03/25/09 Show Playlist

Well, it wasn't intended to be a covers show, it just turned out to be a lot of them! I don't normally bother including the album titles in the playlists, but since there are a lot of obscure and worthwhile covers in this show, I thought I'd at least make it easier for you to track them down and buy them! Yes, as much as I hate the RIAA and SoundExchange, you SHOULD be buying your music to support the artists that produce it, if not the lawyers that actually keep most of the money...

Anyway, we found a lot of good stuff this time out, tapping tributes to Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, Lowell George (Little Feat in case you don't know, which would be sad), The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith and The Beatles. Check 'em out:

The Wallflowers - Lawyers, Guns and Money - Enjoy Every Sandwich
Los Lobos - Johnny 99 - Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen
Eddie Money - Rock n Roll Doctor - Rock n Roll Doctor: A Tribute to Lowell George
Swamp Cabbage - More Booty with Buddah - Honk
Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere - Magic
Johnnie Taylor - Who's Making Love - Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration
Little Richard - Brown Sugar - Cover You: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones
Bonnie Raitt - Cold, Cold, Cold - Rock n Roll Doctor: A Tribute to Lowell George
Aretha Franklin - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Cover You: A Tribute to the Rolling Stones
The Vaughn Brothers - The Telephone Song - Family Style
The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun - The Felice Brothers
Heart - Straight On - Essential Heart
Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt - Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Enjoy Every Sandwich
Lang, Hunter, Ronson, Pappalardi - Silent Movie - The Secret Sessions
The Byrds - So You Wanna Be A Rock 'n Roll Star - Monterey International Pop Festival
Marshall Crenshaw & Sugar Blue - Big Ten Inch Record - Sweet Emotion: Songs of Aerosmith
Black Crowes - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - I Am Sam Soundtrack
The Silos - Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around - Grooves #3
Chris Duarte Group - More Boogie - Vantage Point
Cowboy Junkies - Run For Your Life - This Bird Has Flown
Cowboy Junkies - Horse in the Country - Black Eyed Man
Sam Moore & Billy Gibbons - If I Had No Loot - Overnight Sensational

Now there are some non-covers in the show since we didn't set out to do a covers show, or, quite frankly, prepare much... We can't help but play Swamp Cabbage because they're great and we need other people to know that. If you haven't heard the Byrds version of Rock n' Roll Star that they did at Monterey Pop, you need to. It's running about 3,000 miles an hour and seems like everyone must have collapsed at the end of it. The drummer is playing in 12/4 time or something! One might suspect he was more than just 'excited' to be there...

Profestivus

Show Playlist 3/18/09

I'm not sure when we became cover freaks. I think it snuck up on us while we were busily scraping the mold off of some ancient 45s that were donated to the station. Ultimately, I blame the 45 of Judas Priest covering Johnny B. Goode. I don't know why, I just do. Deal with it.

Eric Johnson - Paperback Writer
Jason & The Scorchers - 19th Nervous Breakdown
Susan Tedeschi - Back to the River
Townes Van Zandt - Racing in the Streets
Black Crowes - Horsehead
Heart - Barracuda
Queen - Still Burnin
Ray Charles with BB King - Sinners Prayer
Buddy Guy - Every Time I Sing the Blues
Missy Higgins - More Than This (New Release!)
Adam Sandler - Like A Hurricane (New Release!)
The Pretenders - Don't Lose Faith in Me
Treat Her Right - I Think She Likes Me
The Jeff Beck Group - All Shook Up
The Yardbirds - Shapes of Things
The Clash - Clampdown
Steve Winwood - As Times We Do Forget
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Vinegar Joe - Angel

Mr. Professorhead

3/11/09 Show Playlist

Well, it's about time I posted up some of the recent playlists... I know I've been slacking, sue me.

Our show on the 11th of March was dedicated to Funk. We, ok I, was in a mood to shake off the foul weather, bring out the sun and start bouncing around the studio. It worked. The sun came out, the top got dropped and away we rolled!

We tapped a couple of great obscurities too - including Cork, the band whipped up by Corky Laing of Mountain during a downtime in their touring. We didn't even know what it was when he mentioned it in an interview we were doing over at Ramshead Live. Coach, the little internet scavenger that he is, worked his fingers to the nub and found out more details so we could bring it out of the darkness and into your ears.

Tower of Power - Credit
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
Bootsy Collins - Bootzilla
Bootsy Collins - With The Power of Soul
Maceo & All The Kings Men - Funky Women
Cork - Genuine
James Brown - Super Bad Pt. 1
Hiram Bullock - Down the Pike
Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead (Theme from Superfly)
Tower of Power - Soul With A Capital S
Shack - Too Many Lovers
James Brown - Cold Sweat
The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost
Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
The Spin Doctors - Off My Line
The Temptations - Shakey Ground
Ana Popovic - Downtown
Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
Isaac Hayes - Them from Shaft


Ok, we hit kind of hard on the classic performances from Stax, but so what? How can you not include one of the most politically and funkily active labels of the '70s? We even tapped the great performances from Wattstax and The Professor says you must go watch it. Especially the two guys with the biggest hats you've ever seen.

Yeah, the Spin Doctors aren't really 'Funk' but the track does have a classic groove to it. And Ana Popovic, well... shut up, we'll play her any time we want.

El Profesorino

COWBOYS RELEASE OWENS

All together now...whaaa! The Dallas Cowboys, by that I mean Jerry "I Own This Team" Jones, have severed ties with Terrell Owens. During his time in Dallas, Terrell has;

• compaimed about not being thrown to enough
• wept on national TV
• gotten in a fight with an All-Pro tight end
• missed numerous Pre-season practices
• complained about not being thrown to enough
• driven Bill Parcels out of Dallas
• complained about not being thrown to enough
And,
• successfully avoided winning a championhip ring.

Can't help but wonder what lucky team he is going to help out next. Ranch material? Perhaps.

- Gari B.

BREAK OUT THE SPANDEX!

Def Leppard has announced plans to tour this year, starting June 23rd in New Jersey, with Cheap Trick and Poison.

Hairspray, spandex and bandanas for everyone!