Sure, why not. Let's see what the ramdomizer doohickey serves up.

Catch Hell Blues – The White Stripes
New Dawn Fades – Joy Division
Blackleg Miner – Richard Thompson
Kid Next Door – The Bottle Rockets
Midnight Special – Pete Seeger With Willie Dixon
Moments In Love – Art Of Noise
Down Along The Dixie Line – Gillian Welch
Clean Up Woman – The Pretenders
If I Lose – The Band
Samson And Delilah – Grateful Dead
And a spare: For No One – Rickie Lee Jones

Gotta admit, nearly all of the music I’ve bought in the past few years has been downloads. Anyway -

Old Fashioned Fun – Jimmy Heath
I Love You So Much It Hurts – Ray Charles
Restless Farewell – Mark Knopfler
It Takes You There – Rickie Lee Jones
Nowhere Man – The Beatles
Positively 4th Street – Merl Saunders with Garcia, Kahn & Vitt
Accordingly – Chris Whitley
Wonderful World Of Sex – Steve Goodman
Mango Tree – Angus & Julia Stone
Black Caffeine – Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
and an extra oldie: No Pity (In the Naked City) – Jackie Wilson

Southern Rock Opera is a classic. ETA, it was kinda jarring to walk into a Starbucks in NYC (they are the de facto public restrooms here) and hear Patterson Hood coming over the speakers. Anyway -

Eyes Of The World – Grateful Dead
Everyday People – Sly and the Family Stone
The Horse Life – Maria McKee
Under African Skies – Paul Simon
Detouring America With Horns – Yo La Tengo
The Other One – Grateful Dead
Stay By Me – Annie Lennox
Straight Up And Down – Eric Dolphy
Chimes Of Freedom – Bob Dylan
Careless Love – Ray Charles
Bonus track: Chieva – Willie DeVille

Looks like my randomizer was stuck in the last century.

Silent Springs – Pere Ubu
Uncle Sam Blues – Hot Tuna
For Your Pleasure – Roxy Music
Come Together / Dear Prudence – The Beatles
Misty Mountain Hop – Led Zeppelin
Texas Flood – Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Out Of My Hands – Dave Matthews Band
Motel Matches – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
The Envoy – Warren Zevon
Sam Stone – John Prine

Bonus: Dr. Free-Zee – Max Roach Quintet

Kind of a mixed bag tonight as the snow falls.

Cold Jordan – Grateful Dead
Great Balls Of Fire – Joe Ely/Sue Foley
Cry Baby – John Mellencamp
Joan of Arc (Live in Belgium) – Jennifer Warnes
She's Only Happy in the Sun – Ben Harper
China Gate – Chris Whitley
Lead Highway Blues – Leon Russell & New Grass Revival
Going Home Tomorrow – Dr. John
Satellite Radio – Steve Earle
So Cold – Rocket From The Tombs

Bonus: Wholy Holy – The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Private Life – The Pretenders
Steve McQueen – Drive-By Truckers
Baggage Claim – The Bottle Rockets
Overlap – Ani DiFranco
Slave To Love – Willy DeVille
Lovers Unloved – Black Dub
The Picture Of Heath – Jimmy Heath
Why Don't You Try? – Leonard Cohen
You Rise And Meet The Day – Dar Williams
Crow Jane Alley (For Jack) – Wiily DeVille (yes my iTunes also seems to have Spaghetti Lee's repeat problem today)
Bonus: It's Too Late – Carole King

No need for that if you just go into shuffle mode on your music library, the little file list icon thingy on the right of the top song window opens up the list of what will be playing next.

Sure, why not.

Just Like A Butterfly That's Caught In The Rain – Diana Krall
Amen – Leonard Cohen
Factory Girl – The Rolling Stones
Madison Time – Donald Fagen + The New York Rock & Soul Revue
Sweet Bird – Herbie Hancock (from River – The Joni Letters)
One To Grow On – Matthew Grimm & The Red Smear
If I Needed Someone – The Beatles
The Battle Of New Orleans – Jimmie Driftwood
The Oldest Baby In The World – John Prine
Is Anybody There? – John Hiatt

Bonus: Revue – World Saxophone Quartet

For old times' sake:

You Know What My Body Needs – Lonnie Brooks
Lipstick Sunset – John Hiatt
Compostion 305 (+ language improvisation, 44) – Anthony Braxton / Taylor Ho Bynum
Peddlin' Dreams – Maria McKee
Blind Willie McTell – Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Desolation Row – Bob Dylan
Hold On – Tom Waits
Waltz For Debbie (Take 2) – Bill Evans
Lola (Live) – The Kinks
40 Shades Of Blue – Black 47

Bonus: Boxcars – Joe Ely

Even if most of the L&T C’s classes are in Midtown, the main NYU campus is down by Washington Square and she’s likely to have to trek down there from time to time. When she does, she’ll be right by the late Steve Gilliard’s fave split pea soup at Cozy’s Soup & Burger, and there’s nothing like a bowl of that soup and a grilled cheese sammich on a raw fall day.

Oh, and some notes on life in the city. Probably as a function of the fact that most of us live in places that are smaller than a good sized walk-in closet, we tend to go out a lot just to hang out rather than stay home or drop by a friend’s place. So part of learning the city is finding comfy places to have a cup of coffee or a beer while you’re reading a book. And yes, it’s fairly common to see someone sitting at a bar just reading the paper or a book.

Also as a function of living in rabbit warrens with small kitchens, a better strategy for grocery shopping is to buy just a couple of days worth of fresh produce on your way home from work rather that a once-a-week mega shopping trip. And there’s always Fresh Direct, which is like the only successful attempt at an online supermarket.

A quick gloss on live music.

Best buskers are in Washington Square Park.
Concerty venues: Bowery Ballroom, Irving Plaza, Roseland, Terminal5.
Mercury Lounge, Webster Hall for smaller acts.
Rodeo Bar for americana, rockabilly, killer margaritas and no cover.
Paddy Reilly’s for bluegrass, punk-irish and Guinness.
Otto’s Shrunken Head, because it’s Otto’s.

I’m sure I missed a ton of places and we haven’t even talked about Brooklyn.

Like Spaghetti Lee above, I don't know much beyond their hits. I do know folks who were friends and neighbors and they're pretty torn up. 47 is way too young.

Yazoo Street Scandal – The Band
Uncle John's Band – Grateful Dead
Worry Later – Thelonious Monk
Knock on Wood – The New York Rock and Soul Revue
Four In One – Anthony Braxton (from Six Monk's Compositions, a little gem)
Born To Lose – Ray Charles
Transfusion – Rocket From The Tombs
Brokedown Palace – Grateful Dead
I Know There's an Answer – The Beach Boys
Daisy Glaze – Big Star

And another one who died too soon: From One Island to Another – Chris Whitley

From the apparently stuttering iTunes DJ:

I Got It – The Chambers Brothers
Hard Road – Lucinda Williams
Chieva – Willy DeVille
After All – Dar Williams
See My Friends (live) – Richard Thompson
Basket Case – Green Day
Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day
Monopoly On the Blues – The Hangdogs
Lush Life – John Coltrane
Mas Y Mas – Los Lobos
bonus – In My Dreams – The Hangdogs

Something extra for May Day: One Big Union – Matthew Grimm

Well the randomizer thingy came up with a Band song, so that's good.

A Pict Song – Billy Bragg
Enter In – The Blackbyrds
Happy Music – The Blackbyrds
I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year) – Donald Fagen
The Long Way – The Bottle Rockets
Buck's Boogie (Live) – Blue Öyster Cult
Little Red Rooster – Grateful Dead
Up On Cripple Creek – The Band
In Search of a Sound – Bill Dixon
The Mind of Love – k.d. lang
and a proper Friday evening song: I Wanna Be Sedated – Ramones

Shouldn’t Kate Upton's boobs be above Shakira's ass?

Onward. Very random Friday here.

Gumbo Funk – Roy Rogers
Tell Somebody (Repeal The Patriot Acts Now) – Rickie Lee Jones
Dark – Pere Ubu
Down Along The Dixie Line – Gillian Welch
The Tokyo Blues – Horace Silver
Sink Hole – Drive-By Truckers
Something To Fall Back On (feat. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter) – Todd Rundgren
The Dream – Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland
Lay Down Your Weary Tune – Billy Bragg
Crazy Bitch – Buckcherry

And an old timey bonus: East Virginia – David Bromberg

Wha?? Nobody told me there was new Garbage!

The shuffle this week seems to have had a thing for Willie DeVille and the Leonard Cohen tribute I'm Your Fan.

Daddy Rolling Stone – Willie DeVille
Raw Power – Rocket From The Tombs
Battery Kinzie – Fleet Foxes
Girl Of My Dreams – Charles Mingus
(Don't Have A) Change Of Heart – Willy DeVille
The Song Is Over – The Who
So Long Marianne – James
I'm Your Man – Bill Pritchard
Growin' Up – Bruce Springsteen
Don't Go – Matthew Sweet

And for the kiddies: Fuck Fuck Fuck – Matthew Grimm & The Red Smear

Damned depressing week. Time for some tunes.

Picture In A Frame – Tom Waits
Misfits – The Kinks
Born To Lose – Ray Charles
Sweet Bird – Herbie Hancock (from the Joni Mitchell tribute The River)
Mona Lisa – Neville Brothers
I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie
The Last Waltz Refrain – The Band
Taking a Walk – John Prine
Do What You Have To Do – Sarah McLachlan
Old Folks' Boogie – Little Feat (also from Waiting for Columbus)

and this week's uplifting bonus The Purgatory Line – Drive-By Truckers

Glad I'm a Giants fan and not a Jets fan this week.

Memo from the Head Office – The Hangdogs
Broke Home Piece Of Man – Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
Carl Perkins' Cadillac – Drive-By Truckers
Man's Temptation – Mike Bloomfield / Al Kooper
Corrina – Other Ones
Roll On Buddy – Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Company – Rickie Lee Jones
Arizona Skies – Los Lobos
Blackjack – Albert Collins, Robert Cray & Johnny Copeland
Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone – John Prine

And to lighten the mood, Hooligans – Bill Hicks

Yeah, Cleveland did rock. I spent my formative years (i.e. college, early 20s) in Cleveland when the whole Cleveland / Akron music scene was at its peak. Rocket From The Tombs disappeared before anyone actually knew about them, but Pere Ubu, Tin Huey, The Numbers Band, etc. were around.

The great thing was that there was a ton of live music around at places like the Euclid Tavern, Peabody's, Phantasy Theater, and others. The guitar player from The Generators (to this day my favorite bar band) has posted some videos from a show of theirs back around '81 that brings back a lot of memories.

Oddly enough, none of these are on Mitt's playlist either:

On The Surface – Pere Ubu
Mystery Train – Saunders/Garcia/Kahn/Vitt
Johnny B. Goode – Grateful Dead
One Of Us – Joan Osborne
Icy Blue Heart – John Hiatt
Longview – Green Day
The Na-Na Song – Sheryl Crow
Hand In Hand – Dire Straits
Don't Go – Matthew Sweet
Loyola – Dictators

And a little bonus Ubu: 333 – Pere Ubu