---Retroactive #1128--December 31, 2016: Joceyln Pook with Melanie Pappenheim & Tsadoq Tsubeiri--The Last Day Clarence Fountain--Peace Among the Nations Erin Ivey--Alice (live) John McCutcheon--Down In the Forest/New Year's Eve Judy Collins--Song for Sarajevo (I Dream of Peace) The Revelers--If It's Really Got to Be This Way Slow Children--Sweet Sue Lyon Amos Milburn--One, Two, Three, Everybody John Moulder--Earthborn Tales One Ring Zero--Happy New Year; The Sad Carousel Brian Cullman--New Year's Eve Suzanne Vega--Carson's Blues Acoustic Madness--24/Seven Dar Williams--Better Things The Felice Brothers--Aerosol Ball ///Guitarist Rick Parfitt (1948-2016): Status Quo--Paper Plane; In the Army Now; Rock'n'Roll 'n' You/// Trudy Lynn--Ramblin' Blues Old 97s--Won't Be Home ///George Michael (1963-2016)--Monkey; Through; An Easier Affair/// Triokait--Under the Bridge JJ Heller--This Year (Happy New Year) Etta Jones--What Are You Doing New Year's Eve Angel Olsen--Give It Up Bo Diddley--Bo Diddley; Diddley Daddy; Pills; Dearest Darling The Castiles--You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover (live, 9/67) Chuck Prophet--Bad Year for Rock'n'Roll Steve Slagle--Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry Patti Smith & Fred Smith--It Takes Time Patti Smith Group--Space Monkey Patti Smith--Dancing Barefoot (live, acoustic, 3/00) LeAnn Rimes--Auld Lang Syne
---Retroactive #1127--December 24, 2016: Andy Summers & Geeta Novotny--Ave Maria Frankie Lymon--It's Christmas Once Again Claudia Schmidt--Christmas Eve Nick Lowe--A Dollar Short of Happy Susan Cowsill--Christmas Time Robert Ward--Wouldn't It Be a Merry Christmas? Rosemary Clooney--Come On-a My House Keegan DeWitt & the Sparrows--Christmas Light Dinah Washington--Ol' Santa Graham Parker--Christmas Is for Mugs Loretta Lynn--Happy Birthday The Bill Smith Quartet--Greensleeves Otis Redding--White Christmas The Uniques--Please Come Home for Christmas The Cory Band with the Gwalia Singers--Stop the Cavalry Indigo Girls--Your Holiday Song Robin & Linda Williams--Shotgun Shells On a Christmas Tree Loudon Wainwright III--I'll Be Killing You (This Christmas) Stephanie Sayers--Candy-Fisted Christmas Devil Dogs--I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--Feliz Rubberdad Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers--Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Seth MacFarlane--The Man With the Bag Tony Rodelle Larson--Cool Yule Duffy Bishop--Sippin' In Seattle's Latte Land The Joel E. Ferris High School Choir--Carol of the Bells Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--All I Want for Christmas The Fab Four--Joy to the World Aretha Franklin with Eddie Franklin--This Christmas Afrosound--Caliventura Jonathan Kreisberg--My Favorite Things Adam Sandler--The Chanukah Song (live, 1995) Shirley Alston--Winter Wonderland Johnny Preston--(I Want a) Rock'n'Roll Guitar Michel Legrand with Iggy Pop--The Little Drummer Boy Keith & Krisyn Getty--God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Louis Armstrong--The Night Before Christmas (acappella reading) Rickie Lee Jones--Christmas In New Orleans Brad Paisley--Penguin, James Penguin Lou Rawls--Christmas Will Really Be Christmas The Persuasions--Christmas Means Love June Christy--Hang Them On the Tree The Tim Fuller Experience--Silent Night David Friesen/Jannie Hoffman--The Little Drummer Boy Candye Kane--Let There Be Peace on Earth Leroy Anderson--Sleigh Ride Duke Robillard with Maria Muldaur--Santa Claus Blues *Plus: Greetings from Shemekia Copeland, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed
---Retroactive #1126--December 17, 2016: Catherine Russell--When Lights Are Low Hambone Willie Newbern--Roll and Tumble Blues Lori McKenna--Giving Up On Your Hometown Chris Sand--Trucker Song Laura Cantrell--Old Downtown Joe Clay--Fishing Pole Song John Prine--Hello In There (live) Rj Cowdery--That's What Makes You Strong Aaron Neville--Be Your Man Dan Pratt--Warsaw Promise--I'm Not Ready for Love American Football--Where Are We Now? Trudy Lynn--Alright Baby Jesse Malin--Turn Up the Mains Pretenders--Roadie Man Wilson Pickett with Tammi Lynn--Come Home Baby ///Jim Lowe (1923-2016) with the High Fives--The Green Door/// ///Record Industry executive Bob Krasnow (1935-2016): Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band--Yellow Brick Road Dave Mason--Look at You, Look at Me Tracy Chapman--Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution (BK signed Beefheart, started Blue Thumb Records and helped break Metallica and Tracy Chapman to large audiences)/// Cooper-Moore & Asif Tsahar--Forlorn Daniel Johnston--Life In Vain (live) Vaneese Thomas--Lonely No More American Music Club--Ladies and Gentlemen Cymande--Bra Shaun Murphy--Your Husband Is Cheating on Us Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--Stranded In Reality Mary Chapin Carpenter--He Thinks He'll Keep Her John Moulder--Farther Reaches Roy Byrd & his Blues Jumpers--Hadacol Bounce Professor Longhair--Tipitina; Ball the Wall James Booker--Medley: Slow Down/Bony Maronie/Knock on Wood/ I Heard It Through the Grapevine/Classified (live); Harlem In Hamburg (live); Gonzo; I'll Be Seeing You
---Retroactive #1125--December 10, 2016: Fiona Boyes--Old and Stiff Guy Davis--Prodigal Son The Unthanks--Flowers of the Town Lisa Karp with Dr. John--Everything's Broken Erwin Helfer (Katherine Davis, vocal)--Bright Lights, Big City Mike Doughty--Wait! You'll Find a Better Way Rory Block--Spooky Rhythm Loretta Lynn--Band of Gold Charlie Rich--Break Up; Goodbye Mary Ann; Go Ahead and Cry; You Can Have Her The Detroit Cobras--Midnight Blues Triokait--The Lady In My Life Brenda Lee--Sweet Nothin's; A Good Man Is Hard to Find; You Can Depend on Me Suzanne Vega--New York Is My Destination The Frightnrs--All My Tears Angel Olsen--Never Be Mine ///Greg Lake (1947-2016): The Shame--Go 'Way Little Girl King Crimson--In the Wake of Poseidon; Epitaph Emerson, Lake & Palmer--Nut Rocker (live, 3/71) Greg Lake--I Believe In Father Christmas/// Guitar Shorty--Old Time Sake Katie King--Steppin' Out (Someone Else Is Steppin' In) Case/lang/Veirs--Best Kept Secret Alejandro Escovedo--Beauty of Your Smile The Cyrkle--Red Rubber Ball Paul Simon--The Riverbank The Kennedys--Jasmine Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--You Don't Know Me Joanna Connor--Golden *Plus KAOS' John Ford interview with Paul Simon biographer Peter Ames Carlin; the segment included a clip of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Cloudy' ---Retroactive #1124--December 3, 2016: Teenage Fanclub--With You Bukka White with Memphis Minnie--The Promise True and Grand Sara Hickman--I'm Not Going Anywhere Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham--I Met Her In Church, (live, 11/98) Holly Hyatt & Jon Burden--Slushy Blues (live) Benmont Tench--Veronica Said Five Ounces of Soul--Love Got a Piece of Your Mind Percy Sledge--Baby, Help Me Hazel Dickens--They'll Never Keep Us Down Jim Ford--Harlan County Avichai Ornoy--Hopscotch Billy Joe Shaver--Black Rose Trudy Lynn--Black Night Tommy Brown--Atlanta Boogie Wesley Willis--Rock'n'Roll McDonald's Pretenders--Never Be Together American Football--My Instincts Are the Enemy Cassandra Wilson--Baubles, Bangles and Beads; Woman on the Edge; Last Train to Clarksville Acoustic Madness--Half the Loving Jake Bugg--Gimme the Love Catherine Russell--Swing! Brother, Swing! Erik Jekabson--A Brand New Take Aaron Neville--Stompin Ground Carolyn Wonderland--I Can Tell Deerhoof--The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue Deniz Tek--Death By Text Willie Dixon--Peace? DQE--Take It Easy, Baby Joe Ely--Burden of Your Load Mary Jo Curry--Husband #2 Little Richard with the Upsetters--She's Got It Little Richard--Thinkin' 'Bout My Mother; I'm Just a Lonely Guy; It Ain't Watcha Do (It's the Way How You Do It) Don Covay--Ooh! My Soul Chris Hazelton's Boogaloo Seven--Onsaya Joy (live, 10/15) New York Dolls--I Sold My Heart to the Junkman The BellRays--Screwdriver Bun E. Carlos (Robert Pollard, vocal)--Do Something Real
---Retroactive #1123--November 26, 2016: Briana Marela--Alternate Realities Rory Block--Gonna Be Some Walkin' Done The Frightnrs--Purple Patty Griffin--Not a Bad Man Todd Snider--45 Miles (live) Ani DiFranco--Woe Be Gone Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--That's When Trouble Starts Jonathan Kreisberg--I Thought About You Suzanne Vega--Carson's Last Supper Cats of Sherman--Dixie Hill Ego Trip Alejandro Escovedo--Heartbeat Smile; Redemption Blues The Pretty Reckless--Blame Me The Fleshtones--Love Like a Man The Donnas--I Didn't Like You Anyway Wayne Kramer--Love, Fidel ///Vocalist Sharon Jones (1956-2016): The Soul Providers/Bosco's Billionaires--Earl's Backyard Barbecue Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--I'm Not Gonna Cry; Money Sharon Jones--Bump 'n Touch, Pt. 1; I Got the Feeling/// Triokait--I Will Wait for You Fiona Boyes--One Rule for You Vaneese Thomas--The Chain Angel Olsen--Shut Up and Kiss Me ///The Jimi Hendrix Birth Anniversary Bash: Rotary Connection--Burning of the Midnight Lamp Hollywood Vampires--Manic Depression Walter Trout, Popa Chubby & Jimmy Thackery--Who Knows Jacqui Naylor--Angel (live) Neville & Sheena Staples--Up from the Skies Joanna Connor--Fire World Saxophone Quartet--Hear My Train a-Comin' Slash & Paul Rodgers with the Band of Gypsys--I Don't Live Today Jimi Hendrix--Freedom The Jimi Hendrix Experience--The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice; You Got Me Floatin'; Third Stone from the Sun///
---Retroactive #1122--November 19, 2016: John McCutcheon--Ode to Common Things Jeanie Stahl with Bill Staines--Music to Me Carolyn Mark--Happy 2B Flying Away ///Guitarist Al Caiola (1922-2016): Al Caiola--Theme from the Magnificent Seven Dion--Abraham, Martin and John/// ///Holly Dunn (1957-2016): Holly Dunn--It'll Be All Right; Lonesome Highway/// Graham Parker--Pollinate; Short Memories (live, solo, Tokyo) Graham Parker & the Rumour--Nothin's Gonna Pull Us Apart Gato Barbieri--Milonga Triste ///Mose Allison (1927-2016): The Chesterfield Kings--I'm Not Talking Maria Muldaur--Everybody Cryin' Mercy Mose Allison--I Don't Worry About a Thing; Young Man Blues; Ever Since I Stole the Blues; Your Molecular Structure/// Acoustic Madness--Leaving Welinoph Candye Kane--What Love Can Do Bun E. Carlos (Alejandro Escovedo, vocal)--Slow Down Ike & Tina Turner--A Fool In Love; Something's Got a Hold on Me Tina Turner--When I Was Young; Let's Stay Together (live, Netherlands, 3/09) Lynne Arriale--Bye-Ya Jimmy Smith--Jumpin' the Blues ///Leon Russell (1942-2016): Joe Cocker with Leon Russell--Girl from the North Country (live, 3/70) Bob Dylan--Watching the River Flow Delaney & Bonnie--Groupie (Superstar) Ray Charles--A Song for You Carmen McRae--This Masquerade Freddie King--Help Me Make It Through the Day Leon Russell & Marc Benno--Intro to Rita/Straight Brother Willie Nelson & Leon Russell--Heartbreak Hotel Leon Russell--Crystal Closet Queen (live, Long Beach, 8/72); Back to the Island; Medley: Jumpin' Jack Flash/Youngblood (live, NYC, 8/71); A Song for You/// *Plus: Clips of two great moments from Leon Russell's extensive session work
---Retroactive #1121--November 12, 2016: Ranch Romance--Ain't No Ash Will Burn James Blood Ulmer--Devil's Got to Burn Dakota Staton--A Losing Battle Johnny Shines--Too Wet to Plow Giant Sand--Without a Word Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Blues Train Teenage Fanclub--I'm In Love Ray Wiley Hubbard--The Way of the Fallen Shemekia Copeland--Outskirts of Love Jason Hainsworth--Groiditude War--Get Down Joanna Connor--By Your Side The Scruffs--Break the Ice Wynonie Harris--Lovin' Machine Shelley King--Building a Fire Marshall Crenshaw--Something's Gonna Happen (Shake Records); Opening/Dime a Dozen Guy; Calling Out for Love (At Crying Time) Vaneese Thomas--Revelation Aaron Neville--Ain't Gonna Judge You The Neville Brothers--Fever (live, 9/82) Catherine Russell--Talk to Me, Talk to Me Little Willie John--I've Been Around; Rock Love; Tell It Like It Is; Leave My Kitten Alone Jeff Oster--Half a Cookie (live) Nina Simone--Marriage Is for Old Folks Deniz Tek--Prison Mouse Jeff Libman--Stop Hitting Yourself ///Leonard Cohen (1934-2016): Lizzie West & the White Buffalo--Looking for Leonard Cohen, Part 1 Concrete Blonde--Everybody Knows Jennifer Warnes with Leonard Cohen--Joan of Arc Leonard Cohen--If It Be Your Will; Dance Me to the End of Love (live, Toronto, 6/93); I'm Your Man; The Stranger Song///
---Retroactive #1120--November 5, 2016: Ron Sexsmith--Love Shines The Kathy Kallick Band--My Montana Home Gerry Beckley--No Way I'm Gonna Lose You ///Bap Kennedy (1962-2016)--The Right Stuff/// PJ Harvey--A Line In the Sand Artichoke--100 Flowers ///Vocalist Kay Starr (1922-2016): Kay Starr--Them There Eyes (live); The Rock and Roll Waltz Tennessee Ernie Ford & Kay Starr--I'll Never Be Free Ray Charles--Wheel of Fortune/// Douglas Ewart--Song for Ossie and the Music Revelation of Rastafari Gram Parsons--Big Mouth Blues Carl Jackson with Ricky Skaggs & Leslie Satcher--Hickory Wind Deborah Coleman--Don't Talk In My Sleep Mike Doughty--Dawn/Gone The Shaggs--Philosophy of the World John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Remember Angel Olsen--Not Gonna Kill You Rita Wilson--Joni Joni Mitchell--Michael from Mountains; Conversation; Amelia Joni Mitchell with Willie Nelson--Cool Water The Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra--Surviving Soho Andras Jones--Hold Your Nose and Vote Drive-By Truckers--Ever South Beth Orton--She Cries Your Name Delbert McClinton--Sandy Beaches (live, 12/82); Thank You Baby (live, 12/82); Hammerhead Stew Maceo Parker--Speed Reading (It-Si-Bi-Ya) Cesaria Evora with Bonnie Raitt--Crepuscular Solidao Bonnie Raitt--Blue for No Reason; The Comin' Round Is Going Through; Green Lights Bonnie Raitt with the Five Blind Boys of Alabama--When the Spell Is Broken
---Retroactive #1119--October 29, 2016: Rick Meyers--Never On Sunday Susie Arioli featuring Jordan Officer--I Can't Get Started Bobby Rush--Snake In the Grass ///Bobby Vee (1943-2016)--Buddy's Song; Come Back When You Grow Up/// Bettye Swann--Don't Wait Too Long; This Old Heart of Mine; When the Game Is Played on You Acoustic Madness--Day Dream Bun E. Carlos (Xeno, vocal)--Let the Mystery Be The Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band directed by Brent Fischer--Solar Patrol The Halo Benders--Scarin Beat Happening--Hot Chocolate Boy; Bonfire *Halloween Show (2nd & 3rd hours of the program): ///John Zacherle (1918-2016)--Dinner With Drac, Pt. 2 John Zacherle & Southern Culture On the Skids--Sinister Purpose/// LaVern Baker--Bumble Bee Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Dream Girl Rocket Rod Productions--Surf Zombie Pixies--Head Carrier Bobby Bare--Vampira Plaehn & Hino--Who Do You Love Otis Redding--Trick or Treat The Voodoo Organist--Swingin' Red Organ Robyn Hitchcock--Creeped Out The Wildbunch--R U Afraid of the Devil? (live, Detroit, 11/96) Johnny Fuller--Haunted House Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra feat. Mica Paris & David Gilmour--I Put a Spell on You Link Wray & the Ray Men with Bobby Howard--Batman Theme Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet--Shake Some Evil Mecca Normal--From the Surface The Jeff Beck Group--I Ain't Superstitious Bill Carter--Bughouse In Pasadena Marianne Faithfull--Brain Drain Michael Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Steve Stills--Season of the Witch Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Girl In Amber Now Time Delegation--Hangin' Tree Auntie Christ--Rat In the Tunnel of Love Mr. Nick & his Dirty Tricks--Little Demon Roky Erickson--I Have Always Been Here Before *Plus: Lots of Halloween sound effects and voices
---Retroactive #1118--October 22, 2016: Rhonda Vincent--I Need Somebody Bad Tonight Scott Morgan (jazz)--Secret O'Life Jann Browne--Hearts On the Blue Train Stephen Bruton--This Train Is Gone Soozie Tyrell--White Lines Yuck--Bled White Family--My Friend the Sun Catherine Russell--You've Got the Right Key But the Wrong Keyhole The Fabulous Thunderbirds--Smooth Ari Roland--Thou Swell Kind of Like Spitting--I Ain't Marchin' Anymore Vaneese Thomas--Country Funk Television--Foxhole Sara Hickman--Trouble With Boxes Eric Clapton--Somebody's Knockin' ///Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess (1921-2016): Sonny Boy Williamson #2--Don't Start Me to Talkin' Paul Gayten & Mertle Jones--Right to Love You Koko Taylor--What Kind of Man Is That (1964 version) Muddy Waters--Don't Go No Further/// Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth--Satisfied Alex Chilton--Hook Me Up Etienne Charles--Close Your Eyes Charles Bradley--Slow Love Leon Russell--Stranger In a Strange Land Sue Foley--Howlin' for My Darlin' Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold) NRBQ--That's Alright Mudhoney--No One Has Wild Flag--Black Tiles The Fleshtones--Stupid Ol' Sun Fiona Boyes--Face In the Mirror Jimmy McGriff & Junior Parker--No One Knows (What Goes On When the Door Is Closed) Swamp Dogg--Buzzard Luck Ted Hawkins--You're Beautiful to Me; Strange Conversation; Sweet Baby The Frank Griffith Big Band--JCC Nancy Sinatra--I Move Around The Picketts--Sukiyaki
---Retroactive #1117--October 15, 2016: Merle Travis--Dark as a Dungeon Shirley & Lee--I'm Gone Dusty Springfield--Breakin' Up a Happy Home Quartette--Song for a Winter's Night Teenage Fanclub--Live In the Moment The Edsels--Rama Lama Ding Dong Donna Angelle & the Zydeco Posse--Blackberry Judee Sill--The Living End Case/lang/Veirs--Song for Judee Cats of Sherman--(What I Wouldn't Give For) Another Day Bob Dylan--All Along the Watchtower George Burton--Second Opinion ///Singer-songwriter-guitarist Don Ciccone (1946-2016): The Critters--Younger Girl; Mr. Dieingly Sad/// Gina Sicilia--Never Gonna End Roy Milton & his Solid Senders--Hop, Skip and Jump Candi Staton--You Got the Love Jimmy McQuade & the Unique Echos--Booga-Ka-Do (Boogaloo the Karate Dog) Drive-By Truckers--When the Sun Don't Shine; Surrender Under Protest; Ramon Casiano (live) Wanda Jackson--Searchin'; Heart Trouble; Don'a Wan'a; Slippin' and Slidin' Heather Myles--Why I'm Walkin' The Alex Levine Quartet--Still Novaks Kapelle--Din of the Stars Bobby Rush--It's Your Move Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--Falling, Falling, Falling The James Hunter Six--Satchelfoot Mitch Ryder--Tough Kid The Rondelles--Revenge! The Thermals--Hey You ///Chuck Berry Is 90: Dave Edmunds--The Promised Land Chuck Berry--Too Much Monkey Business; Down the Road Apiece; Let It Rock; Oh Baby Doll/// Joanna Connor--Love Coming On Strong Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Look Out! There's a Train Coming Bluestime--Full Court Press P.P. Arnold--The First Cut Is the Deepest Acoustic Madness--Bring That Boom Martin Bejerano--Blues Evolution LaVern Baker--So High So Low The Morells--I'm a Hog for You Baby
---Retroactive #1116--October 8, 2016: ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Johnny Shines & Robert Jr. Lockwood--Lonesome Whistle Sonny & the Sunsets--Moods Layla Zoe--Run Away Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur--Just a Little While to Stay Here Shaun Murphy--It Won't Stop Raining The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter--Honey Love The Flamin Groovies--Between the Lines The Fleshtones--Love My Lover Mary Flower--Brother, Can You Spare a Dime Richard & Linda Thompson--Walking On a Wire The Shy--Vista Cruiser Bobby Blue Bland--Honky Tonk Fiona Boyes--At the Crossroads Tommy Duncan--Excuse Me, I Gotta Go Robin McKelle & the Flytones--Down With the Ship Ellen McIlwaine--Weird of Hermiston (live, NYC); Dead End Street Ellen McIlwaine with the Persuasions--Farther Along The Julie Ruin--Record Breaker Michael Burks--You Ain't Slick Deerhoof--Petrasche Come Back The Raybeats--Searching Rosie Flores with Janis Martin--Blues Keep Callin' Brad Absher & Swamp Royale--Trouble Etta James--Lovesick Blues J.J. Syrja--For a Dancer (performed live on this show) Jackson Browne--World In Motion; The Barricades of Heaven Alison Krauss & Union Station--My Opening Farewell Ex Hex--New Kid Vaneese Thomas--Mystified Bun E. Carlos (Rick Rizzo, vocal)--I Can Only Give You Everything
---Retroactive #1115--October 1, 2016: ///Country singer Jean Shepard (1933-2016): Jean Shepard--Don't Fall In Love With a Married Man; Sad Singin' and Slow Ridin'; I Want to Go Where No One Knows Me/// ///Rockabilly artist Joe Clay (1938-2016): Joe Clay--Get On the Right Track; Duck Tail; Did You Say Evergreen/// ///Zydeco giant Buckwheat Zydeco (Stanley Dural, Jr., 1947-2016): Buckwheat Zydeco--Zydeco Tous Pas Tous; Havin' a Party; Take Me to the Mountain Top/// Case/lang/Veirs--Greens of June Teenage Fanclub--Hold On Bill O'Connell--Cobblestones Acoustic Madness--Surrounded In Big Town Candi Staton--Some Call It Mercy The Shivvers--No Reaction John Lee Hooker--Huckle Up Baby Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--He's a Killer Now Jerry Lee Lewis--Jailhouse Rock; I'll Make It All Up to You (1958 version); Good Rockin' Tonight (1958 version) Brinsley Schwarz--Down In the Dive Nanette Workman--Just Gettin' Started The James Boys & Johnnie Johnson--A Dose of Rock'n'Roll Polyphonic Spree--Five Years The Bridget Kelly Band--Sweet River Blues Bobby Rush--Catfish Stew ///The John Lennon Birthday Bash: Earl Klugh--If I Fell LaVon Hardison--Come Together Rhett Miller with Jon Brion--I'll Cry Instead (live) Rick Altizer--John Lennon's Glasses Nathaniel Mayer--I Found Out Louis Armstrong--Give Peace a Chance Paul Weller--Sexy Sadie Nora York--If I Fell The Neil Cowley Trio--Revolution 1 The Quarry Men--That'll Be the Day The Beatles--All I've Got to Do; You Can't Do That (live, 8/64); And Your Bird Can Sing; Don't Let Me Down John Lennon--Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out; It's So Hard/// *Plus: Several Beatles and Lennon interview clips
---Retroactive #1114--September 24, 2016: Tom Rush--River Song Janiva Magness--Who Will Come for Me Daniel Norgren--Why May I Not Go Out and Climb the Trees? Loudon Wainwright III--The Movies Are a Mother to Me (2008 version) Jenni Muldaur--Black Clouds Harpeth Rising--Fortune ///Singer-songwriter-keyboardist Jerry Corbetta (1947-2016): Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta--Myra, Myra Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta--Don't Call Us, We'll Call You/// Wallace Rooney--Smooch ///Songwriter John D. Loudermilk (1934-2016): Jean Shepard--Break My Mind The Casinos--Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye Kris Jensen--Torture Sue Thompson--Paper Tiger The Nashville Teens--Tobacco Road John D. Loudermilk--Goin' to Hell On a Sled/// Vaneese Thomas--Sweet Talk Me Ex Hex--Waste Your Time Mildred Bailey--Georgia On My Mind Ray Charles Trio--Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand Ray Charles--Undecided; No One; I Had a Dream Cats of Sherman--Spaced Out Rockin' Rod & the Strychnines--Gaga for Go-Go Carlene Carter--Why Be Blue; Tall Lover Man; Me and My .38 Edsel Gomez--The Minetta Triangle Billy Lee Riley--Baby Please Don't Go Greg Brown--Why Don't You Just Go Home Buffy Sainte-Marie--Soldier Blue Pavement--Two States Long John Hunter--Grits Ain't Groceries Ani DiFranco--Wishin' and Hopin'; Roll With It Rob Wasserman with Ani DiFranco--Voice Jason Joseph--Home Casey Neill--I'm On Fire (live) Bruce Springsteen--New York City Serenade; Meet Me In the City Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Atlantic City (live, 2000)
---Retroactive #1113--September 17, 2016: Emily Smith--May Colven Terry Allen--Salivation June Tabor--Mrs. Rita Case/lang/Veirs--Delirium Shaun Murphy--Fool for You Professor Longhair--Whole Lotta Loving Toni Lincoln--Thou Swell Brian Eno & John Cale--Empty Frame John Stowell & Michael Zilber--Nobody Else But Me Layla Zoe--Work Horse Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur--Downtown Blues Jenny Reynolds--Whiskey and Pie Jeff Plankenhorn with the Resentments--Vagabond Moonlight Tom Waits--John the Revelator Marnie Stern--Noonan Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--Sit Down Baby ///Vocalist Nora York (1956-2016): Nora York--What I Want; Learning to Swim; You Go to My Head/Manic Depression (A most creative singer and songwriter, Nora York's work deserved much more attention than it received)/// Hank Williams--Move It On Over; (I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing; Rootie Tootie; Why Don't You Love Me (live, 8/50) Bob Dylan--The Love That Faded Al Cohn & Zoot Sims--Body and Soul Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--Cheaters and Deceivers Tweed Funk--Muse Bun E. Carlos (Xeno, vocal)--Count On Me Ina Forsman--No Room for Love Joe Jackson--Memphis Michael Burks--I Didn't Take Your Woman The Julie Ruin--Hello Trust No One Tall Tales & the Silver Lining--Boulder to Birmingham B.B. King--Counting My Tears; Ghetto Woman B.B. King with D'Angelo--Ain't Nobody Home Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Soul Serenade (live, 11/03) Acoustic Madness--Over Reacted The Bridget Kelly Band--Somebody's Hoodooin' Me George Tindley--Ain't That Peculiar
---Retroactive #1112--September 10, 2016: Sturgill Simpson--Some Days PJ Harvey--The Wheel Vaneese Thomas--Sat'day Night on the River Charles Bradley--Stay Away Cats of Sherman--You're the Island Joe Cocker--First We Take Manhattan Maria Muldaur--Blues So Bad; Bessie's Advice; Second Line Joey Alexander--City Lights *All-'60s Show (2nd and 3rd hours): Bill Doggett--(Let's Do) The Hully Gully Twist The Equals--Baby Come Back The Continental Co-ets--I Don't Love You No More Gloria Jones--Tainted Love The Strangeloves--I Want Candy Frank Sinatra--This Town ///Clifford Curry (1936-2016)--She Shot a Hole In My Soul; I Can't Get Ahold of Myself/// Brook Benton--Kiddio Norma Tanega--Walkin' My Cat Named Dog The Zombies--Indication James Brown--Let Yourself Go Gene Pitney--She's a Heartbreaker The Who--Whiskey Man The Sir Douglas Quintet--Mendocino Lulu--Morning Dew The Oscar Peterson Trio--Con Alma (live, 4/60) The Sensations--It's a New Day The Barbarians--Moulty Aretha Franklin--Night Time Is the Right Time The Velvet Underground--White Light/White Heat Tim Hardin--Smugglin' Man Buffalo Springfield--Pay the Price Chris Montez--Rock 'n Blues Little Eva--The Trouble With Boys The Wailers--You Alone The Pretty Things--She Says Good Morning The Choir--If These Are Men The Kinks--Two Sisters The Turtles--You Don't Have to Walk In the Rain The Lady-Bugs--How Do You Do It? Nina Simone--Take Care of Business Betty Everett--Getting Mighty Crowded The Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy--When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (live, 3/64) Duane Eddy--Peter Gunn The Cave Dwellers--Run Around David McWilliams--The Days of Pearly Spencer The Artistics--I'm Gonna Miss You *Plus: Excerpts of classic 1960s commercials
---Retroactive #1111--September 3, 2016: Tweed Funk--Sweet Music Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--Say That Now Mose Allison--Everybody Thinks You're an Angel Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur--Fishing Blues David Halley--Dream Life Sarah Dougher--How Can I Make It Home Pete Seeger--Coal Creek March/Payday at Coal Creek/ Roll Down the Line (live, 12/57) The Dandy Warhols--16 Tons Union--Strike Corb Lund--Washed-Up Rock Star Factory Blues Michael Nicolella--Lullaby ///Kacey Jones (1950-2016)--Apples Dipped In Candy; Oh, Holy Smoke Kacey Jones with Delbert McClinton--You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly (KJ wrote songs for Mickey Gilley and David Allan Coe and was a fine, often humorous record maker in her own right)/// Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Bankrupted Michael Burks--Home of the Blues The Pretenders--Talk of the Town (slightly longer version); Boots of Chinese Plastic Chrissie Hynde--A Plan Too Far Nada Surf--Out of the Dark The Julie Ruin--Roses More Than Water Otis Redding--Send Me Some Lovin'; Tell the Truth; Direct Me; Try a Little Tenderness (live, 6/67) The Vagrants--Respect Antoine Roney--Estate (In Summer) ZSG--Darkness Sandie Shaw--Hand In Glove Burning Jet Black--Six White Cadillacs Patsy Cline--I Love You So Much It Hurts; Stop, Look and Listen (alternate take); Imagine That; Don't Ever Leave Me Again (live, 1/58) Kim Doolittle--In Care of the Blues (2006 version) Buddy Holly--Dearest (demo, 1/59); Rock Around With Ollie Vee; Words of Love; I'm Gonna Set My Foot Down Elliott Murphy--Everyday Joe Ely--Not Fade Away (live) Roxy Coss--Tricky The Duffy Bishop Band--Better Half of What
---Retroactive #1110--August 27, 2016: ///Recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder (1924-2016): Sonny Rollins--St. Thomas Big Maybelle--If I Could Be With You (Just two of countless brilliant recordings RVG engineered--perhaps the most acclaimed was John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme')/// Lori McKenna--My Love Follows You Where You Go Bill Carter--Lost In a Day Yoko Ono--Soul Got Out of the Box ///Harmonica legend Jean-Baptiste 'Toots' Thielemans (1922-2016): Stephane Grappelli & Toots Thielemans--You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To The George Shearing Quintet--Caravan Bill Evans--Bluesette (live, 12/79) Toots Thielemans--Nalen Boogie; The Slickest Man In Town (Besides playing harmonica on scores of jazz sessions--and the 'Sesame Street' theme song--TT also played guitar and sang. Whistled on recordings, too)/// Norbert Stachel--Peace on Earth Jeff Plankenhorn--Lose My Mind Layla Zoe--Wild One Javier Escovedo--Downtown Anandi--Teach Me Tonight Dinah Washington--Ballad Medley: Alone Together/Summertime/Come Rain or Come Shine (live, 8/54); Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby; A Foggy Day Joanna Connor--Free Free Woman; He's Mine; Halsted Street Sonny Criss--Blues In My Heart Jacqueline Schwab & Matt Glaser--Late Summer Air Cats of Sherman--Mr Richland's Favourite Song Boredoms--Two Circles The Patti Smith Group--So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star Them--Hey Girl Van Morrison with Bobby Womack--Some Peace of Mind Van Morrison--Common One (live, 11/07); I Forgot That Love Existed Van Morrison with Mary Black--St. Dominic's Preview (1996) Maura O'Connell--Crazy Love Nathan East (Michael McDonald, vocal)--Moondance The Cookers--Blackfoot
---Retroactive #1109--August 20, 2016: Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt--Willful Ignorance Kate & Anna McGarrigle--Be My Baby ///Glenn Yarbrough (1930-2016)--Baby the Rain Must Fall (Glenn Yarbrough led the Limelighters folk group before going solo in the 1960s)/// ///Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson (1941-2016): Bobby Hutcherson--Whisper Andrew Hill--Samba Rasta Abbey Lincoln with Maggie Brown--Caged Bird Eric Dolphy--Gazzelloni Joey DeFrancesco--The Tackle McCoy Tyner--If I Were a Bell (Bobby Hutcherson's innovative vibes playing was in demand for years. He played on Eric Dolphy's classic 'Out to Lunch!' album and scores of others)/// Ina Forsman--Farewell Sonny & the Sunsets--Needs Ann Peebles--A Love Vibration Johnny Adams--She Said the Same Things to Me John Hiatt--You May Already Be a Winner; Give It Up John Hiatt & the Guilty Dogs--Angel (live, 11/93); Real Fine Love (live, 3/94) Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--I Don't Want to Lose You; That Same Mistake; Love Is a Strange Hotel The Maria Schneider Orchestra--The Thompson Fields The Rubaiyats--Omar Khayyam Shaun Murphy--Spreadin' the News MC5--Skunk (Sonicly Speaking) Deerhoof--Model Behavior Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--Take Off My Dress The Clash--48 Hours; Clash City Rockers; Know Your Rights The 101ers--Silent Telephone Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Gamma Ray Johnny Cash with Joe Strummer--Redemption Song Elvis Costello--I Can't Turn It Off (demo, 1975); Just About Glad Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Radio Radio (live, SNL, 12/77) The Jeff Brooks Quartet--The Unquestioned Answer Renee Austin--Ain't Nobody
---Retroactive #1108--August 13, 2016: Case/lang/Veirs--Behind the Armory Charles Brown--What a Life The Love Hall Tryst--Lambkin Joseph Arthur--Too Much to Hide Oh Susanna--Black Dirt Road Duke Levine--Attack of the Mutuant Guitars Allen Toussaint--Viper's Drag The Heptones--Crystal Blue Persuasion The Noses--Squishing Mud With Your Toes Ruth Brown--Cabbage Head The Nels Cline Singers--Watch Over Us ///Clarinetist Pete Fountain (1930-2016): Pete Fountain--Just a Closer Walk; Five Point Blues/// The Roches--Hammond Song Stewart Francke--Prowlin' The Julie Ruin--I Decide Charles Bradley--Crazy for Your Love Kathy Heideman--Sleep a Million Years Jeff Plankenhorn featuring the Resentments--Live Today Holly Golightly--Pretty Good Love Jerry Douglas & Aly Bain with Eric Bibb--Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Eric Bibb--Flood Water; Gotta Serve Somebody; Mandela Is Free Melissa Aldana--En Otra Lugar Cats of Sherman--Schizophrenic Kitty The Monkees--You Bring the Summer Maddy Prior--Swimming Song Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Jumpin' and Boppin' with Joy The Darkness--Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Samantha Crain--The Pattern Has Changed; Killer Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--Calm Down Sean Costello--T-Bone Boogie (live) Sarah Brown with Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli--Hurtback The Young Fresh Fellows--Searchin' U.S.A. Chuck Miller--The House of Blue Lights Omar Sosa--Dos Caminos The Black Heart Procession--Song About A... Johnny Otis--Hey Baby, Don't You Know
---Retroactive #1107--August 6, 2016: Terry Callier--I'd Rather Be With You Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt--Jamaica's Tree Ben Bedford--Cahokia Truckstop Honeymoon--Home Anne Briggs--Sandman's Song The Persuasions--Hotplate Heaven at the Green Hotel Peter Case--Get Away Blues Mirah--Archipelago Big Star--Mod Lang Joe Syrian's Motor City Jazz Octet--When I Fall In Love Katy Moffatt--Stoned at the Jukebox The Shy--All We Know Javier Escovedo--Searchin' for You Sleater-Kinney--Surface Envy The Band--We Can Talk Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--Away We Go Robyn Hitchcock--Strawberries Dress The Skeletons--Rainy Day Parade (live, 7/95) The Morells--I Want You to Be My Baby (live, 12/82); May I (live, 10/84) Red's; Rock Bottom Michael Franti & Spearhead--Summertime Is In Our Hands Tweed Funk--Who Is This Jane Ira Bloom--Big Bill Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation--Sunny Afternoon The Bottle Rockets--Sunday Sports Quasi--Empty Words Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Neighbor Tend to Your Business Husker Du--Could You Be the One? The Cheepskates--Bear Down Teenage Bottlerocket--Summertime Beth Orton--I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine The Ronettes--Soldier Baby of Mine; (The Best Part of) Breakin' Up Ronnie Spector & the E Street Band--Baby Please Don't Go Ronnie Spector--I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls; Never Gonna Be Your Baby; How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Michael Davis--Butter Ball Ina Forsman--Talk to Me The Thermals--Born to Kill
---Retroactive #1106--July 30, 2016: Metropole Orkest--My Blue Heaven The Emotions--My Honey and Me Jimmy LaFave--When You Were Mine Lizzie West & the White Buffalo--19 Miles to Baghdad The Unthanks--Lullaby for Hamza (live, London, 12/10) Ranch Romance--Buckaroo Allen Toussaint with Rhiannon Giddens--Rocks In My Bed Roxy Coss--Happiness Is a Choice Jeff Plankenhorn--Dirty Floor Curtis Salgado--Hard to Feel the Same About Love Cassie Taylor--That's My Man Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women--Wild Women (Don't Have the Blues) Nick Lowe--Raging Eyes Alice Smith--Ocean Ramblin' Jack Elliott--San Francisco Bay Blues (live, 1961); Talking Dust Bowl (live, 9/96); If I Were a Carpenter The Julie Ruin--Let Me Go Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--Chicano Studies ///Producer-lyricist Sandy Pearlman (1943-2016): Blue Oyster Cult--Mistress of the Salmon Salt; Dominance and Submission The Clash--Safe European Home/// Stan Kenton & his Orchestra--You Go to My Head (live, 6/52) Case/lang/Veirs--Honey and Smoke The Kills--Heart of a Dog Sonny & the Sunsets--Death Cream, Pt. 2: Watch Out for the Cream El Vez--And the Preacher Said...; Rubbernecking The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion--Money Rock'n'Roll Shaun Murphy--I Hate the Blues (But the Blues Sure Seem to Love Me) ///Buddy Guy is 80 today: Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy--Ships On the Ocean Buddy Guy--Try to Quit You Baby; I Need You Tonight; Look What All You Got; Somebody's Sleepin' In My Bed/// Kenny Garrett--Backyard Groove Cats of Sherman--I'd Like to Know Dressy Bessy--Dirty Birdies
---Retroactive #1105--July 23, 2016: The Subdudes--He's Got You On His Mind (live, 1996) Carrie Smith--Trouble In Mind Lee Fields--Just Can't Win Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt--Quiet Hills Mary Lofstrom--I'll Do Dot Julie Miller--Out In the Rain Ray Charles--In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) Rene Marie--Lost Swingadelic--Cristo Redentor Graham Parker--Howlin' Wind (live, solo) Jimmy Edwards--Love Bug Crawl Ron Sexsmith--I Think We're Lost Ana Egge & the Sentimentals--Spider Jeff Beck (Rosie Bones, vocal)--Right Now ///Vocalist-songwriter Alan Vega (1938-2016): Suicide--Ghost Rider; Fast Money Music; Rain of Ruin/// Betty Davis--Crashin' from Passion Charles Wright--Doin' What Comes Naturally Darlene Love--(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry; Strange Love; Little Liar Will Goble--Belle Isle Steve Forbert--Welcome the Rolling Stones Shuggie--Clean Breakup The Prissteens--Let Me Run Wild The BellRays--Fanfare/You're Sorry Now ///The Mick Jagger Birthday Bash: The Chieftains with Mick Jagger--The Long Black Veil Colvin & Earle--Ruby Tuesday Johnny Rawls--Beast of Burden Motorhead--Sympathy for the Devil Aloha Screwdriver--Paint It Black The Rolling Stones--Almost Hear You Sigh; Sway; Stray Cat Blues; Cool, Calm and Collected/// Jane Ira Bloom--Singing the Triangle Wild Flag--Short Version Javier Escovedo--Beaujolais
---Retroactive #1104--July 16, 2016: Sara Watkins--Say So Sandman the Rappin' Cowboy--End of America Charles Bradley--Things We Do for Love Mahalia Jackson--I'm On My Way to Canaan Veronica Falls--Misery Bill Carter--Feel Town Koko Taylor--Sure Had a Wonderful Time Last Night Ivory Library--Through You Scott LaFaro--Sacre Bleu The Julie Ruin--Rather Not Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--I Need Your Lovin' Barbara Carr--Hanging By a Thread Jerry Lee Lewis--Wild One (Real Wild Child) Mott the Hoople--Honaloochie Boogie The Kills--Hard Habit to Break The James Hunter Six--A Truer Heart Martha & the Vandellas--I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playing; Come and Get These Memories; You've Been In Love Too Long The Raveonettes--Z-Boys Two Plus Two--Look Around Little Willie John--My Baby's In Love With Another Guy Case/lang/Veirs--Georgia Stars Sonny & the Sunsets--Well But Strangely Hung Man Trotsky Icepick--Cornfield Melissa Aldana--Back Home Wanda Jackson--Honey Don't Savoy Brown--I'm Tired The Muffs--Paint By Numbers The Modern Lovers--Roadrunner The Honey Wilders--Summertime Gossip--All My Days Denise LaSalle--Goody Goody Getter; Don't Pick It Up; Drop That Zero Dion--Love Came to Me; The Apollo King Dion with Paul Simon--Written On the Subway Wall/Little Star The Main Ingredients--Cut and Run The Casual Dots--Mama's Gonna Make Us a Cake Lyres--We Sell Soul Mickey Lee Lane--Hey Sah-Lo-Ney
---Retroactive #1103--July 9, 2016: Yo La Tengo--Before We Stopped to Think Rene Marie--Sound of Red Guy Davis--Wish I Hadn't Stayed Away So Long Denise James--Absolutely Sad Big Joe Turner--Sun Risin' Blues ///Native singer-songwriter Jim Boyd (1956-2016): Jim Boyd--A Million Miles Away/// Clint Black--Summertime Song Bonnie Raitt--I Knew Ron King--If You Could Only Know My Mind Woody Guthrie--Ranger's Command; Talking Centralia; The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster) Willis Alan Ramsey--Boy from Oklahoma Mary Lou Lord--Lights Are Changing (1995 version) Tommy Keene--All the Lights Are Alive Hornet Leg--I'm Leaving You Tiger High--Simple Time Evan Johns & the H-Bombs--Day Go By Arlo Guthrie--Victor Jara Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger--Gabriel's Mother's Highway Ballad #16 Blues (live, 8/93); Can't Help Falling In Love (live, 8/93) Aviva--Lucy In the Ska Deborah Coleman--The River Wild Curtis Salgado--Nothing In Particular (Little Bit of Everything) Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--We Love You Huevos Rancheros--Rockin' In the Henhouse Sista Monica Parker--Surrender to Love The Mainliners--Ordinary Night Betsy Holt--Something I Can't Finish Betsy and Dave--There Will Never Be Another You; I Can't Give You Anything But Love Ben Adkins--Lucky Roger McGuinn--The Bells of Rhymney Roger McGuinn with Odetta--Sail Away Lady The Byrds--Change Is Now; 5D (Fifth Dimension); Pretty Boy Floyd (live, 2/69); Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man (live, 2/69)
---Retroactive #1102--July 2, 2016: Memphis Minnie--Finger Print Blues Marianne Faithfull--File It Under Fun from the Past Gene Clark--For a Spanish Guitar (demo) ///Bassist Rob Wasserman (1952-2016): Rob Wasserman with Bob Weir & Neil Young--Easy Answers/// ///Singer-songwriter Mack Rice (1933-2016): Sir Mack Rice--Mini Skirt Minnie; Love Sickness Sir Mack Rice with Felix Cavaliere--Mustang Sally (live, 9/93)/// Jane Ira Bloom--Mind Gray River Rebecca Pearcy--Poppies; When You Were Mine Ringo Starr--I Think Therefore I Rock'n'Roll; All By Myself Ringo Starr & the Roundheads--Octopus's Garden (live, 1998) Unrest--When It All Comes Down The Kills--Doing It to Death ///Pioneering rock guitarist Scotty Moore (1931-2016): Elvis Presley--I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone; I Got a Woman/// The Frank Hewitt Quintet--Oblivion (live, 8/99) ///Keyboard wizard Bernie Worrell (1944-2016): Parliament--Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop); Chocolate City Funkadelic--Standing On the Verge of Getting It On Brady Rhymer featuring Bernie Worrell--Tune Out Bernie Worrell--Don't Piss Me Off Talking Heads--Moon Rocks/// Sloan Wainwright--Something So Right Paul Simon--In a Parade Robin & Linda Williams--Honky Tonk Nation Sonny & the Sunsets--Reject of the Lowest Planet Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies with Floyd Dixon--Saturday Night Fish Fry Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--De Laff's on You; Let the Good Times Roll; Buzz Me; What's the Use of Gettin' Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again) Joe Syrian's Motor City Jazz Octet--All or Nothing at All Sub Debs--Don't Mess With Us The Coup--The Magic Clap Freddie King--Going Down
---Retroactive #1101--June 25, 2016: Erja Lyytinen--Dreamland Blues John Marx--Grinnin' In Your Face Toni Price--Run, Run, Run (live) J.B. Lenoir--She Don't Know The Beat Farmers--Bigger Stones Maryann Price--Waitin' for the 103 ///Bluegrass giant Ralph Stanley (1927-2016): The Stanley Brothers--The Fields Have Turned Brown Ralph Stanley--I'll Not Be Afraid; Little Mathie Grove; Motherless Children Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys--Man of Constant Sorrow; Daddy's Wildwood Flower (both live, 2/01)/// Melissa Aldana--Servant #2 ///Singer-songwriter Freddy Powers (1932-2016): Willie Nelson with Freddy Powers--I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter/// Mac & Katie Kissoon--It's a Hang Up World The Mekons--Robin Hood Colvin & Earle--You Were On My Mind ///Memphis trumpeter Wayne Jackson (1941-2016): Wilson Pickett--Funk Factory Sam & Dave--Hold On, I'm Comin' Otis (Redding) & Carla (Thomas)--Let Me Be Good to You Otis Redding--Good to Me; Respect/// Helen Humes--If I Could Be With You (live, 8/50); When I Grow Too Old to Dream Helen Humes with Ellis Larkins' All-Stars--Jimmy's Blues John Pizzarelli--C Jam Blues Sara Watkins--One Last Time Darden Smith--Running Kind Charles Bradley--Change for the World The Butchies--She's So Lovely Blackouts--Being Be Burnside Project--Cue the Pulse to Begin ///The Willie Dixon Birth Anniversary Bash: The Big Three Trio--No More Sweet Potatoes Willie Dixon--You Shook Me; I Live the Life I Love (I Love the Life I Live) (1988 version) Willie Dixon with Charlotte Crossley--Good Understanding Muddy Waters--Hoochie Coochie Man Megan Wilde--Spoonful Sam Cooke--Little Red Rooster Etta James--I Just Want to Make Love to You (live, 9/63)/// Kevin Eubanks--Resolution Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Burn You Up Jimmy Witherspoon--Endless Sleep
---Retroactive #1100--June 18, 2016: Kurt Veil--Kidding Around Kathy Mattea--You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive Noah Gundersen--Ledges Janiva Magness--When You Hold Me Bill Carter--Missing Guru Pinetop Perkins--Rockin' the Boogie Adrian Belew--Oh Daddy Samantha Crain--Big Rock Fabrizio Sotti Trio--So Far So Close ///Guitarist Henry McCullough (1943-2016): Joe Cocker--With a Little Help from My Friends (live, 8/69) (McCullough played in the Grease Band, who backed Cocker at Woodstock, as well as in Spooky Tooth and Wings--he played the gorgeous guitar solo on 'My Love')/// Liz Phair--Help Me Mary Yvonne Gage--Garden of Eve ZSG--Thought I'd Lost a Friend The Ramsey Lewis Trio--Around the World In 80 Days ///Producer-songwriter Chips Moman (1937-2016): Carla Thomas--Gee Whiz The Box Tops--Soul Deep Richard & Linda Thompson--The Dark End of the Street (live, 4/75) Aretha Franklin--Do Right Woman-Do Right Man (Moman produced the first two songs in this set and co-wrote the last two. He also worked with Wilson Pickett, the Highwaymen, Merrillee Rush, B.J. Thomas, Bobby Womack and Elvis Presley, to mention just a few)/// The Beach Boys--The Girls On the Beach; I'm Waiting for the Day; Psychodelic Sounds: Brian Falls Into a Piano; 'Til I Die Brian Wilson with She & Him--On the Island Brian Wilson--Love & Mercy (live); God Only Knows (live, London, 1/02) Jane Ira Bloom--Gateway to Progress The Kills--Siberian Nights Sonic Youth--Kat 'n' Hat (live, 1985) Bikini Kill--False Start Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--Coyote Conundrum Bonnie Raitt--Need You Tonight Wings--Mumbo; Old Siam, Sir Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Band with Paul McCartney--Best Love Paul McCartney--Put It There; How Kind of You The Dave Flippo Trio--The Fool On the Hill Best Coast--Better Girl Can--Soul Desert Tyrone Davis--Love Bones
---Retroactive #1099--June 11, 2016: Silje Karlsen--I Don't Care If You're Beautiful Boo Hewerdine--The Love Thieves Terry Allen--Cortez Sail Colvin & Earle--The Way That We Do Anna Gordon--Streetlights Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson--Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries Leon Thomas--Bags' Groove Moe Tucker with Daniel Johnston--Do It Right Gail Davies--Where Does Love Come From Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble--Cherry Vanilla Scott Appel--Road Lizz Wright--River Man Nick Drake--Three Hours; Which Will; Joey; One of These Things First Mary Cutrufello--Love's Despair Rene Marie--This Is (Not) a Protest Song ///Announcer Mark Parenteau (1950-2016): The J. Geils Band--The Usual Place; Cruisin' for a Love (live, 1972); Lookin' for a Love (live, 1972) (My favorite DJ at WABX/Detroit in the '70s. An interview clip--recorded after his prison sentence was completed--was aired, plus a bit of an 'ABX aircheck from 1973. MP had a lot to do with Boston's J. Geils Band exploding in Detroit and everywhere afterwards)/// W.G. Snuffy Walden--Thirtysomething (Revisited) Catherine Russell--Quiet Whiskey Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Blues Stew Carrie Rodriguez--Noche de Ronda The Beakers--Bones World Party--Ship of Fools Sloan Wainwright--Dear George Melissa Aldana--Desde la Lluvia The Green Pajamas--A Long Way from Home Nikol Kollars--I Go the Sleep Queens of the Stone Age--Who'll Be the Next In Line Ray Davies--Stand Up Comic The Kinks--Misfits; Sitting On My Sofa; Mr. Churchill Says; Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (live, 1972)
---Retroactive #1098--June 4, 2016: Chris Sand--Road Kill Tom Russell with Delores Keane & Iris DeMent--When Irish Girls Grow Up The Persuasions--Heaven Help Us All Marah--High Water Whitney Marchelle--All for One Prophets of Peace--The Max Shannon & the Clams--You Let Me Rust ///Violinist Dave Swarbrick (1941-2016): Fairport Convention--Now Be Thankful; Si Tu Dois Partir; Medley: The Lark In the Morning/Rakish Paddy/Foxhunters' Jig/Toss the Feathers/// Will Goble--The Ants Went Marching But One By One They Didn't Come Back Howlin' Wolf--The Red Rooster (1970 version--rehearsal, chat & complete take); Just My Kind; I Better Go Now Grand Archives--Dig That Crazy Grave The Kills--Bitter Fruit Nada Surf--New Bird Dakota Staton--Summertime; I'd Go Back Home; I'm Tired of That Chris Kenner--Rocket to the Moon Bonnie Raitt--Gypsy In Me Jane Ira Bloom--Somewhere The Monkees--Birth of an Accidental Hipster; Love to Love; Goin' Down Cindy Lee Berryhill--She Had Everything The Mothers--Camarillo Brillo The Beth Custer Ensemble--Black Hole Sun Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--The Evening Major Lance--The Monkey Time Lenny Kravitz--Billy Jack The Impressions--Man Oh Man; It's Hard to Believe Curtis Mayfield--Beautiful Brother of Mine; Superfly The Maria Schneider Orchestra--Arbiters of Evolution Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--Psychic Future
---Retroactive #1097--May 28, 2016: Barbara Blue--Love Is After Me Pete Droge--Bring Up the Failure Vienna Teng--The Tower Eddie Hinton--Home for the Summer Sloan Wainwright--Wedding Bell Blues Curtis Salgado--Ring Telephone Ring The James Hunter Six--(Baby) Hold On LaVon Hardison--Unchain My Heart Janiva Magness--Long As I Can See the Light John Fogerty--Bring It Down to Jelly Roll Creedence Clearwater Revival--Poorboy Shuffle; Feelin' Blue Melissa Aldana--Alegria *All Texas Show (2nd & 3rd hours): ///Emilio Navaira (1962-2016)--Have I Told You Lately/// Terry Allen--Writing On Rocks Across the USA Colvin & Earle--Happy and Free Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Do Something for Me Ray Wiley Hubbard--Chick Singer, Badass Rockin' Townes Van Zandt--Columbine Alejandro Escovedo--I Was Drunk (live) Sonny Fisher--Rockin' Daddy Ella Mae Morse--Get Off It and Go Christopher Cross--Nature's Way The Shagnastys--Wednesday's Nicotine Blues Shelley King--Hard Times Are No Match for Sweet Dreams Emily Wells--Adagio Mario Cruz--The Most Difficult Virtue Bobby Patterson--My Thing Is Your Thing (Come and Get It) Delbert McClinton--I'm With You (live) Nobody's Child--Good Times Freda & the Firedogs--EZ Rider The Bobby Fuller Four--Love's Made a Fool of You Lou Ann Barton--Rocket In My Pocket Roy Head--Mama Mama Terri Hendrix--Eagles Willie Nelson--The Scientist Joe Ely--Treat Me Like a Saturday Night Tish Hinojosa with Dale Watson--Count Me In The Sir Douglas Quintet--The Tracker Roky Erickson & the Explosives--Shake Me Lucifer (live) Carrie Rodriguez + the Sacred Hearts--Z Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Fool's Paradise Poncho Sanchez--Mon Pa Mon Po Bill Carter--Solar Powered Radio Kathy & the Kilowatts--Take a Chance Mouse--A Public Execution
---Retroactive #1096--May 21, 2016: M. Ward--Little Baby Sarah Jarosz--Broussard's Lament Guy Carawan with Candie Carawan--The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore Willie Hightower--Somebody Have Mercy Lara Price--Pack It Up Harpeth Rising--Well, Hell Ritchie Valens--In a Turkish Town; Bonie Maronie Jane Ira Bloom--Hips & Sticks ///Singer-songwriter Guy Clark (1941-2016): Patty Griffin--The Cape Jerry Jeff Walker--L.A. Freeway Guy Clark--Forever, For Always, For Certain; Shut Up and Talk to Me; The Guitar; My Favorite Picture of You/// The Beth Custer Ensemble--For the Grace of Any Man Charles Bradley--Changes Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Guts Lynne Arriale--Wouldn't It Be Loverly Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Two Hearts Sue Foley--Love Sick Child Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--La Arana Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers--Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing Shemekia Copeland--Hangin' Up Marcus Miller--Mr. Clean ///The Bob Dylan 75th Birthday Bash: Jeff Buckley--Just Like a Woman Nina Simone--I Shall Be Released Ali Campbell--I Want You Bettye LaVette--Most of the Time The Beau Brummels--One Too Many Mornings Oh Susanna--I'll Keep It With Mine Tom Jones--What Good Am I? Guy Davis--Lay Lady Lay Mary Lee's Corvette--Shelter from the Storm (live, 9/01) Traveling Wilburys--7 Deadly Sins Bob Dylan--Oxford Town; Marchin' to the City; Things Have Changed; If Not for You/// *Plus: Elvis Costello talks about Dylan and the word "amanuensis"
--Retroactive #1095--May 14, 2016: Bill Lloyd--Trampoline (live) Heather Crosse--Bad Boy Kiss Ben Kaplan--Is That a Messiah In Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Me? Samantha Crain--If I Had a Dollar Bonnie Raitt--All Alone With Something to Say The Moovers--Someone to Fulfill My Needs ///Singer-Songwriter Ned Miller (1925-2016): Ned Miller--Do What You Do Do Well/// Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose--Sun Lake Street Dive--Saving My Sinning David Murray/Geri Allen/Terri Lyne Carrington--Cycles and Seasons Emitt Rhodes--If I Knew Then Curtis Salgado--Walk a Mile In My Blues Lee Fields--Standing By Your Side Anni Piper--Just a Little Bit Girl Trouble--The Men's Room Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Bad Boy ///Vocalist-songwriter Candye Kane (1961-2016): Candye Kane--Dance Hall Girls; Au Revoir Y'all; Hard Knock Gal/// Pete Townshend--Give Blood; Sheraton Gibson; Gonna Get Ya The Who--Odorono Mary McCaslin--Pinball Wizard Lou Caputo Not So Big Band--Festival Kate Rusby--Awkward Annie Andre Williams--Come On Baby NRBQ--Green Lights The Forty-Fives--Junk Food Heaven Janiva Magness--Real Slow Taj Mahal--Good Morning Miss Brown; The Celebrated Walkin' Blues; Queen Bee; She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride Peach with Taj Mahal--The Real Thing Roxy Coss--Perspective Missy Andersen--No Regrets Nada Surf--Believe You're Mine
---Retroactive #1094--May 7, 2016: Imani Winds with Rene Marie--Don't Touch My Tomatoes The Fleetwoods--My Sister's Love Shelley King--When I Go Away The Beth Custer Ensemble--Lost Boys Peter Wolf--Peace of Mind Little Milton--Blues In the Night Sloan Wainwright--Truth Turns Like a Wheel Charlie Rich--Sittin' and Thinkin' Vijay Iyer Trio--Lude ///Trumpeter Harrison Calloway (1941-2016): Delbert McClinton--Lipstick, Powder and Paint Bob Seger--Katmandu Muscle Shoals Horns--Born to Get Down (Born to Mess Around) (Harrison Calloway played on loads of great rock and soul records, and with his band, Muscle Shoals Horns)/// Jill Jones--For Love Thee Midniters--Welcome Home Darling Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Give Me Peace Bottoms Up Blues Gang--Everybody's Cryin' Mercy The Animals--She Said Yeah; Bring It On Home to Me; I'm In Love Again Eric Burdon--Circuit Rider Mecca Normal--Forlorn Mason Jennings--The Field Andrew Bird--Capsized Melissa Aldana--Time Holly Cole--Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries Whitey Pullen--Everybody's Rockin' Bill Carter--Exiled The Pandoras--Ain't Got No Soul Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--Ricky Ticky Tocky Shoplifting--M. Sally The Greenhornes--Better Off Without It Chris Sand--A Cowboy's Prayer Stevie Wonder--You Met Your Match; All Day Sucker; Feeding Off the Love of the Land; Misstra Know It All Thornetta Davis--You Haven't Done Nothin' Shawn Colvin--Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away The Mingus Big Band--Free Cell Block F (live, 12/05) Roy Brown--Good Rockin' Tonight (live)
---Retroactive #1093--April 30, 2016: Ruth Brown--I'm Just a Lucky So and So Graham Nash--Beneath the Waves Joe Ely--Early In the Morning Clairy Browne--Love Song to the World Curtis Salgado--Low Down Dirty Shame Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas--Keep on Running ///Multi-instrumentalist/singer Pete Zorn (1950-2016): Driver 67--Car 67 Richard Thompson--Two Left Feet/// Roxy Coss--Don't Cross the Coss Lucinda Williams--Dust Charles Bradley--Ain't Gonna Give It Up M. Ward--Temptation Bonnie Raitt--Unintended Consequence of Love The Clash--1-2 Crush on You ///Vocalist Billy Paul (1934-2016): Billy Paul--Love Buddies; Am I Black Enough for You; Thanks for Saving My Life (live)/// Janiva Magness--Rain Down Lake Street Dive--I Don't Care About You James Brown--I'm a Greedy Man; The Whole World Needs Liberation James Brown & the Famous Flames--Baby You're Right; Think (live, 10/62) Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--Please, Please, Please Gov't Mule & John Scofield--Doing It to Death Sleater-Kinney--Fade Nada Surf--Gold Sounds Dressy Bessy--Giddyup Catherine Russell--Spoonful Family--Suspicion; How-Hi-the-Li; Blind Willie Nelson--Not That I Care; Everywhere You Go; The Party's Over (live, 6/74); Truck Drivin' Man (live, 6/74) Merle Haggard with Willie Nelson & Ben Haggard --Workin' Man Blues (2011 version) Andy Brown--Anything Goes Maria McKee--My Girlhood Among the Outlaws Kitty Clementine--Freight Train
---Retroactive #1092--April 23, 2016: Harpeth Rising--Dance Me to the End of Love Billy Price & Otis Clay--Book of Memories Meshell Ndegeocello--Rapid Fire Roy Orbison--Blue Bayou; Life Fades Away Roy Orbison & the Candymen--Candy Man LaVon Hardison--(They Long to Be) Close to You Rita Wilson--Strong Tonight Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Mean Old Bedbug Blues Joe Lovano--Emperor Jones Allen Toussaint--From a Whisper to a Scream Shemekia Copeland--Lord Help the Poor and Needy The Pretty Things--Gonna Find Me a Substitute Cindy Blackman--Vashkar Reprise Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Astonished Man Bill Carter--Sooner or Later ///Lonnie Mack (1941-2016)--Say Something Nice to Me; Soul Serenade; Memphis (Guitarist-singer Mack played a huge role in the creation of the blues rock genre)/// Ella Fitzgerald--Don't Rain on My Parade (live, BBC, 1965); A Night In Tunisia; One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) Melissa Aldana--Obstacles The Hard Way--The Universe Is Flat Peter Wolf--It Was Always So Easy (To Find an Unhappy Woman) Trudy Lynn--Humble Yourself ///Prince (1958-2016): Marshall Crenshaw--Take Me With U Patti Smith--When Doves Cry Mitch Ryder--When You Were Mine Graham Parker & the Figgs--Cream (live) Prince & the New Power Generation--Money Don't Matter 2 Night Prince--Art Official Age; Partyup; International Lover (Prince's stunning artistry will affect popular music for decades to come)/// Eli Degibri--Suki the Cat Shelley King--The Ones You Don't See Coming Chris Sand--Bull June Tabor & Oysterband--If My Love Loves Me
---Retroactive #1091--April 16, 2016: ---22nd Anniversary Show Desolation Wilderness--Road Song Peter Rowan with Gillian Welch--Raven Heathen Apostles--Forget-Me-Not Johnny Rawls--Lucy E.C. Scott--Tell Me About It Luther Dickinson featuring the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band --Bye and Bye I'm Going to See the King Eric Clapton & Friends with Tom Petty--Rock and Roll Records Maria Muldaur--Weeping Willow Blues Giacomo Gates--Legend In His Own Mind Roxy Coss--Recurring Dream Bonnie Raitt--Shakin' Shakin' Shakes Nada Surf--Animal The Word--Play All Day I'm Not Jim--After Mild Winter Stereolab--Pinball Charles Bradley--You Think I Don't Know (But I Know) Ana Egge--Breakfast In Bed Shelby Lynne--You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Dusty Springfield--Give Me Time; Beautiful Soul; Nothing Has Been Proved; I Can't Make It On My Own Marc-Andre Hamelin--Menuet The Incredible Vickers Brothers--Record Collection Blues Samantha Crain--All In Ron Sexsmith--Traveling Alone Lake Street Dive--How Good It Feels The Uptown Horns Revue featuring Bernard Fowler--Open the Door to Your Heart Megan Wilde--Wildfire The Dismemberment Plan--Go and Get It Bangs--Kinda Good Dressy Bessy--57 Disco The Stooges--Asthma Attack Iggy & the Stooges--I Need Somebody Ke$ha with Iggy Pop--Dirty Love Iggy Pop--Gardenia; Nightclubbing; Louie Louie The Maria Schneider Orchestra--Lembranca Janiva Magness--Moth to a Flame
---Retroactive #1090--April 9, 2016: Louie & the Lovers--Rise Immaculate Machine's Fables--Roman Statues LaVon Hardison--Some Other Time ///Keyboardist Andy Newman (1942-2016): Thunderclap Newman--Wilhemina/// ///Saxophonist Gato Barbieri (1932-2016): Gato Barbieri--India; Encuentros/// Melissa Aldana--Before You Lucky Dube--Taxman The Rides--Roadhouse Marcia Ball--If It Ain't One Thing Eddy Clearwater--IRS Man ///Merle Haggard (1937-2016): Merle Haggard & the Strangers--The Worst Is Yet to Come; Branded Man Merle Haggard--Silver Wings (live, 1/78); Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver) Teegarden & Van Winkle--Okie from Muskogee (live) Katy Moffatt--I Can't Be Myself Orquestra Was with Merle Haggard--I'm So Tired of It All Asleep at the Wheel with Merle Haggard--St. Louis Blues Heather Myles with Merle Haggard--No One Is Gonna Love You Better Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard--Unfair Weather Friend/// Marc Ribot--Five Gestures The Four Freshmen--Stormy Weather Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Nobody Dies Unwound--Mile Me Deaf John McCutcheon--My Old Man Christine Lavin--Ballad of a Ball Game (live, 10/03) Todd Snider--America's Favorite Pastime Sugar Chile Robinson--The Bases Were Loaded Al Green--I Can't Stop; Love and Happiness; A Change Is Gonna Come (live, 9/95) Sean Jones--Sean's Jones Comes Down Carl Perkins--Honky Tonk Gal; Tennessee
---Retroactive #1089--April 2, 2016: ---KAOS Spring Membership Drive Show Al Jarreau with Marcus Miller--Churchyheart (Backyard Ritual) Charles Bradley--Ain't It a Sin Nikki James--I'm Watching You ///Patty Duke (1946-2016)--Don't Just Stand There/// Sleepy LaBeef--Little Bit More Calexico--Alone Again Or Lake Street Dive--Hell Yeah Sam & Dave--The Good Runs the Bad Away Andrew Bird--Roma Fade Lara Price--Slipped, Tripped, Fell In Love John Primer with Billy Branch--Can't Get No Grindin' Muddy Waters--Stuff You Gotta Watch; Smokestack Lightnin'; Look What You've Done; So Glad I'm Living Johnny Rawls with Eden Brent--Southern Honey Jeff Buckley--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' Eilen Jewell--Deep as Your Pocket; Some Things Weren't Meant to Be; Only One Joe Ely--Southern Eyes Nada Surf--Cold to See Clear Bonnie Raitt--What You're Doin' to Me Tommy Keene--Laugh In the Dark Sleater-Kinney--You're No Rock'n'Roll Fun Trudy Lynn--Ella Johnson's Blues Richard Thompson--So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo (live, SF); Where's Your Heart Buddy Miller & Friends with Richard Thompson--Wedding Bells Thompson--One Life at a Time The Kathy Kallick Band--Tear Stained Letter Janiva Magness--Your House Is Burnin' Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--Hide and Seek Max Frost & the Troopers--The Shape of Things to Come
---Retroactive #1088--March 26, 2016: Roland White--I Saw Your Face In the Room Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby Blues Band--Wee Baby Blues Luba Mason--Cherry Cherry Claudia Schmidt--Too Late for Breakfast Hasil Adkins--Goin' Home Tomorrow Stickshift Annie & the Overdrive--Family Matters ///Lee Andrews (1936-2016) & the Hearts ---Tear Drops; Long Lonely Nights/// ///Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944-2016): Was (Not Was) with Frank Sinatra, Jr.--Wedding Vows In Vegas/// ///Singer-songwriter Steve Young (1942-2016): Steve Young--Traveling Kind (live) Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth--Seven Bridges Road Waylon Jennings--Lonesome, On'ry and Mean Henry Rollins--Lonesome, On'ry and Mean/// Brian Bromberg--Bernie's Bop ///Drummer Andrew Loomis (1961-2016): Dead Moon--On My Own; Destination X/// Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--The Evening Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Filthy Wynona Carr--I'm Mad at You Dressy Bessy--These Modern Guns Graham Nash--Fire Down Below Harpeth Rising--Good Ideas LaVon Hardison--Maybe Aretha Franklin--Runnin' Out of Fools; Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby); Think (live, NYC, 3/94); See-Saw Dee Dee Bridgewater--Dr. Feelgood (live, Paris, 11/86) Roxy Coss--The Story of Fiona The James Hunter Six--Light of My Life The Nightcrawlers--Little Black Egg Iggy Pop--Sunday Kacey Jones--Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History Nina Simone--Willow Weep for Me Brinsley Schwarz--Surrender to the Rhythm Rockpile--Pet You and Hold You Nick Lowe--In the Middle of It All; (I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass; The Man I've Become; Without Love The Bob Florence Limited Edition--You Must Believe In Spring Candye Kane--No! I Ain't Gonna Let You Go Lucinda Williams--It Ain't Nobody's Fault But Mine
---Retroactive #1087--March 19, 2016: Marcia Ball--Love's Spell Bonnie Raitt--If You Need Somebody M. Ward--Time Won't Wait Janiva Magness--Love Wins Again ///Vocalist Ernestine Anderson (1928-2016): The Gigi Gryce Band with Ernestine Anderson--Social Call The Frank Capp/Nat Pierce Juggernaut with Ernestine Anderson --Never Make Your Move Too Soon (live, 1987) Ernestine Anderson--Hello Like Before; The Party's Over/// The Pamela Hines Trio--Variation on Invitation ///Keyboardist-composer Keith Emerson (1944-2016): The Nice--America Emerson, Lake & Palmer--Bitches Crystal; Knife-Edge/// *All '60s show (2nd & 3rd hours): Rod Stewart with Lou Reizner--I Wouldn't Ever Change a Thing Nancy Wilson--Next Time You See Me Delaney & Bonnie--It's Been a Long Time Coming The Parliaments--Good Old Music Dusty Springfield--Don't Say It Baby The Who--Doctor Doctor Terry Reid--Highway 61 Revisited/Friends The Shangri-Las--The Train from Kansas City Dick Dale & the Del-Tones--Del-Tone Rock Bill Evans Trio--California Here I Come (live, 10/68) Fleetwood Mac--Rattlesnake Shake The Fatimas--Hoochy Coo The Counts--Come Now Laura Nyro--Poverty Train Roger Miller--Chug-a-Lug The Rolling Stones--Ride On Baby Betty Everett--There'll Come a Time Tim Buckley--Cripples Cry (live, NYC, 3/67) Evie Sands--I Can't Let Go The Hollies--Pay You Back With Interest Wilson Pickett--Everybody Needs Somebody to Love The Squires--Going All the Way Lonnie's Legends & the Currents--Look for Another Love John Mayall's Bluesbreakers--On Top of the World Sarah Vaughan--After You've Gone Buffalo Springfield--Uno Mundo The Kinks--The Village Green Preservation Society Spirit--Dark Eyed Woman Bobby Sax--Sock It! Jimmy Cliff--Miss Jamaica Charles Mingus--Sophisticated Lady (live, Paris, 4/64) The New Yorkers--Mr. Kirby The Beach Boys--Love to Say Dada
---Retroactive #1086--March 12, 2016: Joy Eden Harrison--Where Have You Gone Jimmy Dean? Si Kahn & the Looping Brothers--Sailing to Alaska Jimmy Buffett--The Oldest Surfer On the Beach Sweet Honey In the Rock--Stranger Blues Johnny Rawls--Reckless Heart Orquestra Was (Portia Griffin, vocal)--Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) Erin McKeown--That's Just What Happened Christian Winther--Tune for Trane Moe Tucker--Danny Boy Christy Moore--Faithful Departed Mary Black--Don't Say Okay Mark Knopfler--On Ragland Road The Jackson Brothers--We're Gonna Rock This Joint Carolyn Mark & the Room-Mates--Fuzzy Slippers The James Hunter Six--If That Don't Tell You Rachel Sweet--Pin a Medal On Mary (UK mix) ///Producer George Martin (1926-2016): Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren--Goodness Gracious Me! Stackridge--The Last Plimsoll America--Miniature Jimmy Webb--Christiaan, No Jeff Beck--She's a Woman The Beatles--Tomorrow Never Knows (early take/excerpt); Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing; Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix/Mashup that includes bits of 'In My Life,' 'Piggies' and "Hello Goodbye')/// Roxy Coss--Breaking Point Mecca Normal--Is This You? Charles Bradley--Good to Be Back Home Shemekia Copeland--Wrapped Up In Love Again Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--World's In a Bad Condition Trudy Lynn--I Let My Daddy Do That Sly & Billy Preston--Can't You Tell Sly & the Family Stone--Only Way Way Out of This Mess Sly Stone--I Get High On You Peter Erskine--Little Fun K John Hiatt--Lipstick Sunset Ry Cooder--Trouble, You Can't Fool Me; Smells Like Money; Ry Cooder & Corridos Famosos--(Every Woman I Know) Crazy 'Bout an Automobile (live, 2011)
---Retroactive #1085--March 5, 2016: Martin, Bogan & the Armstrongs--Yes Pappy Yes Jo Ann Kelly--Ain't Seen No Whiskey Oliver Mulholland--The Highwayman Buddy Miller with Kacey Musgraves--Love's Gonna Live Here ///Vocalist Marion James (1934-2015): Marion James--I Know a Good Thing; That's My Man/// Jules Shear with Amy Rigby--You Might as Well Pray Jules Shear--The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore; She Makes Things Happen Jules & the Polar Bears--Round Peg; Faded Red Paul Yonemura--Miles' Tones Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Crash/Burn Nada Surf--Friend Hospital Rory Block--I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home Tom Tom Club--Holy Water (live, 10/01) The Jim Jones Revue--It's Gotta Be About Me The Be Good Tanyas--When Doves Cry Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands--Who's That Knocking? LaVon Hardison--Sunny Vassar Clements & Friends--Panhandle Rag Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Boot Heel Drag; Ten Years; Deep Water; Sioux City Sue Kait Dunton--Ria Esther Phillips--Your Love Is So Doggone Good The Gift Machine--Cool Hand Luke Fuzz--Let It Live Nikki James--I Got the Blues Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians--Madonna of the Wasps Robyn Hitchcock--I Something You; The Cheese Alarm The Soft Boys--Human Music The Minus 5 with Robyn Hitchcock--Your Day Will Come Willie Jones III--Toko Du Blind Willie Johnson--I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge (alternate take) Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi--Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Tom Waits--The Soul of a Man
---Retroactive #1084--February 27, 2016: The Civil Wars--C'est la Mort Richard Berry--Somewhere There's a Rainbow Johnny Rawls--Keep It Loose Veda Hille--Small Martin Simpson--Love Henry Nikki Sudden--Green Shield Stamps Eileen Barton & the New Yorkers--If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake Charles Bradley--Nobody But You Neko Case & her Boyfriends--No Need to Cry EB Davis & the Greyhound Blues Band--Bright Lights, Big City Herlin Riley--Shake Off the Dust Lucinda Williams--Bitter Memory Harmonica Shah--Congratulations, That New Love You Got Is My Wife Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy--Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man Holly Golightly--Rain Down Rain The Flamin Groovies--Tallahassie Lassie Darlene Love--Painkiller Scott Askew--A Bucket O'Chicken Patty Griffin--Gunpowder Steve Forbert--Whatever, Man Heather Crosse--Damn Your Eyes The James Hunter Six--Free Your Mind (While You Still Got Time) Blue Rodeo--Willin' Fool Roxy Coss--Push David Bowie--I Can't Give Everything Away The Young Fresh Fellows--Tomorrow's Gone (And So Are You) Bangles--Hero Takes a Fall Milt Trenier & his Solid Six--Rock Bottom Little Frankie--Happy, That's Me Angel Corpus Christi--Lou Reed's Hair The Special Agents--All Tomorrow's (Beach) Parties Lou Reed--All Tomorrow's Parties (live, 6/03); Xmas In February; I'm So Free Lou Reed with Jackson Browne, Peter Gabriel & Youssou N'Dour --Voices of Freedom (live, 3/87) The Velvet Underground--New Age; Mr. Rain (First Version) The Lew Tabackin Trio--Three Little Words Anni Piper--Paper Bag
---Retroactive #1083--February 20, 2016: Midnight Towers--Sparks Will Fly Tift Merritt--Still Not Home Corey Harris--Wild West Etta James--Hawg for Ya Maria McKee--Let Your Light Shine on Me Shawn Mullins--Homemade Wine Johnny Cash--Home of the Blues; Tennessee Flat Top Box; San Quentin (#1) (live, 1969); I've Been Everywhere Dan Bern--One Piece at a Time Duke Robillard & Herb Ellis--Jivin' In Rhythm Inez & Charlie Foxx--Mockingbird Magazine--Shot By Both Sides Tommy Keene--I Want It to Be Over Now The Weepies--Hideaway LaVon Hardison--Better Than Anything The Pop Cycle--If I Needed Someone The Webb Sisters--I Need You The Smithereens--I Want to Tell You George Harrison--This Guitar (Can't Keep from Crying); Here Comes the Moon; Got My Mind Set on You James Ray--I've Got My Mind Set on You, Pts. 1 & 2 Jim Duffy--Sputare il Rospo Carolyn Wonderland--St. Marks Joe Ely--When the Nights Are Cold Magnum--Evolution Nikki James--Just When You Think Franz Ferdinand--What She Came For Avengers--Car Crash Los Lobos--The Fat Man Fats Domino--I Got a Right to Cry; I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday; Don't You Know I Love You; Good Hearted Man Jake Bugg--The Universal Soldier (live, 2013) Buffy Sainte-Marie--Not the Lovin' Kind (1972 version); I Been Down; Bad End; The Uranium War Enrique Haneine--Angularity Within *Plus: The host's George Harrison impression; 'Mockingbird' played to honor author Harper Lee (1926-2016)
---Retroactive #1082--February 13, 2016: ///Guitarist Pete Huttlinger (1941-2016)--Cold Frosty Morning/// Marti Jones--Achilles Heel Raw Spitt--Freedom Under Certain Konditions Marching Band Buddy Miller with Jill Andrews--Come Early Mornin' Marbles--Red Lights Harmonica Shah--You Never Marry Anybody You Really Want Ann Peebles--Didn't Take Your Man Yoko Ono--Turn of the Wheel Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band--N.Y. Noodle Town The Picketts--Walking On Thin Ice The Christian McBride Trio--Easy Walker Jolie Holland--Tiny Idyll/Lil Missy Chris Chandler with Samantha Parton--You're So Mundane Outrageous Cherry--Paranoid World The Clumsy Lovers--Everything's Slipping Away Kable--Nobody Likes a Wise Guy Hot Panda--Start Making Sense The James Hunter Six--Stranded Freddi/Henchi & the Soulsetters--I Want to Dance, Dance, Dance ///Maurice White (1941-2016) Earth, Wind & Fire--Evil; Sun Goddess (live, 1975); Shining Star (live, 1975)/// Either/Orchestra--All Those SOBs ///Dan Hicks (1941-2016) & his Hot Licks--By Hook or By Crook (live, 2/71); How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?; I Feel Like Singing (live, 2/71); I Scare Myself (1972 version) Dan Hicks & the Acoustic Warriors--Hell, I'd Go (live) Maria Muldaur with Dan Hicks--Life's Too Short/When Elephants Roost In Bamboo Trees/// Leah Callahan--Valentine John Pizzarelli--My Valentine Martha High--The Little Things You Do Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes--Like, I Love You Procol Harum--Toujours L'amour Ark Ovrutski Quintet--Bolero Irma Thomas with Ellis Marsalis--This Bitter Earth Irma Thomas--Medley: I've Been Loving You Too Long/Please, Please, Please (live, 8/90); Hittin' on Nothin' (live, 8/90)
---Retroactive #1081--February 6, 2016: Rita Chiarelli--Since I've Had You On My Mind Brant Croucher--Drink (Drink Drink) The Roches--My Winter Coat (live, 6/95) Jim Lauderdale--Reason and Rhyme Rocket Rod Productions--Hot Rod High Trudy Lynn--Everything Comes With a Price Wynonna & the Big Noise--Something You Can't Live Without The Mike Henderson Band--Send You Back to Georgia Shirley & Lee--Bewildered Everette Harp--Soul Fries Shemekia Copeland--Jesus Just Left Chicago Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin--Papa's On the House Top John Wesley Harding--When the Beatles Hit America (live, 2/96) Carlene Carter--I'm So Cool (1980 version) Alejandro Escovedo--Oxford The Everly Brothers--Problems; Bowling Green; Amanda Ruth ///Original Jefferson Airplane members Paul Kantner (1941-2016) & Signe Anderson (1941-2016): Jefferson Airplane--Chauffeur Blues; High Flyin' Bird (live, 10/66); Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon; Have You Seen the Saucers Jefferson Starship--I Want to See Another World Paul Kantner & Grace Slick--When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves/// Roxy Coss--Almost My Own Toni Lynn Washington--Walkin' and Talkin' (And Crying My Blues Away) Jane Wiedlin--Fur Gossip--Swing Low The Thermals--Forward Joe Ely--West Texas Waltz; If I Could Teach My Chihuahua to Sing; Coyotes Are Howlin' Patty Griffin--There Isn't One Way Lee Fields--Talk to Somebody Carole King--Nightingale; Wasn't Born to Follow (1980 version); Monday Without You Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski--Some Assembly Required The Loved Ones--Lickin' Stick
---Retroactive #1080--January 30, 2016: Ruth Moody--Trouble and Woe Iris DeMent--Infamous Angel Shannon & the Clams--Telling Myself Willie May--Surf Mona Blues Adrianna & her Groovecutters--Hands Off Paul Kelly--None of Your Business Now Fiona Boyes--Walk With Me Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--I'm Qualified The Incredible Vickers Brothers--What She Does Dressy Bessy--Get Along (Diamond Ring) Joss Stone--(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People *All Michigan-Motown Show (2nd & 3rd hours): The Dennis Cyporyn Band--Bach to the Beach Earl Klugh--Where the Wind Takes Me Sufjan Stevens--Carrie & Lowell Thornetta Davis--Cry John Sinclair & his Blues Scholars featuring Wayne Kramer--I Talk to the Spirits Grand Funk--Footstompin' Music Laura Rain & the Caesars--Gold The Flaming Ember--Westbound #9 John Lee Hooker--The Motor City Is Burning Gore Gore Girls--All Grown Up Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Little Latin Lupe Lu The Dynamics--Misery Aretha Franklin--Night Life (live, 5/68) The Romantics--Tomboy The Shy--Black Slacks Harmonica Shah--Baby, You Have Got to Change The Detroit Cobras--Hey Sailor (Hey Sah-Lo-Ney) Chairmen of the Board--Give Me Just a Little More Time Sean Dobbins Organ Quintet--Remember The Rationals--The Monkey Time The Parliaments--(I Wanna) Testify MC5--Call Me Animal Marshall Crenshaw--Tonight (live, 1987) The Stooges--Loose Four Tops--Bernadette Tammi Terrell--Come On and See Me Mary Wells--You Beat Me to the Punch The Contours--The Stretch Martha & the Vandellas--Dancing In the Street Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston--It Takes Two The White Stripes--I'm Bound to Pack It Up Bettye LaVette--The Stealer Geri Allen--Your Pure Self (Mother to Son) 100 Proof Aged In Soul--Somebody's Been Sleeping Bob Seger--Detroit Made George Bedard & the Kingpins--I'm Comin' Home *Plus: Dialogue from the High Fidelity film; PSAs from Mark Farner, Della Reese & Aretha Franklin; bits of Scott Morgan's fabulous Motor City tribute, 'Detroit,' throughout
---Retroactive #1079--January 23, 2016: Tim Buckley--Dolphins Duke Robillard with Sunny Crownover--Evangeline Speckled Red--How Long Blues Eric Bibb & JJ Milteau--Midnight Special (live) Maura O'Connell--Every River Giant Sand--Can Do North Mississippi Allstars--Meet Me In the City Lara Price--Crazy Lucy ///Producer Giorgio Gomelsky (1934-2016): The Yardbirds--Still I'm Sad; Shapes of Things/// Glenn Jones--Like a Sick Eagle Looking at the Sky ///Glenn Frey (1948-2016): The 4 of Us--I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better Glenn Frey--Smuggler's Blues; After Hours Eagles--Ol' '55/// Debbie Davies--I Get the Blues So Easy Steve Forbert--Send In the Clowns ///Otis Clay (1942-2016): Billy Price & Otis Clay--Tears of God Otis Clay--Trying to Live My Life Without You; Standing In the Rain; I (Just) Wanna Testify (live, 2003); Respect Yourself (live, 2003)/// Roxy Coss--Waiting The Shondes--On Your Side The Wailers--Livewire Trudy Lynn--My Alley Boogie Bobby Blue Bland--I Woke Up Screaming; Ain't No Love In the Heart of the City; I Smell Trouble Sleater-Kinney--Leave You Behind The Black Angels--Pictures of Matchstick Men Volumizer--Two Words Versus--Nu Skin; Shangri-la (Versus song); Frog Keiko Matsui--A Night With Cha Cha Buddy Miller with Lucinda Williams--Hickory Wind Lucinda Williams--One Night Stand; Pancakes
---Retroactive #1078--January 16, 2016: Kathy Kallick Band--Snowflakes Freda & the Firedogs--Dry Creek Inn Lillian Boutte--Be Glad You Ain't Dead Nappy Brown--Lock On the Door Christina Crofts--Escape to Blue Lee Hazlewood--Sacrifice Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--The Last Time; Turtle Blues Janis Joplin--Kozmic Blues; Get It While You Can Mario Cruz--The Blind Leading the Blind David Axelrod--Crystal Ball Whitney Marchelle--Charlie Parker's Chicken The Sonics--Spend the Night Dressy Bessy--Cup O'Bang Bang Drive-By Truckers--A Ghost to Most (live, 11/14) ///David Bowie (1947-2016): Rhett Miller with Jon Brion--Queen Bitch (live) Seu Jorge--Life on Mars? The Gourds--Ziggy Stardust Anyway--The Jean Genie (excerpt) David Bowie--Wild Is the Wind; Look Back In Anger; Hang Onto Yourself; She Shook Me Cold/// Sharon Isben--Canto Siboney Shemekia Copeland--Isn't That So The Hard Way--Don't Wanna Fit In Gil Scott-Heron--Winter In America (live) Shannon & the Clams--Gone By the Dawn Swamp Dogg--You Send Me The Soul Stirrers--Mean Old World Sam Cooke--Ain't That Good News; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; A Change Is Gonna Come Sam Cooke with King Curtis & his band--It's All Right/For Sentimental Reasons (live, 1/63) Lisa Hilton--Moon River Karl Denson's Tiny Universe with Saul Williams & Michael Franti--Freedom Now Time Delegation--Keep On Pushing *Plus David Bowie & Bing Crosby's short skit from the latter's 1977 TV special; several Martin Luther King, Jr. speech clips
---Retroactive #1077--January 9, 2016: Bo Ramsey--Stranger Blues Ruthie Foster--Small Town Blues Heather Crosse--Clarksdale Shuffle ///Pianist-composer Paul Bley (1932-2016): Paul Bley--Harlem; King Korn Barry Altschul/Paul Bley/Gary Peacock--Butterflies/// Nancy Wilson--Taking a Chance On Love Willie May--Children Be Free Harmonica Shah--She May Be Your Woman Sarah Jaffe--Mannequin Woman ///Manager-record company mogul Robert Stigwood (1934-2016): Eric Clapton--Motherless Children The Kingbees--No Respect/// Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet--Good Cop Bad Cop Ray Wylie Hubbard--Down By the River Fiona Boyes--Tiny Pinch of Sin Slim Harpo--Raining In My Heart; I'm Gonna Miss You (Like the Devil); Shake Your Hips Sue Foley--Queen Bee Billy Gibbons & the BFGs--Got Love If You Want It Laura Rain & the Caesars--Hard Times Don Covay--You Got Me On the Critical List Shawn Colvin--Another Long One; Fill Me Up; Lodi Barney Kessel--Old Devil Moon (live, 9/73) The Noses--What Have I Learned from All of This? Roxy Music--Amazona Patrice Pike--White Room The Mixtures--Olive Oyl Earl Gaines--I've Kissed My Last Ass Kathy & the Kilowatts--Mr. Negavibes David Johansen & the Harry Smiths--Poor Boy Blues David Johansen--You Touched Me Too; Strut Miss Lizzie; Bohemian Love Pad Buster Poindexter & his Banshees of Blue--Heart of Gold New York Dolls--Lookin' for a Kiss; Stranded In the Jungle Lionel Loueke--Sleepless Night Neko Case--Look for Me (I'll Be Around) Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Shine a Light
---Retroactive #1076--January 2, 2016: Bill Staines--A Rancher Turns 80/The Years Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie and the Missing Pieces--Dimming of the Day Guy Davis--Have You Ever Loved Two Women (and Couldn't Make Up Your Mind)? ///Natalie Cole (1950-2015)--Someone That I Used to Love; Route 66; My Baby Just Cares for Me (A fine vocalist who was often great and will be missed)/// Dave Rawlings Machine--How's About You Toni Lynn Washington--Somebody's Been Sleeping ///Producer Snuff Garrett (1938-2015): Gary Lewis & the Playboys--Everybody Loves a Clown Del Shannon--Show Me Jim Stafford--Cow Patti (Garrett also worked with Bobby Vee, Gene McDaniels, Cher and many more)/// Jeff Oster--Gardens of Varansi The Pretty Things--Old Man Going (live) ///Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (1945-2015): Hawkwind--Space Is Deep Motorhead--Dust and Glass; One Night Stand; Electricity (Lemmy will always embody the reckless spirit of Rock'n'Roll)/// Angela Strehli--I'm Just Your Fool Dweezil Zappa--On Fire Galactic featuring Ms. Charm Taylor--Right On Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra--Love Me Tender Elvis Presley--Anyplace Is Paradise; Tiger Man (live, 6/68); When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again (live, 6/68) Wanda Jackson--Good Rockin' Tonight The Pogues--Got a Lot O'Livin' to Do Lisa Hilton--Sunset and the Mockingbird Andrea Marr Band--Love Me With a Feeling (live) Gary Clark Jr.--Shake Henry Kaiser--Visions of a New Age Blue Spark--Chloe Brant Croucher--Doing Well Eva Cassidy--Who Knows Where the Time Goes Fotheringay--The Sea Fairport Convention--The Deserter Sandy Denny--Blues Run the Game (BBC); What Is True (demo); Here In Silence