes Brothers--Edge of the Ledge
The Scruffs--Curse of the Mau Mau
Jeff Whatley--One Summer Day
The Marcels--Summertime
Christine Kittrell--Call His Name
///Songwriter-singer Hank Cochran (1935-2010):
Ray Price--If She Could See Me Now
Timi Yuro--She's Got You///
Denise LaSalle--Goin' Through Changes; One More Wrong Step
The Andrew Oliver Sextet--Inattentive Attendant
Women--Black Rice
The Rondelles--Do It for Me
Marvin Etzioni with John Doe--The Grapes of Wrath
John Nemeth--Breakin' Free
Cocktail Slippers--In the City
Commander Cody--Last Call for Alcohol
Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen--Riot In Cell Block #9; Too Much Fun (both live, 11/73); Wine Do Yer Stuff
Amy Rigby--Rode Hard
Cyril Neville--Tipitina
Roosevelt Sykes--Runnin' the Boogie
Regina Carter--Day Dreaming on the Niger
Truckstop Honeymoon--Bargain Hunting
Willie Buck--Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Anni Piper--Great Big Baby
---Retroactive #791--July 10, 2010:
///Harvey Fuqua (1929-2010):
Harvey & the Moonglows--Ten Commandments of Love
Etta James & Harvey Fuqua--Hope You're Satisfied///
Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks--All By Myself
Joules Graves--Wildcat
Silver Jews--Smith and Jones Forever
Sam & Dave--Toe Hold
Woody Guthrie--Talking Fishing Blues; Hobo's Lullaby
Joel Rafael--Sierra Blanca Massacre
Charlie Hunter--Tout Ce Qui Brille Ne Pas
Tracy Nelson--It Hurts Me Too (live)
Joy of Cooking--Brownsville (single version)
Alejandro Escovedo--Tula
The Skeletons--Primitive (live, 7/90)
Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Social--Burn Bridges
Wanda Jackson--Honey Bop
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere--Midnight Flyer
Betsy Holt--Warm Wind; Walkin' Down the Line (KAOS performance, 2/12/00)
Roger McGuinn--Draggin'
The Byrds--Wild Mountain Thyme; I See You; Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
Sonny Simmons--A Distant Voice
The National--Little Faith
Big Maybelle--Yellow Dog Blues
Peter Wolf Crier--Crutch and Cane
Elvin Bishop--Blues Cruise
---Retroactive #790--July 3, 2010:
Mitch Woods--Big Mamou
Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers--I've Got a Feelin'
Joanna Newsome--Occident
The Band--Look Out Cleveland
The Wild Magnolias--Life Is a Carnival
Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Hillbilly Blues Ball
Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Part Time Love
Clayton Watson & the Silhouettes--Summertime
///Saxophonist-composer Fred Anderson (1929-2010)--21st Century Chase, Pt. 1 (live, 3/09)///
Greg Brown--Oily Boys; Better Days (both live)
The Servicemen--Right Around the Corner
The Sadies--Tell Her What I Said
Aimee Mann--4th of July
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--Young Adult Friction
John Trudell with Quiltman, Madeline & Bark--Look at Us/Peltier-AIM Song
Ringo Starr--Everybody Wins
Bettye LaVette--It Don't Come Easy
Deer Tick--Hand In My Hand
Andre Williams--America
Regina Carter--Kanou
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Tamburitza Boogie; Inflation Blues
Marvin Etzioni with Buddy Miller--Living Like a Hobo
Delaney & Bonnie--Just Plain Beautiful
NRBQ--You Can't Hide
---Retroactive #789--June 26, 2010:
Little Anthony & the Imperials--I'm On the Outside (Looking In)
The National--Sorrow
Davie Allan & the Arrows--The Unknown Rider
Franciene Thomas--I'll Be There
///Shirley Syrja (1930-2010): My extraordinary Mother brought me a world of gifts,
but how to appreciate the beauty of music has to be near the top. I love you, Mom.
Frank Sinatra with Antonio Carlos Jobim--One Note Samba
Frank Sinatra--Cycles
Keely Smith--The Music Stopped///
Claude Bourbon--Summertime
Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band--Wrapped Tight
Sonny Simmons--Metamorphosis
Cyril Neville--Ayiti
Karen Lovely--That's Cold
Ian Hunter--Babylon Blues
Women--Shaking Hand
Peter Wolf Crier--Hard as Nails
1990s--I Don't Even Know What That Is
///The Willie Dixon Songbook:
The Big Three Trio--My Love Will Never Die
Otis Rush--I Can't Quit You Baby
Willie Buck--I Live the Life I Love
Linda Hornbuckle--I Just Want to Make Love to You (live, 1993)
Willie Dixon--Study War No More
Howlin' Wolf--Built for Comfort
Othar Turner & the Rising Fife & Drum Band--My Babe
PJ Harvey--Wang Dang Doodle (BBC)///
One for All--So Soon
Too Slim & the Taildraggers--Western Man
The Young Fresh Fellows--Go Blue Angels Go
The Blue Things--High Life
---Retroactive--June 19, 2010:
Austin Potter guest hosted. Don't miss Catch a Wave
on KAOS every Monday night, 6 to 8pm (Pacific Time/U.S.).
Austin's wife, Ashley, is the alternating host. Hear KAOS
programs as they happen online at www.kaosradio.org
---Retroactive--June 12, 2010:
Joe Pollock was the guest host. Catch Joe's work from 6 to 9am Saturdays on KAOS'
The Road Goes On Forever. He is also on most editions of American Anecdotes (Thursday
evenings, 6 to 8pm, Pacific Time/U.S.)
---Retroactive #788--June 5, 2010:
Jackie Barrett--One Way Mirror
Kacey Johansing--Spider Song
The Sadies--Cut Corners
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Mama Don't Like My Man
Bettye LaVette--All My Love
Nada Surf--Question
Jeff Whatley--The Circle
Janiva Magness--Slipped, Tripped and Fell In Love
Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Social--St. Mark's Sunset
Josh Rzepka--Three for Me
Deer Tick--Piece By Piece and Frame By Frame
Sonia & Disappear Fear--Call Me Sonia
Elvin Bishop with John Nemeth--Neighbor Neighbor
Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Mr. Lies
Bill Kirchen--Bump Wood
Curtis Mayfield--Only You Babe; I Mo Git U Sucka; (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go
The Impressions--I'm the One Who Loves You; Fool for You
Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens--Two Cities
Steve Forbert--The Oil Song 2010
*Thanks to everyone who comforted me upon the loss of my mother, Shirley, on this day
---Retroactive #787--May 29, 2010:
---All Texas Show
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies--Fan It
The Chuck Wagon Gang--We Are Climbing
The Asylum Street Spankers--Down By the Riverside (live, 2006)
Freddie King--Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Townes Van Zandt--Katie Belle (live, 2/95)
Steve Earle--Rake
Terri Hendrix--Soul of My Soul
Guy Clark--All She Wants Is You
The Light Crust Doughboys--Blue Guitars
Guthrie Kennard--Another Day, Another Dollar
Sunny & the Sunliners--Please Mr. Sandman
Lou Ann Barton--High Time We Went
Spoon--Written In Reverse
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River--Please, Judge
Johnny Fallin--Cradle Rock
The Bobby Fuller Four--Bodine
Ray Wiley Hubbard--Down Home Country Blues
Patty Griffin--Move Up
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--St. Louis Blues
Asleep at the Wheel--Choo Choo Ch-Boogie (live)
T-Bone Walker--Party Girl
Buddy Holly--Peggy Sue Got Married (apartment demo)
Keri Leigh & the Blue Devils--On My Way (Goin' Home)
Delbert McClinton--Honky Tonkin' (I Guess I Done Me Some)
Mingo Saldivar--Ring of Fire (live, 7/00)
Adolph Hofner & his San Antonians--Cotton Eyed Joe
Augie Meyers & the Western Head Band--Come On Baby (live, 1975)
The Sir Douglas Quintet--Preach What You Live, Live What You Preach
Kelly Willis--Success
Joe Ely--Sue Me Sue
---Retroactive #786--May 22, 2010:
Kate Campbell--Walk Among Stones
Sandman--Beauty Myth (live)
Andre Williams--When Love Shoots You In the Foot
Janiva Magness--Your Love Made a U-Turn
Ray Charles--Baby Don't You Cry
The Sadies--Another Day Again
Jeff Whatley--New Inspiration
The Scruffs--iPod Girl
Karen Lovely--I've Had Enough
Gil Scott-Heron--Me and the Devil
One for All--Spirit Waltz
The Fall--Cowboy George
Silje Karlsen--Dig Out Your Soul
The Guiseppi Logan Quintet--Steppin'
///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash:
Ben Sidran--All I Really Want to Do
The Bel-Airs with Henry Clay & the Hennessy Brothers--Everything Is Broken
Dave's True Story--You're a Big Girl Now
Howard Tate--Girl from the North Country
Jimmy LaFave--Emotionally Yours
Mary Lou Lord--Eternal Circle
Nob Dylan & his Nobsoletes--From a Buick 6
Buddy & Julie Miller--Wallflower
Mike Seeger & Bob Dylan--The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Bob Dylan--Foot of Pride; It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding; Can't Escape from You///
---Retroactive #785--May 15, 2010:
She & Him--Brand New Shoes
Eddie Floyd--Don't Rock the Boat
The Servicemen--Are You Angry
///Lena Horne (1917-2010)--As Long As I Live; Love Me or Leave Me; Come On Strong///
Wynonie Harris--Luscious Woman
Glen Glenn--If I Had Me a Woman
Andrea Marr--Soulville
Spoon--Out Go the Lights
Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens--Big News
Lee Dorsey--Feelin'
The Apples In Stereo--Dignified Dignitary
Bill Kirchen--I Don't Work That Cheap
Little Willie John--Sleep
Robin Lane--Surf's Up
Man or Astro-Man?--Man Made of CO2
Brinsley Schwarz--Everybody
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Tough Lover
Nada Surf--Bright Side
Cadallaca--The Trouble With Public Places
The Rising Sons--Take a Giant Step
Taj Mahal--Chevrolet; Corrina
Taj Mahal with Angelique Kidjo--Zanzibar
Booker Ervin--Mojo
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Treat Me Right
Guthrie Kennard--Cross That Line
Pieta Brown--Shake
Buckwheat Zydeco--Buckwheat Music
LaVern Baker--He's a Real Gone Guy
---Retroactive #784--May 8, 2010:
Joseph Spence--Good Morning Mr. Walker
Claudia Schmidt & her Funtet--I Don't Know
///Vocalist Norman Wright (1937-2010):
The Dell-Vikings--Come Go With Me///
Helene Smith--The Pot Can't Talk About the Kettle
The Pentagons--It's Spring Again
The Sadies--Postcards
The Holmes Brothers--Something Is Missing
///Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell (1918-2010):
Ernie Harwell--A Game for All America (A Definition of Baseball)///
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Without a Heart
Family--Burlesque
The Yaron Herman Trio--Rina Balle
Gil Scott-Heron--I'm New Here
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River--Goodbye Sweet Dreams
Karen Lovely--Older Fool
Flamin Groovies--Yeah My Baby
Jerry Lee Lewis--It'll Be Me (single version)
Janis Martin--Hard Times Ahead
The Len Price 3--Under the Thumb
///Stevie Wonder Is 60:
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--'Cause We've Ended As Lovers
Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder--For Once In My Life
Stevie Wonder--Fingertips, Pts. 1 & 2 (live); Looking for Another Pure Love; Love Light In Flight///
The Henry Threadgill Zooid--To Undertake My Corners Open
Janiva Magness--The Devil Is an Angel
Solomon Burke--Letter from My Darling
---Retroactive #783--May 1, 2010:
Silje Karlsen--Pills for Love
Nada Surf--Electrocution
Jimmie Dale Gilmore--99 Holes
Thee Midniters--It'll Never Be Over for Me
Dinah Washington--Baby Get Lost (live, 7/50)
Eric 'Two Scoops' Moore--Fat Daddy
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Wait
The Wailers--Mercy Mercy
Cracked Ice--Sweet Feeling
The Guiseppi Logan Quintet--Around
Bob Seger--Back In '72; I've Been Workin'
Mecca Normal--Sha La La La La
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--Harlem By the Sea
Alberta Adams--Born With the Blues
John Mellencamp with Pat Peterson--Cold Sweat
James Brown & the Famous Flames--Lost Someone/Please, Please Please; Night Train (all three live, 10/62)
Steve Earle & the Dukes--Dead Flowers (live)
Georgia Anne Muldrow--Indeed
The Fall--Hot Cake
The Antonio Ciacca Quintet with Steve Grossman--Lagos Blues
The Servicemen--I Need a Helping Hand
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Kill My Baby
Betty Davis--Shut Out the Light
Adam Green--Stadium Soul
---Retroactive #782--April 24, 2010:
The Polyphonic Spree--It's the Sun (live)
Memphis Minnie--Shout the Boogie
Guy Clark--The Guitar
Pieta Brown--Other Way Around
Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Learn How to Let Go (live, 2009)
The Apples In Stereo--Hey Elevator
Roy Orbison & the Teen Kings--Rockhouse
Roy Orbison--Running Scared; Falling
Archie Shepp--Le Matin des Noire (live, 1965)
Laura Cantrell--Do You Ever Think of Me
Junior Parker--Sometimes
The Len Price 3--Man Who Used to Be
The Chesterfield Kings--Johnny Volume
The Daily Flash--Jack O'Diamonds
Quasi--Little White Horse
Roy Brown--Rockin' at Midnight
Weston Prim--Get That Feelin'
Sonia & Disappear Fear--Gimme the Keys
Gil Scott-Heron--The Crutch
Chick Webb & his Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald--Undecided
Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots--Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)
Ella Fitzgerald--Mack the Knife; How High the Moon (both live, Berlin, 2/60)
Martin Taylor--Blues for Mr. T
Carrie Newcomer--A Crash of Rhinoceros
Joe Bonamassa--When the Fire Hits the Sea
Janiva Magness--(I'm) Feeling Good
Little Jimmy King--Strange Brew
Kay Adams with BR5-49--Mama Was a Rock (Daddy Was a Rollin' Stone)
---Retroactive #781--April 17, 2010
---Sixteenth Anniversary Show: Look out! We've got our drivers license
Clive Gregson--Secondhand Car
Link Wray & the Ray Men--Drag Race
She & Him--Ridin' In My Car
Plastic Bertrand--Ca Plane Pour Moi
Lucinda Williams---Howlin' at Midnight
The Holmes Brothers--I Believe You I Think
The Soul Tempters--Truckin'
Joe Clay--My Car's Allright
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Give It Back
Adam Green--What Makes Him Act So Bad
Alex Hargreaves--April Joy
The Mark IV--Ah-Ooo-Gah
The Corn Sisters--She's Leaving Town (live, 5/98)
Speckled Red--The Dirty Dozen
Arthur Conley--Funky Street
Joe Ely--Road Hawg
Francine Reed--455 Rocket
Georgia Anne Muldrow--Simple Advice
Jimi Hendrix (Mitch Mitchell, vocal)--Cat Talking to Me
Sandman & Camo--'64 Rambler (live)
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River--Bring Back the Past
Girl Trouble--Sister Mary Motorcycle
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Rocker
The Seven Stooges--I Wanna Be Your Dog
Iggy Pop--Nice to Be Dead
(Iggy &) the Stooges--Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
Fred Anderson--21st Century Chase, Pt. 2 (live, 3/09)
The Bonnie Sisters--Cry Baby
Jimmy Witherspoon--Money's Gettin' Cheaper (1963 version of 'Times Gettin' Tougher')
The Electric Prunes--Get Me to the World On Time
Graham Parker--Sweet Sixteen (live, solo)
---Retroactive #780--April 10, 2010:
---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show
Pieta Brown--El Guero (EP version)
Mose Allison--Ask Me Nice
Eugene Hideway Bridges--Little Boy Blue (live, 2009)
Drive-By Truckers--The Wig He Made Her Wear
Pisces--Like a Hole In the Wall Where the Rat Lives
The Apples In Stereo--The Code/Dream About the Future
Janiva Magness--I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Jim Lockhart--Boogie Woogie Baby
Al Green--So Good to Be Here; Look What You Done for Me
Shaun Murphy--Rock'n'Roll Everynight
Eric 'Two Scoops' Moore--It Hurts to Be In Love
The Len Price 3--Mr. Grey
B.B. King--Recession Blues
Buffy Sainte-Marie--No No Keshagesh
Peter Wolf--I Don't Wanna Know
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Scared
Patty Larkin with Lucy Kaplansky--Tango (2010 version)
Richard Berry--Yama Yama Pretty Mama
Zora Young--Travelin' Light (1991 version)
Sonic Youth--Leaky Lifeboat
---Retroactive #779--April 3, 2010:
///Herb Ellis (1921-2010) with the Oscar Peterson Trio--Naptown Blues
Billie Holiday--I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry for Me); What a Little Moonlight Can Do
(both are 1954 versions with Herb Ellis on guitar)///
Marc Benno--Too Bad You're No Good
Lyres--Someone Who'll Treat You Right Now
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--She Ain't a Child No More
Muddy Waters--Honey Bee; Walking Thru the Park
Claudia Schmidt & her Funtet--Missy Ma'am
Alex Hargreaves--Shasta
The Baseball Project--Gratitude (For Curt Flood)
The Holmes Brothers--Rounding Third
The Bobbettes--Mr. Lee
Count Basie with Taps Miller--Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
The Eyes--The Immediate Pleasure
The Tone Benders--Little Black Egg
Willie Nix--Try Me One More Time
Peter Case--Every 24 Hours
Richard Thompson--I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (live, solo, 1/82); My Soul, My Soul;
Orange-Coloured Sky (live)
Richard & Linda Thompson--Calvary Cross (live, 11/75)
Tiny Grimes & J.C. Higginbotham--Air Mail Special
Karen Carroll--I'm Glad
Chaka Khan--Foolish Fool
---Retroactive #778--March 27, 2010:
///Marva Wright (1948-2010)--Driving Wheel; Crazy///
Mose Allison--Some Right, Some Wrong
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Rules of Engagement
///The Alex Chilton (1950-2010) Tribute, Pt. 2:
Big Star--The Ballad of El Goodo (live, 1974); You Get What You Deserve
Lisa Burns--Soul Deep
The Replacements--Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton--Paradise; Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere; What's Your Sign, Girl///
Fred Anderson--Ode to Alvin Fielder (live, 3/09)
Sarah Vaughan--Black Coffee (live, 7/63)
Sunnyland Slim--Baby How Long (How Long Blues)
The Len Price 3--If You Live Round Here
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Ain't No Good
Patty Griffin with Regina McCrary & Ann McCrary--If I Had My Way
The Neville Brothers--Mojo Hannah (live, 9/82)
Nick Lowe--All Men Are Liars; Big Hair; American Squirm
Brinsley Schwarz--Silver Pistol
Janiva Magness--Homewrecker
Rockpile--Teacher Teacher
Matthew Shipp--Jazz Paradox
Patty Larkin with Peter Mulvey--Booth of Glass (2010 version)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Mystic Eyes (live, 10/06)
*Plus: Jim Cameron's WLIR-FM 1974 interview with Alex Chilton & Big Star
---Retroactive #777--March 20, 2010
---All '60s Show
John Fahey (as Blind Thomas)--Wanda Russell's Blues
Betty James--I'm a Little Mixed Up
Patty Lace & the Petticoats--Sneaky Sue
///The Alex Chilton (1950-2010) Tribute, Pt. 1:
The Box Tops--Choo Choo Train; People Gonna Talk///
Margo Guryan--The 8:17 Northbound Success Merry-Go-Round (demo)
The Hollies--Tell Me to My Face
Biff Rose--Ballad of Cliches
Reverend Lonnie Farris--Peace In the Valley
Yusef Lateef's Detroit--That Lucky Old Sun
Aretha Franklin--Money Won't Change You
The Chicago Loop--(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me
Ray Charles--Let's Go Get Stoned
The Chantels--Well, I Told You So
The Small Faces--Hey Girl
The Beatles--Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Sandie Shaw--Tomorrow
Sly & the Family Stone--Sing a Simple Song
The Camelots--Don't Leave Me Baby
Ike & Tina Turner--What Do You Think I Am
The Standells--Try It
The Rationals--Sunset
Kay Bell & the Tuffs--(The Original) Surfer's Stomp
The Soul Agents--Mean Woman Blues
The Kinks--Holiday In Waikiki
Jimi Hendrix--Mr. Bad Luck
Sarah James & the Soul Babies--Takin' Care of Business
Wilson Pickett--She's Lookin' Good
Lou Donaldson--It Might As Well Be Spring
Wynn Stewart--Another Day, Another Dollar
Johnny C. & the Blazes--Inferno
Irma Thomas--Breakaway
*Plus: Product jingles from the Box Tops & the Chicago Loop; one of the many Vox wah-wah pedal ads
---Retroactive #776--March 13, 2010:
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers--Good-bye Booze
Meade Lux Lewis--Whistlin' Blues
Patty Larkin with Martin Sexton--Lately (2010 version)
Downchild--I Need a Hat
Andrea Marr--Don't Touch What You Can't Afford
Robert Ward--Your Love Is Real
Human Switchboard--I Can Walk Alone
Spoon--Trouble Comes Running
Marcia Ball/Irma Thomas/Tracy Nelson--He's Mine
Freda & the Firedogs--Be Real
Marcia Ball--Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse--Levitation
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem--The Moonshiner (live)
The Ramones--I Remember You
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Sheena's Back
Shaun Murphy--Come to Mama
Ducks Deluxe--Fireball
Ry Cooder--Can I Smoke In Here?; Tamp 'Em Up Solid; Money Honey
David Lindley & Ry Cooder--Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse
Mavis Staples--The Mississippi River
The Tom Baker Quartet--Diminutive
Hal Harris--I Don't Know When
Suzanne Vega--(If You Were) In My Movie (2010 version)
Tail Dragger & his Chicago Blues Band--Keep It to Yourself (live, 3/09)
---Retroactive #775--March 6, 2010:
Joanna Newsom--'81
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--So Far So Fast
BoDeans--Feel 'Lil Love
///Ron Banks (1951-2010) & the Dramatics--Highway to Heaven
The Dramatics--Toast to the Fool; And I Panicked///
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--Almonjoi
The Leaves--Dr. Stone
The Len Price 3--Nothing Like You
The David Widelock Trio--Chitchat
Asleep at the Wheel--Fat Boy Rag
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Swing Blues; Sugar Blues; I Had Someone Else Before I Had You
Mose Allison--I Know You Didn't Mean It
Camille Howard--Sundays With You
The Holmes Brothers--You're the Kind of Trouble
The Crowd Scene--Candy Says
Angel Corpus Christi--Disco Mystic
Lou Reed--The Blue Mask; Power and Glory; Leave Her Johnny
The Velvet Underground--Ferryboat Bill
Roy Haynes--Remember
The Scruffs--Conquer Me
Guitar Shorty--Slow Burn
---Retroactive #774--February 27, 2010:
Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw & his Orchestra--Comes Love
Chick Willis--Love to See You Smile
The Pillbugs--Merely Stacking Chairs
Jack Rose--Everybody Ought to Pray Sometime
The Hot Club of Cowtown--One Step Closer
Eels--Mansions of Los Feliz
Faye Adams--Anything for a Friend
Jason & the Scorchers--Beat On the Mountain
Josh Rzepka--Song for a New Year
Leon Russell--Beware of Darkness
George Harrison--Sue Me, Sue You Blues; Fish on the Sand
The Beatles--If I Needed Someone
Bikini Kill--Capri Pants
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Reform School Girl
Luke Jones--Shufflin' Boogie
Tail Dragger & his Chicago Blues Band--Ooh Baby Hold Me (live, 3/09)
Scott Askew--Another Bone
Big Maybelle--Ring Dang Dilly
Floyd Red Crow Westerman--Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Johnny Cash--Redemption Day; The Story of a Broken Heart; The One On the Right Is On the Left
Carlene Carter--Ring of Fire
The Virginia Mayhew Septet--Spring Is Not Here
Ray Wiley Hubbard--Loose
Taj Mahal--Never Let You Go
---Retroactive #773--February 20, 2010:
Nina Simone--The Family; Work Song (1966 version)
Grizzly Bear--Southern Point
///Doug Fieger (1952-2010):
Was (Not Was) featuring guest vocalist Doug Fieger--Smile
Sky--Make It Tight///
Clifton Chenier--Choo Choo Ch-Boogie
Queen Ida & her Zydeco Band--Back Door
Buffy Sainte-Marie--To the Ends of the World; Babe In Arms
The Holmes Brothers--Dark Cloud
Hadley Caliman--Cigar Eddie
Rosie Flores--Little Bit More
'Cripple' Clarence Lofton--Streamline Engine
The Eyes--You're Too Much
The Len Price 3--I Don't Believe You
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--Sweet Pea
///Drummer Richard Delvy (1942-2010):
The Bel-Airs--Mr. Moto///
Rockin' Dopsie--Zyde-Cool
Shirley & Lee--Deed I Do (I'll Do It)
James Booker--On the Sunny Side of the Street (live, 11/77)
///Dale Hawkins (1936-2010); Susie-Q; Wildcat Tamer///
Shaun Murphy--Livin' the Blues
Henry Gray--My Girl Josephine
Fats Domino--Goin' Home; The Rooster Song; Walking to New Orleans
Matthew Shipp--Blue Web In Space
Carrie Newcomer--Coy Dogs
Sugar Blue--Trouble
---Retroactive #772--February 13, 2010:
Simon Joyner--Robin Hood
Justin Townes Earle--Down In the Valley
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix with Miss Marie--In My Secret Life
Irma Thomas--You Can Have My Husband (But Don't Mess With My Man) (live, 4/76);
Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You) (live, 8/90)
Taj Mahal--TV Mama
The Marvelettes--Locking Up My Heart
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band--Healing; Waiting for the D Train
Igor Bril & the All-Star Soviet Jazz Band--Recorda-Me (live, 11/88)
Spoon--Is Love Forever?
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Baby You Crazy
Cocktail Slippers--Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Patti Smith--Who Do You Love (live, 2/97)
The Noses--My Left Hanger of Love
Outrageous Cherry--The Illuminated Council for World Destruction
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles--Being With You
Marianne Faithfull with Antony--Ooo Baby Baby
The Miracles--You've Really Got a Hold On Me; Happy Landing
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage
Smokey Robinson--I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby)
Adam Rafferty--Tinkerbell's Dream
June Tabor--Body and Soul
Davy Jones--Valleri; Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (both live, 7/03); Secret Love
Mable John--Ain't Giving It Up
The Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra & his Arkestra--Somebody's In Love
---Retroactive #771--February 6, 2010:
Maura Kennedy--The Thing With Feathers
Shaun Murphy--Love to Burn
Luther Allison--You Can, You Can (live, 7/97)
Ray Wiley Hubbard--Pots and Pans
Oh Susanna--Bootlegger's Blues
///The Gerry Goffin/Carole King Songbook:
The Cookies--Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby
Carole King--Brighter; Goin' Back (1970 version)
The Sadies--Wasn't Born to Follow
The Animals--Don't Bring Me Down///
Matthew Shipp--Sequence of Vibration
NRBQ--Still In School
Percy Sledge--Take Time to Know Her
Eels--Unhinged
Holly Golightly--Believe Me #2
The Len Price 3--The Girl Who Became a Machine
The King Khan & BBQ Show--Lonely Boy
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--High Horse
Joe Ely with Carlene Carter--Honky Tonkin' (live, 1980)
Joe Ely--Ranches and Rivers (live, 1/99)
Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams--Maybe Tomorrow
The Who--Man With Money
The Everly Brothers--Man With Money; Devoted to You; Poor Jenny
Either/Orchestra--Night of the Living Blues
The Pretty Things--Cries from the Midnight Circus
Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson--Talkin' About Soul
Heather Myles--And It Hurts
Blue Mother Tupelo--Runnin' 'Round
---Retroactive #770--January 30, 2010:
---All Michigan Show
Howling Diablos--Mean Little Town
Rodriguez--Can't Get Away
Regina Carter with Dee Dee Bridgewater--This Can't Be Love
Sir Mack Rice--Feels Good
The Shy--Beetle Bomp
Lyn & the Invaders--Boy Is Gone
Toby Redd--Little Boy Lost
Jackie Wilson--Baby Workout
Wilson Pickett--Don't Fight It
The Tidal Waves--Big Boy Pete
Funkadelic--You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
The White Stripes--Wasting My Time
Kenny Burrell--Mule
Suzi Quatro--Lipstick
The Romantics--21 and Over
Coldcock--You
MC5--I Don't Mind (rehearsal)
Karen Monster--Kill
The Bob Seger System--2 + 2 = ?
Gino Washington--Gino Is a Coward
Aretha Franklin--Rock With Me
Nathaniel Mayer--Don't Come Back
The Gore Gore Girls--Shotgun Wedding
The Rationals--Feelin' Lost; Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag His Own Tail)
Marshall Crenshaw--Soldier of Love (live, 8/82)
The Temptations--Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
The Elgins--Heaven Must Have Sent You
Martha & the Vandellas--Motoring
Marvin Gaye--One More Heartache
The Velvelettes--He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
Jimmy Ruffin--96 Tears
*Plus: Bob Babbitt on his bass playing partner at Motown, the legendary James Jamerson, Jr.;
Della Reese--Stroke Prevention PSA
---Retroactive #769--January 23, 2010:
///Kate McGarrigle (1946-2010):
Kate & Anna McGarrigle--(Talk to Me of) Mendocino; Go Leave
Maria Muldaur--The Work Song///
The 4 Seasons--Big Man In Town
James Luther Dickinson--Who Threw the Whiskey In the Well
Jolie Holland--The Littlest Birds
Shirley Johnson--Just Like That
Widespread Panic with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Old Neighborhood (live, 2003)
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse--Visionary of an Abstrakt
///Carl Smith (1927-2010)--Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way; Hey Joe!///
Ringo Starr--The Other Side of Liverpool
Shaun Murphy--That's a Pretty Good Love
The Moondoggies--Don't Be a Stranger
Lhasa--Love Came Here
Tom Waits--Live Circus (live)
The Holmes Brothers--Smiling Face Hiding a Weeping Heart
Lucinda Williams--Positively 4th Street (2009 version); Hot Blood
Zora Young--Rock Me Baby (live)
Adam Rafferty--The Boogie Man
Cyril Neville--I'll Take Care of You
Bobby Blue Bland--Members Only; Ain't That Loving You
---Retroactive #768--January 16, 2010:
Steve & Kristi Nebel--In the Islands
Rosemary Clooney--Independent (On My Own)
Memphis Slim with Roosevelt Sykes--Eagle Rock (live, 1970)
James Carr--Love Attack
///Songwriter-performer Bobby Charles (1938-2010)--Later Alligator
Ray Charles--The Jealous Kind
Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth--Tennessee Blues///
///Jay Reatard (1980-2010)--I'm Watching You///
///Guitarist Mick Green (1944-2010):
The Pirates--Shakin' All Over (1978 version)///
///Teddy Pendergrass (1950-2010):
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass--Keep On Lovin' You; Bad Luck///
Ray Brown with John Clayton, Jr. & Christian McBride--Brown Funk; Sculler Blues (both live, 10/96)
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--Heart 'n Soul
Blue Mother Tupelo--Always Lookin' (radio edit)
Steve James--The Right Thing to Do
The Soul Stirrers--Lord Remember Me
Jeffrey Gaines--A Change Is Gonna Come (live)
Bobby Womack--That's Heaven to Me
Sam Cooke--Tennessee Waltz; Lost and Lookin'; Since I Met You Baby
Betsy Holt & Kyle Cruse--Sunshine of Your Love; C Minor Blues
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix--Nighttime In the Switching Yard
*Plus: Three inspirational speech clips by Martin Luther King, Jr.
---Retroactive #767--January 9, 2010:
Jim Kweskin--Ranger's Command (live)
Woody Guthrie--Vigilante Man
Joel Rafael--Talking Oklahoma Hills
Ami Saraiya--Vegas Moon
Dennis Diken with Bell Sound--Standing In That Line
Joe Liggins with Candy Rivers--Daddy On My Mind
The Hockadays--Hold On Baby
Shaun Murphy--Ocean of Tears
Paul Renz--In My Own Hands
///Producer-trumpeter Willie Mitchell (1928-2010)--Buster Browne; Soul Serenade
Ann Peebles--Come to Mama
Al Green--So You're Leaving///
The Morells--Worryin' Kind (live, 12/80)
Tommy Castro--Monkey's Paradise
Dale Vaughn--How Can You Be So Mean to Me
The Ramblers featuring Tamara Hayes--Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Ruth Brown--I Can't Hear a Word You Say; I Don't Break Dance; That Train Don't Stop Here
The Joshua Davis Group--Almost Tea
///Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010):
Lhasa--What Kind of Heart///
Zora Young--Goin' Back to Memphis
Rosanne Cash--I'm Movin' On
---Retroactive #766--January 2, 2010:
///Vic Chesnutt (1964-2009)--Granny; Everything I Say; Stay Inside///
Me'shell Ndegeocello--Crying In Your Beer
Patty Griffin--The Best Is Yet to Come
Little Willie G.--These Hands (Small But Mighty)
The Tragically Hip--Little Bones
Betty Davis--Dedicated to the Press
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse--First Mind
Elvis Presley--My Baby Left Me; Are You Lonesome Tonight (live and cracking up, 8/22/69); Promised Land
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Blue Sunday
The Young Fresh Fellows--You've Got Your Head On Backwards
Link Wray & his Ray Men--Walkin' With Link
Carol Jones--Problem Child
The Walkmen--In the New Year
Cocktail Slippers--Round and Round
Steve James with Del Rey--The Same Thing Could Happen to You
Laura Love & Orville Johnson--Nobody's Fault But Mine
War--Gypsy Man
Positive Catastrophe--Plena Quicksand Monument
Sandy Denny--Bushes and Briars
Fairport Convention--Autopsy
Fotheringay--Wild Mountain Thyme; The Banks of the Nile
Mahalia Jackson--Go Tell It on the Mountain (Apollo version)
Anuna--Riu Riu Chiu
Barry McLoughlin--Christmas Carol
Robin & Linda Williams--On a Quiet Christmas Morn
Pete Droge--On Christmas Day
Stevie Wonder--What Christmas Means to Me
Miss Rose & her Rhythm Percolators--I Want You for Christmas
The Mighty Blue Kings--All I Ask for Christmas
Rich Mullins--You Gotta Get Up
Ted Yoder--Do You Hear What I Hear
Eartha Kitt--Nothin' for Christmas
David Grisman--What Child Is This?
Shelby Lynne--Christmas Time Is Here
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans--The Bells of St. Mary
The Superions--Christmas Tears
Greta Matassa & Clipper Anderson--It's Christmas
Mavis Staples--In Christ There Is No East or West
The Shy--Another Year Gone By
The Butties--God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Ralph Stanley--Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
B.E. Taylor--I Saw Three Ships
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Christmas Spirits
John Prine--Silent Night All Day Long
Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--Little Rubber Boy
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper--Silent Night
Walter Brennan--A Good Year for Christmas
Esquivel--White Christmas
Chuck Cape--Carol of the Drum
The Hentchmen--Come On Santa
Brenda Lee--Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day
The Reigning Sound--That's All I Want
Les Paul--Jingle Bells
Laura Nyro--December's Boudoir
*Plus: Holiday greetings from Vic Dana, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder
---Retroactive #814--December 18, 2010:
Ramblin' Jack Elliott--1913 Massacre
Charlie Louvin--More Than a Name On the Wall
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Gonna Feel Much Better When You're Gone
Topsy Chapman & Lars Edegran--The Christmas Blues
New Havana Rhythm Kings--Joy to the Third World
El Vez--En El Barrio (At Christmas Time) (includes 'Champagne Supernova')
James Booker--Tipitina/Roberta; Black Night (both live)
Professor Longhair--Mean Old World; Junco Partner
Takao Iwaki--Fallin' Chestnuts
The Geisels--Christ, It's Christmas Again
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Time of the Season
Bobby Lloyd (Hicks) & the Skeletons--Do You Hear What I Hear/You Really Got Me
The Damned--There Ain't No Sanity Clause
The Parting Gifts--Bound to Let Me Down
Hollywood Jills--He Makes Me So Mad
///Don Van Vliet (1941-2010):
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Love You, Big Dummy; Fallin' Ditch///
Professor Gall--Whiskey Was the Medicine
Truckstop Honeymoon--Childhood Memories
Nat 'King' Cole--All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Artichoke--The Swarm
Old 97s--Champaign, Illinois
Pharoah Sanders--Greensleeves
Syl Johnson--Everybody Needs Love
Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Silent Night
The Holmes Brothers--Living Well Is the Best Revenge
David Ray--Lonesome Baby Blues
---Retroactive #813--December 11, 2010:
Kermit Ruffins--Happy Talk
///Flautist-saxophonist-composer James Moody (1925-2010)--Travel On
Ernie Royal & his Princes featuring James Moody--A Date With Kate///
Marti Brom--Forbidden Fruit
Jonathan Richman--If You Want to Leave Our Party Just Go
Richard Thompson--Here Comes Geordie (live)
Cathy Saint--Big Bad World
Brenda Lee--The Stroll; Tragedy; Just Because
Chuck Cape--Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
The Sonics--Cinderella
The Shivvers--When I Was Younger
Miss Rose & her Rhythm Percolators--What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin')
The Shy--That's Not Really Christmas
Little Games--Ain't Nothin' But a House Party
Mally Page--Heart and Soul of the Party
Pat Hare--Bonus Pay
Mountain--Taunta (Sammy's Tune)/Nantucket Sleighride
The Greenhornes--Left the World Behind
Eux Autres--Queen Turner
Charlie Rich--Can't Get Right; Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs; I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water
Sarah Wilson--Himalayas
Warren Lee--The Uh-Huh
Floyd Smith--Soul Strut
The Now Time Delegation--Handle Me With Care
Samantha Crain--Toothpicks
---Retroactive #812--December 4, 2010:
Eleanor Murray--Scream
Champion Jack Dupree--When I'm Drinkin'
Paul Kelly--I Was Hoping You'd Say That
Junior Wells & the Aces--Messin' With the Kid (live, 1966)
Mavis Staples--You Are Not Alone
Truckstop Honeymoon--Cape Canaveral
Solomon Burke & the Souls Alive Orchestra--Good Rockin' Tonight (live, 5/94)
Joan Armatrading--Woncha Come on Home; You Rope You Tie Me; Show Some Emotion
Philip Glass--Etude No. 10
The Wailers--Mood Elevator
Nora Jean--Untrue Love
///The sick 30th anniversary of John Lennon's murder:
Sagittarius--My World Fell Down
John Lennon--Watching the Wheels (home demo)
Pert Near Sandstone with Ryan Young--I Am the Walrus///
The Barbarellatones--It's All Your Fault!
Pine Leaf Boys--Wild Side of Life
Eden Brent--Let's Boogie-Woogie
Erland & the Carnival--You Don't Have to Be Lonely
Little Richard with the Johnny Otis Orchestra--I Love My Baby
Little Richard with Fishbone--Rock Island Line
Little Richard--Ooh! My Soul!; Long Tall Sally
The Debbie Poryes Quartet--Prayer for a Child
The Decemberists--The Chimbley Sweep
Manfred Mann--Tired of Trying, Bored with Lying, Scared of Dying
Syl Johnson--I've Got to Get Over
The Corin Tucker Band--Half a World Away
---Retroactive #811--November 27, 2010:
Hank Williams--Mind Your Own Business
The Avett Brothers--Nothing Short of Thankful
Marti Brom--Get a Little Goner
The Sonics--The Hustler
Artichoke--Melissa
Janis Martin--Will You Willyum
Superchunk--Rosemarie
James Cotton (Slam Allen, vocal)--Change
Sufjan Stevens--Bad Communication
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Eyes of Green
Joanne Shaw Taylor--Can't Keep Living Like This
Ava Mendoza--The Furious Harpy Who Followed Me Everywhere
Old 97s--The Magician
Dave Specter with David Hidalgo--Rumba and Tonic
///The Jimi Hendrix Birthday Bash:
Tim Rose--Hey Joe
Show of Hands--May This Be Love/One Rainy Wish
Cyril Neville--Foxey Lady
Anni Piper--Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
The Bobs--Purple Haze (live)
Robyn Hitchcock--The Wind Cries Mary (live)
Gil Evans--Up From the Skies (live, 2/80)
John Lee Hooker--Red House
Aynsley Lister--Little Wing (2000 version)
Jimi Hendrix--Valleys of Neptune
Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Power to Love (Power of Soul) (live, 1/1/70, first show)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Love or Confusion (alternate recording); Highway Chile///
---Retroactive #810--November 20, 2010:
Vienna Teng--Unwritten Letter #1
Brian Wilson--Someone to Watch Over Me
Eden Brent--Blues All Over
Tuck & Patti--'Deed I Do
The Basin Street Boys--Jumping at the Jubilee
Junior Wells & the Aces--Yonder's Wall (live, 1966)
Erland & the Carnival--My Name Is Carnival
Dr. John--You Swore
Donald Harrison featuring Dr. John--Hu-Ta-Nay
Nelda Swiggett--Salut Ledru Rollin
Samantha Crain--Blueprints
The Barbarellatones--Iggy Pop!
Joe Jackson--I'm the Man
The Greenhornes--Song 13
Lelia Broussard--Shoot for the Moon
Mavis Staples--Only the Lord Knows
Tina Turner--Paradise Is Here; Don't Turn Around
Ike & Tina Turner--A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday);
River Deep-Mountain High (both live, 2/71); Finger Poppin'
The Debbie Poryes Quartet--Lake Dream
Syl Johnson--Try Me (album version)
Deb Callahan--Sun Is Rising
Eddie Cleary--I Don't Care
Can--Oh Yeah
---Retroactive #809--November 13, 2010:
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Sunrise
Antony & the Johnsons--I'm In Love
The Chambers Brothers--Down In the Alley
Hurray for the Riff Raff--Slow Walk
Bryan Ferry--Alphaville
Jesse Winchester--It's a Shame About Him
Little Willie John--Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me; Drive Me Home; Uh Uh Baby
Robin Rogers--I Need Your Love So Bad
Gary U.S. Bonds--Let Them Talk
Oli Brown--Fever
The Budos Band--River Serpentine
Marti Brom--Not for Nothin'
Ann Peebles--I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Graham Parker & the Rumour--Protection
Superchunk--Crossed Wires
Grass Widow--Fried Egg
Neil Young--Peaceful Valley Boulevard; Hitchhiker
Buffalo Springfield--Burned; Flying On the Ground Is Wrong (demo)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse--Piece of Crap
Geri Allen--God's Ancient Sky
Solomon Burke--Everything About You
Queen Sylvia--Too Bad Baby
Raul Malo--Superstar
Janiva Magness--End of Our Road
---Retroactive #808--November 6, 2010:
Charlie Louvin--I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
Mavis Staples--Losing You
Samantha Crain--Religious Wind
Artichoke--The Commune
Bobby Patterson--Busy, Busy Bee
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--I Learned the Hard Way
Syl Johnson--I've Been Talked About
Delbert McClinton & Dick50--Never Saw It Comin'
Delbert McClinton--Under Suspicion
Eden Brent--Right to Be Wrong
The Debbie Poryes Quartet--My Heart Stood Still
The Corin Tucker Band--Handed Love; Thrift Store Coats
Sleater-Kinney--Call the Doctor
The Greenhornes--Underestimator
Junior Wells & the Aces--Feelin' Good (live, 1966)
Tony Joe White--Back to the Country (live, 1971)
Elvis Costello--Five Small Words
Deb Callahan--Gonna Get There
Doug Sahm & Band--Dealer's Blues
The Sir Douglas Quintet--I'm Glad for Your Sake (But I'm Sorry for Mine); Be Real;
You Never Get Too Big and You Sure Don't Get Too Heavy That You Have to Stop and Pay Some Dues Sometime
The Sir Douglas Band--San Francisco FM Blues; Juan Mendoza
The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm--When I Fall In Love
Jessica Williams--Wise One (live, 1/10)
Old 97s--Every Night Is Friday Night (Without You)
Versus--Scientists
Hoodoo Gurus--I Hope You're Happy
---Retroactive #807--October 30, 2010:
---Halloween Show
Eddie Turner--Miracles and Demons, Pt. 1
Robert Pollard--A Constant Strangle
Muddy Waters--I'm Ready
Jeff Beck (Joss Stone, vocal)--I Put a Spell On You
Bill Wright--You Got a Spell On Me
John Anderson--Haunted House
Horatio Lee Jenkins--Drunker Than Satan
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Hawk
///Saxophonist-clarinetist-percussionist Marion Brown (1935-2010)--Introduction (solo improvisation)/
Tokalokaloka///
The Scruffs--Demon Mine
The Cramps--The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon
Fiona Boyes--The Barrelhouse Funeral
Beat Happening--Pajama Party In a Haunted House
The Rezillos--Flying Saucer Attack
The Revillos--Voodoo
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Psycho
Oli Brown--Evil Soul
Professor Gall--Sister Teresa's Albany Cemetary
Eilen Jewell--This Haunted House
Johnny Otis--Castin' My Spell
Garland Jeffreys with Big Youth--Graveyard Rock
Adam Green--Goblin
Ava Mendoza--Penumbra: The Age of Almost Living
Howlin' Wolf--I Ain't Superstitious
Jimmy Durante--We're Going UFOing
The Need--2 Story Girl
The Sugarcubes--Delicious Demon
The Move--Disturbance
---Retroactive #806--October 23, 2010:
---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show
Barbara Dane & Lightnin' Hopkins--Let Me Be Your Rag Doll (live, 6/64)
Hurray for the Riff Raff--Take Me
Antony & the Johnsons--Thank You for Your Love
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Crazy World; Julia's Blues
The Zombies--I Could Spend the Day
Belle & Sebastian--I Want the World to Stop
///Singer-songwriter General (Norman) Johnson (1943-2010):
General Johnson--Patches (live, 6/93)
The Showmen--The Wrong Girl
The Chairmen of the Board--You've Got Me Dangling On a String
(General Johnson not only penned material for his groups the Chairmen and the Showmen. He also co-wrote
Clarence Carter's 'Patches,' Freda Payne's anthemic 'Bring the Boys Home' and the Honey Cone's 'Want Ads')///
Dar Williams--Are You Out There
The Budos Band--Mark of the Untamed
Michael Franti & Spearhead--Listener Supported; The Things That Help Me Get Through
Ted Hawkins--San Francisco; There Stands the Glass (1985 version)
Samantha Crain--Holdin' That Wheel
Little Johnny Christian--I Gotta Sad Feeling
Curtis Salgado--More Love, Less Attitude
James Cotton (Slam Allen, vocal)--Going Down Main Street
The Bar-Kays--Knucklehead
---Retroactive #805--October 16, 2010:
Clay Ross--Zydeco Mondo
Leah & the Moonlighters--I Am Waiting
Mavis Staples--Downward Road
Women--Group Transport Hall
Versus--Cicada
Okkervil River--Singer Songwriter
Raul Malo--Living for Today
Wanda Jackson--Silver Threads and Golden Needles; Fujiyama Mama
Regina Carter--Kothbiro
///Solomon Burke (1940-2010)--Meet Me In Church; Got to Get You Off My Mind (live, 1981);
Medley: Havin' a Party/Amen (live, 1981)///
The Thermals--Not Like Any Other Feeling
Squeeze--Mumbo Jumbo
Girl Haggard--Pick Up Lines
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Get Behind Me
///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bonanza:
Dave Edmunds--Let It Rock (live)
Ann Rabson--School Day
The Rolling Stones--Around and Around
Chuck Berry--The Thirteen Question Method; Almost Grown; Tulane///
Nelda Swiggett--No Tattoo
Robin Rogers--Hittin' on Nothin'
Gary U.S. Bonds--Pour Me
Eilen Jewell--Who Says God Is Dead
Mondo Topless--Nothing Can Bring Me Down
The Chimps--Busy Body (live, 1999)
Amy Rigby--Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again?
---Retroactive #804--October 9, 2010:
///Gospel pioneer Albertina Walker (1929-2010):
Dorothy Norwood featuring Albertina Walker--Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad///
Queen Sylvia--I Know I Ain't Number One
Tail Dragger--So Ezee
Professor Gall--The '50s Are Coming Around Again
Antony & the Johnsons--The Great White Ocean
Janiva Magness--Walkin' In the Sun
Chris Hillman & Herb Pedersen--Have You Seen Her Face (live, 11/09)
Peter Himmelman--Georgia Clay
Eddie Turner--Booty Bumpin'
Samantha Crain--Up On the Table
The Pasties--Tonight
James Cotton--With the Quickness
Barbara Lynn--You're the Man
The Corin Tucker Band--Dragon
Bert Wilson & Rebirth featuring James Zitro--Calico Head
///70 minutes of John Lennon-related music for his 70th Birth Anniversary:
The Budos Band--Yad Reppirt (Day Tripper)
Dillard & Clark--Don't Let Me Down
The Beatles--You Really Got a Hold On Me (BBC); Baby You're a Rich Man; Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Morcambe & Wise with the Beatles--Moonlight Bay (12/63)
Bettye LaVette--The Word
Peter Lipa--No Reply
The Feelies--Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)
Isaac Scott--Help!
Sue Garner & Rick Brown--It's So Hard
The Holmes Brothers--I'll Be Back
Dr. Lonnie Smith--Come Together
Laurence Juber--In My Life
J.J. Barnes--Day Tripper
John & Yoko with the Mothers of Invention--Well (Baby Please Don't Go) (live, 6/71)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Isolation
The Plastic Ono Band--Cold Turkey///
*Plus: John Lennon interview clips throughout the second hour of the program
*Note: The show started early (9:40am) due to the unavailability of national programming scheduled for 9am;
Joe Pollock extended his The Road Goes On Forever show (9 to 9:40am) to make up the difference
---Retroactive #803--October 2, 2010:
Eels--I Like the Way This Is Going
Betty Davis--For My Man
The Moondoggies--What Took So Long
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan--Snake Song
Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Misfire
Wynonie Harris--Everybody Boogie
Ellen McIlwaine--All to You (1973 version); The Secret In This Lady's Heart
The Sadies--Whispering Circles
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez--We Come Up Shining
Geri Allen--Faith Carriers of Life
Eddie Cochran--Cotton Picker; Nervous Breakdown
Gary U.S. Bonds--Whine
Grass Widow--Shadow
Nada Surf--Bye Bye Beautie
The Who--Disguises
Mavis Staples with Donny Gerrard--We're Gonna Make It
Robin Rogers--You Don't Know
Betsy Holt--Few Know
Gil Scott-Heron--Running
Leon Thomas--Take the 'A' Train; A Night In Tunisia
Ava Mendoza--In My Dreams
Charlie Musselwhite--Dig the Pain
Frankie Lee Sims--Lucy Mae Blues
Versus--Into Blue
Chuck Prophet--Doubter of Jesus (All Over You) (live)
Fiona Boyes--City Born Country Girl
Patty Griffin--I Smell a Rat
Jodi Pederson--Stuck In the Middle With You
---Retroactive #802--September 25, 2010:
Marvin Etzioni with Lucinda Williams--Lay It On the Table
Dave Frishberg--Can't Take You Nowhere (live, 9/86)
Don Covay--The Usual Place
Johnny Cash--Guess Things Happen That Way
Ray Condo & his Ricochets--Ice Water
Amos Milburn--Down the Road Apiece
Girl Haggard featuring Hank Sinatra, Jr.--Drunk, Broke and In Love (The Hank Shuffle)
Carlene Carter--Tougher Stuff; Why Be Blue
The Henry Threadgill Zooid--Chairmaster
Swamp Dogg & Riders of the New Funk--Trash
Tara Linda--Never Say Never
Ellen Whyte--Four Way Stop
Alejandro Escovedo--This Bed Is Getting Crowded
Leon Russell--Hummingbird
Samantha Crain--Equinox
Peter Himmelman--Good Luck Charm
The Thermals--I Don't Believe You
///Think About It! Jerry Lee is 75:
Mudcrutch--High School Confidential (live, 5/08)
Wanda Jackson--Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Jerry Lee Lewis with Kid Rock & Slash--Rockin' My Life Away
Jerry Lee Lewis with Keith Richards--Sweet Virginia
Jerry Lee Lewis--Blue Suede Shoes (live, 8/20/66, first show); Keep Your Hands Off Of It (Birthday Cake)///
Jessica Williams--Simple Things (live, 1/10)
Dennis Driscoll--At the Library
Blonde Redhead--Not Getting There
James Cotton (Slam Allen, vocal)--Find Yourself Another Fool
Martha Davis--The Be-Bop Bounce
Marcia Ball--That's Enough of That Stuff (live)
Man or Astro-Man?--Television Fission
---Retroactive #801--September 18, 2010:
Big Charley Bradix--Boogie Like You Wanna
Mavis Staples--Creep Along Moses
Robin Rogers--I Know I Done Wrong
Gary U.S. Bonds--If I Live Through This; Shine On Lovers' Moon
The Budos Band--Black Venom
Cindy Bullens--In a Perfect World
Ray Charles--Joy Ride
Ray Charles & the Raelettes featuring Margie Hendricks--The Right Time
Geri Allen--Flying Toward the Sound
Tommy Facenda--High School USA (Seattle version)
Alex Chilton--The New Girl In School
Dash Rip Rock--Party 101
Chuck Willis--Hang Up My Rock'n'Roll Shoes
Mondo Topless--Left In the Dark
The National--Lemonworld
Eilen Jewell--Whispering Sea
Betsy Holt--Reelin' Down
The Blackberry Bushes--I'm on Fire
Bruce Springsteen--Spare Parts; Viva Las Vegas
Kenny Neal--Down In the Swamp
Dali Blu--Cuz He's In Love With Me
Larry Young--Visions
Ani DiFranco--Both Hands (2007 version); Shameless
Eels--Looking Up
Lowell Fulson--Reconsider Baby
---Retroactive #800--September 11, 2010:
---All '60s Show
Bob Moore & the Temps--Trophy Run
Meep Meep & the Roadrunners--Justine
Gloria Jones--Heartbeat
Jackie DeShannon--Needles and Pins
Creedence Clearwater Revival--Porterville
Joe Tex--I Don't Trust Myself Around You
The Wailers featuring Gail Harris--I Idolize You (live)
Procol Harum--The Devil Came from Kansas
Donovan--Superlungs My Supergirl (1969 version)
The Dells--There Is
Charles Mingus--They Trespass the Land of the Sacred Sioux (live, 9/65)
Bob Dylan--I Shall Be Free-No. 10
Love--She Comes In Colors
James Ray--If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
Maxine Brown--Ask Me
The Castaways--Liar Liar
Family--See Through Windows (BBC)
Roy Head--Drivin' Wheel
Jamo Thomas--I Spy (For the FBI)
B.B. King--Just Like a Woman (Rockin' Twist)
Brother John Witherspoon--That's Enough
Aretha Franklin--Dr. Feelgood
The Move--I Can Hear the Grass Grow
The Beatles--I'm Looking Through You (early take)
The Easybeats--Goin' Out of My Mind
Otis Redding--There Goes My Baby
Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Coo Coo
Sonny Simmons--Interplanetary Travelers
Buffy Sainte-Marie--A Soulful Shade of Blue
The Kinks--Nothin' In the World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl
Fairport Convention--Meet on the Ledge
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs--I Couldn't Spell !!*@!
The Sonics--Do You Love Me
*Plus: Excerpts of '60s commercials featuring Peter & Gordon, Jay & the Americans and more
---Retroactive #799--September 4, 2010:
The Blackberry Bushes--Take It
Jerry Lee Lewis with John Fogerty--Bad Moon Rising
Ava Mendoza--Kiss of Fire
Dali Blu--I'm Addicted
Delbert McClinton & Dick50--People Just Love to Talk
Unwound--Everything Is Weird
Peter Himmelman--Sit Tight
Loudon Wainwright III--Central Square Song; Awful Hungry Hash House
Jessica Williams--Gail's Song (live, 1/10)
Betsy Holt--Harp Thing
Eels--The Man
Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore--New Boots
Andre Williams--All I Need
James Talley--Workin' for Wages
Moe Tucker--That's Bad
The Young Fresh Fellows--Mamie Dunn, Employee of the Month
Otis Spann--I'm a Dues Payin' Man
Joe Grushecky (as Joey G.)--Goodbye Steeltown
///The Buddy Holly Birthday Bash:
The Bunch--Learning the Game
Shoes--Words of Love
Tav Falco's Panther Burns--Peggy Sue
Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Tell Me How
Buddy Holly--Crying, Waiting, Hoping (apartment demo); Take Your Time; Everyday///
Nelda Swiggett--Jack and the Key Boo Ba
Tara Linda--Leavin' Texas (Drivin' Slow)
Sleater-Kinney--Start Together
The Len Price 3--Pictures
---Retroactive #798--August 28, 2010:
Samantha Crain--Lions
Fats Domino--You Can Pack Your Suitcase
The OK Jazz Band--Houlala Yo Okanisaka
John Prine--Fish and Whistle
Jennifer Kimball--Lightning Bugs
Diane Marino with Felix Cavaliere--Groovin'
Nina Simone--Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
Dinah Washington--I Wish I Knew the Name of the Boy; There's Got to Be a Change; Darn That Dream (live, 8/54)
Sonny Simmons--City of David
Teenage Fanclub--When I Still Have Thee
The Meters--You've Got to Change (You've Got to Reform)
Bobby Bare, Jr.--Your Goat Is on Fire
Filligar--Not Gonna Settle
Eilen Jewell--You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)
Raul Malo/Pat Flynn/Rob Ickes/Dave Pomeroy--Bright Side of the Road
Them--My Lonely Sad Eyes
Van Morrison--A Town Called Paradise; Cul de Sac; You Make Me Feel So Free
Richard Davis & friends--Manhattan Safari (live, 8/90)
Ali Milner--Crystal Clear
The Young Veins--Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't
NRBQ--It's a Wild Weekend
Dakota Staton--That's No Joke
Oli Brown--Makes Me Wonder
---Retroactive #797--August 21, 2010:
///Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010) & Hank Jones--Angel Face; The Jitterbug Waltz
(Pianist Hank Jones passed away earlier in 2010)///
Alejandro Escovedo with Ian Hunter--Down In the Bowery
Tara Linda--Virtual Love Disaster (Donde Estabas?)
*Was my computer keyboard made in Arizona or something? I could really use
inverse punctuation marks and a tilde that's above the letter 'n'
JJ Grey & Mofro--All
Mose Allison--Look Here
The Clash--Capital Radio One; Capital Radio Two
Joe Strummer--It's a Rockin' World
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Bhindi Bhagee; Silver and Gold (Before I Grow Too Old)
Takao Iwaki--White Sands
The Casual Dots--Clocks
Carl Perkins--Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
Sarah Borges--Miss Mary
Charlie Musselwhite--Sonny Payne Special
All That--Wolf's Remedy
Spanky Wilson & the Quantic Soul Orchestra--Blood from a Stone
Bill Kirchen with Elvis Costello--Man In the Bottom of the Well
Elvis Costello & Mary Coughlin--Mischievous Ghost
Richard Hell & the Voidoids with Elvis Costello--You Gotta Lose (live, CBGB, 1978)
Elvis Costello--So Like Candy; Lovable
Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Temptation
Jessica Williams--Soldaji (live, 1/10)
Marvin Etzioni & Maria McKee--You Possess Me
JW-Jones--Love Grows Cold
Doris Troy--Special Care
Renaldo Domino--Let Me Come Within
---Retroactive #796--August 14, 2010:
Booker T. & the MGs--Hip Hug-Her
Thea Gilmore--Seen It All Before
David Hidalgo & Louie Perez--Til the Hands Fall Off the Clock
Luther Allison--Please Send Me Someone to Love (live, 9/72)
Mike & Ruthy--Covered
Arcade Fire--City With No Children
Eilen Jewell--You Wanna Give Me a Lift
Todd Snider--Play a Train Song
Matt Jorgensen--Dialogue 2008
///JBs guitarist Phelps 'Catfish' Collins (1944-2010):
James Brown--Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved; Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine///
Dali Blu--Shake Me Up
The Books--I Am Who I Am
MC5--Poison
Samantha Crain--Two-Sidedness
The National--Bloodbuzz Ohio
John Hiatt--She Loves the Jerk; Rock Back Billy
John Hiatt & the Goners--Almost Fed Up With the Blues
Nick Lowe & his Cowboy Outfit--She Don't Love Nobody
Lou Ann Barton--Pink Bedroom
Raful Neal with Tab Benoit--Feels Like Rain
Nelda Swiggett--Mere Madness
Bobby Bare, Jr.--Jesus Sandals
Dash Rip Rock--Meth Lab Girl
---Retroactive #795--August 7, 2010:
Troy Turner--Brand New Cadillac
The Goodies (NY)--Sophisticated Boom Boom
Phil Alvin--County Fair
///Steel guitarist-instrumentalist Ben Keith (1937-2010):
Patsy Cline--Shoes; I Fall to Pieces
Neil Young--Here for You; Tired Eyes///
Shemekia Copeland--Circumstances
Andre Williams--Tricks
John Nilsen--Places I Go
Geoff Muldaur--Bad Feet
Geoff & Maria Muldaur--Cordelia
Geoff Muldaur & Amos Garrett--Sloppy Drunk
Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks--Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away
Georgia Anne Muldrow with Dudley Perkins--Summer Love
The Young Veins--Change
Blonde Redhead--Futureism vs. Passeism, Pt. 2
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--Come Saturday
The Ronettes--Chapel of Love
Ronnie Spector (as Veronica)--Why Don't They Let Us Fall In Love
Ronnie Spector--Don't Worry Baby; Dynamite
Lloyd Miller & the Heliocentrics--Spirit Jazz
Big Jim Sullivan with Maggie Bell--Blind Man
///Guitarist-vocalist Phillip Walker (1937-2010)--Don't Be Afraid of the Dark///
Alejandro Escovedo--Silver Cloud
The Nerves--Paper Dolls
---Retroactive #794--July 31, 2010:
Michelle Shocked--Other People
Otis Taylor--Ain't No Cowgirl
Teenage Fanclub--Into the City
Memphis Minnie--Million Dollar Blues
Hans Chew--New Cypress Grove Boogie
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--Who Painted Whistler's Mother
The Pussycats--Dressed In Black
Shakura S'aida--Chasing the Sun
Todd Rundgren--Mad
Andreas Oberg--Papa Gato
Elliott Smith--No Name #1; Between the Bars
The Thermals--Ballad of Big Nothing
Lee Ritenour with Keb' Mo' & Taj Mahal--Am I Wrong
The Plimsouls--Hush Hush (live, 10/81)
Guided By Voices--Things I Will Keep
The Halo Benders--Don't Touch My Bikini
Hank Williams--Honky Tonkin' (MGM version)
Stephen Malkmus--Mama
Mary Chapin Carpenter--The Way I Feel
Margaret Johnson with Clarence Williams' Blue Five--Changeable Daddy of Mine
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines--Weather Bird
Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars--Back O' Town Blues (live, 5/47)
The Guiseppi Logan Quintet--Bop Dues
Shirley Ellis--The Nitty Gritty
John Nemeth--Name the Day
Bobby Bare, Jr.--Swollen But Not the Same
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--The Lowlife
The Clique--Superman
The Vipers featuring Deb Cleveland--Wild Women Don't Get the Blues
---Retroactive #793--July 24, 2010:
---KAOS Membership Drive Show
Deer Tick--Mange
Carl Holmes & the Commanders--Crossin' Over
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere with Aria Cavaliere--I Can't Stand It
The Young Veins--Take a Vacation!
Tennessee Ernie Ford--Catfish Boogie
Holly Golightly--I Hear You
Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Do You Mean It
Mitch Woods--Can't Stop Lovin' You
Alejandro Escovedo--Tender Heart
Mark Egan--Frog Legs
Shelby Lynne--Alibi
The Sadies--Idle Tomorrows
Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore--Dead and Lovely
Andre Williams--Just Call Me
Janiva Magness--I Want to Do Everything for You
Gregg Tripp--Time
Karen Lovely--Ask Your Heart
Gil Scott-Heron--On Coming from a Broken Home, Pt. 1
Steve James--Factory Girl
The Rolling Stones--Dancing In the Light
The Rolling Stones with Buddy Guy--Champagne and Reefer (live, 11/06)
Buddy Guy--The Things That I Used to Do (live, 1979); My and My Guitar; Texas Flood
---Retroactive #792--July 17, 2010:
Shakura S'aida--Missing the Good and the Bad
The Holmes Brothers--Edge of the Ledge
The Scruffs--Curse of the Mau Mau
Jeff Whatley--One Summer Day
The Marcels--Summertime
Christine Kittrell--Call His Name
///Songwriter-singer Hank Cochran (1935-2010):
Ray Price--If She Could See Me Now
Timi Yuro--She's Got You///
Denise LaSalle--Goin' Through Changes; One More Wrong Step
The Andrew Oliver Sextet--Inattentive Attendant
Women--Black Rice
The Rondelles--Do It for Me
Marvin Etzioni with John Doe--The Grapes of Wrath
John Nemeth--Breakin' Free
Cocktail Slippers--In the City
Commander Cody--Last Call for Alcohol
Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen--Riot In Cell Block #9; Too Much Fun (both live, 11/73); Wine Do Yer Stuff
Amy Rigby--Rode Hard
Cyril Neville--Tipitina
Roosevelt Sykes--Runnin' the Boogie
Regina Carter--Day Dreaming on the Niger
Truckstop Honeymoon--Bargain Hunting
Willie Buck--Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Anni Piper--Great Big Baby
---Retroactive #791--July 10, 2010:
///Harvey Fuqua (1929-2010):
Harvey & the Moonglows--Ten Commandments of Love
Etta James & Harvey Fuqua--Hope You're Satisfied///
Geoff Muldaur & the Texas Sheiks--All By Myself
Joules Graves--Wildcat
Silver Jews--Smith and Jones Forever
Sam & Dave--Toe Hold
Woody Guthrie--Talking Fishing Blues; Hobo's Lullaby
Joel Rafael--Sierra Blanca Massacre
Charlie Hunter--Tout Ce Qui Brille Ne Pas
Tracy Nelson--It Hurts Me Too (live)
Joy of Cooking--Brownsville (single version)
Alejandro Escovedo--Tula
The Skeletons--Primitive (live, 7/90)
Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Social--Burn Bridges
Wanda Jackson--Honey Bop
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere--Midnight Flyer
Betsy Holt--Warm Wind; Walkin' Down the Line (KAOS performance, 2/12/00)
Roger McGuinn--Draggin'
The Byrds--Wild Mountain Thyme; I See You; Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man
Sonny Simmons--A Distant Voice
The National--Little Faith
Big Maybelle--Yellow Dog Blues
Peter Wolf Crier--Crutch and Cane
Elvin Bishop--Blues Cruise
---Retroactive #790--July 3, 2010:
Mitch Woods--Big Mamou
Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers--I've Got a Feelin'
Joanna Newsome--Occident
The Band--Look Out Cleveland
The Wild Magnolias--Life Is a Carnival
Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Hillbilly Blues Ball
Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Part Time Love
Clayton Watson & the Silhouettes--Summertime
///Saxophonist-composer Fred Anderson (1929-2010)--21st Century Chase, Pt. 1 (live, 3/09)///
Greg Brown--Oily Boys; Better Days (both live)
The Servicemen--Right Around the Corner
The Sadies--Tell Her What I Said
Aimee Mann--4th of July
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--Young Adult Friction
John Trudell with Quiltman, Madeline & Bark--Look at Us/Peltier-AIM Song
Ringo Starr--Everybody Wins
Bettye LaVette--It Don't Come Easy
Deer Tick--Hand In My Hand
Andre Williams--America
Regina Carter--Kanou
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Tamburitza Boogie; Inflation Blues
Marvin Etzioni with Buddy Miller--Living Like a Hobo
Delaney & Bonnie--Just Plain Beautiful
NRBQ--You Can't Hide
---Retroactive #789--June 26, 2010:
Little Anthony & the Imperials--I'm On the Outside (Looking In)
The National--Sorrow
Davie Allan & the Arrows--The Unknown Rider
Franciene Thomas--I'll Be There
///Shirley Syrja (1930-2010): My extraordinary Mother brought me a world of gifts,
but how to appreciate the beauty of music has to be near the top. I love you, Mom.
Frank Sinatra with Antonio Carlos Jobim--One Note Samba
Frank Sinatra--Cycles
Keely Smith--The Music Stopped///
Claude Bourbon--Summertime
Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band--Wrapped Tight
Sonny Simmons--Metamorphosis
Cyril Neville--Ayiti
Karen Lovely--That's Cold
Ian Hunter--Babylon Blues
Women--Shaking Hand
Peter Wolf Crier--Hard as Nails
1990s--I Don't Even Know What That Is
///The Willie Dixon Songbook:
The Big Three Trio--My Love Will Never Die
Otis Rush--I Can't Quit You Baby
Willie Buck--I Live the Life I Love
Linda Hornbuckle--I Just Want to Make Love to You (live, 1993)
Willie Dixon--Study War No More
Howlin' Wolf--Built for Comfort
Othar Turner & the Rising Fife & Drum Band--My Babe
PJ Harvey--Wang Dang Doodle (BBC)///
One for All--So Soon
Too Slim & the Taildraggers--Western Man
The Young Fresh Fellows--Go Blue Angels Go
The Blue Things--High Life
---Retroactive--June 19, 2010:
Austin Potter guest hosted. Don't miss Catch a Wave
on KAOS every Monday night, 6 to 8pm (Pacific Time/U.S.).
Austin's wife, Ashley, is the alternating host. Hear KAOS
programs as they happen online at www.kaosradio.org
---Retroactive--June 12, 2010:
Joe Pollock was the guest host. Catch Joe's work from 6 to 9am Saturdays on KAOS'
The Road Goes On Forever. He is also on most editions of American Anecdotes (Thursday
evenings, 6 to 8pm, Pacific Time/U.S.)
---Retroactive #788--June 5, 2010:
Jackie Barrett--One Way Mirror
Kacey Johansing--Spider Song
The Sadies--Cut Corners
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Mama Don't Like My Man
Bettye LaVette--All My Love
Nada Surf--Question
Jeff Whatley--The Circle
Janiva Magness--Slipped, Tripped and Fell In Love
Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Social--St. Mark's Sunset
Josh Rzepka--Three for Me
Deer Tick--Piece By Piece and Frame By Frame
Sonia & Disappear Fear--Call Me Sonia
Elvin Bishop with John Nemeth--Neighbor Neighbor
Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Mr. Lies
Bill Kirchen--Bump Wood
Curtis Mayfield--Only You Babe; I Mo Git U Sucka; (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go
The Impressions--I'm the One Who Loves You; Fool for You
Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens--Two Cities
Steve Forbert--The Oil Song 2010
*Thanks to everyone who comforted me upon the loss of my mother, Shirley, on this day
---Retroactive #787--May 29, 2010:
---All Texas Show
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies--Fan It
The Chuck Wagon Gang--We Are Climbing
The Asylum Street Spankers--Down By the Riverside (live, 2006)
Freddie King--Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Townes Van Zandt--Katie Belle (live, 2/95)
Steve Earle--Rake
Terri Hendrix--Soul of My Soul
Guy Clark--All She Wants Is You
The Light Crust Doughboys--Blue Guitars
Guthrie Kennard--Another Day, Another Dollar
Sunny & the Sunliners--Please Mr. Sandman
Lou Ann Barton--High Time We Went
Spoon--Written In Reverse
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River--Please, Judge
Johnny Fallin--Cradle Rock
The Bobby Fuller Four--Bodine
Ray Wiley Hubbard--Down Home Country Blues
Patty Griffin--Move Up
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--St. Louis Blues
Asleep at the Wheel--Choo Choo Ch-Boogie (live)
T-Bone Walker--Party Girl
Buddy Holly--Peggy Sue Got Married (apartment demo)
Keri Leigh & the Blue Devils--On My Way (Goin' Home)
Delbert McClinton--Honky Tonkin' (I Guess I Done Me Some)
Mingo Saldivar--Ring of Fire (live, 7/00)
Adolph Hofner & his San Antonians--Cotton Eyed Joe
Augie Meyers & the Western Head Band--Come On Baby (live, 1975)
The Sir Douglas Quintet--Preach What You Live, Live What You Preach
Kelly Willis--Success
Joe Ely--Sue Me Sue
---Retroactive #786--May 22, 2010:
Kate Campbell--Walk Among Stones
Sandman--Beauty Myth (live)
Andre Williams--When Love Shoots You In the Foot
Janiva Magness--Your Love Made a U-Turn
Ray Charles--Baby Don't You Cry
The Sadies--Another Day Again
Jeff Whatley--New Inspiration
The Scruffs--iPod Girl
Karen Lovely--I've Had Enough
Gil Scott-Heron--Me and the Devil
One for All--Spirit Waltz
The Fall--Cowboy George
Silje Karlsen--Dig Out Your Soul
The Guiseppi Logan Quintet--Steppin'
///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash:
Ben Sidran--All I Really Want to Do
The Bel-Airs with Henry Clay & the Hennessy Brothers--Everything Is Broken
Dave's True Story--You're a Big Girl Now
Howard Tate--Girl from the North Country
Jimmy LaFave--Emotionally Yours
Mary Lou Lord--Eternal Circle
Nob Dylan & his Nobsoletes--From a Buick 6
Buddy & Julie Miller--Wallflower
Mike Seeger & Bob Dylan--The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Bob Dylan--Foot of Pride; It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding; Can't Escape from You///
---Retroactive #785--May 15, 2010:
She & Him--Brand New Shoes
Eddie Floyd--Don't Rock the Boat
The Servicemen--Are You Angry
///Lena Horne (1917-2010)--As Long As I Live; Love Me or Leave Me; Come On Strong///
Wynonie Harris--Luscious Woman
Glen Glenn--If I Had Me a Woman
Andrea Marr--Soulville
Spoon--Out Go the Lights
Aram Shelton's Fast Citizens--Big News
Lee Dorsey--Feelin'
The Apples In Stereo--Dignified Dignitary
Bill Kirchen--I Don't Work That Cheap
Little Willie John--Sleep
Robin Lane--Surf's Up
Man or Astro-Man?--Man Made of CO2
Brinsley Schwarz--Everybody
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Tough Lover
Nada Surf--Bright Side
Cadallaca--The Trouble With Public Places
The Rising Sons--Take a Giant Step
Taj Mahal--Chevrolet; Corrina
Taj Mahal with Angelique Kidjo--Zanzibar
Booker Ervin--Mojo
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Treat Me Right
Guthrie Kennard--Cross That Line
Pieta Brown--Shake
Buckwheat Zydeco--Buckwheat Music
LaVern Baker--He's a Real Gone Guy
---Retroactive #784--May 8, 2010:
Joseph Spence--Good Morning Mr. Walker
Claudia Schmidt & her Funtet--I Don't Know
///Vocalist Norman Wright (1937-2010):
The Dell-Vikings--Come Go With Me///
Helene Smith--The Pot Can't Talk About the Kettle
The Pentagons--It's Spring Again
The Sadies--Postcards
The Holmes Brothers--Something Is Missing
///Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell (1918-2010):
Ernie Harwell--A Game for All America (A Definition of Baseball)///
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Without a Heart
Family--Burlesque
The Yaron Herman Trio--Rina Balle
Gil Scott-Heron--I'm New Here
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River--Goodbye Sweet Dreams
Karen Lovely--Older Fool
Flamin Groovies--Yeah My Baby
Jerry Lee Lewis--It'll Be Me (single version)
Janis Martin--Hard Times Ahead
The Len Price 3--Under the Thumb
///Stevie Wonder Is 60:
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--'Cause We've Ended As Lovers
Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder--For Once In My Life
Stevie Wonder--Fingertips, Pts. 1 & 2 (live); Looking for Another Pure Love; Love Light In Flight///
The Henry Threadgill Zooid--To Undertake My Corners Open
Janiva Magness--The Devil Is an Angel
Solomon Burke--Letter from My Darling
---Retroactive #783--May 1, 2010:
Silje Karlsen--Pills for Love
Nada Surf--Electrocution
Jimmie Dale Gilmore--99 Holes
Thee Midniters--It'll Never Be Over for Me
Dinah Washington--Baby Get Lost (live, 7/50)
Eric 'Two Scoops' Moore--Fat Daddy
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Wait
The Wailers--Mercy Mercy
Cracked Ice--Sweet Feeling
The Guiseppi Logan Quintet--Around
Bob Seger--Back In '72; I've Been Workin'
Mecca Normal--Sha La La La La
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet--Harlem By the Sea
Alberta Adams--Born With the Blues
John Mellencamp with Pat Peterson--Cold Sweat
James Brown & the Famous Flames--Lost Someone/Please, Please Please; Night Train (all three live, 10/62)
Steve Earle & the Dukes--Dead Flowers (live)
Georgia Anne Muldrow--Indeed
The Fall--Hot Cake
The Antonio Ciacca Quintet with Steve Grossman--Lagos Blues
The Servicemen--I Need a Helping Hand
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Kill My Baby
Betty Davis--Shut Out the Light
Adam Green--Stadium Soul
---Retroactive #782--April 24, 2010:
The Polyphonic Spree--It's the Sun (live)
Memphis Minnie--Shout the Boogie
Guy Clark--The Guitar
Pieta Brown--Other Way Around
Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Learn How to Let Go (live, 2009)
The Apples In Stereo--Hey Elevator
Roy Orbison & the Teen Kings--Rockhouse
Roy Orbison--Running Scared; Falling
Archie Shepp--Le Matin des Noire (live, 1965)
Laura Cantrell--Do You Ever Think of Me
Junior Parker--Sometimes
The Len Price 3--Man Who Used to Be
The Chesterfield Kings--Johnny Volume
The Daily Flash--Jack O'Diamonds
Quasi--Little White Horse
Roy Brown--Rockin' at Midnight
Weston Prim--Get That Feelin'
Sonia & Disappear Fear--Gimme the Keys
Gil Scott-Heron--The Crutch
Chick Webb & his Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald--Undecided
Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots--Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)
Ella Fitzgerald--Mack the Knife; How High the Moon (both live, Berlin, 2/60)
Martin Taylor--Blues for Mr. T
Carrie Newcomer--A Crash of Rhinoceros
Joe Bonamassa--When the Fire Hits the Sea
Janiva Magness--(I'm) Feeling Good
Little Jimmy King--Strange Brew
Kay Adams with BR5-49--Mama Was a Rock (Daddy Was a Rollin' Stone)
---Retroactive #781--April 17, 2010
---Sixteenth Anniversary Show: Look out! We've got our drivers license
Clive Gregson--Secondhand Car
Link Wray & the Ray Men--Drag Race
She & Him--Ridin' In My Car
Plastic Bertrand--Ca Plane Pour Moi
Lucinda Williams---Howlin' at Midnight
The Holmes Brothers--I Believe You I Think
The Soul Tempters--Truckin'
Joe Clay--My Car's Allright
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Give It Back
Adam Green--What Makes Him Act So Bad
Alex Hargreaves--April Joy
The Mark IV--Ah-Ooo-Gah
The Corn Sisters--She's Leaving Town (live, 5/98)
Speckled Red--The Dirty Dozen
Arthur Conley--Funky Street
Joe Ely--Road Hawg
Francine Reed--455 Rocket
Georgia Anne Muldrow--Simple Advice
Jimi Hendrix (Mitch Mitchell, vocal)--Cat Talking to Me
Sandman & Camo--'64 Rambler (live)
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River--Bring Back the Past
Girl Trouble--Sister Mary Motorcycle
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Rocker
The Seven Stooges--I Wanna Be Your Dog
Iggy Pop--Nice to Be Dead
(Iggy &) the Stooges--Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
Fred Anderson--21st Century Chase, Pt. 2 (live, 3/09)
The Bonnie Sisters--Cry Baby
Jimmy Witherspoon--Money's Gettin' Cheaper (1963 version of 'Times Gettin' Tougher')
The Electric Prunes--Get Me to the World On Time
Graham Parker--Sweet Sixteen (live, solo)
---Retroactive #780--April 10, 2010:
---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show
Pieta Brown--El Guero (EP version)
Mose Allison--Ask Me Nice
Eugene Hideway Bridges--Little Boy Blue (live, 2009)
Drive-By Truckers--The Wig He Made Her Wear
Pisces--Like a Hole In the Wall Where the Rat Lives
The Apples In Stereo--The Code/Dream About the Future
Janiva Magness--I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Jim Lockhart--Boogie Woogie Baby
Al Green--So Good to Be Here; Look What You Done for Me
Shaun Murphy--Rock'n'Roll Everynight
Eric 'Two Scoops' Moore--It Hurts to Be In Love
The Len Price 3--Mr. Grey
B.B. King--Recession Blues
Buffy Sainte-Marie--No No Keshagesh
Peter Wolf--I Don't Wanna Know
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Scared
Patty Larkin with Lucy Kaplansky--Tango (2010 version)
Richard Berry--Yama Yama Pretty Mama
Zora Young--Travelin' Light (1991 version)
Sonic Youth--Leaky Lifeboat
---Retroactive #779--April 3, 2010:
///Herb Ellis (1921-2010) with the Oscar Peterson Trio--Naptown Blues
Billie Holiday--I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry for Me); What a Little Moonlight Can Do
(both are 1954 versions with Herb Ellis on guitar)///
Marc Benno--Too Bad You're No Good
Lyres--Someone Who'll Treat You Right Now
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--She Ain't a Child No More
Muddy Waters--Honey Bee; Walking Thru the Park
Claudia Schmidt & her Funtet--Missy Ma'am
Alex Hargreaves--Shasta
The Baseball Project--Gratitude (For Curt Flood)
The Holmes Brothers--Rounding Third
The Bobbettes--Mr. Lee
Count Basie with Taps Miller--Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
The Eyes--The Immediate Pleasure
The Tone Benders--Little Black Egg
Willie Nix--Try Me One More Time
Peter Case--Every 24 Hours
Richard Thompson--I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (live, solo, 1/82); My Soul, My Soul;
Orange-Coloured Sky (live)
Richard & Linda Thompson--Calvary Cross (live, 11/75)
Tiny Grimes & J.C. Higginbotham--Air Mail Special
Karen Carroll--I'm Glad
Chaka Khan--Foolish Fool
---Retroactive #778--March 27, 2010:
///Marva Wright (1948-2010)--Driving Wheel; Crazy///
Mose Allison--Some Right, Some Wrong
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--Rules of Engagement
///The Alex Chilton (1950-2010) Tribute, Pt. 2:
Big Star--The Ballad of El Goodo (live, 1974); You Get What You Deserve
Lisa Burns--Soul Deep
The Replacements--Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton--Paradise; Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere; What's Your Sign, Girl///
Fred Anderson--Ode to Alvin Fielder (live, 3/09)
Sarah Vaughan--Black Coffee (live, 7/63)
Sunnyland Slim--Baby How Long (How Long Blues)
The Len Price 3--If You Live Round Here
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Ain't No Good
Patty Griffin with Regina McCrary & Ann McCrary--If I Had My Way
The Neville Brothers--Mojo Hannah (live, 9/82)
Nick Lowe--All Men Are Liars; Big Hair; American Squirm
Brinsley Schwarz--Silver Pistol
Janiva Magness--Homewrecker
Rockpile--Teacher Teacher
Matthew Shipp--Jazz Paradox
Patty Larkin with Peter Mulvey--Booth of Glass (2010 version)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Mystic Eyes (live, 10/06)
*Plus: Jim Cameron's WLIR-FM 1974 interview with Alex Chilton & Big Star
---Retroactive #777--March 20, 2010
---All '60s Show
John Fahey (as Blind Thomas)--Wanda Russell's Blues
Betty James--I'm a Little Mixed Up
Patty Lace & the Petticoats--Sneaky Sue
///The Alex Chilton (1950-2010) Tribute, Pt. 1:
The Box Tops--Choo Choo Train; People Gonna Talk///
Margo Guryan--The 8:17 Northbound Success Merry-Go-Round (demo)
The Hollies--Tell Me to My Face
Biff Rose--Ballad of Cliches
Reverend Lonnie Farris--Peace In the Valley
Yusef Lateef's Detroit--That Lucky Old Sun
Aretha Franklin--Money Won't Change You
The Chicago Loop--(When She Wants Good Lovin') My Baby Comes to Me
Ray Charles--Let's Go Get Stoned
The Chantels--Well, I Told You So
The Small Faces--Hey Girl
The Beatles--Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Sandie Shaw--Tomorrow
Sly & the Family Stone--Sing a Simple Song
The Camelots--Don't Leave Me Baby
Ike & Tina Turner--What Do You Think I Am
The Standells--Try It
The Rationals--Sunset
Kay Bell & the Tuffs--(The Original) Surfer's Stomp
The Soul Agents--Mean Woman Blues
The Kinks--Holiday In Waikiki
Jimi Hendrix--Mr. Bad Luck
Sarah James & the Soul Babies--Takin' Care of Business
Wilson Pickett--She's Lookin' Good
Lou Donaldson--It Might As Well Be Spring
Wynn Stewart--Another Day, Another Dollar
Johnny C. & the Blazes--Inferno
Irma Thomas--Breakaway
*Plus: Product jingles from the Box Tops & the Chicago Loop; one of the many Vox wah-wah pedal ads
---Retroactive #776--March 13, 2010:
Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers--Good-bye Booze
Meade Lux Lewis--Whistlin' Blues
Patty Larkin with Martin Sexton--Lately (2010 version)
Downchild--I Need a Hat
Andrea Marr--Don't Touch What You Can't Afford
Robert Ward--Your Love Is Real
Human Switchboard--I Can Walk Alone
Spoon--Trouble Comes Running
Marcia Ball/Irma Thomas/Tracy Nelson--He's Mine
Freda & the Firedogs--Be Real
Marcia Ball--Let Me Play With Your Poodle
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse--Levitation
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem--The Moonshiner (live)
The Ramones--I Remember You
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Sheena's Back
Shaun Murphy--Come to Mama
Ducks Deluxe--Fireball
Ry Cooder--Can I Smoke In Here?; Tamp 'Em Up Solid; Money Honey
David Lindley & Ry Cooder--Monkey Wash, Donkey Rinse
Mavis Staples--The Mississippi River
The Tom Baker Quartet--Diminutive
Hal Harris--I Don't Know When
Suzanne Vega--(If You Were) In My Movie (2010 version)
Tail Dragger & his Chicago Blues Band--Keep It to Yourself (live, 3/09)
---Retroactive #775--March 6, 2010:
Joanna Newsom--'81
Peter Karp & Sue Foley--So Far So Fast
BoDeans--Feel 'Lil Love
///Ron Banks (1951-2010) & the Dramatics--Highway to Heaven
The Dramatics--Toast to the Fool; And I Panicked///
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--Almonjoi
The Leaves--Dr. Stone
The Len Price 3--Nothing Like You
The David Widelock Trio--Chitchat
Asleep at the Wheel--Fat Boy Rag
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Swing Blues; Sugar Blues; I Had Someone Else Before I Had You
Mose Allison--I Know You Didn't Mean It
Camille Howard--Sundays With You
The Holmes Brothers--You're the Kind of Trouble
The Crowd Scene--Candy Says
Angel Corpus Christi--Disco Mystic
Lou Reed--The Blue Mask; Power and Glory; Leave Her Johnny
The Velvet Underground--Ferryboat Bill
Roy Haynes--Remember
The Scruffs--Conquer Me
Guitar Shorty--Slow Burn
---Retroactive #774--February 27, 2010:
Helen Forrest with Artie Shaw & his Orchestra--Comes Love
Chick Willis--Love to See You Smile
The Pillbugs--Merely Stacking Chairs
Jack Rose--Everybody Ought to Pray Sometime
The Hot Club of Cowtown--One Step Closer
Eels--Mansions of Los Feliz
Faye Adams--Anything for a Friend
Jason & the Scorchers--Beat On the Mountain
Josh Rzepka--Song for a New Year
Leon Russell--Beware of Darkness
George Harrison--Sue Me, Sue You Blues; Fish on the Sand
The Beatles--If I Needed Someone
Bikini Kill--Capri Pants
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Reform School Girl
Luke Jones--Shufflin' Boogie
Tail Dragger & his Chicago Blues Band--Ooh Baby Hold Me (live, 3/09)
Scott Askew--Another Bone
Big Maybelle--Ring Dang Dilly
Floyd Red Crow Westerman--Don't Take Your Guns to Town
Johnny Cash--Redemption Day; The Story of a Broken Heart; The One On the Right Is On the Left
Carlene Carter--Ring of Fire
The Virginia Mayhew Septet--Spring Is Not Here
Ray Wiley Hubbard--Loose
Taj Mahal--Never Let You Go
---Retroactive #773--February 20, 2010:
Nina Simone--The Family; Work Song (1966 version)
Grizzly Bear--Southern Point
///Doug Fieger (1952-2010):
Was (Not Was) featuring guest vocalist Doug Fieger--Smile
Sky--Make It Tight///
Clifton Chenier--Choo Choo Ch-Boogie
Queen Ida & her Zydeco Band--Back Door
Buffy Sainte-Marie--To the Ends of the World; Babe In Arms
The Holmes Brothers--Dark Cloud
Hadley Caliman--Cigar Eddie
Rosie Flores--Little Bit More
'Cripple' Clarence Lofton--Streamline Engine
The Eyes--You're Too Much
The Len Price 3--I Don't Believe You
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--Sweet Pea
///Drummer Richard Delvy (1942-2010):
The Bel-Airs--Mr. Moto///
Rockin' Dopsie--Zyde-Cool
Shirley & Lee--Deed I Do (I'll Do It)
James Booker--On the Sunny Side of the Street (live, 11/77)
///Dale Hawkins (1936-2010); Susie-Q; Wildcat Tamer///
Shaun Murphy--Livin' the Blues
Henry Gray--My Girl Josephine
Fats Domino--Goin' Home; The Rooster Song; Walking to New Orleans
Matthew Shipp--Blue Web In Space
Carrie Newcomer--Coy Dogs
Sugar Blue--Trouble
---Retroactive #772--February 13, 2010:
Simon Joyner--Robin Hood
Justin Townes Earle--Down In the Valley
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix with Miss Marie--In My Secret Life
Irma Thomas--You Can Have My Husband (But Don't Mess With My Man) (live, 4/76);
Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You) (live, 8/90)
Taj Mahal--TV Mama
The Marvelettes--Locking Up My Heart
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band--Healing; Waiting for the D Train
Igor Bril & the All-Star Soviet Jazz Band--Recorda-Me (live, 11/88)
Spoon--Is Love Forever?
Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Baby You Crazy
Cocktail Slippers--Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Patti Smith--Who Do You Love (live, 2/97)
The Noses--My Left Hanger of Love
Outrageous Cherry--The Illuminated Council for World Destruction
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles--Being With You
Marianne Faithfull with Antony--Ooo Baby Baby
The Miracles--You've Really Got a Hold On Me; Happy Landing
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage
Smokey Robinson--I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby)
Adam Rafferty--Tinkerbell's Dream
June Tabor--Body and Soul
Davy Jones--Valleri; Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (both live, 7/03); Secret Love
Mable John--Ain't Giving It Up
The Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra & his Arkestra--Somebody's In Love
---Retroactive #771--February 6, 2010:
Maura Kennedy--The Thing With Feathers
Shaun Murphy--Love to Burn
Luther Allison--You Can, You Can (live, 7/97)
Ray Wiley Hubbard--Pots and Pans
Oh Susanna--Bootlegger's Blues
///The Gerry Goffin/Carole King Songbook:
The Cookies--Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby
Carole King--Brighter; Goin' Back (1970 version)
The Sadies--Wasn't Born to Follow
The Animals--Don't Bring Me Down///
Matthew Shipp--Sequence of Vibration
NRBQ--Still In School
Percy Sledge--Take Time to Know Her
Eels--Unhinged
Holly Golightly--Believe Me #2
The Len Price 3--The Girl Who Became a Machine
The King Khan & BBQ Show--Lonely Boy
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--High Horse
Joe Ely with Carlene Carter--Honky Tonkin' (live, 1980)
Joe Ely--Ranches and Rivers (live, 1/99)
Amy Gallatin & Roger Williams--Maybe Tomorrow
The Who--Man With Money
The Everly Brothers--Man With Money; Devoted to You; Poor Jenny
Either/Orchestra--Night of the Living Blues
The Pretty Things--Cries from the Midnight Circus
Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson--Talkin' About Soul
Heather Myles--And It Hurts
Blue Mother Tupelo--Runnin' 'Round
---Retroactive #770--January 30, 2010:
---All Michigan Show
Howling Diablos--Mean Little Town
Rodriguez--Can't Get Away
Regina Carter with Dee Dee Bridgewater--This Can't Be Love
Sir Mack Rice--Feels Good
The Shy--Beetle Bomp
Lyn & the Invaders--Boy Is Gone
Toby Redd--Little Boy Lost
Jackie Wilson--Baby Workout
Wilson Pickett--Don't Fight It
The Tidal Waves--Big Boy Pete
Funkadelic--You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
The White Stripes--Wasting My Time
Kenny Burrell--Mule
Suzi Quatro--Lipstick
The Romantics--21 and Over
Coldcock--You
MC5--I Don't Mind (rehearsal)
Karen Monster--Kill
The Bob Seger System--2 + 2 = ?
Gino Washington--Gino Is a Coward
Aretha Franklin--Rock With Me
Nathaniel Mayer--Don't Come Back
The Gore Gore Girls--Shotgun Wedding
The Rationals--Feelin' Lost; Poor Dog (Who Can't Wag His Own Tail)
Marshall Crenshaw--Soldier of Love (live, 8/82)
The Temptations--Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
The Elgins--Heaven Must Have Sent You
Martha & the Vandellas--Motoring
Marvin Gaye--One More Heartache
The Velvelettes--He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'
Jimmy Ruffin--96 Tears
*Plus: Bob Babbitt on his bass playing partner at Motown, the legendary James Jamerson, Jr.;
Della Reese--Stroke Prevention PSA
---Retroactive #769--January 23, 2010:
///Kate McGarrigle (1946-2010):
Kate & Anna McGarrigle--(Talk to Me of) Mendocino; Go Leave
Maria Muldaur--The Work Song///
The 4 Seasons--Big Man In Town
James Luther Dickinson--Who Threw the Whiskey In the Well
Jolie Holland--The Littlest Birds
Shirley Johnson--Just Like That
Widespread Panic with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Old Neighborhood (live, 2003)
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse--Visionary of an Abstrakt
///Carl Smith (1927-2010)--Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way; Hey Joe!///
Ringo Starr--The Other Side of Liverpool
Shaun Murphy--That's a Pretty Good Love
The Moondoggies--Don't Be a Stranger
Lhasa--Love Came Here
Tom Waits--Live Circus (live)
The Holmes Brothers--Smiling Face Hiding a Weeping Heart
Lucinda Williams--Positively 4th Street (2009 version); Hot Blood
Zora Young--Rock Me Baby (live)
Adam Rafferty--The Boogie Man
Cyril Neville--I'll Take Care of You
Bobby Blue Bland--Members Only; Ain't That Loving You
---Retroactive #768--January 16, 2010:
Steve & Kristi Nebel--In the Islands
Rosemary Clooney--Independent (On My Own)
Memphis Slim with Roosevelt Sykes--Eagle Rock (live, 1970)
James Carr--Love Attack
///Songwriter-performer Bobby Charles (1938-2010)--Later Alligator
Ray Charles--The Jealous Kind
Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth--Tennessee Blues///
///Jay Reatard (1980-2010)--I'm Watching You///
///Guitarist Mick Green (1944-2010):
The Pirates--Shakin' All Over (1978 version)///
///Teddy Pendergrass (1950-2010):
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Teddy Pendergrass--Keep On Lovin' You; Bad Luck///
Ray Brown with John Clayton, Jr. & Christian McBride--Brown Funk; Sculler Blues (both live, 10/96)
Deanna Bogart/Dan Leonard/Scott Ambush/Mike Aubin--Heart 'n Soul
Blue Mother Tupelo--Always Lookin' (radio edit)
Steve James--The Right Thing to Do
The Soul Stirrers--Lord Remember Me
Jeffrey Gaines--A Change Is Gonna Come (live)
Bobby Womack--That's Heaven to Me
Sam Cooke--Tennessee Waltz; Lost and Lookin'; Since I Met You Baby
Betsy Holt & Kyle Cruse--Sunshine of Your Love; C Minor Blues
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix--Nighttime In the Switching Yard
*Plus: Three inspirational speech clips by Martin Luther King, Jr.
---Retroactive #767--January 9, 2010:
Jim Kweskin--Ranger's Command (live)
Woody Guthrie--Vigilante Man
Joel Rafael--Talking Oklahoma Hills
Ami Saraiya--Vegas Moon
Dennis Diken with Bell Sound--Standing In That Line
Joe Liggins with Candy Rivers--Daddy On My Mind
The Hockadays--Hold On Baby
Shaun Murphy--Ocean of Tears
Paul Renz--In My Own Hands
///Producer-trumpeter Willie Mitchell (1928-2010)--Buster Browne; Soul Serenade
Ann Peebles--Come to Mama
Al Green--So You're Leaving///
The Morells--Worryin' Kind (live, 12/80)
Tommy Castro--Monkey's Paradise
Dale Vaughn--How Can You Be So Mean to Me
The Ramblers featuring Tamara Hayes--Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Ruth Brown--I Can't Hear a Word You Say; I Don't Break Dance; That Train Don't Stop Here
The Joshua Davis Group--Almost Tea
///Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010):
Lhasa--What Kind of Heart///
Zora Young--Goin' Back to Memphis
Rosanne Cash--I'm Movin' On
---Retroactive #766--January 2, 2010:
///Vic Chesnutt (1964-2009)--Granny; Everything I Say; Stay Inside///
Me'shell Ndegeocello--Crying In Your Beer
Patty Griffin--The Best Is Yet to Come
Little Willie G.--These Hands (Small But Mighty)
The Tragically Hip--Little Bones
Betty Davis--Dedicated to the Press
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse--First Mind
Elvis Presley--My Baby Left Me; Are You Lonesome Tonight (live and cracking up, 8/22/69); Promised Land
Buffy Sainte-Marie--Blue Sunday
The Young Fresh Fellows--You've Got Your Head On Backwards
Link Wray & his Ray Men--Walkin' With Link
Carol Jones--Problem Child
The Walkmen--In the New Year
Cocktail Slippers--Round and Round
Steve James with Del Rey--The Same Thing Could Happen to You
Laura Love & Orville Johnson--Nobody's Fault But Mine
War--Gypsy Man
Positive Catastrophe--Plena Quicksand Monument
Sandy Denny--Bushes and Briars
Fairport Convention--Autopsy
Fotheringay--Wild Mountain Thyme; The Banks of the Nile
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