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Cowboy Junkies, Hard to Build. Easy to Break.
Cowboy Junkies, Forgive Me
Wed 6/18 @ Freight & Salvage
Thu 6/19 @ Uptown Theatre
Fri 6/20 @ Center for the Arts
Valerie June, Love Me Any Ole Way
Tue 6/17 @ Rio Theatre
Wed 6/18 @ The Palace of Fine Arts
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Going Down Slow
Mon-Tue 6/16-17 @ Yoshi's
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, You Gonna Lie (live)
Fri 6/20 @ Biscuits & Blues
Sat 6/21 @ Firehouse Arts Center
R.J. Mischo, Telephone Blues (live)
Wed 6/18 @ Empress Marquee Club
Mark Hummel, Love Shock (live)
Fri 6/20 @ The Saloon
Lazy Lester, Jambalaya (live)
Jerry McCain, Popcorn
Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
Sylvester 'Sly' Stewart (1943-2025)
Shawn Holt & The Teardrops, Daddy Told Me
Zakiya Hooker feat. John Lee Hooker, Mean Mean World
Carey Bell feat. Lurrie Bell, Brought Up the Hard Way
Eric Bibb feat. Leon Bibb, Put On Your Robe Son
Carla & Rufus Thomas, The Night Time Is The Right Time
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm, R.L. Burnside
The Chi-Lites, Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was
James Talley, Daddy Just Called It the Blues
Joe Quarterman & Free Soul, Thanks Dad
Horace Silver, Song For My Father
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Daddy
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Playlist: June 15, 2025
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Playlist: June 8, 2025
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California Honeydrops, Keep On Diggin'
California Honeydrops, Soul Tub
Sun 6/15 @ Stern Grove Festival
Sat-Sun 6/14-15: Fountain Blues & Brews
Aki Kumar, A Plea to Be Free
Alabama Mike, I Wonder Why
Fillmore Slim & Kid Anderson, Rock Star
Vanessa Collier, Warrior
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, She Calls Me Kingfish
Delta Wires, Pontiac Blues (live)
Tue 6/10 @ Sonoma Plaza
Sat 6/14 @ The Saloon
The Gold Souls, Fix Me Up
Sat 6/14 @ Music City SF
Tom Jones, Talking Reality Television Blues
Alice Cooper, School's Out
Ry Cooder, School Is Out (live)
Chuck Berry, Vacation Time
Colin James, My Mind Is On Vacation
Bob Dylan, Straight A's in Love
The Kinks, Education
Nat King Cole Trio, You Don't Learn That in School
Babs Gonzales, Professor Bop
Otis Rush, Homework
Brenda Holloway, Play It Cool, Stay in School
Otis Redding, Stay in School
James Brown, Don't Be a Dropout
Chuck Berry, Lonely School Days
AC/DC, School Days
The Ramones, Rock 'n Roll High School
Brownsville Station, Smokin' in the Boys Room
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Playlist: June 1, 2025
Circus Bella All-Star Band, The Afterparty
Vic Wong, The Balancing Act
Rob Reich, How to Be a Weirdo
Trombone Shorty, St. James Infirmary (live)
Trombone Shorty, Lifted
Wed 6/11 @ The Masonic
Raphael Saadiq, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Raphael Saadiq, Miss You (live)
Sat-Sun 6/07-08 @ Fox Theatre
Mark Hummel, My Kind of Baby (live)
Wed 6/04 @ Keys Jazz Bistro
Thu 6/05 @ Canyons BBQ
Fri 6/06 @ Jupiter
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, The Grapevine
Fri 6/06 @ Local Edition
Sat 6/07 @ The Royal Cuckoo
Sun 6/08 @ Epic Steak
Jolie Holland, Poor Girl's Blues
Sat 6/07 @ The Ivy Room
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Before You Accuse Me
The Kiffness, Ancient Husky Melody
Tue 6/03 @ Regency Ballroom
Finn Brothers, Last Day of June
Petula Clark, 31st of June
Bing Crosby, June Comes Around Every Year
Renée Fleming, June Is Bustin' Out All Over
The Kinks, Rainy Day in June
Bright Eyes, June on the West Coast
The Like, June Gloom
Everly Brothers, June Is as Cold as December
Nina Simone, Memphis in June
Van Morrison, Evening in June
The Decembrists, June Hymn
Roxette, June Afternoon
Jamiroquai, Seven Days in Sunny June
Camper Van Beethoven, June
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Playlist: May 25, 2025
Special guests: Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel
Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan, Handy Dandy
Bob Dylan, The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (live)
Bob Dylan, Chimes of Freedom (live)
Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet (2022 remix)
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Like A Rolling Stone (live)
Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower (live)
Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (live)
Bob Dylan, Shelter From the Storm (live)
Bob Dylan, I Contain Multitudes
Bob Dylan, Goodbye Jimmy Reed
Bob Dylan, Mississippi (version 1)
Bob Dylan, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Playlist: May 11, 2025
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Aki Kumar, Should I Stay (Immigrant Song)
from the new album God Bless the USA
Mokai, You Don't Even Notice I'm Around (Cellphone Blues)
Sun 5/18 @ The Lost Church
John Brothers Piano Company, C.H.P. (live)
Fri 5/16 @ The Ivy Room
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Them Changes (live)
Fri 5/16 @ Rancho Nicasio
Jack White, Old Scratch Blues
Fri 5/16 @ Fox Theatre
Sat 5/17 @ Masonic Auditorium
The Dead Weather, New Pony
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tower of Song
Wed 5/14 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
John Vanderslice, Graceland
Thu 5/15 @ Mystic Theatre (National Guitar)
Fri 5/16 @ Felton Music Hall
Gregg Wright, Help Is On the Way
Sun 5/18 @ Biscuits & Blues
Selwyn Birchwood, California Sober
Fri 5/16 @ Biscuits & Blues
Delgado Brothers, Betty Sue Boogaloo
Sat 5/17 @ Biscuits & Blues
Nina Simone, Blues For Mama (live)
Memphis Slim, Mother Earth (live)
James Brown, You Got to Have a Mother For Me
The Intruders, I'll Always Love My Mama
Earl King, Mother's Love
The Shirelles, Mama Said
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends, Mama Don't Allow It
The Mothers of Invention, Motherly Love
B.B. King, Nobody Loves Me But My Mother (live)
Bill Withers, Grandma's Hands (live)
Al Wilson, Queen of the Ghetto
Beatles, Lady Madonna
Beatles, Julia (demo)
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Playlist: May 4, 2025
John Williams & the London Symphony Orchestra, Cantina Band
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Beedle Um Bum (live)
Mon 5/05 @ Yoshi's
Mission Delirium, Khusara Khusara (live)
Monophonics, Warpaint
Sun 5/11 @ Mill Valley Music Festival
Gary Clark Jr, Hyperwave
Sat 5/10 @ Mill Valley Music Festival
Vasti Jackson, Online Love Affair
Fri-Sat 5/09-10 @ Biscuits & Blues
The Gold Souls, Something in the Air
from the new album Something in the Air
Fri 5/09 @ Degrees Plato
Sat 5/10 @ The Jacquelyn
Tommy Castro, Tulane
Sat 5/10 @ Biscuits & Blues
Dennis Johnson, Going Down
Fri 5/09 @ Lucca Bar & Girll
Fabulous Thunderbirds, Struck Down By the Blues
Thu 5/08 @ Yoshi's
Fri 5/09 @ Rancho Nicasio
Delta Wires, Sloppy Drunk
Mari Mack & Livin' Like Kings, First Do No Harm
Sat 5/10 @ The Saloon
Dick Dale, Terra Dicktyl
Joe Louis Walker, Cold Is the Night: Reimagined
from the new album Cold Is the Night: Reimagined
Joe Louis Walker, Ride All Night
Joe Louis Walker, Too Drunk Too Drive Drunk (in-studio)
Joe Louis Walker, Soldier For Jesus (in-studio)
Butterfield Blues Band, Mellow Down Easy
Joe Louis Walker, Born in Chicago (live)
Joe Louis Walker, Sugar Mama (live)
Joe Louis Walker, Pickin' the Blues
Joe Louis Walker (1949-2025)
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Playlist: April 27, 2025
Mission Delirium, Fiesta (live)
Thu 5/01 @ El Rio
James Cotton, Mean Old World (live)
James Cotton, Blues in My Sleep
Muddy Waters, Crosseyed Cat
James Cotton, Cotton Crop Blues
Mark Hummel, Blue & Lonesome
Fri 5/02 @ Biscuits & Blues
Quique Gomez, Spaniard of the Backyard
Wed 4/30 @ Empress Marquee Club
Robert Cray, My Baby Likes to Boogaloo
Fri 5/02 @ Uptown Theatre
Sat 5/03 @ Yoshi's
Ben Rice, Dirt Road Home
Thu 5/01 @ Biscuits & Blues
The Blues Project, Wake Me Shake Me
Wed 4/30 @ Yoshi's
The 16th Annual FCB Left-Hand-A-Thon
Gregg Wright, Crank It Up!
Sun 5/18 @ Biscuits & Blues
Ugly Kid Joe, Everything About You
Albert King, Why You So Mean to Me (live)
Otis Rush, Right Place Wrong Time (live)
Otis Rush, I Can't Quit You Baby
Lefty Dizz, I Feel Like Jumping
Left-Hand Frank, Bluu Room Shuffle
Toronzo Cannon, Him
Barbara Lynn, We'll Understand
Blue Rodeo, Stealin' All My Dreams
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Playlist: April 20, 2025
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Reefer Man
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Blow Me A Fat Note
Sun 4/20 @ Keys Jazz Bistro
Sat 4/26 @ Ashkenaz
Terrie Odabi, I Can't Keep
Sun 4/20 @ Yoshi's
Cosmo Alleycats, I'm Always Drunk In San Francisco
Fri 4/25 @ Local Edition
Gunhild Carling, I'll Wait For You in San Francisco
Sat 4/26 @ Biscuits & Blues
Steve Lucky's Hammond Cheese Combo, Dink's Blues (live)
Sat 4/26 @ Royal Cuckoo
Artur Menzes, Green Card Blues (live)
Wed-Thu 4/23-24 @ Libretto
Fri 4/25 @ Biscuits & Blues
Diaspora Ensemble, Las Esuegras De Agora
Sat 4/26 @ Red Poppy Art House
Guitar Shorty, Easter Blues
Con Brio, The Battle of San Francisco (live)
John Lee Hooker, Frisco Blues
Floyd Dixon, San Francisco Blues
Albert King, Bay Area Blues
Lowell Fulson, San Francisco Blues
Lowell Fulson, Fillmore Mess Around
Silver Jews, San Francisco B.C.
The Lucky Losers, They Wrecked My Town
Chuck Berry, San Francisco Dues
Chuck Berry, Fillmore Blues (live)
Bob Dylan, The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar (live)
Maxime Le Forestier, San Francisco
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Playlist: April 13, 2025
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Sly & the Family Stone, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Art Pepper, Thank You Blues
Aux Meadows, Permanent (for now)
Sunday 4/13 @ Bottom of the Hill
Terrie Odabi, The Sky Is Crying
Sunday 4/20 @ Yoshi's
Lady Bianca, Ugly Man Song
Fillmore Slim, Down For My Crown
Curtis Salgado, Cookie Dough
Mark Hummel, Broken Heart
Tue 4/15: Lee Hildebrand Benefit
Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter
Bob Dylan, Little Moses (take 1)
The Carter Family, Little Moses
John Lee Hooker, Moses Smote the Water
The Duhks, Moses Don't Get Lost
Charlie Haden & Hank Jones, Go Down Moses
Darondo, Let My People Go
Bernie Knee, Passover on the Range
Jimmy Scott, Exodus
Ray Barretto, Exodus
Meshugga Beach Party, Exodus
Meshugga Beach Party, Dayenu
The Barry Sisters, Passover Medley
Slim & Slam, Matzo Balls
Urban Funk Monkeys, Barbaric Matzoh
Mavis Staples, Go Down Moses
Bob Dylan, Go Down Moses (live)
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Playlist: March 30, 2025
Colin James, Watch Out
Tue 4/01 @ Yoshi's
Gary Clark Jr, Dirty Dishes Blues
Sat 4/05 @ The Masonic
Sugaray Rayford, Aha
Fri-Sat 4/11-12 Biscuits & Blues
Johnny Rawls, California Shake
Wed 4/02 @ Club fox
Seth Walker, Up on the Mountain
from the new album Why the Worry
Fri 4/04 @ Hotel Utah
Sat 4/05 @ The Side Door
Sun 4/06 @ Polly Klaas Community Theater
Quique Gomez & Kid Andersen, Thirstiest Man in Town
Thu 4/03 @ Biscuits & Blues
J.C. Smith Band, Yonder Wall
Sat 4/05 @ Biscuits & Blues
Mark Hummel, Stop Messin' Round
Fri 4/04 @ The Saloon
Sat 4/05 @ Roxx On Main
Sun 4/06 @ The Cats
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, I'm Not Evil
Fri 4/04 @ Biscuits & Blues
Alberta Hunter, Down Hearted Blues
Lucille Bogan, Reckless Woman Blues
Sue Foley, In My Girlish Days
Zakiya Hooker, Desconfio
Kim Lembo, We The People (in-studio)
Royal Jelly Jive, This Land Is Your Land (in-studio)
Terrie Odabi, Grinnin' In Your Face (in-studio)
Kim Nalley, The Trombone Song (in-studio)
Tiffany Austin, Naima (in-studio)
Con Brio, The Battle of San Francisco (in-studio)
Tumbledown House, Midnight in the Barrio (in-studio)
Wendy DeWitt, Boogie Woogie Rambler (in-studio)
The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol, Chill With You (in-studio)
Lady Bianca, You Got Me Drinkin' (in-studio)
Cathy Lemons, I'm A Good Woman (in-studio)
Hannah Rifkin, I'd Rather Build A Home (in-studio)
Sugar Pie DeSanto, Hello San Francisco (part 2)
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Playlist: March 23, 2025
Peter La Farge, Ira Hayes
Bob Dylan, The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Buddy Johnson, Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
Alabama Mike, Pine Bluff, Arkansas (Big Fine Woman)
Marcel Smith, Drunk
Thu 3/27 @ Harlow's: Little Charlie Baty Celebration
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Somewhere Else
Wed 3/26 @ Yoshi's
Thu 3/27 @ Harlow's: Little Charlie Baty Celebration
Little Charlie & The Nightcats, T.V. Crazy
Little Charlie and Organ Grinder Swing, Pennies From Heaven
Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, Going My Way?
Wed 3/26 @ Yoshi's
Thu 3/27 @ Harlow's: Little Charlie Baty Celebration
Harrell Davenport, Party All Night
Thu 3/27 @ Harlow's: Little Charlie Baty Celebration
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Adam's Rib
Fri 3/28 @ Music City SF
Janiva Magness, Hittin' on Nothin'
from the forthcoming album Back For Me
Wed 3/26 @ Mystic Theatre
Fri 3/28 @ Biscuits & Blues
Sun 3/30 @ Yoshi's
Sonny Boy Williamson, Springtime Blues
Tom Waits, You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Memphis Jug Band, I'll See You in the Spring When the Birds Begin to Sing
Ella Fitzgerald, I Got the Spring Fever Blues
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Santa Claus Came in the Spring
Kyra Gordon, New York in the Springtime (live)
Bob Dylan, Sweet Caroline
Bob Dylan, Fever
Bob Dylan, Baby What You Want Me To Do
Bob Dylan, Mystery Train
Bob Dylan, Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan, New Danville Girl
from the box set Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol.16, 1980-1985
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Playlist: March 16, 2025
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Can't Catch A Break
from the new album Closer to the Bone
Sun 3/23 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Mitch Woods, Jump For Joy
Thu 3/20 @ Biscuits & Blues
Sun 3/23 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Squirrel Nut Zippers, Purim Nigun
Wed 3/19 @ Golden State Theatre
Thu 3/20 @ Uptown Theatre
Fri 3/21 @ Yoshi's
Cosmo Alleycats, Sweet Lotus Blossom
Thu 3/20 @ Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio
Fri 3/21 @ Local Edition
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Hoopty-Do
Sat 3/22 @ Sausalito Seahorse
Lara Price, Rain
Wed 3/19 @ Club Fox
Wood Brothers, Raindrop/Chocolate on My Tongue/Big Road Blues (live)
Sat 3/22 @ The Fillmore
Sun 3/23 @ Center for the Arts
Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
Sly & the Family Stone, St. James Infirmary (live)
Culann's Hounds, Twin Peaks
Culann's Hounds, The Blackthorn Tavern
Sun 3/16 @ Temple Bar (né Blackthorn Tavern)
Sun 3/17 @ Plough & Stars
The Pogues, I'm A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
The Pogues, The Auld Triangle
The Pogues, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
The Pogues, Sally MacLennane
The Nipple Erectors, Stavordale Rd N5
The Mahones, The Irish Rover
The Mahones, Jameson Street
The Mahones, Back Home
The Mahones, Heroes
The Mahones, Across the U.S.A.
Rory Gallagher, Bullfrog Blues (live)
Paul Simon, Paranoia Blues