Small Town Talk

In which Ginger Baldy remembers the magnificent Moby Grape and observes the fall of The Great Joe Bob - He was the pride of the backfield, ah, the hero of his day. 1.   Travelin’ Band - Creedence Clearwater Revival 2.   Watch Your Step - Bobby Parker 3.   Watch Your Step - Ted Hawkins 4.   I Can’t Stand It - Spencer Davis Group 5.   Howlin’ For My Baby - Howlin’ Wolf 6.   Can’t Be So Bad - Moby Gr...

In which Ginger Baldy loses his beans, learns the Bacon Fat and loses out to a Red Cadillac.   1.   Rock Granny Roll - Hank Ballard 2.   Slow Twistin’ - Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp 3.   Bacon Fat - Andre Williams 4.   Diddybop - The Valaquans 5.   Cops & Robbers - Bo Diddley 6.   Leader Of The Pack - The Shangri-Las   (This month’s death song) 7.   Song To The Siren - Tim Buckley 8.   C...

It’s 1958 and the Ginger Kid is transported to Ramsgate and Barnett’s emporium to purchase some magical black discs. 1.   As Long As I’m Moving - Ruth Brown 2.   Your Cash Ain’t Nothing But Trash - The Clovers 3.   Smack Dab In The Middle - Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm, Gene Taylor Band 4.   Back In The Night - Dr Feelgood    (This month’s earworm) 5.   Cruisin’ - Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps 6.  ...

In which the Ginger Kid’s Time Machine crashes in on probably the greatest Rock & Roll song ever.   1.   She’s Got It - Little Richard 2.   Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps 3.   Love My Baby - Little Junior’s Blue Flames 4.   Mystery Train - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 5.   Important Words - Gene Vincent 6.   Reet Petite (The Sweetest Girl In Town) - Jackie Wilson    (This...

In which Small Town Talk realises there's no peace in the barnyard since the Little Red Rooster's been gone.   1.   Baby Workout - Jackie Wilson 2.   Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile) - Van Morrison 3.   Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs    (This month’s earworm) 4.   Learning The Game - Buddy Holly    (Original undubbed master recording) 5.   Not Fade Away - The Rolling St...

In which Small Town Talk presents the first of the long-song bonus episodes.   1.   Porch Light - Robert Cray Band 2.   Don’t Answer The Door - Love Sculpture 3.   Get On Top - Tim Buckley 4.   Land Of The Navajo - Peter Rowan   Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles. 1972   WELL, LIKE A BITCH DOG IN HEAT, MAMA, WE HAD THOSE BED SPRINGS A-SQUEAKING ALL NIGHT LONG, AND DIDN’T YOU HEAR THOSE WA...

In which Small Town Talk celebrates the birth of new grandchild, Leon with some Rock & Roll Lullabies   1.   Come Along - Jimmy Donley 2.   Think It Over - Bill Kirchen & Austin De Lone 3.   Think It Over - Buddy Holly 4.   Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison 5.   Rock And Roll Lullaby - B. J. Thomas 6.   Rock 'n' Roll Lullaby - 10 CC 7.   Pull Away - Leon Bridges 8.   You Left The Water Running - Ot...

In which Small Town Talk goes a-walkin' hand in hand all along the sand.   1.   Funnel Of Love - Wanda Jackson 2.   Chesil Beach - Age Of Reason 3.   Alley Oop - Hollywood Argyles      (This month's earworm) 4.   I Got The Blues - Dion & The Belmonts 5.   I Got the Blues - Geraint Watkins 6.   Nadine - Dion 7.   You Never Can Tell - Chuck Berry 8.   Sweet Nuthin's - Brenda Lee 9.   Ay La Bah -...

In which Small Town Talk,  catches the midnight train, sees a bad moon rising and gets his head stuck in a pumpkin.   1.  Honey Bee Bop - Slink Moss Explosion 2.  She Likes To Boogie Real Low - Jimmy Sutton's Five Charms 3.  Caldonia - Louis Jordan 4.  They Raided The Joint - Helen Humes 5.  31st Street Blues - Dan Burley & His Skiffle Boys 6.  Wine - The Electric Flag 7.  You Don't Realize -...

In which Small Town Talk encounters Whales, Bullfrogs, Chickens, Three Little Pigs and a deadly Water Moccasin snake.   1.   Big Blon’ Baby - Ronnie Self 2.   I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline) - Howlin’ Wolf 3.   In The Pines - The Sir Douglas Quintet  (This month's death song) 4.   I’m Sick Of This Shit - Daphne’s Flight 5.   Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin) sic - Tony Joe Whi...

In which Small Town Talk catches the last train and from thirty thousand feet above El Paso City has a past-life experience.   1.   Last Train To San Fernando - Johnny Duncan & The Bluegrass Boys   ( New regular feature the earworm) 2.   Kill My Baby - Nick Curran & The Lowlifes   (This month's death song) 3.   El Paso City - Marty Robbins 4.   It’s Over - Boz Scaggs 5.   It’s Over - Georg...

In which Small Town Talk reveals Daphne’s Flight latest single, Mysterious Day.   1.   C’mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran 2.   Barefootin’ - Bobby Parker 3.   But It’s Alright - J. J. Jackson 4.   It’s Alright - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs 5.   It’s Alright - The Zombies 6.   Caroline Goodbye - Colin Blunstone 7.   Hard To Be The Way - Daphne’s Flight 8.   Mysterious Day - Daphne’s Flight 9.  ...

In which Small Town Talk continues banging on about the Buddy Tapes.   1.   Psycho - The Sonics 2.   Have Love Will Travel - The Black Keys 3.   Going Down South - The Black Keys 4.   Go Back To Your Used To Be - Jessie Mae Hemphill 5.   Get Like You Used To Be - Chicken Shack 6.   Shake It - The Groundhogs 7.   Shake It - Howlin’ Wilf & The Vee-Jays 8.   California Poppy - Theo Lawrence 9.  ...

In which Small Town Talk revisits the Buddy Holly back catalogue and finds great joy.   1.   Loose Lip Mama - Nick Curran 2.   Sunniland - Dion 3.   Blackbird - Dion 4.   F.F.A - Terry Allen 5.   The Fooler - Nick Waterhouse 6.   Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers 7.   Wild Child In A World Of Trouble - Vince Martin & Fred Neil 8.   Candy Man - Roy Orbison 9.   Come Back Baby - Buddy H...

In which Small Town Talk discovers that Spanish is a Loving Tongue but….   1.   I Love My Baby - The Phaetons 2.   I Need Your Loving - Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford 3.   Need Your Love So Bad - Fleetwood Mac 4.   One Night Stand - David Ackles 5.   Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles 6.   Small Town Talk - Dakota Danielle 7.   She Never Spoke Spanish To Me - Texas Tornados 8.   You’ve Never Seen Me...

In which Small Town Talk vows to play only the very best of female artists down the years.   1.   Baby Doll - The Del Moroccos 2.   Keep Your Hands On The Plow - Mahalia Jackson 3.   Up Above My Head, I Hear Music Playing - Sister Rosetta Tharpe with Marie Knight 4.   Parchman Farm Blues - Bobbie Gentry   (This month's death song) 5.   Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Patti Smith 6.   Dancing B...

In which Small Town Talk spends six shillings and eight pence on a Del Shannon single and plays it until it’s no longer groovy!   1.   Where You At  - Lloyd Price 2.   Sick And Tired - Ronnie Dawson 3.   Sick And Tired - Boz Scaggs 4.   Spanish Harlem Incident - Bob Dylan 5.   Changing Of The Guards - Patti Smith 6.   Streets Of Laredo - Marty Robbins   (This month's death song) 7.   Spanish Strol...

In which Small Town Talk travels back to the 60’s to watch some old black & white TV shows.   1.   Roberta - Frankie Ford 2.   (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 - Them 3.   Baby Please Don't Go - Them 4.   Triad - The Byrds  (Tribute to David Crosby) 5.   Me And Billy The Kid - Joe Ely 6.   Ruby Ridge - Peter Rowan  (This month’s death song) 7.   A Woman In Love - Peter Rowan 8.   Oh! Baby (We Got...

In which Small Town Talk fears that ol’ moon won’t go down soon.   1.  Rockyn Up - Ronnie Moleen 2.  I’d Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack 3.  I Loved Another Woman - Fleetwood Mac 4.  Well All Right - Big Joe Turner 5.  Well…All Right - Buddy Holly 6.  Cookie Jar - Mark Mulcahy 7.  I Ain’t Ready - Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans 8.  Johnny Don’t Do It - 10cc   (This month's death song) 9.  Wolf T...

In which Small Town Talk skins a mule and mourns the great Wilko Johnson.   1.  Mule Skinner Blues - The Fendermen 2.  Back Door Man - The Muleskinners 3.  Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces 4.  The Coo - Wayne Cochran 5.  Last Kiss - Frank J. Wilson & The Cavaliers   (New regular feature - The death song) 6.  Such A Night - Elvis Presley 7.  Such A Night - Dr. John 8.  Doctor Doctor Blues - Memp...

In which Small Town Talk gets in a truck and visits some Milwaukeeans   1.  Nothin’ Shakin’ - Eddie Fontaine 2.  Ain’t Nothing Shaking - Peppy Prince & His Orchestra with Christine Chatman 3.  Ring Dang Dilly - Big Maybelle 4.  Ring-A- Ding-Doo - Little Esther 5.  Just Say Goodbye - Esther Phillips 6.  It’s All Right - Solomon Burke 7.  It’s All Right - Koerner, Ray & Glover 8.  I've Got T...

In which Small Town Talk traces the evolution of a blues classic, grabs his walking cane and gets going before the going gets tough.   1.  The Blues had A Baby And They Named It Rock & Roll - Muddy Waters 2.  Be My Love - Geraint Watkins 3.  I Believe To My Soul - Love Sculpture 4.  You Stole My Money Honey - Stereophonics 5.  Money Honey - Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters 6.  A Lover’s Ques...

In which Small Town Talk keeps on rocking - rocking and changing, rocking and changing…..   1.   B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet 2.   Bottle To The Baby - Charlie Feathers 3.   Daddy Loves Baby - Don Covay & the Goodtimers 4.   Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Cookie & His Cupcakes 5.   Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Alton and Hortense Ellis 6.   Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley 7.   The Answer To Everythi...

In which Small Town Talk breathes in the smog of L.A.  and visits the folkies of Greenwich Village   1.  Honey Hush - The Rock & Roll Trio 2.  Shake Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner 3.  Thirteen -  Big Star 4.  The Letter - The Box Tops 5.  The Letter - Chicken Shack 6.  Breakdown - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 7.  Move With Me - Tim Buckley 8.  Everybody’s Talkin’ - Harry Nilsson 9.  B...

In which Small Town Talk visits the King Of The New York Streets   1.  Party In Nogales - Ron Levy’s Wild Kingdom 2.  Adios Mexico - Texas Tornados 3.  Teardrops On Your Letter - Amos Garrett, Doug Sahm & Gene Taylor 4.  Junco Partner - Gene Taylor 5.  You Got Me Going - Daphne’s Flight 6.  Chaplin House - Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon 7.  King Of The New York Streets - Dion 8.  Don’t Cry - Aar...