Shake Rag Radio

In the air there’s a feeling of Christmas Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Christmas Memories - She & Him Silver Bells - George Jones Christmas Can’t Be Far Away - Nick Lowe Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass I’ll Be Home For Christmas - Joel Paterson Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio  What Child Is This? - Oscar Peterson Come All Ye Faithful...

When I was young I'd listen to the radio Waitin' for my favorite songs When they played I'd sing along It made me smile Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten You Never Give Me Your Money - Vince Guaraldi So Far Away - Carol King Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Touch Acoustra feat. Norah Jones And I Love You So - Elvis Presley Out The Blue - John Lennon Funny How Time Slips Away - Georgie Fame I’ve Go...

Can we make one moment be forever? Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Cry To Me - Eric Burdon Release Me - Junior Kimbrough The Wasp (Texas Radio & The Big Beat) - The Doors Spangle - Cinerama Thinking Of You - Coalition Autumn Leaves - Kimiko Kasai (with Bobby Scott) My Mother’s Love - Jimmy Rowles Thanks A Million - Jimmy Rushing Come On In - Lady Wray I Don’t Wanna Stop - The Bamboos (feat. K...

Greetings from Crescent City... Meet you at the Funky Butt Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Yours Until Tomorrow - Irma Thomas Tell It Like It Is - Neville Brothers Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans - Earl Hines Blueberry Hill - Louis Armstrong Sheik Of Araby - Fats Domino If I Only Had A Brain - Kermit Ruffins Hey Hey (Indians Comin’) - The Wild Tchoupitoulas All My Love - Earl King S...

Happy days, when we were friends... Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten  Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying - Steve Ellis Seasons - Tom Jones Gravity/Falling Down Again - Alejandro Escovedo California Dreamin’ - John Phillips Autumn Rendezvous - Françoise Hardy Little Birdie - Ellis Marsalis Tom Turkey / Turkey - Bob Dylan Worry Beads - Harry Hosono and The Yellow Magic Band   Streets Of Arklow - Van...

Featuring the musical stylings or Mr. Kenneth Lovelace Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten  Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Jerry Lee Lewis Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen Ode To The Big Sea - The Cinematic Orchestra Ain’t Got No, I Got Life - Nina Simone More Love - James Carr Ain’t Nobody’s Business - Jimmy Witherspoon Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) - Billy Strings All My Friends Are Strangers - George...

Jukebox playing low Yesterday everything was going too fast Today, it’s moving too slow Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten  Sweet Home Tennessee - Homesick James Shake 'Em Up - Guitar Slim Green with Johnny & Shuggie Otis Like A Road Leading Home - Albert King Pieces Of A Man - Gil Scott-Heron Softly To Me - Love Falling Rain - Linus and his Band Tryin’ To Get To Heaven - David Bowie China Doll...

Here's to cowboys, and here's to gold… " John often used to tell the story behind Me And My Uncle. Years ago he began receiving publishing royalties from a song on a Judy Collins record with which he was unfamiliar. It was titled Me And My Uncle. He called Judy to let her know of the mistake because he hadn't written any such song. She laughed and told him that about a year before, in Arizona afte...

The world is just a little town Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten  Isolation - John Lennon Angel - Massive Attack (feat. Kris Kristofferson) Pork-U-Pine - Jeff Beck I’m Deranged - David Bowie Xxplosive (Instrumental) - Dr. Dre You’ve Got Your Troubles (I’ve Got Mine) - Ronnie Spector Water Your Garden - Luscious Jackson Hoerbar Abstrakt Special (excerpt) - Luke Vibert & B.J. Cole Schattenmann -...

If you ever have the blues... You’ll always hear this in your heart Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten  Jealous Kind - Bobby Charles Too Much Woman (For A Henpecked Man) Pistol Packin' Mama - Big Jack Johnson Meet Me In The Bottom - Homesick James & The Hypnotics  Hard Times - Bobby Rush That Woman Named Mary - Lightnin' Hopkins Got A Bad Case Of Loving You - Mighty Joe Young I’m Going Back Home...

Once Upon This Planet Earth… Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten  Everything Is Free - The Holmes Brothers  Old Time Lovin' - Al Green I Want You - Wilson Pickett Holding Back The Years - DJ Screw (feat. Simply Red) You’ve Got A Friend - Lionel Hampton The Love Of God - The Stovall Sisters Julie Brown’s Forest - Spooner Oldham Blue In The Heart - Dan Penn I’m A Mess - Nick Lowe Pretty People - Charli...

Welcome to the Sound Clash! Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Roots And Culture - Mikey Dread Dance With Me - Noel Ellis Ganja Smuggling - Eek-A-Mouse Tubby’s Daddy - Nicodemus Village Soul - Lennie Hibbert Roots Of Dub - King Tubby Brother Man - Bitty McLean Johnny Get Worse - Prince Far I Check The Winner - Glen Brown Song My Enemy Sings - Joe Higgs You Don’t Love Me (No No No) - Dawn Penn Pictur...

T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Drive - The Cars Recollection Phoenix - Willie Nelson Enfant - El Michels Affair Doralice - Stan Getz & João Gilberto All Summer Long - The Beach Boys The Summer Wind - Madeleine Peyroux Please Don’t Make Me Cry - UB40 Born In Time - Bob Dylan Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin Plenty Of Music - New York Dolls Sound And Vi...

In this proud land we grew up strong Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten One Irish Rover - Van Morrison and Bob Dylan  Carrickfergus - Dexys Her Father Didn’t Like Me Anyway - Shane MacGowan and the Popes Don’t Give Up - Willie Nelson with Sinéad O’Connor Only A Dream - Solomon Burke One - Johnny Cash I Will Always - The Cranberries MLK - U2 Restless Farewell / The Parting Glass - Eleanor Shanley and...

A special broadcast via satellite, from an after hours joint… Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten The Safest Place - Sade Only You - Portishead Connected - The Stereo MC’s Nightshift - Commodores My Last Chance - Marvin Gaye Umm Hmm - Erykah Badu If You Were Here Tonight - Alexander O’Neal  After Hours Joint - Johnnie Taylor Be Honest With Me - Tyrone Davis If I Could Love You Forever - Roy C. Please...

Out where the living is easy Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Do Nothing - The Specials Harambe - Rita Marley Dub You Can Feel - King Tubby Life Goes In Circles - Dennis Brown Guinda Sabrosa - Los Orientales de Paramonga Allah Elohim - Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and The Rajasthan Express Yamar - Dry Bread Any How - The Sensational Prodigal Sons A Special Message from Willie Stargell Blue City...

We can’t say goodbye We can only say… we’ll see you soon Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Rouge à Lèvre - Tala André Marie Avalon - Roxy Music Come In From The Cold - Joni Mitchell  Islands - The Band Tender Moments - Ernest Ranglin Song Of The Islands - Santo & Johnny Forever - The Beach Boys Trains And Boats And Planes - Astrud Gilberto Morning Sun - Clydie King How Deep Is The Ocean - Charl...

Elevator going up Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Deja Vu - Bobby Oroza Cancel Everything - Ronnie Wood Dig A Pony - The Beatles For What It’s Worth - Latimore Sign Language - Eric Clapton with Bob Dylan There’s No Easy Way To Say Goodbye - O.V. Wright Heart Of Gold - Buster Poindexter Take Your Partner By The Hand - Robbie Robertson The Garden - PJ Harvey La Ballade - Adrian Younge Version City...

Revival time Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Time (Don’t Let The World Get In Our Way) - Booker T. And Priscilla Jones Stallion - Kris Kristofferson  For The Good Times - Norah Jones La La Means I Love You - Laura Nyro You - Dexys It Tears Me Up - Charles Walker Don’t Make This The Last Date - Bobby Womack That’s The Way Of The World - Deanna Kay Wilkinson with The Jonestown Express Windflower -...

Read a story from this weathered book Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Mr. And Mrs. Untrue - Candi Staton Nothin But Your Lovin' - Breanna Barbara Tired Skin - Alejandro Escovedo A Feast Of Friends - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) I’m Not Worried At All - Moby Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods Nonno’s Poem - Tennessee Williams (Recited by Cyril D...

Won’t you come on in? Leave your cares behind Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Old Violin - Johnny Paycheck Till I Gain Control Again - Willie Nelson Welcome To My World - Kitty Wells That’s The Way It Is - Johnny Cash Our Paths May Never Cross - Merle Haggard Bartender’s Blues / Black Mountain Rag - George Jones  Crazy To Care - Smiley Maxedon & His Okaw Valley Boys Under Your Spell Again - R...

Looking for a moment when the world seems right Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe Needles And Pins - The Ramones Something In The Night - Bruce Springsteen Far Away Eyes - The Rolling Stones Driftin' Blues - John Littlejohn Love Me Tender - James Brown Farewell Farwell - Charles Mingus There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) [Deer Hunter Mix...

To my mother, my dog, and clowns Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten Disappeared - Miharu Koshi & Haruomi Hosono Jr. Mozambique - Jimmy McGriff & Groove Holmes Sketches Of A Life - Stevie Wonder My One And Only Love - Chet Baker Have You Seen Her - Byron Lee & The Dragonaires Soulful Love - Pat Kelly I Need Your Love So Bad - James Brown Dark Spanish Symphony (50’s Version) - Angelo Badal...

Turn your lights down low Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten My Love - Rick Danko and Friends Valentine - Willie Nelson So In Love - Curtis Mayfield And I Love Her - The Holmes Brothers Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye Come To Me - Bitty McLean Just One Look - Mary Wells We’ve Only Just Begun - O’Donel Levy I’m Your Puppet - Bobby Womack Lover Don’t Go - Nick Lowe Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Bettye Sw...

En la vida Extraterrestrial Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Nina Simone The Riot’s Gone - Santigold A Day In The Life - Eric Burdon & War Jamie - Donald Byrd So Far Away - The Crusaders El Mercado - Alex Rodríguez You Know - John McLaughlin El UFO Cayó - Ry Cooder Fade Away - Ernest Ranglin Let It Grow - Eric Clapton Magnolia - J.J. Cale  Along Cam...