New Year’s resolution: Get back on a weekly posting schedule.
Two weeks ago, on “Sing All Kinds,” I finally leaned on an obvious crutch to which I’ll return from time to time: A covers show. This first one focused mostly on modern “alt-rock” artists borrowing from the classic-rock or pre-punk canons.
The stream:
The set list (original artist in parenthesis):
- “Gloria” — Patti Smith (Them, featuring Van Morrison)
- “Femme Fatale” — Big Star (The Velvet Underground)
- “Sweet Jane” — Mott the Hoople (The Velvet Underground)
- “And Then He Kissed Me” – Moe Tucker (The Crystals)
- “Into the Groovey” — Sonic Youth (Madonna)
- “Eight Miles High “– Husker Du (The Byrds)
- “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey” — The Feelies (The Beatles)
- “Norwegian Wood” — Cornershop (The Beatles)
- “Waiting for the Day” — Reigning Sound (The Beach Boys)
- “Crimson and Clover” — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (Tommy James & the Shondells)
- “Stop Your Sobbing” — The Pretenders (The Kinks)
- “Soul Kitchen” — X (The Doors)
- “Alone Again Or” — Mouse Rocket (Love)
- “Candle Mambo” — Amy LaVere (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band)
- “Friday I’m in Love” — Yo La Tengo (The Cure)
- “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” — Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric (Jackie DeShannon)
Last week, on a Christmas Eve edition, I did “The Jesus Show.:
The stream:
The setlist:
- “Jesus Christ” — Big Star
- “Jesus is Waiting” — Al Green
- “Spanish Pipedream” — John Prine
- “Me and Jesus” — Tom T. Hall
- “New Friend Jesus” — Craig Finn
- “Travellin’ on for Jesus” — Kate & Anna McGarrigle
- “Jesus Christ” — Woody Guthrie
- “Christ for President” — Billy Bragg & Wilco
- “Jesus, Etc.” — Wilco
- “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam” — Nirvana
- “Jesus Christ was an Only Child” — Modest Mouse
- “Spirit in the Sky” — Norman Greenbaum
- “Jesus Just Left Chicago” — ZZ Top
- “Jesus, the Missing Years” — John Prine
- “Jesus” — The Velvet Underground
- “Touch the Hem of His Garment” — Sam Cooke
- “Talkin’ About Jesus” — Delaney & Bonnie
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