Category Archives: WRTC Playlists

Playlist: The Last Show

By Roger Catlin | Published: July 25, 2011
The irony about the last Friday Morning Rock radio show is that I couldn’t possibly play all the songs I really wanted to play since I had packed away all of my CDs a couple of weeks earlier and all I had were things on my laptop and a few old tapes of old shows. [...]
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Playlists R Us

By Roger Catlin | Published: July 21, 2011
Oh, how sorry I am to let the website languish as it has these past months. I’ve been jotting down setlists for the Friday Morning Rock show at WRTC but haven’t been posting them in a timely manner. Now that I’m revving up the old website, time to catch up on playlists, especially as the [...]
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Playlist 3-4-11

By Roger Catlin | Published: April 11, 2011
Started with some O’Jays and other R&B, new and old. Moved to mark Mardi Gras weekend that transitioned into a little set of Randy Newman. Included a big dollop of Radiohead’s new one. Noted the start of the baseball season with the Baseball Project and closed with a lot of rockin’ Wanda Jackson. Here’s what [...]
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Playlist 2-25-11

By Roger Catlin | Published: March 5, 2011
Downloaded the new Radiohead album and played three cuts, augmented by three songs from their past and a couple of Flaming Lips tracks to boot. Heralded spring with new stuff from the Baseball Project, also something new from Adele and something very old from the onetime star of “Mama’s Family.” Started with the Buena Vista [...]
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Playlist 2-11-11

By Roger Catlin | Published: February 11, 2011
Started with another half dozen goodies from the Oxford American Southern Music sampler Vol. 12, played a big chunk of the new Bright Eyes, as well as new stuff from Twilight Singers, Iron & WIne, Delicate Steve, Destroyers and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Joy Formidable,Tennis and Wanda Jackson, old and new. To herald shows [...]
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Playlist 1-28-11

By Roger Catlin | Published: January 29, 2011
Began with a salute to two artists who died this week, the lead singer of the Marvelettes and Charlie Louvin, the last surviving member of the Louvin Brothers. Then played a lot of the Decemberists and Wanda Jackson’s  new albums and new stuff from Destroyer, John Vanderslice and Deerhoof. Closed with the annual salute to [...]
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Playlist 1-21-11

By Roger Catlin | Published: January 23, 2011
The snowstorm meant the jazz DJ before me didn’t show up at all. So I got in a little early to play a little something for that audience, leading into Friday Morning Rock. The 80th anniversary of Sam Cooke’s birth on Saturday gave occasion to play nearly an hour of his best stuff, topped by [...]
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Playlist 12-24-10

By Roger Catlin | Published: December 29, 2010
Normally a show before Christmas brings all holiday tunes, particularly one scheduled on Christmas Eve. But I wanted to note the death of Captain Beefheart, and the Christmastime anniversaries of deaths by Joe Strummer and James Brown before diving wholly into the caroling, including cuts from Bob Dylan and Sufjan Stevens to Mindy Smith and [...]
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Playlist ‘n’ Podcast 12-10-12

By Roger Catlin | Published: December 10, 2010
Thinking of Aretha Franklin, after reports this week that she has pancreatic cancer. Then some soul from all over, from the Mar-ks to Cee-Lo, a musical salute to Hannukuh before it’s too late, some acoustic offerings from Neil Young, Jonathan Richman, Mountain Man and Bert Jansch, who headlines a show in town Saturday. Celebrating the [...]
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Playlist 12-3-10

By Roger Catlin | Published: December 5, 2010
Started with a two song salute to Dave Brubeck, who turns 90 Monday. Then a variety of approaches, including new stuff from Jonathan Richman, Sufjan Stevens, Steve Wynn, some cuts from Grammy nominated work b artists from Laurie Anderson to Neil Young. And a remembrance of John Lennon on the 30th anniversary of his death. [...]
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