february 26th playlist:

dick hyman - thunderball (the man from o.r.g.a.n.)
the james taylor quartet - goldfinger (mission impossible)
the prisoners - better in black (a taste of pink)
the music machine - the eagle never hunts the fly (beyond the garage)
joseph payne - o lamm gottes unschuldig (johann pachelbel complete organ works volume 1)
tibor pinter - william boyce: voluntary d, largo (the hart organ of little waldingfield)
thee midniters - jump, jive and harmonize (in thee midnite hour!!!!)
peter case - entella hotel (the man with the blue post modern fragmented neo-traditionalist guitar)
john cale - heartbreak hotel (slow dazzle)
mogwai - no medicine for regret (rave tapes)
craig yaremko organ trio - three's a crowd (cyo3)
doug organ trio - low crab diet (doug organ trio)
the stranglers - sometimes (rattus norvegicus)

started with instrumental remakes of two connery/bond themes by john barry, both of which caused their welsh singers (tom jones and shirley bassey respectively) to pass out while recording!

unfortunately there will be no new show tomorrow (february 19th)

february 12 playlist:

the band - daniel and the sacred harp (stage fright)
brinsley schwarz - country girl (despite it all)
mushroom - drowsey maggie (early one morning)
annbjørg lien - nordfjordhallingen (felefeber)
anna von hausswolff - sova (ceremony)
dave babcock and the nightkeepers - dusk till dawn (dusk till dawn)
jimmy mcgriff and groove holmes - the preacher's tune (giants of the organ in concert)
bessie smith - reckless blues (1924-1925)
clutch - who's been talking? (robot hive/exodus)
muddy waters - i just want to make love to you (electric mud)
caravan - winter wine (in the land of grey and pink)

the sort-of sequel to the all-time classic bessie smith record of st. louis blues, featuring, like its predecessor, louis armstrong and some guy named fred longshaw. fred plays the rickety old reed organ and actually co-wrote reckless blues!

february 5 playlist:

the budos band - the volcano song (the budos band)
shirley scott with stanley turrentine - soul shoutin' (soul shoutin')
mogwai - stanley kubrick (ep)
the sensational alex harvey band - faith healer (next...)
willy deville - needles and pins (horse of a different color)
sir douglas quintet - bacon fat (the prime of sir douglas quintet)
andre williams & the sadies - america (you say "a change is gonna come") (night & day)
the sadies - the mohawk (tales of the rat fink: original soundtrack)
dupree - cookin' at the continental (nuestro camino)
billy bragg & wilco - hot rod hotel (mermaid avenue, vol. 2)
bruce springsteen - old dan tucker (we shall overcome: the seeger sessions)
bob dylan - i want you (blonde on blonde)
james brown - king heroin (there it is)
james chance - i don't want to be happy (irresistible impulse)
peter b's looners - if you wanna be happy (the fleetwood mac family album)

happy birthday al kooper, who rocks it on "i want you." as well, alex harvey would have been 79 today!