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Here is the complete 21-track playlist from the August 23, 2026 show—two hours of deep cuts, landmark albums, unexpected covers and the stories behind the music.
SEGMENT 1
🎵 The Allman Brothers Band – “Dreams”
📀 The Allman Brothers Band (1969)
💡 The track grew from a jam on the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey, with drummer Jaimoe later likening its feel to John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” with lyrics.
🎵 Jefferson Starship – “With Your Love”
📀 Spitfire (1976)
💡 Co-written by Marty Balin, Joey Covington and Vic Smith, it was released as the lead single from Spitfire.
🎵 Steely Dan – “Kid Charlemagne”
📀 The Royal Scam (1976)
💡 Larry Carlton’s celebrated guitar solo became one of Steely Dan’s signature studio moments; the song opens The Royal Scam.
🎵 Styx – “Snowblind”
📀 Paradise Theatre (1981)
💡 A song about the cycle of cocaine addiction, it became the center of a baseless 1980s backmasking controversy that Styx publicly rejected.
SEGMENT 2
🎵 Toto – “99”
📀 Hydra (1979)
💡 David Paich wrote the song as a tribute to George Lucas’s dystopian film THX 1138, where people are identified by numbers.
🎵 Toto – “Girl Goodbye”
📀 Toto (1978)
💡 This progressive-leaning cut from Toto’s self-titled debut quickly became a live favorite for the band.
🎵 John Parr – “Naughty Naughty”
📀 John Parr (1984)
💡 Parr’s debut single became his first U.S. Top 40 hit, reaching No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.
🎵 The Highwomen – “The Chain”
📀 The Kitchen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
💡 The country supergroup recorded this Fleetwood Mac cover for The Kitchen; Dave Cobb produced the performance.
SEGMENT 3
🎵 Guns N’ Roses – “Don’t Cry”
📀 Use Your Illusion I (1991)
💡 Two versions arrived at once: the original lyrics on Use Your Illusion I and alternate lyrics on Use Your Illusion II.
🎵 Billy Joel – “Sometimes a Fantasy”
📀 Glass Houses (1980)
💡 The U.S. and Canadian 45 used a longer, different mix than the album version, with the guitars placed differently in the stereo field.
SEGMENT 4
🎵 Led Zeppelin – “When the Levee Breaks”
📀 Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
💡 Zeppelin transformed the 1929 Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy blues; John Bonham’s monumental drums were captured in the Headley Grange stairwell.
🎵 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – “Can’t Let Go”
📀 Raise the Roof (2021)
💡 Their version revisits Randy Weeks’s song, best known through Lucinda Williams, on the duo’s long-awaited second album together.
🎵 The Georgia Satellites – “Hippy Hippy Shake”
📀 Cocktail (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1988)
💡 The Satellites cut their rowdy version of Chan Romero’s rock-and-roll standard specifically for the movie Cocktail.
🎵 Cheap Trick – “California Man”
📀 Heaven Tonight (1978)
💡 Cheap Trick’s cover of The Move song adds an instrumental break built from the riff of another Move track, “Brontosaurus.”
🎵 Queen – “Hammer to Fall”
📀 The Works (1984)
💡 Written by Brian May, it became a concert staple and was the third song in Queen’s celebrated Live Aid set in 1985.
SEGMENT 5
🎵 Fiona Apple – “Shadowboxer”
📀 Tidal (1996)
💡 Released as Apple’s debut single, it introduced her months before Tidal’s later breakthrough with “Criminal.”
🎵 Thin Lizzy – “Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)”
📀 Bad Reputation (1977)
💡 That distinctive saxophone is played by Supertramp’s John Helliwell, adding an unusual color to Thin Lizzy’s twin-guitar sound.
🎵 Aerosmith – “Heart’s Done Time”
📀 Permanent Vacation (1987)
💡 Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and outside hitmaker Desmond Child co-wrote the track; Child contributed to three songs on Permanent Vacation.
🎵 The Who – “Trick of the Light”
📀 Who Are You (1978)
💡 The guitar-like roar is actually John Entwistle’s heavily distorted eight-string Alembic bass, a sound Pete Townshend compared to a musical Mack truck.
🎵 Tom Petty – “It’s Good to Be King”
📀 Wildflowers (1994)
💡 It became the second official single from Wildflowers, the landmark solo album Petty made with producer Rick Rubin.
SEGMENT 6
🎵 Kim Mitchell – “Go for Soda”
📀 Akimbo Alogo (1984)
💡 Mitchell wrote the music and Pye Dubois the lyrics; the song later found a second life as an anti-drunk-driving anthem.
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