Guilty Pleasures: Music We Love More Than We Can Say
We take a deep dive into the memory vaults to spin the tunes we shamelessly love. From guilty pleasures, including a disco dance number, to confessional ballads like James Carr’s “Dark End of the Street” and songs of redemption ala Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny,” we shine a light on hymns including Mavis Staples’ “Long Walk to D.C.,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Richard Cory,” and a standout R & B version of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” sung by Shreveport’s Toussaint McCall.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna Rebirth Brass Band Do Whatcha Wanna, Mardi Gras Records
Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley Muscle Shoals Sounds, Rhino
I Love the Nightlife Alicia Bridges Say It Sister, A Bridges
Night Life Willie Nelson Milk Cow Blues, UMG Recordings
Guilty Randy Newman Good Old Boys, Warner Brothers
It's a Mean Old World Sam Cooke Nightbeat, RCA
Instrumental: Bandera Willie Nelson Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Carter Family The Carter Family: In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family Records
Dead Flowers Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones Records
That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke Nashville, Anti-
Dark End of the Street James Carr The Essential James Carr, Razor and Tie Music
Sin City Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace of Sin, A&M Records
Instrumental: Detour Duane Eddy Have 'Twangy' Guitar, Will Travel, Jamie Record
Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment
Big Iron Marty Robbins Gun Fighter Ballads, Sony Legacy
Don't Take Your Gun to Town Johnny Cash Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia/Legacy
Johnny Too Bad The Slickers The Harder They Come, Island
Tighten Up Archie Bell and the Drells Tightening it Up: The Best of Archie Bell & The Drells, Rhino
Bon Ton Roulet Clarence Garlow Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947-1974, EMI
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint American Routes Original Recording,
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Jambalaya Tuts Washington Tuts Washington: New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder Records
Dixie Flyer Randy Newman The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2, Nonesuch
Living for the City Stevie Wonder Innervisions, Motown
Blowing in the Wind Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits, Motown
John Henry John Cephas and Phil Wiggins Richmond Blues , Smithsonian Folkways
If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings, Fuel 2000 Recordings
Long Walk to DC Staple Singers Soul Folk in Action, Stax
Instrumental: Anji Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence, Columbia
Richard Cory Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence, Columbia
Beat it on Down the Line Grateful Dead Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff
Mama Tried Merle Haggard Mama Tried, Capitol Records
Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
Rainy Day Dream Away Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland, Reprise
I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi Records
Instrumental: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note Records
Blue Skies Cassandra Wilson Blue Skies, Polydor
Sunny Bobby Hebb Night Train to Nashville, Lost Highway
Here Comes the Sun Richie Havens Meet the Covers! A Tribute to the Beatles, Hip-O Records