New stuff from Ratatat, Alejandro Escovedo, Paul Weller, Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel. A somewhat indulgent (and scratchy) selection of 45s I saved from my family estate sale last weekend, leading to more of those extra tracks from the Stones’ “Exile on Main Street.”
Plugs for local shows this weekend by Joan Armatrading, Amos Lee and the Cowsills. And a bunch of Merle Haggard, inspired by next week’s profile of him on “American Masters” on PBS, paired with a single response song from Ed Sanders, whom I played because I couldn’t immediately find anything from his Fugs co-founder Tuli Kupferberg, who died last week at 86.
Here’s what I played on the radio this morning:
Friday Morning Rock 7-16-2010 9 a.m.-noon WRTC 89.3 FM
“Ain’t No Sunshine,” The Slackers
“Sunblocks,” Ratatat
“Drugs,” Ratatat
“Necklace,” Ratatat
“Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go,” Hak Ballard & the Midnighters
“Little Bit O’ Soul,” The Music Explosion
“Talk Talk,” The Music Machine
“Get me to the World on Time,” The Electric Prunes
“Get Off of My Cloud,” The Rolling Stones
“When I Was Young,” Eric Burdon
“New York Mining Disaster 1941,” The Bee Gees
“Fire,” Five by Five
“I’m Free,” The Rolling Stones
“So Divine (Aladdin Song),” The Rolling Stones
“Soul Survivor (Alternate take),” The Rolling Stones
“Anchor,” Alejandro Escovedo
“Down in the Bowery,” Alejandro Escovedo (with Ian Hunter)
“I Wish I Was Your Mother,” Alejandro Escovedo (live)
“Faith,” Alejandro Escovedo (with Bruce Springsteen)
“Always a Friend,” Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (with Alejandro Escovedo)
“Golden Bear,” Alejandro Escovedo
“Tragedy,” Peter Wolf (with Shelby Lynne)
“Moonshine,” Paul Weller
“Soft in the Center,” The Hold Steady
“Good Bye Sweet Dreams,” Rocky Erickson with Okkervil River
“Children of Light,” Grand Mal
“Baby Lee,” Teenage Fanclub
“Oh You, Old Thing,” Wolf Parade
“The Only One,” The Black Keys
“Me Myself I,” Joan Armatrading
“Keep It Loose, Keep it Tight,” Amos Lee
“The Rain, The Park and Other Things,” The Cowsills
“Walk Away Renee,” The Cowsills (live)
“Next to You,” Sting
“Waterloo Sunset,” Peter Gabriel
“Days,” Ray Davies and the Crouch End Festival Chorus
“Transitory Life,” Laurie Anderson
“If We’re Not Back in Love By Monday,” Merle Haggard
“Mama Tried,” Merle Haggard
“Ramblin’ Fever,” Merle Haggard
“Workin’ Man Blues,” Merle Haggard
“The Fightin’ Side of Me,” Merle Haggard
“Okie from Muskogee,” Merle Haggard
“Jimmy Joe, the Hippie Billy Boy,” Ed Sanders
“Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford
“I Was Young When I Left Town,” Bob Dylan
Listen to Friday morning Rock weekly in Hartford on WRTC 89.3 FM or online at www.wrtcfm.com. Past playlists can be found at http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/wrtc-playlists/