7:01am | Monkees “Words” from Definitive Monkees (Warner Brothers 2002) —An easily overlooked masterpiece from the catalog.Buy it! |
7:04am | The Who “Disguises” from A Quick One (Happy Jack) [Remastered] (MCA 1966) —An essential bonus track from the remastered version of the Who's second album.Buy it! |
7:07am | The Beatles “Tell Me Why” from a hard day's night CD ALBUM (Parlophone 1964) —You probably already know this one.Buy it! |
7:09am | Iggy Pop “Some Weird Sin” from Lust for Life (Virgin Records America 1977) —I hadn't pulled this record out for a long time, but there it was, sitting in the store the other day, so I played it and was struck once again by the sheer power (as opposed to raw) of this cut. And bonus cowbell.Buy it! |
7:15am | Aretha Franklin “Spanish Harlem” from Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (Rhino 1992) —I'll never forget the day when this record was new, back in '72, when my btothers, dad and I found it playing on six or seven radio stations simultaneously.Buy it! |
7:18am | Buddy Guy “Too Soon” from Living Proof (Silvertone 2010) N —Buddy's new album is just a blues pleasure - probably not for the woman he's dismissing from his life in this song, though.Buy it! |
7:22am | Robin Rogers “What We Are Worth” from Back In the Fire (blind pig blindpigrecords.com 2010) N —The very talented Robin Rogers passed away a couple weeks back, a great loss to the blues world.Buy it! |
7:25am | Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes “The Love I Lost” from Collector's Item (All Their Greatest Hits) (Philadelphia International 1976) —Bernie Wilson, one of the Blue Notes, passed away the other day - this record never grows old, though.Buy it! |
7:32am | Orange Juice “In a Nutshell” from Coals to Newcastle (Domino 2010) N —It makes complete sense to learn they wrote this hoping Nico would sing it.Buy it! |
7:36am | Heart “Wheels” from Red Velvet Car (Eagle 2010) N —A criminally overlooked gem from these veteran rockers.Buy it! |
7:39am | Alejandro Escovedo “Down In the Bowery” from Street Songs of Love CD ALBUM (Fantasy 2010) N —An essentially sweet song.Buy it! |
7:46am | Brothers Lazaroff “Riverboat Gambler” from Give 'Em What They Need (self-released 2010) N L —The Riverboat Gambler's not a thing of the past - how to turn a mundane visit to one of the boats into a mythical masterpiece. Sounds like somebody beat the odds.Buy it! |
7:52am | Tom Verlaine “The Scientist Writes a Letter” from Flash Light (Collectors Choice 1987) —It's funny how attractive indifference can be. Show me another songwriter who can get away with a lyric like that.Buy it! |
7:56am | David Hidalgo & Louie Perez “Till The Hands Fall Of The Clock” from The Long Goodbye (Gonzolandia 2010) —Some of these songs are as good as the ones on the Los Lobos album - Hidalgo & Perez must have had a flurry of inspiration.Buy it! |
8:03am | Captain Beefheart “Run Paint Run Run” from Doc at the Radar Station (Blue Plate 1980) —The great Captain passed away just before Christmas - one of the greatest voices of the 20th Century.Buy it! |
8:07am | Captain Beefheart “Zig Zag Wanderer” from Safe As Milk (Buddha 1967) —There is no special rhyme or reason to the songs I chose to pay tribute to Don Van Vliet - there are so many great ones I could make no mistakes.Buy it! |
8:10am | Captain Beefheart “Harry Irene” from Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Bizarre / Straight 1978) —Sometimes I simply don't understand what people think was weird about Beefheart.Buy it! |
8:14am | Captain Beefheart “Low Yo Yo Stuff” from Clear Spot (Warner Brothers 1972) —And he knew how to make use of a cowbell.Buy it! |
8:20am | Spirit “Nature's Way” from Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus (Ode/Epic/Legacy 1970) —I never noticed the cowbell in this until I heard it the other day - which is crazy, considering it pretty much goes through the whole thing, even the quiet bits.Buy it! |
8:23am | Paul McCartney “Too Many People” from Ram (Apple www.applerecords.com 1971) —The cowbell plays a small but significant role in the bridge about half way through.Buy it! |
8:27am | Deep Purple “Lay Down, Stay Down” from Burn (Friday Music Records 1974) —A rockin' cowbell number!Buy it! |
8:31am | Buzzcocks “Autonomy” from Singles Going Steady CD ALBUM (IRS 1970) —Steve Diggle wrote some pretty cool songs,too - he got overshadowed often by Pete Shelley.Buy it! |
8:35am | Dukes of Stratosphear “The Mole From the Ministry” from 25 O'Clock (Virgin 1985) —XTC's great psychedelic side project.Buy it! |
8:42am | Sagittarius “My World Fell Down” from Present Tense (Columbia 1967) —Glen Campbell's finest pop music moment.Buy it! |
8:46am | Aaron Neville “Don't Let Him Ride” from I Know I've Been Changed (Tell It 2010) N —Put Allen Toussaint and Aaron Neville in a room together, you're gonna get some results.Buy it! |
8:52am | Cassandra Wilson “Blackbird” from Silver Pony (Blue Note 2010) N —A lovely take on the Beatles classic.Buy it! |
8:59am | TEENA MARIE “Congo Square” (stax 2009) —It's still hard to believe Teena Marie passed away suddenly the other day - she was only 54, and just last year, she'd released a record this good.Buy it! |
9:04am | TEENA MARIE “Square Biz” from It Must Be Magic (Motown 1981) —She made a lot of very good records, but this one is the one that always makes me feel like jumping around.Buy it! |
9:11am | Billy Taylor Trio “Bit of Bedlam” from The Billy Taylor Trio with Candido (Ojc 1954) —Another great musician, pianist Billy Taylor, passed away just a couple days ago. This is just the tip of the Taylor iceberg.Buy it! |
9:16am | John Lee Hooker “I Cover the Waterfront” from Mr. Lucky CD ALBUM (Point Blank 1991) —Hooker and Van Morrison - a match for the ages.Buy it! |
9:27am | Pat Metheny Group “American Garage” (ECM 1980) —I've only recently realized that Metheny was actually doing something interesting on this record, melding jazz with folk influences (and a rock beat).Buy it! |
9:33am | The Blind Eyes “January” from Modernity CD ALBUM (Blind Eyes 2008) —They're playing tonight sans cover charge at Off Broadway.Buy it! |
9:37am | Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 “Colored Lights” from Northern Aggression (Yep Roc 2010) N —You can get lost in the sound of these guitars.Buy it! |
9:41am | Jon Hardy & The Public “A Hard Year” (Jon Hardy & The Public 2010) N L —This St. Louis band needs to put out more music - everything I hear is so darn good.Buy it! |
9:46am | Elvis Costello “That's Not the Part of Him You're Leaving” from National Ransom (Hear Music 2010) N —Yeah, the guy is good.Buy it! |
9:53am | Eden Brent “Right To Be Wrong” from Ain't Got No Troubles (Yellow Dog 2010) N —Here's my review of this record: http://blues.about.com/od/cddvdreview1/fr/Eden-Brent-Aint-Got-No-Troubles-2010.htmBuy it! |
9:55am | Buckwheat Zydeco “Too Much Time” from Lay Your Burden Down (Alligator Records www.alligator.com 2009) —One last Captain Beefheart song, done wonderfully by somebody you wouldn't have expected.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate.
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