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)