Prevented from doing a show last week because the transmitter was down, and prevented from playing vinyl for more than a month because the turntables were on the fritz, I spent most of this very long show playing things I had wanted to play for weeks. Plus stuff from shows I saw this week from Bruce Springsteen and Jay Farrar.
And I played just about all of the new Pixies album as well as a lengthy salute to a couple of D.C. musicians, Robert Gordon and Link Wray. And I started with a jazz hit recorded in D.C. in a church two blocks from my house.
Here’s what I played on the radio tonight:
Friday Night Rock 5-16-14 7:45 p.m.-12:30 a.m. Radio CPR 97.5 FM Washington D.C.
- “Desafinado,” Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd
- “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” Soloman Burke
- “(Everytime I Hear) That Mellow Saxophone,” Ray Montrell
- “Mr. Fortune Teller,” Dee & Don
- “Gonna Need Somebody,” Stacy Lane
- “Mary’s Place,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” Bruce Springstone
- “For You,” Bruce Springsteen
- “The Wall,” Bruce Springsteen
- “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Brand New Tennessee Waltz,” Jesse Winchester
- “Songs That She Sang in the Shower,” Jason Isbell
- “Long Time Gone,” The Everly Brothers
- “Back Into Your World,” Son Volt
- “Tear-Stained Eye,” Son Volt
- “Straightface,” Son Volt
- “California Snow,” Dave Alvin
- “East Virginia Blues,” Dave Alvin
- “Kerr River,” Dave Alvin
- “What Am I Worth,” Dave Alvin with Syd Straw
- “We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds,” George Jones and Melba Montgomery
- “The Long Way Home,” Rosanne Cash
- “Wasting in the Sun,” Folksongs for the Afterlife
- “Keep Your Feelings to Yourself,” Clem Snide
- “Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford
- “Sam’s Place,” Buck Owens
- “Steel Guitar Rag,” Merle Travis
- “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous,” Jerry Lee Lewis
- “Guitar Man,” Elvis Presley
- “Kentucky Rain,” Elvis Presley
- “Blue Moon of Kentucky,”
- “The Race is On,” George Jones
- “Wild Horses,” The Rolling Stones
- “Jockey Full of Bourbon,” Tom Waits
- “Rumble,” Link Wray
- “The Swag,” Link Wray
- “The Fool,” Link Wray
- “It’s in the Bottle,” Robert Gordon with Link Wray
- “Dixie Doodle,” Link Wray
- “The Way I Walk,” Robert Gordon with Link Wray
- “A Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache,”
- “If This is Wrong,” Robert Gordon with Link Wray
- “Ramble,” Link Wray
- “I Want to Be Free,” Robert Gordon with Link Wray
- “Batman Theme,” Link Wray
- “Lonesome Train (On a Lonesome Track),” Robert Gordon with Link Wray
- “Tryin’ to Get to You,” Elvis Presley
- “Good Rockin’ Tonight,” Elvis Presley
- “Mystery Train,” Elvis Presley
- “What Goes Boom,” The Pixies
- “Greens Mr. Blues,” The Pixies
- “Here Comes Your Man,” The Pixies
- “Bagboy,” The Pixies
- “Magdalena 318,” The Pixies
- “Silver Snail,” The Pixies
- “Wave of Mutilation,” The Pixies
- “Blue Eyed Heye,” The Pixies
- “Ring the Bell,” The Pixies
- “Another Toe in the Ocean,” The Pixies
- “Monkey Gone to Heaven,” The Pixies
- “Andros Queen,” The Pixies
- “Snakes,” The Pixies
- “Jaime Bravo,” The Pixies
- “Where is My Mind,” The Pixies
- “Women of War,” The Pixies
- “Gigantic,” The Pixies
- “Busted,” The Replacements
- “Hold My Life,” The Replacements
- “Kiss Me on the Bus,” The Replacements
- “Kool Thing,” Sonic Youth
- “Diane Young,” Vampire Weekend
- “Your Arms Around Me,” Jens Lekman
- “Somebody’s Ringin’ That Door Bell,” E.U.
- “Frontier Psychiatrist,” The Avalanches
- “Scorpio,” Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Friday Rock returns to Radio CPR 97.5 on May 30.