Small Town Talk

In which it seems Ginger Baldy’s been transported back to 1967 and He-Feels-He’s-Fixing-To-Die all over again.   1.   I Got My Mojo Working - Joyce Harris & The Daylighters 2.   My Good Pott - Doc Pomus 3.   Lonely Avenue - Taj Mahal 4.   Because The Night - Patti Smith Group 5.   I’m On Fire - Soccer Mommy 6.   Gonna Make It Alone - The Bellfuries 7.   Tell Her No - The Zombies 8.   Night Lif...

In which Ginger Baldy plays Hide & Seek, watches the golden sparks from the Smokestack, and won’t keep away from Runaround Sue.   1.   Hide & Go Seek - Bunker Hill with Link Wray & The Raymen 2.   Cryin’ & Pleadin’ - GA-20 3.   Smokestack Lightnin’ - Howlin’ Wolf 4.   Evil (Is Going On - Canned Heat 5.   You Can’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover - Dion 6.   Runaround Sue - Dion 7.   Ste...

In which Ginger Baldy plays Tim Buckley’s most lascivious track and after a significant birthday, contemplates sweet memory and the passing of time.   1.   Devil Eyes - Tim Buckley (From the album “Greetings From L.A.” 1972) 2.   Roscoe - Midlake  (From the  album “The Trials Of Van Occupanther” 2006) 3.   Shelly’s Winter Love - Bill Kirchen with Nick Lowe & Paul Carrick (From the Album The Pr...

In which Ginger Baldy enters an episode of The Twilight Zone and gets away with stealing chickens.   1.   Wild Man - The Tamrons 2.   The Rockin’ Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns 3.   Air Travel - Chris Farlowe 4.   Just A Little Bit - The Undertakers 5.   Just Love Me Baby - Nick Curran 6.   The Chicken (Dance With Me) - Rosco Gordon 7.   Ain't Nobody He...

In which Ginger Baldy explores early Fats Domino, Gene Pitney, Hank Ballard, the Moody Blues and Ritchie Valens, who never got past early and finally pays tribute to a Yardbird.   1.   The Fat Man - Fats Domino 2.   The Fat Man - Billy Bland 3.   Harmony - Billy Bland 4.   I Wanna Love My Life Away - Gene Pitney 5.   Get It - The Royals 6.   The Slummer The Slum - The “5” Royales 7.   Rack My Mind...

In which poor sinner Ginger Baldy almost joins the enlightened with a “Joliet Jake Blues moment”, but sadly, this time his wretched soul is not saved.   1.   Do Right Baby - Billy Gayles with Ike Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm 2.   Bad Seed Sown - The Bellfuries 3.   Your Love (All That I’m Missing) - J. D. McPherson 4.   Mary Don’t You Weep - Annie & The Caldwells 5.   Ain’t That Loving You Baby -...

In Which Ginger Baldy gets in the time machine and heads on down to 1969 to see Eddie Hinton at Muscle Shoals.   1.   What About Love. - Nick Curran 2.   Mama, Mama, Mama (Look What Your Little Boy’s Done) - Warren Storm 3.   Walking To New Orleans - Bobby Charles 4.   Bad Luck And Trouble - Fats Domino 5.   The Shape You Left Me In - Jimmy Donley 6.   Everybody Needs Love - Drive By Truckers 7.  ...

In which the things that Ginger Baldy used to do, Lord he won’t do no more.   1.   The Things That I Used To Do - Doug Sahm    from the album Hell Of A Spell (1980) 2.   Niki Hoeky - Swamp Mama Johnson    from the album Wetlands (1995) 3.   Blues With A Feeling - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band    from the album The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965) 4.   Marquee Moon - Television    from the albu...

In which Small Town Talk heads down that Lost Highway.   1.   The Nazz Are Blue - Yardbirds 2.   I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom - Robert Johnson 3.   I Believe My Time Ain’t Long - Fleetwood Mac 4.   Before The Beginning - Fleetwood Mac 5.   Someday Baby - Otis Spann 6.   Someday Baby - B.B. King 7.   Tower Of Song - Tom Jones 8.   Lost Highway - Hank Williams 9.   Back In The Game - Stone Foundatio...

In which Ginger Baldy has mixed thoughts about Dallas, and plays some early sixties girls who need some reappraisal.   1.   Musta Notta Gotta Lotta - Joe Ely 2.   Dallas - Joe Ely 3.   Dallas - Johnny Winter 4.   Crosscut Saw - Albert King 5.   You’ll Lose A Good Thing - Barbara Lynn 6.   It’s Your Voodoo Working - Charles Sheffield 7.   Angel of the Morning - Billie Davis 8.   (You Don’t Know) Ho...

In which Small Town Talk heads South To Louisiana   1.   I’m Twisted - Cookie & His Cupcakes 2.   Sea Of Love - Phil Phillips 3.   Jambalaya - Hank Williams 4.   South To Louisiana - Johnnie Allan 5.   Betty And Dupree - Shelton Dunaway & The Cupcakes 6.   Saturday Night In Oak Grove, Louisiana - Tony Joe White 7.   Let Them Talk - Mitty Collier 8.   Let Them Talk - Dan Penn 9.   John Henr...

In which OK Jive’s Datsun Cherry becomes a one-man band   1.   I Gotta Know - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 2.   His Latest Flame - Del Shannon 3.   Little Sister - Elvis Presley 4.   Get Rhythm - Ry Cooder 5.   Sunshine Getaway - J D McPherson 6.   Lollie Lou - T-Bone Walker    (This month’s earworm) 7.   Zindy Lou - The Chimes 8.   Georgie Lou - Cajun Gold 9.   Wanda Lou - Tim Buckley 10. Take...

In which Ginger Baldy has trouble with the birds.   1.   Little Pigeon - Chuck Sims 2.   My Pigeon’s Gone - The Five Keys 3.   Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich 4.   Sowed Love And Reaped The Heartache - Sandra Rhodes 5.   Sweet Dreams - Esther Phillips 6.   Hi-Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker 7.   June - Donnie Fritts 8.   Go Home Girl - Arthur Alexander 9.   Crazy Baby - Gene Maltais 10. Crazy Baby - D...

In which Ginger Baldy revisits the Graham Gouldman songbook.   1.   Race With The Devil - Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps 2.   Sweet Gene Vincent - Ian Dury 3.   Styrofoam - The Tyla Gang 4.   Less Than Zero - Elvis Costello 5.   I’m Sorry - The Fabulous Thunderbirds 6.   I’m Sorry - Los Lobos 7.   Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood 8.   Willie And The Hand Jive - The Johnny Otis Show     (This mon...

In which Ginger Baldy meets a certain girl down in the basement.   1.   In The Basement Part 1 - Sugar Pie DeSanto & Etta James 2.   Have Mercy Baby - Billy Ward & The Dominoes (lead vocal Clyde McPhatter) 3.   Marked Deck - Mercy Baby 4.   A Certain Girl - Ernie K-Doe 5.   Heart Full Of Soul - The Yardbirds 6.   Worm And The Rattlesnake - Godley & Creme 7.   Down On Me - Big Brother &...

In which sleuths, Ginger Baldy and Johnny Corsair track down Shirley.   1.   Catch That Teardrop - The “5” Royales 2.   Shirley - John Fred & The Playboys 3.   Honey Honey - Geraint Watkins 4.   I Can’t Dance For You - Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans 5.   Hey Little Girl - Frankie Lee Sims 6.   Hey Little Girl - The Electric Flag 7.   I Feel Good All Over - Bettye LaVette 8.   Never Satisfie...

In which Ginger Baldy fears the two-pronged crown, drinks a little gin and doesn’t trust your friends.   1.   Song For You - Monica Martin 2.   Back To The Island - Leon Russell 3.   Your Friends - Doug Sahm & Band 4.   Break My Heart Again - Peter Rowan 5.   The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac 6.   Without Love - Mother Earth 7.   Drunk Again - The Butterfield Blues Band 8.   Gloria in Excels...

In which Ginger Baldy remembers sunshine and hair and digs out some old singles   1.   This Little Girl Of Mine - Ray Charles 2.   This Little Girl Of Mine - Dion 3.   How's The World Treating You? - The Louvin Brothers 4.   Leave My Woman Alone - The Everly Brothers 5.   She’s Mine - Joe Tex 6.   Leave My Kitten Alone - The Beatles 7.   I Can’t Go Anywhere With You - J D McPherson 8.   Fine, Fine...

In which Ginger Baldy revisits Roy Orbison and Friends at the Black & White Night.   1.   I Got A Rocket In My Pocket - Jimmy Lloyd 2.   Riding In My Car - NRBQ 3.   Thieves - She & Him 4.   Train Train - The Count Bishops 5.   He Will Break Your Heart - Kane & Abel 6.   He Will Break Your Heart - Jerry Butler 7.   Too Hurt To Cry, Too Much In Love To Say Goodbye - The Darnells 8.   La...

In which Ginger Baldy’s mates, Keith and Matt rescue Small Town Talk’s studio after the storm.   1.   Cavern Stomp - The Big Three 2.   Some Other Guy - Richie Barrett 3.   Don’t Turn Around - The Merseybeats 4.   Blue Girl - The Bruisers   (This month’s death song) 5.   Sorrow - The Merseys 6.   Everything’s Alright - The Mojos 7.   Maybe - The Chantels 8.   Come Softly To Me - Richard Barrett wi...

In which Ginger Baldy suffers the weather in Small Town Talk’s collapsing studio and keeps his big mouth firmly shut.   1.  Rockin’ Bones - Ronnie Dawson (The Blond Bomber)  1959 2.   Somebody Told You - Irma Thomas  1962 3.   Desdemona - John’s Children  1967 (Marc Bolan second vocalist - obviously!) 4.   Just A Little Bit - Tiny Topsy  1959 5.   Daddy Daddy - Richard Berry  1954 6.   Daddy Daddy...

In which Ginger Baldy enjoys some Tex-Mex, gets excited about a new release, and looks back at John Mayall.   1.  You Mostest Girl - Bobby Lee Trammell 2.   Shirley Lee - Ricky Nelson 3.   Who Will The Next Fool Be - Charlie Rich 4.   Laredo Rose - Texas Tornados 5.   Looking Back - Clarence “Frogman” Henry 6.   Looking Back - John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers 7.   Gangster Of Love - Johnny Guitar Watso...

In which Ginger Baldy gets Real Real Gone and remembers a man who never ever did what he should.   1.   Ride Jockey Ride - The Lamplighters 2.   My Gal’s A Jockey - Big Joe Turner 3.   Real Real Gone - Van Morrison 4.   Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard 5.   Chain Gang - Bobby Scott 6.   Chain Gang - Sam Cooke 7.   Ella Speed - Leadbelly   (This month’s death song) 8.   He’s A Rebel - The Cry...

In which Ginger Baldy goes to the cinema to catch a slice of America.   1.   Much Later - Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm 2.   Rocket “88” - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (Ike Turner’s Kings Of Rhythm) 3.   Cadillac Boogie - Jimmy Liggins & His Drops Of Joy 4.   Going Back To New Orleans - Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers 5.   New Orleans - Elvis Presley 6.   New Or...

In which, by the glow of the turntable light on Stanyan Street, Ginger Baldy and Nick Waterhouse play TB Sheets on heavy repeat.   1.   Drivin’ Wheel - The Butterfield Blues Band  (From “The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw” - 1967) 2.   Stanyan Street - Nick Waterhouse  (From “Never Twice” - 2016) 3.   TB Sheets - Van Morrison  (From “Blowin’ Your Mind” - 1967 & “TB Sheets” - 1973) 4.   Born T...