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.