Eighties Friday

Sometimes you wake up several hours after going to sleep, because some part of your subconscious realizes that you didn't start the new program on the radio station. I'm not a fan of days like these.

1. Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) (3:43)
2. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (5:59)
3. Erasure - Turns The Love To Anger (3:56)
4. Yaz - Bring Your Love Down (4:40)
5. Oingo Boingo - Just Another Day (5:13)
6. Missing Persons - Walking In L.A. (3:59)
7. Adam & The Ants - Stand And Deliver (3:33)
8. The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket (3:47)
9. The Motels - Only the Lonely (3:16)
10. Corey Hart - Never Surrender (4:54)
11. Mr Mister - Kyrie (4:16)
12. ABC - When Smokey Sings (4:18)
13. Marillion - Freaks (1998 Digital Remaster) (4:08)
14. U2 - Party Girl (3:21)
15. Tracy Chapman - For My Lover (3:12)
16. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Air of December (5:59)
17. Phil Collins - Droned (2:49)
18. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? (3:06)
19. Peter Murphy - Deep Ocean Vast Sea (4:09)
20. David Bowie - Blue Jean (1999 Digital Remaster) (3:11)
21. Talking Heads - Lifetime Piling Up (3:53)
22. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (4:45)
23. Prefab Sprout - Life Of Surprises (4:05)
24. The Style Council - The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter) (4:56)
25. Scritti Politti - Perfect Way (4:33)
26. Prince - Starfish and Coffee (2:50)
27. Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything (5:03)
28. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Crimson and Clover (3:17)
29. Pretenders - My City Was Gone (5:25)
30. The Hooters - And We Danced (3:48)
31. Bruce Hornsby and the Range - On The Western Skyline (4:41)
32. Madonna - True Blue (4:18)
33. Pet Shop Boys - Later Tonight (2:46)
34. The Sundays - Goodbye (4:45)
35. The Smiths - Cemetery Gates (2:39)
36. Tears for Fears - Mothers Talk [US Remix] (4:17)
37. The Police - Spirits in the Material World (2:58)
38. Split Enz - Dirty Creature (4:02)
39. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - New Amsterdam (2:14)
40. Crowded House - Private Universe (5:35)
41. Teardrop Explodes - Poppies (5:04)
42. Big Country - In a Big Country (3:54)
43. Jesus Jones - International Bright Young Thing (3:12)
44. The B-52S - Roam (4:57)
45. The Art Of Noise - Paranoimia (6:42)

(Eighties 18)

This Week in the Shack

This week sees the first new soul set I've done in months: lots of funk, along with Latin and California soul in this one, inspired by the start of summer.

1. War - Summer (4:03)
2. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia (4:38)
3. Darondo - Listen to My Song (4:17)
4. Leon Haywood - It's Got To Be Mellow (2:24)
5. The Rascals - Groovin' (2:30)
6. Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime (2:39)
7. Joss Stone - Don't Cha Wanna Ride (3:31)
8. Barbara Acklin - Am I the Same Girl (3:04)
9. Dusty Springfield - Spooky (2:41)
10. Marc Cohn - 29 Ways (3:05)
11. Joan Osborne - Sara Smile (3:36)
12. Aretha Franklin - Share Your Love with Me [*] (4:28)
13. Mel and Tim - Backfield in Motion (2:34)
14. Raphael Saadiq - Radio (3:21)
15. Young-Holt Unlimited - Wack Wack (3:01)
16. Booker T. Jones - Hey Ya (3:52)
17. War - Low Rider (3:11)
18. Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff (2:44)
19. Vicki Anderson - The Message from the Soul Sisters, Pts. 1-2 (5:24)
20. James Brown - Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part I) (4:31)
21. James Brown - Papa Don't Take No Mess (Part II) (5:00)
22. Breakestra - Lowdown Stank (6:41)
23. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (8:53)
24. Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing a Song (3:23)
25. Tower of Power - You Got to Funkifize (4:45)
26. Brownout - Barretta (3:23)
27. Thee Midniters - The Town I Live In (3:19)
28. War - Why Can't We Be Friends? (3:48)
29. Willie Hutch - Love Power (4:20)
30. Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness (8:02)
31. The O'Jays - Love Train (2:58)
32. MFSB/The Three Degrees - Love Is the Message (6:36)
33. The Chakachas - Jungle Fever (4:20)
34. Joe Bataan - Chick-a-Boom (3:48)
35. Incredible Bongo Band - When The Bed Breaks Down, I'll Meet You In The Spring (2:35)
36. Lonnie Smith - Paper Tiger (9:38)
37. Sly & the Family Stone - Poet (3:01)
38. Mandrill - Fencewalk (5:27)
39. The J.B.'s - (It's Not the Express) It's the J.B.'s Monaurail (8:15)
40. The Budos Band - Black Venom (3:32)
41. Marvin Gaye - I Want You [Vocal Version] (4:35)
42. Leon Ware - Body Heat (4:44)

(soul 33)

Eighties Friday

This week's eighties show is a repeat of one from last fall.

This Week in the Shack

This week's show repeats this set of Texas music from December 2009.

Eighties Friday (several days late)

Blogger was down when I put up the eighties set for last Friday, so here's the playlist:

1. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain (5:39)
2. Johnny Clegg - Scatterlings of Africa (Live) (4:11)
3. Harry Belafonte - Amandla (4:07)
4. Genesis - No Reply At All (2007 Remastered LP Version) (4:33)
5. Dire Straits - Skateaway (6:18)
6. Squeeze - Tempted (3:58)
7. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him? (3:35)
8. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Everyday I Write the Book (3:55)
9. The Jam - Town Called Malice (2:53)
10. Cutting Crew - I've Been In Love Before (Single Version) (4:02)
11. David Bowie - Loving The Alien (1999 Digital Remaster) (7:08)
12. Concrete Blonde - Walking In London (Edit) (4:49)
13. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again (3:13)
14. The Church - Almost With You (4:13)
15. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Speedboat (4:38)
16. John Mellencamp - Pop Singer (2:46)
17. The Alarm - Shelter (3:09)
18. INXS - Good Times (3:51)
19. Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time (5:44)
20. Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (4:51)
21. The Psychedelic Furs - Here Come Cowboys (3:56)
22. The Cure - In Between Days (2:57)
23. Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday (4:16)
24. Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself (5:41)
25. P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift on Memory Bliss (3:59)
26. LL Cool J - I Need Love (5:22)
27. Simply Red - Jericho (6:03)
28. Sade - The Sweetest Taboo (4:24)
29. UB40 - Come Out to Play (3:15)
30. The Clash - Train In Vain (3:09)
31. Nick Heyward - Take That Situation (3:50)
32. Culture Club - The War Song (4:16)
33. Prefab Sprout - Cars And Girls (4:25)
34. Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up (4:25)
35. Shelleyan Orphan - The Silent Day (2:46)
36. Housemartins - Happy Hour (2:22)
37. The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool (3:42)
38. Midnight Oil - Gunbarrel Highway (3:40)
39. U2 - One Tree Hill (5:22)
40. Marillion - Sugar Mice (1999 Digital Remaster) (5:46)
41. Erasure - Yahoo! (3:48)
42. Morrissey - Ouija Board, Ouija Board (4:25)
43. Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross (5:09)

(eighties 17)

This Week in the Shack

What we suddenly understood, if we hadn't known it before, was that some cities mean something to us. They are cities that somehow become a definition of ourselves. We don't have to travel to see them, to walk along their streets, we only have to know they are there. Who would want to live in a world without Paris? Or London? Rio de Janeiro, Rome, or New York?...Even if we never make the journey, we want cities like this to be there. Our lives would be diminished, somehow more barren and flat, without them.

--Samuel Charters, in "New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus", on the effect of the reports of the devastation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

This week, The Shotgun Shack plays the music of the Crescent City.

1. Earl King - No City Like New Orleans (4:33)
2. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (6:29)
3. Tab Benoit - Golden Crown (6:49)
4. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Jockomo, Jockomo (5:56)
5. Rebirth Brass Band - New Orleans Music (5:00)
6. Kermit Ruffins - Palm Court Strut (5:02)
7. Wynton Marsalis - Dead Man Blues (4:40)
8. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor (5:54)
9. Dr. John - Milneburg Joys (2:39)
10. Sammy Price - In The Evening (Take 1) (5:41)
11. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Just A Closer Walk With Thee (5:30)
12. Aaron Neville - Meetin' At The Building (2:44)
13. Booker, James - Put Out the Light (3:08)
14. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Junko Partner (4:23)
15. Jon Cleary - So Damn Good (4:28)
16. The Meters - Jungle Man (3:25)
17. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
18. The Golden Eagles - Little Liza Jane (3:38)
19. Buckwheat Zydeco - Somebody Stole My Slide (4:09)
20. Glen David Andrews - Jesus on the Main Line (5:36)
21. Fats Domino - I'm in Love Again (1:56)
22. The Barons - Boom Boom (2:20)
23. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
24. Paul Sanchez - Foot Of Canal Street (3:48)
25. Dr. Michael White - Majestic Strut (5:24)
26. Sidney Bechet - Up in Sidney's Flat (4:24)
27. Preservation Hall Jazz Band;Dr. John - Winin' Boy Blues (5:33)
28. Kid Ory - Oh, Didn't He Ramble (4:56)
29. Louis Armstrong - Dippermouth Blues (2:22)
30. New Orleans Jazz Vipers - Digga-Digga-Do (5:25)
31. Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras (2:50)
32. Sammy Price - Royal Garden Blues (5:08)
33. Billie And Dede Pierce - Billie's Gumbo Blues (3:33)
34. Allen Toussaint - West End Blues (3:51)
35. Champion Jack Dupree - Hometown New Orleans (4:20)
36. Clifton Chenier - Blues de Ma Negresse (3:09)
37. Amasa Miller, Charmaine Neville, Reggie Houston - The Right Key but the Wrong Keyhole [Live] (5:46)
38. GuitarSlim (Feat. Roosevelt Brown & Huey Smith) - Reap What You Sow (2:40)
39. Kermit Ruffins - What Is New Orleans? (8:26)
40. Paul Gayten - Baby, What's New? (2:55)
41. Glen David Andrews - Family (7:32)
42. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (3:48)

Eighties Friday

I've been out DJing tonight, so this week's eighties set is another rerun. I'll have a new one up next Friday.

This Week in the Shack

This week's set is, I think, one of the most eclectic I've done; it meanders from progressive bluegrass and alt-country to jazz, gospel, folk, blues, and various other bits. As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel (3:52)
2. Rising Appalachia - Fly Around my Pretty Lil' Miss (4:33)
3. Uncle Earl - Easy In the Early - 'Til Sundown (2:47)
4. Eric Bibb/Maria Muldaur/Rory Block - Rock Daniel (2:08)
5. Ollabelle - I Don't Want to Be That Man (5:04)
6. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - Up in Indiana (4:35)
7. Crooked Still - Oxford Town / Cumberland Gap (2:20)
8. Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii - Short Dress Gal (3:22)
9. The Love Leighs - Candy Man (5:01)
10. Boxcar Preachers - Jessie's Bones (3:05)
11. Asylum Street Spankers - Wingless Angels (4:12)
12. Steve Earle / Townes Van Zandt / Guy Clark - I Ain't Ever Satisfied - Steve Earle (4:00)
13. Jackopierce - Wildflower (2:26)
14. Billy Pilgrim - Sweet Louisiana Sound (3:34)
15. The Last Town Chorus - Huntsville, 1989 (4:28)
16. Tom Waits - Downtown Train (3:53)
17. Jon Dee Graham - World So Full (3:15)
18. The Builders And The Butchers - Bringin' Home The Rain (6:36)
19. Cowboy Junkies - To Live Is To Fly (4:53)
20. Townes Van Zandt - Two Girls (3:53)
21. Tom Petty - Friend Of The Devil [Live] (5:41)
22. Bob Dylan - One Too Many Mornings (3:47)
23. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - Saint Mary of the Woods (6:46)
24. Son Volt - Afterglow 61 (2:48)
25. Slim Harpo - Folsom Prison Blues (3:56)
26. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Pots and Pans (4:01)
27. Lucinda Williams - Greenville (3:46)
28. Madeleine Peyroux - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (3:27)
29. Paris '49 - Johnny, tu n'es pas un ange (3:57)
30. Luminescent Orchestrii - Moldavian (3:50)
31. The Hot Club Of Cowtown - Ida Red (3:06)
32. Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii - Knockin' (5:27)
33. The Sojourners - He Calls That Religion - The Sojourners (4:00)
34. White Ghost Shivers - Tell It to Me (2:54)
35. Old Crow Medicine Show - My Bones Gonna Rise Again (3:12)
36. The Duhks - Gene's Machine (5:01)
37. The Lovell Sisters - Ichetucknee Chutney (3:41)
38. Sarah Jarosz - Shankill Butchers (4:22)
39. Kelly Joe Phelps - Livin' In a Strain (4:46)
40. Levon Helm Band - Deep Elem Blues (6:38)
41. Dave Rawlings Machine - Monkey And The Engineer (3:38)
42. The Felice Brothers - Boy from Lawrence County (5:21)
43. Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice It's Alright (4:23)
44. Guy Forsyth - Midnight Train (4:59)

(americana 7)