Fog City Blues

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Playlist: April 30, 2014

Harvey Mandel, Cristo Redentor
Canned Heat, Bullfrog Blues (live)
Sun 5/04 @ Biscuits and Blues: Bay Area Benefit Bash
Regina Carter, See See Rider
Thu-Sun 5/01-04 @ SFJazz Center
Mr. Sipp the Mississippi Blues Child, My Blues Jig
Fri-Sat 5/02-03 @ Biscuits and Blues

Special in-studio guests: Cathy Lemons and Stevie Gurr

The Big Payback
I'm a Good Woman (in-studio)
You're In My Town Now (in-studio)
I'm Going to Try
The Devil Has Blue Eyes (in-studio)
Black Crow
from the new album Black Crow

Carletta Sue Kay, Queen Jane Approximately
Thu 5/01 @ Rickshaw Stop
Whiskerman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Sat 5/03 @ The Chapel
Con Brio, Sex Machine
Fri 5/02 @ Awaken Cafe
Sat 5/03 @ The Independent
Brass Magic, Happy Hour in Poland
Sat 5/03 @ The Independent
Tue 5/06 @ Madrone Art Bar
Little Jonny & The Giants, Hey Little Lee
Aki Kumar, Buzzin'
Fri 5/02 @ The Turf Club
Little Walter, Flying Saucer
Rev. Gary Davis, Floor Sweepin' Rag
Willie Nelson, Funny How Time Slips Away
Pete Seeger, St. Louis Blues
Go Van Gogh, If Love Is Out of Fashion
Wed 5/07 on Fog City Blues

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Playlist: April 23, 2014

Youngblood Brass Band, Ain't Nobody
Thu 4/24 @ The Catalyst
Fri 4/25 @ The Chapel
Cathy Lemons, It All Went Down The Drain
Thu 4/24 @ The Saloon
Wed 4/30 on Fog City Blues
Matt Andersen, What Will You Leave
Thu 4/24 @ Biscuits and Blues
Go Van Gogh, Mr. Lobster
Fri 4/25 @ Devil's Canyon Brewery
Wed 5/07 on Fog City Blues

Special in-studio guests: Rupa & The April Fishes

Fri 4/25 @ The Independent

Weeds (live)
Lay My Head Down (in-studio)
Culpa de la Luna (live)
La Estrella Caida (in-studio)
L'éléphant (live)
Like I Do (in-studio)
Electric Gumbo Radio (live)
from the new album Live At The Independent

5th Annual Left-Hand-A-Thon

Albert King, Why You So Mean To Me (live)
Albert King, Bay Area Blues
Lefty Dizz, Where The Hell Were You When I Got Home
Otis Rush, I Can't Quit You Baby (live)
Afrofunk Experience, Nuevo Funk
Phil Guy, 4 AM Blues
Toronzo Cannon, Big Ray Bop
Left Hand Frank, Linda Lu
Elizabeth Cotten, Shake Sugaree

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Playlist: April 16, 2014

Elana Jagoda, Holy Sister Miriam
from the new album Seder Song Revival
Johnny Conquet, His Piano & Orchestra, Matzoh Ball Merengue
Rupa & The April Fishes, Guns of Brixton
from the new album Live at the Independent
Wed 4/23 on Fog City Blues
Cathy Lemons, You're In My Town Now
from the new album Black Crow
Wed 4/30 on Fog City Blues

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Sugar Plum
Thu 4/17 @ The Catalyst
Fri 4/18 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Howell Devine, Mighty Long Time
Fri 4/18 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Sat 4/19 @ The Baltic
Sun 4/20 @ Amnesia
California Honeydrops, Got The Feeling
Thu 4/17 @ Palms Playhouse
Sat 4/19 @ 19 Broadway
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Revue, So Easy
Sat 4/19 @ Birdland Jazzista Social Club
Afrofunk Experience, Under African Skies
UnderCover Presents Paul Simon's "Graceland"
Sat-Sun 4/19-20 @ Freight & Salvage
DRMS, Diamonds of the Soles of Her Shoes
Thu 4/17 @ The Chapel

Sat-Sun 4/19-20 @ Freight & Salvage

Blind Willie Johnson, God Moves on the Water
Bob Dylan, Tempest
Langhorne Slim & The Law, Got My Mind Made Up
from the new album Bob Dylan in the 80s: Volume One
Queens of the Stone Age, Outlaw Blues
Thu 4/17 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Shane Dwight, We Can Do This
from the new album This House
Fri 4/18 @ Biscuits and Blues
Terry Hanck, Gotta Bring It On Home To You
from the new album Gotta Bring It On Home To You
Fri 4/18 @ Torch Club
Sat 4/19 @ Poor House Bistro
Sun 4/20 @ Half Moon Bay Brewing Company
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, When I Cross the Mississippi
Fri 4/18 @ Theatre Deville
Sat 4/19 @ Moe's Alley
John Mayall, Just A Memory
from the forthcoming album A Special Life
Colin Linden, Sugar Mine (live)
Bessie Smith, Take It Right Back ('Cause I Don't Want It Here)

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Playlist: April 9, 2014

Bill Cosby, Hooray for the Salvation Army Band
Fri 4/11 @ Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Sat 4/12 @ Paramount Theatre
Bill Baird, You Can Call Me Al
UnderCover Presents: Paul Simon's "Graceland"
Fri-Sat 4/11-12 @ JCC San Francisco
Sat-Sun 4/19-20 @ Freight & Salvage
Rupa & The April Fishes, Soy Payaso
from the new album Live at the Independent
Wed 4/16 on Fog City Blues

Special in-studio guests: Elana Jagoda and Saul Kaye

Elana Jagoda, Plague Song
Elana Jagoda, It Would Have Been Enough (in-studio)
Elana Jagoda, Where's the Afikomen? (in-studio)
Elana Jagoda, Ma Nishtana
Saul Kaye, Go Down Moses
Elana Jagoda, On the Seder Plate (in-studio)
Elana Jagoda, Bang Bang Dig Dig
from the new album Seder Song Revival

Bernie Knee, Passover on the Range
Jimmy Scott, Exodus
Go Van Gogh, Juicy Cumbia
Thu 4/10 @ Cafe Van Kleef
Junk Parlaor, Si Tu Savais
Tue 4/15 @ Corskscrew Wine Bar
Cathy Lemons, I'm a Good Woman
from the new album Black Crow
Wed 4/23 on Fog City Blues

Willie Nelson (feat. Diana Krall), Crazy
Sat 4/12 @ Greek Theatre
Sat 4/12 @ Fox Theatre
Trombone Shorty, Hit The Road Jack
Fri 4/11 @ The Warfield
Joe Louis Walker, I'm Gonna Walk Outside
Fri 4/11 Palms Playhouse
Sat 4/12 @ Biscuits and Blues
Hound Dog Taylor, Held My Baby Last Night
John Brim, Drinking Woman
Walter Horton, Cotton Patch Hot Foot
Mance Lipscomb, The Titanic (live)
The Plāto'nes, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (live)
The Plāto'nes, We Will All Go Together When We Go (live)
Sun 4/13 @ Philosophy Talk Live at the Marsh Berkeley

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Playlist: March 26, 2014

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Retreat!
Valerie June, Pushin' Against a Stone
Th-Sat 3/27-29 @ The Fillmore

Special in-studio guests: Lyz Luke, Robert Shelton, and UnderCover Presents: Paul Simon's "Graceland"

Fri-Sat 4/11-12 @ JCC SF
Sat-Sun 4/19-20 @ Freight & Salvage

Midtown Social, All Around The World
Midtown Social, Fantastic Colors (in-studio)
Midtown Social, Solid Ground
Fri 3/28 @ Elbo Room
Fanfare Zambaleta, The Boy In The Bubble
DRMS, Diamonds On The Soles of Her Shoes
Fanfare Zambaleta, Zv'jezda Tjera Mjeseca
Sat 4/26 @ Rhythmix
Guy Fox, Crazy Love Vol.II

Diana Gameros, Gumboots
Diana Gameros, Libre y Serena (in-studio)
Diana Gameros, Como Hacer (in-studio)
Diana Gameros, SB 1070
Fri 3/28 @ Roosevelt Tamale Parlor
Pacific Boychoir, Homeless
Pacific Boychoir, I've Been in the Storm So Long
Trio Zincalo, That Was Your Mother
John Vanderslice, Graceland

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Playlist: March 19, 2014

Con Brio, California Cowboy
Sat 3/22 @ Poor House Bistro
Tumbleweed Wanderers, Worn Down Welcome
Fri 3/21 @ Fox Theater
Guy Fox, Crazy Love
from the forthcoming album UnderCover Presents: Paul Simon's Graceland
Devine's Jug Band, Spider's Nest Blues
Thu 3/20 @ The Rite Spot
Rebirth Brass Band, Let's Go Get 'Em
Fri 3/21 @ The New Parish
Sat 3/22 @ Mazzanine

Special in-studio guest: JooWan Kim

Sat 4/05 @ Red Poppy Art House
Thu 4/17 @ Yoshi's Oakland

Ensemble Mik Nawooj, We Will Conquer
Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Morning Light
Ensemble Mik Nawooj, First Song
Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Stars of Everything
Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey

David Bromberg, Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Mornin'
Fri 3/21 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Sun 3/23 @ Freight & Salvage
Bob Dylan, Alberta #3
Brandon Isaak, Oh Virginia
from the forthcoming album Here On Earth
24th Street Wailers, Chin Wagger
from the new album Wicked
Steve Dawson, Blind Thomas at the Crime Scene
from the new album Rattlesnake Cage

Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, Laura Lee
from the new album Goin' To The Delta
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Center of Attention
Fri 3/21 @ Harlow's
Sat 3/22 @ Great American Music Hall
Delta Wires, Goin' Away
Sat 3/22 @ Biscuits and Blues
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Broke and Lonesome
Sun 3/23 @ Moe's Alley
Fri 3/28 @ Club Fox
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Your Picture
Otis Spann, Half Ain't Been Told
Wilson Pickett, I Found A Love
Kraftwerk, Pocket Calculator
Sun-Tue 3/23-25 @ Fox Theater

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Playlist: March 12, 2014

Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers, Atheists Don't Have No Songs (live)
Fri 3/14 @ Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Sat 3/15 @ Bob Hope Theatre
Bells Atlas, Loving You Down
Fri 3/14 @ Rickshaw Stop
Con Brio, Cadillac
Sat 3/15 @ The Independent
Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, One
Fri 3/14 @ The Independent

Special guest: John Németh

Fri 3/14 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Sat 3/15 @ Sutter Creek Theatre
Sun 3/16 @ Moe's Alley

John Németh, Three Times A Fool
John Németh, Sooner or Later
John Németh, Blues In My Heart (live)
John Németh, Elbows on the Wheel
from the forthcoming album Memphis Grease
The Bo-Keys, Just Chillin'

Go Van Gogh, Way Out West
Thu 3/13 @ Cafe Van Kleef
Sat 3/15 @ Revolution Cafe
Kara Grainger, Shut Down
Sat 3/15 @ Biscuits and Blues

Ornette Coleman, Congeniality
Thu 3/13 @ SFJazz Center: Howard Wiley Plays Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz To Come
Marcus Shelby, Somebody's Watching You
Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey
Sly & The Family Stone, Crossword Puzzle

Omar Shariff, So You Want To Be A Man
Lightnin' Slim, Have Your Way
Lightnin' Hopkins, Tap Dance Boogie
Aki Kumar, Judgment Day
The Five Blazes, Chicago Boogie
Clarence Samuels, Boogie Woogie Blues
Sunnyland Slim, Johnson Machine Gun
Jesse Fuller, San Francisco Bay Blues

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Playlist: March 5, 2014

Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, Night Life
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton, Joliet Bound
Sat 3/08 @ Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Sun 3/09 @ Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
Aki Kumar, Mumbai Express
from the new album Don't Hold Back
Fri 3/07 @ Main Street Brewery
John Németh, Elbows on the Wheel
from the forthcoming album Memphis Grease
Wed 3/12 on Fog City Blues

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Need A Little Sugar in My Bowl
Bessie Smith, Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Billie Holliday, Miss Brown To You
Etta James, Don't Cry Baby
Sarah Vaughan, I Cried For You
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Miss Brown To You
Thu-Sun 3/06-09 @ SFJazz Center
Willy Porter, Tilt-a-Whirl
Fri 3/07 @ Freight & Salvage
Kelly McFarling & The Home Team, I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Thu 3/06 @ Hotel Utah
Howell Devine, Howell Devine Boogie Woogie
Fri 3/07 @ Little Lou's BBQ
Sat 3/08 @ Club Deluxe
Sun 3/09 @ 19 Broadway
Wed 3/12 @ Biscuits and Blues

Wild Tchoupitoulas, Indian Red
The Hawkettes, Mardi Gras Mambo
Mitch Woods, I Left My Baby at the Mardi Gras Cryin'
Professor Longhair, Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Lloyd Price, Ain't It A Shame
J.B. Lenoir, When I Was Young
Willie Mitchell, Teenie's Dream
Furry Lewis, I Will Turn Your Money Green
Alvin Youngblood Hart, If Blues Was Money
Wes Montgomery, West Coast Blues
Love, You Set The Scene
California Honeydrops, Cry For Me

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Playlist: February 26, 2014

Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Blacky Joe
Sat 3/01 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Sun 3/02 @ Crest Theatre
The Slide Brothers, My Sweet Lord
Cash Box Kings, Walkin' Blues
Thu 2/27 @ Poor House Bistro
Fri 2/28 @ Studio Gracia
Sat 3/01 @ El Campanil Theatre

Marcia Ball, Mule Headed Man
Fri 2/28 @ Freight & Salvage
Sat 3/01 @ Mystic Theatre
Janiva Magness, Make It Rain
Fri 2/28 @ Palms Playhouse
Sat 3/01 @ Biscuits and Blues
Bob Margolin with Mike Sponza Band, The Door Was Open
Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore, Boogie Woogie Ball
Bob Corritore feat. Koko Taylor, What Kind of Man Is This
Wed 3/05 @ Biscuits and Blues
Hillstomp, Little Angel Child
Fri 2/28 @ Moe's Alley
Sat 3/01 @ Hopmonk Tavern
Junk Parlor, My Kind of Pain
Wed 3/05 @ Moe's Alley
Broken Shadows Family Band, Nothing But Flowers (in-studio)
Fri 2/28 @ Red Poppy Art House

B.B. King, Goin' Home
Fats Domino, The Fat Man
Johnny Cash, Belshazar
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash, Big River
Bob Dylan & George Harrison, Yesterday
The Beatles, Nothin' Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees)

Johnny Winter, It's My Own Fault (live)
from the new box set True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story
Michael Bloomfield, 59th Street Bridge Song (live)
from the new box set From His Head to His Heart to His Hands
Tumbleweed Wanderers, Everyday People
Wed 3/05 @ The Independent
Whiskerman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Thu 2/27 @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
Makrú, Cruzaré
Thu 2/27 @ Elbo Room
Men's Story Project, Aventura y Soñador
Wed 3/05 @ Roxie Theater

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Playlist: February 19, 2014

B.B. King, Troubles Troubles Troubles
Sat 2/22 @ Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Sun 2/23 @ Uptown Theatre
Wed 2/26 @ Marin Center
The Hound Kings, Come Go Home With Me
Tue 2/25 @ Biscuits and Blues
Aki Kumar, Don't Hold Back
from the new Album Don't Hold Back
Fri 2/21 @ Little Lou's BBQ
Eddie B, Scrambled Licks

Special in-studio guests: Broken Shadows Family Band

Sat 2/22 @ Awaken Cafe
Fri 2/28 @ Red Poppy Art House

Nothing But Flowers (in-studio)
Driftwood (in-studio)
Songs of Seven Miles #4 - Suk (in-studio)
Fanfare Zambaleta, Celo Skopje
Tiny Gods (in-studio)
Letting Go

Tumbleweed Wanderers, Everyday People
Con Brio, Sex Machine
Sat 2/22 @ Rickshaw Stop
Lost Dog Found, Turn Me On
Fri 2/21 @ Hopmonk Sebastapol
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, Old News
Fri 2/21 @ Hopmonk Novato
California Honeydrops, Like This Like That
Fri 2/21 @ The Catalyst
Macy Blackman, I Like It Like That
Sun 2/23 @ Mama's Royal Cafe
Wed 2/26 @ Pier 23 Cafe
Mitch Woods, Long Lean & Lanky (live)
Fri 2/21 @ Midtown Stomp
Irma Thomas, I Done Got Over
Jimmy Yancey, The Mellow Blues
Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell, Papa's On The Housetop
Nina Simone, Real Real
Corey Harris, Catfish Blues
Seth Augustus, Cathode Ray

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Playlist: February 12, 2014

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The 3 Haircuts, You Are So Rare To Me
The 3 Haircuts, Flippin' Over You
Sid Caesar (1922-2014)
The Duhks, Fast Paced World
The Duhks, Sleepin' Is All I Wanna Do
The Duhks, 95 South
Thu 2/13 @ Freight & Salvage
Fri 2/14 @ Sonoma Community Center
Sun 2/16 @ Harlow's

Corey Harris, Fulton Blues
Guy Davis, Lost Again
Alvin Youngblood Hart, Stomp Dance
Sun 2/16 @ Freight & Salvage
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, If You Were Mine
Fri 2/14 @ The Fillmore
Irma Thomas, River Is Waiting
Fri-Sat 2/14-15 @ Yoshi's San Francisco
Bettye Lavette, Dirty Old Town
Thu 2/13 @ Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
The Plāto'nes, Twisted
Sun 2/16 @ The Marsh Berkeley: Philosophy Talk Live

Elvin Bishop, Tulsa Shuffle
Sat 2/15 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Howell Devine, Mighty Long Time
Thu 2/13 @ Little Lou's BBQ
Sat 2/15 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Whiskerman, Blind Saint
Wed 2/19 @ Bottom of the Hill
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, You Ain't The Boss of Me
Fri 2/14 @ Palms Playhouse
Sat 2/15 @ Biscuits and Blues

Go Van Gogh, Paper Flowers
Thu 2/13 @ Cafe Van Kleef
Sat 2/15 @ Revolution Cafe
Beso Negro, We Can Dream
Thu 2/13 @ Ashkenaz
Makrú, A Lo Tuyo
Thu 2/13 @ Red Poppy Art House
Thomas Mapfumo & The Black Unlimited, Baba Vevana
Sat 2/15 @ Ashkenaz
Super Chikan, Peter Truck
Sugaray Rayford, Need A Little More Time
Blind Boys of Alabama, God Put a Rainbow in the Cloud
Wardell Gray, Twisted
Carmen Miranda, O Que é que a Bahiana Tem?