Thursday, December 29, 2011

Playlist: December 28, 2011



Woody Allen and His New Orleans Jazz Band, Wild Man Blues
     Wed 12/28 @ The Regency Ballroom
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, St. James Infirmary (live)
     Fri 12/30-31 @ The Fillmore
California Honeydrops, Soul Tub
     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

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Playlist: December 21, 2011

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

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