---Retroactive #1180--December 30, 2017: Blind Lemon Jefferson--Hot Dogs Angaleena Presley--Only Blood Jim Ford--To Make My Life Beautiful Jules Shear--Guessing Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats--That's a Wrap! Colin Meloy--We Both Go Down Together (live, 2006) Jackie Shane--Any Other Way Jim Lauderdale--We've Only Got So Much Time Here Quasi--Master and Dog Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson--Happy New Year Debbie Poryes Trio--All of You Todd Rundgren--Let's Do This Waxahatchee--Brass Beam Jason Paul Curtis--New Year's Vacation Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--I Don't Want to Know Macy Gray with Velvet Revolver--Kissed It Filthy Friends--The Arrival The Box Tops--Neon Rainbow Big Star--In the Street (live, 1974); Kizza Me; She's a Mover Alex Chilton--Make a Little Love; Like Flies on Sherbert; Underclass; You's a Viper Bo Diddley--You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care); Bo Diddley Is Loose; He's Got a Key The Snakes with Bo Diddley--Pay Bo Diddley Ahmad Jamal--I Came to See You/You Were Not There Sundae & Mr. Goessl--What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas--Sugar 'n Spikes The Weeds--Baby Don't Go The Replacements--Otto (live, 2/86) Edgar Gabriel's StringFusion--Boogie In the New Year The Patti Smith Group--Frederick Patti Smith--People Have the Power (live, 1996); Glitter In Their Eyes Cecile McLorin Salvant--Never Will I Marry; I Didn't Know What Time It Was (both live, 9/16) The Billy Lester Trio--Consolidation Viva Girls--Auld Lang Syne *Plus: A holiday message from Saffire--The Uppity Blues Women
---Retroactive #1179--December 23, 2017: Mahalia Jackson--Silent Night, Holy Night Vince Guaraldi Trio--My Little Drum Harry Belafonte--Christmas Is Coming ///Vocalist Keely Smith (1932-2017)-- Blue Christmas; Christmas Island/// Fats Domino--Silver Bells Jill Sobule--The Saddest Day of the Year The Asylum Street Spankers--You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (live, 12/00) Loretta Lynn--White Christmas Blue Tom Dyer & the True Olympians--Christmas In Olympia The Zombies--Christmas for the Free Lauren Daigle--Christmas Time Is Here Jack Brokensha Quartet--The Christmas Waltz (for Debbie) Marion Williams--God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Roy Milton & his Solid Senders--Christmas Time Blues Bay City Rollers--Rock'n'Roll, It's Christmas Time Donny Hathaway--This Christmas Cyndi Lauper with Alison Krauss--Hard Candy Christmas Jack Scott--There's Trouble Brewin' Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band with Take 6--Do You Hear What I Hear? Over the Rhine--Blood Oranges In the Snow Slim Fatz--Southern Christmas Leona Lewis--I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday Debbie Dabney--I Want to Spend Christmas With Elvis (Heartbreak Noel) Elvis Presley--Santa Bring My Baby Back (to Me) Dude York--The Greatest Gift Is You Judy Collins--Cherry Tree Carol Loudon Wainwright III--Christmas Morning Kim Weston--Wish You a Merry Christmas Darrell Grant--Balm In Gilead Snaker Ray & Tony Glover--I'm Mad at the Fat Man Augie Rios--Donde Esta Santa Claus Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Christmas All Over Again Chuck Berry--Merry Christmas Baby Kylie Minogue with Iggy Pop--Christmas Wrapping Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades--O Rubber Tree Nick Lowe--Old Toy Trains Kelly Willis--Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy David Ian--Joy to the World Marah--Quithmith Pudding/Counting the Days ('Til Christmas) Herbie Hancock with Corinne Bailey Rae--River Andra Day with Stevie Wonder--Someday at Christmas Neil Hogan--Winter Lights-A Fantasy Health & Happiness Show--Jesus Christ The BellRays--Poor Old Rudolph The Beach Boys--Santa's Beard *Plus: Greetings and gags from the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Nat King Cole and more
---Retroactive #1178--December 16, 2017: Sue Quigley--Little Wildernesses The Sadies--As Above, So Below Jim Page--338 Dollars Behind Viva Girls--Christmas Joy Solomon Burke--Flesh and Blood The Blueflowers--Hesitate Ethan Daniel Davidson--Close to the Gallows Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers--Big Road Shaun Murphy--Out of My Own Way David 'Fathead' Newman--It's You or No One Konecky & Wilde--I Have a Little Dreidel/Calypso Hanukkah Three Weissman--Schlepp the Halls With Loaves of Hallah Calamity Jane--Hannukah Song Edgar Gamble's StringFusion--I Have a Little Dreidel Hoe Down Bootsy Collins with Victor Wooden, Stanley Clarke, Manou Gallo, Alissia Benveniste & World-Wide Funkdrive--Bass-Rigged System Pixies--Baal's Back ///Pat DiNizio (1955-2017)--Words of Love The Smithereens--Strangers When We Meet; House We Used to Live In; The Seeker; Time and Time Again/// Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats--It's the Holidays! Deer Tick--Hope Is Big Novella--Desert Jane Ira Bloom--One Note from One Bird Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas--Her Eyes Are a Million Blue Miles Robert Pollard--Arrows and Balloons Dar Williams with Sara & Sean Watkins--The Christians and the Pagans The Coasters--Along Came Jones Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Pass Me By Dhani Harrison with Mereki--London Water Fat Cat Big Band--For Borden George Winston--Pixie #13 In C (Gobajie) Professor Longhair--Stagger Lee; Go to the Mardi Gras (1959 version); Every Day, Every Night; Big Chief (1980 version) James Booker--Tico Tico/Papa Was a Rascal/So Swell When You're Well; Junco Partner; Rockin' Pneumonia (live) *I dedicated the show to my friend Deb Jenkins (1951-2017), who was a listener of this program and very kind to me ---Retroactive #1177--December 9, 2017: David Bromberg--Try Me One More Time Elaine Elias--This Can't Be Love Willie May--Ain't It Funny David Ian--We Three Kings Martha Schuyler Thompson--Roadhouse Blues Jack Earls--My Gal Mary Ann Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers with Fantastic Negrito--She Don't Cry No More The Toys--May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone Todd Rundgren--Sleep Katie Garibaldi--Love On Christmas Day Debbie Poryes Trio--The Wish Bruce Cockburn--Turn! Turn! Turn! Aretha Franklin with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra--Son of a Preacher Man Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--Look What You've Done Dude York--Break Up Holiday Elliott Smith--Let's Get Lost Little Steven--Love On the Wrong Side of Town Eilen Jewell--Walking With Frankie Lene Lovich--Say When The Holmes Brothers--Homeless Child; Get Myself Together; The Final Round Carl Filipiak & the Jimi Jazz Band--High Moon Waxahatchee--Recite Remorse Miss Mary--The Date Archie Bell & the Drells--Here I Go Again Girl Trouble--When Opposites Attract Filthy Friends--Brother The Replacements--Color Me Impressed (live, 2/86) Man...or Astro Man?--Specify Gravity Charlie Rich--Mohair Sam; Stay (1967 version); When Something Is Wrong With My Baby; Feel Like Going Home (solo version) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Lonely Weekends (live, 11/91) Reta Watkins--I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Jay Wiggins--Sad Girl Brenda Lee--Broken Trust; Papa Noel; Is It True Tineke Postma--YWC Barbara Morrison--Make Me a Present of You
---Retroactive #1176--December 2, 2017: Lizz Wright--Seems I'm Never Tired of Lovin' You Danny Worsnop--Anyone But Me Anita Lane--Do the Kamasutra Barrelhouse Chuck--Pacific Blue Paul Weller--Woo Se Mama Cecile McLorin Salvant--Sam Jones' Blues (live, 9/16) Big Star--Love Revolution Anat Cohen--Olha Maria; Kick Off/Um a Zero ///Jon Hendricks (1921-2017): Lambert, Hendricks & Ross--Little Pony; Avenue C; Deck Us All With Boston Charlie Connie Evingson & the John Jorgensen Quartet with Jon Hendricks--All the Cats Join In/Tickle Toe Jon Hendricks--Sugar Matt Bianco--Yeh Yeh/// ///Tommy Keene (1958-2017): Tommy Keene--Love Is a Dangerous Thing; Baby Face; Turning On Blue; Places That Are Gone The Keene Brothers--Death of the Party/// Julien Baker--Good News; Happy to Be Here Tim Hegarty--Gingerbread Boy Jackie Shane--In My Tenement Derek & the Dominos--Tell the Truth Black December --This Is Not the New Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Searching for a New Day Cassandra Wilson--New African Blues; Come On In My Kitchen; Run the Voo Doo Down Little Richard--Send Me Some Lovin'; Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On (Vee Jay version); I Feel Pretty; Poor Boy Paul The Sonics--Jenny Jenny Scott Grady--Rip It Up Miguel Zenon--Incomprendido Samantha Fish--Cowtown *Plus: clips of Jim Nabors (1930-2017) saying 'shazam!' and singing 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life'
---Retroactive #1175--November 25, 2017: Jack Savoretti--Vagabond Carrie Newcomber--Help In Hard Times Eilen Jewell--Nothing In Rambling ///Warren 'Pete' Moore (1939-2017): The Miracles--The Tracks of My Tears/// ///Della Reese (1931-2017): Headin' Home; Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You); Della Reese & the Verity All-Stars--Walk With You/// ///Mel Tillis (1932-2017): Arthur Alexander--Detroit City Webb Pierce--I Ain't Never Mel Tillis & the Statesiders--Heart Over Mind; Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town; Detroit City (live) Mel Tillis--Mental Revenge/// Debbie Poryes Trio--Wonderful Day ///Wayne Cochran (1939-2017)--Get Down With It/// ///Malcolm Young (1953-2017): AC/DC--Shot Down In Flames; Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be (both live, Paris, 12/79)/// Waxahatchee--Silver The Weeds--Who'll Read the Will Betty Bryant--I Can't Walk Like Tina Turner In My High-Heeled Shoes Tina Turner--Earthquake and Hurricane Ike & Tina Turner--I Want to Take You Higher (live, 1971); Shake a Tail Feather; Funky Street; A Fool In Love (both live, SF, 1969) Jane Ira Bloom--Dangerous Times Chrissie Hynde--My Father ///The Jimi Hendrix Birth Anniversary Bash: Eric Johnson--One Rainy Wish Mr. Sipp--Little Wing (includes 'The Star Spangled Banner') Ellen McIlwaine--Up from the Skies (live, 1972) Eric Burdon--Third Stone from the Sun/The Story of Life Caron Wheeler--The Wind Cries Mary Ace Frehley--Spanish Castle Magic The Dave Flippo Trio--If Six Were Nine Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys--Power of Soul (Power of Love) (live, 12/69) The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Remember; Foxey Lady (live, SF, 10/68); Beginnings (Jam Back at the House)///
---Retroactive #1174--November 18, 2017: Wade Bowen--Before These Walls Were Blue Ruby Johnson--If I Ever Needed Love (I Sure Do Need It Now) Paul Kelly--I Smell Trouble Julien Baker--Turn Out the Lights Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra--If Only Steve Earle--If Mama Coulda Seen Me Cecile McLorin Salvant--Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (live, 9/16) Spoon--Lines In the Suit Tom Kohl--Carbonesque Greg Brown--Pound It On Down Sinead O'Connor--All Apologies Angaleena Presley--Mama I Tried Deer Tick--Rejection; Don't Hurt; Card House Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers--Had to Learn the Hard Way Flamin' Groovies--Let Me Rock Ariel Pocock--Real Emotional Girl Randy Newman--Louisiana 1927 (live, 5/98); The Great Debate; Best Little Girl; Burn On David Friesen--Going Forth Zora Young--Queen Bee The Forty-Fives--Daddy Rollin' Stone Little Steven--I Saw the Light Rachel Sweet--Jealous Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Matter of Time Lee Fields--Walk On Through That Door Box of Frogs featuring Graham Parker--Get It While You Can Graham Parker & the Rumour--Stupefaction Graham Parker--Little Miss Understanding; No Woman No Cry (live, solo); Mercury Poisoning (live, solo) Ahmad Jamal--Manhattan Reflections Filthy Friends--Makers The Young Fresh Fellows--Hard to Mention The Len Price 3--Sucking the Life Out of Me Ani DiFranco--Pacifist's Lament
---Retroactive #1173--November 11, 2017: Peggy Seeger--Sing About These Hard Times Muddy Waters Blues Band--Sad Day Uptown Greg Black & the Planetary People--Keep Your Spirits High ///Vocalist Robert Knight (1945-2017): Robert Knight--Free Me; Love On a Mountaintop; Everlasting Love/// ///Arranger Paul Buckmaster (1946-2017): The Rolling Stones--Moonlight Mile/// Jane Ira Bloom--Mind Gray River Samantha Crain--Red Sky, Blue Mountain Harpeth Rising--Westbound from Polaris ///Singer-songwriter-guitarist Fred Cole (1948-2017): Dead Moon--Dagger Moon; Parchman Farm; Graveyard; Revenge The Lollipop Shoppe--You Must Be a Witch/// Nellie Lutcher--Fine and Mellow Eilen Jewell--You Know My Love Marshall Crenshaw--Somebody Crying; Tell Me All About It (live, 2/01); Rock On Little Willie John--Big Blue Diamonds; Bo-Da-Ley Didd-Ley; Fever Mable John--I Need Your Love So Bad Rufus Reid--Recognition Betty Davis--Game Is My Middle Name Shannon McNally--Can't Pin a Color Roxy Music--Street Life Buffalo Springfield--On the Way Home Red Horse--I Am a Child Buffy Sainte-Marie--Helpless Neil Young--Flying On the Ground Is Wrong (live, solo, 1970); Reason to Believe Neil Young & the Bluenotes--This Note's for You (live, 1988) Neil Young & Crazy Horse--Things That Used to Be Debbie Poryes Trio--Autumn In New York Barbara Morrison--Perdido Thee Midniters--I Found a Peanut
---Retroactive #1172--November 4, 2017: ///Musician-environmental activist Katie Lee (1919-2017): Katie Lee--Song of the Boatman/// ///Pianist-composer-educator Muhal Richard Abrams (1930-2017): Muhal Richard Abrams--Unichange/// Emily Saliers--Serpent Love Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Sail On! Paul Kelly--Life Is Fine Travis Haddix--Through With Love Woody Russell--Last Time, Savannah Laura Campisi--Chorus Angelorum Jesse Winchester--Step By Step Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition--Baladhi Bonnie Raitt--The Glow; Million Miles Bonnie Raitt with Ruth Brown, Charles Brown & Kim Wilson --Never Make Your Move Too Soon (live, Oakland, 7/95) The Incredible Bongo Band--Last Bongo In Belgium (Breakers Mix) The Pack A.D.--Don't Have to Like You Delbert McClinton--Two More Bottles of Wine (1975 version); I'm Dyin' Fast as I Can Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--Pulling the Strings Pat Green with Delbert McClinton & Lee Roy Parnell --May the Good Times Never End Angaleena Presley--Outlaw David Francey--Harm Big Maybelle--Tell Me Who The Sam Taylor Quartet--On the Trail Carolyn Mark--Not Another Other Woman Deer Tick--Jumpstarting The Kinks--Just Friends Circulatory System--Round Again Ex Hex--You Fell Apart Filthy Friends--Windmill Joni Mitchell--No Apologies; Shiny Toys; My Old Man; Shine Fairport Convention--Eastern Rain Dave Zinno Unisphere--Remember When Frank Bey & Anthony Paule Band--Don't Mess With the Monkey Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers--Live My Life *Plus: Film clip referencing Joni Mitchell's music from 'The Kids Are All Right' (dialogue between Annette Bening & Mark Ruffalo)
---Retroactive #1171--October 28th, 2017: Flamin' Groovies--Don't Talk to Strangers Roxy Perry--Easy for You Greg Black & the Planetary People--Bridges Cecile McLorin Salvant--Devil May Care (live, 9/16) Randy Newman--It's a Jungle Out There (Version 2) ///Antoine 'Fats' Domino (1928-2017): Irma Thomas & Marcia Ball--I Just Can't Get New Orleans Off My Mind Lenny Kravitz & the Rebirth Brass Band with Trombone Shorty, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley & Maceo Parker--Whole Lotta Loving Fats Domino--My Real Name; It's You I Love; Blueberry Hill (live, 10/86); Be My Guest/// Jane Ira Bloom--Singing the Triangle *Halloween Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Duane Eddy & the Rebels (Lee Hazlewood, vocal)--Girl On Death Row Samantha Fish--It's Your Voodoo Working Gregg Allman--Blind Bats and Swamp Rats Eyeball Skeleton--The Smokey Turtle The Hollywood Flames--Frankenstein's Den Procol Harum--Repent Walpurgis Holly Golightly--Easy On Me Larry Carlton/Robben Ford--I Put a Spell On You (live) The Frankenstein Consort--Frankenstein Warren Zevon--Something Bad Happened to a Clown Marianne Faithfull--Mother Wolf Deadman--Werewolves Mecca Normal--I Hear You The Voodoo Organist--I'm Goin' Down LaVern Baker--Voodoo Voodoo Jules Shear--Jewel In a Cobweb Piers Faccini--Midnight Rolling The Melvins--Brass Cupcake Lisa Sokolov--You Do Something to Me John Lee Hooker--Crawlin' Kingsnake (1949 version) Greezy Wheels--I Stick the Dolls With Pins Robyn Hitchcock--Demons and Fiends The Raybeats--Tone Zone Eilen Jewell--It's Your Voodoo Working The Mountain Goats--Rage of Travers Peter Parker--Haunted Castle Jumpin' Gene Simmons--Haunted House Dinah Washington--My Man's an Undertaker Dr. John--Marie La Veau *Plus: Lots of Halloween sound effects
---Retroactive #1170--October 21, 2017: Danny O'Keefe--I'm Sober Now Shannon McNally--Love In the Worst Degree Kaia Kater--Oh Darlin' ///Gord Downie (1964-2017): The Tragically Hip--Twist My Arm; Black Day In July/// Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers with Sweet Pea Atkinson-- Let Me Hear It from You The Len Price 3--Start Stop Lilly Filthy Friends--Dispierta Bobby Womack--Holdin' Onto My Baby's Love/Nobody ///Interview with former 'Free Things Are Cool' KAOS host Diana Arens: Elliott Smith--Angeles (live, Olympia) Old Time Relijun--Mirror; Vampire Victim Nirvana--Spank Thru Mudhoney--The Rose Steve Fisk--Government Figures; Aviation Oakie (Diana Arens is hosting the panel discussion 'KAOS: An Independent Legacy' as part of the 'Return to Evergreen' festivities at the Evergreen State College on November 4th. She will speak with 19 Evergreen alum who spent time--and saw their vision through--on KAOS Radio, starting in the 1970s)/// The Yelena Eckemoff Quintet--Waltz of the Yellow Petals Barbara Morrison--Work Song Syl Johnson--Piece of the Rock ///The John Lennon Birth Anniversary Bash: The Beatles--Baby It's You; No Reply; Cry Baby Cry The Pretenders--Not a Second Time Herbie Hancock with Dave Matthews--Tomorrow Never Knows Frank Bey with the Anthony Paule Band--Imagine (live, SF, 2012) Joe Syrian's Motor City Jazz Octet--Come Together John Lennon--I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier; Life Begins at 40 (demo); Sweet Little Sixteen John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band--God/// *Plus: DA read about the Olympia punk scene from Stephen Tow's book 'The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge'; Beatles and Lennon interview clips, 1963-1980; Dick Cavett; Lennon interview excerpts from the 'Tomorrow' television show with Tom Snyder
---Retroactive #1169--October 14, 2017: ---KAOS Fall Pledge Drive Show Butch Thompson & Doc Cheatham--After You've Gone Elizabeth Cotten--Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie Jim Lauderdale--You Came to Get Me ///Drummer-vocalist Grady Tate (1932-2017): Jimmy Smith--Back at the Chicken Shack (live, NYC, 11/90)/// Dee Dee Bridgewater--I Can't Get Next to You ///Vocalist Jimmy Beaumont (1940-2017) The Skyliners--Since I Don't Have You; Pennies from Heaven/// ///Producer-vocalist Bunny Sigler (1941-2017): Let the Good Times Roll/Feel So Good; Lovey Dovey/You're So Fine/// Eilen Jewell--I'm a Little Mixed Up Deer Tick--Sea of Clouds Minus 5--John Barleycorn Must Live Sarah Borges--All This Weight Chuck Berry--Around and Around (live, 10/86); Wonderful Woman; Anthony Boy; Havana Moon Steve Nardella--Promised Land Rockpile--Oh What a Thrill The Mountain Goats--Cubs In Five The Meters--Pungee Mavis Staples--Lay My Burden Down (live, 5/14) Sub Debs--Picture Phone Flamin' Groovies--End of the World Paul Kelly with Linda Bull--Don't Explain Angaleena Presley--Good Girl Down Wanda Jackson & the Cramps--Riot In Cell Block #9 Wanda Jackson--This Should Go On Forever; Baby Loves Him; Brown Eyed Handsome Man
---Retroactive #1168--October 7, 2017: ---KAOS Fall Pledge Drive Show ///Tom Paley (1926-2017): The New Lost City Ramblers--When First Unto This Country (Multi-instrumentalist Paley was with NLCR from 1958-1962)/// Denice Franke--Indifference (live) Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--Fatally Flawed Cecile McLorin Salvant--The Best Thing for You (live, 9/16) Leon Thomas--China Doll The Noses--Let's Fix This Thing ///Tom Petty (1950-2017): Mudcrutch--The Wrong Thing to Do Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--Shadow People; Restless; Running Man's Bible; Even the Losers (live, London, 3/80) Rosanne Cash--Never Be You Carl Perkins and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers--One More Shot (Defiant rocker Petty wrote 40 years of great songs and had one brilliant band to flesh them out)/// Ex Hex--Don't Wanna Lose The Len Price 3--Childish Words The Moaners--Oh Christy Freddie King--Living On the Highway Thee Headcoats--My Dear Watson Ollie Nightingale & the Hodges Brothers--Sho' Do Lady Wray--Guilty NRBQ--Mona The Shy--I'm Not Alone Dakota Staton--I Did Everything Right With the Wrong Man Rj Cowdery--Something Fine Joan Baez with Jackson Browne--Before the Deluge (live, 1/16) Jackson Browne--Fountain of Sorrow; The Road (live, 1977) Gregg Allman with Jackson Browne--Song for Adam
---Retroactive #1167--September 30, 2017: Ariel Pocock--Exactly Like You Kermit Ruffins & Irvin Mayfield--Good Morning New Orleans Gina Forsyth--Monday Morning Stretch YYY with Dem Atlas--Wouldn't It Be Nice The Marvelettes--Playboy T Bone Burnett--Hefner and Disney Laura Campisi--Here Where I Stand Paul Kelly--Firewood and Candles Dennis Binder--I Miss You So Miles Donahue--All Grown Up ///Charles Bradley (1948-2017)--Heart of Gold; Where Do We Go From Here Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band--The World (Is Going Up In Flames) (Like the late Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley created a whole new demand for soul music and will be very much missed)/// Gail Pettis--Nature Boy Pyschic Heat--Anxiety Easter David Bowie--When I Met You Angaleena Presley--High School Ellen McIlwaine--It's Growing (live); Wade In the Water Fear Itself--The Letter Wade Boden with Guy Clark--To Live Is to Fly Acoustic Madness--Theme from Midnight Cowboy Screamin' Jay Hawkins--Last Saturday Night (Cabbage Head) Claire Daly--I'm Gonna Make You Love Me Shaun Murphy--Price of Love Clarence Carter--I Can't See Myself Saturday Looks Good to Me--When I Lose My Eyes Leon Russell--Masters of War (Old Masters) Sleater-Kinney--All Hands On the Bad One Flamin' Groovies--What the Hell's Goin' On Carlene Carter--Cry; Poor Old Heartsick Me; Me and the Wildwood Rose; Do Me Lover John Mellencamp with Carlene Carter--Indigo Sunset Jerry Lee Lewis--From a Jack to a King (blues version); Sick and Tired; Chantilly Lace; Lovin' Up a Storm Dave Edmunds--Let's Talk About Us Yelena Eckemoff--Fishing Village Gore Gore Girls--Loaded Heart The G-Clefs--Ka-Ding Dong
---Retroactive #1166--September 23, 2017: Stoney Edwards--Poor Folks Stick Together Amanda Shires--My Love (The Storm) Rufus Wainwright--Albatross M. Ward--Confession Boyd Bennett--Boogie Bear Suzanne Vega--Jacob and the Angel Shilpa Ray--Revelations of a Stamp Monkey ///Producer-musician Johnny Sandlin (1945-2017): Wet Willie--Grits Ain't Groceries; I'd Rather Be Blind (live, New Orleans, 12/72)/// Unhinged Sextet--Autumn Fall Harpeth Rising--I Did Not Make the World Allen Toussaint--What Do You Want the Girl to Do Trombone Shorty--On Your Way Down Nick Curran & the Nitelifes--One More Time Nikka Costa--I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl (live, LA, 5/05) Lee Fields--Let a Man Do What He Wanna Do Dave Mason--Headkeeper (1972 version) Walter Wolfman Washington--I Got a Woman Ray Charles--That Lucky Old Sun; Mess Around; Take These Chains from My Heart; Tell the Truth (live, Atlanta, 5/59) Alana Davis--32 Flavors Ani DiFranco--Out of Range (live); Amendment; Play God Wellstone Conspiracy--Will It Ever End? The Len Price 3--Saturday Morning Film Show Filthy Friends--No Forgotten Son Bruce Springsteen--Meeting Across the River; Missing Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band--It's My Life (live, Rochester, NY, 2/77) Damien Jurado & Rosie Thomas--Wages of Sin Jane Ira Bloom--Emily and her Atoms Veronica Falls--Found Love In a Graveyard Big Star--September Gurls Doris Troy--Ain't That Cute Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--Doin' What You Do *Plus: Anti-drug PSA from Batdorf & Rodney (1970s)
---Retroactive #1165--September 16, 2017: ///Don Williams (1939-2017): The Pozo-Seco Singers--I Can Make It With You Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane--Till the Rivers All Run Dry Don Williams--Tulsa Time; I Believe In You; Working Man's Son/// Shekmekia Copeland--Not Tonight Pat McLaughlin--Night Thing Margo Price--Four Years of Chances Tom Kohl--Carbonesque ///Grant Hart (1961-2017): Husker Du--Pink Turns to Blue; Turn On the News/// Jawbreaker--Want Paul Kelly with Vika Bull--My Man's Got a Cold Flamin' Groovies--Fallen Star Irma Thomas--Breakaway (live, 8/90) The Detroit Emeralds--Feel the Need In Me Gregg Allman--Once I Was Karen Lovely--Blues Ain't Far Behind Benny Turner--Ghetto Woman B.B. King--Chains and Things; Help the Poor (live, 11/64); Sweet Sixteen (1972 version) Harold Mabern--So What Anna Gordon--NYC Justin Townes Earle--What's Goin Wrong Nick Lowe--I'm a Mess Meshell Ndegeocello--American Rhapsody Sparks--Whippings and Apologies Betty Davis--Don't Call Her No Tramp Hank Williams--Never Again (Will I Knock at Your Door); Lovesick Blues (live); I Could Never Be Ashamed of You; Long Gone Lonesome Blues John Prine with Miranda Lambert--Cold, Cold Heart Eden Brent--I Wish I Knew What I Feels Like to Be Free The Persuasions--Sand In My Shoes/Under the Boardwalk Angaleena Presley--Bless My Heart Debbie Poryes Trio--Phrases of the Moon Johnny Rawls--Las Vegas
---Retroactive #1164--September 9, 2017: ///Songwriter-producer-performer Walter Becker (1950-2017): Madeleine Peyroux--You Can't Do Me Rickie Lee Jones--Flying Cowboys Steely Dan--Slang of Ages; Any World (That I'm Welcome To)/// Harpeth Rising--Early Riser Tim Hunter Band--Summer Come and Gone Chuck Berry--She Still Loves You Laura Campisi--The More You Know Filthy Friends--Any Kind of Crowd *All '60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Barry Darvel--How Will It End? James Brown & the Famous Flames--This Old Heart The Shangri-Las--Hate to Say I Told You So Traffic--Dealer Mimi & Richard Farina--Bold Marauder Chris Bartley--The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven Ike & Tina Turner--Goodbye, So Long The Kinks--Something Better Beginning The Chymes--He's Not There Anymore Dick Dale--Jessie Pearl Booker T. & the MGs--Outrage Shirley Matthews & the Big Town Girls--Big Town Boy The Show Stoppers--Ain't Nothin' But a House Party Hedgehoppers Anonymous--It's Good News Week The Dixie Cups--Iko Iko The Youngbloods--Tears Are Falling The Who--The Last Time Thelonious Monk--Nutty (live, Paris, 12/69) Dusty Springfield--What's It Gonna Be Bob Dylan--Outlaw Blues Mel & Tim--Backfield In Motion Arthur Alexander--Anna (Go to Him) The Shes--The Fool Buffy Sainte-Marie--Now That the Buffalo's Gone (1964 version) Ty Wagner--I'm a No Count The Balloon Farm--A Question of Temperature The Sonics--Boss Hoss Sly & the Family Stone--You Can Make It If You Try Nita Rossi--Untrue, Unfaithful (That Was You) Dave Lewis--David's Mood, Pt. 2 Alvin Cash & the Crawlers--Twine Time The Velvet Underground--That's the Story of My Life The Royalettes--It's Gonna Take a Miracle The Oscar Peterson Trio--The Maids of Cadiz (live, Amsterdam, 4/60) Jefferson Airplane--It's No Secret Family--Hung Up Down Karen Krough & the Public Enemies--Watermelon Man The Wildweeds--No Good to Cry *Plus: Excerpts from '60s commercials scattered throughout the show
---Retroactive #1163-- September 2, 2017: Jay Leonhart--Rain Larry Davis--Texas Flood Marva Wright--Katrina Blues Greg Trooper--The Land of No Forgiveness Cigarettes After Sex--K. Catherine Russell--Long, Strong and Consecutive Cheryl Dilcher--High Eric Bibb with Michael Jerome Browne--Blacktop Belle & Sebastian--The Power of Three Ted Nash Big Band--Water Joe Ely--I Keep Gettin' Paid the Same Heather Eatman--Big Bass Drum Jack Ingram--Old Motel Janiva Magness--Pack It Up Benny Turner--I'm Tore Down Ex Hex--How You Got That Girl Buddy (Holly) & Bob (Montgomery)--Down the Line Buddy Holly--Changing All Those Changes Buddy Holly & the Crickets--Rock Me My Baby; Oh Boy! The Bunch--That'll Be the Day Marshall Crenshaw--Rave On (live) Nancy Sinatra--Don't Mean Nothing Syl Johnson--Get Ready Alejandro Escovedo--Horizontal Akua Dixon--I Dream a Dream Angel Olsen--Those Were the Days John Mellencamp with Carlene Carter--What Kind of Man Am I The Mountain Goats--Wear Black Groove Spoon--Dude On Dope War--Me and Baby Brother Otis Redding--Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song); One More Day; Swingin' On a String Otis (Redding) & Carla (Thomas)--It Takes Two O.V. Wright with the Keys--That's How Strong My Love Is Paul Kelly--Rock Out On the Sea The Shy--We All Bleed Red The Gerald Wilson Orchestra--Musette Toni Price--In Care of the Blues Patsy Cline--I'm Blue Again; Stupid Cupid (live, 7/61); Then You'll Know (live, 10/57)
---Retroactive #1162--August 26, 2017: ///Guitarist-composer John Abercrombie (1944-2017): John Surman--Chelsea Bridge John Abercrombie--Agitato/// Jackson & O'Meara--I Must Have Been Out of Your Mind The Sweetback Sisters--It's All Your Fault Louie & the Lovers--I Know That You Know John Legend with Miguel--Overload Samantha Crain--Oh Dear Louis Johnny Rawls--California Shake Harold Mabern--If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You ///Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)--Candleabra Boogie/// ///Sonny Burgess (1929-2017) & the Pacers--Red Headed Woman; We Wanna Boogie Sonny Burgess--Big Black Cadillac/// Swamp Dogg--Total Destruction to Your Mind Ani DiFranco--Terrifying Sight Cecile McLorin Salvant--The Trolley Song; Baby Have Pity on Me; Growlin' Dan George Thorogood--Bad News Acoustic Madness--Padre and the Senorita Joanna Connor--Young Women Blues; The Sky Is Crying (live) The Joanna Connor Band--Minor Love Claire Daly--Cloud Nine Laura Campisi--Love for Sale Dinah Washington--Love for Sale; Blue Gardenia; The Cheat; TV Is the Thing This Year Van Morrison--Spirit; Going Down to Bangor; Wonderful Remark; Caravan (live, 1973) Them--Don't You Know Jane Ira Bloom--Big Bill Harpeth Rising--535 (Are You Even Alive?) *I also talked about Dick Gregory (1932-2017), whom I was lucky enough to see in 1975
---Retroactive #1161--August 19, 2017: ///Blues historian-author Paul Oliver (1927-2017): Bessie Smith--Pinbacks-Take 'Em Away Mississippi John Hurt--Ain't No Tellin' Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy--What's the Matter With the Mill/// Tish Hinojosa--Louisiana Road Song Billy Bragg--There Will Be a Reckoning Paul Weller--The Changingman (live, 12/05) Janiva Magness--I Can Tell John McCutcheon--Take Back the Night Case/lang/Veirs--Down I-5 Rebecca Hennessey's Fog Brass Band--Two Calls John Hiatt & the Nashville Queens--Cry Love (live, 11/95) John Hiatt--All the Way Under; Everybody Went Low Christine Collister--Brittle Man Gwen McCrae--Let's Straighten It Out Cowboy Mouth--Joe Strummer The 101ers--5 Star Rock'n'Roll Petrol The Clash--1977; Drug-Stabbing Time; Spanish Bombs; Charlie Don't Surf Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros--Bummed Out City; Coma Girl New West Guitar Group--Wake Up Call Chris Cornell--Black Hole Sun (live, 4/11) Koko Taylor--Come to Mama Paul Kelly--Rising Moon Girls--Die Thee Midniters--Thee Midnite Feeling June Tabor--Shipbuilding The Mingus Big Band with Elvis Costello--Invisible Lady Elvis Costello--My Mood Swings Elvis Costello & the Attractions--New Lace Sleeves; Tiny Steps; I Hope You're Happy Now The Audrey Ochoa Trio--Call Me Girlpool--Soup Bettye LaVette--Down to Zero Richard X. Heyman--Deep Down In My Heart
---Retroactive #1160--August 12, 2017: John Mayall--Like a Fool Over the Rhine--If Nothing Else Steve Gray--New Orleans Funeral ///Barbara Cook (1927-2017)--Glad to Be Unhappy/// John Prine with Alison Krauss--Falling In Love Again Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--San Miguel Mary Gauthier--The Ledge Mercy Dee Walton--Problem Child Claire Lynch--My Florida Sunshine Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham--Sophie's Lullaby The Previous--Shout; For Dennis Bland; Too Nice Regina Belle--Open Your Eyes Johnnie Taylor--I Am Somebody, Pts. 1 & 2 Novella--Thun Eric Bibb--We Had to Move; God's Mojo; With a Dolla' In My Pocket Will T. Massey--A Summertime Graveyard Eliza Gilkyson--Wonderland ///Glen Campbell (1936-2017): The Whites--Try a Little Kindness The Beach Boys--Dance, Dance, Dance Glen Campbell & the Wrecking Crew--I'm Not Gonna Miss You Glen Campbell--By the Time I Get to Phoenix; A Better Place (live); Wichita Lineman/// Claire Daly--I'll Be There Laura Campisi--Luckier Big Sugar--A Night In Tunisia Bob Marley & the Wailers--Kinky Reggae (live, 11/79) Wynona Carr--'Til the Well Runs Dry John Trudell--Baby Boom Che Buddy Love--Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley--Tomorrow Night Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--The Dam Song Samantha Crain--You or Mystery; Antiseptic Greeting Martin Taylor--My Romance Cigarettes After Sex--Truly Deerhoof--Polly Bee
---Retroactive #1159--August 5, 2017: ///Guitarist-composer Chuck Loeb (1955-2017): Fourplay--Above and Beyond Gabriel Mark Hasselbach with Chuck Loeb & Brian Bromberg --Funk In Deep Freeze/// Leslie Eliel--Midnight Rain Jimmy LaFave--This Land Michael Doucet--St. Louis Blues Gregory Alan Isakov--Dandelion Wine Ani DiFranco--Even More The Audrey Ochoa Trio--Mayok and Marie The Mountain Goats--Paid In Cocaine Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--Window Shopping Howard Tate--My Soul's Got a Hole In It Robyn Hitchcock--1970 In Aspic Little Steven--Blues Is My Business Steve Cropper with Bettye LaVette & Willie Jones--Don't Be Ashamed The Hard Way--Found It Hurray for the Riff Raff--Settle Timi Yuro--She Really Loves You; I'd Fight the World; Insult to Injury The Young Fresh Fellows--You Call That Lonely? Chuck Berry--3/4 Time (Enchiladas) (live) Slaid Cleaves--Hometown USA Twerk Thomson--Shine Al Stewart--Roads to Moscow Samantha Ronson--Pull My Hair Out Michael Fennelley--Dark Night Etta James--Night Time Is the Right Time Headhunters--Fonkyfied (If the Bluenotes Don't Gitcha) Ray Barretto--New York Soul Graham Parker & the Rumour--Heat Treatment Ronnie Spector--Girl Don't Come Ronnie Spector & the E Street Band--Say Goodbye to Hollywood The Ronettes--Do I Love You?; Keep on Dancing; Paradise Allen Hinds--Buckley Mr. Sipp--Stalking Me Samantha Fish--Nearer to You
---Retroactive #1158--July 29, 2017: Cordero--Hellfire T-Model Ford--Chicken Head Man Jenny Reynolds--One Red Light Town ///D.L. Menard (1932-2017) & the Louisiana Aces--Lacassine Special Eddie Lejeune, D.L. Menard & Ken Smith--Le Flammes D'enfer (D.L. Menard was a stellar Cajun music accordionist, singer and songwriter)/// ///Bobby Taylor (1934-2017) & the Vancouvers--I'm Your Man; Does Your Mama Know About Me (A terrific singer, Bobby Taylor was also credited with discovering the Jackson 5)/// Iris DeMent--From an Airplane Willie Nelson--Your Mind Has a Memory of Its Own Claire Daly--Ain't That Peculiar The Boswell Sisters with Art Jarrett--Medley: Way Down Yonder In New Orleans/ Dear Old Southland/High Society/Rampart Street Blues The Boswell Sisters--Rock and Roll; It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Justin Townes Earle--Champagne Corolla Cold War Kids--All This Could Be Yours Rosie Flores--Rock-a-Bye Boogie The Casual Dots--Evil Operations Classified Belle & Sebastian--Funny Little Frog Ramblin' Jack Elliott--Night Herding Song (live); Lovesick Blues (live); Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms (live, 1957) Rory Block--Gone Woman Blues The Sadies--The Good Years Wendy Rene--Bar B-Q Joe Krown Organ Combo--Bring Me BBQ Baby Acoustic Madness--Big Balloon Rickie Lee Jones--Falling Up (live, 1/07) The Pretty Things--Love Is Good Anberlin--Love Song Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--The Hunt Is On Novella--Four Colours Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy--Early In the Morning Buddy Guy--Turn Me Wild; Skippin'; Trouble Man; Tramp Geri Allen--Dancing Mystic Poets at Dawn Regina Belle--He's Alright Ron Corona--Everything's Gonna Be Alright
---Retroactive #1157--July 22, 2017: Jean Ritchie & Sons--My Dear Companion Ted Hawkins--I Gave All I Had ///Burt Meyer (1941-2017): Snake Oil--Who Broke the Lock; Old Man & Old Woman Planxty--Follow Me to Carlow (Burt Meyer performed with Snake Oil while vigorously promoting live music in Olympia; he also hosted the 'Wheels of the World' Celtic show on KAOS for many years, hence the Planxty song)/// Saffire the Uppity Blues Women--Falling Back In Love With You Ray Charles--Come Rain or Come Shine Barbara Morrison--Please Send Me Someone to Love (live, 2004) The Tardo Hammer Trio--I Found a Million Dollar Baby Gene Clark--Home Run King Prentice Thomas--Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On Trudy Lynn--Still My Angel Child Chuck Prophet--Happy Ending The Hunters--Rabbit On a Log Bruce Springsteen--Girls In Their Summer Clothes The Pack A.D.--Underground Mike Henderson & the Bluebloods--When I Get Drunk The Blossoms with Eddie Beal's Orchestra--No Other Love Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans--Not Too Young to Get Married Darlene Love--Run Run Runaway; Among the Believers Richard & Linda Thompson--Don't Renege On Our Love Chuck Berry--Lady B. Goode Steve Davis--Mountaintop Ani DiFranco--Telepathic Veneese Thomas--The More Things Change The Rockbottom Remainders with Dave Barry--Proofreading Woman Hurray for the Riff Raff--The Navigators The Steve Gibbons Band--Mary Ain't Goin' Home Anymore The Muffs--Up and Down Around The All Girl Summer Fun Band--Everything I Need Superheavy--I Don't Mind The Rolling Stones--Empty Heart; Out of Time; Hate to See You Go; Let It Loose The Audrey Ochoa Trio--Afterthought Holly Golightly--Here Beside You The Subdudes--Thorn In Her Side Robyn Hitchcock--Mad Shelley's Letter Lil Greenwood--Grandpa Can Boogie Too
---Retroactive #1156--July 15, 2017: Lightnin' Hopkins--Baby Please Don't Go (live) Sarah Partridge--Matthew Eric Bibb--Prayin' for Shore Blue October--Coal Makes Diamonds Lavelle White--Young Men Go Wild Dan Auerbach--Shine On Me Loch Lomond--Spine Shovels & Rope--Cavalier Cat Power--Could We Spike Wilner--It's the Talk of the Town Neil Young--Can't Stop Workin The Shy--It Ain't Easy Wanda Jackson & the Cramps--Funnel of Love Courtney Barnett--Kim's Caravan Justin Townes Earle--15-25 Professor Longhair--Red Beans Earl King--No More One for the Road Samantha Fish--Chills and Fever Dion--(I Was) Born to Cry; Heart of Saturday Night; Crossroads Novella--Side By Side The Picketts--Apple Rebecca Hennessy's Fog Brass Band--Lagoon Sam & Dave--Wrap It Up Roy Wood & Wizzard--Ballpark Incident Sleater-Kinney--Not What You Want Tweedy--Summer Noon Miranda Lambert--Covered Wagon Buckwheat Zydeco--Rock, Boogie, Shout Denise LaSalle--Three People; Don't Jump My Pony; Right Side of the Wrong Bed; Blues Party Tonight Jude Bowerman--Someone Else Is Steppin' In Carlos Vega--Curve Ball Rory Gallagher--They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore Lou Ann Barton--Shake Your Hips *Plus: Clip from 'The King's Speech' (Geoffrey Rush & Colin Firth)
---Retroactive #1155--July 8, 2017: Ann Rabson--Hassle Attack The Sadies--Through Strange Eyes Chuck Berry--Darlin' Mirah--Cold Cold Water Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--Jones for You The Jim Basnight Thing--Summertime Again The Detroit Cobras--Sad Affair Rodney Crowell--The Flyboy and the Kid; Forty Miles from Nowhere Claire Daly--The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five--Early In the Morning; Beware Louis Jordan--Whiskey Do Your Stuff Linda Jones--I'll Be Sweeter Tomorrow John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension--You Know You Know (live, 6/13) Joy of Cooking--Humpty Dumpty Toni Brown & Terry Garthwaite--I Don't Want Nobody ('Ceptin' You) Terry Garthwaite--Rock & Roller; You Don't Know Woody Guthrie--Will Rogers Highway; Dusty Old Dust (So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh) Eliza Gilkyson--I Ain't Got No Home (live, 2003) Jimmy LaFave--Deportee (live, 2003) The Audrey Ochoa Trio--Dopplegangers Billy Flynn with Deitra Farr--Good Navigator The Yardbirds--I Wish You Would (live, 12/63) Hurray for the Riff Raff--Rican Beach John Mellencamp with Carlene Carter--My Soul's Got Wings Acoustic Madness--Kathy Betsy and Dave--Manha de Carnival; Cheek to Cheek (2015 version) Betsy Holt--A Man Like You The Byrds--I Trust; Get to You; Nothing Was Delivered Byrdhouse--Eight Miles High (live, 5/89) Roger McGuinn--Cane Blues Michael Hoppe & Tim Wheater--Sun On the Moon Los Straitjackets--Cruel to Be Kind Karen Lovely--Blues Is My Business
---Retroactive #1154--July 1, 2017: Cindy Bullens--Jellico Highway Ethan Daniel Davidson--Beast Kristina Olsen--Lousy Night for Music Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'--Shake Me In Your Arms ///Pianist-composer Geri Allen (1957-2017): Geri Allen--Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' Ornette Coleman--P.P. (Picolo Pesos) Tineke Postma--Cabbonal/// Chris Greene Quartet--Day Dream ///Guitarist Jimmy Nalls (1951-2017): Sea Level--Shake a Leg; Scarborough Fair; Twenty Miles from Nowhere/// Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds--I Need You Juliana Hatfield--The Fact Remains Little Willie John--All Around the World Peter Grudzien--Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere Ozomatli--(Who Discovered) America? (live, 2004) Lori Martin--The Home of the Boy I Love Ringo Starr & the Roundheads--Love Me Do; With a Little Help from My Friends (Reprise) (both live, 1998) The Band--Yazoo Street Scandal Robbie Robertson--Tango for Django; Somewhere Down the Crazy River Lisa Sanchez/Jon Eriksen Quartet--Tristeza Sarah Partridge--Calling Your Name DQE--Tiger Tiger Bo Diddley--Doing the Crawdaddy Mr. Sipp--Bad Feeling Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Walk With Me Willie Dixon--Blues You Can't Lose Howlin' Wolf--Back Door Man Big Time Sarah & the BTS Express--Little Red Rooster Muddy Waters--Tiger In Your Tank Peter Erskine New Trio--Labyrinth The Jazz Passengers featuring Deborah Harry--Pork Chop Blondie--Fragments; I Know But I Don't Know; I'm on E; Rip Her to Shreds
---Retroactive #1153--June 24, 2017: Graham Nash--Sandy (live, 12/87) Chloe Albert--Check Mate Pete Seeger--Summertime The Decemberists with Sara Watkins--Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Delta Moon--Coolest Fools Linda McRae--Some of My Friends Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--Neva Ethel Smith--Catana Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs--Alone Again Or Claire Daly--What Becomes of the Brokenhearted Old 97s--I Don't Wanna Die In This Town Robin Rogers--Caddy Daddy Bobby Blue Bland--Don't Cry No More Allen Hinds--Yonder Hills Danko Jones--Let's Start Dancing The Mary Timony Band--Pause/Off Helen Humes--Trouble In Mind; Ain't Misbehavin' Red Norvo with Helen Humes--I Sing the Blues Grinder's Switch with Garland Jeffreys--Won't Ya Come Back Home Garland Jeffreys--Harlem Bound; Any Rain; 14 Steps to Harlem; I May Not Be Your Kind Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer--Look What I Found Janis Martin--Love and Kisses Roy Milton & his Solid Senders--Keep a Dollar In Your Pocket Los Straitjackets--Shake and Pop Sleater-Kinney--A New Wave (live) Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & the True Loves--(Doin' the) Boom Boom The Fallouts--This Man He Weeps Tonight The Jam--David Watts Holly Golightly--Tell Me Now So I Know Cracker--Victoria The Verbs--Till the End of the Day Ray Davies--Silent Movie/Rock'n'Roll Cowboys The Kinks--Complicated Life; See My Friends; Life Goes On; People Take Pictures of Each Other Rebecca Hennessy's Fog Brass Band--Mutterings Novella--Elements
---Retroactive #1152--June 17, 2017: Sarah Partridge--Belle of the Blues Eric Bibb--Rocking Chair Dar Williams--If I Wrote You (live, 1997) Justin Townes Earle--Maybe a Moment Big Maybelle--Mean to Me Jerry Engler & the Four Ekkos--Sputnik (Satellite Girl) Andy Bey--River Man Nick Drake--From the Morning; Time Has Told Me; Poor Boy Sean Jones--Doc's Holiday (live, 12/05) Samantha Fish--Never Gonna Cry Blondie--My Monster Derek Martin--Daddy Rollin' Stone ///Singer-songwriter Rosalie Sorrels (1933-2017): Tomorrow Is a Long Time; Snake Toast/Catch It While You Can (live, 1980); Wolverine 14 Talking Blues/// Hollywood Vampires with Paul McCartney--Come and Get It George Benson & Al Jarreau with Paul McCartney--Bring It On Home to Me Paul McCartney--The Song We Were Singing; Only Mama Knows; Don't Get Around Much Anymore Gina Sicilia with Dave Darling--All My Loving Howard Johnson & Gravity--High Priest Hurray for the Riff Raff--Nothing's Gonna Change That Girl Ethan Daniel Davidson--My Own Bad Mr. Sipp--Juke Joint ///50th Anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Festival: The Jimi Hendrix Experience--The Wind Cries Mary (live, 6/67) The Electric Flag--Wine (live, 6/67) Otis Redding--I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (live, 6/67) Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin --Ball and Chain (live, 6/67) Eric Burdon & the Animals--Monterey/// Seamus Blake--God Only Knows The Beach Boys--California Girls (live, 1966); Let Him Run Wild; Be Here In the Mornin' Brian Wilson--Good Vibrations (live, LA, 4/00)
---Retroactive #1151--June 10, 2017: Gladys Knight & Edesio Alejandro--Feelin' Good (Vacilon) Tommy Ridgley--Double-Eyed Whammy Dan Tyminski--The One You Lean On Marianne Faithfull--Vanilla O'Lay NRBQ--Ridin' In My Car Pops Staples--(Peace In) the Neighborhood Lake Street Dive--Don't Make Me Hold Your Hand Acoustic Madness--Over the Hill Valerie June--Man Done Wrong Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men--Skip Chaser Tom Rizzo--Lonesome Cowboy The Honey Wilders--Wake Up and Smile Liz Phair--6'1'' Alejandro Escovedo--Headstrong Crazy Fools The Pack A.D.--Shiny Things Juliana Hatfield--Wonder Why Howlin' Wolf--Moaning for My Baby; Howlin' Wolf Boogie; Just Like I Treat You Oh Susanna--Unknown Land Karen Lovely--Waking Up the Dead The Impressions--I've Been Trying Curtis Mayfield--Move On Up; Freddie's Dead Steve Cropper & Lani Groves--I'm So Proud Floyd Cramer--A Song of Joy The Kills--Whirling Eye Johnnie Johnson--Stepped In What!? Robyn Hitchcock--I Pray When I'm Drunk Novella--Change of State Freddie McGregor--Get Involved Dakota Staton--Mean to Me; Why Don't You Think Things Over; Country Man Enrique Fernandez--Falling from Grace Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--White House Ian Hunter--Ships Mott the Hoople--Whizz Kid; Laugh at Me
---Retroactive #1150--June 3, 2017: Pokey LaFarge--Going to the Country Sippie Wallace--Parlor Social De Luxe Iris DeMent--Not With Deserters James Talley--Nothin' But the Blues Delta Moon--Just Lucky I Guess E.C. Scott--Masterpiece Ike & Tina Turner--Tweedle Dee John McCutcheon--New Man Now The Mountain Goats--We Do It Different On the West Coast University of Northern Colorado Jazz Lab Band I--Fortune's Fool Joan Osborne--Kitten's Got Claws; Game of Love Bob Dylan & Joan Osborne--Chimes of Freedom Sallie Ford--Unraveling Los Lobos--I Walk Alone ///Singer-songwriter Gregg Allman (1947-2017): The Allman Joys--Spoonful The Hour Glass--B.B. King Medley: Sweet Little Angel/ It's My Own Fault/How Blue Can You Get The Gregg Allman Band--Anything Goes Gregg Allman--Midnight Rider (live, 1/14); Queen of Hearts The Allman Brothers Band--Ain't Wastin' Time No More; Dreams/// Matt Haimovitz--Blood Count Ellen McIlwaine--Ode to Billie Joe (live) Sleater-Kinney--Price Tag (live) The Sex Pistols--No Feelings Deerhoof--Dispossessor Sarah Partridge with Janis Ian--A Quarter Past Heartache Janis Ian--Society's Child (live); Cosmopolitan Girl (live) Mr. Sipp--Knock a Hole In It B.J. Jansen--Soul Loss ///Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary: 747s--Fixing a Hole Simple Kid--Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) The Beatles--She's Leaving Home; Within You Without You; A Day In the Life///
---Retroactive #1149--May 27, 2017: Ann Cole--Smilin' Through The Shy--Don't Walk Away Robyn Hitchcock--I Want to Tell You About What I Want Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'--Squeeze Box The Who--Drowned (live, 7/13) Samantha Fish--You'll Never Change Mecca Normal--Are You Hungry Joe? Susan Tedeschi--You Need to Be With Me Terry Gibbs--Blues for Hamp *All Texas Show (2nd & 3rd hours): ///Singer-songwriter Jimmy LaFave (1955-2017): Jimmy LaFave's Night Tribe--Five Long Years (live, 1992) Jimmy LaFave--When the Tears Fall (live, 3/94); River Road (2005 version)/// Don Williams--Better Than Today Kathy & the Kilowatts--Let's Do This Thing Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men with Lou Ann Barton--Don't Do It Townes Van Zandt--Ain't Leavin' Your Love (live, 9/95) Guy Clark--Randall Knife (live, 9/95) Butch Hancock--Chase Greezy Wheels--Wicked Doesn't Sleep Trudy Lynn--Your Good Thing (Is About to End) Augie Meyers & the Western Head Band--High Texas Rider (live, 1975) T-Bone Walker--Call It Stormy Monday (1947 version) Ornette Coleman--Job Mob Legendary Stardust Cowboy--Paralyzed Sara Hickman--Selfish Freak Aaron Watson--Houston Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel--Hesitation Blues Surly Gates--Growl Black Angels--Hunt Me Down Angela Strehli--Stand By Your Woman Man The Bobby Fuller Four--Saturday Night Joe Tex--Money's Done Got Funny Doug Sahm--Ain't Into Lettin' You Go Marcia Ball, Carolyn Wonderland & Shelley King--Woodstock Roky Erickson & the Aliens--Cold Night for Alligators Buddy Holly & the Crickets--It's So Easy Roy Head--Let a Woman Be a Woman, Let a Man Be a Man Will Taylor--Well You Needn't Will Taylor & Strings Attached with Joe Ely--Back In the USSR (live, 4/06) Terri Hendrix--Wish Bill Carter & the Blame--Rock-Ola (live, 1989)
---Retroactive #1148--May 20, 2017: Robin & Linda Williams--Lonesome Pokey LaFarge--Riot In the Streets Sallie Ford--Screw Up Mike Henderson--The Edge of Night Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band--Walmart Killed the Country Store Faye Adams--Takin' You Back Lucinda Williams--I Just Wanted to See You So Bad Ray Davies--Poetry Angel Olsen--High and Wild Dave & Ansil Collins--Double Barrel Kyle Eastwood--September Nights The Parting Gifts--Don't Stop The Minus Five--Lyrical Stance David & Rachel Diggs--Black Coffee Christian McBride with Dee Dee Bridgewater--It's Your Thing Novella--Does the Island Know ///Vocalist-songwriter Chris Cornell (1964-2017): Soundgarden--Birth Ritual Chris Cornell--Seasons M.A.C.C.--Hey Baby (Land of the New Rising Sun) Johnny Cash--Rusty Cage/// Aimee Mann--Patient Zero Inez & Charlie Foxx--Hurt By Love George Torrence & the Naturals--Licking Stick Jimmy Greene--Something About You ///The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash: Watkins Family Hour--Gone Gone Gone Fairport Convention--I'll Keep It With Mine The Jeff Healey Band--When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky Solomon Burke--The Mighty Quinn Johnny Dark--You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Acoustic Madness--When I Paint My Masterpiece Grace Potter--I Shall Be Released (live, 10/12) Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau--Don't Think Twice It's Alright Madeleine Peyroux--I Threw It All Away Bob Dylan--Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum; Precious Angel; It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding (live, 2/74); Man of Peace///
---Retroactive #1147--May 13, 2017: Ron Sexsmith--Hands of Time Diana Krall--Exactly Like You (live, 7/08) Erwin Helfer with Ardella Williams--The Rocky Mountain Blues ///Michael Parks (1940-2017)--Long Lonesome Highway/// Linda McRae--Three Midnights Big Bill Morganfield--People Sure Act Funny Ruthie Foster--Runaway Soul Los Straitjackets--Half a Boy and Half a Man Mickey Champion--Emotions Merle Haggard--Living With the Shades Pulled Down Phoenix Rising--Improvisation for Film The Sadies--The Elements Song Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers--You Never Know Lesette Wilson--Corrida (Ai No Corrida) Elvis Perkins--Doomsday The Golden Palominos (Syd Straw, vocal)--(Kind of) True Nathan East--Overjoyed Syreeta with Stevie Wonder--To Know You Is to Love You Stevie Wonder--These Three Words; Keep on Running; I Believe (When I Fall In Love With You It Will Be Forever) Stevie Wonder with For Real--Stubborn Kind of Fellow John McLean/Clark Sommers Band--Parts Unknown Kim Richey--Breakaway Speed Stewart Francke--Soul Survivor The James Hunter Six--If I Only Knew Gossip--Standing In the Way of Control Black Angels--Comanche Moon Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'--Diving Duck Blues; Don't Leave Me Here Taj Mahal with the Pointer Sisters--Little Red Hen Blues (live, 1973) Taj Mahal--Oh, Susanna; Checkin' Up On My Baby (live, 12/68) Ali Farka Toure--Mahini Akua Dixon--Orion's Gate Robyn Hitchcock--Autumn Sunglasses
---Retroactive #1146--May 6, 2017: Heather Maloney--Call Yourself Lee Hazlewood--Baghdad Knights Norah Jones--Flipside Acoustic Madness--Neil The Persuasions--Johnny Porter Chris Connor--Everything I Love ///Bruce Hampton (1947-2017): Col. Bruce Hampton--Basically Frightened Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit--Dead Presidents/// ///Saxophonist Lionel Martin--'Saxa' (1930-2017): The English Beat--Hands Off...She's Mine; Monkey Murders/// Roxy Coss--I Think So Ted Hawkins--One Hundred Miles Juliana Hatfield--Kellyanne The '5' Royales--I'd Better Make a Move Greg Brown--Dream On (live, 10/82) Sallie Ford--Never Gonna Please Taste--What's Going On The Flatlanders--She Had Everything Jimmie Dale Gilmore--Rain Just Falls; Chase the Wind Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Mudhoney--Buckskin Stallion Blues Samantha Fish--You Can't Go Smoked Sugar--Bump Me Amazing Rhythm Aces--Mystery Train; The 'Ella B'; The Lonely One Dora Seres & Emese Mali--Aria The Hang Ups--Walkin' Around Metric--Empty Girl Trouble--High Octane Revival Etta James--Tough Lover The Animals--Big Boss Man; Boom Boom; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Eric Burdon--Invitation to the White House Eric Burdon & War--Beautiful New Born Child Faruq Z. Bey with Northwoods Improvisers--Mamaka II (live, 6/01) PJ Harvey--Sheela-Na-Gig Bill Kirchen--Swing Fever Kathy & the Kilowatts--Your Barn Door's Open Wilco--Someone to Lose
---Retroactive #1145--April 29, 2017: Linda McRae--The Station Paul Thorn--Wrong Number Chuck Jackson--Hand It Over The Pine Valley Cosmonauts with Edith Frost--My Window Faces the South Mungo Jerry--Mighty Man Mirah--Sweepstakes Prize Delbert McClinton--Like Lovin' Used to Be Terry Garthwaite--Happiness Stephane Galland--The Sky Is Cloudy Ween--Your Party Toni Price--Twelve Bar Blues Koko Taylor--Beer Bottle Blues Circus Maximus--Wind Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers with Bruce Springsteen --That's What Makes Us Great Trudy Lynn--Kissin' In the Dark James Brown--Talking Loud and Saying Nothing, Pts. 1 & 2 James Brown & the Famous Flames--Don't Be a Dropout; I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings--What Have You Done for Me Lately? The Marcus King Band--Plant Your Garden Early Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Old Man's Baby Seamus Blake Quartet--Why Not Rhett Miller--Ziggy Stardust Elliott Smith--Ballad of Big Nothing Millie Jackson--Tonight I'll Shoot the Moon The Band--Across the Great Divide Chuck Berry--Big Boys Robin Lane--One Big Stroke Cake--Sad Songs and Waltzes Blind Boys of Alabama with Willie Nelson--Family Bible Willie Nelson--Invitation to the Blues; Everything But You; We Don't Run (live, 7/96) Willie Nelson with Sinead O'Connor--Don't Give Up Howard Johnson & Gravity--Way Back Home Rachel Sweet--Just My Style Paul Kelly & the Messengers--Your Little Sister (Is a Big Girl Now) Luther Allison--Should I Wait
---Retroactive #1144--April 22, 2017: Memphis Slim--Mother Earth (1961 version) James McMurtry--Copper Canteen Connie Evingson & the John Jorgenson Quartet--Jersey Bounce ///Guitarist Bruce Langhorne (1938-2017): Joan Baez--Colours Bob Dylan--Corrina Corrina/// ///Songwriter Sylvia Moy (1938-2017): Stevie Wonder--My Cherie Amour The Isley Brothers--This Old Heart of Mine/// Mollie O'Brien--When I Set Out for Glory James Booker--Black Night (live, 11/77) Surface of Eceon--The Open Sea Melissa Etheridge--Any Other Way Sam & Dave--Broke Down Piece of Man Lord Huron--Until the Night Turns Sallie Ford--Record on Repeat Roger McGuinn--The Trees Are All Gone Guided By Voices--Hiking Skin John Prine with Iris DeMent--In Spite of Ourselves Some Velvet Sidewalk--Drowning Man Robyn Hitchcock--Detective Mindhorn The Washington Squares--Lay Down Your Arms Ann Peebles--If This Is Heaven; How Strong Is a Woman; I'll Get Along The Sadies--Riverview Fog Clap Your Hands Say Yeah--Fireproof The Chris Greene Quartet--Blues for Dr. Fear Sleater-Kinney--Oh! (live) The Paladins--Follow Your Heart Chuck Prophet--Jesus Was a Social Drinker Mother Earth with Tracy Nelson--Mother Earth Juliana Hatfield--Heartless EMF--Search and Destroy Alejandro Escovedo--I Wanna Be Your Dog (live, 5/96) New Order with Iggy Pop--Stray Dog Iggy Pop with Green Day--Private Hell Iggy Pop--New Values; Houston Is Hot Tonight The Stooges--T.V. Eye; Real Cool Time Akua Dixon--Afrika! Afrika! The Blueflowers--One Hand Away from Out
---Retroactive #1143--April 15, 2017: ---23rd Anniversary Show ///Linda Hopkins (1924-2017): Linda Hopkins--Sad and Lonely Me; Dirty Blues/// ///John 'J.' Geils (1946-2017): The J. Geils Band--Serves You Right to Suffer (live, 1972); Southside Shuffle/// June Madrona--An Early Spring Esther Phillips--Some Things You Never Get Used To Bobby Blue Bland--I've Been Wrong So Long The Christian McBride Trio--Who's Makin' Love Eric Glatz--T for Taxes Acoustic Madness--I Feel Like a Number The New Pornographers--High Ticket Attractions Joe Louis Walker--Midnight Train Leon Russell--Roll Away the Stone ///Interview with former 'Free Things Are Cool' KAOS host Diana Arens: Bangs--I Want More Steve Fisk--Taxman Dub Narcotic Sound System with Lois--Ship to Shore Lumihoops--Roman Holiday Internal/External with Slim Moon--I Knew Them Sandman--Dear Grandma; Love's Hangover Sale Kicking Giant--She's Real (Version) Courtney Love--Spray Beat Happening--Revolution Come and Gone; Tales of Brave Aphrodite (Diana Arens will host 'A Revolution You Can Dance To' at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma April 22 at 2pm. It features a panel of The Evergreen State College alumni recording artists and KAOS radio hosts who shaped the explosive Olympia music scene. Following the discussion, Chris Sand [Sandman] will perform an acoustic set)/// Karen Monster--Com'on Graham Parker & the Figgs--Don't Let It Break You Down (live, 11/96) Solomon Burke--Diamond In Your Mind Dave Edmunds--A Shot of Rhythm & Blues; A-1 on the Jukebox; Never Take the Place of You Rockpile--If Sugar Was as Sweet as You Carol Morgan Quartet--Strollin' Dusty Springfield--In the Middle of Nowhere; Morning; So Much Love
---Retroactive #1142--April 8, 2017: ---KAOS Spring Pledge Drive Show ///Singer-guitarist Lonnie Brooks (1933-2017): Reconsider Baby; Get Through to You; Two Headed Man (live)/// Beth Orton--Best Bit Robyn Hitchcock--Virginia Woolf Tom Robinson Band--2-4-6-8 Motorway Clive Gregson & Christine Collister--Blues On the Run Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins & Jerry Lee Lewis--Brown Eyed Handsome Man Carl Perkins with Paul Simon--Rockabilly Music Carl Perkins--Right String Baby, Wrong Yoyo; The Unhappy Girls Kate Campbell--When Panthers Roamed In Arkansas The Sadies--Another Season Again The Flamin Groovies--Somethin' Else Thornetta Davis--Honest Woman Chapman-Whitney--Hangman Box of Frogs with Roger Chapman--Heart Full of Soul Family--Love Is a Sleeper Streetwalkers--Toenail Draggin' Catherine Russell--I Want a Man James Talley--You Can't Ever Tell Val Bennett--The Russians Are Coming Clap Your Hands Say Yeah--Better Off Built to Spill--This Is What I Believe Heather Myles--Who Did You Call Darlin' The Blasters--Long White Cadillac Al Green--Belle; Call Me (Come Back Home); I Can't Get Next to You Patty Larkin--The Book I'm Not Reading Charenee Wade--Home Is Where the Hatred Is
---Retroactive #1141--April 1, 2017: Tuck & Patti--Sukiyaki Shovels & Rope--The Last Hawk ///Saxophonist-composer Arthur Blythe (1940-2017): Arthur Blythe--Bush Baby; After Paris/// Allen Toussaint--Big Chief Jean Shy & the Shy Guys--I Can't Save You (From Yourself) Old 97s--Turns Out I'm Trouble Lisa Hilton--A Spark In the Night Kip Addotta--Wet Dream Sallie Ford--Get Out Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--Keep On Rollin' Sanford Clark--The Fool Sleater-Kinney--Modern Girl (live) Thee Mighty Caesars--I Can't Find Pleasure Greezy Wheels--Sticky Situation Ray Charles--Don't Change on Me Dan Bern--42 Freddie Mitchell--Doby's Boogie Pancho Chavez with Sonando--Edgar SF Seals--Joltin' Joe DiMaggio The Baseball Project--Broken Man Supersnazz--Game of Love Billie Holiday--As Time Goes By; Swing Brother, Swing; Comes Love Carol Morgan Quartet--On a Misty Night The Shy--Love Goes On and On Roxy Music--Sentimental Fool The Shirelles--Foolish Little Girl Christopher Guest & Bill Murray--Mr. Roberts #1 Juliana Hatfield--So Alone Richard Thompson--Outside of the Inside; 1952 Vincent Black Lightning; Put Your Trust In Me Richard & Linda Thompson--Hard Luck Stories Fairport Convention--Time Will Show the Wiser Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers--Uptight Elvis Costello & the Attractions--You Little Fool Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--A 100 Feet Away *Plus: Author James Bankes on Jackie & Rachel Robinson in the baseball set
---Retroactive #1140--March 25th, 2017: Don & Dewey--Miss Sue Scatman Crothers--I Want to Rock'n'Roll Suzie Vinnick--The Honey I Want ///Singer-blues harp great James Cotton (1935-2017): James Cotton--Cotton Crop Blues; Hold Me In Your Arms; My Baby Muddy Waters--Blues Before Sunrise; My Love Strikes Like Lightning; Evil; She's Into Something/// Cory Weeds--Lost In the Stars ///Chuck Barris (1929-2017): Freddy Cannon--Palisades Park/// Pieta Brown--Take Me Home Thornetta Davis--Set Me Free Robyn Hitchcock--Time Coast The Feelies--Gone Gone Gone Sharon Lewis & Texas Heat--Don't Try to Judge Me Acoustic Madness--Back On the Train Brinsley Schwarz--Country Girl Nick Lowe--Sensitive Man; Lonesome Reverie; Let's Go to the Disco Aretha Franklin--Bit Of Soul; Another Night; Border Song (Holy Moses) Akua Dixon--If My Heart Could Speak to You ///The Brilliance of Chuck Berry (1926-2017): The Animals--Around and Around Dale Hawkins--Promised Land The Yardbirds--Too Much Monkey Business (live, 1964) MC5--Back In the USA Linda Ronstadt--Back In the USA Duane Allman--No Money Down The Distractions--No Particular Place to Go (live, 1/86) Eddy Clearwater--Sweet Little Rock'n'Roller Johnny Winter--30 Days Faces--Memphis, Tennessee Jerry Lee Lewis--Little Queenie Chuck Berry--Bio; Reelin' and Rockin' (live, 1972); Nadine (Is It You?); Johnny B. Goode///
---Retroactive #1139--March 18, 2017: Jill Andrews--Blue Sky Robbie Fulks--I'll Trade Money for Wine Charenee Wade--Ain't No Such Thing as Superman ///Evan Johns (1956-2017) & his H-Bombs--Tired of Trash; Telstar; Love Is Gone/// Marcia Ball--The Scene of the Crime; How You Carry On; Crawfishin' The Shy--God Help the World (2017 version) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah--Down (Is Where I Wanna Be) The Donald Byrd Sextet featuring Joe Henderson --That's All There Is to Love *All-'60s Show (2nd & 3rd hours of the program): ///Producer Tommy LiPuma (1936-2017): The O'Jays--Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) The Sandpipers--Louie Louie Chris Montez--The More I See You/// The Girls--Chico's Girl Nina Simone--Turn Me On Donovan--Sunny Goodge Street James Carr--Let It Happen Wanda Jackson--You've Turned to a Stranger The Zombies--I Want You Back Again Jimmy Reed--Found Love The Rolling Stones--It's All Over Now Sly & the Family Stone--Are You Ready; Life Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson--The Lonesome Road Toots Thilemans--Lullaby of Jazzland Etta James--Something's Got a Hold On Me (live, 9/63) Love--Can't Explain The Small Faces--Green Circles The Beatles--Slow Down The Shangri-Las--Dressed In Black The Bittersweets--Hurtin' Kind The Wailers--Dirty Robber (1965 version) Mother Earth with Tracy Nelson--Down So Low The Kinks--Come On Now Patty & the Emblems--Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl The Beach Boys--Darlin' Wilson Pickett--Ninety Nine and a Half (Won't Do); Soul Dance Number Three Tracey Dey--I Won't Tell The Sonics--Shot Down Bo Diddley--Let Me In The Weekends--Want You The Thelonious Monk Quartet--Off Minor (live, 3/66) Joan Baez--Silver Dagger The Sir Douglas Quintet--The Rains Came Irma Thomas--Time Is On My Side The Byrds--Renaissance Fair *Plus: Excerpts from 1960s commercials
---Retroactive #1138--March 11, 2017: Quantic Soul Orchestra featuring Kabir--Who Knows Larry Birdsong with Louis Brooks & his Hi-Toppers--Pleadin' for Love Maria Muldaur--He Calls That Religion ///Flautist Dave Valentin (1952-2017): Bill O'Connell--Crazy Samba/// ///Vocalist-songwriter Valerie Carter (1953-2017): Judy Collins--Cook With Honey Howdy Moon--And You Never Knew Valerie Carter--Heartache Valerie Carter with Maurice White & Phoebe Snow--That's the Way of the World/// Chris Rogers--The Mask Frank Bey with the Anthony Paule Band--You Got to Hurt Before You Heal (live, 7/12) Laika & the Cosmonauts--Circumstantial Evidence Trudy Lynn--If It's News to You The Yayhoos--California The Felice Brothers--Frankie's Gun!; Meadow of a Dream; Jack at the Asylum Celtic Woman--The Foxhunter Barleyjuice--Weekend Irish Leahy--Leviathan Mary Black--Leaboy's Lassie Celtic Cross--22 Dropkick Murphys with Bruce Springstseen--Peg O' My Heart Old 97s--Irish Whiskey Pretty Girls Lisa Hilton--Day and Night The Fleetwoods--Oh Lord Let It Be Bow Wow Wow--C-30, C-60, C-90, Go! Unwound--Corpse Pose The Sadies--Questions I Never Asked Patty Griffin--Irish Boy; Prayer In Open D (live, 1/15); Noble Ground Little Village--She Runs Hot Ry Cooder--Alimony; Tattler; I Got Mine; How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too) Carol Morgan Quartet--Night XTC--I'd Like That
---Retroactive #1137--March 4, 2017: Eddie Hinton--I'm On the Right Road Now Heather Masse & Dick Hyman--Love for Sale Marion Williams--Dead Cat On the Line John McCutcheon--Three Chords and the Truth Shelby Lynne--Be In the Now Dave Edmunds--It Ain't Easy The Feelies--Pass the Time Kris Kristofferson--To Beat the Devil (1999 version) Matthew Shipp--Cosmic Shuffle Acoustic Madness--Midday Swoon Audra Mae--Snakebite Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Can't Do It Like We Do Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys--Right or Wrong; Bubbles In My Beer; I'm a Ding Dong Daddy Marva Whitney--Unwind Yourself Jeremy & the Harlequins--Trip Into the Light Sleater-Kinney--Turn It On Lee Fields & the Expressions--How I Like It Nicole Willis & the Soul Investigators--Feeling Free Shaun Murphy--Running Out of Time The Shy--I'm Just an Average Man The Gourds--The Education Song Veda Hille--15 Years Jules Shear--A Bird In That Cage; The Sad Sound of the Wind Jules & the Polar Bears--Black Fever Sleep Emily Remler--In Your Own Sweet Way Yo La Tengo--Little Eyes Tower of Power--Only So Much Oil In the Ground Janis Martin--Drugstore Rock'n'Roll Triokait--Don't Speak ///The Lou Reed 75th Birth Anniversary Celebration: Eric Andersen--Pale Blue Eyes Cats of Sherman--Femme Fatale Laurie Anderson with Lou Reed--In Our Sleep Lou Reed--Harry's Circumcision; The Bed (2003 version); Satellite of Love The Velvet Underground--Rock & Roll; I Can't Stand It (Version Two) (both live, SF, 11/69)///
---Retroactive #1136--February 25, 2017: Allison Moorer--Orphan Train Greg Brown--Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon Angel Olsen--White Fire ///Guitarist-composer Larry Coryell (1943-2017): Larry Coryell/Badi Assad/John Abercrombie--Exercise In Fourths Larry Coryell & Steve Khan--Footprints (live, 1975) The Coryells--Sink or Swim Larry Coryell with the Wide Hive Players--Return of Shirtless Larry Coryell--Foreplay; Spain (acoustic, solo); 'Round Midnight/// Old Crow Medicine Show--Dearly Departed Friend Dar Williams--I Am the One Who Will Remember Everything Scott Askew--Wish Granted Johnny Cash--Give My Love to Rose; Man In Black; On the Evening Train Amy Rigby--Time for Me to Come Down Chaka Khan--Hazel's Hips ///Drummer Clyde Stubblefield (1943-2017): James Brown--Funky Drummer; Cold Sweat, Pts. 1 & 2/// Gregg Karukas--Do Watcha Love Slow Children--Thelma and Louise Bram Tchaikovsky--The Russians Are Coming Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra (with Wendell Pierce, narrator)--Make America Great Again Ann Peebles--Fill This World With Love George Harrison--Poor Little Girl; The Art of Dying; All Those Years Ago Billy Preston & Eric Clapton--Isn't It a Pity (live, 11/02) The Bennie Maupin Quartet--Tears Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio--Let the Four Winds Blow Fats Domino--Natural Born Lover; My Blue Heaven; What Will I Tell My Heart; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
---Retroactive #1135--February 18, 2017: James P. Johnson--Carolina Shout Trudy Lynn--World of Trouble Watkins Family Hour--Hop High ///Vocalist Al Jarreau (1940-2017): Paul Brown with Al Jarreau--Shine Shoes Tierney Sutton with Al Jarreau--Be Cool Al Jarreau with Dr. John--You Touch My Brain Al Jarreau--Route 66; You Don't See Me; Take Five (live, 1977)/// Lisa Hilton--Begin the Beguine Alison Brown Quartet--Rebel's Bolero Crabby Appleton--Go Back The Sadies with Kurt Vile--It's Easy (Like Walking) Heather Nova--Stop the Fire ///Singer-songwriter Bobby Freeman (1940-2017): Bobby Freeman--Betty Lou's Got a New Pair of Shoes; Do You Wanna Dance; C'mon and Swim/// The Animals--Cheating Lee Fields & the Expressions--Never Be Another You Richard Thompson--Love Is Bad for Business (live, solo, 9/82) Yoko Ono--Woman Power; Midsummer New York (Yoko) Ono with Cat Power--Revelations Carol Morgan Quartet--Song for Mom Julian Dawson--It Came from Memphis Rosie Flores--We'll Survive Deerhoof--Life Is Suffering Shovels and Rope--Hail Hail Sallie Ford--Loneliness Is Power Irma Thomas--Ruler of My Heart; River Is Waiting (live, 10/09); Don't Mess With My Man (live, 10/09) Buffy Sainte-Marie--Way, Way, Way; Take My Hand for Awhile; He's an Indian Cowboy In the Rodeo; Disinformation Glen Campbell--The Universal Soldier Steve Khan--Head Start Astrud Gilberto--Come Softly to Me/Hushabye The Noses--My Room Surly Gates--Pisces ---Retroactive #1134--February 11, 2017: The Delmore Brothers--Blues Stay Away from Me Mavis Staples--Will the Circle Be Unbroken (live, 1/15) The Cynics--Spinning Wheel Motel ///Producer-arranger-recording artist David Axelrod (1933-2017): David Axelrod--Big B Plus Lou Rawls--Love Is a Hurtin' Thing/// American Football--I Need a Drink (Or Two or Three) Gillian Welch--Paper Wings (demo) Acoustic Madness--The Way It Goes Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne--Blackmail Blues Martin Taylor--Swing 42 Buzzin' Cousins--Sweet Suzanne Joe Ely--You Saved Me; Saint Valentine; She Never Spoke Spanish to Me (live, 1980); Fools Fall In Love Aaron Neville--All of the Above Mary Ann McCall--Nice Work If You Can Get It Chet Baker--But Not for Me Leon Thomas--L-O-V-E Van Morrison--Let It Rhyme Erin Ivey--Chocolate (includes 'Mon Amour Mon Ami') (live) The Impressions--I'm So Proud Sarah Vaughan--Just One of Those Things (live, 7/63) Sylvain Luc & Bereli Agrene--Time After Time Arthur Alexander--Call Me Lonesome Randy Newman--Putin Sharon Lewis & Texas Heat--High Road The Move--Do Ya Eddie & the Hot Rods--Do Anything You Wanna Do ///The Carole King 75th Birthday Special: Little Eva--Where Do I Go Rick Nelson--Down Home The Monkees--Wasn't Born to Follow The City--Snow Queen Carole King--Chains (live, 2004); You've Got a Friend (with David Crosby & Graham Nash) (live, 1994); Medley: Take Good Care of My Baby/It Might as Well Rain Until September/Go Away Little Girl/ I'm Into Something Good/Hey Girl/One Fine Day/Will You Love Me Tomorrow (live, 2004)/// Gilles Peterson--The Highest Pleasure The Old Haunts--Outside of Divided Time
---Retroactive #1133--February 4, 2017: Joanna Connor--Swamp Swim Frank Stokes--Downtown Blues Catherine Russell--Harlem On My Mind Trudy Lynn--Honky Tonk Song The Marcus King Band--Ain't Nothing Wrong With That Truckstop Honeymoon--Thank You Bill Morrissey--It's Dangerous Out There Eric Johnson--Once Upon a Time In Texas Blossom Dearie--The Party's Over The Rolling Stones--Everybody Knows About My Good Thing Wayne Horvitz--Some Places Are Forever Afternoon Warren Smith--Sweet Sweet Girl; Rock'n'Roll Ruby; Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache Slow Children--You're Bored The Beakers--Fig. 21 The Now Time Delegation--Gettin' the Corners Beth Orton--Moon ///Drummer Jaki Lebezeit (1938-2017): Can--Mother Upduff; Halleluwah/// ///Drummer Butch Trucks (1947-2017): The Allman Brothers Band--Statesboro Blues (live, 3/71)/// Lisa Hilton--Seduction Mirah & Spectratone International--Luminescence The Chi-Lites--Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So) Todd Rundgren--Courage Beth Hart--Let's Get Together The Kingsmen--Long Green Todd Snider--The Ballad of the Kingsmen (live) Frank Zappa (Ike Willis, vocal)--When the Lie's So Big (live, 3/88) Thornetta Davis--That Don't Appease Me Betty Everett & Jerry Butler--Let It Be Me The Everly Brothers--Brand New Heartache; Walk Right Back; Stories We Could Tell; Following the Sun Quatuor Ebene--Calling You Gil Scott-Heron--Home Is Where the Hatred Is The Pretenders--Gotta Wait
---Retroactive #1132--January 28, 2017: ///Maggie Roche (1951-2017): Maggie & Terre Roche--Jill of All Trades Suzzy & Maggie Roche--Clothesline Saga The Roches--Losing True; This Feminine Position; Stop Performing; The Married Men/// The Young Fresh Fellows--Don't Look at My Face You Might See What I Mean Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire--Hell Yeah! ///Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017): Husker Du--Love Is All Around Joan Jett & the Blackhearts--Love Is All Around (Two versions of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' television theme song --written by Sonny Curtis--in honor of the innovative actor and show)/// *All Michigan-Motown Show (2nd & 3rd hours): Joe Syrian's Motor City Octet--Darn That Dream The Diablos featuring Nolan Strong--The Wind Betty Carter--30 Years (live, 5/90) The Flamethrowers--Suzette The Shy--Can't Get Over You Marshall Crenshaw--The Usual Thing Bettye LaVette--You'll Never Change Jackie Wilson--(I Can Feel Those Vibrations) This Love Is Real Death--Politicians In My Eyes The Detroit Cobras--Right Around the Corner Jack Scott--I Never Felt Like This Happy Accidents--All My Teachers Were Failures Harmonica Shah--You Don't Have to Have Liquor (To Be a Fool) Suzi Quatro--Brain Confusion (For All the Lonely People) The Reflections--(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet The Deadstring Brothers--Lucille's Honky Tonk Kenny Garrett--Detroit Nikki James--Still Burn (Motor City Race Fires) Dennis Coffey--Don't Knock My Love, Pt. 2 Gore Gore Girls--Cross County Lines MC5--High School Inside Out--Cesspool of Fate Acoustic Madness--Why Did They Kill the Radio? The Dead Weather--Three Dollar Hat The Marvelettes--My Baby Must Be a Magician Kim Weston--Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) Stevie Wonder--A Place In the Sun The Supremes--You Keep Me Hangin' On The Velvelettes--A Bird In the Hand (Is Worth Two In the Bush) David Ruffin--My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) The Clare Fischer Big Band--Sad About Nothing Blues Aretha Franklin--Try Matty's Bob Seger & the Last Heard--East Side Story Iggy Pop--In the Lobby *Plus: Public Service Announcements from Della Reese, Aretha Franklin
---Retroactive #1131--January 21, 2017: Daniel Norgren--My Rock Is Crumbling June Tabor--Out of Winter/Waltzing's for Dreamers Cathie Vitale Elkins--Hold On Until Tomorrow The Felice Brothers--Triumph '73 Etta James--Lovin' Arms Ella Mae Morse--Cow Cow Boogie The Pains of Being Pure at Heart--Betray Angel Olsen--Hi-Five Triokait--Misty Suzanne Vega--Instant of the Hour Van Morrison--Keep Me Singing Catie Curtis--Find You Now Rj Cowerdy--Holding Up the World Cry Cry Cry--Down By the Water Sleater-Kinney--Rollercoaster Father's Children--Universal Train American Football--Born to Lose PF Sloan with Lucinda Williams--Sins of a Family Buick 6 with Lucinda Williams--So Much Trouble In the World Lucinda Williams--Malted Milk Blues; Hickory Wind (live, 1/15); Something About What Happens When We Talk; It's a Long Way to the Top Pieces of a Dream--All About Love The Fleshtones--Too Many Memories The Need--Blew Candy Deerhoof--Kafe Mania! Robin Lane & the Chartbusters--When Things Go Wrong The Soul Stirrers--Be With Me Jesus Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers--That's Heaven to Me Sam Cooke--That's Where It's At; Mean Old World; Yeah Man Theola Kilgore--The Sound of My Man (Chain Gang) Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes--Havin' a Party (live, 1976) Lisa Hilton--Stepping Into Paradise Case/lang/Veirs--Supermoon Bill Carter--Moscow Girl *Plus: Info on the Women's Marches in Olympia and Seattle; chat about Fiona Apple's new tune, 'Tiny Hands'
---Retroactive #1130--January 14, 2017: Patty Larkin--I'm Fine Dave Alvin--From a Kitchen Table The Piedmont Melody Makers--Sweeter Day Curtis Salgado--My Confession John Mayall--The Devil Must Be Laughing Esperanza Spalding--City of Roses Sharon Lewis & Texas Heat--Freedom The Nice Guy Trio--Off the Grid ///Journalist Nat Hentoff (1925-2017): Miles Davis--Saeta/// Acoustic Madness--Let It Go Elaine Summers--The Real Low Down Paul Jensen--Pray Joe Bonamassa--Mountain Climbing Trudy Lynn--Thru Chasin' You Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band--Tropical Hot Dog Night; Old Fart at Play; Ice Cream for Crow Slow Children--In Situ Jackie Venson--I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) Steve Earle--The Gulf of Mexico; Halo 'Round the Moon (live, 3/00); Remember Me Wynton Marsalis & Richard Galliano--La Foule (live, 2008) The Beth Custer Ensemble--The Empire of the United States Mike Zito--Make Blues Not War James Taylor--Shed a Little Light Leon Thomas--The Creator Has a Master Plan (Peace) Chris Sand--Ronald McDonald 2.0 Nina Simone--Mississippi Goddam (live, 1964) Barbara Lynn--Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye; You Don't Sleep at Night Segments of Time--Song to the System Curtis Nowosad--Empirically Speaking Marion Williams--Heaven Help Us All *Plus: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. with an array of clips from his speeches and sermons
---Retroactive #1129--January 7, 2017: Billie Holiday--This Year's Kisses Giant Sand--The Beat Goes On Eric Johnson--All Things You Are Holly Williams & Chris Coleman--Orphan Girl (live, 1/15) Rory Block--Panama Limited The Marcus King Band--The Man You Didn't Know The '5' Royales--Say It NRBQ--I Got a Little Secret The F&G Band--The Real Me Mark Whitfield--Double Trouble Jimmy LaFave--Elvis Loved His Mama Teddy Thompson--I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone Elvis Presley--Such a Night; One Night; A Mess of Blues Case/lang/Veirs--Why Do We Fight The Blueflowers--Fragile Ian Hunter & the Rant Band--Dandy David Bowie--Lazarus; Andy Warhol; Aladdin Sane Lorette Velvette--Boys Keep Swinging Lisa Hilton--So This Is Love Alejandro Escovedo--Farewell to the Good Times Audra Mae--The Happiest Lamb Beth Orton--Wave Frank Bey & the Anthony Paule Band--Ain't That Loving You (live, 7/12) Shirley Johnson--Not for the Love of You Dan Pratt--Speak Low Fotheringay--Nothing More (live) Fairport Convention--Matty Groves Mary Black--By the Time It Gets Dark Led Zeppelin--The Battle of Evermore Sandy Denny & the Strawbs--On My Way Sandy Denny--I Wish I Was a Fool for You (For Shame of Doing Wrong); The North Star Grassman and the Ravens; Sweet Rosemary (both live, BBC, 1972) *Plus: Bowie-related clip from the film 'God Help the Girl'