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)