This Week in the Shack

Sorry for skipping last week. Thanksgiving was one giant technology fail: my laptop (on which I do all the work for the Shack) got infected with the antivirus pro malware and I ended up having to reset it to the factory settings to get rid of the damn thing. Also over the weekend, my dying wireless router finally gave up the ghost, so my only internet access was on my aging desktop.

Everything is now fixed, a new router is in place, and a new show is now up with a mix of classic and retro-soul. As always, I hope you dig it.


1. Sam Cooke - Only Sixteen (2:14)
2. Otis Redding - Cupid (3:10)
3. Jackson Sisters - Shake Her Loose (2:30)
4. Solomon Burke - Party People (2:36)
5. Baby Washington - Breakfast in Bed (3:10)
6. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:54)
7. Mayer Hawthorne - Shiny & New (2:59)
8. Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On (3:35)
9. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone (2:52)
10. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk (3:18)
11. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
12. Ryan Shaw - Memphis Train (2:52)
13. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
14. Otis Redding - Hard to Handle (2:20)
15. Quincy Jones - Sanford & Son Theme/The Streetbeater (3:05)
16. The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:21)
17. The Bo-Keys - Back at the Chicken Shack (6:53)
18. Aretha Franklin - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (3:13)
19. Wilson Pickett - Stagger Lee (2:22)
20. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)
21. Bobby Byrd/James Brown - Sweet Soul Music (2:37)
22. Bettye Lavette - Joy (3:55)
23. Quincy Jones - Hikky-Burr (5:56)
24. The Zombies - Time of the Season (3:34)
25. Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (2:29)
26. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
27. Mel & Tim - Backfield in Motion (5:29)
28. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
29. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
30. Isaac Hayes - Lay Lady Lay (5:36)
31. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl (3:45)
32. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
33. The Temptations - My Girl (2:57)
34. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Choosey Beggar (2:33)
35. Martha & the Vandellas - Nowhere to Run (2:51)
36. Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour [Live & Burnin'] [Live] (8:09)
37. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady [Alternate Mix][#] (4:31)
38. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (2:58)
39. Ike & Tina Turner - Living For The City (3:30)
40. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Ooo Baby Baby (2:44)
41. Sam Cooke - Sad Mood (2:41)
42. Bettye LaVette - Talking Old Soldiers (4:25)
43. Joss Stone - Right To Be Wrong (4:40)
44. Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (7:01)
45. Mavis Staples - Security (2:52)
46. Joan Osborne - What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [From Standing in the Shadows of Moto (4:23)
47. Al Green; Anthony Hamilton - Lay It Down (4:30)
48. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (4:16)
49. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)

(Soul 23)