Sixto Diaz Rodriguez gets down with the Hot Circles behind a wall of amps. Check out the Light in the Attic reissue of Rodriguez's stellar 1970 release, Cold Facts, and his resurgence from the other side of the globe.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9-11 PM
Watch the Dog That Bring the Bone/ SANDY GAYE (’69)
Be Easy/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’07, 100 Days, 100 Nights)
Somebody’s Gonna Help Me/ RICHARD COOKE (’68, Eccentric Soul: Tragar & Note Labels, No. 020)
Guayaba (Tito Puente)/ LUCHO MACEDO ('07 comp., Movers!)
El Pito/ JOE CUBA ('65)
Donde Vas?/ LOS GATOS SALVAJES (’07, Roots of Chicha)
Spanish Stroll/ MINK DEVILLE (’77, self titled)
Inner City Blues/ RODRIGUEZ (’69/ 2008 reissue, Cold Fact)
Mr. Nobody/ POKEY LAFARGE
Graveyard Shift/ STEVE EARLE & DEL McCORY BAND (’99, The Mountain)
Drinking Wine Spo-dee-o-dee/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’03, 1000 Years of Popular Music)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)
‘Til I Get It Right/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (’09, Country Club)*
Look For Me (I’ll Be Around)/ NEKO CASE (’02, Blacklisted)
Ramblin Man/ HANK WILLIAMS, SR.
Shelley My Love/ NICK LOWE (’94, Impossible Bird)
The Wind and the Dove/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle)*
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All is Well)
Sick Bed of Cuchulainn/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum Sodomy & the Lash)
Last Orders Please/ THE FACES (w/ Ronnie Lane, vocals, '71, A Nod is as Good as a Wink...)
I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN ('61)
Trigger Cut/ Wounded Kite at :17/ PAVEMENT ('92, Slanted & Enchanted)
Vicious/ LOU REED (’72, Transformer)
The Town Halo/ AC NEWMAN (’04, The Slow Wonder)
Stars/ THE CLEAN (’01, Getaway)
Go For the Exit/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’08, Brown Submarine)
In the City/ THE JAM (’77, In the City)
Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & the VOIDOIDS (’77, Blank Generation)
Safe European Home/ THE CLASH (’78, Give’em Enough Rope)
Down on the Street/ THE STOOGES (’70, Funhouse)
*new or recent release
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