The Retroactive show went on hiatus following the Covid-19 surge of March 2020. There were no programs for the remainder of the year and none in 2021; Retroactive resumed in November 2022. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---Retroactive #1292--March 14, 2020: Bob Brozman, John McSherry & Donal O'Connor--The Slide from Grace Solas--A Sailor's Life Moving Hearts--No Time for Love Curtis Salgado--Both Sorry Over Nothin' Caroline Rose--Back at the Beginning First Aid Kit with Conor Oberst--King of the World ///Guitarist-songwriter Charlie Baty (1953-2020): Little Charlie & the Nightcats--Slap Happy; Percolatin'; I Know She Used to Be Your Woman/// Joanna Connor--If You Want Me to Stay *All-'60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Sly & the Family Stone--I Ain't Got Nobody (early version); Color Me True Sly & Rose--The Swim Dinah Washington--It's A Mean Old Man's World The Flying Burrito Brothers--Wheels The Chymes--Quite a Reputation Shirley Ellis--The Nitty Gritty Arthur Alexander--In the Middle of It All (alternate '60s version) The Band--Look Out Cleveland The Kinks--Dandy Dionne Warwick--A House Is Not a Home Otis Redding--Open the Door ///Keith Olsen (1945-2020): The Music Machine--Double Yellow Line (Olsen played bass in the Music Machine and went on to produce and engineer scores of huge rock albums for Santana, Pat Benatar and more)/// Little Frankie--I'm Not Gonna Do It The Choir--It's Cold Outside Jackie Shane--I've Really Got the Blues Johnny Bond--Hot Rod Lincoln Skip James--I'm So Glad (1966 version) Etta James--Next Door to the Blues Darrell Banks--Open the Door to Your Heart The Rolling Stones--2000 Man Wes Montgomery--Airegin Gloria Jones--Heartbeat The Crazy Girls & the Javelins--Hey Hey Ha Ha The Remains--Why Do I Cry The Who--Medac; Relax The Chiffons--A Love So Fine Jamo Thomas--I Spy (for the FBI) Earl Vince & the Valiants--Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin--Coo Coo The Raymarks--Feelin' No Good The Rascals--Love Is a Beautiful Thing The Mothers of Invention--What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body? Gene Pitney--Every Breath I Take Dusty Springfield--Just One Smile Kenny Burrell--Opus 21 Little Mack--Tell Her to Come On Home Del Shannon--Stranger In Town Jefferson Airplane--Greasy Heart The Amboy Dukes--Baby Please Don't Go The Yardbirds--Over, Under, Sideways, Down The Shirelles--Maybe Tonight The Stags--You Know He Did *Plus: A smattering of 1960s commercials; an obit for Hali Panneton, a great friend to the Olympia community
---Retroactive #1291--March 7, 2020: ///Keyboardist-composer McCoy Tyner (1938-2020): McCoy Tyner--I Mean You Frank Morgan & the McCoy Tyner Trio--Changes The John Coltrane Quartet--I Wish I Knew John Coltrane--Vilia; But Not for Me/// The Bill Cunliffe Trio--Here's That Rainy Day Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet--A Fuller Wine Janiva Magness--Have You Ever Seen the Rain Stone Cupid with Julie Christensen--Saint On a Chain The Hi-Jivers--Hotwire Woman Procol Harum--A Souvenir of London Karen Carroll--Tired of Being Mistreated Townes Van Zandt--Tecumseh Valley; Loretta; Cocaine (live, 1973); To Live Is to Fly Lucinda Williams--Nothin' The Raincoats--No One's Little Girl (live, 12/82) Baby Gramps--Medley of Heartwarming Worm Songs (live) Warren Wolf--For Ma Jules Shear--The Hunter and the Hunted; All Through the Night Jules & the Polar Bears--Following Every Finger Reckless Sleepers--This Heart Bikini Kill--Distinct Complicity; No Backrub Angel Olsen--New Love Cassette Janis Martin--Roll Around Rockin' Tinsley Ellis--Sit Tight Mama The Isley Brothers--Who Loves You Better; Midnight Sky, Pts. 1 & 2 Ernie Isley--She Takes Me Up Joss Stone--The High Road Bonzo Squad--There's Always Tomorrow Nada Surf--Live Learn and Forget Samantha Fish--You Got It Bad Plus: Barbara Martin (1943-2020), an early member of the Supremes, remembered; a film clip (audio) of Annette Benning and Greta Gerwig in 20th Century Women ---Retroactive #1290--February 29, 2020: The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon--I'm Not a Know It All Charles Brown--I Want to Go Home Maria Muldaur--The Panic Is On Stanton Moore with Cyril Neville, Nicholas Payton & Skerik--Life Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--We Don't Call Chanda Rule + Sweet Emma Band--Sun Goes Down Gil Scott-Heron--The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues Lolly Allen--Gentle Rain Darlingside--Futures Caroline Rose--Freak Like Me Curtis Salgado--Strung Out Ellen Whyte--The Blues Walked Through My Door Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band--Express Yourself The Go! Team with Chuck D--Flashlight Fight Scott Askew--Miserablues The Pine Valley Cosmonauts with June Baxter-Miller--Time Changes Everything Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Never No More Hard Times Blues; That's What I Like 'Bout the South; Brain Cloudy Blues; Smith's Reel Gretchen Christopher--Blues Go Away The Fleetwoods--Unchained Melody; Paradise Lost; One for My Baby Trevor Giancola--It's All Good, Man Miriam Makeba--Quit It The Specials--Concrete Jungle Cloud Nothings--Stay Useless Shemekia Copeland--The Wrong Idea The Robert Cray Band--My Baby Likes to Boogaloo Courtney Barnett--Depreston Stephane Galland--Memory from Times of Yore ///The Lou Reed Birth Anniversary Bash: Okapi Guitars--Vicious The Crowd Scene--Candy Says Nils Lofgren--Talk Thru the Tears The Velvet Underground--Head Held High; I'll Be Your Mirror Lou Reed--With You; So Alone; What's Good; Dirty Blvd./// *Plus: Guitarist-songwriter David Roback (1958-2020) of Rain Parade, Opal and Mazzy Star remembered
---Retroactive #1289--February 22, 2020: Lynn Cordona--A Little Too Late Andrew Bird--Fatal Shore Foghorn String Band--Lonesome Road Blues Goldia Haynes--This Old World Robbie Robertson--Dead End Kid The Jimmys with Marcia Ball--Write a Hit ///Singer-pianist Henry Gray (1925-2020); Henry Gray & Bob Corritore--Ride With Your Daddy Tonight Henry Gray & Morris Pejoe--Untitled Instrumental Henry Gray--I Declare That Ain't Right; Henry's Houserocker; It Ain't No Use/// Mark Godfrey Quintet--Driving Westbound Malcolm X/Keith LeBlanc--No Sell Out Etta James--Piece of My Heart The New Pornographers--Need Some Giants Marshall Chapman--I Walk the Line Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash--Girl from the North Country (live, 1969) Johnny Cash--Get Rhythm; The One On the Right Is On the Left; Paradise; I Won't Back Down Peach--Someone Else Is Steppin' In Tinsley Ellis--Everything and Everyone Fats Domino--I Want You to Know; The Big Beat; No, No (The River); The Rooster Song Ben Harper & the Skatalites--Be My Guest Dan Rosenboom--Heliopteryx Middle Mind--Weekend Despondency Shelley King--One Shot at a Time The Hi-Jivers--Sweet Talkin' and Lyin' Jessica Lurie Ensemble--Grinch Hot Club of San Francisco--While My Guitar Gently Weeps Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton--Something (live, 11/02) George Harrison--Soft-Hearted Hana; Sue Me, Sue You Blues; Pure Smokey ///Smokey Robinson is 80: The English Beat--The Tears of a Clown Marvin Gaye--I'll Be Doggone The Miracles--What's So Good About Goodbye; I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying Smokey Robinson--My Girl Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage///
---Retroactive #1288--February 15, 2020: John Moreland--Terrestrial Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Night Raid Diane Zeigler--Sting of the Honeybee ///Keyboardist-composer Lyle Mays (1953-2020): Pat Metheny Group with David Bowie--This Is Not America/// ///LBM group leader-vocal arranger Joseph Shabalala (1941-2020): Ladysmith Black Mambazo--Long Walk to Freedom; Nansi Imali; How Long Paul Simon--Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes/// Joanna Connor--Rise ZSG--Hollow Eyes Angel Olsen--Impasse Maceo Parker--Arts and Crafts Rufus Thomas--Breakdown Carrie Newcomer with Mary Chapin Carpenter--Before and After Mary Chapin Carpenter--Sometimes Just the Sky; The Bug; Gonna Read to My Bunny; Something Tamed, Something Wild Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band--There's No Goodbye Between Us Yoko Ono--Mindweaver (Yoko) Ono with DJ Dan--Give Peace a Chance (vocal mix) Win Pongsakorn--Green and Yellow Big Star--Feel The Pretty Things--She's a Lover Screaming Females--I'll Make You Sorry Bangs--Sweet Revenge Tiger High--Vipers Nina Simone--I Loves You Porgy; In Love In Vain; Work Song (1966 version) Irma Thomas--You Can Have My Husband (But Don't Mess With My Man); Cry On (both live, New Orleans, 4/76); Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You) (live, SF, 8/90) Buffy Sainte-Marie--The Universal Soldier; To the Ends of the World; I'm Going Home Lolly Allen--Emily Leon Russell--Delta Lady
---Retroactive #1287--February 8, 2020: Laurie Lewis--Here Comes the Rain Jayme Stone with Drew Gonsalves--Bury Boula for Me Eilen Jewell--Miles to Go ///Steel guitarist Buddy Cage (1946-2020): New Riders of the Purple Sage--Henry/// ///Guitarist-songwriter Ivan Kral (1948-2020): Patti Smith Group--Dancing Barefoot Iggy Pop--Sincerity/// ///Songwriter-guitarist Andy Gill (1956-2020): Gang of Four--Paralyzed; Isle of Dogs; To Hell With Poverty/// Trevor Giancola--Duffle Bag Middle Mind--Alone Stars--The Maze Val Starr & the Blues Rocket--24 Hour Blues Wilson Pickett--Funky Broadway Big Time Sarah & the BTS Express--I Just Want a Little Bit Tinsley Ellis--No Stroll In the Park Hot Club of Cowtown--My Candy Big Bad Voodoo Daddy--Knock Me a Kiss Blossom Dearie--Someone to Watch Over Me The Flatlanders--Homeland Refugee Joe Ely--In Another World; Suckin' a Big Bottle of Gin; Up On the Ridge (live, Austin, 1/99) Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--Winds Gonna Blow You Away (live, Austin) Tom Verlaine--Saucer Crash Duffy Bishop Band--Damn Blues Janis Martin--Ooby Dooby Duke Levine--Shacklehands Gene Vincent & his Blue Caps--Lotta Lovin'; Rocky Road Blues; Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me Mark Godfrey Quintet--One Game Away from Winter The Crickets--Don't Ever Change LaVon Hardison--One Fine Day The Gibson Brothers--Crying In the Rain The City--Paradise Alley Willie Nelson with Carole King--Will You Love Me Tomorrow (live, LA) Carole King--Love Makes the World; Home Again; Been to Canaan
---Retroactive #1286--February 1, 2020: Joanna Connor with Mike Zito--Bad Hand Richard & Linda Thompson--Two Lonely Hearts Ian Whitcomb--Settle Down In a One Horse Town Son House--Empire State Express (live, NYC, 1/65) La Luz--Mean Dream Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Bright Horses Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana--Can't Get Up Rita Chiarelli--Midnight In Berlin Frank Bey--One Thing Every Day The Mavericks--Ride With Me Lolly Allen--Coming Home Debbie Davies--Don't Be Reckless with My Heart Charlie Whitehead--I Finally Found Myself Something to Sing About Raphael Saadiq--This World Is Drunk Jazzmeia Holt--No More Stanton Moore with Maceo Parker--Everything I Do Gon' Be Funky Warren Smith--I Fell In Love; Goodbye Mr. Love; Black Jack David Heather Myself--And It Hurts Just Townes Earle --Pacific Northwestern Blues Melanie--Leftover Wine; Together Alone (live, 2/73); Beautiful People (live, 8/69) The Borodin Quartet--Langsamer Satz Jimmy Johnson--Down In the Valley The Dirty Panties--Overt Screaming Females--Chamber for Sleep, Pt. 1 The Make-Up--Blue Is Beautiful The New Pornographers--Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds--Take a Message to Mary The Everly Brothers--Born Yesterday; Like Strangers; Nashville Blues; Poor Jenny Janiva Magness--Change In the Weather The Ramones--Sheena Is a Punk Rocker Nick Curran & the Lowlifes--Sheena's Back In Town Quest--Prince of Darkness James Blood Ulmer--Jazz Is the Teacher (Funk Is the Preacher) Beth Hart--Spanish Lullabies *Plus: WABC & WCBS/NYC radio announcer Harry Harrison (1930-2020) remembered
---Retroactive #1285--January 25, 2020: Shelley King--How Eagles Fly ///Saxophonist-composer Jimmy Heath (1926-2020): The Heath Brothers + Brass Choir featuring Stanley Cowell --Project 'S'/// ///Vocalist Robert Parker (1930-2020): Robert Parker--Barefootin'; Country Side of Life/// ///Singer-songwriter David Olney (1948-2020): Emmylou Harris--A Deeper Well David Olney--Raw Bone/// Sam Phillips--Don't Do Anything; American Landfill Kings; Strawberry Road Andy Brown--You're My Everything *All-Michigan Show (2nd & 3rd hours): The Chenille Sisters--When I Grow Up The Rationals--Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Funkadelic--Hit It and Quit It Mary Wells--Can't You See (You're Losing Me) Tony Clarke--The Entertainer The Woolies--Who Do You Love The Shy--Get Through Another Day Bettye LaVette--Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette) Mitch Ryder--Dance Ourselves to Death Detroit Sex Machines--Rap It Together Gore Gore Girls--Don't Cry Baby Alice Cooper--Be My Lover Karen Monster--Somethin' for Nothin' Flirt--Degenerator Sonic's Rendezvous Band--Asteroid B-612 (live) The Corey Kendrick Trio--Alone In Michigan Stevie Wonder--Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) (live, NYC, 1973) Suzi Quatro--Lipstick Bob Seger System--Lucifer Stix & Stoned--Rouge Plant Blues Olivia Jean--Shut Your Mouth Martha & the Vandellas--I'm Ready for Love Four Tops--Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over) Jr. Walker & the All-Stars--Shotgun The Marvelettes--Too Strong to Be Strung Along The Velvelettes--He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' The Temptations--(I Know) I'm Losing You Rodriguez (as Rod Riguez)--You'd Like to Admit It Aretha Franklin--Share Your Love With Me Detroit Tenors--Legacy The Spike-Drivers--Baby Won't You Let Me Tell You How I Lost My Mind Jackie Wilson--(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher Iggy & the Stooges--I Got a Right The Detroit Cobras--Easier to Cry *Plus: The 'Heaven Was Detroit' letter from 'The Cloud of Lester Bangs'; 'An Important Message,' the notorious anti-rock'n'roll clip from televangelist Jack Van Impe (1931-2020)
---Retroactive #1284--January 18, 2020: Katie Webster--Lord I Wonder The Earls of Leicaster--Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Hot Club of Cowtown--Three Little Words Pops Staples--I Shall Not Be Moved Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--Ghosteen Speaks Marion Williams--God Bless the Child Eric Gales with Gary Clark Jr.--Boogie Man Screaming Females--Bird In Space Ray Charles--Lift Every Voice and Sing The Kareem Kandi Band--Guess Again Leadbelly--C.C. Rider; It's Tight Like That; Backwater Blues Jazzmeia Horn--Free Your Mind The New Pornographers--Dreamlike and On the Rush Kate & Anna McGarrigle--Tell My Sister Carlisle Group--I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free Johnny Rodriguez--Big Red Sun Blues Lucinda Williams--Can't Close the Door On Love; Side of the Road; East Side of Town; Hot Blood Ron Davis--La Cote d'Or The Hive Dwellers--Lynch the Swan Janiva Magness--Fortunate Son The Honey Drippers with Roy C.--Impeach the President Roberta Flack--Tryin' Times (live, Ghana, 1971) Moms Mabley--Abraham, Martin and John The Soul Stirrers--Just Another Day Terence Trent D'Arby and Booker T. & the MGs--A Change Is Gonna Come Sam Cooke--Fool's Paradise; Tennessee Waltz Sam Cooke with King Curtis & his band--Nothing Can Change This Love; Having a Party (both live, Miami, 1/63) Lolly Allen--The Hippest Cat In Hollywood Angel Olsen--What It Is Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul--Education Carmen Lundy--Clear Blue Skies *Plus: Excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at New York's Riverside Church, 4/67
---Retroactive #1283--January 11, 2020: Bruce Cockburn--Forty Years In the Wilderness Kelly Suttenfield--The Losing End (When You're On) Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble--Caroline, No The Astors--In the Twilight Zone Carol Jones--Problem Child ///Singer Bobby Comstock (1941-2020): Bobby Comstock--Let's Stomp/// ///Actor-singer Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes (1932-2020): Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes--Like, I Love You/// ///Drummer-lyricist Neil Peart (1952-2020): Rush--New World Man/// Spirit Fingers--Maps Samantha Fish--Watch It Die Frank Bey--Calling All Fools Shelley King--Stormin' In the South The Happen-Ins--Don't Look Back Link Wray--Wild Party Koko Taylor--Let the Good Times Roll (live) Jake Clemons--Ayuda! (When the Sun Goes Down) Slim Harpo--Midnight Blues; I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis); Mohair Sam ///Mavis Staples performs in Olympia tonight! Mavis Staples--Will the Circle Be Unbroken; Hard to Leave; No Time for Crying/// Devonte Hynes/Third Coast Percussion--Fields The Scratch Band--Then He Kissed Me The Dempseys--The Barstool Song Sleater-Kinney--Be Yr Mama Richard Hell & the Voidoids--Betrayal Takes Two Steve Forbert--A Big Comeuppance Eilen Jewell--Beat the Drum Chris Shiflett--This Ol' World Joanna Connor--Earthshaker Barbara Lynn--I'm a Good Woman; I Don't Want a Playboy; Until I'm Free Alejandro Escovedo--Never Stood a Chance; Baby's Got New Plans; Johnny Volume; Pyramid of Tears Buick MacKane--Falling Down Again Charlie Porter--Divergent Paths Diane Blue--Wishin' *Plus: I remembered my Aunt Theda (we called her Aunt Ted), who died last month. She was a huge music fan and singer who was wonderful to me. The Astors and Carol Jones songs were played because I heard lots of soul music at her home
---Retroactive #1282--January 4, 2020: Mimi Fox--Textures of Loving Ricky Espinoza--Second Choice Man Rory Block--Turning Point ///Musician-vocalist Jack Sheldon (1931-2019): Jack Sheldon with Terry Morel--Conjunction Junction/// ///Humorist-vocalist Neil Innes (1944-2019): The Rutles--Ouch!/// ///Saxophonist-keyboardist Marty Grebb (1946-2020): Bonnie Raitt--If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody/// ///Rockabilly and blues artist Sleepy LaBeef (1935-2019): Sleepy LaBeef--All the Time; Ain't Going to Take It; Got You On My Mind/// Tucker Brothers--Paisley Angel Olsen--Too Easy Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison--This Will Be Our Year The Isley Brothers--What'cha Gonna Do Olivia Jean--Garage Bat Paul Kelly & the Messengers--I Can't Believe We Were Married The New Pornographers--You'll Need a Backseat Driver Tin Machine--You Belong In Rock'n'Roll David Bowie--Station to Station; Changes (both live, 6/00) Wanda Jackson--Trying to Get to You Elvis Presley--King of the Whole Wide World (takes 1-3); I Can Help; My Baby Left Me; Promised Land Victor Gould--Brand New Catherine Russell--Alone Together Screaming Females--Black Moon Mudhoney--Oh Yeah Ryan Bingham--America Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men + Dana--Temporarily Insane Lolly Allen--If You Could See Me Now Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt--Who Knows Where the Time Goes Sandy Denny--Bruton Town (live, BBC, 1972); Ecoute Ecoute; Whispering Grass Sandy Denny & the Strawbs--Tell Me What You See In Me Fairport Convention--Crazy Man Michael Fotheringay--Banks of the Nile *Plus: Bruce Springsteen (live, solo, NYC, 7/18) on the impact of Elvis Presley in 1956