It's the end of the year, so that means it's time for a Best of 2011 show. There was so much good music this year, that I find it difficult to fit it all into one two-hour show. So this show tonight is part one.

Enjoy.

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis

The World (is going up in flames): Charles Bradley
Get Right: Megafaun
How Can You Love Me: Unknown Mortal Orchestra

I Found You: Alabama Shakes
Truth (RZA Remix): Alexander
Nothing is the News: Damien Jurado
Modern Art: Black Lips

Jesus Fever: Kurt Vile
You Take Time: Bleached
Drug: White Denim

Gangsta: Tune Yards
Let the Sun Go Down on Me Here: Coves
For The Last Time: Turf War
He Gets Me High: Dum Dum Girls

Helplessness Blues: Fleet Foxes
Wild Heart: Futurebirds
Me and You: Strange Boys
I Was Denied: Thee Oh Sees

Automatic Jail: Jacuzzi Boys
Tigrawahi Tikma (Bring Us Together): Bombino
Chinatown: Destroyer

Civilian: Wye Oak
Can You Get To That: Stone Darling

It's on! John Hell and Rotten Ronnie Donovan go toe to toe, head to head, mano a mano for the 7th installment of the bootleg matchup to end all bootleg matchups: ROCK FIGHT 7!!!

What a great show tonight. And once again, I kicked Ron's ass. Seriously Ron, you really can't play crappy audience recordings and actually think you're going to win?

We were blessed with some special guests in the studio tonight. In the 7 o'clock hour Ralph Spight of Victim's Family and Jello Biafra's Guantanamo School of Medicine came by to talk about this Sunday's San Francisco Rock Project benefit at Rickshaw Shop. Zeda, a ten year old bassist, and Cody a fifteen year old guitarist joined him to talk about the show. Check out their website for more info. This is a really excellent cause.

Around 9:30 the greatest guitarist you've never heard of, Eric McFadden came in to talk about his new sauce he's been cooking up. Actually, he was talking about a lot of things, including waffles and an apple pie that one first place at a Thanksgiving dinner. It's always such a pleasure to see Eric and Super D. They're on the road so often that one wonders how they feel when they actually have time to relax.

As for the show, you can download it and listen to it at your leisure.

Here's part two, from 8-10pm:

John Hell's Rock Block 2
Cocaine Blues: George Thorogood 1989
The Man in Black: Johnny Cash 12-08-94
Come Together: Butthole Surfers 10-24-85
Search and Destroy: Dictators 08-17-91

Ramblin' Rose: Gang War 05-31-80
Led Zeppelin Medley: Beat Farmers 12-07-85
Hey Hey What Can I Do: Black Crowes with Jimmy Page 10-19-99
Muswell Hillbilly: The Kinks 11-11-72

Ron Donovan's Rock Block 2
Riding the Storm Out: REO Speedwagon 05-11-78
Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast: Airbourne 07-10-11
You're All I Got Tonight: The Cars 11-22-78
Death By Misadventure: Ted Nugent 06-04-77
Running with the Devil: Van Halen 09-13-79
Purple Haze: Bootsie Collins 07-09-11

I Wanna Be Your Dog: Iggy and the Stooges 09-03-10 JH

Hour four: Big Four
Antisocial: Anthrax 07-03-11 JH
Indian: Anthrax 07-03-11 RD

Interview with Eric McFadden

Hanging Moon: Eric McFadden 06-26-11

Hanger18: Megadeth 07-03-11 JH
Harvester of Sorrow: Metallica 12-05-11 JH

It's on! John Hell and Rotten Ronnie Donovan go toe to toe, head to head, mano a mano for the 7th installment of the bootleg matchup to end all bootleg matchups: ROCK FIGHT 7!!!

What a great show tonight. And once again, I kicked Ron's ass. Seriously Ron, you really can't play crappy audience recordings and actually think you're going to win?

We were blessed with some special guests in the studio tonight. In the 7 o'clock hour Ralph Spight of Victim's Family and Jello Biafra's Guantanamo School of Medicine came by to talk about this Sunday's San Francisco Rock Project benefit at Rickshaw Shop. Zeda, a ten year old bassist, and Cody a fifteen year old guitarist joined him to talk about the show. Check out their website for more info. This is a really excellent cause.

Around 9:30 the greatest guitarist you've never heard of, Eric McFadden came in to talk about his new sauce he's been cooking up. Actually, he was talking about a lot of things, including waffles and an apple pie that one first place at a Thanksgiving dinner. It's always such a pleasure to see Eric and Super D. They're on the road so often that one wonders how they feel when they actually have time to relax.

As for the show, you can download it and listen to it at your leisure

Rock Fight: Cheech and Chong

Let There Be Rock: AC/DC 12-09-79 JH
Lick it Up: Mindzone 12-17-93 RD
King of the Nighttime World: Kiss 09-03-76 JH
Life in the Fastlane: The Eagles 03-04-80 RD

Ron Donovan Rock Block 1
Voodoo Chile: Stevie Ray Vaughn 12-03-89
Cocaine: Eric Clapton 12-09-77
Reefer Headed Woman: Aerosmith 01-04-83
Get Off My Cloud: Rolling Stones 07-28-66
Everyday I Have the Blues: BB King 12-23-72

John Hell Rock Block 1
Rock the Nation: Montrose 04-21-73
Jailbreak: Thin Lizzy 09-25-80

Interview with Ralph Spight

Rosalita: Bruce Springsteen 08-09-78 JH

Occupy Set
Holiday in Cambodia: Dead Kennedy's 10-15-80 JH
Know Your Enemy: Rage Against the Machine 06-15-95 RD
Guns of Brixton: The Clash 08-17-82 JH
School's Out: Alice Cooper 10-31-11 RD
Free Ride: Edgar Winter 12-17-74 RD

I love interviewing local bands, and tonight I had in a great singer: Xandra Corpora of Con Brio. She likens the band to Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, but I think they have a really original sound. Check out the two tracks we played on the show.

Also, next week is Rock Fight 7. See below for details. Rotten Ronnie Donovan phoned in to talk smack, but I put him in his place and hung up.

Tonight, some brand spankin' new Mark Lanegan, which will knock your socks off.

It's Hard To Be Humble: Mac Davis
The Gravedigger's Song: Mark Lanegan Band

Interview with Xandra Corpora of Con Brio

Cadillac: Con Brio

Interview with Xandra Corpora of Con Brio

Not At All: Con Brio

Porcelain Doll: The Ferocious Few
Gasoline & Cocaine: The Ferocious Few
Breathless: X
Hell City, Hell: Supersuckers
Bernal Heights: Jhameel

Am I Evil: Metallica
Euthanasia: Melvins

Wedding Day: Cracker (09-15-11)
Victoria: The Kinks (02-18-77)

Interview with Ron Donovan

King of California: Dave Alvin (11-05-11)
Soul Sacrifice: Santana (05-01-71)

Working for a Dead Man: Eric McFadden (04-07-08)
Start Wearing Purple: Gogol Bordello (08-19-06)
Done Got Old: Heartless Bastards (05-04-10)

Search and Destroy: The Stooges (09-03-10)
Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

Pamela Parker of the Pamela Parker Band stopped by tonight to premier a new song. She'll be playing this Friday at the Boom Boom Room in SF. Go check her out. She shreds. She's also going to be joining Eric McFadden at Cafe DuNord on December 10th. It's about time he got back in town. Two great shows that you really must go see.

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
Mr. Plow Theme: The Simpson's
I Love the Living You: Roky Erickson
All You Fascists Bound To Lose: Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry

Hell Broke Luce: Tom Waits
Soul Rebel: Bob Marley & Lee Scratch Perry
Down Home Girl: The Coasters

Fever: Fela Kuti
Filling A Hole: Eric McFadden

Interview with Pamela Parker

Carnival: Pamela Parker Band

Interview with Pamela Parker

Devil Moon: Eric McFadden
Big Sky->Baddest of the Bad: Reverend Horton Heat
The Big Three Killed My Baby: White Stripes
Victim of Changes: Judas Priest

Wild Horses: Old and in the Way (11-04-73)
Real in Real Time: Giant Sand (03-19-94)
Funky Crime: Red Hot Chili Peppers (04-28-89)
Mississippi Queen: Mountain (12-28-71)

Sing Me Back Home: Keith Richards (03-13-77)
Don't Do It: The Band (12-28-71)
Do It Again: Steely Dan (04-30-74)
Plow King: The Simpson's

Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis

To Lay Me Down: Cowboy Junkies

A Quick One (While He's Away): The Who
Celebrity Compass: Bongwater
Jesus Was Way Cool: King Missile
Devil's Rodeo: Diamanda Galas with John Paul Jones

Hey Bartender: The Blues Brothers
Mannish Boy: Muddy Waters
Rock Steady: John Lee Hooker

Hour two:
God's Away on Business: Tom Waits
Me and My Friends: Red Hot Chili Peppers (04-28-89)
My Ding a ling: Chuck Berry (06-20-94)

Toussaint L'Overture: Santana (05-02-71)
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys: Traffic (??-1971)
Love Me: Elvis Presley (10-06-74)

Motorbike: Wooden Shjips (11-10-11)
James Bond Covers: Sex Mob (11-10-11)

Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

I've always held a special place in my heart for 1971. I wasn't born in that year. I was born in 1970, but the music from '71 was simply amazing in so many ways. It was that year that we begin to see the emergence of many genres: R&B, Soul, Blues, and Jazz had already been around for a while, but now more genres of Rock n' Roll begin to emerge. This is not your father's Rock n' Roll. Funk, psychedelic, progressive, and ambient genres begin to really showcase themselves at this time. And of course, some truly classic albums (remember albums?) that the classic rock radio stations play too much of, were released that year.

Tonight on A Season in Hell, with John Hell, I play some of my favorite tunes from that great year. Tune in and enjoy. Heck, you can even download the archived show as well, and enjoy it in 2071.

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
Muswell Hillbilly: The Kinks

I'm 18: Alice Cooper
Dr. Boogie: Flaming Groovies
Magic Fingers: Frank Zappa
Kandy Korn: Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

Country Road: Grand Funk Railroad
Yours is no Disgrace: Yes

Grandma's Hands: Bill Withers
Man In Black: Johnny Cash
Nevada Fighter: Michael Nesmith & The First National Band

Tamalpais High: David Crosby
I Don't Want To Be A Soldier: John Lennon
Masters Of The Universe: Hawkwind
Seven Stones: Genesis
The Supermen: David Bowie

Done Somebody Wrong: Allman Brothers Band
Hard to Handle: Grateful Dead (08-06-71)

Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved: James Brown

Once again it's election time. I tell ya, in San Francisco the freaks come out on Election Night. Per usual I'll be hosting United Educators of San Francisco's and SFUSD Social Studies teacher Ken Tray on my show. This is perhaps the third year in a row that he has co-hosted the pre-election day show with me. We'll be talking about the ballot initiatives as well as the hotly contested mayors race (when isn't it hotly contested in this town?), sheriff's race and DA's race.

I've got lots of election-themed music as well.

Enjoy.

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
The Politician: Urge Overkill

Interview with Ken Tray - Sheriff/DA races

Southern Politician: Willie Deville

Interview with Ken Tray - Mayor's race

Election Day: The Replacements
Politician: Cream

Interview with Ken Tray - Propositions

Vote for Me: Joe Walsh

Interview with Ken Tray - Propositions

Funky President: James Brown
The Revolution will not be Televised: Gil Scott-Heron

Interview with Ken Tray - Occupy Movement

Don't Worry, if there's a Hell Below, we're all gonna go: Curtis Mayfield

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime: Dean Martin

The ghoul in me just loves a frighteningly good holiday. With a name like Hell how couldn't I? When I was at KFJC I would fill in the Christmas morning shows every year. I would often play Halloween-themed music that morning.

I digress.

Tonight was all-around fun. Thanks for joining me on the Radio Valencia chatterbox, too. I always enjoy chatting with my listeners.

Night of the Living Dead: Misfits
I Was a Teenage Werewolf: The Cramps
Pet Cemetery (Ramones cover): Yo La Tengo

Teenage Lobotomy: The Ramones
Exquisite Corpse: Bauhaus

Bewitched: Beat Happening
The House on the Hill: The Mummies
Halloween: Mudhoney
Monster: Three Day Stubble
The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead: XTC

Night of the Vampire: Roky Erickson
Clothes of the Dead: Bongos, Bass and Bob!

Vampire Blues: Wooden Shjips
My Girlfriend Is A Witch: October Country
Halloween: The Dream Syndicate
Hellfudge: Lard

Viking Demon: Rube Waddell
Werewolves of London: Grateful Dead (05-11-78)
Death Train: Beat Farmers (12-07-85)
Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?: The Misfits (02-28-82)

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Pink Floyd (04-29-70)

Tom Violence: Sonic Youth (08-17-90)
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime: Dean Martin

Julie Anderson of Altered Barbie was in the studio tonight talking about the 9th annual exhibition, which begins this week at 50 Shotwell. I MCd this event a couple of times, and it's so amazing to see what people do with their Barbie dolls once they've grown out of playing with them.

Julie brought the Jenny Kerr band with her to play a few tunes. They'll be playing the opening night reception on Friday night. I really encourage you to take a listen to the podcast of this show, and then head on over there on Friday night. You'll love 'em.

Some new music tonight from Tom Waits and Bonny Prince Billy, and some americana from Dave Alvin, Jimmy Dale Gilmore and more.

Enjoy.

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
Indian Summer: The Doors
Raised Right Men: Tom Waits

We Are Unhappy: Bonny Prince Billy

Interview with Julie Anderson of Altered Barbie

It's Up To You (Television Mix): Steinski

Jenny Kerr Band live in studio (They played three amazing tunes)

Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Waltz Across Texas Tonight: Emmylou Harris
What Am I Worth (Duet With Syd Straw): Dave Alvin
Revolution Blues: Neil Young

Lookin' for a Kiss: NY Dolls
Total Eclipse out of Hell: Enrique
Rise: PIL
I Love You Peggy: Butthole Surfers

A More Perfect Union: Titus Andronicus
Feelin' Alright: Grand Funk Railroad
Concrete Jungle: David 'Fathead' Newman

Everbody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

Sometimes when I don't plan a show it goes bloody awful. Not tonight! This was a fun show to do. The Zappa/GTOs set was a blast, as was the psychedelic set in the second hour.

Enjoy.

It's Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
Family Tradition (live): Hank Williams Jr

Some Velvet Morning: Vanilla Fudge
Buenos Tardes Amigo: Ween
You're being Fucked: George Carlin
Kansas and the BTO's->The Captain's Fat Theresa: GTO's
Ella Guru: Captain Beefheart
The Original GTO's: GTO's
WPLJ: The Mother's of Invention
The Taster: Wild Man Fischer
Footnote: Pearls Before Swine

I Never Talk to Strangers: Tom Waits & Bette Midler
Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba: George Benson

Acquiring Marijuana/General Effects: A Child's Garden of Grass
Bankrobber: The Clash
Lights Out (remix): Wooden Shjips

Fat Old Sun: Pink Floyd (09-30-71)
God of Thunder: The Melvins

Sweetness: Yes

Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

It's raining in SF today, which always makes me long for some long jazzy tracks. Then I remembered: I host a radio show!

Do It: Rollins Band
Lesson One: Stone Cold Boners

Malika: Rufus Harley
Radebe: Johnny Dyani
First there is a Mountain: Joe Jones

What a Man: Linda Lyndell
The Turnaround: Big John Patton
Freaks for the Festival/Cold Sweat/Rip, Rig & Panic: TJ Kirk

Creole Love Call: Roland Kirk
Fodder in Her Wings: Nina Simone

Love Train: Don Cherry
Freedom Now Suite: Max Roach-Abbey Lincoln

Africa: Sun Ra
India: John Coltrane

Song for Che: Charlie Haden & the Liberation Music Orchestra
Darling Nikki: Sex Mob with Medeski

Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

What a great birthday weekend! I spent a fabulous evening with my lady and my darling daughter, then off to Chicken John's book release party. That's always a family reunion. Saturday and Sunday found me dancing it up at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in Golden Gate Park. I love this town. Some great music. Dr. John, Irma Thomas, The Flatlanders, Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson, The Mother Hips, Hot Buttered Rum, and Dark Star Orchestra, to name abut a few great acts.

In the midst of enjoying the opening Help->Slip->Music from DSO, I jumped in the air just to come down oddly on my left leg and hyperextend my knee. I've done this before, but this time I saw stars. Dang. I kept on dancing though. Thanks to alcohol, I didn't feel a thing. Today is another story.

I almost didn't do my show, but I was too amped to stay away. A great set follows.

Enjoy.

Do It: Rollins Band

The World (Is Going Up In Flames): Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band
I Need Your Company: Michael Kiwanuka

Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top cover): Deer Tick
God Bless the Child: Kenny Burrell
Bedroom Eyes: Dum Dum Girls

Lazy Bones: Wooden Shjips
To Ohio: The Low Anthem
Atheist Funeral: Dan Sartain
When it Comes to You: Dead Ghosts
I'm Bored: Big Kids

Summer Nights : Chalk And Numbers
Ophelia: Luke Temple
Eloise: Royal Headache

Hour Two:
Gallows Pole: Robert Plant and Band of Joy (09-30-11)
King Soloman's Marbles: Grateful Dead (09-28-75)

Where the Streets Have No Name: Hot Buttered Rum (04-02-11)
Big Chief: Dr. John (02-08-75)
Pass the Peas: The Meters with the JB Horns (12/1991)
Get on the Goodfoot: James Brown 07-16-78)

Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder (Toronto 1975)
Savor/Jingo: Santana (06-13-70)
54-46 Was My Number: Toots and the Maytals (10-01-75)

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime: Dean Martin

In support of the local arts I invited Edna and her friend Karen to come down to the show to talk about their new two-woman play "Alice Down the Rwong Wrabbit Whole". I didn't spell that rwong. It's a hilarious send up of the Disney knock off. They did a scene in the studio. It was hilarious. You want to listen to this and then you want to go see the show, running through October 15th at the

Do It: Rollins Band
Emmaline: Urge Overkill

Nice, Nice Very Nice: Ambrosia

Edna and Karen from "Alice Down the Rwong Wrabbit Whole"

Rave Down: Swervedriver
Round and Round: OP8
The Beat Goes On: Giant Sand
Murder on the Red Barn: Tom Waits

Friction: Television
It's Not Unusual > Delilah > What's New Pussycat?: The Pleasure Barons (03-93)
Help Yourself: Tom Jones Live in Vegas
Jambalaya: The Carpenters (11-16-76)

Spanish Key: Miles Davis (04-09-70)
Cryptical-Other One->Cryptical (04-09-70)

It's late September, and the tourists have all gone home, which means It's a very hot night in San Francisco, and our summer has finally arrived.

Therefore, I declare "NAKED RADIO NIGHT" AT RADIO VALENCIA!

I moved recently, and in so doing I located a lot of music I haven't played in quite a while. I pulled a lot of vinyl and a bunch of live music that hasn't made it on the air before.

Enjoy these treats, and for God sake, get naked!

Do It: Rollins Band
Hard to be Humble: Mac Davis
War on War: Wilco

Sloop John B.: Three Stoned Men
B Movie Boxcar Blues->Flip Flop and Fly: Blues Brothers (12-31-78)

I Will Not Be Your Fool: David Bromberg (06-19-76)
I'm Waiting for the Man: Lou Reed (12-26-72)

Use Me: Bill Withers (1973)
You Make Me Feel So Young: Frank Sinatra (04-17-73)
Overture->It's A Boy: The Who (11-02-69)

The Way Young Lovers Do: Van Morrison (04-26-70)
Just Like A Woman: Bob Dylan (05-14-66)
Visions Of Johanna: Bob Dylan (05-14-66)
It's All Over Now Baby Blue: Bob Dylan (05-05-66)

Got To Get Better In A Little While: Derek and the Dominos (11-20-70)
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed: Allman Bros (01-20-70)

Low Spark of High Heeled Boys: Traffic (02-21-73)

Lot's of great new music tonight. The second hour features some sweet sounds from the early 70s.

Enjoy.

Do It: Rollins Band
Bad As Me: Tom Waits
Gangsta: Tune-Yards

Geeshie: Mekons
A Dream of Roses: Mike Patton
Be Brave: My Brightest Diamond

Teardrops On My Pillow (Live Session Version): Dum Dum Girls
The Last Living Rose (Live Session Version): PJ Harvey
East Harlem: Beirut

Roll Another Number: Neil Young
The Singer (Johnny Cash/Nick Cave Cover): Dirty Beaches
One of these things First: Nick Drake
Cello Song (Nick Drake Cover): The Books (feat Jose Gonzalez)
Tea For The Tillerman: Cat Stevens

The Pusher: Nina Simone
Bridge over troubled waters: Aretha Franklin (06-12-71)
Call on Me: Janis Joplin (1967)

I'll Drown In My Own Tears / When Something Is Wrong With My Baby/I've Been Loving You Too Long / I'll Drown In My Own Tears: MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN Joe Cocker At The Fillmore West (04-26-70)

The Song Remains The Same->The Rain Song: Led Zeppelin (02-28-75)
Rainy Night In Soho: The Pogues (06-15-85)

Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

It's election time once again in the city by the bay, which means lots of posturing for the many candidates. It's funny, in this town the Republican party has to endorse the most right-leaning Democrat. Ha! Tonight I have District 11 SF Supervisor, and mayoral candidate John Avalos. John is THE progressive candidate this time around. His background is in education and grass roots work with local non-profits. I didn't hold back. Enjoy the interview.

Do It: Rollins Band
Lonesome Train Whistle: Reverend Horton Heat
Human Fly: The Cramps

Interview with John Avalos

Transmission: Girl in a Coma

Interview with John Avalos

Bossa Cubana: Los Zafiros

Interview with John Avalos

Sicilian Clan: Naked City
Clubfoot Orchestra (02-09-94-KFJC)
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow->Nanook Rubs It->St Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast->Father O'Blivion: Frank Zappa (09-21-78)

China Cat Sunflower -> Jam ->I Know You Rider -> High Time tease: Grateful Dead (01-03-70)
Out On The Tiles: The Black Crowes with Jimmy Page (10-19-99)
Don't Believe the Hype: Public Enemy (06-27-92)

YYZ - John the Fisherman: Primus (05-03-89)
Tom Sawyer: Rush (11-07-91)
Fat Bottom Girls: Queen (03-01-79)

Cross-Eyed Mary: Jethro Tull (07-25-75)

Do It: Rollins Band
2000 Man (The Rolling Stones cover): Kiss
20th Century Man: The Kinks
Jerkin' Krokus (Mott The Hoople cover): The Melvins

Concert Outlook (music bed One Big Yes: The Lounge Lizards)

Low Desert Punk: Brant Bjork
Women Are The New Men: Electric Tickle Machine
You Were There: The Ettes

The Colour Red: The Keys
Slave For My Cave : Shouting Thomas & The Torments
Love The Way You Walk Away: Blitzen Trapper

Immigrant Noise: DJ Z-Trip
State/Meant: Megafaun

Hour Two:
Chevy Beretta: Jonny Corndawg

Back Door Man: Hooker and Heat (04-15-71)
The Spirit of the Drum: Gil Scott-Heron (01-16-78)

In 'N' Out of Grace: Mudhoney (08-29-89)
Love Me: Elvis Presley (10-06-74)
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You: Bob Dylan (12-08-75)

I'm A Man: Chicago Transit Authority (09-13-69)
Sticks and Stones: Joe Cocker and Mad Dogs (04-26-70)

Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes: Betty Davis (07-25-76)
Everybody Loves Somebody: Dean Martin

Fun nights often happen when you least expect it. Tonight I was pleased to have singer/guitarist Pamela Parker in the studio, along with sousaphone player Ed Ivey. They're playing a big show with Eric McFadden this Thursday night at the Mystic Theater in Petaluma. See the above flyer for info. There are lots of fine musicians on the bill.

We tried to call Eric McFadden and Robin Coomer...er, I mean Patsy MacDonald of Shake Well. Neither were around, so you'll have to listen to the message I left on their phone. Funny stuff there.

Second hour features some tasty live material. Check it out.

Enjoy.

Do It: Rollins Band
Happy Boy: Beat Farmers
Caring Is Creepy: The Shins

Peeping Tomboy: Kurt Vile

Interview with Carl Grubbs and Pamela Parker

Carnival: Pamela Parker and the Subterraneans, featuring Eric McFadden

Interview with Carl Grubbs and Pamela Parker

Hangin' Moon: Eric McFadden

Interview with Carl Grubbs and Pamela Parker and Ed Ivey

Rise and Shine: Eric McFadden
Chocolate Jesus: Tom Waits
When My Baby Comes: Grinderman

Window Shopping: Boris

Unemployed Black Astronaut: Busdriver
Jigsaw Puzzle: The Rolling Stones

Superstition: Stevie Ray Vaughan (04-29-90)
54-46 Was My Number: Toots and the Maytals (10-01-75)

Scarlet Begonias->Fire on the Mountain (09-14-78)

Sweat Loaf: Butthole Surfers (05-10-86)
Badge: Cream (05-05-05)

I had local band, Boondock Squad in the studio tonight. These young men are making some fresh sounds. Their music has a cause, and reminds me a bit of Rage Against the Machine, but even more relevant. Really! Check 'em out.

Do It: Rollins Band
Heathen Child: Grinderman

Interview with Boondock Squad

Kings: Boondock Squad

Interview with Boondock Squad

Smell the Sunshine: Boondock Squad

Shout outs from the Boondock Squad

When Monkeys Make Music: Boondock Squad
Make It N.Y.: Ghostface Killah
Brooklyn Funk Essentials: The Revolution Was Postponed Because of Rain

Sitting And Thinking: Lord Loves A Working Man
Two Fools: Francine King
Sixty-Minute Man: The Dominoes

The Best Is Yet To Come: Tony Bennett (01-06-06)
Lilin: Electric Masada (06-25-08)

Lovely Butterfly: The Melvins (03-09-04)
The Needle and the Damage Done: Neil Young (02-01-71)
Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More: Mudhoney (08-29-89)
Buck Wylin->Public Enemy No. 1->Don't Believe the Hype: Public Enemy (06-27-92)
Flip Flop and Fly: Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones

Everyday People: Sly and the Family Stone (09-01-69)
Tom Violence: Sonic Youth (08-17-90)
Fishin' Blues: Taj Mahal (05-16-73)
Small Change: Tom Waits (07-26-79)

The False Husband: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (11-30-08)