Middlesbrough

• Free / All Right Now
• Bad Company / Burning Sky

Sunderland:

• Eurythmics (Dave Stewart) / Sweet Dreams
• Eurythmics w/Aretha Franklin & Tom Petty's Heartbreakers / Sisters Doing It for Themselves

Washington: Bryan Ferry

• Roxy Music / Love is the Drug

Arriving in Newcastle (William the Conquer, 1066 a.d.)
Along the Quayside

• Dire Straits / Down to the Waterline (first song on first album) John Wesley
• The Faces / Debris

Coal Mining

• Sting / We Work the Black Seam

Shipbuilding

• Mark Knopfler / Why Aye Man
• Sting / Soul Cages

Duets

• Mark Knopfler w/ James Taylor / Sailing to Philadephia
• Sting and Shaggy / Don't Make Me Wait

Today's Music

• Smoove & Turrell / Hard Work
• Smoove & Turrell / Slow Down
• The Poor Boys / Moves Like Water [Ally Lee]
• Sam Fender / 17 Going Under

Heading South

• Mark Knopfler / Deep River
• Sting / Heading South on the Great North Road
• Mark Knopfler / Fare Thee Well, Northumberland
• Dire Straits / South Bound Again

Closing

• Humble Pie / 30 Days in the Hole
• Sandy Denny / Who Knows Where the Time Goes

What's the Common Thread, The Music Trivia Game
21. Aerosmith / Eyesight to the Blind
22. J. Geils Band / Struttin' With My Baby
23. Ike & Tina Tuner / Proud Mary
24. Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa / Nutbush City Limits
25. Dr. Feelgood / Milk & Alcohol
26. The Strypes / Blue Collar Jane
27. Graham Parker / Paralyzed
28. Dave Edmunds / I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock n Roll)
29. James Eddie (The Wingnuts) / Nevada Honeymoon
30. Norah Jones / American Anthem
31. Keb Mo / America the Beautiful
32. John Mellencamp / Gone So Soon
33. Chris Cain / Blues for My Dad
34. Josh White / The House I Live In
35. Big Bill Broonzy / Bons Bons, Chocolate, Chewing Gum
36. Amanda Ann Platt & the Honeycutters / Forget Me Not Blue
37. Mark Knopfler / A Place We Used to Live
Spotlights Shows

PLAYLIST May 18, 2025
Pacific Street Blues & Americana

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1. The Allman Brothers / Jessica
2. Galatic & Irma Thomas / Where I Belong
3. Brothers Brown / Junior's Back
4. Elmore James / Person to Person
5. Jimmy Reed / I Ain't Got You
6. Tommy Castro / Freight Train
7. Robert Randolph / Big Women
8. Larkin Poe / Strike Gold
9. Carla Thomas / Country Road
10. Mike Farris / Before There Was You
11. Renee Elise Goldberry / Starring
12. Laura Nyro / Luckie
13. Bywater Call / Falls Away
14. Tab Benoit / Watching the Gators Roll In
15. Bonnie Raitt / Women Be Wise
16. Seth Walker / Up on the Mountain

What's the Common Thread, The Music Trivia Game
17. The Animals / House of the Rising Sun
18. The Black Crowes / Thorn in My Pride
19. The Beatles / Don't Let Me Down
20. The Eagles / Already Gone

Northern Soul / [Brit Box / George Gently]

• Beatles / She Loves You (yeah, yeah, yeah)
  • - 60s girl groups: Shirelles, The Cookies,
  • - 50s Rockers: Chuck Berry, Larry Williams, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly
  • - The Everly Brothers
• Arthur Alexander / Soldier of Love (Anna)
• The Shirelles / Baby, It's You

British Radio

• The Three Degrees / When Will I See You Again
• ELO / Mr. Blue Sky

Rock Music

• Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul / We Gotta Get Outta This Place
  • - recorded live in Newcastle
• Animals / House of the Rising Sun [Percy St & Handyside Arcade]
• Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers / Don't Bring Me Down
  • [Club a Gogo: Keith Moon w/ John Entwistle (The Who), Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page]
• Led Zeppelin / Traveling Riverside Blues (Robert Johnson)
• Led Zeppelin / What is and What Should Never Be
• Jeff Beck Group / Beck's Bolero
• Duran Duran / Thank-You (Led Zeppelin) Andy Taylor

Dunston, County Durham / Brian Johnson

• AC/DC / You Shook Me All Night Long

Wallsend:

• Russ Tippins / Josephine

Animals/ busking
Jimi Hendrix in Tyneside (Chas Chandler, Linda Keith, Paul Kossoff)

• Jimi Hendrix / EXP intro
• Jimi Hendrix / Fire (Let me stand next to your fire: Mitch Mitchell)
• Sting / The Wind Cries Mary(feat John McLaughlin)

Hadrian's Wall & Northumberland

Starting the Journey

• Jack Armstrong / The Redesdale Hornpipe
• Mark Knopfler / Piper to the End
• Be Bop Deluxe / Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
• The Byrds / The Ballad of Easy Rider
• Sting / All This Time

Two Methods of Transportation

• Glen Campbell & Hope Sandoval / The Long Walk Home
• Queen / Bicycle

A Decision at Bowness on Solway

• Rod Stewart / Cut Across Shorty
• Supertramp / Take the Long Way Home

Folk Music

• - Blaydon Races
• - Sally Wheatley
• Lindisfarne / Fog on the Tyne
• Lindisfarne / Run for Home
• Splinter / Half Way There

The Hills / Pennines "The Backbone of England"

• Sting / On the Hills on the Border
• Mark Knopfler / Border Reiver

PLAYLIST May 11, 2025
Pacific Street Blues & Americana

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20. Tommy Casto / Hole in the Wall
21. Chris O'Leary / You Break It, You Bought It
22. Charlie Musselwhite / Hip Shakin Mama
23. Etta James / I Got You Babe
24. Orinthi / Some Kind of Feeling
25. Joe Bonamassa / Shake This Ground
26. John Nemeth / Blue Broadway
27. Mississippi Heat / Madeleine
28. Bonnie Raitt / Love so Strong
29. Southern Avenue / Sisters
Spotlights Shows
30. Eric Nelson / Not At All
31. The North Mississippi All-Stars / Still Shakin'
32. Carolina Chocolate Drops / Hit'em Up Style
33. Muddy Waters / No Escape from the Blues
34. Sass Jordan / Where There's a Will, There's a Way
35. Notorious Cherry Bombs / Let It Roll, Let It Ride
What's the Common Thread, The Music Trivia Game

PLAYLIST May 11, 2025
Pacific Street Blues & Americana

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1. Carolyn Wonderland / Let's Play a Game
2. Rhiannon Giddens / Freedom Highway
3. Staple Singers / I'll Take You There
4. Phil Ochs / I Ain't Marching Anymore
5. Eric Bibb / The Times They are a Changin'
6. Carla Thomas / Country Road
7. Harry Manx & Kevin Breit / Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
8. The Byrds / He Was a Friend of Mine
9. Seth Walker / Up on the Moutain
10. Royal Southern Brotherhood / Big Greasy
11. Larkin Poe / Fool Outta Me
12. Galatic & Irma Thomas / Where I Belong
13. Gretchen Wilson / Sunday Morning
14. The Poor Boys / East of Paradise
15. Reese Wynans / Crossfire
Spotlights Shows
16. Drive-By Truckers / Every Mother's Son
17. Etta James / Tell Mama
18. Jackson Five / Mama Told Not to Come
19. Sue Foley / Motherless Child Blues

Extended Podcast
38. Rick Derringer / Rock n Roll Hoochie Coo
39. Aerosmith / Baby Please Don't Go
40. Long John Baldry / I’m Ready
- Baldry met Rod Stewart when Rod was busking a Muddy Waters song on the Streets of London

After the Beatles - Trying Something New
41. 1968 - Electric Mud (Rotary Connection)
- - Muddy Waters w/Rotary Connection / Let's Spend the Night Together
42. 1969 - Fathers & Sons
- - Muddy Waters with Paul Butterfield, Michael Bloomfield, Donald 'Duck' Dunn (Booker T & the MGs), Sam Lay, Buddy Miles, Otis Spann
/ Mean Disposition
43. 1972 - The London Sessions
- - Muddy Waters w/ Rory Gallagher, Richard Roman Grechko a/k/a Rick Grech (Traffic, Blind Faith), Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix), and more
/ Who's Gonna Be Your Sweet Man with I'm Gone?
44. 1975 - Woodstock
- - Muddy Waters w/The Band / Mannish Boy
/ Mannish Boy (The Last Waltz)

Electric Guitar & Amplification
45. Charlie Christian / Rose Room
46. T Bone Walker / Stormy Monday Blues
47. BB King / The Thrill is Gone

Development of a Song
48. (1950) Muddy Waters / Rollin' Tumblin' Blues
49. (1928) Gus Cannon & the Jug Stompers / Minglewood Blues
50. (1929( Hambone Willie Newburn / Rollin' & Tumblin' Blues [Sleepy John Estes]
51. (1929) Charlie Patton / Banty Rooster Blues
52. (1929) Sleepy John Estes with Yank Rachel / The Girl I Love, She's Got Long Black Wavy Hair
53. (1936) Robert Johnson (Chris Thomas King) / If I Had Possession over Judgement Day
- Travlin' Riverside Blues
54. (1969) Led Zeppelin / The Girl I Love, She's Got Long Black Wavy Hair
55. (1969) Led Zeppelin / Travelin' Riverside Blues
56. (2006) Bob Dylan / Rollin' Tumblin'

Development of a Song
57. Robert Petway / Catfish Blues
58. Muddy Waters / Rollin' Stone Blues
59. The Rollin' Stones / Catfish Blues (Rollin' Stone Blues above)
60. Jimi Hendrix / Catfish Blues