---Retroactive--December 28, 2019: Thanks to Domenica Clark of KAOS' Feel the Drive for guest hosting! I was really under the weather.
---Retroactive #1281--December 21, 2019: ///Roy Loney (1946-2019) & the Longshots--Move It Baby The Flamin' Groovies--Slow Death; Second Cousin; Teenage Head (The guts of the Groovies was born on a Friday the 13th and died on a Friday the 13th)/// *Christmas Music: John Barry--The Christmas Wine Liz Story--The Wassailing Song (Here We Come a Wassailing) Carmen Lundy--A Time for Peace Salem Travelers--A Letter for Christmas Stevie Wonder--The Day That Love Began Odetta--Virgin Mary Had One Son The Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis --White Christmas (live, 12/13); 'Zat You, Santa Claus (with Rene Marie) (live, 12/12) Nick Lowe--The North Pole Express Keb' Mo' with Melissa Manchester--I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm The Young Fresh Fellows--O Little Town of Bethlehem The Dollyrots--Because I'm Santa Rodney Crowell with Mary Karr--Christmas In Vidor Malcolm Holcombe--Merry Christmas Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld with Chatham County Line--River NRBQ--Christmas Wish Jacqui Naylor--Father Christmas ///Hanukkah Set: The Covenant--Kiddush Le-Shebbat Jumprope--Hanukkah In Brazil The Klezmer Conservatory--Klezzified/// Butch Thompson--Silent Night Fred Willard--The True Story of Christmas (live in Largo) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Funky Little Drummer Boy Lou Rawls--A Child With a Toy Anthony Hamilton--Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto El Vez--Now I Wanna Be Santa Claus (live) Jimi Hendrix--Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne Los Lobos--Donde Esta Santa Claus? Frieda Borth--Christmas Tears Huey 'Piano' Smith & the Clowns--Doin' the Santa Claus Arthur Lyman--Mele Kalikimaka Elton John--Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher Gene Ammons--The Christmas Song The Beatles--The Beatles Third Christmas Record (1965 fan club message) The Town Pipers--Santa's On His Way John Legend--Purple Snowflakes Jackie Evancho--Someday at Christmas *Plus: Christmas greetings from Stevie Wonder, Alice Cooper & more
---Retroactive #1280--December 14, 2019: Mary McCaslin--You Keep Me Hangin' On Stanton Moore with Maceo Parker--Night People Candye Kane--Darling Baby ///Big Bird from 'Sesame Street,' Caroll Spinney (1933-2019): Eddie Floyd--Big Bird/// ///Marie Fredriksson (1958-2019): Roxette--The Look/// ///Jack Scott (1936-2019): Jack Scott--Go Wild Little Sadie; Save My Soul; What In the World's Come Over You/// The Corey Kendrick Trio--Julian's Tune Samantha Fish--She Don't Live Around Here Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens--Humble Me Blue October--Sway The Move--Turkish Tram Conductor Blues Darlene & Co.--7-11 Carmaig De Forest--Little Speeches Angel Olsen--All Mirrors Charlie Rich--Hurry Up Freight Train; Down and Out; There Won't Be Anymore (1965 version) Jenni Muldaur--There's Another Place That I Can't Go Lolly Allen--Lolly's Folly Ricky Espinoza--Walking Talking Cliche Richard Turley with the All-American Guys--Makin' Love With My Baby Wynn Stewart--Come On Amy Rigby--20 Questions Ted Leo & the Pharmacists--Annunciation Day/Born On Christmas Day Olivia Jean--In Two Greta Matassa--Baubles, Bangles and Beads Jake Clemons--We the People La Luz--Sleep Til They Die Professor Longhair--How Long Has This Train Been Gone; It's My Fault, Darling; Got My Mojo Working (live, Chicago, 2/76) Professor Longhair (as Roy Byrd & his Blues Jumpers)--Bald Head James Booker--On the Sunny Side of the Street; Minute Waltz (live); All By Myself/I'm In Love Again (live); Besame Mucho (live) The Tucker Brothers--Lifely Ronnie Spector--My Christmas Wish The Rubinoos--Pretty Close *Also remembered: Record exec Joe Smith (1928-2019)
---Retroactive #1279--December 7, 2019: Hot Club of Cowtown--How High the Moon Kinky Friedman--Greater Cincinnati Kelley Suttenfield--Flying On the Ground Is Wrong Johnny Rawls--Slow Roll It Cery Matthews & the Blockheads--If I Was With a Woman Los Lobos--La Murga ///Singer-songwriter-harmonica player Andrew 'Greedy' Smith (1956-2019): Mental as Anything--He's Just No Good for You/// Janiva Magness--Deja Vu (All Over Again) Buffy Sainte-Marie--Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin' (1968 version) Victor Gould--Inheritance Mike Zito with Ally Venable--School Day Joanna Connor--Blues Tonight GA-20--I Feel So Good Wolf Parade--Language City Friction--Dear Richard (live, 10/76) Kitty Clementine--Montague Street Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson--I Remember You Cassandra Wilson--Chelsea Bridge; Domination Switch The Rockets--Lucille Little Richard--Ain't Nothin' Happenin'; Miss Ann; Talking 'Bout Soul; Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey Ben Flocks--Dream Rodney Crowell--Clement's Lament (See You In the Mall); Christmas for the Blues The New Pornographers--One Kind of Solomon Sleater-Kinney--The Dog/The Body Sandy Denny--Let's Jump the Broomstick Brenda Lee--My Baby Likes the Western Guys; Losing You; The Crying Game; Rock the Bop ///Tom Waits is 70: Ana Popovic--Downtown Mary Chapin Carpenter--Downtown Train Tom Waits with Keith Richards--Shenandoah Tom Waits--Hang On St. Christopher; In the Colosseum; Goin' Out West (live)/// Rodney Whitaker--Perdido Carmen Lundy--Burden Down, Burden Down *Plus: Christmas greeting from Johnny Cash ---Retroactive #1278--November 30, 2019: Ella Harp--Dirty Money Roy Brown--Rainy Weather Blues Reverend Gary Davis --God Will Take Care of You ///Guitarist-songwriter-producer Martin Armiger (1949-2019): The Sports--Suspicious Minds/// Johnny Adams--The Danger Zone Larkin Poe--Honey Honey Diane Blue--Don't Box Me In Joshua Jern Jazz Orchestra--Circuit Breaker Stanton Moore with Cyril Neville & Trombone Shorty--Here Come the Girls Terry Garthwaite--What's the Matter With Love The Rubinoos--How Fast Liz Phair--Never Said Cat Stevens--I Think I See the Light (1970 version) Bully--Hate and Control M. Ward--I'm Listening (Child's Theme) Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women--Nana and Jimi ///Anna McGarrigle is 75: Kate & Anna McGarrigle--Rose Blanche; Dancer With Bruised Knees; Walking Song (demo); Heart Like a Wheel Anna McGarrigle, Sylvan Lankin & Lily Lankin--On My Way to Town (live)/// Ryan Bingham--Got Damn Blues Emily Remler--Catwalk ///The Jimi Hendrix Birth Anniversary Bash: Indigenous--Red House Hudson--Wait Until Tomorrow Ruth Wyand--Little Wing Kimo Williams & Kimotion--Manic Depression The World Saxophone Quartet--Foxey Lady Rod Stewart--Angel Popa Chubby--Bold as Love (live, 2/06) Belly--Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix--Night Bird Flying Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Machine Gun (live, NYC, 1/1/70, first show) The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Gypsy Eyes; I Don't Live Today///
---Retroactive #1277--November 23, 2019: Gail Davies--Heat It Up The Devil Makes Three--Poison Trees Brantley Gilbert with Lukas Nelson, Colt Ford & Willie Nelson --Welcome to Hazeville Eleanor Murray--The Sunlight The Del Lords--How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live Joanna Connor with Keithen Banks--Flip Montrell Darrett--Rain Mike Zito with Joe Bonamassa--Wee Wee Hours Victor Gould--What Do We Need? GA-20--My Soul Eilen Jewell--79 Cents (The Meow Song) Tracy Nelson--After the Fire Is Gone (live, 12/02) North Mississippi Allstars--Snake Drive Jesse Powell & his Orchestra with Fluffy Hunter --Walkin' Blues (Walk Right In, Walk Right Out) Nick Curran & the Nitelifes--Shot Down Carolyn Mark & the New Best Friends--Yanksgiving Chris Cornell--Thank You (live, solo, 4/11) Jean Shepard--A Satisfied Mind; Under Suspicion; That's What Lonesome Is Peter Laughner--Sylvia Plath Richard Thompson--When the Spell Is Broken (live, 11/86) Devonte Hynes & Third Coast Percussion--Cradle Tish Hinojosa--Road Songs and Bygones Johnny Rawls--I Can't Let Nobody Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Don't Make a Habit of It Olivia Jean--Siren T. Rex--Jeepster Janiva Magness--Someday Never Comes Meshell Ndegeocello--Private Dancer Tina Turner--Afterglow; Fire Down Below; Addicted to Love (live, 1988) Ike & Tina Turner--I'm Jealous; Crazy 'Bout You Baby; Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter The Ike & Tina Turner Revue--All I Could Do Was Cry (live, 1965) Tomas Janzon--Iris Bobby Blue Bland--You've Got Bad Intentions The Mainliners--Queen Sativa
---Retroactive #1276--November 16, 2019: Pieta Brown--Letter In Hand Kinky Friedman--I Love You When It Rains Imelda May--Levitate Stills & Collins--Everybody Knows Terry Robb--Heart Made of Steel Mud Morganfield & the Dirty Aces--Walkin' Thru the Park (live, 2008) Caroline Rose--Talk Andras Jones--The Things I Have to Live Without Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile--Peepin' Tom Terry Gibbs & Buddy DeFranco--One Little Thing Taj Mahal--Blues With a Feeling (live, solo, Bremen, Germany, 1993) Lori McKenna--You Can't Break a Woman Doris Troy--You Tore Me Up Inside Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes--All I Want Is Everything Nick Lowe--I Don't Want the Night to End Julia Lee with Jay McShann's Kansas City Stompers --Come On Over to My House Colin James--Need Your Love So Bad Little Willie John with Hank Ballard--I Like to See My Baby Little Willie John--If I Thought You Needed Me; My Nerves; A Cottage for Sale Sleater-Kinney--Restless Ronnie Dawson--You're Humbuggin' Me Gas Huffer--Walla Walla Bang Bang; Bomb Squad; Plant You Now Tia Fuller--The Coming Rosie Flores--I Want to Do More Heavenly--Sperm Meets Egg, So What? Ryan Bingham--Blue The Rance Allen Group--Ain't No Need of Crying Graham Parker--That's What They All Say (live, solo, Tokyo); Temporary Beauty; Back to Schooldays (Stiff Records version) Graham Parker & the Rumour--Don't Ask Me Questions (1976 version) Charlie Porter--The Privileged Few Waxahatchee--Sparks Fly The Rubinoos--Do You Remember The Mike Henderson Band--Gambling Blues Lisa Mann--Doin' OK *Plus: Obits for bassist Kelley Looney (1958-2019) and Rubber Soul photographer Robert Freeman (1937-2019)
---Retroactive #1275--November 9, 2019: Christine Fellows--Saturday Night On a Utopia Parkway Johnny Rawls--I've Been Searching Gregory Alan Isakov--Caves ///French singer-actress Marie Laforet (1939-2019): Marie Laforet--D'Etre a Vous (I Want You)/// Malcolm Holcombe--Torn and Wrinkled The Meters--Grass Vaneese Thomas--Last Kiss Janiva Magness--Blueboy Victor Gould--Karma GA-20--Naggin' On My Mind Ex Hex--Outro Vashti Bunyan--Don't Believe (demo, 1966) Eilen Jewell--Witness The Fleshtones--Communication Breakdown (includes a bit of 'Whole Lotta Love') E.C. Scott--Missionary Man Junior Wells & the Aces--I Don't Know (live, Boston, 9/66) Nicole Hart & Anni Piper--Why Should I Feel So Bad? Jamison Ross--Everybody's Cryin' Mercy Mose Allison--Stop This World; You Can't Push People Around; If You Live; I'm Not Talking Robert Gordon--Someday Someway Marshall Crenshaw--Whenever You're On My Mind; There She Goes Again (both live, solo, Asbury Park, NJ, 2/01); Our Town; Starless Summer Sky Barbara Higbie--Walking Olivia Jean--Rhinestone Lyres--I'm Telling You Girl Joe Cocker--Space Captain (live, NYC, 3/70) Deb Callahan--Old Ways Neil Young--Will to Love; The Loner Neil Young + Stray Gators--Look Out Joe (live, Tuscaloosa, 2/73) Neil Young with Crazy Horse--Rainbow of Colors Carmen Townsend--Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Dawn Clement--Sugar Cliff Betty Davis--He Was a Big Freak John Wesley Harding--You're No Good (live, solo) Michelle Willson--Corazon de Hielo Sunny Crownover--I Might Just Change My Mind
---Retroactive #1274--November 2, 2019: ---KAOS Fall Pledge Drive Show The Halo Benders--Freedom Ride; Phantom Power Sleater-Kinney--The Future Is Here The Young Fresh Fellows--Middle Man of Time ///Paul Barrere (1951-2019): Little Feat--Feats Don't Feel Me Now; All That You Dream (live, 1977); Skin It Back/// Brandi Carlile--Down to You (live, LA, 11/18) Katarina Pejak--Sex Kills Joni Mitchell--Coyote; Woodstock The Pretty Things--Rain Etta James--Strange Things Happening The Rubinoos--Phaedra Peter Laughner & Mike Sands--Love Minus Zero/No Limit (live, 9/72) Maxine Sullivan--'T'aint No Use Ted Hawkins--Chain Gang The Mike + Ruthy Band--Rock On Little Jane Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana--No Chicken On the Bone Delbert McClinton & Dick50--Starting a Rumor Delbert McClinton--Shot from the Saddle Iris DeMent with Delbert McClinton--Trouble Rory Block--Cypress Grove (1995 version); Goin' to Sit On the Banks of the River; Big Road Blues Dr. John with Bonnie Raitt--I've Got the World On a String Bonnie Raitt with Norah Jones--I Don't Want Anything to Change (live, 9/05) Bonnie Raitt--You've Changed My Mind; Right Down the Line; Write Me a Few of Your Lines/Kokomo Blues Frank Bey--Better Look Out The Creation Factory!--Why Can't You Make Up Your Mind Ian Sweet--Falling Fruit
---Retroactive #1273--October 26, 2019 ---KAOS Fall Pledge Drive Show Nina Simone--My Baby Just Cares for Me Diesel Park West--All Come to Meet Her Dressy Bessy--Make Mine Violet ///Country singer-songwriter Joe Sun (1943-2019) --Bombed, Boozed and Busted/// The Blueflowers--Make Me Stop GA-20--Happy Today Galactic with Macy Gray--Into the Deep ///Novelist-rock'n'roll journalist Nick Tosches (1949-2019): Amos Milburn--Let Me Go Home Whiskey The Clovers--Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash Jerry Lee Lewis--Let's Talk About Us Wynonie Harris--Down Boy Down/// Dawn Clement--Bemsha Swing LaVon Hardison--Tomorrow *Halloween music (2nd and 3rd hours): Larkin Poe--Good and Gone The Voodoo Organist--I've Got the Fire Weezer--Zombie Bastards The Pandoras--Haunted Beach Party Creedence Clearwater Revival--I Put a Spell On You Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Voodoo Doll Woelv--Le Mort et le Chien Obese The Zanies--The Mad Scientist Screamin' Jay Hawkins--Little Demon Shemekia Copeland--Honey Do That Voo Doo NRBQ--Hey Punkin Head Lemming--Lucifera Ronnie Hawkins--Who Do You Love Dirty Three with Nick Cave--Running Scared (live, Brisbane) Bauhaus--Bela Lagosi's Dead The Who--Boris the Spider Diamanda Galas--This Is the Law of the Plague (live, NYC) Atlanta Rhythm Section--Spooky Jim Lauderdale--Don't Tempt the Devil (With Your Love)
---Retroactive #1272--October 19, 2019: Charles Brown--Travelin' Blues Missy Andersen--Ladies Shoes Holly Golightly--Card Table The Original Wolverines--Hesitation Blues (live, 9/72) Anna Gordon--Hallucinations Eilen Jewell--Hard Times ///Singer-songwriter-harmonica player Steve Cash (1946-2019): The Ozark Mountain Daredevils--Standing On the Rock; If You Wanna Get to Heaven/// Jane Ira Bloom--Cornets of Paradise; A Star Not Far Enough ///Singer-bassist George Chambers (1931-2019): The Chambers Brothers--All Strung Out Over You; Are You Ready/// Beach House--Lemon Glow The Dregs--Blood Sucking Leeches Miles Davis--Give It Up Sleater-Kinney--The Center Won't Hold Colin James--Tears Came Rolling Down ///Anita O'Day's 100th Birth Anniversary: The Gene Krupa Orchestra with Anita O'Day--Skylark The Gene Krupa Orchestra with Anita O'Day & Roy Eldridge--Let Me Off Uptown Anita O'Day with the Will Bradley Orchestra--I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out Anita O'Day with the Ralph Burns Orchestra--How High the Moon/// David Wilcox--Jamie's Secret Andras Jones--Natalie Wood Said... Vaneese Thomas--Ebony Man Snarky Puppy--Coven The Raconteurs--Sunday Driver The Missiles of October--Paper Glider Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles--Lonely Town of Love La Luz--Pink Slime Eddie Hinton--Brown Eyed Handsome Man Chris Smither--Maybellene Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Tulane George Benson--Nadine (Is It You?) Chuck Berry--She Once Was Mine; Eyes of Man; I'm Talking About You; The Promised Land Asylum Street Spankers--Funnel of Love Wanda Jackson with Dave Alvin--It'll Be Me Wanda Jackson--The Window Up Above; Mean Mean Man; Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad Davell Crawford--I'm Walkin' Swamp Dogg--Sal-a-Faster Ann Cole--Down In the Valley
---Retroactive #1271--October 12, 2019: Alice Gerrard & Mike Seeger--Dear Companion Ryan Bingham--Beautiful and Kind Eleanor Murray--My Rebellion ///Saxophonist Malcolm Duncan (1945-2019): Average White Band--Just Wanna Love You Tonight; If I Ever Lose This Heaven/// The Bobby Tenderloin Universe--In the Combines Olivia Jean--Night Owl Ralph Moore--Blues Alliance ///Drummer Ginger Baker (1939-2019): The Graham Bond Organization--Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff? Ginger Baker--Ginger's Solo (live, Schauberg, Germany, 5/87) Cream--Swlabr; Pressed Rat and Warthog; N.S.U. (live, SF, 3/68--unedited version)/// Spanky Wilson & the Quantic Soul Orchestra--I'm Thankful, Pt. 2 GA-20--Crackin' Up Slaid Cleaves--Road Too Long Nat 'King' Cole with Nellie Lutcher--For You, My Love Nellie Lutcher--The Song Is Ended But the Melody Lingers On; That's a-Plenty Jim Lauderdale--Don't Give a Hang Clifton Chenier--I'm the Zydeco Man Arlene Brown & Lee 'Shot' Williams--Impeach Me Baby Cory Christiansen--Street Cred Courtney Barnett--Porcelain Hooray for Earth--Racy Rachel Sweet--Who Does Lisa Like? The Buzzcocks--Noise Annoys Larkin Poe--Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues Eliza Gilkyson--Before the Deluge Jackson Browne--If I Could Be Anywhere; Your Bright Baby Blues; Looking East (live, solo); Black and White Tia Fuller--Crowns of Grey Mavis Staples with Ben Harper--We Get By Blue October--Angels In Everything
---Retroactive #1270--October 5, 2019 Sarah Louise--Up On the Ridge Dillard & Clark--Through the Morning, Through the Night Eilen Jewell--Working Hard for Your Love Mecca Normal--Every Wrong Word Andras Jones--Paint My Day ///Blues treasure Beverly 'Guitar' Watkins (1939-2019): Beverly 'Guitar' Watkins--Right String But the Wrong Yo-Yo; Too Many Times/// ///UK vocalist-songwriter Barrie Masters (1956-2019): Eddie & the Hot Rods--Ignore Them (Still Life); Get Across to You/// ///Singer-songwriter-bassist Kim Shattuck (1963-2019): The Pandoras--That's Your Way Out The Muffs--Really Really Happy; Lay Down The Dollyrots--Some Girls/// Billy Lee Riley--Got the Water Boiling Billy Lee Riley & the Little Green Men--Flying Saucer Rock'n' Roll; Wouldn't You Know Neko Case & her Boyfriends--Mood to Burn Bridges Vaneese Thomas--Lies Sonny Knight & the Fabulous Lakers--Sonny's Boogaloo The Texas Horns with Guy Forsyth--Guitar Town John Prine with Kacey Musgraves--Mental Cruelty John Prine--My Darling Hometown; Sam Stone (live, 1988) Peter Furland Project--White Noise Ian Sweet--Spit Bob Mould--What Do You Want Me to Do ///The John Lennon Birth Anniversary Special: The Beatles--There's a Place; You've Got to Hide Your Love Away; You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) Mimi Fox--Day Tripper Rachel Unthank & the Winterset--Sexy Sadie Toots & the Maytals--Give Peace a Chance Evan Rachel Wood--It Won't Be Long Jason McNiff--Tomorrow Never Knows Rosie Thomas--Love Carl Filipiak & the Jimi Jazz Band--Strawberry Fields Forever John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--Mother John Lennon--Real Love (guitar demo); Crippled Inside; What You Got/// *Plus: Beatles and Lennon interview clips from the BBC and other sources, 1963-1980
---Retroactive #1269--September 28, 2019: Janiva Magness--Standing Colin James--Dig Myself a Hole Eddie Boyd--Come On Home LaVern Baker--Learning to Love Shoes--I Don't Miss You (demo) Olivia Jean--Perfume ///Lyricist-musician Robert Hunter (1941-2019): Robert Hunter--Outta My Mind Jim Lauderdale--Ebenezer Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve--Ship of Fools (live, SF, 5/96) Lyle Lovett--Friend of the Devil Norma Waterson--Black Muddy River Los Lobos--All My Bridges Burning The Persuasions--Bertha Alice DiMicele--Ripple Bob Dylan--Silvio (Robert Hunter wrote six of these nine songs with Jerry Garcia, his partner in the Grateful Dead, and others with Lauderdale, Cesar Rosas [Los Lobos] and Dylan)/// Ellen McIlwaine--Jimmy Jean; Temptation Took Control; Losing You (live, NYC); Higher Ground Fear Itself--Lazarus The Minus 5--Bleach Boys and Beach Girls Shaun Murphy--Hurt Me Good X--Breathless Jerry Lee Lewis--He'll Have to Go; It All Depends (On Who'll Buy the Wine) Rockin' My Life Away; Crawdad Song Tia Fuller--In the Trenches Bobby Rush--Good Stuff Family--Take Your Partners Sleater-Kinney--Reach Out Jeff Buckley--Lover, You Should've Come Over Ty Segall & White Fence--My Friend Robert Ellis Orrall with Carlene Carter--I Couldn't Say No John Mellencamp with Carlene Carter--You Are Blind Carlene Carter--Bandit of Love; Gold Watch and Chain; 300 Pounds of Hongry; That Very First Kiss Ron Davis--Chance Justin Townes Earle--Flint City Shake The War & Treaty--Love Like There's No Tomorrow
---Retroactive #1268--September 21, 2019: Billie & De De Pierce--Eh, La Bas Phil Rosenthal--Indian Summer Julie Miller--Strange Lover The Mountain Goats--Never Quite Free Katrina & the Waves--Going Down to Liverpool (1985 version) ///Musician-photographer-filmmaker John Cohen (1931-2019): The New Lost City Ramblers--The Battleship of Maine; The Miner's Lament/// ///Singer-songwriter-musician-producer Ric Ocasek (1944-2019): Ric Ocasek--Carousel Ernie Isley--Let's Go The Cars--All Mixed Up/// Hiroe Sekine--La Plume Eleanor Murray--As One Vaneese Thomas--Second Chance The '5' Royales--Think Flamin' Groovies--She Loves Me Eilen Jewell--Crawl Andras Jones--Epic Teen (Nancy) Eddie Cochran--Hallelujah! I Love Her So Ray Charles--Nobody Cares; Ain't Misbehavin'; I Won't Leave; Yes Indeed! Snarky Puppy--Chonks Frankie Miller--Danger Danger Koko Taylor--Black Rat Jenni Muldaur--Just Ain't No Love Ryan Bingham--Pontiac Marleen Rosenberg--Visions ///Bruce Springsteen is 70: Aimee Mann & Michael Penn--Reason to Believe Bruce Springsteen--There Goes My Miracle; Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out (live, solo, NYC, 7/18) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--Spirit In the Night (live, LA, 7/78); Prove It All Night (live, Passaic, 9/78)/// *Plus: A poignant Springsteen talking onstage in NYC, 7/18, and in Passaic, NJ, 9/78
---Retroactive #1267--September 14, 2019: Aaron Neville--Hard to Believe Imelda May--Sixth Sense Mavis Staples--Change Hank Williams--Honky Tonkin' (Sterling Records version); My Bucket's Got a Hole In It Betty Carter--Tight! (live, NYC, 3/92) Terry Robb--High Desert Everywhere Courtney Barnett--Sunday Roast ///Daniel Johnston (1961-2019)--Loner; My Life Is Starting Over/// ///Eddie Money (1949-2019)--You've Really Got a Hold On Me/// Dennis Coffey--Polkadots and Moonbeams *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Mable John--Who Wouldn't Love a Man Like That Albert King--Cold Feet Kari Lynn--Cleo Cleopatra The Zombies--Gotta Get a Hold of Myself Amen Corner--(If Paradise Is) Half as Nice Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford--I Need Your Lovin' (unedited version) Buffalo Springfield--Questions The Jaynetts--Sally Go Round the Roses The Doors--The Crystal Ship Karen Dalton--How Did the Feeling Feel to You Tim Buckley--No Man Can Find the War The Velvet Underground--The Black Angel's Death Song The Jeff Beck Group--Beck's Bolero The Sandpebbles--Love Power Gino Washington--Out of This World Erroll Garner--Cheek to Cheek (live, Amsterdam, 11/64) B.B. King--Please Love Me; You Upset Me (both live, Chicago, 11/64) Jr. Walker & the All-Stars--(I'm a) Roadrunner The Beatles--I'm Down Jacqueline Taieb--7 Heures du Matin Roscoe Robinson--That's Enough Aretha Franklin--Soulville The Sonics--Psycho MC5--Kick Out the Jams (radio edit/single) (live, Detroit, 10/68) The Who--I'm a Boy (long version) The Ikettes--I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) The Kinks--Shangri-la The Meters--Live Wire Thee Midniters--Making Ends Meet Scott Walker--Jackie Lee Morgan--Hocus Pocus Procol Harum--Homburg Dusty Springfield--Little By Little *Plus: Excerpts of 1960s commercials
---Retroactive #1266--September 7, 2019: Loudon Wainwright III--The Letter That Never Came Eleanor Murray--Day In, Day Out Jim Page & the Spokes--I Want a New America (live) Macy Gray--When It Ends Andras Jones--One More Figure Guy Forsyth & Jeska Bailey--Concrete Nellie Lutcher--My Mother's Eyes Justin Townes Earle--Mornings In Memphis Hiroe Sekine--A-Me ///Muscle Shoals guitarist-producer Jimmy Johnson (1943-2019): Clarence Carter--Slip Away Delbert McClinton--Spoonful Denise LaSalle--Wet Match Paul Kelly--Stealing In the Name of the Lord Bobby Womack--Harry Hippie Margie Joseph--Knockout James & Bobby Purify--I'm Your Puppet/// Madeleine Peyroux--Changing All Those Changes Jeff Lynne--Words of Love The Bunch--That'll Be the Day The Brewers--Down the Line Buddy Holly--Ready Teddy; Love's Made a Fool of You; Midnight Shift Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Not Fade Away Patsy Cline--In Care of the Blues; Why Can't He Be You; Lovesick Blues (live, Tulsa, 7/61); Turn the Cards Slowly Floyd Tillman--I Love You So Much It Hurts The Kareem Kandi Band--Stardust The Minus 5--My Master Bull Dressy Bessy--What Do I Get? Mudhoney--I Don't Remember You Blur--Advert The Muffs--By My Side Dave Edmunds--I Got the Will Otis Redding--Pain In My Heart; Satisfaction; Mary's Little Lamb; Try a Little Tenderness Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet--El Arroyo The BellRays--Footprints on Water The War & Treaty--If It's In Your Heart Veda Hille--Slumber Queen The Black Angels--Hunt Me Down James McMurtry--Ain't Got a Place *Plus: Brief obits for Clora Bryant (1927-2019), LaShawn Daniels (1977-2019) and Kylie Rae Harris (1979-2019)
---Retroactive #1265--August 31, 2019: Kate Rusby--The Old Man Aileen Stanley--Gonna Get a Girl The Hang Ups--Little Blue Shep & the Limelites--Daddy's Home ///Neal Casal (1968-2019): Hard Working Americans--Down to the Well (Neal Casal played guitar with Ryan Adams' band the Cardinals and several others)/// ///Songwriter-singer-keyboardist Donnie Fritts (1942-2019): Donnie Fritts--You Better Move On Dan Penn & Donnie Fritts--Adios Amigo Arthur Alexander--Rainbow Road John Prine--The Oldest Baby In the World (live) Shelby Lynne--Breakfast In Bed/// Kait Dunton--Thread Suite 3; River ///Album cover artist Pedro Bell (1950-2019); Funkadelic--Groovallegiance; Hardcore Jollies/// Vaneese Thomas--Gone Joe Ely--Working for the Man (live, Austin, 1/99) Third World War--Working Class Man Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Just Give Me Your Time Michael Franti & Spearhead--Summertime Won't Last Long Joanna Connor--Free Free Woman; It's a Woman's Way The Joanna Connor Band--Guitar Dove The Vijay Iver Trio--Smoke Stack Sleater-Kinney--Hurry On Home Free--Mr. Big Betty Carter--Social Call (live, NYC, 3/92) Terry Robb--Confessin' My Dues Ty Segall & White Fence--Room Connector; Body Behavior Television--Prove It Ian Sweet--Borrowed Body Them--I'm Gonna Dress In Black Van Morrison--Beside You; The Prophet Speaks; Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket; Listen to the Lion (both live, 1973) Marlene Rosenberg--American Violet Mavis Staples--Stronger Z.Z. Hill--I Found Love Keb' Mo'--I Should've
---Retroactive #1264--August 24, 2019: Willie May--I'm a Stone Debbie Joyce--At Long Last Love Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--Falling Down Emma Bunton with Jade Jones--You're All I Need to Get By Peppermint Harris--I Got Loaded Ron Sexsmith--All In Good Time Eleanor Murray--The Immensity Guy Forsyth & Jeska Bailey--Sing About It Ron Davis--Los Angeliques Chet Baker--You Don't Know What Love Is Dinah Washington--Trouble In Mind; Romance In the Dark; I Get a Kick Out of You; This Bitter Earth Victor Wainwright & the Train--Money La Luz--I Don't Wanna Be Anywhere ///Maceo Parker--I've Got Work to Do; To Be or Not to Be; Sing a Simple Song (Maceo Parker and his band play Olympia's Capitol Theater August 27th)/// Barbara Lynn--I've Taken All I'm Gonna Take Spoon--Shotgun Linda Thompson--Insult to Injury; Nine Stone Rig Richard & Linda Thompson--Just the Motion; Dimming of the Day Gary Stroutsas, Will Clipman & William Eaton--River of Heaven Mem Shannon--Payin' My Dues (live, New Orleans) Meshell Ndegeocello--Sensitivity Angaleena Presley--Pain Pills Robert Wyatt--Shipbuilding Rosanne Cash with Elvis Costello & Kris Kristofferson--8 Gods of Harlem Elvis Costello & the Imposters--Mr. & Mrs. Hush Elvis Costello & the Attractions--Beaten to the Punch; Man Out of Time Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve--Medley: Alison/Living a Little, Laughing a Little/ The Tracks of My Tears/Tears of a Clown/Tearstained Makeup/ Clowntime Is Over (live, NYC, 5/96) Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra--The Craw Joy Williams--Canary Justin Townes Earle--Ahi Esta Mi Nina
---Retroactive #1263--August 17, 2019: Joey Wright--Sunrise; Big Baby Robert Earl Keen--Long Black Veil Imelda May--Bad Habit Terry Robb--Now Vestapol Vaneese Thomas--Wake Me Rufus & Carla Thomas--When You Move You Lose Dennis Coffey--Sunny ///50th Anniversary of the Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati: Derringer--I Didn't Ask to Be Born Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth--I Don't Do That Kind of Thing Anymore The Allman Brothers Band--Dimples (live, Cincinnati, 4/70) (Rick Derringer and Tracy Nelson performed at this weekend's 50th anniversary show; the Allman Brothers Band track with Duane Allman singing is from their April 11th, 1970 Ludlow Garage gig)/// Raya Yarbrough--Better Days Paul Kelly--God's Hotel The Texas Horns with Curtis Salgado--Sundown Talkin' Tacocat--Bridge to Hawaii Joe Strummer--Tennessee Rain Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--At the Border, Guy; Long Shadow The Clash--Career Opportunities; The Right Profile; Straight to Hell (live, Boston, 9/82) Carol Morgan Quartet--On a Misty Night Sleater-Kinney--Broken Louie & the Lovers--Forgive Me This Time Mavis Staples--Sometime Squeeze--Happy Days The Black Keys--Go Courtney Barnett--Don't Apply Compression Lightly Katy Moffatt--We Ran Terrance Simien--It Hasn't Happened Yet Lou Ann Barton--Pink Bedroom John Hiatt--Sure As I'm Sittin' Here; Sure Pinocchio; Over the Hill; Your Dad Did Marlene Rosenberg--The Line Between Candye Kane--You Never Cross My Mind Amos Lee--Louisville
---Retroactive #1262--August 10, 2019: Keb' Mo'--This Is My Home Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers--Mess I'm In Guy Forsyth & Jeska Bailey--Nobody Gonna Bail Me Out ///Singer-songwriter-poet David Berman (1965-2019): Silver Jews--Strange Victory, Strange Defeat/// ///Guitarist-songwriter Nicky Wonder (1960-2019): The Wondermints--Arnaldo Said/// ///Bassist Francesca 'Frankie' Sundsteen (1960-2019): The Beakers--Funky Town/// Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues--Last Night Betty Carter--Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (live, NYC, 3/92) Eleanor Murray--I'm All In Fumi Tomita--Second Bakery Attack Mark Knopfler--Drovers' Road Delaney & Bonnie--Comin' Home The War & Treaty--All I Wanna Do The Soft Boys--Unprotected Love Michael Franti & Spearhead--Little Things The Ronettes--I Wonder; Is This What I Get for Loving You? Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes with Ronnie Spector --You Mean So Much to Me Ronnie Spector--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying; Hey Sah Lo Ney; Tonight Kait Dunton--Planet D'earth Todd Snider--Introduction/Cowboy Jack Clement's Waltz Martha Redbone Roots Project--How Sweet I Roamed Samantha Crain--Wild Mountain Thyme; Windmill Crusader Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--Songs In the Night Roxy Music--Pyjamarama Ex Hex--Want It to Be True Kurt Vile--Loading Zones Shawn Colvin--Crazy (live, 7/08) ///The 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair: Richie Havens--Handsome Johnny (live, 8/69) The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Red House (live, 8/69) Joan Baez & Jeffrey Shurtleff--Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man (live, 8/69) Arlo Guthrie--Comin' Into Los Angeles (live, 8/69) Janis Joplin with the Kozmic Blues Band--Piece of My Heart (live, 8/69)/// Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet--In a Mist Southern Avenue--Jive Dressy Bessy--Cheer Up Tear Drop The Bandits--I Remember the Girl *Plus: Clip of National Lampoon's Woodstock parody (Announcements, first part)
---Retroactive #1261--August 3, 2019: Betty Wright--Paralyzed Terry Robb--It Might Get Sweaty Jimmy McGriff & Junior Parker--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying Mavis Staples--Chance on Me Richard Shindell--Nora (live) Justin Townes Earle--Over Alameda Sleater-Kinney--Can I Go On Ray Charles--Ain't That Love Laura Campisi--Hyperbalad Mimi Fox--Blue Bossa ///Keyboardist Ian Gibbons (1952-2019): The Kinks--Come Dancing/// Nils Lofgren--Remember You The Texas Horns with Carolyn Wonderland --I'm Doin' Alright, at Least for Tonight Arcade Fire--Creature Comfort Tacocat--I Love Seattle The Budos Band--Veil of Shadows Joe Tex--Live for Yourself; Don't Make Your Children Pay; Fresh Out of Tears; What Me and My Baby Ain't Got Tight Bros from Way Back When--Show Me (live, Olympia, 7/99) Timi Yuro--I Ain't Gonna Cry No More; Crazy; What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You) Bob Sheppard--Maria's Tango Bruce Springsteen--Moonlight Motel Shemekia Copeland--Ain't Gonna Be Your Tattoo Lee Fields & the Expressions--Two Faces Lena Lovich--Home The Specials--Stupid Marriage The Black Keys--Lo/Hi Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Candy Man/Talkin' Sailor Blues (live, 1961); Cup of Coffee; Talkin' Columbia (live, NYC, 4/65) Jan Cronin--Love's Made That Way Unwound--Seen Not Heard Graham Parker & the Rumour--Something You're Going Through Bangs--Licorice Whip Marlene Rosenberg--Circle Story Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--Millvale, PA Chan Romero--Hippy Hippy Shake
---Retroactive #1260--July 27, 2019: Norman Blake, Nancy Blake & Tut Taylor--Worried Blues J.B. Lenoir--The Mojo Bex Marshall--Stand Up Betty Carter--Moonlight In Vermont (live, NYC, 3/92) Eleanor Murray--I Grow Wild Harpeth Rising--The Borderline ///Singer-songwriter-keyboardist Art Neville (1937-2019): Art Neville--What's Going On; Hook, Line and Sinker; My Babe The Wild Tchoupitoulas--Hey Pocky Way The Meters--Cabbage Alley The Neville Brothers--Why You Wanna Hurt My Heart?; Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy (both live, New Orleans, 9/82)/// The Don Shirley Duo--Atonal Ostinato Blues In B ZSG--Our Footprints Are the Same Size Reigning Sound--Everything I Do Is Wrong Ex Hex--Waterfall The War & Treaty--Healing Tide Mink DeVille--Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl; Demasiado Corazon (Too Much Heart); Lipstick Traces Alice Howe--Getaway Car Franz Ferdinand--Jacqueline Davell Crawford--When My Dreamboat Comes Home/When the Saints Go Marching In Aloe Blacc--Loving You Is Killing Me Michael Franti & Spearhead with Hirie--The Only Thing Missing Was You Amy Rigby--That Tone of Voice Courtney Barnett--Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence Porter Wagoner--Company's Comin' Neil Young & Crazy Horse--Powderfinger X-Ray Spex--Warrior In Woolworth's Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy--You Don't Love Me Baby Buddy Guy--Meet Me In Chicago; When My Left Eye Jumps; I Dig Your Wig; Old Fashioned Ellen Rowe Octet--R.F.P. (Relentless Forward Progress) Kinky Friedman--Ol' Ben Lucas Soozie Tyrell--Who Rules Your Life The Parting Gifts--Keep Walkin' Moe Tucker--S.O.S. Quasi--Good Time Rock'n'Roll
---Retroactive #1259--July 20, 2019: Mary Gauthier--Oh Soul Marti Jones--Last of the Lukewarm Lovers Jim Lauderdale & Roland White--Six White Horses Faye Adams--Every Day Justin Townes Earle--Appalachian Nightmare Meshell Ndegeocello--Smooth Operator Nils Lofgren--Blue With Lou Kenny Burrell--The Switch ///Johnny Clegg (1953-2019): Juluka--Woza Friday Johnny Clegg & Savuka--Giyana Johnny Clegg with the Soweto Gospel Choir--Asilazi/// The Shy--Jenny Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--I Got No Answers Darlene Love--Who Under Heaven ///Russell Smith (1949-2019): The Amazing Rhythm Aces--Why Can't I Be Satisfied; Emma-Jean; Fool for the Woman; I'll Be Gone Russell Smith--Don't Go to Strangers/// Jane Rose & the Deadend Boys--Bitten Kurt Vile--Check Baby Doug Carn & the West Coast Organ Band--Bad Attitude Dressy Bessy--Sweet Medicine The Budos Band--Arcane Rambler Lee Fields & the Expressions--Don't Give Up Mavis Staples--Heavy On My Mind Jim Basnight--Live In the Sun Tacocat--Rose-Colored Sky Tiffany Pollack & Eric Johanson--No Expectations Los Straitjackets with Sarah Borges--Let's Spend the Night Together Gerald Collier--Jigsaw Puzzle Esther Phillips--As Tears Go By Tim Ries--Paint It Black The Rolling Stones--Far Away Eyes; Grown Up Wrong; Street Fighting Man; Dear Doctor
---Retroactive #1258--July 13, 2019: Malcolm Holcombe--It Is What It Is Cowboy Junkies--Leaving Normal Hart-Rouge--Marie Caissis ///Singer-guitarist Joao Gilberto (1931-2019): Joao Gilberto--Bim Bom Ithamara Koorax & Juarez Moreira--Bim Bom; Ho-Ba-La-La Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto--Dorlice; Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer)/// Vivian Sessoms--I Can't Breathe Ron Davis--So What ///Vocalist Jerry Lawson (1944-2019): The Persuasions--Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up; Up On the Roof (live); Looking for an Echo; Don't It Make You Want to Go Home Don McLean with the Persuasions--Crying In the Chapel Jerry Lawson--Peace Like a River/// Woody Guthrie--Hard Times; Pretty Boy Floyd (both Library of Congress recordings, 3/40); End of the Line Judy Collins--Pastures of Plenty Mimi Fox--This Bird Still Flies ///20th Anniversary of Olympia's Yoyo a Go Go 1999 Festival: Mirah--Engine Heart (live, 7/99) Cadallaca--Fake Karaoke Machine Bratmobile--Queenie Old Time Relijun--Siren (live, 7/99) The Make Up--I am Pentagon The Mountain Goats--For Charles Bronson Mecca Normal--I Walk Alone Elliott Smith--The Biggest Lie/// Alice Howe--Too Long at the Fair Eleanor Murray--You Dancing Betsy and Dave--Cheek to Cheek (2014 version) Betsy Holt--Why Don't You Do Right (2002 version); I've Got a Few Things (1976 version) Bob Sheppard--Above and Beyond Miracle Legion--Mr. Spaceman The Byrds--John Riley; Just a Season Roger McGuinn--Eight Miles High (live, solo)
---Retroactive #1257--July 6, 2019: The Trashcan Sinatras--I've Seen Everything Linda Draper--Limbo Billy Branch & the Sons of Blues--Roller Coaster Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside--Thirteen Years Old Richie Havens--Adam Macy Gray with Gary Clark Jr.--Buddha Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell --Slave Driver The Sadies--The Land Between Justin Townes Earle--Don't Drink the Water Martin Hayes Quartet--My Mind Will Never Be Easy ///Guitarist-vocalist Gary Duncan (1946-2019): Quicksilver Messenger Service--Calvary; Mona/// Lake Street Drive--Good Kisser Chuck Brodsky--Creepsville Catherine Russell--Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby Ruth Brown--Knock Me a Kiss Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Knock Me a Kiss; You Know It Too; I Want You to Be My Baby; Saturday Night Fish Fry Lisa Hilton--Warm Summer Night Detroit Cobras--Ya Ya Ya (Looking for My Baby) Jamison Ross--All for One Leon Thomas--Just In Time to See the Sun Ringo Starr--We're On the Road Again All Girl Summer Fun Band--The Only Ones Nils Lofgren--Too Blue to Play ///Greg Brown is 70: Lucinda Williams--Lately Greg Brown--Daughters; Good Morning Coffee (live); Canned Goods; Mose Allison Played Here/// Dennis Coffey--Impressions ///Mavis Staples is 80: Leela James--Let's Do It Again Mavis Staples--One True Vine; Brothers and Sisters///
---Retroactive #1256--June 29, 2019: Heliotroupe--Rodeo Mark Knopfler--Just a Boy Away from Home Mimi Fox--Get Away Blues Kim Richey--Come On Eric Bibb with North Country Far & Danny Thompson--I'll Farm for You Guy Davis--We All Need More Kindness In This World Meg Williams--Can't Keep Waiting On You Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa--Lullaby of the Leaves Ellen Rowe Octet--Ain't I a Woman Jim Lauderdale & Roland White--Nashville Blues Malcolm Holcombe--I Don't Wanna Disappear Anymore Eleanor Murray--Street to Ride Tacocat--Miles and Miles Whiskeytown--Drank Like a River Ex Hex--Good Times ///Writer-producer-musician Dave Bartholomew (1918-2019): Dave Bartholomew--Stormy Weather; Tra La La; Who Drank My Beer While I Was In the Rear; The Monkey Fats Domino--Poor Me (live, Austin, 10/86) Bob Seger--Blue Monday The Hawks--I-Yi George Benson--Ain't That a Shame/// Martin Taylor--I'm Old Fashioned (live, Pittsburgh, 6/98) Helen Humes--Real Fine Daddy; 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do; Sneakin' Around Debbie Davies--Fishnet Kurt Vile--Yeah Bones Traffic--Freedom Rider Janis Martin--Little Bit The Big Three Trio--Lonesome Willie Dixon--You Don't Make Sense or Peace Sam Moore, Keb' Mo' & Angie Stone--Wang Dang Doodle Bo Ramsey--Crazy Mixed Up World Tali Roth--Retrato de Milton British Lions--Wild In the Streets Garland Jeffreys--Dragons to Slay; Streetwise; Streets of Philadelphia; New York Skyline *Plus: Jazz pianist-vocalist Ruby Bishop (1919-2019) remembered; she was a fixture at Vito's in Seattle
---Retroactive #1255--June 22, 2019: Lyle Ritz & Rebecca Kilgore--I Love a Ukulele Phosphorescent--The Murmaid Parade Jackie Lomax--Helluva Woman Karen Dalton--Take Me Daniel Norgren--Dandelion Time The Lee Boys--You Got to Move (live, 2018) The Kate Lush Band--If You Don't Like It Pete McCann--Numinous Ivory Joe Hunter--I Got Your Water On Gretchen Parlato--How We Love Peter Gabriel--Summertime Nils Lofgren--Don't Let Your Guard Down Dressy Bessy--What It Is Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band--Central City The Gazebos--Boys I Like Luluc--Things Behind the Sun Nick Drake--Been Smoking Too Long; Harvest Breed; Man In a Shed; Fly Bob Dylan--Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (live, Montreal, 12/75); One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) (live, Boston, 11/75); It Ain't Me Babe (live, Cambridge, MA, 11/75) Scott Robinson--Put On a Happy Face Angel Olsen--Stars Sterling Harrison--A Nickel and a Nail Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite--The Bottle Wins Again The Young Fresh Fellows--99 Girls Tullycraft--Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About Heavenly--Skipjack Courtney Barnett--An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless In New York) Kait Dunton--River On the Rocks ///Ray Davies Is 75: Matthew Sweet--Big Sky The Choir--David Watts Halie Loren--Sunny Afternoon (live, 2009) Shemekia Copeland--I'm Not Like Everybody Else Ray Davies--The Getaway The Kinks--I Need You; Do It Again; Apeman; He's Evil/// *Plus: Remembering record executive/artist manager Elliott Roberts (1943-2019) ---Retroactive #1254--June 15, 2019: Will Bennett--Railroad Bill Yuno--No Going Back Shel Silverstein--Quaaludes Again Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison--If I Had a Rose Otis Taylor--Government Lied Patty Griffin--The Wheel ///Guitarist-singer Paul 'Lil Buck' Sinegal (1944-2019): Paul 'Lil Buck' Sinegal--Run Down Cadillac; If You Want Me to Leave/// Fred Hersch Trio--We See (live) Budos Band--Peak of Eternal Night Kurt Vile--Backasswards Tacocat--The Problem Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--I'm Your Biggest Fan Marcia Ball--Louella Kim Fowley--Almost Summer Brian Wilson--Child Is Father of the Man; God Only Knows (live, LA, 4/00) Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks--Wings of a Dove The Beach Boys--She Knows Me Too Well; Girl Don't Tell Me; 'Til I Die (1998 remix) Ellen Rowe Octet--Game, Set, Match Morcheeba--Finally Found You Lee Fields & the Expressions--A Promise Is a Promise Ex Hex--No Reflection Todd Snider--Talking Reality Television Blues Barbara Acklin--Your Sweet Loving Cheap Trick--California Man George Benson--You Can't Catch Me Esther Phillips--How Blue Can You Get The Fireman--Sing the Changes Wings--Getting Closer; Rock Show (alternate take--'old version') Paul McCartney with Elvis Costello--You Want Her Too Paul McCartney--Happy With You; Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey (live, KC, 5/93) Mimi Fox--Blackbird Dave Holland Octet--Pathways (live, NYC, 1/09) Mavis Staples--Have a Little Faith
---Retroactive #1253--June 8, 2019: Madeleine Peyroux--Instead Daniel Norgren--Let Love Run the Game Nancy Wright--Well I'm Travelin' Eleanor Murray--This Grand Table Jim Pepper--Comin' and Goin' The Johnny Otis Show--Crazy Country Hop The dBs--Ask for Jill ///Mikey Dees (1970-2019): Fitz of Depression--She Wants to Know; Take It Away; Everybody and Their Dog/// Al Hood & the H2 Jazztet--Cleopatra's Asp Catherine Russell--You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes Nils Lofgren--Rock or Not Dressy Bessy--Tiny Little Robots Heather Nova--Everything Changes John Howard--Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ///Roky Erickson (1947-2019): The Spades--We Sell Soul The 13th Floor Elevators--She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) Roky Erickson--We Are Never Talking; Bermuda Roky Erickson & the Aliens--The Wind and More; Click Your Fingers Applauding the Play Bongwwater--You Don't Love Me Yet/// Kait Dunton--29 North Dakota Staton--Stop Doin' for Her; Porgy; C.C. Rider Howlin' Wolf--Mama Died and Left Me; Tell Me; Hidden Charms The Shirelles--Stop the Music; Look a Here Baby; Don't Say Goodnight and Mean Goodbye Foxygen--The Thing Is Los Straitjackets--Game of Thrones Ron Davis --Symphronica Upfront ///Dr. John (1941-2019): Mac Rebbenack--Storm Warning Maria Muldaur with Dr. John--Best of Me Dr. John & Sarah Morrow--I Walk On Guilded Splinters (live, 5/14) Dr. John--Broke, Raggedy and Hungry; Such a Night (live, 1991); How Come My Dog Don't Bark When You Come 'Round///
---Retroactive #1252--June 1, 2019: Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra--Taboo The Ohio Untouchables--Love Is Amazing Zora Young--Girlfriend (1991 version) ///Vocalist John Gary Williams (1946-2019): The Mad Lads--I Don't Want to Lose Your Love; The Sidewalk Surf John Gary Williams--Come What May; The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy/// ///Harmonica player-journalist Tony Glover (1939-2019): Koerner, Ray & Glover--Ramblin' Blues; Honey Bee/// ///Bass vocalist Willie Ford (1950-2019): The Dramatics--Hey You! Get Off My Mountain; Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get /// ///Singer-guitarist Leon Redbone (1949-2019)--Just You and I; I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby/// Ron Jackson--Somewhere In the Night Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Layla McCalla, Allison Russell --Black Myself Todd Snider--Just Like Overnight Dave Alvin--Every Night About This Time (1994 version) Lake Street Dive--Hello? Goodbye!; Red Light Kisses; Doesn't Even Matter Now The Impressions--You Must Believe Me Curtis Mayfield--We Got to Have Peace; Freddie's Dead Kim Wilson--Gypsy Woman Ellen Rowe Octet--The First Lady (No, Not You, Melania) Girl Haggard--Providence and Bourbon Lee Fields & the Expressions--Love Prisoner Tacocat--Little Friend The Kingbees--Sweet Sweet Girl to Me Ex Hex--Diamond Drive ///45th Anniversary of the June 1, 1974 concert and album: (Brian) Eno--Seven Deadly Finns Kevin Ayers--May I? (live, London, 6/74) Nico--Janitor of Lunacy John Cale--Heartbreak Hotel (live, London, 6/74)/// Herlin Riley--Wings and Roots Mott the Hoople--The Ballad of Mott the Hoople (26 March 1972, Zurich); Backsliding Fearlessly Ian Hunter--Morons; Fuss About Nothin' Plus: Film clip from The King's Speech with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush
---Retroactive #1251--May 25, 2019: Martha High--Onlee-U George Benson--I Hear You Knockin' Tiffany Pollack & Eric Johanson--Michael Al Garner--Leavin' Tennessee Catherine Russell--I Wonder The 88--Bowls Bob Mould--Western Sunset Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--What If You Knew Miriam Makeba--Maria Fulo Mimi Fox--Twilight In the Mangroves *All Texas Show (2nd and 3rd hours): Texas Ruby--Don't Let That Man Get You Down Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies--Yes Sir! Lightnin' Hopkins--Got to Move Your Baby Patty Griffin--Bluebeard 13th Floor Elevators--Splash 1 (Now I'm Home) Gary Clark Jr.--The Guitar Man Roy (Head), Sarah (Fulcher) & the Traits--You'll Never Make Me Blue Darden Smith--Skin Angela Strehli--Say It's Not So Johnny Copeland--Rock & Roll Lilly Slaid Cleaves--Key Chain (live, 2010) Rosie Flores--Till the Well Runs Dry Townes Van Zandt--Pancho and Lefty Rene & Rene--Hand Me Down ZZ Top--Francene (Spanish) Lou Ann Barton--Down South In New Orleans Arnett Cobb--Flying Home Mambo Joe 'King' Carrasco & the Crowns--Current Events (Are Making Me Tense) Sarah Jarosz--Come On Up to the House Elouise Burrell & Trickle Down--Talkin' About S.E.X. Sara Hickman--Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again? Doug Sahm--Your Friends Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel--Right or Wrong Lindsay Beaver--Oh Yeah Joe Tex--If Sugar Was as Sweet as You Steve Earle & the Dukes--Texas 1947 Guy Clark--Stuff That Works (live, 12/06) Bobby Patterson--Then You'll Know Bubble Puppy--Hot Smoke and Sasafrass King Curtis--Jest Smoochin' Terri Hendrix--My Own Place Delbert McClinton--Desperation Buddy Holly--Heartbeat Joe Ely--Jazz Street Emily Wells--Richard
---Retroactive #1250--May 18, 2019: Lee Fields & the Expressions--Will I Get Off Easy Michelle Willson--As Long as I'm Movin' Moby--Almost Home ///Leon Rausch (1927-2019): Bob Wills & Tommy Duncan--Heart to Heart Talk (Leon Rausch, guitar and harmony vocal) Mary Ann Price with Leon Rausch--I Never Had It So Good/// ///Mike Wilhelm (1942-2019): The Charlatans--The Blues Ain't Nothin' Flamin' Groovies--I Saw Her/// ///Chuck Barksdale (1935-2019): The Dells--Slow Motion; Oh What a Night (1969 version)/// ///Doris Day (1922-2019): Les Brown & his Orchestra featuring Doris Day --My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time Doris Day--Tunnel of Love; My One and Only Love/// Herlin Riley--Be There When I Get There Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Allison Russell --Quasheba, Quasheba Duke Levine--Roundup Serenade John Fogerty--I Confess Creedence Clearwater Revival--Commotion Rosanne Cash--My Least Favorite Life; The Only Thing Worth Fighting For Tacocat--The Joke of Life Ex Hex--Cosmic Cave The Hard Way--Solongasyouwant Tom Morello--Vigilante Nocturno Kait Dunton--Sarah's Bracelet ///Bob Dylan's 78th Birthday: The Band--Tears of Rage Ruth Wyand--Blind Willie McTell Caetano Veloso--It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding Marianne Faithfull--It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Joan Osborne--Highwater (for Charley Patton) Catpower--I Believe In You Charlie Ballantine--One More Cup of Coffee Sue Foley--If You Gotta Go Shaun Murphy--It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry The Wynton Marsalis Septet with Bob Dylan --It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (live, NYC, 6/04) Bob Dylan--Golden Loom; Motorpsycho Nitemare; Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache; Shelter from the Storm (take 2)/// *Plus: A clip of comedian Tim Conway (1933-2019)
---Retroactive #1249--May 11, 2019: Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile--Untogether Johnny Adams--After All the Good Is Gone The Staple Singers--This World The Steve Gibbons Band--Eddy Vortex Eddie Cochran--Twenty Flight Rock Jane Siberry--Everything Reminds Me of My Dog Los Straitjackets--Dancing With the Stars/Sex and the City ///Songwriter-bassist J.R. Cobb (1944-2019): Sandy Posey--I Take It Back Wynonna Judd--Rock Bottom Atlanta Rhythm Section--Champagne Jam (Classics IV and ARS member Cobb co-wrote several chestnuts like 'Spooky,' 'Imaginary Lover' and hits for others)/// Greg Murphy Trio--For My Mom Taj Mahal--You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (live, 2/71); Everybody Is Somebody; Freight Train (live, 1990) The Claypool Lennon Delirium--Blood and Rockets Katarina Pejak--Cool Drifter The Lee Boys--Say Yes! Mecca Normal--Strong White Male The Animals--See See Rider; We Gotta Get Out of This Place (US single version) Eric Burdon--Slow Moving Train; Devil and Jesus Mimi Fox--You Don't Know What Love Is Macy Gray--Jealousy Barbara Dane--I'm On My Way Ural Thomas & the Pain--Show Ya Bruce Springsteen--Intro/The Wish (live, solo, 7/18) Patty Griffin--Where I Come From Lake Street Dive--Dude Stevie Wonder--Do Yourself a Favor; Nothing's Too Good for My Baby; Redemption Song; I Ain't Gonna Stand for It Cecile McLorin Salvant--Visions Sherman Irby & Momentum--Smile Please Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--Time to Pray The Forty-Fives--Go Ahead and Shout *Plus: Bruce Springsteen's wonderful synopsis of his mother's strength and passion for living in his intro to 'The Wish'
---Retroactive #1248--May 4, 2019: Odetta--Hard, Oh Lord Chris Smither--Everything On Top Lynn Miles--You Don't Love Me Anymore Peter Himmelman--Always In Disguise (live, 11/93) Valerie June--Love You Once Made Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra --Your Good Thing (Is About to End) ///Singer-guitarist John Starling (1940-2019): The Seldom Scene with John Starling & Emmylou Harris--With Body and Soul (Starling was with the Seldom Scene starting in 1971--he also guested with the band after he had departed, had his own band and resumed his medical career)/// ///Promoter-disc jockey Russ Gibb (1931-2019) The Rationals--Leavin' Here (version 1) ('Uncle' Russ Gibb ran Detroit's legendary Grande Ballroom, promoted concerts and was the radio host for WKNR/Detroit's 'Is Paul [McCartney] Dead?' coverage in 1969)/// The Eric Reed Quartet--Yesterday/Yesterdays Roberta Flack--Won't You Be My Neighbor? Los Lobos with La Marisoul, Xochi Flores, Cesar Castro--Nothing Can Be Done (live, Los Angeles, 11/18) Cowboy Junkies--Dead Flowers Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble & Jaki Liebezeit--Trench Warfare ///The 100th Birth Anniversary of Pete Seeger: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer--The Emperor Is Naked Today-O Pete Seeger--River of My People; English Is Cuh-Ray-Zee (live, 11/96); Talking Atom; Garbage/// The Brats--Be a Man The Jets--Yeah! Milk 'n' Cookies--Wok 'n' Woll Will Vinson--The Pines Katie Webster--Two Fisted Mama Teisco Del Rey--Seville Thee Midniters--Never Knew I Had It So Bad Ex Hex--Radiate Lacuna Coil--Losing My Religion Soundgarden--Mood for Trouble The Who--I Don't Mind James Brown & the Famous Flames--I'll Go Crazy (live, NYC, 10/62); James Brown--My Thang; Money Won't Change You James Brown with the JBs--Super Bad, Pts. 1 & 2 Ellen Rowe Octet--Anthem Lucinda Williams--Disgusted Squeeze--F-Hole; Labelled with Love Dee Dee Warwick--Do It With All Your Heart *Plus: Clip of radio host Russ Gibb talking to a listener during the 'Is Paul Dead?' controversy
---Retroactive #1247--April 27, 2019: Nathaniel Rateliff--Oil and Lavender Doc & Merle Watson--Smoke, Smoke, Smoke Eleanor Murray--Hush (Smash!) Veronica Falls--Last Conversation Big Ass Truck--Lil' Tico Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra with Annisteen Allen--Bongo Boogie The Tommy Castro Band--If You Ain't Lovin' You Ain't Livin' Tommy Castro & the Painkillers--Two Hearts (live) The Point Loma Nazarene University Jazz Band--Invitation Patty Griffin--Coins David Archuleta with Libby Linton--Don't Give Up Courtney Barnett--Scotty Says Rosanne Cash--Not Many Miles to Go Gary Clark Jr.--I Walk Alone The Claypool Lennon Delirium--South of Reality Ann Peebles--I Pity the Fool; I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love; I Take What I Want Leon Russell--Alcatraz Paul Weller--Shout to the Top (live, 12/05) The McKinleys--Someone Cares for Me Mimi Fox--Against the Grain Samantha Fish--Somebody's Always Trying Glen Hansard--Threading Water Paula West--Fixing a Hole Macy Gray--Just Like Jenny Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen--Lost In the Ozone Ray Davies--The Big Weird Jenni Muldaur--You've Got Me Up Tight Sleater-Kinney--Jumpers Charles Lloyd & the Marvels with Willie Nelson--Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream Kimmie Rhodes with Willie Nelson--Hard Promises to Keep Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard--Where Dreams Go to Die Willie Nelson--She's Not for You (1973 version); Border Song; A Foggy Day Kait Dunton--Dear John Koko Taylor--Man Size Job All Girl Summer Fun Band--Dear Mr. & Mrs. Troublemaker The Pretty Things--Sickle Clowns *Plus: Two clips from the audio book 'The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness In Your Heart' by Willie Nelson & Turk Pipkin (Penguin Audio, 2006)
---Retroactive #1246--April 20, 2019: ---25th Anniversary Show Joan Baez--Dark as a Dungeon Rory Block--Morning Bells John Paul White--What's So Lord Baldwin--The Woman's Always Right Amanda Shires--Leave It Alone Willie Buck--Heck of a Time Ellen McIlwaine--Regretting Blues ///Singer-songwriter Kent 'Boogaloo' Harris (1930-2019): Boogloo & his Gallant Crew--Talk About a Party; Cops and Robbers The Coasters--Shoppin' for Clothes (Ear-opening for me to hear KH's 1950s recordings)/// ///Songwriter Les Reed (1935-2019): The Sensational Alex Harvey Band--Delilah (live, London, 5/75) (LR wrote '60s hits 'There's a Kind of Hush' for Herman's Hermits and 'It's Not Unusual' and 'Delilah' for Tom Jones)/// Ellen Rowe Octet--Song of the Meadowlark Tiffany Pollack & Eric Johanson--Diamonds On the Crown Catherine Russell--Errand Girl for Rhythm John Mayall--Distant Lonesome Train Ex Hex--Rainbow Shiner Bob Mould--Sunshine Rock Ella Fitzgerald--Stompin' at the Savoy; Love for Sale (both live, Hollywood, 5/61); Ella Fitzgerald with the Tommy Flanagan Quartet--Any Old Blues (live, NYC, 7/73) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong--I'm Puttin' All My Eggs In One Basket Emmet Cohen Trio--Bremond's Blues (live, Detroit, 9/17) Alabama Shakes--Gemini The Loose Acoustic Trio--Pinball Wizard Mary Lou Lord--Cold Kilburn Rain Edwin Starr--Twenty-Five Miles Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--Change My Way Dar Williams--Spring Street; Empire; As Cool as I Am Iggy & the Stooges--Burn The Stooges--Down On the Street Iggy Pop & Green Day--Supermarket Iggy Pop--I'm Bored; Livin' On the Edge of the Night The Pretenders--1969 Rich Pellegrin--Acceptance Big Star--Morpha Too Danielle Nicole--Burnin' for You *Plus: J.J. & Tom Puckett on WBRB in 1988 and some KAOS reminiscing ---Retroactive #1245--April 13, 2019: ---KAOS Spring Pledge Drive Show Billy Bragg--King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood Macy Gray--Tell Me Terry Callier--Ordinary Joe (1972 version) Julia Lee--Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Gary Clark Jr.--I Got My Eyes On You (Locked and Loaded) Lou Ann Barton--Ti Ni Nee Ni Nu Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite--Bad Habits Jerry Lee Lewis--All Night Long One String Sam--I Need a Hundred Dollars Livingston Taylor--Our Turn to Dance (live, 1999) Sarah Borges--Same Old 45 Alejandro Escovedo--Something Blue Arctic Monkeys--D Is for Dangerous The Tielman Brothers--Record Hop Jackie Powers & the Intruders--New River Train Carl Holmes & the Commanders--Soul Dance No. 3 Wild Man Fischer--Go to Rhino Records Dave Edmunds--Something Happens; Never Been In Love; No Money Down (live) Betty Davis--Walkin Up the Road The Claypool Lennon Delirium--Toady Man's Hour Joey Peek--When the Needle Hit the Vinyl Roy Loney & the Longshots--Grapey Wine Dusty Springfield--Do Re Mi (Forget About the Do and Think About Me); Easy Evil; If You Go Away Courtney Barnett--Aqua Profunda! John Primer--Feel Like Going Home Jackie Shane--Any Other Way (live, 1967) Al Green & Lyle Lovett--Funny How Time Slips Away Al Green--Home Again; Tired of Being Alone (live, Cleveland, 9/95); Play to Win The Knickerbocker All-Stars--Go Girl! Pat Cupp--Do Me No Wrong
---Retroactive #1244--April 6, 2019: Mary Ann Price--Bottoms Up John Mayall--Evil and Here to Stay Lord Baldwin--Get On With My Life Catherine Russell--You Turned the Tables On Me Madame X--Paris Adult World Orville Peck--Turn to Hate Sheldon Brown Group--First Star Sonia/Disappear Fear--By My Silence James McMurtry--How'm I Gonna Find You Now Frank Bey--Yesterday's Dreams Kelly Willis--Afternoon's Gone Blind Lonnie Mack--I've Had It Oxo--Whirly Girl Lindsay Beaver with Brad Stivers--Don't Be Afraid of Love Ex Hex--Tough Enough Carl Perkins--That's Right; Let My Baby Be; Put Your Cat Clothes On Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer--Lithium Nirvana--Negative Creep Richard Berry--The Big Break; Rockin' Daddy Richard Berry & the Pharoahs--Louie Louie Kait Dunton--Thread Suite 2 Kacey Musgraves--Slow Burn Hound Dog Taylor & the HouseRockers--Talk to My Baby Calexico--Under the Wheels Becki Sue & her Big Rockin' Daddies--Cut You Loose (live, 11/03) Family--Dim; Buffet Tea for Two Streetwalkers--Shotgun Messiah; Can't Come In Carmen McRae--Yardbird Suite; Sarah; Get It Straight (Straight, No Chaser) Carmen McRae & Betty Carter--What's New (live, 1987) Faruq Z. Bey & Northwoods Improvisers--Fountain (live, 6/01) Karl Denson's Tiny Universe--Can We Trade Cara Being Blue--Kind Kinda Man
---Retroactive #1243--March 30, 2019: James Elkington--Make It Up Robin Williamson & his Merry Band--Red Eye Blues Ina Forsman--Every Single Beat The Softies--Alaska Lee Dorsey--A Mellow Good Time Yvette Landry & the Jukes--I Almost Lost My Mind Marianne Faithfull--Witches' Song (2018 version) ///Vocalist/toaster Ranking Roger (1963-2019): The English Beat--Hit It; Twist and Crawl; Get a Job/Stand Down Margaret (live, Boston, 11/82)/// Chuck Redd--Regulator ///Vocalist/art rock songwriter Scott Walker (1943-2019): The Walker Brothers--Mrs. Murphy Scott Engel (Scott Walker)--The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime) Scott Walker--It's Raining Today; Manhattan; Little Things (That Keep Us Together)/// The Breeders--Spacewoman Flamin' Groovies--Cryin' Shame Macy Gray--White Man Willie Buck--Blues Before Sunrise Muddy Waters--Twenty Four Hours; You Can't Lose What You Never Had; Diamonds at Her Feet; The Blues Had a Baby and They Called It Rock'n'Roll (#2) Sheldon Zandboer--Kat's Soul Cat Power--Lord Help the Poor and Needy Courtney Barnett--Avant Gardener The Offspring--Original Prankster Tom Morello with K.Flay--Lucky One Abbott & Costello--Who's On First The Andrews Sisters with Dan Dailey--Take Me Out to the Ball Game Wynona Carr--The Ball Game Steve Vozzollo & the Rookies--My Mother Threw Mine Away Ellen Rowe Octet--The Guardians ///Richard Thompson is 70: Kate Rusby--Withered and Died Fairport Convention--Head In a Sack Richard & Linda Thompson--Jet Plane In a Rocking Chair Richard Thompson--Bones of Gilead; Tear Stained Letter (live, Baltimore, 8/91)/// *Plus: The host read a bit of an extremely perceptive Scott Walker review by journalist Amanda Petrusich
---Retroactive #1242--March 23, 2019: Heather Nova--Paper Cup John Hartford--With a Vamp In the Middle (1971 version) Black Prairie--For the Love of John Hartford Catherine Russell--Early In the Morning Wynonie Harris--Good Rockin' Tonight Erin McKeown--To the Stars (live, 1/07) Gary Clark Jr.--Pearl Cadillac ///Vocalist-songwriter Andre Williams (1936-2019): The Five Dollars--Georgia Rae Is Moving On Andre Williams & the Don Juans--Bacon Fat Andre Williams--Pass the Biscuits Please Andre Williams & the Sadies--Weapon of Mass Destruction Marshall Crenshaw--Twine Time (live, 2/90) The Five Du-Tones--Shake a Tail Feather (AW was a funk and rap pioneer--he also co-wrote the last two songs listed here)/// Peter Garland--Sunset Lord Baldwin--In This House Mirah--This Dance Orville Peck--Dead of Night ///Guitarist Dick Dale (1937-2019): Dick Dale & his Del-Tones--Misirlou Dick Dale--Ghost Riders In the Sky; California Sun; Nitro The Bobby Fuller Four--Misirlou (live) (The walloping guitarist helped to design the first 100 watt amplifier)/// Kait Dunton--Mister Zen Aretha Franklin--It Hurts Like Hell; A Brand New Me (live, 1973); The Thrill Is Gone (from Yesterday's Kiss); Ain't No Way The Knickerbocker All-Stars featuring Darcel Wilson--Since You've Been Gone Toots & the Maytals--Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Elise LaGrow--Hold On Faces--Bad 'n' Ruin Ranch Romance--Baby's Gonna Come Back Home ///Nick Lowe is 70: Brinsley Schwarz--Don't Lose Your Grip On Love Rockpile--Now and Always Little Village--Fool Who Knows Nick Lowe--Marie Provost; Failed Christian Nick Lowe & the Impossible Birds--I'm Coming Home (live) Nick Lowe & his Cowboy Outfit--Half a Boy and Half a Man/// Greg Murphy Trio--Straight No Blues Rosie Flores--Hot Dog Janis Martin--It'll Be Me John Mayall--That's What Love Will Make You Do
---Retroactive #1241--March 16, 2019: Christy Moore--Only Our Rivers Run Free Altan--The Curlew/McDermott's/Three Scones of Boxty Maura O'Connell--Living In These Troubled Times (live) Willie Buck--Crawlin' King Snake Cara Being Blue--You Don't Wanna Spoon--The Beast and Dragon, Adored Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--I'll Still Be True Ruth Wyand--100 Proof The Sugarcubes--Birthday Tiffany Pollack & Eric Johanson--Blues In My Blood The Obits--Milk Cow Blues Ellen Rowe Octet--The Soul Keepers *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Rita Pavone--Remember Me The Parliaments--All Your Goodies Are Gone (The Loser's Seat) The Zombies--I Love You The Kingston Trio--Greenback Dollar Townes Van Zandt--Why She's Acting This Way Otis Redding--The Glory of Love Lorraine Ellison--The Hurt Came Back Again The Chartbusters--She's the One Adam Faith with the Roulettes--It's Alright Bobby Saxton--Trying to Make a Living Kim & Grim--You Don't Love Me The Seeds--Pushin' Too Hard Etta James--I Prefer You ///Legendary session drummer Hal Blaine (1929-2019): Jan & Dean--Drag City The Byrds--It Won't Be Wrong The T-Bones--No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) Paul Revere & the Raiders--Hungry The Crystals--Da Doo Ron Ron (Also played: Excerpts of the master's work with Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, the Ronettes, Sonny & Cher and Richard Harris)/// Duke Ellington--Battle Royal (Big Bash) The Shangri-Las--Give Us Your Blessings The Who--A Quick One, While He's Away The Bar-Kays--Soul Finger The Tams--Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy Paulette & the Cupids--Teenage Dropout The Rolling Stones--High and Dry The Small Faces--Come On Children Gloria Jones--Come Go With Me Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--If You Can Want Howlin' Wolf--Little Red Rooster Esther Phillips--Nobody But You The Freddie Redd Quartet--Wigglin' The Kinks--Dead End Street The Cupons--Turn Her Down The Knickerbockers--Lies The Premiers--Get On This Plane Duane Eddy--Because They're Young *Plus: Clips of '60s commercials, news reports
---Retroactive #1240--March 9, 2019: Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott--Free Again Watkins Family Hour--Feelin' Good Again Dom Flemons--'Til the Seas Run Dry Sue Foley--The Dance Lord Baldwin--Everybody Falls Down Marianne Faithfull--They Come at Night Cecile McLorin Salvant--Obsession James Elkington--Greatness Yet to Come Billy Bragg--Why We Build the Wall Etienne Charles--Midnight ///Composer-pianist Andre Previn (1929-2019): The Andre Previn Ensemble--Things Are Looking Down/// ///Drummer Sara Romweber (1964-2019): Let's Active--Crows On a Phone Line/// ///Vocalist-songwriter Keith Flint (1969-2019): The Prodigy--Nasty/// Bob Mould--Sunny Love Song Courtney Barnett--Pedestrian at Best Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt--Ganges Delta Blues Ry Cooder & Corridos Famosos--Boomer's Story (live, SF, 2011) Ry Cooder--The Prodigal Son; Down In Hollywood Lisa Hilton--Lazy Daisy Macy Gray--Over You Tom Morello with Marcus Mumford--Find Another Way The Feelies--The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness The Breeders--Metagoth The Knickerbocker All-Stars featuring Darcel Wilson--So Soon Yvette Landry & the Jukes--Daddy Daddy Sly--Spirit Sly & the Family Stone--Poet; Everybody Is a Star; Sex Machine; Skin I'm In Swamp Dogg--Where Is Sly James Suggs--The Night We Called It a Day James McMurtry--Tight Rope The Crabs--Prom Night NRBQ--Some Kind of Blues (live, 4/87) Jully Black--Seven Day Fool
---Retroactive #1239--March 2, 2019: John McCutcheon--Claudette Colvin Goes to Work Ruth Wyand--Help My Soul Ted Hawkins--I Got What I Wanted Sweet Miss Coffy--The Day Before Payday Tiffany Pollack & Eric Johanson--Keep It Simple Sam & Dave--Sweet Pains Shearwater--A Long Time Away Dave Rudolph Quintet--Those Clumsy Words ///Singer-songwriter-keyboardist Mark Hollis (1955-2019): Mark Hollis--Westward Bound Talk Talk--Desire; Talk Talk/// Elise LaGrow--Going Back Where I Belong The Persuasions--Right Around the Corner Beach House--The Traveller Cymande--Brothers On the Slide ///Vocalist Jackie Shane (1940-2019): Jackie Shane--Stand Up Straight and Tall; Don't Play That Song (live, 1967); Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (live, 1967)/// Jules Shear--Half Hearted Head; Nothing Is Left Behind Jules & the Polar Bears--It's a Shame; Good Reason Chris Smither--Nobody Home Ally Venable--Careless Love Xavier Davis--Exodus Candi Staton--That's How Strong My Love Is Dave Alvin--Black Rose of Texas Joan Armatrading--Prove Yourself The Brains--Scared Kid Gore Gore Girls--Hot Rod Breakdown Cordalene--Who Loves the Sun Laura Campisi--Venus In Furs The Velvet Underground--I Heard Her Call My Name Lou Reed--Berlin; Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song); Shooting Star; This Magic Moment
---Retroactive #1238--February 23, 2019: Hugh Moffatt & Katy Moffatt--On the Borderline Darden Smith--What Are We Gonna Do Gretchen Parlato--Still Lord Baldwin--On the Open Range Calvin Johnson--Blues Come Runnin' The Breeders--Archangels' Thunderbird Raphael Imbert with Marion Rampal--Here's a Song ///Peter Tork (1942-2019): Shoe Suede Blues--Saved By the Blues The Monkees--Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky; I Believe You; You Tear the Top Right Off My Head; For Pete's Sake/// Rufus Reid--Glory Marianne Faithfull--In My Own Particular Way PF Sloan--Violence The Wynton Marsalis Septet with Carrie Smith--Empty Bed Blues (live, 6/03) Dirty Red & the Soul Shakers--The Party Don't Start Till I Get Here Courtney Barnett--Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party Scott Askew--So It Happens Johnny Cash--The Beast In Me; I Still Miss Someone (live, 1964); Rock Island Line (live, 1964) Irma Thomas--Hold Me While I Cry; Big Talk; Keep the Faith Lisa Hilton--Sunday Morning Fats Domino--So Swell When You're Well; Whole Lotta Loving; My Girl Josephine Koko Taylor--Hey Bartender The Creation Factory!--I Want to Be With You Paul Humphrey & the Cool Aid Chemists--Cool Aid Roy Loney & the Longshots--Steam The Knickerbocker All-Stars featuring Thornetta Davis--Don't Cry Baby The Beatles--Roll Over Beethoven (live, 8/64) George Harrison--Deep Blue; The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Nina Simone--Pirate Jenny (live, 1964); Do I Move You (version one); This Is My Turn Wayne Horvitz/The Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble--Prepaid Funeral Walter Trout--Be Careful How You Vote Hooray for Earth--Somewhere Else Sugar--If I Can't Change Your Mind *Plus: George Harrison Beatles BBC clip
---Retroactive #1237--February 16, 2019: Cat Power--Horizon Sonny Boy Williamson #2--Pontiac Blues Calexico--Voices In the Field; Bridge to Nowhere Ann Peebles--Run, Run, Run Ruth Wyand--I Don't Have Proof Peggy Lee with George Shearing--Do I Love You? ///Harvey Scales (1941-2019)--What's Good for You (Don't Have to Be Good to You) Harvey Scales & the 7 Sounds--Love-Itis The Sonics featuring Jim Brady--Love-Itis/// Oregon with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra--Spanish Stairs Yoko Ono--Hell In Paradise; Warzone; Kite Song Willie May--Ferris Wheel Caroline Rose--Getting to Me Brian Auger's Oblivion Express--Beginning Again (live) Buffy Sainte-Marie--Sometimes When I Get to Thinkin' (1968 version); Working for the Government; The War Racket Joe Ely--Firewater (Seeks Its Own Level); White Line Fever; What's Shakin' Tonight; Cornbread Moon Kelly Willis--Settle for Love Dan Adler--Shiny Dolphins Minnie Tee--Second Hand Rose Glen Clark--Walk On The Noses--Cupid Song LaVon Hardison--My Funny Valentine Peter Karp--Valentine's Day Shelby Lynne--The Thief June Tabor & Oysterband--Valentine's Day Is Over Roswell Rudd--Twelve Bars with Sexmob Aretha Franklin--(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman (live, Paris, 1977) Charles Brown--Go Away Little Girl Elvis Costello & the Imposters--Burnt Sugar Is So Bitter The City--That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho) Jules Shear & Carole King--How Many Times Carole King--Alligators All Around; City Streets; Corazon
---Retroactive--February 9, 2019: Too much snow--Snowmageddon! I cleared my driveway but shoveling the street was just not possible--sorry I couldn't get to the station today
---Retroactive #1236--February 2, 2019: Cris Williamson--Waterfall Shovels & Rope--Shank Hill Street John Sebastian & David Grisman--Coffee Blues Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats--Wasting Time (live at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis) Luther Ingram--Time Machine Lena Prima--See That You're Born an Italian ///Michel Legrand (1932-2019)--Four Piano Blues; Boogie Woogie Etude/// Pearl Django--9:20 Blues Maria Muldaur--Nix On Those Lush Heads Frank Bey & the Anthony Paule Band--Still Called the Blues (live, 7/12) Lord Baldwin--Blue With a Broken Heart Lindsay Beaver--Too Cold to Cry Jesse Colin Young--California Child; Grey Day Courtney Barnett--Elevator Operator Courtney Barnett/Kurt Vile--Over Everything Warren Smith--Uranium Rock; I'd Rather Be Safe Than Sorry; So Long I'm Gone Bill Banfield's Imagine Orchestra--Free Me Mary Lou Lord--The Bridge The Lyres--Help You Ann ///60th anniversary of the 2/3/59 tragic plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson: The Big Bopper--White Lightning Ritchie Valens--Ooh! My Head Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Lonesome Tears Billy Swan & Buzz Cason--Thank You Buddy/// Georgia Anne Muldrow--Live Arctic Monkeys--One Point Perspective Sleater-Kinney--Wilderness The Gibson Brothers--Bye Bye Love Teddy Thompson & Linda Thompson--Take a Message to Mary The Everly Brothers--Asleep; This Little Girl of Mine; Cold; So How Come (No One Loves Me) Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins--Work Haley Reinhart--Can't Find My Way Home David Brent & Foregone Conclusion--Lady Gypsy Robyn Hitchcock--Raymond and the Wives
---Retroactive #1235--January 26, 2019: Rik Palieri--Larimer Street Loudon Wainwright III--Unhappy Anniversary Holly Golightly--The Ride Zuider Zee--After the Shine's Good ZZ Ward with Fantastic Negrito--Cannonball ///Oliver Mtukudzi (1952-2019)--Kunze Kwadoka; Menzva Kudzimba; Ndima Ndapedza (The vocalist-songwriter-guitarist from Zimbabwe had a huge international following)/// Lisa Hilton--Sunshine States *All Michigan Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Clara Hardy--The Touch of Love Nolan Strong with the Diablos--Mind Over Matter The Pleasure Seekers--What a Way to Die Tommy James & the Shondells--Say I Am (What I Am) Stewart Francke--We're All We've Got Betty Carter--Foul Play John Lee Hooker--I'm Standing In Line Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder--I Found a Love Wilson Pickett--Three Time Loser The Olivers--I Saw What You Did The Detroit Cobras--Everybody's Going Wild Bettye LaVette--Nobody's Dirty Business New Radicals--Someday We'll Know Savage Grace--All Along the Watchtower Mr. B.--Little Brother (live) The Chenille Sisters--Regretting What I Said The Unrelated Segments--Where You Gonna Go? The Knickerbocker All-Stars featuring Thornetta Davis--Good Rockin' Daddy The Shy--Phone Bob Seger & the Last Heard--Heavy Music, Pt. 1 Aretha Franklin--Niki Hoeky Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band--Scorpio Little Willie John--I'm Shakin' The Miracles--Mickey's Monkey Martha & the Vandellas--Quicksand The Temptations--I Want a Love I Can See Shorty Long--Devil with the Blue Dress Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell--If I Could Build My Whole World Around You The Marvelettes--Too Many Fish In the Sea Xavier Davis--Model City 2.0 Jackie Wilson--Lonely Teardrops The Rockets--I Want You to Love Me The Stooges--No Fun MC5--Break Time (live); Looking at You (A-Square version) Jean DuShon--Feeling Good *Plus: Martha Reeves on the humility of Motown's master bassist James Jamerson, Jr.
---Retroactive #1234--January 19, 2019: New Lost City Ramblers--How Can Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live? Anna Gordon--My Branches Layla Zoe--Mumbai Jonathan Batiste Trio--Sunny Side of the Street Eilen Jewell--Another Night to Cry Charles Bradley--(I Hope You Find) The Good Life ///Bonnie Guitar (1923-2019)--Dark Moon/// ///Willie Murphy (1943-2019)--Fairytale/// Dan Adler--Deep Blue Waltz ///Guitarist-session musician Reggie Young (1936-2019): Billy Swan--I Can Help J.J. Cale--Cajun Moon The Box Tops--Cry Like the Baby Dusty Springfield--Son of a Preacher Man/// Southern Avenue--Peace Will Come Jonathan Byrd & Chris Kokesh--One Night at a Time Neko Case--Bad Luck Bobby Blue Bland--I Wouldn't Treat a Dog (The Way You Treated Me); Share Your Love With Me; Call On Me; I Caught the Blues from Someone Else Boz Scaggs--The Feeling Is Gone Michael Kocour--Who Cares? Lucinda Williams--Can't Close the Door on Love; The Night's Too Long; Buttercup The Smithereens--Up In Heaven (Not Only Here) The Breeders--Nervous Mary Swamp Dogg--Light a Candle and Ring a Bell Jackie Shane--Comin' Down The Soul Stirrers--Any Day Now Shemekia Copeland--Ain't That Good News Catherine Russell--Put Me Down Easy Sam Cooke--Get Yourself Another Fool; Bring It On Home to Me; Trouble In Mind; Blowin' In the Wind (live, 7/64) Harold Mabern--Dear Lord (live) The Ike & Tina Turner Revue--Keep On Pushin' (live) Mavis Staples--Eyes On the Prize *Plus several speech clips from Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the show, recorded from the 1950s to 1968
---Retroactive #1233--January 12, 2019: J.B. Lenoir--How Much More Fiona Boyes--Precious Time Laura Marling--Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) Michael Franks--Bebop Headshop Pharoah Sanders with Leon Thomas--Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong ///Bassist Eric Haydock (1943-2019): The Hollies--(Ain't That) Just Like Me; Look Through Any Window; I Can't Let Go/// Peter Garland--Mid-Day Lori McKenna with Mike Viola--Love Can Put It Back Together Omar & the Howlers--Muddy Springs Road Big Bill Morganfield--I Feel Alright Again Dee Miller Band--Hot and Sweaty Melvin Sparks--I'm Funky Now Spanky Wilson & the Quantic Soul Orchestra--I'm Thankful Shoes--Hangin' Around With You ('70s demo); Tomorrow Night; Now and Then ('70s demo) Paul Kelly with Vika Bull & Linda Bull--Hasn't It Rained Paul Kelly & the Messengers--Same Old Walk; Don't Harm the Messenger Thomas Marriott--Alibi Room Jacqui Naylor--Don't Let the Bastard Get You Down (live, 2004) Calvin Johnson--Why You Crying Lindsay Beaver--Lost Cause Chris Smither--Too Bad, So Sad Courtney Barnett--Small Poppies Public Image Ltd.--Swan Lake Caroline Rose--Cry! Alejandro Escovedo--Pissed Off 2am; Wave; Nuns Song Alejandro Escovedo with Don Antonio--Footsteps In the Shadows True Believers--Hard Road Lisa Hilton--Adventure Lands Barbara Carr--Sweet Talking Snake Tracy Nelson--The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) *Also: Attorney for recording artists Howell Begel (1944-2019) remembered
---Retroactive #1232--January 5, 2019: Otis Taylor--Please Come Home Before It Rains LaVon Hardison--Sweet Georgia Brown Pete Johnson--Holler Stomp ///Daryl 'The Captain' Dragon (1942-2019): Bob Smith--Please The Beach Boys--Cuddle Up The Captain & Tennille--Shop Around/// ///Pegi Young (1952-2019): Pegi Young & the Survivors--Blame It On Me; Better Livin' Through Chemicals/// ///Thomas McAleese (Dean Ford, 1946-2018): Dean Ford & the Gaylords--That Lonely Feeling Marmalade--Reflections of My Life; Can You Help Me/// Terry Gibbs & Buddy DeFranco--Until I Left Chicago (I Never Had the Blues) Anna Gordon--Backseat Chain & the Gang--Not Good Enough Katie Henry--Roll Away Stewart Francke--This Is Not America David Bowie--Love You Till Tuesday; Where Have All the Good Times Gone; Reality (live, Dublin, 11/03); Velvet Goldmine Elvis Presley--Ain't That Loving You Baby; T-R-O-U-B-L-E; Suspicious Minds (take 6) Elvis Presley, Scotty & Bill--Mystery Train The Jordanaires--Return to Sender Cindy Bradley--Vibralux Vickie & the Van Dykes--I Wanna Be a Winner The Chantells with the Aqua Lads--Don't Look The Contessas--Gimme Gimme Southern Avenue--80 Miles from Memphis The Breeders--Wait In the Car The Chesterfield Kings--Sunrise (Turn On) The Young Fresh Fellows--I'd Say That You Were Upset Don Braden Septet--R.E.M. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs--Who Knows Where the Time Goes Sandy Denny & the Strawbs--All I Need Is You Sandy Denny--Solo; The Last Thing On My Mind; Crazy Lady Blues (BBC); Still Waters Run Deep Fairport Convention--Reynardine; Sir Patrick Spens