Memphis Mystery Train Set List: Sept. 8, 2011

Memphis Mystery Train Set List: Sept. 8, 2011

Today's show was bookend-ed with birthday tributes to Buddy Holly and Freddy Mercury. Between that, there was plenty of rock'n'roll and a visit from Katie Boyle from the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center in Holly Springs, Miss. Katie Boyle at WEVL She taught me all kinds of things - namely that hummingbirds build their nests out of spider webs and that armadillos are really, really easy to scare. She also told me about the Humming Bird Migration Celebration which is happening this weekend in Holly Springs. Here's what I played on the show this week, with the local tracks asterisked as always: Weezer - Buddy Holly The Egyptians - Party Stomp Noah and the Whale - Jealous Kind of Love Detroit Cobras - Break Away Belle and Sebastian - To Be Myself Completely Magnetic Fields - Three Way Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By the School Yard Decemberists - Apology Song What Four - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy *Jack Oblivian - Crime of Love New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promise You Camera Obscura - Tougher Than the Rest Bishop Allen - News From Your Bed *Luv Clowns - Good People Sometimes *Oblivians - Mary Lou They Might Be Giants - Judy is Your Viet Nam *Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie, Or Maybe Ramones - Have You Ever Seen the Rain Talulah Gosh - Be Your Baby REM - Second Guessing Sufjan Stevens - Lord God Bird White Stripes - Your Southern Can Is Mine Why - Rubber Traits Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube Holly Golightly and the Broke-Offs - Get Out My House Ra Ra Riot - Shadowcasting Dominique Walter - Les Petit Boudins Wilco - Candy Floss Ted Leo - Woke Up Near Chelsea Beck - Tropicalia The Donnas - I Don't Wanna Go to School Little Richard - I Got It The Sonics - Strychnine *Two Way Radio - Feminist Pirate *John Paul Keith and the 1,4,5s - Never Could Say No Queen feat. David Bowie - Under Pressure If you missed the show this week, you can catch it every Thursday from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. on WEVL 89.9 FM or stream it online at wevl.org.

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Katie Boyle
Thanks, Kerry -- I had a great time on your show! AMAZING set list, by the way! Detroit Cobras, Magnetic Fields, Okkervil River, Paul Simon and so on...and so on. Awesome.
September 9, 2011 5:16pm