Playlist: May 22, 2019

Mitch Woods, Blue Monday (live)
     from the new album A Tip of the Hat to Fats
     Fri 5/24 @ Nick's Rockaway
     Sat 5/25 @ Poor House Bistro
HowellDevine, Funky Miracle
     Sat 5/25 @ Speisekammer
Marcus Shelby Orchestra, Black Suffrage Blues
     Thu-Sun 5/23-26 @ SFJazz Center

The 78s of Bob Dylan at 78

Bob Dylan, Early Roman Kings
Bob Dylan, My Wife's Home Town
Muddy Waters, I Just Want to Make Love to You
Otis Rush, All Your Love
Bob Dylan, Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bob Dylan, Someday Baby
Sleepy John Estes, Someday Baby (outtake)
Billie Holiday, Having Myself a Time
Bob Dylan, Bye and Bye
Johnnie & Jack, Uncle John's Bongos
Bob Dylan, Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Bob Dylan, High Water (For Charley Patton)
Bob Dylan, Shot of Love (outtake)
Bob Dylan, Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell, Dying Crapshooter's Blues
Woody Guthrie, Little Black Train
Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve Somebody (rehearsal)
Charley Patton, Pony Blues
Bob Dylan, New Pony
Bob Dylan, Obviously Five Believers (take 3)
Memphis Minnie, Me and My Chauffeur
Chuck Berry, Too Much Monkey Business
Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues (take 1 remake)

Playlist: May 15, 2019

Wolf & Crow, Midnight
Lagos Roots feat. Jennifer Johns & Christian Pepin, God Lives Through
Royal Jelly Jive, Alhambra (in-studio)
La Gente SF feat. Versoul, La Mar (in-studio)
     Thu-Sat 5/16-18 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Mark Growden, You Belong in New Orleans With Me (in-studio)
     Fri-Sat 5/17-18 @ The Music Loft
Rob Reich, Dig Deeper (in-studio)
Book of J, When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (in-studio)
     Fri 5/17 @ Congregation Beth Sholom
The Gold Souls, Worker's Lullaby (in-studio)
     Fri 5/17 @ Alta Mira Club
Aki Kumar, Back to Bombay (in-studio)
John Németh, She Did Not Show (in-studio)
Mark Hummel, Living With the Blues (in-studio)
     Fri 5/22 @ Yoshi's: Blues Harmonica Blowout
Fantastic Negrito, Working Poor (in-studio)

Spin Doctors, Ben's Looking Out the Window Blues
     Fri 5/17 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
Sue Foley, Gaslight
     Sun 5/19 @ Moe's Alley
Taj Mahal, Slave Driver
     Mon 5/20 @ Napa Valley Performing Arts Center
Monophonics, Lying
     Sat 5/18 @ The New Parish
     Sun 5/19 @ Mystic Theatre
Hot Club of San Francisco, You Can't Do That
     Tue 5/21 @ Yoshi's
Barrio Manouche, Lucía (in-studio)
     Sat 5/18 @ Club Deluxe
Junk Parlor, Summertime in the City (in-studio)
     Thu 5/16 @ Club Deluxe
Meklit Hadero, Sweet or Salty (in-studio)
Noah Kibreab, Love Ain't Gonna Take It (in-studio)
The Lucky Losers, It Ain't Enough (in-studio)
Moonshine Jelly, Lucy & Zeb (in-studio)
The Sam Chase & The Untraditional, Everyone Is Crazy But Me

Playlist: May 8, 2019

Cowboy Junkies, When We Arrive
     from the new album All That Reckoning
Cowboy Junkies, Stranger Here (in-studio)
     Thu 5/09 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
     Fri 5/10 @ Great American Music Hall
     Sat-Sun 5/11-12 @ Freight & Salvage

Tumbledown House, Ode to Josephine (in-studio)

     Fri 5/10 @ Jupiter

The Gold Souls, Worker's Lullaby (in-studio)

     Sat 5/11 @ Impulse Room

Blonde Toledo, Little Miss Krissy (in-studio)

     Sat 5/11 @ The Big Easy

Royal Jelly Jive, Alhambra (in-studio)

     Thu 5/09 @ Crocker Art Museum

     Sat 5/11 @ Moe's Alley

King Street Giants, No Good Blues (in-studio)

     Sun 5/12 @ Peri's

Big Blu Soul Revue, And You Loved Me (in-studio)

     Wed 5/15 @ Blue Note Napa

La Gente SF feat. Versoul, La Mar (in-studio)

     Thu 5/09 @ Berkeley Bike to Work Day

Aki Kumar & Kid Anderson, Back to Bombay (in-studio)

     Thu 5/09 @ Terrace Room

Rob Reich, Dig Deeper (in-studio)

     Sat 5/12 @ 21st Century Cafe

Junk Parlor, Summertime in the City (in-studio)

     Thu 5/09 @ Ivy Room

Harpdog Brown, Stiff

     Tue 5/14 @ Mission St. BBQ

     Wed 5/15 @ Club Fox

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Cool Slaw

     Fri 5/11 @ Palms Playhouse

Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Two Hearts (live)

     Thu-Fri 5/10-11 @ Biscuits & Blues

Keb' Mo', That's Alright

     Fri 5/10 @ Fox Theatre

     Sat 5/11 @ Golden State Theatre

     Tue 5/14 @ Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center

John Hammond, 32-20 Blues

     Thu 5/09 @ Freight & Salvage

Dennis Johnson, Terraplane Blues (in-studio)

Dennis Johnson, Ramblin' On My Mind (in-studio)

Fantastic Negrito, Workin' Poor (in-studio)

Marty O'Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra, Letters (in-studio)

Moonshine Jelly, Lucy & Zeb (in-studio)

Con Brio, California Cowboy (in-studio)

Big Harp George, Home Stretch (in-studio)

Book of J, When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (in-studio)

Playlist: May 1, 2019

Fantastic Negrito, The Time Has Come
     Thu 5/02 @ Moe's Alley
Black Sheep Brass Band, Shot the Phunkin' Phone (feat. King Kitty)
French Oak Gypsy Band, Ménilmontant
     Thu 5/02 @ Mystic Theatre
Barrio Manouche, El Jóven
     Thu 5/02 @ Mystic Theatre
     Sun 5/05 @ The New Parish

Special in-studio guests: Lyz Luke, Rafael Sarria, and members of Lagos Roots

     Thu-Sat 5/16-18: UnderCover Presents a Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders

Royal Jelly Jive, We Can Get Down
Lagos Roots feat. Jennifer Johns & Christian Pepin, God Lives Through
Rav-E Sandhu feat. Lateef the Truthspeaker & Gift of Gab, Lyrics to Go
Lagos Roots, Wahala
La Gente SF & Awesöme Orchestra, Award Tour
Rafael Sarria, Morena (in-studio)
La Gente SF, Suavetona!
Wolf & Crow, Midnight
Terrence Brewer feat. Gift of Gab & D Wolf, Keep It Rollin'
MJ's Brass Boppers feat. Karega, Sucka Nigga
     from the new album UnderCover Presents a Tribute to A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders

John Brothers Piano Company, Black Widow Bump (live)
     Sat-Sun 5/04-05 @ Bay Area Book Festival
Hot Club of San Francisco, Hey Jude/Duke & Dukie
     Sat 5/04 @ Palms Playhouse
Little Walter, I'm A Businessman

Playlist: April 24, 2019

Wynton Marsalis, Funky Butt (I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say)
     from the new album Bolden (Original Soundtrack)
John Brothers Piano Company, Ba Dump a Dump 
     Wed 5/01 @ SFJazz Center
Tumbledown House, Pure Medicine
     Fri 4/26 @ Club Deluxe
French Oak Gypsy Band, Caravan
     Fri 4/26 @ Red Poppy Art House
Adam Theis & Cosa Nostra Strings, Safe to Say
     Fri 4/26 @ DNA Lounge
Barrio Manouche, Té a la Menta
Rupa & The April Fishes, Eena Meena Deeka
     from the new album Growing Upward
     Fri 4/26 @ The Chapel
Aki Kumar, Eena Meena Deeka
     Thu 4/25 @ Biscuits & Blues
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, Don't Do It (live)
     Fri 4/26 @ Biscuits & Blues
     Sun 4/28 @ Moe's Alley

10th Annual Left-Hand-A-Thon

Dick Dale, Hava Nagila
Otis Rush, All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
Otis Rush, Tops (live)
Otis Rush, Got My Mojo Working (live)
Albert King, Personal Manager (live)
Lefty Dizz, Take Out Some Insurance
Left-Hand Frank, Surfin' With Frank
Toronzo Cannon, Walk It Off
Barbara Lynn, It's Been So Long
Jonathan Butler, You Got to Believe in Something

Playlist: April 17, 2019

MarchFourth, Science (Free Your Mind)
Mission Delirium, Khusura Khusura (live)
     Fri 4/19 @ The New Parish
The Budos Band, Sing A Simple Song
     Thu 4/18 @ The Fillmore
Orgone, Cosmic Slop
     Fri 4/19 @ Sweetwater Music Hall
     Sat 4/20 @ Moe's Alley
Average White Band, Pick Up the Pieces
     Mon-Tue 4/22-23 @ Yoshi's
Wee Willie Walker & the Anthony Paule Orchestra, If Only
     Wed 4/24 @ Empress Theatre
Sonny Rhodes, Please Love Me
     Thu 4/18 @ Biscuits & Blues
Quinn DeVeaux, Spend Some Time
     Thu 4/18 Space Theatre
Moonshine Jelly, Lawr y Lôn
     Sat 4/20 @ The Lost Church
Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson, Don't Let Go
     from the new album Amour
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Shakin' the Hard Times Loose (live)

Bob Dylan, Little Moses (live)
The Carter Family, Little Moses
John Lee Hooker, Moses Smote the Water
The Duhks, Moses Don't Get Lost
Bernie Knee, Passover on the Range
Jimmy Scott, Exodus
Ray Barretto, Exodus
Meshugga Beach Party, Dayenu
Elana Jagoda, It Would Have Been Enough (Dayenu)
Saul Kaye, Sea of Reeds
Elana Jagoda, Holy Sister Miriam
Grant Green, Go Down Moses
Fats Waller, Go Down Moses
Bob Dylan, Go Down Moses (live)

Playlist: April 10, 2019

Carolina Slim, Back Door Blues
Fraternal Order of the Society Blues, Do Lord
     Sat 4/13 @ St. Cyprian's Church
     Sun 4/14 @ Congregation Beth Sholom
Buddy Guy, The Blues Is Alive and Well
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, Fresh Out (feat. Buddy Guy)
     Fri 4/12 @ Luther Burbank Center
     Sat 4/13 @ Masonic Center
     Sun 4/14 @ Crest Theater
Joe Louis Walker, Gospel Blues
     Fri 4/12 @ Palms Playhouse
     Sat 4/13 @ Point Arena Theater
     Sun 4/14 @ Apple Blossom Festival
Missy Andersen, Whole Lotta Nuthin'
     Thu 4/11 @ Redwood Cafe
     Fri 4/12 @ Palms Playhouse
     Sun 4/14 @ Greenridge House Concerts
Swamp Dogg, Lonely
Guitar Shorty, Slow Burn
     Sun 4/14 @ Great American Music Hall
Lester Chambers, Johnny's Jungle
     Sat 4/13 @ 25th & York St. Block Party
Dom Flemons, SAn Francisco Baby
     Fri 4/12 @ Freight & Salvage
John Brothers Piano Company, C.H.P. (live)
     Sat 4/13 @ Torch Club

Mariza, Alma
     Fri-Sun 4/12-14 @ SFJazz Center
Tiffany Austin, You Must Believe in Spring
     Sat 4/13 @ The Sound Room
Postmodern Jukebox, Like A Prayer
     Fri 4/12 Golden State Theatre
     Sat 4/13 Uptown Theatre
The Cottontails, Boogie's the Thing
     Thu 4/11 @ Local Edition
     Sun 4/14 @ Riptide
Moonshine Jelly, Little Sadie
     Thu 4/11 @ Revolution Cafe
HowellDevine, Sadie
     Sat 4/13 @ Club Deluxe
     Wed 4/17 @ Biscuits & Blues
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, What'd I Say
Guy King, Countdown/Think
     Fri-Sat 4/12-13 @ Biscuits & Blues
Terry Robb, Darkest Road I'm Told (61 Highway)
     Sat 4/13 @ The Back Room
Jimmie Vaughan, (She's Got the) Blues For Sale
     Thu 4/11 @ Yoshi's
     Sat 4/13 @ Rio Theatre
John Brim, Moonlight Blues
Meklit, Birthday Song

Playlist: April 3, 2019

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Mighty Mike Schermer, Bad Tattoo
     from the new album Bad Tattoo
     Thu 4/04 @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center
     Fri 4/05 @ Poor House Bistro
     Sat 4/06 @ Armando's
Martin Luther, In The End
     Sun 4/07 @ Yoshi's
Kendra McKinley, Lovely Rita
Whiskerman, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
     Thu 4/04 @ The Chapel
Noah & the Arkiteks (solo), Every Ghetto, Every City
     Sun 4/07 @ Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Con Brio, A Sex Supreme
Midtown Social, All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints
     Sat 4/06 @ August Hall
Tiffany Austin, Somebody's Watching You
     Fri 4/05-06 @ Florence Schwimley Little Theater
The Crux, All the Flowers in All the World
King Street Giants, Olympia
    Thu 4/04 @ Mystic Theatre
Doug MacLeod, The Night of the Devil's Road
    Thu 4/04 @ Biscuits & Blues

Tribute to Chimurenga Cheburechnaya

Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited, Baba Vevana
     from the album Chimurenga Rebel
Hibbity Dibbity, Black Cat
Clara Smith & Her Five Black Kittens, Black Cat Moan
Charley Patton, Mean Black Cat Blues
Kokomo Arnold, Old Black Cat Blues (Jinx Blues)
Memphis Minnie, Black Cat Blues
Poppa Hop & His Orchestra, My Woman Has a Black Cat Bone
John Lee Hooker, Black Cat Blues
Carolina Slim, Black Cat Trail
Lightnin' Hopkins, Black Cat Blues
Jesse Mae Hemphill, Black Cat Bone
Buddy Guy, Black Cat Blues
Ziggy Marley, Black Cat
The Northern Pikes, Black Cat

Playlist: March 20, 2019

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Make It Back to Memphis (live)
Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Calling San Francisco (live)

     from the new album Killin' It Live

     Fri-Sat 3/22-23 @ Rancho Nicasio

Little Charlie and Organ Grinder Swing, Broadway

     Sun 3/24 @ Palms Playhouse

Davina & The Vagabonds, Shake That Thing

     Wed 3/27 @ Kuumbwa Jazz

     Thu-Fri 3/28-29 @ SFJazz Center

Dee Dee Bridgewater, Hound Dog

     Wed 3/20-21 @ Yoshi's

Big Blu Soul Revue, E. Walkin'

     Thu 3/21 @ Boom Boom Room

Blonde Toledo, Phantom

Van Goat, Follow Me Under

     Sat 3/23 @ [secret West Berkeley location]

Catherine Russell, Troubled Waters

     Sun 3/24 @ Fairmont San Francisco

George Cole, You Got a Glow

     Fri 3/22 @ Piedmont Center for the Arts

Ismail Lumanovski & Inspector Gadje, E Borjengo Oro

     Sat 3/23 @ Rickshaw Stop

Andy Statman Quartet, Purim

Fran Avni, Hamentashen Suite

Book of J, La Caída de Aman (in-studio)

Benny Goodman, Santa Claus Came in the Spring

Ella Fitzgerald, I Got the Spring Fever Blues

Sonny Boy Williamson, Springtime Blues

Tom Waits, You Can Never Hold Back Spring

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Didn't It Rain

Marcia Ball, They Don't Make 'Em Like That

Jimmie Vaughan, Funny How Time Slips Away

Playlist: March 13, 2019

Culann's Hounds, Twin Peaks
Book of J, My Sun Will Never Go Down
     Sun 3/17 @ SFJazz Center
Gino Matteo, Pulpit in the Graveyard
     Fri 3/15 @ Poor House Bistro
     Sun 3/17 @ Club Fox
Daniel Castro, Got My Mojo Workin'
     Sun 3/17 @ Club Fox

Rockin' Johnny Burgin, Neoprene Fedora

     Fri 3/15 @ Capitola Wine Bar

     Sat 3/16 @ Poor House Bistro

Rainbow Girls, L-O-V-E

     Fri 3/15 @ Humble Sea Brewing

     Sat 3/16 @ Veterans Memorial Center (Davis)

Quebe Sisters, Flatbush Waltz

     Thu 3/14 @ Yoshi's

     Sat 3/16 @ Sutter Creek Theatre

T Sisters, Make It Rain

     Sat 3/16 @ Swedish American Hall

Dee Dee Bridgewater, Try A Little Tenderness

     Fri-Sun 3/15-17 @ Blue Note Napa

     Mon 3/18 @ Kuumbwa Jazz Center

     Wed-Thu 3/20-21 @ Yoshi's

Sal's Greenhouse, Rock Bottom

     Thu 3/14 @ The Independent

     Fri 3/15 @ The New Parish

Orgone, Accumulator Box

     Fri 3/15 @ The New Parish 

Chicago Ensemble, All That Jazz

Chicago Ensemble, When You're Good to Mama

     Fri-Sun 3/15-17 @ Throckmorton Theatre

Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit

Art Tatum, Over the Rainbow

Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds, Mbube

Glenn Miller Orchestra, Moonlight Serenade

     Fri 3/15 @ Yoshi's

Avishai Cohen, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

     Mon 3/18 @ Yoshi's

Swoop Unit, Backwards Boogaloo

     Fri 3/15 @ Boom Boom Room

Sly & the Family Stone, St. James Infirmary (live)

Sly & the Family Stone, Stand!

Aki Kumar, Jaane Kahaan Mera Jigar Gaya Ji

Playlist: March 6, 2019

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King Street Giants, My Glasses
     Fri 3/08 @ Blue Note Napa
     Sat 3/09 @ Rio Nido Roadhouse
Rebirth Brass Band, Mardi Gras Medley
     Thu 3/07 @ Moe's Alley
     Fri-Sat 3/08-09 @ August Hall

Special in-studio guests: Book of J (Jewlia Eisenberg & Jeremiah Lockwood)

     Sun 3/17 @ SFJazz Center

Twelve Gates
In My Heart Burns a Fire (in-studio)
Darlin' Corey (in-studio)
The Moon Did Not Shine (in-studio)
La Caida de Aman (in-studio)
Famous Flower (in-studio)
Do Lord

Midtown Social, Mellow Down
No Lovely Thing, Open
     Fri 3/08  The New Parish
Fantastic Negrito, Nothing Without You
     Sat 3/09 @ The Ritz
Cafe R&B, I'm Free
     Sat 3/09 @ Biscuits & Blues
Shawn Holt & The Teardrops, Please Don't Dog Me
     Fri 3/08 @ Biscuits & Blues
Shovelman, This Little Pig
     Sat 3/09 @ Hopmonk Tavern
John Brothers Piano Company, CHP (live)
     Sat 3/09 @ Blue Note Napa
Mitch Woods, Caledonia's Party
     Thu 3/07 @ Biscuits & Blues
     Sat 3/09 @ Poor House Bistro
Mimi Fox, Day Tripper
     Thu 3/07 @ Freight & Salvage
Wes Montgomery, Blues in F

Playlist: February 27, 2019

Book of J, 12 Gates
     Wed 3/06 @ Fog City Blues
Rainbow Girls, Daydreaming
     Sat 3/02 @ Cornerstone
     Sun 3/03 @ Mystic Theatre
Royal Jelly Jive, Little One
     Fri 3/01 @ Firehouse Arts Center
     Sat 3/02 @ Hopmonk Tavern
California Honeydrops, Hold It Down
     Fri-Sat 3/01-02 @ The New Parish
Quinn DeVeaux, Going Where
     Sat 3/02 @ The New Parish
Meklit & Quinn, I Was Made to Love Her
Meklit, Memories of the Future
    Tue 3/05 @ Rickshaw Stop
Shemekia Copeland, Such a Pretty Flame
     Fri 3/01 @ El Campanil Theatre
Bill Frisell, Blues for Los Angeles
     Thu-Sun 2/28-3/03 @ Freight & Salvage
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, Them Changes (live)
     from the new album Killin' It Live
     Fri 3/01 @ Yoshi's

Special in-studo guests: Miguel Govea and Tregar Otton

     Sat-Sun 3/16-17 @ Community Music Center: Field Day

Larry Dunn, Yo' Mambo
Jennifer Peringer, La Muerte del Angel
Jon Jang, Butterfly Lovers Song
Annelise Zamula, Divina
La Doña, Nada Me Pertenece
Maestro Curtis, Sivad’s Galaxy

The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (demo)
The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (take 27)