During today's show, I got both a phone call asking "Is the theme today weird cover songs?" and a text demanding to know "good God, what are you making me listen to?"

So, really, a typical Thursday morning at WEVL.

Here's what I played on this week's Memphis Mystery Train, with the local tracks marked with an asterisk: 

Little Johnny and the Silvertones - Rock 'TilThe End of Time
Egyptians - The Party Stomp
Yo La Tengo - Watch Out for Me Ronnie
Loretta Lynn - These Boots are Made for Walkin'
White Stripes - We Are Going to Be Friends
Archie Bell and the Drells - We Are Going to Be Friends
Belle & Sebastian - She's Losing It
*Tav Falco - Funnel of Love
Detroit Cobras - My Baby Loves the Secret Agent
Billy Bragg and Wilco - She Came Along to Me
*Jack Oblivian - Girl on the Beach
Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
The DBs - Love is for Lovers
Arrah and the Ferns - Soldier Ghost
Patty and the Emblems - Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl
Mynabirds - Let the Record Go
Rosemary Clooney - Corazon de Melon
Magnetic Fields - Three Way
Real Estate - Wonder Years
Sam Cooke - (What a) Wonderful World
The Smiths - Still Ill

The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
New Pornographers - Jackie Dressed in Cobras
Those Darlins - Who's That Knockin' at My Window
*The Subteens - You May Be Right
*Automusik - Industrial Work Song
The Ettes - We Repel Each Other
Ramones - Glad to See You Go
The Ronettes - Be My Baby
Silver Jews - Random Rules
Ikettes - Trouble on My Mind
Thao - Body
*Harlan T. Bobo - Too Much Love
The Vaccines - If You Wanna
They Might Be Giants - Twisting
The Sonics - Strychnine
Sundown Pete & Margie Lane - You Can Have Him When I'm Gone
Why - Sand Dollars
The Strokes - Hard to Explain
David Bowie - Life on Mars
 

The Memphis Mystery Train airs every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. through 10 a.m. on WEVL, Memphis' only volunteer radio station. If you missed the Mystery Train this morning, you can catch it when it re-airs tomorrow from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on 89.9 WEVL Memphis or online at wevl.org.