NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE . . . . . Change Your Mind . . . . . Sleeps With Angels
JULIAN PLENTI . . . . . Only If You Run . . . . . Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper
THE RACONTEURS . . . . . The Switch And The Spur . . . . . Consolers Of The Lonely
CALEXICO . . . . . Two Silver Trees . . . . . Carried to Dust
NEIL YOUNG . . . . . Time For You To Leave, William Blake . . . . . Dead Man

THE BIG PINK . . . . . Dominos . . . . . A Brief History of Love
HEAVEN 17 . . . . . Let Me Go . . . . . The Best of Heaven 17: Higher & Higher
VITESSE . . . . . Another Way . . . . . You Win Again Gravity
KITES WITH LIGHT . . . . . The Weight Of Your Heart . . . . . The Weight Of Your Heart
THE XX . . . . . Heart Skipped A Beat . . . . . Xx
YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS . . . . . Searching For Mr Right . . . . . Colossal Youth
BECK . . . . . Orphans . . . . . Modern Guilt
SMALL FACES . . . . . Green Circles . . . . . Very Best of

JOSH RITTER . . . . . Monster Ballads . . . . . Animal Years
TIM HARDIN . . . . . Misty Roses . . . . . Hang on to a Dream: The Verve Recordings
BOB DELEVANTE . . . . . An Old Picture Of You . . . . . Columbus And The Colossal Mistake
M. WARD . . . . . Hold Time . . . . . Hold Time
RICHARD HAWLEY . . . . . Soldier On . . . . . Truelove's Gutter
DEREK AND THE DOMNIOS . . . . . Little Wing . . . . . Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
LANGHORNE SLIM . . . . . For A Little While . . . . . Be Set Free
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN . . . . . The Fever . . . . . 18 Tracks
RAY CHARLES . . . . . Lonely Avenue . . . . . Ultimate Collection

THE BEATLES . . . . . It’s All Too Much . . . . . Yellow Submarine (Remastered)
RAIN PARADE . . . . . This Must Be Today . . . . . Emergency 3rd Rail Power Trip/ Explosions In The Glass Palace
SONIC YOUTH . . . . . Antenna . . . . . The Eternal
TELEVISION . . . . . Friction . . . . . Marquee Moon
WIN WIN WINTER . . . . . We Came From Stereos . . . . . A Brief History Of
HOT TUNA . . . . . Sea Child . . . . . Burgers

The other night I watched the Jim Jarmusch film Dead Man; first time I'd seen it since it's initial release, and I was just as blown away this time as before. Jarmusch talks about the film in this interview, which includes some thoughts about Neil Young, who wrote and performed the music on the soundtrack. We heard a short bit of that music along with diaglogue from the film to end this opener, which began with an extended Neil Young track that contains a trio of solos that almost sound as jumping-off points for the music he performed on Dead Man. Not surprising, considering Sleeps With Angels was recorded the year before Young worked on the film. In between were a trio of tracks from Julian Plenti, the Raconteurs and Calexico that seemed to suit the mood.

A change of mood was initiated with one from the Big Pink's new disc; the chorus has a hook that brought to mind an old guilty pleasure from Heaven 17, and then the synths really kicked in with Vitesse. One from Kites With LIghts' debut took us to a quieter place, and the sound became increasingly spare with a track from the new xx disc followed by an obvious influence, the Young Marble Giants. That led to Beck and the hazy opening tune from his last release flowing nicely into the Small Faces from the heart of '60s psychedelia.

This section began with a wonderfully flowing tune from Josh Ritter; the wistful mood it created was echoed by tracks from Tim Hardin and Bob Delevante. We then heard M. Ward's dreamy recollection of a just-finished perfect evening, which brought on RIchard Hawley reflecting on a point further down the road in a relationship, when it's beyond repair. The big build to a crescendo in that one brought to mind Derek and the Dominos' cover of a Jimi Hendrix tune, and the final bits of that one seemed to flow nicely into a new track from Langhorne Slim. That one bears more than a passing resemblance to an early Bruce Springsteen tune, which in turn seems to have been clearly influenced by the Ray Charles song that finished up.

We heard some remastered Beatles in psychedelic mode to begin this last set, and that brought on the Rain Parade covering similar territory some 20 years later. One from Sonic Youth's summer release carried us from those gauzy heights to the more stripped-down guitars of Television, and from there it was Win Win Winter with a tune from last year's debut EP that segued quite well into an old favorite from Hot Tuna to bring down the curtain on this program.

Here's another one from Hot Tuna