---Retroactive #1075--December 26, 2015: Shemekia Copeland with Alvin Youngblood Hart--Cardboard Box Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau--On a Monday (live) Low--Taking Down the Tree; What Part of Me Duke Robillard--Let's Turn Back the Years Samantha Crain--Outside the Pale Billy Price & Otis Clay--Too Many Hands Maia Sharp--Nothing But the Radio The Wild Feathers--The Ceiling Kirsten Edkins--The Bug First Aid Kit--New Year's Eve Joe Ely--Wounded Creek Regina Spektor--20 Years of Snow Richard Thompson--Patty Don't You Put Me Down Marilyn Scott--What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? (live) Huey 'Piano' Smith the Clowns--We Like Birdland Freda & the Firedogs--Fist City Robert Pollard--Chance to Buy an Island New York Dolls--Lonely Planet Boy Over the Rhine--New Year's Song Ricky Nelson--Believe What You Say Shannon & the Clams--It's Too Late Tommy Keene--Alone In These Modern Times Sleater-Kinney--No Cities to Love Bo Diddley with Jerome Green--Say Man Bo Diddley--Pretty Thing; The Story of Bo Diddley; Cops and Robbers Kris Wiley--You Don't Love Me Josh Berman Trio--Cold Snap Dinah Washington--Resolution Blues Graham Parker & the Rumour--Pourin' It All Out Girl Trouble--Out of Our Tree Trudy Lynn--Fat Daddy Harmonica Shah--Two Legged Grey Mare Patti Smith--Walkin Blind; 1959; Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De) Clare Fischer--Cascade of the Seven Waterfalls Ryan Adams--Style Buffy Sainte-Marie--Carry It On White Denim--Light Up or Leave Me Alone
---Retroactive #1074--December 19, 2015: Michala Petri--Schonster Herr Jesu (Fairest Lord Jesus) Shirley Collins--The Cherry Tree Carol Bing Crosby--Silent Night Reilly & Maloney--Maria Ray Charles--Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Seasick Steve & the Level Devils--Xmas Prison Blues Lyle Lovett--The Girl With the Holiday Smile Julie London--I'd Like You for Christmas James Taylor--River Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--It's Christmas Time Marian McPartland with Karrin Allyson--December Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Band--Holiday for Strings John Pizzarelli--Wonderful Christmastime Whitney Marchelle--Home Cheap Trick--I Want You for Christmas Jerry Lee Lewis--I Can't Have a Merry Christmas, Mary (Without You) Michelle Willson--Five Pound Box of Money Beat Happening--Christmas El Vez--Brown Christmas James Brown--Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto Blue Rodeo--Jesus Christ Jackson Browne--The Rebel Jesus (1997 version) Ella Fitzgerald--Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Truckstop Honeymoon--Christmas In Ocala Dead Moon--Christmas Rush The Sonics--Don't Believe In Christmas Darlene Love with the Brian Setzer Orchestra--Sleigh Ride William Bell--Everyday Will Be Like a Holiday The Majority--All Our Christmases John Zorn--Santa's Workshop Brave Combo--Coal and Switches Marshall Crenshaw with the Chisel Brothers--Sock It to Me Santa The BellRays--Merry Christmas Baby Keith Richards--Run Rudolph Run The Fleshtones--Christmas with Bazooka Joe Bob Francis--That Swingin' Manger Dean Martin--The Christmas Blues Elvin Bishop--Silent Night Lou Rawls--Christmas Is Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--Rubber Bell Rock Straight No Chaser feat. Paul McCartney--Wonderful Christmastime Aretha Franklin--Winter Wonderland Wiley--Drunken Uncle Santa The Christian McBride Trio--My Favorite Things Mark O'Connor--Sleigh Ride Stevie Wonder--The Little Drummer Boy *Plus: Scads of Christmas greetings and fun bits
---Retroactive #1073--December 12, 2015: Mae Moore--Watermark Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & D.L. Menard--Port Arthur Blues Karla Bonoff--Home Curtis Salgado--Nobody But You Lee Fields & the Expressions--Paralyzed Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs--She May Call You Up Tonight Charlie Rich--Your Cheatin' Heart; Gonna Be Waitin'; River, Stay Away from My Door Over the Rhine--If We Make It Through December John Batdorf--Feels Like Home Will Caviness--My Shining Hour Brenda Lee--Love and Learn; That's All You Gotta Do; Be My Love Again The Handsome Family--So Much Wine Toni Lynn Washington--I Feel Like a Million Bob Dylan--Queen Jane Approximately (alternate take, 8/65) ///The 100th Birth Anniversary of Francis Albert Sinatra: Frank Sinatra--One for My Baby (And One for the Road); I Get a Kick Out of You (1953 version); Night and Day (1962 version) Skanatra--Luck Be a Lady/// Mary Bridges Davies Group--Won't Pay You Mind ///Recording artist-poet-activist John Trudell (1946-2015): John Trudell--What He'd Done; Dizzy Duck John Trudell & Jesse Ed Davis--Shaman (Make a Chant)/// Kirsten Edkins--Mean Greens Nanci Griffith--Banks of the Ponchartrain Shannon & the Clams--Knock 'Em Dead Tommy Keene--I Belong to You Sleater-Kinney--Good Things Flory Jagoda--Ocho Kandelikas Mickey Katz--Grandma's Dreidel Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--8 Days (of Hanukkah); Silent Night Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers--Tipitina Professor Longhair (as Roy Byrd & his Blues Jumpers)--Oh Well Professor Longhair--(They Call Me) Dr. Professor Longhair James Booker--Professor Longhair Medley: Bald Head/Tipitina Kenny Carr--Chicken Wings Zora Young & Mike and the Tornadoes--I've Been a Fool Too Long *Plus: Batdorf & Rodney's 1970s anti-drug message
---Retroactive #1072--December 5, 2015: Odetta & Larry--Waterboy Camille Howard--You Used to Be Mine Steve Forbert--Drink Red Wine Maia Sharp--Underneath Dwight Yoakam--Dreams of Clay ///Concert promoter-record label owner Gene Norman (1922-2015): Big Joe Turner--Flip, Flop and Fly (live, L.A., 12/55)/// Cassandra Wilson--Out Loud (Jeris' Blues); All of Me; Black Crow Blackie & the Rodeo Kings featuring Cassandra Wilson--Golden Sorrows Big Picture Holiday--Squid Kurt Vile--Dust Bunnies Laura Rain & the Caesars--Pay to Play Whitney Marchelle--The Monk Swing ///Songwriter-recording artist-guitarist PF Sloan (1945-2015): Jimmy Webb--PF Sloan (1970 version) PF Sloan--PK and the Evil Dr. Z The Grass Roots--Where Were You When I Needed You The Turtles--You Baby Herman's Hermits--A Must to Avoid Johnny Rivers--Secret Agent Man Red Rockers--Eve of Destruction/// Stanley Adams & Sid Wayne--'Twas the Night Before Hanukkah Seth MacFarlane with Nora Jones--Little Jack Frost Get Lost ///The sick 35th anniversary of John Lennon's murder: John Lennon--Imagine (live, guitar version, NYC, 1972)/// Marshall Chapman--Guns R Us; Love Slave Chuck Prophet--Soap and Water ///60th anniversary of Rosa Parks' disobedient act that made all lives better: The Neville Brothers--Sister Rosa (live)/// Fuzz--Rat Race Andrea Marr Band--Shake Your Moneymaker (live) Little Richard--Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey; Get Rhythm; All Around the World Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen--Rip It Up (live) Manuel Valera & Groove Square--As I Listen Fiona Boyes--Smokestack Lightning
---Retroactive #1071--November 28, 2015: Lara Price--Get It Where I Want It Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Long Way from San Antone Sarah Brown--Please Help Guy Davis--Like Sonny Did Carl Perkins--Let the Jukebox Keep on Playing Shawn Colvin--I Used to Be a King Father John Misty--Nancy from Now On Fenton Robinson--Mississippi Steamboat Los Lobos--Too Small Heart Stereolab--Wow and Flutter Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators--Blues Downtown Kirsten Edkins--Imagineering Clarence Carter--Looking for a Fox New Bloods--No. 17 Dan Bern--Terre Haute Ray Davies--Thanksgiving Day Jonathan Richman--I Eat With Gusto, Damn! You Bet Shannon & the Clams--Point of Being Right ///Trumpeter-vocalist Cynthia Robinson (1944-2015): Sly & the Family Stone--I Cannot Make It; Dance to the Medley: Music Is Alive/Dance In/Music Lover; Harmony (Cynthia Robinson added immeasurably to this great band's sound)/// Squeeze--Sunny; Up the Junction; Hourglass Clare Fischer--Squatty Roo ///The Jimi Hendrix Birth Anniversary Special: James Hill--Little Wing Dion--Purple Haze Joe Bonamassa--Hey Baby (New Rising Sun) Eric Gales & Trudy Lynn--Voodoo Child The Pretenders--Bold as Love World Saxophone Quartet--If 6 Was 9 Buddy Guy--Red House Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Who Knows (live, 12/69) Jimi Hendrix--Angel (early version, 11/67); My Friend The Jimi Hendrix Experience--1983...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be)///
---Retroactive #1070--November 21, 2015: Kristine Mills--Not Waiting for Maybe Low--Into You The Grams--The Secret Lewis Cowdrey--No Flats Zora Young & Mike and the Tornadoes--True Love Is Hard to Find Joe Ely--Here's to the Weary Jean Shepard--Crying Steel Guitar Waltz; Act Like a Married Man; I've Learned to Live With You (And Be Alone) Lisa Hilton--The Sky and the Ocean Chris Isaak--Down In Flames Andrea Marr Band--Keep On Standing (live) Ryan Adams--All You Had to Do Was Stay Mecca Normal--Phone's Unplugged Family--Ready to Go Jan & Dean--The New Girl In School Alex Chilton--You're Lookin' Good Toni Lynn Washington--Checkin' Up On My Baby Kait Dunton--Noraa ///Allen Toussaint (1938-2015) Tribute, Pt. 2: Art Neville--All These Things Irma Thomas--It's Raining (live, 8/90) Lee Dorsey--Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further; Night People; Ride Your Pony Rufus--Whoever's Thrilling You (Is Killing Me) Diamond Joe--Gossip Gossip The Rolling Stones--Fortune Teller Betty Harris--What Did I Do Wrong Little Feat--On Your Way Down The Band--Chest Fever (live, 12/71) Bonnie Raitt--What Is Success Allen Toussaint--What Do You Want the Girl to Do (live); Yes We Can Can; Computer Lady; Southern Nights (live, 2009) Tina Turner--Viva La Money/// Tina Turner--I Wrote a Letter Ike & Tina Turner--Louie Louie; Nearer the Cross; Honest I Do Sean Dobbins Organ Quintet--O-o-h Child
---Retroactive #1069--November 14, 2015: Yo La Tengo--I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Arthur Alexander--In the Middle of It All (1965 version) Guy Davis--Taking Just a Little Bit of Time John McCutcheon--Where the Fraser River Flows Eilen Jewell--Needle and Thread Robin & Linda Williams--Traffic Light Brett Dennen--Colours Little Willie John--Talk to Me, Talk to Me; I'll Carry Your Love Wherever I Go; Don't Be Ashamed to Call My Name; Are You Ever Coming Back Shirley Horn--Fever Kirsten Edkins--Big B Karrin Allyson--I Cain't Say No Lindi Ortega--Run-Down Neighborhood Graham Parker--Just Like a Man; Can't Take Love for Granted Graham Parker & the Rumour--I've Done Bad Things; (Let Me Get) Sweet on You Graham Parker & the Shot--Black Lincoln Continental Fred Hersch--The Song Is You ///Allen Toussaint (1938-2015) Tribute, Pt. 1: Lowell George--What Do You Want the Girl to Do Allen Toussaint (as Tousan)--Java Allen Toussaint--High Life; Sweet Touch of Love; Play Something Sweet (all three live, 4/76); Happiness (The incredible writer-producer-arranger-vocalist-pianist shaped the New Orleans scene with a quiet vengeance in the '60s, '70s and beyond)/// *The middle hour of this three hour program (10-11am) was hosted by Giovanni Strain, future KAOS programmer (songs not listed)
---Retroactive #1068--November 7, 2015: Ann Rabson--I Can't Get My Mind Off of You Dave Rawlings Machine--Bodysnatchers Lee Fields & the Expressions--It Still Gets Me Down Pieta Brown--Painter's Hand Steve Forbert--Compromise Denise LaSalle--No Supervision The Flying Burrito Brothers--We've Got to Get Ourselves Together (live, 4/69); Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music) Gram Parsons--$1000 Wedding (demo, 1969) Richard Thompson, Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Hickory Wind Clare Fischer--Love's Walk Shemekia Copeland--The Battle Is Over (But the War Goes On) Tommy Keene--Out of My Mind; Dear Heloise Laura Rain & the Caesars--Cherry Pickin' Mem Shannon--Phunkville Bonnie Raitt--Love Me Like a Man (live) Bonnie Raitt with Keb' Mo'--Love Letter (live, 9/05) Bonnie Raitt & Was (Not Was)--Baby Mine Delbert McClinton--You Are My Sunshine; Givin' It Up for Your Love (both live, 12/82) Francine Reed with Delbert McClinton--You Bug Me Matthew Shipp Trio--Instinctive Touch Joanna Newsom--Goose Eggs Betsy and Dave--Corcovado Squeeze--Honeytrap The Symptoms--Flyin' Saucers Rock'n'Roll (live, 1978) Oblivians--Call the Police Joni Mitchell--Cherokee Louise (2002 version); Harry's House/Centerpiece; Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody; California Sufjan Stevens--Free Man In Paris Dawan Muhammed--Place on High John Batdorf--She Knows What I Like The El Torros--Dance With Me
---Retroactive #1067--October 31, 2015: Eugene Hideaway Bridges--One More Time Fiona Boyes--Juke Joint on Moses Lane Cry Cry Cry--Shades of Grey ///Vocalist Mark Murphy (1932-2015)--Don't Let Your Eyes Go Shopping; Stolen Moments; Trilogy for Kids: Babe's Blues/Little Niles/Dat Dere/// Ruth Brown--Nothing Takes the Place of You Tanita Tikaram--Twist In My Sobriety Sean Dobbins Organ Quartet--Rio Calvin Johnson--What Was Me Beat Happening--Red Head Walking The Halo Benders--Inbred Heart *Halloween Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Jack Teagarden, Family & Friends--St. James Infirmary (live, 9/63) Barbara Blue--Voo Doo Woman Roy Buchanan (Chuck Tilley, vocal)--Haunted House Los Lobos--Mis-Treater Boogie Dead Moon--Evil Eye Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger & the Trinity--Season of the Witch Chris Rea--The Road to Hell, Pt. 2 Gore Gore Girls--Where Evil Grows Joe Louis Walker--Who Do You Love Yoron Israel & High Standards--Creepin' (live, 6/13) Lindi Ortega--Run Amuck The Crazy World of Arthur Brown--I Put a Spell on You Roky Erickson & the Aliens--Creature With the Atom Brain Go Betty Go--Cemetery Stone The King Khan & BBQ Show--Snackin' After Midnight Randall Bramblett--Devil Music Thee Headcoatees--Something Went Wrong Girl Trouble with Steve Fisk--Batman Theme (Instrumental); Batman Theme/The Truth (Alfred House Mix) Aloha Screwdriver--Haunted Planet Rickie Lee Jones--Haunted Blue Oyster Cult--I Love the Night Chuck Berry--Trick or Treat The Comas--Wicked Elm Ben Paterson--Cry Me a River Koko Taylor with Mighty Joe Young--Voodoo Woman John Primer with Johnny Winter--I'm Ready *Plus: Lots of sound effects and eerie noises
---Retroactive #1066--October 24, 2015: Greg Brown & friends--She Moved Through the Fair (live, 1/99) Rory Block--Rolling Log Dave Rawlings Machine--The Last Pharoah Candi Staton--What a Feeling Swingin' Medallions--Hey, Hey, Baby Stephen Bruton--Lonesome Blues Zora Young & Little Mike and the Tornadoes--44 Blues Amos Milburn--Amos' Blues Laura Rain & the Caesars--Raise Your Hand The Jason Klobnak Quintet--Breaking Point John Batdorf--Please Don't Go Eldridge Holmes with the Meters--The Book Shawn Colvin--Hold On The Shy--All Behind The Easybeats--Wedding Ring; Do You Have a Soul; Who Are My Friends Television--Little Johnny Jewel Samantha Fish--Road Runner Julia Lee & her Boyfriends--Cold Hearted Daddy; My Man Stands Out Julia Lee--A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey--Better Living Through Competitive Spirituality Percy Sledge--My Special Prayer Russell Smith--We're Gettin' Outta Here Fastbacks--Just Out of Reach Billy Bragg--Seven and Seven Is The Young Fresh Fellows--Power Mowers Theme The Sonics--You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover The Muffs--Oh Nina Lew Lewis & Reformer--Lucky Seven Dakota Staton--The Late, Late Show Swamp Dogg--Remember I Said Tomorrow Richard Thompson--Broken Doll Ted Hawkins--Searching for My Love; You Pushed My Head Away; Corrina, Corrina Lizz Wright--Surrender The Matthew Shipp Trio--Ball In Space Lara Price--Moon In the Mirror
---Retroactive #1065--October 17, 2015: Sandman--Shy Girl (live, 9/96) Heliotroupe--Book of Splendor Laura Cantrell--Starry Skies John Pizzarelli--Hi, Hi, Hi Ana Egge--Maps of the Moon Judy Collins with Willie Nelson--When I Go Slim Harpo--You'll Be Sorry One Day Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Wonder Why Eugene Hideaway Bridges--End of Time Missy Andersen--Same Things Make You Laugh Will Make You Cry Moon Mullican--Pipeliner's Blues Ben Winkelman Trio--While I Sleep Fiona Boyes--Louisiana Ernestine Anderson--You Make Me Feel So Young (live, 1962) War--Slipping Into Darkness John Trudell--The Only One for Me Wanda Jackson--It's All Over Now; In the Middle of a Heartache; Thunder On the Mountain; My Baby Left Me Tav Falco Panther Burns--Funnel of Love Guy Davis--She Just Wants to Be Loved Sky Cries Mary--Your Head Kait Dunton--Yes Samantha Crain--Elk City Los Lobos--When We Were Free Tommy Keene--Last of the Twilight Girls Best Coast--Fine Without You C.C. Adcock--Couchemal Bob Marley & the Wailers--Duppy Conqueror (Fort Knox Five Remix) Sharon Jones--Hook and Sling Meet the Funky Superfly, Pt. 1 ///The Chuck Berry Birthday Bash: Billy Boy Arnold--Nadine (Is It You?) Lyle Lovett--Brown Eyed Handsome Man Bryan Adams--Rock and Roll Music Chuck Berry--Go Go Go; Too Pooped to Pop; Sweet Little Sixteen (live, 10/86); No Money Down/// Terry Bartolotta Group--Skylark Shemekia Copeland--Jesus Just Left Chicago
---Retroactive #1064--October 10, 2015: Toni Fisher--West of the Wall Eva Cassidy--San Francisco Bay Blues (live, 9/94) Jamie Cullum--I Want to Be a Popstar Shawn Colvin with David Crosby--Baker Street Howe Gelb--Unforgivable Mark Hummel--Crazy Legs Lindi Ortega--When You Ain't Home Dan Bern--Turn On a Dime Eilen Jewell--Worried Mind John Batdorf--What's a Guy to Do Joe Krown--Pink Champagne Galactic featuring JJ Grey--Higher and Higher The Dead Weather--Buzz Kill(er) The Pretty Things--Baron Saturday Rob Wasserman with Michael Franti--Union Love Juice Sarah Vaughan--Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean The Pine Valley Cosmonauts with Kelly Hogan--Drunkard's Blues Toni Lynn Washington--I Wanna Dance John Prine--Wedding Day In Funeralville; Dear Abby; Some Humans Ain't Human Yo La Tengo--Friday I'm In Love Ann Peebles--Full-Time Lover Dr. Bob Finney Jazz Group--Equinox ///40th Anniversary of Greil Marcus' groundbreaking book, "Mystery Train: Images of America In Rock'n'Roll Music": Robert Johnson--Dead Shrimp Blues Harmonica Frank Floyd--Swamp Root Sly & the Family Stone--Spaced Cowboy The Band--To Kingdom Come Randy Newman--Davy the Fat Boy Elvis Presley--Lawdy Miss Clawdy (live, 6/68)/// The Shivvers--Remember Tonight Thee Midniters--Love Special Delivery Sam Moore with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band-- Medley: Hold On, I'm Coming/Soul Man (live, 10/09) Sam & Dave--This Is Your World; That's the Way It's Gotta Be; Let It Be Me; Ain't That a Lot of Love Dawan Muhammed--Quiet Now Samantha Fish--Jim Lee Blues, Pt. 1 Jozsef James--Get My Tequila On Keith Richards--Substantial Damage
---Retroactive #1063--October 3, 2015: Milezo--Rewind Janiva Magness--Turn Your Heart In My Direction Guy Davis--Kokomo Kid Richard Thompson--She Never Could Resist a Winding Road The Blues Broads--Blue Highway (live) John Primer with Bob Margolin--I Be's Troubled (I Can't Be Satisfied) Shemekia Copeland--Crossbone Bech Randall Bramblett--Bottom of the Ocean Adrianna Marie & her Groovecutters--Cherry Wine Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson--You Can't Have My Love No More Andy Brown--Dancing In the Dark Ellen McIlwaine--Pinebo; Higher Ground; Never Tell Your Mother She's Out of Tune Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Old Blue Ana Egge--Wildflowers Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Hold On a Little Bit Longer ///Frankie Ford (1939-2015)--Alimony; Roberta/// Judy Collins with Jackson Browne--Feels Like Home Jackson Browne--Alive In the World (live); These Days; Lives In the Balance (live) Ann Cole--Easy Easy Baby Mabel Scott--Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train Maria Schneider Orchestra--The Monarch and the Milkweed ///John Lennon 75th Birth Anniversary: Jan Van De Mel & friends--It's for You Bettye LaVette--Wait The Beatles--Any Time at All; Rain; Julia; Free as a Bird Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas--I'm In Love (includes chatter with producer George Martin and John Lennon, who wrote the song with Paul McCartney and happened to be in the recording studio that day) Sonny Knight & the Lakers--Day Tripper (live) Me and My Arrow--Don't Let Me Down Harry Nilsson--Old Dirt Road Grazyna Auguscik & Paulinho Garcia--Norwegian Wood The Plastic Ono Band--Cold Turkey (live, 9/69) John Lennon--Look at Me; Tight A$ John Lennon/Yoko Ono--I'm Losing You/I'm Moving On/// *Plus: Lots of Lennon audio quotes and Beatles antics
---Retroactive #1062--September 26, 2015: ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Eilen Jewell--Down the Road The Honey Bears--One Bad Stud Barbara Blue--I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down Donald Harrison--Hiko Hiko Nick Lowe--Between Dark and Dawn Peach--Love You Samantha Fish--Highway's Holding Me Now Sam Cooke--You Gotta Move The Picketts--Dying Ain't Much of a Living Toots Lorraine--Get Back to Lovin' The Flamin Groovies--Yes I Am; Gonna Rock Tonite; Shake Some Action Debbie Davies--Howlin' at the Moon Mose Allison--Cruise Control Janis Ian--Life Is Never Wrong The Blasters--Flattop Joint Galactic with Mavis Staples--Does It Really Make a Difference Carlene Carter--Appalachian Eyes; One Love; Love Is a 4-Letter Verb Yo La Tengo--Rickety Toni Lynn Washington--Mellow Down Easy Unwound--For Your Entertainment Nina Simone--Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The Kingbees--Rockin' My Life Away Jerry Lee Lewis--Cold, Cold Heart; I'm On Fire; I Bet You're Gonna Like It; Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Sun Records version) June Tabor & Oysterband--Pain or Paradise Jesse Dee--No Matter Where I Am The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter--Money Honey
---Retroactive #1061--September 19, 2015: Caroline Lavelle--Timeless Shirley Collins & Davey Graham--Love Is Pleasin' Johnny Adams--Angel Eyes Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell--If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now Delbert & Glen--World of Hurt Marva Whitney--Live and Let Live ZSG--Face the Music Shemekia Copeland--Drivin' Out of Nashville Ani DiFranco--See See See See; Gravel (live); Happy All the Time; Fire Door (live) Indigo Girls with Ani DiFranco--Ramblin' 'Round (live, 9/96) Ben Winkelman Trio--Prospects Robyn Hitchcock--Somebody to Break Your Heart Corin Tucker Band--1,000 Years Joseph Arthur--Can't Exist The Muffs--Don't Pick on Me Ana Egge--Jenny Run Away Ray Charles--Two Years of Torture; I'm Gonna Keep on Singin'; Riding Thumb; I Got a Woman (live, 1958) Wanda Jackson--Sticks and Stones Liberty Ellman--Furthermore Thompson--Careful Richard Thompson--Long John Silver Sub Debs--Give It Up Mickey & Sylvia--I'm Going Home Dan Bern--Merle, Hank and Johnny Wishbone Ash--Blind Eye All Girl Summer Fun Band--Not the One for Me Sophie Milman--I'm On Fire Shawn Colvin--Tougher Than the Rest The Greg Kihn Band--For You (live, 4/86) Bruce Springsteen--Youngstown Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (live, 12/75); Code of Silence (live, 1999); Bobby Jean (live, 8/85) Peter Kogan--Question Monk? Ike & Val (Woods)--Don't Play Me Like That Blind Boys of Alabama with Toots Hibbert--Perfect Peace
---Retroactive #1060--September 12, 2015: John Mills featuring Carmen Bradford--Tidewater John Primer with Matthew Skoller--She Moves Me Jimmy & Mama Yancey--Monkey Woman Blues Robert Cray--Already Gone Samantha Fish--Wild Heart Darrell Rhodes--Lou Lou Yo La Tengo--The Ballad of Red Buckets Eilen Jewell--My Hometown Randall Bramblett--Pride In Place The Maria Schneider Orchestra--Home *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash--Girl from the North County The Lafayettes--Nobody But You The Monkees--She Jackie DeShannon--Try to Forget Him Shorty Long--Function at the Junction Them--Stormy Monday The Belles--Melvin The Box Tops--(The) Happy Song Joni Mitchell--Chelsea Morning Gene & Debbe--Playboy James Brown--I've Got Money Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band--Sugar and Spikes Nico--Lawns of Dawn Merle Haggard--The Bottle Let Me Down Jimmy Hughes--Neighbor Neighbor Sly & the Family Stone--Plastic Jim Johnny Rivera & the Tequila Brass--Cloud Nine The Wailers--Bad Trip The Sweet Inspirations--Sweet Inspiration Charles Mingus--Hog Callin' Blues Gene Pitney--Lips Were Redder on You Jan & Dean--Dead Man's Curve Jonna Gault--I'm Never Gonna Cry Again Spooky Tooth--That Was Only Yesterday Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66--Mas Que Nada Buffalo Springfield--Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing; Bluebird (nine minute jam version released in 1973 + ending from 1967 album) Bill Evans--How My Heart Sings Aretha Franklin--Ain't Nobody (Gonna Turn Me Around) The Who--My Generation (Radio 1 Jingle); Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (BBC) Buffy Sainte-Marie--Better to Find Out for Yourself The Yardbirds--White Summer Al Caiola--From Russia With Love *Plus: Excerpts of '60s commercials
---Retroactive #1059--September 5, 2015: John Mayall--A Big Man Sugar Ray & the Bluenotes--(That's Not Yet) One of My Blues Carrie Newcomer--Prelude Ana Egge--Fifth of July Henry Gray & Bob Corritore--Honey Don't Let Me Go Joss Stone--Let Me Breathe Headhunters--God Made Me Funky Patsy Cline--Strange; For Rent (live); Shake, Rattle and Roll (live, 7/61); She's Got You Asleep at the Wheel with the Time Jumpers--Faded Love John Ellis--High and Mighty W.C. Clark--Rough Edges Leon Russell--Out In the Woods Patty Griffin--All That Shines Is Not Truth Louie & the Lovers--Little Georgie Baker Iris DeMent--If That Ain't Love Dan Bern--Late Show Robin Lane & the Chartbusters--Kathy Lee Otis Redding--Happy Song (Dum Dum); Cigarettes and Coffee; Look at the Girl Malford Milligan Band--These Arms of Mine The Jason Klobnak Quintet--It Won't Return Void Martha Wainwright--See Emily Play Sonny Boy Williamson #2--The Goat Pinetop Perkins with Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith--Eyesight to the Blind Patti Smith--Looking for You (I Was) The Sonics--Be a Woman Dick Dale--The New Victor The Gossip--Where the Girls Are Bruce Joyner--Rave On Ray Price--Raining In My Heart Richard & Linda Thompson--Wishing (BBC) Slickee Boys--Down the Line Buddy Holly--Look at Me; You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care); It Doesn't Matter Anymore; I'm Gonna Love You Too Liberty Ellman--Vibrograph Laura Nyro--Sweet Dream Fade Good Rats--Tasty The Plimsouls--Zero Hour (1980 version)
---Retroactive #1058--August 29, 2015: Charles Brown--Black Night Buffy Sainte-Marie--Ke Sakihitin Awasis (I Love You Baby) James Harman--Yo' Family Don't Like Me Baby Gramps Trio--Summertime (live) Robin Rogers--Baby Bye-Bye Jules Shear--The Words Too Slim & the Taildraggers--Can't Dress It Up Marcia Ball--No Ordinary Woman (live) Jeff Denson Trio + Lee Konitz--Kary's Trance NRBQ--God With a Blue Dress; Rain at the Drive-In; Over Your Head Samantha Fish--Blame It On the Moon Heavens to Betsy--White Girl Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Midnight Man Kait Dunton--Prelude F-F-S--Things I Won't Get Eilen Jewell--Rio Grande Eric Ambel--Judas Kiss Dinah Washington--Record Ban Blues; You Don't Know What Love Is; Fat Daddy; New Blowtop Blues Macy Blackman & the Mighty Fines--Rockin' Good Way Lisa Hilton--Perfect Day John Primer with James Cotton & Bob Margolin--Good News Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers--No Man's Land Etta James--Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do) Van Morrison--It's All Right; In the Garden; Astral Weeks; Cypress Avenue (live, 1973) Buddy Guy with Van Morrison--Flesh & Bone Michael Gibbs & the NDR Bigband--Ida Lupino Chip Willis & Double Exposure--I'm Gonna Gitcha
---Retroactive #1057--August 22, 2015: Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Forgetting You George Perkins & the Silver Stars--Cryin' In the Streets, Pt. 1 Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk--I Am a Pilgrim Lake Street Dive--My Heart's In Its Right Place Henry Gray & Bob Corritore--Honey Don't Let Me Go Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--Truckin' Little Woman Hadda Brooks--Time Was When Mink DeVille--Roleen Willy DeVille--No Such Pain as Love; Hey Joe; Jump City Mark Knopfler & Willy DeVille--Storybook Love Kait Dunton--Love Lost Ana Egge--Dreamer Neil Young + Promise of the Real--People Want to Hear About Love Pete 'Guitar' Lewis--Goin' Crazy The Betty Fox Band--Who's Holdin'? Madness--Return of the Ugly Blackouts--Everglades Debbie Davies--Love Spin; So What; Funky Little Teapot Dan Bern--Hoody Rickie Lee Jones--I Wasn't There Doug Carn--Blues Up and Down Carolyn Mark--Nothing Is Free Chris Stamey--Kierkegaard Au Pairs--Love Song Jamie James--Love & Sex PJ Harvey--Dress Rachel Sweet--Stranger In the House Wanda Jackson with Elvis Costello--Crying Time Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Peace In Our Time; White Knuckles; You Bowed Down; King Horse The Marie Schneider Orchestra--Nimbus Rosie Flores--More to Offer O.V. Wright--Drowning on Dry Land Jozsef James--Back In the Groove Fats Domino--Don't Blame It on Me
---Retroactive #1056--August 15, 2015: Fiddlehead--The Britches Full of Stitches/Bill Sullivan's Polka Otis Taylor--Hands On Your Stomach Sonny Landreth--The High Side Nellie Lutcher--Fine Brown Frame John Primer with Steve Gibons--Rosalie Koko Taylor--I'm a Woman Seasick Steve--Down On the Farm John Hiatt--Damn This Town; Perfectly Good Guitar; (No More) Dancing In the Street; Paper Thin Irma Thomas--Old Habits Are Hard to Break Lisa Hilton--Lazy Moon Eilen Jewell--Half-Broke Horse Randy Newman--A Wedding In Cherokee County Pops Staples--Somebody Was Watching Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Better Things Bootsy's Rubber Band--What's a Telephone Bill? Bangs--Undo Everything; Dirty Knives; Telephone Game Giant Sand--Every Now and Then The Amanda Fish Band--Wait The Orion Saxophone Quartet--Waltz for Debby Samantha Crain--River; Long Division; Kathleen Sonny Knight & the Lakers--Where Did You Sleep Last Night (live) Ofra Haza--Ash'alech Richard Thompson--Pony In the Stable Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Tony Adams; Redemption Song The Clash--The Leader; Rock the Casbah (live, 10/82); Capital Radio (live, 2/80); Hateful Buffy Sainte-Marie--Generation James Harman--Bad Hair/Bad Feets Frank Zignola & Vinny Raniolo with Bucky Pizzarelli --Medley: Peg of My Heart/I'm Confessin' Betty Davis--Special People
---Retroactive #1055--August 8, 2015: Ana Egge--Rock Me (Divine Mother) Billy Price & Otis Clay--All Because of Your Love Joss Stone--This Ain't Love Benmont Tench--Dogwood Malcolm Yelvington--Rockin' With My Baby Angela Strehli Band--I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me) Henry Gray & Bob Corritore--I'm Gonna Miss You Tiny Tim--Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life Kimm Rogers--Star Filled Canopy The Previous--Cigarette Street; Why Must You Be So Mean; Nothing's Real 'Til It Bites You The Maria Schneider Orchestra--Walking By Flashlight ///Vocalist Cilla Black (1943-2015)--Alfie; You're My World/// The Crows--Gee Samantha Fish--Bitch On the Run The Heartless Bastards--Wind Up Bird Hank Ballard & the Midnighters--Look at Little Sister (live, 1987) Sista Monica Parker--Sendin' You On Your Way The Soul Clan--That's How It Feels Joe Tex--For Your Love; Papa Was Too; Release Me; Show Me Kait Dunton--Summer Solstice Sheila Jordan--Hum Drum Blues Bobby Womack--That's the Way I Feel About 'Cha Jozsef James--Eden Los Halos--Blue Star Girl Trouble--Coffee Mama The Sonics--Livin' In Chaos The Ronettes--I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine (Philles version) Ronnie Spector--Brilliant Disguise; Communication Ronnie Spector with Joey Ramone--Bye Bye Baby Betsy and Dave--Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White Ray Charles--The Sun's Gonna Shine Again Florence + the Machine--Delilah Andy Brown--Nina Never Knew Tom Dooley & his Lovelights--Tight Rope
---Retroactive #1054--August 1, 2015: Tommy Jarrell, Oscar Jenkins & Fred Cockerham--Bo Weevil Amy Farris--Heading East Mud Morganfield--Catfishing Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes--Hurry Hurry Janiva Magness Band--Empty Bed Blues Ron Holden--My Babe Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard--It's Only Money Timi Yuro--Only Love Me; Count Everything; If I Never Get to Love You Brad Myers--'Smatter Drive-By Truckers--The Living Bubba Giant Sand--Song So Wrong Pearl Harbor & the Explosions--You Got It (Release It) James Harman--I Am the World's Biggest Badluckiest Man Christy McWilson--Apple Doll Marah--Life Is a Problem; Why Independent Record Stores Fail; My Heart Is the Bums on the Street Richard Thompson--Guitar Heroes Katie King--I'll Be Your Baby Tonight Lee Fields & the Expressions--Do You Love Me The Betty Fox Band--Think About It Paul Kelly--Darling It Hurts (live) Paul Keeling--Evidence Eilen Jewell--Pages Rosco Gordon--Memphis, Tennessee Swamp Dogg--Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Thee Headcoatees--You Know You Can't Resist The Human Expression--Calm Me Down Sonny Knight & the Lakers--Through With You (live); Sonny's Boogaloo (live) F-F-S--The Man Without a Tan Tammy Wynette--Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Guabi Guabi; Diamond Joe Ramblin' Jack Elliott with Bob Dylan--Acne (live, 7/61) Dale Hawkins--Born In Louisiana Ann Peebles--(You Keep Me) Hangin' On Robert Sabin--Tenebre Nick Lowe--What Lack of Love Has Done Jefferson Airplane--Pretty as You Feel
---Retroactive #1053--July 25, 2015: Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes--She Plays Up to You John Cocuzzi--Just Call Me Toots Lorraine--Wade In the Water Henry Gray & Bob Corritore--Let's Get High Graham Parker--England's Newest Clown Betsy and Dave--Meditation The Blossoms--Goodbye, So Long (live, 1965) Darlene Love--Mr. Fix-It; Not Too Young to Get Married (live, 4/85) Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans--Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Heart? Bette Midler with Darlene Love--He's Sure the Boy I Love The Maria Schneider Orchestra--A Potter's Song Ron Sexsmith--My Girlfriend's Pretty Ana Egge--Flat Top Guitar Beat Happening--Playhouse Isaac Rother & the Phantoms--Mona (I Need You Baby) Bo Diddley--Hush Your Mouth Buddy Guy--Stone Crazy; Let Me Love You, Baby Buddy Guy & Junior Wells--Ah'w Baby/Everything Gonna Be All Right (live, 6/74) Buddy Guy featuring B.B. King--Stay Around a Little Longer Kimm Rogers--Twenty-Three Billy Price & Otis Clay--Going to the Shack The Jeff Benedict Big Big Band--Seven Days John Mills featuring Carmen Bradford--Let Your Brother Go Jimmy Wages--Mad Man Lyres--She Pays the Rent Fastbacks--The Ladders; The Buried Treasure Was Crap Fred Randolph--Song Without Singing Mick Jagger--Lucky Day The Rolling Stones--It's Not Easy; Play With Fire; Midnight Rambler (live, 1969) Bill Perry featuring Richie Havens--No Expectations Naomi--Let's Spend the Night Together John Batdorf & James Lee Stanley--19th Nervous Breakdown The Chesterfield Kings--Street Fighting Man
---Retroactive #1052--July 18, 2015: Bobby Charles--I Must Be In a Good Place Rockin' Dopsie--I'm In the Mood Baby Ani DiFranco--Buildings and Bridges (live) Mr. Nick & the Dirty Tricks--Exquisite Taste David Wilcox--Daddy's Money (live) Claire Lynch with Jesse Winchester--That's What Makes You Strong Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers--I Can't Give You Anything But Love The Betty Fox Band--Please Come Home ///60th Anniversary of legendary gospel concert at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles: Brother Joe May--I'm Happy Working for the Lord Ethel Davenport--My Troubles Are So Hard to Bear The Soul Stirrers--Nearer to Thee (all three live, 7/22/1955)/// Lisa Hilton--Currents Shemekia Copeland--Ain't That Good News Frank Zappa (Captain Beefheart, vocal)--Willie the Pimp Lord Sutch--Gutty Guitar Martha & the Vandellas--In My Lonely Room; I Found a Love (live, 1967); Live Wire Martha Reeves & the Vandellas--Honey Chile Bonnie Raitt--You've Been In Love Too Long Delta Moon--Afterglow Johnny Burnette & the Rock'n'Roll Trio--Rock Billy Boogie Buffy Sainte-Marie--It's My Way (2015 version) Jim Martinez--Blues for Beagles The Railsplitters--Tilt-a-Whirl Bjork--Notget Dave Edmunds--It's My Own Business The Now Time Delegation--Nothing But a Heartache Giant Sand--Texting Feist Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles--Stop and Think It Over The Drifters--Drip Drop Dion & the Belmonts--Where or When Dion DiMucci--One Too Many Mornings Dion--I Can Laugh at It Now; Midtown American Main Street Gang Lucinda Williams--Met an Old Friend Hailey Niswanger--I'm Gone Richard Thompson--All Buttoned Up X-Ray Spex--Obsessed With You
---Retroactive #1051--July 11, 2015: Colin Linden--Big Mouth Reverend Gary Davis--Nobody Cares for Me Laurie Lewis--I'm Gonna Be the Wind Charles Mingus--Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me John Mills featuring Carmen Bradford--Lady Vain Robyn Hitchcock--Full Moon In My Soul The Shy--Like You Want to Do Toshi Reagon--There Are Unknown Mortal Orchestra--Multi-Love Jeb Patton--Violets for Furs John Cocuzzi--Ballin' the Jack Black Box Recorder--Andrew Ridgeley Eilen Jewell--Hallelujah Band Moon Mullican--Sugar Beet The Gories--I Think I've Had It Pete Seeger--Pete Remembers Woody/Are There Any Mountains Near Here? Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie--66 Highway Blues Woody Guthrie--The Sinking of the Reuben James (4/44); Pretty Boy Floyd (1940); Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad (& story--3/40) DeVotchKa--Gasoline Serpent Debbie Davies--I'm Not Cheatin' Yet Jacob Schulman--Iron Blossom Henry Gray & Bob Corritore--Blues Won't Let Me Take My Rest Sonny Knight & the Lakers--The Lion of Lyndale (Intro)/Juicy Lucy (live) Gossip--Are U That Somebody Fuzzy Duck--Time Will Be Your Doctor The Small Change--You Gotta Be Fair to Me Betsy Holt--Two Guitar Blues; (I Try to Make You) Disappear; Shaken Up Over You The Byrds--The Bells of Rhymney; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; Tulsa County Roger McGuinn--So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star (live) Roger McGuinn with Tom Petty--King of the Hill Byrdhouse (Roger McGuinn & Crowded House)--Mr. Tambourine Man (live, 5/89) Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra--Wahsouli Swamp Dogg--Prejudice Is Alive and Well
---Retroactive #1050--July 4, 2015: Amanda Fish Band--Watch It All Burn Giant Sand--Hurtin' Habit Richard Thompson--Beatnik Walking Pops Staples--The Lady's Letter Karen Dalton--While You're On Your Way The Betty Fox Band--Angel Flyin' Too Close to the Ground ///Arranger-producer Harold Battiste (1931-2015): Lee Dorsey--Ya Ya Joe Jones--You Talk Too Much Dr. John, the Night Tripper--Mama Roux (Harold Battiste was part of some of New Orleans' greatest records and was successful in Los Angeles as well)/// Bob Dylan & the Band--All American Boy Roxy Perry--Don't You Worry Gypsophilia--Night Falls and You Need Company Delta Moon--Wrong Side of Town Barbara Blue--No Time to Cry Larry Williams--Dizzy Miss Lizzy Angie Stone--I Wasn't Kidding ///Bassist-composer Chris Squire (1948-2015): Yes--In a World of Our Own; Heart of the Sunrise; America (Chris Squire was the only member of Yes to play on every album)/// Lisa Hilton--Vapors and Shadows *Three songs to commemorate the last Grateful Dead show (Chicago, July 5th): Bob Weir--Mexicali Blues Bobby & the Midnights--(I Want to) Fly Away Bob Weir & RatDog--Ashes and Glass Lucinda Williams--Cold Day In Hell F-F-S--Police Encounters Ringo Starr--Bamboula; Sneaking Sally Through the Alley; Rory and the Hurricanes Randy & the Rainbows--Denise Blondie--Denis; Look Good In Blue; Wipe Off My Sweat; Union City Blue Brett Carson--And Thus the Fuzzy Trapezoid Was Born Amazing Rhythm Aces--Typical American Boy *Plus: Olympia Beer ad, circa 1971--BBQin' Fool
---Retroactive #1049--June 27, 2015: Ted Hawkins--Stay Close to Me John McCutcheon--Rebel Girl Isobel Campbell--For the Love I'm In Soozie Tyrell--Ferdouganal Big Joe Williams--Razor Sharp Blues (live) Billy Price & Otis Clay--You Got Me Hummin' ///Composer-musician-educator Gunther Schuller (1925-2015): Miles Davis--Rocker The Emerson String Quartet--Maestoso The Borealis String Quintet--Suite (First Movement) The Eaken Piano Trio--Movement 3, With Swing (Gunther Schuller was said to be one of classical music's rare composers with an innate feel for jazz. He played with Miles Davis on some of the 'Birth of the Cool' sessions and wrote the three pieces that follow Davis)/// Hailey Niswanger--Look Out Lisa Sokolov--Hard Being Human (live) Robert Wyatt--Moon In June ///Philip Austin (1941-2015): Firesign Theatre--Napalmolive; The Further Adventures of Nick Danger (excerpt) (The founding member of Firesign Theatre spent the end of his life in Washington state)/// ? & the Mysterians--You're Telling Me Lies Rebecca Kilgore with the Harry Allen Quartet--He's a Tramp Garland Jeffreys--Cool Down Boy; I'm Not a Know It All; Wild In the Streets Pearl Django--A Supinator In Italia The Red Krayola--Book of Kings Young Guv--Dear Drew Traffic--Empty Pages Gore Gore Girls--Pleasure Unit The Sonics--I Don't Need No Doctor Buffy Sainte-Marie--Love Charms (Mojo Bijoux) Veda Hille--Instructions ///The Willie Dixon Songbook: The Big Three Trio--Violent Love Willie Dixon with the Chicago Blues All Stars--Suffering Son of a Gun Muddy Waters--The Same Thing Toots Lorraine--Built for Comfort Rob Wasserman with Willie Dixon & Al Duncan--Dustin' Off the Bass Howlin' Wolf--300 Pounds of Joy Koko Taylor--Wang Dang Doodle (1966 version)/// Jacob Schulman--Auburn Sunshine On the Dewdrops The Dixie Cups--Chapel of Love (With thanks to the courageous five Supreme Court Justices who voted for the Marriage Equality Act on June 26th)
---Retroactive #1048--June 20, 2015: The Derailers--100% Pure Fool Jim O'Rourke--That Weekend Beth Hart--As Long as I Have a Song Pops Staples--No News Is Good News Fiona Boyes & the Fortune Tellers--You Gonna Miss Me Shelby Lynne--Paper Van Gogh Bright--Receiver Unknown Mortal Orchestra--Extreme Wealth and Casual Cruelty Barbara Blue--Hands Off Lisa Hilton--Surfer Blues John Doe--I Can't Hold Myself In Line Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers--Put Your Right Foot Forward The F&G Band--Tighten Your Bible Belt Rocky Votolato--Rumi Debbie Davies--Life of the Party Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Good Time The Beach Boys--We'll Run Away; The Little Girl I Once Knew; Friends Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks--Hold Back Time Brian Wilson with Kacey Musgraves--Guess You Had to Be There Alex Chilton--I Want to Pick You Up Amanda Fish Band--Hard Walkin' Blues F-F-S--Save Me from Myself Beegie Adair--Come Rain or Come Shine Jimmy Sysum & the Rockin' Three--Tears of Happiness The Texas Horns featuring W.C. Clark--Cold Blooded Lover Go Betty Go--It Haunts You Now Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Summertime Blues (live, 8/78) The Rubinoos--As Long as I'm With You Connie Francis--Vacation The Dave Clark Five--Here Comes Summer Bruce (Johnston) & Terry (Melcher)--Summer Means Fun Eric Carmen--She Did It Catalinas--Summertime's Calling Me Booker T. & the MGs--Summertime The Young Fresh Fellows--Picture Book Bebel Gilberto--No Return The Kinks--David Watts; Who'll Be the Next In Line; This Time Tomorrow; No More Looking Back Richard Thompson--See My Friends (live) Jeff 'Tain' Watts--Farley Strange
---Retroactive #1047--June 13, 2015: Allen Toussaint--With You In Mind (live, solo, 2009) John Wesley Harding with the Minus Five--Oh! Pandora Blackie & the Rodeo Kings with Exene Cervenka--Made of Love Ma Rainey--Leavin' This Morning Loudon Wainwright III--The Morgue Toots Lorraine--Love the World ///Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015): The Weavers--Rock Island Line; Kisses Sweeter Than Wine Ronnie Gilbert with Robin Flower & Libby McLaren--Empty Pocket Blues (Ronnie Gilbert was a wonderful vocalist who never backed down from the issues of the day, from Cold War rhetoric to LGBT rights)/// Mark O'Connor & friends--Pickles On the Elbow The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Dirt James Burton, Albert Lee, Amos Garrett, David Wilcox--Flip, Flop and Fly (live, 7/13) Lucy Kaplansky--The Heart Van Morrison with Mick Hucknall--Streets of Arklow The Parting Gifts--Strange Disposition Sleater-Kinney--Faraway Wire--Joust and Jostle The Sonics--I Got Your Number Nick Drake--Things Behind the Sun; Northern Sky; Day Is Done Rachel Unthank & the Winterset--River Man The Jason Parker Quartet--Three Hours ///Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)--Congeniality; Monsieur Allard; Macho Woman (1978 version) (Ornette Coleman was one of jazz's most towering figures, responsible for the Free Jazz movement and much more)/// Buffy Sainte-Marie--Farm In the Middle of Nowhere Billy Price & Otis Clay--Somebody's Changing My Sweet Baby's Mind Paul Weller--I'm Where I Should Be Marshall Crenshaw--Love Me Do Connie Evingson--A World Without Love The Jim Jones Revue--Get Back Paul McCartney--Calico Skies; Hope of Deliverance; Mrs. Vandebilt (live, 7/09); Got to Get You Into My Life (live, 7/09) Aaron Diehl--The Steadfast Titan Ten Wheel Drive--Stay With Me Hailey Niswanger (Andy Stokes, vocal)--Let a Woman Be a Woman, Let a Man Be a Man
---Retroactive #1046--June 6, 2015: Doc Watson--Greenville Trestle High Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys--Chalk It Up to the Blues Michelle Willson--Better Left Unsaid The Mike Henderson Band--Weepin' and Moanin' Magic Sam Blues Band--I Have the Same Old Blues Heartless Bastards--Eastern Wind Heather Myles--Untamed Leonard Cohen--Choices ///Jean Ritchie (1922-2015)--Most Fair Beauty Bright; Pretty Saro Jean Ritchie & Sons--One More Mile Michelle Shocked--The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore (Jean Ritchie reintroduced the dulcimer to folk audiences in the 1960s and wrote scores of superb songs)/// Jacques Lesure--Grantgomery B.B. King--One Shoe Blues Barbara Blue--Memphis Stomp Delta Moon--Mean Streak Shelby Lynne--Love Is Strong The King Khan & BBQ Show--Killing the Wolfman Robin Lane--Long Dark Tunnel/People Get Ready Curtis Mayfield--Homeless; Get Down The Impressions--Sad Sad Girl and Boy; You've Been Cheatin'; Choice of Colors Akua Dixon--Moon River Debbie Davies--Two Twenty-Five-Year-Olds Young Guv--Kelly, I'm Not a Creep David Johansen--Funky But Chic The Thermals--How We Know Mitch Ryder--Junkie Love Go Betty Go--Drown Ian Hunter--Irene Wilde (live, LA, 11/79); Man Overboard Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--Wild Bunch Mott the Hoople--Jerkin' Crocus; I Wish I Was Your Mother Vincent Herring--Night and Day Unknown Mortal Orchestra--Necessary Evil Janis Martin--Blues Keep Calling The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Tales of Old New York: The Rock Box
---Retroactive #1045--May 30, 2015: Toots Lorraine--When Did You Stop Tryin' Kermit Ruffins--I'm So New Orleans Pete Townshend & Rafael Rudd--The Seeker (live) Pete Townshend--The Sea Refuses No River; Outlive the Dinosaur The Who--A Legal Matter Buffy Sainte-Marie--Not the Lovin' Kind Billy Price & Otis Clay--Broadway Walk Hailey Niswanger--Skytime *All Texas Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies--If You Can't Get Five Take Two Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--My Window Faces the South The Fabulous Thunderbirds--One's Too Many Spoon--The Underdog (live) Sara Hickman--Comfort's Sigh The Sir Douglas Quintet--T-Bone Shuffle The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm--Loan a Helping Hand Ryan Bingham--Adventures of You and Me The Texas Horns featuring Marcia Ball--Go On, Fool Floyd Tillman--Each Night at Nine Lou Ann Barton--It's Raining (1989 version) John Schooley & Walter Daniels--Dead Mall Blues The Bad Livers--Yearning Nanci Griffith--Heart of Indochine Billy Joe Shaver--Sweet Melody Townes Van Zandt--Talking Thunderbird Blues (live, 4/85) Scott H. Biram--Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue Mario Cruz--Dancin' the Funky Tango The Texas Mystics--Midnight Nodding The Black Angels--An Occurance at 4507 South Third Street Delbert McClinton--Love Rustler Kay Kay & the Rays--Cheater Austin Lounge Lizards--Jesus Loves Me (But He Can't Stand You) (live) Johnny Winter And--Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo True Believers--Tell Her The Bobby Fuller Four--Let Her Dance Joe Tex--You Can Stay (But the Noise Must Go) Ernest Tubb--You Nearly Lose Your Mind Angela Strehli--Go On Hi-Five--I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) Buddy Holly--Ting-a-Ling Joe Ely--Dallas Pete Rodriguez--Gravity Will Taylor & Strings Attached featuring Eliza Gilkyson--Easy Rider
---Retroactive #1044--May 23, 2015: Love--Walk Right In Jenn Adams--Joliet Julie Gribble--You and Me Joe Bonamassa--Heartache Follows Wherever I Go Dinah Washington--A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side) Tav Falco Panther Burns--Quando Vedrai La Mia Raggazza Anna Gordon--Tourniquet/Opiate Unknown Mortal Orchestra--The World Is Crowded Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy--Snatch It Back and Hold It Jo Ann Kelly--Odd Job Man Kronos Quartet--Brilliant Corners The Mountain Goats--Foreign Object Wanda Jackson--Cash on the Barrelhead The Fall--The Funnel of Love Ian Dury & the Blockheads--Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Shilpa Ray--Moksha Lena Prima--Long as I Can See the Light Allison Moorer--Have You Ever Seen the Rain The Golliwogs--Tell Me Creedence Clearwater Revival--Wrote a Song for Everyone; Born to Move Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity--Os Aguas (The Waters) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Betty vs. the NYPD The Sonics--Look at Little Sister Rodrigo Bonelli--Perpetual Search ///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash: The Remains--Like a Rolling Stone (live) Mirah with the Black Cat Orchestra--Dear Landlord Kocani Orkestar--Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Bettye LaVette--Unbelievable The Levon Helm Band (Brian Mitchell, vocal)--A Simple Twist of Fate (live) Rhett Miller--You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (live) Patti Smith--Wicked Messenger Danielle Nicole--Don't Think Twice It's Alright Tommy Castro--Gotta Serve Somebody (live) Bob Dylan & the Band--Get Your Rocks Off Bob Dylan--Love Sick; Everything Is Broken; The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (live, SF, 11/80--includes BD's introduction of Michael Bloomfield)///
---Retroactive #1043--May 16, 2015: Zora Young--Travelin' Light (2009 version) Rick Holmstrom--Need to Dream Memphis Slim--Nobody Loves Me (Everyday I Have the Blues) Shelby Lynne--Son of a Gun The Holmes Brothers--I Gave Up All I Had John & Sylvia Embry--I'm Hurtin' ///Fiddler-electric mandolinist Johnny Gimble (1926-2015): James Talley--W. Lee O'Daniel and the Light Crust Doughboys Red Steagall--Under the X in Texas Asleep at the Wheel--Roly Poly (Gimble was one of the busiest session musicians; his group resume includes Bob Wills' Texas Playboys and Willie Nelson & Family)/// Etta James--Strange Man Hugo Fernandez--Sublime Eric Burdon & War--They Can't Take Away Our Music The Animals--Bright Lights, Big City; I'm Crying; Don't Want Much (Just a Little Bit) Barbara Blue--Rollin' Up on Me Buffy Sainte-Marie--Power In the Blood Taj Mahal--Ain't That a Lot of Love (live, 12/68); We Gonna Rock (live, 1971); Mercedes Benz; Six Days on the Road Big Bill Morganfield with Taj Mahal--You're Gonna Miss Me Dafnis Prieto Sextet--Back and Forth Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Good and Plenty Young Guv--Crawling Back to You Go Betty Go--By Your Side Sleater-Kinney--No Anthems Adam Shulman Sextet--Apartment 6 ///B.B. King (1925-2015): Curtis Salgado--20 Years of B.B. King B.B. King--(I'm Gonna) Quit My Baby; Why I Sing the Blues; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now (live, 11/64) B.B. King with Bonnie Raitt--Baby I Love You/// *Plus: The never-to-be-forgotten B.B. King talking about the roots of the blues, naming his guitar Lucille, his crossover success and more
---Retroactive #1042--May 9, 2015: Catie Curtis--Love Takes the Best of You Junior Watson--Something's Wrong Lisa Karp--Curve of the Truth The Lover Boy--Love Is Scarce James Burton, Albert Lee, Amos Garrett, David Wilcox--Comin' Home Baby (live, 7/13) Karen Dalton--Green Rocky Road Johnnie Taylor--Wounded In the Battle of Love Tres Chicas--Heartbeat Alabama Shakes--Gimme All Your Love Clap Your Hands Say Yeah--Impossible Request Mario Cruz--Now, But Not for Long Dayna Kurtz--Eat It Up The Carnations--Dive Bomber The Paul Butterfield Blues Band--East-West Shilpa Ray--Johnny Thunders Fantasy Space Camp ///Ben E. King (1938-2015): The Drifters--There Goes My Baby; This Magic Moment; I Count the Tears Ben E. King--I (Who Have Nothing); Gypsy; Hallelujah! I Love Her So; 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) John Lennon--Stand By Me Aretha Franklin--Spanish Harlem (Ben E. King was one of the early soul music's great voices, both gritty and sophisticated)/// Hendrik Meurkens--Triste Sarah Jaffe--Halfway Right The Sonics--Sugaree Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Naked Hollowpoints--Invisible Man The King Khan & BBQ Show--Alone Again Stevie Wonder--Evil; Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day; Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away; Ngiculela-Es Una Historia (I am Singing) Joanna Pascale--Overjoyed Steve Coleman & the Council of Balance--Acupuncture Openings Maura Kennedy--Bicycles With Broken Spokes Beth Hart--Mechanical Heart
---Retroactive #1041--May 2, 2015: Big Star--Watch the Sunrise Maggie Sue Wimberley--How Long Robin McKelle & the Flytones--What You Want Autumn Defense--None of This Will Matter Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens--What Is This The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Music and Friends Sonny Boy Williamson #1--Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Alice DiMicele--Swim The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Wax Dummy Rocky Votolato--A New Son Pete Rodriguez--Stolen Changes Kitty, Daisy & Lewis--Turkish Delight Randy Newman--Baltimore El Vez--Cinco de Mayo Go Betty Go--Tartamudo Steve Goodman--Hand It to You The Hard Way--Past the Cuticle Barbara Blue--SuperBlues ///Songwriter Sid Tepper (1918-2015): Ray Charles--The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane/// ///Vocalist-guitarist Jack Ely (1943-2015): The Kingsmen--Louie Louie Jack E Lee & the Squires--Love That Louie Jack Ely & the Courtmen--Louie Louie '66/// Harold Mabern--Mozzin' Lisa LeBlanc--Race Track Death Cab for Cutie--El Dorado Rod Stewart--Handbags and Gladrags Julia Lee & her Boyfriends--Tonight's the Night Mike Ward--Dead Flowers Asleep at the Wheel with Pokey LaFarge--What's the Matter With the Mill Kermit Ruffins & the Barbecue Swingers--Jock-a-Mo (Iko Iko) Hugo Fernandez--Metro Joni Mitchell--How Do You Stop Them--Out of Sight James Brown with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra--Every Day I Have the Blues James Brown & the Famous Flames--Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (live, 4/66) James Brown--The Payback; Bring It Up (Hipster's Ave.) Lyn Collins--Give It Up or Turnit a Loose Living Colour--Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing *Plus: James Brown Stay in School PSA
---Retroactive #1040--April 25, 2015: Danielle Nicole--You Only Need Me When You're Down Bill Morrissey--Girls of Santa Fe Sue Foley--To Be Next to You Jesse Winchester--Lonely for a While John Lee Hooker--Bottle Up and Go The Sherwoods--Love You Madly The Kennedys--Signs Glen Glenn--Everybody's Movin' Richie Furay with Keb' Mo'--Someday Shilpa Ray--Shilpa Ray on Broadway The Make Up--I Want Some Andy Brown--When Your Lover Has Gone Anna Gordon--Bury Me High Kate Campbell with Spooner Oldham--Would They Love Him Down In Shreveport Little Junior's Blue Flames--Feelin' Good Nervebreakers--My Girlfriend Is a Rock (1978 version) Beth Hart--Trouble The King Khan & BBQ Show--Ocean of Love Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes--I'll Be Fine Johnny Horton--Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor Ella Fitzgerald--Everything I've Got; The Lady Is a Tramp (live, 1961) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong--Stompin' at the Savoy Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan--Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own Machito & his Afro-Cubans with Ella Fitzgerald--One O'Clock Leap (live, 2/49--introduction by Symphony Sid) Russell Malone--The Elder The Mountain Goats--The Legend of Cuavo Guerrero Alabama Shakes--Shoegaze Sam & Dave--I Thank You Toots Lorraine--Low Down Dog John Delafose & the Eunice Playboys--Oh Negresse (live, 1983) Family--Good News, Bad News (live, 1970) Syl Johnson--The Love You Left Behind Ben Colder--Ain't It Funny How Wine Sips Away Joe Hinton--Funny (How Time Slips Away) Jimmy Webb featuring Willie Nelson--If You See Me Getting Smaller Willie Nelson--Me and Paul; Old Wives and Girlfriends Willie Nelson & Family--Whiskey River; Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer) (live) Larry Coryell--Sharing Air The Right Now--I Could Kiss You (I Could Cry)
---Retroactive #1039--April 18, 2015: ---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show The Mike Henderson Band--Unseen Eye Cassandra Wilson--You Go to My Head Bettye LaVette--Worthy ///Percy Sledge (1940-2015)--It Tears Me Up; True Love Travels on a Gravel Road (This highly emotive vocalist will be missed)/// Rachel Harrington--Moonshine Boy Noble & the Matadors--I Need You No More Jim Ford--Dr. Handy's Dandy Candy Dakota Staton--Moonglow Los Super 7 featuring Clarence Gatemouth Brown--See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Clarence Gatemouth Brown--Boogie Rambler; Mama Mambo; Up Jumped the Devil Ernestine Anderson--There Will Never Be Another You (live, 1962) Gang of Four featuring Alison Mosshart--England's In My Bones The Beakers--What's Important? The Hard Way--Mating Accident Brian Wilson--I'm Feeling Sad Kitty, Daisy & Lewis--Whenever You See Me Gene Clark--Kansas City Southern Cocktail Slippers--Anything You Want Ross Wilson--Go Bongo, Go Wild Dar Williams--Are You Out There (live) Dar Williams with Soulive--Two Sides of the River Chris Chandler with Dar Williams--To Be More Beautiful/ Sofas and #2 Pencils Professor Longhair--Cry to Me Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--How You Want It Done? Asleep at the Wheel with Merle Haggard & Emily Gimble --Keeper Of My Heart The Stooges--Not Right Iggy Pop--Loco Mosquito; Neon Forest; Corruption The Vibrators--Whips & Furs Go Betty Go--Where I Sleep The Sonics--Bad Betty Barbara Blue--Rudy's Blues Love--Skid
---Retroactive #1038--April 11, 2015: ---21st Anniversary Show Stacey Kent--My Heart Stood Still Glenn Tilbrook--Parallel World Loretta Lynn--Take Your Gun and Go, John Charlie Musselwhite--Hear Me Talkin' The Kennedys--West Shaver--New York City Girl William Onyeabor--Heaven and Hell Beth Hart--Tell Her You Belong to Me Muddy Waters--She Moves Me; Forty Days and Forty Nights; Mannish Boy (1977 version) Tom Collier--Orbital Dance Brian Beattie (Grace London, vocal)--Caliche Road Big Maybelle--Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Toots Lorraine--Satisfied Robert Wyatt--Chelsa Ryan Bingham--Cryin On the Streets of LA Danielle Nicole--Wandering Heart Carl Perkins--Movie Magg; Sure to Fall; Gone, Gone Gone Neko Case--Calling Cards Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Thanks a Lot The Len Price 3--Nobody Knows H.P. Lovecraft--At the Mountains of Madness (live, 5/68) Bembeyal Jazz National--Petit Sekou Bobby Womack--Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out The King Khan & BBQ Show--Never Felt Like This Irene Reid--Hey World, Let Love In Lisa LeBlanc--Gold Diggin' Hoedown Sleater-Kinney--Gimme Love The Damned--Fan Club The Minus 5--Ghost Tarts of Stockholm Dusty Springfield--Am I the Same Girl; Just a Little Lovin'; I'll Try Anything Amy Cook--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Killing Joke--Night Time Al Green--Right Now, Right Now; I'm Glad You're Mine; Let's Get Married Cabbages, Captain & King--Bipartisan Discourse Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Heart of Memphis
---Retroactive #1037--April 4, 2015: Walter Jackson--It's an Uphill Climb (To the Bottom) Kate Taylor--Sweet Honesty Kitty, Daisy & Lewis--Bitchin' In the Kitchen Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--Just a Dream The Levon Helm Band--Drivin' Wheel (live, 5/09) ///Guitarist-songwriter John Renbourn (1944-2015): Pentangle--Springtime Promises; The Cuckoo John Renbourn--Medley: My Johnny Was a Shoemaker/ Westron Wynde/Scarborough Fair/// The Dana Landry Quartet--True Love Nat King Cole--The First Baseball Game Steve Vozzollo & the Rookies--Black Diamond Days Inez & Charlie Foxx--The Ball Game The Baseball Project--Don't Call Them Twinkies Anna Gordon--Here Comes Your Man Ernestine Anderson--Just In Time (live, 1962) Mott the Hoople--Roll Away the Stone Fairport Convention--Sloth Richard & Linda Thompson--The End of the Rainbow Richard Thompson--Oops!...I Did It Again (live); Easy There, Steady Now; Cooksferry Queen (both live, 7/01) The Tiptons--Drive The Emma Moseley Band--Deja Vue Marcia Ball--Foreclose On the House of Love *Thanks to John Ford for filling in on the last hour of the show (song titles not listed); there was a KAOS meeting I needed to attend
---Retroactive #1036--March 28, 2015: Lisa LeBlanc--Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted Johnny Shines--The Wind Is Blowin' Judee Sill--Enchanted Sky Machines (live, 3/72) Richie Furay--Still Fine Marilyn Scott--Icebox Toots & the Maytals--Fever Bettye LaVette--Between You and Me and the Wall, You're a Fool Willy Porter--Freedom Johnny Jano--Havin' a Whole Lot of Fun Toots Lorraine--Make It Easy Unhinged Sextet--Derecho Them Two--Am I a Good Man Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros--They Were Wrong The Go-Betweens--Hold Your Horses Sloan Wainwright--Sitting In Limbo (live) Eric Bibb featuring Guy Davis--Chocolate Man Zoe Muth--April Fool Ronnie Lane--Ooh La La (2/87) Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane--Nowhere to Run Faces--You're So Rude Kate Pierson--Throw Down the Roses Modest Mouse--The Tortoise and the Tourist Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Unclean Waters Nick Colionne--Whatcha Gonna Do Sufjan Stevens--Drawn to the Blood Dayna Kurtz--Far Away Again Reigning Sound--Never Coming Home Can--Halleluwah (live, 1972) Robert Wyatt--Slow Walkin' Talk Sleater-Kinney--Hey Darling Larry Coryell--Jailbreak Brinsley Schwarz--The Look That's In Your Eye Tonight; Ballad of a Has-Been Beauty Queen Nick Lowe--It's All In the Game; Heart; She's Got Soul Nick Lowe's Cowboy Outfit--7 Nights to Rock Rockpile--Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)
---Retroactive #1035--March 21, 2015: The Hard Way--All In This Together The Kennedys--Sisters of the Road The Mike Henderson Band--If You Think It's Hot In Here Ryan Bingham--Top Shelf Drug Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes--Vicious Cycle Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--We Live Dangerous Billy Boy Arnold--Work Song Ann Peebles--Old Man With Young Ideas Freddie Steady Krc--Long Black Snake Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Control Yourself Akua Dixon--Poinciana Aretha Franklin--Jump to It; Share Your Love With Me (live, 3/71) *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Aretha Franklin--Save Me Love--Alone Again Or La Lupe--America Chris Kenner--I Like It Like That, Pt. 1 Peter Sarstedt--Where Do You Go to (My Lovely) Phil Ochs--Cops of the World (live) Sylvan--We Don't Belong The Fugs--Kill for Peace Spyder Turner--Stand By Me Traffic--Coloured Rain Ernestine Anderson--Honeysuckle Rose (live, 1962) The Dynastys--Forever and a Day James Moody & Kenny Barron--Sassy Lady The Standells--Why Pick on Me ///Blues-folk-rock producer-journalist Samuel Charters (1929-2015): Johnny Young--Kid Man Blues J.B. Hutto--Going Ahead/// The Beatles--I'm Down B.B. King--So Excited The Belles--Come Back The Who--La La La Lies ///Singer-songwriter Michael Brown (1949-2015): The Left Banke--Pretty Ballerina/// Linda Jones--Hypnotized Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--In the Midnight Hour Otis Redding--The Boston Monkey The Sonics--Let the Good Times Roll The Exciters--Do Wah Diddy Joe Dassin--Siffler Sur la Colline Ural Thomas--Pain Is the Name of Your Game Don Wilkerson--Dem Tambourines Ellaine & the Shardells--Tell Me That You Care The Kinks--Big Sky The Ventures--Perfidia *Plus: Excerpts of '60s commercials
---Retroactive #1034--March 14, 2015: Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt--Gentlemen of Distinction In the Army Robin Cutler--The Glow The Handsome Family--Lie Down Bettye LaVette--Bless Us All Loudon Wainwright III--Something's Out to Get Me Don Dixon--Calling Out for Love (At Crying Time) Valerie Carter--Cowboy Angel The (Nat) King Cole Trio--Call the Police; Straighten Up and Fly Right; Jumpin' at Capitol Lisa LeBlanc--The Waiting List Guitar Slim & his Band--The Things That I Used to Do Vanessa Collier--Keep It Saxy Sly & the Family Stone--Ride the Rhythm; Brave and Strong 6IX--You Can, We Can Toots Lorraine--Let Your Tears Fall Baby Dead Moon--Dead In the Saddle The Steve Gibbons Band--Natural Thing; Speed Kills Shaun Murphy--Did You Call The Shy--We All Go Back Little Village--The Action Ry Cooder--He'll Have to Go; Medley: Fool for a Cigarette/Feelin' Good James Hill--Vivace Giocoso Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Get Up and Get Out Cecil Gant--Sloppy Joe's Kate Pierson--Mister Sister The Pretty Things--Miss Fay Regrets Sleater-Kinney--Fangless ///Elvis, Scotty & Bill in Houston, March 19th, 1955 (6oth anniversary): Elvis Presley--I Got a Woman; That's All Right (both live, 3/55)/// Patty Griffin--Faithful Son; Sooner or Later; Wiggley Fingers; Mother's Little Helper Tom Collier--Turning to Spring Tinsley Ellis--Everything Connie Evingson--You're Driving Me Crazy Garland Jeffreys--Colorblind Love Syndicate of Sound--Little Girl
---Retroactive #1033--March 7, 2015: JJ Grey & Mofro--The Island Sonny Boy Williamson #2--Eyesight to the Blind Carrie Clark & the Lonesome Lovers--The Stranger Eilen Jewell--Reckless Steve Earle with Eleanor Whitmore--Baby's Just as Mean as Me Eric Bibb--Rosewood Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Let's Jump a Train Wow & Flutter--Eclipse The Picketts--Just Passin' Through Alice DiMicele--Old Life Back Fugi--Red Moon, Pt. 1 Sax Gordon--Blue and Sentimental The Dwight Twilley Band--You Were So Warm Robin McKelle & the Flytones--About to Be Your Baby Charlie Whitehead--Between the Lines The Pretenders--Private Life Jimmy Cliff--Under the Sun, Moon and Stars Jules Shear with Rosanne Cash--Who's Dreaming Who Jules Shear--California Funky Kings--Nothing Was Exchanged Jules & the Polar Bears--You Just Don't Wanna Know The Reckless Sleepers--If We Never Meet Again Ural Thomas & Them--Don't Bring Me Down Ural Thomas--Can You Dig It? Wayne Horvitz/The Royal Room Collective Ensemble--Trish Sallie Ford--Coulda Been The Mike Henderson Band--I Wanta Know Why Genya Ravan--It's Me The Soft Boys--Positive Vibrations Old 97s--Give It Time Mary Timony--Hard Times Are Hard! Toni Price--Call of My Heart; Gravy; Hell on Love The Allman Brothers Band--Double Cross The Hard Way--Out the Door The Go-Betweens--Hammer the Hammer The Branford Marsalis Quartet--Jabberwocky Missy Andersen--Hey Now! Teenage Fanclub--Slow Fade
---Retroactive #1032--February 28, 2015: Maxine Sullivan--Skylark Calexico--Praskovia Russell Byrd--You'd Better Come Home Billy Bragg--Tank Park Salute (live) Katie Webster with Kim Wilson--Who's Making Love? Maria Muldaur--I'm Sailing ///Trumpeter-flugelhorn player Clark Terry (1920-2015): Clark Terry & Red Mitchell--Moten Swing Clark Terry with Bob Lark/DePaul University Big Band--Harlem Airshaft Clark Terry--Trumpet Mouthpiece Blues (Clark's radiant work since the 1940s is matched only by his humor--the last song was played on a trumpet mouthpiece rather than the trumpet)/// Dave Holland Big Band--Overtime Wanda Jackson--Busted Yogoman Burning Band--Pass the O Michael Franti & Spearhead--11:59 Wynonie Harris--I Like My Baby's Pudding Kate Pierson--Matrix The Caravelles (AZ)--Self Services ///Guitarist-songwriter-singer Sam Andrew (1941-2015): Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin --Call On Me; Combination of the Two (live, 4/68)/// Robert Ward--Put Yourself In My Place The BlueBonnets--60 Punishing Minutes Scott Askew--Who Needs You, Anyway ///Remembering Olympia's Tropicana Club, which closed in early 1985--Black Flag, Butthole Surfers and lots of locals performed there: Girl Trouble--Louie Louie (live, 1/85)/// The Count Bishops--Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White (live, 5/79) Sleater-Kinney--Price Tag Hector Ward & the Big Time--Heart Full of Soul Akua Dixon--Besame Mucho Bettye LaVette--When I Was a Young Girl Tony Joe White--Old Man Willie Dr. John & Donald Harrison--You Ain't So Such a Much Donna Lewis--Helpless The Velvet Underground--Pale Blue Eyes Johnny J. Blair & the Cellarbirds--Sunday Morning Lou Reed--Coney Island Baby; Oh, Jim (live, 12/06); Solsbury Hill Emily Remler--Strollin' The Staple Singers--Oh La De Da
---Retroactive #1031--February 21, 2015: Darren Smith--Last Drive Ben & Ellen Harper--Farmer's Daughter Washington Phillips--Denomination Blues, Pt. 1 Eleni Mandell--Now We're Strangers Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Pickin Pawpaws Eric Bibb--Turner Station Alice DiMicele--When Jane Rides Scout Johnny Cash--There You Go; Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955); Time of the Preacher ///Lesley Gore (1946-2015)--What Am I Gonna Do With You; Maybe I Know Bryan Ferry--It's My Party Joan Jett--You Don't Own Me/// George Garzone--Hey Open Up Billy Boy Arnold--99 Lbs. Steve Earle & the Dukes--The Tennessee Kid The Merri Souls featuring Vika Bull--Sweet Guy Fats Domino--I Want to Walk You Home; My Girl Josephine (live, 10/86); Let the Four Winds Blow ZSG--Come Alone The Decemberists--Make You Better They Might Be Giants--Savoy Truffle Jake Shimabukuro--While My Guitar Gently Weeps (live) Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins--Handle With Care George Harrison--Gone Troppo; P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night); Beware of Darkness Edsel Gomez--Ladybug Lisa LeBlanc--Katie Cruel The Mike Henderson Band--It's Alright JJ Grey & Mofro--Turn Loose Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Mary Fahl--Wild Is the Wind (live, 9/13) Nina Simone--African Mailman; Old Jim Crow (live, 1964); Solitude; Backlash Blues Pete Townshend with Nina Simone--Junk Food Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane--Keep Me Turning Andy Brown--It's the Talk of the Town The Hard Way--Doin' the Dishes
---Retroactive #1030--February 14, 2015: Raya Yarbrough--'Round We Go Bettye LaVette--Step Away Joe Bonamassa with Glenn Hughes--Heartbreaker D. Charles Speer & the Helix--Life Insurance Junior Kimbrough--Tramp Yoko Ono--Dogtown; Yangyang The Alarm--The Stand Bill Perry--Big Ass Green Van Tali Roth--Bordel 1900 June Tabor--You Don't Know What Love Is The Miracles--A Love She Can Count On Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--Baby, Baby Don't Cry D'Angelo & the Vanguard--Really Love Eden Brent--Valentine Sebadoh--Love You Here The Go-Betweens--8 Pictures Jim Ford--Big Mouth USA (slow version) Irma Thomas with Tom McDermott--Early In the Morning Irma Thomas--The New Rules; Stone Survivor Pegi Young & the Survivors--Ruler of My Heart Tiny Grimes with J.C. Higginbotham--Callin' the Blues Kermit Ruffins--Marie Roy Loney--You Can't Be Too Wild Sleater-Kinney--Bury Our Friends Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Burnt Out Town Wipers--Don't Know What I Am Soundgarden--H.I.V. Baby Billy Lee Riley & the Little Green Men--Pearly Lee Etta Britt with Delbert McClinton--Best of Me Big Mama Thornton--They Call Me Big Mama Roy Brown--Deep Down In My Soul The Sadies with Buffy Sainte-Marie--We Are Circling Buffy Sainte-Marie--Bells; The Old Man's Lament; Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Akua Dixon--A Gozar con Mi Combo Outrageous Cherry--I Think She's Alright
---Retroactive #1029--February 7, 2015: Pink Anderson--Talking Blues Connie Evingson--Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Lisa LeBlanc--You Look Like Trouble (But I Guess I Do Too) The Mills Brothers--Rockin' Chair (1950s version) Lisa Mills--I'm Changing ///Songwriter Rose Marie McCoy (1922-2015): Faye Adams--Hurts Me to My Heart The Eagles (1950s group)--Trying to Get to You Ike & Tina Turner--It's Gonna Work Out Fine/// Joe Ely--I Gotta Find Ol' Joe; Lord of the Highway; Fingernails (live, 1980) Benny Green--I've Heard That Song Before Ruthie Foster--Drive My Car The Sect--Just Can't Win Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Like a River Steve Earle & the Dukes--Acquainted With the Wind Blah Blah Blah--Soon As I Get Home Tonight Carole King--Just Once In My Life (demo); Beautiful She & Him--Oh No, Not My Baby Jackie DeShannon--Heaven Is Being With You Chuck Jackson--I Need You ///Don Covay (1938-2015): Don Covay (as Pretty Boy)--Bip Bop Chubby Checker--Pony Time Etta James--You Got It The Rolling Stones--Mercy Mercy Don Covay--See-Saw; Watching the Late, Late Show; Sookie Sookie (Covay was one of the great singer-songwriters of the '60s soul era & beyond)/// Chris Foreman--Doggone Alice DiMicele--Open Road The Hard Way--This Time You Know Southern Culture on the Skids--Jack the Ripper, Pts. 1 & 2 Slim Harpo--Little Queen Bee (Got a Brand New King) Lady Bianca--Lay It Down Like You Mean It The Judds--Sleepless Nights Dave Edmunds--This Little Girl of Mine Marianne Faithfull--Price of Love The Everly Brothers--Why Worry; Kentucky; So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) Takao Iwaki--Gaslight Eric Bibb--Driftin' Door to Door The Merri Souls featuring Vika Bull--What You Want El Vez--Samba Pa Ti
---Retroactive #1028--January 31, 2015: Booker T. (Jones)--Reunion Time Tom Waits--The Fall of Troy (live, 3/98) Jitterbug Vipers--Viper Moon ///Drummer Dallas Taylor (1948-2015): Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young--Almost Cut My Hair/// Annie Mack--Baptized In the Blues Tennessee Ernie Ford--Country Junction Mirah--Fleetfoot Ghost ///Drummer George Romansic (1956-2015): The Beakers--Red Towel; Football Season Is In Full Swing; I'm Crawling (George Romansic was a tireless promoter of Northwest rock'n'roll, from his bands like the Beakers, via KAOS & KRAB Radio, to writing for the late, great Seattle music newspaper The Rocket. He was beloved in the NW)/// Steve Khan--El Vinon *Hours 2 & 3: All-Michigan Show: Gilda Radner--The Way We Were (excerpt) (live, 1979) Funkadelic--Maggot Brain (original 1971 version) The Shy--All That Matters J.J. Barnes--Poor Unfortunate Me (I Ain't Got Nobody) Laura Rain & the Caesars--Sunet The Rockets--Born In Detroit Wilson Pickett--Call My Name, I'll Be There Aretha Franklin--Nothing Compares 2 U Stewart Francke--Got Your Back SRC--Checkmate Cinecyde--Gutless Radio The Detroit Cobras--Bye Bye Baby Jackie Wilson--I'll Be Satisfied The Look--You Can't Sit Down The Modern Jazz Quartet--Why Are You Blue? (Milt Jackson, vibraphone) Bettye LaVette--Stop Shades of Blue--Oh How Happy Brothers of the Road--Love & Learn MC5--Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) (live, 10/68) Destroy All Monsters--What Do I Get? Nolan Strong & the Diablos--Ooh! Ooh! Those Eyes Bob Seger--Rosalie Steve Nardella--Restless Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder--Long Neck Goose The Roomates--Evade Marshall Crenshaw--You're My Favorite Waste of Time (live, 2/01) Iggy & the Stooges--Raw Power Regina Carter--N'Teri Mary Wells--The One Who Really Loves You The Temptations--War The Marvelettes--I'll Keep Holding On Eddie Holland--Leaving Here *Plus: PSAs--Aretha Franklin, Della Reese
---Retroactive #1027--January 24, 2015: Sue Foley--Let My Tears Fall Down Ted Hawkins--Your Cheatin' Heart Darlene & Co.--Little Bit Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart--Dedication Jimmy Reed--Honest I Do Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers--Virtual Booty Blues Shinyribs--Heart of Stone Bobby Blue Bland--That's the Way Love Is; Loan Me a Helping Hand; Further Up the Road Chris Cortez--4:20 Mary Fahl--Both Sides Now (live) D'Angelo & the Vanguard--The Charade The '5' Royales--Crazy, Crazy, Crazy The Jam--Life from a Window mr. Gnome--Hungunder Sleater-Kinney--A New Wave Lucinda Williams--Drop Down Daddy; Joy; Changed the Locks (live, 5/89) Otis Clay & Johnny Rawls--Hallelujah Lord The Merri Souls featuring Linda Bull--Smells Like Rain Pegi Young & the Survivors--I Be Weary Richie Goods & Nuclear Fusion--Shout ///Producer-writer-artist Kim Fowley (1939-2015): The Hollywood Argyles--Alley Oop The Rivingtons--Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow Kim Fowley--Bubblegum; Animal Man; Questions/Answers The Runaways--Cherry Bomb/// Los Lobos--Maricela (live) Louis Prima Jr. & the Witnesses--Blow The Hard Way--Last Stand Jill Sobule--Don't Let Us Get Sick The Brothers--The Girl's Alright Zevon--Wanted Dead or Alive Warren Zevon--Trouble Waiting to Happen; Jeannie Needs a Shooter; Play It All Night Long (live, solo, 7/92) Akua Dixon--Libertango The Skeletons--Hats Off to Larry (live, 12/97) Meatbodies--Plank Sly--Just Like a Baby
---Retroactive #1026--January 17, 2015: Larry Yes--What Do I Want Freakwater--Jack the Knife Don Cherry & Willie Nelson--Give Me the Simple Life ///Songwriter-producer Bob Montgomery (1937-2014): Buddy (Holly) & Bob (Montgomery)--You and I Are Through Mary Chapin Carpenter & Kevin Montgomery--Wishing Joe Simon--Misty Blue Patsy Cline--Back In Baby's Arms Classic Ruins--Love's Made a Fool of You/// Lee Dorsey--A Little Dab a Do Ya Devon Allman--Times Have Changed Olivia Jean--Deadly Hex Billie Holiday--Strange Fruit (live, L.A., 4/46) Tim Hegarty--New Picture Freddie Steady Krc--You're No Good for Me Pixies--Andro Queen Louis Armstrong--We Shall Overcome Garland Jeffreys--Welcome to the World Ruth Brown--Hangin' On a Shoestring The Persuasions--Lookin' for a Love (live, 2/74); Hymn #9; Tempts Jam: Don't Look Back/Runaway Child, Running Wild/Cloud Nine Jeanne & the Darlings--Singing About Love The Clean--Different World The Wailers--Sack O'Woe (live, 1961) Dave Brubeck--Please Be Kind Eddie Harris with Gene McDaniels--The Silent Majority (live, 1971) Parliament--Let Me Be Nancy Wilson--Peace of Mind Vinegar Joe--Never Met a Dog The Chad Mitchell Trio--Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan The Soul Stirrers--Come and Go to That Land Sam Cooke--Everybody Likes to Cha Cha Cha; I Lost Everything; Having a Party Bonnie Bramlett--You Send Me Frank LoCastro--Troubling Differences Ruthie Foster--Second Coming The Vines--Love Is Gone The Staple Singers--Washington, We're Watching You *Plus: Audio excerpts of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 appearance on TV's "The Merv Griffin Show"
---Retroactive #1025--January 10, 2015: Peter Rowan & Tony Rice--To Live Is to Fly Rene Marie--Weekend ///Andre Crouch (1942-2015) & his Disciples--My Tribute/// Mary Fahl--Ben Aindi Habibi (live, 9/13) Willie May--Dos Teresa Donald Smith with Mansur Scott--Watermelon Man Ann Cole--Have Fun ///Little Jimmy Dickens (1920-2015)--Country Boy; Salty Boogie; (I Got) A Hole In My Pocket/// The Fred Hersch Trio--A Speech to the Sea Pegi Young & the Survivors--Don't Let Me Be Lonely Los Straitjackets--Whittier Boulevard Chuck Edwards--Downtown Soulville Woody Carr & the Entertainers--I Think I Love You Sleater-Kinney--Modern Girl Michael Bloomfield--Don't You Lie to Me (live, 1977) ///Drummer-vocalist Willie "Popsy" Dixon (1942-2015): The Holmes Brothers--Baby, What You Want Me to Do; Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down; And I Love Her/// D'Angelo & the Vanguard--Ain't That Easy Lucinda Williams--Walk On The Merri Souls featuring Paul Kelly--Thank You Paul Kelly & the Messengers--Look So Fine, Feel So Low; Sweet Guy Gerald Beckett--Tempus Fugit The Fiery Furnaces--Duffer St. George Mott the Hoople--Rock and Roll Queen Rainer Maria--Artificial Light The Hard Way--Stethoscope Alejandro Escovedo--She Towers Above; Put You Down (live, 3/96); Bottom of the World Ian McLagen & Alejandro Escovedo--I'm Not Like Everybody Else Akua Dixon--Alone Together Big Maybelle--That's a Pretty Good Love Billy Boy Arnold--You Give Me Nothing to Go On Broadcast--The Book Lovers
---Retroactive #1024--January 3, 2015: Matthew Sweet--We're the Same (live, 4/95) Carla Thomas--Never Be True Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods--Bloody Murder Ray Charles--Feelin' Sad The Budos Band--Turn and Burn Lisa Mills--I Need a Little Sunshine Hank Williams--Garden Spot jingle; Mind Your Own Business; Lovesick Blues (all three recorded live, 1950) The Sonics--Don't Be Afraid of the Dark The Merri Souls featuring Clairy Browne--Keep On Coming Back ///Clarinetist Buddy De Franco (1923-2014)--Coasting at the Palisades; Your Smile/// Koko Taylor--Mother Nature The Inmates--Talk Talk Cold Chisel--Tomorrow; Rising Sun Ockham's Razor--Crazy Man Michael Renee Fleming--Who Knows Where the Time Goes Sandy Denny--Blackwaterside Fotheringay--The Pond and the Stream The Bunch--Willie and the Hand Jive Fairport Convention--I Don't Know Where I Stand (BBC); Genesis Hall Mason Embry Trio--That's All The Slickers--Johnny Too Bad Aretha Franklin--No One The Vaselines--One Lost Year Outrageous Cherry--The Digital Age DQE--He Says That He's Not Interested Meatbodies--Mountain Happy Baby--In the Ghetto Wanda Jackson--Heartbreak Hotel Bob Dylan & the Band--A Fool Such as I Marshall Crenshaw--Little Sister (live) Rosie Flores--Too Much The Primitives--(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care Elvis Presley--Trying to Get to You (live, 6/68); Good Rockin' Tonight; A Big Hunk O'Love Esther Phillips--Scarred Knees *Plus: Elvis talking onstage about today's (6/68) music and the roots of rock'n'roll