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)

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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.