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Bob Dylan, Running
Bob Dylan, Standing in the Doorway (live)
Bob Dylan, London Calling (live)
Special guest: Jackie Lees (co-author, Bob Dylan in London: Troubadour Tales)
Bob Dylan, Blood In My Eyes
Bob Dylan, The Ballad of the Gliding Swan
Bob Dylan, Mary From the Wild Moor (live)
Bob Dylan, It Ain't Me, Babe (live)
Bob Dylan, Blues Stay Away From Me (with Joan Baez)
Bob Dylan, She Belongs to Me (live)
Bob Dylan, Tell Me Momma (live)
Bob Dylan, Love Her With A Feeling (live)
Bob Dylan, Let's Begin (live)
Bob Dylan, I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine (live)
Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone (live)
Bob Dylan, One Too Many Mornings (live)
Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan, If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Playlist: May 21, 2023
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Playlist: May 14, 2023
Alvin Youngblood Hart, Watchin' Brian Jones
Wed 5/17 @ Golden State Theatre
Fri 5/19 @ Guild Theatre
The Album Leaf, Harvest Moon
Sat 5/20 @ The Independent
Mike Zito, Mississippi Nights (live)
Albert Castiglia, Depression Blues
Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, Hill Country Jam
Mon 5/15 @ Almost Famous Winery
Marty O'Reilly, Secret Song
Fri 5/19 @ Trinity Brewing Company
Sat 5/20 @ The Dip
The Caliopians, 13 Doors
Thu 5/18 @ Amado's
Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Brigitte Bardot
Wed 5/17 @ Golden State Theatre
Fri 5/19 @ Guild Theatre
Larry Williams, Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Arthur Alexander, Anna (Go to Him)
Stevie Wonder, I Was Made to Love Her
Sidney Bechet, Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
Memphis Slim, Mother Earth
Earl King, A Mother's Love
B.B. King, Nobody Loves Me But My Mother
Junior Parker, Mother-in-Law Blues
The Shirelles, Mama Said
The Mothers of Invention, Motherly Love
Bill Withers, Grandma's Hands (live)
The Intruders, I'll Always Love My Mama
Al Wilson, Queen of the Ghetto
Julia Lee, Mama Don't Allow
James Brown, You Got to Have a Mother For Me
Nina Simone, Blues For Mama
Augustus Pablo, Oh Mama Oh
The Beatles, Julia
The Beatles, Lady Madonna
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Playlist: May 7, 2023
HowellDevine, Railroad Stomp (live)
Fri 5/13 @ Almost Famous Winery
Sat 5/14 @ Warehouse Cafe
Aki Kumar, Aaja Aaja
Thu 5/12 @ Mama Kin
Fri 5/13 @ Almost Famous Winery
King Street Giants, Mr. & Mrs. J (live)
from the forthcoming album Live at Hopmonk
Jazz Mafia & Realistic Orchestra, Parenthesis
from the new album Un-Covered Vol.4
Alabama Mike, Mississippi (live)
from the new album Stuff I've Been Through
Fantastic Negrito, In My Head (acoustic)
Mon 5/08 @ Sebastiani Theatre
Tue 5/09 @ Harlow's
Jeff "Tain" Watts, The Impaler
Sun 5/14 @ SFJazz Center
Dennis Chambers, Juju at the Crossroads
Sat 5/13 @ SFJazz Center
West Grand Brass Band, Slick Beatnik
Thu 5/11 @ Boom Boom Room
Chris Strachwitz (1931-2023)
Skip James, No Special Lover
Big Joe Williams, Sloppy Drunk Blues
Treme Brass Band, Sweet Georgia Brown
Creole Belles, Medley Carrière
Big Mama Thornton, Hound Dog
Barbara Dane, Deportees
Savoy Family Band, Sugar Bee
Sonny Boy Williamson, She Brought Life Back to the Dead
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Playlist: April 30, 2023
Crowded House, Good Times Bad
Liam Finn, Cold Feet
Crowded House, It's Only Natural
Sat 5/06 @ Fox Theatre
Bill Frisell, Dog on a Roof
Thu, Sat-Sun 5/04, 5/06-07
Fri 5/05 @ Grace Cathedral
Fantastic Negrito, Nibbadip (acoustic)
Fri 5/05 @ Great American Music Hall
Sun 5/07 @ Moe's Alley
Karina Denike, Stop the Horses
Fri-Sat 5/06 @ The Academy
Tiffany Austin, Someday We'll All Be Free
Mon 5/01 @ Plymouth Church of Jazz & Justice
Nancy Wright, Soul Blue
Sat 5/06 @ Roxx on Main
The Gold Souls, PTO
Fri 5/05 @ The Back Room
Trombone Shorty, Come Back
Regina Carter, You Are My Sunshine
Thu 5/04 @ SFJazz Center
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, I Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues
Fri 5/05 @ Ashkenaz
Duke Ellington Orchestra, Beatles Medley (live)
Willie Nelson, One After 909
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, Bright Lights Big City
Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan, Pancho and Lefty
Bob Dylan, Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Dick Dale, Hava Nagila
Dick Dale, Third Stone from the Sun
Otis Rush, Right Place Wrong Time (live)
James Brown, Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Playlist: April 23, 2023
Tiffany Austin, Stardust
The Curtis Family C-Notes, Rising Sun
Mon 4/24 @ The Palace Hotel: Community Music Center Gala
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Going Down Slow
Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams
Thu 4/27-30 @ SFJazz Center
Roy Rogers, No Shangri-La
Fri 4/28 Sweetwater Music Hall
Mighty Mike Schermer, Silence
Sat 4/29 @ Swabbie's on the River
Sun 4/03 @ Moe's Alley
Terrie Odabi, Will You Still Love Me
Fri 4/28 @ Almost Famous Winery
Keb' Mo', '62 Chevy
Thu 4/27 @ Uptown Theatre
Kyra Gordon, Greetings From East Texas
Sun 4/30 @ The Back Room
Ann Peebles, I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Ella Fitzgerald, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Mystery Record
The 14th Annual Left-Hand-A-Thon
Albert King, Watermelon Man / Why You So Mean to Me (live)
Albert King, I Get Evil (live)
Albert King, Personal Manager (live)
Albert King, Born Under A Bad Sign (live)
Albert King, Bad Luck Blues
Otis Rush, I Can't Quit You Baby
Otis Rush, I Wonder Why (live)
Barbara Lynn, This Is the Thanks I Get
Lefty Dizz, R.M. Blues
Left-Hand Frank, Surfin' With Frank
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Playlist: April 16, 2023
Bob Dylan, Watching the River Flow
from the forthcoming album Shadow Kingdom
Cowboy Junkies, What I Lost
from the forthcoming album Such Ferocious Beauty
Dustbowl Revival, Beside You
Wed 4/19 @ Freight & Salvage
Thu 4/20 @ Moe's Alley
Fri 4/21 @ Crest Theatre
Dom Flemons, It's Cold Inside
Wed 4/19 @ Freight & Salvage
The Caliopians, Tax Time Cumbia
Thu 4/20 @ Amado's
Mostly Kosher, Wade in the Water
Thu 4/20 @ Red Poppy Art House
Sun 4/23 @ Bankhead Theatre
Hernandez Hideaway, No Cha
Thu 4/20 @ Specs
Regina Carter, Dancing in the Street (Detroit, Michigan)
Fri 4/21 @ Bing Concert Hall
Briget Boyle, Crimes & Misdemeanors
from the new album Heartbreak Residue
Fri 4/21 @ The Lost Church
Kid Andersen, Mean Old World
Wed 4/19 @ Empress Lounge
Coco Montoya, Trouble
Tue 4/18 @ Guild Theatre
Wed 4/19 @ Yoshi's
Thu 4/20 @ Felton Music Hall
The Beatles, Taxman (take 11)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Taxman
J.B. Lenoir, Tax Payin' Blues
Robert Cray Band, 1040 Blues
Eddy 'The Chief' Clearwater, I.R.S. Man
Schoolhouse Rock, Tax Man Max
Tommy Castro, A Bluesman Came to Town
Lester Chambers, Are You Ready?
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers, Sadie
Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Playlist: April 9, 2023
Guitar Shorty, Easter Blues
John Oates, Pallet Soft and Low (live)
Fri 4/14 @ Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center
Sun 4/16 @ Uptown Theatre
Special in-studio guest: Clark Noone (Arhoolie Foundation Archivist)
Mance Lipscomb, Sugar Babe
Santiago Jimenez Jr, Por Quién Me Dejas
Fri 4/14 @ The Chapel: 5th Annual Arhoolie Awards and Benefit Concert
Rose Maddox, Kneel at the Cross
Rev. Louis Overstreet, Is There Anybody Here Who Loves My Jesus?
John Delafose, Crying in the Streets
Savoy-Doucet Band, Quelle Étoille
Lydia Mendoza, No Es Culpa Mia
Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, Parting the Clouds with Sunshine
Fri 4/14 @ The Chapel: 5th Annual Arhoolie Awards and Benefit Concert
Tuba Skinny, Some Cold Rainy Day
Dave Alvin, (Variations on Earl Hooker's) Guitar Rhumba
Fri 4/14 @ The Chapel: 5th Annual Arhoolie Awards and Benefit Concert
Groundation, One Rock
Wed 4/12 @ The Chapel
West Grand Brass Band, Local Honeys
Thu 4/13 @ Boom Boom Room
They Might Be Giants, If Day for Winnipeg
Sat 4/15 @ The Fillmore
Mark Hummel, Play With Your Poodle
Fri 4/14 @ The Back Room
Sun 4/16 @ Rancho Nicasio
Kim Nalley, Pennies From Heaven
Thu-Sun 4/13-16 @ Keys Jazz Bistro
Billie Holiday, Now Or Never
Terrie Odabi, I Bet You Think I Don't Know
Walter Horton, What's The Matter With You?
Muddy Waters, Rock Me (live)
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Playlist: April 2, 2023
Joanne Shaw Taylor, Three Time Loser
Wed 4/05 @ Palace of Fine Arts
Tiffany Austin, I Walk The Line
Tue 4/04 @ Devil's Parlor
Aretha Franklin, April Fools
Dionne Warwick, The April Fools
Patti Smith, April Fool
Prince, Sometimes it Snows in April
Corey Glover, April Rain
Eddie Lang, April Kisses
Sarah Vaughan, I’ll Remember April
Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson, April in Paris
Neutral Milk Hotel, April 8th
Simon & Garfunkel, April Come She Will
ProleteR, April Showers
Bob Dylan, Little Moses (live)
The Carter Family, Little Moses
John Lee Hooker, Moses Smote the Water
The Duhks, Moses Don't Get Lost
Bernie Knee, Passover on the Range
Jimmy Scott, Exodus
Ray Barretto, Exodus
Meshugga Beach Party, Dayenu
Elana Jagoda, It Would Have Been Enough (Dayenu)
Saul Kaye, Sea of Reeds
Elana Jagoda, Holy Sister Miriam
Darondo, Let My People Go
Fats Waller, Go Down Moses
Mavis Staples, Go Down Moses
Bob Dylan, Go Down Moses (live)
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Playlist: March 26, 2023
Ranky Tanky, Stand By Me / Sometime (live)
Dom Flemons, Traveling Wildfire
Sat 4/01 @ Mondavi Center
Tiffany Austin, You Must Believe in Spring
Wed 3/29 @ Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio
Nicolas Bearde, I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
Wed-Sat 3/29-4/01 @ Keys Jazz Bistro
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Maybe Later
Fri 3/31 @ Local Edition
The Cottontails, Boogie's The Thing
Fri 3/31 @ Rite Spot Cafe
The Gold Souls, Strongman
Sat 4/01 @ Union Oroville
Sun 4/02 @ Berryessa Brewing Company
Westerly, Down in Oakland
Fri 3/31 @ Torch Club
Sat 4/01 @ Ivy Room
Johnny Stachela, Country Farm Blues
Thu 3/30 @ Felton Music Hall
Fri 3/31 @ Mystic Theatre
Mitch Woods, Solid Gold Cadillac (live)
Wed 3/29 @ The Starlet Room
Sun 4/02 @ Furthermore Wines
Sun 4/02 @ Sausalito Cruising Club
Big Harp George, It's Tuesday
from the new album Cut My Spirit Loose
Alabama Mike, Stuff I've Been Through
from the new album Stuff I've Been Through
DaShawn Hickman & Charlie Hunter, Shout
from the new album Drums, Roots & Steel
John Primer, Trouble of My Own (live)
from the new album Teardrops for Magic Slim
Jeff Healey, Yer Blues (live)
Sue Foley, Pinky's Blues
Rufus Thomas, Funky Chicken (live)
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco, Celia & Johnny
Aretha Franklin, River's Invitation
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Playlist: March 19, 2023
Kim Nalley, Movin' On Up (in-studio)
Kim Lembo, Moving Through Hell (in-studio)
The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol, Birth of the Blues (in-studio)
Amber Gougis, I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues (in-studio)
Hannah Rifkin, I'd Rather Build a Home (in-studio)
Cathy Lemons, You're in My Town (in-studio)
Tiffany Austin, Naima (in-studio)
Kyra Gordon, New York in the Springtime (in-studio)
Wendy DeWitt, Summertime (in-studio)
Lady Bianca, Drinkin' (in-studio)
The View from Bernal Hill, Pathological Doubt (in-studio)
Kendra McKinley, Overcome It (in-studio)
Elana Jagoda, On the Seder Plate (in-studio)
Royal Jelly Jive, Tango Til They're Shore (in-studio)
Rainbow Girls, Smoke Rings (in-studio)
Terrie Odabi, I'll Take You There (in-studio)
Hot Club of Cowtown, Long Way Home (in-studio)
Cowboy Junkies, Remnin Park (in-studio)
Zazí, Bei Mir Bistu Shein (in-studio)
Carolina Chocolate Drops, No Man's Mama (in-studio)
Xandra Corpora, The Battle of San Francisco (in-studio)
Karina Denike, I Never Cared (in-studio)
Meklit Hadero, Sweet or Salty (in-studio)
Rupa & The April Fishes, Lay My Head Down (in-studio)
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Playlist: March 12, 2023
The Legendary Shack Shakers, Born Under a Bad Sign
Hillbilly Casino, Toss Turn & Roll
Tue 3/14 @ Moe's Alley
Wed 3/15 @ Bottom of the Hill
Shovelman, Excavating the Future
Tue 3/14 @ Moe's Alley
Royal Jelly Jive, Smoky Days
Fri 3/17 @ Moe's Alley
John Brothers Piano Company, Fig Jelly
Fri 3/17 @ The Ivy Room
Los Lobos, Flat Top Joint
Thu 3/16 @ Luther Burbank Center
Sat 3/18 @ Mondavi Center
Aki Kumar, Bollywood Blues
Nancy Wright, There Is Something On Your Mind
Fri 3/17 @ The Sound Room
Hot Club of Cowtown, Rodeo Blues
Sat 3/18 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
St. Francis & The Wolf, You Think I'm A Fool
Sat 3/18 @ Hotel Utah Saloon
Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come
Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!
Jesse Fuller, San Francisco Bay Blues
Bob Dylan, Things Have Changed
Austin Butler, Trouble
Andra Day, Lady Sings the Blues
Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues
Herbie Hancock, 'Round Midnight
Jon Batiste, Joe's Lowdown Blues
Joshua Boone, Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?
Booker T. & The MGs, Time Is Tight
Derrick Morgan, Time Marches On
Blue Rodeo, Time
Tom Waits, Time
Dean Martin, That Old Clock on the Wall
Johnny Cash, My Grandfather's Clock
Bob Dylan, Pledging My Time
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Playlist: March 5, 2023
The Brothers Comatose, Atlantic City
Wolf Jett, Brokedown Blues
Fri-Sat 3/17-18 @ Great American Music Hall
Tiffany Austin, Blues Creole (For Amede)
Sandy Cressman, Como Eu Quero Cantar
Tammy Hall, Blue Soul
Terence Brewer, Caravan
Wed 3/15-22-29 @ SFJazz Center: Jazz & Blues Women Celebration
North Mississippi Allstars, Didn't We Have a Time
Thu 3/09 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Fri 3/10 @ The Independent
Sat 3/11 @ Felton Music Hall
Pokey Lafarge, Yo-Yo
Wed 3/08 @ Rickshaw Stop
Thu 3/09 @ Guild Theatre
Saul Kaye. Eliyahu
Fri 3/10 @ Sherith Israel
Stone Foxes, Norah Jones
Sat 3/11 @ Native Sons Hall
Rob Reich, Bootlegger's Balls
Pamela Rose & Company, Blues Is A Woman
Pamela Rose & Company, Up the Country Blues
Mamie Smith, Crazy Blues
Pamela Rose & Company, Looking the World Over
Bonnie Raitt, Here Comes Love
Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Pamela Rose & Company, Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning
Viola Davis, Deep Moaning Blues