NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA . . . . . Route 66 Theme (opening theme) . . . . . Route 66 and Other Great TV Themes/More Hit TV Themes
TINDERSTICKS . . . . . Harmony Around My Table . . . . . Falling Down a Mountain
LOU REED . . . . . Wait . . . . . Street Hassle
THE CHIFFONS . . . . . One Fine Day . . . . . The Best of the Girl Groups, Vol. 1
CAMERA OBSCURA . . . . . You Told A Lie . . . . . My Maudlin Career
SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS . . . . . Make It Good To Me . . . . . Daptone Gold
KEITH RICHARDS . . . . . Wicked As It Seems . . . . . Main Offender
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL . . . . . Susie Q . . . . . Creedence Clearwater Revival

ROY ORBISON . . . . . Pretty Woman . . . . . Black & White Night
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN . . . . . Viva Las Vegas . . . . . The Essential Bruce Springsteen
DEAN MARTIN . . . . . Medley: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes/I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine/I Love Vegas (Paris) . . . . . The Rat Pack Live at the Sands
TOM WAITS . . . . . Straight To The Top (Vegas) . . . . . Franks Wild Years
LOUIS PRIMA . . . . . Just A Gigalo/I Ain’t Got Nobody . . . . . Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 1
THE BONZO DOG BAND . . . . . Hello Mabel . . . . . Cornology [3CD Set]
PINK MARTINI . . . . . Bitty Boppy Betty . . . . . Splendor in the Grass
THE KINKS . . . . . Lola . . . . . Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One

LEONARD COHEN . . . . . Famous Blue Raincoat . . . . . Songs of Love and Hate
I AM KLOOT . . . . . Not A Reasonable Man . . . . . I Am Kloot
THE JAM . . . . . The Butterfly Collector . . . . . The Butterfly Collector
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG . . . . . Le Collectioneuse . . . . . Irm
BERNARD HERRMANN . . . . . The Murder . . . . . Psycho: The Complete Original Motion Picture Score
WILCO . . . . . Bull Black Nova . . . . . Wilco (The Album)
TALKING HEADS . . . . . Warning Sign . . . . . Talking Heads: 77
GRIZZLY BEAR . . . . . Cheerleader . . . . . Veckatimest

THE PRETENDERS . . . . . Mystery Achievement . . . . . Pretenders
SPOON . . . . . Trouble . . . . . Transference
ARCADE FIRE . . . . . Keep The Car Running . . . . . Neon Bible
BOB DYLAN . . . . . All Along The Watchtower . . . . . Before the Flood
JIMI HENDRIX . . . . . Bleeding Heart . . . . . Valleys Of Neptune
GNARLS BARKLEY . . . . . Surprise . . . . . The Odd Couple
THE WATSON TWINS . . . . . Modern Man . . . . . Talking to You Talking to Me

The new Tindersticks album has a number of very enjoyable tunes, and the one we heard to open this show immediately conjured up an old Lou Reed track. The '60s girl-group backup-singer homage on that one fed nicely into the Chiffons, and from there Camera Obscura added a melancholy flavor to the mix. Sharon Jone & the Dap-Kings moved the sound into a classic Soul feel, which led to Keith Richards adding his distinctive touch to the rhythm. Creedence Clearwater Revival finished up with their definitive cover of a song written back in the late '50s by Dale Hawkins, who recently passed away from colon cancer.

"Susie Q" was written with the guitarist James Burton, who went on to work with Rick Nelson and then Elvis Presley when he returned to touring in 1969. In 1987 Burton and the other core members of the King's TCB Band played with Roy Orbison and many special guests for a show taped in front of a live audience that was eventually broadcast on HBO. Here we heard Burton dueling with Bruce Springsteen on an extended instrumental break in "Pretty Woman," and then it was the Boss covering an old Elvis tune that was originally recorded in 1964, the year after the Rat Pack performed at the Sands in Las Vegas. From there Tom Waits offered a sincerely insincere take on a Vegas-style tune, which was followed by Louis Prima from the Vegas lounge-act days with his energetic melding of two separate tunes that worked much better as a whole than on their own. The Bonzo Dog Band showing off their English trad jazz roots led to Pink Martini's tale of a cross-dressing D.A., which quite logically brought on the Kinks big hit from 1970 to finish up.

A change of pace to open this section was provided by Leonard Cohen's devastating tune, which seemed to flow well into one from I Am Kloot with a similar feel. An angry one from the Jam that I have on a bright yellow vinyl 7-inch disc came to mind after I heard the new Charlotte Gainsbourg tune that followed, and the chilling feel of that one recalled the Bernard Herrmann music that's such a key element in the scene where Janet Leigh meets her demise in Psycho. Wilco was next with a track that seems written from the point of view of someone who's just committed a murder, and then we heard early Talking Heads in their naturally psychotic state followed by Grizzly Bear's nightmarish vision of violence that has a similar rhythm as the tune preceding it, although played much slower.

A early Pretenders tune sent this final section off to an energetic start, which was maintained by Spoon from their latest and Arcade Fire from their most recent release. Bob Dylan with the Band from their 1974 tour were next with his "Jimi Hendrix" version of a Dylan tune (he liked Hendrix's take on the song so much he pretty much has performed it that way ever since), and then we heard Hendrix covering an Elmore James song from the upcoming disc of material never officially released until now. Finally, it was Gnarls Barkley into the Watson Twins to bring down the curtain.

Here's another one from Jimi Hendrix