Back after a two week absence, returning to a newly cleaned and painted studio was a surprise and disorienting. Never did find the wifi password. Had the best intentions of playing new work from The Decemberists, Belle and Sebastian and Sleater-Kinney but could not cross the internet rubicon to get the sounds to come out of my laptop. So we stuck to the augmenting material and it didn’t turn out bad.
Started with some Marvin Gaye, then moved around a whole lot for three hours, settling on some weird synth covers of classic rock and more nuggets from the Basement Tapes.
Here’s what I played on the radio:
Friday Night Rock 1-23-2015 9:45 p.m.- 1 a.m. Radio CPR 97.5 FM Washington D.C.
- “What’s Going On” (instrumental), Marvin Gaye
- “Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) (live),” Marvin Gaye
- “What’s Going On” (live),” Marvin Gaye
- “Betray My Heart,” D’angelo
- “Shuffering & Shmiling,” Dead Prez, Jorge Ben Jor, Talib Kweli, Bilal & Positive Force
- “Sexy Ida,” Part 1, Ike & Tina Turner
- “Shakey Ground,” The Temptations
- “Chocolate City,” Parliament
- “Head Underwater,” Jenny Lewis
- “Rollercoaster,” Sleater-Kinney
- “Walk On,” Lucinda Williams
- “Steal Softly Through Snow,” Smoke Fairies
- “Sometimes,” Damon & Naomi
- “The Long Way Home,” Rosanne Cash
- “Living Without You,” Hem
- “The Problem,” Lambchop
- “Silver Wings,” Marshall Crenshaw
- “Big Black Train,” Stan Johnson
- “Black Cadillac,” Joyce Green
- “Skinny Jim,” Eddie Cochran
- “Daylignt,” Drive-By Truckers
- “I’m Hog Tied Over You,” Tennessee Ernie Ford with Ella Mae Morse
- “You Cannot Win Them All,” Steve Forbert
- “Saturday’s Song,” Hiss Golden Messenger
- “My Way of Giving,” Small Faces
- “Japanese Vacation,” Spider Bags
- “The End of the World is Bigger Than Love,” Jens Lekman
- “The Hazards of Love,” The Decemberists
- “The Engine Driver,” The Decemberists
- “Yankee Bayonet,” The Decemberists
- “O, Valencia!,” The Decemberists
- “Piazza, New York Catcher,” Belle & Sebastian
- “Heaven in the Afternoon,” Belle & Sebastian
- “The Eighth Station of the Cross Kebob House,” Belle & Sebastian
- “Can’t Do Without You,” Caribou
- “Shining Star,” Earth, Wind & Fire
- “I Don’t Know You Anymore,” Bob Mould
- “Lazaretto,” Jack White
- “Don’t Let Me Down,” The Beatles
- “How Long, How Long,” Leadbelly
- “Morning,” Beck
- “Let Go,” Ryan Adams
- “Catch Scratch Fever,” Moog Cookbook
- “More Than a Feeling,” Moog Cookbook
- “Ziggy Stardust,” Moog Cookbook
- “Million Dollar Bash (Take 1),” Bob Dylan & The Band
- “Tears of Rage (Take 1),” Bob Dylan & The Band
- “The Hills of Mexico,” Bob Dylan & The Band
- “Odds & Ends (Take 1),” Bob Dylan & The Band
- “Crash on the Levee (Take 2),” Bob Dylan & The Band
- “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (Take 1),” Bob Dylan & The Band
- “Yangye, the Evil Leopard,” Kasai Allstars
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