Back Home Playlist for April 18, 2006 THEME: Clear Skies Ahead (never straight always ahead) The Kinks - Better Things - 3:00 from 1981's Give the People What They Want The Beatles - Getting Better - 2:47 from 1967's Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Stealers Wheel - You Put Something Better Inside Me - 3:50 from 1972's Stealers Wheel Stina Nordenstam - Hopefully Yours - 4:44 from 1994's And She Closed Her Eyes Quicksilver Messenger Service - Hope - 2:57 from 1972's Quicksilver Anthology Mara Levi - Better Days - 4:39 from 2003's Life's a Ball PJ Harvey - Good Fortune - 3:20 from 2000's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Fastball - Till the End of the Day (Ray Davies) - 2:21 from 2002's This is where I belong: The Songs of Ray Davies & The Kinks FEATURED ARTIST: Ass Ponys Led by guitarist/vocalist Chuck Cleaver this alt country rock band formed in Cleveland in the late 80's and hit their stride in the early 90's. The group has an undeserved reputation as a joke band although many of their albums have wonderful nuggets of pure gold songs on them. They released six CD's in eight years but nothing since 2001. Last Night It Snowed - 2:12 from 2001's Lohio Live Until I Die - 5:11 from 1994's Electric Rock Music Pretty as You Please - 4:29 from 2000's Some Stupid with a Flare Gun Baby in a Jar - 4:18 from 2001's Lohio Little Bastard - 2:42 from 1994's Electric Rock Music Back Dot - 3:21 from 2001's Lohio Astronaut - 4:23 from 2000's Some Stupid with a Flare Gun Golden Palominos - Alive and Living Now w/Michael Stipe - 5:38 from 1991's Drunk with passion Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line - 2:46 The Gourds - Roll & Tumble - 3:59 from 2002's Cow Fish Fowl or Pig Uncle Tupelo - We've Been Had - 3:26 from 1993's Anodyne R.E.M - Get Up - 2:35 from 1988's Green Secret Machine - Faded Lines - 5:00 from 2001's Something I Saw or Thought I Saw REQUEST Vic Chesnutt - Guilty by Association w/Michael Stipe - 3:58 from 1995's Is the Actor Happy? FEMALE VOCALIST SET Better After All - Jonatha Brooke - 2:42 from 2004's Back in the Circus Cowboy Junkies - I'm So Open - 4:10 from 2001's Open Sally Timms - Sentimental Marching Song (Jon Langford) - 3:58 from 2004's In The World of Him Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed - 3:47 from 2006's Fox Confessor Brings The Flood Cinerama - Pacific - 2:48 from 1998's Va Va Boom Clear Blue Skies - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 3:05 from 1988's American Dream The Replacements - Skyway - 2:05 from 1997's All For Nothing/Nothing for All |