“I Feel Like Listening”: @RonnieWoodShow is Now Taking Requests. Here are mine…
Last week I stumbled across the Ronnie Wood Radio Show. Hot DAMN! This is a great radio show put on by the man himself. In a previous post I called Ronnie and the show: the ultimate “surprise guest” at gigs, the perennial last-one-to-leave-the-party and now he has his own radio show where he gets to spin some of the coolest fucking R&R yarns ever heard. Damn straight…
In one week I plowed through all 19 episode (1 hour each). I blabbed endlessly on Twitter about it. I even asked via Twitter if we, the fans, could submit requests. Those who man the @RonnieWoodShow twitter profile gave the go ahead to send them in. Why thank you…don’t mind if I do. You should submit yours, too. Feel free to add your picks at the bottom of this post and I’ll shout them out. Or, just go straight to the source.
I picked 12 songs. Depending on the storytelling or in-studio guest, each episode runs 10-12 songs. I picked songs that aren’t obvious picks or obvious artists. I picked songs that I think Ronnie could “get behind” (a frequently used Ronnie-ism) and that his fans could, too. I also threw in two bonus Ronnie tunes that I love.
Hey, if the whole list made it on an episode…cool. If one makes it on an Episode…cool. If none make it and Ronnie still does his thing…cool. If he feels like playing, we feel like listening. Cool…
These 12 bow-down tracks are in my collection. These tracks only sit on the front burner and never come of the boil. (I added links to tracks for streaming if I could find them online)
My bow-down playlist picks:
- Dan Penn: Zero Willpower (Dan Penn is one of the unsung heroes of soul music. He wrote towering songs that will live longer than any of us)
- Black Merda: Cynthy-Ruth – (WHY? Why don’t more people talk about these soul/funk brothers? This shit’ll stick to your ribs)
- Delaney & Bonnie: Poor Elijah – Tribute To Johnson (What a tour this must have been…southern, soul and rocking and roll)
- Was (Not Was): Crazy Water (This tune is a 4:49 party!)
- The Fabulous Wailers: Wailers House Party (when people think a group called the Wailers…most often it isn’ this Wailers…but it SHOULD be)
- Buddy Miles: Train (The opening to this song feels like sinewy, bicep muscle flexing in slow motion…Buddy was a MONSTER!)
- Fat Domino: Honest Papa’s Love Their Mama’s Better (This, this, song ranks up there with the best R&R songs ever…listen to that rollicking beat and rolling piano. Fats rules)
- Lonnie Mack: Wham! (Lonnie mack brought it all into focus… under appreciated slinger, fo sure)
- Eddie Bo: The Hook & Sling – (Another New Orleans funk master…”hook it…now, sling it girl…SLING it”!)
- Candi Staton: I‘d rather be an old man’s sweetheart (than a young man’s fool) – (Candi pleads here case and I’m buying it. She’s in my top 3 Soul Sister Singers)
- Junior Wells: Snatch it Back and Hold it (Killer opener from one of the all-time best blues albums…on Delmark, no less. He had such attitude)
- Traffic: Medicated Goo (A good old fashioned medicated groove…this is another bonafide party starter)
My two Ronnie picks:
- Infekshun (Gimme Some Neck is bow-down Saturday night party album and this tune sets the tone). Just got this one on vinyl)
- When the whip comes down (off of Sucking in the70′s, this live version has a classic Ronnie solo)
Check out these links for more Ronnie:
The Ronnie Wood radio Show (Episode 20, the latest, is now live)
Ronnie’s new website
Ronnie’s new album (out September 27th…the line forms behind me), “I Feel Like Playing” (happy you do, Ronnie)
