NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
BOB DYLAN . . . . . Beyond Here Lies Nothin' . . . . . Together Through Life
MIKE BLOOMFIELD AND AL KOOPER . . . . . Mary Ann . . . . . Live Adventures Of Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper
RAY CHARLES . . . . .You Be My Baby . . . . . Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959)
WILLY DEVILLE . . . . . Since I Met You Baby . . . . . Live in Berlin
DAVE SITEK . . . . . With A Girl Like You . . . . . Dark Was the Night
VITESSE . . . . . Out Under Stars . . . . . You Win Again Gravity
PAUL SIMON . . . . . Another Galaxy . . . . . Surprise
PETER BJORN AND JOHN . . . . . Just The Past . . . . . Living Thing

BOB MOULD . . . . . Life And Times . . . . . Life and Times
RICHARD BUCKNER . . . . . Numbered . . . . . Meadow
NEKO CASE . . . . . The Pharaohs . . . . . Middle Cyclone
MARIANNE FAITHFULL . . . . . Hold On, Hold On . . . . . Easy Come, Easy Go
TELEVISION . . . . . Venus . . . . . Marquee Moon
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND . . . . . Sweet Jane . . . . .The Velvet Underground & Nico
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS . . . . . Today's Lesson . . . . .Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
THE ROLLINGS STONES . . . . . Stray Cat Blues . . . . .Beggars Banquet

THE WHO . . . . . Magic Bus . . . . . The Kids Are Alright
GOMEZ . . . . . Airstream Driver . . . . . A New Tide
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE . . . . . The Valley Of Malls . . . . . Utopia Parkway
NICK LOWE . . . . . So It Goes . . . . . Jesus of Cool
A.C.NEWMAN . . . . . The Palace At 4 A.M. . . . . . Get Guilty
ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 . . . . . (Cause It's Love) Saint Parallelogram . . . . . Goodnight Oslo
THE CAESARS . . . . .  Strawberry Weed . . . . . Strawberry Weed
DAVE EDMUNDS . . . . . Every Time I See Her . . . . . Closer to the Flame
LITTLE RICHARD . . . . . The Girl Can't Help It . . . . . The Greatest Gold Hits
EDDIE BO . . . . . Baby I'm Wise . . . . . Check Mr. Popeye

RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT . . . . . Rambler's Blues . . . . . A Stranger Here
THE GRATEFUL DEAD . . . . . Ramble On Rose . . . . . Europe 72
MARAH . . . . . Can't Take It With You . . . . . Angels of Destruction
CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE (VOCAL BY EVA TAYLOR) . . . . . Papa De-Da-Da . . . . . Blues Masters, Vol. 11: Classic Blues Women
JOE HENRY . . . . . Tiny Voices . . . . . Tiny Voices

We started this time with a track from Bob Dylan's upcoming disc; it will be out at the end of the month, and from the sound of this one I'm definitely looking forward to hearing the rest. The tune has a familiar bluesy rhythm, which was also used to good effect a little over 40 years ago by Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (who, of course, played with Dylan when he "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965) during a three-night run at the Fillmore in San Francisco. They were covering a Ray Charles tune, and after one from the man himself it was on to a live track by Willy DeVille. At this point the set shifted gears, at least musically, with Dave Sitek's stately synthed-up take on old British Invasion hit from the Troggs. The digitized sounds continued with Vitesse, and then it was Paul Simon from the disc that Brian Eno helped to produce leading to one from the new Peter Bjorn and John album that's almost as catchy as "Young Folks."

The title track of Bob Mould's new disc has an edginess that seemed to flow nicely into a favorite from Richard Buckner, and from there it was Neko Case from her latest with a track that seems cut from the same cloth as the Neko tune covered by Marianne Faithfull from her newest (probably because the Sadies had a hand in writing both). The arrangement on that one brought to mind Television, which was followed by a Velvet Underground classic that led to a slightly lurid Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds tune about a Jane and her adventures with Mr. Sandman. Finally, it was the Rolling Stones heading off down the road to Sleazeville (not that there's anything wrong with that).

This next section began in an automotive place with the Who and Gomez, widened the cultural observations with Fountains of Wayne and Nick Lowe, became somewhat surreal with A.C. Newman and Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, shifted and narrowed the focus to romance with the Caesars and Dave Edmunds, and finished with some wide-eyed New Orleans-flavored R&B from Little Richard and Eddie Bo—who passed away recently at age 78 after a long and successful career in music.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a new disc that sees him covering 10 Depression-era blues tunes; the one that kicked off this set is a Lonnie Johnson composition with a quite appropriate title and it flowed quite naturally into the Grateful Dead from a peak period for that band. From there it was Marah with a nice assemblage of horns on a bluesy track from their last one, and then it was back to 1925 for one from Clarence Willams' Blue Five, featuring among others Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. The closer came from Joe Henry, the man who produced Ramblin' Jack Elliott's new disc.

Here's another one from Eddie Bo