Mildly Wild (or Wildly Mild)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - Things Are Not Always What They Seem

I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to get to play a thrash metal band on a blues show. Here at the Crossroads, we're breaking down barriers every week ... haha. Here's the set:

Intro
Fenton Robinson - Texas Flood / Somebody Loan Me a Dime
Robert Cray - Sleeping In the Ground / Who's Been Talkin'?
Slim Harpo - Blues Hang-over / I'm a King Bee: The Early Swamp Blues Classics
Eddie Boyd - Blue Monday Blues / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Danny Glover - Goin' Down Slow / Honeydripper (OST)
The Allman Brothers Band - Jelly Jelly / Brothers and Sisters [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Son Seals - Last Night / Live and Burning
Leadbelly - What Can I Do To Change Your Mind? / Recorded In Concert, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, June 15, 1949
Albert King - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven / Lovejoy
Freddie King - Help Me Through the Day / The Best of Freddie King
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Stormy Monday Blues / Ask Me 'Bout Nothing (But the Blues) [for Elrod]
Wyonie Harris - I Gotta Lyin' Woman / Around the Clock Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some of Your Pie / Get Your Ya Yas Out

Second Break

Mance Lipscomb - Baby Don't You Lay It On Me / You'll Never Find Another Man Like Mance
Willie Williams - .38 Woman / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Burning Plague - Life Is Nonsense / Burning Plague
Chick Willis - Something To Remember You By / Stoop Down Baby ... Let Your Daddy See
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Black Snake Moan / Black Snake Moan
The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down (Live on BBC Radio 1, Evening Session) / B-Sides Collection

Third Break

Peppermint Harris - Sinner's Prayer / Being Black Twice
Buster Benton - Money Is the Name of the Game / Jewel Spotlights the Blues, Volume 2
L.C. McKinley - Sharpest Man In Town / "Nit Wit" Single (1959)
Bob "Catfish" Hodge - Tradition / Get Down
Muddy Waters - She's Nineteen Years Old / The Anthology 1947-1972
Little Milton - Losin' Hand / Welcome To the Club
Elvis Presley - Baby What You Want Me To Do (Live) / Live in Las Vegas
GWAR - Don't Need a Man / Carnival of Chaos [for Jeff ... AWESOME]

(Yes, you read that correctly ... GWAR. As in these guys:)















Hope you enjoyed yourselves. Always a pleasure spending time with you ladies and gents. Until next week ... stay positive.

Shoeless

To Our Pappy

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - Saying Goodbye (Both To a Legend and the Recession Blues)

I hadn't originally intended the exact set that was played last night, for obvious reasons. The only "theme" I had at all was playing a few songs about money and/or the economy, and that wasn't even enough to fill the whole first set; therefore, we were just playing the blues after that. Not long before we went on the air, however, Scarlett O'Sara gave wind of the passing of Pappy Mahan's pappy, and I figured that as loyal as he's been to the Crossroads, we should be loyal right back. Almost the entire third set is dedicated to Grandpappy Mahan, lover of the hillbilly blues. Here's the set:

Intro
Bob "Catfish" Hodge - 300-Pound Fat Mama / Get Down
The White Stripes - Little Room / White Blood Cells
B.B. King - Recession Blues / King of the Blues
Buddy Guy - Money / A Man and the Blues
Furry Lewis and Frank Stokes - I Will Turn Your Money Green / Beale Street Blues
Jimmy Cotton - There Must Be a Panic On / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and Allison Krauss - Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby / O Brother, Where Art Thou? OST
Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign / Born Under a Bad Sign [Cliff's Pick]

First Break

Ike and Tina Turner - I Smell Trouble (Live) / Sing the Blues
Leadbelly - Alberta / Alabama Bound
Otha Turner - Station Blues / From Senegal To Senatobia
Fenton Robinson - Directly From My Heart To You / Somebody Loan Me a Dime
AC/DC - Go Down / Let There Be Rock

Second Break

[The following six tracks are from the compilation Hillbilly Blues and are dedicated to the late, great Grandpappy Mahan ... rest in peace, brother.]
Norman Phelps' Virginia Rounders - Atlanta Blues
Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster - Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Jess Hillard - Doggone Them Blues
Nations Brothers - Bankhead Blues
Shelton Brothers with Curly Fox - I'm Sitting On Top of the World
Hartman's Heart Breakers - Give It To Me, Daddy
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Elvis Presley - Reconsider Baby / Reconsider Baby
Singin' Sam - My Story / Meat and Gravy From Bea and Baby
Bo Diddley - I Am Looking For a Woman / Bo Diddley's a Roadrunner

Third Break

Elmo Williams and Hezekiah Early - Hoopin' and Hollerin' / Takes One To Know One
Blues Queen Sylvia - Can't Get Along / Midnight Baby
Cream - Spoonful (Live at the Fillmore) / Wheels of Fire

Thanks for all the calls this week! By the way, the beverage I couldn't mention on-air was a Dr. Pepper (of the 52 0z. fountain variety from QuikTrip) ... fun fact. If you take one thing away from this week's show, let it be us reminding you to enjoy life while you've got it - you never know when your show will end. Rest in peace, Grandpappy

Until next week, stay positive.

Shoeless

The Bird's the Word

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - "Was that the Black Lips you just played ... ?"

I'll keep it brief: thanks for letting us have so much fun week in and week out. We love you guys. Here's the set:

Intro
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird / Surfin' Bird
Buddy Guy - First Time I Met the Blues / First Time I Met the Blues
Algia Mae Hinton - Going Down This Road / Honey Babe
Big Joe Williams - Stack O' Dollars / Baby Please Don't Go
Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan - Ask Me No Questions / In Session [Cliff's Pick]
Otis Spann - I Came From Clarksdale / The Blues of Otis Spann

First Break

The Black Keys - The Breaks/Run Me Down / The Big Come Up [for Million Mile Matt]
Henry Thomas - Old Country Stomp / Ragtime Texas: Complete Recorded Works 1927 to 1929
The Allman Brothers Band - It's Not My Cross To Bear / The Allman Brothers Band [from Elrod to Stephanie]
Robert Cray - If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' / Who's Been Talkin' [for Chuck]
Muddy Waters - The Same Thing / Electric Mud

Second Break

Brownie McGhee - Million Lonesome Women / The Complete Brownie McGhee
Steppenwolf - Hoochie Coochie Man / Steppenwolf
Mercy Dee Walton - After the Fight / A Pity and a Shame
Howlin' Wolf - Streamline Woman / The Wolf
Janis Joplin - Maybe / Greatest Hits (1973) [for Pappy Mahan]
Sonny Boy Williamson - Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / The Essential Sonny Boy Williamson
Victoria Spivey - Dirty TB Blues / Moaning the Blues
Five Horse Johnson - Hollerin' / The No. 6 Dance

Third Break

Peg Leg Howell - Broke and Hungry Blues
The White Stripes - Sugar Never Tasted So Good / The White Stripes
Whispering Smith - Mojo Hand / Over Easy
John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat - Whiskey & Wimmin /Hooker 'n Heat
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Red House (Extended Version) / Blues Giants: The Essential Songbook

Send us your requests for next week! With the cold coming on, it's high time for the blues. Until we meet again at the Crossroads, my friends, stay positive.

Shoeless