Playlist: March 6, 2013

Leonard Cohen, Anyhow
Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, Little Too Late
     Fri 3/08 @ Bimbo's 365 Club
Los Lobos, Tin Can Trust
     Fri 3/08 @ SLO Brewing Company
     Sat-Sun 3/09-10 @ Moe's Alley
Los Lonely Boys, Friday Night

Shoestring Trio, I'll See You In My Dreams
     from the new album Shoestring Trio
     Wed 3/13 on Fog City Blues
Stéphane Wrembel, Bistro Fada
Parlor Tricks, Was I?
     Sun 3/10 @ Milk Bar
Slim Jenkins, Lookout Mountain
     Sun 3/10 @ Amnesia
Steve Lucky's Hammond Cheese Combo, Wild Shindig
     Thu 3/07 @ Le Colonial
     Fri 3/08 @ The Royal Cuckoo
Monophonics, In Your Brain
     Sat 3/09 @ Great American Music Hall
John Lee Hooker Jr, It Must Be the Meds
     Sat 3/09 @ Biscuits and Blues
The James Hunter Six, Chicken Switch
     Sat 3/09 @ Bimbo's 365 Club
Doug MacLeod, My Inlaws Are Outlaws
     from the forthcoming album There's A Time
     Sat 3/09 @ Armando's
Phil Berkowitz, I Want a Roof Over My Head
     Fri 3/08 @ Murphy's Law
     Sun 3/10 @ Russian River Brewing Company

Jimi Hendrix, Hear My Train A Comin'
Jimi Hendrix, Easy Blues
     from the new album People, Hell & Angels
Frank Bey & The Anthony Paule Band, Ain't That Loving You (live)
     from the new album You Don't Know Nothing
Delta Wires, Take Off Your Pajamas
     from the new album Anthology

Eric Garland's Hodge Podge Ensemble, Breakaway Snap
     Fri 3/08 @ Red Poppy Art House
Wes Montgomery, Missile Blues
J.B. Lenoir, I Had My Trouble
Furry Lewis, Furry Lewis's Careless Love
Love, Wooly Bully
Love, Forever Changes
 

Playlist: February 27, 2013

Magic Slim & The Teardrops, Get Your Business Straight
     Morris Holt (1937-2013)
The Temptations, Papa Was A Rolling Stone
     Damon Harris (1950-2013)
Sugaray Rayford, You Upset Me Baby
     Fri 3/01 @ Biscuits and Blues
B.B. King, You Are My Sunshine (live)
     Thu 2/28 @ Fox Oakland

Leonard Cohen, Amen
     Sat-Sun 3/02-03 @ Paramount Theatre
Great Big Sea, Newfie Rap
     Wed 3/06 @ The Fillmore
The California Honeydrops, Here Comes Love
     Fri 3/01 @ Bergamot Alley
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, I'm In Love Again
     Fri 3/01 @ Club Deluxe
Meklit Hadero & Quinn DeVeaux, Elegie
     Sat 3/02 @ SFJazz Center
Seth Augustus, Hey Hey Heraclitus
     Sat 3/02 @ Revolution Cafe 
Mitch Woods, Crawfishin' (live)
     Wed 3/06 @ The Chapel

George Harrison, P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)
Evan Rachel Wood, I'd Have You Anytime
Cowboy Junkies, Isn't It A Pity
Joe Louis Walker, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles, Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)

Paul McCartney, I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
John Lennon, Ain't That A Shame
Fats Domino, Lady Madonna
Fats Domino, The Fat Man
Willie Mitchell, The Crawl
Ann Peebles, Come to Mama
Al Green, I Want To Hold Your Hand
Otis Clay, Tryin to Live My Life Without You
Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jinx Blues
Johnny Cash, Bird On A Wire

Playlist: February 20, 2013

The gonifs, Tsigele-Migele
     Sun 2/24 @ Porto Franco Art Parlor: Klezmer Brunch
Bex Marshall, Bite Me
     Sun 2/24 @ Biscuits & Blues
Cassandra Wilson, Hellhound On My Trail
     Thu-Sat 2/21-23 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Karina Denike, Until The Real Thing Comes Along (in-studio) 
     Fri 2/22 @ Red Poppy Art House
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
     Sat 2/23 @ Pacifica Performances

Special in-studio guest: Xandra Corpora

     Fri 2/22 @The Independent: Con Brio's Xandra Farewell Show

Con Brio, How Many Days
Xandra Corpora, Catfish Blues (in-studio)
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Lenny
Big Mama Thornton, School Boy
Xandra Corpora, Jimi's Song (in-studio)
Con Brio, The Battle of San Francisco (live)

ALO, Cowboys And Chorus Girls
The California Honeydrops, Pardon Me Love (live)
     Fri-Sat 2/22-23 @ The Fillmore
Tin Cup Serenade, Aunt Hagar's Blues
     Thu 2/21 @ Revolution Cafe
Howell Devine, Mellow Down Easy
     Sat 2/23 @ Speisekammer
     Sun 2/24 @ Revolution Cafe

Robben Ford, You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
     from the new album Bringing It Back Home
The Slide Brothers, My Sweet Lord
     from the new album Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers
Corey Harris, Catfish Blues
     from the new album Fulton Blues
Big Bill Morganfield, Look What You Done
     from the new album Blues With A Mood
Nina Simone, Buck
Irma Thomas, Gone
Nirvana, Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Playlist: February 13, 2013

Tom Waits, Blue Valentines
David Bromberg, Use Me
     Thu-Fri 2/14-15 @ Freight & Salvage
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
     Thu 2/14 @ Biscuits and Blues

The California Honeydrops, I Found A Love
Amber Gougis, Let Me Love You (in-studio)
Tin Cup Serenade, She's Falling in Love
Elvin Bishop, Fooled Around And Fell In Love (live)
Tip of the Top, Love Her With A Feeling
Meklit Hadero & Quinn DeVeaux, Real Love (in-studio)
Cleo Gibson, I've Got Ford Engine Movements in My Hips
Margaret Carter, I Want Plenty Grease in My Frying Pan
Maria Muldaur, Separation Blues
Shemekia Copeland, Happy Valentine's Day

Special guest: Marc Lempert

Huey Lewis & The News, Going Down Slow
Howell Devine, Harmonica Wobble
Freeman Stowers, Railroad Blues
Deford Bailey, Davidson County Blues

Sonny Boy Williamson, Mr. Downchild
Little Walter, Juke
Big Walter Horton, In The Mood
Junior Wells, Chitlin Con Carne
Bob Dylan, Pledging My Time
The Beatles, I Got To Find My Baby
Robert Klein, I Can't Stop My Leg
Toots Thieleman, Bluesette
The Harmonicats, Peg o' My Heart
J. Geils Band, Whammer Jammer
Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite, We Can't End This Way
     from the new album Get Up!

Playlist: February 6, 2013

Eubie Blake, Stars and Stripes Forever
Omar Shariff, The Raven
Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project, Pompton Turnpike
     Tue 2/12 @ The Chapel
Gaucho (feat. Georgia English), It's Been A While
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, Leave My Woman Alone
     Thu 2/07 @ Yoshi's Oakland

Dr. John, Junco Partner (live)
     Tue-Thu 2/12-14 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Allen Toussaint, Dear Old Southland
     Sat-Sun 2/09-10 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Freakish
     Thu 2/14 @ Moe's Alley
     Fri-Sat 2/15-26 @ The Independent
Hot 8 Brass Band, Steaming Blues
     Thu 2/07 @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
The California Honeydrops, Here Comes Love
     from the forthcoming album Like You Mean It
     Thu 2/07 @ Golden State Theate
     Fri 2/08 @ Center for the Arts
     Sat 2/09 @ Chico Women's Club
The Stone Foxes, Everybody Knows
     from the forthcoming album Small Fires
     Tue 2/12 @ Amoeba Records
     Wed 2/13 @ The New Parish
Saul Kaye, Oseh Shalom
     Thu 2/07 @ Blue Water Bistro
     Sun 2/10 @ Netivot Shalom

Grammy Nominees

Heritage Blues Orchestra, Hard Times
     from the album And Still I Rise
Ruthie Foster, Everlasting Light
     from the album Let It Burn
Shemekia Copeland, I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
     from the album 33 1/3
Joan Osborne, Rhymes
     from the album Bring It On Home
Dr. John, Kingdom of Izzness
     from the album Locked Down

The Black Keys, Lonely Boy
Jack White, I'm Shakin'
Bob Marley and The Wailers, Talkin' Blues
Bob Marley and The Wailers, It Hurts to Be Alone
Lonnie Johnson, I'm Nuts About That Gal
Memphis Jug Band, She Stays Out All Night Long
Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five, King Of The Zulus
Lionel Young Band, Night Train
     Thu 2/07 @ Biscuits and Blues
     Fri 2/08 @ Riverwood Inn
     Sat 2/09 @ El Campanil Theatre: Delta Blues Festival Benefit

Playlist: January 30, 2013

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Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, The Bad Times
Ann Rabson with Bob Margolin, Let's Get Drunk and Truck
     Ann Rabson (1945-2013)
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Deed I Do
Hot Club of San Francisco, What a Little Moonlight Can Do
    Sun 2/03 @ SFJazz Center
Brass Menažeri, Vranjski San
     Fri 2/01 @ The New Parish

Howell Devine, Write My a Few of Your Lines
     from the new album Jumps, Boogies & Wobbles
Hillstomp, Little Angel Child
     Sat 2/02 @ Humboldt Brews
     Sun 2/03 @ The Crepe Place
The Wood Brothers, Up Above My Head (live)
Seth Walker, More Days Like This
     Sat 2/02 @ Great American Music Hall
     Mon 2/04 @ Don Quixote's International Hall of Music
     Tue 2/05 @Mystic Theatre
Seth Augustus, Tiny Little Head
     Sat 2/02 @ Cafe Revolution
Markus James, Exile Tracks
Vieux Farka Touré, Gido (feat. John Scofield)
     Sun 2/03 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
John Németh, My Future (live)
     Thu 1/31 @ Biscuits and Blues

Buddy Guy, Damn Right I Got The Blues (live)
     from the new album Live At Legends
Lucky Peterson, I'm Back Again (live)
     from the forthcoming album Live At The 55 Arts Club Berlin
Otis Taylor, Sit Across Your Table
     from the forthcoming album My World Is Gone
Cassie Taylor, Spoken For
     from the new album Blue

The gonifs, Arbeter Ring Sher / A Zekele Gelt
     from the new album The gonifs 
Gaucho, Dark Eyes
Hot Club of Cowtown, Dark Eyes (in-studio)
Django Reinhardt, Improvisation
Roosevelt Sykes, Monkey Face Blues
Elmore James, Stranger Blues
Eddie Taylor, Trouble No More (live)
Paul Pena & Big Bones, Too Poor To Be Rich (live)

Playlist: January 16, 2013

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back

Special in-studio guest: Marshall Lamm

     Wed 1/23 @ SFJazz Center: Opening Night
     Broadcast live on KALW at 8:00 pm

Bill Cosby, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
McCoy Tyner, Blues For Jeff
Jason Moran, I'll Play The Blues For You
Bill Frisell, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
SF Jazz Collective, Superstition

Special in-studio guests: Joshua Howell & Pete Devine

     1/29-2/01 in Memphis, TN: International Blues Challenge

Howell Devine, HowellDevine Boogie Woogie
Howell Devine, Spoonful
Mississippi Fred McDowell, Write Me A Few of Your Lines
Howell Devine, Soft Steel Piston
Howell Devine, Rollin' and Tumblin'
Howell Devine, Mighty Long Time
Jimmy Reed, Take Out Some Insurance
Howell Devine, Shotgun Blues
Magic Sam, Lookin' Good
Howell Devine, Harmonica Wobble #2
     from the forthcoming album Jumps, Boogies, and Wobbles
 

Playlist: January 9, 2013

Marc Ribot, Fat Man Blues
     Wed 1/09 @ Palace of Fine Arts
Los Lobos, West L.A. Fadeaway
     Sat 1/12 @ Bing Concert Hall
Howell Devine, Train
     Sat 1/12 @ Club Deluxe
     Sun 1/13 @ Club Fox: Road to Memphis Revue
Tin Cup Serenade, Sunny Oakland Day
     Thu 1/10 @ Rite Spot Cafe

Special in-studio guests: Brass Menažeri Balkan Brass Band

     Tue 1/29 @ Moe's Alley
     Fri 2/01 @ The New Parish: Ultimate Balkan Bash

Doppio Macchiato (in-studio)
Oliverov čoček (in-studio)
Rane Moje (in-studio)

Medley: Goranine čafanine / Četvorno (in-studio)
Plava devojka (in-studio)

Allman Brothers Band, Don't Want You No More / It's Not My Cross To Bear
Gregg Allman, Checking On My Baby
     Tue 1/15 @ Palace of Fine Arts
     Wed 1/16 @ Crest Theatre
Mitch Woods, Queen Bee (live)
     Sun 1/13 @ Half Moon Bay Brewing Company
Steve Lucky & The Rhumba Bums, Do The Pup
     Sat 1/12 @ Ashkenaz
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Miss Brown To You
     Fri 1/11 @ Red Poppy Art House
     Sat 1/12 @ Biscuits and Blues
Celia Ramsay, You Don't Know What Love Is
     Wed 1/16 @ Freight & Salvage: CD Release Party

Eddie Taylor (with Mark Hummel), Dust My Broom
     Sat 1/12 @ Napa Valley Opera House: Tribute to Jimmy Reed
Phil Berkowitz, Straight Up
     Fri 1/11 @ Murphy's Law
     Sat 1/12 @ Winterhawk Winery
Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers, Greenhouse Blues
     Sat 1/12 @ Firehouse Arts Center
Pine Top Smith, Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Tampa Red, Denver Blues
Elvis Presley, Roustabout

Playlist: January 2, 2013

Mary Harris, Happy New Year Blues 
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Happy New Year Blues 
Lightnin' Hopkins, Happy New Year 
Lonnie Johnson, Happy New Year Darling
Lil Son Jackson, New Year's Resolution
Roy Milton Solid Serenaders, New Year's Resolution Blues

Special in-studio guests: Mark Hummel and Ron Thompson

     Fri-Sun 1/04-06 @ Yoshi's Oakland: Blues Harmonica Blowout – Tribute to Jimmy Reed

Jimmy Reed, You Don't Have To Go 
Eddie Taylor (with Mark Hummel), Red Light
Ron Thompson, Honest I Do
Joe Louis Walker, I'm On To You
Ron Thompson & Mark Hummel, Where Can You Be (in-studio)
Mark Hummel & Ron Thompson, High and Lonesome (in-studio)
Lazy Lester, Sugar Coated Love
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, You're Humbuggin' Me (live)
Ron Thompson & Mark Hummel, You Don't Have To Go (in-studio)
Mark Hummel & Ron Thompson, Natural Born Lover (in-studio)
Jimmy Reed, Hush Hush

Ron Hacker, House Rent Blues (live)
     Thu 1/03 @ Biscuits and Blues
Cathy Lemons, Good Morning Little Schoolboy
Wendy DeWitt, Jungle Boogie
Steve Freund, Lonesome Flight
     Fri 1/04 @ Slim's: Tip Your Hat To The Blues
Little Smokey Smothers & Elvin Bishop, Crack Head Woman (live)
Howlin' Wolf, I've Been Abused
Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers, Roll Your Moneymaker (live)

Playlist: December 26, 2012

Rev. J.M. Gates, Did You Spend Christmas Day in Jail?
The Youngsters, Christmas in Jail
Leroy Carr, Christmas In Jail (Ain't That A Pain)
Doug Legacy and the Legends of the West, Christmas in Prison
Jimmy McCracklin, Christmas Time Pt.1
Bob Dylan, Christmas Island

The Orioles, What Are You Doing New Years Eve
Slim Jenkins, Black Coffee and Burnt Toast
     Mon 12/31 @ Local Edition
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, All Night Long
Gaucho, Deep Night
     Mon 12/31 @ Bimbo's 365 Club
Brass Menažeri, Doppio Macchiato
     Mon 12/31 @ Ashkenaz
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Backatown
     Sat-Mon 12/29-31 @ The Fillmore
Con Brio, The Battle of San Francisco (live)
     Fri 12/28 @ Main Street Brewery
     Sat 12/29 @ Disco Volante
     Mon 12/31 @ Boom Boom Room
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Greedy
     Fri 12/28 @ Moe's Alley
     Mon 12/31 @ Mystic Theater
Kim Nalley, Goin' To New York
     Wed-Mon 12/26-31 @ Rrazz Room
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Winter Wonderland
     Sat 12/29 @ Speisekammer
     Sun 12/30 @ Club Fox
     Mon 12/31 @ Chez Spencer

Robert Randolph & The Family Band, I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama
     Sat 12/29 @ The Independent
Elvin Bishop, Get Your Hand Out Of My Pocket
     Sat 12/29 @ Center For The Arts
John Németh, Magic Touch (live)
     Sun 12/30 @ Biscuits and Blues
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, The Legend of Taco Cobbler
     Fri 12/28 @ Biscuits and Blues
John Lee Hooker Jr,  Listen to the Music
     Mon 12/31 @ Biscuits and Blues

Joe Louis Walker, Ten More Shows To Play (live)
Cab Calloway, Corrine Corrina
Johnny Otis Orchestra, Happy New Year, Baby
Staples Singers, Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas
Odetta, Livin' With the Blues
Donna Summer, I Feel Love
Tom Waits, New Year's Eve

Playlist: December 19, 2012

Christmas Jug Band, Dirty Claus Rag
     Fri-Sat 12/21-22 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, He Is Great (A New Song)
     Mon 12/24 @ Slim's
Hot Club of San Francisco, Baby, It's Cold Outside
     Thu 12/20 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Gaucho, Tico Tico
     Thu 12/20 @ Yoshi's Oakland
Bob Dylan, Must Be Santa

Special in-studio guests: Slim Jenkins

     Sat 12/22 @ Cafe du Nord: Vagabond Lovers Club 
     Mon 12/31 @ Local Edition 

Funky Bug (in-studio)
Devil Blues (in-studio)
Old Joe's Hittin' The Jug (in-studio)
Varetta Dillard, That's Why I Cry
The Cues, Why
Devil Eyes (in-studio)
Coal Miner (in-studio)
Buttermilk Baby (in-studio)
You Know Yeah (in-studio)

Professor Longhair, Mess Around / Hey Now Baby
Professor Longhair, Tipitina
Irma Thomas, Same Old Blues
Hugh Laurie, Tipitina
Allen Toussaint, Egyptian Fantasy

Gary US Bonds, Christmas Is On
     from the new album Christmas is ON!
David Gogo, Let's Get a Real Tree
     from the new album Christmas With The Blues
Fathead, Santa's Drunk
     from the new album Santa's Got Mojo 2 - An Electro-Fi Christmas Blues Celebration
Fats Waller, Swingin' Them Jingle Bells
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Christmas Eve Blues
Jimmy Witherspoon, How I Hate To See Xmas Come Around
Big Joe Turner, Christmas Date Boogie
Rev. A.W. Nix, Begin a New Life On Christmas Day - Part 1

Playlist: December 12, 2012

Speckled Red, The Dirty Dozen No. 2
Kokomo Arnold, The Twelves (The Dirty Dozens)
Tin Cup Serenade, Christmastime in San Francisco
     Thu 12/13 @ Rite Spot Cafe
Christmas Jug Band, Jug Band Romance
     Fri 12/14 @ Freight & Salvage
     Sat 12/15 @ Raven Theater
     Sun 12/16 @ Don Quixote's International Music Hall
Jeremiah Lockwood, Ethan Miller, and Luther Dickinson, Dreidel
     Sat 12/15 @ Brick & Mortar: 'Twas the Last Night of Hanukkah

Special in-studio guests: Lavay Smith & Chris Siebert

     Thu 12/13 @ Yoshi's Oakland: The Magic of Duke Ellington

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
Ella Fitzgerald, Caravan
Ella Fitzgerald, Bli-Blip
Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra, That's The Blues, Old Man
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra, Kissing Bug
The Harlem Footwarmers, Rockin' In Rhythm
Duke Ellington, What Can A Poor Fellow Do?
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

Howell Devine, Train
     Sat 12/15 @ The New Parish
     Tue 12/18 @ Biscuits and Blues
California Honeydrops, When It Was Wrong (live)
     Thu 12/13 @ Palms Playhouse
     Fri 12/14 @ Mystic Theatre
     Sat 12/15 @ The New Parish
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ruby, Are You Mad At Your Man?
John Németh, You're An Angel (live)
Joe Louis Walker, Movin' On
Paula Harris, Turn On The Naughty
Tim & Nicki Bluhm, Reno, Nevada
     Sat 12/15 @ Uptown Theatre
Maria Muldaur, I Am Not Alone
     Sat-Sun 12/15-16 @ Rrazz Room
Big Mama Thornton, Hound Dog (Take 1)
Kinky Friedman, We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You
     Sun 12/16 @ Moe's Alley
     Tue 12/18 @ Cafe du Nord