Broken News

The No Show | Mar 30, 2010
New time-slot, but same old NO SHOW. This week, Steve Post leads off with The Broken News; then he reveals two more of his many vices; and finally he inducts Wilson Pickett into The NO SHOW Musical Necropolis. The music will make you stop and think, then forget what you were thinking and move on. As we all must.

PLAYLIST

THEME: “How Long Blues” – Jimmy Yancey, piano
“Silvio” – Bob Dylan
“John Wayne Gacy Jr.” – Sufjan Stevens
“Fool for a Cigarette” – Ry Cooder
“Cigarettes & Whiskey” – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
“Hey Bartender” – Koko Taylor
“The Edison Museum” – They Might Be Giants
“In the Midnight Hour” – Wilson Pickett
“Mustang Sally” – Wilson Pickett
“Teardrops Will Fall” – Wilson Pickett

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