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April 23, 2016: It's Still A Wonderful Life
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| Artist | Track |
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| Irene Kral |
Wonderful Life
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| Yolks, The |
Don't Cry Anymore
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| Ted Daigle |
What Comes Next?
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| Spencer Wiggins |
Anything You Do Is Alright
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| Butch Stone & His Orchestra |
I'm Ok
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| Amy Rigby |
Wait Till I Get You Home
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| Strangers, The |
I Say A Little Prayer
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| Jim Lauderdale |
You Just Know
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| Guitar Ray |
Patty Cake Shake
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| Above, The |
You Look Unwell
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| Sonny Curtis |
A Beatle I Wanna Be
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| Monkees |
Let's Dance On
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| Ralph Mooney & James Burton |
Corn Pickin'
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| James Brown |
Bring It Up (Hipster Avenue)
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| Owl Jolson |
I Love to Singa
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| Lisa Marr With Cool |
Lovin' You Ain't Easy
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| Del Ashley |
Little Miss Stuck Up
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| Johnny Burnette |
You're 16
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| Prophet & His Disciples |
You Fool, You Fool
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| Lyres, The |
She Pays The Rent
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| Marc Eric |
Just Passing By
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| Rusty & Doug Kershaw |
Sweet Sweet Girl To Me
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| Bobby Womack |
Lilly Mae
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| Duke Reid Group |
Soul Style
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| Ben Vaughn |
I'm Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
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| Joe South |
Hush
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| Buddy Miller w/ Kasey Musgraves |
Love's Gonna Live Here
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| Bertha Tillman |
(I Believe) Something Funny Is Going On
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| Tripwires, The |
Get Young
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| Hi Fi's, The |
Baby's In Black
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| Johnny Flame And The Jaws Of Victory |
Be Good To Me
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| Frank Lee Sprague |
Cavern
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| George Harrison |
Awaiting on You All
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| Uniques, The |
Fast Way of Living
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| Merle Haggard |
Irma Jackson
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| Guitar Tommy Moore |
I Ain't Botherin' Nobody
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| Lenny Breau |
Caravan
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| Gary Calamar |
Giddy
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| Groop, The |
Don't Leave Me
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| Lorez Alexandria |
Vibrations
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| Queers, The |
End It All
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| Bellfuries, The |
Sung By Someone Lonely
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| A MINUTE WITH |
SCOTT SCHINDER
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| Mary Poppins |
Just A Three Dollar Increase
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CLICK HERE for a great 2012 Rolling Stone piece about the 2012 Beach Boys reunion CLICK HERE for a great piece on Better Records, whcih sells old lp pressings that sell for astronomical prices, e.g: The Police’s Synchronicity: $350 CLICK HERE for "It Sure Seems Like Neil Young’s Pono Player Is Bullshit" CLICK HERE for "Why Cds May Actually Sound Better Than Vinyl" CLICK HERE to create never ending always changing loops of a music files you upload CLICK HERE for Gay Robot CLICK HERE for PopSpots: exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history - tracked down with an obsessive level of research CLICK HERE for 1971 tapes of Bob Dylan getting rightfully testy with A.J. Weberman (who used to go through and sell Dylan's garbage) CLICK HERE for "Mind-Blowing Six Song Country Mashup" - which, if it is real, is pretty mind blowing CLICK HEREfor the answer to the question "Do Coat Hangers Sound As Good Monster Cables?" CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets or CLICK HERE to listen CLICK HERE to watch Nick Lowe & Lost Straightjjackets live! CLICK HERE for the genius school teacher who wore the same outfit for yearbook pictures for 40 years CLICK HERE Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen doing "Stiff Competition" on David Letterman CLICK HERE for the preview of the new WFMU documentary "Sex And Broacasting" CLICK HERE for a piece about mastering that says that sometimes mastering recordings makes them worse CLICK HERE for The K-Tel Story CLICK HERE for Ock TV CLICK HERE to see "Triumph Watches The World Cup, Part 1" CLICK HERE for something odd: on the website of session guitarist Jay Graydon (he plays the guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Peg") he lists playing guitar on Cheap Trick's studio version of "I Want You To Want Me" among his 1977 credits. CLICK HERE for some audio Illusions - "Can You Trust Your Ears"? CLICK HERE for optical illusions CLICK HERE for a short film of two craftsmen at work CLICK HERE to play Name That Drum Fill CLICK HERE to read "Phish Has Been a Band for Thirty Years Now and They Have Sucked the Whole Time" and then CLICK HERE to read "This Is What Happens When You Make Fun Of Phish On The Internet" CLICK HERE for the story of Be Bop Deluxe's Bill Nelson and how he says his record label ripped him off CLICK HERE to read about a recent Jerry Lewis show CLICK HERE for the new release of 5 Style 1996 live on WFMU CLICK HERE for Paul Lukas' excellent piece about cultural criticism CLICK HERE for proof that Michael Nesmith is a nut CLICK HERE to see some wise asses I'm a fan of CLICK HERE to hear Bernard Prurdie talk about all kinds of things - including saying "Ringo's not on anything" CLICK HERE for a film excerpt "Session Men - Memphis" CLICK HERE for a laugh CLICK HERE for Roz Chast's piece “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” CLICK HERE for a brief history of the baritone guitar" CLICK HERE for "The Making of 96 Tears" CLICK HERE for a Rolling Stone piece about The Jerky Boys CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Dues" from "Nashville" CLICK HERE for Ronee Blakley singing "Tapedeck in His Tractor" from "Nashville" CLICK HERE to play the web Theremin CLICK HERE to see drummer Joff from the band Bucky so some drawings of old people CLICK HERE if you want see a lady call for President Obama's execution. My mind keeps returning to his video and what it means about how screwed up our county is. CLICK HERE for wrong from the get go NPR blog "The Worst Songs Of All Time?" CLICK HERE for my July 2007 interview with Mighty Hannibal CLICK HERE for the website of the guy who shot Bigfoot CLICK HERE to see why the cowardly anonymous culture of the internet drives me even more crazy then art does CLICK HERE for a little background on the Buddy Rich tapes CLICK HERE for a weird Tonight Show episode where Jerry Lewis fills in for Johnny, with guest Bob Hope
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