Pacific St Blues & Americana
Part 2 of 2 

19. Blood Brothers / No Good Woman (Mike Zito & Albert Castiligia) 
20. Devon Allman & Larry McCray / Blues is a Feeling 
21. Tommy Castro / Draw the Line
22. Deanna Bogart / In the Rain 
23. Boz Scaggs / The Meaning of the Blues 
24. The Little Willies (Norah Jones) / I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
25. Kris Lager Band / I'm Here for You 
26. Eric Nelson / Save Yourself 
27. Bywater Call / 
28. Karen Souza / New Year's Day 
29. Bruce Springsteen / I'm Not Sleeping 
30. Jeff Beck Group / Drinking Again
31. Derek Trucks Band / Key to the Highway 
32. Keb Mo & Taj Mahal / Room on the Porch 
33. Dave Alvin / Dry River 

Pacific St Blues & Americana
February 28, 2026

1. Bobby Harden - Feels So Good
2. Jon Batiste / Lean on My Love 
3. Roomful of Blues / Tell Me Who 
4. Honeydrippers / Rockin' at Midnight 
5. Tinsley Ellis / Too Broke (To Worry) 
6. Carolyn Wonderland / Bad to the Bone 
7. Blind Willie Johnson / God Moves on Water
8. Lesley Riddle / Titanic
9. Blue Moon Marquee / Rollin' & Tumblin'
10. Muddy Waters / Rock Me 
11. Ann Cole / I Got My Mojo Working 
12. Gus Cannon Band / Minglewood Blues
13. Omar Coleman & Igor Prodo / Answer Your Phone 
14. Eric Gales & Joe Bonamassa / Don't Wanna Go Home
15. Sebastian Lane / Floatin' Away 
16. Gary Clark Jr./ This is Who We Are
17. Joe Bonamassa w/ Michael McDonald, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks / To Know You is to Love You 
18. Indigenous / Blues from the Sky 

20. Sebastian Lane / Floatin' Away 
21. The Black Keys / No Lovin'
22. The Third Mind / Reno, Nevada
23. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / Jefferson Jericho Blues 
24. Professor Longhair / Hey Now Baby 
25. Dirty Dozen Brass Band / My Feel Can't Fail Me Now 
26. Trombone Shorty / Miss Beautiful 
27. Walter Wolfman Washington / Funk is in the House 
28. Wild Magnolia's / Old Time Indian 
29. Neville Brothers / Wild Injuns 
29. Screaming Cheetah Wheelies / Right Place, Wrong Time
30. Dr. John & Randy Newman / Ate Up the Apple Tree
31. Fats Domino / Be My Guest 
32. Tiny Bradshaw / Train Kept a Rollin'
33. Eric Nelson / Hit You Like a Train 
34. Wings / Letting Go
35. Willa Lucille / Almost Always You 
36. Sam Fender / Dying Light, 

Pacific St Blues & Americana
February 15, 2026

1. Memphis Royal Brothers / Gimme Back the Keys to My Cadillac
2. Omar Coleman & Igor Prado / Cut You Loose
3. Tinsley Ellis / Too Broke
4. Joanne Shaw Taylor / Hell or High Water
5. The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Can't Tear It Up Enuff1
6. Tommy Castro / Freight Train
7. The Grateful Dean / Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie 
8. Dave Alvin / Seeds
9. Bywater Call / Only 
10. Al Green & The Soul Mates / Back Up Train 
11. Mike Farris / Snap Your Fingers 
12. Albert Collins / When Welfare Turns It Back on You 
13. Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band / Voodoo Daddy 
14. Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Noah Hunt / Let the Good Times Roll (BB King 100th Birthday Tribute album) 

What's the Common Thread 
15. Elvis Presley / Follow That Dream 
16. Bruce Springsteen / Johnny Bye Bye 
17. The Beatles / Here Come Ol' Flattop
18. T Rex / Bang a Gong 
19. Chuck Berry / You Can't Catch Me 

Pacific St Blues & Americana
February 8, 2026
Bruce Springsteen Spotlight Show playlist
 
The Everly Brothers' Influence:
21. Everly Brothers / Wake Up Little Susie
22. Bruce Springsteen / Little Girl Like You [Lost Albums, 1983 LA Garage]

Character Arch across 54 Years of Music: 
23. Bruce Springsteen / Born to Run
24. Bruce Springsteen / Last Man Standing

Punk Rock influences Nebraska album:
25. Bruce Springsteen / Nebraska
26. Suicide / Dream Baby Dream (OST Deliver Me from Nowhere)
27. Rage Against the Machine / The Ghost of Tom Joad

His Songs: Their Hits:
28. Manfred Mann / Blinded by the Light
29. Patti Smith / Because the Night
30. Pointer Sisters / Fire
31. Dave Edmunds / From Small Things (Big Things Come)

Duets: 
32. John Mellencamp w/ Springsteen / Wasted Days
33. Lucinda Williams w/Springsteen  / New York Comeback
34. Warren Zevon w/ Springsteen / Disorder in the House
35. John Fogerty & Bruce Springsteen / When Will I Be Loved

Pacific St Blues & Americana
February 8, 2026
Bruce Springsteen Spotlight Show playlist
Part 1 of 2
 
Intro & Biggest Influence: Bob Dylan: 
1. Eric Church / Springsteen
2. Rick Springfield / Bruce
3. The Traveling Wilburys (Bob Dylan) / Tweeter and the Monkey Man
4. Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne /Highway 61 Revisited  

Influences: Roy Orbison & Elvis Presley: 
5. Roy Orbison (Traveling Wilbury) / Only the Lonely
6. Cowboy Junkies / Thunder Road,
7. Bruce Springsteen / Viva Las Vegas (cover Elvis Presley)
8. Bruce Springsteen / Johnny Bye Bye

Influences: Pete Seeger & Woody Guthrie:
9. Pete Seeger / Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
10. Woody Guthrie / This Land is Your Land
11. The Carter Family / The World’s On Fire
12. Bruce Springsteen / Vigilante Man

Soul Man? Soul Man! 
13. Jerry Butler / Only the Strong Survive (2022)
14. Eddie Vedder /  My City of Ruins
15. Bruce Springsteen / I’m Not Sleeping
16. Eddie Floyd / Raise Your Hand (Live) (Stax Records)

Producers Phil Spector & Jimmy Webb: 
17. Ike & Tina Turner / River Deep, Mountain High
18. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes / Fade Away (Spittin’ Fire album)
19. Glen Campbell / Wichita Lineman
20. Bruce Springsteen / Sundown

Pacific St Blues
(Part 2 of 2)

23. Slash Shemekia Copeland Bonamassa / When Love Comes to Town 
24. B. B. King / Bad Case of Love 
25. Blackberry Smoke / Running with the Pack (feat Paul Rodgers) 
26. Dirty Honey / Rock Steady 
27. Christone Kingfish Ingram / 
28. The Black Crowes / Profane Prophecy 
29. Sean Chambers / Brown Sugar 
30. Sebastian Lane / Floatin' Away 
31. Al Green / Everybody Hurts
32. Mike Farris / Before There Was You and I 
33. Bywater Call / Only 
34. Dave Alvin / Albuquerque

Pacific Street Blues & Americana
February 1, 2026 

1. Tinsley Ellis / Too Broke 
2. Carolina Chocolate Drops / You Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine 
3. Bukka White / Jelly Roll Man 
4. Chris Thomas King / Baptized in Dirty Water
5. Lucinda Williams / How Much Did you Get for Your Soul 
6. Tedeschi Trucks Band / I Got You 
7. Joanne Shaw Taylor / Hell or High Water
8. Joe Bonamassa / Hanging on a Loser 
9. Darlene Love / Night Closing In 
10. Bruce Springsteen / Galveston Bay 
11. Betty LaVette / Streets of Philadelphia
12. David Bowie / Saint in the City 
13. Reese Wynans / Say What
14. Bonnie Raitt / Pride & Joy 
15. Bill Carter w/ Stevie Ray Vaughan / Na Na Ne Na Nay 
16. Jimmie Vaughan / She's Got the Blues for Sale 
17. Tab Benoit . For What It's Worth 
18. Darcie Miner / Ohio 
19. Bruce Springsteen / Streets of Minneapolis
20. John Mellencamp / Authority Song 
21. Derek and the Dominoes / Got to Get Better in a Little While 
22. Fabulous Thunderbirds / My Babe

Understanding "Streets of Minneapolis"

With Springsteen's latest single reaching #1 in 19 countries, we're witnessing a significant cultural moment. I'm proposing an exploration of the controversial, "Streets of Minneapolis"—examining it within a powerful American musical tradition that stretches back over eight decades.

A Tradition of Musical Commentary

This story begins in 1944, when Woody Guthrie (not Arlo—Woody was his father) wrote "This Land Is Your Land" as a response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." What seemed like competing patriotic songs represented something deeper: different visions of what it means to love your country. Berlin offered celebration; Guthrie offered reflection—including verses about inequality and hardship that rarely get sung today.

Guthrie embraced a form of patriotism rooted in the Declaration of Independence—one that believes loving your country includes acknowledging where it falls short of its ideals. Writing during World War II and the aftermath of the Depression, Guthrie demonstrated how music could both honor and challenge the nation simultaneously.

How Music Reaches Us Differently

That approach influenced Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan—artists who discovered that songs could communicate social commentary to audiences who might not engage with traditional political discourse. A three-minute song on the radio could spark reflection in ways other media couldn't.

Consider "Born in the U.S.A." How many of us have heard it as a celebration when Springsteen wrote it, in Guthrie's tradition, as a pointed critique of how America treats its veterans? Forty years later, it's still frequently misunderstood—even used at political rallies in ways that contradict its message. This pattern raises important questions about how we engage with art.

When Music Captures a Moment

In 1970, after the Ohio National Guard killed four students at Kent State University, Neil Young wrote "Ohio" almost immediately. Released by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young within weeks, the radio-friendly song brought that tragedy into millions of homes, forcing a national conversation.

What "Streets of Minneapolis" Asks of Us

"Streets of Minneapolis" follows in this tradition—echoing "Ohio" across five decades. Like those earlier songs, it's not primarily about comfort; it's about bearing witness and prompting reflection.

The question worth considering: Will we engage with what the song is actually saying, or will it become another anthem whose meaning gets lost over time?

An Invitation to Listen Thoughtfully.
An opportunity to make your own decisions.

This isn't about taking political sides. It's about recognizing a form of patriotism that asks something of us—the kind that believes loving your country includes honest examination of difficult moments.

Hosts: Rick Galusha & Mike Olson

Kate Smith / God Bless America (1939)
Woody Guthrie / This Land is Your Land (1940) 
Carter Family / The World's On Fire (1925) 
Bruce Springsteen / Born in the USA (1984) [Nebraska] 
Neil Young / Ohio (1970) 
Bruce Springsteen / Streets of Minneapolis (2026) 
Norah Jones / American Anthem 

19. Derek and the Dominos / Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad
20. Stevie Ray Vaughan / Willie the Wimp
21. Sebastian Lane / Floating Away
22. Gary Clark, Jr. ? This is Who We Are 
23. Joe Bonamassa & George Benson /  There Must Be a Better World Somewhere
24. Joanne Shaw Taylor / Scraps Vignette 
25. Gary Moore / Walking By Myself
26. Rory Gallagher / Calling Card 
27. Free / Wishing Well 
28. The Pretty Reckless / All Right Now 
29. The Face / Silicon Growth 
30. Black Crowes / 99 Pounds 
31. Sass Jordan / Do What You Want 
32. The Rolling Stones / Rough Justice 
33. Aerosmith / Hangman Jury