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Eddie Boyd, Five Long Years
Elvin Bishop (w/ John Németh), Fooled Around And Fell In Love
Fri 1/27 @ Great American Music Hall
Jimmy McCracklin, Think
Elvin Bishop, Rock My Soul
Buxter Hoot'n, Thought I Heard You Say
Quinn Deveaux & The Blue Beat Review, Good News
Sat 1/28 @ The Uptown
Big Bones & Paul Pena, Put You Down Baby
Quinn Deveaux, Last Time I Fool Around With You (in-studio)
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Some Like It Hot
Thu 1/26 @ Biscuits and Blues
Fri 1/27 @ Midtown Stomp
Sat 1/28 @ Point Arena Theatre
Steve Lucky, Smack Dab in the Middle
Mark Hummel, Humblebug
Fri-Sun 1/27-29 @ Yoshi's Oakland: Blues Harmonica Blowout
Mark Hummel, My Kind of Baby
from the new album Blue and Lonesome: Tribute to Little Walter
Little Walter, Off The Wall
Little Charlie & The Nightcats, Wall To Wall
Charlie Musselwhite, Juke
John Németh, Hoodoo Man Blues (in-studio)
George Cole Quintet, Minor Swing (in-studio)
Fri 1/27 @ Freight & Salvage
Panique, Swing 48 (in-studio)
Sun 1/29 @ Freight & Salvage
Hot Club of Cowtown, Dark Eyes (in-studio)
Sat 1/28 @ Freight & Salvage
Sun 1/29 @ Harlow's
Mon 1/30 @ Amnesia
Beso Negro, Mala Reputación (in-studio)
Thu 1/26 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Etta James, Good Rockin' Daddy
Etta James, Welcome To The Jungle
Etta James (1938-2012)
Howell Devine, Poor Boy
Wed 2/01 on Fog City Blues
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Five Years of Fog City Blues
Fog City Blues first went on the air on Monday, January 29, 2007 (oy, at 11 pm!). Its mandate from KALW was to provide a local forum for blues in the Bay Area. For me it was a sort of homecoming, if not part of a dream come true. I'd been working for almost a year on another KALW program, Philosophy Talk (of which I am currently Producer). I came to that show after finishing a doctorate in Linguistics at Cornell but with little formal radio experience beyond a blues show I'd had in college (at WOBC in Oberlin OH), Rags, Stomps & Blues. Fortunately the Senior Producer of Philosophy Talk was also the Producer of the House of Blues Radio Hour (with Dan Aykroyd), so the arrival of an unemployed PhD with a blues background felt like an aligning of the stars. About a year later, KALW came asking if we were interested in filling a recently-opened hole in their blues schedule, and Fog City Blues was born.
I'm told that 'radio' was my first word in life (pronounced 'beydjo'), so I never saw the jump from academia to radio as anything but fate; in fact it's kind of a miracle it didn't happen without the dissertation being finished. And it certainly helped to find an egghead program to ease the transition, keep my finger in the academic pie, and begin my life's work integrating music and language scholarship on the radio. But while Philosophy Talk is a full-team multi-pronged day-job, as it were, Fog City Blues is my full-time one-man sideshow. Of course that's a bit disingenuous: most of the great moments on the show have been brought to you by people other than me, particularly the artists and musicians who've generously stopped by the studio to talk and/or play on the air. And those moments have been anything but sideshows.
I've been privileged to spend time on the air with a few national and out-of-town acts who've passed through these parts (including a pair of Canadian bands of some renown that I followed back in the day). But it's the local Bay Area artists who give the show its real flavour, several of whom have stopped by more than once. The quality and diversity of blues-ish music in the Bay Area is staggering, and for this week's anniversary show, we'll check in with a suite of past guests who capture some of the breadth that the program aspires to: Elvin Bishop, Quinn Deveaux, Mark Hummel, and Miss Carmen Getit (of Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums). We'll also hear some past in-studio performances to help fill out the picture of what's gone down in five years of Fog City Blues.
And it certainly doesn't stop with the anniversary. Next week it's Howell Devine live in the studio, and Con Brio the following week. We are just getting started.
For now I leave you with a little blurb I wrote for a KALW event that serves as a kind of extended mission statement for Fog City Blues:
A radio program, at least the kind I'd like to host, needs to tell a story. Even when the show is made up of a set of self-contained stories -- the songs on a playlist, say -- I need there to be a story arc with a sort of narrative progression through the at least some portion of that playlist. But does a sequence of songs from blues artists with upcoming Bay Area shows create a compelling enough story? How can that sequence be punctuated with other music that both flows and keeps listeners (pleasantly) surprised? Fortunately, it's often made easier with the help of talented musicians from near and far who join me on the program. They tell the story and make the connections in real time, either through their own music or through a guest-deejay set of inspired tracks. But in either case the goal remains: to craft a sequence of music that's greater than the sum of its parts, while making sure each of those parts is illuminating and inspired. In another setting, each show would be a mix-tape designed to woo. And I do hope that Fog City Blues woos -- and surprises -- someone new each week.
I'm told that 'radio' was my first word in life (pronounced 'beydjo'), so I never saw the jump from academia to radio as anything but fate; in fact it's kind of a miracle it didn't happen without the dissertation being finished. And it certainly helped to find an egghead program to ease the transition, keep my finger in the academic pie, and begin my life's work integrating music and language scholarship on the radio. But while Philosophy Talk is a full-team multi-pronged day-job, as it were, Fog City Blues is my full-time one-man sideshow. Of course that's a bit disingenuous: most of the great moments on the show have been brought to you by people other than me, particularly the artists and musicians who've generously stopped by the studio to talk and/or play on the air. And those moments have been anything but sideshows.
I've been privileged to spend time on the air with a few national and out-of-town acts who've passed through these parts (including a pair of Canadian bands of some renown that I followed back in the day). But it's the local Bay Area artists who give the show its real flavour, several of whom have stopped by more than once. The quality and diversity of blues-ish music in the Bay Area is staggering, and for this week's anniversary show, we'll check in with a suite of past guests who capture some of the breadth that the program aspires to: Elvin Bishop, Quinn Deveaux, Mark Hummel, and Miss Carmen Getit (of Steve Lucky & the Rhumba Bums). We'll also hear some past in-studio performances to help fill out the picture of what's gone down in five years of Fog City Blues.
And it certainly doesn't stop with the anniversary. Next week it's Howell Devine live in the studio, and Con Brio the following week. We are just getting started.
For now I leave you with a little blurb I wrote for a KALW event that serves as a kind of extended mission statement for Fog City Blues:
A radio program, at least the kind I'd like to host, needs to tell a story. Even when the show is made up of a set of self-contained stories -- the songs on a playlist, say -- I need there to be a story arc with a sort of narrative progression through the at least some portion of that playlist. But does a sequence of songs from blues artists with upcoming Bay Area shows create a compelling enough story? How can that sequence be punctuated with other music that both flows and keeps listeners (pleasantly) surprised? Fortunately, it's often made easier with the help of talented musicians from near and far who join me on the program. They tell the story and make the connections in real time, either through their own music or through a guest-deejay set of inspired tracks. But in either case the goal remains: to craft a sequence of music that's greater than the sum of its parts, while making sure each of those parts is illuminating and inspired. In another setting, each show would be a mix-tape designed to woo. And I do hope that Fog City Blues woos -- and surprises -- someone new each week.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Playlist: January 18, 2012
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The Johnny Otis Show, Signature Tune
Lula Reed, Bump On A Log
The Johnny Otis Show, Goin' Back To L.A. (live)
Johnny Otis (1922-2012)
Howell Devine, Come On In My Kitchen
Sat 1/21 @ Speisekammer
Con Brio, Not At All (live)
Thu 1/19 @ University of the Pacific
Shawn Colvin, This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Thu 1/19 @ Yoshi's SF
Lucinda Williams, Motherless Children
Fri 1/20 @ Uptown Theatre
Sat 1/22 @ Center for the Arts
Ramon and Jessica, Waltz #3: in which Coffee Becomes Wine
from the forthcoming album Fly South
Fri 1/20 @ Community Music Center
Mari Mack, Birthday Suit
Fri 1/20 @ The Saloon
Bill Sims, Jr. & Mark Lavoie, Blues for Breakfast
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band, EZ Rider
Joe Louis Walker, I'm On To You
from the forthcoming album Hellfire
Veretski Pass, Tango Under the Influence
Sun 1/22 @ The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life
The Andrews Sisters, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Merle Kessler & J. Raoul Brody, King Little King
Sun 1/22 @ The Marsh Berkeley: Philosophy Talk Live
Elvin Bishop, Callin' All Cows (live)
Elvin Bishop, Stealin' Watermelons (live)
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues
Quinn Deveaux @ The Blue Beat Review, Tiger In Your Tank
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Let Me In
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues (Miss Carmen Getit)
Mark Hummel, One More Time
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Hoodoo Man Blues (live)
Muddy Waters, Trouble No More (live)
Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, You'd Better Slow Down
Lache Cercel and the Roma Swing Ensemble, Romani tune (in-studio)
Reinier Voet & Pigalle44, Minor Swing (in-studio)
Les Doigts de l'Homme, Ol' Man River (in-studio)
Django Reinhardt, Night And Day
Richie Havens, San Francisco Bay Blues
The Johnny Otis Show, Signature Tune
Lula Reed, Bump On A Log
The Johnny Otis Show, Goin' Back To L.A. (live)
Johnny Otis (1922-2012)
Howell Devine, Come On In My Kitchen
Sat 1/21 @ Speisekammer
Con Brio, Not At All (live)
Thu 1/19 @ University of the Pacific
Shawn Colvin, This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Thu 1/19 @ Yoshi's SF
Lucinda Williams, Motherless Children
Fri 1/20 @ Uptown Theatre
Sat 1/22 @ Center for the Arts
Ramon and Jessica, Waltz #3: in which Coffee Becomes Wine
from the forthcoming album Fly South
Fri 1/20 @ Community Music Center
Mari Mack, Birthday Suit
Fri 1/20 @ The Saloon
Bill Sims, Jr. & Mark Lavoie, Blues for Breakfast
Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band, EZ Rider
Joe Louis Walker, I'm On To You
from the forthcoming album Hellfire
Veretski Pass, Tango Under the Influence
Sun 1/22 @ The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life
The Andrews Sisters, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Merle Kessler & J. Raoul Brody, King Little King
Sun 1/22 @ The Marsh Berkeley: Philosophy Talk Live
Elvin Bishop, Callin' All Cows (live)
Elvin Bishop, Stealin' Watermelons (live)
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues
Quinn Deveaux @ The Blue Beat Review, Tiger In Your Tank
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Let Me In
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues (Miss Carmen Getit)
Mark Hummel, One More Time
Wed 1/25 on Fog City Blues
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Hoodoo Man Blues (live)
Muddy Waters, Trouble No More (live)
Pinetop Perkins & Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, You'd Better Slow Down
Lache Cercel and the Roma Swing Ensemble, Romani tune (in-studio)
Reinier Voet & Pigalle44, Minor Swing (in-studio)
Les Doigts de l'Homme, Ol' Man River (in-studio)
Django Reinhardt, Night And Day
Richie Havens, San Francisco Bay Blues
Friday, January 13, 2012
Inside the National Recording Registry: Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica"
A radio feature I produced for PRI's Studio 360 airs nationally this weekend, featuring the voices of John French (Magic Band drummer and musical director), Mike Barnes (Beefheart biographer), and Tom Waits (you may know him):
Last year, the Library of Congress inducted a Captain Beefheart record into its National Recording Registry. Trout Mask Replica (1969) is part free jazz, part blues, part beat poetry. Frank Zappa (who gave singer-songwriter Don van Vliet the name Captain Beefheart) produced the album. “It sounds like it's been made up on the spot,” describes Mike Barnes, van Vliet’s biographer. “But in fact it was rigorously learned so the players would play the tracks the same way every time.”
John French was the album’s musical director and the Magic Band’s drummer. “Captain Beefheart realized the possibilities that existed in music if you looked past the rules.” That made for some grueling, 70s-cult-style recording sessions. “They had a very harsh work regime,” Barnes explains. “Beefheart would deprive people of sleep, he would keep them up all night.”
But the result was a sound that redefined the boundaries of rock. “I just had never encountered anything filled with so much abandon,” musician Tom Waits remembers. “It's so unlike anything that we all consider music to be.”
From Studio 360's website:
John French was the album’s musical director and the Magic Band’s drummer. “Captain Beefheart realized the possibilities that existed in music if you looked past the rules.” That made for some grueling, 70s-cult-style recording sessions. “They had a very harsh work regime,” Barnes explains. “Beefheart would deprive people of sleep, he would keep them up all night.”
But the result was a sound that redefined the boundaries of rock. “I just had never encountered anything filled with so much abandon,” musician Tom Waits remembers. “It's so unlike anything that we all consider music to be.”
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Playlist: January 11, 2012
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Omar Shariff, Omar's Boogie
Omar Shariff, The Raven
Omar Shariff (Dave Alexander) 1938-2012
Mavis Staples, I Belong To The Band
Sun 1/15 @ Paramount Theatre
Los Lobos, When the Circus Comes
Sat 1/14 @ Cascade Theatre
Sun 1/15 @ The Center for the Arts
Tue 1/17 @ LAxson Auditorium
Guitar Shorty, We The People
Thu 1/12 @ Biscuits and Blues
Fri 1/13 @ Palms Playhouse
Sat 1/14 @ Riverwood Inn
Joe Louis Walker, Too Drunk To Drive Drunk
from the forthcoming album Hellfire
Heritage Blues Orchestra, Clarksdale Moan
from the forthcoming album And Still I Rise
Catherine Russell, He's All I Need
from the forthcoming album Strictly Romancin'
Ramon and Jessica, Manzanita
from the forthcoming album Fly South
Sun 1/15 @ Subterranean Art House
Wendy DeWitt, Summertime
from the new album Industrial Strength
Fri 1/13 @ The Saloon
Mark Hummel, Lord Oh Lord Blues
Fri 1/13 @ Speisekammer
Sat 1/14 @ George's Nightclub
Sun 1/15 @ Half Moon Bay Brewing Company
Stan Erhart, Mystery Train
Thu 1/12 @ 7 Mile House
Fri 1/13 @ Bluz By You
Tommy Castro, Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
Thu 1/12 @ Downtown Brewing Company
Fri 1/13 @ Double Tree Hotel
Sat 1/14 @ Club Fox
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Electricity
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, China Pig
Tom Waits, Satisfied
Howlin' Wolf, Who Will Be Next
Earl Hooker, Universal Rock
The Meters, Tippi-Toes
Allen Toussaint, Singin' The Blues
Long John Baldry, Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
Jay McShann, Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Hootie Blues
Fri 1/13 @ Ashkenaz
Sat 1/14 @ Speisekammer
Sun 1/15 @ The Royal Cuckoo
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Reefer Man
Sat 1/14 @ Livermore Valley PAC
Sun 1/15 @ Gallo Center for the Arts
Howell Devine, You Got Me Runnin'
Sun 1/15 @ Revolution Cafe
Wed 2/01 on Fog City Blues
Chris Cotton, Friend In Me
Omar Shariff, Omar's Boogie
Omar Shariff, The Raven
Omar Shariff (Dave Alexander) 1938-2012
Mavis Staples, I Belong To The Band
Sun 1/15 @ Paramount Theatre
Los Lobos, When the Circus Comes
Sat 1/14 @ Cascade Theatre
Sun 1/15 @ The Center for the Arts
Tue 1/17 @ LAxson Auditorium
Guitar Shorty, We The People
Thu 1/12 @ Biscuits and Blues
Fri 1/13 @ Palms Playhouse
Sat 1/14 @ Riverwood Inn
Joe Louis Walker, Too Drunk To Drive Drunk
from the forthcoming album Hellfire
Heritage Blues Orchestra, Clarksdale Moan
from the forthcoming album And Still I Rise
Catherine Russell, He's All I Need
from the forthcoming album Strictly Romancin'
Ramon and Jessica, Manzanita
from the forthcoming album Fly South
Sun 1/15 @ Subterranean Art House
Wendy DeWitt, Summertime
from the new album Industrial Strength
Fri 1/13 @ The Saloon
Mark Hummel, Lord Oh Lord Blues
Fri 1/13 @ Speisekammer
Sat 1/14 @ George's Nightclub
Sun 1/15 @ Half Moon Bay Brewing Company
Stan Erhart, Mystery Train
Thu 1/12 @ 7 Mile House
Fri 1/13 @ Bluz By You
Tommy Castro, Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven
Thu 1/12 @ Downtown Brewing Company
Fri 1/13 @ Double Tree Hotel
Sat 1/14 @ Club Fox
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Electricity
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, China Pig
Tom Waits, Satisfied
Howlin' Wolf, Who Will Be Next
Earl Hooker, Universal Rock
The Meters, Tippi-Toes
Allen Toussaint, Singin' The Blues
Long John Baldry, Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
Jay McShann, Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Hootie Blues
Fri 1/13 @ Ashkenaz
Sat 1/14 @ Speisekammer
Sun 1/15 @ The Royal Cuckoo
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Reefer Man
Sat 1/14 @ Livermore Valley PAC
Sun 1/15 @ Gallo Center for the Arts
Howell Devine, You Got Me Runnin'
Sun 1/15 @ Revolution Cafe
Wed 2/01 on Fog City Blues
Chris Cotton, Friend In Me
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Playlist: January 4, 2012
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Lightnin' Hopkins, Happy New Year
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, King Of The Surf Guitar
Fri 1/06 @ The Blank Club
Sat 1/07 @ The Uptown
Mark Growden, Been in the Storm So Long
Fri 1/06 @ Viracocha
Sat 1/07 @ Subterranean Art House
Howell Devine, Write Me a Few Lines
Sat 1/07 @ Giordano's
Sun 1/08 @ Cafe du Nord
Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole, Na Pu'u 'Eha
Sun 1/08 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Dori Caymmi et al, O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?
Wed 1/04 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Maria Muldaur, Blues Go Walking
Thu 1/05 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Quinn Deveaux & The Blue Beat Review, Come & Go
Fri 1/06 @ Club Deluxe
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, I'm Not Evil
Fri 1/06 @ Biscuits and Blues
Tip of the Top, She's Too Much
Sat 1/07 @ Down Home Music
Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws, Gonna' Miss You
Fri 1/06 @ The Saloon
David Jacobs-Strain, Rainbow Junkies (live)
Sun 1/08 @ Hotel Utah Saloon
Seth Augustus, Buffalo Eight
Fri 1/06 @ Revolution Cafe
Cyril Neville, Brand New Blues
Brownie McGhee, Brownie's New Blues
William Elliot Whitmore, Not Feeling Any Pain
Doug MacLeod, Dubb's Talkin' Politician Blues
Arthur Conley, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Arthur Conley, Sweet Soul Music
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Things I Forgot To Do
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Payback Time
Tampa Red, You Got To Reap What You Sow
Elvis Presley, Medley: Nothingville - Big Boss Man - Let Yourself Go - It Hurts Me - Guitar Man - Trouble - Little Egypt
Wilbert Harrison, Let's Work Together
Lightnin' Hopkins, Happy New Year
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, King Of The Surf Guitar
Fri 1/06 @ The Blank Club
Sat 1/07 @ The Uptown
Mark Growden, Been in the Storm So Long
Fri 1/06 @ Viracocha
Sat 1/07 @ Subterranean Art House
Howell Devine, Write Me a Few Lines
Sat 1/07 @ Giordano's
Sun 1/08 @ Cafe du Nord
Kaumakaiwa Kanaka'ole, Na Pu'u 'Eha
Sun 1/08 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Dori Caymmi et al, O Que É Que A Baiana Tem?
Wed 1/04 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Maria Muldaur, Blues Go Walking
Thu 1/05 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Quinn Deveaux & The Blue Beat Review, Come & Go
Fri 1/06 @ Club Deluxe
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, I'm Not Evil
Fri 1/06 @ Biscuits and Blues
Tip of the Top, She's Too Much
Sat 1/07 @ Down Home Music
Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws, Gonna' Miss You
Fri 1/06 @ The Saloon
David Jacobs-Strain, Rainbow Junkies (live)
Sun 1/08 @ Hotel Utah Saloon
Seth Augustus, Buffalo Eight
Fri 1/06 @ Revolution Cafe
Cyril Neville, Brand New Blues
Brownie McGhee, Brownie's New Blues
William Elliot Whitmore, Not Feeling Any Pain
Doug MacLeod, Dubb's Talkin' Politician Blues
Arthur Conley, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Arthur Conley, Sweet Soul Music
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Things I Forgot To Do
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Payback Time
Tampa Red, You Got To Reap What You Sow
Elvis Presley, Medley: Nothingville - Big Boss Man - Let Yourself Go - It Hurts Me - Guitar Man - Trouble - Little Egypt
Wilbert Harrison, Let's Work Together
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Playlist: December 28, 2011
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Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band, Wild Man Blues
Fri 12/30 @ The Continental Club
Sat 12/31 @ Pizzaiolo
Brass Menažeri, Čočekahedron
Sat 12/31 @ Ashkenaz
Elvin Bishop, Fooled Around And Fell In Love (live)
Sat 12/31 @ Last Day Saloon
John Németh, Blues in My Heart
Thu 12/29 @ Biscuits and Blues
Fri 12/30 @ Poor House Bistro
Sat 12/31 @ The Torch Club
Tedeschi Trucks Band, Bound For Glory
Sat 12/31 @ The Warfield
John Lee Hooker Jr, Doin' The Boogie (live)
Sat 12/31 @ Biscuits and Blues
Earl Thomas, Jet Airliner
Sun 1/01 @ Biscuits and Blues
The Orioles, What Are You Doing New Years Eve
Smokey Hogg, New Year's Eve Blues
Lil' Son Jackson, New Year's Resolution
Roy Milton Solid Senders, New Year's Resolution Blues
Tampa Red, Christmas & New Year's Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Happy New Year Blues
Mary Harris, Happy New Year Blues
Lonnie Johnson, Happy New Year Darling
Johnny Otis Orchestra, Happy New Year, Baby
Johnny Otis, Willie and the Hand Jive
Staples Singers, Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Bo Diddley, He's a Hell of a Man (live)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Diddy Wah Diddy
Tom Waits, New Year's Eve
Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band, Wild Man Blues
Wed 12/28 @ The Regency Ballroom
Fri 12/30-31 @ The Fillmore
California Honeydrops, Soul TubFri 12/30 @ The Continental Club
Sat 12/31 @ Pizzaiolo
Brass Menažeri, Čočekahedron
Sat 12/31 @ Ashkenaz
Elvin Bishop, Fooled Around And Fell In Love (live)
Sat 12/31 @ Last Day Saloon
John Németh, Blues in My Heart
Thu 12/29 @ Biscuits and Blues
Fri 12/30 @ Poor House Bistro
Sat 12/31 @ The Torch Club
Tedeschi Trucks Band, Bound For Glory
Sat 12/31 @ The Warfield
John Lee Hooker Jr, Doin' The Boogie (live)
Sat 12/31 @ Biscuits and Blues
Earl Thomas, Jet Airliner
Sun 1/01 @ Biscuits and Blues
The Orioles, What Are You Doing New Years Eve
Smokey Hogg, New Year's Eve Blues
Lil' Son Jackson, New Year's Resolution
Roy Milton Solid Senders, New Year's Resolution Blues
Tampa Red, Christmas & New Year's Blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Happy New Year Blues
Mary Harris, Happy New Year Blues
Lonnie Johnson, Happy New Year Darling
Johnny Otis Orchestra, Happy New Year, Baby
Johnny Otis, Willie and the Hand Jive
Staples Singers, Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Bo Diddley, He's a Hell of a Man (live)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Diddy Wah Diddy
Tom Waits, New Year's Eve
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Playlist: December 21, 2011
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Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart, Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?
Bob Dylan, The Christmas Blues
Tin Cup Serenade, Stack O'Lee Blues
Thu 12/22 @ Revolution Cafe
Sat 12/24 @ West Coast Live
Elvin Bishop, Slow Down (live)
Fri 12/23 @ Biscuits and Blues
Leo Fuchs, Shalom Pardner
from the new album Songs of the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950-1973
Rev. Edward Clayborn, The Wrong Way To Celebrate Xmas
The Cats & The Fiddle, Hep Cat's Holiday
Larry Darnell, Christmas Blues
Bobby Nunn, Christmas Bells
Harmon Ray, Xmas Blues
Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Swingin' Them Jingle Bells
J.B. Summers with Doc Bagby's Orchestra, I Want A Present For Christmas
Butterbeans & Susie, Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree)
Bo Carter, Santa Claus
Rev. J.M. Gates, Death Might Be Your Santa Claus
Willie Blackwell, Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Benediction
Sat 12/24 @ Slim's
Special in-studio guests: The Christmas Jug Band
Shoot 'Em In The Pants
Plant A Santa
(in-studio)
Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' (in-studio)
Carolin'
(in-studio)
Santa Don't Do It
(in-studio)
Santa's On The Mainline (in-studio)
Santa Lost A Ho
Meshugga Beach Party, Festival of Lights
Saul Kaye, Mao Tzur
Woody Guthrie, Hanukkah Dance
Tom Lehrer, (I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica
Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart, Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?
Bob Dylan, The Christmas Blues
Tin Cup Serenade, Stack O'Lee Blues
Thu 12/22 @ Revolution Cafe
Sat 12/24 @ West Coast Live
Elvin Bishop, Slow Down (live)
Fri 12/23 @ Biscuits and Blues
Leo Fuchs, Shalom Pardner
from the new album Songs of the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950-1973
Rev. Edward Clayborn, The Wrong Way To Celebrate Xmas
The Cats & The Fiddle, Hep Cat's Holiday
Larry Darnell, Christmas Blues
Bobby Nunn, Christmas Bells
Harmon Ray, Xmas Blues
Fats Waller & His Rhythm, Swingin' Them Jingle Bells
J.B. Summers with Doc Bagby's Orchestra, I Want A Present For Christmas
Butterbeans & Susie, Papa Ain't No Santa Claus (Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree)
Bo Carter, Santa Claus
Rev. J.M. Gates, Death Might Be Your Santa Claus
Willie Blackwell, Junior's A Jap Girl's Christmas For His Santa Claus
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Benediction
Sat 12/24 @ Slim's
Special in-studio guests: The Christmas Jug Band
Shoot 'Em In The Pants
Plant A Santa
(in-studio)Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' (in-studio)
Carolin'
(in-studio)Santa Don't Do It
(in-studio)Santa's On The Mainline (in-studio)
Santa Lost A Ho
Meshugga Beach Party, Festival of Lights
Saul Kaye, Mao Tzur
Woody Guthrie, Hanukkah Dance
Tom Lehrer, (I'm Spending) Hanukkah In Santa Monica
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Playlist: December 14, 2011
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The Klezmatics, Hanukkah Tree
Thu 12/15 @ Freight & Salvage
Sat 12/17 @ Sebastapol Community Cultural Center
Blind Boys of Alabama, Last Month of the Year
Thu 12/15 @ Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Sat 12/17 @ Uptown Theatre
Christmas Jug Band, Xmas Anonymous
Thu 12/15 @ George's Nightclub
Fri 12/16 @ Raven Theater
Sun 12/18 @ The Palms
Tue 12/20 Throckmortton Theatre
Maria Muldaur, Bank Failure Blues
Fri 12/16 Raven Theater
Beso Negro, Desde Allí
Thu 12/15 @ George's Nightclub
Special in-studio guests: Meshugga Beach Party
Fri 12/16 @ DNA Lounge: Hubba Hubba Chrismanukkah Revue
If I Were A Rich Man (in-studio)
Oh Hanukkah (in-studio)
Dreidl, Dreidl (in-studio)
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, Hava Nagila
Eddie & The Showmen, And the Angels Sing
Let My People Go (in-studio)
Latkes (in-studio)
Go Go Golem (in-studio)
Shleppin' and Kvetchin'
from the new album Hot Rod Hanukkah
Elvin Bishop, Rock My Soul (live)
Sat 12/17 @ Club Fox
Lurrie Bell, I Believe
Fri-Sat 12/16-17 @ Biscuits and Blues
John Primer, Moanin' at Midnight
Mike Avery, Three O'Clock Blues
Phil Berkowitz, Ginger T
Sat 12/17 @ The Union Room
Emily Anne's Delights, Times Passed
Fri 12/16 @ Revolution Cafe
Panique, Sweet Sue (live)
Tue 12/20 @ Revolution Cafe
Con Brio, Ghostrider
Thu 12/15 @ Poor House Bistro
Fri 12/16 @ Smiley's Schooner Saloon
California Honeydrops, Bourbon Street Parade
Sun 12/18 @ Mystic Theatre
Wed 12/21 @ Elbo Room
Andre Thierry, Boss Hog
Sat 12.17 @ Don Quixote's Internation Hall of Music
Wed 12/21 @ Elbo Room
James Booker, All Around the World
Mark Hummel, Let Me Go
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Help Me
Frank Sinatra, Lonesome Road
The Klezmatics, Hanukkah Tree
Thu 12/15 @ Freight & Salvage
Sat 12/17 @ Sebastapol Community Cultural Center
Blind Boys of Alabama, Last Month of the Year
Thu 12/15 @ Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
Sat 12/17 @ Uptown Theatre
Christmas Jug Band, Xmas Anonymous
Thu 12/15 @ George's Nightclub
Fri 12/16 @ Raven Theater
Sun 12/18 @ The Palms
Tue 12/20 Throckmortton Theatre
Maria Muldaur, Bank Failure Blues
Fri 12/16 Raven Theater
Beso Negro, Desde Allí
Thu 12/15 @ George's Nightclub
Special in-studio guests: Meshugga Beach Party
Fri 12/16 @ DNA Lounge: Hubba Hubba Chrismanukkah Revue
If I Were A Rich Man (in-studio)
Oh Hanukkah (in-studio)
Dreidl, Dreidl (in-studio)
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, Hava Nagila
Eddie & The Showmen, And the Angels Sing
Let My People Go (in-studio)
Latkes (in-studio)
Go Go Golem (in-studio)
Shleppin' and Kvetchin'
from the new album Hot Rod Hanukkah
Elvin Bishop, Rock My Soul (live)
Sat 12/17 @ Club Fox
Lurrie Bell, I Believe
Fri-Sat 12/16-17 @ Biscuits and Blues
John Primer, Moanin' at Midnight
Mike Avery, Three O'Clock Blues
Phil Berkowitz, Ginger T
Sat 12/17 @ The Union Room
Emily Anne's Delights, Times Passed
Fri 12/16 @ Revolution Cafe
Panique, Sweet Sue (live)
Tue 12/20 @ Revolution Cafe
Con Brio, Ghostrider
Thu 12/15 @ Poor House Bistro
Fri 12/16 @ Smiley's Schooner Saloon
California Honeydrops, Bourbon Street Parade
Sun 12/18 @ Mystic Theatre
Wed 12/21 @ Elbo Room
Andre Thierry, Boss Hog
Sat 12.17 @ Don Quixote's Internation Hall of Music
Wed 12/21 @ Elbo Room
James Booker, All Around the World
Mark Hummel, Let Me Go
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Help Me
Frank Sinatra, Lonesome Road
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Playlist: December 7, 2011
Hubert Sumlin, I Love
Howlin' Wolf, Down In The Bottom
Hubert Sumlin (1931-2011)
Quinn Deveaux, Walls
Sun 12/11 @ The Lost Church
California Honeydrops, Miss Louise
Fri 12/09 @ Boom Boom Room
Sun 12/11 @ Viracocha
Tip of the Top, Rocker
Fri 12/09 @ Main Street Brewery
Sat 12/10 @ Grand Deli Saloon
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Thu 12/08 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Catherine Russell, Whatcha Gonna Do When There Ain't No Swing?
from the forthcoming album Strictly Romancin'
Meshuggah Beach Party, Hot Rod Hanukkah
Wed 12/14 on Fog City Blues
Miriam Kressyn and Seymour Rexite, It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House
from the new album Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set
Christmas Jug Band, Jolly Ol' Soul
Wed 12/14 @ Freight & Salvage
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Cool Yule
Thu 12/08 @ Throckmorton Theatre
Sun 12/11 @ Center for the Arts
Hot Club of San Francisco, March of the Toys
Thu 12/08 @ Kuumbwa Jazz
Mitch Woods, Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man
Sat 12/10 @ Souther Pacific Smokehouse
Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws, Meet Me In The Bottom
Fri 12/09 @ Poor House Bistro
Sat 12/10 @ The Saloom
Bombino, Ahoulaguine Akaline (I Greet My Country)
Fri 12/09 @ Mezzanine
Louis Prima, Sing, Sing, Sing
Louis Prima, Eleanor
Tom Waits, The One That Got Away
Tom Waits, Gun Street Girl
Tom Waits, Chicago
from the new album Bad As Me
Gregg Allman, Rolling Stone
J.J. Cale & Eric Clapton, Missing Person
Little Richard, Miss Ann
Guitar Slim, The Things That I Used To Do
Lee Dorsey, Get Out of My Life, Woman
Coco Robichaux, Ten Commandments of the Blues
Junior Wells, Got My Mojo Workin' (live)
Sonny Boy Williamson, Fattening Frogs For Snakes
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Playlist: November 30, 2011
Michael Bloomfield, I'm Glad I'm Jewish
Elvin Bishop, Fat & Sassy
Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Oop Pop A Dah
Thu-Sat 12/01-03 @ Brick & Mortar (New Orleans Suspects)
Bay Area Caravan of All-Stars, Caldonia
Wed 12/07 @ Freight & Salvage
Johnny Mathis, Kol Nidre
Fri 12/02 @ Paramount Theatre
Special in-studio guest: David Katznelson of the Idelsohn Society
Tikva Records Pop-Up Store: Dec.1-28 in San Francisco
Leo Fuld, Mazzel
Leo Fuchs, Yiddish Twist
Marty Levitt and Harriet Kane, I'm a Litvak – He's a Galitz
Dave Tarras, Freilach #11
Martha Schlamme, Eingmachts
Avram Grobard, Orcha Bamidbar
Leo Fuld, Zigany Melody
Bernie Knee, Orthodox, Conservative, or Reformed
from the new album Songs of the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950-1973
Keb' Mo', Shopping On Christmas Eve
Thu 12/01 @ Regency Ballroom
Fri 12/02 @ CSU Chico
Hot Club of San Francisco, Djingle Bells
Fri 12/02 @ Palms Playhouse
Beso Negro, If You See Kay (in-studio)
Fri 12/02 @ 50 Mason Social House
Maria Muldaur, I'll Be Glad
Fri 12/02 @ Freight & Salvage
Sat 12/03 @ Palms Playhouse
Roy Rogers & Ray Manzarek, Tension
Fri 12/02 @ Mystic Theatre
Rick Estrin, You're Gonna Need My Help
Fri 12/02 @ Biscuits and Blues
Kim Wilson, Trying to Make a Living
Wed-Thu 12/07-08 Biscuits and Blues
Tommy Castro, Wake Up Call (live)
Sun 12/04 @ Biscuits and Blues
Shuggie Otis, Bottle Cooler
Brownie McGhee, The Killin' Floor
Robert Nighthawk, Juke Medley
John Mayall, The Laws Must Change
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Playlist: November 23, 2011
B.B. King, Alexis' Boogie
Big Cat Tolefree, Thrill Is Gone
Meklit Hadero, Abbay Mado
Wed 11/30 @ Don Quixote's International Hall of Music
Earl Thomas, Broken Hearted
Sat 11/26 @ Biscuits and Blues
Ron Hacker & The Hacksaws, I'm Goin' Away Baby
Sat 11/26 @ The Saloon
Wed 11/30 @ Biscuits and Blues
Orgone, The Big Escape
Sat 11/26 @ Great American Music Hall
Sun 11/27 @ Hopmonk Tavern
Tin Cup Serenade, All I Can Do Is Cry
Fri 11/25 @ Revolution Cafe
R.L. Burnside, Criminal Inside Me
Eddie South, Rhapsody in Blue
Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust
Willie 'The Lion' Smith, Passionette
Eddie Boyd, I Got The Blues
Dr. John, Tipitina
Ike and Tina Turner, I Idolize You
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Lover Man (live)
The Robins, The Turkey Hop, Part 1
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Hungry Man
Cab Calloway, Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
Memphis Minnie, Keep On Eatin'
Andre Williams, Pass The Biscuits Please
Big Three Trio, No More Sweet Potatoes
Elvin Bishop, Sweet Potato
Jim Jackson, I Heard The Voice Of A Porkchop
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Cornbread And Butterbeans
California Honeydrops, Pumpkin Pie
Wed 11/30 @ The Cheeseboard
Norton Buffalo & The Knockouts, Sweet Little Pumpkin
Blind Boy Fuller, I Want Some Of Your Pie
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Honey Pie
Fri 11/25 @ Biscuits and BluesSteve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Where's My Gravy
Sat 11/26 @ Ashkenaz
Zu Zu Bollin, Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?
Harold Burrage, You Eat Too Much
Hop Wilson, Chicken Stuff
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