NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
IGGY POP . . . . . Lust For Life . . . . . Lust for Life
NEW YORK DOLLS . . . . . Dance Like A Monkey . . . . . One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
THE BANGLES . . . . . Walk Like An Egyptian . . . . . Different Light
JENNY LEWIS . . . . . See Fernando . . . . . Acid Tongue
THE CHAMPS . . . . . Tequila . . . . . Frat Rock, Vol. 2
MICACHU & THE SHAPES . . . . . Calculator . . . . . Jewellery
BECK . . . . . Cell Phone’s Dead . . . . . The Information
BRIAN ENO . . . . . No One Receiving . . . . . Before and After Science

M. WARD . . . . . One Hundred Million Years . . . . . Hold Time
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT . . . . . Avalon Blues . . . . . Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings
STEVE & JUSTIN EARLE . . . . . Candy Man . . . . . Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt
RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT . . . . . Richland Women Blues . . . . . A Stranger Here
BONNIE RAITT . . . . . You Got To Know How . . . . . Give It Up
BILLY WARD & THE DOMINOES . . . . . Sixty Minute Man . . . . . Sixty Minute Men: The Best of Billy Ward & His Dominoes
ROXY MUSIC . . . . . In The Midnight Hour . . . . . Roxy Music - Street Life: 20 Greatest Hits
LEONARD COHEN . . . . . I’m Your Man . . . . . Live In London
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN . . . . . Come On Over (Turn Me On) . . . . . Sunday at Devil Dirt

THE VEILS . . . . . The Letter . . . . . Sun Gangs
JOY DIVISION . . . . . Twenty Four Hours . . . . . Closer
PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH . . . . . Black Hearted Love . . . . . A Woman A Man Walked By
RADIOHEAD . . . . . Nude . . . . . In Rainbows
THE SHINS . . . . . New Slang . . . . . Oh, Inverted World
BOB DYLAN . . . . . I Want You . . . . . Blonde on Blonde
JOSH RITTER . . . . . Kathleen . . . . . Hello Starling

IT HUGS BACK . . . . . Don’t Know . . . . . Inside Your Guitar
STEREOLAB . . . . . Outer Accelerator . . . . . Mars Audiac Quintet
GEORGE HARRISON . . . . . Wah-Wah . . . . . All Things Must Pass [BOXED EDITION]
OASIS . . . . . The Shock Of The Lightning . . . . . Dig Out Your Soul
TEENAGE FANCLUB . . . . . It’s All In My Head . . . . . Man-Made
BOB MOULD . . . . . The Breach . . . . . Life and Times
JOHN DOE & KATHLEEN EDWARDS . . . . . The Golden State . . . . . A Year in the Wilderness
NEKO CASE . . . . . People Got A Lotta Nerve . . . . . Middle Cyclone

I'm plenty old enough to remember 1977, when Iggy Pop's first solo album appeared. That was a period when a lot of music sounded fresh and daring, including the title track that opened this program. Of course, for the past decade (or more) this song has been used with all manner of mass media, to the point where we all just tune it out for the most part. I guess it shows either how far we've come or how much has been lost in thirty-odd years. The basics that made it so appealing in the first place still remain, however, and have been borrowed by a variety of musicians, including the New York Dolls from their disc of a few years back. From dancing with the Dolls we moved on to walking with the Bangles, and then it was a Jenny Lewis track that uses a bit of that Bangles tune. An old one from the Champs shared a Latin touch in the title, and that tune's main riff was borrowed by Micachu & the Shapes in their rhythmically adventurous new one that followed. The polyrhythmic approach was maintained by Beck with another one about a "helpful" consumer gadget, which seemed to segue beautifully into a Brian Eno tune whose title happens to describe what happens when your phone needs a charge.

This section began with a track from M. Ward's excellent new album that conjures up the music of Mississippi John Hurt, so one recorded in 1928 by that country blues master followed, and then it was Steve Earle and his son Justin covering my favorite MJH tune. Ramblin' Jack Elliott included an MJH cover as well on his terrific new disc, and then it was a young Bonnie Raitt with a wonderful take on an old Sippie Wallace number. That one naturally fed into Billy Ward & the Dominoes, and then we had Bryan Ferry counting the hours in Roxy Music's cover of a Wilson Pickett tune. A live version of an old Leonard Cohen favorite continued the theme, as did the Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan track that finished the set.

A highlight from the new Veils disc started off this set; the guitar and drums on that one brought to mind Joy Division, and the desolation at the heart of that track made the PJ Harvey & John Parish tune that followed seem almost joyful by comparison. From there it was Radiohead trying to resist temptation into the Shins regretting the end of a relationship and all that it means, and then we finished with a couple of pretty straightforward declarations of desire from Bob Dylan and Josh Ritter, who performed a version of this song that was both moving and amusing during the recent concert I attended at New Jersey's Wellmont Theater.

The final section kicked off with a new one from It Hugs Back that maintains an appealing groove throughout, calling to mind Stereolab as it does, whose track ends with some wah-wah effects that naturally led to an old George Harrison tune. Then it was one with good energy from the latest Oasis disc that has a similar a rhythm to a Teenage Fanclub track from their last album, which was followed by nice piece of pop with an edge from Bob Mould's new record. From there John Doe along with Kathleen Edwards offer two sides of the same coin on a great guitar-driven track that paved the way for the jangly guitar on the Neko Case tune that brought the curtain down on this show.

Here's another one from Mississippi John Hurt