B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 24 SEPT. 2011

BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Summer Fun/ TAMMAR (’11, Visits)*

Jigsaw Falling Into Place/ RADIOHEAD (’08, In Rainbows)

Howl/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)

Art of Almost/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)*

Here to Fall/ YO LA TENGO (’09, Popular Songs)

Melody/ SERGE GAINSBOURG (’71, ’09 reissue, Historie de Melody Nelson)

Pink&Sour/ CALIFONE (’06, Roots & Crowns)

Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Version)/ BJORK AND THE OMAR SOULEYMAN GROUP (’11, single)*

Aynali Koruk/ FERYL ONEY (’06)

Lawl Qalandar Lal/ THE AAY JAYS (’11 collection, Pakistan: Folk and Pop Instrumentals 1966-1976)*

Some Place/ NICK WATERHOUSE (’11, 7” single) [Pres]

Love Is Strange/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLIDIN (’88, Copy Cats)

I Said No/ PAT CLAYTON (’56)

Seven Day Fool/ ETTA JAMES (’61)

Love Ain’t Nothing/ JOHNNY NASH (’64)

Misery/ BARNETT STRONG (’61)

Your Life is Gone/ REPARATA (’72, 09 collection, The Laurie Records Story, Vol. Three)

Don’t Underestimate Me/ THE SAN FRANCISCO SEALS (’94, Nowhere)

Loretta [Nervous Eaters]/ NEKO CASE w/ THE SADIES (’04, The Tigers Have Spoken)

Teardrops in My Pillow/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)*

Take It With You/ THE ETTES (’09, Do You Want Power)

Racehorse/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Long Hard Book/ STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS (‘11, Mirror Traffic)*

Dawned on Me/ WILCO (’11, The Whole Love)*

Twilight Distillery/ THE MINUS 5 (’06, The Epistle Dedicatory)

Chitlin’ Cookin’ time in Cheatham County/ POKEY LaFARGE AND THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’11, 7” single)* [Third Man]

This Land is Your Land/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’05, Naturally)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 17 SEPT. 2011

Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein formed Wild Flag with S-K colleague (and amazing drummer) Janet Weiss, Helium's Mary Timony and The Minders' Rebecca Cole. Their debut is stunning with garage-laced, psych-induced and straight shooting rockers. Wild Flag's debut (on Merge) could easily be considered for this year's "Best of" lists. It's that freakin' good.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

The Night Before Last/ MARISA ANDERSON (’11, The Golden Hour)

I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night/ CHARLIE PARR (’10, When the Devil Goes Blind)

That’s The Way It Goes/ GILLIAN WELCH (’11, The Harrow & The Harvest)*

The Calming Seas/ BEACHWOOD SPARKS (’00, self titled)

I’m On Fire/ WHITEY MORGAN & THE 78’S (’08, Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels)

Black Wings/ TOM WAITS (’92, Bone Machine)

By the Time I Get to Phoenix/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (’86, Kicking Against the Pricks)

Far Far Away/ WILCO (’96, Being There)

You and Your Sister (Country Version)/ CHRIS BELL (’92 issue, I Am the Cosmos)

Be My Baby/ THE RONETTES (’63)

Give Him a Great Big Kiss/ THE SHANGRI-LA’S (’64)

Love is Strange/ JOHNNY THUNDERS & PATTI PALLADIN (’86, Copy Cats)

You Look Good in Blue/ BLONDIE (’76, self titled)

Caught in One/ DUM DUM GIRLS (’11, Only in Dreams)*

The Pendulum/ THE ETTES (’11, Wicked Will)*

Make It Black/ THE BOTSWANAS (’01, Fade and Your Gone)

Make It in America/ THE BEARDS (’02, Funtown)

Short Version/ WILD FLAG (’11, self titled)*

Avalanche Aminos/ GUIDED BY VOICES (’00, Hold on Hope ep)

Only a Girl/ REDD KROSS (’93, Phaseshifter)

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

Senator/ STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS (’11, Mirror Traffic)*

Here Before/ THE FEELIES (’11, Here Before)

The Way to Market Station/ THE AISLERS SET (’00, The Last Match)

The Couples/ THE LONG BLONDES (’08, Couples)

Lola/ THE RAINCOATS (’79, self titled)

Slowly But Surely/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’04, Slowly But Surely)

‘Til the Real Thing Comes Along/ NICK LOWE (’11, The Old Magic)

Just to Walk That Little Girl Home/ MINK DeVILLE (’79, Le Chat Bleu)

Just One More Day/ OTIS REDDING (’65)

Lord Tell Me Why/ RY COODER (’11, Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down)*

Brother's Gonna Work It Out/ WILLIE HUTCH ('73, The Mack st)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 10 SEPT. 2011

From NY's Art Spielgelman's 2004 graphic novel/memoir, In the Shadow of No Towers, based on his personal trauma from 9/11.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT/ I ♥ NY ED.

Lord’s Prayer/ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (’90, Dead City Radio)

Lapse [C. Knox]/ BILL CALLAHAN (’10, Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox)

Killing Moon/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’84, Ocean Rain)

You Said Something/ PJ HARVEY (’00, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea)

The Empty Page/ SONIC YOUTH (’02, Murray Street)

Empire of the Senseless/ THE MEKONS (’89, Rock ‘n’ Roll)

Memories Can’t Wait/ TALKING HEADS (’79, Fear of Music)

War on War/ WILCO (’02, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

Big Day Coming/ YO LA TENGO (’93, Painful)

In World/ TELEVISION (’92, self titled)

I Believe/ R.E.M. (’86, ’11 reissue, Lifes Rich Pageant)

Protection/ GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR (’79, Squeezing Out Sparks)

Rock Hard Times/ EELS (‘03, Shootenany!)

Rain on the City/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)

The Beast in Me/ NICK LOWE (’94, Impossible Bird)

Nighttime (live) [A. Chilton]/ ELLIOT SMITH (’00, Live at La Boule Noir, Paris)

See How We Are/ X (’95, Unclogged)

Wave/ CALEXICO (’04, Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo)

Christmas Time This Year/ RY COODER (’11, Pull Up the Dust)*

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [E. Bogle, ’71]/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum Sodomy & The Lash)

Time/ TOM WAITS (’85, Rain Dogs)

Take Care the Road You Choose/ RICHARD THOMPSON (’07, Sweet Warrior)

Ashes of American Flags (live)/ WILCO (’09, Ashes of American Flags)

What’s Going On (live, Hollywood Bowl, '92))/ LOS LOBOS (’93 collection, Just Another Band From East LA)

The World (Is Going Up in Flames)/ CHARLES BRADLEY (’11, No Time For Dreaming)*

My World/ LEE FIELD & THE EXPRESSIONS ('10, My World)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 3 SEPT. 2011

Memphis reared, Charles 'Packy' Axton, son the legendary Stax Records co-founder, Estelle Axton, was a sax player who formed early groups with Steve Cropper, Wayne Jackson (both appear in this photo with Axton, far right) , Duck Dune, Teenie Hodges, among others who would be known in '60s Memphis soul scene (namely Stax and Hi Records). Light in the Attic collected Axton's various groups he led between 1965-67 and released the excellent compilation, Charles 'Packy' Axton: Late Late Party.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Holiday Cheer/ THE MARTINIS (’67, ’11 collection, Charles 'Packy' Axton: Late Late Party 1965-67)*

Better Things/ SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS (’10, I Learned the Hard Way)

Money I$ King/ LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS (’10, My World)

How Long/ CHARLES BRADLEY (w/ THE MENAHAN STREET BAND) (’11, No Time For Dreaming)*

The Wolf/ THE MENAHAN STREET BAND (’09, 7” single) [Dunham]

Nah Nah Yeh Kya Karne Lage Ho/ KALYANJI-ANANDJI (’80, ’07 collection, The Bombay Connection, Vol. 1)

Soul Raga/ MEHRPOUYA (’09 collection, Pomegranates)

Me and You/ TAKE IT EASY HOSPITAL (’09, No One Knows About Persian Cats st)

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

Aqui en mi nube/ SONIA (’66, ’11 collection, Chicas! Spanish Female Singers 1962-1974)*

Los Ovni/ LOS OVNIS ('60s, ’06 collection, Mas Rock and Roll: 26 Rare Teen ‘60s Teen-Punk Artyfacts)

Sono Que Con Voi/ CATERINA CASELLI ('60s, ’11 collection, Hot French Chicks in the Garage)*

Kiro No Sekai/ J GIRLS (‘69, ’09 collection, Nippon Girls)

Pas Adieu/ FABIENNE DELSOL (10, On My Mind)

Slowly But Surely/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY (’04, Slowly But Surely)

Fever/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’56)

I Bet You/ DENNIS COFFEY (w/ MICK COLLINS & RACHEL NAGY) (’11, self titled)*

Jump Into Your Arms/ JOHN DOE (’11, Keeper)*

Walking With a Mountain/ MOTT THE HOOPLE (’70, ’80 collection, Backsliding Fearlessly: The Early Years)

Shackles and Chains/ MARK HARRISON AND SNAKEHIPS (’93, Lit)

Another Girl, Another Planet (live)/ THE REPLACEMENTS ('89, ’91 collection, All For Nothing, Nothing For All)

The Vicelords/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’11, Let It Beard)*

I Might/ WILCO (’11, 7" single)* [dBpm]

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

No One Is/ STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS (’11, Mirror Traffic)*

‘Til the Real Thing Comes Along/ NICK LOWE (’11, The Old Magic)*

Heart of Gold/ CHARLES BRADLEY (’11, 7” single)* [Dunham]

Mixed Up Shook Up Girl/ MINK DeVILLE (‘77, Cabretta)

You and Me/ PENNY & THE QUARTERS (7” single)

I Did My Part/ THE HELLCATS ('90, Hoodoo Train)

You're the Best Thing/ THE STYLE COUNCIL ('84, Cafe Bleu)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 27 AUG. 2011

An aerial view of Hurricane Irene...as it hits the East Coast, USA. Be well all, especially those in the greater NYC area...you have The Boy Wonder's thoughts and luck!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Fire/Sign/ THE GOSSIP (’03, Movement)

The Equaliser/ CLINIC (’02, Walking With Thee)

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

Memories of the Future/ HANDSOME FURS (’11, Sound Kapital)*

Metal/ GARY NUMAN (’79, Pleasure Principle)

Airbag/ RADIOHEAD (’98, Airbag/ How Am I Driving? EP)

Trap Door/ BROKEN BELLS (’10, self titled)

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

The Story of Hip-Hop/ THE BOOKS (’10, The Way Out)

Real Live Flesh/ tUnE-yArDs (’09, BiRd-BrAiNs)

Cosmic Cars/ THE DIRTBOMBS (’11, Party Store)

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)

Suzanne and I/ ANNA CALVI (’11, self titled)

Lovely Day/ BIG STAR (’75, ’08 collection, Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story)

Birthday Gal/ THE REPLACEMENTS ('86, ’98 collection, All For Nothing)

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

Christmas Girl/ BOSTON SPACESHIPS (’11, Let It Beard)*

Little Rage/ THE MICE (’87, ’04 collection, For Almost Ever Scooter)

Pretty Girls So Insane/ OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY (’04, Our Love Will Change the World)

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL (’98, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

Today is Gonna Be Mine/ DAVID KILGOUR (’01, Feather in the Engine)

Crimson Enemy/ THE BATS (’09, The Guilty Office)

Jack the Ripper/ NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (92, Henry’s Dream)

Welcome to Earth/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK (’04, Spooked)

If You Know Time/ ROBYN HITCHCOCK (’04, Spooked)

Vampiring Again/ CALIFONE (03, Quicksand/Cradlesnakes)

Picture of a Bird/ FRUIT BATS (’11, Tripper)*

Rain on the City/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’10, Rain on the City)

Here Comes the Flood/ ROBERT FRIPP (featuring PETER GABRIEL) ('79, Exposure)

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 20 AUG. 2011

David Johansen, NY Dolls' vocalist and songwriter, shortly after his departure from the Dolls. Photo by Roberta Bayley in the "old school" NYC Metro in the late '70s, early '80s. That's real graffiti, kids!
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Such a Scream (live, ’08)/ TOM WAITS (’09, Glitter and Doom Live)

Ashtray Heart/ CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (’80, Doc at the Radar Station)

Suspended Head/ NELS CLINE SINGERS (’02, Instrumentals)

Scream Team/ DEERHOOF (’05, Runners Four)

Let It Beard/ BOSTON SPACE SHIPS (’11, Let It Beard)*

Oh Caroline/ CHEAP TRICK (’77, In Color)

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

Infra Riot/ THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES (’02, Behind the Music)

Just One Thing/ SNAKEHIPS (‘01, Turn You On)

Tonight/ THE RASPBERRIES (’73)

Don’t Bring Me Down/ THE ETTES (’11, Wicked Will)*

I Might/ WILCO (’11, 7” single)*

Got Nuffin/ SPOON (’10, Transference)

Never Stop/ ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (’82, ’03 reissue, Porcupine)

Kill a Billionaire/ KEN GRIFFIN (’02)

Hey Luciani/ THE FALL (’86, ’90 collection, The Fall: A Sides)

Yassassin/ DAVID BOWIE (’79, Lodger)

Problem Queen/ DANGER MOUSE & DANIELLE LUPI (w/ NORAH JONES) (’11, Rome)*

Privilege (Set Me Free)/ PATTI SMITH GROUP (’78, Easter)

Frenchette/ DAVID JOHANSEN (’78, self titled)

Run Cannejo Run/ DAVE ALVIN (’11, Eleven Eleven)

Slummer the Slum/ THE 5 ROYALES (’58)

I’m Shakin/ LITTLE WILLIE JOHN (’60)

How Long/ CHARLES BRADLEY (’11, No Time For Dreaming)*

Sister on the Radio/ DENGUE FEVER (11, Cannibal Courtship)*

Pair of Brown Eyes/ THE POGUES (’85, Rum Sodomy & The Lash)

Sweet & Bitter/ JUNIP (’10, Fields)

Tenere Taqhim Tossam/ TINARIWEN ('11, Tassili)*

*new or recent release

B.W.'s PLAYLIST/ KHSU, 90.5/ SAT., 13 AUG. 2011

Linda Martell was the first African-American female performer to play Nashville's Grand Ole Opry stage, initially in 1969, then subsequently in the early '70s. Here's a great article on her from Oxford American magazine. Possibly she still may be one of the few African-American singers to perform there. Some things change very slowly...like this country. Regardless, it's a beautiful song by a beautiful singer.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT

Color Him Father/ LINDA MARTELL (’70, Color Me Country)

Hickory Wind/ THE BYRDS (’68, Sweetheart of the Rodeo)

I Miss a Lot of Trains [Tom T. Hall]/ IRIS DEMENT (’98, Real: The Tom T. Hall Project)

Bad News/ WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78’S (’10, self titled)

Johnny Ace is Dead/ DAVE ALVIN (’11, Eleven Eleven)*

Black Eyed Susan/ CHERI KNIGHT (’98, The Northeast Kingdom)

Transcendental Blues/ STEVE EARLE (’00, Transcendental Blues)

I Love My Label/ WILCO (’11, single b/w "I Might")*

Mermaid Parade/ PHOSPHORESCENT (’10, Here’s to Taking It Easy)

The Least I Could Do/ SUPERSUCKERS w/ AMY NELSON (’00, Down the Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records)

The Night Life/ JOHN DOE & THE SADIES (’09, Country Club)

Burning House of Love (live)/ X (’95, Unclogged)

The Way It Goes/ GILLIAN WELCH (’11, The Harrow & The Harvest)*

I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night/ CHARLIE PARR (’10, When the Devil Goes Blind)

Texas Farewell/ FRANK FAIRFIELD (’11, Out on the Open West)*

Drunkard’s Special/ COLEY JONES (’29, ’52 collection, Anthology of American Folk Music)

Frankie/ MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT (’28, ’52 collection, Anthology of American Folk Music)

Coffee Pot Blues/ POKEY LaFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE (’11, Middle of Everywhere)*

Get Out of My House/ HOLLY GOLIGHTLY AND THE BROKEOFFS (’11, No Help Coming) [Transdreamer]

Old Fashioned/ FRIGHTEND RABBIT (’08, The Midnight Organ Fight)

Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues/ THE KINKS (’71, Muswell Hillbillies)

Western Sky (live)/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’00, Live at 33 1/3)

I Must Be in a Good Place Now/ BOBBY CHARLES (’72, self titled)

Willie/ CAT POWER (’06, The Greatest)

You Are Not Alone/ MAVIS STAPLES (’10, You Are Not Alone)

Jersey Girl/ TOM WAITS ('80, Heartattack and Vine)

*new or recent release