Playlist: December 26, 2018

The Orioles, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Prince, Purple House
     Mon 12/31 @ Fox Theatre Redwood City (Prince tribute show)
Lee Fields & The Expressions, Special Night
Quinn DeVeaux, Coming Up With One
The M-Tet, Sal's-U-Save
     Sun-Mon 12/30-31 @ The Chapel
Con Brio, Paradise
     Mon 12/31 @ Hopmonk Novato
Big Blu Soul Revue, Black Pearl
     Mon 12/31 @ Presidio Social Club
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Love Is
     Mon 12/31 @ Mystic Theatre
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Handle With Care (live)
     Mon 12/31 @ Biscuits & Blues
Gaucho, Dark Eyes
     Mon 12/31 @ Foreign Cinema
Fanfare Zambaleta, Zv'jezda Tjera Mjeseca
     Mon 12/31 @ Ashkenaz
Inspector Gadje, Pool Party Premonition (live)
     Mon 12/31 @ Starline Social Club

Nancy Wilson, What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Aretha Franklin, Dr. Feelgood (live)
Otis Rush, Right Place Wrong Time (live)
Eddy 'The Chief' Clearwater, A Good Leavin' Alone (live)
Hugh Masekela, Afro Beat Blues

Midtown Social, See About Me
     Sat 10/29 @ Moe's Alley
California Honeydrops, Live Learn
     Thu-Fr 10/27-28 @ Cornerstone
Aki Kumar, Yeh Shaam Mastaani
    Fri 10/28 @ The Smoking Pig
    Sat 10/29 @ The Torch Club
    Sun 10/30 @ Half Moon Bay Brewery
    Mon 10/31 @ Dosa Fillmore
Sugaray Rayford & The Italian Royal Family, Take Me Back
    Fri-Sat 10/28-29 @ Biscuits & Blues
Blue Rodeo, If We Make It Through December
Tom Waits, New Year's Eve

Playlist: December 19, 2018

Blind Boys of Alabama, Last Month of the Year
     Fri 12/21 @ Mystic Theatre
     Sat-Sun @ SFJazz Center
Sons of the Soul Revivers, The Man in the Middle (live)
     Sun-Mon 12/23-24 @ Rancho Nicasio
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, We Three Kings
     Fri 12/21 @ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
     Mon 12/24 @ Slim's
John Lee Hooker Jr, People Want a Change (live)
     Mon 12/24 @ Biscuits & Blues

Special in-studio guest: PC Muñoz

     Fri 12/21 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Home Again – Tapestry Reimagined

PC Muñoz, The Angel Gabriel
PC Muñoz, The Passing of Time
Carole King, Home Again
Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker
Joni Mitchell, The Jungle Line
PC Muñoz and Aaron Germain, Smackwater Jack
Aaron Germain, Beautiful

PC Muñoz and Aaron Germain, Ricochet
PC Muñoz, Death Might Be Your Christmas Gift

Rev. J.M. Gates, Death Might Be Your Santa Claus

Rev. A.W. Nix, How Will You Spend Christmas

Christmas Jug Bad, Santa Claus Is My Main Man

     Thu 12/20 @ Sweetwater Music Hall

The Ramones, Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

Bob Dylan, Must Be Santa

Blue Rodeo, Getting Ready For Christmas Day

Blue Rodeo, River

Tiffany Austin, You Must Believe in Spring

     Thu 12/20 @ SFJazz Center

Adam Shulman, The Night We Called It A Day

     Fri-Sat 12/21-22 SFJazz Center

Elvin Bishop, Right Now Is The Hour

     Sat 12/22 @ Biscuits & Blues

Ray Brenner and Barry E. Blitzer, The Problem

Playlist: December 12, 2018

Christmas Jug Band, S.A.N.T.A. (Gloria)
     Thu 12/13 @ Sonoma Community Center
     Sat 12/15 @ Museum of Northern California
     Sun 12/16 @ Palms Playhouse
     Mon 12/17 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
     Tue 12/18 @ Freight & Salvage
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Mary's Baby
     Sat 12/15 @ Imani Community Church
Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas
     Thu 12/13 @ Kuumbwa Jazz (Adam Shulman Trio)
     Fri-Sat 12/21-22 @ SFJazz Center

Special in-studio guests: Fanfare Zambaleta

     Mon 12/31 @ Ashkenaz

Demiranove Gajde/Talava Groove (in-studio)
Cocek Vranjska Banja (in-studio)
Oj, Borije (in-studio)
Makedonska Sa-Sa (in-studio)
Mesečina (in-studio)
Lane Moje / Ramo Ramo

Meshugga Beach Party, Dreidel Dreidel
Meshugga Beach Party, Hot Rod Hanukkah
     Thu 12/13 @ Forbidden Island
Elvin Bishop, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
     Sat 12/15 @ Club Fox
     Sun 12/16 @ Poor House Bistro
The Lucky Losers, Make A Right Turn
     Thu 12/13 @ The Saloon
     Fri 12/14 @ The Back Room
     Sun 12/16 @ Poor House Bistro
Hillstomp, The Cuckoo
     Sat 12/15 @ Moe's Alley
Barrio Manouche, Té a la Menta
     Sat 12/15 @ Club Deluxe
     Wed 12/19 @ Blue Note Napa
La Gente, En La Parranda
The Crux, Phaedrus
     Sat 12/15 @ Hopmonk Tavern

Tower of Power, You're Still a Young Man

     Fri 12/14 @ Golden State Theatre

     Sat 12/15 @ Blue Note Napa

Playlist: December 5, 2018

Meshugga Beach Party, Festival of Lights
     Thu 12/13 @ Forbidden Island
Book of J, Khavale
     Fri 12/07 @ St. Cyprian's Church
Stephen Colbert & Jon Stewart, Can I Interest You in Hanukkah
Stanley Abrams and Sid Wayne, 'Twas the Night Before Chanukah
Mickey Katz, Grandma's Dreidel
The Klezmatics, Hanukah Tree

Special in-studio guest: Brian Adam McCune

Brian Adam McCune, A New Day
     from the new EP Then and Now and Then and Now
MoeTar, Welcome to Paradise
Goodnight Texas, She
Matt Montgomery & Brian Adam McCune, Though I Try
The Dear Hunter, Is There Anybody Here?
The Kind of Love That Only Exists in Movies
     from the new EP Then and Now and Then and Now

The Beatles, Helter Skelter (take 2)
     from the new 50th anniversary deluxe edition The Beatles (White Album)

Special in-studio guests: Royal Jelly Jive

     Sat 12/08 @ The Independent

Nocturne (in-studio)
Boom Boom (in-studio)
Spark (in-studio)
This Land Is Your Land (in-studio)
Dear Mr. Waits

Woody Guthrie, Hanukkah Dance
Don McLean, Dreidel
Jeremiah Lockwood, Ethan Miller, and Luther Dickinson, Dreidel