Fusion 45

Every now and then, I’ll find the odd playlist laying around, scribbled on a cocktail napkin or a scrap of paper or a football. Some I’ve recorded while others were just “fantasies” (like the one where I mixed Enrico Caruso’s Faust with Dwight Yoakam’s Fast Cars).

I found this one as I was poking through my records, scribbled on the back of the Korgis Dumb Waiters album.

I was able to lay my hands on most of the tunes.

Here’s the list exactly as it was written in F45 shorthand, complete with misspellings, x-outs and weird capitalizations:

SOUTHSIDE - Ain’t

BOB JAMES - Shamboozie

STEELY - News

JOE JACKSON - Can’t

BEATLES - LOVE ME

TTD - Wishing

Johnny Nash - Stir

Ziggie - Tommorrow People

Sting - Set Th Free

Simon - Late

Winwood - Freedom

CSN - Southern

Band - The Wt.

Steely - Rikki

Band - Shape I’m

Wilburys - End of the

Dead - Touch

ARTWORK: Structure I (paper collage, 25 x 23, 1969) by Jack N. Mohr

Quick and dirty, a half-hour of short (really short) and sweet little ditties.

Santana - Hold On
Isaac Hayes - Don’t Let Go
REO Speedwagon - Keep The Fire Burning
Hall And Oates - Wait For Me
Lyn Collins - Think About It
Raydio - You Can’t Change That
Toni Basil - Mickey
Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’
Alan Parsons Project - Damned If I Do
The Beatles - Nowhere Man

K-Tel-A-Delic V

Some great music happening this weekend around our united states of merry-ka. While my mates from WNEW head to Mitch-igan for the Rothbury Festival to catch everyone and his brother, I’m staying on the beautiful west coast to catch everyone and his sister at the Waterfront Blues Festival.

Tops on my list: Isaac Hayes, Eric Linden, Elvin Bishop, Ruthie Foster, Charlie Musselwhite, Back Door Slam and Rory Block. I’ll be posting for both WNEW and Fusion 45, so keep your ears open for some grooves from the waterfront.

In the meantime, here’s a dirty little blues number from the band that was formed while hanging with Mama Cass watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. They also, supposedly, inspired the Grateful Dead to go electric.

From the flip-side of Do you Believe in Magic on Kama Sutra KA-201:

The Lovin’ Spoonful - On The Road Again

Original Recording | November 1994 | Ithaca, NY

Digital Remaster | September 2007 | Brush Prairie, WA

Simon and Garfunkel - Baby Driver
Mark Cohn - 29 Ways
Lyle Lovett - Cryin’ Shame
Eric Clapton - Layla
Neil Young - Long May You Run
Billy Pilgrim - Halfway Home
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
Bonnie Raitt - Papa Come Quick
David Schwartz - Theme from Northern Exposure
Crash Test Dummies - Afternoons and Coffee Spoons
Flatt and Scruggs - Earl’s Breakdown
Old and In The Way - Old and In The Way
Allman Brothers - Melissa
Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful
Peter Himmelman - Impermanent Things
Rascals - Groovin’
Beatles - And I Love Her

<a href=”http://www.fusion45.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/2007/master_5.mp3″>A-Frame Tapes, Volume 2</a>