This week's RoasterBoy playlist

Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning (remixes)

Their Remix Bonus CD includes several different flavors of their classic (also known as the theme from The Sopranos). 04/15/2008 03:08 PM

Garnet Rogers - Get a Witness (Live) Good tunes of being on the road too long, lots of different roads, including a strong cover of Brother Stan's Northwest Passage. "There's no Hank or Merle or Johnny, now. You can't hear them anymore. Just redneck clowns in stupid hats ..." 04/14/2008 10:37 AM

Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman FARK.com: Fark YouTube Player (3532587) Curtis Mayfield perforns "Pusherman" on the wildly unpopular show "Night Music" 04/13/2008 04:56 PM

YouTube - Al Green Tired of Being Alone Live Happy Birthday, Rev. Al. YouTube - Al Green Tired of Being Alone Live 04/13/2008 04:50 PM

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness As powerful a love song as you'll find anywhere - YouTube - Try A Little Tenderness Live- Otis Redding It's easy when listening to the explosive vocal performance to miss the simple beauty of the rhythm section, the simple clicking of the drummer, the nifty loop of the base and guitar players (Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper?), and, of course, the Bar-Kay horn section. None better. 04/11/2008 10:53 AM

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

This album is pretty consistently #2 on my favorite Dylan album list. (Blood on the Tracks is always #1.) From the time I first heard it on an old record player at the camp (the album owned by my mother's college friend, Joe C.) until listening on my iPod on this morning's walk, the music always delights and challenges. Although most of the tunes rock out with an all-star band, the album's anchor is the acoustic Desolation Row. 04/1