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Fort Ticonderoga, 2011

My Favorite Comedy Skit, Today

This Week's Playlist & Podcast

It is time once again to promote my latest radio show, Dr. John’s Record Shelf, including a tribute to Fats Domino  See a list of the featured music below, and click here to listen to a recording of the full program.

Over Everything, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile

Down the Line, Beach Fossils

Waiting on a Friend, Rolling Stones

In My Blakean Year, Patti Smith

GTX3, Luna

Shut Up, Savages

Green Tea, Shonen Knife

Quotidian Beasts, Phosphorescent

Move Over and Let Me Dance, Isley Brothers

There Ought to Be a Law, Mickey & Sylvia

Hittin’ On Nothin’, Irma Thomas

Window Pane, Linden

The Darkest part of the Night, Teenage Fanclub

Thief, Belly

Visions of Johanna, Steve Gunn

Naughty Lady of Shady Lane, Roches

Summertime, Billy Stewart

The Beat Generation, Don McFaddan & Dor

Trouble in Mind, Nina Simone

Cat Music, Fats & Dave

Don’t Blame It On Me, Fats Domino

Ain’t That a Shame, Fats Domino

Reelin’ and Rockin’, Fats Domino

Walking to New Orleans, Fats Domino

Little School Girl, Fats Domino

Blueberry Hill, Fats Domino

One in a Million, Romantics

Cannonball, Breeders

Union City Blue, Blondie

The Summer Rain, Shoes

Goodnight My Love, Fleetwoods

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Santa Monica, 2011

My Favorite Photographer, Today

Helen Levitt, New York c1940

New York New York

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42nd Street, New York 2017

My Favorite Song, Today

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Rainbow Over Niagara, 2017

My Favorite Painting, Today

Alfred Sisley, Women Going to the Woods 1866

Mumford

These were taken last May at the Genesee County Museum in Mumford, NY-- one of the finest places to take a step back through time to a simpler age...

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Museum of Modern Art, New York 2017

My Favorite Movie Scene, Today

Some People of New York

This batch of pictures were taken in and around Bryant Park (behind the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue).  When I worked there thirty odd years ago, this was a place to be avoided... now it's one of the most inviting parts of Manhattan.  

 

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Venice, 1999

My Favorite Song, Today (RIP Fats Domino)

Toonerville Thursday

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Music Fans, Buffalo 2017

My Favorite Photographer, Today

Esther Bubley, Greyhound Bus Terminal, New York 1947

This Week's Playlist & Podcast

Below you can find the playlist from the most recent airing of Dr. John’s Record Shelf. Click here to listen to a recording of the full broadcast.

Going to a Go Go, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

Brass Beam, Waxahatchee

The Arrival, Filthy Friends

John Coltrane Stereo Blues, Dream Syndicate

Nite Expo, Oh Sees

Battle Lines, The Helio Sequence

Karrussell, Michael Rother

Hometown, Songhoy Blues

Mesmerizing, Liz Phair

Let’s Get It On, Marvin Gaye

You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alison Pipitone

One Way Out, Liam Hayes

Hold On, Sharon Tandy

Love Is Only Sleeping, Monkees

Stop Your Sobbing, Pretenders

The Mighty Quinn, Manfred Mann

Honeysuckle Blue, Drivin’ n’ Cryin’

Natchez Trace, Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls

Leaving Loachapoca, Marshall Chapman

I Know, Kim Richey

Matador, Buttertones

Heart of Stone, Raveonettes

Bratty B, Best Coast

Could Be You, Allah Las

You Think You Know Me, Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause

Carefree Highway, Gordon Lightfoot

Walkin’ the Dog, Sandie Shaw

Edge of the Ocean, Ivy

Right On You, Benjamin Booker

Yakety Yak, Coasters

Shakin’ All Over, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates

Chantilly Lace, Big Bopper

The Hippy Hippy Shake, Chan Romero

Goodnight My Love, Fleetwoods