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Memphis to Manchester
Nov 10, 2022 7:00 AM β 10:00 AM
Music
With John Wendland
Join John Wendland for Memphis to Manchester, a fun-filled and action-packed three hours of soul, R&B, rock, pop, country and other great music.
7:00 AM |
| Booker T. & the MGs Be My Lady The Complete Stax-Volt Singles - Vol 1 1959-68 Atlantic 1991 Music bed. Instrumental composition by Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson, Jr., and Booker T. Jones originally released as a non-album single on the Stax label in 1965. |
7:02 AM |
| Betty Everett Ain't Gonna Cry The Complete Cobra Singles P-Vine 2008 Written and sung by Betty Everett and recorded for the Cobra label in 1958.
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7:04 AM |
| Betty Everett & Jerry Butler I Can't Stand It Delicious Together Vee-Jay 1964 Written by Smokey McAllister and released in 1964. This song was first done by the Soul Sisters in 1964, soon followed by this version, and covered again later that year by The Spencer Davis Group.
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7:06 AM |
| Jerry Butler Lost The Iceman Cometh Mercury 1968 Written by Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble, and Leon Huff and produced by Kenny Gamble, and Leon Huff. Sublime Philly soul cut. |
7:09 AM |
| Eddie Holland Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) A Cellarful of Motown - Vol. 2 Universal 2005 Previously unreleased 1964 track written by Holland, Dozier, and Holland. He had a difficult time with stage fright so he eschewed from performing and put his talents into songwriting, instead. I think that worked out okay for him. |
7:12 AM |
| The Contours Can You Do It The Complete Motown Singles:1964 β Vol. 4 Hip-O Select 2006 Written by Richard Street and Thelma Coleman Gordy (Motown founder Berry Gordy's ex-wife). This was the last hit with the original Contours lineup. |
7:14 AM |
| Gladys Knight & The Pips It Should Have Been Me Feelin' Bluesy UNI/MOTOWN 1968 1968 song originally done by Kim Weston written by William "Mickey" Stevenson, Barrett Strong, and Norman Whitfield. Produced by Norman Whitfield. Such a great vocal by Gladys Knight on this. |
7:17 AM |
| Earl Van Dyke & The Soul Brothers Too Many Fish in the Sea The Motown Sound: The Complete Albums and More Motown 2012 Music bed. Instrumental version of the Marvelettes hit written by Eddie Holland and Norman Whitfield. |
7:18 AM |
| Nick Waterhouse Pushing Too Hard Pushing Too Hard - Single Innovative Leisure 2020 Seeds cover written by Sky Saxon included in his live sets from time to time. |
7:21 AM |
| Lee Fields The Door N Sentimental Fool Daptone Records 2022 The swirling organ and cascading strings work so well with a typically impassioned vocal from one of the best soul singers in the business today. |
7:24 AM |
| Valerie June Call Me A Fool (feat. Carla Thomas) The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers Fantasy 2021 Written and sung by Valerie June and featuring Carla Thomas on backing vocals. |
7:27 AM |
| Amy LaVere Killing Him Anchors and Anvils Archer Records 2007 This is an early song by the Memphis singer-songwriter and bassist. "Killing him didn't make the love go away." Amy LaVere and Will Sexton will be at the Focal Point in Maplewood on Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 PM. Highly recommended! |
7:31 AM |
| Kingdom Brothers Taken Away L Signs of the Times Groove Ready Records 2021 Written by Stan Gill and Ron Roskowske and featuring a really soulful vocal by Chris Shepherd. |
7:36 AM |
| Jimmy Forrest Night Train Honkers & Bar Walkers, Vol. 1 Delmark 1992 Music bed. 1952 instrumental composition written by Jimmy Forrest, Lewis Simpkins, and Oscar Washington. Jimmy Forrest was a composer and saxophonist and was born in St. Louis in 1920. |
7:39 AM |
| Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Call Me the Breeze (Live at the Fillmore, 1997) Live at the Fillmore, 1997 (Deluxe) Warner Records 2022 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers did a run of twenty dates at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997. Six of the shows were professionally recorded and are being released for the first time on November 25. These will be available in various formats and sizes and will include "re-arranged and distinctive versions of their hits, deep cuts, and many cover versionsβpaying tribute to the artists that Tom and the band had been influenced by." Benmont Tench gets to go nuts on piano on this great version of a J.J. Cale song. |
7:45 AM |
| Toni Price Like You Used To Midnight Pumpkin New West Records 2012 Written by J.J. Cale and featuring Champ Hood on acoustic guitar and Jon Dee Graham on lap steel. |
7:49 AM |
| Shannon McNally Low Rider Black Irish Compass Records 2017 Written by J.J. Cale.
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7:52 AM |
| Joan Shelley Magnolia Rivers & Vessels self-released 2018 Written by J.J. Cale and featuring Julia Purcell on harmony vocals. Nathan Salsburg plays guitar on this 6-song EP of all covers with proceeds going to benefit the Kentucky Waterways Alliance.
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7:53 AM |
| J.J. Cale Down to Memphis Roll On Rounder Records 2009 This was the last studio album by the highly-influential guitarist and songwriter from Oklahoma. |
7:57 AM |
| The Memphis Horns Soul Bowl Memphis Horns Cotillion 1970 Music bed. 1970 instrumental composition by Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love.
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7:59 AM |
| Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh Beneath Halo Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh Drag City Inc. 2008 Music bed. Instrumental with Helena Espvall on cello and Masaki Batoh on acoustic guitar. |
8:01 AM |
| Low Especially Me C'mon Sub Pop Records 2011 RIP Mimi Parker who passed away way too soon at age 55 after a two-year battle with ovarian cancer. By all accounts, she was a beautiful soul. She and her husband, Alan Sparhawk, fronted the Duluth band and their harmonies put an indelible stamp on their music. This song is an absolute thing of beauty. |
8:06 AM |
| Low I Started a Joke A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities Chairkickers' Music 2016 Mimi Parker's soprano voice sounds gorgeous on this Bee Gees song written by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robin Gibb. |
8:11 AM |
| Robert Plant Monkey Band of Joy New Rounder 2010
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8:16 AM |
| Low Just Make It Stop The Invisible Way Sub Pop Records 2013 Mimi Parker sings lead on one of their more propulsive songs. And as the holiday season approaches, give Low's Christmas album a proper listen. Her vocals are the reason why this is one of the greatest Christmas albums of the last 25 years. |
8:20 AM |
| Mogwai Ether Atomic Temporary Residence Ltd. 2016 Music bed. Excerpt from the Glasgow band's album based on their music for the BBC documentary "Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise." |
8:22 AM |
| Aoife Nessa Frances Back to Earth N Protector PTKF 2022 This is the second album from the Irish singer-songwriter. Written and sung by Aoife Nessa Frances. Most of the songs slowly layer more instruments into the arrangements so what becomes sparse becomes big. No sophomore jinx here. |
8:27 AM |
| First Aid Kit 29 Palms Highway N Palomino Columbia 2022 Written and sung by the Swedish duo comprised of sisters Klara SΓΆderberg and Johanna SΓΆderberg. |
8:30 AM |
| Plains Abilene N I Walked with You a Ways Anti/Epitaph 2022 Plains is a collaboration between Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and singer-songwriter Jess Williamson. The songwriting is split evenly on this album. This one was penned by Jess Williamson. |
8:33 AM |
| Emmylou Harris How Will I Ever Be Simple Again Wrecking Ball (Deluxe Version) Nonesuch 2014
Written by Richard Thompson and stripped down to just Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois on guitars. Recorded in 1995.
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8:37 AM |
| Bill Frisell Have a Little Faith In Me Have a Little Faith Nonesuch 1993 Music bed. Instrumental version of the John Hiatt song. |
8:40 AM |
| Grace Basement We're Gonna Rock This Town L Wheel Within a Wheel Avonmore Records 2013 Written and sung by Kevin Buckley. one of the best albums to come out of St. Louis in the last ten years. It has a timeless feel about it. |
8:43 AM |
| Kevin Buckley Never Tire of the Road L Big Spring Avonmore Records 2022 Written by Andy Irvine and featuring Kevin Buckley on vocals and bouzouki. Nothing else is needed. |
8:47 AM |
| The Mary Wallopers Building up and Tearing England Down N The Mary Wallopers BC Records 2022 Written by Dublin singer-songwriter, political activist, author and playwright Dominic Behan. From the new album by the band out of Dundalk, Ireland. Last week I played an entirely different interpretation by The Paranoid Style. Can't go wrong with either version. |
8:52 AM |
| The Waterboys This is the Sea This is the Sea Chrysalis 1985 Written by Mike Scott. Majestic and inspiring and still powerful after all these years. |
8:59 AM |
| Joe Strummer Musket Waltz Walker (Soundtrack) Astralwerks 1987 Music bed. Instrumental composition by Joe Strummer. |
9:02 AM |
| North Americans American Dipper Roped In Third Man Records LLC 2020 Music bed. Instrumental composition by Patrick McDermott. |
9:03 AM |
| Low ...I Love A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities Chairkickers' Music 2016 This is another one in memory of Mimi Parker. Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk share vocals on this Tom T. Hall song. Beautiful. |
9:06 AM |
| Kelly Willis Translated from Love Translated from Love Ryko/WEA 2007 Written by Stephen Yerkey and produced by Chuck Prophet. Backing vocals by Jules Shear and Chuck Prophet. |
9:08 AM |
| Johnny Cash Solitary Man American III: Solitary Man American Recordings Catalog P&D 2000 Written by Neil Diamond and featuring Tom Petty on harmony vocals. |
9:11 AM |
| Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson Highwayman Highwayman Columbia 1985 Written by Jimmy Webb and featuring vocals by all four of the country superstars. |
9:14 AM |
| Stephen Yerkey Where Cash Is King Confidence, Man Stephen Yerkey 1994 Written and sung by Stephen Yerkey - a singer-songwriter based out of San Francisco. Acoustic guitars by Jim Campilongo. |
9:16 AM |
| Roy Clark Dented Fender The Lightning Fingers Of Roy Clark Capitol Records 1963 Music bed. Written by Hank Penny.
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9:18 AM |
| Merle Travis Blue Smoke Legends of Guitar - Country, Vol. 2 Rhino 1991 1949 instrumental composition by Merle Travis. This features him on solo electric guitar. |
9:21 AM |
| Speedy West Speedy's Special Guitar Spectacular Capitol Nashville 2011 1962 instrumental composed by Speedy West and featuring Speedy West (pedal steel), Billy Strange (electric guitar), Red Wooten (bass), Earl Palmer (drums), and Billy Liebert (accordion). |
9:23 AM |
| Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed Tennessee Stud Me And Jerry RCA Victor 1970
Mainly instrumental version of the Jimmie Driftwood composition.
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9:26 AM |
| Jerry Reed Amos Moses RCA Country Legends Buddha 2001
Written by Jerry Reed and recorded in 1969. "Now the folks around south Louisiana said Amos was a hell of a man / He could trap the biggest meanest alligator and he'd just use one hand / That's all he got left cause an alligator bit it / Left arm gone clear up to the elbow."
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9:28 AM |
| Jerry Reed The Claw The Essential Jerry Reed RCA Records Label Nashville 1995 Music bed. 1966 instrumental written by Jerry Reed. |
9:30 AM |
| Lucinda Williams Pineola Sweet Old World Chrysalis Records 1992 Masterfully written by Lucinda Williams. "Born and raised in Pineola / His mama believed in the Pentecost / She got the preacher to say some words / So his soul wouldn't be lost / Some of us, we stood in silence / Some bowed their heads and prayed / I think I must've picked up a handful of dust / And let it fall over his grave." |
9:34 AM |
| Miranda Lambert I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Going to Be a Diamond Someday) N Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver New West 2022 Found on this new star-studded tribute album to Billy Joe Shaver. Written by Billy Joe Shaver and originally released by him in 1981 |
9:38 AM |
| Bobby Gregg & His Friends Potato Peeler Complete Pop Instrumental Hits Of The Sixties, Vol. 3: 1962 Complete 60s 2013 Music bed. 1962 instrumental composition by Bobby Gregg. Fun fact: He played drums on Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." |
9:41 AM |
| Sloan She Put up with What She Put Down N Steady Yep Roc Records 2022 Highly recommended new album by St. Louis's (or, at least, KDHX's) favorite Canadian band. It's poptastic! |
9:44 AM |
| Lisa Mychols Endless Daydream Sugar Strataplastic Records 2018 Tempo-shifting pop gem from the Los Angeles pop songstress. |
9:46 AM |
| Sam Phillips You Know I Won't Push Any Button Littlebox Recordings 2013 Jangly, Beatlesque pop song of the highest order.
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9:49 AM |
| The Outsiders Time Won't Let Me Nuggets From Nuggets: Choice Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era Rhino 2000 Straight out of Cleveland. Recorded in 1967.
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9:52 AM |
| Fabienne Delsol Ragunboneman On My Mind Damaged Goods 2010 Fabienne Delsol was formerly the vocalist for the Bristols. This is from her third solo album. She completely has that 60s beat thing down. |
9:54 AM |
| The Chandelles Jetster That's Swift: Instrumentals From The Norman Petty Vaults Sundazed Music 2007 Music bed. 1963 guitar-driven instrumental.
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