This week in the Shack

This week's set is a wide variety of blues, from early the early New Orleans music of Sidney Bechet and Kid Ory to the trance blues of Otis Taylor.

I hope you dig it.

1. Viktor Krauss - Overcast (6:50)
2. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
3. Otis Taylor - Government Lied (5:11)
4. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny (4:57)
5. Brother Yusef - Blues Is My Story (4:35)
6. Chris Thomas King - Watermelon Man (6:08)
7. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Them Fair Weather Friends (5:08)
8. Cephas and Wiggins - No Ice in My Bourbon (3:20)
9. Buddy Guy - Hard Time Killing Floor (2:49)
10. Gene Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
11. Etta James - Baby, What You Want Me to Do (4:13)
12. Jimi Hendrix - Catfish Blues (7:47)
13. Aynsley Dunbar - Memory of pain (6:06)
14. Eric Clapton - Early in the Morning (7:57)
15. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
16. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John The Revelator (4:39)
17. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
18. Sidney Bechet - The Mooche (3:10)
19. Duke Ellington - East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (3:14)
20. Fats Waller - That Ain't Right (3:01)
21. Asylum Street Spankers - Deep Ellum Blues (4:55)
22. Papa Mali - Keep Happy (4:41)
23. Marcia Ball - Party Town (4:15)
24. Delbert McClinton - B-Movie Boxcar Blues (8:46)
25. Asylum Street Spankers - Rumble With Madcat (3:55)
26. Greg Szlapczynski - Who's Gonna Take My Damn' Soul (feat. Ian Siegal) (4:00)
27. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:09)
28. John Hammond, Jr. - Come on in This House (3:58)
29. Etta James - Ball and Chain (6:37)
30. Mavis Staples - Eyes on the Prize [Live] (5:27)
31. Seth Walker - I Know It's a Sin (2:30)
32. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Bad Boy (4:01)
33. North Mississippi Allstars - Po Black Maddie (4:32)
34. Little Walter - Juke (2:47)
35. Aretha Franklin - Today I Sing the Blues (4:25)
36. B.B. King - Backwater Blues (7:35)
37. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)

Spinning live

I'll be deejaying jazz & blues from 7:00-8:30 at All Y'all's Inaugural Ball this Tuesday at Mercury Hall. The ball itself runs from 6-11, with a variety of djs playing different genres of music across the evening.

Also, I'll be spinning blues (and probably some soul) in the side room at the Austin Swing Syndicate dance on Jan. 29. Not sure if it's the 9:30-10:30 or the 10:30-11:30 shift.

This week in the Shack

Back to soul and funk this week.

1. Various Artists - Buda / Ethiopiques - Yekermo Sew - A Man Of Experience And Wisdom (4:15)
2. El Michels Affair - Behind The Blue Curtains (3:27)
3. Menahan Street Band - Make The Road By Walking (3:01)
4. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
5. The J.B.'s - Gimme Some More (3:06)
6. Tower of Power - Stranger In My Own House (5:21)
7. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
8. Allen Toussaint - Country John (3:35)
9. War - City, Country, City (3:54)
10. Flyjack - Black Water Gold (5:08)
11. Sly & the Family Stone - Loose Booty (3:47)
12. The Time - The Walk (9:31)
13. El Michels Affair - Detroit Twice (3:00)
14. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
15. Willie Hutch - I Choose You (3:42)
16. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
17. Tower of Power - Back In The Day (4:34)
18. Rick James - Bustin' Out (On Funk) (3:54)
19. The Ohio Players - Fopp (3:53)
20. Johnny Guitar Watson - Ain't That A Bitch (5:01)
21. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
22. Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (5:29)
23. Roy Ayers - Coffy Is The Color (3:03)
24. Willie Hutch - Ain't That (Mellow, Mellow) (2:58)
25. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (5:38)
26. Sly & the Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies (3:39)
27. The O'Jays - For the Love of Money (7:20)
28. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
29. The J.B.'s - Givin' Up Food for Funk, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:48)
30. Porterdavis - Penny Candy (5:53)
31. Eric Burdon & War - Tobacco Road (3:58)
32. Earth, Wind & Fire - September (3:35)
33. Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) (5:47)
34. Marvin Gaye - A Funky Space Reincarnation (8:18)
35. Brownout - Con El Brownout No Se Juega (3:43)
36. The Budos Band - King Cobra (3:40)
37. The Bamboos - Step It Up (feat. Alice Russell) (3:38)
38. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (3:45)
39. McLemore Avenue - The Indefatigable Jimmy Smits (5:59)

This week in the Shack

I've wanted to do a set of gospel and spiritual music for a while. Don't expect your grandmother's gospel, however - this set includes artists like Ben Harper, Lyle Lovett, Joan Osborne, Otis Redding, and Seal, alongside classic gospel performers such as Dorothy Love Coates, The Dixie Hummingbirds, and Mahalia Jackson. You'll find the usual handful of local blues artists in there, as well.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Son House - John the Revelator (2:31)
2. Otis Taylor - Resurrection Blues (5:59)
3. Malford Milligan/Stephen Bruton - Touch the Hem of His Garment (3:57)
4. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (1:32)
5. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)
6. Nina Simone - See Line Woman (2:38)
7. Lyle Lovett - Church (5:40)
8. Michelle Shocked - Quality of Mercy (4:52)
9. The Blind Boys of Alabama - You and Your Folks/23rd Psalm (5:41)
10. Guy Forsyth - I'm Going Home (1:42)
11. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
12. Apostles Of Music - Look Where He Brought Us (3:39)
13. Mavis Staples - Eyes on the Prize [Live] (5:27)
14. Joan Osborne and the Holmes Brothers - Nobody's Fault But Mine (4:03)
15. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
16. Otis Taylor - 3 Days and 3 Nights (4:21)
17. Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) (3:20)
18. Mahalia Jackson - Didn't It Rain (2:40)
19. Lyle Lovett - I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord (3:29)
20. Ruthie Foster - Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) (3:36)
21. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Christian's Automobile (2:12)
22. Sam Cooke - Jesus Gave Me Water (2:30)
23. Otis Redding - Amen (3:05)
24. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Well, Well, Well (3:15)
25. Seal - People Get Ready (3:36)
26. Eva Cassidy - Wade in the Water (4:02)
27. Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers - True Religion (4:03)
28. Gospel Comforters - Jesus Will Help Me (3:01)
29. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
30. Ollabelle - John the Revelator (4:09)
31. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Church House Steps (4:46)
32. Michelle Shocked - Strange Things Happening Every Day (7:52)
33. Malford Milligan - Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:08)
34. Isaac Freeman - Jesus Is on the Mainline (3:31)
35. Dorothy Love Coates - Get Away Jordan (3:06)
36. Mavis Staples - Go Down, Moses (5:39)
37. The Pilgrim Travelers - Satisfied With Jesus (2:36)
38. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - God Don't Like It (2:25)
39. Papa Mali - If I Ever Get Right (5:02)
40. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
41. Ollabelle - Soul of a Man (3:59)
42. Sam Cooke - Jesus Paid The Debt (2:53)
43. Sweet Honey In The Rock - Precious Memories (5:01)
44. The Pilgrim Travelers - Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb (2:27)
45. Lyle Lovett - I'm Going to the Place (3:22)
46. Dorothy Love Coates - I Wouldn't Mind Dying (2:20)
47. Odetta & The Holmes Brothers - Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread (3:25)
48. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Picture of Jesus (3:44)
49. Janis Ian - This Train (2:43)
50. Mahalia Jackson - Roll Jordan Roll (3:58)

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Calendar added

The Shotgun Shack's website now has a calendar at the bottom of the page showing local blues and soul shows.

Final Blue Tuesday and Farewell Party for Malford Milligan

This coming Tuesday, January 6, will be the first Austin Blues Society blues jam for the year, and also the last Malford Milligan Blue Tuesday.

If you've ever heard Malford sing, you know what an amazing soulful voice he has. Come out to Antone's and see him one last time before he moves to Milwaukee.