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with Todd Berryman

WTTS OverEasy - laid-back World Class Rock, acoustic tunes, b-sides, deep cuts, reissues, in-studio recordings, live Studio 92 exclusives and more as you start Sunday morning.

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"I remember nights when...all the voices in my head had been

turned into music and set free."

-Lewis Shiner, from the novel Glimpses

Pictured above, top:  Todd, Mike Doughty and Phil the Listener

before Mike's WTTS Private Concert in late summer 2005. 

Bottom:  Phil at the WTTS 15th Anniversary party

before Bob Dylan's show, July 15, 2007.

More remembering Phil Stoerck "Phil the Listener" (1953-2008) here

 

June 30th - Todd remembered Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, and featured songs from the new live John Mellencamp EP, Life, Death, Live and Freedom.

Hour One (7a-8a):

A set in memory of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett -

SUZANNE VEGA Wooden Horse (from Solitude Standing)

XTC The Last Balloon (from Apple Venus Volume One)

THE JACKSON FIVE I'll Be There (single, 1970)

PAUL SIMON The Coast (from The Rhythm of the Saints)

R.E.M. Try Not to Breathe (from Automatic for the People)

SUPERTRAMP Goodbye Stranger (from Breakfast in America)

LEADBELLY AND THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET The Midnight Special (single)

JOSH JOPLIN GROUP Camera One (this version is a WTTS exclusive)

STEELY DAN Peg (from Aja)

ERIC CLAPTON AND STEVE WINWOOD Presence of the Lord (on the album Live from Madison Square Garden)

JOHN MELLENCAMP Young Without Lovers (from Life Death Live and Freedom)

JOHN MELLENCAMP The Wreck of the Old 97 (from the various artists album The Rose and the Briar)

 

Hour Two (8a-9a):

RYAN ADAMS When the Stars Go Blue (from Gold)

MICHAEL JACKSON The Lady in My Life (from Thriller)

BOB DYLAN It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (from Highway 61 Revisited)

BOB DYLAN Jolene (from Together Through Life)

WILLIE NELSON, WAYLON JENNINGS, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON AND JOHNNY CASH Highwayman (from Highwaymen)

WILLIE NELSON AND WYNTON MARSALIS My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (from Two Men with the Blues)

JOHN MELLENCAMP Longest Days (from Life Death Live and Freedom)

JOHN MELLENCAMP Wild Night (this version from Rough Harvest)

DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS Jackie Wilson Said (a Van Morrison cover, b-side to "Come On Eileen")

GLEN HANSARD AND MARKETA IRGLOVA Into the Mystic (a Van Morrison cover from the expanded version of the Once soundtrack)

VAN MORRISON St. Dominic's Preview (title track)

GEORGE HARRISON Deep Blue (single b-side)

 

Hour Three (9a-10a):

PAUL McCARTNEY Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) (from Band on the Run)

THE JACKSONS Can You Feel It (from the 1980 album Triumph)

MINDY SMITH Come to Jesus (from One Moment More)

RAY LaMONTAGNE Trouble (title track)

RAY LaMONTAGNE You Are the Best Thing (from Gossip in the Grain)

JOHN MELLENCAMP Troubled Land (from Life Death Live and Freedom)

JOHN MELLENCAMP Small Town (single b-side)

A set of songs for the upcoming 4th of July holiday:

NRBQ Fireworks (from Wild Weekend)

U2 4th of July (from The Unforgettable Fire)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy (from The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle)

 

Hour Four (10a-11a):

KATE WALSH Fireworks (from Tim's House)

JONI MITCHELL Night Ride Home (title track)

JOHN PRINE The Great Compromise (from Diamonds in the Rough)

THE COURT AND SPARK National Lights (from Bless You)

AIMEE MANN 4th of July (from Whatever)

VAN MORRISON Almost Independence Day (from St. Dominic's Preview)

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Alligator Pie (from Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King)

JOHN MELLENCAMP My Sweet Love (from Life Death Live and Freedom)

JOHN MELLENCAMP Jackie Brown (from Big Daddy)

MICHAEL JACKSON Human Nature (from Thriller)

K.D. LANG Constant Craving (from Ingenue; today is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots)

 

June 22nd - Todd featured more songs from the new Tori Amos album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin.

Hour One (7a-8a):

SON VOLT Back into Your World (from Straightaways)

UNCLE TUPELO Anodyne (title track)

WILCO Jesus, Etc. (from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

WILCO You Never Know (from the forthcoming self-titled album, out June 30th)

TORI AMOS Give (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS Smells Like Teen Spirit (recorded for the Crucify EP)

NIRVANA After Midnight (from Naturally)

LYLE MAYS Teiko (from Lyle Mays)

JONI MITCHELL Night Ride Home (title track)

LOS LONELY BOYS Diamonds (recorded at WTTS Studio 92)

BRAD MEHLDAU Blackbird (a Beatles cover from The Art of the Trio, Volume 1)

ARETHA FRANKLIN Let It Be (a Beatles cover from This Girl's in Love with You)

 

Hour Two (8a-9a):

THE BEATLES I'm Only Sleeping (from Revolver)

THE LA'S Liberty Ship (from the debut album)

GEOFF MULDAUR'S FUTURISTIC ENSEMBLE, Loudon Wainwright III, vocalist Bless You! Sister (from Private Astronomy:  A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke)

ELVIS COSTELLO  WITH THE METROPOLE ORKEST Watching the Detectives (this live version from My Flame Burns Blue)

ALANA DAVIS Can't Find My Way Home (a Blind Faith cover from the soundtrack to The Mod Squad)

ERIC CLAPTON AND STEVE WINWOOD Presence of the Lord (on the album Live from Madison Square Garden)

TORI AMOS Not Dying Today (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS Bliss (from To Venus and Back)

A set of songs for Father's Day!:

FLEETWOOD MAC Oh Daddy (from Rumours)

FLEETWOOD MAC Sugar Daddy (from Fleetwood Mac)

 

Hour Three (9a-10a):

STEELY DAN Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More (from Katy Lied)

THE SUBDUDES Papa Dukie and the Mud People (from Behind the Levee)

PAUL SIMON St. Judy's Comet (from There Goes Rhymin' Simon)

PAUL SIMON Father and Daughter (from the soundtrack to The Wild Thornberrys movie)

CAT STEVENS Father and Son (from Tea for the Tillerman)

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Dreams of Our Fathers (from Everyday)

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Alligator Pie (from Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King)

TORI AMOS Maybe California (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

THE EAGLES Hotel California (from Hell Freezes Over)

A set of songs for the summer solstice:

XTC Summer's Cauldron->Grass (from Skylarking)

BILL BRUFORD If Summer Had Its Ghosts (from If Summer Had Its Ghosts)

 

Hour Four (10a-11a):

PHILIP AABERG AND SCOTT MATHEWS The Warmth of the Sun->Surfer Girl (from the various artists Windham Hill collection Summer Solstice)

THE BEACH BOYS Surf's Up (title track)

SAM COOKE Summertime ("Chain Gang" b-side)

PHISH Ginseng Sullivan (recorded at the Murat Theatre on 8/13/1993, available at livephish.com)

MATTHEW SWEET The Ugly Truth (from his album Altered Beast; WTTS Presents Matthew Sweet at the Vogue tonight!)

COLLECTIVE SOUL December (this version can be found on the EP From the Ground Up; Collective Soul is at the Murat Egyptian Room on June 25th)

ZIGGY MARLEY WITH THE CHIEFTAINS Redemption Song (a Bob Marley cover from the Chieftains album The Wide World Over; Ziggy Marley and 311 play the Lawn at White River State Park in downtown Indianapolis tonight)

JIMMY PAGE AND ROBERT PLANT The Battle of Evermore (from No Quarter:  Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded)

TORI AMOS Fire to Your Plain (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS Silent All These Years (from Little Earthquakes)

HARRY CHAPIN Cat's in the Cradle (from Verities and Balderdash)

 

June 15th - Todd featured the new Tori Amos album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin.

Hour One (7a-8a):

TREAT HER RIGHT You Don't Need Money (from Treat Her Right; this is one of the bands Mark Sandman was in before Morphine)

MORPHINE Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer (from The Night)

INDIGO GIRLS Cold Beer and Remote Control (from Come on Now Social)

MARK ISHAM On the Threshold of Liberty (from Vapor Drawings)

THE MOODY BLUES Lovely to See You (from On the Threshold of a Dream)

BRIAN BLADE Struggling with That (from Mama Rosa)

TORI AMOS Fast Horse (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS Flying Dutchman (an Under the Pink-era b-side)

J.J. CALE After Midnight (from Naturally)

LUKA BLOOM Delirious (from Riverside)

VAN MORRISON Into the Mystic (from Moondance)

NINA SIMONE Seeline Woman (from Verve Remixed)

 

Hour Two (8a-9a):

CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH Marrakesh Express (from the debut album)

THE DB'S Never Say When (from The Sound of Music)

TEENAGE FANCLUB Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From (from Songs from Northern Britain)

PAUL SIMON The Obvious Child (from The Rhythm of the Saints)

ELVIS COSTELLO Sulphur to Sugarcane (from Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)

TORI AMOS That Guy (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS A Sorta Fairytale (from Scarlet's Walk)

STEVIE WONDER I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever) (from Talking Book)

SAM PHILLIPS I Need Love (from Martinis and Bikinis)

DIANA KRALL Frim Fram Sauce (from All For You:  A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio)

 

Hour Three (9a-10a):

STING After the Rain Has Fallen (from Brand New Day)

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Motel Blues (from Recovery)

LARRY CORYELL Improvisation on Robert de Visee's Menuet II (from The Restful Mind; the backing ensemble is the progressive jazz group Oregon)

BOB DYLAN Mr. Tambourine Man (from Bringing It All Back Home)

BOB DYLAN Jolene (from Together Through Life)

TORI AMOS Ophelia (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS Concertina (from the album To Venus and Back)

 

CAT STEVENS Home in the Sky (from Buddha and the Chocolate Box)

BON IVER Re:  Stacks (from For Emma, Forever Ago)

 

Hour Four (10a-11a):

BRUCE HORNSBY AND RICKY SKAGGS Super Freak (a Rick James cover from Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skagggs)

THE COURT AND SPARK National Lights (from Bless You)

THE POGUES If I Should Fall from Grace with God (title track)

NORAH JONES WITH CHARLIE HUNTER More Than This (a Roxy Music cover from the Charlie Hunter Quartet album Songs from the Analog Playground)

ROXY MUSIC Avalon (title track)

SARA WATKINS Jefferson (from Sara Watkins)

TORI AMOS Welcome to England (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

TORI AMOS Cornflake Girl (from Under the Pink)

PHISH Lifeboy (this live version recorded 8.13.1996 in Noblesville, from LivePhish 12; the band plays VWMC on June 19th!)

THE DECEMBERISTS Isn't It a Lovely Night? (from The Hazards of Love)

 

 

June 8th - Todd featured Elvis Costello's forthcoming album, Secret, Profane and Sugarcane.  It comes out Tuesday!

Hour One (7a-8a):

BILL FRISELL In Line (title track)

VAN DYKE PARKS Delta Queen Waltz (from Moonlighting:Live at the Ash Grove)

BILLY JOEL Goodnight Saigon (from The Nylon Curtain)

COUNTING CROWS Goodnight Elisabeth (from Recovering the Satellites)

SPIRIT Fresh Garbage (from Spirit)

JAY FERGUSON Thunder Island (single, 1977)

SARA WATKINS Pony (a Tom Waits cover from her self-titled album)

STEVE MILLER BAND Wild Mountain Honey (from Fly Like an Eagle)

ELVIS COSTELLO Changing Partners (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane; song written for Loretta Lynn)

ELVIS COSTELLO Indoor Fireworks (from King of America)

INDIGO GIRLS Little Perennials (recorded at WTTS Studio 92)

STING Straight to My Heart (from ...Nothing Like the Sun)

Hour Two (8a-9a):

JAMES TAYLOR Suite for 20 G (from Sweet Baby James)

ABRA MOORE Guitar Song (from Strangest Places)

POI DOG PONDERING Spending the Day in the Shirt You Wore (from Wishing Like a Mountain, Thinking Like the Sea)

DAVE EDMUNDS I Hear You Knocking (from Rockpile)

FATS DOMINO When the Saints Go Marching In (single, 1959)

BRIAN BLADE Struggling with That (from Mama Rosa)

ELVIS COSTELLO Hidden Shame (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)

ELVIS COSTELLO Shipbuilding (from Punch the Clock; the trumpet solo is by Chet Baker)

BRIGHT EYES We Are Nowhere and It's Now (title track; WTTS OverEasy Presents Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band at Jake's in Bloomington on July 20th)

MARK O'CONNOR Flight Home (from False Dawn)

LYLE LOVETT Bears (from Step Inside This House)

TIM O'BRIEN The Wicked Messenger (a Bob Dylan cover from Red on Blonde)

CASSANDRA WILSON Lay Lady Lay (a Bob Dylan cover from Glamoured)

 

Hour Three (9a-10a):

BOB DYLAN Gotta Serve Somebody (from Slow Train Coming)

THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS WITH KATIE JACKSON Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Savior (from Pass Me Not)

GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS So. Central Rain (an R.E.M. cover from Nineteeneighties)

R.E.M. (Don't Go Back to) Rockville (from Fables of the Reconstruction)

TORI AMOS Fast Horse (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

ELVIS COSTELLO My All Time Doll (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)

ELVIS COSTELLO She (from the soundtrack to Notting Hill)

JANIS JOPLIN Mercedes Benz (from Pearl)

FREEDY JOHNSTON Hotel Seventeen (from Never Home)

THE FIXX I Will (from Phantoms)

FLEET FOXES Mykonos (from Fleet Foxes; also on the WTTS Spring New Music Sampler)

 

Hour Four (10a-11a):

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS South City Midnight Lady (from The Captain and Me)

KOKO TAYLOR Let the Good Times Roll (recorded for E Town on June 19, 2008)

CALEXICO Roka (recorded for tonight's edition of E Town)

OLD AND IN THE WAY Wild Horses (a Rolling Stones cover; Old and In the Way was an acoustic music ensemble featuring Jerry Garcia)

LEONARD COHEN Suzanne (this version from Live in London)

JEFF BUCKLEY Hallelujah (a Leonard Cohen cover from Grace)

JEFF BUCKLEY Lover, You Should've Come Over (this live version from Grace Around the World, a new collection of various live and televised appearances made to support the release of Grace in the mid-1990s)

ELVIS COSTELLO She Handed Me a Mirror (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)

ELVIS COSTELLO Alison (live version recorded at Hollywood High School)

WINGS I'm Carrying (from London Town)

 

May 31st - Todd featured Elvis Costello's forthcoming album, Secret, Profane and Sugarcane.  It comes out on June 9th!

Hour One (7a-8a):

DAVID TORN sunday on the violet sea (from Windham Hill Guitar Sampler, Volume 2)

ALANA DAVIS Lullaby (from Blame It on Me)

THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT Mammagamma (from the 25th anniversary reissue of Eye in the Sky)

BILL WITHERS Grandma's Hands (from Just As I Am)

JOHN MAYER 83 (from Room for Squares)

JOHN MAYER Free Fallin' (a Tom Petty cover from Where the Light Is:  John Mayer Live in Los Angeles)

ELVIS COSTELLO Down Among the Wines and Spirits (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane; song written for Loretta Lynn)

ELVIS COSTELLO Our Little Angel (from King of America)

BODEANS Good Things (this version is a WTTS exclusive)

THE ROLLING STONES Factory Girl (from Beggar's Banquet)

JIM BARTZ Edges (on the album Pictures from Earth + Space)

Hour Two (8a-9a):

NEIL YOUNG Sugar Mountain (single b-side)

SAM ROBERTS Every Part of Me (from We Were Born in a Flame)

SAM PHILLIPS The Fan Dance (title track)

TORI AMOS Cornflake Girl (from Under the Pink)

TORI AMOS Fast Horse (from Abnormally Attracted To Sin)

NEWTON FAULKNER Dream Catch Me (recorded at WTTS by Todd Berryman for OverEasy)

ELVIS COSTELLO I Felt the Chill (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane; song cowritten with Loretta Lynn)

ELVIS COSTELLO You're No Good (b-side to "Veronica")

LINDA RONSTADT I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (from Winter Light; cover of a song associated with Dusty Springfield)

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD Son of a Preacher Man (from Dusty in Memphis)

ROBBIE ROBERRTSON Soap Box Preacher (from Storyville; he gets help from former Band-mate Garth Hudson on keyboards and Neil Young on additional vocals)

RICHARD X. HEYMAN Night Ride Rail (from Living Room!!)

CCR Midnight Special (from Willy and the Poorboys)

 

Hour Three (9a-10a):

HOLLY COLE Train Song (from her Tom Waits tribute album Temptation)

RICKIE LEE JONES The Last Chance Texaco (from Rickie Lee Jones)

THE BE GOOD TANYAS The Littlest Birds (from Blue Horse)

THE MOODY BLUES Ride My See-Saw (from In Search of the Lost Chord)

BRIAN BLADE Struggling with That (from Mama Rosa)

ELVIS COSTELLO Sulphur to Sugarcane (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane; the song namechecks Bloomington)

ELVIS COSTELLO Days (a Kinks cover from Kojak Variety)

THE KINKS Picture Book (from The Village Green Preservation Society)

JENNIE DEVOE How I Feel (from Ta Da)

COLDPLAY Spies (recorded live at the Murat Theatre in 2003 exclusively for WTTS; Coldplay is at Verizon Wireless Music Center on June 5th with Snow Patrol)

FERRABY LIONHEART Put Me in Your Play (from Catch the Brass Ring)

LYLE LOVETT Bears (this version is a WTTS exclusive)

 

Hour Four (10a-11a):

PETER BRUNTNELL N.F.B. (the quasi-title track from Normal for Bridgwater)

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1 (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS Funky Kingston (title track)

NICKEL CREEK When in Rome (recorded in WTTS Studio 92)

SARA WATKINS Pony (a Tom Waits cover from her self-titled album)

ELVIS COSTELLO Complicated Shadows (from his forthcoming album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane)

ELVIS COSTELLO Man Out of Time (from Imperial Bedroom)

FLEET FOXES Mykonos (from Fleet Foxes; also on the WTTS Spring New Music Sampler)

JOHN BUTLER TRIO Better Than (recorded in WTTS Studio 92)

DAN FOGELBERG Nexus (from The Innocent Age)