This week in the Shack

Here is the set list for the last Shotgun Shack show for 2008. This has been an horrific year for myself, and so many of my friends, and it seemed appropriate to go out with a big set of party music to welcome in the new year, and celebrate putting a stake in the heart of the old one.

Happy new year. To quote Wil Wheaton, may it be filled with plenty of the stuff you like, none of the stuff you don't like, and may you spend it with the people you love. Thanks for listening.

-The Reverend Shady Glenn.


1. The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin' (2:56)
2. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
3. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (3:19)
4. Ryan Shaw - Memphis Train (2:52)
5. Aretha Franklin - Think (2:17)
6. Booker T. & the MG's - Hip Hug-Her (2:25)
7. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
8. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now (3:25)
9. The Intruders - Cowboys to Girls (2:38)
10. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
11. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (4:26)
12. The Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (4:49)
13. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight (3:31)
14. Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (7:42)
15. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (3:53)
16. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
17. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (5:29)
18. Me'Shell Ndegéocello - I'm Diggin' You (Like an Old Soul Record) (4:25)
19. Solange Knowles - Ode to Marvin (3:15)
20. Marvin Gaye - Anna's Song (5:53)
21. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
22. Otis Redding - Change Is Gonna Come (4:16)
23. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
24. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:19)
25. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
26. James Brown - Get Up, Get Into It And Get Involved (7:04)
27. Sly & the Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies (3:39)
28. Funk Brothers, The - Cool Jerk - Live Bootsy Collins (3:00)
29. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Pucker up Buttercup (3:15)
30. The Four Tops - It's the Same Old Song (2:46)
31. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tears of a Clown (3:04)
32. Bernie Mac/Samuel L. Jackson - Boogie Ain't Nuttin' (But Gettin' Down) (4:09)
33. The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (4:46)
34. Joan Osborne - Cream Dream (5:11)
35. Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind of Fellow (2:44)
36. The Impressions - Woman's Got Soul (2:17)
37. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
38. James Hunter - No Smoke Without Fire (3:05)
39. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
40. Major Lance - Hey Little Girl (2:30)
41. Otis Leavill - Love Uprising (2:32)
42. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (3:06)
43. Joan Osborne - Smiling Faces Sometimes (4:45)
44. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
45. Kool & the Gang - Misled (5:01)
46. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (3:45)
47. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)

(soul 9)

This week in the Shack

I started this radio station in late May because I have such love for the music and wanted to share it with others. I don't think, however, I ever expected to see that I would regularly have listeners from all over the world, and that the number of listener hours on the station would climb every month. Unlike spinning music in the dance scene, running the Shack is a very solitary hobby, and it's immensely gratifying to know that there are people out there listening and enjoying it.

I hope all of you out there have a wonderful holiday season.

-The Reverend Shady Glenn.


1. Eartha Kitt - I Wanna Be Evil (3:31)
2. Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You (2:36)
3. Joan Osborne - What Do Bad Girls Get? (2:32)
4. Dinah Washington - Mean and Evil Blues (1:53)
5. Di Anne Price - Wrong Keyhole (8:51)
6. Asylum Street Spankers - If You Want Me to Love You (6:34)
7. Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women - Bitch With a Bad Attitude (6:51)
8. Karrin Allyson - Evil Gal Blues (4:15)
9. The Atomic Fireballs - Lover Lies (3:19)
10. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - Evil Hearted Woman (2:45)
12. Lyle Lovett - Wild Women Don't Get the Blues (4:54)
13. Billy Boy Arnold & Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other (4:42)
14. Koko Taylor - I'm a Woman (4:35)
15. Etta James - W-O-M-A-N (3:17)
16. Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue (2:57)
17. Kurt Elling - Goin' to Chicago (5:39)
18. Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl (4:37)
19. Greg Szlapczynski - Now I Am the Blues (feat. Ian Siegal) (3:46)
20. Brother Yusef - Blues Is My Story (4:35)
21. Gene Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
22. Dinah Washington - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Cryin' for Her Man (3:48)
23. Aretha Franklin - Night Life (3:13)
24. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Night Time Is the Right Time (3:56)
25. Count Basie/Oscar Peterson - Lil' Darlin' (4:31)
26. Jimmy Witherspoon - Past Forty Blues (4:23)
27. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
28. Sunnyland Slim - Decoration Day (3:46)
29. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
30. Cephas & Wiggins - The Pimp in the Pink Suit (2:26)
31. Keb' Mo' - Perpetual Blues Machine (3:15)
32. Walter Horton - Sugar Mama (3:16)
33. Guy Forsyth - Thibodaux Furlough (4:51)
34. Popa Chubby - Preacher Man (3:55)
35. Otis Taylor - Government Lied (5:11)
36. Viktor Krauss - Far from Enough (4:03)
37. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
38. Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra - Saturday Night (4:05)
39. Nina Simone - Feeling Good (2:57)
40. Lou Rawls - Tobacco Road (4:01)
41. Jimmy Witherspoon - When the Lights Go Out (3:02)
42. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - I Want a Little Girl (11:21)

(blues 10)

The Hot Nut Riveters

I caught the Hot Nut Riveters' gospel brunch at Maria's this afternoon. The new incarnation of the band is Guy Forsyth, Will Landin, and Rob Hooper (Guy's regular trio); Wammo, Nevada Newman, Famous Jake, and Charlie King of the Asylum Street Spankers; and Oliver Steck of Giant City. Hell of a lineup. Hell of a show, too.

They'll be doing at least two more gospel brunches at Maria's - January 18 and February 15. Go check them out of you like good gospel and gospel blues.

Guy Forsyth & The Hot Nut Riveters at Maria's Taco X-press

Guy and the Hot Nut Riveters will be playing this Sunday at Maria's Taco X-Press this Sunday at 12:45 pm, and at the same place and time on January 18 & February 15.

This week in the Shack

I was at a party Saturday night, and a friend and I were talking about all the shows we've learned about either after the fact or after tickets had sold out. She's fairly new to Austin, and commented that, while she's missed a lot of stuff, every blues show she's made it to in town has been absolutely amazing. And it made me sit back and think about how lucky we really are in both our hometown musicians and those just up the road in Dallas, Houston, and elsewhere in the state. This week's program, therefore, is a collection of blues, soul, and funk spanning almost eighty years of Texas music history - from Blind Willie Johnson in the late 1920s to last week's T Bird and the Breaks' release. (And, yes, I still need to add some Blind Lemon Jefferson, Texas Alexander, and some of the other early blues masters to my library...I'm working on it.)

I hope you dig it.

1. Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down (3:09)
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Katie Mae Blues (3:00)
3. Asylum Street Spankers - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:15)
4. Texas Southside Kings - New Orleans & Galveston (3:46)
5. Marcia Ball - La Ti Da (5:50)
6. Guy Forsyth - Tattletale (3:56)
7. Seth Walker - Gone Before I Knew It (3:09)
8. Omar and The Howlers - Mississippi Hoo Doo Man (5:16)
9. Albert Collins - I Ain't Drunk (4:06)
10. Mike Morgan - Well, All Right Then (3:38)
11. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood (5:21)
12. Malford Milligan Band - I've Got Dreams To Romember (4:39)
13. Ruthie Foster - Another Rain Song (4:16)
14. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
15. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
16. Brownout - Chema's Contraband (2:59)
17. Kashmere Stage Band - Boss City (3:40)
18. T Bird and the Breaks - Esmerelda (3:14)
19. The Ugly Americans - Boom Boom Baby (3:59)
20. Papa Mali - Man of Many Words (4:10)
21. Carolyn Wonderland - Bloodless Revolution (4:32)
22. Janis Joplin - Kozmic Blues (Album Version) (5:45)
23. Omar and The Howlers - South Congress Blues (5:56)
24. Texas Southside Kings - Drifting Blues (4:30)
25. Asylum Street Spankers - Summertime (6:20)
26. Freddie King - Same Old Blues (3:58)
27. Albert Collins - Things That I Used To Do (Talking Slim Blues) (3:28)
28. Porterdavis - Come On In My Kitchen (5:53)
29. Johnny Winter - Boot Hill (3:34)
30. Delbert McClinton - Every Time I Roll the Dice (4:27)
31. Marcia Ball - Down in the Neighborhood (4:03)
32. Bobby Patterson - Keeping It in the Family (2:40)
33. Joe Tex - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (Original) (3:02)
34. Delbert McClinton - Can I Change My Mind (3:30)
35. T Bird and the Breaks - Blackberry Brandy (4:19)
36. Derek O'Brien / Willie Nelson - Sitting on Top of the World (4:46)
37. Lyle Lovett - M-O-N-E-Y (3:29)
38. Eastside Band/Texas Trumpets - Rebecca, Rebecca (5:07)
39. W.C. Clark - My Texas Home (4:53)
40. E.R. Shorts - Down But Not Out (7:25)
41. Pinetop Perkins - Meanest Woman (With Deborah Coleman) (3:23)
42. Jimmie Vaughan - Dirty Girl (5:02)
43. Gary Clark, Jr - Catfish Blues (4:53)

(Texas 3)

This week in the Shack

No holiday music this week, just sweet blues and gospel tunes. I hope you dig it.

I'm working on getting a calendar up on the Shack in order to keep up with all the shows happening around town. Look for that to launch by the end of the month.

1. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) (3:20)
2. Viktor Krauss - Overcast (6:50)
3. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
4. Tom Waits - Lord I've Been Changed (2:28)
5. Spencer Bohren - Wade In The Water (4:33)
6. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
7. Ollabelle - John the Revelator (4:09)
8. Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads (2:32)
9. Albert Collins - Master Charge (5:08)
10. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
11. Asylum Street Spankers - Leaf Blower (3:55)
12. Katie Webster - Pussycat Moan (6:04)
13. Aynsley Dunbar - Memory of Pain (6:06)
14. Eric Clapton - Blues Leave Me Alone (3:36)
15. Malford Milligan Band - I've Never Been To Seminary (4:53)
16. Marc Broussard - Home (5:02)
17. Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves on the Water (3:01)
18. Son House - Levee Camp Moan (9:29)
19. Rory Block - My Black Mama (4:28)
20. North Mississippi Allstars - Po Black Maddie (4:32)
21. Howlin' Wolf - Moaning For My Baby (2:49)
22. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
23. Porterdavis - Smack You Back (4:15)
24. Asylum Street Spankers - Asylum Street Blues (5:15)
25. Greg Szlapczynski - Who's Gonna Take My Damn' Soul (feat. Ian Siegal) (4:00)
26. Guy Forsyth - Jerry The Junker (3:38)
27. Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words (5:44)
28. Rory Block - Gone Woman Blues (3:45)
29. Otis Taylor - Working for the Pullman Company (4:17)
30. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Lay Down (3:26)
31. John Hammond, Jr. - 2:19 (4:41)
32. Taj Mahal - The Celebrated Walkin' Blues (8:51)
33. Eric Clapton - Groaning the Blues (6:06)
34. Simone - Feeling Good (3:48)
35. Gene Harris - C.C. Rider (5:01)
36. Jimmy Witherspoon - When the Lights Go Out (3:02)
37. Aynsley Dunbar - My Whiskey head woman (4:24)
38. Gordon Webster - Mo' Better Blues (4:51)
39. Guy Forsyth - Children of Jack (5:33)

(blues 9)

This week in the Shack

And another holiday season is upon us, despite it still being mostly warm here in Austin. This week's set has a little bit of Christmas soul to help get you in the mood while you're drinking your hot chocolate and hanging up those lights. I hope you dig it.


1. Otis Redding - Merry Christmas, Baby (2:30)
2. Anthony Hamilton - Soul Music (2:58)
3. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)
4. Ann Peebles - Old Man With Young Ideas (3:05)
5. Brook Benton - Soul Santa (3:23)
6. Gordon Webster - Mo' Better Blues (4:51)
7. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (3:28)
8. Al Green - Light My Fire (3:54)
9. The Lost Generation - This Is the Lost Generation (3:34)
10. Joan Osborne - Smiling Faces Sometimes (4:45)
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair (3:06)
12. Kashmere Stage Band - $$ Kash Register $$ (4:28)
13. The Temptations - Cloud Nine (3:37)
14. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
15. Donny Hathaway - This Christmas [*] (3:49)
16. Seal - I Can't Stand the Rain (3:34)
17. Al Green - Take Me to the River (3:43)
18. Sam & Dave - Soothe Me [Live] (2:59)
19. Sam Cooke - Somebody Have Mercy (4:44)
20. Otis Redding - Mr. Pitiful (2:44)
21. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools (2:46)
22. Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run (2:51)
23. Major Lance - The Monkey Time (2:48)
24. The Impressions - Woman's Got Soul (2:17)
25. Carla Thomas - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas (2:44)
26. The Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom (2:10)
27. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - I Second That Emotion (2:42)
28. Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me) (2:42)
29. Barbara Acklin - Am I the Same Girl (2:56)
30. Al Green - Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy) (2:58)
31. Isaac Hayes - Medley: Ike's Rap II / Help Me Love (7:33)
32. Donny Hathaway - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother [#] (7:48)
33. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)
34. Curtis Mayfield - Junkie Chase [Full Length Version][#][Instrumental] (4:17)
35. Rufus Thomas - The Memphis Train (2:33)
36. Bernie Mac/Samuel L. Jackson - Boogie Ain't Nuttin' (But Gettin' Down) (4:09)
37. Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa (2:10)
38. Isaac Hayes - Good Love (5:18)
39. Booker T. & the MG's - Slim Jenkins' Place (2:23)
40. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:19)
41. Delbert McClinton - Can I Change My Mind (3:30)
42. Malford Milligan - These arms of mine (3:37)
43. Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) (2:41)
44. Wilson Pickett - Sugar, Sugar (2:58)
45. Ike And Tina Turner - Proud Mary (The Funky Version) (2:40)
46. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
47. Ebony Rhythm Band - Ode to Billy Joe (4:51)
48. Booker T. & the MG's - Silver Bells (2:31)
49. Jimmy Smith - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction [Master Take] (4:26)
50. Etta James - At Last (3:02)
51. Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (3:13)

(soul 8)

Upcoming Guy Forsyth shows, and send Guy birthday wishes

Guy Forsyth is turning 40 this weekend, and playing a birthday gig at Gruene Hall this Sunday at 4:00 p.m. If you'd like to send him a birthday greeting, send an email to nikki AT titanmusicgroup DOT COM by tomorrow, November 28, and they'll put it on his card.

Also, Guy will be playing at the Saxon on Friday the 28th, and will be doing two shows with the Asylum Street Spankers on Saturday, Dec. 6 at the Cactus Cafe. The Cactus is a pretty small venue, so if you plan to go, you should get your tickets in advance.

Hope you're all having a wonderful Thanksgiving, and check back here by the end of the weekend, when I'll have a new show up.

-The Reverend

This week in the Shack

The ninth annual Austin Lindy Exchange was last weekend, which meant that I spent all of my time dancing, deejaying, listening to fantastic local bands, and hanging out with friends from near and far. I had a fabulous time, although my bad knee has been unspeakably unhappy with me since Saturday night. I'm also tired as hell - the earliest I've made it to bed since everyone started arriving on Thursday has been around 4:00 a.m., and the latest was considerably later than that. It was really good to hang out with people, including some of my favourite deejays, and to reconnect with the dance scene, given that I'd been going through some burnout as of late.

I spent a good portion of my free time on Saturday working on a new set for the Shack instead of napping; however, this is not that set. This set is based off of my last dj shift at ALX last night (this morning, rather). More than any of the other dances, I love being at the final afterhours, when the excitement of the event has more or less gone away and things are winding down. It's when the sense of community I feel is the strongest, as people say their goodbyes, and there's often a wonderfully laid-back vibe to the event. I spun for the first hour, then Greg and Tina kept such a fine feel to the music that it was hard to leave, even though I was bone-tired and my leg was hurting too much to dance on the concrete floor of the venue; so I just hung out and chatted with friends from town, friends from out of town, and people I'd just met at the event. It's the kind of evening (or in this case, early morning) that you want to hang onto, and you can head for home carrying that sweet mellow feeling in your chest.

I had to balance the music between people who were looking for blues and those who were looking to lindy hop, so the blues in this set is mostly not the postwar Delta, Chicago, and Texas blues that usually make up the majority of my blues sets. There's a lot of jazz here, even in the blues songs, along with some nice hammond-driven tunes, a little bit of soul, and a little bit of gospel. The first fifteen tracks in the list are my set from the night, and I just tried to keep the groove going when adding on the next two hours.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Jimmy Witherspoon - Good Rocking Tonight (2:17)
2. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
3. Michelle Shocked - Quality of Mercy (4:52)
4. Guy Forsyth - Adam's Rib (5:27)
5. Asylum Street Spankers - Since I Met You Baby (4:07)
6. Claude "Fiddler" Williams - A Smooth One (6:21)
7. Oscar Brown Jr - Signifyin' Monkey (4:00)
8. Peggy Lee - Cannonball Express (2:22)
9. Eden Brent - Mississippi Flatland Blues (3:13)
10. Ernestine Anderson - Goin' to Chicago Blues (4:52)
11. Marc Cohn - 29 Ways (3:05)
12. Guy Forsyth - You're Still Here (4:43)
13. Long John Baldry - Insane Asylum (5:31)
14. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
15. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down (3:26)
16. Byther Smith - Give Me My White Robe (5:48)
17. Jimmy Witherspoon - My Money's Long This Morning, Baby (2:11)
18. Dr. John - Hello God (4:37)
19. Viktor Krauss - Big Log (5:07)
20. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (4:57)
21. Gene Harris, Jack McDuff, Niki Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
22. Shirley Scott - Messie Bessie (4:19)
23. Nina Simone - Jelly Roll [#] (8:14)
24. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Rocks in My Bed (9:16)
25. Karrin Allyson - Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (3:59)
26. Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday Blues (4:07)
27. Nina Simone - Feeling Good (2:57)
28. Ellis Marsalis/Wynton Marsalis - Little Birdie (4:24)
29. Yoko Noge - Rack 'Em Up (5:03)
30. Joe Williams - Workin' (Work Song) (2:33)
31. Lou Rawls - I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (2:38)
32. Ernestine Anderson - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (4:59)
33. Grassella Oliphant - Get out of My Life Woman (2:44)
34. King Curtis - Ode to Billie Joe (3:36)
35. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (3:26)
36. Karrin Allyson - (Pack Your) Suitcase Blues (3:24)
37. Shirley Scott - At Last (5:30)
38. Ollabelle - Elijah Rock (5:22)
39. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
40. Keb' Mo' - She Just Wants to Dance (3:28)
41. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (6:29)
42. Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free) (3:11)

(post-ALX 2008)

In which there are delays

The new show will be up tomorrow or Wednesday night. Next week's will probably also be delayed because of Austin Lindy Exchange and the Thanksgiving holiday.

Something for your ears this spring

Local bluesman Seth Walker's new album, "Leap of Faith", should drop on March 3, 2009.

(Also, in the event that you're not coming to listen to me dj tonight, go see Seth at Momo's, and catch him again on Sunday at the Parish.)

Daptone Records catalog on sale

(h/t Oliver at Soul-Sides)

The entire Daptone .mp3 catalog is on sale at Amazon for a limited time for $6.99 each. There's also a free 14-track sampler available for download from Amazon here.

Daptone is only one of two labels (the other being Stax) putting out new soul music where just seeing the label's logo will make me check an album out. Among their artists are Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators, and The Sugarman 3. If you dig the retro-soul movement, this sale is a great time to check out their remarkable collection of talent.

Deejaying this Friday

I'll be deejaying (with, I think, DJ St. Patrick) for Kick Butt Blues at Kick Butt Coffee (5775 Airport Blvd. #725) this Friday night, starting at 9:00. Admission is $5

This week in the Shack

I'd intended to put a set together in honour of Obama's election victory (hence Yes We Can Can and Everyday People right at the start), but sometimes the set has its own ideas about where it wants to go, so it didn't quite turn out that way. Nevertheless, I hope you dig it.

1. Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can (4:15)
2. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
3. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (3:26)
4. Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People (2:22)
5. Greg Jackson - Aretha, Sing One for Me (3:00)
6. Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind (2:45)
7. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
8. Curtis Mayfield - I Plan to Stay a Believer (3:15)
9. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
10. Lyle Workman - Funk McLovin [*] (3:22)
11. Kashmere Stage Band - Do Your Thing [Extended Version][#] (5:23)
12. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
13. Otis Redding - Change Is Gonna Come (4:16)
14. Wilson Pickett - Cole, Cooke & Redding (3:53)
15. The Staple Singers - The Weight (4:35)
16. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
17. King Curtis - Soul Serenade (6:06)
18. Joss Stone - The Chokin' Kind (3:36)
19. Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (2:45)
20. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (3:28)
21. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
22. Bettye Lavette - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (2:11)
23. Martha & the Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave (2:45)
24. Mavis Staples - Security (2:52)
25. Young-Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack (3:01)
26. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tears of a Clown (3:04)
27. Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (2:20)
28. Jackson 5 - Penny Arcade (2:41)
29. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (5:29)
30. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)
31. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (2:31)
32. Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood [Love Is A Serious Business] (3:22)
33. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
34. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
35. Mel and Tim - Good Guys Only Win in the Movies (2:46)
36. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
37. Sam Cooke - Chain Gang (3:11)
38. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (3:49)
39. Baby Washington - Breakfast in Bed (3:10)
40. The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (2:45)
41. The Temptations - My Girl (2:57)
42. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (3:13)
43. Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (2:49)
44. Clarence Carter - Slip Away (2:33)
45. Allen Toussaint - Soul Sister (2:49)
46. Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? (3:12)
47. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
48. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
49. Donny Hathaway - What's Going On (5:22)

(soul 7)

This week in the Shack

Over the last two weeks or so, it seems like more than half of the listener hours on my station have come from either the Cleveland area or Canada. Welcome aboard, visitors from the Great White and (from what I remember of my early childhood in Dayton) Great Grey, North; I hope y'all continue to enjoy my tunes.

More blues this week, and I'm working on a soul set to put up next weekend.

-The Reverend

1. Buddy Guy - Done Got Old (3:23)
2. Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:08)
3. Chris Thomas King - Come On In My Kitchen (4:25)
4. Jay Farrar - Outside The Door (3:56)
5. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
6. Cootie Stark/Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Neal Pattman - Prison Blues (4:38)
7. Willie Dixon - Tail Dragger (2:56)
8. Jimmie Vaughan - Slow Dance Blues (6:27)
9. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
10. Guy Forsyth - Patient's Blues (4:55)
11. Maria Muldaur - Tricks Ain't Walkin (4:33)
12. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)
13. Eden Brent - Mississippi Flatland Blues (3:13)
14. Herbie Hancock/Jonny Lang/Joss Stone - When Love Comes to Town (8:41)
15. Otis Taylor - Boy Plays Mandolin (4:00)
16. Taj Mahal - Honky Tonk Women (4:43)
17. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Purgatory Road (5:07)
18. Brother Yusef - Blues Is My Story (4:35)
19. Fiona Boyes - Chicken Wants Corn (4:03)
20. Maria Muldaur - Up The Country Blues (3:18)
21. Sidney Bechet - The Mooche (3:10)
22. Robert Johnson - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom (3:00)
23. Eden Brent - He'll Do the Same Thing to You (3:57)
24. Marcia Ball - Watermelon Time (4:04)
25. Professor Longhair - Tipitina (2:39)
26. Marc Cohn - 29 Ways (3:05)
27. Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella] (2:58)
28. Brother Yusef - Back At The Crossroads (3:45)
29. Keb' Mo' - Dirty, Low Down and Bad (3:08)
30. Delbert McClinton - Everything I Know About the Blues (3:31)
31. Koko Taylor - Stop Watching Your Enemies (5:15)
32. B.B. King; Tracy Chapman - The Thrill Is Gone (5:00)
33. Little Walter - Juke (2:47)
34. Walter Horton - Walters' Boogie (Instrumental) (3:08)
35. Asylum Street Spankers - Runble With Madcat (3:55)
36. Rory Block - Joliet Bound (3:13)
37. Cephas and Wiggins - Nine Pound Hammer (3:20)
38. Keb' Mo' - Love in Vain (3:05)
39. Willie Dixon - It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) (4:26)
40. Muddy Waters - Bus Driver (7:47)
41. Howlin' Wolf - The Natchez Burnin' (2:09)
42. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:30)
43. Etta James - Crawlin' King Snake (5:32)
44. Taj Mahal - The Celebrated Walkin' Blues (8:51)

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This week in the Shack

Welcome back to the Shack. Mind the salt across the front stoop, and don't step on the veves chalked on the floor. It's Halloween, and I've got a mix of murders, minor keys, magic, and the devil for you, including more New Orleans magic from Dr. John, Robert Johnson's eerie blues, and a ghost story from Tom Waits.

Have a happy Halloween.

-The Reverend.

1. Dr. John - John Gris (5:20)
2. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
3. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (3:27)
4. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
5. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
6. Chris Randall - Automatic Jack (3:44)
7. Nina Simone - I Put a Spell on You (2:36)
8. Tom Waits - Big Joe and Phantom 309 (6:29)
9. Cephas & Wiggins - Stack and the Devil (3:34)
10. Son House - Death Letter (4:21)
11. Guy Forsyth - Teeth (4:43)
12. The Atomic Fireballs - Lover Lies (3:19)
13. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
14. White Ghost Shivers - White Ghost Shivers Ball (3:14)
15. Lowell Fulson - The Blues Is Killing Me (2:32)
16. Nina Simone - Go to Hell (2:50)
17. John Hammond, Jr. - Murder in the Red Barn (5:55)
18. Papa Mali - Walk on Guilded Splinters (9:49)
19. Dr. John - Ki Ya Gris Gris (4:03)
20. Chris Randall - Baron Samedi (4:00)
21. Koko Taylor - Born Under a Bad Sign (4:55)
22. Chris Thomas King - Wicked (4:08)
23. James Cotton/Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters - Dealin' with the Devil [#] (7:49)
24. Long John Baldry - Insane Asylum (5:31)
25. Popa Chubby - Slide Devil Man Slide (4:22)
26. Tom Waits - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard (3:17)
27. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)
28. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (2:34)
29. Lightnin' Hopkins - Shotgun Blues (2:41)
30. White Ghost Shivers - The Ghost Song (4:46)
31. Popa Chubby - Preacher Man (3:55)
32. Dr. John - Party Hellfire (4:40)
33. Guy Forsyth - Death Gonna Hunt You Down (4:36)
34. Chris Randall - The Devil His Due (4:00)
35. John Hammond, Jr. - 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six (4:37)
36. Koko Taylor - Voodoo Woman (3:47)
37. Dr. John; Lower 911 - Dream Warrior (4:57)
38. Tom Waits - Wrong Side of the Road (5:13)
39. Malford Milligan - Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:08)
40. Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down (3:09)
41. Robert Johnson - Me and the Devil Blues (2:33)
42. Otis Spann - Must Have Been The Devil (2:45)
43. Rory Block - Devil Got My Man (2:24)
44. Chris Thomas King - Superstitous Blues (3:56)
45. Johnny Winter - Murdering Blues (5:01)
46. Buddy Guy - She Got the Devil in Her (5:10)

(Halloween 1)

This week in the Shack

It's been a little while since I put a brand-new show up on the Shack. Things have been happening, both in my real life and my day job, that made me too tired to do more than bring back shows from early last summer, and for that, I apologize.

This set is a love letter to two cities - one is the city in which I live, and the other is a place to which I've never been as an adult, but which has provided me with much of the music, fiction, history, and food that nurture my soul. If you're a fan of New Orleans R&B, soul, and funk, you already know who a lot of the musicians in the set are - Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, The Meters (and several other bands with members of the Neville clan), Jon Cleary, Henry Butler. And some of the old chestnuts are here as well - "Junco Partner", "Iko Iko", "Cissy Strut". But there are, I hope, some surprises - covers of Marvin Gaye and Creedence Clearwater Revival, the only song (if I recall correctly) that Lil' Queenie and the Percolaters ever recorded, some older stuff from the prolific Dr. John - and a handful of Austin funk and soul artists: Mingo Fishtrap, Papa Mali, Brownout, and The Ugly Americans (featuring Bob Schneider from before his singer-songwriter days).

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
2. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:48)
3. Allen Toussaint - Soul Sister (2:49)
4. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (3:26)
5. Dr. John - Television (4:39)
6. Mingo Fishtrap - Dirty Gritty (3:32)
7. The Ugly Americans - Boom Boom Baby (3:59)
8. Papa Mali - Man of Many Words (4:10)
9. The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby (4:43)
10. Bettye LaVette/The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - What's Happening Brother? (2:52)
11. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
12. Cyril Neville - Soul Train (3:43)
13. Brownout - You Already Are (5:02)
14. Galactic - Go Go (3:04)
15. The Neville Brothers - Family Groove (4:49)
16. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
17. Allen Toussaint - Night People (4:18)
18. Papa Mali - Fire Water (6:52)
19. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Dive In The Gumbo (3:56)
20. The Meters - Cissy Strut (3:05)
21. Ivan Neville/The New Orleans Social Club - Fortunate Son (5:13)
22. The Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko (5:36)
23. The Ugly Americans - Chilly at the Crib (5:41)
24. Mingo Fishtrap - People Person (4:56)
25. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
26. Henry Butler - Death Has No Mercy (6:22)
27. Dr. John - I Pulled the Cover Off You Two Lovers (2:55)
28. Brownout - Barretta (3:23)
29. The Neville Brothers - Fire on the Bayou (5:18)
30. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:49)
31. Allen Toussaint - On Your Way Down (3:59)
32. Ivan Neville/The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - God Is Love (4:30)
33. ReBirth Brass Band - Let's Get It On (3:54)
34. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Smoke It RIght (5:07)
35. The Wild Magnolias - Party (4:43)
36. Brownout - African Battle (3:04)
37. Mingo Fishtrap - Bitta Honey (5:24)
38. Lee Dorsey - Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On) (3:10)
39. Papa Mali - Keep Happy (4:41)
40. The Meters - Hey Pocky A-Way (4:04)
41. Dr. John; Eric Clapton; Lower 911 - Stripped Away (3:34)

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Upcoming Austin Blues Society membership meeting

From the ABS:

Date: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM sharp!
Place: The Victory Grill
1104 East 11th St, Austin, TX

Mark your calendar and plan to join us for an evening of southern style food, a viewing of the documentary film Austin: East Side Blues, plus Q&A with the director, and live Blues music at the historic Victory Grill.
All FREE to ABS members! Bring your card or sign up at the door.

The Victory Grill is a historic music venue. The nightclub was on the Chitlin' Circuit and hosted famous African-American acts such as Bobby “Blue” Bland, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, W. C. Clark and B. B. King during the age of racial segregation in the United States. Johnny Holmes, a booking agent and band manager, opened the Victory Grill on Victory over Japan Day, 1945 as a restaurant and bar for black soldiers returning from the war. Holmes was also familiar with both the burgeoning Texas blues and jazz scenes, and soon, the club became known for its music as well as its food and drink. The club began attracting music lovers, no matter what their race.

During its heyday in the 1950s, most of the popular national blues, rhythm and blues, and jazz acts that played Austin performed at the Victory Grill. Ike & Tina Turner, James Brown, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Chuck Berry and Janis Joplin were some of the artists who graced the stage.

This week in the Shack

1. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (3:27)
2. Watermelon Slim - Cynical Old Bastard (2:36)
3. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Joe Friday (2:42)
4. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
5. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
6. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
7. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie the Wimp [Live] (4:34)
8. Gary Moore - That's Why I Play the Blues (4:05)
9. Eddie Boyd, Buddy Guy, Lonesome Jimmy Lee, & Freddie Below - Five Long Years (3:18)
10. Eric Clapton - Sinner's Prayer (3:20)
11. Randy Newman - Blue Monday (2:22)
12. Big Bill Morganfield - Dead Ass Broke (2:46)
13. Watermelon Slim - Smokestack Lightning (4:25)
14. Guy Forsyth - This is Hip (5:47)
15. James Cotton/Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters - Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom [#] (5:53)
16. B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone (5:26)
17. James Cotton - Call It Stormy Monday (6:46)
18. Skip James - Skip's Worried Blues (4:22)
19. Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee - Midnight Special (5:23)
20. Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves on the Water (3:01)
21. Guy Forsyth - Crossroads (2:38)
22. John Hammond, Jr. - You Know That's Cold (3:52)
23. Gary Clark, Jr - Sick Feelin' Blues (5:31)
24. Chris Thomas King - St. James Infirmary (4:38)
25. Etta James - Miss You (5:59)
26. Deborah Coleman - Jesus Just Left Chicago (4:40)
27. Johnny Winter - Murdering Blues (5:01)
28. Luther Johnson - Crawlin' King Snake (4:05)
29. Bob Margolin - Ice or Fire (3:46)
30. Freddie King - I'd Rather Be Blind (3:45)
31. Otis Rush - Mean Old World (7:01)
32. Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy (7:10)
33. Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday Blues (4:07)
34. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:30)
35. Memphis Slim - Pigalle Love [Live] (4:04)
36. Chris Thomas King - John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto' (3:50)
37. Asylum Street Spankers - Blade of Grass (3:35)
38. Keb' Mo' - Stack O Lee (2:02)
39. Taj Mahal - Down Home Girl (3:41)
40. Jon Cleary - Port Street Blues (Live) (6:14)
41. Marcia Ball - Just Kiss Me (6:41)
42. Delbert McClinton - Old Weakness (Comin' on Strong) (3:09)
43. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Hush, Hush (3:01)
44. Alvin Youngblood Hart - How Long Before I Change My Clothes (5:55)

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This week in the Shack

It's been a month or so since I put together a soul set. This one's a laid-back mix of newer retro-soul and seventies stuff (and a few surprises), inspired by driving through Austin late at night last weekend in the rain, with Donny Hathaway and Corinne Bailey Rae coming through the stereo back-to-back. I've been listening to a lot of intense blues ever since Austin Blues Party, and I think this makes a much-needed change of tone.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
2. Miles Davis - So What (9:25)
3. Corinne Bailey Rae - Till It Happens to You (4:38)
4. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
5. Sade - Your Love Is King (3:42)
6. Donny Hathaway - What's Going On (5:22)
7. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Vocal Version] (4:35)
8. Curtis Mayfield - Blue Monday People (LP Version) (4:48)
9. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
10. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
11. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (3:28)
12. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Stranded In Your Love feat. Lee Fields (5:47)
13. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine [Live] (2:32)
14. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:54)
15. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
16. Earth, Wind & Fire - All About Love (5:29)
17. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me By Now (3:25)
18. Donny Hathaway - Someday We'll All Be Free [#] (5:29)
19. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (3:59)
20. Kool & the Gang - Misled (5:01)
21. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
22. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Blues Downtown (5:13)
23. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (3:45)
24. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
25. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
26. Curtis Mayfield - So In Love (LP Version) (5:14)
27. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
28. Marvin Gaye - Turn on Some Music (5:07)
29. Joan Osborne - War (5:50)
30. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Humble Me (4:05)
31. Aretha Franklin - People Get Ready (3:44)
32. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Yesterday I Had the Blues (7:31)
33. Donny Hathaway - Superwoman [#] (6:42)
34. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
35. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
36. Bettye Lavette - Salt On My Wounds (4:39)
37. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
38. Aretha Franklin - Share Your Love with Me [*] (4:28)
39. Dusty Springfield - Make It With You (3:13)
40. Joan Osborne - Smiling Faces Sometimes (4:45)

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This week in the Shack

We're battening down the hatches here at the Shack, as it looks like Hurricane Ike will be bringing high winds and heavy rains all the way up into Austin on Saturday. If you're down on the Texas or Louisiana coasts, please stay safe; and if you're safely away from the hurricane's path, please spare some good thoughts or prayers for those who aren't.

Meanwhile, here's some blues to get you through the weekend.

1. Tom Waits - Lord I've Been Changed (2:28)
2. Rory Block - Joliet Bound (3:13)
3. Taj Mahal - Stagger Lee (3:20)
4. Malford Milligan - Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:08)
5. Guy Forsyth - Death Gonna Hunt You Down (4:36)
6. Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other (4:42)
7. B.B. King; Buddy Guy - I Pity the Fool (4:36)
8. James Cotton - Jelly, Jelly (5:04)
9. Lowell Fulson - Is Your Friend Really Your Friend (3:19)
10. Albert Collins - But I Was Cool (3:11)
11. Nina Simone - Jelly Roll [#] (8:14)
12. Gene Harris, Jack McDuff, Niki Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
13. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:30)
14. Bobby "Blue" Bland - Stormy Monday Blues (4:08)
15. Joss Stone - Dirty Man (2:59)
16. Big Bill Morganfield - The Same Thing (4:36)
17. Eric Clapton - Standin' Round Crying (3:37)
18. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
19. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
20. Johnny Guitar Watson - You Can Stay But The Noise Must Go (6:08)
21. Bettye Lavette - The Forecast (5:02)
22. B.B. King - Sweet Little Angel (4:09)
23. Buddy Guy - Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (4:31)
24. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Life by the Drop (2:27)
25. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Good Religion (2:58)
26. Tom Waits - A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun (5:36)
27. The Atomic Fireballs - Starve a Fever (3:45)
28. John Hammond, Jr. - Come on in This House (3:58)
29. John Lee Hooker - Looking Back over My Day (4:39)
30. Cootie Stark/Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Neal Pattman - Prison Blues (4:38)
31. Lyle Lovett - I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord (3:29)
32. Ollabelle - Elijah Rock (5:22)
33. Lightnin' Hopkins - Evil Hearted Woman (2:45)
34. Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy (7:11)
35. Albert Collins - Blue Monday Hangover (5:33)
36. Big Walter Horton - Trouble in Mind (4:37)
37. Malford Milligan - Dark Was the Night (3:00)
38. Chris Thomas King - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (3:12)
39. Keb' Mo' - Love in Vain (3:05)
40. E.R. Shorts - Down But Not Out (7:25)
41. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Lay Down (3:26)

(blues 7)

I'll be deejaying for Kick Butt Blues at Kick Butt Coffee on Airport this coming Friday, September 12.

This week in the Shack

Mmm...if I ever wanted a theme song, I think Popa Chubby's "Preacher Man" would be an excellent contender.

Lots more British blues in the mix this week. How did it take me so long to listen to John Mayall, Stan Webb, and the others?

1. Popa Chubby - Preacher Man (3:55)
2. Rory Block - Hellhound on My Trail (2:36)
3. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - The Death of J.B. Lenoir (4:18)
4. Albert Collins; B.B. King - Stormy Monday (7:17)
5. Keb' Mo' - Whole 'Nutha Thang (3:54)
6. Long John Baldry - I'm Ready (6:51)
7. Omar and The Howlers - Muddy Springs Road (4:54)
8. Seth Walker - Restless (4:50)
9. Koko Taylor - Man Size Job [#][*] (4:01)
10. Etta James - Don't Start Me to Talking (2:52)
11. Albert King - The Sky Is Crying (5:31)
12. Stan Webb's Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind (7:10)
13. Clarence Carter - Making Love (At the Dark End of the Street) (5:07)
14. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie the Wimp [Live] (4:34)
15. Papa Mali - Keep Happy (4:41)
16. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
17. Dr. John - How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come Around) (4:09)
18. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
19. B.B. King; Tracy Chapman - The Thrill Is Gone (5:00)
20. Albert King - Drownin' on Dry Land (4:26)
21. Otis Taylor - Government Lied (5:11)
22. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
23. Keb' Mo' - She Just Wants to Dance (3:28)
24. James Cotton/Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters - Dealin' with the Devil [#] (7:49)
25. Taj Mahal - The Celebrated Walkin' Blues (8:51)
26. Eric Gales - Custard Pie (4:01)
27. Eric Bibb - World War Blues (4:20)
28. Billy Boy Arnold & Mike Bloomfield - Eyesight To the Blind (4:15)
29. Memphis Slim - Going Down Slow (4:00)
30. Sam Cooke - Drifting Blues (3:18)
31. Aretha Franklin - Today I Sing the Blues (4:25)
32. Popa Chubby - Sweat (5:52)
33. Tracy Nelson - Send Me to The 'Lectric Chair (3:30)
34. John Hammond, Jr. - I Know I've Been Changed (2:19)
35. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
36. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Demons (4:30)
37. B.B. King; John Lee Hooker - You Shook Me (4:58)
38. Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - Blues And Trouble (W Smith) (8:14)

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This week in the Shack

Given that this Friday will mark the three-year anniversary of Katrina tearing the hell out of the Gulf Coast, this week's set has a number of songs about the hurricane and life after, plus Marcia Ball's version of Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927, about a devastating flood, and one about another disaster that inspired a number of blues songs, the 1940 Rhythm Club fire in Natchez, Mississippi (represented here by Howlin' Wolf's The Natchez Burnin').

New Orleans, and New Orleans musicians, are still rebuilding. If you're interested in helping out, I encourage you to donate to any of a number of organizations out there helping, including the Tipitina's Foundation and the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund. I'll try to get some links to these on the sideboard of the blog this weekend.

As always, I hope you dig the music.

1. Guy Forsyth - This Is Hip (4:01)
2. Albert Collins - I Ain't Drunk (4:06)
3. T-Bone Walker - Cold, Cold Feeling (3:10)
4. Dinah Washington - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Cryin' for Her Man (3:48)
5. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
6. Stan Webb's Chicken Shack - The Thrill Is Gone (12:15)
7. Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band - Overnight Sensation (4:38)
8. Freddie King - I'm Tore Down (4:11)
9. Eric Clapton - Third Degree (5:08)
10. Seth Walker - 2' Left to the Ceiling (3:43)
11. Dr. John; Lower 911 - We Gettin' There (5:11)
12. Koko Taylor - Hard Pill to Swallow (5:50)
13. Long John Baldry - Insane Asylum (5:31)
14. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
15. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
16. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Good Stuff (3:02)
17. Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella] (2:58)
18. Freddie King - I'm Ready (3:45)
19. Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love (2:30)
20. Howlin' Wolf - Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (3:06)
21. T-Bone Walker - First Love Blues (3:09)
22. Koko Taylor - Money Is the Name of the Game (6:47)
23. Long John Baldry - I'd Rather Go Blind (6:20)
24. Eric Clapton - Groaning the Blues (6:06)
25. Buddy Guy - Done Got Old (3:23)
26. Muddy Waters - Bus Driver (7:47)
27. Howlin' Wolf - The Natchez Burnin' (2:09)
28. Big Mama Thornton - Big Mama's Blues (My Love) (4:08)
29. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:29)
30. Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding (4:52)
31. The Atomic Fireballs - Lover Lies (3:19)
32. John Hammond, Jr. - If You Wanna Rock & Roll (4:08)
33. Fats Domino - Blue Monday (2:38)
34. Albert Collins - Blue Monday Hangover (5:33)
35. Buddy Guy; Joss Stone; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Every Night About This Time (3:32)
36. Chris Thomas King - Faith (5:25)
37. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (6:54)
38. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace (4:25)
39. Ollabelle - John the Revelator (4:09)

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Last week in the Shack

I meant to post this playlist last Wednesday, but was in a pretty bad car accident that afternoon. I'm ok - albeit a lot sore - but my brand-new car was destroyed, thanks to an 18-year-old punk who wasn't paying attention and slammed into me.

At any rate, here's last week's playlist. I should have a new set up on the station tomorrow.

1. Otis Taylor - Resurrection Blues (5:59)
2. Jason Freeman/Samuel L. Jackson - Black Snake Moan (4:04)
3. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
4. Son House - Death Letter (4:21)
5. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
6. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)
7. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
8. Boxcar Preachers - God Moves On The Water (3:44)
9. Cephas and Wiggins - No Ice in My Bourbon (3:20)
10. Keb' Mo' - Perpetual Blues Machine (3:15)
11. Taj Mahal - Linin' Track (1:41)
12. Buddy Guy - Hard Time Killing Floor (2:49)
13. Maria Muldaur - It's A Blessing (3:48)
14. Chris Thomas King - Come On In My Kitchen (4:25)
15. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Wade in the Water (3:33)
16. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Them Fair Weather Friends (5:08)
17. Rory Block - The Spirit Returns (3:20)
18. Sonny Boy Williamson - Dust My Broom (2:44)
19. Son House - John the Revelator (2:31)
20. Eric Bibb - No More Cane On The Brazos (5:01)
21. John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues (3:01)
22. Muddy Waters - I Be's Troubled (3:06)
23. Watermelon Slim - Stud Poker (2:53)
24. Asylum Street Spankers - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:15)
25. Old Crow Medicine Show - Cocaine Habit (2:42)
26. Cephas and Wiggins - Screaming and Crying (2:58)
27. Maria Muldaur - Ain't What you Used To Have (6:00)
28. Sugar Pie Desanto, Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon, Clifton James - Slip In Mules (2:59)
29. Memphis Slim - Pigalle Love [Live] (4:04)
30. Nina Simone - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl (2:34)
31. Dr. John - Stakalee (4:34)
32. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)
33. Sonny Boy Williamson - Mr. Downchild (2:31)
34. James Cotton - Down at Your Buryin' (4:34)
35. Fred McDowell - Highway 61 (3:07)
36. Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine (3:10)
37. Maria Muldaur - In My Girlish Days (2:19)
38. Watermelon Slim - Truck Holler, No. 1 (2:17)
39. Rory Block - Joliet Bound (3:13)
40. Chris Thomas King - Watermelon Man (6:08)
41. Sue Foley - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor (3:11)
42. Hubert Sumlin, Sonny Boy Williamson - I'm Trying To Make London My Home (4:30)
43. Boxcar Preachers - Can't Get That Stuff No Mo' (3:04)
44. Sonny Boy Williamson - Pontiac Blues (2:42)
45. Big Joe Turner - Crawdad Hole (2:36)
46. Memphis Slim - Whiskey Drinking Man (3:12)
47. Sunnyland Slim - Patience Like Job [*] (3:07)
48. Keb' Mo' - Dirty, Low Down and Bad (3:08)
49. Otis Taylor - Ran So Hard the Sun Went Down (3:52)
50. Etta James - Smokestack Lightnin' (6:50)
51. Rory Block - Gone Woman Blues (3:45)
52. Nina Simone - See Line Woman (2:38)

(blues 4)

This week in the Shack (8/11/08)

I had planned to put together a delta/country blues set for this week, but sat down at the computer this evening and learned that Isaac Hayes passed away this afternoon. So this one's for Ike.

Lusisti satis, edisti satis atque bibisti. Tempus abire tibi est.


1. Isaac Hayes - Lay Lady Lay (5:36)
2. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
3. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Demons (4:30)
4. Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (7:42)
5. Curtis Mayfield - Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) (6:56)
6. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
7. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Vocal Version] (4:35)
8. Isaac Hayes - Soulsville (4:37)
9. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
10. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
11. Kashmere Stage Band - Aint' No Sushine [Live][#] (4:32)
12. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone (2:52)
13. Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
14. Sam & Dave - Hold On! I'm Comin' (2:37)
15. Bettye Lavette - Thru The Winter (5:49)
16. Malford Milligan - These arms of mine (3:37)
17. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
18. Isaac Hayes - Medley: Ike's Rap III / Your Love Is So Doggone Good (9:18)
19. Joan Osborne - Eliminate the Night (4:08)
20. Etta James - Ball and Chain (6:37)
21. Aretha Franklin - I Wonder (4:25)
22. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness [Live] (5:14)
23. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
24. Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin' Wild (5:26)
25. The Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine (2:39)
26. Cameo - Single Life (4:28)
27. The Time - If the Kid Can't Make You Come (7:32)
28. Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye (5:10)
29. Aretha Franklin - Make It with You (4:52)
30. Lou Rawls - You've Made Me So Very Happy (4:27)
31. Al Green - Here I Am (Come and Take Me) (4:14)
32. Bill Withers - Lonely Town, Lonely Street (3:58)
33. Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway (2:37)
34. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
35. Clarence Carter - Too Weak to Fight (2:25)
36. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (2:31)
37. Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) (3:21)
38. Otis Redding - Change Gonna Come [Mono Version] (4:14)
39. Delbert McClinton - I've Got Dreams to Remember (4:31)
40. The Blind Boys of Alabama - You and Your Folks/23rd Psalm (5:41)
41. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (4:03)

(Soul 5)

This week in the Shack

I meant to get this up on Monday, when I launched this week's program, but real life intervened.

"Sweat"

1. Popa Chubby - Sweat (5:52)
2. Etta James - Miss You (5:59)
3. Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? (3:12)
4. Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks (3:38)
5. Michelle Shocked - Quality of Mercy (4:52)
6. Billy Boy Arnold & Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other (4:42)
7. Buddy Guy - She's Nineteen Years Old (5:43)
8. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (5:24)
9. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John the Revelator (4:39)
10. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
11. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Rocks in My Bed (9:16)
12. Ray Charles - (Night Time Is) The Right Time (3:28)
13. Dr. John; Lower 911 - Dream Warrior (4:57)
14. Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye (5:10)
15. Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You (3:48)
16. Aretha Franklin - Going Down Slow (4:30)
17. Jim Cullum, Jr. - St. Louis Blues (7:59)
18. Papa Mali - Walk on Guilded Splinters (9:49)
19. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)
20. Led Zeppelin - I Can't Quit You Baby (4:42)
21. Isaac Hayes - Medley: Ike's Rap II / Help Me Love (7:33)
22. Maria Muldaur - It Feels Like Rain (6:55)
23. Etta James - Lil' Red Rooster (3:54)
24. Tom Waits - Wrong Side of the Road (5:13)
25. Marvin Gaye - The World Is Rated X [#] (3:51)
26. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
27. The Isley Brothers - I Turned You On (2:36)
28. Nina Simone - Do I Move You? (2:47)
29. Gary Moore - Memory Pain (4:51)
30. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (4:57)
31. Guy Forsyth - Thibodaux Furlough (4:51)
32. Joe Sample/Lalah Hathaway - Fever (5:40)
33. Buddy Guy - She Got the Devil in Her (5:10)
34. Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful (2:44)
35. B.B. King - I Want You So Bad (4:13)
36. Koko Taylor - That's Why I'm Crying (4:29)
37. Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business) (3:24)

(sweat 1)

Ch-ch-changes

I've decided that the plan of alternating sets of soul and blues on the radio station is too restrictive (as partially evidenced by my failure to abide by it over the last two months), so I'm jettisoning it. The Shotgun Shack will remain a station for soul, blues, and funk music, but without any set pattern in its sets.

The program will continue to change weekly-ish, and I'll have sets spotlighting New Orleans music, gospel, and delta/piedmont/country blues coming up over the next month or so.

This week in the Shack

Maybe you haven't been rocked enough.

1. Buddy Guy - Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes (4:08)
2. Herbie Hancock/Jonny Lang/Joss Stone - When Love Comes to Town (8:41)
3. B.B. King/Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown/Dr. John - Hen Layin' Rooster (3:35)
4. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (6:05)
5. Etta James - Dust My Broom (3:35)
6. James Cotton - Back to St. Louis (7:04)
7. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - The Things (That) I Used to Do (4:54)
8. Delbert McClinton - Rebecca, Rebecca (6:39)
9. Memphis Slim - Raining in My Heart (3:20)
10. Candye Kane - It Should Be Rainin' (5:08)
11. James Cotton - Jelly, Jelly (5:04)
12. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Honey Hush (2:39)
13. Freddie King - Boogie Man (3:44)
14. Guy Forsyth - This is Hip (5:47)
15. John Lee Hooker - Decoration Day (5:08)
16. Otis Taylor - 3 Days and 3 Nights (4:21)
17. Buddy Guy - Hard Time Killing Floor (2:49)
18. Muddy Waters - Deep Down in Florida (9:46)
19. Ruth Brown - If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It (5:23)
20. Count Basie/Joe Turner - The Honeydripper (6:45)
21. Willie "Big Eyes" Smith - I Can't Trust You Man (W Smith) (6:02)
22. Little Walter - Blues With a Feeling (3:10)
23. Marc Cohn - 29 Ways (3:05)
24. Koko Taylor - Come to Mama (4:47)
25. Johnny Guitar Watson - I Want To Ta-Ta You Baby (5:47)
26. Buddy Guy - Country Man (6:17)
27. Jimi Hendrix - Red House (3:43)
28. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
29. Chris Thomas King - Baptized in Dirty Water (5:06)
30. B.B. King; Tracy Chapman - The Thrill Is Gone (5:00)
31. Bob Margolin - Ice or Fire (3:46)
32. Bettye Lavette - Down To Zero (3:10)
33. Syl Johnson - Me and Bobby McGee (5:42)
34. Johnny Winter - Murdering Blues (5:01)
35. John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James [Live] (5:34)
36. Etta James - Crawlin' King Snake (5:32)
37. Eric Clapton - Driftin' Blues (3:08)

(blues 3)

This week's set is a return to soul music, with a focus on sixties-era Motown and the big Stax names. I hope you dig it.

1. Martha & the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack (2:53)
2. Solange - I Decided (Part 1) (4:17)
3. Diana Ross & the Supremes - Baby Love (2:35)
4. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Mickey's Monkey (2:46)
5. Major Lance - The Monkey Time (2:48)
6. The "5" Royales - I Know It's Hard But It's Fair (2:45)
7. Wilson Pickett - I've Come a Long Way (3:12)
8. Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) (2:45)
9. Solomon Burke - Party People (2:36)
10. Sam Cooke - Cupid (2:47)
11. King Curtis - Soul Serenade (6:06)
12. Clarence Carter - Too Weak to Fight (2:17)
13. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
14. Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [Mono Single Version][*] (2:48)
15. Kevin Mahogany - Tears of a Clown (3:33)
16. Gladys Knight & the Pips - Every Little Bit Hurts (3:06)
17. Marvin Gaye - I Wish It Would Rain (2:50)
18. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - All Over Again (4:43)
19. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Cleo's Back (2:30)
20. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
21. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) (3:28)
22. King Curtis - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours (2:36)
23. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:21)
24. Otis Redding - Shake [Live] (2:33)
25. Mel & Tim - Backfield in Motion (5:29)
26. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
27. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
28. Aretha Franklin - Think (2:17)
29. The Four Tops - It's the Same Old Song (2:46)
30. Martha & the Vandellas - I Can't Dance to That Music You're Playin' (2:38)
31. The Jackson 5 - ABC (2:58)
32. Stevie Wonder - That Girl (5:13)
33. Aretha Franklin - Make It with You (4:52)
34. Diana Ross & the Supremes; The Temptations - The Weight (3:03)
35. Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
36. Curtis Mayfield - Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) (6:56)
37. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:16)
38. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
39. Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye (5:16)
40. Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (2:35)
41. Donny Hathaway - A Song for You (5:27)
42. Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind (3:39)
43. Bettye Lavette - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (2:11)
44. Otis Redding - Amen (3:06)
45. Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (2:49)
46. Funk Brothers, The - Do You Love Me - Live Bootsy Collins (3:21)
47. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Shotgun (2:59)
48. Wilson Pickett - Sugar, Sugar (2:58)
49. Baby Washington - Breakfast in Bed (3:10)
50. Mary Wells - My Guy (2:51)
51. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
52. Chi-Lites, The - Oh Girl (3:36)
53. Major Lance - Get My Hat (Nothing Can Stop Me) (3:00)

(Soul 4)

I stumbled back into the house after Austin Blues Party shortly after 4 a.m. on Monday morning. In the preceding seventy-nine hours, I had danced for approximately twenty-four (including three and a half hours deejaying), taken almost eleven hours of classes, and slept for around fifteen hours (including several short afternoon naps), and had an incredible time. It's been almost a week, and I'm not recovered yet - although that probably has something to do with deejaying at Kick Butt Blues last night until just this side of two in the morning, too.

My live dj gigs have suddenly picked up considerably for the next few weeks - I'll be spinning at events next Friday and Saturday (the latter in College Station) and the following Thursday and Saturday. I intend to keep updating the Shack with new playlists roughly on a weekly basis - but if I fall behind in the next few weeks, it's because of these gigs.

And, speaking of playlists, I've put a new one up in the Shack. Because of all the fabulous dancers I met last weekend - locals who were new to the blues scene and visitors from across the country - I decided to break with my pattern and do another all-Texas set. I'm all about spreading the word about local music, and our musical heritage; and also, anything that helps persuade out-of-town dancers to return is a good thing.

This set again focuses primarily on the blues, stretching from early artists Blind Willie Johnson and Lightnin' Hopkins up to the present day. There's a little bit of soul, courtesy of southern soul man Joe Tex and soul/blues crossover artists like W.C. Clark and Ruthie Foster, and just a bit of gospel. I've also added in some roots music, because it's next to impossible for me to think about Texas music without artists like Steve Earle, Guy Clark, and, especially, Ray Wylie Hubbard, so many of whose songs are about local people and places. Don't mind Ray's surliness in "Screw You, We're From Texas" - we really do like those of y'all from out of state; it's just his way of reminding you that we think we're a little bit different down here. One day perhaps I'll do an all-Texas roots show so I can send out some James McMurtry, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Eliza Gilkyson, and their like; but until then, well, maybe you just ought to come down to Austin and hear them playing around town.

Here's the new set list; I hope you dig it:

1. Blind Willie Johnson - When The War Was On (3:01)
2. Boxcar Preachers - Can't Get That Stuff No Mo' (3:04)
3. Lightnin' Hopkins - That Mean Old Twister (3:09)
4. Asylum Street Spankers - Deep Ellum Blues (4:55)
5. Preacher Lee Graves - I'm from Texas (2:02)
6. Seth Walker - Love's Not The Problem (3:32)
7. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Name Droppin' (3:31)
8. Guy Forsyth - Don't Turn Me In (5:14)
9. Papa Mali - Walk on Guilded Splinters (9:49)
10. Marcia Ball - Watermelon Time (4:04)
11. Delbert McClinton - Going Back to Louisiana (4:31)
12. Freddie King - Living on the Highway (4:16)
13. W.C. Clark - Get Out Of My Life, Woman (3:27)
14. Ruthie Foster - Heal Yourself (4:31)
15. Susan Tedeschi - Security (2:56)
16. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Cold Shot (4:01)
17. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Cross My Heart (3:13)
18. Nick Curran - I'll Be Around (2:37)
19. Gary Clark, Jr - Sick Feelin' Blues (5:31)
20. Guy Clark - Dublin Blues (4:29)
21. Guy Forsyth - Adam's Rib (5:27)
22. Seth Walker - Sun Down (4:00)
23. Andrew "Smokey" Hogg - Dirty Mistreater (2:37)
24. Lightnin' Hopkins - My Baby's Gone (2:45)
25. Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers - Downward Road (5:37)
26. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Screw You, We're from Texas (4:01)
27. Johnny Winter - My Time After Awhile (6:16)
28. Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate (3:42)
29. Susan Tedeschi - You Got the Silver (2:52)
30. Janis Joplin - Ego Rock (Album Version) (8:00)
31. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Life by the Drop (2:27)
32. Malford Milligan - Can't go On (3:37)
33. LZ Love & Lightning Red - Wang Dang Doodle (5:05)
34. Ruthie Foster - Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) (3:36)
35. Joe Tex - Papa Was Too (Original) (3:01)
36. W.C. Clark - Soul Kind of Loving (3:05)
37. Omar and The Howlers - Snake Oil Doctor (6:10)
38. Pinetop Perkins - Chains Of Love (With Ruth Brown) (6:32)
39. Marcia Ball - Peace, Love & BBQ (4:05)
40. Gary Clark, Jr - Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong (4:18)
41. Lou Ann Barton - One Good Man (5:21)
42. Asylum Street Spankers - Summertime (6:20)
43. Steve Earle - Tom Ames' Prayer (3:22)

(Texas 2)

Austin Blues Party 2 began last night, and I'm already tired. I got to the Syndicate's weekly dance at the Fed at about 9:15 last night, and left Kick Butt Blues shortly after 3:00 this morning. I'm running on five and a half hours of sleep and an enormous quantity of caffeine and motrin, and it's just day one. One day I'm going to have to admit that I'm almost forty and my body can't take this kind of abuse any more, but I don't plan for it to be today.

In honor of this weekend's four-day celebration of the blues, I've put a new blues program up on the Shack.

1. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (3:27)
2. Watermelon Slim - Cynical Old Bastard (2:36)
3. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Joe Friday (2:42)
4. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
5. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
6. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
7. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie the Wimp [Live] (4:34)
8. Gary Moore - That's Why I Play the Blues (4:05)
9. Eddie Boyd, Buddy Guy, Lonesome Jimmy Lee, & Freddie Below - Five Long Years (3:18)
10. Eric Clapton - Sinner's Prayer (3:20)
11. Randy Newman - Blue Monday (2:22)
12. Big Bill Morganfield - Dead Ass Broke (2:46)
13. Watermelon Slim - Smokestack Lightning (4:25)
14. Guy Forsyth - This is Hip (5:47)
15. James Cotton/Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters - Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom [#] (5:53)
16. B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone (5:26)
17. James Cotton - Call It Stormy Monday (6:46)
18. Skip James - Skip's Worried Blues (4:22)
19. Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee - Midnight Special (5:23)
20. Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves on the Water (3:01)
21. Guy Forsyth - Crossroads (2:38)
22. John Hammond, Jr. - You Know That's Cold (3:52)
23. Gary Clark, Jr - Sick Feelin' Blues (5:31)
24. Chris Thomas King - St. James Infirmary (4:38)
25. Etta James - Miss You (5:59)
26. Deborah Coleman - Jesus Just Left Chicago (4:40)
27. Johnny Winter - Murdering Blues (5:01)
28. Luther Johnson - Crawlin' King Snake (4:05)
29. Bob Margolin - Ice or Fire (3:46)
30. Freddie King - I'd Rather Be Blind (3:45)
31. Otis Rush - Mean Old World (7:01)
32. Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy (7:10)
33. Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday Blues (4:07)
34. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:30)
35. Memphis Slim - Pigalle Love [Live] (4:04)
36. Chris Thomas King - John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto' (3:50)
37. Asylum Street Spankers - Blade of Grass (3:35)
38. Keb' Mo' - Stack O Lee (2:02)
39. Taj Mahal - Down Home Girl (3:41)
40. Jon Cleary - Port Street Blues (Live) (6:14)
41. Marcia Ball - Just Kiss Me (6:41)
42. Delbert McClinton - Old Weakness (Comin' on Strong) (3:09)
43. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Hush, Hush (3:01)
44. Alvin Youngblood Hart - How Long Before I Change My Clothes (5:55)

Set list 6/27/08

It's time for a new program once again. I put this mix of classic and retro soul and funk together last week while I was down in Surfside at a family reunion. I hope you dig it.

1. Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (7:42)
2. Curtis Mayfield - Get Down (5:47)
3. Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (3:46)
4. The Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine (2:36)
5. Marvin Gaye - The World Is Rated X (3:51)
6. Bettye Lavette - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (2:11)
7. Gladys Knight & the Pips - I Wish It Would Rain (2:56)
8. Otis Redding - My Girl [Mono Version] (2:55)
9. The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg (2:35)
10. Sam & Dave - I Thank You (2:46)
11. Bill Withers - Harlem/Cold Baloney (13:42)
12. Sly & the Family Stone - Luv N' Haight (4:04)
13. The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself (4:37)
14. The CBB Soulhour - House Of Kings Barber Shop (5:01)
15. Diana Ross & the Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together (3:31)
16. Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary (6:56)
17. Joss Stone - The Chokin' Kind (3:36)
18. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
19. Little Beaver - Never Can Say Goodbye (5:39)
20. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (3:28)
21. Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (2:49)
22. The Rance Allen Group - Ain't No Need Of Crying (Long Version) (4:39)
23. Sly & the Family Stone - Frisky (3:12)
24. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (5:05)
25. Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) (5:47)
26. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
27. Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove (5:31)
28. Rick James - Bustin' Out (On Funk) (3:54)
29. Al Green - Ride, Sally Ride (3:56)
30. Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway (2:37)
31. Bobby Patterson - Broadway Ain't Funky No More (2:59)
32. Sam & Dave - Soul Sister, Brown Sugar (2:29)
33. Little Milton - Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World) (2:48)
34. Clarence Carter - Slip Away (2:33)
35. Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee (4:00)
36. Etta James - At Last (3:00)
37. Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (2:45)
38. Howard Tate - She's a Burglar (2:41)
39. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Blues Downtown (5:13)
40. Marvin Gaye - After the Dance [Vocal Version] (4:42)
41. Bettye LaVette - Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette) (4:29)
42. Clarence Carter - Making Love (At the Dark End of the Street) (5:07)
43. Joan Osborne - Cream Dream (5:11)
44. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Choosey Beggar (2:33)
45. Eric Burdon; War - Tobacco Road (3:58)

The new show is on the station now...a package of tasty blues to help usher in the last two weeks before the Austin Blues Party. I was very fortunate in that Thain and Keith, two of my favourite local blues djs, spun at Kick Butt Blues last Friday. I sometimes feel that I play a very limited selection of artists when I dj for blues events, and their sets inspired me to go digging into some of the stuff that I don't play nearly as often as I should, like Jimmy Rogers and Otis Rush.

I hope you dig it.

Set list: 6/18/08

1. Otis Taylor - Resurrection Blues (5:59)
2. Chris Thomas King - Death Letter Blues (5:28)
3. Guy Forsyth - If I Was Sick (3:52)
4. Malford Milligan - Palace of the King (4:19)
5. Little Walter - Off the Wall (2:52)
6. Jimmy Rogers - Sloppy Drunk (3:03)
7. Howlin' Wolf - Built for Comfort (2:10)
8. Koko Taylor - I'm a Woman (4:35)
9. Muddy Waters - Champagne & Reefer (4:52)
10. B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues (3:02)
11. Delbert McClinton - Everything I Know About The Blues (3:33)
12. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Heartbreaker (5:40)
13. Buddy Guy - Trouble Man (4:07)
14. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:29)
15. Dr. John - Stakalee (4:34)
16. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Going Back to Louisiana (4:40)
17. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Bad Boy (4:01)
18. James Cotton - Don't Start Me Talkin' (2:34)
19. Chris Thomas King - Hey Hey What Can I Do (4:09)
20. Alvin Youngblood Hart - How Long Before I Change My Clothes (5:55)
21. Nina Simone - Be My Husband (3:22)
22. Taj Mahal - Mercedes Benz (3:12)
23. Guy Forsyth - Adam's Rib (5:27)
24. Jimmy Rogers - Luedella (2:52)
25. Otis Redding - Rock Me Baby [Mono Version] (3:36)
26. Otis Rush - Mean Old World (7:01)
27. Koko Taylor - Stop Watching Your Enemies (5:15)
28. Saffire The Uppity Blues Women - Bitch With a Bad Attitude (6:51)
29. Walter Horton - The Honeydripper (Instrumental) (3:42)
30. Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate (3:42)
31. Keb' Mo' - She Just Wants to Dance (3:28)
32. Eric Bibb - No More Cane On The Brazos (5:01)
33. Taj Mahal - Country Blues #1 (2:37)
34. Blind Willie Johnson - Church, I'm Fully Saved Today (3:08)
35. Big Walter Horton - Trouble in Mind (4:37)
36. Marc Cohn - 29 Ways (3:05)
37. Herbie Hancock/Jonny Lang/Joss Stone - When Love Comes to Town (8:41)
38. Bonnie Raitt; Jon Cleary - I'm in Love Again/All by Myself (3:23)
39. Maria Muldaur - Richland Woman Blues (4:32)
40. Tracy Nelson - Send Me to The 'Lectric Chair (3:30)
41. John Lee Hooker - Looking Back over My Day (4:39)
42. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
43. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (5:24)
44. Etta James - Crawlin' King Snake (5:32)
45. Buddy Guy - Lucy Mae Blues (3:33)

Juneteenth blues show at The Oaks

Here in Texas, June 19th is celebrated as Juneteenth, in commemoration of the date Texas slaves learned of the ending of slavery. To that end, the Austin Blues Society, in conjunction with The Oaks, is holding a Juneteenth festival this Saturday, June 14th featuring figures from the East Austin blues scene.

Performers include:

• W.C. Clark and his band
• Blues Boy Hubbard & the Texas East Side Kings
• Hosea Hargrove & the Roadrunners
• Matthew Robinson Band
• John Gaar Band

There will also be food vendors and a screening of a documentary about the history of the blues in Austin. Proceeds to benefit the Carver Center.

Tickets are $15 ($12 for Austin Blues Society Members), and children under 12 get in free. Everything starts at 5:00 pm.

Where: The Oaks
10206 FM 973 North,
Manor, TX

A return, briefly

I'm back from the cool heights of Colorado and into the heat of the Texas summer once again. Between another trip out of town later this month and Austin Blues Party 2 over the 4th of July, the radio station may only update every ten days instead of weekly. However, I'll still be alternating programs of soul & funk with programs of blues (plus, at some point soon, I'll do a set dedicated to New Orleans soul, funk, R&B, and blues, and another of gospel blues).

The newest mix, all soul with more of a sixties focus than the last soul set, is broadcasting now.

Gigs: June & July

My live dj schedule for the next couple of months:

6/12/08 Austin Swing Syndicate, side room 10:30-11:30 (overflow room for band dance)
6/26/08 Austin Swing Syndicate, main ballroom 10:00-11:00
7/06/08 Austin Blues Party, 1:00 am - 2:00 am (blues)
7/06/08 Austin Blues Party, midnight-1:00 am (soul)
7/31/08 Austin Swing Syndicate, main ballroom 11:00-midnight

Set list: 6/11/08

1. The Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There) (3:02)
2. Aretha Franklin - Think (2:17)
3. Major Lance - Follow the Leader (2:18)
4. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (6:29)
5. Sam & Dave - Soothe Me [Live] (2:59)
6. Sam Cooke - Sugar Dumpling (2:18)
7. The Vibrations - My Girl Sloopy (2:54)
8. Jimmy Ricks & The Raves - Daddy Rolling Stone (2:19)
9. Booker T. & the MG's - Lady Madonna (3:33)
10. The Overton Berry Trio - Hey Jude (5:35)
11. Clarence Carter - Looking for a Fox (2:16)
12. The Staple Singers - Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) (3:12)
13. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:19)
14. Otis Redding - Shake (2:57)
15. Etta James - Tell Mama (2:23)
16. The Funk Brothers with Gerald LeVert - Shotgun (3:11)
17. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Shake and Figerpop (2:43)
18. James Brown - Licking Stick-Licking Stick (4:52)
19. Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People (2:22)
20. Claudia Lennear - Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (3:46)
21. Jackson 5 - Penny Arcade (2:41)
22. War - Nappy Head (Theme from Ghetto Man) (3:19)
23. The Cougars - Right On (2:50)
24. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Spreadin' Honey (2:25)
25. Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar (3:01)
26. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:54)
27. Howard Tate - Chain Gang (3:04)
28. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
29. The Lost Generation - The Young, Tough and the Terrible (3:03)
30. Solomon Burke - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free) (3:00)
31. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
32. Sam & Dave - Hold On! I'm Comin' (2:37)
33. Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances (2:26)
34. The Isley Brothers - Testify, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:56)
35. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Natural Born Lover (3:04)
36. Wayne McGhie - Fire (She Need Water) (3:37)
37. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
38. War - Summer (4:03)
39. The Temptations - Get Ready (2:37)
40. Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run (2:51)
41. Aretha Franklin - Money Won't Change You (2:08)
42. Gladys Knight & the Pips - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (2:56)
43. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (3:00)
44. The Four Tops - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (2:47)
45. Booker T. & the MG's - Hip Hug-Her (2:25)
46. Wilson Pickett - Soul Dance Number Three (2:42)
47. Solomon Burke - Party People (2:36)
48. Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (2:20)
49. Diana Ross & the Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go (2:33)
50. Marvin Gaye - This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me) (2:42)
51. Otis Redding - Trick or Treat (3:14)
52. James Brown - Night Train (3:28)
53. James Hunter - Riot in My Heart (4:16)
54. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (2:31)
55. Etta James - Sail Away (4:00)
56. Howard Tate - My Soul's Got A Hole In It (2:51)
57. Clarence Carter - I Smell a Rat (2:41)
58. The Impressions - Little Young Lover (2:13)
59. The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) [Alternate Mix] (2:45)
60. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears (3:00)
61. Sam Cooke - Having a Party (2:37)
62. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Cleo's Back (2:30)
63. Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime (2:39)

Some slight delay

I'm on vacation in Colorado at the moment, and didn't quite get the new set finished today, so the new show won't go up on the radio station until Sunday or Monday.

RIP Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley, one of the the early pioneers of rock & roll, passed away this morning.

The New York Times obituary is here.

Blues on the Green 2008

The schedule for Blues on the Green at Zilker Park is now up:

6/11 - Asleep At The Wheel

6/25 - Marcia Ball

7/9 - Los Lonely Boys (w/Shawn Sahm & The Tex Mex Experience)

7/23 - Carolyn Wonderland

8/6 - Sonny Landreth

8/20 - Doyle Bramhall/Gary Clark Jr.

"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas"

David Crockett famously said those words to his former colleagues in the Tennessee legislature in 1835. Less than a year later, he died fighting for Texas independence at the Alamo.

I'm told that we're a little different, we Texans. Perhaps it's because we were our own nation before we were part of the United States. Perhaps it's our anomolous geographic position - we're not really part of the South, nor the Southwest, nor the Midwest, although we border all three regions.

Along with that difference comes a musical heritage of incredible depth, from ragtime professor Scott Joplin to electric guitar pioneer Eddie Durham; from living legends like Willie Nelson and Augie Meyers to Janis Joplin and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who left us far too soon.

With that in mind, this week's broadcast features solely Texas blues, soul, and gospel musicians - those who grew up here or lived here for some period of their careers. It's by no means a complete list - before I do this theme again, I'll make sure to add some Janis Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Mance Lipscomb to my collection - but I think it presents a nice diversity of talent.

I hope you dig it.

(And if you've come here looking for the soul music from last week, check back next week; my plan, as much as there is one, is to alternate between soul/funk and blues weekly.)

Set list: 5/31/08

A little bit of Texas music:

1. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
2. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)
3. Ruthie Foster - Another Rain Song (4:16)
4. Delbert McClinton - I've Got Dreams to Remember (5:18)
5. Guy Forsyth - Needle Gun (5:12)
6. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
7. W.C. Clark - My Texas Home (4:53)
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (4:57)
9. Seth Walker - So Far Gone (3:16)
10. Freddie King - I Don't Know (3:07)
11. Asylum Street Spankers - Got My Mojo Workin' (4:26)
12. Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over (3:08)
13. Johnny Nicholas - John the Revelator (3:42)
14. Papa Mali - Man of Many Words (4:10)
15. Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers - People Get Ready (8:54)
16. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mojo Hand (3:46)
17. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth (4:01)
18. Marcia Ball - Down the Road (4:12)
19. Joe Tex - Show Me (Original) (2:59)
20. Bobby Patterson - Keeping It in the Family (2:40)
21. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
22. T-Bone Walker - Street Walking Woman (3:03)
23. Eve Monsees - I Was Lookin' Back to See (2:39)
24. Sue Foley - Me and My Chauffeur Blues (3:06)
25. Storyville - Good Day For The Blues (4:17)
26. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Lay Down (3:26)
27. Asylum Street Spankers - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:15)
28. Nevada Newman - Don't Ask No Questions (4:52)
29. Marcia Ball - Louella (6:27)
30. Carolyn Wonderland - Judgement Day Blues (4:25)
31. Ruthie Foster - People Grinnin' in Your Face (3:21)
32. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)
33. Papa Mali - Cottonfields and Bayous (5:03)
34. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Caress Me Baby (5:09)
35. T-Bone Walker - Blues Is a Woman (2:47)
36. Eastside Band/Texas Trumpets - Rebecca, Rebecca (5:07)
37. Malford Milligan - Blow wind blow (3:08)
38. Delbert McClinton - B-Movie Boxcar Blues (8:46)
39. Freddie King - Same Old Blues (3:58)
40. W.C. Clark - Midnight Hour (3:25)
41. Shorts, E.R. - God's Gonna Make a Way (4:59)
42. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
43. Pinetop Perkins - Blues After Hours (5:01)
44. Lou Ann Barton - One Good Man (5:21)
45. Kashmere Stage Band - Thank You [45 Version] (4:05)

If you enjoy my music...

I'd invite you to come down to the second annual Austin Blues Party on July 4-6. There will be classes during the day by some of the top blues dance instructors in the US, and dancing all night with live music from Jabo and the Old Dogs and somewhere around a dozen deejays from all over the US (including myself) playing blues and soul until almost the break of dawn. You can find more information from the link at the sidebar.

Set list: 5/24/08

Set list for the first broadcast program: (Soul 1)

1. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair (3:06)
2. War - Get Down (4:28)
3. Kashmere Stage Band - Do Your Thing [Extended Version] (5:23)
4. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (4:26)
5. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
6. Brownout - African Battle (3:04)
7. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (8:54)
8. Willie Hutch - Sunshine Lady (3:56)
9. Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You (3:48)
10. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
11. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
12. Isaac Hayes - Ike's Rap II / Help Me Love (7:33)
13. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street (3:48)
14. Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks (3:38)
15. The Whitefield Brothers - Eji (3:47)
16. The Funk Brothers with Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Cloud Nine (4:41)
17. The New Mastersounds - 102% (3:03)
18. Earth, Wind & Fire - Mighty Mighty (3:02)
19. Kashmere Stage Band - $$ Kash Register $$ (4:28)
20. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
21. Isaac Hayes - Good Love (5:18)
22. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
23. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
24. Etta James - Holding Back the Years (4:18)
25. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) (3:28)
26. Young-Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack (3:01)
27. Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind (2:45)
28. The Jackson 5 - Make Tonight All Mine (3:18)
29. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? (4:03)
30. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (3:12)
31. King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew (8:22)
32. Count Basie & Jackie Wilson - Ode to Billie Joe (4:18)
33. Dusty Springfield - Willie & Laura Mae Jones (2:49)
34. Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? (3:12)
35. Ike & Tina Turner - Use Me (2:33)
36. Sly & the Family Stone - Loose Booty (3:47)
37. Etta James - In the Basement, Pt. 1 (2:23)
38. Al Green - Light My Fire (3:54)
39. War - All Day Music (3:59)
40. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
41. Otis Redding - Change Is Gonna Come (4:16)
42. The Meters - Sophisticated Cissy (2:56)
43. Funkadelic - Music for My Mother (5:39)
44. Darondo - Let My People Go (3:58)
45. Brownout - You Already Are (5:02)
46. Aretha Franklin - Mr. D.J. (5 For The D.J.) (4:25)
47. The Jackson 5 - Sugar Daddy (2:32)
48. Barbara Acklin - Am I the Same Girl (2:56)
49. Marvin Gaye - I Want You (4:35)
50. Curtis Mayfield - No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) (4:57)
51. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)

Throwing wide the doors

Welcome to The Shotgun Shack. Come in, make yourselves at home. There's not much to sit on besides the floor, I'm afraid, but we like to keep as much of the space clear for dancing as possible. There's ice water in the cooler out the back door, and plenty of rum on the counter, over by those mason jars.

If you've come here from live365, then you know that this is the blog for my netradio station, also called The Shotgun Shack. If you've come from elsewhere, I'd invite you to check out the station from the link on the sidebar.

I'm your host, the Reverend Shady Glenn. After a little over eight years deejaying in the Austin, Texas, swing and blues dance scene, I decided I wanted another venue to spin my soul, blues, funk, and gospel music, and a platform outside of my regular blog to write about music; so I built this shack. It's not much to look at yet, but I'm hoping that will change over time.