7:00am

Willie Mitchell “Fever” from It's Dance-Time (Hi Records www.fatpossum.com 1965) —Welcome to the start of the Spring Membership Drive! Music bed. New reissue of his 1965 Hi Records release of instrumentals.Buy it!

7:05am

Charlie Rich “Mohair Sam” from It Ain't Gonna Be That Way: The Complete Smash Sessions (Ace 2011) N  —Written by Dallas Frazier & recorded in 1965 and found on this new compilation of all the tracks he recorded for the Smash label (including a pretty cool Christmas song as an added bonus - I mean, if you like that kind of thing).Buy it!

7:10am

Jimmy McGriff “All About My Girl” from Greatest Hits (Blue Note 1997) —Music bed. 1963 instrumental written by Jimmy McGriff.Buy it!

7:15am

Charles Bradley “In You (I Found a Love)” from No Time for Dreaming (Daptone Records www.daptone.com 2011) N  —Highly recommended debut soul release featuring backing by the Menahan Street Band.Buy it!

7:21am

Rufus Thomas “The Memphis Train” from The Best of Rufus Thomas (Rhino 1996) —Written by Rufus Thomas, Mack Rice & Willie Sparks and recorded for Stax in 1968. "All aboard the Memphis Train!"Buy it!

7:26am

Elvis Presley “Witchcraft” from The Big Beat: The Dave Bartholomew Songbook (Ace 2011) N  —Written by Dave Bartholomew & Pearl King and recorded for RCA in 1963 - soon after he got out of the Army.Buy it!

7:31am

Nina Simone “To Love Somebody” from To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story (RCA 2008) —Sublime 1967 Bee Gees cover.Buy it!

7:36am

Booker T. And The MGs “Baby Scratch My Back” from Soul Men (stax 2003) —Music bed. Mid-60s instrumental version of the Slim Harpo song.Buy it!

7:43am

Slim Harpo “Shake Your Hips (Single Version)” from Best Of Slim Harpo (Hip-O 1997) —Written by James Moore (aka Slim Harpo) and recorded for the Excello label in 1966.Buy it!

7:47am

The Rolling Stones “Ventilator Blues” from Exile On Main St (Remastered) (Polydor Ltd. 2010) —Written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Mick Taylor and released in 1972.Buy it!

7:54am

Willie Hightower “Time Has Brought About a Change” from Willie Hightower (Honest Jon's/Astralwerks unk 1970) —Written by Willie Hightower and recorded in 1969 at Fame Studios.Buy it!

8:04am

Harry Nilsson “Gotta Get Up” from Nilsson Schmilsson CD ALBUM (RCA 1971) —Backing musicians on this include Jim Gordon, Klaus Voorman, Chris Spedding & Jim Price.Buy it!

8:09am

Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs “Different Drum” from Under The Covers Vol. 1 (Shout! Factory 2006) —Written by Michael Nesmith. You always know it's a Membership Drive when I play something sung by Susanna Hoffs. I figure if it makes me happy, it ought to make somebody else happy, too.Buy it!

8:14am

Jill Sobule & John Doe “Under The Bridge” from A Day At The Pass (self 2011) N  —From their forthcoming release. They will be appearing at Off Broadway (4/15) & Euclid Records (4/16 @ 10 AM to kick off Record Store Day).Buy it!

8:21am

Dean & Britta “Family Conference” from The Squid & The Whale ST (Ultra 2005) —Music bed. Instrumental from the 2005 Noah Baumbach film.Buy it!

8:27am

Greg Brown “Spring & All” from Slant 6 Mind (Red House Records 1997) —"A two bourbon twilight, fog from God's cigar."Buy it!

8:33am

Geyer Street Sheiks “Dimming of the Day” from Great Dream (Bjam 1993) L —Alice Spencer singing a Richard Thompson song -- you aren't going to go wrong there.Buy it!

8:41am

Ry Cooder “Dark End Of The Street” from The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed (Warner Bros/Rhino 2008) —Music bed. 1972 instrumental version of the Dan Penn/Chips Moman soul classic also featuring Jim Dickinson & David Lindley.Buy it!

8:46am

Esther Phillips “No Headstone On My Grave” from The Best of Esther Phillips: 1962-70 (Rhino 1997) —Written by Charlie Rich and recorded in Nashville in 1962.Buy it!

8:52am

Tami Lynn “One Night of Sin” from The Big Beat: The Dave Bartholomew Songbook (Ace 2011) N  —Written by Dave Bartolomew & Pearl King and recorded for the Cotillion label in 1971.Buy it!

9:02am

Drive-by Truckers “Everybody Needs Love” from Go-Go Boots (ATO 2011) N  —Eddie Hinton cover from their new release sung by Patterson Hood.Buy it!

9:10am

Mike Auldridge “Everybody Slides” from Dobro / Blues and Bluegrass (Fantasy Records 2002) —Music bed. Also featuring Lowell George & David Bromberg.Buy it!

9:17am

Shannon Wright “Everybody's Got Their Own Part to Play” from Let In the Light (Quarterstick 2007) —Vaguely Beatlesque song written by Shannon Wright.Buy it!

9:22am

Ray Wylie Hubbard “Down Home Country Blues” from A: Enlightenment B: Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C) (Bordello Records 2010) —"I'm partial to old Hooker's singing 'Crawling King Snake'/ And I say that Muddy Waters is as deep as William Blake"Buy it!

9:27am

Ike & Tina Turner “Goodbye So Long” from Talkin' About Ike - Vol. 2 (P-Vine 2008) —Recorded for the Modern label in 1965.Buy it!

9:33am

Bettye Swann “Willie & Laura Mae Jones” from Bettye Swann (Astralwerks www.trojanrecords.com 2004) —Written by Tony Joe White.Buy it!

9:41am

Cassie Morgan “Pine So Sweet” from Pine So Sweet - EP (self-released 2008) L —Written by Cassie Morgan & released in 2008.Buy it!

9:51am

Dusty Springfield “Spooky” from Dusty Springfield for Cafe Apres-midi (Universal 2003) —"In the cool of the evening when everything is getting kind of groovy." Released in1970.Buy it!