This Week in the Shack

It's been a grey, dreary day here in Austin, which has inspired a set mostly of Americana and modern bluegrass. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel (3:52)
2. Dave Rawlings Machine - Sweet Tooth (5:20)
3. Rising Appalachia - Greasy Coat (4:51)
4. Uncle Earl - Easy In the Early - 'Til Sundown (2:47)
5. The Wailin' Jennys - Motherless Child (4:34)
6. Crooked Still - Oh, Agamemnon (4:04)
7. Clandestine - Cannonball (5:13)
8. Ollabelle - See Line Woman (7:13)
9. Chris Thomas King - Watermelon Man (6:06)
10. Taj Mahal - Cluck Old Hen (2:32)
11. Rising Appalachia - Fly Around my Pretty Lil' Miss (4:33)
12. Oh Susanna - Bootlegger's Blues (3:43)
13. The Lovell Sisters - In My Time Of Dyin' (3:31)
14. The Duhks - It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding (5:49)
15. Carolina Chocolate Drops - Kissin' And Cussin' (3:20)
16. Whiskeytown - Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel (For Kathy Poindexter) (4:32)
17. Lucinda Williams - Positively 4th Street (4:49)
18. Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne (4:50)
19. Lucero - Sweet Little Thing (3:42)
20. Cowboy Junkies - 'cause Cheap Is How I Feel (4:14)
21. Kris McKay - Tear-Stained Eye (3:46)
22. Son Volt - Live Free (3:13)
23. The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun! (4:06)
24. Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (5:31)
25. The Band - Tears Of Rage (2000 Digital Remaster) (5:23)
26. Whiskeytown - Matrimony (3:49)
27. Cowboy Junkies - Oregon Hill (4:53)
28. Bonnie Raitt - Finest Lovin' Man (4:42)
29. Susan Tedeschi - You Got the Silver (2:52)
30. Old Crow Medicine Show - Angel From Montgomery (4:30)
31. Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty (5:22)
32. Steve Earle - To Live Is To Fly (3:40)
33. Guy Forsyth - Heart of Sawdust (6:44)
34. Buddy And Julie Miller - Ellis County (3:51)
35. Patty Griffin - When It Don't Come Easy (5:01)
36. Mike West & Myshkin - Bryan, Texas (4:03)
37. Lucinda Williams - Greenville (3:46)
38. James McMurtry - Ruby and Carlos (6:37)
39. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Drunken Poet's Dream (4:20)
40. Guy Clark - Dublin Blues (4:29)

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This Week in the Shack

More blues, based around the sets I did on Friday night at Kick Butt Blues. With luck, Eighties Fridays will return this week, too.

1. 7 Walkers - King Cotton Blues (8:34)
2. Sarah Jarosz - Grandma's Hands (3:10)
3. Lightnin' Guy, Guy Forsyth, The Mighty Gators - Poison (3:46)
4. Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart & The Carolina Chocolate Drops - Busy Bootin' (2:43)
5. Crooked Still - Come On In My Kitchen (4:59)
6. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
7. Keb' Mo' - Am I Wrong (2:19)
8. Dr. John - I Don't Wanna Know (3:22)
9. Dr. Michael White - Katrina (7:52)
10. Sammy Price - St. James Infirmary (3:06)
11. Sharon Jones, Teenie Hodges & Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart - Wild About That Thing (3:44)
12. Rising Appalachia - Nobody's Fault (3:22)
13. Billie And Dede Pierce - Good Tonk Blues (5:23)
14. Nina Simone - Backlash Blues (2:31)
15. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers - The Death of J.B. Lenoir (4:18)
16. Van Morrison - The Back Room (5:28)
17. Nina Simone - Feeling Good (2:57)
18. Rising Appalachia - Chitlin' Cookin Time in Cheatham Co. (4:16)
19. Scrapomatic - Lotus (4:22)
20. Shemekia Copeland - God's Word (4:27)
21. Sammy Price - Jelly On My Mind (4:07)
22. Ida Cox - Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (3:24)
23. Sharon Jones, Teenie Hodges & Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart - It's Tight Like That (3:56)
24. Sidney Bechet - Jackass Blues (4:45)
25. Seth Walker - Lay Down (River Of Faith) (4:24)
26. Lightnin' Guy, The Mighty Gators - Me & My Blues (6:11)
27. The Spencer Thomas Band - Blackjack - Live (6:42)
28. Lyle Lovett - M-O-N-E-Y (3:29)
29. Buddy Guy Featuring B.B. King - Stay Around A Little Longer (5:00)
30. Malford Milligan Band - Time Of Dying (6:18)
31. Chris Thomas King - Canned Heat Blues (3:45)
32. Satan and Adam - No More Doggin' (4:09)
33. Elmore James - Dust My Broom (2:55)
34. Howlin' Wolf - Evil (2:55)
35. James Cotton - Stealin', Stealin' (4:47)
36. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Blues With a Feeling (3:58)
37. Billy Boy Arnold - Just Got To Know (5:08)
38. W.C. Clark - Tip of My Tongue (5:54)
39. Marcia Ball - Ride It Out (5:04)
40. Dr. John - World I Never Made (4:01)
41. Clifton Chenier - Black Snake Blues (4:26)

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This Week in the Shack

This week, The Shotgun Shack features a set mostly made up of late seventies and eighties funk and soul.

1. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child) (6:15)
2. The Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (4:49)
3. Cameo - It's Serious (8:07)
4. The Gap Band - Outstanding (6:16)
5. Keith Sweat - Twisted (4:13)
6. Earth, Wind & Fire - After the Love Has Gone (4:25)
7. Kool & The Gang - Hollywood Swinging (4:39)
8. The Chakachas - Jungle Fever (4:20)
9. War - Four Cornered Room (5:10)
10. Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay (3:01)
11. Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands (8:29)
12. Brownout - C 130 (4:08)
13. The Scabs - Tarantula (5:48)
14. Joe Bataan - Chick-a-Boom (3:48)
15. Incredible Bongo Band - Apache (4:53)
16. Mandrill - Ape Is High (5:34)
17. The Time - Jerk Out (6:48)
18. Commodores - Machine Gun (Instrumental) (2:38)
19. Chromeo - Hot Mess (3:40)
20. The Bar-Kays - Freakshow on the Dance Floor (6:35)
21. Zapp - I Can Make You Dance (Part I) (9:02)
22. Rick James - Give It to Me Baby (4:10)
23. Cameo - Single Life (4:28)
24. Steamheat - Radiator (3:53)
25. The Sahara All Stars Of Jos - Take Your Soul (7:09)
26. The Budos Band - Budos Rising (4:49)
27. Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s - More Peas [Complete Version][#] (13:44)
28. Curtis Mayfield - No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) (4:57)
29. Isaac Hayes - Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic (9:39)
30. John Legend & The Roots - I Can't Write Left Handed (11:43)
31. Lyle Workman - Funk McLovin [*] (3:22)

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This Week in the Shack

I'm back from my vacation with a somewhat apocalyptic set of roadhouse music, blues, and gospel. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane (3:34)
2. 7 Walkers - King Cotton Blues (8:34)
3. Dr. John - John Gris (5:20)
4. Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart & Sharon Jones - My Soul Is A Witness (7:45)
5. Doyle Bramhall Ii - Oh Death (5:16)
6. Ian Siegal - Revelator (John The Apostle) (6:04)
7. Chris Isaak - Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing (2:54)
8. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm (3:53)
9. Dr. John - Jinky Jinx (3:25)
10. Cowboy Junkies - This Street, That Man, This Life (3:13)
11. Lucinda Williams - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues (5:11)
12. The Snowdroppers - Swear It On The Bible (3:37)
13. Blue Oyster Cult - Roadhouse Blues (9:06)
14. Sonny Landreth - Spider-Gris (3:44)
15. Viktor Krauss - For a Good Time (4:34)
16. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
17. Ollabelle - John The Revelator (7:33)
18. Nina Simone - See Line Woman (2:38)
19. Dr. John - I Like Ki Yoka (3:43)
20. Papa Mali - Skeleton Bug (5:02)
21. Otis Taylor - Hookers in the Street (4:43)
22. Tom Waits - Get Behind the Mule (6:54)
23. Scrapomatic - Raw Head and Bloody Bones (4:30)
24. John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James (5:26)
25. 22 - Early In the Mornin´ (4:42)
26. Cowboy Junkies - Murder, Tonight, In The Trailer Park (4:32)
27. John Hammond, Jr. - 16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six (4:37)
28. Jon Dee Graham - The Restraining Order Song (4:05)
29. Dr. John - Lissen At Our Prayer (4:02)
30. Crush Collision Trio - Black Mattie (4:24)
31. John Prine - The Late John Garfield Blues (4:19)
32. Luther Dickinson/The Sons of Mudboy - Back Back Train (4:35)
33. Patty Griffin Feat. Regina McCrary And Ann McCrary - Death’s Got A Warrant (1:43)
34. Scrapomatic - Killing Yourself On Purpose (4:32)
35. Ollabelle - Before This Time (2:17)
36. 7 Walkers - 7 Walkers (5:53)
37. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou (5:15)
38. Tony Joe White - Who You Gonna Hoo-Doo Now (3:40)

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New show up tonight

Yes, I still suck. The holiday playlist is still going. However, I've put together a new set for this week, and will upload it after work. It should be going up tonight (Tuesday evening, Texas time). Weekly programming will resume from here on out, Deo volente.