radio boise playlist for week of 01/21/08

Some of the usual triggers moved me to indulge in the usual diversions towards rootsy blues and electric southern soul and swamp funk, by way of Americana and other especially rockin' stuff and junk.

If you are so moved, feel free to click on the 'Email me' link and send me your questions, comments, suggestions...

...Many thanks!


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She's A Woman / Joe Goldmark / Steelin' The Beatles

Uncommitted Man / The Gosdin Brothers / Sounds Of Goodbye

Preachin' To The Choir / Rodney Crowell / Fate's Right Hand

Operator / Roy Head / White Texas Soul Shouter

Get Up and Go / The Rutles / The Rutles

You Give Me Joy Joy / Doris Troy / Doris Troy

Reborn / Marilyn Barbarin / New Orleans Funk

I Don't Worry Myself / Johnny Adams / Grits & Grooves

Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You / Doris Duke / I'm A Loser: The Swamp Dog Sessions & More

Big Boy Pete / Dewey Terry / Chief (1972)

Neck Bones / Preston Love / Preston Love's Omaha Bar-B-Q

Stick 'Em Up / Jerry McCain / Somebody´s Been Talking - The Complete Jewel Singles 1965-1972

Cut And Dried / Jimmy Spruill / The Fire/Fury Records Story

Three Hours Past Midnight / Johnny "Guitar" Watson / 3 Hours Past Midnight

Hidden Charms / Howlin' Wolf / Chess Blues Guitar: Two Decades Of Killer Fretwork, 1949-1969

If Walls Could Talk / Little Milton / Tending His Roots

Daddy's Baby / Ted Taylor / Downtown Soulville

Peanut Duck / Marsha Gee / Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found (One Kiss Can Lead to Another)

In The Basement / Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto / Go Go Power:Chess Records

Think Twice (with LaVerne Baker) / Jackie Wilson / Mr. Excitement!

New York City Baby / Billy Hambrick / All Night Soul Stomp!

Find Yourself / Marvin Holmes / Bay Area Funk

Elephant Man / Bo Diddley / Tales From The Funk Dimension 1970-1973

Me / Otis Rush / Mourning In The Morning

The Same Thing / Muddy Waters / Electric Mud

I Can't Quit You Baby / Led Zeppelin / BBC Sessions [Live]

Pagan Baby / Creedence Clearwater Revival / Chronicle, Vol. 2

Going Down / Freddie King / Hide Away: The Best Of Freddie King

Man Of The Street / Ironing Board Sam / Grits & Grooves

Tippi Toes / The Meters / The Meters

I Don't Know What You Come To Do (Live) / Robert Randolph & The Family Band / Live At The Wetlands

radio boise playlist for week of 01/07/08

Another in the ongoing series of eclectic playlist experimentation.

How wide can one cast the net?

How many bases can be hit and still have a set of music maintain some kind of flow?

I'm sure I don't know, though I'd guess different people would have different opinions.

Your opinions, questions, suggestions are all welcome.

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Thanks for listening!


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Chim Chim Cher-Ee / Duke Ellington / Mary Poppins

The Man I Love / Coleman Hawkins / Body And Soul

I'm Gonna Whale On You / Little Arthur Matthews / Laughin' At The Blues

Did You Mean Jelly Bean (What You Said Cabbage Head) / Joe Clay / Get Hot Or Go Home: Vintage RCA Rockabilly '56-'59

Smoke Comes Out My Chimney / Skeets McDonald / Capitol Hillbilly Bop 'N' Boogie '50-'58

Tappin' That Thing / Randy Hughes / Griddle Greasin' Daddies And Dirty Cowboys

Juke Joint Mama / Denver Darling / Original Jukebox Hillbillies - "Rompin" And "Stompin"

High Heels And No Soul / Johnny Paycheck / The Little Darlin' Sound Of Johnny Paycheck: The Beginning

Let Them Knock / Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / 100 Days, 100 Nights

I Got A Bag Of My Own / James Brown / Get On The Good Foot

I Can't Stop / The Blues Busters / Behold! The Anthology

Circle Sky / The Monkees / Head

Pay Your Dues / Rolling Stones / Got To Be Worked On!

The Man Who Paints The Rainbow / Television Personalities / Privilege

Gŵr Bonheddig / Chwys / Welsh Rare Beat 2

Pills / New York Dolls / New York Dolls

Kirikyogen / Kuni Kawachi & Friends / Love,Peace & Poetry-Japanese Psychedelic Music

Missä on Marilyn ? (1971) / Those Lovely Hula Hands / Psychedelic Phinland: Finnish Hippie & Underground Music 1967 - 1974

White Room / Joel Grey / Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off!

Our Fairy Tale / The Herd / Paradise Lost

It's A Great Life / The 5th Dimension / Stoned Soul Picnic

Yes I Am / Margo Guryan / Hows About That Then

I'm High On You / Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan / Weird Scenes Inside The Birdhouse

What's Happening / Edison Lighthouse / The Best Of

Godfather (Speak Softly Love) / Ken Boothe / Crying Over You - Anthology

Sartana / Pierro Piccioni / More Delicious Spaghetti Western

Eso Es El Amor / The Chakachas / Jungle Fever

El Mecanico / Ibrahim Ferrer / Que Bueno Está!

On The Street Where You Live / Peggy Lee / Latin Ala Lee

As De Corazones (Bolero Cancion) / Lydia Mendoza / Vida Mia

No Breath in the Bellows / Pinetop Seven / No Breath in the Bellows

Volver / Baguette Quartette / Chez Moi

Hose / Twilight Circus / Other Worlds Of Dub

Make Hay / Pere Ubu / New Picnic Time

Hooray For Life / Jad Fair & Jason Willett / Superfine

Obsessive / New Klezmer Trio / Short For Something

radio boise playlist for week of 12/31/07

Another 'best of' show during the hectic post-holiday extrication process.

Again, a sweet stew of stuff that I last programmed round about a year ago or so.

Your questions, comments or suggestions are all welcome.
Please click the 'E-mail me' link over in the sidebar.

Thanks for listening...


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Heroes / Jill Sobule / Pink Pearl

The Good Old Bad Old Days / Anthony Newley / Pure Imagination/Ain't It Funny

Dodgy Lookin' Bird / Mike Sarne / Come Outside With

When I Turn Off The Living Room Lights / The Kinks / BBC Sessions 1964-1977

A B & C / Death By Chocolate / Death By Chocolate

Airegin / Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar

Watch The Birdie / Gene Krupa & His Orchestra feat. Anita O'Day / Uptown

Roseland Shuffle / Count Basie / Swing Station

Solitude [Take C] / Louis Armstrong / Rhythm Saved the World

Just A Gigolo / Louis Prima / V-Disc Recordings

Heavy Artillery (Artillerie Lourde) / Django Reinhardt / Djangology

Baile Baile Baile / Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos / ¡Muy Divertido!

Apewalk / Al Escobar / Explosivos: Deep Soul From The Latin Heart

Caonao / Tito Puente / King Of Kings: The Very Best Of Tito Puente

Gehakte Mambo / Mickey Katz / Borscht Riders In The Sky

Wolfie's Corner / Septeto Rodriguez / Baila! Gitano Baila!

Basketball Barmitzva / Paul Brody's Sadawi / Beyond Babylon

Midnight Cowboy / Oranj Symphonette / The Oranj Album

She Was Naked / Supersister / Supersister

Bogatini / The Four Instants / Las Vegas Grind Part 3

Creole Girl / Victor Green / Bay Area Funk 2

Make Like Shake / Shake Keane / DIG IT! The Sound Of Phase 4 Stereo

Black Is Black / Sounds Orchestral / Sounds Chartbound

Hot Sand / Anubian Lights / Naz Bar

Livingston Buzz / Radio Zumbido / Los Últimos Días Del AM

Sally Go Round The Roses / Caroleen Beatty / You're Only As Pretty As You Feel

Nasty Sex / La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata / Y Tu Mamá También

Last Orders Please / The Faces / Five Guys Walk Into A Bar...

Ol' Mountainsides / The Kingsbury Manx / The Fast Rise and Fall of the South

29 Ways / Willie Dixon / Chess Blues Classics: 1947-1956

I Got What It Takes / Koko Taylor / Chess Blues Classics: 1957 To 1967

Misty / Etta James / Tell Mama - The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions

radio boise playlist for week of 12/24/07

During the holiday madness, a 'best of'
re-issue of some sweet and lovely selections culled from a couple of shows previously aired about a year ago.

Any questions or comments, constructive or otherwise, may be directed to my e-mail, via the link on this page.

Thank you for listening, thank you for your time.


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Hollywood Diaspora / Steven Bernstein / Diaspora Hollywood

The Kiss / Judee Sill / Heart Food

The Optimist / Sandy Denny / The North Star Grassman And The Ravens

Do Right Woman / The Flying Burrito Brothers / Sacred Hearts And Fallen Angels: The Gram Parsons Anthology

My First Lover / Gillian Welch / Time (The Revelator)

Quicksilver Girl / Steve Miller Band / The Best Of 1968-1973

In My Own Dream / Paul Butterfield Blues Band / In My Own Dream

Ev'ry Night About This Time / The Ink Spots / The Anthology

The Quiet Time / Jimmy Giuffre / The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings Of Jimmy Giuffre

Glorious Tired Feeling / Oscar Brown Jr. / Mr. Oscar Brown, Jr. Goes To Washington

Let's Stay In And Make Love / Nick Lowe / The Convincer

What A Nice Way To Go / NRBQ / Diggin' Uncle Q

The Morning After / Chico Hamilton / The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings Of The Chico Hamilton Quintet

Sentimental Journey / Oscar Aleman / Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957

I Would Do Anything For You / Art Tatum / 1940-1944

Chilly Winds Don't Blow / Nina Simone / Pastel Blues/Let It All Out

Blues Walk / Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk

These Blues / Terry Adams / Terrible

Flying / Chas 'N' Dave / The World of Chas & Dave

Cryin' But My Tears Are Far Away / The Knitters / Poor Little Critter On the Road

Slow To Show / Sensations / Listen To My Shapes

Turn Me Round / Mary Lou Lord / Baby Blue

Beautiful Despair / Rodney Crowell / The Outsider

Cars / To Rococo Rot / Tonal Evidence 1999

Don't Let Me Down / Paul Weller / Revolution No. 9: A Tribute To The Beatles

Norwogian Weed / Sacred Cowboy / Mutation

There's Something On Your Mind (Part 1) / Baby Lloyd / The Best Of Loma Records: The Rise And Fall Of A 1960's Soul Label

Footprints / Wayne Shorter / Adam's Apple

radio boise playlist for week of 12/17/07

Searching for a break in the madness leads to inspired madness of a different sort.

The groove bends but doesn't break, soothes and spurs onward.

Any questions about the music, suggestions, how-dos, please head over to the 'email me' link floating somewhere on the right-hand side of this page.

Thanks for listening!


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It Had To Be You / Art Tatum / 1944

Ain't No Tellin' / Mississippi John Hurt / Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 OKeh Recordings

A Woman Acts Funny / Pine Bluff Pete / Bloodstains on the Wall - Country Blues from Specialty

I Hate A Man Like You / Lizzie Miles / First Time I Met the Blues [When The Sun Goes Down: The Secret History Of Rock & Roll]

Getting Older Every Day / Big Bill Broonzy / Great Blues Guitarists: String Dazzlers

Need Somebody / Kevin Coyne / Case History

Blues Run The Game / Jackson C Frank / Blues Run The Game

Tristano / Davy Graham / Fire In The Soul

I Don't Want To Be Terrified / Koerner, Ray & Glover / The Return Of Koerner, Ray & Glover

Crying / Jimmy Witherspoon / Spoon So Easy

Tired Of Crying Over You / Morris Pejoe / Chess Blues Guitar: 2 Decades Of Killer Fretwork 1949-1969

Things Ain't What They Used To Be / Stuff Smith / Stuff Smith & Oscar Peterson

Directly From My Heart / Little Richard / The Specialty Sessions

Ahmad's Blues / Ahmad Jamal / Okeh Jazz

Summertime / Duke Ellington / Piano In the Foreground

Washboard Blues / Art Hodes & Truck Parham / The Mercury Jazz Story

Crawdad Suite / Jimmy Giuffre / The Jimmy Giuffre 3

All Or Nothing At All / John Coltrane / Ballads

Dorthaan's Walk / Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Simmer, Reduce, Garnish & Serve

Uh, Zoom Zip / Soul Coughing / Ruby Vroom

Yak / The Lounge Lizards / Queen of All Ears

Say When / Terry Adams / Terrible

My Career As A Homewrecker / Jonathan Richman / Having a party with Jonathan Richman

La Mandoz / René Lacaille / Mapou

Everyday I Have The Blues / Billy Stewart / Go Go Power:Chess Records

Não Venhas Tarde / Carlos Ramos / The Story Of Fado

The Waters Of March / Susannah McCorkle / From Bessie To Brazil

Up From The Skies / Rickie Lee Jones / Pop Pop

radio boise playlist for week of 12/10/07

Being just another batch of moods for another batch of winter days.

Many of these selections come to us through the kindness of my good pal Snappy The Alligator.

Thanks again, Brother Man!

Questions and/or comments may be funneled to me via the 'email me' link sitting in the sidebar.

Thanks for listening!


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Carachi / The Medallions / Jungle Exotica

Reunion / Benny Golson / Modern Touch

Cascades / Oliver Nelson / The Blues And The Abstract Truth

A Natural Man / Lou Rawls / The Essential Lou Rawls

June The 15th, 1967 / Larry Coryell / Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar

Tranquilizer / Zoot Sims, Al Cohn & Tony Scott / East Coast Sounds

Booga Jazz / Melcochita Y Karamanduka / ¡Gozalo!: Bugalù Tropical

Chonqui / Willie Colón / El Malo

Uncle Wieney / The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group / Sniff

Civilization / David Byrne / Grown Backwards

Wandering Alone / Belle & Sebastian / Storytelling

Lullaby / Martina Topley-Bird / Anything

Snow / The Bevis Frond / New River Head

No Problem / Clark Terry / Color Changes

Strode Rode / Sonny Rollins / Saxophone Colossus

Get Happy / Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent, Volume One

Lost Solid Colours / The Zincs / Black Pompadour

Black Eyed Dog / Nick Drake / Made To Love Magic

Living Of Love / The Avett Brothers / Emotionalism

Go Fall Asleep Now / John Hartford / Natural To Be Gone: 1967-1970

Wintery Feeling / Jesse Winchester / Touch On The Rainy Side

These Things / Tim O'Reagan / Tim O'Reagan

Shack Up [originally recorded by A Certain Ratio] / Nouvelle Vague / Bande à Part

Good Time / Leroy / Leroy

A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger / Of Montreal / Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

Free Four / Pink Floyd / Obscured by Clouds

radio boise playlist for week of 12/03/07

Lay down and chill
Surrender to the couch
This is living
This is living

Music can engage and challenge, and it can also be furniture.
It comforts and supports you.

This was another wandering set of tunes, peppered with an altered repetition of the one fave Fabs number.

Questions, comments - - ? Please click on the 'email me' link sitting in the sidebar.

Thanks for listening!


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Tuxedo Junction / The Four Freshmen / Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 3 - Capitol Jumps - 1944-53

When This River Rolls Over You / The Stands / All Years Leaving

T.N.K. / 801 / 801 Live

Kashmir / EZ Pour Spout / Don't Shave The Feeling

Autumn Sweater / Yo La Tengo / I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Captain Easychord / Stereolab / Sound-Dust

Tomorrow Never Knows / Junior Parker / Children Of Men - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Inner Sanctum / Friends Of Dean Martinez / Atardecer

Grade-A Gray Day / Hazmat Modine / Bahamut

All Over Now / Big Sugar / 500 Pounds

Tomorrow Never Knows / Dictionaraoke / The Singing Dictionary

People Are Strange / Brave Combo / World Dance Music

Soy Campesino / Ska Cubano / Ay Caramba!

Los Twangueros / Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban / Mambo Sinuendo

How High The Moon / The Medieval Jazz Quartet plus three / The Medieval Jazz Quartet plus three

The Missing Pieces / Man / 1969 Revelation

I Can't Reach You / Petra Haden / Sings: The Who Sell Out

Put Your Hand On The Computer / They Might Be Giants / Cast Your Pod To The Wind

The Windmills Of Your Mind / Dorothy Ashby / Dusty Fingers - Volume One

Mr. Jones (Ballad Of A Thin Man) / The Grass Roots / Nuggets : San Francisco - Love Is The Song We Sing: Seismic Rumbles

Tomorrow Never Knows (demo) / The Beatles / Anthology 2

Tryin' To Win / Peter, Paul and Mary / See What Tomorrow Brings

Morning Will Come When I'm Not Ready / Lionrock / An Instinct For Detection

TomorrowNeverKnows / Beatles Decompressed / Negativland

Huma Lama / Carlew Choir / John Carter : A Rose By Any Other Name

Two Bass Shuffle / Holger Czukay / On the Way to the Peak of Normal (1981)

How Can A Poor Man Face Such Times And Live? / David Lindley & Hani Naser / Playing Even Better

Tomorrow Never Knows (1982) / Monsoon / And Your Bird Can Sing - 36 Classic Interpretations Of Beatles' Standards

radio boise playlist for week of 11/26/07

Ever have a song get stuck in your head?

Ever have an old song bring back a vivid memory of a time and place?

The vibrations don't stop when they reach your ears.

They resonate in your brain and strike sparks as they mix with thoughts and sensations.

They can dig in and set up a long-term residency.

Here was another batch of tunes. Maybe some of them are returning to you like old friends. Maybe some are new to you and will stick around.

It's not up to me, and it's not always up to you...

Questions & comments about the music, et ceteras, please click your cursor on the 'Email me' link over to the right.

Thanks!


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Armen's Theme / Ross Bagdasarian / The Mixed-Up World of Bagdasarian

Picture Book Pretty / Lawsuit / Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1991)

You Can Get It If You Really Want / Jimmy Cliff / Reggae Greats

Le Jouer La Nuit (You Won't See Me) / Stone / Pop A Paris

Ain't Talkin' / Bob Dylan / Modern Times

Don't Get Me Started / Rodney Crowell / The Outsider

Sweet Thing / The Stairs / Mexican R 'n' B

New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down / LCD Soundsystem / Sound Of Silver

This All According To You / Sensations / Listen To My Shapes

Moonlight Mile / The Rolling Stones / Sticky Fingers

Broken Bottle / Jon Langford & Sally Timms / Por Vida

Dogs / The Billy Nayer Show / The Billy Nayer Show

Point And Shoot / Yo La Tengo / I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple) / John Lennon / Children Of Men - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Confessions Of A North Beach Poet / Jerry And Mel / Warner Bros. 45

Listen Up / Bai Hong / Shanghai Lounge Divas: The Original Recordings

Cuteness Uber Alles / Jehova Hates Phred / "Bob's" Total Deafness

Mother Whale Eyeless / Doug Hilsinger With Caroleen Beatty / Brian Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Airbag / Radiohead / Live @ Ten Spot

Show Me A Little Smile / The Embrooks / Yellow Glass Perspections

That's All You Need / The Faces / Five Guys Walk Into a Bar...

The Alligator! / The Soul Inc. / Buttshakers! 1

Tehtaan vahtimestarit (1969) / Suomen Talvisota 1939-40 / Psychedelic Phinland

Over The Water / Dresch Quartett / Best Of Fono Records

Ismail Oro / Kocani Orkestar / Alone At My Wedding

Comin' Home Baby / Sexteto Electronico Moderno / Sounds From The Elegant World

Un Bocadito Tu Otro Yo (A Little Bit Me A Little Bit You) / Alfredo Domenech / Exitos del 67

So Far Away / Hank Jacobs / The Sue Records Story: The Sound Of Soul

radio boise playlist for week of 11/19/07

'Ohhh yeaahh... THIS album...

'How long has it been since I played this one? Jeez, how long has it been since I THOUGHT of this one?'

This week's show had that sort of 'use it or lose it' aspect to it.

Grabbing some of the music from my archives that for whatever reason I usually skim past - - and yet I never got rid of it.

Some treasures and memories. Barring several exceptions the average release year here was likely about 1995, give or take.

Hope you enjoyed.

Questions, suggestions, a hello - - just click on the 'email me' link.

Thanks!


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Alexis - Sandy Nelson - Rock 'n' Roll Drum Beat

Mad Tom Of Bedlam - Jolie Holland - Escondida

Intelligentactile 101 - Jesca Hoop - Kismet

Sports & Wine - Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five

1961 - Grassy Knoll - Positive

Punk Lolita (with Debbie Harry, Johnette Napolitano, & Tina Weymouth) - The Heads - No Talking Just Head

Wash Your Face In My Sink - Dream Warriors - And Now The Legacy Begins

Time Of The Future - Mother Earth - The People Tree

Tomorrow Drop Dead - The Fraternal Order Of The All (Andrew Gold) - Greetings From Planet Love

All Right Now / Ich bin blau - Torfrock - Torfrock

It's Just Too Bad - Moss Brothers - On The North Side Of The Tree

Can't You Stop That Thing? - Ron Geesin - As He Stands

The Part That Really Matters - The Proclaimers - This Is The Story

Some Stupid Love Song - Paleface - Raw

Intruder - Primus - Miscellaneous Debris

Killing Is Bad - Goober & The Peas - The Jet-Age Genius Of...

Magic 8 Ball - Cub - Box Of Hair

Get It Right - The Orange Peels - Square

Peace Of Mind - The Diggers - Mount Everest

TV - The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards (1979)

Feel Something - Holly Golightly - God Don't Like It

I Just Don't Care - Fortune & Maltese - Phabulous Pallbearers

Zero - Hayride - Elfin Magic

Over 40 - Gutterball - Weasel

I Don't Wanna Be In Love - Karl Hendricks Trio - Buick Electra

Uppers And Downers - The Fitsners - Applesauce

Another Fad - Fall-Outs - Here I Come and Other Hits

All The Kids Are Eating Prunes - The Gazillions - Have Landed

White Indians - Dog Faced Hermans - Hum Of Life

Lila Engel (Lilac Angel) - Neu! - Neu! 2

Quiet Village - Danny Gatton - 88 Elmira St.