Wednesday 29 January 2014

playlist for january 29th's salute to the late cjsr volunteer/radio host dave finkelman:

tom robinson band - 2-4-6-8 motorway (power in the darkness)
the stranglers - dagenham dave (no more heroes)
gentle giant - excerpts from octopus (playing the fool)
peter hammill - open your eyes (nadir's big chance)
chris spedding - backwood theme (backwood progression)
bruut! - foxxy (bruut!)
ray charles - i'm gonna move to the outskirts of town (genius + soul = jazz)
thee midniters - money (in thee midnite hour!!!!)
the sonics - the witch (here are the sonics)
the evaporators - evatone sound sheets (gassy jack and other tales)
billy joel - only the good die young (the stranger)

dave and i talked about switching shows one week. it unfortunately never happened, but this was my idea of how "the organ grinder meets big a, little a" might have sounded. by the way, saturday from noon till two (dave's time slot for years), some of his friends from the station will be sending him off in style.

(Pictured l-r: chris chang-yen phillips of cjsr's terra informa, joe hartfeil aka jojo the organ grinder and dave.)

Wednesday 22 January 2014

january 22 playlist:

sturgill simpson - i'd have to be crazy (high top mountain)
blackie & the rodeo kings - i'd have to be a stone (south)
the deep dark woods - red, red rose (jubilee)
klaus wunderlich - mull of kintyre/auld lang syne (wunderlich pops 7: klaus wunderlich and his new pop organ sound)
bob dylan - the man in me (new morning)
george harrison - if not for you (all things must pass)
fela kuti - he miss road (he miss road)
charles earland - speedball (intensity: the complete sessions with lee morgan)
dr. lonnie smith - trouble man (jungle soul)
nick lowe - between dark and dawn (the convincer)
jim byrnes - sensitive man (i hear the wind in the wires)
akiko tsuruga - funky mama (st. louis blues)

the great steve fromholz, who recently passed, wrote the all-time classic i'd have to be crazy

Wednesday 15 January 2014

january 15 playlist:

harry nilsson - 1941 (pandemonium shadow show)
eric aubier & thierry escaich - tchaikovsky: lac des cygnes (final) (la trompette romantique)
oscar peterson and roy eldridge - between the devil and the deep blue sea (oscar peterson and roy eldridge)
the beatles - blue jay way (magical mystery tour)
ivor cutler - i'm going in a field (ludo)
captain beefheart & his magic band - upon the my-oh-my (unconditionally guaranteed)
lynyrd skynyrd - cheatin' woman (nuthin' fancy)
bob seger system - doctor fine (ramblin' gamblin' man)
jake langley - the jody grind (doug's garage)
doug organ trio - you didn't call (doug organ trio)
johnny hodges & wild bill davis - rabbit out of the hat (blue pyramid)
49th parallel - (come on little child &) talk to me (49th parallel)
sharon jones & the dap-kings - making up and breaking up (and making up and breaking up over again) (give the people what they want)
james brown - lost someone (hell)

birthday boy ivor cutler

Wednesday 8 January 2014

january 8 playlist:

iron butterfly - iron butterfly theme (heavy)
the doors - strange days (strange days)
billie joe + norah - i'm here to get my baby out of jail (foreverly)
everly brothers - breakdown (stories we could tell)
akiko tsuruga - jitterbug waltz (harlem dreams)
incredible string band - the water song (the hangman's beautiful daughter)
alasdair roberts - lord ronald (no earthly man)
iain quinn - sibelius: pieces, op. 111 - no. 2: funeral (tender is the north)
doctor ew - bitter fruit (gadzooks)
dr. dog - the ark (fate)
the beach boys - a day in the life of a tree (surf's up)
joey & the continentals - she rides with me (still i dream of you - rare works of brian wilson)

zach miller of dr. dog, the best in the biz

Tuesday 7 January 2014

get ready for the first new show of 2014, january 8th at 1 pm! i'm not sure what getting ready entails for you but anyway, rest assured i'm rarin' to go!