Chris Jennings

Phil Morse, post: 7770 wrote: Man, you pack some quality into those shows. where do you get the time to collate the music every week?

Thanks Phil. I spend quite a bit of time digging and putting stuff in crates and wish lists for later as I find them. That makes it easy when I need to buy stuff because I’ve already sorted through a bunch of stuff. I like to try and stick to an average of about half my shows being music that’s either new or new to me. Sometimes it’s more and sometimes it’s less, but just having that as a loose goal helps to ensure I don’t repeat songs for at least a few shows. That and my music collection is pretty well tagged an organized so it doesn’t take me long to go through and pick the rest of my show after I’ve bought what I’m going to buy.

The hard part is that I do all my shows live. The radio station is based out of the UK and the Saturday Soul shows are scheduled at 12 noon, which is 6 am here in sunny Texas. So I have to drag my self out of bed at 5:30 am, slurp down a couple of cups of coffee and attempt to connect to a streaming server while I’m still half asleep. Then after a little more coffee I start playing real records which for the most part is totally unplanned part of the set. I don’t know about you, but that much thinking, that early in the morning is a bit of a struggle for me. 🙂

The most fun I have is when I do my Extended Ride Along shows. Five hours of tunes kick started by two hours of Soul makes for a great start to the day.

How’s this for a track list? It’s amazing how well The Statler Brothers into the Violent Femmes and then a little later KISS into Nancy Sinatra work together.

Rufus Thomas – Soul Food
Soul Vibrations – The Dump – Soul Vibrations
Eloise Laws – Tighten Him Up
Freda Payne – Mother Misery’s Favorite Child
Irma Thomas – Old Records
The Soul Children – Hearsay
Linda Lyndell – What A Man
Adele – Rolling In The Deep
WAR – Slippin’ Into Darkness (John Morales Remix) – WAR
Patti Jo – Ain’t No Love Lost
Willie ‘Beaver’ Hale – Groove On – Willie ‘Beaver’ Hale
Zapp – Be Alright
Irma Thomas – Old Records
Love unlimited – together
The Floaters – Got To Find A Way
Billy Paul – Brown Baby
Issac Hayes – Soulsville
Al Green – Amazing Grace
Buddy Miles – take it off him and put it on me
The Kay-Gees – Master Plan
Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodyte
El Chicano – What’s Going On
Aretha Franklin – Old Landmark
Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues
Facts Of Life – What Would Your Momma Say
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Sola Rosa – Get It Together
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – How Long Do I Have To Wait For You?

Extended Ride Along

Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
Admiral Bailey – No Way Better Than Yard A
Resonators – Gold Dub
Bob Marley (eleventhirtyeight dub) – Is This Love (eleventhirtyeight live desk dub)
Wayne Wade – Lady (Disco Syndicate’s lovers special redo)
Ernesto Cardenal – Grito Pidiendo
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – African Kings
Mr. Scruff – Chicken In A Box
Lucila Campos – Samba Malato
The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall
Violent Femmes – Kiss Off
Graham Nash – Chicago (Disco Tech Edit)
Giano and Michael Knight – Walking The Dog (Full Version)
Tommy Largo – Night Time (Album Version)
Joshua Heath – More (Full Version)
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill – Bankrobber
Ancient Astronauts – Surfing the Silvatide (with Bajka)
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill – Bankrobber
Up, Bustle & Out – Day at The Bookies (UB&O Mix)
Manu Dibango – ‘Bayam Sellam’ (Danimalswainger Edit)
fela kuti – Sorrow Tears and Blood (tony johns edit)
Grupo Celeste – Viento
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain (DJ Apt One Edit)
Mark Dorricott – Blue Rhodes
David Bowie – Velvet Goldmine [single b-side]
The Very Best – Rain Dance (Featuring M.I.A.)
KISS and Ace Frehley – New York Groove
Nancy Sinatra – The Last Of The Secret Agents
DJ Tricky – Birdie Num Num (The Butterscotch Remix)
Prommer & Barck – Everything (Prommer & Barck Remix)
Digitaline – Shivers
Amp Fiddler – Love & War
Talking Heads – I Zimbra (funk sinatra re-dub) 2010
Whyte – Jupiter and Mars
Hectik Rivero – I Feel Fine
Cassius – Sound of Violence (Aeroplane Remix)
Todd Terje – Ragysh (Original)
Tom Middleton – Cicadas – Maya Jane Coles Remix
Sinc, Daniel Sanchez – New Day – Original Mix