july 30 playlist:

sugarman 3 - your friendly neighborhood sugarman (what the world needs now)
eumir deodato - flap (os catedraticos)
rodriguez - i wonder (cold fact)
beastie boys - lighten up (check your head)
dr. feelgood - the more i give (down by the jetty)
gerard van reenen - scott joplin: the entertainer (digital download)
florence mahon - ralph vaughan williams: rhosymedre ("lovely") (souvenirs: scarboro united church organ)
don nix - the shape i'm in (living by the days)
the mar-keys - last night (the stax story)
freddie king - the shape i'm in (living by the days)
booker t. & the mg's - hi ride (melting pot)
otis taylor - romans had their way (otis taylor's contraband)
buddy guy - when my left eye jumps (left my blues in san francisco)

booker t. jones's incredible legacy loomed even larger than usual over today's show- don't be surprised if he comes up again next week for the blues special featuring special guest co-hosts cam hayden and todd crawshaw of edmonton blues festival.

july 23 playlist:

natural child - firewater liquor (dancin' with wolves)
t. rex - universe (dandy in the underworld)
tiny tim - christopher brady's ole lady (tiny tim's second album)
naomi shelton & the gospel queens - i'll take the long road (what have you done, my brother?)
sharon jones & the dap-kings - 100 days, 100 nights (100 days, 100 nights)
charles bradley - i believe in your love (no time for dreaming)
lee fields & the expressions - do you love me (like you say you do) (my world)
corb lund - this is my prairie (losin' lately gambler)
chris spedding - the soldiers and the goodtime girls (backwood progression)
jason isbell - hurricanes and hand grenades (sirens of the ditch)
martin haselböck - apparatus musico-organisticus, part ii - toccata decima (muffat: organ works, vol. 2)
stefan johannes bleicher - corrette: joseph est bien marié (baroque organ music from france)

lee fields & the expressions will be playing a doubtless thrilling set at hawrelak park for interstellar rodeo this weekend!

july 16 playlist (with guest co-host warren krick): 

the ramones - let's dance (the ramones)
phluph - death of a nation (phluph)
strawberry alarm clock - curse of the witches (wake up...it's tomorrow)
william bell - you don't miss your water (soul of a bell)
aretha franklin - do right woman - do right man (i never loved a man the way i love you)
dennis coffey - aquarius (hair and thangs)
bobby charles - small town talk (bobby charles)
rick danko - sip the wine (rick danko)
the zombies - beechwood park (odessey & oracle)
deep purple - fireball (fireball)
slapp happy - michelangelo (acnalbasac noom)
thomas edisun's electric light bulb band - send me your picture (the red day album)
sunforest - be like me (sound of sunforest)
sidney torch - night ride (cream of sidney torch)
desmond dekker - fu manchu (israelites: anthology 1963-1999

 

"z-man, i've been to paerties where they danced to records by the strawrwrbrerry alaerm clock, but this is the first time that the strawrwrbrerry alaerm clock's ever been to the paerty!"

july 9 playlist:

sly & the family stone - what would i do (a whole new thing)
naomi shelton & the gospel queens - jordan river (what have you done, my brother?)
cody canada - if you're ever in oklahoma (this is indian land)
mott the hoople - original mixed-up kid (wildlife)
wagons - hundred years or six foot down (acid rain & sugar cane)
bon scott with fraternity - the shape i'm in (seasons of change)
lee hazlewood - boots (original melody) (cake or death)
jimmy smith - midnight special (midnight special)
karl richter - organ concerto no. 2 in b-flat major, op. 4-2 - ii. adagio, e staccato - allegro, ma non presto (g.f. handel: 12 organ concertos)
iona brown et al - tomaso albinoni/remo giazotto: adagio in g minor (serenade)

we are gathered here today to salute bon scott on the anniversary of his birth. and lee hazlewood too, while we're at it.

july 2 playlist:

medeski, scofield, martin & wood - tootie ma is a big fine thing (out louder)
nick cave & the bad seeds - red right hand (let love in)
j. geils band - looking for love (full house "live")
bobby womack & peace - across 110th street (part ii) (across 110th street)
bobby wwhitlock - back in my life again (bobby whitlock)
al green - for the good times (i'm still in love with you)
ann peebles - you got to feed the fire (i can't stand the rain)
bill black's combo - white silver sands (the hi records masters)
jimmy page & sonny boy williamson & brian auger - the goat (jam session)
willie nelson - moonlight in vermont (stardust)
nikki lane - seein' double (all or nothin')
the sadies - the double wide (tales of the rat fink)
dutch band organ - que sera sera (dutch band organ)

j. geils band before a wretched thing called the eighties happened. we heard them doing a classic by the recently deceased bobby womack.