Dan makes a Bob Dylan bread sandwich for your lunch on the ride today. The meat: Katy Kirby, Twain, Caroline Rose, Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle and Twain (NOT Shania - you're welcome). Careful eating and riding, it makes it difficult to text!

Austin Texas America artist Mary Gauthier played on the MSU campus this week so we bookend the show with two of our favorite classic MG tracks plus a BIG SURPRISE from Mary herself at the end of the ride. Magnolia Electric Company, Don McLean, new Charlie Parr, The Pretenders, Allison Russell, Sonny Bill Glover and The Hold Steady make up the heart of your afternoon bike ride sandwich.

Hope ya like the Felice Brothers, if not come back next time but some of us want to hear raw, slow rolling, acoustic folk/blues now and then and IANTOWN, the Felice's first and never released 2006 album, is just what the bike doctor ordered.

It's a purging of hard feelings on the ride this week as Dan lays down a whole show of angry songs. Helen MckCookerybook (yep), Elton John, Pink Floyd, John Mellencamp, Jackson Brown, Charlie Parr, The Gear Daddies, Queen and Van-the-angriest-man-man-I-know Morrison all included.

A TALKING HEADS Day sponsor inspires this THs' sandwich bookending the ride, with some interesting and poignant messages in the songs making up the meat and cheese. Now Serving: Kerry Lash, Purple Mountain, Barclay James Harvest, Allison Russell, Elizabeth Cotton and NFL MVP, Taylor Swift (you read that right).

Dan processes a recent traumatic experience with the riders and listeners and follows the story up with related songs. Included: Tom Waits, SarahMcLachlan, Ninah Washington, Charlie Parr, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Status Quo, The Talking Heads and an unnerving cut from the score of Damien Omen 2, a movie that made The Exorcist look like Saturday morning cartoons.

Hank drops by for a ride this week to share some diverse song sets as he and Dan make the ride mostly about the music this week. Included: Neko Case, Nathanial Rateliff, Silver Jews, Mazzy Star, Arrogant Worms (ahhhh, what?!) Charlie Parr and more. Did we mention diverse?

For sure: Across all genres/eras there have been an abundance of songs recorded about being alone, and we're going to play 14 of them for you today. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Charley Crockett, Robert Finely, Kim Karnes and Norah Jones are just a few of the amazing and diverse artists expressing their tendencies toward solitude through song on this week's ride.

Donovan, Chris Kerrigan, Future Teens, John Prine, The Zombies, Jolina Carl, Warren Haynes, Derivakat, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Michael Martin Murphy and Andrew Bird make up this year's New Year's ride..

Hank joins Dan for the annual Christmas ride. Sea Flats, Nick Lowe, Jimmy Buffet, Belle & Sebastian, Michael Martin Murphy, The Cure and the Coffee Hag Choir all make up this variety of "Christmas" mention at a minimum, or even some all out Christmas songs in some cases, holiday special.