This Week in the Shack

I've had rather a lot of stuff going on in my personal and professional life, so I didn't get around to updating the station's playlist for the last two weeks. I'm back now, with two hours of (mostly) blues, and an additional hour of holiday blues, soul, and other tunes. There won't be an eighties show this Friday, as I'll be traveling, but otherwise regular programming should resume from here on out.

Have a joyous holiday season, and I'll be back on Monday or Tuesday with another new show.

-The Reverend Shady Glenn

1. Sidney Bechet - Up in Sidney's Flat (4:22)
2. Johnny Otis - Why Don't You Do Right? (4:05)
3. Big Joe Turner - Jelly Jelly Blues (6:28)
4. Jimmy Witherspoon - When the Lights Go Out (3:02)
5. Dr. Michael White - St. Louis Blues (4:19)
6. Sidney Bechet - Jackass Blues (4:45)
7. R.I.S.E. (Rising Appalachia) - Oh Death (4:53)
8. Crooked Still - Come On In My Kitchen (4:59)
9. Taj Mahal - Cakewalk Into Town (2:31)
10. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
11. Kurt Elling - Goin' to Chicago (5:39)
12. Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy (4:35)
13. Johnny Otis - I Just Wanna Make Love To You (3:43)
14. porterdavis - Grass Growing Through Concrete (4:17)
15. Big Walter Horton - Tell Me Baby (3:15)
16. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
17. Asylum Street Spankers - High as You Can Be (5:12)
18. Percy Mayfield - Strange Things Happening (2:52)
19. Big Joe Turner - The Chill Is On (2:46)
20. John Lee Hooker - Looking Back over My Day (4:39)
21. Sugar Pie Desanto - Sunnyland Slim - Hubert Sumlin - You Got Me Running (3:25)
22. Seth Walker - 2' Left to the Ceiling (3:43)
23. Dr. Michael White - Majestic Strut (5:24)
24. Wynton Marsalis - New Orleans Bump (4:32)
25. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
26. Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (4:32)
27. The Derek Trucks Band - Crow Jane (3:53)
28. Cass Eager and The Mo' Debleys - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? (1:22)
29. Carolyn Wonderland and Guy Forsythe - Merry Christmas Baby / Merry Christmas Darling (7:00)
30. Canned Heat - I Won't Be Home for Christmas (4:16)
31. Joan Osborne - What Do Bad Girls Get? (2:32)
32. Houston Person & Etta Jones - I'll Be Home for Christmas (3:29)
33. Ray Charles & The Voices of Jubilation - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (5:01)
34. Carolyn Wonderland and Guy Forsythe - Silent Night (5:07)
35. James Brown - Let's Unite the Whole World at Christmas (2:43)
36. Brook Benton - Soul Santa (3:23)
37. Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa (2:10)
38. Carolyn Wonderland and Guy Forsythe - The Little Dealer Boy (3:23)
39. Asylum Street Spankers - Far Away Christmas Blues (4:02)
40. Canned Heat - Christmas Blues (7:35)
41. Odetta - What Month Was Jesus Born In? (2:25)
42. Ray Charles - Baby, It's Cold Outside (4:14)
43. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby (3:26)
44. Ray Charles - All I Want for Christmas (4:24)
45. Pearl Bailey - Five Pound Box of Money (2:36)

(blues 40)

This Week in the Shack

On the last night of ALX, Jerry Warwick, Jared Moran, Scott Angelus, and Greg Avakian DJed an amazing soul music room, which reignited my interest in soul.

1. The Funk Brothers with Bootsy Collins - Do You Love Me (3:21)
2. James & Bobby Purify - Shake a Tail Feather (2:06)
3. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
4. Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker) (5:47)
5. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (3:51)
6. Jackson 5 - Make Tonight All Mine (3:18)
7. Willie Hutch - Sunshine Lady (3:56)
8. Isaac Hayes - Lay Lady Lay (5:36)
9. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
10. Bill Withers - Harlem (3:21)
11. Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar (4:04)
12. John Legend & The Roots - I Can't Write Left Handed (11:43)
13. Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America (6:08)
14. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
15. Vicki Anderson - The Message from the Soul Sisters, Pts. 1-2 (5:24)
16. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - Same Beat, Pts. 1-3 (7:46)
17. Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) (4:40)
18. Kings Go Forth - Now We're Gone (4:01)
19. Curtis Mayfield - Stone Junkie (8:04)
20. Kashmere Stage Band - Do Your Thing [Extended Version][#] (5:23)
21. Ebony Rhythm Band - Vanilla Fudge (4:11)
22. Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble [Mono Version] (2:38)
23. Joss Stone - The Chokin' Kind (3:36)
24. The Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain (2:54)
25. Billy Preston - Ferry Across the Mersey (2:49)
26. Curtis Mayfield - Billy Jack (6:07)
27. Orgone - Said and Done (4:04)
28. Wilson Pickett - Lay Me Like You Hate Me (3:52)
29. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
30. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
31. Diana Ross & the Supremes - Baby Love (2:35)
32. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - California Soul (2:54)
33. Rickie Lee Jones - Show Biz Kids (4:35)
34. The Impressions - This Is My Country (2:47)
35. The Brothers of Soul - I Guess That Don't Make Me a Loser (2:55)
36. Barbara Acklin - Am I the Same Girl (3:04)
37. The Chi-Lites - Love Uprising (2:31)
38. The Intruders - Cowboys To Girls (2:37)
39. The O'Jays - Back Stabbers (3:05)
40. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
41. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
42. Jackson 5 - Joyful Jukebox Music (3:14)
43. Ryan Shaw - Do the 45 (2:15)

(Soul 31)

This Week in the Shack

Between ALX last weekend, trial last week, and Thanksgiving this week, I haven't had a chance to put a new set together. This week's program repeats this set from last spring. Additionally, there probably won't be an eighties set this Friday, as I'll be traveling for much of the next few days. New sets will resume next week.

Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

This Week in the Shack

Too much to do this week, so I'm rerunning this soul set from February. I'll try to get a new eighties set up for Friday.

This Week in the Shack

This week, an americana show for your listening pleasure.

1. The Gaslight Anthem - Here's Looking At You, Kid (3:41)
2. Lucero - Sweet Little Thing (3:42)
3. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - Lights of Cheyenne (6:38)
4. The Felice Brothers - Ahab (4:03)
5. Bob Dylan - One Too Many Mornings (3:47)
6. Son Volt - Left A Slide (5:10)
7. Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel (3:52)
8. Sarah Jarosz - Come On Up To The House (4:27)
9. Frazey Ford - Firecracker (3:45)
10. Cowboy Junkies - The Last Spike (4:24)
11. Jeff Lang - Sweet Virginia (6:17)
12. Jay Farrar - Voodoo Candle (3:53)
13. Guy Forsyth - Teeth (4:43)
14. Lucinda Williams - Positively 4th Street (4:49)
15. Jon Dee Graham - Something Moves (4:17)
16. Susan Tedeschi - Angel From Montgomery (6:34)
17. Boxcar Preachers - Venus In Furs (3:21)
18. The Lovell Sisters - In My Time Of Dyin' (3:31)
19. Crooked Still - Come On In My Kitchen (4:59)
20. Nickel Creek - House Carpenter (5:30)
21. Deer Tick feat. Liz Isenberg - Unwed Fathers (3:39)
22. Stephen Bruton - That Moment When (4:01)
23. Robert Earl Keen - Out Here In The Middle (4:29)
24. Bonnie Raitt - I Ain't Blue (3:36)
25. Asylum Street Spankers - Wingless Angels (4:12)
26. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt (5:22)
27. Mike West & Myshkin - Bryan, Texas (4:03)
28. Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (4:42)
29. Jackopierce - Capable Girl (3:30)
30. Dar Williams - Party Generation (5:08)
31. John Mellencamp - Thank You (3:38)
32. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Cooler-N-Hell (3:30)
33. Cowboy Junkies - Lost My Driving Wheel (6:34)
34. The Be Good Tanyas - Human Thing (4:11)
35. Kelly Joe Phelps - Livin' In a Strain (4:46)
36. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
37. Dave Rawlings Machine - To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) (3:48)
38. Lucero - Mine Tonight (4:17)
39. Son Volt - Route (3:57)
40. Guy Forsyth - Midnight Train (4:59)
41. Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up (3:05)
42. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Rebels (5:19)

(americana 3)

Eighties Friday - a little bit early

So, I accidentally deleted the files for both the current playlist from my space on the live365 server and the one I intended to remove. It's been that kind of a day.

Now that the station is back up, this week's Eighties Friday is a rerun from late spring. I'll continue alternating new eighties sets with reruns each week.

Slight Technical Difficulties

The station is going to be off the air for about thirty minutes due to technical difficulties. It will resume shortly with tomorrow's eighties set a few hours early.

Eighties Friday: Dead Man's Party

This week's eighties show is Halloween-themed, and will run through Halloween night on Sunday. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (6:23)
2. The Judy's - Ghost In a Bikini (2:12)
3. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence (3:50)
4. Peter Murphy - All Night Long (5:44)
5. The Sisters of Mercy - Flood II (6:46)
6. Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) (4:30)
7. Billy Idol - L.A. Woman (Single Edit) (2001 Digital Remaster) (4:03)
8. Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Bassline) (Long Version) (4:00)
9. Yello - Domingo (4:33)
10. Pet Shop Boys - Integral (3:53)
11. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (5:59)
12. The Judy's - Trixie and the Killer (2:51)
13. Bauhaus - She's In Parties (5:54)
14. The Cure - Burn (6:37)
15. Book of Love - Tubular Bells (4:09)
16. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration [Live at Pasadena Rose Bowl, June 18, 1988] (4:54)
17. Yaz - In My Room (3:54)
18. The Cult - Brother Wolf Sister Moon (6:47)
19. Cocteau Twins - Lorelei (3:43)
20. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss Them for Me (4:28)
21. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (6:46)
22. Oingo Boingo - No One Lives Forever (4:08)
23. The Hooters - All You Zombies (5:58)
24. The Cure - Lullaby (4:10)
25. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (13:31)
26. The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (10:54)
27. Shriekback - Nemesis (3:43)
28. Concrete Blonde - God Is A Bullet (4:24)
29. The Southern Death Cult - False Faces (3:41)
30. Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross (5:09)
31. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust (4:07)
32. Oingo Boingo - Weird Science (6:06)
33. Echo And The Bunnymen - Buried Alive (3:55)
34. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (5:29)
35. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Long Version) (6:58)
36. The Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter (5:57)

(Eighties 12)

This Week in the Shack

This week's set is the first new soul set I've done in several months, I think. I'll also be deejaying Serious Soul Night at the Highball Lounge tomorrow with DJ Blu-Ray from 9 until midnight. There's no cover, and it's a fantastic venue. Come by and say hello if you're in the area.

1. Ryan Shaw - It Gets Better (3:29)
2. Wilson Pickett - Barefootin' (2:19)
3. Booker T. & the MG's - Hip Hug-Her (2:25)
4. Booker T. Jones - Hey Ya (3:52)
5. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Shotgun (2:59)
6. Rufus Thomas - The Memphis Train (2:33)
7. The J.B.'s - Givin' Up Food for Funk, Pts. 1 & 2 (5:48)
8. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (5:05)
9. Kings Go Forth - You're the One (4:06)
10. Major Lance - The Monkey Time (2:48)
11. Jackson 5 - Penny Arcade (2:41)
12. Mayer Hawthorne - Shiny & New (2:59)
13. Wilson Pickett - Up Tight Good Woman (2:32)
14. Isaac Hayes - Good Love (5:18)
15. Chairmen Of The Board - Feelin' Alright? (3:43)
16. Stephen Bishop - Animal House (4:08)
17. Otis Leavill - Love Uprising (2:32)
18. Honey Cone - Want Ads [Long Version] (3:51)
19. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
20. The Intruders - Cowboys To Girls (2:37)
21. Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (2:13)
22. Martha & the Vandellas - Jimmy Mack (2:53)
23. Chairmen Of The Board - Give Me Just A Little More Time (2:42)
24. Dusty Springfield - Breakfast in Bed (2:58)
25. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
26. Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Who is He and What is He to You (4:49)
27. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
28. Curtis Mayfield - No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) (4:57)
29. The Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out (4:13)
30. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
31. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
32. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - Wake Up Everybody (7:32)
33. The Temptations - My Girl (2:57)
34. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - I Like It Like That (2:35)
35. Mel and Tim - Backfield in Motion (2:34)
36. Marvin Gaye - Court of the Common Plea (2:57)
37. Young-Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack (3:01)
38. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (6:29)
39. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
40. Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools (2:47)
41. Ann Peebles - I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home (2:28)
42. Laura Lee - What A Man (2:55)
43. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (3:45)
44. Alice Russell - Hurry On Now (4:39)
45. Dusty Springfield - Spooky (2:41)
46. Jackson Sisters - Shake Her Loose (2:30)
47. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:19)
48. Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) (2:45)
49. Sam & Dave - You Don't Know Like I Know (2:40)
50. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
51. The Jackson 5 - I'll Be There (3:56)
52. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)
53. Bobby Byrd/James Brown - Sweet Soul Music (2:37)

(soul 30)

Eighties Friday

This Friday, The Shotgun Shack repeats this set from last spring.

Friday Eighties Music

Friday is upon us, and that means that it's time to once again accelerate The Shotgun Shack to 88 mph and travel back to the 1980s.

1. Concrete Blonde - Joey (4:08)
2. The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer (3:38)
3. Marillion - Warm Wet Circles (1999 Digital Remaster) (4:25)
4. The Sundays - My Finest Hour (3:59)
5. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - She (5:08)
6. The Style Council - The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter) (4:56)
7. Sade - The Sweetest Taboo (4:24)
8. Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This? (4:18)
9. Book of Love - Boy (2:57)
10. Yaz - Goodbye Seventies (2:37)
11. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (3:36)
12. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (3:28)
13. Bronski Beat - Why? (4:04)
14. Madonna - La Isla Bonita (4:02)
15. Soft Cell - Bedsitter (3:35)
16. Morrissey - You're The One For Me, Fatty (2:57)
17. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? (3:34)
18. The Clash - London Calling (3:19)
19. Talking Heads - I Zimbra (3:07)
20. Johnny Clegg - It's an Illusion (Live) (4:57)
21. Duran Duran - Rio (US Edit) (4:44)
22. David Bowie - Modern Love (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster) (3:58)
23. The Cure - Fascination Street (5:15)
24. Erasure - Ship Of Fools (4:01)
25. George Michael - I Want Your Sex (9:13)
26. Prince - It's About That Walk (4:25)
27. Echo and the Bunnymen - Bombers Bay (4:24)
28. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (4:30)
29. Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking (5:26)
30. The Fixx - Deeper and Deeper [#][Long Version] (6:30)
31. Morrissey - The National Front Disco (4:23)
32. U2 - Gloria (4:44)
33. The Alarm - Hallowed Ground (4:22)
34. The Church - Essence (5:15)
35. Lightning Seeds - The Life of Riley (4:03)
36. Culture Club - Black Money (5:21)
37. Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame (4:12)
38. Madonna - Live To Tell (5:51)
39. The Blow Monkeys - This Is Your Life (5:11)
40. ABC - Poison Arrow (3:23)
41. Mr Mister - Kyrie (4:16)

(eighties 11)

This Week in the Shack

This week's show is an extremely Austin-centric set of Texas artists, ranging from blues and blues-rock to Texas country, Americana, jazz, soul, and western swing. With just a handful of exceptions, all of these artists are still around and performing. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Screw You, We're from Texas (4:01)
2. T Bird and the Breaks - Two Tone Cadillac (4:35)
3. The Scabs - Man of the Year (4:27)
4. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
5. Papa Mali - Keep Happy (4:41)
6. Guy Forsyth - Needle Gun (5:12)
7. The Spencer Thomas Band - Blackjack - Live (6:42)
8. Carolyn Wonderland - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:43)
9. Asylum Street Spankers - Coffee Grindin' Blues (3:15)
10. White Ghost Shivers - Big N Easy (2:51)
11. Malford Milligan - Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:08)
12. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - No More Buffalo (6:52)
13. Jon Dee Graham - The Restraining Order Song (4:05)
14. porterdavis - Grass Growing Through Concrete (4:17)
15. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - Dublin Blues (Guy Clark) (4:29)
16. Willis Alan Ramsey - Ballad of Spider John (4:19)
17. Lyle Lovett - If I Had a Boat (3:10)
18. Delbert McClinton - Every Time I Roll the Dice (4:27)
19. THe Fabulous Thunderbirds - Powerful Stuff (4:38)
20. Storyville - Nice Ain't Got Me Nothing (4:34)
21. Ian Moore - Revelation (4:34)
22. E.R. Shorts - Down But Not Out (7:25)
23. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Life Without You (4:18)
24. Doyle Bramhall - I'd Rather Be (Blind, Crippled And Crazy) (3:54)
25. W.C. Clark - Ain't Lost Nothin' (3:48)
26. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Hush, Hush (3:01)
27. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
28. T-Bone Walker - It's a Lowdown Dirty Deal (2:55)
29. Jazz Pharaohs - Careless Love (11:13)
30. Paris '49 - Johnny, tu n'es pas un ange (3:57)
31. Hot Club of Cowtown - It Stops with Me (4:24)
32. Boxcar Preachers - Venus In Furs (3:21)
33. Robert Earl Keen - Furnace Fan (3:58)
34. Ruthie Foster - Another Rain Song (4:16)
35. Karl Morgan - Sunny (3:52)
36. Cheryl Arena - He Aint No Prince (4:27)
37. Pinetop Perkins - Kansas City (4:45)
38. Freddie King - Reconsider Baby (4:00)
39. Greg Izor & The Boxkickers - I Don't Want to Be the One (2:15)
40. Albert Collins - Ain't Got Time (3:05)
41. Lyle Lovett - That's Right (You're Not from Texas) (4:53)

(Texas 8)

TGIF

As I announced last week, there will be an eighties set every Friday, alternating between new sets and old ones, beginning today with the first eighties set I did back in April.

Also, sorry about the regular set extending from last week into this one. Work has killed me all of this week, and I hope to get a new set up by Monday.

Wherein Irregular Eighties Fridays become less irregular

Starting today, every Friday will be for eighties music in The Shack. I'll alternate rerunning old sets with new ones.

Today's set:

1. The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene (4:05)
2. Scritti Politti - Small Talk (3:39)
3. The Style Council - The Big Boss Groove (4:38)
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses (5:50)
5. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (4:23)
6. ABC - How To Be A Millionaire (3:34)
7. Pet Shop Boys - Two Divided by Zero (3:34)
8. Cameo - Single Life (4:28)
9. Soft Cell - Seedy Films (5:04)
10. Dead Or Alive - Isn't It A Pity (4:43)
11. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster) (3:36)
12. The Motels - Shame (4:10)
13. 'Til Tuesday - Love In A Vacuum (3:36)
14. Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Black Night White Light (4:08)
15. David & David - Welcome To The Boomtown (5:31)
16. The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat (5:13)
17. Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night (4:12)
18. Morrissey - Ouija Board, Ouija Board (4:25)
19. Lightning Seeds - Pure (3:46)
20. The Outfield - Your Love (3:36)
21. The Pretenders - Message Of Love (3:25)
22. Bobby Brown - Every Little Step (4:43)
23. Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (3:21)
24. T'Pau - Heart And Soul (4:16)
25. U2 - Party Girl (3:21)
26. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (4:45)
27. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (2:33)
28. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity (3:31)
29. The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (3:47)
30. The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (3:18)
31. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Everyday I Write the Book (3:55)
32. Squeeze - Tempted (3:58)
33. Split Enz - I Got You (3:30)
34. Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon (3:10)
35. UB40 - Wear You to the Ball (3:30)
36. Spandau Ballet - Communication (3:26)
37. Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better [Live] (3:36)
38. The Time - Jungle Love (5:32)
39. Madonna - Express Yourself (3:59)
40. Duran Duran - All She Wants Is (45 Mix) (4:26)
41. The Hooters - All You Zombies (5:58)
42. The Church - Metropolis (4:45)
43. A-Ha - The Blue Sky (2:36)
44. The Alarm - Rescue Me [Tearing The Bonds Assunder Mix] (5:12)

(eighties 10)

This Week in the Shack

I'm DJing this Thursday and Friday, and Thursday will be the first time I've DJed eighties music for a dance crowd, so I need to spend some time preparing for that. As a result, this week's set in The Shotgun Shack repeats this blues set from September of last year.

I'll have a new set of either blues or soul music up for next week, as well as a new eighties set for this Friday. In addition, beginning this week, my eighties sets will run weekly, alternating (hopefully) between old sets and new ones.

This Week in the Shack

I didn't have time to put together a new set, so this week the Shack repeats this Americana set from this past June.

Irregular Eighties Friday

Once again, another set of eighties music to help you make it to the weekend.

1. Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross (5:09)
2. Madonna - Justify My Love (4:54)
3. Prince - Sign 'O' the Times (4:56)
4. Peter Murphy - Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem (5:20)
5. Echo And The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (4:12)
6. The Alarm - Rain In The Summertime (5:14)
7. U2 - Mysterious Ways (4:03)
8. George Michael - Monkey (4:47)
9. New Order - Blue Monday '88 [12" Version] (7:10)
10. Erasure - Breath Of Life (4:07)
11. The Outfield - Nervous Alibi (3:55)
12. The Motels - Only the Lonely (3:16)
13. The Style Council - You're The Best Thing (5:42)
14. The Blow Monkeys - Wicked Ways (3:34)
15. Bronski Beat - Smalltown boy (5:03)
16. Talk Talk - Talk Talk (3:18)
17. Simple Minds - Glittering Prize (4:00)
18. Cutting Crew - The Scattering (Edited Version) (4:29)
19. The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You (4:17)
20. The Cure - Pictures of You (7:28)
21. The Dream Academy - The Love Parade (3:47)
22. Split Enz - History Never Repeats (3:00)
23. Genesis - Abacab (2007 Remastered LP Version) (6:58)
24. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (4:53)
25. Prince - Ballad of Dorothy Parker (4:01)
26. David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America (3:51)
27. Journey - Girl Can't Help It (3:50)
28. Stevie Nicks - Imperial Hotel (2:52)
29. The Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang (3:52)
30. Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday (3:32)
31. The Sundays - Can't Be Sure (3:25)
32. Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (3:39)
33. The B-52S - Channel Z (4:50)
34. The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (2:47)
35. Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love (2001 Digital Remaster) (4:38)
36. ABC - The Look Of Love (Part 1) (3:29)
37. The Fixx - Red Skies (4:35)
38. INXS - Original Sin (4:01)
39. UB40 - Guilty (3:16)
40. Tracy Chapman - Talkin' Bout a Revolution (2:39)
41. Steve Winwood - My Love's Leavin' (5:21)
42. Erasure - Home (4:13)

(eighties 9)

This Week in the Shack

More blues for you this week. I hope you dig it.


1. The Coasters - Down In Mexico (3:16)
2. Colin James - Tumbling Dice (4:17)
3. The Rolling Stones - Sway (3:52)
4. John Lee Hooker - You Gonna Miss Me (4:11)
5. Lucinda Williams - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues (5:11)
6. Asylum Street Spankers - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (2:59)
7. Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid & James Blood Ulmer - Down In Mississippi (4:36)
8. Otis Taylor & Cassie Taylor - Sweet Black Angel (4:03)
9. Taj Mahal - Corrina (4:28)
10. Memphis Slim - Mississippi Water (4:17)
11. Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards, Floyd Jones, Kansas City Red, Sunnyland Slim, And Big Walter Horton - Lightnin' Struck The Poor House (4:37)
12. Sonny Boy Williamson - Decoration Day (3:26)
13. John Mayall - Slow Train to Nowhere (4:27)
14. Mike Bloomfield - Your Friends (7:18)
15. Little Milton - Hard Luck Blues (3:02)
16. Aynsley Dunbar - My Whiskey head woman (4:24)
17. Big Joe Turner - Jelly Jelly Blues (6:28)
18. Tom Waits - On a Foggy Night (3:48)
19. Cassandra Wilson - Vietnam Blues (4:34)
20. Ollabelle - Elijah Rock (5:22)
21. Louise Hoffsten - God Don't Ever Change (3:34)
22. Bukka White - Parchman Farm Blues (2:53)
23. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Big Mama's Door (3:51)
24. BB - Black Woman - BB (2:55)
25. Spencer Bohren - Wade In The Water (4:33)
26. Ian Siegal Band - Monday Saw (5:09)
27. Eric Clapton - Third Degree (5:08)
28. Otis Rush - Groaning The Blues (3:04)
29. Guitar Slim - The Things That I Used to Do (3:01)
30. Little Milton - I Can't Quit You Baby (7:45)
31. Chris Thomas King - Hey Hey What Can I Do (4:09)
32. porterdavis - Jaynie (4:18)
33. Elvin Bishop - She Puts Me in the Mood (3:36)
34. Chicken Shack - When My Left Eye Jumps (6:29)
35. Di Anne Price - Long John (5:22)
36. John Lee Hooker - I'm in the Mood (4:30)
37. Muddy Waters - Jealous Hearted Man (4:24)
38. The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine (5:34)
39. Little Walter - Lights Out (2:45)
40. Howlin' Wolf - Moaning For My Baby (2:49)
41. Nina Simone - Buck (1:53)
42. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Life Without You (4:19)

(blues 39)

This Week in the Shack

I'm DJing three out of the next four nights, and thus really don't have the energy or time to put together a new set for the station. Instead, I'm rerunning this soul set from last summer.

Calendar update and my upcoming gigs

After slacking for about three months, the calendar at the bottom of the page is once again updated. There are links on the right leading to most of the local venues and local bands, so check those for times, etc.

And speaking of calendars, here's my current schedule for live gigs for the next couple of months. All of them are blues gigs except for the fundraiser on 9/11, which will be swing and jazz, and the eighties set on 9/30. I have also suggested doing a gospel brunch at ALX to the organizers, but won't know anything about that until closer to the event date.

9/08 - Serious Blues Party @ The Highball
9/10 - Kick Butt Blues @ Kick Butt Coffee
9/11 - Fundraiser for the Shapiro family @ Go Dance
9/23 - Blues room, Austin Swing Syndicate dance @ The Fed
9/30 - Eighties room, Austin Swing Syndicate dance @ The Fed
10/01 - Kick Butt Blues @ Kick Butt Coffee
10/07 - Blues room, Austin Swing Syndicate dance @ The Fed
10/22 - Kick Butt Blues @ Kick Butt Coffee
11/18 - Blues room, Austin Swing Syndicate dance @ The Fed
11/19 - 11/21 Austin Lindy Exchange (DJing the blues room, specific dates/times TBA)

An Irregular Eighties Friday

Another set of eighties music for your listening pleasure.

1. Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Single/LP Version) (6:14)
2. Too Much Joy - My Past Lives (3:59)
3. Simple Minds - Sanctify Yourself (4:56)
4. Modern English - After The Snow (3:51)
5. The Fixx - Stand or Fall [Live] (4:18)
6. Madonna - Get Into the Groove (4:37)
7. Prince - Starfish and Coffee (2:50)
8. 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry (4:20)
9. The Motels - Take the L (3:38)
10. The Pretenders - Talk Of The Town (3:13)
11. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Clubland (3:44)
12. The Smiths - I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (3:48)
13. The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (3:59)
14. The Clash - Death Or Glory (3:55)
15. The Outfield - Your Love (3:36)
16. Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (4:37)
17. Yaz - In My Room (3:54)
18. Erasure - Turns The Love To Anger (3:56)
19. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration [Live at Pasadena Rose Bowl, June 18, 1988 (4:54)
20. Peter Murphy - Time Has Got Nothing to Do With It (5:19)
21. Marillion - Sugar Mice (1999 Digital Remaster) (5:46)
22. The Kinks - A Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy (5:01)
23. Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything (5:03)
24. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (3:36)
25. Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet (4:26)
26. Dead Or Alive - Isn't It A Pity (4:43)
27. Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin (4:58)
28. Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger (3:42)
29. Bronski Beat - Screaming (4:16)
30. Simply Red - Sad Old Red (4:32)
31. Leonard Cohen - Ain't No Cure For Love (4:49)
32. The Church - Terra Nova Cain (5:11)
33. Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake (4:22)
34. David Bowie - Let's Dance (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster) (4:07)
35. ABC - Vanity Kills (3:33)
36. Talk Talk - Dum Dum Girl (3:49)
37. The Cure - Hot Hot Hot!!! (3:35)
38. Falco - Vienna Calling (Wait For The Extended Mix) (4:08)
39. Prince - When Doves Cry (3:48)
40. P.M. Dawn - Paper Doll (4:53)
41. Deee-Lite - Pussycat Meow (LP Version) (3:49)
42. Book of Love - Modigliani (3:52)
43. The Art Of Noise - Something Always Happens (2:30)

(Eighties 8)

This Week in the Shack

August 27 marked the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's death in a helicopter crash. This week's show is dedicated to his memory, with a collection of his recordings; those of artists associated with him such as his brother Jimmie and the Double Trouble rhythm section of Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon; some of his major influences like Albert King, Lonnie Mack, and Otis Rush; followers like Melvin Taylor; and more Texas guitar bluesmen.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Storyville - Good Day For The Blues (4:17)
2. Doyle Bramhall - Life By The Drop (3:05)
3. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Willie the Wimp (4:36)
4. Lonnie Mack - Strike Like Lightning (3:41)
5. The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff (3:23)
6. Guy Forsyth - Don't Turn Me In (5:14)
7. W.C. Clark - Cold Shot (4:15)
8. Debbie Davies, Chris Layton & Tommy Shannon - I Just Want To Make Love To You (3:36)
9. Anson Funderburgh - Down At J.J.'s (4:43)
10. Karl Morgan - Talkin' with the Hands (4:15)
11. Marc Benno and the Nightcrawlers featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan - 8 Ball (6:22)
12. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) (9:11)
13. Gary B.B. Coleman - The Sky Is Crying (9:10)
14. Jimmie Vaughan - Slow Dance Blues (6:27)
15. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
16. Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In (6:56)
17. Albert King - Killing Floor (3:07)
18. Otis Rush - Woke Up This Morning (6:31)
19. Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter and Phillip Walker - You're Playin' Hooky (3:21)
20. Jimmie Vaughan - Boom Bapa Boom (3:57)
21. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand The Weather (4:41)
22. Debbie Davies, Chris Layton & Tommy Shannon - Just Stepped In The Blues (4:30)
23. W.C. Clark - My Texas Home (4:53)
24. The Spencer Thomas Band - Blackjack - Live (6:42)
25. Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter and Phillip Walker - Alligators Around My Door (5:18)
26. Melvin Taylor - Texas Flood (7:35)
27. Guy Forsyth - Evil Man (8:30)
28. Marc Benno and the Nightcrawlers featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love is Turnin Green (5:38)
29. Cheryl Arena - Love Gone Wrong (3:43)
30. Albert Collins - Good Fool Is Hard to Find (4:18)
31. Storyville - Bitter Rain (6:47)
32. Carolyn Wonderland - Bloodless Revolution (4:32)
33. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) [Live] (11:52)

(blues 38)

This Week in the Shack

This week marks the fifth anniversary of Katrina's landfall along the Gulf Coast, and The Shotgun Shack presents a set of Louisiana music - from New Orleans and the surrounding area - in recognition. (I've not forgotten that the Mississippi coast was just as badly damaged - my country blues show two weeks ago was probably about as close to an all-Mississippi show as I can effectively do right now.)

More than usual for my New Orleans shows, I think, this set really emphasizes the piano - whether it's in jazz, blues, R&B, or funk, the city has birthed, attracted, and nurtured a truly amazing collection of pianists.

1. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Summertime In New Orleans (4:18)
2. Mike West - Levee Song (2:38)
3. Zachary Richard - Ma Louisiane (2:21)
4. Clifton Chenier - Bon Ton Roulet (3:09)
5. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:49)
6. Troy Andrews - Swingin' Gate (5:43)
7. Stanton Moore - Big 'Uns Get the Ball Rolling (5:44)
8. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
9. Jon Cleary - C'mon Second Line (Live) (6:07)
10. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - I Got a Woman (6:13)
11. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Ain't Nothin' But a Party (6:32)
12. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Golden Crown (3:53)
13. Dr. John - My Indian Red (4:47)
14. Sidney Bechet - Wild Man Blues (3:19)
15. Kid Ory - Careless Love (5:35)
16. Preservation Hall - Over In The Gloryland (6:23)
17. James Booker - Amen (4:13)
18. Champion Jack Dupree - Christina Christina Blues (3:20)
19. Wynton Marsalis - Jungle Blues (6:49)
20. Fats Domino - Blue Monday (2:38)
21. Professor Longhair - Tipitina (2:39)
22. Art Neville - My Children (3:15)
23. Dr. John; Lower 911 - My People Need a Second Line (5:17)
24. The Neville Brothers - Sitting in Limbo (4:14)
25. Harry Connick, Jr. - We Make a Lot of Love (3:31)
26. Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is (2:41)
27. Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can (4:15)
28. Chuck D/The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - What's Going On? (4:28)
29. Chuck Carbo - Black Drawers (5:30)
30. Johnny Adams - Roadblock (4:51)
31. The Spiders - I Didn't Want to Do It (2:42)
32. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Lonely Street (2:08)
33. Walter "Wolfman" Washington - On the Prowl (4:05)
34. Galactic - Tighten Your Wig (3:10)
35. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (Live) (6:35)
36. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:48)
37. Booker T. Laury - Early in the Morning (4:35)
38. Willie Tee - On The Q-Tee (2:05)
39. Ellis Marsalis - Squatty Roo (2:55)
40. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
41. New Orleans Jazz Vipers - When it's Sleepy Time Down South (5:31)
42. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (3:03)

(NOLA 6)

Irregular Eighties Fridays Redux

Once again, it's time for another Irregular Eighties Friday: all eighties music for 24(ish) hours.

If you enjoy music from this era (and, surprisingly, this is the program that I seem to get the most comments about via Facebook and elsewhere), you really should check out Rolling Stone music critic Rob Sheffield's latest book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, an enormously funny and charming book about being an adolescent during the eighties, viewed through the music of the era.

1. Devo - That's Good (3:24)
2. The Art Of Noise - Beatbox (Diversion One) (8:33)
3. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - White Lines (4:29)
4. Falco - Der Kommissar (3:49)
5. Scritti Politti - Small Talk (3:39)
6. The Style Council - Speak Like A Child (3:18)
7. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (3:51)
8. Johnny Clegg - Scatterlings of Africa (Live) (4:11)
9. The B-52S - Deadbeat Club (4:56)
10. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (4:23)
11. The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene (4:05)
12. Madonna - Holiday (6:08)
13. Sade - Your Love Is King (3:41)
14. Steve Winwood - Don't You Know What The Night Can Do? (4:32)
15. T'Pau - Heart And Soul (4:16)
16. Simple Minds - Oh Jungleland (5:13)
17. The Cult - Hollow Man (4:45)
18. Echo And The Bunnymen - King of Kings (3:52)
19. The Jam - In The City (2:18)
20. The Clash - Clampdown (3:49)
21. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Radio, Radio (3:07)
22. David Bowie - Blue Jean (1999 Digital Remaster) (3:11)
23. The Motels - So L.A. (3:34)
24. Berlin - Metro (4:19)
25. Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (3:48)
26. Pet Shop Boys - I Want to Wake Up (5:08)
27. The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (3:47)
28. Crowded House - Locked Out (3:18)
29. Duran Duran - Girls On Film (3:27)
30. The Hooters - And We Danced (3:48)
31. Madonna - Crazy For You (3:44)
32. 'Til Tuesday - Don't Watch Me Bleed (3:27)
33. Split Enz - One Step Ahead (2:53)
34. Cutting Crew - I've Been In Love Before (Single Version) (4:02)
35. ABC - All Of My Heart (4:49)
36. Morrissey - November Spawned A Monster (5:23)
37. U2 - Like a Song... (4:46)
38. Howard Jones - Lift Me Up (3:40)
39. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (4:08)
40. A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (5:08)
41. Erasure - Yahoo! (3:48)
42. Book of Love - Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls (4:48)
43. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls (3:36)
44. The KLF - All You Need Is Love (5:01)

(eighties 7)

This Week in the Shack

This week's program is probably the most eclectic I've ever done. It begins with a work song Alan Lomax recorded at a Mississippi prison in the 1940s, and ends with a Tom Waits lullaby. In between, it moves through country, alt-country, American rock & roll, Celtic music, folk, bluegrass, a spiritual that dates back to slavery days, and Americana.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. C.B. - Whoa Buck (3:53)
2. Cowboy Junkies - Oregon Hill (4:53)
3. Dave Rawlings Machine - Sweet Tooth (5:20)
4. Old Crow Medicine Show - Angel From Montgomery (4:30)
5. Jay Farrar - Barstow (3:54)
6. Lucero - Slow Dancing (3:45)
7. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound (3:13)
8. Bob Dylan - High Water (For Charley Patton) (4:04)
9. Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves (4:10)
10. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (4:50)
11. Guy Forsyth - Taxi (6:10)
12. Jon Dee Graham - One Moment (3:23)
13. John Prine - The Late John Garfield Blues (4:19)
14. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents (4:44)
15. Nanci Griffith - Going Back to Georgia (4:15)
16. The Felice Brothers - Whiskey in My Whiskey (3:48)
17. Levon Helm - Kingfish (4:24)
18. Son Volt - Creosote (4:09)
19. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - Rachel's Song (6:02)
20. Robert Earl Keen - Let The Music Play (5:36)
21. Clandestine - Peggy (3:40)
22. Nickel Creek - This Side (3:33)
23. The Duhks - Four Blue Walls (5:03)
24. The Lovell Sisters, Bearfoot & The New Generation Jam - Darling Corey (3:32)
25. Uncle Earl - Drinker Born (3:21)
26. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tear It Down (2:54)
27. The Hot Club Of Cowtown - Ida Red (3:06)
28. Crooked Still - Wading Deep Waters (4:12)
29. Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice It's Alright (4:23)
30. Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (5:24)
31. Townes Van Zandt with Steve Earle and Guy Clark - Katie Belle (3:13)
32. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - Saint Mary of the Woods (6:46)
33. Steve Earle - Halo 'Round the Moon (2:15)
34. Rickie Lee Jones - Subterranean Homesick Blues (3:47)
35. Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind (10:22)
36. Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets (6:30)
37. Son Volt - Circadian Rhythm (5:02)
38. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
39. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
40. Tom Waits - On the Nickel (6:19)

(Americana 2)

This Week in the Shack

The Shotgun Shack moves up to the country this week and paints its mailbox blue.

1. Chris Thomas King - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day (3:08)
2. Jake Leg Stompers - Linin' Track (feat. the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band) (4:36)
3. North Mississippi Allstars - Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor (4:40)
4. John Lee Hooker - Catfish Blues (3:35)
5. Muddy Waters - Train Fare Home Blues (2:47)
6. Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:08)
7. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
8. Son House - Preachin' Blues (5:45)
9. Rory Block - Pea Vine Blues (3:34)
10. Otha Turner - Shimmy She Wobble (4:43)
11. Ndidi Onukwulu - Things About Comin' My Way (4:58)
12. Jesse Mae Hemphill - All Night Boogie (Jessie's Boogie) (2:40)
13. Alvin Youngblood Hart - Joe Friday (2:42)
14. Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong (2:19)
15. Buddy Guy/Junior Wells - My Home's in the Delta (3:05)
16. The Carolina Chocolate Drops - Sitting on Top of the World (3:16)
17. Sonny Boy Williamson - Decoration Blues (3:30)
18. James Cotton - Two Trains Running (4:57)
19. Cephas & Wiggins - Illinois Blues (3:39)
20. Etta Baker/Taj Mahal - Railroad Bill (3:23)
21. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
22. Leadbelly - Whoa Back, Buck (3:07)
23. Chris Thomas King - John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto' (3:50)
24. Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over (3:08)
25. Luther Dickinson/The Sons of Mudboy - Let It Roll (4:16)
26. Otha Turner With The Como Drum Band - Otha's Piece (2:45)
27. The Golden Eagles - Indian Red (5:54)
28. Wingless Angels - Morning Train (4:28)
29. Precious Bryant - Morning Train (3:00)
30. Paul Orta & Tonky De La Pena - Pawn Shop Blues (3:29)
31. Robert Nighthawk - Sweet Black Angel (3:04)
32. Taj Mahal - Built For Comfort (4:46)
33. Asylum Street Spankers - Going up the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (3:21)
34. Memphis Jug Band - Stealin', Stealin' (2:59)
35. Otis Taylor - Little Liza Jane (2:44)
36. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread And Butterbeans (3:09)
37. Cephas and Wiggins - Nine Pound Hammer (3:20)
38. John Lee Hooker - This is Hip (3:26)
39. Buddy Guy - Louise McGhee (5:23)
40. Bukka White - Black Cat Bone Blues (3:07)
41. R L Burnside - Rolling & Tumbling (4:41)
42. Satan and Adam - Stagga Lee (3:58)
43. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (NO) - Old Jabo (2:14)
44. Rev. Gary Davis - Spoonful (3:13)
45. George "Wild Child" Butler/Howlin' Wolf Band/Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Spoonful (5:18)
46. North Mississippi Allstars - Mean Ol' Wind Died Down (7:31)
47. Willie King & the Liberators - Twenty Long Years (6:50)

(blues 37)

Yes, the calendar is still badly out of date. I'm trying to find time to fix that this weekend, with luck.

This Week in the Shack

The Shotgun Shack moves up north to Chicago this week for some of that down-home blues. Pull up a chair, get yourself a slice of that deep-dish pizza, sit back, and relax.

1. Kurt Elling - Goin' to Chicago (5:39)
2. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - I Want a Little Girl (11:21)
3. Earl Hines/Jimmy Rushing - St. Louis Blues (4:38)
4. Big Maceo - Worried Life Blues (2:56)
5. Memphis Slim - I See My Great Mistake (3:00)
6. Otis Spann - Diving Duck (3:13)
7. J.B. Lenoir - The Mojo-1 (2:54)
8. Sonny Boy Williamson - You Killing Me (On My Feet) (3:24)
9. Robert Nighthawk - Cheating and Lying Blues (5:00)
10. Otis Rush - Mean Old World (7:01)
11. Muddy Waters - Iodine in My Coffee (3:30)
12. Little Walter - Confessin' the Blues (3:06)
13. Elmore James & John Brim - Rattlesnake (3:10)
14. Carey & Lurrie Bell - Got To Leave Chi-Town (3:41)
15. Big Walter Horton - Temptation Blues (3:43)
16. Howlin' Wolf - Evil (2:55)
17. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
18. Billy Boy Arnold & Mike Bloomfield - Women Lovin' Each Other - Mike Bloomfield (4:42)
19. Son Seals - Sitting At My Window (4:34)
20. Buddy Guy - My Time After Awhile [Alternate Take] (3:20)
21. Junior Wells - Come on in This House (2:22)
22. Luther Allison - Driving Wheel (5:37)
23. Billy Boy Arnold - Blackjack (5:35)
24. James Cotton - Sugar Sweet (4:19)
25. Magic Sam - Sweet Home Chicago (4:16)
26. Etta James - I Just Want to Make Love to You (3:08)
27. The Living History Band - Memphis Slim USA (3:12)
28. Elmore James - The Sky Is Crying (2:49)
29. Johnny Shines - So Glad I Found You (2:28)
30. Buddy Guy/Junior Wells - Rollin' and Tumblin' (4:33)
31. Robert Lockwood, Jr. - Mr. Downchild (3:29)
32. Jimmy Rogers - I Used To Have A Woman (3:09)
33. Memphis Slim - Pigalle Love [Live] (4:04)
34. Phil Guy - Little Red Rooster (7:57)
35. Muddy Waters - Deep Down in Florida (5:26)
36. Buddy Guy - Damn Right, I've Got the Blues (4:31)
37. Big Time Sarah - Chicken Heads (6:02)
38. Little Walter - Hate to See You Go (2:20)
39. Mighty Joe Young - Hard Times (Follow Me) (3:12)
40. Elvin Bishop - She Puts Me in the Mood (3:36)
41. Bob Margolin - Mean Old Chicago (3:58)
42. Big Bill Morganfield - Sloppy Drunk (4:03)
43. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Shake Your Money Maker (2:28)
44. Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy (6:05)

(blues 36)

Irregular Eighties Fridays Strike Back

Today's eighties music list:

1. The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat (5:13)
2. The Blow Monkeys - He's Shredding Skin (4:03)
3. Tears for Fears - Break It Down Again (4:31)
4. Simple Minds - All The Things She Said (4:18)
5. The Fixx - Saved by Zero (3:41)
6. David Bowie - Fashion (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster) (3:26)
7. Sisters Of Mercy - Nine While Nine (4:11)
8. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (4:23)
9. Billy Idol - Flesh For Fantasy (1999 Digital Remaster) (4:37)
10. The Hooters - Don't Take My Car Out Tonight (3:51)
11. INXS - Good Times (3:51)
12. Eurythmics - Missionary Man (3:47)
13. The Jam - Town Called Malice (2:53)
14. Oingo Boingo - Gratitude (5:14)
15. Culture Club - Church of the Poison Mind (3:33)
16. Cyndi Lauper - Change Of Heart (4:25)
17. Madonna - Express Yourself (3:59)
18. P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (3:59)
19. Spandau Ballet - True (5:38)
20. Simply Red - Picture Book (5:48)
21. George Michael - One More Try (5:49)
22. Roxy Music - Avalon (4:16)
23. Peter Gabriel - That Voice Again (4:52)
24. Pet Shop Boys - This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave (5:30)
25. Talk Talk - My Foolish Friend (3:21)
26. The Fixx - Less Cities, More Moving People (3:54)
27. Duran Duran - The Wild Boys (4:17)
28. Split Enz - Dirty Creature (4:02)
29. Shelleyan Orphan - Timeblind (3:34)
30. The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends (3:54)
31. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Little Miss S. (3:39)
32. U2 - 11 O'Clock Tick Tock (4:43)
33. Morrissey - Suedehead (3:49)
34. Journey - Only The Young (4:04)
35. The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer (3:38)
36. 'Til Tuesday - Love In A Vacuum (3:36)
37. Rod Stewart - Love Touch [Extended Version] (5:01)
38. Violent Femmes - Kiss Off [Live] (4:59)
39. Bodysnatchers - Ruder Than You (2:49)
40. UB40 - One in Ten (4:32)
41. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Watching the Detectives (3:46)
42. The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town (4:19)
43. David & David - Welcome To The Boomtown (5:31)

(eighties 6)

My upcoming gigs

Where I'll be spinning for the next couple of months, as of right now:

7/29 - with DJ Blu-Ray in the blues room at the Austin Swing Syndicate's Thursday night dance
8/05 - with DJ Blu-Ray in the blues room at the Austin Swing Syndicate's Thursday night dance
8/27 - with Steven at Kick Butt Blues
9/23 - with DJ Blu-Ray in the blues room at the Austin Swing Syndicate's Thursday night dance
9/30 - with Nathan in the eighties room at the Austin Swing Syndicate's Thursday night dance

This Week in the Shack

This week's set replays this set from last July.

BUT there will be a new Irregular Eighties Friday this week, and another new set next week (probably spotlighting Chicago blues). There will be a new soul set...um, really soon now, too.

Guy Forsyth at Antone's this Sunday

Yes, the calendar is way out of date; I hope to fix it this weekend.

If you're in town, you should go see Guy Forsyth at Antone's this Sunday. It's part of Antone's ongoing 35th anniversary celebration, and special guests are promised.

This Week in the Shack

Apologies for this being a day late, but I'm recovering from being sick all weekend. This week's set is three hours of blues from Texas artists. I hope you dig it.

1. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)
2. Boxcar Preachers - Can't Get That Stuff No Mo' (3:04)
3. Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words (4:14)
4. Mingo Fishtrap - Jangle When I Walk (5:14)
5. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
6. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Life by the Drop (2:27)
7. Guy Forsyth - Hometown Boy (4:48)
8. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
9. White Ghost Shivers - Weed Smoker's Dream (5:06)
10. Jim Cullum, Jr. - St. Louis Blues (7:59)
11. Sarah Jarosz - Come On Up To The House (4:27)
12. Porterdavis - Come On In My Kitchen (5:53)
13. LZ Love & Lightning Red - Wang Dang Doodle (5:05)
14. Papa Mali - If I Ever Get Right (5:02)
15. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Name Droppin' (3:31)
16. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
17. Carolyn Wonderland - Ain't Nobody's Business (3:43)
18. W.C. Clark - Real Live Livin' Hurtin' Man (3:34)
19. Delbert McClinton - Everything I Know About the Blues (3:31)
20. Last Real Texas Blues Band Featuring Doug Sahm - Reconsider Baby [Live] (4:47)
21. Cheryl Arena - Blues Got Me (6:26)
22. Greg Izor & The Boxkickers - I Was Wrong (3:40)
23. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth (4:01)
24. Spencer Thomas - Missin' Persons (3:46)
25. Freddie King - Living on the Highway (4:16)
26. Eastside Band/Texas Trumpets - The Eastside (6:24)
27. Eve Monsees - You Belong to Me (4:17)
28. Sweetman with his South Side Groove Kings - Angela's Strut (4:36)
29. T-Bone Walker - Mean Old World (2:53)
30. Johnny Copeland - Greater Man (4:42)
31. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (5:13)
32. Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers - True Religion (4:03)
33. Ruthie Foster - Walk On (4:10)
34. Seth Walker - Sun Down (4:00)
35. Lonnie Brooks, Long John Hunter and Phillip Walker - Two Trains Running (5:56)
36. Lightnin' Hopkins - Ain't It A Pity (6:48)
37. Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over (3:08)
38. Pinetop Perkins - Hey Mr. Pinetop Perkins (With Angela Strehli) (3:31)
39. Omar & The Howlers - Give Me Back My Wig (2:20)
40. Doyle Bramhall - I'd Rather Be (Blind, Crippled And Crazy) (3:54)
41. Lavelle White - Why Young Men Go Wild (3:32)

(blues 35)

This Week in the Shack

I played a set at the gospel brunch for Austin Blues Party yesterday, although attendance was pretty sparse, given that it had to compete with both classes and sleep. Given that I've been wanting to do another gospel set on here, I've extended that one from it's original ninety minutes to a full three-hour show.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Asylum Street Spankers - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (2:59)
2. Ian Siegal - I'll Fly Away (5:09)
3. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)
4. Lyle Lovett - I'm Going to the Place (3:22)
5. Patty Griffin Featuring Regina McCrary And Ann McCrary - If I Had My Way (3:24)
6. Joan Osborne - Pensacola (4:31)
7. Asylum Street Spankers - Last Mile of the Way (3:41)
8. Isaac Freeman - You Must Come in at the Bottom (2:57)
9. Luther Dickinson/The Sons of Mudboy - Back Back Train (4:35)
10. Malford Milligan - I've Never Been to Seminary (4:30)
11. Papa Mali - If I Ever Get Right (5:02)
12. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Nobody's Fault (3:17)
13. Marion Williams - Drunkards Down There (2:34)
14. Rory Block - Declare (3:56)
15. Guy Forsyth - God Moves on the Water (3:37)
16. The Blind Boys of Alabama - Old Blind Barnabas (3:30)
17. Guy Forsyth - I'm Going Home (1:42)
18. Guy Forsyth - Run On (4:43)
19. Ollabelle - Soul of a Man (3:59)
20. Ian Siegal - Mary Don't You Weep (Live) (3:55)
21. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - His Eye Is on the Sparrow (6:11)
22. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - John The Revelator (4:39)
23. John Hammond, Jr. - I Know I've Been Changed (2:19)
24. Michelle Shocked - Quality of Mercy (4:52)
25. Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers - True Religion (4:03)
26. Asylum Street Spankers - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (2:42)
27. The Pilgrim Travelers - Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb (2:27)
28. Lyle Lovett - I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord (3:29)
29. Ruthie Foster - Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes) (3:36)
30. Rory Block - Hallelu, Hallelu (2:11)
31. Scrapomatic - I Belong to the Band (4:06)
32. Otis Redding - Amen (3:06)
33. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Picture of Jesus (3:44)
34. Malford Milligan/Stephen Bruton - Touch the Hem of His Garment (3:57)
35. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Old Rugged Cross (2:54)
36. Fairfield Four - Roll Jordan Roll (4:45)
37. The Dixie Hummingbirds - Christian's Automobile (2:12)
38. Patty Griffin Featuring Regina McCrary And Ann McCrary - Death’s Got A Warrant (Feat. Regina McCrary And Ann McCrary) (1:43)
39. Luther Dickinson/The Sons of Mudboy - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning (4:08)
40. Blind Willie Johnson - Church, I'm Fully Saved Today (3:08)
41. Jesse Mae Hemphill - He's A Mighty Good Leader (3:26)
42. Ben Harper/The Blind Boys of Alabama - Church on Time (4:16)
43. Susan Tedeschi - Magnificent Sanctuary Band (3:01)
44. Lyle Lovett - I'm Going to Wait (4:41)
45. The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Do Lord (4:05)
46. Dr. John/Mavis Staples - Lay My Burden Down (4:32)
47. Isaac Freeman - Jesus Is on the Mainline (3:31)
48. Old Crow Medicine Show - God's Got It (2:38)
49. Denise With The Campbell Brothers - The Storm Is Passing Over (4:32)
50. Spencer Bohren - Wade In The Water (4:31)

(gospel 3)

In which Irregular Eighties Fridays goes into reruns

Austin Blues Party starts this afternoon, and I'll be dancing all night every night, as well as DJing about four and a half hours over the next couple of days. Today's eighties set is a rerun of the first one from early April. New sets will resume next time.

This Week in the Shack

If you've seen the station page on Live365 in the last week, you might have noticed that the station is now also listed under Americana. I've been kicking around expanding the range of music I play for a while, and right now listener numbers are down quite a lot, so the number of people I'll potentially alienate is at a minimum. The Irregular Eighties Fridays will continue, and I'll still be playing blues, classic soul, funk, and gospel, but I'll be adding in a lot more Americana, new bluegrass, and jazz for the foreseeable future. Maybe other things, too - it all depends on what strikes my fancy at the time.

This week's program is all Americana, folk, and modern bluegrass. It's not a huge change, I think, from the direction some of my blues and local music sets have been wandering into.

As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Lucinda Williams - Positively 4th Street (4:49)
2. Bob Dylan - You're a Big Girl Now (4:34)
3. The Felice Brothers - Wonderful Life (4:02)
4. Old Crow Medicine Show - James River Blues (3:06)
5. The Duhks - Love Is The Seventh Wave (3:25)
6. The Be Good Tanyas - Light Enough To Travel (4:58)
7. Dave Rawlings Machine - To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) (3:48)
8. Son Volt - Medicine Hat (4:13)
9. Jon Dee Graham - The Restraining Order Song (4:05)
10. Guy Forsyth - Children of Jack (5:33)
11. John Prine - Angel From Montgomery (4:57)
12. Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel (4:52)
13. Dave Rawlings Machine - Method Acting / Cortez The Killer (10:20)
14. James McMurtry - Fire Line Road (5:32)
15. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Whoop and Hollar (2:50)
16. Ollabelle - Ain't No More Cane (3:35)
17. Bruce Springsteen - Old Dan Tucker (2:31)
18. Uncle Earl, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Duhks, Crooked Still & The New Generation Jam - Starry Crown (3:52)
19. Old Crow Medicine Show - Hard to Tell (3:15)
20. Crooked Still - Oxford Town / Cumberland Gap (2:20)
21. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Trouble In Your Mind (2:55)
22. Sarah Jarosz - Mansinneedof (2:51)
23. Uncle Earl - Bony on the Isle of St. Helena (4:09)
24. The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun! (4:06)
25. Bob Dylan - One Too Many Mornings (3:47)
26. The Duhks - It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding (5:49)
27. Sara Watkins - The Late John Garfield Blues (4:06)
28. Levon Helm - Anna Lee (3:42)
29. Crooked Still - Captain, Captain (2:42)
30. Guy Forsyth - Heart of Sawdust (5:22)
31. Deer Tick feat. Liz Isenberg - Unwed Fathers (3:39)
32. Sarah Jarosz - Shankill Butchers (4:22)
33. The Lovell Sisters - Ichetucknee Chutney (3:41)
34. Clandestine - Cannonball (5:13)
35. The Felice Brothers - Don't Wake the Scarecrow (4:56)
36. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver - Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) (4:01)
37. The Lovell Sisters - The Door In The Wall (2:53)
38. Nickel Creek - Seven Wonders (4:09)
39. Jon Dee Graham - Tamale House No. 1 (3:49)
40. John Prine - In Spite Of Ourselves (4:41)
41. Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down (4:29)
42. Robinella and the CC Stringband - Man Over (3:58)
43. The Be Good Tanyas - It's Not Happening (2:41)
44. the Greencards - Long Way Down (5:11)

(Americana 1)

This Week in the Shack

This week's set is more blues, a portion of which is from my sets at Kick Butt Blues last Friday night.

I'm thinking about tinkering with the content of the station soon, but will write more about that later this week.

1. Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (4:56)
2. Wynton Marsalis - New Orleans Bump (4:32)
3. White Ghost Shivers - Weed Smoker's Dream (5:06)
4. Chris Thomas King - Watermelon Man (6:06)
5. Willie Mabon - Baby, Why Don't You Write To Me (3:53)
6. Jeannie And Jimmy Cheatham And The Sweet Baby Blues Band - A Few Good Men (6:17)
7. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:09)
8. Little Walter - My Babe (2:43)
9. Guy Forsyth - Hometown Boy (8:19)
10. Seth Walker - 2' Left to the Ceiling (3:43)
11. Cowboy Junkies - Townes' Blues (3:13)
12. Teresa James And The Rhythm Tramps - Eieio (3:53)
13. Willie Mabon - Guilty Blues (4:01)
14. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down (3:26)
15. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:31)
16. Tom Waits - Wrong Side of the Road (5:14)
17. Teresa James And The Rhythm Tramps - If Momma Don't Dig It (4:29)
18. Dr. John - Bring Your Love (6:01)
19. Original Broadway Cast Recording - Santa Fe (3:12)
20. John Lee Hooker; T-Bone,Walker; Willi Dixon; Jump Jackson - The Right Time (6:18)
21. Asylum Street Spankers - Summertime (6:20)
22. Etta James - Ball and Chain (6:37)
23. Preservation Hall Jazz Band;Del McCoury - Careless Love (4:31)
24. Dinah Washington - Long John Blues (3:14)
25. Asylum Street Spankers - Shave 'Em Dry (2:47)
26. Johnnie Bassett - Nice Guys Finish Last (5:43)
27. Johnny Guitar Watson - Gangster Of Love (3:47)
28. Eric Clapton - Third Degree (5:08)
29. Jeff Healey - How Blue Can You Get (8:55)
30. Big Joe Turner/Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues Lament (12:09)
31. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Don't You Feel My Leg (8:17)
32. Jeannie And Jimmy Cheatham And The Sweet Baby Blues Band - Raunchy Rita (6:05)
33. Di Anne Price - Knocking Myself Out (4:02)
34. Satan and Adam - Ain't Nobody Better Than Nobody (5:17)
35. Asylum Street Spankers - High as You Can Be (5:12)
36. Cephas & Wiggins - Illinois Blues (3:39)

(blues 34)

This Week in the Shack

A new soul set for your listening pleasure. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself (3:53)
2. Tower of Power - Soul With a Capital "S" (5:04)
3. Earth, Wind & Fire/The Emotions - Boogie Wonderland (4:48)
4. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (8:53)
5. Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the Music (3:00)
6. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady [Alternate Mix - Outtake] (4:29)
7. Marvin Gaye - Funk Me, Funk Me, Funk Me [The Love Man Sessions] (5:49)
8. Cameo - We're Goin' out Tonight (4:42)
9. Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging (4:39)
10. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
11. Mingo Fishtrap - People Person (4:56)
12. The Spinners - The Rubberband Man (3:34)
13. The O'Jays - Love Train (2:58)
14. Diana Ross & the Supremes - Someday We'll Be Together (3:31)
15. Willie Hutch - Slick (3:37)
16. Curtis Mayfield - Junkie Chase [Full Length Version][#][Instrumental] (4:17)
17. Isaac Hayes - Never Can Say Goodbye (5:10)
18. Dusty Springfield - The Windmills of Your Mind (3:51)
19. Otis Redding - (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay (2:50)
20. Kevin Mahogany - Tears of a Clown (3:33)
21. Anthony David - Cold Turkey (4:38)
22. War - Summer (4:03)
23. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (4:16)
24. Darondo - Didn't I (3:29)
25. Willie Hutch - Love Power (4:20)
26. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) (3:28)
27. Joss Stone - Don't Cha Wanna Ride (3:31)
28. Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No (2:59)
29. Edwin Starr - Twenty-Five Miles (3:21)
30. Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances (2:26)
31. Sam & Dave - Soul Man (2:40)
32. Ryan Shaw - It Gets Better (3:29)
33. The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin' (2:56)
34. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (3:19)
35. The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There (4:46)
36. Carl Carlton - Look At Mary Wonder (How I Got Over) (2:05)
37. Allen Toussaint - Fingers And Toes (4:07)
38. Aretha Franklin - Make It with You (4:52)
39. King Curtis - A Whiter Shade of Pale (5:38)
40. Stephen Bishop - Animal House (4:08)
41. John Belushi, The Kingsmen - Louie, Louie (3:06)
42. Joan Osborne - Spooky (4:03)
43. James Hunter - Riot in My Heart (4:16)
44. Ray Charles - What'd I Say, Pts. 1 & 2 (6:29)

(soul 28)

Bride of Irregular Eighties Fridays

I'm back from a short vacation on the Texas coast, with new sets - a new eighties set today, and a new soul set to start this weekend.

1. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - The Wheel (3:54)
2. The Church - Under The Milky Way (4:59)
3. Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart (5:11)
4. R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend (4:19)
5. Book of Love - I Touch Roses (3:21)
6. Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face (1999 Digital Remaster) (4:57)
7. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (3:55)
8. The Police - Murder by Numbers (4:36)
9. Oleta Adams/Tears for Fears - Woman in Chains (6:27)
10. Peter Murphy - My Last Two Weeks (6:37)
11. Cyndi Lauper - Who Let In The Rain (4:37)
12. Simply Red - Jericho (6:03)
13. Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands On Me (4:04)
14. Madonna - Open Your Heart (3:49)
15. Scritti Politti - Small Talk (3:39)
16. Prince - When You Were Mine (LP Version) (3:47)
17. Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart) (3:44)
18. Sade - The Sweetest Taboo (4:24)
19. Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly (4:19)
20. ABC - When Smokey Sings (4:18)
21. Duran Duran - Ordinary World (4:42)
22. The Outfield - Say It Isn't So (3:47)
23. Echo And The Bunnymen - Seven Seas (3:01)
24. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Accidents Will Happen (3:02)
25. Squeeze - Last Time Forever (4:13)
26. George Michael - Father Figure (5:36)
27. Morrissey - Ouija Board, Ouija Board (4:25)
28. Erasure - Waiting For The Day (3:50)
29. Deee-Lite - Good Beat (LP Version) (4:38)
30. The B-52S - Roam (4:57)
31. Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (4:01)
32. Tracy Chapman - She's Got Her Ticket (3:56)
33. UB40 - Here I Am (Come and Take Me) (3:59)
34. Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (4:48)
35. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (3:31)
36. Phil Collins - I Don't Wanna Know (4:14)
37. INXS - The One Thing (3:25)
38. Duran Duran - All She Wants Is (45 Mix) (4:26)
39. The Art Of Noise - Kiss (Aon Mix) (8:11)
40. Yello - Oh Yeah (3:04)
41. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart (LP Version) (3:52)

(eighties 5)

Son of Irregular Eighties Fridays

Another eighties set for your listening pleasure, just for today.

1. Big Country - In a Big Country (3:54)
2. The Church - Reptile (4:56)
3. Peter Murphy - Crystal Wrists (4:09)
4. Echo And The Bunnymen - Never Stop (3:42)
5. Duran Duran - Rio (US Edit) (4:44)
6. Oingo Boingo - Just Another Day (5:13)
7. Madness - Michael Caine (3:36)
8. The Motels - Only the Lonely (3:16)
9. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
10. Squeeze - Tempted (3:58)
11. UB40 - She Caught the Train (3:17)
12. Cyndi Lauper - Sisters Of Avalon (4:22)
13. Eurythmics - Who's That Girl? (3:45)
14. Falco - Munich Girls (4:17)
15. Thomas Dolby - Budapest By Blimp (8:39)
16. Prince - Dirty Mind (LP Version) (4:14)
17. Madonna - Justify My Love (4:54)
18. Pet Shop Boys - One More Chance (5:30)
19. Simply Red - Money's Too Tight (To Mention) (4:12)
20. The KLF - Whitney Joins the Jams (7:09)
21. INXS - Need You Tonight (3:03)
22. The Time - Jungle Love (5:32)
23. Johnny Clegg - Cruel Crazy Beautiful World (Live) (4:57)
24. The Outfield - 61 Seconds (4:18)
25. The Kinks - Life On The Road (5:02)
26. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - High Fidelity (2:28)
27. The Pretenders - Talk Of The Town (3:13)
28. Squeeze - King George Street (3:48)
29. Thompson Twins - Sister Of Mercy (5:07)
30. The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (3:31)
31. Crowded House - Four Seasons in One Day (2:48)
32. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Little Miss S. (3:39)
33. The Fixx - Red Skies (4:35)
34. The Church - Metropolis (4:45)
35. The Bangles - In Your Room (3:29)
36. The Cult - Zap City (5:15)
37. Book of Love - Chatterbox Pt. 2 (3:31)
38. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring (6:48)
39. Genesis - Man On The Corner (2007 Remastered LP Version) (4:27)
40. U2 - A Sort Of Homecoming (4:05)
41. Simple Minds - Sanctify Yourself (4:59)

(eighties 4)

This Week in the Shack

I've been slammed at work, so I'm rerunning this soul music set from last November this week.

This Week in the Shack

This week, the Shotgun Shack goes back to New Orleans and the surrounding area.

1. Tuts Washington - Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans (2:53)
2. Preservation Hall Jazz Band;Dr. John - Winin' Boy Blues (5:33)
3. Allen Toussaint - Singin' The Blues (5:40)
4. Kid Ory - Do What Ory Say (4:27)
5. Sidney Bechet - Muskrat Ramble (3:42)
6. Wynton Marsalis - Smokehouse Blues (4:50)
7. Jon Cleary - Tipitina (Live) (8:36)
8. Buckwheat Zydeco - I've Had Trouble With The Blues (4:05)
9. Tab Benoit - Blues So Bad (3:50)
10. Sonny Landreth - Broken Hearted Road (4:44)
11. Preservation Hall Jazz Band;Yim Yames - St. James Infirmary (4:55)
12. Sidney Bechet - Lazy River (4:07)
13. Kermit Ruffins - Li'l Liza Jane (3:55)
14. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - I Shall Not Be Moved (4:58)
15. BeauSoleil - Zydeco Gris-Gris (3:38)
16. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Jockomo, Jockomo (5:56)
17. The Meters - Hey Pocky A-Way (4:04)
18. Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band - Mardi Gras In New Orleans (6:12)
19. Kermit Ruffins - Ole Miss Blues (4:14)
20. ReBirth Brass Band - Roll With It (7:48)
21. Stanton Moore - Big 'Uns Get the Ball Rolling (5:44)
22. Jon Cleary - All Right Now (4:22)
23. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:49)
24. Dr. John - Bring Your Love (6:01)
25. Zachary Richard - Crawfish (4:19)
26. ReBirth Brass Band - Glory, Glory/Jesus on the Mainline (4:55)
27. Preservation Hall Jazz Band;Tom Waits - Corinne Died On The Battlefield (3:16)
28. Neville Brothers - Will The Circle Be Unbroken (5:15)
29. Sonny Landreth - Deep South (6:25)
30. Allen Toussaint - Cruel Way To Go Down (3:52)
31. Walter "Wolfman" Washington - You Can Stay But the Noise Must Go (6:18)
32. Marcia Ball - Louisiana 1927 (6:54)
33. Dr. John; Lower 911 - My People Need a Second Line (5:17)
34. Henry Butler; Irma Thomas - River Is Waiting (4:04)
35. Sonny Landreth feat. Bonnie Raitt & Stephen Bruton - Soul Salvation (2:57)
36. Zachary Richard - Johnny Danse (3:56)
37. Professor Longhair - Big Chief (3:14)

(NOLA 5)

In which there is more 80s music

Looks like it's time for another one-day eighties playlist.

1. Book of Love - Boy (2:57)
2. Duran Duran - Save A Prayer (Single Version) (3:47)
3. Love And Rockets - No New Tale to Tell (3:26)
4. Midnight Oil - Sell My Soul (3:37)
5. Genesis - Me And Sarah Jane (6:02)
6. The Fixx - Less Cities, More Moving People (3:54)
7. Oingo Boingo - Out of Control (4:10)
8. Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame (4:12)
9. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (4:30)
10. Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything (5:03)
11. Squeeze - Up the Junction (3:09)
12. The Pretenders - Message Of Love (3:25)
13. David Bowie - Blue Jean (1999 Digital Remaster) (3:11)
14. The B-52S - Dry County (4:54)
15. The Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (5:38)
16. Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring (6:48)
17. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (5:42)
18. Janet Jackson - Escapade (4:45)
19. Bobby Brown - Roni (6:20)
20. Cameo - She's Strange (7:12)
21. Yello - Vicious Games (4:20)
22. PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (4:11)
23. Culture Club - The War Song (4:16)
24. ABC - Poison Arrow (3:23)
25. Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat (3:39)
26. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One (3:31)
27. Erasure - Home (4:13)
28. Johnny Clegg - Jericho (Live) (4:31)
29. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (4:19)
30. Echo And The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (4:12)
31. The Cure - In Between Days (2:57)
32. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing (2:11)
33. The Sundays - Hideous Towns (3:47)
34. Marillion - Just For The Record (1999 Digital Remaster) (3:09)
35. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (5:29)
36. The Sisters of Mercy - Driven Like the Snow (6:27)
37. Peter Murphy - Roll Call (Reprise) (8:17)
38. Yello - Desert Inn (3:30)
39. Eurythmics - Missionary Man (3:47)
40. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up (3:16)
41. INXS - Kiss The Dirt (3:56)

(eighties 3)

This Week in the Shack

We return to (mostly) soul and funk this week, with a set that meanders around various styles.

1. Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime (2:39)
2. The Shangri-Las - Remember (Walking In The Sand) (2:20)
3. Steve Miller Band - Quicksilver Girl (Digitally Remastered 90) (2:43)
4. War - Summer (4:03)
5. Darondo - Listen to My Song (4:17)
6. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother (2:43)
7. Joss Stone - Super Duper Love (Are You Diggin on Me?), Pt. 1 (4:20)
8. Little Beaver - Hit Me With Funky Music (3:42)
9. The Impressions - The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (2:01)
10. Al Green - Let's Stay Together (3:17)
11. Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) (2:45)
12. Jackson 5 - Make Tonight All Mine (3:18)
13. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
14. Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown (4:52)
15. Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie (3:04)
16. Mingo Fishtrap - Out of Control (6:14)
17. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
18. Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come) (3:19)
19. The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7:00)
20. Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You (3:48)
21. Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions (2:54)
22. Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (2:21)
23. The Blues Brothers - Rubber Biscuit (2:59)
24. Otis Redding - Shout Bamalama (1:57)
25. Larry Williams - Boney Moronie (3:08)
26. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie (3:42)
27. King Curtis - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours (2:36)
28. Junior Walker & the All-Stars - Shotgun (2:59)
29. Ike And Tina Turner - Proud Mary (The Funky Version) (2:40)
30. Solomon Burke - The Mighty Quinn (2:59)
31. The Staple Singers - Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) (3:12)
32. Soul Children - Doin' Our Thang (2:35)
33. Mel and Tim - Good Guys Only Win in the Movies (2:46)
34. Major Lance - The Monkey Time (2:48)
35. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - The Tears of a Clown (3:15)
36. Aretha Franklin - Think (2:17)
37. T Bird and the Breaks - Two Tone Cadillac (4:35)
38. James Brown - Licking Stick-Licking Stick (4:52)
39. The Meters - Jungle Man (3:25)
40. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
41. Johnny Guitar Watson - Cop & Blow (5:11)
42. Marvin Gaye - Anna's Song (5:53)
43. Solange Knowles - Ode to Marvin (3:15)
44. The Chi-Lites - Love Uprising (2:31)
45. Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (2:43)
46. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes - If You Don't Know Me by Now (3:26)
47. Aaron Neville - Life On The Layaway Plan (Dark Streets Album Version) (4:11)
48. Elijah Kelley - Shining Star (2:52)
49. Funk Brothers, The - Cloud Nine - Live Me'Shell Ndeg?Ocello (4:41)
50. Joan Osborne - Baby Is a Butterfly (3:55)
51. Dusty Springfield - Spooky (2:41)

(soul 27)

Blues on the Green

The schedule for the 20th anniversary of the free Blues on the Green concerts has finally been released:

June 9 - Texas Tornadoes
June 23 - Antone's 35th Anniversary Show w/ Carolyn Wonderland & Special Guests
July 7 - Alejandro Escovedo
July 21 - TBA
Aug 4 - Charlie Mars w/ Amy Cook
Aug 18 - Raul Malo

The concerts will be back at Zilker Park this year.

This Week in the Shack

This week's program features country blues, bluegrass, jug band music, hokum blues, western swing, gospel, and the places where two or more of those overlap. A couple of things converged to inspire this set: I've discovered and been listening to a lot of the new generation of bluegrass/americana musicians this year, including Sarah Jarosz, Crooked Still, The Duhks, The Lovell Sisters, and The Carolina Chocolate Drops - all of which are found in the set (and as an aside, if you like this stuff, eMusic has a very nice selection to start building a collection). For the last week, I've also been reading Larry Nager's history of Memphis music, Memphis Beat: The Lives and Times of America's Musical Crossroads, and have particularly enjoyed the chapters on the first great era of the blues and on the link between Memphis' Beale Street and Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. On top of that, of course, is that in general this is music from the twenties, thirties, and forties, and everything about the period from the end of the Civil War to the end of the Second World War interests me, and very little more than the music from the last half of that era, whether it's the styles represented here, jazz, or the composers of the Great American Songbook. Of course, living in Austin, I'm not alone in this interest, as can be seen by the number of modern artists from Texas represented in the set: The Asylum Street Spankers, Guy Forsyth, Hot Club of Cowtown, The Boxcar Preachers, Sarah Jarosz, Asleep at the Wheel, The White Ghost Shivers, Clandestine, Willie Nelson, and Steve Earle all hail from the Lone Star State.

It took a bit longer than usual to put this set together, but I'm quite pleased with it. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Asylum Street Spankers - Asylum Street Blues (5:15)
2. Old Crow Medicine Show - Cocaine Habit (2:42)
3. Robinella and the CC Stringband - Tennessee Saturday Nite (2:57)
4. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Walk On (3:29)
5. Rory Block - Maggie Campbell Blues (3:06)
6. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread And Butterbeans (3:09)
7. The Hot Club Of Cowtown - Ida Red (3:06)
8. Nickel Creek - Smoothie Song (3:20)
9. Sarah Jarosz - Song Up In Her Head (2:42)
10. Ollabelle - Soul of a Man (3:59)
11. Clandestine - A World Turned Upside Down (2:31)
12. Eric Bibb - No More Cane On The Brazos (5:01)
13. J.B. Lenoir - Slow Down Woman-1 (3:24)
14. Boxcar Preachers - Influenza (4:31)
15. Guy Forsyth - God Moves on the Water (3:37)
16. Patty Griffin Featuring Regina McCrary And Ann McCrary - If I Had My Way (3:24)
17. Asylum Street Spankers - Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (2:42)
18. The Lovell Sisters - In My Time Of Dyin' (3:31)
19. Buddy Guy, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Fred Below - First Time I Met The Blues (4:32)
20. Taj Mahal - Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (3:34)
21. Brownie McGhee - Preachin' the Blues (2:33)
22. Cephas & Wiggins - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (3:46)
23. Gus Cannon - Minglewood Blues (3:47)
24. White Ghost Shivers - Tell It to Me (2:54)
25. Guy Forsyth - Jerry The Junker (3:38)
26. Crooked Still - Ain't No Grave (3:21)
27. The Duhks - Mists Of Down Below (4:23)
28. Levon Helm Band - Deep Elem Blues (6:38)
29. Derwood Brown & His Musical Brownies - Bring It on Down to My House (2:50)
30. Hot Club of Cowtown - Pray for the Lights to Go Out (3:27)
31. Memphis Jug Band - Gator Wobble (2:48)
32. Son House - Empire State Express (3:41)
33. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Rock Island Line (3:18)
34. Jake Leg Stompers - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane (2:44)
35. Old Crow Medicine Show - Hard to Tell (3:15)
36. Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys - Clinch Mountain Backstep (2:23)
37. The Lovell Sisters, Bearfoot & The New Generation Jam - Darling Corey (3:32)
38. Steve Earle - White Freightliner Blues (3:27)
39. The Sojourners - He Calls That Religion (4:00)
40. Harlem Hamfats - Hallelujah Joe Ain't Preachin' No More (3:06)
41. Willie Nelson/Asleep at the Wheel - Hesitation Blues (2:47)
42. Precious Bryant - Morning Train (3:00)
43. Luther Dickinson/The Sons of Mudboy - Back Back Train (4:35)
44. Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail (2:40)
45. Rory Block - Preachin' Blues (3:32)
46. Ian Siegal - Mary Don't You Weep (Live) (3:55)
47. Taj Mahal - Sweet Home Chicago (3:15)
48. Etta James - St. Louis Blues (4:32)
49. Leadbelly - Midnight Special (3:07)
50. Muddy Waters - You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (3:22)
51. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman (6:19)

(blues 33)

The Return of Irregular Eighties Fridays

For today only, another set of eighties music to get you through your Friday and into the weekend. This week's regular broadcast will resume on Saturday.

1. Prince - Starfish and Coffee (2:50)
2. Scritti Politti - Perfect Way (4:33)
3. UB40 - Come Out to Play (3:15)
4. The Beat/ The English Beat - Too Nice To Talk To (3:07)
5. Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers (5:34)
6. The B-52S - Deadbeat Club (4:56)
7. The Sundays - You're Not the Only One I Know (3:51)
8. The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (3:36)
9. The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat (5:13)
10. Spandau Ballet - True (5:38)
11. Culture Club - Miss Me Blind (4:32)
12. Pet Shop Boys - Two Divided by Zero (3:34)
13. ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now (3:33)
14. Simple Minds - Ghost Dancing (4:44)
15. U2 - Party Girl (3:21)
16. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (1994 Digital Remaster) (4:05)
17. Depeche Mode - Sacred [Live at Pasadena Rose Bowl, June 18, 1988] (5:12)
18. Violent Femmes - Add It Up [#][Live] (6:13)
19. Madness - One Step Beyond (3:32)
20. The Specials - International Jet Set (4:09)
21. Scritti Politti - The Word Girl (4:24)
22. Erasure - Chorus (4:27)
23. Madonna - Who's That Girl (3:58)
24. Yello - Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch) (3:35)
25. Berlin - Metro (4:19)
26. Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (4:12)
27. The Cure - Just Like Heaven (3:32)
28. Midnight Oil - Warakurna (4:37)
29. The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town (4:19)
30. Shelleyan Orphan - Muddied-Up (5:17)
31. Cyndi Lauper - True Colors (3:48)
32. U2 - "40" (3:45)
33. Marillion - Childhoods End? (4:32)
34. Bronski Beat - Smalltown boy (5:03)
35. The Cult - Brother Wolf Sister Moon (6:47)
36. The Sisters of Mercy - Flood II (6:46)
37. INXS - Don't Change (4:28)
38. The Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (2:47)
39. Big Country - Harvest Home (4:23)
40. Tears for Fears - Break It Down Again (4:31)
41. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation (5:29)

(Eighties 2)

This Week in the Shack

This week's set is a repeat of the soul set that ran the week of April 19 last year. However, the calendar is once more up to date, including dates for several additional artists: Jimi Lee, W.C. Clark, Omar & The Howlers, and The White Ghost Shivers. I also intend to have another one-day set this Friday. Next week, we'll return with a new program of country, Piedmont, and Delta blues and Americana.

This Week in the Shack

A return to blues this week, as I recover from bluesSHOUT and get ready to DJ at Kick Butt Blues this Friday. I'll try to get the calendar current this week and will do another one-day eighties show either this Friday or next.

1. James Cotton/Johnny Winter/Muddy Waters - Black Cat Bone/Dust My Broom [#] (5:53)
2. Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor [*] (5:17)
3. Malford Milligan Band - Shake 'Em On Down (3:13)
4. Warner Williams with Jay Summerour - Worried Life Blues (3:08)
5. Alfred Harris - Blues and Trouble (2:51)
6. Little Walter - Quarter to Twelve (3:10)
7. Fleetwood Mac - Jumping At Shadows (Live) (4:48)
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - The Things (That) I Used to Do (4:54)
9. Long John Baldry - Let's Burn Down the Cornfield (4:11)
10. John Hammond, Jr. - Come on in This House (3:58)
11. Memphis Slim - Wind Gonna Rise (4:05)
12. Lowell Fulson - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (2:37)
13. Asylum Street Spankers - Asylum Street Blues (5:15)
14. Guy Forsyth - God Moves on the Water (3:37)
15. Koko Taylor - Insane Asylum (4:22)
16. Big Bill Broonzy - Leavin' Day (3:01)
17. Dinah Washington - Good Daddy Blues (2:25)
18. Count Basie/Joe Turner - Honey Hush (2:39)
19. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:31)
20. Maria Muldaur - New Orleans Hop Scop Blues (3:33)
21. Sunnyland Slim - Tin Pan Alley (3:48)
22. Tom Waits - Jitterbug Boy (3:44)
23. Eric Bibb - No More Cane On The Brazos (5:01)
24. Rory Block - I Let My Daddy Do That (2:15)
25. Teresa James And The Rhythm Tramps - Eieio (3:53)
26. Marcia Ball - Louella (6:27)
27. Eden Brent - Fried Chicken (3:55)
28. Shorty Long - Richland Woman (2:52)
29. Cephas & Wiggins - Worried Life Blues (3:18)
30. Wynton Marsalis - New Orleans Bump (4:32)
31. Duke Ellington's Famous Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy (5:12)
32. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Complicated Life (3:44)
33. Dr. Michael White - Late Night Blues (6:04)
34. Rusty Martn - Honky Tonk Woman (4:27)
35. Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos - Juke Joints & Honkytonks (4:46)
36. Janiva Magness - I'm Gonna Play The Honky Tonks (3:20)
37. Johnny Copeland - Hooked, Got Tied & Collared (4:16)
38. Etta James - W-O-M-A-N (3:17)
39. Christine Kittrell - I'm a Woman (2:33)
40. Luther Snakeboy Johnson - Hoochie Coochie Man (5:12)
41. Satan and Adam - No More Doggin' (4:09)
42. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Big Boss Man (3:10)
43. Jimmy Rogers - Got My Mojo Working (6:03)
44. Jimmy Reed - Take Out Some Insurance (2:20)
45. Paul Orta & Tonky De La Pena - Bright Lights, Big City (3:37)
46. Bo Diddley - Before You Accuse Me (3:07)

(blues 32)

This Week in the Shack

This week, The Shotgun Shack serves up a big helping of funk, with a little bit of soul to wash it down.

1. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
2. Fatback Band - New York Style (5:25)
3. Lonnie Smith - Where It's At (6:58)
4. Billy Preston - Billy's Bag (3:46)
5. Brownout - African Battle (3:04)
6. Liquid Soul - Stop By Monie's (3:54)
7. Tower of Power - This Type Of Funk (5:21)
8. Mingo Fishtrap - Land of Dreams (4:22)
9. The Meters - Jungle Man (3:25)
10. Willie Hutch - Sunshine Lady (3:56)
11. Isaac Hayes - Bumpy's Blues (4:01)
12. The Intruders - Cowboys To Girls (2:37)
13. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (5:05)
14. Orgone - Sophisticated Honky (4:56)
15. El Michels Affair - El Pueblo Unido (3:37)
16. African Music Machine - Making Nassau Fruit Drink (2:29)
17. Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up (2:39)
18. Breakestra - No Matter Where You Go (5:51)
19. James Brown - I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1 (3:30)
20. The Poets Of Rhythm - More Mess On My Thing (4:12)
21. The Bamboos - Eel Oil (3:05)
22. The Ugly Americans - Boom Boom Baby (3:59)
23. Alice Russell - Crazy (4:07)
24. Corinne Bailey Rae - Enchantment (3:57)
25. The Whitefield Brothers - Prowlin' (5:57)
26. Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl (4:03)
27. Willie Hutch - Ain't That (Mellow, Mellow) (2:58)
28. Me'Shell Ndegéocello - If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) (4:30)
29. Axiom Funk (various artists) - Under the Influence (Jes Grew) (5:44)
30. Sly & the Family Stone - Luv N' Haight (4:04)
31. Earth, Wind & Fire - In the Stone (4:24)
32. Eric Burdon; War - Spill the Wine (4:52)
33. The Budos Band - Mas O Menos (3:40)
34. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
35. The Beginning of the End - Funky Nassau, Pt. 2 (1:59)
36. Booker T. Jones - Hey Ya (3:52)
37. King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew (8:22)
38. Kashmere Stage Band - Do Your Thing [Extended Version][#] (5:23)
39. Curtis Mayfield - No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) (4:57)
40. Marvin Gaye - A Funky Space Reincarnation (8:18)
41. Leon Ware - Body Heat (4:44)

In which I change my mind

I've decided to go ahead and post the eighties setlist. I started The Shotgun Shack partly to make myself spend more time working with my soul and blues libraries, with the idea that the more I did so, the better DJ I'd be in the dance scene. When you get down to the very basics, though, the reason I DJ here or at dances is because I love music.

I *love* music. And I love sharing that music with others, and maybe turning them on to things they've never heard. It's always rewarding when people come up to me at gigs to ask about a song I played. It seems, then, against the spirit of sharing the music to not post the one-day eighties setlists. I'm keeping them separate from the regular playlists via a different label, but without further ado, here is the first Irregular! Eighties! Friday! set. I hope you dug it.

Look for a new set of funk & soul music to go up on Sunday or Monday.

1. Falco - The Sound of Musik (4:56)
2. Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love (5:44)
3. Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands On Me (4:04)
4. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster) (3:36)
5. The Art of Noise - Paranoimia (ft Max Headroom) (6:42)
6. Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (4:48)
7. ABC - Be Near Me (3:37)
8. The Cure - A Night Like This (4:16)
9. Peter Murphy - Crystal Wrists (4:09)
10. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (4:23)
11. Madonna - Into The Groove (4:45)
12. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea (3:10)
13. The Specials - Ghost Town (3:40)
14. UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry (3:26)
15. Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (4:29)
16. Yello - Desire (3:42)
17. Erasure - Waiting For Sex (4:05)
18. The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection (4:56)
19. INXS - Good Times (3:51)
20. David Bowie - Loving The Alien (1999 Digital Remaster) (7:08)
21. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (5:29)
22. Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night (4:12)
23. U2 - Bad (8:02)
24. Marillion - Sugar Mice (1999 Digital Remaster) (5:46)
25. George Michael - One More Try (5:49)
26. Sade - No Ordinary Love (7:19)
27. Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart) (3:44)
28. P.M. Dawn - Paper Doll (4:53)
29. The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat (5:13)
30. The Motels - Shame (4:10)
31. Prince - Housequake (4:41)
32. The Time - Wild and Loose (7:32)
33. Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (3:51)
34. Oingo Boingo - Not My Slave (4:46)
35. Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better (3:57)
36. The Psychedelic Furs - Here Come Cowboys (3:56)
37. Eurythmics - Missionary Man (3:47)
38. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts [Live at Pasadena Rose Bowl, June 18, 1988] (6:28)

(Eighties 1)

In which there is 80s music.

Spring is finally here after a horribly cold and long winter. Here in central Texas, the roadsides are covered with wildflowers and the redbuds and mountain laurels are in a riot of colour. To celebrate the return of warm weather, The Shotgun Shack will be occasionally switching formats on Fridays - starting tomorrow - to play eighties music (by which I actually mean music from about 1982 to about 1992). The station will switch over roughly around midnight on Thursday, and return to normal programming around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, depending on what time I get back from Kick Butt Blues on any given Friday.

I won't be posting the setlists for the eighties shows here, as I want to keep the blog focused on blues, soul, and Americana for now at least.

This Week in the Shack

Mo' betta blues. The first fourteen tracks were my set in the Syndicate's blues room last night.

1. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - I Love Her Just the Same (2:22)
2. Muddy Waters - Champagne & Reefer (4:36)
3. Iguanaman & Friends - Work, Dog, Work (4:29)
4. Guy Forsyth - Needle Gun (5:12)
5. Gary Clark, Jr. - Blue Light Boogie (2:59)
6. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin' (3:09)
7. Etta James - Driving Wheel (2:59)
8. Chicken Shack - I'd Rather Go Blind (3:17)
9. Greg Szlapczynski - Paris, Texas (3:51)
10. Sidney Bechet - The Mooche (3:10)
11. Nina Simone - Be My Husband (3:22)
12. Asylum Street Spankers - Song With No Words (4:14)
13. Porterdavis - Come On In My Kitchen (5:53)
14. Ray Charles - Night Time Is the Right Time (3:28)
15. Count Basie/Joe Turner - The Honeydripper (6:45)
16. Johnny Shines - Cool Driver (2:55)
17. Eric Gales - Custard Pie (4:01)
18. Keb' Mo' - Stack O Lee (2:02)
19. Rory Block - Joliet Bound (3:13)
20. Cephas & Wiggins - Pigmeat (3:48)
21. Taj Mahal - Corrina (4:28)
22. The Band - Jemima Surrender (3:31)
23. Eden Brent - Mississippi Number One (3:55)
24. Marcia Ball - Watermelon Time (4:04)
25. Syl Johnson - Me and Bobby McGee (5:42)
26. Hollywood Fats Band - Poor Boy (4:16)
27. Seth Walker - I Got A Song (3:39)
28. Jack McDuff - Light Blues (6:08)
29. Little Walter - Mean Old World (2:57)
30. Satan and Adam - Cry To Me (6:29)
31. James Cotton - Three Hundred Pounds of Joy (3:38)
32. W.C. Clark - Stronger Than You Need to Be (4:05)
33. Fabulous Thunderbirds - Sofa Circuit (3:34)
34. Shemekia Copeland - Who Stole My Radio? (3:57)
35. Saffire -- The Uppity Blues Women - Too Much Butt (3:38)
36. Natalie Cole;Mavis Staples;Ruth Brown - Men Are Just Like Street Cars (4:25)
37. Alberta Hunter - A Good Man Is Hard to Find (3:59)
38. Jazz Me Blues Band / Yoko Noge - Rocks in My Bed (9:16)
39. Ellis Marsalis/Wynton Marsalis - Little Birdie (4:24)
40. Ernestine Anderson - Goin' to Chicago Blues (4:52)
41. Jimmy Witherspoon - Past Forty Blues (4:23)
42. Guy Davis - Cypress Grove (5:06)
43. Sugarcane Collins - Got A Mind To Ramble (4:29)

(blues 31)

This Week in the Shack

This week, the Shack presents a collection of Texas blues, soul, Americana, and country music. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - Dublin Blues (Guy Clark) (4:29)
2. Guy Forsyth - Calico Girl (4:19)
3. Kris McKay - Tear-Stained Eye (3:46)
4. The Ugly Americans - Orlando (3:55)
5. Seth Walker - Something Fast (3:39)
6. Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmy Vaughn - Jimmy Reed Highway (4:04)
7. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Screw You, We're from Texas (4:01)
8. Fabulous Thunderbirds - C-Boy's Blues (2:56)
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town) (9:11)
10. Malford Milligan Band - Open Your Eyes (5:18)
11. Bob Schneider - 40 Dogs (Like Romeo And Juliet) (4:13)
12. Jon Dee Graham - Great Battle (4:51)
13. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
14. Papa Mali - Keep Happy (4:41)
15. Mingo Fishtrap - Bitta Honey (5:24)
16. Steamheat - Keep Your Eyes On Your Merchandise (3:15)
17. Brownout - Framed by Death (3:28)
18. The Scabs - Tarantula (5:48)
19. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot (3:17)
20. T Bird and the Breaks - Two Tone Cadillac (4:35)
21. Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music (2:30)
22. E.R. Shorts - Panama City Blues (5:41)
23. W.C. Clark - My Texas Home (4:53)
24. Freddie King - Same Old Blues (3:58)
25. Last Real Texas Blues Band Featuring Doug Sahm - Honky Tonk [Live] (6:44)
26. Gary Clark, Jr - Catfish Blues (4:53)
27. James McMurtry - Bayou Tortous (4:52)
28. Marcia Ball - Down the Road (4:12)
29. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - Tom Ames' Prayer (Steve Earle) (3:22)
30. Robert Earl Keen - Let The Music Play (5:36)
31. Jackopierce - Texas (4:24)
32. McClinton, Delbert - "B" Movie Boxcar Blues (3:52)
33. Albert Collins - Blue Monday Hangover (5:33)
34. T-Bone Walker - Stormy Monday (3:02)
35. Asylum Street Spankers - Got My Mojo Workin' (4:26)
36. Ruthie Foster - Walk On (4:10)
37. Blind Willie Johnson - When The War Was On (3:01)
38. Jud Newcomb - Midnight Hour Blues (5:38)
39. Sue Foley - Positively 4th Street (4:38)
40. porterdavis - Grass Growing Through Concrete (4:17)

(Texas 7)

DJing this Friday

I'll be DJing at Kick Butt Blues (at the Kick Butt Coffee on Airport Blvd) this Friday night.

This Week in the Shack

A new soul & funk set in the Shack this week. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain (2:29)
2. Major Lance - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um (2:20)
3. Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind (2:45)
4. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Crazy About the La La La (2:53)
5. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady (3:12)
6. The Isley Brothers - Shout, Pts. 1-2 (4:27)
7. Little Milton - Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World) (2:48)
8. Stevie Wonder - Superstition (4:26)
9. Parliament - Up for the Down Stroke (5:09)
10. Etta James - If You Want Me to Stay (5:20)
11. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Vocal Version] (4:35)
12. Isaac Hayes - Need To Belong To Someone (5:16)
13. James Carr - The Dark End Of The Street (2:34)
14. Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart (2:25)
15. Joan Osborne - Spooky (4:03)
16. Sly & the Family Stone - Frisky (3:12)
17. Daryl Hall & John Oates - She's Gone (3:28)
18. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement (4:16)
19. Me'Shell Ndegéocello - I'm Diggin' You (Like an Old Soul Record) (4:25)
20. Little Jackie - 28 Butts (3:08)
21. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - What Have You Done For Me Lately? (3:16)
22. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - Same Beat, Pts. 1-3 (7:46)
23. Billy Preston - Ferry Across the Mersey (2:49)
24. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman [Alternate Mix][#] (6:10)
25. Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You (3:48)
26. Phoebe Snow - Piece of My Heart (5:14)
27. The Staple Singers - Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom) (3:12)
28. Raphael Saadiq - Sure Hope You Mean It (3:40)
29. Marvin Gaye - Groovin' (2:57)
30. Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum) (2:41)
31. Sam Cooke - Cupid (2:37)
32. James Hunter - Kick It Around (1:58)
33. Wilson Pickett - Land of 1000 Dances (2:26)
34. Mingo Fishtrap - Without Question (3:58)
35. Aretha Franklin - Respect (4:08)
36. Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High (3:56)
37. Bettye Lavette - Down To Zero (3:10)
38. Joss Stone - Dirty Man (2:59)
39. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping (3:28)
40. Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America (Live) (8:23)
41. Jon Cleary - When U Get Back (Live) (7:32)
42. Donny Hathaway - Giving Up (6:24)
43. Niamh Kavanagh - Destination: Anywhere (3:09)
44. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tears of a Clown (3:04)
45. The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg (2:35)
46. The Four Tops - Walk Away Renee (2:45)
47. Van Morrison - Caravan (5:02)

(soul 25)