The world is in a particularly crazy state right now, and damn if I know how to fix it. (Honestly, I have some ideas, but that’s a conversation for another day.) I do know that everybody needs some down time away from the endless news cycle of gloom and doom…and music can be your light in the darkness. Here’s three hours of it that I played on Muddy Waters and Maya Angelou’s birthday, which curiously fell on the same day as National School Librarian’s Day ad International Carrot Day. Make of that what you will. Dig it by clicking here.
- JOE SATRIANI Hill of the Skull
- MUDDY WATERS The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock and Roll
- ENUFF Z’NUFF New Thing
- THE SHA LA LA’S Baby, You’re a Scene Freak
- COLLECTIVE SOUL Gel
- THE B-52s Paperback Writer
- THE TROGGS Wild Thing
- THE ZOMBIES Tell Her No
- EDDIE FLOYD Knock On Wood
- THE THING Irresistible
- THE DEAR BOYS I Hope You Know How F**ckin’ Cool You Are
- ROSECOLOREDWORLD Hanging on by a Thread
- PETE TOWNSHEND Let My Love Open the Door
- ROBYN HITCHCOCK I Am This Thing
- STANLEY SIMMONS Dancing While the World is Ending
- SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES Vertigo
- THE KINKS A Gallon of Gas
- TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Future Soul
- SCOTT FRILOT Clock Radio
- LOUVERS Nostalgia Road
- REAL LIFE SUPERHERO 8:35 pm / Trouble in the Nightime
- LENNY KRAVITZ It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
- BLACK LABEL SOCIETY & ZAKK WYLDE Ozzy’s Song
- BROTHER DYNAMITE Your Time Will Come
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN A Rainy Night in Soho
- U2 Pride in the Name of Love
- SIERRA FERRELL Dollar Bill Bar
- ELLA LANGLEY Choosin’ Texas
- DAN CORIO BAND Used to Love the Rain
- SUZI QUATRO & ALICE COOPER Kick Out the Jams
- THE BAD ACTORS My Motorola
- PALMYRA DELRAN & THE DOPPEL GANG Lucky in Love
- ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Seven Seas
- JOAN OSBORNE What if God Was One of Us?
- ELTON JOHN Rocket Man
- PAUL McCARTNEY Days We Left Behind
- JOE JACKSON After All This Time
- IAN HUNTER & THE RANT BAND Just the Way You Look Tonight
- DURAN DURAN Come Undone
- U2 Resurrection Song