7:01am | Electric Light Orchestra “Above the Clouds” from A New World Record (UA 1976) —A short but very sweet little tune from Jeff Lynne, featuring one of them new-fangled synthesizers.Buy it! |
7:03am | Roy Wood “Premium Bond Theme” from Through the Years: The Best of Roy Wood (EMI 1996) —Have you noticed over the years that I really love this Roy Wood guy? This is as cool as any James bond theme ever.Buy it! |
7:07am | Ocean Colour Scene “The Riverboat Song” from Moseley Shoals (MCA 1996) —My favorite riff-rocker of the 90s. These guys should have been huge.Buy it! |
7:14am | Lindsey Buckingham “End of Time” from Seeds We Sow (Buckingham 2011) —He still knows how to write a catchy hook-filled chorus.Buy it! |
7:18am | The Pretenders “Rosalee” from Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La 2008) —One of Ms. Hynde's best songs, hidden on this late-career record owned by comparatively few. Really seductive groove here.Buy it! |
7:22am | The Band “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” from The Band (CAPITOL 1970) —Will the crops grow or won't they?Buy it! |
7:26am | Garland Jeffreys “I'm Alive” from The King of In Between (Big Lake 2012) N —An exclamatory statement of continued existence.Buy it! |
7:32am | Bhi Bhiman “Time Heals” from Bhiman (Boocoo Music 2012) N —Well, Roy Kasten called and told me I pronounced his name right, so I feel pretty good this morning. I only just heard this guy for the first time because Robert Christgau loved the album; it's pretty darn good stuff.Buy it! |
7:37am | Glen Campbell “Nothing But the Whole Wide World” from Ghost on the Canvas (Surf Dog Records) N —Glen Campbell sings my fave Jakob Dylan song. Gorgeous.Buy it! |
7:41am | Jakob Dylan “Oh, Mama, Come Home” from The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams (Columbia 2011) N —Given some lyrics written by Hank Williams, I think it's nice that the younger Dylan picked up on the blues element, rather than the waltzes that almost everyone else on this record went with.Buy it! |
7:45am | Bill Monroe “Molly and Tenbrooks (The Race Horse Song)” from Columbia Country Classics Vol. 1: The Golden Age (Columbia 1990) —I love a good race horse song. More interesting actually than the race horse TV show on HBO.Buy it! |
7:48am | Del McCoury Band “I'm Lonesome I'm Blue” from Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe (MCCOURY Music www.mcccourymusic.com 2012) N —I never get tired of hearing this man sing.Buy it! |
7:51am | Tony Rice “Muleskinner Blues” from The Bill Monroe Collection (Rounder 2012) —Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, and Vassar Clements go to town on Monroe's best known song.Buy it! |
7:55am | Count Basie “Jumpin' at the Woodside” from Complete Decca Recordings (Verve 1992) —Where is Gene Gene the Dancing Machine?Buy it! |
8:03am | Dave Edmunds “Girls Talk” from Repeat When Necessary (Swan Song 1979) —One of the earliest and one of the best Elvis Costello covers - except I think this came out before Costello's version.Buy it! |
8:06am | The Notorious Cherry Bombs “Sweet Little Lisa” from The Notorious Cherry Bombs (Universal 2004) —Vince Gill & Rodney Crowell do the killer song I first heard on the same Dave Edmunds album which gave us "Girls Talk."Buy it! |
8:09am | Elvis Costello “Lipstick Vogue” from This Year's Model (Rhino 1978) —Pete Thomas and Bruce Thomas had a lot of incredible moments over the years - this may be their greatest triumph together.Buy it! |
8:12am | Lord Large & Dean Parrish “Left Right and Centre” from Dig The New Breed (Acid Jazz Records 2010) —A British record from 2002 that sounds like it was made in 1966. Either way, I only recently heard it for the first time, so it's an unheralded classic to me.Buy it! |
8:18am | Dave Alvin “Harlan County Line” from Eleven Eleven (Yep Roc 2011) N —Who would have ever predicted back when Dave Alvin started making solo records that he'd find a way to turn that voice into something entirely effective? I love the way he intones this song.Buy it! |
8:23am | Steve Forbert “On the Streets of This Town” from Streets Of This Town (Geffen 1988) —There are a lot of Steve Forbert albums out there, but this is the one I've turned to more often than the others.Buy it! |
8:27am | Emory Joseph “Bird Song” from Fennario (Megaforce www.themeatpuppets.com 2008) —What if Grateful Dead songs were performed by somebody with talent? Here's a great example.Buy it! |
8:32am | Sarah Jarosz “Floating In the Balance” from Follow Me Down (SUGAR HILL www.sugarhillrecords.com 2011) N —Yeah, it helps if you can call Jerry Douglas in on dobro, and Stuart Duncan on fiddle, but I suspect this would be a great performance even without them.Buy it! |
8:35am | Martha Wainwright “Hearts Club Band” from I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (Universal 2008) —"You look better under water where my eyes can't see." Ouch.Buy it! |
8:39am | Alyssa Graham “'til My Heart Quakes” from Lock Stock and Soul (100% Womon 2012) N —Meshell Ndegeocello plays bass on this record, which seems appropriate to the kind of songs Graham sings.Buy it! |
8:44am | Fairport Convention “White Dress” from Meet On the Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975) (A&M 1999) —Sandy Denny. Swoon.Buy it! |
8:49am | The Secret Sisters “The One I Love Is Gone” from The Speaking Clock Revue: Live From the Beacon Theater (Shout! Factory 2011) —Guess I should have played this one back when I was doing the other Bill Monroe songs, huh?Buy it! |
8:53am | Danny Barnes “Dirt On the Angel” from Dirt On The Angel (Terminus 2003) —I hadn't heard this album in a long time, and then this song just stunned me the other day when it came up on my itunes.Buy it! |
9:01am | John Hiatt “Detroit Made” from Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns (New West 2011) N —It's harder to write good songs about cars nowadays, but I think Mr. Hiatt did all right this time.Buy it! |
9:05am | Jamey Johnson “Poor Man Blues” from The Guitar Song (Mercury 2010) —I wonder if Mitt Romney likes this one.Buy it! |
9:08am | Bert Deivert “Cypress Grove” from Kid Man Blues (Hard Danger 2011) N —Swedish folk harmonica, Thai guitar and Mississippi Delta blues. Stunning.Buy it! |
9:17am | Robbie Fulks “Billie Jean” from Happy (Boondoggle 2010) —Another way of performing a song so ubiquitous.Buy it! |
9:20am | The Blind Boys of Alabama “Lead Me Home” from Take the High Road (Saguaro Road 2011) N —These guys can still sing, even without Clarence Fountain. I've never been disappointed by a record under this brand name.Buy it! |
9:25am | Johnny Adams “Lonely Man” from Heart & Soul (Vampi Soul vampisoul.com 1969) —Speaking of singing!Buy it! |
9:28am | Ray Charles “Love's Gonna Bite You Back” from Rare Genius The Undiscovered Masters (Concord 2010) —I don't remember the story behind these really nice songs that weren't released until a couple years back. Late 70s Ray, still a genius.Buy it! |
9:32am | Kevin Gordon “Colfax / Step In Time” from Gloryland (Crowville Collective 2012) N R —Not just anybody can make a 10 minute song this fascinating.Buy it! |
9:42am | Randy Newman “Remember” from For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson (MusicMasters 1995) —It only made sense for Randy Newman to appear on a tribute to the man who made a whole album of Newman's songs.Buy it! |
9:47am | The Creation “How Does It Feel to Feel (Previously Unreleased Version)” from Complete Collection Vol. 1 Making Time (Sin-Drome 1998) —I like this version because it's 35 seconds longer than the regular one - why weren't these guys more famous? They strike me as being in the top 10 British bands of their era.Buy it! |
9:51am | The Redwalls “Love Her” from De Nova (CAPITOL 2005) —If I was gonna try to list the great songs of the first decade of this century, this one would have to be on it - just so ferociously exuberant.Buy it! |
9:55am | Brian Eno “Backwater” from Before and After Science (EMI 1977) —I can't count those beats per minute like the fancy club djs, but I think I nailed this seque.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate.
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