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DAVE ALVIN
This week, singer/songwriter Dave Alvin visits with us at his home in Los Angeles. Plus music from Big Joe Turner, Bill Evans, Rosetta Tharpe, and Philip Glass.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: American Music The Blasters
American Music, Hightone - Good Old Funky Music The Meters
Funkify Your Life The Meters Anthology, Rhino - Please Stop Playing These Blues, Boy Jay McShann & Jimmy Witherspoon
The Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955, Mercury - Don't Play That Song (You Lied) Aretha Franklin
Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic - Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
The Early Years, Liberty Records - Instrumental: Night and Day Esquivel
Cabaret Mañana, RCA - Night and Day Lowell Fulson
Texas Guitar Killers, Capitol - Night and Day Frank Sinatra
Sentimental Journey: Pop Vocal Classics Vol. 1, Rhino - String Quartet No. 5: Movt. 3 Philip Glass
Kronos Quartet - Released 1985-1995, Nonesuch - Instrumental: Dockside Boogie Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Long Way Home, Gitanes - INTERVIEW: Dave Alvin
Listen - Laurel Lynn Dave Alvin
Blackjack David, Hightone - Blackjack David Dave Alvin
Blackjack David, Hightone - New Highway Dave Alvin
Blackjack David, Hightone - Dry River Dave Alvin
Blue Blvd, Hightone - Rockin' At Cosmo's Lee Allen
The Aladdin Records Story, EMI - Hollywood Bed Big Joe Turner
Big, Bad & Blue: The Big Joe Turner Anthology, Rhino - My Guitar is My Sweetheart Chet Atkins
Galloping Guitar - The Early Years, Bear Family - Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar) Jean Shepard
Only Country 1960-1964, ESX - Cowboy Hula Nani Lim Yap & friends
Songs of the Hawaiian Cowboy, Warner Western - Creole Love Call Duke Ellington
Jazzin' The Blues, Forlane
HOUR two
- Gossipo Perpetuo Jean Jacques Perrey
RE/SEARCH: Incredibly Strange Music, Volume 2, Asphodel - Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow The Rivingtons
Alphabet Rock, Warner Brothers - Ool-Ya-Koo Dizzy Gillespie
Masters of Jazz, Vol. 6: Male Vocal Classics, Rhino - Blah! Blah! Blah! Sarah Vaughan
The Great Jazz Vocalist Sing the Gershwin Songbook, Blue Note - Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing James Brown
Star Time, Polydor - Instrumental: Bahia Mongo Santamaria
Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology 1958-1995, Rhino - Granados Bill Evans
Compact Jazz, Verve - El Preso #9 Los Camperos de Nati Cano
Canciones de Siempre, Peer - Summertime Howard Armstrong
Louie Bluie, Blue Suit - In These Times Errol Walker
Lee Scratch Perry: Arkology, Island - Instrumental: Could You Be Loved Monty Alexander
Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley, Telarc - Precious Memories Rosetta Tharpe
Ladies of Gospel: Precious Memories, Peacock - Chocolate Jesus Tom Waits
Mule Variations, Anti/Epitaph - Sinner You Better Get Ready The Louvin Brothers
The Stained Glass Hour: Bluegrass and Old-Timey Gospel Music, Rounder - I Used To Love You (But It's All Over Now) Nat King Cole
The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio 1947-50, Capitol - It's All Over Now Bobby Womack
Paint It, Blue -- Songs of the Rolling Stones, House of Blues - End Bed: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction David McCallum
Ultra-Lounge - On The Rocks, Part Two, Capitol
