---Retroactive #1369--April 27, 2024 Procession of the Species returns to downtown Olympia at 4:30pm; It's been five years Birthdays: Willie Nelson, Ann Peebles Birth Anniversary: Blossom Dearie
---Retroactive #1368--April 20, 2024 Lynn Cordona--Mother Earth Doc & Merle Watson--If I Needed You Bettye LaVette--In the Meantime ///Guitarist-writer-singer Dickey Betts (1943-2024): The Allman Brothers Band--In Memory of Elizabeth Reed Richard Betts--Rain; Hand Picked/// Jonathan Butler--Let There Be Light Mya Byrne--That's What Lucky Means Curtis Salgado--Sorry Don't Mean Nothin' Jesse Thomas with the Lloyd Glenn Combo --I Can't Stay Here (An' Be Treated Thisa Way) The Beths--Happy Unhappy Peter Gabriel--I Don't Remember Lisa Burns--Lovin' You Ain't Easy Roy Orbison & the Teen Kings--Ooby Dooby Roy Orbison--Workin' for the Man; In Dreams Ellen McIlwaine--Save the World (live, Bremen, 4/97) Ron Sexsmith--Late Bloomer Savannah Campbell--Current Emergency Willie Nile--Time to Be Great Dar Williams--The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed; Write This Number Down; Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Dalton Reed--Ophelia The Felice Brothers--Inferno Howlin' Wolf--Killing Floor Sleater-Kinney--Hunt You Down The Dickies--Out of Sight, Out of Mind Sean Na Na--Princess and the Pony Ruthie Foster--Keep Your Big Mouth Closed The Stooges--We Will Fall Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop--Well, Did You Evah! Iggy Pop--Vulture; Platonic; King of the Dogs; Instinct (live, Boston, 7/88) Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet--Insertion Four John Hartford--Don't Leave Your Records In the Sun The Sadies--Mother of Earth Audra Mae--Bandida
---Retroactive #1367--April 13, 2024 Thirty years ago! The first Retroactive program airdate: April 14, 1994 Clyde McPhatter--Thirty Days Michael Nesmith & the First National Band--Little Red Rider Eden Brent--Right to Be Wrong ///Clarence 'Frogman' Henry (1937-2024): Clarence 'Frogman' Henry--Ain't Got No Home; Lonely Street; (I Don't Know Why I Love You) But I Do/// Ruby Johnson--Keep On Keeping On Zumpano--Changes Laura Love--Less Is More Arman Sangalang--Split Levels Nathaniel Rateliff--You Asked Me To PJ Harvey--A Child's Question, August Richard Shindell--Mercy Street Esther Phillips--Baby I'm for Real Darrell Scott/Danny Thompson/Kenny Malone --It's the Whiskey That Eases the Pain (live, 11/03) Katie Webster--I Feel So Low (1959 version) The Mountain Goats--Mobile Robin & Linda Williams--When a Thread Gets Caught The Beau Biens--Times Passed The Jam--The Place I Love Elvis Costello & the Imposters--The Boy Named If Drive-By Truckers--The Righteous Path Teresa James--Taxman ///Dave Edmunds Is 80: Dave Edmunds--Born to Be With You; Deborah; Warmed Over Kisses (Leftover Love); Crawling from the Wreckage Ducks Deluxe--Paris 9/// Dusty Springfield-- I Believe In You; My Colouring Book; The Windmills of Your Mind Gail Ann Dorsey--Losing You Chain & the Gang--Bill for the Use of the Body Cat Power--Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (live, London, 11/22) The Jack Rubies--Hark Dion with Maggie Rose--I Got Wise Al Green--Let It Shine; Perfect to Me; Here I Am (Come and Take Me); Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) (live, Tokyo, 6/78) Sweet Miss Coffy--Let's Stay Together Takao Iwaki--Mouse and Cheese Fantastic Negrito--Nibbadip (acoustic) Veronica Swift--A Little Taste *Plus: Greta Gerwig explaining punk rock to Annette Bening in the Lady Bird film
---Retroactive #1366--April 6, 2024: The Sadies--So Much Blood Rory Block--Cross Road Blues Otis Spann--Must Have Been the Devil Todd Snider--Where Will I Go/Working On a Song (live) Erin McKeown--Slung-Lo (live, NYC, 1/07) Amanda Shires--Eve's Daughter ///Drummer Gerry Conway (1947-2024): Eclection--Mark Time Sandy Denny--Walking the Floor Over You The Bunch--Let There Be Drums Cat Stevens--Changes IV/// ///Poet, MC5 manager, recording artist, activist John Sinclair (1941-2024): John Sinclair & his Blues Scholars featuring Wayne Kramer --The Street Beat MC5--I Can Only Give You Everything/// Memoryfield--Day of the Lords Dire Straits--Tunnel of Love The New Pornographers--To Wild Homes Carl Perkins--You Can't Make Love to Somebody; What You Doin' When You Cryin'; Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby Carmen McRae--Day In Day Out (live, London, 5/61); I Was Doing All Right; You Know Who (I Mean You) Carmen McRae with Louis Armstrong--Good Reviews Gil Scott-Heron--The Vulture; Free Will Gil Scott-Heron/Makaya McCraven--Running Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson with the Midnight Band --Ain't No Such Thing as Superman Carrie Smith--Won't Be Long Van Morrison--Shakin' All Over Ian Dury & the Blockheads--Bed O'Roses No. 9 The Forty-Fives--Superpill The Interrupters--Jailbird Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds--The Rad Lords Return Mecca Normal--Horse Heaven Hills The Soft Boys--Leppo and the Jooves Janis Ian--I'm Still Standing; Jackie Skates; Resist Kirsten Edkins--Party Slug Alberta Hunter--My Castle's Rockin' Deerhoof--My Pal Foot Foot Christy McWilson--Little Red Hen Sonny Boy Williamson #2--Keep Your Hand Out of My Pocket *Also mentioned: Producer-songwriter Casey Benjamin (1978-2024), songwriter Mark Spiro (1957-2024), drummer-producer Keith LeBlanc (1954-2024)
---Retroactive #1365--March 30, 2024: Danny O'Keefe--The Road (live) Joan Osborne--Nobody Owns You Billy Boy Arnold--Mother's Prayer ///Vincent Bonham (1952-2024): Raydio--You Can't Change That (live, NYC, 9/79)/// Ani DiFranco--Anticipate (live, Ithaca, NY) Drive-By Truckers--Daddy Needs a Drink (live, SF) Marshall Gilkes & the WDR Big Band--Sugar Rush Cowboy Mouth--Man On the Run Savannah Campbell--Savannah Killed Georgia Big Star--My Life Is Right Laura Nyro--Time and Love the dBs--White Train Ashton, Gardner & Dyke--Resurrection Shuffle Shirley Brown--I Can't Give You Up Genya Ravan--The Sweetest One The Black Keys--No Lovin' Slaid Cleaves--Next Heartbreak Big Maybelle--True, True Feeling Sue Garner & Rick Brown--Let Us Out Muddy Waters--Honey Bee; Double Trouble; I Feel So Good (live, Newport, 1960) Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & James Cotton --Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom (live, NYC, 3/77) Phoebe Snow--Just to Be With You (live, Washington, DC, 10/97) Claire Hamill--Baseball Blues Dan Bern--Joyce and Galarraga (live) The Baseball Project--You Don't Know Henry Wayne Potash--At the Baseball Game Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--How Do You Let a Good Man Down? Ray Charles--Them That Got Motorhead--No Class Bangs--Train Wreck ///Richard Thompson is 75: Richard & Linda Thompson--Pavanne (live, Bloomington, IN, 5/82); Dark End of the Street (live, London, 4/75) Fairport Convention--Tale In Hard Time Philip Pickett with Richard Thompson--My Lady Careys Dompe Alison Krauss & Union Station--Dimming of the Day Richard Thompson--The Job of Journey Work; Easy There, Steady Now; Good Things Happen to Bad People; Skull and Crossbones (live, Chicago, 3/85)/// *Plus: The 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th career home run (called by Milo Hamilton). No AI needed *Also mentioned: Sandra Crouch (1942-2024), Steve Harley (1951-2024)
---Retroactive #1364--March 23, 2024: John Prine & Kelsey Waldon--Love at the Five and Dime Red Norvo & his Orchestra with Mildred Bailey --Slumming On Park Avenue The '5' Royales-- Tell the Truth Son Seals--Telephone Angel Lucinda Williams with Bruce Springsteen--Rock n Roll Heart The Jack Rubies--Read My Mind Arina Fujiwara--Neon Fantastic Negrito--Locked Down (acoustic) Dakota Staton--Little Man You've Had a Busy Day John Cale--Everlasting Days Cat Power--Mr. Tambourine Man (live, London, 11/22) The Flock--Big Bird Barbara Manning--Twilight Elliott Smith--Ballad of Big Nothing Carolyn Wonderland--On My Feet Again Dusty Edinger--Broken Soul Survivor E.C. Scott--Running Ian Hunter--Kiss n' Make Up Mother's Finest--Piece of the Rock Sue Foley--Mediterranean Breakfast; Better; Someday Aretha Franklin--Drinking Again; Who's Zoomin' Who; Good Times; Bridge Over Troubled Water David Garfield with Kenya Hathaway--Rock Steady The Fall--Bury Pts. 1 + 3 The Thermals--A Stare Like Yours Sleater-Kinney--Needlessly Wild Les Sexareenos--Out the Door ///Nick Lowe is 75: Brinsley Schwarz--Nervous On the Road (But Can't Stay at Home) Rockpile--Teacher Teacher Nick Lowe--Long Limbed Girl; Big Kick, Plain Scrap Nick Lowe's Cowboy Outfit--Maureen Nick Lowe's Last Chicken In the Shop--I Knew the Bride (live, London, 1977) Los Straitjackets--You Inspire Me Elvis Costello & the Attractions --(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding/// ---Retroactive #1363--March 16, 2024: Moving Hearts--McBrides Van Morrison & the Chieftains--Celtic Ray Maura O'Connell--Ireland Sinead O'Connor--If You Had a Vineyard Teri Parker--Becoming The Nat King Cole Trio--This Way Out; The Frim Fram Sauce The Nat King Cole Trio with Stan Kenton & his Orchestra --Orange Colored Sky ///Kurt Wallinger (1957-2024): World Party--Give It All Away; All Come True/// ///Eric Carmen (1949-2024): The Raspberries--Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)/// *All '60s show (2nd and 3rd hours): The Crenshaws--Moonlight In Vermont Speckled Red--The Right String But the Wrong Yo Yo The Dovells--You Can't Sit Down Jackie DeShannon--Don't Turn Your Back on Me Lee Michaels--Hello The Searchers--What Have They Done to the Rain Sandie Shaw--Run The Oxford Circle--You're a Better Man Than I (live, SF, 1966) Mose Allison--Don't Forget to Smile Rufus Thomas--Walking the Dog Davis Jones & the Fenders--Boss of the Hot Sauce The Last Word--Can't Stop Loving You Barbara Acklin--I've Got You Baby Family--Love Is a Sleeper (BBC, 3/69) Otis Redding--Ole Man Trouble Procol Harum--The Devil Came from Kansas Nirvana (UK)--June The Rolling Stones--I'm a King Bee Ronny & the Daytonas--Sandy The Flirtations--Nothing But a Heartache Jefferson Airplane--She Has Funny Cars ? & the Mysterians--Smokes The Who--Happy Jack Etta James--Stop the Wedding Morcambe & Wise with the Beatles--Moonlight Bay (12/63) The Beatles--Bad Boy The Wailers--Bama Lama Bama Loo Big Mama Thornton--The Place James Brown--I Got the Feelin' The Kinks--Brainwashed The Shangri-Las--He Cried The Petites--I Believe the Man Loves Me The Eric Dolphy Quintet--On Green Dolphin Street Percy Sledge--Take Time to Know Her The Monkees--Peter Percival Patterson's Pet Pig Porky; The Girl I Knew Somewhere Lulu--Lies The Sonics--Money (That's What I Want) The Leaves--Hey Joe *Plus: Old ads--Vox wah-wah pedal, Coca-Cola and more
---Retroactive #1362--March 9, 2024: Slaid Cleaves--Put the Shovel Down Rachel Unthank & the Winterset--Bonny at Morn Heather Nova--I'd Rather Be Johnny Adams--I Underestimated You Fiona Boyes--No Friends Sonny Landreth--Where They Will Kirsten Edkins--The Goose ///Austin Blues giant W.C. Clark (1939-2024): W.C. Clark--Midnight Hour Blues; Ain't Lost Nothin'; That's Where It's At; Come Back Dr. John--Cold Shot (live, Austin, 5/95)/// Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Second Chances Bonnie Raitt--Made Up Mind The Postal Service--Recycled Air (live, Berkeley) Toni Price--We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye; Tumbleweed; Am I Groovin' U? Hans Theessink & Terry Evans with Ry Cooder --Shelter from the Storm Ry Cooder--One Meatball; UFO Has Landed In the Ghetto; How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (live, SF, 12/76) Lloyd Price--Why; If Crying Was Murder; Stagger Lee Howlin' Wolf--I've Been Abused Dirty Dozen Brass Band--Time Oh, Rose--Harrypotterjuana Gossip--Nite Koko Taylor with B.B. King--Blues Hotel Patty Griffin--You'll Remember; Rain (live, Austin, 5/02); I Smell a Rat Tommy Keene--All Your Love Will Stay The Higher State--'Cos You're Wrong Luke Carlos O'Reilly--Soul Dancing Sly--Help Me With My Broken Heart (1964 version) Sly & the Family Stone--Just Like a Baby; In Time; Higher; Sing a Simple Song (live, Harlem, 1969) *Also remembered: Singer-actor Steve Lawrence (1935-2024)
---Retroactive #1361--March 2, 2024: Ana Egge with the Stray Birds--The Ballad of Jean Genet Ron Sexsmith--Get In Line Sister Rosetta Tharpe--My Man and I The Avett Brothers--Tell the Truth Fishtrap--Don't Need No Doctor Arina Fujiwara--Komorebi Lynnette Washington & Dennis Bell/Jazz NY --The Best Is Yet to Come (live, NYC, 1/11) The Handsome Family--Flapping Your Broken Wings Courtney Barnett--Sunfair Sundown Bipolaroid--Self-Portrait Scott Askew--Another Bone Barbara Manning--Don't Hold Back Shawn Colvin--Outbound Plane Mem Shannon--No Religion LaVon Hardison--I Love Paris Mighty Mighty Bosstones--Bruised Eric Bibb--Freedom Train Cat Power--Baby Let Me Follow You Down (live, London, 11/22) Jules Shear--Smart Jules Shear with Amy Rigby--You Might as Well Pray Jules & the Polar Bears--Brave Enough; Home Somewhere Amythyst Kiah--Pretty Polly Thao & the Get Down Stay Down--Holy Roller Sara Hickman--Oh, Daddy; Equal Scary People; Eight Ball (live, Austin, 4/98) Richard Thompson--O Cinderella Minnie Riperton--Reasons The Beths--Future Me Hates Me The Yaron Herman Trio--Twins Peter Laughner--Pale Blue Eyes DaVotchKa--Venus In Furs The Feelies--What Goes On (studio version) Silent4--I Love You Lou Reed--She's My Best Friend; The Blue Mask; Lady Day (live, NYC, 12/06) Lou Reed with Little Jimmy Scott--Power and Glory The Velvet Underground--Some Kinda Love; Sunday Morning
---Retroactive #1360--February 24, 2024: Emma Wilson--I Still Love You Carla Thomas--Where Do I Go T-Model Ford--Little Red Rooster Larry Crane--Tick of the Clock Ex Hex--Hot and Cold The Fleshtones--Headlock on My Heart Johnny Lytle--St. Louis Blues PJ Harvey--I Inside the Old I Dying Magic Slim & the Teardrops--Mind Your Own Business Sue Foley--Hurricane Girl Old Time Relijun--Indestructible Life! Shaver--Comin' On Strong The Picketts--Good Good Wife The Walkmen--Love Is Luck Jackie Venson--One Step Forward Big Joe Turner--Hide and Seek Betty Davis--'70s Blues Maria Muldaur--Why Are People Like That? Wild Billy Childish--Strange Words Liz Phair--Free Ride Johnny Cash--Luther Played the Boogie; Rowboat; Without Love; Sunday Morning Comin' Down (live, Nashville, 7/70) Mandy Barnett & Chuck Mead--Jackson NRBQ--Get Rhythm (1983 version) Jamie James--All I Got Lori McKenna with Hillary Lindsey--Killing Me Fats Domino--Shu Rah; Tell Me That You Love Me; Whole Lotta Loving (live, LA, 8/85); Sick and Tired The Band--I'm Ready Shawn Elliott--Don't Ask Me to Live Without You Sterling Harrison--You Left the Water Running Sleater-Kinney--Say It Like You Mean It The B-52s--Strobelight The Jack Rubies--Poltergeist George Harrison & Vicki Brown--Shanghai Surprise George Harrison--Not Guilty; Beautiful Girl; Apple Scruffs The Hollies--If I Needed Someone Jackie Lomax--Sour Milk Sea Kirsten Edkins--Wuhoo Neo Boys--Under Control Jimmie & Johnny--I Can't Find the Doorknob Janis Martin--Good Love Ray Campi & the Rockabilly Rebels--Rockabilly Music *Also mentioned: John 'Duff' Lowe (1942-2024), who played piano in the pre-Beatles group the Quarrymen and was on their studio demo in 1958
---Retroactive #1359--February 17, 2024: Allan Clarke with Graham Nash--The Presence of You Jacqui Naylor--Easy Ride from Here Teenage Fanclub--Back to the Light ///Drummer J.M. (Jimmy) Van Eaton (1937-2024): Jerry Lee Lewis--Ooby Dooby; Jambalaya; Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On/// Teri Parker--Retrograde Kim Richey--Not a Love Like This Thomas Lauderdale & Satan's Pilgrims--How Great Thou Art Willie King & the Liberators--Living In a New World Shaun Murphy--Evil Memory Janis Ian--Dark Side of the Sun Barbara Manning--Temperature's Rising ///Vocalist Damo Suzuki (1950-2024): Can--E.F.S. No. 27; Spoon (live, 1972)/// The Felice Brothers--Jazz on the Autobahn Meshell Ndegeocello--Dead End Irma Thomas--Gone; Time Is On My Side (live, SF, 8/90); Somebody Told You Yoko Ono--I Don't Know Why (demo) Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band--Waiting for the D Train Yoko Ono & Ima--Where Do We Go from Here Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul--Gravity Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton--Rippin' and Runnin' Dead Moon--Johnny's Got a Gun Rufus with Chaka Khan--Look Through My Eyes The Motors--Dancing the Night Away The Interrupters--Worst for Me Buffy Sainte-Marie--Rolling Log Blues; God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot; I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again; Goodnight (1992 version) Donovan--Universal Soldier (1965 version) Warren Vache--I Can't Get Started Quantic Soul Orchestra with Alice Russell--Feeling Good Nina Simone--Four Women; Blues for Mama (live, 7/66); I Hold No Grudge; In the Dark *Also remembered: Gospel singer Etterlene DeBarge (1935-2024), Ian Amey (Tich) of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1945-2024), Tejano music radio host Lisa Lopez-Galvan of KKFI/Kansas City (1980-2024)
---Retroactive #1358--February 10. 2024: Maddy Prior--The Fabled Hare, Pt. 2 Johnny Rawls--Tell Me the Truth Mya Byrne--Let Me Lend You a Hand boygenius--Salt In the Wound ///Mojo Nixon (1957-2024): Mojo Nixon--Not as Much as Football/// ///Donald Kinsey (1953-2024): The Kinsey Report--Corner of the Blanket/// ///For Wailers' bassist Aston 'Family Man' Barrett (1946-2024): Bob Marley & the Wailers--Concrete Jungle (Note: I realized too late that Robbie Shakespeare is a guest bassist here; nevertheless, Aston Barrett's remarkable work lives on)/// Mimi Fox--Moonlight In Vermont/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps--I Got a Baby; Catman; Cruisin' Larkin Poe with Will Lee & Shawn Pelton --Blue and Sentimental Nicole Fournier--Maybe Someday Curtis Salgado--Who's Lovin' You Bettye LaVette--Plan B 10cc--Life Is a Minestrone Jimmy LaFave--Valentine's Day Chet Baker--My Funny Valentine Julie London--Little White Lies The Mona Reels--Come on Mona Nick Lowe--Cupid Must Be Angry Magic Sam Blues Band--That 's All I Need Magic Sam--Come On In This House (live, Milwaukee, 6/68); Everything's Gonna Be Alright (alternate take) ///Roberta Flack is 85 today: Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway--You Are My Heaven Roberta Flack--Compared to What; Suzanne/// Johnny Copeland--Something's Up Your Sleeve Sleater-Kinney--Six Mistakes Jack Habegger's Celebrity Telethon--When I Move Mudhoney--Plasticity All That--Wolf's Remedy The Neville Brothers--Mojo Hannah (live, New Orleans, 9/82) Roy Montrell & his Band--(Every Time I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone Queen Ida--Mardi Gras! Kirsten Edkins--Bird Shapes Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Lean on Love Carla Olson with Shawn Burton Vach & Laurence Juber --Love That Never Blooms John Cale--Moonstruck (Nico's Song) Slaid Cleaves--Terlingua Chili Queen Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram--Been Here Before (live, London) *Other obituaries: Toby Keith (1961-2024), Spinners' Henry Fambrough (1938-2024) ---Retroactive #1357--February 3, 2024: ///Wayne Kramer (1948-2024) of the MC5: Wayne Kramer--The Realm of Pirate Kings; Wild America Dodge Main--I Got a Right/// Sandy Carroll--Don't Rattle Them Bones The Prozac Mtn Boys--Old Train Teri Parker--Desolate Places The Everly Brothers--Devoted to You; Oh So Many Years; Bird Dog; The Story of Me Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy--Empty Boxes Any Trouble--Girls Are Always Right Neko Case--In California (live, Austin, 8/03) Slim Gaillard--Make It Do Susan Tedeschi--Waste of Time Tedeschi Trucks Band--Pasaquan ///The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper (65 years ago today): Eddie Cochran--Three Stars The Big Bopper (as Jape Richardson)--Crazy Blues Ritchie Valens--Hi-Tone (Buddy Holly &) the Crickets--Tell Me How/// Joe Ely--Rock Me My Baby; The Gypsy Lady; She Never Spoke Spanish to Me Joe Ely & Joel Guzman--Miss Bonnie and Mr. Clyde (live, Austin) The Flatlanders--Dallas (live, Austin, 2/00) Barbara Manning--Dyin to Live The Volebeats--Whisper to Me Muddy Waters--Trouble No More Fantastic Negrito--Platypus Dipster Bootsy Collins--Heaven Yes Best Coast--Seeing Red ///The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show (60th Anniversary): The Bootles--I'll Let You Hold My Hand The Beatles--All My Loving (live, NYC, 2/64) The Dave Clark Five--Can't You See That She's Mine/// Carole King--I Don't Know; Beautiful (live, NYC, 5/73); Hi-De-Ho (That Old Sweet Roll) The City--I Don't Believe It Little Eva--Down Home Patty Reese--Will You Love Me Tomorrow Hot Club of Los Angeles--Bossa Lola Cat Power--It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (live, London, 11/22) *Plus: Excerpts from Beatles crowds and the band's first press conference in the US, NYC, 2/64; news report of Buddy Holly's plane crash, 2/59
---Retroactive #1356--January 27, 2024: Dave Alvin--King of California Lori McKenna--Letting People Down Miranda Lambert--I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday) ///Melanie (Safka) (1947-2024): Melanie--Baby Guitar; Beautiful People; I'm Not a Poet (all three live, NYC, 2/73)/// Rebecca Harrold--Rhapsody Angela Strehli--Two Steps from the Blues Bobby Blue Bland--St. James Infirmary; Steal Away *All Michigan/Motown show (2nd & 3rd hours): The Diablos with Nolan Strong--Daddy Rockin' Strong Marv Johnson with the band of Harold 'Beans' Bowles --Once Upon a Time Mary Stuart--The Weaver J.J. Barnes--Baby Please Come Back Home The Aardvarks--I'm Higher Than I'm Down Thornetta Davis & Brett Lucas--Sister Friend Indeed Aretha Franklin--One Way Ticket The Rationals--Guitar Army Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder--It Ain't Easy Betty Hutton--Doin' It the Hard Way Olivia Van Goor--Almost Like Being In Love Jackie Wilson--To Be Loved Teegarden & Van Winkle--God, Love and Rock & Roll John Lee Hooker--You Know, I Know Lene Lovich--The Night The White Stripes--Let's Shake Hands (BBC, live, 7/01) Rodriguez--I Wonder Parliament--Come In Out of the Rain Sleep--Can't Bob Seger--Back In '72 Edwin Starr--S.O.S. (Stop Her on Sight) Marshall Crenshaw--Fantastic Planet of Love The Stooges--1969 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles--I Don't Blame You at All Chris Clark--Stay Away from Temptation Martha & the Vandellas--Motoring The Temptations--Don't Look Back Stevie Wonder--Uptight (Everything's Alright) The Velvelettes--He Was Really Sayin' Something Xavier Davis--Model City 2.0 The Shy--In the Falling Rain Detroit Cobras--He Did It Sonic's Rendezvous Band--Succeed MC5--American Ruse Alice Cooper--All Over the World Wilson Pickett--We've Got to Have Love *Public Service Announcements: Aretha Franklin, Della Reese
---Retroactive #1355--January 20, 2024: Tom Rush--Galveston Flood Lillian Boutte--You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To ///Marlena Shaw (1942-2024): Marlena Shaw--Loving You Was Like a Party/// ///Jo-El Sonnier (1946-2024): Jo-El Sonnier--Jolie Blon; Louisiana Blues; Tear Stained Letter/// Arman Sangalang--Contemplation ///Mary Weiss (1948-2024): Mary Weiss with the Reigning Sound--Break It One More Time The Shangri-Las--Leader of the Pack; Past, Present and Future; Remember (Walkin' In the Sand)/// Vienna Teng--In Another Life Patty Reese--Lift Us Up Amos Milburn--Empty Arms Blues Ducks Deluxe--Cherry Pie Mirah--Body Below Eilen Jewell--Here With Me Garland Jeffreys--Lift Me Up The Persuasions--Still Ain't Got No Band; It's Gonna Rain Again; I'll Be Forever Loving You; Drive It Home Jerry Lawson--Wine Lucinda Williams--Six Blocks Away; Never Gonna Fade Away; Can't Let Go; Righteously Mary Lou Lord--Hard Road Teenage Fanclub--It's Alright Flow Tribe--Won't Be Long The Count Basie Orchestra with Jazzmeia Horn & Ray Angry --One O'Clock Jump (2023) Carla Olson with Gary Myrick--I Can See for Miles The Soft Pack--Tallboy Fuzz--What's In My Head? Sleater-Kinney--Buy Her Candy The Supremes (Florence Ballard, vocal)--Ain't That Good News The Groove Divinities--Change Gonna Come The Soul Stirrers--Farther Along Sam Cooke--Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen; Only Sixteen; Shake Sam Cooke with King Curtis & his band --Cupid (live, Miami, 1/63) Teri Parker--Kitchen Timer Tune Carlene Carter--Too Bad About Sandy Eddie Floyd--Soul Street *Also remembered: Gaydio DJ Simon Peel (1969-2024), Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach) (1935-2024), Singer-actor Bill Hayes (1925-2024)
---Retroactive #1354--January 13, 2024: Helen Humes--Mean to Me Floyd Jones--Dark Road Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps--Ain't Nothing for Certain Andrea Marr--Grateful The Holmes Brothers--Run Myself Out of Town Nancy Wilson--Peace of Mind Lynne Arriale Trio--Evidence (live, Montreux, 7/99) The Minus 5 with Curtiss A--Rockin' Here Tonight Emma Wilson--Water Paul Kelly--Pouring Petrol on a Burning Man (live, 9/94) Paul Kelly & the Messengers--Sydney from a 727; Forty Miles to Saturday Night Razzy Bailey--I Hate Hate PJ Harvey--The Nether-edge Rodney Crowell--Ever the Dark Roxy Music--Editions of You The Impressions--Do You Wanna Win Kate Campbell--Crazy In Alabama Slaid Cleaves--Second Hand Mary Timony--Musik and Charming Melodee Warren Zevon--Jungle Work; Desperados Under the Eaves; Prison Grove; Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner Pixies--Ain't That Pretty at All Ray Barretto--Together The Sweet Inspirations--Down By the Riverside Joe Cocker--Give Peace a Chance (live, NYC, 3/70) The Cool Sounds--Where Do We Go from Here Barbara Manning--I'm Running Mavis Staples/Levon Helm--I Wish I Knew How It Feels to Be Free Mavis Staples--MLK Song Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen--Long Black Train Big Brother & the Holding Company--Bye, Bye Baby; Road Block (live, with Sam Andrew); Down on Me (live, SF, 4/68--first version on the album) Janis Joplin--One Good Man; Cry Baby Slade--Move Over Lorca Hart Trio--Like This Bruce Ruffin--O-o-h Child Bobby Powell--Peace Begins Within *Plus: Several speech clips from Martin Luther King, Jr.; R.I.P.: Austin songwriter Ruth Ellsworth Carter (1954-2024)
---Retroactive #1353--January 6, 2024: Isobel Campbell--Don't Make It Easy Hudspeth & Taylor--Blues In the Bottle Sharon Jones--You Better Think Twice ///Les McCann (1935-2023): Les McCann & Eddie Harris--You Got It In Your Soulness (live, Montreux, 6/69)/// Roy Brown--Roy Brown's Boogie Sweet Megg--My Window Faces the South Graham Parker & the Goldtops--Pablo's Hippos Louis Pino--Phantom of the Bopera Elvis Presley--Milkcow Blues Boogie; I Feel So Bad; Anyway You Want Me (That's How I Will Be); Wearin' That Loved On Look Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Trying to Get to You Joe Tex--Heartbreak Hotel The Mona Reels--Someone to Hang On To Eden Brent--Darkness On the Delta Soraia--Tight-Lipped Joe Higgs--Come On Home Shemekia Copeland--Nobody But You Albert & Gage--True Love Knows Bettye LaVette--Lazy (And I Know It) David Bowie--Watch That Man; Life on Mars?; Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere; 'Heroes' (live Moonage Daydream edit) M. Ward--Let's Dance Chuck Jackson with Doris Troy--Tell Him I'm Not Home Doris Troy--What'cha Gonna Do About It; Don't Tell Your Mama; Gonna Get My Baby Back The Butchies--Madame mr. Gnome--We Sing Electric Mudhoney--Souvenir of My Trip Oh, Rose--You've Got Fire Sandy Denny--They Don't Seem to Know You (demo); Friends; Until the Real Thing Comes Along (BBC) Sandy Denny & the Strawbs--And You Need Me Fotheringay--Two Weeks Last Summer Fairport Convention--Stranger to Himself; It'll Take a Long Time (live, Denver, 5/74); Fotheringay Debbie Poryes Quartet--Catch Your Breath Shakey Graves with Jess Williamson--True Love Will Find You In the End Sonny Burgess--Ain't Got a Thing