Playlist for 8/20/10: Why is there a deer in my beer again?

It was the big I Love My Label tribute to Specialty Records this week. Legendary music awaits ... Check out owner Art Rupe's storied Speciality discography and more here.

Download or stream the August 20 show right here.

Rocker - Nick Curran And The Lowlifes - Reform School Girl
I Love My Label - Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool
Hip Hop Thighs #16 - Ike Reilly - Poison The Hit Parade
Marie Marie - Dave Alvin And The Guilty Women - Dave Alvin And The Guilty Women
USA - The Breakaways - Walking Out On Love: The Lost Sessions
Paper Words And Lies - Tommy Keene - You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983 - 2009

Straight A's in Love - South Filthy - Undertakin' Daddy
Rockabilly Fever - Bad Lupo Grande - Scion A/V Garage: Bad Lupo Grande
(Do The) Triple Crown - The Baseball Project - Broadside Ballads
Elvis You're A G.I. Now - Nervous Norvus - Stone Age Woo: The Zorch Sounds Of Nervous Norvus

Zorch (Austin, Texas) interview

Count The Days 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 - Stephanie Finch And The Company Men - Cry Tomorrow
Meet Me At Mary's Place - The Mighty Hannibal - Hannibalism!
Thank you Time Girl - The Hungry Moment - Phantom 45
Sounds Like a Shimmy - Limes - Rhinestone River

Local Lunchbox
Sacky Sack - Uptown Savages - Crazy, Crazy, Crazy
Bottle to Your Daddy - Uptown Savages - Rocket Drivin' Daddy
Wine - Uptown Savages - Demo
Bad Motorcyle - Uptown Savages - Crazy, Crazy, Crazy

Hop, Skip, Jump - Roy Milton & His Solid Senders - The Specialty Story
Drunk - Jimmy Liggins & His 3-D-Music - The Specialty Story
I Wonder Who's Boogin' My Woogie - King Perry - Specialty Legends Of Jump Blues, Volume 1
Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - The Specialty Story
Strange Things Happening - Percy Mayfield - The Specialty Story

Tutti Frutti - Little Richard - The Specialty Story
I Got It - Little Richard - the Specialty Sessions
Rip It Up - Little Richard - The Specialty Story
I'm Just A Lonely Guy - Little Richard - The Cosimo Matassa Story
Bama Lama Bama Loo - Little Richard - The Specialty Story

Something's Going On In My Room - Daddy Cleanhead - The Specialty Story
Please Mr. Jailer - Wynona Carr - Jump Jack Jump!
Hole in the Wall - Floyd Dixon - Marshall Texas Is My Home
Nite Owl - Tony Allen & The Champs - Under the Lamplight

Jungle Hop - Don & Dewey - Jungle Hop
Ding Dong Baby - Marvin & Johnny - Flipped Out
She Said Yeah Larry Williams Bad Boy
Dizzy, Miss Lizzy - Larry Williams - The Specialty Story
Little School Girl - Larry Williams - Bad Boy
Justine - Don & Dewey - Jungle Hop

There's A Moose On The Loose - Roddy Jackson - The Specialty Story
Sack - Ben Hughes - Specialty Rock 'n' Roll Fever
Lights Out - Jerry Byrne - The Specialty Story
I Ate The Wrong Part - Little Temple & His "88" - The Specialty Story

Louisiana - Percy Mayfield - Creole Kings Of New Orleans
Just Hold My Hand - Big Boy Myles & The Sha-Weez - The Cosimo Matassa Story
Where You At - Lloyd Price - Creole Kings Of New Orleans
Rock'n'Roll Dance - Lloyd Price - The Cosimo Matassa Story
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price - The Specialty Story
I'm Your Best Bet Baby Earl King The Specialty Story

Build Myself A Cave - John Lee Hooker - Graveyard Blues
Bloodstains On The Wall - Honey Boy - The Specialty Story
The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim - Sufferin' Mind
One Room Country Shack - Mercy Dee Walton - The Specialty Story

Touch The Hem Of His Garment - The Soul Stirrers (With Sam Cooke)- The Specialty Story
99 And A Half Won't Do - Dorothy Love Coates

Playlist for 8/13/10: Monkey Lessons Needed

Hoped to promote widespread wiggling with the opening theme this week. Sorry to disappoint anyone aching to do the Slop, the Hully Gully, the Watusi, the Hunch, or the Dirty Hickup (might have made that last one up). Next time. For the fourth week running, I started the show with a song from the storied vaults of Specialty Records, which will get the I Love My Label treatment next week. Miriam from Norton Records e-mailed me the awesome You Tube Badger A Go-Go link featuring an enthusiastic Oshkette doing the wild dairy shuffle circa 1966. The A-Bones provide the soundtrack.

Download or stream the August 13 show right here.

Cherokee Dance - Bob Landers With Willie Joe And His Unitar - The Specialty Story
Hillbilly Twist - Hardrock Gunter - I'll Give 'Em Rhythm
Do The Chicken (Dance With You) - Rosco Gordon - Rockin' Memphis
Dance To The Bop - Gene Rambo And The Flames - Kicksville, Vol. 4
Mom, Won't You Teach Me To Monkey - Little Emmett Sutton - R&B Hipshakers: Teach Me To Monkey

The Kids Just Wanna Dance - Fast Cars - Power Pop, Vol.3
Do The Do - The Senders - Outrageous & Contagious
Love's The Thing - The Romancers (aka The Smoke Rings) - Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
Friday At The Hideout - The Underdogs - Friday At The Hideout: Boss Detroit Garage 1964-67

Colors Of Night - Peter Case - Wig!
Dizzy Miss Lizzy - The Plimsouls - Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal
One More Heartache - The Plimsouls - One Night In America
One Way Ticket - The Nerves - One Way Ticket
It's Hot Outside - The Nerves - One Way Ticket

Debtor's Prison - The Candy Snatchers - Down At Delilah's
Hombre Lobo - Los Explosivos - Los Explosivos
Nice Legs Shame About The Face - The Titty Twisters Orchestra - Gorf Pow Bang Tump!
Boilermaker - The Mullens - It's Hard to Imagine
Run Away From You - The Mullens - It's Hard to Imagine

Local Lunchbox
What's a Girl To Do - Sugar Stems - Sweet Sounds Of
Wake Up - Sugar Stems - Sweet Sounds Of
You're So Fine - Sugar Stems - Sweet Sounds Of
Little Girl - Sugar Stems - Sweet Sounds Of

Black Velvet Elvis - Carnival Season - Misguided Promise: Carnival Season Complete (1984-89)
Kill Your Sons - Tommy Keene - You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983 - 2009
So Much - The Windbreakers - Oxford American 11th Edition Southern Music 2009
The Great Kissoff - Think as Incas - Palestine One Mile
Teedy - Vulture Whale - S/T

Crybaby - New Heathens - Hello Disaster
Who's Heart Are You Breaking - Hacienda - Big Red And Barbacoa
Is Anybody Here - The Blue Shadows - On the Floor of Heaven - Deluxe Edition Reissue
Lost Case Of Bein' Found - Scott H. Biram - Preachin' and Hollerin'
I Would - Fred Eaglesmith - Cha Cha Cha

Nothing's Changed - Outrageous Cherry - Seemingly Solid Reality
Thank Us Later - Jaill - That's How We Burn
Bike + Stick - The Goodnight Loving - The Goodnight Loving Supper Club
You'll Own My Heart - Goodnight Loving - EP
Houston - The Big Bang - Johnny, The Dog And The Donkey

Before I'm Gone - The Spinns - Lost Colony
The Next Boy - The Satellites - Aliens, Psychos & Wild Things
Would You Wait for Me - The Bad Sports - Scion A/V Garage: Cheap Time / Bad Sports
I've Had Enough - Unknown - I've Had Enough: Unissued Sixties Garage Acetates, Vol. 4
She's a Tiger - The Ding Dongs - S/T

Thank Goodness Gotta Good Woman - Page One - Raw Soul: Rare and Unreleased Funk From Norfolk, Virginia, 1971-1973
I'm Glad You're Back - Gary "US" Bonds Blame It On The Dogg: The Swamp Dogg Anthology 1968-1978
I Won't Have to Cry No More - William Bollinger - Steppin' Stone: The Sounds of Memphis/XL Story, Vol. 3
My Baby Ain't No Plaything - The New Holidays - Westbound Detroit Northern Soul
A Change Is Going to Come - Baby Huey - The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend

Bed music: The Ventures - Knock Me Out

Playlist for 4/30/2010: Get Hip

Pittsburgh's legendary Get Hip Records got the I Love My Label treatment on the show Friday. It was incredibly fun to spin nearly three hours of the label's deep offerings of garage, punk, pop, surf and more. Barbara Garcia-Bernardo, Vice President of Get Hip and wife of founder Gregg Kostelich of The Cynics, was even nice enough to do a Q&A with me, which you can find on WMSE's Sonic Diet blog. The prolific (and incredibly nice) Jack Rice, bassist for the Blow Pops, also stopped by to talk about his band's time on Get Hip, being huge in Finland and the pitfalls of drinking with Paul Collins.

Download or stream the show right here.

You've Been Told - The M-80's -7"
Thought You Left - The Mullens - S/T
Black Girl - The Paybacks - Knock Loud
Melvin - Thee Headcoatees - Girlsville
One Ugly Child - Thee Headcoats - W.O.A.H!-Bo In Thee Garage
What I'm After - The M-80's -7"

Weird Beird - Sir Finks - (Tres Mexicanos) Del Sur de Texas
Ten Dollars - The Subsonics - Follow Me Down
She Got Off - The Bamboo Kids - S/T
Flip, Flop & Fly - '68 Comeback - 7"
Country Man - Gore Gore Girls - Strange Girls
She Said Yeah - The A-Bones - Daddy Wants a Cold Beer

No Way - The Cynics - Blue Train Station
Creepin'- The Cynics - Twelve Flights Up
Making Deals - The Cynics - Living Is the Best Revenge
Girl You're On My Mind - The Cynics - Rock N Roll
Hand in Hand - The Cynics - Get Our Way

Three Times Around - The Resonars - Nonetheless Blue
As the Stars Fade Away - Rainy Day Saints - Reflected
Follow The Shining Path - Donovan's Brain - Carelessly Restored Art

Local Lunchbox
Jack Rice interview
Tuesday Morning - The Blow Pops - Charmed I'm Sure
My Carrie - The Blow Pops - 7"
She's a Runner - The Blow Pops - American Beauties
Jack Rice interview
Spin, Spin 45 - The Blow Pops - Charmed I'm Sure

Robin Zander - The Breakup Society - James at 35
Paco & Juan - Paul Collins - Flying High
Here We Are - The Cynics - Here We Are
Ain't That Old - The Ugly Beats - Take a Stand

Headed for a Change - New Salem Witch Hunters - Grass is Always Greener
Speed - Creatures Of The Golden Dawn - An Incident At Owl Creek Bridge
Shattered - Freddy And The Fourgone Conclusions - Wigged Out Sounds
She'a Blowout -Fortune & Maltese - Konquer Kampus

Hey Guys (Thanks For Believing In Me) - The Chargers Street Gang - Holy The Bop Apocalypse
Can't Dig It - Mondo Topless - Take It Slow
I'm Weak - New Bomb Turks - 7"
You Don't Know - The Miracle Workers - Moxie's Revenge
Maui Confidential - Deep Reduction - 2
Fractured - Electric Frankenstein - Spare Parts

Ya No Puedes Escapar - Los Explosivos - S/T
Dirty Old Man - Os Haxixins - S/T
Cat Got Your Tongue - High School Sweathearts - Passing Notes
Her Blues - M-80's - In a Fury
Waitin' on the Jury - The Mullens - Tough to Tell

Red Eye - DT's - Filthy Habits
Nothing Left Behind - The Chains - On Top of Things
Pay Day - Kravin' A's - Krave On
The Born Losers Theme - Davie Allan & The Arrows - 7"
Lower Expectations - The Breakup Society - Nobody Like a Winner
Boots - Sir Fink - (Tres Mexicanos) Del Sur de Texas

12/09/09 playlist: Go to Rhino Records

I finally got around to doing another I Love My Label spotlight this week. L.A.’s Rhino Records got the - full show salute this time. I brought in a crate and backpack full of Rhino releases and had a ton of stuff I didn’t get to. The label’s output over the last 30+ years has been amazing; let’s hope it does indeed have a future beyond download-only releases. For interesting reading on the history of Rhino Records and a discography, go here.

Download or stream the show right here.

And don't forget to donate to WMSE during the 15-hour marathon (chock full of excellent themed programming!) going on today (12/11)until 9 p.m.

There's Trouble Brewin' - Jack Scott – The Best of Cool Yule
Careless Santa - Mono Puff - Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Xmas
Be Bop Santa Claus - Babs Gonzales - Hipster's Holiday
Christmas in Jail - The Youngsters - Bummed Out Christmas!
Christmas Blues - Canned Heat - Blue Yule: Christmas Blues and R&B Classics
Silver Bells - Booker. T & The MG's – The Original Soul Christmas

The Swag - Link Wray - Rumble! The Best Of Link Wray
I'm a Man - The Yardbirds – Ultimate!
Try It - The Standells - The Best of The Standells
No Way Out - Chocolate Watch Band - The Best of the Chocolate Watch Band
Woolly Bully – Love – Forever Changes (reissue)

Spasms - Little Willie John – Fever: The Best of Little Willie John
Bloodshot Eyes - Wynonie Harris – Bloodshot Eyes: The Best of Wynonie Harris
Tore Up Over You - Hank Ballard and the Midnighters - Sexy Ways: The Best of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
Down in the Alley - The Clovers – The Best of the Clovers

Cast Iron Arm - Peanuts Wilson - Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly
Perkins' Wiggle - Carl Perkins - Original Sun Greatest Hits
Beaver Patrol - The Blazers – Cowabunga! The Surf Box
Dressed in Black - The Pussycats - Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another

Suburban Home - The Descendents - Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The '80s Underground
Louie, Louie - The Last – The Best of Louie, Louie
When You Smile - Dream Syndicate – Days of Wine and Roses (reissue)
Something to Remember Me By - Steve Wynn – Kerosene Man
White Folk's Blood - House of Freaks – Tantilla
On the Radio (For Ray Davies) - Chris Stamey - Fireworks

Twist & Shout - Mae West – Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing Off
Daytripper - Mae West – Golden Throats: Celebrities Butcher the Beatles
The International Elvis Impersonators Convention Side 1:
Hound Dog - Yankel Prestein
Heartbreak Hotel - Gunga Maharesley
Love Me Tender - Elvis Von Borman

Mr. Pharmacist - The Other Half - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Boyce & Hart - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
Farmer John - The Premiers - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
Can't Seem to Make you Mine - The Seeds - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
You Burn Me Up & Down - We The People - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

Hey Senorita - The Penguins – Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2
Right Around the Corner - 5 Royales - Monkey Hips And Rice: The "5" Royales Anthology
Maybe - The Chantels - Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3
Nothing But a Heartache – Flirtations - Beg, Scream & Shout: '60s Soul

Wishful Thinking - Wynn Stewart - Hillbilly Fever - Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
Love Bug - George Jones - Best Of
Promised Land - Johnnie Allan - Alligator Stomp, Vol. 1
Nitty Gritty - Shirley Ellis - Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration!
Nuki Suki - Little Richard - What It Is! Funky Soul & Rare Grooves: 1967-1977
Feast of the Mau Mau - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Voodoo Jive: The Best of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
She Ain't Got No Hair - Professor Longhair – Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge

Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric - D.I.Y. Teenage Kicks - UK Pop, Vol. 1
Baby It's You – Smith – Super Hits of The '70s: Have a Nice Day, Vol. 1
I Wish It Would Rain - The Faces – Five Guys Walk Into a Bar …

Elenore - The Turtles – 20 Greatest Hits
Raw - Big Daddy Kane - Kurtis Blow Presents the History of Rap
Let It All Hang Out - Los Hombres - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

Playlist for 9/30/09: Merge Records: On the Mouth

I gave Merge Records the I Love My Label treatment this month in honor of the label’s 20th anniversary. My theme to start to the show was covers of songs from the Merge catalog, beginning with what I believe to be the only Butterglory cover in recorded history. The Merge catalog is as massive as it is impressive, with more than 350 releases since 1989. There is a lot I missed, of course, but that’s always the case with my I Love My Label segments. I did an hour-long Merge tribute over the summer in honor of the big, reunion-heavy Merge XX show, so I avoided repeats for the most part.

If you’re looking for information on Merge, there’s an overwhelming amount out there. The new book on Algonquin about the label, Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, has its own Web site, and it’s very much worth checking out, including a well-done timeline. Coming soon is The Merge Records Companion: A Visual Discography of the First 20 Years. The North Carolina Triangle’s Independent Weekly did a tremendous spread on the label in July, with period overviews, a top 20 list, a discography, and “Where Are They Now” features on the likes of Richard Buckner, Pure and Ashley Stove (all three of which I managed to skip over somehow, Part 2 for sure, I guess). Here’s another perspective on Merge’s best, a mid-1990s interview with Superchunk from Option magazine, and NPR’s nicely put together “American Indie: 20 Years Of Merge Records.”

Download or stream the show right here.

Waiting on the Guns - The Wedding Present - Singles 1995-1997 (Cooking Vinyl)
Through With People - Barbara Manning - Score: 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! (Merge)
Beatnik- Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers (What's Your Rupture)
No One Will Ever Love You - Sarah Borges - The Stars Are Out (Sugar Hill)
Driveway to Driveway - Two Dollar Pistols - Songs for Sixty Five Roses (Self-released)

I Got the Bomb - The Shazam - Meteor (New Boss Sounds)
Treat Her Right - Muck & The Mires - Hypnotic (Dirty Water)
Hole in My Head - Box Elders - Alice & Friends (Goner)
Hey Boy - Magic Kids - Single (Goner)

Everybody Knows - Scotland Barr & the Slow Drags - We Will Be Forgotten (Self-released)
The Way It Used to Be - The Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward (Bloodshot)
Good as the Cat - Paul Westerberg - PW & the Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys (Dry Wood)
Poetry of the Deed - Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed (Epitaph)

All Your Secrets - Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs (Matador)
Sugar & Spice - Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Yep Roc)

I Love My Label: Merge Records, Chapel Hill, NC
7” Six-Pack
Seed Toss – Superchunk
On the Mouth – Superchunk
100,000 Fireflies – Superchunk
Who Needs Light – Superchunk
Watery Hands – Superchunk
Blinders (fast version) – Superchunk

Bullet Train to Vegas - Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime reissue (Swami)
Favorite Dirty Flavor - Pipe - Slowboy
The Curtain Remembers - Polvo - Cor-Crane Secret
Tourettes - Breadwinner - Burner

Beautiful Thing - The 3D's - Venus Trail
Anything Could Happen - The Clean - Anthology
Tensile - The Clean - Mr. Pop
Blue Sky - David Kilgour - Frozen Orange

My Face Your Ass - Lambchop - Thriller
Alll My Love - American Music Club - The Golden Age
Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of the Country
Don't Know Why You Stay - The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea

Me and the Bean - Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Dancing Girls and Dancing Men - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
Born Under a Good Sign - Teenage Fanclub - Man Made
Back to Boston – The Rosebuds - Make Out
Down in the Valley - The Broken West – I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old - Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Bring on the Loser -East River Pipe - Poor Fricky
Holland 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Crown of Love - Arcade Fire - Funeral

I Wanna Know Girls - Portastatic - Bright Ideas
My Noise - Superchunk - Tossing Seeds

Playlist for 8/26/09: Norton Records, The World's Greatest Sinners

New York City’s legendary Norton Records got the I Love My Label treatment this month. For the first time, I dedicated a whole show to one label, and with a catalog like this (look for the link at the top), Norton truly deserves much more than that. I did sets dedicated to the new I Still Hate CD’s Vol. 2 digital-only comp, the 5-LP Benny Joy retrospective, the A-Bones, who have their first new album out in over a decade, and the one-and-only Hasil Adkins, who I appropriately began and ended the show with.
Regrets? I didn’t play nearly enough Link Wray, Andre Williams was recognized only through a Church Keys sample, and I left out T. Valentine, the Flamin’ Groovies and Doug Sahm. There will be a next time. Perhaps when Norton turns 25 in 2011.
For a great interview with Norton co-founder Billy Miller, look here. Miriam Linna, the other half of the Norton dynasty, Miller’s wife and A-Bones drummer, has an excellent blog, Kicksville 66, detailing her wild and wacky experiences after landing in New York City from Ohio in the mid-1970s. Norton also has its own blog and has begun a podcast. Need more Norton? The Hound has great and nutty unreleased Hasil Adkins recordings, here’s the latest news about Norton releases, here’s another interview with Billy Miller from 1996 (I think) that’s interesting despite being apostrophe-free, and check out an interview with the Haze from 1995. Finally, big thanks to Miriam for the extras she put in my recent order after I told her about the show.

Download or stream it right here.

I Love My Label special - Norton Records, New York, NY

The Hunch - Hasil Adkins - Out to Hunch
The Rock-Around - Esquerita - Vintage Voola
Born Bad - Jack Starr - Born Petrified
Drag Strip - The Fender Benders - Some Kinda Nut
Go Go Ferrari - Untamed Youth - Untamed Melodies
Wild Guitar Trailer - Arch Hall Jr. & The Archers - Wild Guitar

I Still Hate CD's: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection, Vol. 2
Go Go Go - Del Tinos
Let's Dance - The Excels
Trick Bag - The Artesians
Study Hall - C.J. & The Casuals
Railroad Jag - The Jaguars

Vendetta - Link Wray - Hillbilly Wolf - Missing Links, Vol. 1
Ale Up - Church Keys - Work With It!
Feelin' Fine - The Alarm Clocks - The Time Has Come
Come on Up - The Jinx - Fort Worth Teen Scene, Vol. 1
Shortnin' Bread - The Ready Men - Get Ready

Gino is a Coward - Gino Washington - Out of This World
You Shouldn't Oughta Done it - Night Owls - The Rock-A-Round
Black Bottom Blues - King Coleman - It's Dance Time
Fishin' Pole - The Mighty Hannibal - Hannibalism
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7" Six-Pack
Congratulations I'm Sorry - King Khan
Voodoo Woman – Gene Maltais with the Flat Duo Jets
Witch – Stud Cole
A Certain Guy – Mary Weiss
Button Nose – Benny Joy
Rockin' Satellite – The A-Bones

A-Bones
She Sure Could Hypnotize – Not Now
Little Egypt – I Was a Teenage Zombie OST
World's Greatest Sinner – Daddy Wants a Cold Beer
Time Machine – The Life of Riley
Darlene – Free Beer for Life
Cat Nip – Not Now

Benny Joy
Wild Wild Lover - Crash The Party (The Benny Joy Story 1957-61, Vol. 1)
Rebel Rock - Wild Wild Lover (The Benny Joy Story 1957-61, Vol. 4)
Night Owl - Rollin' To The Jukebox Rock (The Benny Joy Story 1957-61, Vol. 2)
Don’t Boo Hoo Mary Lou - I'm Gonna Move (The Benny Joy Story 1957-61, Vol. 3)
Love Zone – Love Zone (The Benny Joy Story 1957-61, Vol. 5)

Wild Weekend - Jon & The Nightriders - Stampede!
Wild Little Willie - The Hesitations - Go! Go! Go! To Surfing School
Eaffin & Surfin' - Ron Haydock - 99 Chicks
Tight-Spot - Paul & The Four-Most - Wolf Call! Tall Cool Ones From the Vaults of Golden Crest
Peppermint Twist - King Uszniewicz & The Uszniewicztones - Twistin' and Bowlin'
Firewater - Premieres - Mad Mike Monsters, Vol. 3

Backseat Boogie - The Dictators – Everyday is Saturday
All Kindsa Girls – The Real Kids – S/T
You Get What You Deserve (live) – Big Star – Nobody Can Dance
Going to a Town - Flat Duo Jets - Introducing the Flat Duo Jets
Nobody Knows (But I Do) – Mary Weiss – Dangerous Game
Cockroach - Charlie Feathers – Wild Side of Life: Rare and Unissued Recordings, Vol. 1

Front Porch Entertainers – The Hentchmen – Three Times Infinity
Why Not Knock Yourself Off? - Figures of Light - Smash Hits!
Step it Up and Go - Rudy Ray Moore – Hully Gully Fever
Hot Lips and Swivel Hips - Gene Rambo & The Flames – Kicksville, Vol. 4

Hasil Adkins
Let’s Do Like We Done – Look at that Caveman Go!!
The Slop – Peanut Butter Rock and Roll
Chicken Flop – The Wild Man
She Said – Out to Hunch
A Fool in this Game – Moon Over Madison
Gonna Have Me a Yard Sale – Acky Breaky Ha Ha Ha

Playlist for 7-29: Hot Dog, it's Bloodshot

This month's I Love My Label was done in honor of Bloodshot Records, which turned 15 this year. A BBQ is planned for Aug. 22 (not 27 as I said on the show) at the High Noon Saloon for free. Also, there sure are a lot of great damn songs about hot dogs. That is all.


Listen here.

Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat) - Detroit Cobras - Baby (Bloodshot)
Hot Dog - The Four Shells - Complete Stax-Volt Singles 195901968 (Vol. 1) (Stax/Atlantic)
Hot Dog Dooley Wah - The Pyramids - Memories of the Time Square Record Shop, Vol. 1 (Collectables)
Hot Dog - Buck Owens - Young Buck: The Complete Pre-Capitol Recordings of Buck Owens (Audium/Koch)
No More Hot Dogs - Hasil Adkins - Out to Hunch (Norton)
At the Hot Dog Stand - The Castle Tones - MP3 (Firefly)

Clone - Meat Puppets - Sewn Together (Self-released)
No Way - Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)
Shellac the Bozac - Throneberry - Sangria (Alias)
Tonight You're Buying Me a Drink, Bub - The Minus 5 - Killingsworth (Yep Roc)

Love-Itis - Harvey Scales - Love-Itis (Soul-Tay-Shus)
Super Lover - Eddie Hinton - Dear Y'all: The Songwriting Sessions (Zane)
Go, Go Girl - Richard Berry & the Soul Searchers - Stompin' 33 (Stompin')
We Got to Slip Around - Bettye Lavette - Do Your Duty (Sundazed)

Summer (Of Our First Hello) - The Bigger Lovers - How I Learned to Stop Worrying (Black Dog)
The Present, Tense - The Rip Off Artists - Esque (Self-released)
Stereo - The Dipsomaniacs - Whatever Planet (Face Down)

I Love My Label (Bloodshot Records, Chicago)
My Old Drunk Friend - Freakwater - For a Life of Sin, Insurgent Country, Vol. 1
Little White Trash Boy - The Starkweathers - Hell-Bent, Insurgent Country, Vol. 2
Bottom of the Glass - Whiskeytown - Straight Outta Boone County
Roy - R.B. Morris - The Other Side of the Alley, Insurgent Country, Vol. 3

Victoria - Old 97's - Wreck Your Life
Liqour Store - Meat Purveyors - Someday Soon Things Will Be Much Worse
You've Got Some Cheating to Do - Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys - Your Favorite Fool
She Took a Lot of Pills and Died - Robbie Fulks - Country Love Songs
We've Never Met - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends - Furnance Room Lullaby

Red Door - The Waco Brothers - To the Last Dead Cowboy
White Lightning - The Waco Brothers - Cowboy in Flames
*It's Not Enough - The Waco Brothers - Electric Waco Chair
Do You Think About Me? - The Waco Brothers - Do You Think About Me?
Death of Country Music - The Waco Brothers - Live and Kickin' at Schubas Tavern
See Willy Fly By - Graham Parker & The Waco Brothers - Down to the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records
Johnson to Johnson - The Waco Brothers - New Deal

Get on The Bus - The Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward
Papa was a Rodeo - Kelly Hogan & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Beneath the Country Underdog
Amy - Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Flatchested Girl From Maynardville - Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminal's Starvation League - OK - I'm Sorry EP

Castanets - Alejandro Escovedo - A Man Under the Influence
Cold Comfort - Rico Bell & The Snake Handlers - Dark Side of the Mersey
Bottle & A Bible - The Yayhoos - Fear Not the Obvious
Cocktails - Robbie Fulks - 13 Hillbilly Giants
Porch Song - Trailer Bride - Smelling Salts

Wrong Woman - Devil in the Woodpile - Division Street
Route 23 - Wayne Hancock - A Town Blues
Union Man - Split Lip Rayfield - Should Have Seen it Coming
Little Sadie - The Sadies - Precious Moments

Sweet Potato - Gore Gore Girls - Get the Gore
Puppet on a String - The Detroit Cobras - Tied & True
People Who Died - Porter Hall TN - For a Decade of Sin: 11 Years of Bloodshot Records

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Zero Hour playlist for 6/10/09: Stax, It's What's for Dinner

A big, funky bucket of Stax was served this week as part of my I Love My Label segment, which spotlights assorted noteworthy independent labels. As I mentioned on the show, Stax is one of the great labels of all time, indie or otherwise, which is not all a new idea. It does, however, help indicate how difficult it is to sum up a label’s output, even in two hours time. Instead, I tried to give a bit of a Stax/Volt sampler, with perhaps more focus on the label’s early history. A Part 2 is certainly in order. Part 3 and 4, too. Well worth checking out, if you haven’t already, is the 2007 documentary on Stax, Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

Archives are here.


I Wish It Was Friday- Chuck Mead - Journeyman's Wager (Grassy Knoll)
I Don't Want the Night to End - Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool (Yep Roc)
Roll Your Own - Fabulous Poodles - Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town (Castle)
Still Love Rock And Roll - Ian Hunter - Old Records Never Die: The Anthology (Shout Factory)

Early in the Morning - Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - hERE aND nOW (Bar/None)
Stormy River - Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland (429)
The Crooked Line - Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane (Hear)
Slim Chance - Todd Snider - The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
Belle of the Bar - Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles - Live at WMSE, Vol. 9 (WMSE)

P.O. Box 9847 - Plexi 3 - Tides of Change (Certified PR)
Please Don't Come Around - Tommy Keene - In the Late Bright (Second Motion)
Awkward Kisser - Telekinesis - S/T (Merge)
Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn - Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador)

Teen Beast - Los Straitjackets - The Further Adventures (Yep Roc)
Rock 'Til The End Of Time - Little Johnny And The Silvertones - I Still Hate CD's: Norton Records 45 RPM Singles Collection (Norton)
Baptize Me in Wine - Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Screamin' the Blues (Red Lightnin)

7-inch Six-Pack/ I Love My Label – Stax, Memphis, Tenn.
Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays - 7"
Tramp - Otis & Carla - 7"
I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down - Sam & Dave - 7"
Gimme Some Good Soul Music - The Dramatics - 7"
The Best Years of My Life - Eddie Floyd - 7"
Lovin' On Borrowed Time - William Bell - 7"

I Can't Turn You Loose - Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Story - (Atlantic/Stax)
Don't Be Afraid of Love - Oscar Mack - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
Everybody Loves A Winner - William Bell - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
Biggest Fool In Town - Gorgeous George - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
I'll Bring It Home To You - Carla Thomas - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
Slow Train - The Staple Singers - Soul Folk In Action (Fantasy/Stax)

Can Your Monkey Do the Dog - Rufus Thomas - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
Mini-Skirt Minnie - Sir Mack Rice - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
Big Bird - Eddie Floyd - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)
Grits Ain't Groceries (All Around The World) - Little Milton - Grits Ain't Groceries (Fantasy/Stax)
Green Onions - Booker T. And The M.G.'s - Funky Broadway: Stax Revue Live At the 5/4 Ballroom (Fantasy/Stax)


Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone - Johnnie Taylor - Mojo Presents Stax Soul Power! (Mojo insert)
Don't Talk About Jody - Jean Knight - Mr. Big Stuff (Fantasy/Stax)
Weak Spot - Ruby Johnson - I'll Run Your Hurt Away (Fantasy/Stax)
Philly Dog - The Mar-Keys - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 (Atlantic/Stax)

A Gift For You - Eric Mercury - More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country (Trikont)
I Wish It Would Rain - O.B. McClinton - Stax Sings Songs of Motown Records (Concord/Stax)
I've Been Lonely For So Long - Frederick Knight - I've Been Lonely For So Long (Fantasy/Stax)
It Ain't Always What You Do (It's Who You Let See You Do It) - The Soul Children - Chronicle (Fantasy/Stax)
What's Good For You (Don't Have To be Good To You) - Harvey Scales - The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Volume 3: 1972-1975 (Fantasy/Stax)

Right On - Sons of Slum - The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Volume 3: 1972-1975 (Fantasy/Stax)
Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes - Shaft OST (Fantasy/Stax)
Sweetback's Theme - Melvin Van Peebles - The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Volume 2: 1968-1971 (Fantasy/Stax)
I'll Play The Blues For You [Live] - Albert King - Wattstax: the Living Word (Fantasy/Stax)

Since You've Been Gone - Eddie Floyd - Eddie Loves You So (Concord/Stax)
Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding - The Otis Redding Story (Atlantic/Volt)

Playlist for 5/13/09 - Mammoth Comes Alive

Big ‘ol load of songs from Mammoth Records this week for the I Love My Label segment. The late label just had a 21st anniversary party/reunion at the legendary Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC, the city where it originated in 1989. Rick Cornell’s cool article in the Independent Weekly looking at big and small sellers on the label inspired me to pick Mammoth this time around. Thanks, Rick. I ran out of time at the end and didn’t get in several songs I had planned on playing. Maybe I’ll spin them next week.

I mentioned last week about $5 Cover, the Memphis music fact and fiction show on MTV. You should also check out $5 Cover Amplified, where you can see nicely done documentaries about artists on the show, including Jack Yarber (aka Jack-O, aka Jack Obilivian) who cleans homes when he’s not keeping rock-and-roll alive.

Archives are here.

Mary Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip - Fugi - In Yo' Face! Roots Of Funk - Vol. 1/2 (Rhino)
Mary Lou - Ronnie Hawkins - The Best of Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks (Rhino)
Marry Crazy Mary - The Hi-Risers - Lost Weekend (Spinout)
Maryanne Lightly - The Insomniacs - Switched On! (Estrus)
Bloody Mary Morning - The Supersuckers - How The Supersuckers Became The Greatest Rock And Roll Band In The World (Sub Pop)

Out On The Natchez Trail - Chuck Mead - Journeyman's Wager (Grassy Knoll)
The Way You Can Get - The Gourds - Haymaker! (Yep Roc)
No Surrender - Two Cow Garage - Under the Influence, Vol. 9 (Suburban Home)
Loretta - Steve Earle - Townes (New West)
Frank's Tavern - Calexico - The Man of Somebody's Dreams: A Tribute to the Songs of Chris Gaffney (Yep Roc)

I Wanna Kill - The Crocodiles - Summer of Hate (Fat Possum)
Trouble in My Way - Vermillion Sands - In the Wood EP (Fat Possum)
Queen Bee - The Chatham Singers - Juju Claudius (Damaged Goods)
Sweet Thang - Jack-O & The Tennessee Tearjerkers - The Disco Outlaw (Goner)

Oddity - Pavement - Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition (Matador)
Castle Light - The Bats - The Guilty Office (Hidden Agenda) (Free download available here.)
A Heartbeat - Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (Carnival)

7-inch Six-Pack
Summertime Girls - Los Primos - 7" (SFTRI)
Our Goodman - The Workdogs - A Tribute to Sonny Boy Williamson 1899-1965 7" (SFTRI)
UFO UFO UFO - Rocket From the Crypt (Merge)
Tin Top Toy - The Fluid - 7" (Sub Pop)
Turnout - Seaweed - 7" (Sub Pop)
Now to War (electric version) - Guided by Voices - 7" (Matador)

I Love My Label (Mammoth Records, Carborro, N.C.)
The Red Wheelbarrow - A Picture Made - Past
A Visit to the Behaviorist - Blackgirls - Procedure
Old Black Crow – The Downsiders - All My Friends are Fish
Johnny Ace - Dash Rip Rock - Ace of Clubs

High in High School - The Chainsaw Kittens - Flipped Out in Singapore
One Light Shinin' - Finger - Frequency
The Jugular - Vanilla Trainwreck - Sofa Livin' Dreamazine
Give it to the Dog - Bandit Queen - Hormone Hotel

Easy Listening - Antenna - Hideout
Eleven - Velo-Deluxe - Superelastic.
Temptation Eyes - Blake Babies - Rosy Jack World
Everybody Loves Me But You - Juliana Hatfield - Gold Stars (Zoe)
Collapsis - Dillon Fence - Best+ (MoRisen)

My Baby's Gone - The Backsliders – Throwin’ Rocks at the Moon
She's Gone, Gone, Gone - Two Dollar Pistols - On Down the Track (Scrimshaw)
200 Proof Lovin' - Jason and the Scorchers - A Blazing Grace
Dark as a Dungeon - Joe Henry - Fireman's Wedding

You R Loved - Victoria Williams - Loose
Mystery Girl - World Party - Rare on Air, Vol. 2
The Black and The Blue - The Bats - Fear of God
La Grippe - Squirrel Nut Zippers - The Inevitable
Diggin' My Potatoes - James Mathus & His Knockdown Society - Play Songs for Rosetta
Hail the Caffeine Dream - Jack Drag - S/T (Hep-Cat)