This Week in the Shack

Yeah, it's been a while.

1. Levon Helm - Atlantic City (4:58)
2. Neil Young - Unknown Legend (Album Version) (4:32)
3. Guy Forsyth - Children of Jack (5:33)
4. Patty Griffin - Sweet Lorraine (5:26)
5. The Felice Brothers - Frankie's Gun! (4:06)
6. Jon Dee Graham - Beautifully Broken (3:14)
7. The Gaslight Anthem - "45" (3:23)
8. Lucero - Hold Me Close (2:46)
9. Son Volt - Left A Slide (5:10)
10. Whiskeytown - Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel (For Kathy Poindexter) (4:32)
11. Punch Brothers - No Concern of Yours (4:08)
12. Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town (3:40)
13. Buddy & Julie Miller - Ellis County (3:49)
14. The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (3:33)
15. Steve Earle - Meet Me In The Alleyway (4:25)
16. Brandon O. Bailey - Hellhound (4:17)
17. Dave Alvin - Murrietta's Head (5:58)
18. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Mother Blues (5:58)
19. James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards - Saint Mary of the Woods (6:46)
20. Eliza Gilkyson - Easy Rider (4:44)
21. Bob Dylan - You'Re A Big Girl Now (7:01)
22. Willis Alan Ramsey - Ballad of Spider John (4:19)
23. North Mississippi Allstars - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (3:18)
24. Dave Rawlings Machine - To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) (3:48)
25. Old Crow Medicine Show - Levi (2:50)
26. Uncle Earl - Easy In the Early - 'Til Sundown (2:47)
27. Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three - La La Blues (3:42)
28. The Be Good Tanyas - House Of The Rising Sun (3:49)
29. The Lumineers - Ho Hey (2:43)
30. Jay Farrar - Dead Promises (2:11)
31. The Gaslight Anthem - Here's Looking At You, Kid (3:41)
32. Mark Growden - Been in the Storm So Long (7:04)
33. Lyle Lovett & His Large Band - I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane (7:16)
34. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (3:46)
35. Patty Griffin - When It Don't Come Easy (5:01)
36. Shelby Lynne - Don't Think Twice It's Alright (4:23)
37. Lucinda Williams - 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (4:53)
38. Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty (4:10)
39. Sara Watkins - The Late John Garfield Blues (4:06)
40. Steve Earle - To Live Is To Fly (3:40)
41. Bruce Springsteen - My Ride's Here (4:36)

(americana 9)

This Week in the Shack

Mardi Gras is here, so this week's set is nearly four hours of the music of New Orleans and the surrounding area (and, in the case of Steve Earle, the song he wrote for "Treme"). As always, I hope you dig it.

1. Jon Cleary - Go To the Mardi Gras (Live) (6:35)
2. The Golden Eagles - Hold 'Em Joe (5:50)
3. Hot 8 Brass Band - What's My Name? (6:28)
4. Dr. John - Goin' Back to New Orleans (4:08)
5. Professor Longhair - Tipitina [*] (2:24)
6. Allen Toussaint - Winin' Boy Blues (6:41)
7. Irvin Mayfield - Blue Dawn (With Wynton Marsalis) (8:08)
8. George Lewis - Tishomingo Blues (10:03)
9. Kid Ory - Careless Love (5:35)
10. Sidney Bechet - Milenberg Joys (4:20)
11. Kermit Ruffins/ReBirth Brass Band - Mardi Gras Day (4:45)
12. Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias - Shallow Water Oh Mama (4:56)
13. The Neville Brothers - Hey Pocky Way (4:13)
14. Gulf Aid AllStars; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Mos Def; Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't My Fault (4:12)
15. Coolbone - Spread da Funk (4:36)
16. Trombone Shorty - Buckjump (featuring Rebirth Brass Band ¬ horns; 5th Ward Weebie ¬ vocals; Ben Ellman & Charlie Smith ¬ percussion) (4:03)
17. Earl King - No City Like New Orleans (4:33)
18. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py (3:19)
19. Galactic - Tighten Your Wig (3:10)
20. Zachary Richard - Who Stole My Monkey? (3:38)
21. Eric Lindell - It's A Pity (4:02)
22. Jon Cleary - Groove Me (Live) (6:35)
23. Booker, James - Junco Partner (5:10)
24. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:23)
25. Fats Domino - My Girl Josephine (1:53)
26. Ernie K-Doe - Mother-In-Law (2:32)
27. Paul Sanchez - Foot Of Canal Street (3:48)
28. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, John Boutté, Paul Sanchez & Bil - Nobody Knows Nothin' (3:28)
29. Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (4:56)
30. Preservation Hall - Complicated Life (3:44)
31. Dr. John - My Indian Red (4:47)
32. Anders Osborne With Monk Boudreaux - Meet The Boyz On The Battlefront (4:36)
33. BeauSoleil - Zydeco Gris-Gris (3:38)
34. Zachary Richard - Bon Temps Rouler (4:01)
35. Clifton Chenier - Black Snake Blues (4:26)
36. Glen David Andrews - I'll Fly Away (7:00)
37. Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (4:21)
38. Hot 8 Brass Band - Sexual Healing (8:53)
39. Kermit Ruffins - Monday Night in New Orleans (3:32)
40. Billie And Dede Pierce - In The Racket (3:19)
41. Sammy Price - Blues For The Bluesicians (3:12)
42. Champion Jack Dupree - Poor Boy (4:33)
43. Smiley Lewis (Feat. Dave Bartholomew & Tuts Washington) - Tee-Nah-Nah (2:14)
44. Tab Benoit - Drownin' On Dry Land (6:41)
45. Sonny Landreth - Congo Square (6:23)
46. Dr. John; Lower 911 - My People Need a Second Line (5:17)
47. Walter Wolfman Washington - Crescent City Starlights (3:51)
48. Steve Earle - This City (2:44)
49. Irvin Mayfield - Mo' Better Blues (With Ellis Marsalis) (5:26)
50. Louis Armstrong - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (3:48)

(NOLA 10)

This Week in the Shack

Halloween is coming, and this week The Shotgun Shack presents a show of songs about the devil, death, and killers; a ghost story by Tom Waits; and plenty of spooky minor-key tunes.

1. R.I.S.E. (Rising Appalachia) - Oh Death (4:53)
2. Guy Forsyth - Teeth (4:43)
3. Lucinda Williams - Hard Times Killing Floor Blues (5:11)
4. Dr. John - I Like Ki Yoka (3:43)
5. Chris Whitley - Stagger Lee (7:26)
6. Tom Waits - Big Joe and Phantom 309 (6:29)
7. Jace Everett - Bad Things (2:43)
8. Donovan - Season Of The Witch (Karen Elson feat. Donovan) (3:25)
9. Chris Thomas King - Mississippi Kkkrossroads (3:45)
10. Alien Fashion Show - Bad Seraphim (3:35)
11. Dr. John - Jinky Jinx (3:25)
12. Papa Mali - Walk on Guilded Splinters (9:49)
13. Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (Live) (6:54)
14. Cobra Verde - Play With Fire (2:36)
15. Mick Jagger/The Chieftains - The Long Black Veil (3:37)
16. Jason Freeman/Samuel L. Jackson - Black Snake Moan (4:04)
17. R L Burnside - Nightmare Blues (4:22)
18. Scrapomatic - Raw Head and Bloody Bones (4:30)
19. Otis Taylor - Be My Frankenstein (4:46)
20. The Atomic Fireballs - Man With the Hex (3:01)
21. Cary Ann Hearst - Hell's Bells (3:36)
22. Lightnin' Guy, Guy Forsyth, The Mighty Gators - Poison (3:46)
23. Clifton Chenier - Black Snake Blues (4:26)
24. Dr. John - Party Hellfire (4:40)
25. Chris Thomas King - Red Mud (4:13)
26. Ian Siegal Band - Monday Saw (5:09)
27. Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues (2:34)
28. Bonnie Raitt - Devil Got My Woman (4:52)
29. Chris Whitley - Hellhound On My Trail (Live) (5:50)
30. Peter Green with Nigel Watson - Me And The Devil Blues (3:02)
31. White Ghost Shivers - White Ghost Shivers Ball (3:14)
32. Guy Forsyth - Jerry The Junker (3:38)
33. Tom Waits - Little Drop of Poison (3:09)
34. Circus Contraption - Hot Potato (4:54)
35. Scrapomatic - Graveside Blues (3:20)
36. John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James (5:26)
37. Howlin' Wolf - Evil (2:55)
38. Dr. John - Bruha Bembe (5:25)
39. Joan Osborne - Spooky (4:03)
40. Willie Dixon - I Got A Razor (4:11)
41. Skip James - Cypress Grove Blues (4:08)
42. Malford Milligan - Death Don't Have No Mercy (4:08)
(Halloween 3)

Eighties Friday

Because Nathan and I are doing an eighties room at the Fed tonight, I'm starting this week's Eighties Friday set a few hours early.

1. The Jam - Going Underground (2:54)
2. The Replacements - Hold My Life (4:21)
3. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (3:25)
4. Alphaville - Sensations (3:58)
5. ABC - All Of My Heart (4:49)
6. X - When It Rains (4:33)
7. Concrete Blonde - Scene Of A Perfect Crime (4:41)
8. Split Enz - Dirty Creature (4:02)
9. Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro (4:17)
10. The K.L.F. - What Time Is Love? (5:16)
11. Big Audio Dynamite - C'mon Every Beatbox (5:25)
12. The Art Of Noise - Beatbox (Diversion One) (8:33)
13. Depeche Mode - Somebody - 2006 Remastered Version (4:27)
14. Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away (4:27)
15. Marillion - Freaks (1998 Digital Remaster) (4:08)
16. Genesis - Taking It All Too Hard (3:58)
17. Scritti Politti - Small Talk (3:39)
18. Madonna - Into The Groove (4:45)
19. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (4:23)
20. Cyndi Lauper - All Through The Night (4:29)
21. Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (4:51)
22. U2 - "40" (3:45)
23. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Down On Mission Street (3:44)
24. David & David - Welcome To The Boomtown (5:31)
25. The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town (4:19)
26. Shelleyan Orphan - Tar Baby (4:33)
27. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (4:45)
28. Planet P Project - King For A Day (3:55)
29. David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (Single Version) (2002 Digital Remaster) (5:37)
30. The Church - Metropolis (4:45)
31. Peter Murphy - Crystal Wrists (4:09)
32. Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel (6:26)
33. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (5:49)
34. The Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene (4:05)
35. UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry (3:26)
36. Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart) (3:44)
37. Wham! - Everything She Wants (5:02)
38. Sade - Smooth Operator (4:17)
39. Prefab Sprout - Bonny (3:45)
40. The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side (3:18)

(eighties 21)

This Week in the Shack

I haven't been posting the notices of repeat sets, although the station has mostly been keeping up weekly broadcasts, albeit in reruns. That will continue for the next week, as I'm recovering from a weekend-long blues dance workshop and will be DJing three nights in the upcoming week. Hopefully, I'll start posting new sets after that.

This week's show repeats a program of mostly Texas blues from July 2010.

This Week in the Shack

This week, The Shack reruns this set of country and delta blues from last fall.

Eighties Friday

I'm back from my annual vacation on the Texas Coast. This week's Eighties Friday is a new set, and I anticipate a new show for next week in The Shack, as well.

1. Genesis - Paperlate (3:25)
2. Madonna - Papa Don't Preach (5:45)
3. Soul II Soul - Keep on Movin' [Featuring Caron Wheeler] (6:02)
4. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (4:30)
5. The Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat (5:13)
6. Breathe. - Hands To Heaven (4:19)
7. Marillion - Kayleigh (4:03)
8. Corey Hart - Boy In The Box (4:27)
9. Bananarama - Cruel Summer (3:29)
10. Billy Idol - Mony Mony (2001 Digital Remaster) (5:01)
11. The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion (10:54)
12. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (5:29)
13. The Alarm - Rain In The Summertime (5:14)
14. U2 - With or Without You (4:55)
15. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (4:56)
16. The Beach Boys - Kokomo (3:36)
17. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes (3:24)
18. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy (3:35)
19. Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes (2009 Digital Remaster) (5:16)
20. UB40 - 'Cos It Isn't True (2:57)
21. The Cure - Just Like Heaven (3:32)
22. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (3:25)
23. Biz Markie - Just A Friend (3:58)
24. LL Cool J - Big Ole Butt (4:34)
25. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (5:42)
26. Prince - Sign 'O' the Times (4:56)
27. T'Pau - Heart And Soul (4:16)
28. The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer (3:38)
29. Slowdive - Alison (3:50)
30. Depeche Mode - Strangelove (2006 Remastered) (4:54)
31. Salt-N-Pepa - Shake Your Thang (It's Your Thing) (4:00)
32. Dire Straits - Solid Rock (3:19)
33. The Outfield - Your Love (3:36)
34. Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine (4:01)
35. John Mellencamp - Check It Out (4:21)
36. Stevie Nicks - Ooh My Love (5:03)
37. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am (4:57)
38. The B-52S - Deadbeat Club (4:56)
39. Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses (5:50)
40. Peter Gabriel - On the Air (5:21)

(eighties 20)