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)

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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)

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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