This Week in the Shack

We kick off the new year tonight with a set of Texas music. I hope all of you have a safe & happy new year.

1. Mingo Fishtrap - Without Question (3:58)
2. W.C. Clark - You Left the Water Running (3:17)
3. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
4. Mickey & the Soul Generation - Give Everybody Some [#] (7:02)
5. Brownout - Pole Position (4:07)
6. The Scabs - Pushin' on the Pull Bar (6:23)
7. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
9. Albert Collins - When the Welfare Turns Its Back on You (5:25)
10. Freddie King - Five Long Years (4:18)
11. Last Real Texas Blues Band Featuring Doug Sahm - Something to Remember You By [Live] (3:15)
12. T Bird and the Breaks - All The Blame (6:18)
13. James McMurtry - Ruby and Carlos (6:37)
14. Marcia Ball - Down in the Neighborhood (4:03)
15. Guy Forsyth - Don't Turn Me In (4:09)
16. LZ Love & Lightning Red - Wang Dang Doodle (5:05)
17. Nevada Newman - Don't Ask No Questions (4:52)
18. Asylum Street Spankers - It's Dry Down Here (4:35)
19. White Ghost Shivers - Weed Smoker's Dream (5:06)
20. Carolyn Wonderland - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:43)
21. Delbert McClinton - Everything I Know About the Blues (3:31)
22. Eastside Band/Texas Trumpets - Rebecca, Rebecca (5:07)
23. Malford Milligan Band - Don't Cry For Me (6:02)
24. Asylum Street Spankers - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (2:59)
25. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Resurrection (4:32)
26. Papa Mali - True Religion (4:42)
27. Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over (3:08)
28. The Hopkins Brothers - Black Hannah (6:05)
29. Jon Dee Graham - Something Moves (4:17)
30. Stephen Bruton - Fading Man (5:32)
31. Seth Walker - Lately I've Let Things Slide (2:57)
32. Lovette, Lyle - Hello Grandma (2:35)
33. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth (4:01)
34. Robert Earl Keen - So Sorry Blues (4:23)
35. Kashmere Stage Band - Aint' No Sushine [Live][#] (4:32)
36. Ruthie Foster - Another Rain Song (4:16)
37. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
38. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot (3:17)
39. The Ugly Americans - Chilly at the Crib (5:41)
(Texas 6)

This Week in the Shack

Due to time constraints, this week's show is a repeat of the show from Feb. 1 of this year, the playlist for which can be found here.

I hope all of you have a wonderful holiday season, and we'll return next week with one lasat new program for 2009.

-The Reverend Shady Glenn

This Week in the Shack

Back to blues this week.

1. Eric Clapton - The Sky Is Crying (4:00)
2. Etta James - Miss You (5:59)
3. Seth Walker - Change My Way (3:43)
4. Scrapomatic - Lotus (4:22)
5. Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don't Tolerate (3:42)
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie the Wimp [Live] (4:34)
7. John Hammond, Jr. - If You Wanna Rock & Roll (4:08)
8. Malford Milligan Band - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (6:07)
9. Angélique Kidjo;Buddy Guy;Vernon Reid - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (5:17)
10. Chris Thomas King - Hey Hey What Can I Do (4:09)
11. Michael Hornbuckle - Grandmas Hands (2:33)
12. porterdavis - Grass Growing Through Concrete (4:17)
13. Eric Bibb - No More Cane On The Brazos (5:01)
14. Cephas and Wiggins - No Ice in My Bourbon (3:20)
15. Sonny Boy Williamson [II] - Fattening Frogs for Snakes (2:21)
16. James 'Blood' Ulmer & Memphis Blood - Evil (2:55)
17. Freddie King - I'm Tore Down (4:11)
18. Melvin Taylor - Texas Flood (7:35)
19. John Lee Hooker - Looking Back over My Day (4:39)
20. Ray Charles - Blackjack (2:20)
21. Memphis Slim - Feel Like Screaming and Crying (3:34)
22. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:29)
23. Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday Blues (4:07)
24. Aynsley Dunbar - Till your lovin' makes me blue (4:57)
25. Gary Moore - Memory Pain (4:51)
26. Susan Tedeschi - Angel From Montgomery (6:34)
27. James McMurtry - No More Buffalo (7:19)
28. Lyle Lovett - M-O-N-E-Y (3:29)
29. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
30. Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band - O Mary Don't You Weep (Live In Dublin) (6:57)
31. Scrapomatic - I Belong to the Band (4:06)
32. Ian Siegal - Between The Stirrup And The Ground (5:53)
33. Chris Thomas King - Come On In My Kitchen (4:25)
34. Maria Muldaur - TB Blues (3:11)
35. Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy (4:35)
36. Natalie Cole - St. Louis Blues (3:52)
37. Eastside Band/Texas Trumpets - Rebecca, Rebecca (5:07)
38. Delbert McClinton - Everything I Know About the Blues (3:31)
39. Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Blues for the Homeless (8:48)

(blues 28)

This Week in the Shack

Sorry for skipping last week. Thanksgiving was one giant technology fail: my laptop (on which I do all the work for the Shack) got infected with the antivirus pro malware and I ended up having to reset it to the factory settings to get rid of the damn thing. Also over the weekend, my dying wireless router finally gave up the ghost, so my only internet access was on my aging desktop.

Everything is now fixed, a new router is in place, and a new show is now up with a mix of classic and retro-soul. As always, I hope you dig it.


1. Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen (2:14)
2. Otis Redding - Cupid (3:10)
3. Jackson Sisters - Shake Her Loose (2:30)
4. Solomon Burke - Party People (2:36)
5. Baby Washington - Breakfast in Bed (3:10)
6. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:54)
7. Mayer Hawthorne - Shiny & New (2:59)
8. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On (3:35)
9. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone (2:52)
10. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk (3:18)
11. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
12. Ryan Shaw - Memphis Train (2:52)
13. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
14. Otis Redding - Hard to Handle (2:20)
15. Quincy Jones - Sanford & Son Theme/The Streetbeater (3:05)
16. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:21)
17. The Bo-Keys - Back at the Chicken Shack (6:53)
18. Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (3:13)
19. Wilson Pickett - Stagger Lee (2:22)
20. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)
21. Bobby Byrd/James Brown - Sweet Soul Music (2:37)
22. Bettye Lavette - Joy (3:55)
23. Quincy Jones - Hikky-Burr (5:56)
24. The Zombies - Time of the Season (3:34)
25. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
26. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
27. Mel & Tim - Backfield in Motion (5:29)
28. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
29. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
30. Isaac Hayes - Lay Lady Lay (5:36)
31. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl (3:45)
32. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
33. The Temptations - My Girl (2:57)
34. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Choosey Beggar (2:33)
35. Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run (2:51)
36. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
37. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady [Alternate Mix][#] (4:31)
38. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (2:58)
39. Ike & Tina Turner - Living For The City (3:30)
40. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Ooo Baby Baby (2:44)
41. Sam Cooke - Sad Mood (2:41)
42. Bettye LaVette - Talking Old Soldiers (4:25)
43. Joss Stone - Right To Be Wrong (4:40)
44. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (7:01)
45. Mavis Staples - Security (2:52)
46. Joan Osborne - What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [From Standing in the Shadows of Moto (4:23)
47. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
48. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (4:16)
49. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)

(Soul 23)

This week in the Shack

The inspiration for this week's show comes from Son Volt's "Windfall", which came on the radio as I was driving back from a dance on a cold, rainy night during ALX last weekend. I really like a lot of Jay Farrar's imagery, and wanted to create something with the feel of the verse in the song about tuning in to an old-time AM radio station, and the show this week is filled with country blues, Americana, gospel, and a little bit of bluegrass.

For my American listeners, I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving, and for everyone out there, have a wonderful weekend and stay safe.

The Reverend.

1. Son Volt - Windfall (2:58)
2. Chris Thomas King - Trouble Will Soon Be Over (4:13)
3. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Nobody's Fault (3:17)
4. Rory Block - My Black Mama (4:28)
5. Asylum Street Spankers - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (5:13)
6. Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel (3:52)
7. Crooked Still - New Railroad (3:15)
8. Cephas and Wiggins - Nine Pound Hammer (3:20)
9. Sonny Terry - Crow Jane (3:49)
10. Taj Mahal - Leaving Trunk (4:50)
11. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz (2:12)
12. Mick Jagger/The Chieftains - The Long Black Veil (3:37)
13. Old Crow Medicine Show - James River Blues (3:06)
14. Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain (3:21)
15. Watermelon Slim - Last Blues (4:57)
16. Cephas & Wiggins - Broke And Hungry (5:02)
17. Rory Block - County Farm Blues (3:34)
18. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Christian's Automobile (2:12)
19. Asylum Street Spankers - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (2:42)
20. Blind Willie Johnson - Church, I'm Fully Saved Today (3:08)
21. Leadbelly - Didn't Ol' John Cross the Water (3:08)
22. Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All (3:05)
23. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
24. Taj Mahal - Diddy Wah Diddy (4:36)
25. Billie McAllister - 31 E. Blues (2:37)
26. Tab Benoit - Hustlin' Down In New Orleans (5:27)
27. Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning (4:20)
28. Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) (4:27)
29. R.L. Burnside - Jumper Hangin' on the Line (3:13)
30. Taj Mahal - Bacon Fat (6:39)
31. Son Volt - Out Of The Picture (3:49)
32. James McMurtry - You'd a'Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die) (5:58)
33. Guy Forsyth - God Moves on the Water (3:37)
34. Hans Theessink - Frankie & Albert (3:11)
35. Taj Mahal - Stagger Lee (3:20)
36. Jud Newcomb - Midnight Hour Blues (5:38)
37. Asylum Street Spankers - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (2:59)
38. Leadbelly - Midnight Special (3:07)
39. Old Crow Medicine Show - Down Home Girl (3:47)
40. Ollabelle - Soul of a Man (3:59)
41. Denise With The Campbell Brothers - The Storm Is Passing Over (4:32)
42. Cowboy Junkies - Walkin' After Midnight (6:00)
43. Sunnyland Slim - Decoration Day (3:46)
44. Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love (3:51)
45. RobinElla - Love At The Five And Dime (4:35)
46. Robert Johnson - Rambling On My Mind (2:25)
47. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)

(Americana blues)

This week in the Shack

First off, I pretty much fail at remembering to switch between two programs consistently, so for now I'm going back to one program each week.

The Austin Lindy Exchange is this week, and then the Thanksgiving holidays are here. Between these two things and the general end-of-the-year madness that takes over my law practice in November and December, I've been somewhat pressed for time. Two-thirds of this week's set, therefore, are my two hour-long sets from last Friday at Kick Butt Blues.

With luck, I'll be coherent enough next Monday, post-ALX, to put another new set together.

1. Asylum Street Spankers - Wade in the Water (3:18)
2. Deborah Coleman - Jesus Just Left Chicago (4:40)
3. Jimmy Witherspoon - When The Lights Go Out (3:00)
4. Scrapomatic - Louisiana Anna (3:26)
5. The Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane (3:53)
6. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
7. Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other (4:42)
8. Big Time Sarah - Chicken Heads (6:02)
9. Hash Brown & The Browntones - Celluphone Blues (3:16)
10. Susan Tedeschi - Gonna Move (4:58)
11. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
12. Sweetman with his South Side Groove Kings - Jest Smoochin' (5:01)
13. Gene Harris, Jack McDuff, Niki Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
14. Buddy Guy - Lucy Mae Blues (3:33)
15. Otis Spann - Must Have Been The Devil (2:45)
16. Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint - Too Poor to Die (3:08)
17. LZ Love & Lightning Red - Wang Dang Doodle (5:05)
18. Finnegan & Wood - Death Letter (5:28)
19. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:09)
20. Little Walter - My Babe (2:43)
21. Ian Siegal Band - Monday Saw (5:09)
22. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
23. Nina Simone - Do I Move You? (2:47)
24. Little Walter - Blue Midnight (3:02)
25. Seth Walker - Leap Of Faith (4:22)
26. Jimmy Witherspoon - Money's Gettin' Cheaper (2:51)
27. Etta James - Spoonful (2:49)
28. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Lay Down (3:26)
29. Keb' Mo' - The Itch (4:55)
30. Guy Forsyth - This Is Hip (4:01)
31. Shawn Mullins - Homeless Joe (2:42)
32. Carolyn Wonderland - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:43)
33. Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words (4:14)
34. Nina Simone - Be My Husband (3:22)
35. Rory Block - Preachin' Blues (3:32)
36. Guy Forsyth - God Moves on the Water (3:37)
37. Otis Taylor - Your Children Sleep Good Tonight (5:29)
38. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (6:05)
39. Aynsley Dunbar - Mean old World (3:03)
40. Chris Thomas King - Hey Hey What Can I Do (4:09)
41. Susan Tedeschi - You Got the Silver (2:52)
42. The Rolling Stones - Good Times, Bad Times (2:30)
43. Cephas & Wiggins - The Blues Three Ways (7:20)
44. Paul Orta & Tonky De La Pena - Catfish (3:14)
45. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (3:27)

(blues 27)

This week in the Shack

Beginning this week (because I was sick for most of last), I'm going to be tinkering around with the Shack's programming. I'll be streaming the new blues set listed below and alternating it with this soul set from June of last year. The changeovers should take place each day around 6 in the evening, Texas time.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Asylum Street Spankers - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (2:59)
2. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
3. Ian Siegal - I'll Fly Away (5:09)
4. Louisiana Red & Little Victor's Juke Joint - Black Bayou (4:10)
5. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:09)
6. Long John Baldry - Let's Burn Down the Cornfield (4:11)
7. Deborah Coleman - Jesus Just Left Chicago (4:40)
8. Koko Taylor - Man Size Job [#][*] (4:01)
9. Etta James - Miss You (5:59)
10. Buddy Guy - Country Man (6:17)
11. Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love (3:47)
12. Calvin Russell - Halloween (3:32)
13. Chris Randall - St. James Infirmary Blues (4:46)
14. Tom Waits - Mr. Siegal (5:14)
15. Scrapomatic - Louisiana Anna (3:26)
16. Maria Muldaur - Separation Blues (with Bonnie Raitt) (4:44)
17. Little Walter - Tonight With a Fool (2:53)
18. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
19. B.B. King - Night Life (4:48)
20. Lowell Fulson - Rollin' Blues (2:50)
21. Bonnie Raitt - Mighty Tight Woman (4:20)
22. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (Live) (6:35)
23. Charles Brown - These Blues (6:33)
24. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Wee Baby Blues (5:38)
25. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Rocks in My Bed (9:16)
26. Fats Waller - That Ain't Right (3:01)
27. Jim Cullum, Jr. - St. Louis Blues (7:59)
28. Wynton Marsalis - Jungle Blues (6:49)
29. Jimmy Witherspoon - C.C. Rider (4:47)
30. Jennie Lobel - Gimme A Pigfoot (3:41)
31. Di Anne Price - Long John (5:22)
32. Alberta Hunter - My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More (3:49)
33. Ruth Brown - If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It (5:23)
34. Asylum Street Spankers - High as You Can Be (5:12)
35. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - The Death of J.B. Lenoir (4:18)
36. Memphis Slim - Otis Spann and Earl Hooker (4:27)
37. John Lee Hooker - Third Degree (3:51)
38. Greg Szlapczynski - Mo' Better Blues (Digital Edition Bonus) (2:43)

(blues 26)

This week in the Shack

I have been getting progressively sicker all evening (hopefully just with allergies), so I'm just going to hope this is a relatively coherent set. Soul music. Yes. Classic artists. New artists. Things.

Live365 has increased its storage space for broadcast accounts. This gives me the opportunity to try some changes in the way I broadcast, which I'll explain further tomorrow, assuming I'm not dead.

1. Breakestra - No Matter Where You Go (5:51)
2. Detroit Sex Machines - Rap It Together (2:31)
3. Funk Brothers, The - Cloud Nine - Live Me'Shell Ndeg?Ocello (4:41)
4. Sly & the Family Stone - (You Caught Me) Smilin' (2:56)
5. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (5:38)
6. Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America (6:08)
7. The Undisputed Truth - Smiling Faces Sometimes (3:19)
8. The Bo-Keys - I Remember Stax (3:53)
9. Mofro - Fireflies (3:31)
10. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (3:05)
11. War - Slippin' into Darkness (3:47)
12. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) (3:28)
13. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (4:16)
14. The Jackson 5 - Maybe Tomorrow (4:44)
15. Joss Stone - Understand (3:46)
16. Ryan Shaw - Memphis Train (2:52)
17. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
18. Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You (3:48)
19. The Solution - My Mojo Aint Working No More (3:52)
20. James Hunter - No Smoke Without Fire (3:05)
21. Aretha Franklin - I Take What I Want (2:31)
22. Mofro - Dirtfloorcracker (3:36)
23. Rare Earth - I Just Want to Celebrate (2:52)
24. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (7:25)
25. Jean Knight - Do Me (2:51)
26. Dusty Springfield - Breakfast in Bed (2:58)
27. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Stranded In Your Love feat. Lee Fields (5:47)
28. The Chi-Lites - Homely Girl (3:34)
29. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
30. Mayer Hawthorne - Shiny & New (2:59)
31. Donny Hathaway - A Song for You (5:47)
32. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (3:59)
33. Fred & the New J.B.'s - Rockin' Funky Watergate (4:34)
34. The New Mastersounds - Hey Fela! (5:29)
35. Joe Bataan - Chick-a-Boom (3:48)
36. Sly And The Family Stone - Frisky (3:11)
37. Little Sister - Stanga (3:41)
38. Gil Scott-Heron - I Think I'll Call It Morning (3:31)
39. Isaac Hayes - Soulsville (4:37)
40. Major Lance - Hey Little Girl (2:30)
41. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tears of a Clown (3:04)
42. The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (3:54)
43. Marvin Gaye - Groovin' (2:57)
44. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (3:19)
45. Billy Preston - Ferry Across the Mersey (2:49)
46. King Curtis - Soul Serenade [*] (4:50)
47. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - (I'm A) Road Runner (2:48)

(soul 22)

This week in the Shack

Halloween being this week, I've put together a set mostly about death, ghosts, voodoo, and other holiday-appropriate things, suitable for listening to while you await the Great Pumpkin.

Have a happy Halloween, and be wary of making deals with people you meet at the crossroads.

1. Tom Waits - Wrong Side of the Road (5:13)
2. Sweetman with his South Side Groove Kings - Jest Smoochin' (5:01)
3. The Atomic Fireballs - Lover Lies (3:19)
4. Dr. John - Party Hellfire (4:40)
5. Ian Siegal - Revelator (John The Apostle) (6:04)
6. Cedric Burnside/Kenny Brown/Luther Dickinson/Samuel L. Jackson - Stackolee (3:30)
7. Papa Mali - Walk on Guilded Splinters (9:49)
8. Chris Randall - Automatic Jack (3:44)
9. Mick Jagger/The Chieftains - The Long Black Veil (3:37)
10. White Ghost Shivers - The Ghost Song (4:46)
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - Shotgun Blues (2:41)
12. Peter Green with Nigel Watson - Me And The Devil Blues (3:02)
13. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
14. Otis Taylor - It's Done Happened Again (2:05)
15. Tom Waits - Big Joe and Phantom 309 (6:29)
16. Dr. John - John Gris (5:20)
17. Chris Randall - Baron Samedi (4:00)
18. Ozomatli - Cumbia De Los Muertos (3:32)
19. Guy Forsyth - Tattletale (3:56)
20. Jason Freeman/Samuel L. Jackson - Black Snake Moan (4:04)
21. Otis Taylor - Black Witch (5:02)
22. Albert Castiglia - Ghosts Of Mississippi (4:19)
23. Cowboy Junkies - Hunted (4:02)
24. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)
25. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
26. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You (3:30)
27. Boxcar Preachers - Jessie's Bones (3:05)
28. Greg Szlapczynski - Who's Gonna Take My Damn' Soul (feat. Ian Siegal) (4:00)
29. Guy Forsyth - Teeth (4:43)
30. John Hammond, Jr. - 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six (4:37)
31. Otis Taylor - Be My Frankenstein (4:46)
32. The Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane (3:53)
33. Ray Wylie Hubbard - The Way of the Fallen (4:25)
34. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
35. Dr. John; Lower 911 - Dream Warrior (4:57)
36. Tom Waits - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard (3:16)
37. Cowboy Junkies - Floorboard Blues (2:04)
38. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
39. Popa Chubby - Preacher Man (3:55)
40. Los Super Seven - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (2:48)
41. Buddy Guy - Hard Time Killing Floor (2:49)
42. Toledo - Talkin' To The Devil (Dark Streets Album Version) (3:10)
43. Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Murder in the 1st Degree (5:57)

(Halloween 2)

Passing along the word

If you're a fan of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, they've got a free download of the title track from "My Feet Can't Fail Me Now" up on their website, http://www.dirtydozenbrass.com

This week in the Shack

This week's program is a wide variety of Texas music - blues, soul, funk, a little bit of Americana, a little gospel, and a bit of western swing and jazz.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Purgatory Road (5:07)
2. Iguanaman & Friends - Work, Dog, Work (4:29)
3. Ruthie Foster - Heal Yourself (4:31)
4. Lyle Lovett - M-O-N-E-Y (3:29)
5. The Scabs - Man of the Year (4:27)
6. The Seth Walker Band - Meet Me In The Middle (3:53)
7. Marcia Ball - The Right Tool for the Job (5:12)
8. Pinetop Perkins - Big Fat Mama (4:39)
9. James McMurtry - Where'd You Hide The Body (3:40)
10. LZ Love & Lightning Red - Wang Dang Doodle (5:05)
11. Guy Forsyth - Midnight Train (4:59)
12. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - Tom Ames' Prayer (Steve Earle) (3:22)
13. Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down (3:09)
14. The Hopkins Brothers - I Got A Brother In Waxahachie (3:48)
15. W.C. Clark - Real Live Livin' Hurtin' Man (3:34)
16. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (4:57)
17. Albert Collins - Things That I Used To Do (Talking Slim Blues) (3:28)
18. Gary Clark, Jr - Whole Lotta Lovin' (4:25)
19. Freddie King - Same Old Blues (3:59)
20. Malford Milligan - These arms of mine (3:37)
21. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot (3:17)
22. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
23. T Bird and the Breaks - Two Tone Cadillac (4:35)
24. Brownout - African Battle (3:04)
25. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
26. The Ugly Americans - Chilly at the Crib (5:41)
27. Mingo Fishtrap - 4 Sho' (4:18)
28. Sweetman with his South Side Groove Kings - Night Train (3:35)
29. Eastside Band/Texas Trumpets - One Night Stand (4:09)
30. T-Bone Walker - Stormy Monday (3:02)
31. Delbert McClinton & Dick50 - Starting A Rumor (3:40)
32. Jon Dee Graham - Tamale House No. 1 (3:49)
33. Seth Walker - Sun Down (4:00)
34. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - You Made Me Laugh (3:49)
35. Stephen Bruton - Put Me Out of Your Misery (4:15)
36. Papa Mali - Man of Many Words (4:10)
37. E.R. Shorts - Down But Not Out (7:25)
38. Kashmere Stage Band - Ain't No Sunshine (4:32)
39. Asylum Street Spankers - Summertime (6:20)
40. White Ghost Shivers - Weed Smoker's Dream (5:06)
41. Hot Club of Cowtown - It Stops with Me (4:20)
42. Jazz Pharaohs - Trouble in Mind (4:51)
43. Steve Earle - Colorado Girl (3:35)

(Texas 5)

This week in the Shack

Last week and weekend were extremely busy, and I didn't have time to create a new show, so this week is a rerun of the show from April 13 of this year. The playlist is here. With some luck, I'll get the woefully-out-of-date calendar updated this week, and new shows will resume next weekend, with a set of all Texas music.

This week in the Shack

Brass bands, Indian chants, Nevilles, The Night Tripper, and The Absolute Monster Gentlemen...this week the Shack returns to New Orleans.

1. Dr. John - Didn't He Ramble (3:28)
2. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - I Got a Woman (6:13)
3. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
4. Aaron Neville - Life On The Layaway Plan (Dark Streets Album Version) (4:11)
5. ReBirth Brass Band - Let's Get It On (3:54)
6. Ivan Neville/The New Orleans Social Club - Fortunate Son (5:13)
7. Jon Cleary - Port Street Blues (Live) (6:14)
8. Cyril Neville - Tipitina (5:16)
9. The Wild Magnolias - Two-Way-Pak-E-Way (7:52)
10. The Meters - Fire on the Bayou (4:06)
11. Galactic - Witch Doctor (4:13)
12. Coolbone - Spread da Funk (4:36)
13. Dr. John - Why Come (3:42)
14. Art Neville - House on the Hill (Rock 'N' Roll Hootenanny) (2:33)
15. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:49)
16. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Meet The Boyz On The Battlefront (4:36)
17. The Wild Magnolias - (My Big Chief Has A) Golden Crown (6:23)
18. The Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko (5:36)
19. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (Live) (6:35)
20. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
21. Coolbone - Phat City (3:33)
22. Rebirth Brass Band - Rebirth Melody/Casanova (11:19)
23. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky) (5:06)
24. John Bell; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Walk on Gilded Splinters (5:27)
25. B.B. King/Ivan Neville DumpstaPhunk - Goin' Home (2:17)
26. Cyril Neville/Dr. John - Marie Laveau (6:49)
27. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
28. Galactic - Tighten Your Wig (3:10)
29. Coolbone - Gotta Sweat (When Ya Black) (3:29)
30. Dr. John - Television (4:39)
31. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
32. The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon (4:04)
33. The Meters - Cabbage Alley (3:02)
34. The Wild Magnolias - Handa Wanda (4:43)
35. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
36. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - I'm The Big, Big Chief (4:09)
37. Galactic/Robbie Robertson - Going to the River (4:48)
38. Dr. John - Ki Ya Gris Gris (4:03)
39. Bluesiana Triangle - Life's a One Way Ticket (5:34)

(NOLA 3)

Slight....technical....um....thing

The station's down at the moment. Something went screwy when I removed old files from live365 to make room for the new set, and some of the mp3s for the currently-playing program went with them. The new show is uploading, and I should be back online within the hour.

Austin City Limits 2009-2010 seaon schedule

Via Austin360, here's the schedule for the upcoming season of Austin City Limits. The show airs locally at 7 pm on Saturdays on KLRU, our local public television affiliate.

Oct. 3: Dave Matthews Band
Oct. 10: Ben Harper and Relentless 7
Oct. 17: Kenny Chesney
Oct. 24: Andrew Bird / St. Vincent
Oct. 31: M. Ward / Okkervil River
Nov. 7: Elvis Costello / Band of Heathens
Nov. 14: Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
Nov. 21: Pearl Jam
Nov. 28-Jan. 2: Encore episodes
Jan. 9: Allen Toussaint
Jan. 16: Mos Def / K’Naan
Jan. 23: TBD / Heartless Bastards
Jan. 30: Steve Earle / Kris Kristofferson
Feb. 6: Madeleine Peyroux / Esperanza Spalding
Feb. 13: Them Crooked Vultures

(Note: these are air dates, not production dates; the show is recorded in advance, often months ahead, depending on the availability of the artists.)

New releases

In the last few weeks, Austin blues/roots trio porterdavis has released their new eponymous album and local latin funk band Brownout have released their second album, "Aguilas and Cobras". I highly recommend both discs.

In addition, on October 6, Light in the Attic will release Betty Davis' fourth album, "Is It Love or Desire", which was recorded in 1976 but never saw the light of day until now. eMusic has it available now, and if you're into greasy, nasty seventies funk, you can't go without it.

This week in the Shack

My intention this week was to do a set that focused mostly on acoustic blues, but that's not what the loa of rhythm and melody decided was going to happen. Instead, the set starts out mostly acoustic, with a mix of old and new song, wanders over to gospel for a while, and finishes with a mix of more electric blues and pieces featuring the blues harp. As always, I hope you dig it.


1. Crooked Still - Come On In My Kitchen (4:59)
2. porterdavis - Jaynie (4:18)
3. Rory Block - Peaching Blues (2:22)
4. Otis Taylor - Feel Like Lightning (4:52)
5. Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over (3:08)
6. Skip James - Cherry Ball Blues (3:53)
7. Guy Forsyth - Adam's Rib (5:27)
8. Son House - Death Letter (4:21)
9. LZ Love & Lightning Red - Wang Dang Doodle (5:05)
10. Eric Gales - Custard Pie (4:01)
11. John Hammond - Crossroads Blues (3:07)
12. Asylum Street Spankers - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (5:13)
13. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tell It to Me (2:47)
14. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Cornbread, Peas And Black Molasses (2:31)
15. Taj Mahal - Linin' Track (1:41)
16. Son House - John the Revelator (2:31)
17. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Nobody's Fault (3:17)
18. Ollabelle - Before This Time (3:53)
19. Guy Forsyth - I'm Going Home (1:42)
20. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
21. Denise With The Campbell Brothers - The Storm Is Passing Over (4:32)
22. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
23. Otis Taylor - Resurrection Blues (5:59)
24. Jesse Mae Hemphill - Standing in My Doorway Crying (4:39)
25. Ian Siegal - She Got The Devil In Her-I Gotta Try You Now Baby (8:33)
26. Viktor Krauss - Overcast (6:50)
27. Greg Szlapczynski - Mo' Better Blues (Digital Edition Bonus) (2:43)
28. James Cotton - Down at Your Buryin' (4:34)
29. Ian Siegal Band - Monday Saw (5:09)
30. Scrapomatic - Killing Yourself On Purpose (4:32)
31. Satan and Adam - Crawdad Hole (6:03)
32. Buddy Guy - Crawlin' Kingsnake (5:16)
33. Sonny Terry - I Think I Got The Blues (3:42)
34. Jesse Mae Hemphill - Shake Your Booty (Shake It, Baby) (4:02)
35. Cedric Burnside/Kenny Brown/Luther Dickinson/Samuel L. Jackson - Stackolee (3:30)
36. R L Burnside - Rolling & Tumbling (4:41)
37. Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Mr. Downchild (3:29)
38. Sonny Boy Williamson - Your Funeral My Trail (2:33)
39. Alfred Harris - Gold Digger (3:29)
40. Walter Horton - Walters' Boogie (Instrumental) (3:08)
41. Blind Mississippi Morris - Dust My Broom (6:52)
42. B.B. King - You Put It on Me (2:46)
43. Peter Green with Nigel Watson - Sweet Home Chicago (4:15)
44. Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella] (2:58)

(blues 25)

This week in the Shack

Back to blues this week.

1. Susan Tedeschi - Angel From Montgomery (5:25)
2. Boo Boo Davis - Cryin Blues (6:09)
3. Jimmy Rogers - Luedella (2:54)
4. Alberta Hunter - My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More (3:49)
5. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - I Want a Little Girl (11:21)
6. White Ghost Shivers - Weed Smoker's Dream (5:06)
7. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Good Morning Blues (3:51)
8. Jimmy Witherspoon - Money's Gettin' Cheaper (2:51)
9. Lou Rawls - Stormy Monday [Live] (3:00)
10. Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra - I'm Busted (2:35)
11. Bonnie Raitt - Finest Lovin' Man (4:42)
12. Junior Parker - Driving Wheel (2:36)
13. Jake Andrews - It All Passed Me By (4:52)
14. Malford Milligan Band - Open Your Eyes (5:18)
15. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - The Things (That) I Used to Do (4:54)
16. B.B. King; Eric Clapton - Rock Me Baby (6:37)
17. Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves (4:10)
18. Ian Siegal - Brand New High Sheriff Blues (Live) (4:52)
19. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
20. Son House - Preachin' Blues (5:45)
21. Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee (4:29)
22. Cowboy Junkies - Cowboy Junkies Lament (3:07)
23. Etta James - Let's Burn Down the Cornfield (3:46)
24. The Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane (3:53)
25. Buddy Guy - Lucy Mae Blues (3:33)
26. Ian Siegal - Stranger Clothed In Linen (4:37)
27. Rory Block - Maggie Campbell Blues (3:06)
28. porterdavis - Jaynie (4:18)
29. Marc Cohn - 29 Ways (3:05)
30. Guy Forsyth - Play To Love (6:40)
31. Albert King - Sky Is Crying (4:11)
32. Albert Collins/Johnny Copeland - Black Cat Bone (4:57)
33. Koko Taylor - Walking the Back Streets (6:47)
34. Janiva Magness - Do I Move You (4:38)
35. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
36. Taj Mahal - Cakewalk Into Town (2:31)
37. Greg Szlapczynski - Now I Am the Blues (feat. Ian Siegal) (3:46)
38. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Rock Me (4:20)
39. Brother Yusef - Lucky Thirteen Blues (2:07)
40. Scrapomatic - Horsemeat (4:00)
41. Delbert McClinton - Rebecca, Rebecca (6:39)

(blues 24)

This week in the Shack

Apparently, when one spends part of the day reading about the LAPD and the Watts and Rodney King riots, one ends up putting together a somewhat grim set of soul music afterwards.

1. Curtis Mayfield - Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) (6:56)
2. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (3:06)
3. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
4. Solange Knowles - Ode to Marvin (3:15)
5. Mayer Hawthorne - The Ills (2:49)
6. Eric Burdon; War - Spill the Wine (4:52)
7. Booker T. Jones - She Breaks (4:22)
8. Sly & the Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies (3:39)
9. The Whitefield Brothers - Prowlin' (5:57)
10. Darondo - Let My People Go (3:58)
11. Isaac Hayes - Early Sunday Morning (3:46)
12. Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out (4:47)
13. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (3:05)
14. Esther Phillips - Home Is Where the Hatred Is (3:27)
15. Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron - H2Ogate Blues (8:13)
16. Billy Preston - Ferry Across the Mersey (2:49)
17. The Lost Generation - This Is the Lost Generation (3:34)
18. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:16)
19. Pat Wright - Jesus Christ Pose (3:32)
20. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight (3:31)
21. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (5:05)
22. Bill Withers - I Can't Write Left Handed (6:43)
23. Bettye LaVette - Talking Old Soldiers (4:25)
24. Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle (5:10)
25. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (7:25)
26. Doris Duke - To the Other Woman (I'm the Other Woman) (2:59)
27. Isaac Hayes - Soulsville (4:37)
28. Billy Paul - Me and Mrs. Jones (4:46)
29. Joan Osborne - War (5:50)
30. Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Shoot'n up and Gett'n High (4:13)
31. The Temptations - Cloud Nine (3:37)
32. Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin' Wild (5:26)
33. War - The World Is a Ghetto (10:17)
34. Calvin Law - Fools Gold (5:18)
35. JJ Grey & Mofro - Everything Good Is Bad (3:40)
36. Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? (3:12)
37. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)
38. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (3:52)
39. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)

(soul 21)

This week in the Shack

It's probably obvious if you've been listening to the station over the past couple of months, but I'm adding Americana into the genres I play on here. This week's set is a mix of both Americana and blues for your Labor Day enjoyment.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Jon Dee Graham - The Restraining Order Song (4:05)
2. James McMurtry - Fire Line Road (5:32)
3. Seth Walker - I Know It's a Sin (2:30)
4. Duke Robillard - Take A Little Walk With Me (5:11)
5. Memphis Slim - Feel Like Screaming and Crying (3:34)
6. Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters - Katrina Blues (3:35)
7. Viktor Krauss - Far from Enough (4:03)
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Dirty Pool (5:00)
9. Albert King - I'll Play the Blues for You (7:15)
10. Albert Collins - Harris County Line-Up (2:20)
11. Freddie King - Walking by Myself (2:50)
12. Jim Lauderdale/Louisiana's Leroux/Tab Benoit - Moon Comin' Over the Hill (3:29)
13. Zachary Richard - La Berçeuse Créole (3:34)
14. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
15. Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) (4:27)
16. Little Walter - Lights Out (2:45)
17. Derek O'Brien / George Rains / Jon Blondell / Riley Osbourne / Shepard, Kenny Wayne / Willie Nelson - Texas Flood (8:48)
18. Robert Earl Keen - Floppy Shoes (3:36)
19. Kenny Neal - Shadow On the Moon (3:42)
20. Porterdavis - Smack You Back (4:15)
21. Brother Yusef - Back At The Crossroads (3:45)
22. Guy Forsyth - If I Was Sick (3:42)
23. Louisiana's Leroux/Tab Benoit - Solid Simple Things (4:46)
24. Fats Domino - Blue Monday (2:38)
25. Jon Dee Graham - E. 11th Street (3:02)
26. Steve Earle - Colorado Girl (3:35)
27. Hound Dog Taylor, Little Walter, Dillard Crume, Odie Payne - The Sky Is Crying (3:57)
28. John Lee Hooker - Looking Back over My Day (4:39)
29. Buddy Guy - Dedication To The Late T-Bone Walker (6:57)
30. Malford Milligan Band - Shake 'Em On Down (3:13)
31. North Mississippi Allstars - K.C. Jones (On The Road Again) (4:35)
32. Jesse Mae Hemphill - Standing in My Doorway Crying (4:39)
33. B.B. King - I Got Some Help I Don't Need (4:37)
34. Little Walter - Blues With a Feeling (3:05)
35. Muddy Waters - Jealous Hearted Man (4:24)
36. Charlie Musselwhite - Leaving Your Town (3:16)
37. Big Bill Morganfield - Evil (3:34)
38. Cephas and Wiggins - No Ice in My Bourbon (3:20)
39. Ray Charles - Blackjack (2:17)
40. Jimmy Witherspoon - C.C. Rider (4:47)
41. Cowboy Junkies - Oregon Hill (4:53)
42. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - I Ain't Ever Satisfied - Steve Earle (4:00)
43. Guy Forsyth - Heart of Sawdust (4:52)

(americana/blues 1)

Kind of a last-minute thing, but I'm deejaying at Kick Butt Blues on Airport tonight, 9-10 and 11-midnight.

How My Evening Went

I went to see Mingo Fishtrap perform on the patio at Central Market this evening. It was a really nice night - it didn't feel as absurdly hot as it has for most of the last several months - and, as a result, the show was really crowded. At one point, while I was dancing with Bree, we noticed that there was a very tall clown in the middle of the dance floor - whiteface, big colourful suspenders, large trousers - the whole bit. Well, I thought, that's a little weird. And creepy.

Suddenly, between the time the song ended and the time we got back to our table, the entire patio was filled with clowns. Dozens of clowns, and not half-assed ones either - all of them were in costume of some sort: there was a policeman clown, I recall, another dressed like a football player, a couple of hobo clowns, and the obligatory one done up as the joker. I'd guess there were three or four dozen of them altogether. They milled around the audience and then completely filled the dance floor. One of them briefly danced up against Zandra and Bree. Others formed a conga line. The dance floor became more crowded as other people got out amongst the clowns.

After ten or fifteen minutes, they vanished. I have absolutely no memory of seeing them leave - they were there, and the next minute they were gone. After the band finished the song they were playing, Roger looked out at the audience and said "I would just like to state for the record that I have no idea what just happened."

I love Austin.

This week in the Shack

This weekend marks the four-year anniversary of Katrina's destruction of the Gulf Coast and the subsequent drowning of New Orleans as the levees broke. This week's program encompasses just a small slice of the great variety of music from The Crescent City as a tribute to New Orleans' place as one of the great centers of American music.

There are scores of charities in place to help with the recovery of the Gulf Coast, but if you want to specifically help musicians, you might check out Tipitina's Foundation and The Roots of Music, the latter of which works to keep high-risk middle school children out of crime and violence through music instruction and mentoring. (As a side note, many, if not most, New Orleans public schools do not offer any sort of arts, music, or sports programs post-Katrina because of a lack of funds.)


1. Dr. John - Goin' Back to New Orleans (4:08)
2. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
3. Lee Dorsey - Working in the Coal Mine (2:51)
4. Allen Toussaint - On Your Way Down (3:59)
5. Galactic - Hamp's Hump (3:47)
6. Chuck D/The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - What's Going On? (4:28)
7. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
8. The Meters - Trick Bag (3:19)
9. Chris Kenner - Land of 1, 00 Dances (2:49)
10. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:49)
11. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (6:29)
12. James Booker - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (3:31)
13. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
14. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
15. Sidney Bechet - Careless Love (3:43)
16. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John The Revelator (4:39)
17. Dr. John - My Indian Red (4:47)
18. Professor Longhair - Big Chief (3:14)
19. The Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko (5:36)
20. The Wild Magnolias - Ah Anka Ting Tang Boo Shanka Boo (4:29)
21. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Dive In The Gumbo (3:56)
22. Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can (4:15)
23. Eddie Bo/Inez Cheatham - Lover and a Friend (2:29)
24. Fats Domino - Be My Guest (2:01)
25. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Standing in the Need of Love (2:36)
26. Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday (2:43)
27. Diamond Joe - Moanin' and Screamin', Parts 1 & 2 (6:22)
28. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (6:54)
29. Paul Sanchez - Foot Of Canal Street (3:48)
30. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Meet The Boyz On The Battlefront (4:36)
31. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
32. Jon Cleary - C'mon Second Line (3:21)
33. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - What Is New Orleans, Pt. 2 (6:25)
34. Dr. John; Lower 911 - We Gettin' There (5:11)
35. Ivan Neville/The New Orleans Social Club - Fortunate Son (5:13)
36. Irma Thomas - Chains of Love (5:07)
37. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Born in Louisiana (3:51)
38. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras in New Orleans (2:52)
39. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:48)
40. The Neville Brothers - Will the Circle Be Unbroken (5:15)
41. Zachary Richard - Sunset on Louisianne Interlude : My French Blues [Madame Sosthène] (5:40)
42. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (3:48)

(NOLA 2)

Various bits...

Oh look, a blog post with something other than the radio station's weekly playlist. Here's to it being one of many.

Two local blues bands have new albums coming soon: porterdavis' hits on Sept. 1 (and they have a CD release party at the Saxon Pub this Friday), and The Asylum Street Spankers' new disc comes out on October 6.

Two of my friends, Keith "DJ Big Papa" Shapiro and Jonathan Pechon, have begun a monthly podcast about blues music geared towards blues dancers. The first episode of Confessing the Blues is up at their website, confessingtheblues.com, and is also available directly through iTunes.

Also, if you're a local and are not going to any of the numerous shows on Friday night (and you do check the calendar at the bottom of this blog to see who's playing where, right?), then you should come out to Kick Butt Blues at the Kick Butt Coffee on Airport, as I'm spinning there this Friday with DJ St. Patrick from 9pm to 1am-ish.

This week in the Shack

I saw on Facebook that today was move-in day at the dorms at Texas A&M, my alma mater. I still have an abiding love for my college days, and there's a big part of me that wishes I were going back to academe this week, as well, whether as a student or as faculty. This set goes out to everyone who is about to begin their first semester of college, especially the Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 2013. I hope your time in school is as least as rewarding and as memorable as mine was.

The Reverend Shady Glenn '92

1. Ian Siegal - I'll Fly Away (5:09)
2. Finnegan & Wood - Death Letter (5:28)
3. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
4. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago (3:04)
5. Shorty Baker And Doc Cheatam - Night Train (6:42)
6. Christine Kittrell - Sittin' Here Drinking (3:31)
7. Little Walter - Blue Midnight (3:02)
8. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
10. Scrapomatic - Raw Head and Bloody Bones (4:30)
11. Matt Tutor, Eric Gales, Derek Trucks - Custard Pie (Revisited) (5:35)
12. North Mississippi Allstars - Mean Ol' Wind Died Down (7:31)
13. Delbert McClinton & Dick50 - Do It (2:48)
14. Buddy Guy - Too Broke to Spend the Night (5:03)
15. Little Walter - Blue Light (3:14)
16. Sonny Boy Williamson - Like Wolf (2:50)
17. Bruce Springsteen - Spirit In The Night (4:58)
18. Ian Siegal - Between The Stirrup And The Ground (5:53)
19. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Landon Davies (3:53)
20. Guy Forsyth - Hometown Boy (4:48)
21. Scrapomatic - Lotus (4:22)
22. Tom Waits - A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun (5:36)
23. Anthony David - Cold Turkey (4:38)
24. Malford Milligan - Dark Was the Night (3:00)
25. Spencer Bohren - Wade In The Water (4:33)
26. Guy Forsyth - If I Was Sick (3:42)
27. The Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane (3:53)
28. Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor - Sweet Black Angel (4:03)
29. Chris Thomas King - St. James Infirmary (4:38)
30. Lucky Peterson - When My Blood Runs Cold (5:14)
31. Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying (2:48)
32. Little Walter - Lights Out (2:45)
33. Walter "Shakey" Horton - Good Moanin' Blues (4:14)
34. Howlin' Wolf - The Natchez Burnin' (2:09)
35. John Lee Hooker - It Serves You Right to Suffer (5:08)
36. Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning (4:20)
37. Cephas & Wiggins - Seattle Rainy Day Blues (4:12)
38. Big Twist & the Mellow Fellows - Too Much Barbeque (5:43)
39. Rory Block - Sookie Sookie (3:43)
40. Keb' Mo' - Perpetual Blues Machine (3:15)

(blues 23)

This week in the Shack

This week, we turn the spotlight on instrumental soul and funk. I hope you dig it.

1. King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew (8:22)
2. Orgone - Sophisticated Honky (4:56)
3. Kashmere Stage Band - $$ Kash Register $$ (4:28)
4. Young-Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack (3:01)
5. Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
6. The Bo-Keys - Seven and 7 (3:47)
7. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:19)
8. Funk Brothers, The - The Flick - with Earl Van Dyke (4:12)
9. Curtis Mayfield - Junkie Chase [Full Length Version][#][Instrumental] (4:17)
10. Little Beaver - Hit Me With Funky Music (3:42)
11. Steamheat - Ghetto Tool (2:29)
12. Mickey & the Soul Generation - Give Everybody Some [#] (7:02)
13. The Brothers Seven - Evil Ways (3:12)
14. War - Nappy Head (Theme from Ghetto Man) (3:19)
15. Brownout - Barretta (3:23)
16. Booker T. Jones - Hey Ya (3:52)
17. Menahan Street Band - Tired Of Fighting (3:33)
18. Roy Ayers - Pricilla's Theme (3:58)
19. Isaac Hayes - No Name Bar (6:08)
20. King Curtis - Soul Serenade (6:06)
21. Willie Hutch - Chase (2:31)
22. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
23. The Bo-Keys - Deuce and a Quarter (4:27)
24. Galactic - Crazyhorse Mongoose (4:48)
25. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
26. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (3:53)
27. The Bamboos - Tobago Strut (4:25)
28. Incredible Bongo Band - Bongolia (2:15)
29. Brownout - Laredo 77 (3:45)
30. El Michels Affair - El Pueblo Unido (3:37)
31. Galactic - Hamp's Hump (3:47)
32. Maceo & the Macks/The J.B.'s - Soul Power '74 (4:11)
33. Menahan Street Band - The Contender (3:51)
34. Funkadelic - Music for My Mother (5:39)
35. Ebony Rhythm Band - Ode to Billy Joe (4:51)
36. Kashmere Stage Band - Aint' No Sushine [Live][#] (4:32)
37. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
38. Booker T. Jones - Nan (2:07)
39. Young-Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut (3:01)
40. UB40 - Dance with the Devil (5:43)
41. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Soul Investigators Theme (2:42)
42. African Music Machine - A Girl In France (2:29)
43. Lyle Workman - SuperWhat? (4:05)
44. The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau, Pt. 2 (1:59)
45. The Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit (2:59)
46. Shirley Scott - Hip Soul (6:31)
47. Booker T. & the MG's - Jellybread (2:27)

This week in the Shack

A wide range of blues this week, from the American South to the United Kingdom and beyond. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Cuby + Blizzards - Sugar mama (6:29)
2. Aynsley Dunbar - My Whiskey head woman (4:24)
3. Chris Thomas King - Hey Hey What Can I Do (4:09)
4. Porterdavis - Smack You Back (4:15)
5. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Live and Die Rock and Roll (4:29)
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Cold Shot (4:01)
7. W.C. Clark - Don't Make Me Pay For His Mistakes (3:43)
8. Etta James - Don't Start Me to Talking (2:52)
9. Coy "Hot Shot" Love - Wolf Call Boogie (2:37)
10. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
11. Cousin Joe - Pullman Porter (3:39)
12. Memphis Slim - Feel Like Screaming and Crying (3:34)
13. Jonny Lang - Still Wonder (3:45)
14. Gary Clark Jr. - Drifting... (3:42)
15. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (7:13)
16. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
17. Albert Castiglia - Big Toe (5:31)
18. Malford Milligan Band - Time Of Dying (6:18)
19. Greg Szlapczynski - Now I Am the Blues (feat. Ian Siegal) (3:46)
20. Spencer Bohren - Wade In The Water (4:33)
21. Otis Taylor - Resurrection Blues (5:59)
22. Popa Chubby - Sweat (5:52)
23. Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding (4:52)
24. Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader (9:49)
25. Gene Harris - J & G Blues (9:35)
26. Karrin Allyson - Everybody's Cryin' Mercy (3:59)
27. Maria Muldaur - Ain't What you Used To Have (6:00)
28. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
29. Samuel L. Jackson - Stack-O-Lee (3:30)
30. North Mississippi Allstars - Po Black Maddie (4:32)
31. Shawn Mullins - Homeless Joe (2:42)
32. Herbie Hancock/John Mayer - Stitched Up (5:27)
33. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
34. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (Live) (6:35)
35. Seth Walker - Leap Of Faith (4:22)
36. Delbert McClinton - Every Time I Roll the Dice (4:27)
37. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth (4:01)
38. Stan Webb's Chicken Shack - Night Life (6:10)

(blues 22)

This week in the Shack

I deejayed every night for the last three nights, and didn't get time to put a show together for this week. Instead, I'm re-running my show from May 18 of this year, the playlist for which you can find here. I'll have a new show up next week.

For the locals, I'll also be deejaying in the blues room from 10:30-11:30 at the Austin Swing Syndicate's Thursday night dance this week.

This week in the Shack

I know I'm supposed to switch to a soul set this time, but it's been one of those weeks that just requires more blues.

For the locals, I'll be deejaying this Friday at Kick Butt Blues at the Kick Butt Coffee on Airport, and also spinning a soul set this Saturday at the Galaxy Ballroom on South Lamar for Smoothlindy.com's monthly first Saturday dance.

1. Storyville - Good Day for the Blues (3:59)
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Life Without You (4:18)
3. Michelle Willson - Half Past the Blues (6:05)
4. Koko Taylor - Long Distance Call (2:58)
5. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:30)
6. Janis Joplin - Ball And Chain (8:07)
7. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Heartbreaker (5:40)
8. Viktor Krauss - Overcast (6:50)
9. Otis Taylor - I Like You, But I Don't Love You (3:05)
10. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
11. Long John Baldry - I'd Rather Go Blind (6:20)
12. B.B. King - Backwater Blues (7:35)
13. Geoff Muldaur - Got to Find Blind Lemon, Pt. 1 (4:07)
14. Memphis Slim - Otis Spann and Earl Hooker (4:27)
15. Etta James - Miss You (5:59)
16. Buddy Guy - DJ Play My Blues (5:21)
17. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (4:57)
18. Papa Mali - Sugarland (6:31)
19. Otis Taylor - Went to Hermes (3:45)
20. Malford Milligan - Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:08)
21. Dr. John - Party Hellfire (4:40)
22. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Church Red House (6:12)
23. Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday Blues (4:07)
24. Howlin' Wolf - Goin' Down Slow [*] (5:55)
25. Eric Clapton - Sinner's Prayer (3:20)
26. W.C. Clark - My Texas Home (4:53)
27. Seth Walker - I Got A Song (3:39)
28. Taj Mahal - 21st Century Gypsy Singin' Lover Man (5:45)
29. Storyville - Don't Make Me Cry (5:33)
30. Marc Benno and the Nightcrawlers featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan - 8 Ball (6:22)
31. Jonny Lang - Still Wonder (3:45)
32. Irma Thomas - Dr. Feelgood (4:43)
33. Buddy Guy - She's Nineteen Years Old (7:48)
34. Chris Whitley - Smokestack Lightning (4:41)
35. Junior Kimbrough - Most Things Haven't Worked Out (6:06)

(Blues 21)

This week in the Shack

I finished the new set last night, so this week's program launches a day earlier than usual.

1. Janis Joplin - Turtle Blues (4:28)
2. Sonny Boy Williamson & Memphis Slim - Same Girl (4:54)
3. Satan and Adam - Crawdad Hole (6:03)
4. Chris Thomas King - Watermelon Man (6:08)
5. Rory Block - Maggie Campbell Blues (3:06)
6. Little Walter - Blues With a Feeling (3:10)
7. Solomon Burke - It Makes No Difference (5:27)
8. Big Bill Morganfield - Hoochie Coochie Girl (3:13)
9. Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love? (2:30)
10. Blue Oyster Cult - Roadhouse Blues (9:06)
11. Johnny Nitro & The Door Slammers - Swamp Thang (2:41)
12. Koko Taylor & Buddy Guy - Born Under a Bad Sign (6:28)
13. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Texas Flood (6:29)
14. John Mooney - Feel Like Hollerin' (5:14)
15. Satan and Adam - Mother Mojo (6:46)
16. Taj Mahal - Leavin' Trunk (6:26)
17. Guy Forsyth - This is Hip (5:47)
18. John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James [Live] (5:34)
19. Papa Mali - Cottonfields and Bayous (5:03)
20. Seth Walker - 2' Left to the Ceiling (3:43)
21. Mem Shannon - Memphis in the Morning (5:59)
22. Tab Benoit - Little Girl Blues (5:10)
23. Guy Forsyth - Poor Boy (5:22)
24. Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (3:27)
25. Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella] (2:58)
26. Brother Yusef - Back At The Crossroads (3:45)
27. Mem Shannon - Why I Sing the Blues (5:01)
28. Malford Milligan - Palace of the King (4:19)
29. Howlin' Wolf - Built For Comfort (2:39)
30. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Good Lover (3:07)
31. Eric Clapton - Worried Life Blues [Live] (5:56)
32. Popa Chubby - Same Old Blues (5:42)
33. Janis Joplin - Summertime (4:05)
34. Etta James - Ball and Chain (6:37)
35. Otis Rush - Trouble, Trouble (6:48)
36. Ronnie Earl - Blues for Otis Rush (8:29)

(blues 20)

This week in the Shack

Mostly classic soul this week, with little bits of more modern recordings.

1. Bobby Byrd/James Brown - Sweet Soul Music (2:37)
2. Martha & the Vandellas - (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave (2:45)
3. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (2:58)
4. Funk Brothers, The - Do You Love Me - Live Bootsy Collins (3:21)
5. The Chi-Lites - Give It Away (2:46)
6. Michael Jackson - We've Got a Good Thing Going (3:05)
7. Raphael Saadiq featuring Joss Stone - Just One Kiss (2:32)
8. The Rascals - I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore (2:46)
9. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - You've Really Got a Hold on Me (2:57)
10. Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen (2:14)
11. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
12. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
13. The Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit (2:59)
14. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (3:19)
15. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
16. Michael Jackson - Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day (3:21)
17. Corinne Bailey Rae - One Night (Of Sin) [Live] (3:42)
18. Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble [Mono Version] (2:38)
19. King Curtis - Soul Serenade (6:06)
20. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
21. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
22. Jackie Wilson - Love Uprising (2:29)
23. The O'Jays - For the Love of Money (7:20)
24. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (4:26)
25. Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind (2:45)
26. Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar (2:59)
27. The Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout (2:26)
28. The Rascals - Groovin' (2:30)
29. Michael Jackson - People Make the World Go Round (3:20)
30. Lost Generation, The - The Sly, Slick & The Wicked (2:56)
31. Buddy Guy/Joss Stone/The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Every Night About This Time (3:32)
32. Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
33. Aretha Franklin - Make It with You (4:52)
34. Dusty Springfield - No Easy Way Down (3:11)
35. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:16)
36. War - Summer (4:03)
37. Chris Kenner - Land of 1, 00 Dances (2:49)
38. Lee Dorsey - Working in the Coal Mine (2:51)
39. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
40. Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) (2:41)
41. Sam & Dave - Hold On! I'm Comin' (2:37)
42. Ray Charles - I Got a Woman (2:50)
43. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools (2:46)
44. Clarence Carter - Making Love (At the Dark End of the Street) (5:07)
45. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
46. Kevin Mahogany - Tears of a Clown (3:33)
47. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Choosey Beggar (2:33)
48. The Temptations - The Way You Do the Things You Do (2:42)
49. The Four Tops - Sad Souvenirs (2:40)
50. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:19)
51. Joan Osborne - Cream Dream (5:11)
52. The O'Jays - Love Train (2:58)

(soul 19)

This week in the Shack

I didn't have time to put together a program for The Shotgun Shack this weekend, as Austin Blues Party was going on. Instead, I've merged together my first three deejayed sets from the weekend - funk/blues, slow/mid-tempo blues, and gospel sets. As always, I hope you dig it.

(And yes, other content is still coming for the blog, as soon as I can get around to it.)

1. Dr. John - Hello God (4:37)
2. Chris Thomas King - Da Thrill Is Gone From Here (4:40)
3. Curtis Salgado - At Least I Didn't Do That (4:45)
4. Papa Mali - Man of Many Words (4:10)
5. The Wild Magnolias - Fire Water (3:47)
6. Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads (2:32)
7. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
8. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (3:26)
9. Dr. John - Ki Ya Gris Gris (4:03)
10. Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch (5:01)
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Frisky (3:12)
12. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
13. Dr. John - John Gris (5:20)
14. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
15. The Wild Magnolias - Jumalaka Boom Boom (5:15)
16. Taj Mahal - Diddy Wah Diddy (4:36)
17. Diamond Joe - Moanin' and Screamin', Parts 1 & 2 (6:22)
18. Big Bill Morganfield - Cryin' Days (3:31)
19. Edgar Blanchard - Tight Like That (2:30)
20. Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned (2:54)
21. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Night Time Is the Right Time (3:56)
22. Etta James - Crawlin' King Snake (5:32)
23. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
24. Billy Boy Arnold & Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other (4:42)
25. White Ghost Shivers - Weed Smoker's Dream (5:06)
26. Long John Baldry - Insane Asylum (5:31)
27. Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind (3:17)
28. Nina Simone - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl (2:34)
29. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
30. Robert Earl Keen - So Sorry Blues (4:23)
31. T Bird and the Breaks - Blackberry Brandy (4:19)
32. Ian Siegal - I'll Fly Away (5:09)
33. Tom Waits - Lord I've Been Changed (2:28)
34. Guy Forsyth - I'm Going Home (1:42)
35. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
36. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
37. Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band - O Mary Don't You Weep (Live In Dublin) (6:57)
38. Michelle Shocked - Quality of Mercy (4:52)
39. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
40. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Nobody's Fault (3:17)
41. Papa Mali - True Religion (4:42)
42. Marion Williams - Drunkards Down There (2:34)
43. Lyle Lovett - I'm Going to the Place (3:22)
44. Rory Block - Declare (3:56)
45. Malford Milligan/Stephen Bruton - Touch the Hem of His Garment (3:57)
46. Denise With The Campbell Brothers - The Storm Is Passing Over (4:32)
47. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)

(blues 19)

Austin Blues Party

Austin Blues Party starts tonight. I'll be spinning at the following times this weekend:

Friday night at Go Dance: 12:30 a.m. funk blues in the theme room

Saturday night at Go Dance: 11:00 p.m. slow/mid-tempo blues in the side room
2:00 a.m. gospel blues in the theme room

Sunday night at Copa: 2:00 a.m. soul, upstairs

This week in the Shack

After all of the news this week, I think it's time for a happier set of soul music. Please dance if you're so inclined, or just sit back with a drink in your hand and dig it.

1. Joss Stone - Don't Cha Wanna Ride (3:31)
2. The Rascals - Groovin' (2:30)
3. War - All Day Music (3:59)
4. Brownout - Brown Wind And Fire (3:01)
5. The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon (2:53)
6. Joe Bataan - Chick-a-Boom (3:48)
7. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair (3:08)
8. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
9. Curtis Mayfield - Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) (6:56)
10. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (3:53)
11. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - More Peas [Complete Version][#] (13:44)
12. The O'Jays - Give the People What They Want (4:11)
13. Yannick - Ces Soirées Là (3:21)
14. Solange Knowles - Sandcastle Disco (4:28)
15. Little Jackie - I Liked You Better Before (3:58)
16. Major Lance - The Monkey Time (2:48)
17. Barbara Acklin - Am I the Same Girl (2:56)
18. Dusty Springfield - Breakfast in Bed (2:58)
19. Dee Dee Sharp - I'm Not in Love (5:15)
20. Young-Holt Unlimited - You Gotta, I Gotta (4:06)
21. Jackson 5 - Joyful Jukebox Music (3:14)
22. Marvin Gaye - Ain't That Peculiar (2:59)
23. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Pucker up Buttercup (3:15)
24. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
25. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? (4:03)
26. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (3:51)
27. War - Get Down (4:28)
28. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
29. Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star (2:49)
30. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
31. Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown (4:52)
32. James Brown - Licking Stick-Licking Stick (4:52)
33. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
34. Donny Hathaway - A Song for You (5:27)
35. Corinne Bailey Rae - Like a Star (4:02)
36. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
37. The Lost Generation - This Is the Lost Generation (3:34)
38. The Chi-Lites - (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People (3:48)
39. The Temptations - Shakey Ground (4:03)
40. El Michels Affair - Detroit Twice (3:00)
41. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache (4:53)
42. Me'Shell Ndegéocello - I'm Diggin' You (Like an Old Soul Record) (4:25)
43. Dazz Band - Let It Whip (4:46)
44. Kool & the Gang - Get Down on It (4:56)

(soul 18)

This week in the Shack

This week's set is a mix of blues and early R&B. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
2. Ray Charles - St. Pete Florida Blues (3:38)
3. Louis Jordan - Let the Good Times Roll (2:45)
4. The Treniers - Bald Head (2:48)
5. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Good Morning Blues (3:51)
6. Dinah Washington - The Blues Ain't Nothin' But a Woman Cryin' for Her Man (3:48)
7. Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers - New Blowtop Blues (6:25)
8. The Cats & the Fiddle - Crawlin' Blues (3:10)
9. Little Willie John - Heartbreak (It's Hurtin' Me) (2:51)
10. Count Basie/Joe Williams - Roll 'Em Pete (3:12)
11. Eddie Durham - Sliding Along (4:11)
12. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Don't You Feel My Leg (8:17)
13. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)
14. Asylum Street Spankers - Shave 'Em Dry (2:47)
15. Eden Brent - Mississippi Flatland Blues (3:13)
16. Fiona Boyes - Celebrate the Curves (3:51)
17. Dr. John - Stakalee (4:34)
18. Asylum Street Spankers - It's Dry Down Here (4:35)
19. Old Crow Medicine Show - Cocaine Habit (2:42)
20. Candy Kane - Put It All In tThere (4:40)
21. Lucy DeSoto - Can't Get That Stuff No More (4:18)
22. Omar & The Howlers - Big Round World (3:11)
23. Guy Forsyth - Don't Turn Me In (5:14)
24. Albert Castiglia - Hurricane Blues (5:00)
25. Malford Milligan - Palace of the King (4:19)
26. Howlin' Ron Wolf - I Asked for Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) (2:50)
27. James Cotton - Key to the Highway (4:48)
28. Alfred Harris - Miss Ida (3:27)
29. Big Walter Horton - Back Home to Mama (3:11)
30. Ruth Brown - (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean (2:55)
31. Paul Bascomb - Pink Cadillac (2:23)
32. T-Bone Walker - I Know Your Wig Is Gone (2:44)
33. Wynonie Harris - Quiet Whiskey (2:28)
34. Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - Lil' Dog (3:06)
35. Etta Jones - Fine Brown Frame (3:51)
36. Ivory Joe Hunter - All States Boogie (2:37)
37. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Honey Hush (2:39)
38. Pat Valdelar - Rock Me Baby (2:43)
39. Jimmy Liggins - Drunk (2:33)
40. Joe Liggins - Trying to Lose the Blues (2:53)
41. Dinah Washington - Long John Blues (3:10)
42. Maria Muldaur - TB Blues (3:11)
43. Rory Block - Pea Vine Blues (3:34)
44. Son House - Death Letter (4:21)
45. Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago (3:04)
46. Peter Green with Nigel Watson - Me And The Devil Blues (3:02)
47. Big Joe Williams - Sugar On The Bottom (3:23)
48. Eric Gales - Custard Pie (4:01)
49. J.B. Lenoir & Big Walter "Shakey" Horton - Slow Down (1:52)
50. Jesse Mae Hemphill - Baby, Please Don't Go (3:13)
51. North Mississippi Allstars - Po Black Maddie (4:32)

(blues 18)

This week in the Shack

Three A.M. Eternal

It's three a.m. and the rain patters against the windows. You sit at the table in the dark, smoking your last cigarette and trying to accept that she isn't coming back.

Or maybe the one you wanted left the club with someone else.

Maybe the jobs have all dried up, but that hasn't stopped the rent coming due next week.

Or maybe it's just that you've realized that you're no longer young, and you're haunted by that spectre that stands just behind your left shoulder and whispers "Is this all there is?".

The radio plays softly in the corner, weaving a tightrope of heartbreak and hope and you clench your jaw against the pain and frustration that you'd howl out, if only you weren't afraid that someone might hear. And the smoke rises up towards the ceiling.

It's always three a.m. somewhere. It's always raining in someone's heart.

1. Rufus Thomas - The Memphis Train (2:33)
2. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
3. The Solution - My Mojo Aint Working No More (3:52)
4. Wilson Pickett - I've Come a Long Way (3:10)
5. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
6. Jimmy Church - Right on Time (2:26)
7. Allen Toussaint/Elvis Costello - Who's Gonna Help a Brother Get Further? (5:03)
8. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (3:45)
9. Chaka Khan - Too Much Juice (Dark Streets Album Version) (3:02)
10. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools (2:47)
11. The Marvelettes - Destination: Anywhere (2:40)
12. Angeline Ball - I Can't Stand the Rain (3:11)
13. T Bird and the Breaks - Two Tone Cadillac (4:35)
14. Otis Redding - Day Tripper (3:33)
15. Sam & Dave - Everybody Got to Believe in Somebody (3:14)
16. Bettye LaVette - Piece of My Heart (2:21)
17. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
18. Percy Sledge - I'm Hanging up My Heart for You (2:38)
19. The Solution - She Messed Up My Mind (4:17)
20. Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee (4:00)
21. Clarence Carter - Slip Away (2:33)
22. Etta James - Tell Mama (2:23)
23. Jimmy Ricks & The Raves - Daddy Rolling Stone (2:19)
24. Ray Charles - Rockhouse (Parts I & II) (3:55)
25. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
26. The Staple Singers - Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) (3:12)
27. Laura Lee - Dirty Man (2:53)
28. Joss Stone - Victim of a Foolish Heart (5:31)
29. Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
30. Bobby Newsome - Jody, Come Back and Get Your Shoes (3:16)
31. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:51)
32. Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (3:13)
33. Candi Staton - Another Man's Woman, Another Woman's Man (2:31)
34. Al Green - Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (4:16)
35. Bettye Lavette - Down To Zero (3:10)
36. Little Beaver - Blues For Mama (3:21)
37. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - No One's Gonna Love You (6:06)
38. Otis Redding - Chained and Bound (2:40)
39. Bobby "Blue" Bland - Cry Cry Cry (2:42)
40. Joan Osborne - Eliminate the Night (4:08)
41. Solomon Burke - You're Good for Me (2:50)
42. Baby Washington - Breakfast in Bed (3:10)
43. Gospel Comforters - Jesus Will Help Me (3:01)
44. Mavis Staples - For What It's Worth [Live] (2:52)
45. Ruby Johnson - When My Man Comes Down (2:45)
46. Percy Sledge - The Dark End of the Street (2:45)
47. Clarence Carter - I'd Rather Go Blind (3:03)
48. Nina Simone - Feeling Good (2:57)
49. Ray Charles - Losing Hand (3:13)
50. James Brown - It's a Man's Man's Man's World (3:17)
51. Ann Peebles - I Feel Like Breaking Up Sombody's Home (2:28)
52. Al Green - Take Me to the River (3:43)
53. Joe Tex - S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) (Original) (2:50)
54. Little Milton - Blind Man (8:51)

(soul 17)

This week in the Shack

1. Asylum Street Spankers - Summertime (6:20)
2. Kurt Elling - Goin' to Chicago (5:39)
3. Count Basie/Joe Turner - The Honeydripper (6:45)
4. Allen Toussaint - West End Blues (3:51)
5. Alfred Harris - My Life Blues (3:05)
6. Memphis Slim - Going Down Slow (4:00)
7. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Rocks in My Bed (9:16)
8. Gene Harris - Stormy Monday (4:51)
9. Willie King & the Liberators - Pickens County Payback (6:13)
10. Howlin' Wolf - Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy (3:06)
11. Guy Forsyth - Adam's Rib (5:27)
12. Cephas and Wiggins - The Blues Will Do Your Heart Good (3:08)
13. Memphis Slim - Bertha May (6:52)
14. Buddy Guy - Done Got Old (3:23)
15. Jimmy Witherspoon - Past Forty Blues (4:23)
16. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
17. Albert Castiglia - Big Toe (5:31)
18. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie the Wimp (4:36)
19. Mem Shannon - Do You 'Yuh' What I Say (6:39)
20. Deneen McEachern - Black Sky El (4:06)
21. Marc Broussard - Lonely Night In Georgia (6:21)
22. Herbie Hancock/Jonny Lang/Joss Stone - When Love Comes to Town (8:41)
23. Gene Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
24. Janiva Magness - Do I Move You (4:38)
25. Nina Simone - Blues for Mama (4:00)
26. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Honey Hush (2:39)
27. Lou Rawls - I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water (2:38)
28. Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra - Saturday Night (4:05)
29. Joe Guitar Hughes - Stuff Like That (3:59)
30. Tom Waits - Wrong Side of the Road (5:13)
31. W.C. Clark - Where There's Smoke There's Fire (3:35)
32. Brother Yusef - Blues Is My Story (4:35)
33. Etta James - W-O-M-A-N (3:17)
34. Marc Broussard - Home (5:02)
35. Shawn Mullins - Homeless Joe (2:42)
36. Chris Thomas King - Da Thrill Is Gone From Here (4:40)
37. B.B. King - Don't Answer the Door, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:10)
38. Nina Simone - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl (2:33)

(Blues 17)

This week in the Shack

Summer's here. I hope you're all out there dancing your asses off and making good memories.

1. Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity (5:40)
2. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (7:25)
3. Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the Music (3:00)
4. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady [Alternate Mix][#] (4:31)
5. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
6. Mel and Tim - Good Guys Only Win in the Movies (2:46)
7. Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind (2:45)
8. Solange Knowles - 6 O'Clock Blues (3:36)
9. Joss Stone - Don't Cha Wanna Ride (3:31)
10. The Chi-Lites - Give It Away (2:46)
11. The Lost Generation - This Is the Lost Generation (3:34)
12. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:16)
13. Curtis Mayfield - We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue (6:45)
14. Bettye Lavette - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (2:11)
15. Ryan Shaw - Memphis Train (2:52)
16. John Legend - Burning Down The House (2:41)
17. Little Jackie - 28 Butts (3:08)
18. Young-Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack (3:01)
19. Ray Charles - I Got a Woman (6:19)
20. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Cleo's Mood (2:42)
21. Joss Stone - Fell in Love With a Boy (3:38)
22. Sly & the Family Stone - Frisky (3:12)
23. Shirley Scott - Messie Bessie (4:19)
24. Orgone - I Get Lifted (7:26)
25. Menahan Street Band - Make The Road By Walking (3:01)
26. John Legend - Motherless Chile (4:23)
27. Donny Hathaway - Valdez in the Country [#] (4:08)
28. The O'Jays - Love Train (2:58)
29. Jackson 5 - Make Tonight All Mine (3:18)
30. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
31. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl (3:45)
32. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
33. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
34. Joe Bataan - Ernestine (5:14)
35. Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin' Wild (5:26)
36. War - Slippin' into Darkness (3:47)
37. Kashmere Stage Band - Do Your Thing [Extended Version][#] (5:23)
38. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - What Have You Done For Me Lately? (3:16)
39. Duffy - Mercy (3:40)
40. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) (3:28)
41. Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street (3:48)
42. Willie Hutch - Ain't That (Mellow, Mellow) (2:58)
43. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
44. Funk Factory - Rien Ne Va Plus (5:18)
45. Ebony Rhythm Band - Ode to Billy Joe (4:51)

(soul 16)

This week in the Shack

Nothing much to say this week, as I've been deejaying all weekend. Back to blues this week.

1. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:09)
2. Big Mama Thornton - Big Mama's Blues (My Love) (4:08)
3. James Cotton - Down at Your Buryin' (4:34)
4. Lowell Fulson - Let Me Ride In Your Little Automobile (2:49)
5. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (6:05)
6. Koko Taylor - Beer Bottle Boogie (3:31)
7. Little Walter - My Babe (2:44)
8. Big Bill Morganfield - Champagne & Reefer (2:50)
9. Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned (2:54)
10. Etta James - Crawlin' King Snake (5:32)
11. Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves (4:10)
12. Dr. John; Lower 911 - Dream Warrior (4:57)
13. Howlin' Wolf - Goin' Down Slow [*] (5:55)
14. John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James [Live] (5:34)
15. Papa Mali - Cottonfields and Bayous (5:03)
16. North Mississippi Allstars - Mean Ol' Wind Died Down (7:31)
17. Brother Yusef - Back At The Crossroads (3:45)
18. Ian Siegal - Stranger Clothed In Linen (4:37)
19. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
20. B.B. King - Gamblers' Blues (5:12)
21. John Lee Hooker - Looking Back over My Day (4:39)
22. Buddy Guy - Dedication To The Late T-Bone Walker (6:57)
23. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
24. Howlin' Wolf - The Natchez Burnin' (2:09)
25. Johnny Winter - Come on in My Kitchen (5:05)
26. Otis Taylor - Hey Joe (4:33)
27. Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying (2:49)
28. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - A Hard Road (3:08)
29. Eric Clapton - Early in the Morning [Live] (7:10)
30. Etta James - It Hurts Me So Much (2:37)
31. Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind (3:17)
32. Johnny Winter - Memory Pain (5:29)
33. B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone (6:18)
34. Memphis Slim & Buddy Guy - How Long Blues (2:38)
35. Koko Taylor - I'm a Woman (4:35)
36. Little Walter - Just Your Fool (2:23)
37. Walter Horton - Sugar Mama (3:16)
38. Gary Clark, Jr - Catfish Blues (4:53)
39. Viktor Krauss - Far from Enough (4:03)
40. Hans Theessink - Hard Time Killing Floor (5:44)

(blues 16)

This week in the Shack

This week's show is the last one for the first year of The Shotgun Shack. I'm more than a little surprised that I've managed to keep a three-hour weekly radio program going for an entire year without burning out or losing interest.

To those of you out there listening - thank you, and I hope you'll stick around for the next year. I've got some plans to expand the Shack's internet presence - hopefully with book and music reviews coming soon - and of course I'll continue playing that sweet soul and blues.

-The Reverend Shady Glenn

1. Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime (2:39)
2. The Chi-Lites - Love Uprising (2:31)
3. The Intruders - Cowboys to Girls (2:38)
4. The O'Jays - Love Train (2:58)
5. The Jackson 5 - Sugar Daddy (2:32)
6. African Music Machine - Making Nassau Fruit Drink (2:29)
7. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
8. Willie Hutch - Love Power (4:20)
9. Alice Russell - Hurry On Now (4:39)
10. Little Jackie - The Stoop (2:53)
11. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (3:53)
12. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache (4:53)
13. Brownout - African Battle (3:04)
14. Curtis Mayfield - No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) (4:57)
15. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
16. The Brothers of Soul - I Guess That Don't Make Me a Loser (2:55)
17. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
18. Parliament - Chocolate City (5:37)
19. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
20. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
21. Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown (4:52)
22. MFSB - Family Affair (4:22)
23. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (5:29)
24. War - Nappy Head (Theme from Ghetto Man) (3:19)
25. Brownout - You Already Are (5:02)
26. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
27. Al Green - Jesus Is Waiting (5:37)
28. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
29. Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out (4:47)
30. Roy Ayers - Escape (2:18)
31. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
32. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
33. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Single Mix][Version] (3:37)
34. Willie Hutch - Sunshine Lady (3:56)
35. The Isley Brothers - I Turned You On (2:36)
36. The Chi-Lites - Give It Away (2:46)
37. Major Lance - Hey Little Girl (2:30)
38. Sly & the Family Stone - Poet (3:01)
39. The Poets Of Rhythm - More Mess On My Thing (4:12)
40. Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl (4:03)
41. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (3:51)
42. Joss Stone - Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin on Me?), Pt. 1 (4:20)
43. Alice Russell - Crazy (4:07)
44. Little Beaver - Hit Me With Funky Music (3:42)
45. Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks (3:38)
46. John Legend - Soul Joint (4:02)
47. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
48. Joan Osborne - Cream Dream (5:11)

(soul 15)

This week in the Shack

This week the Shack changes from a New Orleans nightclub into a roadhouse somewhere on the edge of town, with a playlist of mostly electric guitar blues and a little bit of southern Americana/blues-rock, just to keep things interesting.

I hope you dig it.

1. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (6:29)
2. Little Walter - My Babe (2:44)
3. James Cotton/Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters - I Done Got Over It [#] (5:59)
4. Seth Walker - Leap Of Faith (4:22)
5. Delbert McClinton/Francine Reed - I Used to Worry (2:55)
6. Jimmy Hall/Louisiana's Leroux/Tab Benoit - New Orleans Ladies (5:43)
7. Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) (4:27)
8. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - Out Here Inthe Middle (5:11)
9. Guy Forsyth - Needle Gun (5:34)
10. Albert Collins - I Ain't Drunk (4:06)
11. Walter Horton - The Honeydripper (Instrumental) (3:42)
12. R L Burnside - Mellow Peaches (3:24)
13. North Mississippi Allstars - Drinking Muddy Water (3:21)
14. Jessie Mae Hemphill - Standing in My Doorway Crying (4:39)
15. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
16. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
17. Viktor Krauss - Big Log (5:07)
18. Guitar Slim - Bad Luck Blues [*] (2:58)
19. Howlin' Wolf - Spoonful (2:44)
20. Etta James - Smokestack Lightnin' (6:50)
21. Eric Clapton - Five Long Years (4:47)
22. Jon Dee Graham - The Restraining Order Song (4:05)
23. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
24. North Mississippi Allstars - Po Black Maddie (4:32)
25. Buddy Flett/Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Honky Tonk (3:13)
26. Shawn Mullins - Homeless Joe (2:42)
27. Storyville - Nice Ain't Got Me Nothing (4:34)
28. B.B. King; Tracy Chapman - The Thrill Is Gone (5:00)
29. Buddy Guy - Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes (4:08)
30. Herbie Hancock/Jonny Lang/Joss Stone - When Love Comes to Town (8:41)
31. John Hiatt & The Guilty Dogs - Memphis in the Meantime (4:38)
32. Albert Collins - Tongue Lashing (2:52)
33. Etta James - Baby, What You Want Me to Do (4:13)
34. The Coasters - Let's Go Get Stoned (2:57)
35. Corinne Bailey Rae - One Night (Of Sin) [Live] (3:42)
36. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth (4:01)
37. Marcia Ball - Down the Road (4:12)
38. Big Joe Turner - Jelly Jelly Blues (6:28)
39. Lowell Fulson - Sinner's Prayer (Alt) (2:11)
40. Robert Earl Keen - So Sorry Blues (4:23)
41. Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters - No Use Crying (4:51)
42. James McMurtry - Fire Line Road (5:32)

(Blues 15)

This week in the Shack

Reading Jeff Hannusch's excellent I Hear You Knockin': The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues has inspired me to do another set of New Orleans music, the first one since my Mardi Gras set almost three months ago. I'd hoped to put this off until I could track down a copy of the box set of Instant & Minit releases that Snapper UK put out a couple of years back, but it's gone out of print and may take me a while to locate.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Lee Dorsey - Get Out Of My Life Woman (2:29)
2. Allen Toussaint - Night People (4:18)
3. Dr. John - Hello God (4:37)
4. The Meters - Jungle Man (3:25)
5. The Wild Magnolias - Fire Water (3:47)
6. Earl King - Seduction (5:03)
7. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
8. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Ain't Got No Home (2:21)
9. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras in New Orleans [#][*] (2:55)
10. Kermit Ruffins - Treme Second Line (Blow da Whistle) (5:50)
11. Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used to Do (3:04)
12. Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame (2:30)
13. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:49)
14. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:48)
15. Earl King - No City Like New Orleans (4:34)
16. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
17. Jon Cleary - C'mon Second Line (3:21)
18. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
19. Dr. John - I Like Ki Yoka (3:43)
20. Zachary Richard - La Berçeuse Créole (3:34)
21. Shirley & Lee - I'm Gone (2:20)
22. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
23. Sidney Bechet - The Mooche (3:10)
24. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Is There Anybody here That Loves My Jesus (3:06)
25. ReBirth Brass Band - Let's Get It On (3:54)
26. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff (2:46)
27. The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby (4:43)
28. Irma Thomas - Dr. Feelgood (4:43)
29. Guitar Slim - Bad Luck Blues [*] (2:58)
30. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Midnight Hour (2:46)
31. Fats Domino - Blue Monday (2:38)
32. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (Live) (6:35)
33. Galactic - Tighten Your Wig (3:10)
34. The Meters - You've Got To Change (You've Got To Reform) (4:16)
35. Earl King - Sexual Telepathy (3:53)
36. Irma Thomas/Marcia Ball - I Just Can't Get New Orleans off My Mind (3:28)
37. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
38. The Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko (5:36)
39. The Wild Magnolias - Corey Died on the Battlefield (5:02)
40. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Take Me Downtown (6:20)
41. John Bell; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Walk on Gilded Splinters (5:27)
42. Jon Cleary - So Damn Good (3:19)
43. Allen Toussaint - Country John (3:35)
44. Dr. John; Lower 911 - We Gettin' There (5:11)
45. Irma Thomas - You Can Have My Husband (3:13)
46. Aaron Neville - Life On The Layaway Plan (Dark Streets Album Version) (4:11)
47. Dave Bartholomew - Gert Town Blues (3:02)

(NOLA 1)

Blues on the Green 2009

Blues on the Green, the free outdoor concerts sponsored by KGSR, will move to Waterloo Park for this summer due to leveling and resodding work at Zilker. This year's schedule is:

June 3 - Ruthie Foster
June 17 - Cyril Neville
July 1 - Jimmie Vaughan
July 15 - Marcia Ball
July 29 - Carolyn Wonderland

Be sure to check the calendar at the bottom of the blog for other local shows. I try to update it around the first of each month.

I've also now added a widget to the blog's main page which will allow access to the radio station from the blog (although you still have to sign up with live365.com to use it, I believe).

This week in the Shack

A little gospel set this week.

1. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
2. Dr. John/Mavis Staples - Lay My Burden Down (4:32)
3. Isaac Freeman - Jesus Is on the Mainline (3:31)
4. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
5. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) (3:20)
6. Denise With The Campbell Brothers - The Storm Is Passing Over (4:32)
7. The Blind Boys of Alabama - You and Your Folks/23rd Psalm (5:41)
8. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Jesus Children of America (4:29)
9. Ruthie Foster - Joy on the Other Side (3:44)
10. Lyle Lovett - Church (5:40)
11. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
12. Rory Block - Hallelu, Hallelu (2:11)
13. Tom Waits - Lord I've Been Changed (2:28)
14. Blind Willie Johnson - God Moves on the Water (3:01)
15. Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band - O Mary Don't You Weep (Live In Dublin) (6:57)
16. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John The Revelator (4:39)
17. Guy Forsyth - I'm Going Home (1:42)
18. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
19. Katie Jackson With The Campbell Brothers - God Is A Good God (8:12)
20. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)
21. Joan Osborne and the Holmes Brothers - Nobody's Fault But Mine (4:03)
22. Ruthie Foster - Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) (3:36)
23. Marion Williams - How I Got Over (Live In Church) (4:44)
24. Rory Block - Declare (3:56)
25. Michelle Shocked - Quality of Mercy (4:52)
26. Ian Siegal - I'll Fly Away (5:09)
27. Chris Thomas King - What Would Jesus Do? (4:06)
28. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Picture of Jesus (3:44)
29. Lyle Lovett - I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord (3:29)
30. The Dixie Hummingbirds - The Final Edition (2:22)
31. Malford Milligan/Stephen Bruton - Touch the Hem of His Garment (3:57)
32. The Pilgrim Travelers - The Old Rugged Cross (2:34)
33. Marion Williams - O Death (Death In The Morning) (2:43)
34. Ollabelle - Elijah Rock (4:43)
35. Papa Mali - True Religion (4:42)
36. Blind Willie Johnson - Church, I'm Fully Saved Today (3:08)
37. Chris Thomas King - O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Acappella] (2:58)
38. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
39. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Church House Steps (4:46)
40. Marion Williams - Drunkards Down There (2:34)
41. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain (2:34)
42. Aretha Franklin - What a Friend We Have in Jesus (6:18)
43. Levon Helm/The Holmes Brothers - I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages (3:24)
44. Old Crow Medicine Show - God's Got It (2:38)
45. Mavis Staples - Wade in the Water (3:47)
46. Lyle Lovett - I'm Going to Wait (4:41)

(Gospel 2)

This week in the Shack

There's something about spring that makes me want to listen to a very specific set of soul music: Philadelphia International, Willie Hutch, Curtis Mayfield, Sly Stone, and Marvin Gaye's post-Detroit Motown recordings, along with the very little Latin-influenced funk and soul that I have, and this set reflects that.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Leon Ware - Long Time No See [#][*] (3:47)
2. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
3. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (8:54)
4. War - Summer (4:03)
5. Marlena Shaw - California Soul (3:00)
6. Joe Bataan - Call My Name (4:43)
7. Willie Hutch - Ain't That (Mellow, Mellow) (2:58)
8. Sly & the Family Stone - Family Affair (3:06)
9. The O'Jays - Love Train (2:58)
10. Honey Cone - Want Ads [Long Version] (3:51)
11. The Temptations - I Can't Get Next to You (2:55)
12. The Spinners - The Rubberband Man (3:34)
13. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City (7:25)
14. Tammi Terrell - What a Good Man He Is (3:01)
15. The Intruders - Cowboys to Girls (2:38)
16. UB40 - Gotta Tell Someone (4:21)
17. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk (3:18)
18. Paul Simon - Satin Summer Nights (5:44)
19. El Michels Affair - El Pueblo Unido (3:37)
20. Brownout - Laredo 77 (3:45)
21. Steamheat - Love Is Not Such An Easy Game To Play (3:14)
22. Joan Osborne - Break Up to Make Up (4:28)
23. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
24. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (2:58)
25. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (5:29)
26. Lyle Workman - SuperWhat? (4:05)
27. Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (3:46)
28. War - Get Down (4:28)
29. Darondo - Legs (3:44)
30. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight (3:31)
31. Willie Hutch - Slick (3:37)
32. Isaac Hayes - Soulsville (4:37)
33. Bill Withers - Harlem (3:21)
34. The Isley Brothers - Cold Bologna (2:58)
35. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (5:38)
36. Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (12:21)
37. War - Low Rider (3:11)
38. El Michels Affair - Detroit Twice (3:00)
39. The Budos Band - Mas O Menos (3:40)
40. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (5:05)
41. Johnny Guitar Watson - You Can Stay But The Noise Must Go (6:08)
42. Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke (5:09)
43. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Vocal Version] (4:35)

(soul 14)

This week in the Shack

This week is a return to blues, although I've stepped back again from the Texas and Chicago electric blues that I tend to most often play in order to concentrate on a mix featuring Delta and other acoustic blues and some more jazz-influenced songs, as well as a little bit of gospel. I hope you dig it.


1. Marion Williams - O Death (Death In The Morning) (2:43)
2. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
3. Son House - Death Letter (4:21)
4. Rory Block - Joliet Bound (3:13)
5. Cephas and Wiggins - No Ice in My Bourbon (3:20)
6. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (6:19)
7. Buddy Guy - Hard Time Killing Floor (2:49)
8. Blind Willie Johnson - If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down (3:09)
9. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)
10. Nina Simone - See Line Woman (2:38)
11. Joan Osborne and the Holmes Brothers - Nobody's Fault But Mine (4:03)
12. Jimmie Vaughan - Tuff Enuff (3:23)
13. Papa Mali - Keep Happy (4:41)
14. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Honey Hush (2:39)
15. Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes (2:42)
16. Little Walter - Roller Coaster (2:56)
17. Koko Taylor - I'm a Woman (4:35)
18. Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band with Buddy Guy - Worried Life Blues (2:40)
19. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:31)
20. Marion Williams - How I Got Over (Live In Church) (4:44)
21. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
22. Jethro Tull - Stormy Monday Blues (4:07)
23. Etta James - Ball and Chain (6:37)
24. Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words (4:14)
25. Crush Collision Trio - Need Some of That (3:49)
26. Chris Thomas King - Watermelon Man (6:08)
27. Rory Block - Sookie Sookie (3:43)
28. North Mississippi Allstars - Po Black Maddie (4:32)
29. R L Burnside - Poor Boy (3:23)
30. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
31. Asylum Street Spankers - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (5:13)
32. Old Crow Medicine Show - Cocaine Habit (2:42)
33. Otis Taylor - Hookers in the Street (4:43)
34. Herbie Hancock/Jonny Lang/Joss Stone - When Love Comes to Town (8:41)
35. Luther Allison - Let's Have a Little Talk (7:07)
36. Luther Johnson - Born In Georgia (3:09)
37. Big Joe Turner/Jimmy Witherspoon - Patcha, Patcha (7:33)
38. Yoko Noge - Rack 'Em Up (5:03)
39. Gene Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
40. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
41. Memphis Slim - Pigalle Love [Live] (4:04)
42. Eric Bibb - No More Cane On The Brazos (5:01)
43. Ollabelle - Elijah Rock (5:22)

(Blues 14)

This week in the Shack

In the words of Tower of Power, you got to funkifize.

Also, I'll be spinning tomorrow night from 11:00 to midnight at the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs mansion for the Austin Swing Syndicate, and Friday night at Kick Butt Coffee from 9:00 to 10:00 and 11:00 to midnight for Kick Butt Blues.

1. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
2. Galactic - Crazyhorse Mongoose (4:48)
3. Curtis Mayfield - Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey) (6:56)
4. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
5. The Ohio Players - Jive Turkey (7:10)
6. Marvin Gaye - Anna's Song (5:53)
7. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
8. Lyle Workman - Funk McLovin [*] (3:22)
9. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different (4:15)
10. Lyn Collins - Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again (3:26)
11. James Brown - Get on the Good Foot (4:08)
12. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
13. The Time - The Walk (9:31)
14. The Bar-Kays - Move Your Boogie Body (6:18)
15. Isaac Hayes - I Stand Accused (11:40)
16. The Meters - Cissy Strut (3:05)
17. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - Same Beat, Pts. 1-3 (7:46)
18. Vicki Anderson - I'm Too Tough For Mr. Big Stuff (Hot Pants) (3:25)
19. Joe Bataan - Chick-a-Boom (3:48)
20. Brownout - Barretta (3:23)
21. Darondo - Listen to My Song (4:17)
22. War - All Day Music (3:59)
23. The Ohio Players - Heaven Must Be Like This (7:18)
24. Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic (9:39)
25. Orgone - Sophisticated Honky (4:56)
26. The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb on Me (5:14)
27. Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove (5:31)
28. Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People (2:22)
29. Eddie Hazel - California Dreamin' (4:04)
30. War - Slippin' into Darkness (3:47)
31. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
32. Mingo Fishtrap - People Person (4:56)
33. Tower of Power - You Got to Funkifize (4:45)
34. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
35. Steamheat - Groove Awhile (4:10)

(soul 13)