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The Jewel Case: The Show About Nothing (06.07.08)

This week on the Jewel Case, we're doing a show about NOTHING: songs about nothing and nowhere. Not only that, but we've got a truly mind-bending lineup of artists to play and sing about it. George Jones? Check. Dead Meadow? Check. Lena Horne? Check. Those aren't even the most out-of-left-field ones. But first...

  • Lilys- Dimes Make Dollars
  • Nick Lowe- Shting Shtang
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Live)
  • Talking Heads- Road To Nowhere
  • The Blind Boys Of Alabama- I Can See Everybody’s Mother (R.I.P. Clarence Fountain)
  • Pink Floyd- Fearless
  • Prince- Musicology (Happy Birthday to Prince)
  • Tom Jones- Hard To Handle (Happy Birthday to Tom Jones)
  • The Byrds- Fido (Happy Birthday to Clarence White)
  • Beastie Boys- Body Movin’ (Fatboy Slim Remix)
  • Wire- I Am The Fly
  • Follakzoid- Trees
  • The Ethiopians- Everything Crash
  • The London Experimental Jazz Quartet- Destroy The Nihilist Picnic

And now for the theme: The Show About Nothing

  • Stevie Wonder- You Haven’t Done Nothin’
  • Living Colour- Talkin’ Loud And Sayin’ Nothin’
  • James Brown- I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me Nothin’ (Open Up The Door, I’ll Get it Myself)
  • Lee Hazlewood- Nothin’
  • Tyson Meade- Nihilists Need Love Too
  • Mac Curtis- That Ain’t Nothin’ But Right
  • Sanford Clark- It’s Nothing To Me
  • Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup- She Ain’t Nothin’ But Trouble
  • Sammy Davis, Jr.- I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
  • Lena Horne- I Ain’t Got Nothin’ But The Blues
  • Dead Meadow- Dusty Nothing
  • Black Sabbath- Into The Void 
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Empty
  • The Blues Magoos- (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet
  • Townes Van Zandt- Nothin’
  • Brainiac- Noth1ng 3V3r Chan935
  • The Marcus King Band- Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With That
  • The Small Faces- All Or Nothing
  • Hurray For The Riff Raff- Nothing’s Gonna Change That Girl
  • Elliott Smith- Ballad Of Big Nothing
  • Keith Richards- Nothing On Me
  • Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats- Howling At Nothing
  • Marlene Dietrich- No Love, No Nothin’
  • Mose Allison- Do Nothing ‘Till You Hear From Me
  • George Jones- Ain’t Nothin’ Shakin’ But The Leaves
  • The Beatles- Nowhere Man
  • Michael Kiwanuka- You’ve Got Nothing To Lose
  • The Beach Boys- Busy Doin’ Nothin
  • Traffic- Empty Pages
  • Billy Preston- Nothing From Nothing
  • The Velvet Underground- Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ 

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.

 

A lifelong Miami Valley resident, Tod Weidner grew up in Ludlow Falls before moving to Dayton in the early 1990s. Tod has been heavily involved in the Dayton Music Scene for over 20 years, as both a solo performer and a member of such bands as The Motel Beds, Shrug, The American Static, and Set The Controls, to name just a few.