Jammin' With the King

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - B.B. King's One Kind Favor Album Release Celebration

This show was probably my favorite so far ... B.B. King is a mutual favorite of Johnny's and mine, so it only made sense to celebrate his first studio release since 2000's Riding With the King (to my knowledge, anyway, and not counting 80, the duets album released in 2005 to commemorate the King's 80th birthday). Once I heard B.B. was releasing a new album, I was chomping at the bit. Then I read that T-Bone Burnett was at the helm of this record ... and there was no question I was getting it. And to top all that off, it was a record that was going to try and capture that raw, undeniable, early 50's B.B. vibe? Come on. You'd have to be a fool not to want it. I stayed up until midnight on Monday night and bought it the second the iTunes store refreshed and it became available. See? We're fans first here at the Crossroads. The show turned out to be such a blast, and everyone seemed to really enjoy having an evening with the King as much as we did ... which makes me smile. Even Ms. Scarlett O'Sara of Cowtipper's Delight (the show on before ours) graciously drew the curtain on her show thirty minutes early so as to allow us extra time, which certainly gave a more "King-size" vibe to the evening. So when you see "Fourth Break," it's not a typo - the evening was truly that special, running from 11:30 (instead of the usual midnight) until 2.

Obviously, all songs from last night's set were by the one and only king of the blues, so I don't need to type the artist next to every song title. Other performers are noted in parentheses. Here's the set:

Intro

[All tracks from the first two sets are the new album, One Kind Favor, almost in its entirety. We didn't get to the last track "Tomorrow Night" or any of the bonus tracks that came with the version I bought on iTunes. Judging by the response to the album, I'm sure we'll be playing them soon, though, so no worries.]

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
I Get So Weary
Get These Blues Off of Me
How Many More Years
Waiting For Your Call

First Break

My Love Is Down
The World Is Gone Wrong
Blues Before Sunrise
Midnight Blues
Backwater Blues
Sitting On Top of the World

Second Break

Forty Days and Forty Nights (with the Muddy Waters Blues Band) / Live At Ebbets Field (1973) [Cliff's Pick]
My Sweet Little Baby (with the Muddy Waters Blues Band) / Live At Ebbets Field
Driftin' Blues (with Bobby "Blue" Bland) / ... Together For the First Time ... Live! (1974)
I'll Take Care of You (with Bobby "Blue" Bland) / ... Together For the First Time ... Live!
Don't Answer the Door / Back In the Alley (1970)

Third Break

You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now / Live At the Regal (1965)
Worry, Worry / Live At the Regal
3 O'Clock Blues / Singin' the Blues (1957)
Please Love Me / Singin' the Blues
Chains and Things / Indianola Mississippi Seeds (1970)

Fourth Break

Fool / Wails (1960)
Ten Long Years (with Eric Clapton) / Riding With the King (2000)
When I'm Wrong / Now Appearing At Ole Miss (1980)
Blues With B.B. / Spotlight on Lucille (ca. 1960)

It was a pleasure. Send us your requests for next week! Until then ... stay positive.

Shoeless

FREEEEEBIIIIIIIIIRRRD!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - Back-To-School / Play Some Skynyrd!

Intro
Fleetwood Mac - Cold Black Night / Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Blind Willie McTell - Three Women Blues [for Uncle Milo ... missed you this week!]
Left Lane Cruiser - Big Momma / Bring Yo' Ass To the Table
Magic Sam - You Don't Have To Work / All Your Love
The Allman Brothers Band - It's Not My Cross To Bear / The Allman Brothers Band [for Pappy Mahan]
The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post / The Allman Brothers Band [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Clutch - Electric Worry / From Beale Street To Oblivion [for Chandler ... haha]
Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You, Baby / So Many Roads: Live In Concert
Eric Clapton - Walkin' Blues / Unplugged
Bo Carter - My Pencil Won't Write No More / Banana In Your Fruit Basket
Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song / Led Zeppelin II

Second Break

Ida Cox - How Can I Miss You When I've Got Dead Aim? / Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3
Ethel Waters - My Handy Man
Jeff Beck Group - I Ain't Superstitious / Truth
Magic Slim - Make My Dreams Come True / Grand Slam
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Four Walls of Raiford (undubbed demo) / Lynyrd Skynyrd (Box Set)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Things Goin' On / Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Whiskey Rock-a-Roller (Live) / One More From the Road

Third Break

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ain't No Good Life / Street Survivors
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Cheatin' Woman / Nuthin' Fancy
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Mr. Banker / Legend
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Bad Boys Blues / Skynyrd Collectybles

"Encore":
Etta James - All I Could Do Was Cry / At Last!

Pardon Our Progress

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Thanks,

The Management

Greatest Hits, Volume I

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - B-Sides and Fan Favorites

Intro
Lynyrd Skynyrd - T For Texas (Live) / One More From the Road
Howlin' Wolf - Highway 49 / The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions
T-Bone Walker - How Long Blues / T-Bone Blues [Atlantic]
Son House - Preachin' Blues / The Original Delta Blues

First Break

Etta James - Don't Cry Baby / The Definitive Etta James Collection
Bo Diddley - Pretty Thing / Bo Diddley [1959]
Cream - Rollin' and Tumblin' / Fresh Cream
Hound Dog Taylor - Blue Guitar / Genuine Houserocking Music
John Lee Hooker - Trick Bag (Shoppin' For My Tombstone) / Boom Boom [for Tim]
Bobby Bland - This Time I'm Gone For Good / Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But the Blues)
Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra - Big Ten-Inch Record

Second Break

Will Hoge - July Moon / The Man Who Killed Love
Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You / Led Zeppelin III
The White Stripes - Ball and Biscuit / Elephant
The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down / The White Stripes
Love Sculpture - 3 O'Clock Blues / Blues Helping

Third Break

B.B. King - Baby Get Lost / Blues Is King
Floyd Dixon - Baby Let's Go Down To the Woods
Johnny Shines - Little Wolf
Buddy Guy - Did Somebody Make a Fool Out of You / Heavy Love
AC/DC - The Jack / High Voltage

Second Shift

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - Music For the Undead

[Disclaimer: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLUES.]

As you may know, the shift after ours is what we call the "graveyard shift": four hours (2-6 AM) of regular rotation music manned by one of the newbies at the stations (who we have very cleverly dubbed "graveyarders"). Long story short, the graveyarder after us was going out of town and no one could cover for him, so I offered to stay, the reason being this: any veteran (i.e. non-graveyarder) DJ who covers a graveyard shift can use it as an opportunity to "free-form;" that is, play whatever he or she wants, more or less. So, armed to the teeth with vinyl and my iPod, I did just that. For those of you who stayed with me midnight to six, I truly appreciate it. Driving home as the sun came up was quite an experience. Here's the set:

2-3 AM:
Queens of the Stone Age - God Is In the Radio / Songs For the Deaf
The Mars Volta - Cygnus ... Vismund Cygnus / Frances the Mute
Magnetic Fields - Old Fools / Distortion [for Uncle Milo]
Augustus Pablo - Braces Tower Dub / King Tubbys Meets the Rockers Uptown
Isis - Backlit / Panopticon
Minus the Bear - White Mystery / Planet of Ice
mewithoutYou - Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt / [A->B] Life
Dungen - Familj / Tio Bitar
Be Your Own Pet - Super Soaked / Get Awkward
Leaf Hound - Freelance Fiend / Growers of Mushroom
Pentagram - When the Screams Come / First Daze Here Too

3-4 AM:
Torche - Tarpit Carnivore / In Return
Black Sabbath - Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots / Paranoid
The Swans - Failure / White Light In the Mouth of Infinity [for Uncle Milo]
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs / Bridge of Sighs
Poison the Well - Letter Thing / Versions
OutKast - Slum Beautiful / Stankonia
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion / Show Your Bones
Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well: IV - The Final Cut / Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
He Is Legend - The Widow of Magnolia / Suck Out the Poison [cc <3]
Jay Reatard - Fluorescent Grey / Jay Reatard/Deerhunter Split 7" [by request]
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges / Evil Urges
Corrosion of Conformity - Dirty Hands Empty Pockets/Already Gone / In the Arms of God
Say Anything - The Writhing South / ... Is a Real Boy

4-5 AM:
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake / Ashes of the Wake
The Ocean - The City In the Sea / Aeolian
Every Time I Die - Off Broadway / Hot Damn!
Protest the Hero - Bone Marrow / Fortress
Norma Jean - Death of the Anti-Mother / The Anti-Mother
Between the Buried and Me - Ants of the Sky / Colors
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Destro's Secret / Calculating Infinity [by request]
The Showdown - From the Mouth of Gath Comes Terror / A Chorus of Obliteration
A Life Once Lost - A Rush and Siege / Hunter
The Handshake Murders - New Enemy / Usurper

5-6 AM:
Mastodon - Circle of Cysquatch / Blood Mountain
Every Time I Die - Rendez-Voodoo / The Big Dirty
Black Label Society - Suffering Overdue / The Blessed Hellride
Down - Bury Me In Smoke / NOLA
Queens of the Stone Age - Walkin' On the Sidewalks / Queens of the Stone Age
The Black Crowes - Sometimes Salvation / The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Masters of Reality - Rabbit One / Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Mark Lanegan - Creeping Coastline of Lights / I'll Take Care of You
The Allman Brothers Band - Stormy Monday / At Fillmore East
Frank Sinatra - That's Life / That's Life
Patsy Cline - Does Your Heart Beat For Me / The Patsy Cline Collection
Portishead - Glory Box / Dummy

If you dug what I was playing, then you should check out some of the other great shows on WRAS:

Under a Rock (all things riffy) - Saturdays, 3-5 PM [website]
We're Not Gonna Take It (METAL) - Mondays, 10 PM - 12 midnight [website]

Good times, good tunes, good people ... one love.

Shoeless

Fully Staffed ... FINALLY!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - Back In Action

Intro
The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (Live) / Eat a Peach
R.L. Burnside - Goin' Down South / First Recordings [for Uncle Milo]
ZZ Top - Jesus Just Left Chicago / Tres Hombres [Cliff's Pick]
B.B. King - Worry, Worry, Worry / Live In Cook County Jail

First Break

Blind Blake - Police Dog Blues [for Brittany and Nick]
Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man / Electric Mud [for Drew]
Left Lane Cruiser - Amy's In the Kitchen / Bring Yo' Ass To the Table
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers - Phillips' Theme (Live) / Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers (Deluxe Edition)
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Crossroads (Live at the Fox) / One More From the Road

Second Break

StoneRider - Ramble Down / Three Legs of Trouble
Freddie King - Big Legged Woman / King of the Blues
Little Richard - Send Me Some Lovin' / Long Tall Sally
Elmore James - Something Inside Me
Buddy Guy - Leave My Girl Alone / Stone Crazy
T-Model Ford - The Old Number / You Better Keep Still
John Lee Hooker - Queen Bee / Original Folk Blues

Third Break

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile Blues / Blues [for Pappy Mahan]
Jimmy Rogers - She Loves Another Man
Otis Rush - She's a Good 'Un
Albert Collins - Baby What You Want Me To Do / Alive and Cool
J.B. Hutto - Angel Face / Pet Cream Man

Last Train Home

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - Return of the Blind Guy (read: PARTY)

Intro
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Double Trouble / Gimme Back My Bullets [ode to the Crossroads hosts]
Honeyboy Edwards - Sweet Home Chicago / Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen [for Uncle Milo]
B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get / Live In Cook County Jail
ZZ Top - Thunderbird / Fandango! [for Drew]
Son House - John the Revelator [Cliff's Pick]
Howlin' Wolf - Sittin' On Top of the World / London Sessions
Buster Benton - Born With the Blues / Spider In My Stew [for Brian]

First Break

Blind Boy Fuller - Mama Let Me Lay It On You [from Blind to Laine <3]
Champion Jack Dupree - Cabbage Greens / Junker's Blues
Chuck Berry - No Money Down
Bukka White - Where Can I Change My Clothes
Johnny Winter - Forty-Four / The Progressive Blues Experiment [for Dave]
Magic Sam - Everything Gonna Be Alright
The Doors - Cars Hiss By My Window / L.A. Woman
Eagles of Death Metal - Bag O' Miracles / Death By Sexy

Second Break

Kim Wilson - Lookin' For Trouble, Pt. II / Lookin' For Trouble [for Tracy]
Marva Wright - Bluesiana Mama / Bluesiana Mama: Queen of the Blues [for Milo, because we love him]
Louis Jordan - I'm Gonna Move To the Outskirts of Town / Caldonia
Taj Mahal - Fishin' Blues / Giant Step
Muddy Waters - Soon Forgotten
Jeff Beck Group - Blues De Luxe / Truth

Third Break

The White Stripes - Little Bird / De Stijl
Tom Waits - Filipino Box Spring Hog / Mule Variations
Eddie Boyd - Got Me Seein' Double
Jimi Hendrix - Bleeding Heart / Bleeding Heart