BUCK CALHOUN SHOW/ BW SUBBAGE/ KHSU, 90.5/ WED., 30 JUNE 10

BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Bag of Bones/ POKEY LaFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’10, Riverboat Soul)*

Sixteen Tons/ TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD (’55)

Murder on My Mind (Wreckless Eric)/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS (’10, Medicine County)*

Ain’t Got No Dough/ PETER CASE (’10, Wig!)*

Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Pleasure Unit (K. Fowley)/ THE GORE GORE GIRLS (’07, Get the Gore)

Bohemian Like You / THE DANDY WARHOLS (’00, Thirteen Tales From Bohemia)

Friendly Ghost/ HARLEM (’10, Hippies)*

Jail La La/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’10, I Will Be)*

Let’s Kill Ourselves/ THE PONYS (’03, Laced With Romance)

That’s Not My Name/ THE TING TINGS (’08, We Started Nothing)

Drunk Girls/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’10, This is Happening)*

Ankle Injuries/ FUJIYA & MIYAGI (’06, Transparent Things)

Saturday/ ELECTRELANE (’07, No Shouts No Calls)

Bluebeard/ THE COCTEAU TWINS (’93, Four-Calendar Café)

About a Fire/ NANCY SINATRA (’04, self titled)

Run in the Dust/ JOHNNY MARR/ 7 WORLDS COLLIDE (’09, The Sun Came Out)

Today Is Gonna Be Mine/ DAVID KILGOUR (‘01, Feather in the Engine)

Blue Diamonds/ THE LONG WINTERS (’03, When I Pretend to Fall)

Sugar/ IMPERIAL TEEN (’02, On)

Kill a Billionaire/ KEN GRIFFIN (’02, single)

Rocket Machine/ OPAL (’87, Happy Nightmare Baby)

The Wind/ PJ HARVEY (’98, Is This Desire?)

Little Fat Baby/ SPARKLEHORSE (’01, It’s a Wonderful Life)

The Moon Asked the Crow/ COCOROSIE (’10, Grey Oceans)*

What’s Out There/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

Lions/ tUnE-yArDs (’09, Bird-Brains)

Caterpillar Girl/ LOU BARLOW + MISSING MEN (’10, Sentridoh III)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 26 JUNE 2010/

St. Louis troubadour Pokey LaFarge and his band, The South City Three, who have just released a new killer recording Riverboat Soul (Free Dirt Records), will be headlining Missing Link Records' Jefferson State Old Time Revue, featuring Striped Pig Band and Hellbound Glory, among others, barbecue, beer and fresh home-made pies (thank you "Pie Ladies"!), on Sat., July 3rd, at The Arcata Playhouse, starting at 4 p.m. If you haven't seen Pokey & Co. perform, it'll be a energetic, funny, rip roarin' hellofagoodtime. You gotta see it to experience it, then convert to it. This recent classy pic of Pokey was taken in NY by Angela Vincent (more on Pokey's website). Don't be fooled, if you get my drift. Don't be a fool, if you live in the area, you gotta go.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9-11 PM

I’ve Always Been a Rambler/ FRANK FAIRFIELD (7” single)*

Bag of Bones/ POKEY LaFARGE AND THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’10, Riverboat Soul)*

Oh So Lonesome For You/ PETE MOLINARI (’08, A Virtual Landslide)

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee (Tom T. Hall)/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’98, Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)

Ramblin’ Man/ HANK WILLIAMS (’53)

Great Atomic Power/ THE LOUVIN BROTHERS (’61)

A Pair of Brown Eyes/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash)

Fernando/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)

When You Walk Into the Room/ JACKIE DeSHANNON (’63)

Feel A Whole Lot Better/ THE BYRDS (’65, Mr. Tambourine Man)

Take the Long Way Round/ TEENAGE FANCLUB (’97, Songs From Northern Britain)

When My Baby’s Beside Me/ BIG STAR (’73, #1 Record)

Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)

The Lady in the Front Row/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

So You Want to Be (A Rock ‘n’ Roll Star)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’79, Wave)

The Words in Red/ PETER CASE (’10, Wig!)*

In a Dreamlife U Need a Rubber Soul/ THE CLEAN (’09, Mister Pop)

I Can See For Miles/ THE WHO (’67, The Who Sell Out)

Million Miles Away/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

I Am a Tree/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’97, Mag Earwhig!)

Little Miss Queen of Darkness/ THE KINKS (’66, Face to Face)

Time Fading Lines/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Boy Help Me/ THE DAUGHTERS OF EVE (’66, ’09 collection, 2131 South Michigan Avenue: 60's Garage & Psychedelia From U.S.A. And Destination Records)

Caterpillar Girl/ LOU BARLOW + THE MISSING MEN (’10, Sentridoh III)*

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)

When You’re Away From Me/ FAVOURITE SONS (’06, Down Beside Your Beauty)

Funny Face/ THE MUFFS (’95, Blonder and Blonder)

Love Song/ THE DAMNED (’79, Machine Gun Etiquette)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 19 JUNE 2010

Maverick US female singer, songwriter and arranger Jackie DeShannon (born Sharon Lee Myers) wrote and performed scores of '60's & '70's hit songs, such as "When You Walk In the Room," "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," and she also co-wrote with Jack Nitzsche, Jimmy Page, Randy Newman, Delaney Bramlett and Sharon Sheely, among others. Ms. DeShannon was recently interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's "Fresh Air." Great informative interview with a class pop legend.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Put a Little Love in Your Heart/ JACKIE DeSHANNON (’69, Put a Little Love In Your Heart)

Needles and Pins/ THE RAMONES (’78, Road to Ruin )

When You Walk Into the Room/ THE HELLCATS (’90, Hoodoo Train)

If I Needed Someone/ THE BEATLES (’65, Rubber Soul)

Vanishing Girl/ THE DUKES OF THE STRATOSPHERE (’87, Psonic Sunspot)

Talk of the Town/ THE PRETENDERS (’81, II)

Dressy/ THE REIGNING SOUND (’02, Time Bomb High School)

Love is All Around Me/ THE TROGGS (’67)

The High Road/ BROKEN BELLS (’10, self titled)*

Bad Days/ THE FLAMING LIPS (’95, Clouds Taste Metallic)

Perverted World/ SEBADOH (’91, III)

Cries of the Dead/ CHAD VANGAALEN (’08, Soft Airplane)

42 West Avenue /CASHIER NO 9 (’08, 7" single)

Driver 8/ REM (’85, Fables of the Reconstruction)

Shake Some Action/ THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES (’76, Shake Some Action)

I Want You Back/ THE HOODOO GURUS (’83, Stoneage Romeos)

Lindo Sonho Delirate/ FABIO (from ’10 collection, Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas:Tropicalia Psychedelic Masterpieces 1967-1976)

Ma/ TOM ZE (’90 collection, Best of Tom Ze)

A Minha Menina/ OS MUTATANTES (’68, ’99 collection, Everything Is Possible!)

Dead Weight/ BECK (’97, A Life Less Ordinary, st)

Children Kiss Your Mother Goodnight/ PISCES (’69, ’09 issue, A Lovely Sight)

Mornin’ Time/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Plateau/ THE MEAT PUPPETS (’83, II)

Caterpillar Girl/ LOU BARLOW (w/ THE MISSING MEN) (’10, Sentidoh III EP)*

SF Sorrow/ THE SF SEALS (’95, Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows)

Shadow Line/ THE FLESHTONES (’82, Blast Off!)

Lines Her Eyes/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’10, I Will Be)*

Then She Remembers/ THE DREAM SYNDICATE (’82, The Days of Wine and Roses)

Kick Up Your Heals/ PRISONSHAKE (’93, The Roaring Third)

El Camino/ ELIZABETH COOK (’10, Welder)*

Women/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

1976/ REDD KROSS (’80, Third Eye)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 12 JUNE 2010

LA-based "band," Dum Dum Girls, created and led by singer/songwriter Kristen Gundred, has released its debut full-length album, I Will Be (Sub Pop). It's an impressive and fun summer rock record, filtering influences such as Blondie (mainly Deborah Harry's phrasing), Siouxsie Sioux, Jesus and The Mary Chain and '60's garage. Produced by The Strangeloves' Richard Gottehrer, who also produced the debut records by Blondie and Richard Hell & The Voidoids. We'll simply have to wait and keep an eye out where Gundred's young talent will lead her. Or not. Check out a local review of this record in The North Coast Journal.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

I’ve Been Loving You Too Long/ OTIS REDDING (live ’66 at Whisky A Go Go/ ’10, Otis Redding & His Orchestra: Live on the Sunset Strip)*

Nobody But You/ LITTLE BOB & THE LOLLIPOPS (’64, ’04 collection, I Got Loaded)

The Hawg, Pt. 1 (’63)/ EDDIE KIRK (’63)

Cadillac Jack/ ANDRE WILLIAMS (’67, ’06 collection, Movin On: Greasy and Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970)

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, 7” single)

Rockin’ Around (With You)/ TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS (’76, self titled)

Keep on Running (’65)/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’65)

Time the Avenger/ THE PRETENDERS (’84, Learning to Crawl)

What I Like About You/ THE ROMANTICS (’80, self titled)

Leave My Kitten Alone/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)

Something Else/ EDDIE COCHRAN (’59)

Rip Her to Shreds/ BLONIDE (’76, self titled)

Jail La La/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’10, I Will Be)*

Fire Engine/ THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (’66, The Psychedelic Sounds of)

Aeba Suki Suki/ MARGARET & THE BUNNYS (’68, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966-1970)

Ah-So/ THE 5,6,7,8’S (’92, Can’t Help It)

Goin’ Out West/ TOM WAITS (’92, Bone Machine)

I’ll Wait/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’01, Ultraglide in Black)

Way Down in the Hole/ THE COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS (’95 collection, Gambling Days Are Over)

Million Miles Away (live, ’81)/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

Buried Alive/ SNAKEHIPS (’92, 7” single)

Stiff Competition/ CHEAP TRICK (’78, Heaven Tonight)

Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting/ ELTON JOHN (’73, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road)

Freed Pig/ SEBADOH (’91, III)

Blood Dries Darker/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Men in Sandals/ AMY RIGBY & WRECKLESS ERIC (’09, self titled)

The Curse/ THE MEKONS (’91, Curse of The Mekons)

Past Time/ THE BASEBALL PROJECT (’08, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails)

Death May Be Your Santa Claus/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’71, Brain Caper Kids)

Blank Generation/ RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS (’77, Blank Generation)

Sleepyhead/ THE NELS CLINE SINGERS (’02, Instrumentals)

*new or recent release

THE BUCK CALHOUN SHOW/ KHSU, 90.5/ BW SUBBAGE/ WED., 9 JUNE 10

UK singer/songwriter Rachel Unthank and her sister Becky, the main force of Rachel Unthank and The Winterset (now simply known as The Unthanks) deliver a cool version of The Beatles' "Sexy Sadie." Sexy sadies, indeed.
BOY WONDER SUBBAGE/ 10:00 PM-MIDNIGHT

Bang, Bang (I Shot My Baby Down)/ NANCY SINATRA (’66, ’95 collection, How Does That Grab You)

I Move Around/ THE PURRS (’10, Tearing Down Paisley Garden EP)*

Chinatown/ LUNA (’95, Penthouse)

The Right/ LOU BARLOW (’09, Goodnight Unknown)

Penelope Tree/ FELT (’83)

Get Back/ WOODS (’10, At Echo Lake)*

Father to a Sister to a Thought/ PAVEMENT (’95, Wowee Zowee)

I Can Be a Frog/ FLAMING LIPS (’09, Embyonic)*

Adventure Tour/ RUBY SUNS (’08, Sea Lion)

Lion in a Coma/ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (’09, Merriweather Post Pavilion)

Golden Age/ TV ON THE RADIO (’08, Dear Science)

Drunk Girls/ LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (’10, This is Happening)*

Boys Keep Swinging/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

The Rest is Noise/ FIELD MUSIC ('10, Field Music (Measure)

Merely a Man/ XTC ('89, Oranges & Lemons)

Fanfare/ ERIC MATTHEWS (’95, It’s Heavy in Here)

Little Rage/ THE MICE (’87, Scooter)

New Slang/ THE SHINS (’01, Oh, Inverted World)

Ballad of Big Nothing/ ELLIOT SMITH (’97, Either/Or)

You Can Take Your Time/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

R.I.P. Burn Face/ COCOROSIE (’10, Grey Oceans)*

Sexy Sadie/ RACHEL UNTHANK AND THE WINTERSET (’08, Mojo Magazine: The White Album Recovered)

Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk/ THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (’10, Together)*

Christine/ SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (’80, Kaleidoscope)

Bigmouth Strikes Again/ THE SMITHS (’86, The Queen is Dead)

Drive On Driver/ MAGNETIC FIELDS (’08, Distortion)

Love Burns/ BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB (’01, self titled)

Far Gone and Out/ JESUS & THE MARY CHAIN (’92, Honey’s Dead)

Kidnapped By Neptune/ SCOUT NIBLETT (’05, Kidnapped By Neptune)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 5 JUNE 2010

NY-based singer/songwriter Nina Nastasia has finally released her first full-length record in three years, Outlaster (on FatCat Records). Brim full of dark tales, orchestral texture (thanks to arranger/bassist Paul Bryan), excellent instrumentation (especially from drummer/percussionist extraordinaire Jay Bellerose), Nastasia's new effort is a brooding gem.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Sixteen Tons/ TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD (’55)

I’m Shakin’/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’60)

So Glad (C. Burnett)/ THE BLASTERS (’80, American Music)

I Asked For Water/ HOWLIN’ WOLF (’56)

Bangkok/ ALEX CHILTON (’75, Bach’s Bottom)

Preachin’ the Blues/ GUN CLUB (’81, Fire of Love)

Red Eye #2/ THE PLUGZ (’81, Better Luck)

I Can’t Stand It Anymore/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (’69, The Velvet Underground)

Garbage Man/ THE CRAMPS (’80, The Songs the Lord Taught Us)

Everybody’s Movin’/ GLEN GLENN (’58)

Howlin’ For You/ THE BLACK KEYS (’10, 12” single, b/w "Tighten Up")*

Road Runner/ BO DIDDLEY (’59)

Everyday Things (live at The Whiskey-A-Go-Go, LA, '81)/ THE PLIMSOULS ('10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

I Will Dare/ THE REPLACEMENTS (’84, Let It Be)

Ask Me No Questions/ JOHNNY THUNDERS (’78, So Alone)

Venus of Avenue D/ MINK DeVILLE (’77, Cabretta)

Suffering Jukebox/ THE SILVER JEWS (’08, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)

Lemon World/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

Goodbye Sweet Dreams/ ROKY ERICKSON w/ OKKERVIL RIVER (’10, True Love Cast Out All Evil)*

I Don’t Care If There’s Cursing/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s To Taking It Easy)*

I Wish It Was Saturday Night/ DAVE ALVIN (’87, Every Night Around This Time)

History Lesson - Part II/ MINUTEMEN (’84, Double Nickels on The Dime)

Inside Story/ DON McGLASHIN (’10, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)

Talk About the Passion/ REM (’83, Murmur)

You’re a Holy Man/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

Trap Doors/ BROKEN BELLS (’10, self titled)*

Aspirations/ THE BICYCLE THIEF (’99, You Come and Go Like a Pop Song)

I Am a Scientist/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’94, Bee Thousand)

Dirty Water/ THE STANDELLS (’66)

20th Century Man/ T. REX (’73, Tanx)

The First Part/ SUPERCHUNK (’94, Foolish)

The English Civil War/ THE CLASH (’78, Give ‘Em Enough Rope)

When You Wish Upon a Star/ CLIFF EDWARDS ('41)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 29 MAY 2010

This 1980's LA-based power pop/rock n' roll quartet was, in some respects, an unusual outfit. Led by ex-Nerves Peter Case (white guy, singer/songwriter), The Plimsouls (Brit term for "sneakers") consisted of two Southern Californian Chicanos, guitarist Eddie Munoz and drummer Lou Ramirez, and a Samoan-American bassist Dave Pahoa. Aside the ethnic distinctions, The Plimsouls rocked, often exposing its young audience (with me as one of them) to a number of cool '60's covers, such as Thee Midnighters' "Jump Jive & Harmonize" and The Kinks' "Come On Now." A Halloween 1981 concert recording made at LA's Whiskey-A-Go-Go, which was just released, captures The Plimsouls at a high point, with the band seriously ripping it up (especially Munoz on blistering lead guitar). Any 'Souls fan, either past or present, should grab this great record, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal, excellently mastered (and previously unreleased, including members of The Fleshtones as special guests).
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 9:00-11:00 PM

Do You Duty / BETTYE LAVETTE (’70, Do Your Duty)

If You Don’t Think/ ANNA KING (’64, Back to Soul)

Willy Nilly/ RUFUS THOMAS (’65)

I’m Trying to Break Your Heart/ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND (’10, 7" single)

Keep on Runnin’/ SPENCER DAVIS GROUP (’64)

Sorry/ THE EASYBEATS (’66)

Jump Jive and Harmonize/ THEE MIDNIGHTERS (’67)

Jump Jive & Harmonize/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

Come On Now/ THE PLIMSOULS (’10, Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal)*

Join My Gang/ THE LONG RYDERS (’83, 10-5-60)

Canteloupe Girlfriend/ THREE O’CLOCK (’83, Sixteen Tamborines)

Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes/ EDISON LIGHTHOUSE (’70)

Go All the Way/ THE RASPBERRIES (’72)

Cherry Bomb/ THE RUNAWAYS (’77, self titled)

Fox on the Run/ SWEET (’73, Desolation Boulevard)

Pleasure Seeker/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Dancing the Night Away/ THE MOTORS (’77, Motors 1)

Stop Foolin’/ DRESSY BESSY (’05, Electrified)

Why I Don’t Like August 93/ THE CONSTANTINES ('05, Believer Magazine Music comp.)

There Is an End/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE GREENHORNES (’05, Broken Flowers st)

The Race Is On/ YO LA TENGO (’06, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass)

Starry Eyes/ THE RECORDS (’79)

Date W/ Ikea/ PAVEMENT (’97, Brighten the Corners)

Venus Is Her Name/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City) [Bar/None]

Please Be Nice to Her/ AMY RIGBY & WRECKLESS ERIC (’08, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby) [Stiff]

Stranger in the House/ RACHEL SWEET (’78, Fool Around)

Radio Sweetheart/ ELVIS COSTELLO (’77, My Aim Is True)

The Singer/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Moves Away/ NINA NASTASIA (’10, Outlaster)*

My Friend/ BILL CALLAHAN (’09, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle)

Bloodbuzz Ohio/ THE NATIONAL (’10, High Violet)*

Pablo Picasso/ THE MODERN LOVERS (’76, self titled)

Friction/ TELEVISION (’77, Marquee Moon)

*new or recent release