Playlist for 2-18-11: The King & I

Huge thanks to the Paul Collins Beat for delivering an excellent 5-song set and sitting down for an interview afterward last week on Zero Hour! New music from the Baseball Project, Piney Gir’ Country Show, the Dyes, Go Time and Victoria De Mare.

Download or stream the Feb. 18 show right here and while you are there buy a ticket to the WMSE Rockabilly Chili Contest.

King of the Road – Joe Tex
King-Sized Papa – Julie Lee
King Kong – Barrence Whitfield & the Savages
If I Was King – The Backsliders
King & Caroline – Guided by Voices
Tribute to a King – William Bell

Shake (Live) – Otis Redding
Good Life – The Dirtbombs
We All Love Peanut Butter – The One Way Streets
96 Tears – Big Maybelle

White Wedding – Piney Gir’ Country Show
Can’t Let Go – The Dickies
She Has a Funny Walk – The Electric Mess
Worlds on Fire – Victoria De Mare
Have Love Will Travel – The Sonics
Caldonia – Carl Perkins

Just Forget About Me – The Dyes
Stacked Nasty – The Shandels

Local Lunchbox
Color Radio – The Midwest Beat
Better than Before – Joseph Huber
I Hate Valentine’s Day – Jonathan Burks
Molly, Molly – The Midwest Beat

Ichiro Goes to the Moon – The Baseball ProjectOne & Lonely – Go Time

The Straw That Stirs the Drink – The Baseball Project
Your Imagination – Shoes
Seven-Day Weekend – Elvis Costello

I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend – Eric Ambel
This Life’s For Me – Government Cheese
Coahuila – The Old ‘97s
I Left My Muse – The Sights

Brown Trash – The Tandoori Knights
Gonna Dance All Night – Hardrock Gunter & the Pebbles
Playboy – Wayland Chandler

Next in Line – The Sugar Stems
Black ‘n’ Blue – The Sugar Stems
7L – The Three Graces
Gutterball – The Goldtones
Are You Ready for the Country – Southern Culture on the Skids

No Name Girl – Billy Lee Riley
Googlia Moo – Bo Diddley
Barbara – The Gibson Bros.

Paul Collins Beat Live
Paper Doll
C’mon Let’s Go
Rock ‘n’ Roll Girl
Don’t Wait Up for Me Tonight
Doin’ It for the Ladies

I Got It Made in the Shade – James Duncan

Paul Collins Beat Interview

The Book of Love – Clarence Murray

Playlist for 2-11-11: The Terrible Twos

Zero Hour celebrated two years on the air with a little help from the likes of Charlie Feathers, the Lost Crusaders, All, the Two Tears and, of course, Unknown. I’m very much honored to have Paul Collins on the show this Friday in advance of his show at Club Garibaldi’s. Don’t forget to tune in! 91.7 or wmse.org.

Download or stream the Feb. 11 show right here.

Two to Choose – Charlie Feathers
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right – Compulsive Gamblers
Two Time Loser – Wheels on Fire
To Turn a Tune or Two – The Strange Boys
Drinkin’ For Two – The Hollisters
We’re Two of a Kind – Slim Harpo

She’s My Ex – All
Jenny G – The Push Kings
Love is Dead – The Mr. T Experience
Out in the Streets – Downbeat 5

Outta My Mind – Trent Fox & The Tenants
Nautiloid Surf – The Nautiloids
When Tomorrow Comes – Cheap Time
Eat People – Two Tears
Can-Nana Fever – Guitar Wolf

Cone of Light – The Almighty Defenders
Shake the Boogie – Sonny Boy Williamson
Whoa Boy – Luke McDaniel

Local Lunchbox
Head vs. Heart – Trolley
My Actions Are My Words – Trolley
More than a Man – Trolley

C’mon Let’s Go – Paul Collins
I Can’t Go On Loving You – The Electric Mess
Simone – The Electric Mess
The Hunter – Unknown
Please Yo’ Self – The Frowning Clouds

Wheels of Soul – Dan Montgomery
Come as You Are/Lucifer Sam – Southern Culture on the Skids
Modern Lovers – Girl Haggard
Have You Heard About the World – Lost Crusaders
It Don’t Worry Me – Lost Crusaders
I Worn My Body So Long – T-Model Ford

Tattoo Lady – Lord Creator
Bodacious – U.S. Rockets
Rock Everybody Rock – McKinley Mitchell
The Bee – The A-Bones
Someone’s Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In – Earl Vince & the Valiants
Preacher Man – The Jive Kings

I Won’t Come Crawling Back to You – Melvin Davis
Stuff – Jeanette Williams
There Stands the Glass – The Shadows
Heart of Stone – Coba Seas
Harriette, It’s You – Gentlemen Jesse & His Men
I Wanna Know – Lenny Kaye

Friday Night on a Dollar Bill – Huelyn Duvall
Do the Roach – Little James & the Eldorados
Zoola Zooky – Johnny Alderson
Gone But Not Forgotten – The Cover Girls
Heartbeat – The Daywins
Watsui – Invictus

Playlist for 2-4-11: The rabbit sat down and cried just like a little child

Blind Lemon Jefferson and others helped me salute the Year of the Rabbit to open the show. New music this week from the Godfathers, the Fleshtones, the Dirtbombs, Trent Fox & The Tenants, and Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones. Tune into WMSE this Friday from noon to 3 p.m. when the legendary Godfathers stop by Zero Hour. And speaking of legends, Paul Collins, the king of power pop himself, will perform on Zero Hour on Feb. 18!

Update: Due to a visa mishap, the Godfathers show Friday in Milwaukee has been cancelled, so no Zero Hour visit. Dang it.

Download or stream the Feb. 11 show right here.


Jack Rabbit – Icky Renrut
Blue Jumped the Rabbit - Elmo Williams & Hezekiah Early
Rabbit Foot Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson
I Hates Rabbits – Jerry Neal
Peter Rabbit – The Presidents
Buckingham Rabbit – The Silver Jews

Froggy Mountain Shakedown – Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones
Pearly Gates – The Mockers
Miles & Miles to Go – Brad Jones
Little Truths – Bastards of Melody

Bite of My Soul – The Fleshtones
Cosmic Cars – The Dirtbombs
Your Beating Heart – Jay Banarjee
Why Do U Make Me Feel Like That – The Witches

Local Lunchbox
Mess Around - Trent Fox & The Tenants
(It’s Always) Rico, Rico, Rico – The Mistreaters
Dude Squad – The Mistreaters
Kiss You – Ramma Lamma

Funky Football – Harvey Scales & The Seven Sounds
I Resign From Your Love – Syl Johnson
Mom, Won’t You Teach Me to Monkey – Little Emmet Sutton
Football – The Swinging Seven

Leave My Kitten Alone – The Sonics
Tiger Man – Rufus Thomas
Put the Pot On Mary – Poontang Perkins
Sick, Sick, Sick – Terry Corin & Her Boyfriends

Back Into the Future – The Godfathers
Why Do We Have to Meet in the Dark – Thee Wylde Oscars
It’s My Life – Coba Seas
Bailando – Los Explosivos
Cherry Bomb – Wheels on Fire

People Who Died – Government Cheese
Kentucky Home – Government Cheese
I Miss Ronald Reagan – Daddy
Throwing it All Away – Adam Thorn & The Top Buttons

Any Good Englishman – The Singing Loins
Look Out! – Peter Case
Helen – Paul Collins
I Don’t Want to Be Like This – The Parting Gifts
Sadness Kicked the Door In – The Volebeats

Try Me One More Time – The Demon’s Claws
I Don’t Want to Follow You – The Royal Purple
Tubby – Los Straitjackets
Come On and Get It – Hank Ballard & The Midnighters
Don’t Bug Me Baby – Joe “King” Carrasco & The Crowns
Daddy Rollin’ Stone – Derek Martin
Done Done the Slop – Ervin Rucker

Playlist for 1/28/11: Bandwagon Jumpin'

It’s all Packers, all the time these days, so my opening theme was actually mandated by state law. New releases this week from the Witches, the Singing Loins and Government Cheese along with interviews with Brian Case of Disappears and Dangerbird Records’ Jeff Castelaz, who talked about the Pablove Foundation.

Download or stream the Jan. 28 show right here.

Green Onions – The 5.6.7.8.’s
Green Fuz – Randy Alvey & The Green Fuz
Wear Something Green – Jimmy Reed
Ode to Green – Clock Hands Strangle
Solid Gold (Thru and Thru) – The Real Kids
Pure Country Gold – Pure Country Gold
Pure Gold – Heavy Trash
Heart of Gold – Bill Kirchen

(We’re Gonna Do It) Naturally – Pure Country Gold

Interview with Brian Case of Disappears

Not Romantic – Disappears
Underwater To – Tyevk

Dying for Your Love – The Singing Loins
When It Rains, It Pours – Billy “The Kid” Emerson
After It’s All Over – Yvonne & Yvette
Get High Babe – John Wesley Coleman

Local Lunchbox
Little Gurl – The Obsoletes
I Won’t Let You Down – Ian Olvera & The Sleepwalkers
Fog – Call Me Lightning

Down on Ugly Street – The Witches
Empty Heart – Coba Seas
Mystery Girl – The Mono Men
I Saw You – The Frowning Clouds

Don’t Blame Your Troubles on Me – Paul Collins
Partytown U.S.A. – Jimmy Silva & the Empty Set
I Can’t Turn You Loose – The Plimsouls
Luke the Drifter – Lenny Kaye Connection

Camping on Acid – Government Cheese
Sunday Driver – Government Cheese
Stay With Me – Government Cheese


Interview with Jeff Castelaz of Dangerbird Records and the Pablove Foundation

Everyone’s Hip – Jaill
The Roller – Beady Eye

I Want You – The Godfathers
Beef Bologna – The Shitbirds
Reach That Woman – Bloodshot Bill
Rolling Stones Rice Krispies Jingle – The Great Gaylord with the Condo Fucks
Saturday Night – The Dwarves
17 Poles – The Supersuckers

I’m Coming Home – T-Model Ford
Party Hardy – Larry Dale and Wild Jimmy Spruill

Playlist for 1/21/11: Cry Baby

The first set pays tribute to the midnight hour - or at least the way I've been spending mine lately! Love you, Julia!

Download or stream the 1-21 show right here.

Cry Baby – The Sugar Stems
Baby Don’t Cry – Little Bob Story
Crybaby – The New Heathens
Cry Like a Baby – The Accelerators
Cry Baby Cry – Van & Titus
Crybaby – Percy Mayfield
My Baby Crying – Bill Fox

Louise – Swag
Gino is a Coward – The Spitballs
Same Mistakes – Chopper
No Way Girl – Jay Banerjee
Here I Go Again – The Spongetones

Trash Talking Woman – The Electric Mess
You Put the Hex on Me – Supercharger
Mustard – The Saints
Do the Robot – The Saints
Have a Say – The Hussy
Kill Yer Speed – The X-Rays

Local Lunchbox
12 Steps - Jonathan Burks
I Don’t Want to Wake Up – Jonathan Burks
Blood on the Saddle – Brian Ritchie & the Ghastly Trio
Predator Weapons – Drugs Dragons

Out of this World – King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones's
Shortnin’ Bread – The Ready Men
Be Billy – Pat & the Californians
Walkin’ With Frankie – Frankie Lee Sims
Sexy Ways – Hank Ballard & The Midnighters

Red Dress – T-Model Ford & GravelRoad
Bulldog – Doo Rag
Purple Haze – Shockabilly

Waiting for the Gin to Hit Me – The Skeletons
Hair of the Dog – Ronnie Self
Teeney Weeney Man – Jimmy Wolford
Dough Got Low – NRBQ

I Want Everything – The Godfathers
I Want Answers – House of Freaks
Tear Up This Town – The Magnolias
Greaseboro - Adam Thorn & the Top Buttons

World Has a Ways to Go – The Ugly Beats
Happy – The Sights
Truckstop Queen – Rachel Sweet
Bone Dry Dirt – Southern Culture on the Skids
Little Sally Walker – Syl Johnson
Should I Care – Steve Alaimo
Dizzy Miss Lizzy – Larry Williams
Hanging on the Telephone – The Nerves

Simon Simone – The Figgs
Robert Ford – The Million Sellers
See You Tonight – The Volebeats
Far Far Away – The Cheepskates
Baby, I Dig Love –The What Four
I’ll Go Crazy – Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
I Got You – Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels

Playlist for 1-14-11: Financing My Romance

Same day as the show aired? Amazing! Thanks to Erin for covering the first 20 minutes of my show. Not much in the way of new music this week, but there's plenty to enjoy, including a live performance from Sat. Nite Duets!

Download or stream the show right here.

Don’t Hurt Me Now – The Parting Gifts
Boom Boom – John Lee Hooker
Across the Wire – Calexico
Evil Ways – Black Mountain
Surf/Drag – Red Stuff
Baby – Warpaint

Gimme Back My Dog - Slobberbone
Financing His Romance - The Bottle Rockets
Wanted to be - Two Cow Garage
She's the One - Stephanie Finch and the Company Men
Put 'em In The Graveyard - Marah

Needle In The Camel's Eye - Waxing Poetics
You're Not Her - Loose Rails
Marlena - The Lackloves

Local Lunchbox
Next Victim – Plexi 3
All I Wanna Do – Trolley
999 Names of Love – The Squares
Born in ’77 - Trolley

Into The City - Teenage Fanclub
Roddy McCorley - Shane MacGowan & the Popes
Dark End Of The Street - Rico Bell
David Ruffin's Tears - Paul K And The Weathermen

Tell Me When It's Over - Joe Pernice
The Other Side – Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3
Big Soft Punch - The Clean
#1 Hit Song - The Minutemen

Smoke On, Jerry - The Minus 5
Cut and Paste - Bastards of Melody
Julie Is A Junkie - The Eastern Dark
Good Time Johnny – Ramma Lamma
My Danger - Shake Appeal

Wedding Boots - Finger
Hero of Gold - Brimstone Howl
Rattlesnake - The Replacements
Hidden Charms - The Gories
Fat Back – Link Wray & The Raymen

Trudy - Johnny Carroll
Our Little Rendezvous - Downliners Sect
Hot Dog - Dale Hawkins

Ski Storm (Part One) - The Snowmen

Sat. Nite Duets - Live in the Studio

Shake Real Low - BBQ

Sat. Nite Duets - Interview

The Lone Ranger of Love - Jack Oblivian and The Tennessee Tearjerkers
Heavy Kids - Leather Uppers
I Wanna Destroy That Boy - The No- Talents
My Bucket's Got a Hole in it - Jawbone

Playlists for 12-31-10 and 1-7-11: 2010 Favorites

Used the last Zero Hour of 2010 to peek back at the year and consider my favorite new albums, reissues and compilations. For me, there was a lot to enjoy in 2010, so it wasn't hard to fill up a show. In fact, I forgot to bring a few albums with me and ran out of time on others, so I even started the Jan. 7 show with a few more 2010 favorites. Thanks for tuning in to Zero Hour as always - I look forward to bringing you more nutiness in 2011!

Check out my top 10 list for 2010 here.

Stream or download the Dec. 31 and Jan. 7 shows right here.

Playlist for 1-7Another Year Again - The Sadies
I Want You Back - The Plimsouls
Untamed Love - Hipbone Slim & the Knee-Tremblers
Every Day is the Day of the Dead - Ray Wylie Hubbard
All The Way To Denver - The Candy Snatchers

Bad Detective (demo) – The New York Dolls
I Love You (demo) - The Heartbreakers
Secret Agents - The Olympics
Henry's Got Flat Feet (Can't Dance No More) - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
Teenage Letter - The Count Bishops
Who's got mine? - The Jim Jones Revue

Star Light Star Bright - Vermillion Sands
Something for Yourself – The Mullens
Cellophane – The Mullens
Lonesome Town - The Downbeat 5
Influenza - Big Lazy
Master/Mistress - The Piney Gir’ Country Roadshow
Psychopharmacology – Grandpaboy

Local Lunchbox
Tiger Don’t Change Its Stripe - Ramma Lamma
She’s a Psycho - Couch Flambeau
Radio Suicide - Kill-a-Watts
Truthin’ - Ramma Lamma

Through That Hallway - Adam Thorn & The Top Buttons
Here We Go Again - Hobart Willis & the Back Forty
She's A Hurricane - 6 String Drag
Cry Like A Baby - The Accelerators
Expressway To Your Heart - Adam Thorn And The Top Buttons

Louie, Louie – Coba Seas
Gloria – Goba Seas

Bang Bang – Dexter Romweber
It’s Karate Time – Travis Wammack
We Are Workers for the Lord - Yvonne & Yvette

How Many More Years - T-Model Ford & Gravelroad
Chicken Head Man - Ten Foot PoleCats

Slop Jar Blues - '68 Comeback
Prodigal Son – Rev. John Wilkins
Walking Through the Sleepy City – The Parting Gifts

Don’t Shoot Me Baby (I’m Not Ready to Die) – Bill Bowen & the Rockets
Nautiloid Surf - The Nautiloids
Why Did My Baby Turn Bad – The Invitations
Hook, Line and Sinker – The Minits
What’d I Say (Pt. 1) – Jerry Lee Lewis
What’d I Say (Pt. 2) – Jerry Lee Lewis
Dope Sniffin' Dog - Jack. O And The Tear Jerkers
Jenna Lee - The Little Killers
The Crawl - Guitar Junior
Shake Some Action (live) – Charlie Pickett
Wake Up Little Susie – Johnny Copeland

Playlist for 12-31
Colored Lights - Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3
Dress On – The Tandoori Knights
Lusty Lil’ Lucy - Nick Curran And The Lowlifes
If You Want Me To – The Sugar Stems
Ding Dong Party – The Ding Dongs

Bike + Stick - The Goodnight Loving
Burnt Orange - Hoodoo Gurus
I Don't Want To Be Like This - The Parting Gifts
(Yeah, Baby) It's Because Of You - Outrageous Cherry
Looking at You - Wheels On Fire
Go Give Yer Love Away - Wheels On Fire

You Spin Me Round - The Titty Twisters Orchestra
Earthquake - Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Suburban Soul Man - The Master Plan
Gonna Find a Cave - Mondo Topless
Do The Do - The Senders

Local Lunchbox
Laundry & Cigarettes Ian Olvera & the Sleepwalkers
Costume – Trapper Schoepp & the Shades
The Man In Me - Chris DeMay
Innerstates - Juniper Tar
Twenty-Two Forevs - Jonathan Burks
Chuds in Love - Drugs Dragons
Red Light – Sticks ‘N Stones

Jacquline Susann - Pernice Brothers
Unbalanced In the City - Outrageous Cherry
We Don’t Like to Forget – The Volebeats
You Were So Warm - Nada Surf

Where Was My Brain? – Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Slow Drip - Superchunk
How's The Grave - Jaill
My God’s Bigger Than Your God – The Vaselines
Said That You Was Cool - The Sidewalks

On the Move - Pierced Arrows
Thunder Road - The Range Rats
Black Velvet Elvis - Carnival Season
Queen of the Blues - Finger
Back to Zero – Tommy Keene

Beyond the Law – Iggy Pop & James Williamson
She’s a Rainbow - Davila 666
Lipstick Burn - Overnight Lows
Never Been Kissed – No Bunny
I Get Nothin From My Girl – Mark Sultan

Broadway - Hank Ballard
Roll Roll Train - Hasil Adkins
Whole Lotta Shaking Going On - Timmy Thomas
One More Time - Roy Head & The Traits
Great Googly Moo - The Spaniels
That Beat's Got The Devil In It - Lenis Guess

Three Nights – The Successful Failures
It's The Music That Makes Me - Southern Culture on the Skids