Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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)

Sunday, December 21, 2008

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.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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.

Monday, December 15, 2008

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)

Monday, December 8, 2008

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)

Monday, December 1, 2008

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)