Episode #8

The No Show | Mar 30, 2010
Playlist for Episode #8

THEME: "How Long Blues" (Album: Chicago Piano, Vol. 1)
Jimmy Yancey, piano

"First Girl I Loved" (Album: The 5000 Spirits....)
The Incredible String Band

"A Case of You" (Album: Blue)
Joni Mitchell

"Milk Cow Blues" (Album: Louie Bluie)
Sleepy John Estes

"Ax Sweet Mama" (Album: Boomer's Story)
Ry Cooder

"Fine Fat Daddy" (Album: Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith)
Dinah Washington

"Long Lean Lanky Mama" (Album: Am I Blue?)
Ethel Waters

"The Weight" (Music from Big Pink)
The Band
On this week's No Show, Steve muses on achieving leanness and declines to play Arthur Godfrey's "She's Too Fat for Me." The music may, however, include other references to body types.

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