---Retroactive #1231--December 29, 2018: Mason Williams--Train Ride In G Calvin Johnson--A Wonderful Beast Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh--Paint the Town Blue Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton--You Are Not Needed Now Merle Haggard & Carl Jackson--Must You Throw Dirt In My Face Charles Bradley--Slip Away Marcia Ball--Take a Little Louisiana Bob Dylan--You're a Big Girl Now (take 2, solo) Cat Power--In Your Face Xavier Davis--The Great Migration Bobby Darin--Christmas Auld Lang Syne Cecile McLorin Salvant--One Step Ahead Bully--Guess There Canned Heat--Let's Work Together 7 Days of Funk--Let It Go Caroline Rose--More of the Same Alex Chilton--Can't Seem to Make You Mine Big Star--Life Is White; Way Out West (live, 1974); The Ballad of El Goodo; Thank You Friends Ty Segall Band--Diddy Wah Diddy Bo Diddley--The Great Grandfather; Bring It to Jerome; I'm Sorry; Roadrunner Tony Royster, Jr.--Every Girl Lindsay Beaver--I'll Be Gone The Polish Muslims--Yuletide Rock Opera, Act I Ural Thomas & the Pain--Vibrations Ian Moore--1000 Blackbirds Shemekia Copeland--Such a Pretty Flame Bob Neuwirth with Patti Smith--Just Like You Patti Smith--Grateful (live, 4/00); Gone Again; Memorial Song (live, 9/93); Free Money Claudia Schmidt--Old Devil Time Deanna Reuben--What Are You Doing New Year's Eve Amanda Gardier--Fjord Courtney Barnett--Hopefullessness; Walkin' On Eggshells *Plus: Excerpt of Patti Smith interview with Michael Cuscuna, 2/76
---Retroactive #1230--December 22, 2018: Loreena McKennit--Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle Mary McLaughlin--To That Night Long Ago In Bethlehem Candi Station--Go Tell It On the Mountain Eddy Arnold--Christmas Can't Be Far Away Train--River Margo Guryan--I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You The Superions--Fruitcake Eric Clapton--Christmas In My Hometown Mindy Smith--(It Really Is) A Wonderful Life James Brown--Let's Unite the Whole World at Christmas Dan Blanchard--The Twelve Days of Christmas Baby Rockstar--Christmas Time Is Here Trisha Yearwood--Santa Claus Is Back In Town Elvis Presley--Here Comes Santa Claus Ranch Romance--Santa Bring My Baby Back (to Me) Roy Wood's Wizzard--I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Nick Lowe--Children Go Where I Send Thee Blondie--We Three Kings Virus--Mary Meets Tarzan William Shatner with Mel Collins--Twas the Night Before Christmas The Echelons--A Christmas Long Ago (Jingle, Jingle) Kacey Musgraves & Willie Nelson--Have a Willie Nice Christmas The Waiters--Christmas Lights Tish Hinojosa--Silent Night Gregory Porter--The Christmas Song Yoko Ono--Imagine Mantovani--Die Fledermaus Jerry & the Landslides--Get Off of My Roof 98 Degrees--Run Rudolph Run Graham Parker & Nona Hendryx--Soul Christmas Aretha Franklin and members of Fame Freedom Choir--Joy to the World The dBs--Holiday Spirit The Monkees--The House of Broken Gingerbread Tess Barr--Christmas Song Harry Gore--God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Shirelles--Blue Holiday Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--Rubber Ride Three Wise Men (XTC)--Thank You for Christmas Wild Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire--Mistletoe The Muffs--Nothing for Me Cheap Trick--Remember Christmas Ernest Tubb--Blue Christmas Marva Wright--Stocking Full of Love Mitzie Collins, Glennda Dove & Roxanne Ziegler--Sanctissimi Stevie Wonder--Twinkle Twinkle Little Me Mary Chapin Carpenter--Bells Are Ringing (2008 version) *Plus: Holiday greetings from the Beatles, Lou Reed, Shemekia Copeland, Johnny Cash Eddie Kendricks, Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper and other fun things
---Retroactive #1229--December 15, 2018: Mary McCaslin--Santana Song Ural Thomas & the Pain--Slow Down Halie Loren--I'd Rather Go Blind (live, Seoul) Andy Irvine & Paul Brady--Arthur McBride and the Sergeant Deanna Reuben--Winter Weather/Let It Snow Aztec Camera--Walk Out to Winter LaVon Hardison--It's Only a Paper Moon Katie Henry--Nowhere Fast The Creation Factory!--Ain't Gonna Let You Stay Boston Brass & the Brass All-Stars Big Band--The Twelve Days of Christmas ///Vocalist Nancy Wilson (1937-2018): Nancy Wilson--(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am; The Christmas Waltz; Guess Who I Saw Today (live, 1965)/// Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--This Is the Deal Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks--(Do Not Feed the) Oyster Paul McCartney--People Want Peace Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton--Baby, It's Cold Outside (live, 1/51) The Polish Muslims--Yuletide Rock Opera, Act II Maria Muldaur--A Little Bird Told Me Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Dirty Swerve Woody Phillips--Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy John Prine--Christmas In Prison (live) Kelly Willis--I'm a Lover (Not a Fighter) Gaylord Carter--Gone With the Wind Boz Scaggs--I've Just Got to Know Simon Joyner--Milk Ruth Brown--Good Day for the Blues The Fab Four--Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers--Bustin' Loose, Pt. 1 Sonny Landreth with the Dixie Cups--Got to Get You Under My Tree Teeny Tucker--I Sing the Blues John Zorn--Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas James Booker--Make a Better World; Gitanarias (live); Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (live); Tell Me How Do You Feel (live, 11/77) Professor Longhair--Hey Now Baby; Big Chief (live, Chicago, 2/76); Crawfish Fiesta; Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu
---Retroactive #1228--December 8, 2018: Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton--Make It Up to Me Jim Byrnes--Yield Not to Temptation Rita Chiarelli--Horse of a Different Color ///Blues great Jody Williams (1935-2018): Jody Williams--You May (1957 version); Jive Spot; Young Men Don't Know/// Anna Gordon--Follow Me Chris Smither--Down to the Sound Randy Halberstadt--Wizzy Wig ///Punk innovator Pete Shelley (1955-2018): Pete Shelley--Homosapien Buzzcocks--I Don't Know What to Do With My Life; Fiction Romance; Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have?)/// Lights--Siberia Crystal Antlers--Dust Charlie Rich--Who Will the Next Fool Be; I Miss You So; Let Me Go My Merry Way Cecile McLorin Salvant--Wild Is Love Cat Power with Lana Del Rey--Woman The Temple Rockers featuring Linval Thompson--Spin Dem Joe Magnarelli Quintet--The Dream Is You Brenda Lee--Funny Feelin'; Dum Dum; Time Is Not Enough; Little Jonah (Rock On Your Steel Guitar) Alison Krauss--All Alone Am I John Lennon--Help Me to Help Myself (demo, 1980) Yoko Ono--Where Do We Go from Here (2018 version) Brinsley Schwarz--Last Time I Was Fooled The Monkees--Christmas Party Joan Armatrading--All the Way from America; Rosie; I'm Lucky; Down to Zero Jacqui Naylor--Love and Affection Xavier Davis--Oh Henry The Mountain Goats--No Children Nate Rateliff & the Night Sweats--Baby I Lost My Way (But I'm Going Home) Jo Lawry--Small House Mavis Staples--Chocolate City
---Retroactive #1227--December 1, 2018: Sinead O'Connor--Trouble Will Soon Be Over LaVern Baker--St. Louis Blues The Picketts--If You Love Me John Lee Hooker--Baby Lee Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--Buddy Brown's Blues Bettye LaVette--I Still Want to Be Your Baby (Take Me Like I Am) LaVon Hardison--Mood Indigo The Youngbloods--On Sir Francis Drake ///Hanukkah set: Cindy Paley--Blessings Over the Candles Nell Carter & Jay Levy--Ma'oz Tzur--Rock of Ages Peter Himmelman & David Broza--Lighting Up the World/// Ethan Ardelli--Thanks for Something Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Silver Fox Richard Thompson--The Storm Won't Come Courtney Barnett--Tell Me How You Really Feel The Smithereens--The Game of Love Bill Frisell with Cassandra Wilson--Painted from Memory Cassandra Wilson--I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Blue Skies Little Richard--I Brought It All On Myself; Rip It Up (alternate take); I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me); Well Alright! Jerry Lee Lewis & the Nashville Teens--Long Tall Sally (live, 4/64) Amanda Gardier--Thin Line Boozoo Chavis & the Magic Sounds--Johnnie Billy Goat (live, 9/93) The Kingsmen--Do You Love Me The Sonics--Don't You Just Know It Alejandro Escovedo with Don Antonio--Sonica USA The New Original Sonic Sound--Maintaining My Cool Teeny Tucker--Jump Back Christine Collister--Dirt In the Ground Sterling Harrison--The House Where Nobody Lives 10,000 Manics--I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You Tom Waits--Christmas Card from a Hooker In Minneapolis; Clap Hands; Diamonds On My Windshield; The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) Rainbow Gravity--Sly-Fi Sue Foley with Billy Gibbons--Fool's Gold Public Service Broadcasting--All Out Ty Segall--Fanny Dog
---Retroactive #1226--November 24, 2018: Norma Waterson--Hard Times Heart Cecile McLorin Salvant--I've Got Your Number John Trudell--Grassfires Big Mama Thornton--How Come Ural Thomas & the Pain--Smile Mirah--Love Jetty Dana Fuchs--Livin' On Sunday Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats--Intro ///Randy Newman is 75: Randy Newman--My Life Is Good (2011 version); Naked Man; A Few Words In Defense of Our Country/// Lawful Citizen--The Road to Nowhere Heather Myles--Make a Fool Out of Me Dash Rip Rock--Blood Swamp Cumulus--Born In the Dark Cat Power--You Get Wayne Potash--Boris the Spider NRBQ--Me and the Boys Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton, Angela Strehli--I Idolize You Bryan Adams/Tina Turner--It's Only Love Tina Turner--Steel Claw; Steamy Windows (live, Netherlands, 3/09) Ike & Tina Turner--My Baby Now The Ike & Tina Turner Revue--Please, Please, Please (live, 1964); If I Can't Be the First (live, 1967) Bill Banfield's Imagine Orchestra--Joe's Blues ///The Jimi Hendrix Birth Anniversary Bash: Turtle Island String Quartet--Gypsy Eyes Derek & the Dominos--Little Wing Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams--Angel Chris Whitley--Drifting Rickie Lee Jones--Up from the Skies World Saxophone Quartet--Freedom Tuck & Patti--Castles Made of Sand/Little Wing Bernard Allison--Hear My Train a-Comin' Jimi Hendrix--Bleeding Heart The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Interview; Burning of the Midnight Lamp (both BBC, 10/67); Manic Depression; One Rainy Wish///
---Retroactive #1225--November 17, 2018: Claudia Schmidt--Fuzzy Michael O'Connor--Raining On the Dark Side Neko Case--Pitch or Honey Rusty Wier--Dixie Lynn Martha Schuyler Thompson--Pray for Rain Elise LeGrow--Over the Mountain, Across the Sea ///Guitarist-singer Roy Clark (1933-2018): Roy Clark & Gatemouth Brown--Justice Blues; Take the 'A' Train Roy Clark--Charmaine Roy Clark & Buck Trent--Nitecap/// Ethan Andrelli--Agua Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky--A Dear John Letter Jean Shepard--Under Your Spell Again; Second Fiddle (to an Old Guitar) LaVon Hardison--Should I Stay or Should I Go Swamp Dogg & Riders of the New Funk--Trash Gazebos--Blend Anna Gordon--Cancerian Mike Henderson--Take Me Back and Try Me The Dominoes--That's What You're Doing to Me The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter--Three Thirty Three Clyde McPhatter--Ta Ta Graham Parker--Every Saturday Night; Obsessed With Aretha; Protection (live, solo, Philadelphia) Greg Fishman Quintet--Fast Forward Beth Hart--Broken and Ugly (live, NYC) Ray Parker Jr.--The Other Woman The Creation Factory!--You Be the Judge Funk Dub Division--Panic Switch Elvis Costello & the Imposters--Photographs Can Lie John Boutte--Let's Make a Better World (live, New Orleans) Irma Thomas with Dr. John--If I Had Any Sense I'd Go Back Home Donald Harrison & Dr. John--Ja-Ki-Mo-Fi-Na-Hey Dr. John--Stealin'; Let the Good Times Roll Dr. John the Night Tripper--I Walk on Guilded Splinters Erik Jekobson Sextet--San Pablo Home Teeny Tucker--Put On Your Red Dress Baby (Hi-Heel Sneakers) The Smithereens--Girl Don't Tell Me A.C. Reed--Party With Y'all ---Retroactive #1224--November 10, 2018: Bjork--Claimstaker Hudson--Dirty Ground Halie Loren--Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby (live) ///Trumpeter-composer Roy Hargrove (1969-2018): The RH Factor--Hardgroove; Kansas City Funk The Roy Hargrove Big Band with Roberta Gambarini--La Puerta Roy Hargrove--Little Bennie (Crazeology)/// The Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion--Afrolise Sandy Carroll--Somebody Gotta Dance Otis Blackwell--Let the Daddy Hold You Chris Smither--Surprise, Surprise Denise LaSalle--Love Me Right Kinnie Starr--Grandma's Bicycle Fanfare Ciocarlia--Born to Be Wild Sparks--Metaphor DQE--She Goes Walkin' By Koko Taylor--But On the Other Hand The McCoys--Fever Little Willie John--There Is Someone In This World for Me; Sleep; You Hurt Me; Country Girl Cecile McLorin Salvant--The Gentleman Is a Dope Eric Bibb & North Country Far with Danny Thompson--Toolin' Down the Road Bobby Broom--The Guitar Man Marshall Crenshaw--What Do You Dream Of (live, Asbury Park NJ, 2/01); Fantastic Planet of Love (live, Washington D.C., 1/94); Look at What I Almost Missed (live, Chicago, 12/82) The Muffs--I Need You Courtney Barnett--Need a Little Time Dalia--Ohio (includes 'Find the Cost of Freedom') Neil Young--Far from Home Neil Young + Promise of the Real--Carnival Neil Young & Crazy Horse--Thrasher; Cortez the Killer John Zorn--The Journal of Albion Moonlight Laurie Jane & the 45s--Achin' Hearted Mary Ann Fisher--Put On My Shoes The BellRays--Zero P.M.
---Retroactive #1223--November 3, 2018: William Tyler--Hotel Catatonia Harry Manx--Way Out Back Mirah--Counting Phil Ochs--Talking Pay TV Kelly Willis--Fool's Pardise Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats--Be There Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Get the Family Together LaVon Hardison--Frim Fram Sauce Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--The Gardens John McCutcheon--Let's Pretend David Hazeltine--Muse of Montgomery Cumulus--Sing to Me Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit--White Man's World Ural Thomas & the Pain--Time Marianne Kesler--Do You Have a Stone? The Creation Factory!--I Don't Know What to Do Flogging Molly--Welcome to Adamstown Bonnie Raitt with Pablo Menendez & Rey Guerra--La Brisa Azul Bonnie Raitt & Weepin' Willie Robinson--Walking the Dog Bonnie Raitt--I Will Not Be Broken; No Business Janiva Magness with Delbert McClinton--What I Could Do Delbert McClinton--Big River; Hold On to Your Hiney; Take Me to the River; Same Kind of Crazy Amanda Gardier--Giants Laura Marling--Rambling Man Neko Case--My Uncle's Navy Willie Nelson--Vote 'Em Out Ty Segall--Susie Thumb Some Velvet Sidewalk--Big City Plans Beth Hart--Delicious Surprise (live, NYC) ///Joni Mitchell is 75: Betty Buckley--Shades of Scarlett Conquering (live) Debra Mann--Big Yellow Taxi Debbie Poryes Trio--Both Sides Now Herbie Hancock with Joni Mitchell--Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) Joni Mitchell--God Must Be a Boogie Man; Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire; Trouble Child; Twisted///
---Retroactive #1222--October 27, 2018 ---KAOS Fall Membership Drive Show Barbara Blue--Johnny Lee The Donays--Bad Boy John Marx--Tryin' to Get a Line On You Beat Happening--Me Untamed; Gravedigger The Waiters--Cast a Shadow Waxahatchee--Hear You Ani DiFranco--Rainy Parade Family--Larf and Sing Public Service Broadcasting--Go to the Road ///Singer-songwriter-guitarist Tony Joe White (1943-2018): Brook Benton--Rainy Night In Georgia The Persuasions--Willie and Laura Mae Jones Tony Joe White with Emmylou Harris--Wild Wolf Calling Me Tony Joe White--Rainy Night In Georgia; Stud Spider; Polk Salad Annie/// *Halloween Show (90 minutes): Oneohtrix Point Never with Iggy Pop--The Pure and the Damned The Cramps--Surfin' Dead Courtney Barnett--Nameless, Faceless Howlin' Wolf--Evil Ryan Adams--Haunted House Balsam Range--Voodoo Doll Nina Simone--I Put a Spell On You The Sandmen--Heart of Steel Tiger High--Fire Dion--Who Do You Love Jerry Lee Lewis--Haunted House Angela Strehli Band--Voodoo Voodoo The Pack A.D.--Wolves and Werewolves Shonen Knife--Robots from Hell Art Roberts--Terrible Ivan Brave Combo--Vampire Twist *Plus: Lots of spooky sound effects throughout the Halloween Show
---Retroactive #1221--October 20, 2018: Lori McKenna--If Whiskey Were a Woman Jessica Lurie Ensemble--I Don't Care If I Don't Care J.J. Cale--Who Knew ///Paul Allen (1953-2018): Paul Allen & the Underthinkers--Big Blue Raindrops (This beloved Northwest figure was a great humanitarian above all else)/// Larry McCray--Delta Hurricane Dee Alexander--Butterfly John Coltrane--Nature Boy Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--Tell Me Daddy Julia Lee--Draggin' My Heart Around; Mama Don't Allow It Nick Colionne--Slammin' Cumulus--Wake Me Brian Belknap--Oh Mercry Leon Bridges--Smooth Sailin' Rachel Sweet--It's So Different Here Paul McCartney--Dominoes Beth Hart--Love Gangster (live, NYC) The Paul Butterfield Blues Band--Our Love Is Drifting Elvin Bishop with John Nemeth, James Cotton & Angela Strehli --I Found Out The Elvin Bishop Band--Rock My Soul Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--That's the Way Willy Likes It Elvin Bishop--Struttin' My Stuff (1975 version) Amanda Gardier--Revolving Door Maria Muldaur--Now You're Down In the Alley Ural Thomas & the Pain--The Right Time Marcia Ball--Dance With Me The Replacements--Sixteen Blue Buzzcocks--What Do I Get? Rickie Lee Jones--Woody and Dutch On the Slow Train to Peking The Move--It Wasn't My Idea to Dance Peter Wolf with Shelby Lynne--Tragedy Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer--Everytime You Leave; Is It Too Much Shelby Lynne--Toss It All Aside; Sold the Devil (Sunshine); Ain't It the Truth Houston Person--132nd and Madison Billy Swan & Buzz Cason--I'm Lookin' for Someone to Love Sleater-Kinney--Dig Me Out Gregory Porter--Feeling Good ---Retroactive #1220--October 13, 2018: The Gourds--Decline-O-Meter Debra Mann--The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines Shovels & Rope--Botched Execution Caroline Lavelle--Banks of the Nile Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--K.C. Moan Cecile McLorin Salvant--By Myself ///Singer-songwriter John Wicks (1953-2018): The Records--Spent a Week With You Last Night; Starry Eyes; Man With a Girlproof Heart/// Brad Goode Quintet with Ernie Watts--Who Parked the Car? Dirty Projectors--Break-Thru Shemekia Copeland--In the Blood of the Blues The Waiters--Ugly American Public Service Broadcasting--Progress The Slits--New Town (BBC) Joan Baez--Hello In There John Prine--Living In the Future (live); The Lonesome Friends of Science; The Sins of Memphisto; Illegal Smile (live) Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Tulane Chuck Berry--Wee Wee Hours; The Jaguar and the Thunderbird; Don't Lie to Me; I'm a Rocker Bootsie Barnes & Larry McKenna--Three Miles Out Kate Bush--Never Be Mine (2011 version) John Trudell--Beauty In a Fade Shoplifting--Claude Glass Bryan Ferry--The 'In' Crowd The Creation Factory!--The Woods Wanda Jackson--You Don't Know Baby; Rip It Up (2011 version); Baby Let's Play House; Fallin' Rosie Flores with Wanda Jackson--His Rockin' Little Angel Langhorne Slim & the Law--Changes Delta Moon--One More Heartache Frank Bey--Back In Business Chris Hazelton's Boogaloo Seven--Tru-Galu Betty Carter--When I Fall In Love Courtney Barnett--Charity Funk Dub Division--Satellite 9
---Retroactive #1219--October 6, 2018: Dan Berggren & Dan Duggan--Mister Rogers Jennifer Warnes--I Am the Big Easy Smiley Lewis--One Night Kelly Willis--We'll Do It for Love Next Time Ural Thomas & the Pain--You Care Very Little Sister Rosetta Tharpe--Jonah Beth Hart--Jazz Man (live, NYC) ///Guitarist-singer Otis Rush (1934-2018): John Mayall with Eric Clapton--All Your Love (I Miss Loving) Otis Rush--All Your Love (I Miss Loving); I'm a Man; So Many Roads, So Many Trains; Homework/// Tim Warfield--Theme for Malcolm Holly Golightly--My Own Sake Carl Perkins--Matchbox Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Pick It Up, Lay It In the Cut Whiskey Myers--Early Morning Shakes Neko Case--Gumball Blue Jackson Browne--My Stunning Mystery Companion (live, solo); Sing My Songs to Me; For Everyman Ann Cole--I've Got a Little Boy Eric Bibb & North Country Far with Danny Thompson--Tossin' and Turnin' Leela James--You Know How to Love Me Amanda Gardier--Joga ///The John Lennon Birthday Bash: Bearfoot--Don't Let Me Down The Shy--Eight Days a Week The Black Keys--She Said She Said ZhuZhu Pets--Little Child Easy Star All-Stars with Ranking Roger--Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! Percy Faith--The Ballad of John & Yoko Bill Frisell--Nowhere Man Antonette Goroch--Jealous Guy The Beatles--I Call Your Name; Dizzy Miss Lizzy (live, LA, 8/65); And Your Bird Can Sing (alternate take); Glass Onion The Dirty Mac--Yer Blues (live, London, 12/68) John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Well Well Well John Lennon--Out the Blue; I'm Stepping Out; Gimme Some Truth/// *Plus: Interview clips from John Lennon with and without the Beatles, Yoko Ono and more, 1963-1980
---Retroactive #1218--September 29, 2018: The Word--Swamp Road Gina Sicilia--Darlin' Ann Peebles--One Way Street Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--How 'Bout That Grace Potter--Empty Heart ///Vocalist-pianist-songwriter Chas Hodges (1943-2018): Chas & Dave--Ain't No Pleasing You; Margate/// ///Vocalist-songwriter Marty Balin (1942-2018) Jefferson Airplane--Come Up the Years; Comin' Back to Me; Volunteers/// Jay Lawrence--Tchoupitoulas ZSG--Tell You Something True Georgia Anne Muldrow--Indeed The Prissteens--Run Back to You Robert Gordon with Link Wray--Flyin' Saucer Rock'n'Roll Barbara Blue--Meet Me In Memphis Judy Collins with Kenny White--Helplessly Hoping (live, NYC) Judy Collins--Hard Lovin' Loser Stephen Stills--Johnny's Garden The Rides--Mr. Policeman The Hard Way--Poptart The Creation Factory!--Shame On You Betty Davis--Your Mama Wants You Christian Sands--Her Song Public Image Ltd.--Terra-Gate Now Time Delegation--Layin' On the Ground Tony Alvon & the Belairs--Sexy Coffee Pot Leon Russell--Roller Derby Laura Marling--Next Time Tiger High--Mania Bobby Parker--Watch Your Step Ellen McIlwaine--Isn't That So?; Crawling Kingsnake; We the People (live) Roy Hall--Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Janis Martin--Wild One (Real Wild Child) Jerry Lee Lewis--Born to Lose; You Can Have Her; Pink Pedal Pushers; Rock & Roll Ruby Pete McCann--Mine Is Yours Mandy Barnett--Lock, Stock and Teardrops Jesse Cook--Hembra The Noses--Correction Tess Barr--I Gotta Go
---Retroactive #1217--September 22, 2018: Elizabeth Hummel--Flying Dream Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--My Soul Thea Gilmore--Fever Beats ///Saxophonist Big Jay McNeely (1927-2018): Big Jay McNeely with Little Sonny Warner--There Is Something On Your Mind Big Jay McNeely & his Band--The Deacon's Hop Big Jay McNeely & his Orchestra--The Goof/// Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--Silverlake Sunny Sweeney--Grow Old With Me Johnny Adams--I Need a Lot of Loving Amanda Gardier--Leap of Faith John Mellencamp with Carlene Carter--Damascus Road Carlene Carter--Too Many Teardrops; I've Always Been Crazy; Madness The Muffs--Beat Your Heart Out Funk Dub Division--Tiki Tonic Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Joy Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis & Norah Jones--Hit the Road Jack (live, NYC, 2/09) Lou Rawls with Ray Charles--That's Where It's At Ray Charles--Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'; The Good Life; Mississippi Mud; Greenbacks Roberta Picket--My Buddy Audra Mae--Millionaire The Malford Milligan Band--Stingy Neko Case--Dirty Diamond Wayne Kramer--Sharkskin Suit Sleater-Kinney--Ironclad Ani DiFranco--To the Teeth; Gravel; When I'm Gone Sonny Rollins--The Moon of Manakoora Bettye LaVette--Streets of Philadelphia Shovels & Rope--Johnny 99 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Spare Parts (live, Sheffield, England, 7/88) Bruce Springsteen--The Fever; Roulette
---Retroactive #1216--September 15, 2018: Hank Williams--The Blues Come Around; Lost Highway Eugene Hideaway Bridges--Sweet Little Angel (live) B.B. King--Treat Me Right; Hummingbird Laura Marling--Don't Pass Me By Mark Lanegan--Frog Trouble Kelly Willis--Modern World Shemekia Copeland--Smoked Ham and Peaches Sherman Irby--Contemplation *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd Hours): Doug Robertson & the Good Guys--Quiet Riot Marv Johnson--The Man Who Don't Believe In Love Buffy Sainte-Marie--Lady Margaret The Band--In a Station The Jeff Beck Group--All Shook Up The Pretty Things--Buzz the Jerk Aretha Franklin--I Can't See Myself Leaving You Frank Sinatra--Downtown Senator Bobby--Wild Thing Fairport Convention--No Man's Land Bobby Womack--Fly Me to the Moon Ten Wheel Drive--Ain't Gonna Happen The Who--Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere The Shangri-Las--What's a Girl Supposed to Do The Beatles--What You're Doing The Modern Jazz Quartet--Spanish Steps Brenton Wood--Gimme Little Sign The Kinks--End of the Season Thee Midniters--Brother Where Are You? Bessie Banks--Go Now The Small Faces--Come Back and Take This Hurt Off Me Leon Thomas--Damn Nam (Ain't Goin' to Viet Nam) The Beach Boys--Good Vibrations (live, London, 12/68) The Honeycombs--I Can't Stop Dusty Springfield--I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten The Sonics--He's Waitin' Sly & the Family Stone--Fun Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto--Do I Make Myself Clear Buffalo Springfield--Leave Verdelle Smith--Tar and Cement Wilson Pickett--634-5789 (Soulsville, USA) Dave Brubeck with Louis Armstrong--Summer Song The Ramsey Lewis Trio--Blues for the Night Owl Pink Floyd--See Emily Play Gladys Knight & the Pips--The End of Our Road Ernie K-Doe--A Certain Girl The Parktowns--That Day Will Never Come *Plus: Excerpts of 1960s commercials
---Retroactive #1215--September 8, 2018: Brian Belknap--Bearing Witness Carolyn Hester--I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Richard X. Heyman--Learn to Love Neko Case--Halls of Sarah Cotton Mather--Lily Dreams On ///Maria Muldaur is 75: Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band--Richland Woman; That's When I'll Come Back to You Maria Muldaur--Walkin' One and Only; Everything Is Moving Too Fast; Blues Wave/// Andrea Lieberknecht, Florian Donderer, Jana Bouskova --Interludes for Flute, Viola and Harp Woody Russell--We May Never Know (live) Professor Longhair--Doin' It (live, 2/76) Timmie 'Oh Yeah!' Rogers--Back to School Again Gina Sicilia--I Do Bad Things War--Beetles In the Bog Barbara Blue--BBQ Man Lolitas--Not Fade Away Peter & Gordon--True Love Ways Buddy Holly--Rave On; Little Baby; Well...All Right; Brown Eyed Handsome Man Shirley Johnson--No Deposit, No Return Brownout--By the Time I Get to Arizona Jeff Lorber, Chuck Loeb, Everette Harp--D.C. Willie Nelson--Crazy Patsy Cline--Crazy (live, 3/62); I Love You Honey; Let the Teardrops Fall; When I Get Through With You (You'll Love Me Too) Ethel Smith--Casi Casi The Kingbees--Shake-Bop Courtney Barnett--City Looks Pretty Mountain--Never In My Life Samantha Fish--Little Baby Was (Not Was)--I Can't Turn You Loose Otis (Redding) & Carla (Thomas)--Tramp Otis Redding--The Huckle-Buck; Mr. Pitiful; Gone Again; That's How Strong My Love Is Roberta Piket--The Windmills of Your Mind Barbara Morrison--September In the Rain Beth Hart--Isolation (live) Terry Evans--Get Your Lies Straight ---Retroactive #1214--September 1, 2018: Sarah Harmer--Pendulums Russell Smith--Old School Tower of Power--Let It Go Mollie O'Brien--Sign Your Name Beck--Fourteen Rivers Fourteen Floods Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--Another Mule Shirley Brown--So Glad to Have You McCoy Tyner--You Taught My Heart to Sing Billy Bragg--Joe Hill Pete Seeger--Which Side Are You On? Anne Feeney--War On the Workers Eugene Hideaway Bridges--How Long (live) Nina Hagen Band--Wir Leben Immer Noch (Lucky Number) Unwound--Broken E Strings Ty Segall--The Singer Bully--Focused The Pretenders--Hymn to Her; Sense of Purpose; Time the Avenger Solomon Burke--What Good Am I? Shemekia Copeland--Would You Take My Blood? Gilad Atzmon & the Orient House Ensemble--Moscow Chris Porro--Go to Hollywood David Johansen--Frenchette Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--Who Closed the Book Basia Bulat--Promise Not to Think About Love Frank Bey--Give It to Get It Amanda Gardier--What Will Happen ///The Van Morrison Birthday Bash: Them--How Long Baby; Bad or Good; I Can Only Give You Everything Esther Phillips--Into the Mystic Van Morrison--Unchained Melody; Cleaning Windows (live, Belfast, 3/83) Van Morrison with Chris Farlowe & Jeff Beck--Transformation Van Morrison with John Lee Hooker--Shakin' All Over/Gloria (live, SF, 12/93)///
---Retroactive #1213--August 25, 2018: Volebeats--Same Old You Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet--Strange Things Barbara Blue--That's Working for Me Richard Berry & the Lockettes--The Mess Around Tom Waits--Better Off Without a Wife (live, 7/75) Tish Hinojosa with Michael Martin Murphey--What Am I Doing Hangin' Round ///Louisiana bluesman Lazy Lester (1933-2018): Lazy Lester--They Call Me Lazy; I Hear You Knockin'/// ///Guitarist-songwriter Ed King (1949-2018): Strawberry Alarm Clock--Tomorrow Lynyrd Skynyrd--Workin' for MCA/// ///Motown session guitarist Eddie 'Chank' Willis (1936-2018): Diana Ross & the Supremes--No Matter What Sign You Are/// Kyle Eastwood--Rockin' Ronnie's Bessie Smith--Me and My Gin Dinah Washington--Please Send Me Someone to Love; Surprise Party; Me and My Gin (live, 7/58); Our Love Is Here to Stay Lord Baldwin--A Finger On the Button The Young Fresh Fellows--When I'm Lonely Again/One Day You Die Ian Moore--You Gotta Know Cecile McLorin Salvant & the Jean-Francois Bonnel Paris Quintet--Anything Goes Cecile McLorin Salvant--John Henry; Si J'etais Blanche (live, 9/16) Hudson--Song for World Forgiveness Brownout--Bring the Noise Dirty Projectors--I Feel Energy Ron Sexsmith--Summer Blowin' Town John Prine--Summer's End Beth Hart Joe & Joe Bonamassa--Addicted Sondre Lerche--Human Hands Elvis Costello--Someone Took the Words Away; You're No Good Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint--Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Lipstick Vogue Jeremy Ledbetter Trio--The Pepper Drinker Shonen Knife--All You Can Eat Janis Martin--As Long as I'm Movin' Yume Bitsu--Sharp, Twisted Funk Dub Division--Deep C Club
---Retroactive #1212--August 18, 2018: Tom Peterson--Black Hills Gold Don Covay--Overtime Man Linda Hornbuckle with Nene--Back On the Outside Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Nonchalant Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--I Tried Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams--Dust ///Vocalist Morgana King (1930-2018): Morgana King--On Green Dolphin Street; Everything Must Change Morgana King with Bill Mays--Let's Call the Whole Thing Off/// Roberta Piket--A Bridge to Nowhere Glen Hansard--Winning Streak The Go Team--Yeah! Pat McLaughlin--Nashville 28 Kelly Willis--Don't Step Away Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Nitcomb The Clash--This Is Radio Clash; Atom Tan; Tommy Gun Patty Larkin--Hallelujah Shemekia Copeland--Ain't Got Time for Hate Nick Lowe--Love Gets Strange John Hiatt--Gone; Trudy and Dave; Riding With the King John Hiatt with Karen Peris--Through Your Hands Dave Ballantine--Tears of Rage Tin Men--Rock Candy Frank Bey--Cookie Jar Amanda Gardier--Two Sided ///The transcendent music of Aretha Franklin (1942-2018): Cat Power--Aretha, Sing One for Me The Hush--Respect Aretha Franklin--Don't Play That Song (live, SF, 3/71); My Song; Chain of Fools (unedited version); Rock Steady BeBe & CeCe Winans with Aretha Franklin--You've Got a Friend George Jackson--Aretha, Sing One for Me/// Plus: Mack Rice on Aretha's idea for him to change his song 'Mustang Mama' to 'Mustang Sally'; Aretha's PSA for the University of Detroit
---Retroactive #1211--August 11, 2018: Nellie Lutcher--Lake Charles Boogie Doc & Merle Watson--I Ain't Goin' Honky Tonkin' No More Sally Oldfield--Night of the Hunter's Moon Gregory Porter--Ballerina Johnny Copeland--Ghetto Child Marcia Ball--Once In a Lifetime Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--Walk On Brian Belknap--This Time ///Lorrie Collins (1942-2018): The Collins Kids--Hop, Skip and Jump; Hoy Hoy; Party; Mercy Lorrie Collins--Blues In the Night/// Greg Burrows--Waltzing Westward Dr. John & Donald Harrison--Shave 'Em Dry Holly & the Italians--Tell That Girl to Shut Up Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Why Don't You Do Right The Previous--Time to Go; My Baby Left Me for a Spider Andras Jones--Glue (live) Janiva Magness--Some Kind of Love Rufus--Swing Down Chariot Eric Bibb--Walkin' Home; Spirit I Am; Diego's Blues Mike Freeman ZonaVibe--Night Crawlers Lois--Wrestling an Angel Radiohead--Subterranean Homesick Alien Gina Sicilia--Heard the Lie Fantastic Negrito--The Duffler The Sensational Alex Harvey Band--Framed (live, London, 5/75) Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--Devils In Boston (Daytrotter session) Samantha Crain--Moving Day; Smile When Radam Schwartz--Summertime Tower of Power--Stop The Preservation Hall Jazz Band--Shake That Thing Rory Block--Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer Jack White--Over and Over and Over *Plus: Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers' Daytrotter greeting
---Retroactive #1210--August 4, 2018: The Delmore Brothers--Freight Train Boogie Blossom Dearie--Bang Goes the Drum Joe Venuti & his Blue Six--Doin' the Uptown Lowdown Tracy Grammer--Hey Ho Ry Cooder--Shrinking Man Frank Bey & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--I'm Leavin' You The Kennedys--Is Anybody Listening? Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--Right Now Is the Hour Shirley Johnson--Need Your Love So Bad Corb Lund--Talkin' Veterinarian Blues Jarod Bufe--Pushing Back the Darkness Timi Yuro--Smile; For You; Something Bad On My Mind Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band--Love Land Richard Thompson--Crash the Party (live, Washington D.C., 11/88) Biters--No Stranger to Heartache The Wailing Strangers--Chipmunk With a Death Wish The Ed Palermo Big Band--Peaches En Regalia Go to Blazes--Bloody Sam Thea Gilmore--The Dirt Is Your Lover Now Sonny James--Hold What You've Got Joe Tex--There Is a Girl; Funny Bone; You Might Be Digging the Garden (But Somebody's Picking Your Plums); I Gotcha Hungry March Band--Montserrat Serrat Shemekia Copeland with John Prine--Great Rain Jad Fair & Shapir-O'Rama--Starpower Steve Forbert--Goin' Down to Laurel Dirty Projectors--That's a Lifestyle Volumizer--What's Your Problem? The Ronettes--So Young; Everything Under the Sun; I Can Hear Music Ronnie Spector--Whenever You're On My Mind; Tandoori Chicken; Hell of a Nerve; Ode to L.A. Vanessa Collier--Percolatin' Swamp Dogg--If I Die Tomorrow (I've Lived Tonight) The Greenhornes--Show Me Love
---Retroactive #1209--July 28, 2018: Sunny Sweeney--Bottle By My Bed John Prine--Knockin' On Your Screen Door Rhonda Vincent--Sweet Summertime Lord Baldwin--Honey, I Got to Go Neil Young + Promise of the Real--Almost Always Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams--Ventura Blind Boys of Alabama with Allen Toussaint--If I Could Help Somebody Professor Longhair--Mess Around (live, Chicago, 2/76) Treme Brass/Mardi Gras Indians--The Treme Song Jon Hassell/Brian Eno--Ba-Benzele John Primer--Sugar Sweet Dar Williams--It's Alright ZSG--Better When You're Old La Luz--Don't Leave Me On the Earth Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Soul On Fire Gregory Porter--1960 What? Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Roll On Buddy; The Guitar Ramblin' Jack Elliott with Tom Russell--The Sky Above and the Mud Below B.Y.O.B.--Go Jazz Go Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--Call Out My Name Jerry Lee Lewis--Put Me Down Kelly Willis--Only You Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--July, You're a Woman Julia Lee & her Boy Friends--That's What I Like Barry White--Louie Louie Bully--Running Kim Lenz & the Jaguars--Choctaw Boogie Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Who Slapped John Junior Wells with Buddy Guy & Otis Spann--Blues for Mayor Daley Buddy Guy with Carlos Santana--Where the Blues Begin Buddy Guy with Mick Jagger--Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) Buddy Guy--Long Way from Home (live, Austin, 5/95); Bad Day Roberta Piket--Falling In Love With Love Mecca Normal--Man Thinks Woman Edgar Winter's White Trash--Save the Planet
---Retroactive #1208--July 21, 2018: Red Sovine--Lonesome Number One Gail Pettis--Help a Good Girl Go Bad Mary Stuart--Freedom Train Rory Block--Jazzbo Brown of Memphis Town Merchants of Venus--Solitary Fighting Man Neko Case--Hell-On ///Vocalist Theryl 'Houseman' DeClouet (1951-2018): Galactic--Start from Scratch; My Mind Is Hazy (live, New Orleans, 2000) Theryl DeClouet--Ain't No Yachts In the Ghetto Charlie Hunter with Theryl DeClouet--Spoonful/// Sammy Nestico & the SWR Big Band--Blue Samuel Brigitte Purdy--Get It Understood Ian Moore--Rock'n'Roll Richard Hell & the Voidoids--Blank Generation The Undertones--The Love Parade Anna Tivel--Small Believer Darlene Love--He's Sure the Man I Love; We Can Work It Out; River Deep-Mountain High (1985 version) The Crystals--He's a Rebel Camille Howard--Sutherland Blues Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--Lookin' Good Henry Threadgill--And More Dirt, Pt. 1 Tower of Power--Butter Fried Candye Kane--Why'd You Have to Say That 'L Word'? Superchunk--Dead Photographers John Mellencamp--Under the Boardwalk Shemekia Copeland--One I Love Hendrik Meurkens & Bill Cunliffe--Time to Say Goodbye Ellen Foley--Stupid Girl The Flamin' Groovies--Paint It Black Nanci Griffith--No Expectations The Flying Pickets--Get Off of My Cloud (live) Mick Jagger--Memo from Turner The Rolling Stones--Fancy Man Blues; You Can't Always Get What You Want (live, 7/82); Sittin' On a Fence; She Smiled Sweetly
---Retroactive #1207--July 14, 2018: Sue Foley--Death of a Dream Ron Sexsmith--Chased By Love ///Accordionist-singer Ponty Bone (1939-2018): Ponty Bone--Fantasize; Clifton's Boogie The Joe Ely Band--Fools Fall In Love, (live, 1980)/// Maria Muldaur--Talk Real Slow Lee Fields--You're the Kind of Girl Songhoy Blues with Iggy Pop--Sahara Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--State of All Things Dan McMillion Jazz Orchestra--Vita Bella Allen Toussaint--What Is Success Tiffany Austin--Ain't No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down) Brownout--Louder Than a Bomb La Luz--California Finally Dirty Projectors--Found It In U Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Ry Cooder--Jesus and Woody Woody Guthrie--John Hardy (live, 12/40, WNYC/New York); Hard Travelin'; Baltimore to Washington; When the Curfew Blows Bang Data--Fortunate Son Creedence Clearwater Revival--The Working Man; It Came Out of the Sky; Long as I Can See the Light John Fogerty--Rockin' All Over the World Roberta Piket--Mentor Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Black Coffee Bully--Feel the Same Family--Broken Nose Betsy and Dave--Samba de Orfeu Betsy Holt--Lonely Too Long; Bulldog Blues Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams--We've Come Too Far to Turn Around Houston Person--Learning the Blues Roger McGuinn--Daddy Roll 'Em (live); I'm So Restless; Up to Me The Byrds--This Wheel's on Fire (live, 2/69); I Come and Stand at Every Door; C.T.A.-102
---Retroactive #1206--July 7, 2018: Rory Block--Black Mountain Esther Phillips--Aged and Mellow Blues Gregory Porter--The In Crowd Denise Donatelli--The Telephone Song Sloan--The Lion's Share Fantastic Negrito--An Honest Man Andrea Marr--What Do I Have to Do ///Trombonist Bill Watrous (1939-2018): Nancy Wilson featuring Bill Watrous--You'll See/// ///Pianist Henry Butler (1949-2018): Corey Harris--Honeysuckle (live) Corey Harris & Henry Butler--Let 'Em Roll Irma Thomas with Henry Butler--The River Is Waiting Henry Butler--Mama Roux (live, New Orleans, 2/11)/// Lenny Marcus Trio--The Storm Tish Hinojosa--Can't Say It Matters Anymore Lord Baldwin--Secret Societies; Agression Ringo Starr--Laughable; I Really Love Her; Goodnight Vienna Cowboy Mouth--Walk Among the Angels Janis Martin--Wham Bam Jam Katie King--Early In the Morning Louis Jordan--Fat Back and Corn Liquor Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Somebody Done Changed the Lock On My Door; (You Died Your Hair) Chartreusse; Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Stanley Clarke Band--After the Cosmic Rain/Dance of the Planetary Prince Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Everybody Cheats On You Mike Zito--The World We Live In Sweet--Love Is Like Oxygen Robbie Robertson--Soap Box Preacher Levon & the Hawks--I'm Gonna Play the Honky Tonks The Band--Bessie Smith Three Dog Night--Chest Fever Jack DeJohnette featuring Bill Frisell--After the Rain (live, Seattle, 10/01) Joy of Cooking--Brownsville/Mockingbird Terry Garthwaite--Me to You; Movin' In the Night; Thinking About You
---Retroactive #1205--June 30, 2018: Ted Hawkins--The Constitution Mary Gauthier--Brothers Chris Smither--Already Gone (Flatfoot Blues) Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart--This Ol' Flag John Prine--Caravan of Fools NRBQ--Deaf, Dumb and Blind Ian Moore--Looking for the Sound Sue Foley--Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair ///Eugene Pitt (1937-2018): The Jive Five--These Golden Rings; My True Story; What Time Is It?/// Cindy Blackman--Wildlife The Bridget Kelly Band--Lil' Honey Bee Joe Sullivan--Summertime Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks--Brethren Kix--The Itch La Luz--Loose Teeth Guided By Voices--See My Field ///The Willie Dixon Songbook: The Big Three Trio--Signifyin' Monkey Willie Dixon with the Chicago Blues All Stars--It's In the News Tracy Nelson--Whatever I Am (You Made Me) Sugar Ray & the Bluetones--You Know My Love Willie Dixon's Original Chicago Blues All Stars--Hoochie Coochie Man Big Mama Thornton--Little Red Rooster The Jeff Beck Group--You Shook Me The Fabulous Thunderbirds--Diddy Wah Diddy Koko Taylor--Wang Dang Doodle (1978 version)/// Liona Boyd--Capricho Arabe Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Live Every Day Betty Carter--Sometimes I'm Happy (live, London, 10/93) Buddy Guy--Whiskey for Sale Garland Jeffreys--I'm a Dreamer; 'Til John Lee Hooker Calls Me; Don't Call Me Buckwheat John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension--Hijacked (live, Boston, 6/13) Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore--Stealin' Stealin' Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--Used Me Again (Now Lose Me Forever) Sleater-Kinney--I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone The Waco Brothers--Revolution Blues Leon Thomas--It's My Life I'm Fighting For
---Retroactive #1204--June 23, 2018: Joyann Parker--Bluer Than You Elliott Smith--A Fond Farewell Willie Nelson--Bad Breath Jill Sobule--Tender Love John Butler Trio--Blame It On Me Elmore James--Sho Nuff I Do Marcia Ball--I Got to Find Somebody ///Matt 'Guitar' Murphy (1929-2018): Chuck Berry--Confessin' the Blues Matt 'Guitar' Murphy--Way Down South; Strut Your Stuff; Murphy's Boogie (live, 1963--introduced by Willie Dixon) (Murphy's fame via the Blues Brothers live band has overshadowed the range of his musicianship, heard to great effect on the 1963 live track)/// Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band--Birks' Works Candi Staton--When I See the Blood Jeremy Neale--Small Talk Beth Ditto--Savoir Faire The Shy--Chalk It Up Sloan--All of the Voices Veda Hille, Robin Holcomb & Francois Houle--Road Lucinda Williams--Which Will Nick Drake--Black Eyed Dog; Parasite; Sunday; River Man Helen Humes--I'm Gonna Let Him Ride (live, LA, 8/50); Stardust Helen Humes with Ellis Larkins' All-Stars--Deed I Do Charlie Ballantine--Masters of War Robyn Hitchcock--Trams of Old London Janiva Magness--On and On Alice Cooper--School's Out (live, 4/16) Bully--Kills to Be Resistant Billy Stewart--Summertime Neko Case--Last Lion of Albion Henry Threadgill--Clear and Distinct The Minus 5--Get Back In Line The Fastbacks--Waterloo Sunset Ray Davies--The Invaders Ray Davies & Black Francis--This Is Where I Belong The Kinks--Everybody's Gonna Be Happy; A Gallon of Gas; 20th Century Man
---Retroactive #1203--June 16, 2018: Hazel Scott--Fascinating Rhythm Sarah Jarosz--Everything to Hide Lord Baldwin--Got This Lonesome Feelin' The Steep Canyon Rangers--Call the Captain The Kennedys--Pistol Island John Prine--Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone) The Moondoogies--Match Waxahatchee--A Little More ///Drummer D.J. Fontana (1931-2018): The Dempseys--Perrone Has a Request of His Own Elvis Presley--Hound Dog (live, NYC, 9/56); Blue Suede Shoes; (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Fontana's riotous stickwork propelled the emerging rock'n'roll scene in the 1950s--he had far-reaching impact)/// Martin Taylor--In a Mellow Tone (live, Pittsburgh, 6/98) ///Danny Kirwan (1950-2018)--Life Machine Fleetwood Mac--Jewel Eyed Judy; Although the Sun Is Shining; Tell Me All the Things You Do; Bare Trees (Singer-songwriter-guitarist Kirwan propelled Fleetwood Mac from 1969-1972, a most underrated period for them)/// Sue Foley with Charlie Sexton--Come to Me Rosie Flores--'59 Tweedle Dee Janis Martin--(I) Believe What You Say M. Ward--You're So Good to Me June & the Exit Wounds--All I Wanna Do Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs--The Warmth of the Sun Christy McWilson--'Til I Die The Beach Boys--Please Let Me Wonder; I Went to Sleep; Heroes and Villains Brian Wilson--Wind Chimes; Mrs. O'Leary's Cow; Love and Mercy Roberta Piket--Flor de Lis Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--Broken Woman La Luz--Lonely Dozer Unknown Mortal Orchestra--Chronos Feasts On His Children; American Guilt Teddy Thompson--Let Me Roll It Kelley Stoltz--I Am Your Singer Wings--Warm and Beautiful Paul McCartney & the Blockheads--I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra Paul & Linda McCartney--Smile Away Paul McCartney--Too Much Rain; Hope for the Future The Fred Hersch Trio--For No One (live, NYC, 3/16) Stacey Kent--I Wish I Were In Love Ry Cooder--I'll Be Rested When the Roll Is Called
---Retroactive #1202--June 9, 2018: The Low Anthem--Drowsy Dowsing Dolls Phoebe Bridges--You Missed My Heart Neil Finn--The Law Is Always On Your Side Holly Cole Trio--I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Gregory Porter--Brown Grass Mary Lou Lord--Long Way from Tupelo ///Eddy Clearwater (1935-2018)--Trouble, Trouble; Too Old to Get Married (live, 1/14); I Wouldn't Lay My Guitar Down/// Lenny Marcus Trio--Gloria's Step Romeo Void--Never Say Never The '5' Royales--Messin' Up Sloan--Year Zero Angaleena Presley--Drunk ///Clarence Fountain (1929-2018)--Use Me Lord The Blind Boys of Alabama--Morning Train; Presence of the Lord; There's Got to Be a Change Made/// Anna Tivel--Saturday Night Monsters of Folk--The Right Place Kobie Watkins Grouptet--Catch This Slaid Cleaves--Welding Burns; Horseshoe Lounge; Gone Alabama Shakes--Don't Wanna Fight Superchunk--Break the Glass The Jam--That's Entertainment Catie Curtis--Radical Howlin' Wolf with Willie Dixon--Goin' Down Slow Howlin' Wolf--Trying to Forget You; Bluebird The Shirelles--Dedicated to the One I Love; A Thing of the Past Shirley & the Shirelles--Look What You've Done to My Heart Adrean Farrugia & Joel Frahm--For Murray Gold Marcia Ball--Life of the Party Lori Hallelujah--Grandstand Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco--Evening Shadows Graham Parker & the Rumour--Silly Thing *Plus: Remembrances of Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets and music journalist Jerry Hopkins
---Retroactive #1201--June 2, 2018: Moses Sumney--Indulge Me St. Vincent--Hang on Me Shaun Murphy--That Kind of Time Leon Bridges--Bad Bad News James Harman--Fineprint Whitney Marchelle--What Jazz Is Ry Cooder--Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right Gary U.S. Bonds--Havin' So Much Fun; Dedication Frank Black & Gary U.S. Bonds--Go Home Girl Eero Koivistoinen--Goodbye M1 Anni Piper--I'm Lost Without You Kip Boardman--Dirty Work Grin--White Lies Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--Shackles Liz Phair--Soap Star Joe Girl Trouble--Bring On the Dancing Girls (live, Olympia, 8/91); Gotta Get a Little Bit; Ritual of the Lame (Girl Trouble is one of four bands at Olympia's 'Rock Against Trump' show tonight) La Luz--Greed Machine Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks--Future Suite Dakota Staton--Give Me the Simple Life; This Bitter Earth; Play Your Hands Girls (1974 version) Kait Dunton--Alkibo Donovan--There Is a Mountain (live, Anaheim, 9/67) Christine Lavin--Happiness Runs Mary Gauthier--Morphine 1-2 Linda McRae--As the Night Falls Down Bully--Seeing It Curtis Mayfield--Keep On Keeping On The Impressions--See the Real Me; Gypsy Woman Tamar Braxton--The Makings of You Roberta Piket--Humpty Dumpty Mott the Hoople--All the Young Dudes (live, NYC, 5/74) Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--Have a Nice Day Ian Hunter--The Great Escape; Once Bitten, Twice Shy (live, LA, 11/79); All the Way from Memphis (live, LA, 11/79)
---Retroactive #1200--May 26, 2018: Johnny Adams--My Heart Is Hangin' Heavy Andrea Marr--Sticks and Stones Cecile McLorin Salvant & the Jean-Francois Bonnel Paris Quintet--No Regrets Kim Doolittle--Internet Mama Lord Baldwin--Lover Boy Is Tired Tonight Danielle Nicole--Poison the Well Tommy Castro & the Painkillers with Danielle Nicole--Soul Shake Phoebe Bridgers--Motion Sickness Sloan--Spin Our Wheels Laura Rain & the Caesars--He Is George Kahn--Dreamin' *All-Texas Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Floyd Tillman--This Cold War With You Townes Van Zandt--You Are Not Needed Now Kathy & the Kilowatts--Answer Yes W.C. Clark--I Only Have Love for You The Gourds--Magnolia Lightnin' Hopkins--Abilene Janis Joplin--Half Moon The Bobby Fuller Four--Saturday Night Terry Allen--The Burden Kinky Friedman--Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (live) Carolyn Wonderland--Moon Goes Missing Guy Clark--Picasso's Mandolin Barbara Lynn--You're Gonna Be Sorry Joe Ely--Nacho Mama (live, 1/99) Okkervil River--Don't Move Back to LA Delbert & Glen--B-Movie Box Car Blues Ornette Coleman--Women of the Veil Freda & the Firedogs--Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad Marcia Ball--I'm Glad I Did What I Did True Believers--Ring the Bell Roky Erickson--Don't Slander Me Angela Strehli Band--20% Alcohol Willie Nelson--I Ain't Got Nothin' Sunny Sweeney--I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight Dale Watson & Ray Benson--The Ballad of Dale and Ray Joe Tex--S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) Lou Ann Barton--I'm Old Enough Poncho Sanchez--African Flower T-Bone Walker with Les Hite & his Orchestra--T-Bone Blues Buddy Holly & the Crickets--I'm Looking for Someone to Love The Last Real Texas Blues Band featuring Doug Sahm --Something to Remember You By (live at Antone's, Austin) Ruthie Foster--Heal Yourself *Plus: Excerpt of Janis Joplin on The Dick Cavett Show, 1970
---Retroactive #1199--May 19, 2018: Father John Misty--When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay Mary Gauthier--The War After the War The SteelDrivers--Where Rainbows Never Die Moby--The Ceremony of Innocence Susan Tedeschi--Looking for Answers John Dawson Read--A Friend of Mine Is Going Blind Sue Foley--Cannonball Blues Ry Cooder--Gentrification Kait Dunton--Nude Aimee Mann--Stupid Thing Moses Sumney--Don't Bother Calling Frank Bey & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--Bed for My Soul Girl Trouble--Little Sally Tease Wanda Jackson--Cool Love La Luz--Cicada Jack White--Ice Station Zebra Ruby Velle & the Soulphonics--Love Less Blind The Black Lillies--Whiskey Angel; Peach Pickin'; By the Wayside Amy Arena--Cheeseburger Beth Orton--Flesh and Blood Hungry March Band--Bumper to Bumper ///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash: Dave Van Ronk--Buckets of Rain (live) Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer--Not Dark Yet Barbara Keith--All Along the Watchtower The Rave-Ups--You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Bettye LaVette--Ain't Talkin' Eric Bibb--Masters of War National Lampoon--Those Fabulous Sixties The Persuasions--Three Angels Nilsson--Subterranean Homesick Blues Joy of Cooking--Love Is Just a Four Letter Word Charlie Ballantine--The Death of Emmett Till The Charlie Daniels Band--Country Pie Old Crow Medicine Show--Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (live) The Band with Bob Dylan--When I Paint My Masterpiece (live, 12/71) Bob Dylan--The Best Is Yet to Come; Senor (Tales of Yankee Power); Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?///
---Retroactive #1198--May 12, 2018: The Kennedys--Be Silent No More James Harman--A Ticket to the Circus Sam & Dave--May I Baby Lord Baldwin--I Love the Rain Elise LeGrow--You Never Can Tell Gregory Porter--Musical Genocide ///Singer-songwriter-bassist Tony Kinman (1956-2018): The Dils--Mr. Big; I Hate the Rich Rank & File--John Brown; Coyote; The Conductor Wore Black/// Hypnotic Brass Ensemble--Flipside Andrea Marr--That's Where Love Ends Yo La Tengo--For You Too Juanita Nixon--Stop Knockin' Ty Segall--Every 1's a Winner Ritchie Valens--That's My Little Suzie; Stay Beside Me; Come On Let's Go Taj Mahal--Slave Driver; Stagger Lee; Senor Blues; Take a Giant Step Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Further On Down the Road Debbie Poryes Trio--Our Star Joyann Parker--Dizzy Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco--The Things I Used to Do The Peeps--Wanna Go Andy Pratt--Avenging Annie Sloan--Don't Stop (If It Feels Good Do It) Guided By Voices--Daily Get-ups Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Give Me a Holler Stevie Wonder--Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do); Cash In Your Face; Visions; Living for the City Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Signed, Sealed, Delivered-I'm Yours Hiromi--Cape Cod Chips Danielle Nicole--Crawl Dr. John & the Lower 911--Save Our Wetlands
---Retroactive #1197--May 5, 2018: Anna Tivel--Dark Chandelier Rosie Vela--Fool's Paradise Jason Ringenberg--Corny Corn Dave Alvin--Andersonville Mary Gauthier--Soldiering On Rhiannon Giddens--The Angels Laid Him Away ///Drummer John 'Jabo' Starks (1938-2018): Bobby Blue Bland--I'll Take Care of You; I've Just Got to Forget You Johnny J. Blair--People Medley: Everyday People/Fishers of Men/One for the Pastor Lyn Collins--Think (About It) (Through his work with James Brown and others, Jabo is considered to be the most sampled drummer in the history of recorded music)/// Tom Bruner--Come Rain or Come Shine Jimi Hendrix--Send My Love to Linda Jimmy Burns--Dead Flowers Marcia Ball--Pots and Pans Gossip--Coal to Diamonds (live, Liverpool, 7/07) Richard Berry--Next Time Janiva Magness--What's That Say About You Los Lobos--Bootleg; Mujer Ingrata; Dream In Blue Bob Seger--Need Ya; Lookin' Back; Democracy The Dave Brubeck Octet--Serenade's Suite of Montreal--Writing the Circles/Orgone Tropics Ex Hex--Radio On Jackson Browne & Los Cenzontles--The Dreamer Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet--Our Weapons Are Useless Sue Foley--If I Have Forsaken You The Animals--Roberta; Talkin' 'Bout You (long version, includes 'Shout') Eric Burdon & the Animals--Ring of Fire; Mama Told Me Not to Come Eric Burdon & War--Bareback Ride Roberta Piket--Yemenja Kathy & the Kilowatts--I Got This Ray Brown Jr.--Don't Get Around Much Anymore Little Eva--What I Gotta Do (To Make You Jealous)
---Retroactive #1196--April 28, 2018: David Rawlings--Come On Over My House Heather Myles--You've Taken Me to Places I Wish I've Never Been Scott H. Biram--Set Me Free ///Producer Stuart Colman (1944-2018): Shakin' Stevens--The Green Door/// Lord Baldwin--Replaced By a Robot Iris DeMent--Our Town ///Vocalist-lyricist Bob Dorough (1923-2018): Bob Dorough--Wake Up Sally, It's Saturday; There's Never Been a Day Mel Torme--Comin' Home Baby/// Bang On a Can--1/1 ///Saxophonist Charles Neville (1938-2018): The Neville Brothers--Junk Man (live); Witness; Caravan (live, New Orleans, 9/82)/// Danielle Nicole--Cry No More The James Hunter Six--I Don't Wanna Be Without You Barrence Whitfield & the Savages--I Can't Get No Ride Johnny Mercer--The Glow Worm Catie Curtis--Water and Stone Recess Monkey--L.I.C.E. Toni Price--Cats and Dogs (live) Wilson Pickett--Fire and Water James Brown--Like It Is, Like It Was (The Blues); King Heroin James Brown & the Famous Flames--I'll Go Crazy Mike Clark & Delbert Bump--Topsy Holly Golightly--Feel Something The Young Fresh Fellows--Trek to Stupidity Sunny Sweeney--Pass the Pain Roxy Music--Virginia Plain Sloan--The Day Will Be Mine Sleater-Kinney--One More Hour Paul Buskirk & his Little Men with Hugh Nelson--Rainy Day Blues Willie Nelson--Old Timer; I Can See Clearly Now; It's Not Supposed to Be That Way (IRS tapes version) Alison Krauss--I Never Cared for You Rhonda Vincent with Willie Nelson--Only Me Stephane Galland--The Sky Is Cloudy Casey Neill & the Norway Rats--In the Swim Andrea Marr--Force of Nature Etta James--Beware *Plus: The PSA from 2000 that KAOS used to play of Willie Nelson advocating for NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws)
---Retroactive #1195--April 21, 2018: Bearfoot--Doors and Windows Frank Bey & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--It's Good to Have Your Company Barbara Morrison--This Time the Dream's On Me Tracey Thorn--Oh, the Divorces! Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Further On Down the Road John Lee Hooker--I Need Some Money Professor Longhair--Fess's Boogie (live, Chicago, 2/76) Shari Puorto--Pack Your Bags Eddie Floyd--Why Is the Wine Sweeter (On the Other Side) Jemal Ramirez--Don't Shoot the Messenger Rhiannon Giddens--Birmingham Sunday Lucky Peterson--Doin' Bad, Feelin' Good Peter Karp--From Where I Stand The Noses--We're So Sorry Robin Flower--Southbound Mary Gauthier--Got Your Six Bettye LaVette--It Ain't Easy Joules Graves--Land of Fake Fires Quicksilver Messenger Service--What About Me Ann Peebles--I'm Yours; If We Can't Trust Each Other; Steal Away Mongo Santamaria--Mazacote Leon Thomas--C.C. Rider Sheila--A La Meme Heure The Kills--List of Demands (Reparations) Roy Loney & the Longshots--Doggone Fine The Muffs--Forget the Day Les Paul & Mary Ford--How High the Moon Guided By Voices--Colonel Paper Sue Foley--Gaslight Marcia Ball--Too Much for Me The Stooges--Dirt Iggy Pop--Avenue B; Something Wild; Knucklehead Roberta Piket--Conception Juliana Hatfield--A Little More Love Robin Lane--Trouble Man Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth--Goodnight Nelda Grebe, the Telephone Company Has Cut Us Off
---Retroactive #1194--April 14, 2018: ---24th Anniversary Show Colcannon--The Bellefield Carrie Newcomber--If Not Now Jimmy Rogers--The World's In a Tangle Cindy Wheeler--Old Man Yo La Tengo--Let's Do It Wrong Margo Rey--Angel Eyes Rufus Thomas--The World Is Round (But It's Crooked Just the Same) (1971 version) Willie King & the Liberators--Stand Up and Speak the Truth ///Yvonne Staples (1937-2018): The Staple Singers--There Is a God; When Will We Be Paid; I Got to Be Myself/// Hart, Scone & Albin--Don't Start Lyin' to Me Now Carl Perkins--Her Love Rubbed Off; Jive After Five; Charlene Angela Strehli--Gotta Find Me a Lover (24 Hours a Day) Nona Hendryx--Tax Exile King Curtis & Champion Jack Dupree--Junker's Blues (live, Montreux, 6/71) Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--I Gotta Roll Dave Edmunds--Television; (I Am a) Lover Not a Fighter; Sabre Dance '94 Kronos Quartet--Re: Person I Knew Miss Mary--That's How I Feel Aztec Camera--Jump (long version) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes? Gregory Porter--Liquid Spirit The Waitresses--The Comb Jack White--Corporation Flo & Eddie--Feel Older Now Lord Baldwin--The Geezer Waxahatchee--8 Ball Ween--Transdermal Celebration Dusty Springfield--Some of Your Lovin'; Who (Will Take My Place); No Easy Way Down Charlie Peacock--Automatt Ty Seagall--Rain Janiva Magness--Hammer The Blueflowers--The Lovely Ones
---Retroactive #1193--April 7, 2018: ///Pianist-composer Cecil Taylor (1929-2018): The Cecil Taylor Quartet--African Violets The Cecil Taylor Unit--Lena (live, Copenhagen, 10/62)/// Kadhja Bonet--Portrait of Tracy Nancy King--Ain't Misbehavin' (live, NYC, 10/04) The Persuasions--Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow Chris Smither--Jailhouse Blues Danielle Nicole--How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore Wayne Hancock--That's What Daddy Wants Al Di Meola--Insieme Shirley Brown--I Can't Give You Up Solas--Highlands of Holland (live, Philadelphia, 9/05) Mary Gauthier--It's Her Love Joe Policastro Trio--Having an Average Weekend Love--Young and Able (Good and Evil) Kate Tempest--Lonely Daze Bettye LaVette--Political World Sonny Boy Williamson #1--Sloppy Drunk Blues Sonny Boy Williamson #2--Your Funeral, My Trial Randy Newman--Sonny Boy The Picketts--Fool; Can't Take It With You; Same Town Same Planet (Different World) The Heavyweight Brass Band--Rosco's Big Hit Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm--The Same Love That Made Me Laugh Marcia Ball--They Don't Make 'Em Like That Barrence Whitfield & the Savages--Tingling The Ramones--I'm Against It Bikini Kill--Reject All American The Smithereens--Sorry Al Green--Free at Last; Keep Me Cryin'; Build Me Up; How Can You Mend a Broken Heart The Amazing Rhythm Aces--Love and Happiness Ben Paterson--The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me) Jean Shepard--Cigarettes and Coffee Blues Freddie Pate--Nothing Takes the Place of You Elise LeGrow--Searching for My Love Laurie Jane & the 45s--Howlin' for My Darlin'
---Retroactive #1192--March 31, 2018: Jimmy McGriff & Junior Parker--Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong Alice DiMicele--Voice of the Water Lord Baldwin--Down the Temporal Road Janiva Magness--Tell Me Guy Davis--I Will Be Your Friend Shirley Gunter--Send Him Back Bonnie Raitt--The Ones We Couldn't Be John Trudell--Wildfires The Fred Hersch Trio--A Cockeyed Optimist (live, NYC, 3/16) Ray Charles--That's Enough Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Ground Zero Shaun Murphy--Walk In My Shadow Obrador--The Commodore Comeback (live, Havana, 6/98) Ty Segall--Shoot You Up Sue Foley--81 Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket Homer Harris--Atomic Bomb Blues Muddy Waters--Standing Around Crying; I Just Want to Make Love to You; Baby Please Don't Go Angaleena Presley--Ain't No Man Bootsy Collins with Justin Johnson--Boomerang Electric Squeezebox Orchestra--The Captain Bleachers--Dream of Mickey Mantle Supersnazz--Go Go Ichiro Jay Leonhart--Dodgers The Intruders--(Love Is Like) a Baseball Game The Baseball Project--Panda and the Freak The Fabulous Poodles--Roll Your Own The Peeps--Give It Up Carla Thomas--You've Got a Cushion to Fall On Genya Ravan--I Won't Sleep On the Wet Spot No More Fairport Convention--If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong (BBC, 1968) Richard & Linda Thompson--Saturday Rolling Around Richard Thompson--Gethsemane (2017 version); The Snow Goose; Friday On My Mind (live) Ahmad Jamal--Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Wynona Carr--Touch and Go Toots & the Maytals--I Shall Be Free *Plus: Baseball clips from Kevin Kling, Tommy Lasorda
---Retroactive #1191--March 24, 2018: Joanna Newsom--Leaving the City Slaid Cleaves--Little Guys Rose Laughlin--New Homeland Casey Neill & the Norway Rats--Everyone Wants to Be Found Mary Gauthier--Stronger Together Brinsley Schwarz--Play That Fast Thing (One More Time) Nick Lowe--Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine; Has She Got a Friend? Debbie Poryes Trio--Tears We've Shed Aretha Franklin--Singin' In the Rain (live, Paris, 1977); Here We Go Again *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Aretha Franklin--Pitiful Sandie Shaw--(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Procol Harum--Shine On Brightly Motherlode--When I Die The Muddy Waters Blues Band--I'm So Glad The Shirelles--Boys Karen Dalton--Reason to Believe Nick Drake--'Cello Song Nina Simone--Backlash Blues The Searchers--When You Walk In the Room Lee Dorsey--My Old Car The Kinks--Too Much On My Mind The Shadows of Knight--Gloria The Wailers--You Better Believe It Dusty Springfield--Stay Awhile The Ramsey Lewis Trio--You've Changed Nazz--Under the Ice The Shangri-Las--I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) Fat Mattress--Mr. Moonshine The Mothers of Invention--Trouble Every Day Pippy Shannon--Shade of Red Johnny Wright--Hello Vietnam Jimmy Cliff--Vietnam Carmen McRae--I Could Write a Book (live, London, 5/61) Duke Baxter--Everybody Knows Matilda The Flying Burrito Brothers--Sin City The Hollies--I'm Alive The Marvelows--I Do Etta James--Seven Day Fool The Sir Douglas Quintet--In Time Betty Wright--Mr. Lucky Bill Evans--'Round Midnight (live, NYC, 10/68) The Zombies--She's Coming Home The Soul Brothers Six--Some Kind of Wonderful The Formations--At the Top of the Stairs *Plus: Clips from classic '60s commercials
---Retroactive #1190--March 17, 2018: ---KAOS Spring Pledge Drive Show Quinn Sullivan--Big Sky The Viscounts--Harlem Nocturne Lady Bianca--More Than I Can Chew ///Musician Liam O'Flynn (1945-2018): The Everly Brothers--Abandoned Love/// The James Hunter Six--How Long Shaun Murphy--I Don't Need Nobody Leon Russell--Love This Way Bettye LaVette--It Ain't Me Babe ///Bassist-guitarist Nokie Edwards (1935-2018) The Ventures--Driving Guitars (Ventures' Twist); Yellow Jacket; Green Onions; Telstar Eric Glatz--Walk-Don't Run/// Ann Peebles--Part Time Love Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm--You Must Believe In Yourself Fiddlehead--Tamlyn/The Merry Blacksmith/The Mountain Road Cara Dillon--The Parting Glass Andy Irvine & Paul Brady--Mary and the Soldier Sinead O'Connor--Back Where You Belong The Waterboys--Fisherman's Blues Lord Baldwin--Broken Glass Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Call On God Ty Segall--Alta Richard Hawley--Time Will Bring You Winter The Civil Wars--20 Years Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes--Cabaret Sunny Sweeney--Why People Change The Blasters--Border Radio Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--Hate Take a Holiday Big Mama Thornton--Session Blues The Moaners--Flannery Said Danielle Nicole--I'm Going Home Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager--Long Train Blues *Plus: Movie clips from not so old films--Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Annette Benning, Greta Gerwig and the BBC's 'Emma'
---Retroactive--March 10, 2018: A big thanks to Maddie McGriff and DreamCat for filling in. They did a fine show--see www.spinitron.com for details.
---Retroactive #1189--March 3, 2018: Jill Andrews--A Little Less Mud Morganfield--Oh Yeah Alice DiMiceli--Waiting Frank Bey & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--I Want to Change Your Mind Molly Holm--Straight No Chaser Gritz--Bayou Country Harpeth Rising--Love Child ///Vocalist Bill Burkette (1942-2018): The Vogues--Magic Town; Five O'Clock World/// Jules Shear--A Color That Barely Exists Jules Shear & Mary Ramsey--Fear to Be Right The Reckless Sleepers--It Came Quick (And It Didn't Stay Long) Jules & the Polar Bears--You're So Complete Alison Moyet--Whispering Your Name Mark McGrain--Love + Time + Divination Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Queen Bee (live, 11/03) Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas--When It Blows Its Stacks The Move--Message from the Country The Wailin' Jennys--Row Him Home; Mona Louise; Things That You Know The Impressions--Can't Satisfy Tower of Power--Get What You Want The Frank Hewitt Quintet--Manteca (live, 8/99) Fingerpistol--Man About Town Janiva Magness--Down Below Border Town--Hot Stuff Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Barnyard Boogie The Jeff Beck Group--Situation The Dempsys--Twenty Fingers, Two Necks Sue Foley--Run The Heavyweights Brass Band--Dance Out on the Corner ///Lou Reed's 75th Birth Anniversary: The Velvet Underground--Cool It Down; What Goes On Eric Andersen with Lou Reed--You Can't Relive the Past Music for Viola--Going Down Lou Reed & Metallica--Iced Honey Lou Reed--Men of Good Fortune (live, 12/06); Sally Can't Dance; There Is No Time///
---Retroactive #1188--February 24, 2018: Samantha Fish--American Dream Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager--Depot Blues Dina Blade--Pick Yourself Up LaVern Baker--Soul on Fire Woody Russell--Let's Be Done Danielle Nicole--Pusher Man Manfred Mann's Earth Band--It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Bettye LaVette--Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others) Jesse Malin--Meet Me at the End of the World The Joe Policastro Trio--Summer Kisses, Winter Tears NRBQ--Get Rhythm Johnny Cash--I Walk the Line; What Is Truth Ray Charles with Johnny Cash--Crazy Old Soldier Scott Askew--Jus' Git Shaun Murphy--Slightly Free Betty Davis--They Say I'm Different Bootsy Collins with Chuck D, Buckethead & BlavkSeeds--Illusions ZSG--What You Want to Hear Luba Mason--I Need You Quinn Sullivan--While My Guitar Gently Weeps George Harrison--This Song; Cheer Down; Devil's Radio Ran Blake--Dancing In the Dark 2 Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers--Done Me Wrong Andrea Marr--Mama Got It Wrong Sometimes Too The Fall--Nate Will Not Return Sleater-Kinney--Stay Where You Are Ty Segall--It's Over Beausoleil--It's You I Love Fats Domino--Mardi Gras In New Orleans; Telling Lies; I Hear You Knocking; Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Eilen Jewell--You Gonna Miss Me Janis Martin--Barefoot Baby Jim Lauderdale--If I Can't Resist Carl Filipiak & the Jimi Jazz Band--Mischeno The Rollers--Knockin' at the Wrong Door Billy Boy Arnold--Play With Fire The James Hunter Six--Don't Let Your Pride Take You for a Ride
---Retroactive #1187--February 17, 2018: Kermit Ruffins--Hey Look Me Over June Tabor & Oysterband--Lullaby of London Hans Theessink & Terry Evans--Pouring Water On a Drowning Man ///Tom Rapp (1947-2018): Pearls Before Swine--Drop Out!; Morning Song/// ///Scott Boyer (1947-2018): Cowboy--Everything Here; Message In the Wind Tish Hinojosa--Please Be With Me/// The Bennie Maupin Quartet--Escondido Irma Thomas--Wish Someone Would Care; Thinking of You (live, 8/90); I Needed Someone (live, 8/90) Tracy Nelson with Irma Thomas--Please Send Me Someone to Love Radiohead--Ful Stop Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas--Sun Zoom Spark Yoko Ono--Spec of Dust Yoko Ono with Felix da Housecat--Walking On Thin Ice (Tribute Remix) Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band--Shine, Shine Mary Chapin Carpenter--Quittin' Time; I Put My Ring Back On; Deep Deep Down Heart Joan Baez--Stones In the Road The Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis--Meditation of Integration Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--I Don't Want to Take a Chance Ian Hunter--Gun Control Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks--Vanessa from Queens Flamin' Groovies--Just Like a Hurricane Buffy Sainte-Marie--Summer Boy; Poppies; He's a Keeper of the Fire; The Priests of the Golden Bull The Charlatans--Codine Nina Simone--Don't Smoke In Bed; Strange Fruit; Come Ye Katie King--Do I Move You Ahmad Jamal--Baalbeck Family--Hey-Let It Rock/The Cat and the Rat
---Retroactive #1186--February 10, 2018: Eric Bibb--La Vie C'est Comme un Oignon Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--The Game Gets Old Gurf Morlix--Love Remains Unbroken Shelley Neill--All Blues Quinn Sullivan--Crazy Into You Koko Taylor--Time Will Tell ///Vocalist Dennis Edwards (1943-2018): The Temptations--Cloud Nine; Power; I Can't Get Next to You/// Claire Daly--The One Who Really Loves You Reparata & the Delrons--Saturday Night Didn't Happen Cake--Long Time Sparks--(Baby Baby) Can I Invade Your Country Matson Jones--Good Advice John Wesley Harding with the Minus 5--The End Chet Baker--I Fall In Love Too Easily Cecile McLorin Salvant--You're My Thrill The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group--Be My Valentine Justin Townes Earle--Faded Valentine Nils Lofgren with Bruce Springsteen--Valentine Debbie Poryes Trio--Loving Hank Amos Milburn--One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer Sunny Sweeney--Trophy Sterling Harrison--I Believe In You (You Believe In Me) Bettye LaVette--Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight Waxahatchee--No Question Half Past Forever--Closer Tommy Keene--Run Now Tommy Ridgley--Jam Up The Specials--Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think) Hank Crawford & Jimmy McGriff--A Little Bit South of East St. Louis ///The Carole King Birthday Bash: The Monkees--Sometime In the Morning Roberta Flack--Will You Love Me Tomorrow Earl-Jean--I'm Into Something Good Jackie DeShannon--Heaven Is Being With You The City--Victim of Circumstance Carole King--Crying In the Rain (demo); One Small Voice (2017 version); God Only Knows///
---Retroactive #1185--February 3, 2018: Sean Hayes--Midnight Rounders Kate Wolf--Emma Rose Darden Smith--Against the Grain Harpeth Rising--Lucid Dreaming Sheep Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager--Hell In a Handbasket Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--Romance In the Dark Andrea Marr--Snakes Jason Vieaux--Sarabande Julien Baker--Appointments Dhani Harrison--Admiral Upside Down The Middle Kids--Edge of Town Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas--Suction Prints Jethro Tull--Nothing Is Easy Something Happens--Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello (Petrol) Joan Osborne--Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 The Flatlanders--Just About Time Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--Maybe She'll Find Me (live) Joe Ely--Tennessee's Not the State I'm In; All That You Need; Dallas (live, 4/89) Lisa Hilton--Zero Gravity Angaleena Presley--Grocery Store Robyn Ludwick--Rock'n'Roll Shoes David Bowie--Moonage Daydream The Dempseys--Pappy Done Slapped Me Samantha Fish with Lillie Mae--Poor Black Mattie Swamp Dogg--Do You Believe John Prine with Connie Smith--So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy--Devoted to You Robert Plant & Alison Krauss--Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) The Everly Brothers--Should We Tell Him; Take a Message to Mary; The Price of Love; Always Drive a Cadillac Carl Filipiak & the Jimi Jazz Band--The Hard Way The Books--All You Need Is a Wall Jules Shear--Looking for Me Corb Lund--Steel Rider's Blues
---Retroactive #1184--January 27, 2018: Rosanne Cash--Money Road Robert Earl Keen--Daddy Had a Buick Filthy Friends--Second Life ///Terry Evans (1937-2018)--Racket In the Room Ry Cooder & Corridos Famosos--The Dark End of the Street (live, 2011)/// ///Lari White (1965-2018)--Bare; Stepping Stone/// ///Mark E. Smith (1957-2018): The Fall--Lie Dream of a Casino Soul; Feeling Numb/// ///Hugh Masekela (1939-2018)--Vasco de Gama Ojah with Hugh Masekela--World Beat Blues The Byrds--So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star/// Julian Lage--General Thunder *All Michigan Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Stewart Francke--Chelaine Barbara Lewis--Don't Forget About Me Marshall Crenshaw--Twenty Five Forty One Nolan Strong with the Diablos--Yeah Baby, It's Because of You The Romantics--When I Look In Your Eyes Bettye LaVette--Mama, You've Been On My Mind Rodriguez--I'll Slip Away Karen Monster--Johnny O Dave Hanna & Karen Monster--Break It Apart The Mutants--So American The Shy--Give Me Your Hands Ray Taylor & Alabama Pals--My Hamtramck Baby The Pleasure Seekers--Never Thought You'd Leave Me ? & the Mysterians--I Need Somebody Tim Tam & the Turn-Ons--Wait a Minute Faruq Z. Bey with Northwoods Improvisers--After Death (live, 6/01) The Capitols--Cool Jerk Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels--Shake a Tail Feather Brownsville Station--Leavin' Here The 8th Day--She's Not Just Another Woman Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays--Please Don't Stay Away Greta Van Fleet--Meet On the Ledge MC5--Looking at You (live, 1966) The Marvelettes--Don't Mess With Bill The Contours--Shake Sherry Gladys Knight & the Pips--I Heard It Through the Grapevine Mary Wells--When I'm Gone Four Tops--I'll Turn to Stone Marvin Gaye--How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Geri Allen--Your Pure Self (Mother to Son) Jack White--Effect and Cause (demo) Aretha Franklin--The House That Jack Built Bob Seger--If I Were a Carpenter (Iggy &) the Stooges--Shake Appeal
---Retroactive #1183--January 20, 2018: Mirah--I Am the Garden Jules Shear--Be With You Nanci Griffith--Beautiful ///Edwin Hawkins (1943-2018): The Edwin Hawkins Singers--Ooh Child; Jubilation Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers--Lay Down (Candles In the Rain)/// ///Delores O'Riordan (1971-2018): The Cranberries--Analyse; Raining In My Heart Delores O'Riordan--Be Careful; Ordinary Day/// Tyshawn Sorey--Cascade In Slow Motion Sloan Wainwright--Stand Angaleena Presley--Wrangled Leanne Faine--Gimme Shelter Sweet Miss Coffy--I'll Take Care of You Bobby Blue Bland--Wishing Well; Someday; Blind Man; I Learned My Lesson ///80th Anniversary of Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall: The Benny Goodman Quartet--I Got Rhythm (live, NYC, 1/38) The Benny Goodman Orchestra--Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing) (live, NYC, 1/38)/// Lisa Hilton--Mohave Moon Sunny Sweeney--Better Bad Idea Bootsy Collins with Doug E. Fresh, Buckethead & Alissia Benveniste--World Wide Funk Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Rumors Le Tigre--On the Verge Suzanne Vega--I Never Wear White The Persuasions--That's Heaven to Me The Soul Stirrers--One More River Sam Cooke--Soothe Me; I'm Just a Country Boy; Please Don't Drive Me Away; Sam Cooke with King Curtis & his band--Twistin' the Night Away (live, Miami, 1/63) Dave Holland Octet--Wind Dance (live, 1/09) Patty Loveless--The Night's Too Long Lucinda Williams--Hard Road; The Ballad of Lucy Jordan; Changed the Locks; Are You Alright? ---Retroactive #1182--January 13, 2018: Watkins Family Hour--Brokedown Palace Pops Staples--Glory Glory Barbara Pittman--Everlasting Love Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--Second Chance Waxahatchee--Fade ///Ray Thomas (1941-2018), singer-flautist-songwriter: The Moody Blues--Something You Got; Nice to Be Here; Floating/// Ani DiFranco--Deferred Gratification Samantha Crain--Betty's Eulogy Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers--My Heart Stood Still ///Singer-songwriter Denise LaSalle (1939-2018): Denise LaSalle--You Should Have Kept It In the Bedroom; Child of the Ghetto; Don't Cry No More/// XTC--Senses Working Overtime Radiation City--The Color of Industry Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Moonlight on Vermont; Zig Zag Wanderer; The Floppy Boot Stomp Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas--When Big Joan Sets Up Shaun Murphy--Down the Honky Tonk Roy C.--Open Letter to the President Debbie Poryes Trio--How About You Nina Simone--Go Limp (live, 1964) Filthy Friends--Come Back Shelley Roy Loney & the Longshots--One Track Mind The Replacements--Bastards of Young (live, 2/86) Raw Spitt--Who Do They Think They Are Mavis Staples--There's a Devil On the Loose Steve Earle--The Last Gunfighter Ballad; Goodbye's All We Got Left Steve Earle & the Dukes--Fixin' to Die Sons of Slum--Right On Gil Scott-Heron--Who'll Pay Reparations On My Soul? The Rolling Stones--Oh! Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') (BBC, 1965) Barbara Lynn--Sugar Coated Love; This Is the Thanks I Get; I Don't Want a Playboy Carl Filipiak & the Jimi Jazz Band--What Now Plus: Speech clips from Martin Luther King, Jr. (1960s)
---Retroactive #1181--January 6, 2018: Lake Street Dive--We All Love the Same Songs Christine Fellows--Not Wanted on the Voyage The Missiles of October--Oh Yeah (Family) EB Davis & the Greyhound Blues Band--The Barroom Blues Heather Myles--Just Leave Me Alone The Kennedys--Namaste Alejandro Escovedo--Sunday Morning Feeling Eric Bibb--Refugee Moan Darden Smith--Blessings Tom Guarna--Song for Carabello Mary Chapin Carpenter--Map of My Heart The Marathons--Peanut Butter Eilen Jewell--Crazy Mixed Up World Bootsy Collins with Musiq Soulchild & Big Daddy Kane--Hot Sauce The Hydromatics--Getting There Is Half the Fun Sunny Sweeney--Pills ///Producer-songwriter Rick Hall (1932-2018): Arthur Alexander--You Better Move On The Tams--What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am) Aretha Franklin--I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) Candi Staton--I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool) Wilson Pickett--Mustang Sally Etta James--Security Clarence Carter--Patches/// Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Come and Be a Winner Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers--Vinyl Marshall Chapman & the Love Slaves--Jailhouse Rock (live, 10/93) Elvis Presley--Trying to Get to You; I'll Hold You In My Heart (Until I Can Hold You In My Arms); That's All Right (live, 6/68); Got a Lot of Livin' to Do Samantha Fish--No Angels Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager--So Near to Nowhere Split Enz--Bold as Brass; Message to My Girl; Lovey Dovey Lisa Hilton--29 Palms Ana Egge--Crazy Lady Blues Sandy Denny--Next Time Around; After Halloween (studio demo) Fairport Convention--She Moves Through the Fair; The Ballad of Easy Rider *Plus: The host read from Lester Bangs' 'Where Were You When Elvis Died?,' first published as 'How Long Will We Care?' in the Village Voice, 1977