Playlist: July 8, 2020

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Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Dump That Trump!
California Honeydrops, Shack in the Back
     from the new EP Just One More and Then Some
Sons of the Soul Revivers, Don't Let Jesus Down
     from the new album Songs We’ll Always Sing: A Tribute to the Pilgrim Jubilees
Aki Kumar, Aana Mere Pyar Ko
     from the new album Dilruba 
Whiskerman, Lawless
Ben Goldberg, July 1 2020
     from the ongoing album Plague Diary
Josh Thurston-Milgrom, La Petite Mort
     from the new album Thirst Pilgrim Songs
Mark Rosenthal, Angel From Montgomery
     from the new album Diggin' In
Bob Dylan, My Own Version of You
     from the new album Rough and Rowdy Ways
Jeremiah Lockwood, Don't Want Me Baby
Quinn DeVeaux, Gimme Your Love

Ringo Starr, I'm The Greatest
Ringo Starr, What's My Name
The Beatles, Boys (live)
The Beatles, If You've Got Trouble
The Beatles, Octopus's Garden (take 9)
The Beatles, Octopus's Garden (rehearsal)
Ringo Starr, Nashville Jam
Ringo Starr, Photograph (live)
Louis Jordan, Mop Mop
Louis Jordan, Ain't That Just Like A Woman
Phil Berkowitz, Caldonia

Playlist: July 1, 2020

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Blue Rodeo, Stealin' All My Dreams
Blue Rodeo, Are You Ready For the Country? (in-studio)
Neil Young, We Don't Smoke It No More
     from the "new" album Homegrown
Neil Young, Think of Me
Cowboy Junkies, Stranger Here (in-studio)
Cowboy Junkies, Crossroads
Leonard Cohen, Thanks for the Dance
Leonard Cohen, The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant)
Colin James, One More Mile
Colin James, Voodoo Thing
Oscar Peterson Trio, Place St. Henri
Oscar Peterson Trio, Hymn to Freedom

Tin Cup Serenade, Manitoba
The British Columbians, Hoodoo
Gordon Lightfoot, Alberta Bound
The Guess Who, Runnin’ Back to Saskatoon
The Duhks, You Go East, I’ll Go West
The Tragically Hip, Born in the Water
Lynda Lemay, Les Maudits Français
Stompin’ Tom Connors, Saint John Blues
Joel Plaskett, Love This Town
Great Big Sea, Excursion Around the Bay
Nathan Wiley, Bottom Dollar Baby
The Jerry Cans, Ukiuq
The Travellers, This Land Is Your Land

Playlist: June 24, 2020

Bob Dylan, Crossing the Rubicon
Bob Dylan, I Contain Multitudes
Bob Dylan, Goodbye Jimmy Reed
Jimmy Reed, Down in Virginia
Bob Dylan, False Prophet 
Billy Emerson, If Lovin’ Is Believing 
Billy Emerson, Red Hot
Bob Dylan, I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You
Bob Dylan, Black Rider
Tom Waits, The Black Rider
Jimmie Rodgers, My Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bob Dylan, Mother of Muses
     from the new album Rough and Rowdy Ways

California Honeydrops, In the Air
California Honeydrops, Every Once in a While (live)
     Fri 6/26 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Quinn DeVeaux, Trouble
Kim Nalley, Trouble of the World
Jazz Mafia feat. Tiffany Austin, Wilderness
Blonde Toledo, Killing Floor
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Some Like It Hot
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Roll the Boogie
Rob Reich, Bootlegger's Balls
Craig Ventresco & Meredith Axelrod, Cold Mornin' Shout
The Cottontails, Hold My Hand
Vic Wong & Friends, I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

Playlist: June 17, 2020

Luther Allison, I’m Back
Lightnin’ Hopkins, I’m Coming Home
Leon Bridges, Coming Home
Ruby Wilson, I’m Coming Home
Jimmy Dawkins, Back Home Blues
Meklit & Quinn, Na̛ive Melody (This Must Be the Place)
Tiffany Austin, Blues Creole (For Amede)
Howard Wiley, Come Forth (To the House of the Lord)
Fatso Bentley, Juneteenth Jamboree
Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul
     from the new album Rough and Rowdy Ways

Bob Dylan, In The Summertime (live)
Bob Dylan, Summer Days
Billy Stewart, Summertime
Sidney Bechet, Summertime
Kim Nalley, Summertime
Billie Holiday, Summertime
Tom Waits, Summertime (live)
R.E.M., Summertime
Paul McCartney, Summertime
Howard Wiley, Song for a Hot Summers Night
Mr. Sad Head, Hot Weather Blues
Prince Buster, Too Hot

Playlist: June 10, 2020

Howlin' Wolf, Smokestack Lightning
Tiffany Austin, Greenwood
Howlin’ Wolf, Natchez Burning
Howlin’ Wolf, I’ve Been Abused
Howlin' Wolf, Sitting On Top of the World
Ray Charles, I'm Sittin' On Top of the World
Jeff Healey, Sittin' On Top of the World
Mississippi Sheiks, Sitting On Top of the World
Alabama Sheiks, Sittin' On Top of the World
Bob Dylan, Sittin' On Top of the World
Big Joe Williams, Sitting on Top of the World
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sitting On Top of the World
Ndidi Onukwulu, Things About Comin' My Way
Tampa Red, Things 'Bout Coming My Way No.2

Playlist: June 3, 2020

The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol, Still I Rise (live)
Quinn DeVeaux, Holiday
Quinn DeVeaux, Take Me to Glory
     from the new album Book of Soul
Kim Nalley, She’s Got the Whole World In Her Hands
Kim Nalley, Big Hooded Black Man
Tiffany Austin, Fight the Power (live)
Tiffany Austin, Ain’t No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down)
Terrie Odabi, Gentrification Blues
Alabama Mike, Upset the Status Quo
Fantastic Negrito, In the Pines
Fantastic Negrito, Chocolate Samurai
     from the forthcoming album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Jimmy Rogers, You're the One
Memphis Minnie, Killer Diller Blues

Playlist: May 27, 2020

Fantastic Negrito, How Long
     from the forthcoming album Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Quinn DeVeaux, Stay the Night
     from the new album Book of Soul

Special shelter-in-place guests: The Lucky Losers

The Lucky Losers, Godless Land
The Lucky Losers, Can't Keep Pretending
The Lucky Losers, My One Good Eye
The Lucky Losers, Half A Nothing
Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Information
Irma Thomas, Be You
The Lucky Losers, Mad Love Is Good Love

     from the forthcoming album Godless Land

Playlist: May 20, 2020

Bob Dylan, I Contain Multitudes

     from the forthcoming album Rough and Rowdy Ways

Jimmie Rodgers, My Rough and Rowdy Ways

Bob Dylan, My Blue-Eyed Jane

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers medley

Bob Dylan, I Can’t Get You Off My Mind

Bob Dylan, Boogie Woogie Country Girl

Bob Dylan, Red Cadillac & Black Moustache

Bob Dylan, Return to Me 

Bob Dylan, Long Distance Operator (live)
Bob Dylan, San Francisco Bay Blues (live)
Bob Dylan, You're A Big Girl Now (live)
Bob Dylan, Old Man (live)
Bob Dylan, False Prophet

     from the forthcoming album Rough and Rowdy Ways

Billy Emerson, If Lovin’ Is Believing

Playlist: May 13, 2020

Bob Dylan, False Prophet
     from the forthcoming album Rough and Rowdy Ways

Special #StayAtHome guests: Blonde Toledo

Swipe / Do the Kids Still Know How to Fall in Love
Nimbus Cocktail (in-home)
Another Mother's Child in Trouble (in-home)
Walk With a View (in-home)
Scenes From a Marriage (in-home)
Little Miss Krissy

Herbie Hancock, St. Louis Blues (feat. Stevie Wonder)

Playlist: May 6, 2020

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Robert Johnson, Stop Breakin' Down Blues

The Rolling Stones, Stop Breaking Down

The White Stripes, Stop Breaking Down

Eric Clapton, Stop Breakin' Down Blues

Cream, Four Until Late

Muddy Waters, Walkin' Blues

Elmore James, I Believe

Homesick James, Crossroads

Robert Lockwood Jr, Steady Rollin' Man

Robert Lockwood Jr, Little Queen of Spades

Chris Thomas King, Ramblin' On My Mind

Bob Dylan, Milkcow's Calf Blues
Dennis Johnson, Hellhound On My Trail
Howell Devine, Come On In My Kitchen

Robert Johnson, They're Red Hot

Playlist: April 29, 2020

Bob Dylan, I Contain Multitudes
Aki Kumar, The Rich Shall Inherit the Earth

11th Annual Left-Hand-A-Thon

Otis Rush, Right Place Wrong Time (live)
Otis Rush, Cross Cut Saw (live)
Otis Rush, Tops (live)
Albert King, Watermelon Man (live)
Albert King, Why You So Mean to Me (live)
Albert King, I Get Evil (live)

Albert King, Born Under A Bad Sign (live)

Otis Rush, All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (live)

Playlist: April 15, 2020

Special shelter-in-place guest: Quinn DeVeaux

Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, Been Too Long
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, Stay the Night
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, Good Times Roll
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, Take Me Home
Bill Withers, Kissing My Love
Bill Withers, Ain't No Sunshine
John Prine, The Late John Garfield Blues
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, All I Need
     from the new album Book of Soul
Bob Dylan, Murder Most Foul