Guilty Pleasures: Music We Love More Than We Can Say
We take a deep dive into the memory vaults to spin the tunes we shamelessly love. From guilty pleasures, including a disco dance number, to confessional ballads like James Carr’s “Dark End of the Street” and songs of redemption ala Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny,” we shine a light on hymns including Mavis Staples’ “Long Walk to D.C.,” Simon & Garfunkel’s “Richard Cory,” and a standout R & B version of Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” sung by Shreveport’s Toussaint McCall.
HOUR ONE
Open Bed: Do Whatcha Wanna Rebirth Brass Band
Do Whatcha Wanna, Mardi Gras Records
Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley
Muscle Shoals Sounds, Rhino
I Love the Nightlife Alicia Bridges
Say It Sister, A Bridges
Night Life Willie Nelson
Milk Cow Blues, UMG Recordings
Guilty Randy Newman
Good Old Boys, Warner Brothers
It's a Mean Old World Sam Cooke
Nightbeat, RCA
Instrumental: Bandera Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger, Columbia
When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland Carter Family
The Carter Family: In the Shadow of Clinch Mountain, Bear Family Records
Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers, Rolling Stones Records
That's How I Got to Memphis Solomon Burke
Nashville, Anti-
Dark End of the Street James Carr
The Essential James Carr, Razor and Tie Music
Sin City Flying Burrito Brothers
Gilded Palace of Sin, A&M Records
Instrumental: Detour Duane Eddy
Have 'Twangy' Guitar, Will Travel, Jamie Record
Pancho and Lefty Delbert McClinton
Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt, Free Falls Entertainment
Big Iron Marty Robbins
Gun Fighter Ballads, Sony Legacy
Don't Take Your Gun to Town Johnny Cash
Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia/Legacy
Johnny Too Bad The Slickers
The Harder They Come, Island
Tighten Up Archie Bell and the Drells
Tightening it Up: The Best of Archie Bell & The Drells, Rhino
Bon Ton Roulet Clarence Garlow
Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans 1947-1974, EMI
End Bed: Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes Original Recording,
HOUR TWO
Open Bed: Jambalaya Tuts Washington
Tuts Washington: New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder Records
Dixie Flyer Randy Newman
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2, Nonesuch
Living for the City Stevie Wonder
Innervisions, Motown
Blowing in the Wind Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder Greatest Hits, Motown
John Henry John Cephas and Phil Wiggins
Richmond Blues , Smithsonian Folkways
If I Had a Hammer Toussaint McCall
Nothing Takes the Place of You: The Ronn Recordings, Fuel 2000 Recordings
Long Walk to DC Staple Singers
Soul Folk in Action, Stax
Instrumental: Anji Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia
Richard Cory Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence, Columbia
Beat it on Down the Line Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers
I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff
Mama Tried Merle Haggard
Mama Tried, Capitol Records
Follow Your Heart Joe Farrell Quartet
Joe Farrell Quartet, CTI
Rainy Day Dream Away Jimi Hendrix
Electric Ladyland, Reprise
I Can't Stand the Rain Ann Peebles
Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years, Hi Records
Instrumental: Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note Records
Blue Skies Cassandra Wilson
Blue Skies, Polydor
Sunny Bobby Hebb
Night Train to Nashville, Lost Highway
Here Comes the Sun Richie Havens
Meet the Covers! A Tribute to the Beatles, Hip-O Records