5.16.08 MOVIES

The 3rd Annual Movie Spectacular in honor of the 3rd Annual Berkshire International Film Festival that's happening right outside the door.

Ken Nordine: The Movie (w Tom Waits and Jerry Garcia)

Dean Martin: Take Your Girlie to the Movies
Sue Thompson: Sad Movies Make Me Cry
John Prine: Picture Show

Ladytron: He Took Her to the Movies
Semisonic: Gone To the Movies
Drifters: Saturday Night at the Movies

Pinicchio: Hi Diddle Dee Dee An Actors Life is the Life for Me
Buck Owens: Act Naturally
Blotto: My Baby's the Star of a Driver's Ed Movie

Sheryl Crow: Steve McQueen
Eytan Mirsky: I Just Wanna Be Your Steve McQueen
Harpo: Movie Star

Nick Lowe: Marie Provost
James Brown: Popcorn
Roxy Music: 2HB

Kinks: Celluloid Heroes
New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
Bouncing Souls: These Are Quotes from Our Favorite 80s Movies
Various Artists: My Baby Loves Monster Movies

Kinky Friedman & Little Jewford: Thank You Very Much
Kim Carnes: Betty Davis Eyes

5.9.08 NO 'SPLAININ'

for this show. Strange week, strange world, strange vibe. So what? My dogs were with me, I had at least 6 visitors during the course of the show. Nothing seemed right the whole time. It must have been gripping radio....

France Gall: Music to Watch Girls By (in German)

Iron Butterfly: In a Gadda Da Vida (full version until Ina showed up eight minutes in to talk about the Barka Foundation fundraiser for water in Burkino Faso. Which means I'll just have to play the whole damn 17 minutes of it again sometime soon. Real soon)

Field Recording of Postal Workers in the Ghana University Post Ofiice

Nine Inch Nails: 1,000,000
Three Dog Night: It's For You
Tallis Scholars: Lamentations of Jeremiah

13th Floor Elevators: You're Gonna Miss Me
Jonathan Richman: Old World
Tasmin Archer: Sleeping Satellite

Joe Bataan: Ordinary Guy
Charles Wright & the 103rd Watts Street Rhythm Band: 65 Bars and a Taste of Soul
Eli "Paperboy" Reid and the True Loves: I'm Gonna Getcha; Doin' the Boom Boom

Reigning Sound: If You Can't Give Me Everything
Memphis Minnie: Where is My Good Man At?

Jo Jo Gunne: Academy Award
Spinal Tap: Break Like the Wind
The Jesters: The Wind

Smith: Baby It's You

5.2.08 NICK LOWE

I spent the last two nights at Nick Lowe shows; you can read my review in next week's Metroland and on my blog sometime next week.
My show today was Nick's playlist:





People Change
Soulful Wind
When I Write the Book
What's Shakin on the Hill
Long Limbed Girl
Has She Got a Friend
I Trained Her to Love Me
All Men are Liars
(here he sang a brand new song I Read Alot)
Cruel to Be Kind
Heart
I've Let Things Slide
Love is a Battlefield
I'll Be There (not in set, I pushed the wrong button, oops)
Hope For Us All
Without Love
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
Shelly My Love
What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding
Heart of the City
The Beast in Me
Seven Nights to Rock

4.25.08

Nice to be back in the saddle after a couple weeks off. And the weather was so nice that I changed everything around to play move music.

Los Straitjackets: My Heart Will Go On

Jeff Beck: Stratus (Live at Ronnie Scott's Nov. 2007)
Glitterbug Track 1, Eno
Bill Kirchen: Devil With a Blue Dress

Cat Power: Metal Heart
Daniella Cotton: Make You Move
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners

Our Daughter's Wedding: Lawnchairs
Lou Ann Barton: Her Pink Bedroom
Bettye Swann: Make Me Yours

Gentle Giant: Talybodt
Vanilla Fudge: Coke Commercial
Men Without Pants: And the Girls Go
Billy Murray: There's a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl (1916)

Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers: Bustin' Loose
King Biscuit Boy: 29 Ways
The Exciters: Do Wah Diddy

Tex Williams: There Were Doin' the Mambo
Mink DeVille: Demasiado Corizon

Fabulous Poodles: Work Shy

4.11.08 GONEGONEGONE

Off this week giving a talk at a folklorists' conference in Cooperstown. Chris Splendorio's filling in with a bunch of a cappella performers and I'm jealous!

4.4.08 I LOVE FRIDAYS

My Fridays are better than yours.
Damn straight, they're better than yours.

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin' Jack Flash

Manu Dibango: Aphrodite Shake
Boubacar Diebate: Badima

Lloyd Charmers, Let's Get It On
The Manhattans: Kiss & Say Goodbye
Joe Tex: Coke Commercial
Wynder K. Frog: Into the Fire

The Turtles: You Showed Me, She's My Girl, Let Me Be, You Baby

Frank Black: Handyman
Kris Kristofferson: All Shook Up
Chrissie Hynde and Chris Spedding: Hey Little Boy
[all fr Brace Yourself--A Tribute to Otis Blackwell]

Radio Free Earth: Firebird Blues

Matthew Loiacono: Infinitely Red, Knee to Knee, Only Memory

Bobby Sutliff: Warning Bells
Doug Powell: I Woke Up This Morning
The Flashcubes: Christie Girl

3.28.08 MUNICK

Like two months w/o a smoke. Yeah I'm proud of that.

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin Jack Flash

Dolly Parton: Drives Me Crazy
Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose
Dave Garner: Mad Witch

Rilo Kiley: Does He Love You
Sibylle Baier: Softly
Sunny Sweeney: Ten Years Pass

Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears: Gunpowder
Bobby Bare, Jr.: The Heart Bionic
Cat Power: New York
Barrett Strong: Money

Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
Chicago Transit Authority: Someday (August 29, 1968)
Reverend Glasseye: God Help You Dumb Boy

Jackie DeShannon: When You Walk into the Room
The Ramones: The KKK Took My Baby Away
Bob Azzam and His Orchestra: The Last Time

Spencer Davis Group: Keep on Runnin'
Georgie Fame: Yeh Yeh
Bo Diddley: Bo Diddley

3.21.08 GOLEM GIRLS

This week we had Annette Ezekiel and Alicia Jo Rabins from Brooklyn klezmeristas Golem stop by before their Purim blow-out over to the Helsinki. And they dragged Splatto pal Mr. Rogovoy along for good measure, and I goaded him into asking a bunch of questions in Yiddish.

Some of these shows (like this one) are really special, I think I need to start posting them online every week so people can come get them..... Let me look into that...

I also have to start bringing a camera to the studio on Fridays.

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin Jack Flash

Richard Thompson: Needle and Thread, I'll Never Give It Up, Take Care of the Road You Choose, Mr. Stupid

Bootleg Tonic: Hard Times
Gonstermachers: My Sister She's Not a Dollar, Danse las Macher

Edwin Starr: Get Up Whirlpool
Roberta Flack: Reverend Lee

Golem interview and performance

3.14.08 BOOTLEG TONIC

Superstar alert. I met Georgiana (she's the one on the right.....) in a parking lot in Pittsfield three weeks ago--she was giving a stockboy a copy of her new CD, and I alertly asked for one, too. And am I glad I did. She and Eran (he's the one on the left) are the core of Bootleg Tonic, a new NYC-based group, and The Splatto Festival is proud to have given them their first radio airplay and to host their first radio interview.

How good were they? Well, people came running to the studio to meet them yesterday--and I went to a gallery opening after the show and people there were talking about them. These things don't happen under normal circumstances.

They were just brilliant, and I can't wait to get them up here with a full band once we get into the new space.

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin Jack Flash

Hair of the Dog: Right All Right
Sparks: Dick Around

Steve Kahn and Donald Fagan: Reflections (monk trib)
Stephano Di Battista: Your Romance

Bootleg Tonic interview and performance

Nine Inch Nails: 10-13 Ghosts II

2.29.08 LEAP DAY

Picture (courtesy of Ted Potrikus) from a truckstop somewhere in the midwest. I think I had two world premiers today. Guess which ones.

Anada Shankar: Jumpin' Jack Flash
Renee Levitt: Imagine the Anthem

George Jones: I'm a People
NRBQ: Spampinato

Dave Clark Five: Can't You See That She's Mine; Try Too Hard; Til the Right One Comes Along; Catch Us If You Can

Little Hooks: Give the Drummer Some
Speck Williams: We Gave the Drummer Some

Captain Sensible: Wot
Tesla: Hand Me Down World (Guess Who cover)
Duffy: Money

Bootleg Tonic: When It All Goes Down; Haven't You Heard

Original Symptoms: Hey! Nice Vette
David Lindley: Your Old Lady

Jack Bruce and Robin Trower: Seven Moons
David Lee Roth: Runnin' With the Devil (isolated vox mix)
Turtles: Elenore

The Cotton Jones Basket Ride: Chewing Gum
Scott H Biram: Been Down Too Long

Harry Nilsson: Jump into the Fire

2.22.08 SPELLING SONGS

I've been wanting to do this one for over a year: a show made up entirely of songs in which a word is spelled out. Thanks to everybody for sending in suggestions, especially the folks that send me links to webpages of lists of spelling songs! I guess this playlist is another one.

Mickey Mouse Club Theme
New York Dolls: Lookin' for a Kiss
Connie Francis: V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N
Men Without Hats: Safety Dance

Man Bites God: Spelling Bee Girl
Carla Thomas: B-A-B-Y
Devo: Jocko Homo
Hollywood Studio Orchestra and Chorus: Harrigan

Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy
Melinda Dolittle: Woman
Modern Lovers: Girlfriend
Tammy Wynette: D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Pixies: Velouria
Glenn Miller: I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo
Guess Who: American Woman
Kinks: Lola

Travis Tritt: T-R-O-U-B-L-E
Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Unity
Dion McGregor: Spelling Bee
Aretha Franklin: Respect

Them: Gloria
Beatnuts: Spelling Beatnuts with Lil' Danny
Faith No More: Nestles
Unknown: Bingo

Garth Brooks and George Jones: Beer Run
K-Solo: Letterman
Fishboy: Half Time at the Proper Noun Spelling Bee

Bay City Rollers: Saturday Night
Sufjan Stevens: They are Night Zombies
Detroit Cobras: Hot Dog

Joe Tex: The Letter Song
Television: Friction
Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E
Al Green: L-O-V-E
Ramones: R-A-M-O-N-E-S

Delphonics: La La La Means I Love You
Mickey Mouse Club Closing

2.8.08 Cover Dat

Last week was cover-day, but I was iced in, so I played last week's show today.

Ananda Shankar, Jumpin' Jack Flash

The Neanderthals, Space Oddity
Graham Parker, I Want You Back
Scala Girls Choir, I Touch Myself

Beatles
Mae West, Day Tripper
Peter Sellers, She Loves You
Kathe Belbarian, I Want to Hold Your Hand
Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Taxman
Better Beatles, Penny Lane
Cowboy Junkies, Run For Your Life

Led Zep
Corrine Bailey Rae, Since I've Been Loving You
The Booga, Heartbreaker

Dylan
Bryan Ferry, Tom Thumb's Blues
Jeff Buckley, Just Like a Woman
Jason & the Scorchers, Absolutely Sweet Marie

Velvet Underground
Jonnette Napalitano, All Tomorrow's Parties
Detroit, Rock and Roll

Carpenters
Shonen Knife, Top of the World
Grant Lee Buffalo, We've Always Just Begun

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Suspicion
Los Straitjackets, El Microscopico Bikini (w Big Sandy); Black is Black (w Raul Malo)

2.1.08 NO SHOW ICE STORM

We was getting pounded with freezing rain. I don't think I could have gotten out of my driveway and I didn't try.

Next week special guest: Uncle Wayne!

1.25.08

Yes, it's a real record.

Thanks to Frank for sending me the Hampton Grease Band this week; You're welcome to Ted for introducing you to The Spongetones, and do enjoy the three Spongetones albums you bought online while listening to them on the show; and yes, Karen, why the HELL doesn't someone book Tony Joe White into the Mahaiwe.

ooedo no hikeshi: Smoke on the Water (off YouTube)

Hampton Grease Band: Halifax
Billy Lee Riley: Flying Saucer Rock and Roll

Spongetones: Part of Me Now, She Goes Out With Everybody, Eloquent Spokesman
The Fut: Have You Heard the Word
Better Beatles: Eleanor Rigby

Usha Uthup: Chhupka Kaun Aya (M. Jackson cover)
Yamasuki: Yama Yama
Wall of Voodoo: The Morricone Themes

Dr. Frankenstein: Theme from The Mad Thinker
Los Plantronics: Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Rokker: Who's a Punk? Your Mother
Warren Smith: Ubangi Stomp

Thee Shams: Not Gonna Make It
Jon Dee Graham: Twilight
Tony Joe White: Tunica Motel

1.18.08

The Cheese Shack girls showed up, and since they hadn't been on the air in like a month, I ceded the last 15 minutes of my show to them. They're on the air right now playing cell-phone recordings they made at the Hannah Montana show and posted on the internet. Amazing.

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin' Jack Flash
Popeye: I Wanna Be a Lifeguard

JR Monterose: I Remember Clifford
Haale: Chenah Mastam
Habana Sax: Wapango

Eli Paperboy Reed and the True Loves: It's Easier
Love Injections: Shake Some Action
Colgate 13: Walk Away Renee

Sky Smeed: Tonight I Will
Morells: Go Ahead, The Man Who Has Everything

Will Kimbrough: Falling Apart
Napolean XIV: I Live in a Split Level Head
Jellyfish: This is Why

Rick Danko: This Wheel's on Fire
Nouvelle Vague: We're Making Plans for Nigel
Beatles: Not a Second Time

1.12.08 Dr. Dave for a Day

Filled in for Dr. Dave's Saxophone Power Hour(s) and played all regional saxophonists, primarily players from around Albany. They's some mighty fine playas y'all.

Morells: That Mellow Saxophone

Nick Brignola: Body and Soul
JR Montrose: Chaftic
Empire Jazz Orchestra: Cottontail (feat. Nick Brignola and Leo Russo),
Toads of the Short Forest (feat Kevin Barcomb)
Joey Thomas Big Band: I've Got You Under My Skin (fr Sinatra Sessions)
Sharks: How Can I Give You What I Haven't Got
Outta Control Rhythm and Blues Band: Inside These Walls
Refrigerators: Refrigerator
Keith Pray: Dis is Dat Blues
Cole Broderick Quartet: Winter in Saratoga (feat. Marcus Benoit)
Axe Iron Suns: Sean's Day-Glo Pants (feat Steve Lynch)
Mother Goose Jazz Band: Fuzzy Wuzzy (feat Mark Vinci)
New Regime Band: Joyride (feat Eric Walentowitz)
Mr. Zipp: In The Heat of The Night (feat Gary Windo)
Gary Windo: Ghosts
Brian Patneaude Quartet: No Matter
Jeff Siegal: The Graz is Greener on the Other Side (feat Erica Lindsay)
Nick Brignola: untitled track @ brignola.com

1.11.08

My 6 year old nephew is a freak about airline safety cards. He's found a kindred spirit in Russia who's got a website.

What won't they think of next?

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin Jack Flash




Will Kimbrough: Philadelphia, Mississippi
Grassroots: Live for Today
Herman's Hermits: No Milk Today

Pipettes: Because It's Not Love
Turtles: Outside Chance
Led Zeppelin: Something Else
Nick Lowe: Feel Again

Supremes: He's My Sunny Boy
Jonette Napolitano: Like a Wave
Feist: My Man My Moon
Barbara Lewis: Baby I'm Yours

New Shiny Things: Breadlines and Dissidence
Operation Pluto: Crayola Psychosis
Mink DeVille: Venus of Avenue D
Dave Edmonds: I'm Gonna Start Living Again If It Kills Me

Mike & the Messengers: Romeo & Juliet
Chris Merenda: Stay All Day
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: Be Easy
Deep Purple: Hush

Roy Orbison: Mama (German)
Dave Clark Five: Because
Tom Jones: Keep on Runnin'
Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas: Bad To Me

Ray Davies: Vietnam Cowboy
Robbie Fulks: She Took A Lot of Pills and Died (solo BBC concert)
Galactic, Second and Dryades (feat Big Chief Monk Bourdreaux)
Lene Lovich: Lucky Number

Shakes: Hell I Waited
Chappaquiddick Skyline: Everyone Else is Evolving

1.4.08 Music Music Music

Ahhhhhhhhh.
Despite the fact I had to break in to the studio, and that none of the equipment seemed to be cooperating, today's program was a nice experience. Sometimes it feels like a privilege to be on the radio.

Ananda Shankar, Jumpin' Jack Flash

The Bad Plus, Life on Mars
Shirley Ellis, The Clapping Song

Haale, All These Miles
Latin Jazz Quintet (w Pharoah Sanders), Daria
Del Shannon, Follow the Sun

Nellie McKay, I Want to Get Married
Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kickin Team, Daddy Had a Wreck

Richard Thompson, Friday on My Mind
Vogues, 5 O'Clock World
Screaming Trees, Nearly Lost You

Syd Houseknect, Rise Up Oh Men of God
Jack Bruce, Life on Earth, NSU (fr 50th Birthday Concert)

Tokyo East End Rockers, Asakusa Jinta
Jicarilla Apache, Let's Eat
Nick Lowe's Last Chicken in the Soup, Let's Eat
The Coolies, Coke Light Ice

Southern Culture on the Skids, Rose Garden
Project:Pimento, Music to Watch Girls By
Dewey Cox, Royal Jelly

Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings, Mr. Big
Joe Ely, Fingernails
Dave Edmunds, Take Me For a Little While

Spike Priggen, Only Children Sleeping
One Thousand Cockatoos

12.28.07 Sick Day

At about 2 PM, after sleeping for two hours, I realized the dog weren't gonna hunt. So I went back to bed. No show. Sorry.

12.21.07 X-MAS FINI

Sweet Jesus I'm glad Christmas season is almost over. Ted and I rode it out with zeal, including an extended discussion about that insufferable pantload chump-ass punk Bill O'Reilly, who came up here last week to try to get ratings on GB's back, and whom I dare to appear on my show. What a pathetic little man. Actually my time's too valuable, my show's my sanctuary, I withdraw the dare.

Good things coming up in the next month. Watch and listen! Happy Holidays!

Trumpet X-Mas

Jan & Dean, Frosty the Snowman
A Message from Bill Lewis
The Reverend Glen Armstrong, Even Squeaky Fromme Loves Christmas
Brady Bunch, Oh Holy Night

Billy Idol, Here Comes Santa Claus
Unknown, Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear
Heather Noel, Santa Came on A Nuclear Missile

non-ironic interlude
El Jezel, Working on Christmas
NRBQ, Christmas Wish
The Family Holiday Singers, Do They Know It's Christmas

bill o'reilly holiday loofah doofus set
Brad Paisley, Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday
Mel Blanc, The Hat I got For Christmas is Too Big
Dale Monty and the 2+2's, The Lil' Endless Summer Boy

Nelson, Jingle Bell Rock
Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries, X-Mas in Hell
Ringo, The Little Drummer Boy
Fab Four, Away in a Manger

Big Samad Sefiane, It's Christmas Y'all
Michael T. Wall, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Joseph Spence, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Ray Stevens, Santa Claus is Watching You
Robbie Fulks, I'm Getting Sued By Santa Claus

Rick Blackson, Helicopter Santa Claus

12.14.07 Jingle Hell

Two hours of Jingle Bells. Under the right circumstances, this show would be more effective than waterboarding.

If you can't take the jingling, get the hell off the sleigh.









Unknown, Trumpet X-Mas

Jingle Bells, by:
Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
Georgia and August Greenberg
Esquival
Jason Bambery
Frank Sinatra
Nu Beat
All the King's Tubas
the jazz protagonists
Jimmy Calire
Some Turkish Guy
Yello
Kosmorautentraum
Brian Setzer
DJ C
Some Japanese People
Stephen Clark-Wilson
Hoosier Hot Shots
Slaw
Kourge
Lonzo & Oscar
Diana Krall
Adam Kempa
Crazy Frog
Woody Phillips
Keith Spillman
Bishoujo Senshi Sailorman
Nick and Rick Gadler
Mega-Live
Tashiro Midori
Eat Cheese Please
Some Brass Ensemble
More Japanese People
Jonathan Casey
Anup
Wilson Pickett

Rick Blackson, Helicopter Christmas

12.7.07 Paul and Ted's Christmas Hell

Ted Potrikus and I ushered in the holiday season with what has now been commonly accepted as the usual aplomb. We accept it as such, anyway. We're getting very good at this, if I may say so myself,

Unknown, Trumpet X-Mas

Redd & Judy, Santa Fix My Toys for Christmas
Unknown, A Leonard Cohen Christmas

Dirty Boys, All I Want for Christmas
Cap't Kangaroo, Crackerjack Christmas (feat. Mr. Greenjeans)
Betty Johnson, I Want Eddie Fisher for Christmas

Li'l Wally, Hawaiian Christmas
Bing Crosby, Mele Kalikimaka
Mike Love, Santa's Going to Kokomo

Roy Wood and Wizzard, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Queensryche, White Christmas
The Darkness, Christmas Time

Special Country Christmas Death Set
Eltin Britt & the Pinetoppers, Christmas in November
Nancy LaPlante, Debbie's Last Christmas
Reno & Smiley, Christmas Reunion

Tom Lehrer, Chanukah in Santa Monica
50 Shekel, 50 Shekel Chanukah Jam

James Brown, Soulful Christmas
Kurtis Blow, Christmas Rap

R2D2, We Wish You a Merry Christmas (feat Jon Bon Jovi)
Kitt, A Knight Rider Christmas

Rick Blackson, Helicopter Santa Claus

11.30.07 HAMMELL

Jeanne Bassis and I spent a solid hour and a half with Ed Hammell.
What else do you need to know?

NEXT WEEK AND THE WEEK AFTER THAT AND THE WEEK AFTER THAT:

CHRISTMAS IN HELL

11.23.07 Kate Taylor

Graham and Barbara Dean had Kate Taylor and about 10 more folks in the studio for the first hour, and boy did they sound good. Brother Livingston was sick and a no-show, and at the show later that night at the Mahaiwe brother James filled in. Did I have the presence of mind to go? Of course not.

Next week: HAMELL ON TRIAL

All December: CHRISTMAS MUSIC FROM HELL

Ananda Shankar: Jumpin' Jack Flash

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Cain't No Grave Gonna Keep My Body Down
Rolling Stones: Drift Away (rehearsal boot from Some Girl sessions)
Beach Boys: Do You Like Worms?

The New Pornographers: Mutiny, I Promise You
Bruno Nicolai: Insequimento and Settimo Delitto
Bill Medley: Old Trick Bag

X-Mas in Hell Preview:
Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band: X-Mas at K-Mart
Unknown: Trumpet Christmas

The Mendoza Line: Mysterious in Black
Kenny and the Casuals: Shake It
Polly Possum with Joe Wolverton and the Dog Patch Boys: Sin in Satin

11.16.07 WILD CARD

No, no, no, that's not my guest up there. God, no. I just love everything about that pic. We had Jim Reynolds on talking about the Wild Card series of concerts, where he's teaming up members of various bands to play one-off shows all over the Berks.

Ananda Shankar, Jumpin' Jack Flash

Bill Medley, In My Room (w/ Brian Wilson and Phil Everly)
The New Pornographers, Failsafe
Ray Davies, Vietnam Cowboys

Jim Reynolds / Wild Card interview

Pursuit of Happiness, I'm An Adult Now
Graham Parker, Temporary Beauty (acoustic from WDST compilation)
Tom Waits, Till the Money Runs Out (live boot, Akron 2006)

Danielia Cotton, Make You Move
Wanda Jackson, Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
Nellie McKay, If I Needed Someone

Yardbirds, Over Under Sideways Down
Shifter, Butter

11.2.07 CHRIS MERENDA

So this guy emails me and asks if he can be on my show. The official Splatto Festival guest policy is that we only allow people on the show who ask to be on the show. Unless we ask them first. So I said "sure."

So Chris shows up with a guitar and banjo, and we had an absolute riot. Turns out he lives two doors down from the studio, so I'm thinkin' he's gonna be a regular. Best known as the drummer for The Mammals, he's one hell of a singer and songwriter, too. Go buy his music. It will make you happy, and you want to be happy, right?

10.19.07 Haylie and Sammy

Haylie and Sammy Brown stopped in for a few songs, in advance of their gig tomorrow night at the Monterey General Store, which is officially one of my favorite joints. Except they don't allow drinking there, which is weird, because they sell a lot of nice wine there. I suppose one could drink in the car.
Tonight: Road trip with Dave Barrett, Larry Chernicoff and Phil Johnson to go see Anthony Braxton at RPI. Oh Boy!

Ananda Shankar, Jumpin' Jack Flash

Anthony Braxton, Composition No. 286 Part 1

Ween, Monique the Freak
John Lennon, Scared
Nada Surf, See These Bones

Leeroy Stagger, Where I Live
David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness, The Twelve Tribes
Mary Ford & Les Paul, How High the Moon

Sweet Cherries, Don't Give It Away
Detroit Cobras, Weak Spot
Helene, This Is All We Have To Know

Haylie and Sammy Brown Rock the House!!!!

Big Star, September Girls
Talking Heads, New Feeling
New Pornographers, Twin Cinema

10.12.07

Ananda Shankar- Jumpin Jack Flash

Assembly, Never, Never
Marty Cooper Clan, Walk, Don't Run
Kaki King, Playing With Pink Noise

Iggy Pop, Don't Smoke in Bed (feat. Vanessa Paradis)
Bonzo Dog Band, Jollity Farm
Jackie DeShannon, Put a Little Love in Your Heart

Jeff Buckley, Just Like a Woman (Grace outtake)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, 100 Days and 100 Nights
Nicole Willis & The Soul Instigators, Keep Reachin' Up

James McMurtry, We Can't Make it Here Anymore
Bubble Puppy, Hot Smoke and Sassafrass
Richard Thompson, We Gotta Get Out of This Place

Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Eydie Gorme, One Note Samba
Ron Sexsmith, This is Where I Belong

Todd Rundgren, I Saw the Light
NRBQ, Allergic to Love (w Carl Perkins)
Margarita Precatan, From Me to You
Cheap Trick, Surrender

Don Ellis Orchestra, Excursion II

10.5.07 ALEX AND SETH YO

Mah man Alex Torres is gigging tonight in Pittsfield as part of the Pittsfield City Jazz Fest so we played a mess o' Latin Kings stuff and got AT on the horn for a chat. Then Mr. Rogovoy stopped in to report on The Boss, who opened his tour in Hartford on Tuesday. Seth had offered me a ticket, too, and damn I had to teach.

Ananda Shankar, Jumpin' Jack Flash

Don Ellis Orchestra, Final Analysis

Alex Torres y su Orchestra, Con Mi Ritmo
La Ropa Est En Baul
Yo-Mo Ruenda Vivir Sin Tu Carino
Alex Torres interview
No Me Aripiento
King Cash

Hayward Williams, Thunder Road

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band (featuring Seth Rogovoy), Radio Nowhere
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
You'll Be Comin' Down

9.28.07

Joanna MacGregor & Brian Eno, Forlorn Hope Fancy, Melancholy Gaillard (Live 2006)
Jan Garbarek Quartet, Chorus
Trypes, A Plan Revisited
Vietnam, Priest, Pet and The Pig

Jeff Buckley, Everybody Here
Tin Hat Trio, Empire of Light
Public Image, Ltd., This is What You Get

Spade Cooley, I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Elvis, Can't Help Falling in Love (Desert Storm boot)
Muddy Waters, Mannish Boy

Dwight Yoakum, Fast As You
Delbert McClinton, Ain't What you Eat But How You Chew It
Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Loves, Take My Love With You

Rubinoos, Rock and Roll is Dead
Billy Vaughn, A Swinging Safari
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Heptones, Move On

9.14.07 In A Mellow Mood

Amanda Shankar, Jumpin Jack Flash

Masada, Tetlalim
Ween, Alcan Road
Beau Brummells, Just a Little

Gamelon Shokbreker, Prawa
Leon Russell, Stranger in a Strange Land
Devo, Shrivel-Up
Jim Fossett, Boffo

Matt Wilson, Thank You Billy Higgins
Corrine Bailey Rae, Since I've Been Loving You
Lambchop, I Haven't Heard a Word I've Said

Perry Como, Begin the Beguine
Eydie Gorme, Blame it on the Bossa Nova
Paul Revere and the Raiders, Kicks

Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger
Palaxy Tracks, Posthumous
De Musicalske Duergere & Frode Alnaes- Solan OverBy'N (Kinks cover)

Patti Rothberg, Kung Fu Fighting
Little Eva, Keep Your Hands
The Wrights, You're the Kind of Trouble

9.7.07 SKY AND JUSTIN

First hour was a live concert with our old buds Justin Mather and Sky Smeed who are gigging together around town this weekend, and who are both splitting town soon. they've been the two most frequent guests on the show from the start, and I'm gonna miss 'em.

Ananda Shankar, Jumpin' Jack Flash

Sky Smeed / Justin Mather interview and performance

Susheela Raman, Love Lies (Beefheart cover)
Anjani Thomas and Leonard Cohen, Whither Thou Goest

Michael Harrison or George Jackson, I Want Pity (mash-up)
Cowboy Junkies, Run For Your Life (Beat. cover)
Beatles, Tell Me Why

Cream, Sweet Wine
gonstermachers, danse de les machers