June 13th, 2008
“No Cover, No Minimum” - June 13, 2008
Here’s the playlist for this morning’s installment of “No Cover, No Minimum,” my weekly radio program on KZSU-FM.
It’s Friday the 13th of course, so as I was driving down to the station this morning I decided to drop the usual format and rename the show “Bad Luck and Trouble.” There was a lot of frantic digging through the library, and in the end the show wound up being about 90% blues. If I’d had more time to think about it, I would have put together a superstition set, mixed in more genres, maybe thrown in some voodoo or witchcraft songs. But I had a blast, and that’s what matters.
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HOUR #1 (0600 - 0700)
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Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins - “Friday The 13th” - Thelonious Monk/Sonny Rollins (Prestige)
Ray Charles - “If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck” - Genius & Soul, Vol. 4 (Rhino)
Albert King - “Bad Luck” - Funky London (Stax)
Monti Amundson - “I See Trouble” - I See Trouble (Beatville)
R.L. Burnside - “Bad Luck and Trouble” - Mississippi Hill Country Blues (Fat Possum)
Sunnyland Slim - “Unlucky One” - Sunnyland Train (Evidence)
Carey & Lurrie Bell - “Trouble in My Way” - Second Nature (Alligator)
Clarence “Tom” Ashley - “Short Life of Trouble” - Greenback Dollar (County Records)
Byron Berline & John Hickman - “Double Trouble” - Double Trouble (Sugar Hill)
Border Radio - “Unlucky Love” - Americana Brand (Border Radio)
R. Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders - “Mysterious Mose” - Chasin’ Rainbows (Shanachie/Yazoo)
Ando Drom - “I Got Into Trouble” - Gypsy Life on the Road (North Pacific)
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HOUR #2 (0700 - 0800)
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Taj Mahal - “Having a Real Bad Day” - Señor Blues (Private Music)
Bobby “Blue” Bland - “I Woke Up Screaming” - The Anthology (MCA)
Otis Rush - “Mean Old World” - All Your Love I Miss Loving (Delmark)
A.C. Reed - “Hard Times” - I’m in the Wrong Bussiness (Alligator)
Floyd Dixon & Mari Jones - “Unlucky Girl” - Floyd Dixon: Complete Aladdin Recordings (Capitol)
James Cotton - “Call It Stormy Monday” - Mighty Long Time (Antone’s)
Big Maybelle - “Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me” - Maybelle Sings the Blues (Charly)
Thomas Mapfumo - “Disaster” - Chimurenga Explosion (Anonym)
Aphrodesia - “Trouble” - Frontlines (Cyberset)
Tommy Flanagan - “Friday the 13th” - Something Borrowed, Something Blue (Galaxy)
Lester Bowie - “Doom?” - The Great Pretender (ECM)
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HOUR #3 (0800 - 0900)
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Calvin Owens - “Best Worst Day” - I Ain’t Gonna Be Yo’ Dog No Mo’ (Sawdust Alley)
Big Joe & the Dynaflows - “Bad Luck Blues” I’m Still Swingin’
(Severn)
Carter Brothers - “Sucker of Circumstances” - Essential Carter Brothers (Fuel 2000)
Albert King - “Born Under a Bad Sign” - Born Under a Bad Sign (Stax)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - “Texas Flood” - Martin Scorsese Presents... (Columbia)
Lurrie Bell - “Earthquake And Hurricane” - Let’s Talk About Love (Aria B.G.)
Magic Slim - “Black Tornado” - The Essential... (Blind Pig)
Dr. John - “Right Place Wrong Time” - Anthology (Rhino)
Phillip Walker - “Bad Luck” Working Girl Blues (Black Top)
Willie Mabon - “Why Did It Happen to Me” - Cold Chilly Woman (Black & Blue)
Big Maceo - “Tuff Luck Blues” - The Best of Big Maceo (Arhoolie)
Melvin Taylor - “Another Bad Day” - Bang that Bell (Evidence)
Buddy Guy - “Trouble Don’t Last” - Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues (Silvertone)
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No show next week, as KZSU will be in the middle of a 24-hour electronica marathon. But I’ll be back on the air June 27th, hopefully with an interview around the Stanford Jazz Festival.
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