A four hour Friday show starts with two performers whose birthdays are today, Solomon Burke and Viv Stanshall. But some recent deaths are also noted: Ron Ashton of The Stooges, Gary Burger of The Monks and Bob Casale of Devo.
Got into some Clash covers and some Drive-By Truckers to mark their D.C. shows this weekend and then a handful of things from Blondie’s “Parallel Lines” album, suggested by a TV documentary on tonight about its making.
Some strange old country songs led back to some Blasters and rock and finally a couple of old songs Bruce Springsteen re-recorded with Tom Morello for his latest album “High Hopes,” closing with some soul from Sharon Jones and James Brown.
Here’s what I played on the radio tonight:
Friday Night Rock, 3-21-2014, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Radio CPR, Washington D.C., 97.5 FM
- “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” Solomon Burke
- “Save It,” Solomon Burke
- “Got to Get You Off of My Mind,” Solomon Burke
- “Fast Train,” Solomon Burke
- “What Good Am I?” Solomon Burke
- “It Makes No Difference,” Solomon Burke
- “Suspicion,” Viv Stanshall & His Gargantuan Chums
- “Can a Blue Man Sing the Whites?” Bonzo Dog Band
- “Speedo,” The Cadillacs
- “Down in Mexico,” The Coasters
- “King Creole,” Elvis Presley
- “Ebony Eyes,” The Everly Brothers
- “Down on the Street,” The Stooges
- “Search and Destroy,” Iggy & The Stooges
- “Free and Freaky,” The Stooges
- “Complication,” The Monks
- “Satisfaction,” Devo
- “Misty Water,” The Kinks
- “The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow),” The Jam
- “Perfect Skin,” Lloyd Cole
- “Can’t Stand Me Now,” The Libertines
- “Train in Vain,” The Clash
- “Death or Glory,” Jesse Malin
- “Gates of the West,” Adam Masterson
- “The Guns of Brixton,” Nouvelle Vague
- “Clampdown,” The National
- “I Fought the Law,” Waco Brothers
- “Hateful,” Tommy Stinson
- “Long Shadow,” Joe Strummer & The Mescalaros
- “Picture This,” Blondie
- “Fade Away and Radiate,” Blondie
- “I’m Gonna Love You Too,” Blondie
- “Hanging on the Telephone,” Blondie
- “Sunday Girl,” Blondie
- “Daddy Learned to Fly,” Drive-By Truckers
- “Birthday Boy,” Drive-By Truckers
- “After the Scene Dies,” Drive-By Truckers
- “(It’s Gonna Be) I Told You So,” Drive-By Truckers
- “Flying Over Water,” Jason Isbell
- “Jukebox Help Me Find My Baby,” The Rhythm Rockers
- “They Call Our Love a Sin,” Jimmy Haggart
- “Silver Bell,” The Ripley Cotton Choppers
- “I Was There When It Happened,” Johnny Cash
- “Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young,” Faron Young
- “Knoxville Girl,” The Louvin Brothers
- “You Clobbered Me,” Spade Cooley & His Orchestra
- “Blood on the Saddle,” Tex Ritter
- “Okie’s in the Pokie,” Jimmy Patton
- “American Music,” The Blasters
- “Marie Marie,” The Blasters
- “Barn Burning,” The Blasters
- “Tell Me When It’s Over,” The Dream Syndicate
- “Sittin’ On Top of the World,” Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley
- “Lee Highway Blues,”
- “Narrow Way,” Bob Dylan
- “Honey Bear,” The Mekons
- “Porcelain Monkey,” Warren Zevon
- “Love Untold,” Paul Westerberg
- “Say Goodbye,” Beck
- “A Feather is Not a Bird,” Rosanne Cash
- “The Bits and the Pieces,” Letitia VanSant
- “American Skin (41 Shots),” Bruce Springsteen featuring Tom Morello
- “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” Bruce Springsteen featuring Tom Morello
- “Stranger to My Happiness,” Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- “Retreat!” Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- “Get Up and Get Out,” Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- “Out of Sight,” James Brown
- “Think,” James Brown
Friday Rock returns April 4 on Radio CPR, 97.5 FM, Washington, D.C. at 9 p.m.