Russ chats with UK folk rock pioneer Iain Matthews and plays songs from his new album How Much is Enough.  Russ also spins '60s Waylon Jennings, Waxahatchee, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Richard Hawley and more...

1. Waxahatchee - Bored (Tigers Blood - 2024)

Russ and Barbara chat about her long indie career, 28th Day, marriage, tortoises, her upcoming tour of Finland, plans for a new album, teaching a class of 80 kids how to play guitar, and much more. Russ also spins:

1. Tommy James - Crimson and Clover

2. Barr Brothers - Come In The Water (Sleeping Operator - 2014)

3. The Delines - Drowning In Plain Sight (Seas Drift - 2022)

4. Barbara Manning w/ Dipstick - These Days (Don’t Rewind: Remixes and Other Rendezvous- 2002)

5. 28th Day - I’m Only Asking (1985)

6. SF Seals - Pulp

7. Barbara Manning Interview

8. Barbara Manning - Blood of Feeling (1212-1997)

9. Theo Lawrence - California Poppy

10. Buck Owens - Love’s Gonna Live Here

11. Russ Tolman - Loser’s Club (City Lights - 1998) 

Russ chats with singer-songwriter, guitarist Chuck Prophet about his new album Wake The Dead and more... Russ also spins:

1. Brian Eno - Here He Comes (Before and After Science - 1977)

1. Harry Nilsson - Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga -  (Pussy Cats - 1974)

Russ tells stories and spins the following wax:

1. Chuck Prophet - Sugar into Water

Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino

? and the Mysterians - Hangin’ on a String

JP Harris - Dark Thoughts

Ronnie Milsap - Daydreams About Night Things

Theo Lawrence - Liquor & Love

Richard Hawley - Prism in Jeans

Continental Drifters - Dallas

Iain Matthews - These Days

Scott Hirsch, Kelly McFarling - Dreamer

Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind

Downsiders - Pony Made of Ice

Popealopes - Kerosene

28th Day - Burnsite

This week, we are spinning these great tracks:

1. Iggy Pop - The Passenger (Lust for Life - 1977)

2. David Bowie - Sound & Vision (Low - 1977)

3. Thin White Rope - Mother (Moonhead - 1987)

4. Echo & The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar (1987)

5. The Mighty Stef - Nightwatchman of Iveagh Flats (2014)

6. Jackson Browne - Everywhere I Look (Tribute to Don Heffington: Tonight I’ll Go Down Swingin’)

7. Dan Janisch - Back On the Road Again (Raccoon Town - 2019)

8. Carla Torgerson - Happy (Beckonings - 2024)

9. Nick Drake - One of These Things First (Bryter Layter - 1971)

10. Tindersticks w/ Carla Torgerson - Travelling Light (1995)

11. Lambchop - When You Were Mine (2017) Prince!

12. Russ Tolman - Life 

Peter Holsapple chats with Russ about The dBs: history, reissues, reunion shows, and how nice Linda McCartney was. PLUS Peter takes the deep dive into his other band The Continental Drifters and the new book, 2CD tribute, and the best of collection. Plus Russ spins these tunes:

1. The Frightnrs - I’d Rather Go Blind (Daptone Records Singles Collection, Vol. 5 - 2019)

2. The Sinseers & Joey Quinones - Like I Can Give (Sinseerly Yours - 2024)

3. Sunny & The Sunliners - Should I Take You Home (featuring Sunny Ozuna out of San Antonio, TX)

4. The dBs - Black & White

5.The Continental Drifters - The Rain Song (Vermillion - 1999) 6. Tom Heyman - Barbara Jean (24th St Blues - 2023)

7. Bob Dylan - Sarah Jane (Dylan - 1973)

8. Leonard Cohen - Don’t Go Home with your Hard-on (Death of a Ladies Man - 1976)

9. Russ Tolman - Something About a Rowboat (Road Movie - 1992) 

Today's episode finds Russ chatting with his old friend Steve Wynn about Steve's new memoir I Would Say It If It Wasn't True and his new album Make It Right. Russ and Steve also share stories of their time to together in Davis, CA and the band Suspects with Kendra Smith (later of Dream Syndicate) and Gavin Blair (later True West). 

Playlist:

1. Chuck Prophet & Quien Save - Wake The Dead (Oct 25 on Yep Roc)

2. Smog - Hit The Ground Running (Knock Knock - 1999)

3. Be Bop Deluxe - Panic In the World (Drastic Plastic)

4. Modern Lovers - Road Runner

5. Steve Wynn - Simpler Than The Rain

6. Steve Wynn - Santa Monica

7. Russ Tolman - Sleeping All Alone 

Join Russ on his debut broadcast when he talks about life and radio in Davis and plays:

1. Flamin’ Groovies - Shake Some Action

2. Steve Wynn - Make It Right (title track of new album out next Friday)

3. Dillard & Clark - Don’t Let Me Down (Through the Morning, Through The Night - 1969)

4. Nick Lowe - I Read A Lot (That Old Magic - 2011)

5. Rolling Stones - Miss You (Some Girls - 1978)

6. Billie Eilish - Lunch (Hit Me Hard and Soft)

7. Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair (There’s a Riot Goin’ On - 1971)

8. Tom Verlaine - Breakin’ in My Heart (1979)

9. Wilco - Impossible Germany (Sky Blue Sky - 2007)

10. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Illinois - 2005)

11. Russ Tolman - Hollywood Holiday (Goodbye Joe - 1990)