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Pacific St Blues & Americana
Part 2 of 2 

21. Albert Collins / Iceman (12 minutes) 
22. Robert Cray Band / Right Next Door 
23. Blood Brothers (Albert Castiglia & Mike Zito) / You're Gonna Burn 
24. Devon Allman / After You 
25. Kris Lager / What You Don't Know You Have  
26. Sebastian Lane / Floating Away
27. Roomful of Blues / Stepping Up in Class
28. Boz Scaggs / Detour Ahead 
29. Dom Flemons / He's A Lone Ranger 
30. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Leon Russell, Dave Mason (Traffic), Anders Osbourne / Feelin' Alright
31. Warren Haynes / This Life As We Know It 
32. Sophie Gault / Pocket Change 
33. Sheryl Crow / The New Normal 

Pacific St Blues & Americana
December 27, 2025

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1. Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Best of All
2. Bobby Harden / Feels So Good 
3. Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa / Ain't Now Way 
4. Magic Sam / I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)
5. Hooker & Heat / Whiskey & Wimmen
6. Dave Alvin / Gary, Indiana 1959
7. Dan Penner & Spooner Oldham / I Met Her in Church 
8. Roosevelt Sykes / All My Money's Gone 
9. Elmore James / Shake Your Money Maker 
10. Jon Batiste / Big Money 
11. Eric Clapton / Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out 
12. Shemekia Copeland / Lord, Help the Poor and Needy 
13. Bob Malone / The After Christmas Song
14. Keb Mo / One More Year with You 
15. Emmaline / Cozy, November
16. Merle Haggard / If We Make It Through December
17. Norah Jones / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
18. Dean Martin / A Winter Romance
19. Charles Brown / Ringing in a Brand New Year
20. Dukes of Dixieland / Holiday Time In New Orleans 
21. BB King / Auld Lang Syne 

We're having a six hour Christmas party. The music ranges from bluesy Christmas like BB King, Keb Mo, Karen Souza, and Charles Brown titles to torch songs, to the Beatles, Tom Petty and The Screaming Cheetah Wheelies, Springsteen, and noteable ballads such as Diamonds & Rust, Who Knows Where the Time Goes, and Sheryly Crow. It's a swingin' Christmas Party soundtrack that starts out mellow  and seasonal and build up energy towards the end of the eveing. 

Pacific Street Blues & Americana
December 21, 2025

23. The Allman Brothers (Live) / You Don't Love Me
24. Roomful of Blues / Santa, Do You Ever Get the Blues 
25. Norah Jones / Christmas Don't Be Late
26. Jamie Cullum / So Many Santas
27. Tony Christie / Merry Christmas Everybody 
28. Jimmy Witherspoon / Oh How I Hate to see Christmas Come Around 
29. Eric Clapton / Merry Christmas, Baby 
29. Lucinda Williams / If We Make It Through December 
30. Francine Reed / Grandma's Christmas Cookin'
31. Corb Lund / Just Me and the Ponies 
32. Merle Haggard / Goin' Home for Christmas 
33. Emmaline / Every Time December Rolls Around 
34. Bob Malone / The River 
35. The Who / Christmas (Tommy) 
36. The Who / See Me, Feel Me (Tommy) 

Pacific Street Blues & Americana
December 21, 2025

1. Matt Cox & Kids / Up on the Housetop
2. Keb Mo / Better Everyday 
3. The Band / Christmas Must Be Tonight
4. Amos Milburn / Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby 
5. Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues 
6. B.B. King / Chains and Things
7. Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus 
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan / Willie the Wimp 
9. Charles Brown / Merry Christmas Baby 
10. Johnny Adams / The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot 
11. Lester Williams / Wintertime Blues 
12. Tim Koehm / Poor Man's Christmas
13. Mike Ferris / Havana Santa 
14. Michael Campbell w/ Laura Leininger/ This Year It's Gonna Be Different
15. Amanda Ann Platt & the Honeycutters / Christmas on a Greyhound Bus 
16. Isaac Hayes / Mistletoe & Me 
17. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (Van Zandt & Springsteen) / It's Been a Long Time
18. Lightin' Hopkins / Christmas Blues 
19. Big Joe Turner / Christmas Date Blues 
20. Billy Gibbons / Jingle Bell Blues 
21. Jacquie Roar / Christmas Miss Me 
22. Dean Martin / It Won't Cool Off

1. Ummagumma Pink Floyd advert
2. Pink Floyd / Seamus (The Dog)
3. Blind Boy Fuller / I Want Some of Your Pie (1962, Piedmont Blues) [ragtime]
4. Pink Anderson / (Little Pink Anderson, Vermillion, South Dakota) 1974
5. Floyd Council / "The Devil's Daddy-in-Law, 1976
6. BB King w/ David Gilmore (Pink Floyd)& Paul Carrack (Ace) / Crying Won't Help You Babe

PLAYLIST: December 14, 2025
Pacific St Blues & Americana

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19. Eric Clapton / Merry Christmas Baby 
20. Chuck Leavell / Even Santa Gets the Blues 
21. Matt Cox / Santa Claus is Coming to Town 
22. Joni Mitchell / The River 
23. The Beatles / You Never Give Me Your Money 
24. Mark Knopfler / Smart Money 
25. Robben Ford / For the Love of Money
26. Pink Floyd / Money 
27. Boz Scaggs (w/ Duane Allman) / Somebody Loan Me a Dime 
28. Sebastian Lane / Floating Away 
29. John Primer / Crawling Kingsnake (Doors/ John Lee Hooker) 
30. Keith Richards / Run Rudolph, Run 
31. Chuck Berry / Merry Christmas Baby 
32. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings / Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects
33. Nikki Lane / FalalalaLoveya

PLAYLIST: December 14, 2025
Pacific St Blues & Americana

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1. Norah Jones / Christmas Calling
2. Randy Greer & Ignasi Terraza Trio / Wrap Yourself in a Christmas Package
3. B. B. King / Christmas Celebration
4. Etta James / This Time of Year
5. Ummagumma Pink Floyd advert
6. Pink Floyd / Seamus (The Dog)
7. Blind Boy Fuller / I Want Some of Your Pie (1962, Piedmont Blues) [ragtime]
8. Pink Anderson / (Little Pink Anderson, Vermillion, South Dakota) 1974
9. Floyd Council / "The Devil's Daddy-in-Law, 1976
10. BB King w/ David Gilmore (Pink Floyd)& Paul Carrack (Ace) / Crying Won't Help You Babe
11. Dean Martin / Christmas Blues
12. Michael McDonald / Children, Go Where I Send You
13. Mike Farris / Havana Santa
14. Nick Lowe / Christmas at the Airport
14. Joe Bonamassa / Lonely Christmas Eve
15. Emmaline / Christmas Blues
16. Joanne Shaw Taylor / Irish Christmas in New York
17. Amanda Ann Platt & the Honeycutters / Christmas on the Greyhound Bus
18. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Live @ Hammersmith Odene 1975 / Kitty's Back in Town

1. Deacon Blues / Last Night I Dreamed of Henry Thomas
2. Eric Bibb / This One Doesn’t
3. Mississippi John Hurt / Coffee Blues (Lovin’ Spoonful)
4. Geoff, Jenni, and Clare Muldaur / Chicken 
5. Maria Muldaur / I Go For That 
6.Grateful Dead (David Grisman) / Friend of the Devil 
7. The Loving Spoonful / Henry Thomas (Twill & Banjo) 
8. Henry Thomas / Bull Doze Blues 9. Canned Heat / Going Up to the Country (Bull Doze Blues) 
10. Dave Alvin w/ Canned Heat / The Blind Owl 
11. Taj Mahal / Fishing Blues
12. Guy Davis / Run Mollie, Run 
13. Henry Thomas / Old Country Stomp 
14. Mississippi Sheiks / Sitting on Top of the World 
15. Bob Dylan / Honey, Just Allow Me Once More Chance
16. Grateful Dead / Don’t Ease Me In 
17. Dom Flemons / Texas Easy St (Black Cowboys) 
18. Bruce Springsteen / Black Cowboys
19. Lovin’ Spoonful / Daydream
20. Burl Ives / Big Rock Candy Mountain 

December 7, 2025
"A day that will live on in infamy"

22. The Beatles / Help
23. REM / Dream #9 
24. Karen Souza / Strawberry Field
25. Jeff Beck / A Day in the Life
26. Lucinda Williams / Have Yourself a Rockin' Little Christmas
27. Merle Haggard / If We Make It through December
28. Ray Charles / Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
29. Keb Mo / Christmas is Annoying
30. Charles Taylor / A Christmas Message
31. Christone Kingfish Ingram / Bad Like Me
32. Carolyn Wonderland / Bad to the Bone
33. Chris Cain / Bad Dreams
34. Charlie Crockett / Bad Company
35. Matt Cox / Around the Bend
36. Kris Lager 80 on 80
37. Sebastian Lane / Floatin' Away
38. Hector Anchondo / Candy Shop