This week's theme is RODENTIA; we'll be taking a look at tunes about mice, rats, hamsters, and various and sundry other gnawing little critters, from a list of folks that ranges from Yma Sumac to Lightnin' Hopkins to King Missile, and of course wood chips and the cheese. But first....
- John Legend And The Roots- Hard Times
- Bombino- Imajghane (The Tuareg People)
- Cream- Pressed Rat And Warthog
- Queen- Great King Rat
- Fleetwood Mac- Only You (R.I.P. Danny Kirwin)
- The Zombies- Time Of The Season (Happy Birthday Rod Argent)
- Junior Walker & The All Stars- Shotgun (Happy Birthday Junior Walker)
- Hugh Masekela & Letta Mbulu- Mahlalela
- Roxy Music- 2HB
- Funkadelic- Hit It And Quit It
- Outkast- Dracula’s Wedding
- Niney The Observer- Blood And Fire
- Dr. Dog- Buzzing In The Light
- Cornell Dupree- Squirrel
And now for the theme: Rodentia Revisited
- Aerosmith- Rats In The Cellar
- Gene Vincent- I’m Gonna Catch Me A Rat
- Antibalas- The Ratcatcher
- King Missile- Hamsters
- Monty Norman- Kingston Calypso (Reprise)
- Max Romeo- Three Blind Mice
- Bravo & Roots Radics- Blind Rodent Attack
- Bob Marley & The Wailers- Rat Race
- Jethro Tull- ...And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps
- Billy “The Kid” Emerson- Woodchuck
- Deep Purple- Flight Of The Rat
- Yellow Fever- Cats And Rats
- Tom Campilongo- Hamster Wheel (Slight Return)
- The Rumblers- Surf Rat
- Herbie Mann- Woodchuck
- Soupy Sales- The Mouse
- The Boomtown Rats- Rat Trap
- The Everly Brothers- Muskrat
- LL Cool J- Cheesy Rat Blues
- Aesop Rock- Gopher Guts
- Yma Sumac- Gopher
- Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five- The Two Little Squirrels (Nuts to You)
- Neil Diamond- Porcupine Pie
- Bruce Fowler- The Rat
- Big Mama Thornton- I Smell A Rat
- Lightnin’ Hopkins- You Is One Black Rat
- The Kinks- Rats
- Tuff Darts- Rats
- Pearl Jam- Rats
- Grateful Dead- Wharf Rat
Join Tod Weidner on Thursday, 8-11pm for The Jewel Case, a weekly celebration of all manner of musical goodness: deep cuts, forgotten treasures, and curiosities with a new theme each show spanning all genres, eras and locales.
