Memphis Mystery Train Set List: June 14, 2012

Memphis Mystery Train Set List: June 14, 2012

If you were wondering what that screeching noise coming out of your radio this morning was, it was this - the Eloise Trio. It's one of the best record store finds ever.

Eloise Trio, WEVL Memphis

Here's what I played on this week's Mystery Train. As always, the local tracks are marked with an asterisk and my notes are in italics:

Eloise Trio - Chi Chi Merengue
The Egyptians - Party Stomp
Bobby Fuller Four - Saturday Night
The Love Language - Lalita
Girls - Magic
Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You
Vampire Weekend - Horchata (ed. - You are now craving cinnamon rice drink.)
*Otis Redding - Don't Be Afraid of Love
Jens Lekman - Your Arms Around Me
Ray Charles - Mess Around
Nick Waterhouse - (If) You Want Trouble
The Ettes - No More Surprises
The dBs - Ask for Jill
Ok Go - It's Tough to Have a Crush
Allo Darlin - Polaroid Song (ed. - for Rob and the guy at the Allo Darlin show who was air punching. The near-concussion will fade, but the memories are forever.)
The Hold Steady - Adderall
*Jack O. and the Tennessee Tearjerkers - Chills and Fever
*Roy Orbison - I Give Up

Run DMC - It's Tricky
The Jewels - Opportunity
Pistol Annies - Bad Example
Ramones - California Sun
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home (RAC Remix)
The Specials - A Message to You, Rudy
Silver Jews - Let's Not and Say We Did
Dolly Parton - Just Because I'm a Woman (ed. - Feminist Dolly at her best.)
Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun
*Cory Branan - Girl Named Go (ed. - I like to imagine that he's singing about driving on 240.)
Magnetic Fields - California Girls
The Smiths - Ask (ed. - Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you.)
They Might Be Giants - Meet James Ensor
Peter, Bjorn and John - Amsterdam
Belle and Sebastian - She's Losing It
Those Darlins - Keep my Skillet (ed. - There's a cast iron skillet in my car. Yep, I'm Southern.)
White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
Arrah and the Ferns - Soldier Ghost
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
Beach Boys - Sloop John B (ed. - For my dad, since Father's Day is this Sunday.)

You can catch the Memphis Mystery Train live every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. and on Monday from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on 89.9 FM in Memphis or online at wevl.org.

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Erik
What on earth was that turtle themed public service anouncement that played around 8:50?  I need to find a copy of that to play for my turtle obsessed frient...
June 14, 2012 6:09pm
Kerry (Admin)
The Bashful Bob box turtle PSA? It's one of my favorites. It was recorded by one of WEVL's programmers.
June 15, 2012 10:36am
Erik
That has to be it.  It was pretty amazing.  Can I assume then that since it was recorded in house it isn't available on the internet anywhere?  That would be a shame.
June 15, 2012 9:42pm