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Ep. 040 · · 36 tracks
Mood music for the lab bench: 36 tracks to run a column by. Lou Reed's great adventure and a sedated Ramones up front, Scarlet Begonias and an acoustic Watching the Wheels in the middle stretch, Patti Smith doing Teen Spirit and Warren Zevon's Life'll Kill Ya on the way out, and Joe's Garage to close. Appendix: Barfly, Bukowski, Just Kids, and four beers.
Ep. 039 · · 40 tracks
Even more bagels in our baker's dozens: the near misses and omissions. 40 tracks with no unifying theme, just songs that deserved a spin -- two Stolen Cars, a run of touches, a stretch of rain, Nowhere Man to Ramblin' Man, and a Dylan send-off from Frank Turner, Diarrhea Planet, and Wilco with Fleet Foxes.
Ep. 038 · · 34 tracks
34 tracks, all Dylan -- originals, covers, and curveballs. From William Shatner's Tambourine Man and Song to Woody through the legendary Manchester "Judas" Like a Rolling Stone, with Pittsburgh's own Duquesne Whistle along the way -- released at last with The Band, and a French-language Fairport farewell.
Ep. 037 · · 44 tracks
44 tracks of girls and women. From the Beastie Boys' Girls through My Girl, Jessie's Girl, Cinnamon Girl, and September Gurls, the girls grow into American Woman, Gold Dust Woman, and Black Magic Woman -- ending Just Like a Woman with Dylan.
40 episodes · 1,463 songs · one theme a week. See the whole archive →
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