This week we’ll hang with Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Les Paul & Mary Ford, celebrate birthdays with Shocking Blue, Youssou N’Dour, and other notables, bid adieu to Juliette Gréco, and groove on The Stooges, Jurassic 5, David Bowie, Nancy Wilson, Leonard Cohen, and a whole MESS of others. Just you wait- it’s gonna be a ride, and it’ll be that much cooler if you’re along.
HOUR 1
1. Jacobites- God Save Us (RIP David Kusworth)
2. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter- I Like The Sound
3. Beastie Boys- Bodhisattva Vow
4. Steely Dan- Bodhisattva
5. Les Paul & Mary Ford- How High The Moon
6. Sly & The Family Stone- I Want To Take You Higher (HB Jerry Martini)
7. Donny Hathaway- Voice Inside (Everything Is Everything) (HB)
8. Shocking Blue- Love Buzz (HB Mariska Veres)
9. Albert Collins- Frosty (HB)
10. Youssou N’Dour- Baay Faal (HB)
11. Juliette Gréco- Si Tu T’Imagines (RIP)
12. Marianne Faithfull- Strange Weather (live)
13. Miles Davis- Nuit sur les Champs-Élysées (take 2)
HOUR 2
14. Wilco- I’m Always In Love
15. Joan Jett- Bad Reputation
16. PJ Harvey- This Is Love
17. Iggy & The Stooges- Gimme Danger
18. Gasoline- Danger Zone
19. Bob Marley- Caution
20. Durand Jones & The Indications- Tuck ‘N’ Roll
21. Prince- Controversy
22. Mavis Staples- The Undertaker
23. The Crystalites- Undertaker’s Burial
24. Jurassic 5- The Influence
25. Donny McCaslin- Faceplant
26. David Bowie- Lazarus
27. Pink Floyd- Obscured By Clouds
HOUR 3
28. Blur- Parklife
29. The Kinks- Well Respected Man
30. Bob Dylan- Ballad of a Thin Man
31. Billy Paul- Me and Mrs. Jones
32. Nancy Wilson- Guess Who I Saw Today
33. The Dandy Warhols- Godless
34. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics- Dewel
35. Keith Hudson- Michael Talbot Affair
36. Lo Tom- Bubblegum
37. Leonard Cohen- You Want It Darker
38. Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town
39. Johnny Cash- I See A Darkness
40. George Harrison- Beware Of Darkness
41. Blind Willie Johnson- Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
