This week in the Shack

Back to the blues this week, although I tried to stay away from the postwar Chicago blues and Texas guitar blues that seem to make up the majority of my blues deejaying lately. This set meanders through various styles, including some Americana, country blues, and gospel.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Son House - John the Revelator (2:31)
2. Otis Taylor - Kitchen Towel (4:26)
3. Greg Szlapczynski - Aux Petits Joueurs (5:28)
4. Madeleine Peyroux - Weary Blues (3:40)
5. Hans Theessink - St. James Infirmary (6:48)
6. Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel (4:52)
7. Derek O'Brien / George Rains / Jon Blondell / Riley Osbourne / Willie Nelson - Fool's Paradise (4:17)
8. B.B. King - Waiting for Your Call (6:02)
9. Keb' Mo' - Riley B. King (5:16)
10. Geoff Muldaur - Got to Find Blind Lemon, Pt. 1 (4:07)
11. Hans Theessink - Hesitation Blues (4:19)
12. Jazz Pharaohs - Trouble in Mind (4:51)
13. Hot 8 Brass Band; The Blind Boys of Alabama - I'll Fly Away (4:27)
14. Leadbelly - Can't You Line 'Em (2:55)
15. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
16. Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis) (4:27)
17. James Hunter - All Through Cryin' (2:35)
18. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Landon Davies (3:53)
19. Guy Forsyth - Children of Jack (5:33)
20. Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter and Phillip Walker - Two Trains Running (5:56)
21. Johnny Winter - Murdering Blues (5:01)
22. Cootie Stark/Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Neal Pattman - Prison Blues (4:38)
23. Walter Horton - Walters' Boogie (Instrumental) (3:08)
24. Madeleine Peyroux - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (3:27)
25. Memphis Slim - Raining in My Heart (3:20)
26. Tom Waits - Fumblin' With the Blues (3:02)
27. The Band - One Too Many Mornings (5:13)
28. Marc Broussard - Home (5:02)
29. John Hammond, Jr. - I'm Tore Down (4:10)
30. Otis Taylor, Cassie Taylor & Various Artist - Sweet Black Angel (4:03)
31. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (5:27)
32. Randy Newman - Blue Monday (2:22)
33. Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love (3:51)
34. Fiona Boyes - Celebrate the Curves (3:51)
35. Maria Muldaur - Separation Blues (with Bonnie Raitt) (4:44)
36. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)
37. Old Crow Medicine Show - I Hear Them All (3:05)
38. Mavis Staples - Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Encore) (4:17)
39. Greg Szlapczynski - Who's Gonna Take My Damn' Soul (feat. Ian Siegal) (4:00)
40. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Big Mama's Door (3:51)
41. Rory Block - Joliet Bound (3:13)
42. Isaac Freeman - Jesus Is on the Mainline (3:31)
43. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace (4:25)
44. Tom Waits - Lord I've Been Changed (2:28)

(Blues 12)

This week in the Shack

If you've listened to me dj on here or for dancers for any time at all, then you know how much I love New Orleans music. With Fat Tuesday and the end of the carnival season just around the corner, it's time to fill the Shack with the sounds of the Crescent City, from the Mardi Gras Indians to the brass bands, a little bitta fifties R&B, a little bitta soul, and some of that sweet NOLA funk. If this doesn't make you want to get up and move, nothing will.


1. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - Mardi Gras Day (4:45)
2. Dr. John - My Indian Red (4:47)
3. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:01)
4. Marcia Ball - Party Town (4:15)
5. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
6. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (3:26)
7. Allen Toussaint - What Is Success (3:36)
8. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
9. The Wild Magnolias - Two-Way-Pak-E-Way (7:52)
10. Lee Dorsey - Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky (From Now On) (3:10)
11. Cyril Neville - Soul Train (3:43)
12. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John The Revelator (4:39)
13. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (3:19)
14. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (6:54)
15. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
16. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:48)
17. Dr. John - Such A Night (7:25)
18. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Lonely Street (2:08)
19. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
20. The Wild Magnolias - New Kinda Groove (4:02)
21. Jon Cleary - More Hipper (5:27)
22. Coolbone - The Saints (3:16)
23. ReBirth Brass Band - Let's Get It On (3:54)
24. The Neville Brothers - Brother John/Iko Iko (5:36)
25. Irma Thomas/Marcia Ball - I Just Can't Get New Orleans off My Mind (3:28)
26. Cyril Neville - New Orleans Cookin' (4:05)
27. Neville, Brother Charles/Sixth Ward All-Stars Brass Band Revue/The New Orleans Social Club - Where Y'At? Medley: Jesus on the Main Line/I'm Walking/The Saints (5:59)
28. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (6:29)
29. Irma Thomas; John Medeski - Somebody Told You (3:17)
30. Henry Butler - Some Iko (5:08)
31. Aaron Neville - Life On The Layaway Plan (Dark Streets Album Version) (4:11)
32. Dr. John - Ki Ya Gris Gris (4:03)
33. The Wild Magnolias - Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right) (6:58)
34. Jon Cleary - Too Damn Hot (5:11)
35. The Neville Brothers - Fly Like an Eagle (4:46)
36. Cyril Neville - Gossip (2:37)
37. Dr. John; Lower 911 - We Gettin' There (5:11)
38. The Meters - Just Kissed My Baby (4:43)
39. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Dive In The Gumbo (3:56)
40. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - That Bucket's Got a Hole in It (6:10)

(Mardi Gras 2009)

This week in the Shack

Mostly blues, with little forays into jazz and Americana this week. I couldn't quite get myself worked up enough over Valentine's Day to put together a show of nothing but truly filthy blues tunes and murder ballads. Maybe next year.

Mardi Gras is coming up, so look for next week to be a set of nothing but New Orleans music.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Guy Forsyth - Adam's Rib (5:27)
2. Tom Waits - Blue Valentines (5:49)
3. James Cotton - Down at Your Buryin' (4:34)
4. Jimmy Witherspoon - Late One Evening (3:03)
5. Nina Simone - The Pusher (4:53)
6. Ernestine Anderson - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (4:59)
7. Chet Baker - My Funny Valentine (2:20)
8. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - I Want a Little Girl (11:21)
9. Billy Boy Arnold & Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other - Mike Bloomfield (4:42)
10. Gene Harris - Down Home Blues (7:00)
11. Jimmy Witherspoon - My Baby's Quit Me (3:13)
12. Asylum Street Spankers - Wammo's Blues (4:13)
13. Guy Forsyth - 19 Years (10:40)
14. Memphis Slim - Rolling and Tumbling (6:02)
15. Nina Simone - My Man's Gone Now (4:16)
16. Gordon Webster - Mo' Better Blues (4:51)
17. Ray Charles - Night Time Is the Right Time (3:28)
18. Ike And Tina Turner - Proud Mary (The Funky Version) (2:40)
19. Otis Taylor - Buy Myself Some Freedom (3:59)
20. Memphis Slim - The Churning Man (2:32)
21. Keb' Mo' - Love in Vain (3:05)
22. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
23. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
24. Guy Forsyth - Play To Love (6:40)
25. T Bird and the Breaks - All The Blame (6:18)
26. James McMurtry - Ruby and Carlos (6:38)
27. Seth Walker and the Differentials - Stay (3:52)
28. E.R. Shorts - Down But Not Out (7:25)
29. B.B. King; Tracy Chapman - The Thrill Is Gone (5:00)
30. The Atomic Fireballs - Lover Lies (3:19)
31. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
32. Brother Yusef - Soul Fire (3:51)
33. Keb' Mo' - Perpetual Blues Machine (3:15)
34. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
35. Buddy Guy - Lucy Mae Blues (3:33)
36. Irma Thomas; Marcia Ball - Same Old Blues (4:47)
37. Marcia Ball - Miracle in Knoxville (5:07)

(Valentine's 2009)

This week in the Shack

Nothing particularly entertaining to write this week, as the cedar pollen has been kicking my arse for the last few days. There is soul music. You should listen to it. I go take more allergy meds now.


1. The Jackson 5 - ABC (2:59)
2. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (3:12)
3. James Brown - Get on the Good Foot (4:08)
4. Solange Knowles - Sandcastle Disco (4:28)
5. Willie Hutch - Slick (3:37)
6. Darondo - Let My People Go (3:58)
7. 6ix - I'm Just Like You (3:08)
8. The Wild Magnolias - Jumalaka Boom Boom (5:15)
9. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (3:59)
10. The Shangri-Las - Sophisticated Boom Boom (2:10)
11. Duffy - Mercy (3:40)
12. Gladys Knight & the Pips - The Nitty Gritty (3:04)
13. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - These Eyes (3:37)
14. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Be for Real (7:28)
15. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
16. Willie Hutch - Brother's Gonna Work It Out (4:47)
17. The Spinners - The Rubberband Man (3:34)
18. Al Green - Take Me to the River (3:43)
19. Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally (3:07)
20. Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood [Love Is A Serious Business] (3:22)
21. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (5:13)
22. Clarence Carter - Slip Away (2:33)
23. Bettye Lavette - Joy (3:55)
24. Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (7:42)
25. The Ohio Players - Funk-O-Nots (4:54)
26. Rick James - Give It to Me Baby (4:10)
27. Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man (3:51)
28. Nicole Willis - Werd Up! (4:37)
29. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
30. Ryan Shaw - Memphis Train (2:52)
31. Raphael Saadiq - Let's Take A Walk (2:28)
32. The O'Jays - 992 Arguments (2:22)
33. El Michels Affair - Too Late To Turn Back (3:33)
34. Isaac Hayes - Good Love (5:18)
35. Sly & the Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies (3:39)
36. Jean Knight - Do Me (2:51)
37. Prince - Starfish and Coffee (2:50)
38. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (2:58)
39. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (4:26)
40. Aretha Franklin - Think (2:17)
41. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
42. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (4:44)
43. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
44. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack (3:50)
45. Funk Brothers, The - Cloud Nine - Live Me'Shell Ndeg?Ocello (4:41)
46. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - High as Apple Pie, Slice 1 [Long Version] (7:21)

(soul 11)