Playlist: May 17, 2026

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Los Lobos, Three Hundred Pounds of Joy
Los Lobos, La Bamba
     Sat-Sun 5/23-24 @ Rancho Nicasio
Men at Work, The Longest Night (live)
     Fri 5/22 @ Bottlerock
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, I Hate Myself For Loving You
     Sat 5/23 @ Bottlerock
California Honeydrops, 365 Flavors
     Sun 5/24 @ Bottlerock
Men at Work, Blue For You
Mike Zito, The Blues Lover
     Wed 5/20 @ Biscuits & Blues
     Fri 5/22 @ Almost Famous Winery
     Sat 5/23 @ Poor House Bistro
Stan Erhart, Buster's Movin' (Bust'a Mov'a)
Dennis Johnson, Revelation
     Sat 5/23 @ Golden Gate Park Bandshell
George Cole Quintet, Sheila's Waltz
     Sat 5/23 @ Piedmont Center for the Arts
Tiffany Austin, Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
     Fri 5/22 @ The Lost Church
     Sun 5/24 @ Wyldflower Arts

Taj Mahal & Phantom Blues Band, Rowdy Blues
     from the new album Time
Taj Mahal, Leaving Trunk
Taj Mahal, West Indian Revelation
Taj Mahal, 21st Century Gypsy Singing Loving Man
Taj Mahal & Phantom Blues Band, Talkin' Blues
     from the new album Time
Taj Mahal, Dust My Broom
D. Johnson, Kindhearted Woman Blues
Robert Johnson, Traveling Riverside Blues
Robert Johnson, They're Red Hot
Sidney Bechet, Buddy Bolden Stomp (live)
Sidney Bechet, Monmartre Boogie Woogie (live)
Sidney Bechet, Petite Fleur (live)

Playlist: May 10, 2026

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Bobby Rush, Hey Hey Bobby Rush
     Tue-Wed 5/12-13 @ Biscuits & Blues
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, One Hour Mama
     Sun 5/10 @ Biscuits & Blues
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Daddy-O
     Thu 5/15 @ Rancho Nicasio
Rainbow Girls, Subterranean Homesick Alien
     Wed 5/14 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Hernandez Hideaway, Salt and Rocks
     Wed 5/14 @ Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, That's Big (live)
      Fri 5/16 @ Almost Famous Winery
Elvin Bishop, Belly Rubbin' (live)
     Fri 5/16 @ Yoshi's
Kim Wilson, So Many Roads
     Sat-Sun 5/16-17 @ Biscuits & Blues
Dirty Cello, Angel From Montgomery
     Thu 5/15 @ The Starry Plough
RonKat Spearman, One World
     Thu 5/15 @ Boom Boom Room

Nina Simone, Blues For Mama (live)
B.B. King, Nobody Loves Me But My Mother (live)
Earl King, Mother's Love
James Brown, You Got to Have a Mother For Me
Julia Lee, Mama Don't Allow It
The Shirelles, Mama Said
The Mothers of Invention, Motherly Love
Junior Parker, Mother-in-Law Blues
The Intruders, I'll Always Love My Mama
Al Wilson, Queen of the Ghetto
Bill Withers, Grandma's Hands (live)
Memphis Slim, Mother Earth (live)
The Beatles, Julia (rehearsal)

Playlist: May 3, 2026

Bob Dylan in the Bay Area

Jolene (Berkeley, October 11, 2009)
Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Oakland, June 11, 2022)
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (San Jose, November 25, 1964)
Long Distance Operator (San Jose, December 12, 1965)
Highway 61 Revisited (Oakland, February 11, 1974)
Hazel (San Francisco, November 25, 1976)
Am I Your Stepchild? (Oakland, November 14, 1978)
Gotta Serve Somebody (San Francisco, November 15, 1979)
Like A Rolling Stone (San Francisco, November 15, 1980)
Good Rockin' Mama (Mountain View, August 5, 1986)

San Francisco Bay Blues (Berkeley, June 10, 1988)
Pretty Boy Floyd (Oakland, December 3, 1988)
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Monterey, May 27, 1995)
Hoochie Coochie Man (Santa Cruz, March 15, 2000)
Old Man (Berkeley, October 11, 2002)
Brown Sugar (Sacramento, October 9, 2002)
Workingman's Blues #2 (Stockton, August 15, 2009)
Visions of Johanna (Oakland, August 24, 2010)
Freebird (Berkeley, June 9, 2016)