B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU FM, 90.5/ 21 JULY 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ MON/TUES., 21/22 JULY 08/ 10:00 PM- 2:00 AM

Hat and Beard/ ERIC DOLPHY (’64, Out to Lunch)
Monkey Chant/ GLENN KOTCHE (’06, Mobile)
Big Gundown/ JOHN ZORN (’85, The Big Gundown)

Exile/ NELS CLINE TRIO
Signal/ SAM PHILLIPS (’08, Don’t Do Anything)*
Twilight Time/ JENNY SCHEINMAN (’08, self titled)*
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE (’07, You Follow Me)
Get Out/ MITTY COLLIER (1965)
Aretha, Sing One For Me/ CAT POWER (Jukebox, George Jackson cover)

Ma/ TOM ZE (Best of Tom Ze, Luaka Bop)
Over Under Sideways Down/ YARDBIRDS (’66)
Cler Achel/ TINARIWEN (’07, Aman Iman: Water is Life)
El Ovni/ LOS OVNIS (Mas Rock n’ Roll, Electro Harmonix)
Saisa Na Ma/ LITO BARRIENTOS Y SUS ORQUESTRA (’07, Columbia!)
The Water Under the Moon/ A HAWK & A HACKSAW (’05, Darkness at Noon)
Easy Does It/ BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY (’08 Tie Down the Light)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (’08, For Emma, Forever Ago)*

The Wheel/ BILL CALLAHAN (’07, Woke on a Whaleheart)
Maybe Partying Will Help/ THE MINUTEMEN (’84, Double Nickels on a Dime)
Natural’s Not in It/ GANG OF FOUR (’79, Entertainment)
Small Stakes/ SPOON
Cold Son/ STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS (’08, Real Emotional Trash)*
Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)
Dr. Vitas Werdegast/ 20 MINUTE LOOP (’08, Famous People Marry Famous People)*

Sing Me Spanish Techno/ NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’05, Twin Cinema)
Skin Deep/ NICK LOWE (’79, Labour of Lust)
Don’t You Worry/ JIM NOIR (self titled)*
Pot Kettle Black/ TILLY AND THE WALL (’08, “O")*
Just A Little Bit/ THE KAISERS
These Boots Are Made For Walking/ NANCY SINATRA (’66)
Souljacker/ THE EELS (’01, Souljacker)
I Kinda Got Lost/ BIG STAR (unreleased demo version, Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story)
Living Well is the Best Revenge/ REM (’08, Accelerate)
Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANA (Fade and Your Gone)
Wrong Time Capsule/ DEERHOOF (’05, The Runners Four)
Night Time/ THE STRANGELOVES (1965)
Lie, Beg, Borrow & Steal/ THE PLIMSOULS (’83, Everywhere At Once, Mouse & the Traps cover)
Spanish Stroll/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, self titled debut)
Roadrunner/ BO DIDDLEY (1959)
Out in the Streets/ THE SHANGRI-LAS (’65, Jeff Barry/ Elle Greenwich)

Your Good Thing (Is About to End)/ MABEL JOHN
Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’98, Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Seven Seas/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)
White Winter Hymnal/ THE FLEET FOXES (’08, self titled)*
Waterloo Sunset/ THE KINKS (’67, Something Else)
You May Be Blue/ VETIVER (’06, To Find Me Gone)
Lost in Space/ AIMEE MANN (’02, Lost in Space)

Braindead/ RED RED MEAT (’94, Jimmywine Majestic)
Sound and Vision/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
Turn On/ THE SEA AND CAKE (’07, Everybody)

Tell It To Me/ TOM WAITS
*new or recent release

Wonder Not

Raised in the Lower East Side tenements of New York, the legendary US photographer Dorothea Lange captured numerous images of the working class and minorities, from the south, midwest and the west. Pictured, a boy is reading the funny papers while in the Japanese American concentration camp, Manzanar, during WW II, from Impounded, published posthumously.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU-FM 90.5/ 14 JULY 08

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLE/ MON., TUES., 14, 15 JULY 08
Maskil/ JOHN ZORN/ MASADA CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (’96, Bar Kokhba)
Jaisalmer/ SIR RICHARD BISHOP (’04, Improvika, Locust Music)
Ilhabibi/ A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (’07, …And the Hungar Ensemble)
Apache/ 17 HIPPIES (’07, Heimlich)
Blues, Too/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (Live in Montreal)

Right As Wrong/ INARA GEORGE (w/ VAN DYKE PARKS)*
On Teasing/ NINA NASTASIA (’03, Run to Ruin)
The Blue Room/ EVANGELISTA ( w/ CARLA BUZULICH +
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, ‘08, Hello, Voyager, Constellation)*
Dope Island/ T BONE BURNETT
Saro/ SAM AMIDON (’08, All Is Well)
Demon Days/ ROBERT FORSTER (’08, The Evangelist)*
San Bernadino/ MOUNTAIN GOATS (’08, Heretic Pride)
Protector/ THE FLEET FOXES (self titled, Sub Pop)*

Life’s Little Ups and Downs/ CHARLIE RICH (’69)
Every Night About This Time/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night About This Time)
There She Still Remains/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)*
Tulsa Telephone Book/ CALEXICO (’98, from Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)
Silver Wing/ THE KNITTERS (’85)
Not A Woman, Not A Child/ DAVE EDMUNDS (’78, Tracks on Wax 4)

Police and Thieves/ THE CLASH (’77)
Rudi, A Message To You/ THE SPECIALS (’79)
B Movie/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS (’80, Get Happy!!)
Clap Hands/ TOM WAITS (’88, Big Time, live)
I Got Kinda Lost/ BIG STAR (demo)
IHop/ LUNA (’97, Pup Tent)
After Dark/ SNAKE HIPS (’97, Memphis Juke)
Hold My Life/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’85, Tim)

Don’t You Want It/ GOLDEN MEAN (’05, Black Operation)
When the Money Comes/ BETTY LAVETTE w/ DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS (’07, Scene of the Crime)
Too Bad/ THE FACES (’71, A Nod Is As Good As a Wink…)
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues/ BOB DYLAN (Live 1966, Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK)
Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’78, Easter)
Make Me Yours/ BETTYE SWAN (’67)
Crawfish/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’88, Copycats)

Greenlight/ DETROIT COBRAS (Tied & True)
This Damn Nation/ THE GODFATHERS (’86, Hit By Hit)
Let’s Talk About Girls/ CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND (’67 No Way Out)
Hello There/ CHEAP TRICK (’77, In Color)
Sugar Kane/ SONIC YOUTH (’92, Dirty)
Beautiful Friend/ THE UNDERTONES (’81, Positive Touch)
*new or recent release

BW's "Hot Circles" on at 10:00 PM-1:00 AM (PST), Monday

The Boy Wonder will be filling in for Gus Mozart/ Music Box for the next two weeks (July 14th and 21st); in other words, I'll be on KHSU-FM, 90.5, from 10:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Photograph by Birney Imes.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 8 JULY 08

BOY WONDER HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 8 JULY 08/ MIDNIGHT-2 AM
Messiah Ward/ NICK CAVE & BAD SEEDS (’04, Abattoir Blues)
Crawfish/ ELVIS PRESLEY
Cadillac Walk/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)
Walking Spanish/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)
Ruler of My Heart/ IRMA THOMAS (’62)
Out in the Streets/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S
You Look Good in Blue/ BLONDIE (’76, self-titled debut)
Psychotic Reaction/ COUNT FIVE (’66)
Poor Girl/ X (’83, More Fun in the New World)

Kamikaze/ PJ HARVEY
(2000, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)
Soon/ MY BLOODY VALENTINE (’91, Loveless)
Little Eyes/ YO LA TENGO (’03, Summer Sun)
Kingdom of Lies/ FOLK IMPLOSION (’99, One Part Lullaby)
Sgt. Rock/ XTC (’87, Black Sea)

Gratification to Concrete/ ROBERT POLLARD
(’08, Robert Pollard Is Off to Business)*
Always Crashing in the Same Car/ DAVID BOWIE (’77, Low)
Ambulance/ TV ON THE RADIO
(’04, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes)
Oliver James/ FESTIVE FOXES (’08, self-titled)*
Signal/ SAM PHILLIPS (’08, Don’t Do Anything)*
In the Evening/ NINA NASTASIA (’07, You Follow Me)
I Wish I Was Your Mother/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’73, Mott)
Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTENED RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)*

Ain’t That Enough/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)
Love is Lies/ BUZZCOCKS (’78, Love Bites)
While I Wait For You/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’99, Black Days Blue Nights)
Oh Caroline/ BEACH BOYS (’66, Pet Sounds)
*new or recent release

Please, Please, Please

Mr. James Brown, Memphis, 1965; pix taken by legendary Memphis photographer, Ernest C. Withers.

B.W.'s PLAYLIST, KHSU-FM, 90.5, 1 JULY 08

BOY WONDER’S HOT CIRCLES/ TUES., 1 JULY 08/ MIDNIGHT- 2 AM
My Babe/ LITTLE WALTER
I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN
Get Out of My Life/ ALLEN TOUSSAINT
Ma/ TOM ZE
Lucky Lucky Luck/ EVANGELISTA (w/ CARLA BUZOLICH, Hello, Voyager)*
Impossible Germany/ WILCO (Sky Blue Sky, ‘07)
White Winter Hymnal/ FLEET FOXES (self titled debut, ’08)*
For Emma/ BON IVER (For Emma, Forever Ago)*
Suffering Jukebox/ SILVER JEWS (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)*

Do You Know the Way to San Jose/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (My Favorite Waste of Time, ‘08)*
Temptation/ ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS
Ram On/ PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY
One Stolen Moment/ PETE MOLINARI
Get Yourself Together/ SMALL FACES
Son of a Gun/ THE LA’S (BBC in Session)
Pretty (Ugly Before)/ ELLIOTT SMITH (From a Basement on the Hill, ’04)

When You Walk Out/ MATTHEW SWEET (100% Fun, ’95)
I’m Waiting For the Day/ THE BEACH BOYS (Pet Sounds, ’66)
Comfy in Nautica/ PANDA BEAR (Person Pitch, ’07)
Happy Spirits/ THE RADAR BROTHERS (Auditorium, ’08)
Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (In Rainbows, ’08)
Midnight Man/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, ’08)*
Lovelines/ THE RELACEMENTS (Hootenany, ’82)
Voodoo Cadillac/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (Too Much Pork, ‘’91)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?/ MINUTEMEN (3-Way Tie for Last, ’85)
The Have Nots/ X (Under the Big Black Sun,’82)

Behind Closed Doors/ CHARLIE RICH
Motel Matches/ E.C. & ATTRACTIONS
I Must Be in a Good Place Now/ VETIVER (Thing of the Past, ’08, Bobby Charles cover)*
Help Me/ SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
Ask Me No Questions/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (So Alone, ’78)
*new/recent release