Past Show Episodes

Fleetwood Mac was featured in the cover set in Episode 96 and The Electric Peanut Butter Company’s 2012 version of the Fleetwood Mac song “Dreams” triggered the latest installment of the intermittently recurring segment Can You Steal It in which two songs are closely compared to see if the second song might not take a little bit too much from the first. Also featured was Two Dollar Pistols, Pearl Jam, Hope D, John Hiatt and more!

The 95th featured brand new music from Mother, Mother and Khruangbin. Other artists featured were Albert Lee, Dallas Wayne, Dada, David Gilmore, Little Richard, Deer Tick, The 1975, Darrell Scott and more!

Episode 94 is Part 2 of a 2 part Top 5 Show that featured Chuck Levin of Wayland, Massachusetts’ Top 5 Songs That He Wished Would Continue Much Longer. In keeping with the theme of song length all the songs last week, before Chuck’s Top 5, were all two minutes or less and all the songs this week are all eight minutes or more. Artists featured included Diablo Swing Orchestra, Genesis, James McMurtry, 10cc, Elbow, Dire Straits and more!

Episode 93 is Part 1 of a 2 part Top 5 Show that featured Chuck Levin of Wayland, Massachusetts’ Top 5 Songs That He Wished Would Continue Much Longer. His Top 5 included songs by Blind Faith, The VooDoo Dolls, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Family. In keeping with the theme of song length all the other songs on the show were two minutes or less. The Beatles were featured in the cover set. Other artists featured are Todd Snider, Roger Miller, BR5-49, The Jam, Janelle Monáe and more!

In Episode 92 we talked about how Don Was and came to produce Bonnie Raitt’s best-selling, Grammy winning album “Nick of Time”, our cover set featured white artists covering Motown songs. Among the artists featured are Mary J Blige, Was (Not Was), Little Feat, Weezer, Radiohead, and Gorillaz just to name a few.

After a couple of top five shows followed by a six episode Music of Texas series Episode 91 was the first show in a couple of months that was just music for music’s sake. Not that we phoned it in. Artists featured were Laurel Lewis, Chicago, Dwight Yoakam, Orville Peck, Simply Red, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Alanis Morissette, Tony, Toni, Toné and more!

Episode 90 featured return engagements from BR5-49, Paramore and Aretha Franklin. Also featured were Ry Cooder, Meghan Trainor, Fantastic Negrito and Cissy Houston and the Sweet Inspirations. The covers set featured three excellent Bruce Springsteen tracks by The Band, The Mavericks, and Big Head Todd & The Monsters

In episode 89 we featured a special segment with three time Grammy award-winning Native American singer, songwriter and artist Bill Miller. The first portion of the show featured Bill in interview and music and we rounded the show out with a cover set by three different Canadian indigenous artists and three hip-hop songs by three Native American rappers. It’s absolutely one of my favorite shows since returning to the airwaves two years ago!

Episode 88 was the final installment in our six part Music of Texas series. The show featured a some Texas country music (surprise, surprise!), a set of songs by three artists from Houston, a set of three songs by producer Adrian Quesada and a segment where we paid tribute to song significant Texas artists who we weren’t able to hear an entire song from. Artists featured included Willis Alan Ramsey, Black Pumas, Beyoncé, Blue October, Lefty Frizzell, Ivory Joe Hunter, one last song from Willie Nelson and more!

Episode 87 was the fifth installment in our six part Music of Texas series. The show featured a couple of sets of modern day Texas country music, a set of songs by three artists from Dallas, a set of four songs by Texas guitar slingers and a quick little piece dedicated to the work of Bowie County, Texas native Huddie Ledbetter known to the world as Lead Belly. Other artists featured included Charlie Crockett, Freddie King, Tayla Parx, Don Henley, The Chicks, Erykah Badu, Red Steagall and more!

The music of Texas series continued in Episode 86 with part four. The show features a set of Texas Cowboys songs, set of Willie Nelson covers, another set of Texas blues rock featuring two artists from Austin and the beginning of our geographic throwdown with three more present day Austin bands. Artists featured tonight were Gene Autry, Toni Price, Bobby Flores, Aaron Watson, Old 97s, Spoon, Joe Tex, Post Malone and more!

Episode 85 is the third part in our six part “Music of Texas” series. We began with Tony English of Lexington Kentucky’s Top 5 Country & Western Dance Songs and went on to hear a set of Cindy Walker covers, some Austin Blues, and classic R&B. Artists featured included George Jones, Gary Clark Jr, George Strait, Willie & Waylon, ZZ Top, Patsy Cline and more!
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Our six part series on the Music of Texas continued in Episode 84. We heard a set of 60s country music, honky-tonk music, set up songs by musical Texas siblings as well as Tejano music and music by other Latin artists whose music is less traditional but still has a Latin sound to it. Artist featured included Jimmy Dean, Los Lonely Boys, Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughn, Carey Rodriguez and Elida Reyna just to name a few!

Episode 83 is the first in a six part series on the music of Texas that was inspired when Tony English, a native Texan, submitted his top five country and western dance songs. It was only meant to be one episode but there’s so much great music in Texas it turned into four. These four episodes will cover Texas music in the 20th and 21st centuries across all genres. Some of the artists featured in part one are Bob Wills, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovett, Rodney Crowell, Michael Nesmith, Asleep at the Wheel, Steve Earle and more!

Another installment of Can You Steal It made it’s appearance on Episode 82 where Parker Millsap’s single “So Far Apart” stood accused of taking too much from Wilco’s “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”. Other featured artists included The Devlins, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Australian Crawl, The Beatles, Ren and Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

Episode 81 began with a strong dose of country music that included Angaleena Presley, Rodney Crowell, Marty Robbins, the Louvin Brothers and Kelly Willis. We also heard from The War and Treaty, Khrungbin feat. Leon Bridges, Del Amitri, Todd Rundgren and NRBQ Our cover set featured Al Green songs which included an excerpt from an interview I did with Tommy Malone of The Subdudes where he talked about how daunting a task it is to cover an Al Green song.

Episode eighty began with three sets of minimalist rock which I soon abandoned as my tongue grew fatigued repeatedly saying "minimalist". The cover set featured covers I like of songs that I don't. Among the artists featured were Paramore, Joe Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Morphine, The Shins, The Meters, Say She She and Etta James to name a few.

Episode 79 starts out with country and goes on to feature sets of blue collar rock 'n' roll, my favorite top 40 songs of the week as well as a homemade mash up that combines the Avalanche's "Because I'm Me" and Honeycone's 70s soul hit "Want Ads”. Featured artists included BR5-49, Garth Brooks, The Kinks, Soon E Mc, The Roots, Hope TD Janelle Monáe and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels.

In episode 78 we heard songs from every decade from the 1950s right through to the 2020s. We had a set of modern day Southern rock, a set of Elvis covers and two jazz guitarist who sing along with their picking. Some of the artists featured were Teresa Brewer, Betty Wright, Level 42, The Jam, The Beatles, Eric B & Rakim and Sonny Landreth

Episode number 77 ran the gamut from George and Tammy to Public Enemy. Aerosmith got the cover set and there seem to be a strong presence of Stax Records artists. Just some of the artists featured were John Cowan, Willie Dixon, Sam and Dave, Southern Avenue, 7Horse, Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Alt-J