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Music bed. 1963 instrumental composition by the tenor saxophonist, Noble "Thin Man" Watts originally released on the Enjoy label.Not familiar with that label.

Solomon Burke recorded this at the age of 66 and a lot of great songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits,and Brian Wilson wrote songs for this album. This lead-off track was written by Hoy Lindsey, Dan Penn, and Carson Whitset. Keeping with the theme of this set, it was produced by Joe Henry.

Written by Johnny "Guitar" Watson and bassist/composer Mario Delagarde. Cool road song. "I wonder where she is now."

1958 single recorded in Chuck Berry's offices in St. Louis, MO. He plays all the instruments on this track. This is one elaborate tale about a monkey named, you guessed it, Jo Jo Gunne.

Written by Willie Dixon and L.P. Weaver and recorded for the Cobra label in 1958.

Highly recommended new release by the singer and songwriter from Bristol, England. Written by Yola, Dan Auerbach, and Bobby Wood. Produced by Dan Auerbach. A candidate for song and album of the year in my humble estimation. Thu 8/1 Lake Street Dive with Yola – Pageant

Written by Chris Ligon and featuring the collective talents of Kelly Hogan, Nora O'Connor, Scott Ligon, Casey McDonough, and Alex Hall.

Mavis Staples is a national treasure and sounds great on this highly recommended album of all songs composed by Ben Harper.

Music bed. 1967 instrumental version of the William Bell composition.

Written by Robert Parker & produced by Wardell Quezergue.

Instrumental composition by Antonio Gramentieri. If you've seen any recent Alejandro Escovedo shows, you've heard the Don Antonio Band since they have been backing him on tour and played on his most recent album, The Crossing. Straight out of Italy.

Debut full-length album by the singer-songwriter who grew up in Kansas City but now plys her songwriting craft in Los Angeles.

This band hails from Hobart. "All my best friends are a little broken. All the best people are." Such a good song.

From her forthcoming album being released on August 16. She's opening for different artists this summer including Andrew Bird, Amos Lee, and Calexico and Iron & Wine. Just a matter of time until she's headlining. Thurs 9/5 Amos Lee with Madison Cunningham – Pageant.

Written and sung by Traceyanne Campbell. A fantastic pop song to close out out the album.

Music bed. Instrumental version of the Nick Lowe ode to the Bay City Rollers.

Music bed. 1958 instrumental written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood.

Thu 6/6 Twangfest 23 Night 2: James McMurtry with The Burney Sisters and Cara Louise – Off Broadway.

Music bed. instrumental penned by multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse

Written by Tom Russell and Dave Alvin. Andrew Hardin on electric lead guitar. Fri 6/7 Tom Russell – Duck Room

From their forthcoming album being released on June 21. All the tracks on this album were written by Julie Miller. .

Music bed. Instrumental composition by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood.

"With all that my heart will allow / I hope you're happy now."

Written by Maria McKee and found on her second solo album.

Written by Nick Lowe and originally released as a single in 1976. Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets will be at the The Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival in Columbia which is taking place at Stephens Lake Park from Sept. 27-29.

Well, this is a complete transformation of the instrumental composed by Jay Ungar and used in Ken Burn's "The Civil War" on PBS. They used the "stupendous walloping reverb" setting on this.

Pretty great soul track recorded in 1967 for the Calla label. Produced, arranged, and conducted by Horace Ott.

Original version of the song released in 1964 and written by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett. It became a big hit for the Moody Blues shortly, thereafter.

Music bed. 1960 instrumental composition by Roy Montrell recorded for the Minit label.