The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour

1. Al Green - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (Let’s Stay Together, 1972)2. Buck Owens - Massachusetts (In The Palm of Your Hand, 1972)3. Paul Weller - I Started a Joke (Find El Dorado, 2025)4. Michael Bublé - To Love Somebody (To Be Loved, 2013)5. Translator - Everywhere That I am Not6. The Modern Lovers - Astral Plane (s/t - 7. Talking Heads - Pulled Up (Talking Heads ’77)8. Television - Friction (Marquee Moon, 1977)9. Khruangbin - May Ninth (A La Sala, 2024)10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Long Dark Night (Wild God, 2024)11. Kashus Culpepper, Sierra Ferrell - Broken Wing Bird (Broken Wing Bird, 2025)12. Johnny Tillotson - Funny How Time Slips Away (1962)13. Hank Williams - Take These Chains from my Heart14. Theo Lawrence - The Universe is Winding Down15. Silverada - Anywhere But Here (s/t, 2024)16. Russ Tolman - Monterey (City Lights, 1998)

Beatie Wolfe & Brian Eno - Hopeless at Ease (Luminal, 2025)
Bruce Springsteen - Sunday Love (Lost and Found: Selections from The Lost Albums, 2025)
Frank Sinatra - What’s Now is Now (Watertown, 1970)
Jon Klages - God Bless Columbia House Record Club (Fabulous Twilight, 2021)
Jenny Lewis - Psychos (Joy’All, 2023)
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Rumours, 1977)
Ray Charles - Tell Me How You Feel (What I’d Say, 1959)
Van Morrison - If It Wasn’t for Ray (Remembering Now, 2025)
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (You Are Not Alone, 2010)
Allison Russell - Nightflyer (Outside Child, 2021)
Neil Young - Sail Away (Oceanside Countryside, 2025)
Dee White - Little Things (Heart Talkin’, 2025)
Big Thief - Born To Love You (2023)
Theo Lawrence - Heaven to Me (2018)

It's a Power Pop Parade as I chat with Nelson Bragg about his new album and spin the following:
20/20 - Yellow Pills (s/t, 1979)
Nelson Bragg - We’re Gonna Laugh About it (Mélodie de Nelson: A Pop Anthology, 2025)
Nelson Bragg - Forever Days (Mélodie de Nelson: A Pop Anthology, 2025)
Nelson Bragg - You Could Believe (Mélodie de Nelson: A Pop Anthology, 2025)
Nelson Bragg - No One’s Home in Hollywood (Mélodie de Nelson: A Pop Anthology, 2025)
Nelson Bragg - Glorious Days (Mélodie de Nelson: A Pop Anthology, 2025)
Dwight Twilley - Looking For The Magic (Twilley Don’t Mind, 1977)
Russ Tolman - Stuck Like Glue (Sweet Spot, 1994)
 

Russ chats with Peter Holsapple about his new album and plays the following songs:
Pernice Bros (w/ Neko Case) - I Don’t Need That Anymore (Who Will You Believe, 2024)
Peter Holsapple - Larger Than Life (The Face of 68, 2025)
Peter Holsapple - One for The Book (The Face of 68, 2025)
Peter Holsapple - She and Me (The Face of 68, 2025)
Peter Holsapple - The Face of 68 (The Face of 68, 2025)
Hurray for Riff Raff - Alibi
Russ Tolman - Life

Russ is back in the saddle with another great show:
Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing (1979)
Nelson Bragg - We’re Gonna Laugh Ab
Soft Boys - Kingdom of Love (Underwater Moonlight)
Popealopes - Violet (Kerosene, 1989)
Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (2025)
Psychedelic Furs - We Love You (s/t 1980)
Nick Drake - Northern Sky (Bryter Layter, 1971)
Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home (Long Way Home, 2024)
Fred Neil - Dolphins (Fred Neil, 1966)
The Lyres - Help You Ann (On Fire, 1984)
Russ Tolman - Looking for an Angel (Totem Poles & Glory Holes, 1986)
Bobby Darin - Everything is OK (Earthy, 1963)
Robert Mitchum - Beauty is Only Skin Deep (Calypso is Like So, 1957)
Jim Lauderdale - Artificial Intelligence
George Jones - If The Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me, Her              I Am, 1981)
Tom Verlaine - Souvenir from a Dream (s/t, 1979)

This week, Russ plays:
Old Sea Brigade, Luke Sital-Singh - Call Me When You Land (2020, All The Ways You Sing in The Dark)
Scott Hirsch - Future King (2025, Future King)
Beck - Where It’s At (1996)
The Delines - Maureen’s Gone Missing (2025, Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom)
Neal Frances, She Say She - Broken Glass (2025)
Mayer Hawthorne - The Walk (2011, How Do You Do)
Elvis Costello - Opportunity (1980, Get Happy!)
The Moonlandingz, Iggy Pop - This is Where I’m From (2025, No Rocket Required)
Tom Waits - Ol ’55 (1973, Closing Time)
Russ Tolman - The Best Is Yet To Come (1994, Sweet Spot)
Early James, Sierra Ferrell - Real Low Down Lonesome (2022, Strange Time To Be Alive)
Chuck Prophet - Wake The Dead (2024, Wake The Dead)
LA LOM - ’72 Monte Carlo (2024, The Los Angeles League of Musicians)

Jessica Pratt - Life Is (Here is the Pitch, 2024)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (Psychocandy, 1985)
Mekons - You’re Not Singing Anymore (Horror, 2025)
Pretenders - Kid (s/t - 1979)
Ian & Sylvia - Early Morning Rain (Early Morning Rain, 1965)
John Martyn - Over Hill (Solid Air, 1973)
Depedro, Calexico - Two Parts in One (Cruce de Caminos), 2025
Dan Janisch - I Dream of You (Weeds, 1998)
JS Ondara - Lebanon (Tales of America, 2019)
Rob Wasserman/Cheryl Bentyne - Angel Eyes (Duets, 1988)
Tom Waits - Foreign Affair (Foreign Affairs, 1977)
Cass McCombs - Priestess (Priestess, 2025)
Swamp Dogg - Rocky Racoon
Silverada - New Madrid (Texas 42, 2025) Uncle Tupelo

Russ pops the cork on the 25th episode of The Goodtime Hour:
 
Thunderclap Newman - Something in The Air (1969)
Pulling Mussels from a Shell - Squeeze (Argybargy,)
Nick Lowe - So it Goes (Jesus of Cool, 1978)
Byrds - My Back Pages
Russ Tolman - North Hollywood Blues
Guy Clark - LA Freeway
Hiss Golden Messenger - Sanctuary
Sierra Farrell - The Sea (Washington by the Sea, 2019)
Bobby Darin - Beyond The Sea
Cat Power - Sea of Love
Fiona Apple - Across The Universe
Barbara Keith - Detroit or Buffalo (s/t, 1973)
Frazey Ford - September Fields (Indian Ocean, 2014)
Moody Blues - Go Now

1. Gill Landry - Make It Through The Night (Anthropocene Blues) (Cinnamon Canyon Blues, 2024)
Eilen Jewell - Witness (Gypsy, 2019)
Theo Lawrence - Heaven To Me (Homemade Lemonade, 2018)
Thee Sacred Souls - Can I Call You Rose (s/t - 2022)
Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Let’s Get It On, 1973)
Mayer Hawthorne - Henny & Gingerale (Album Version) (How Do You Do, 2011)
Chic - Le Freak (C’est Chic, 1978)
Barry White - Can’t Get Enough of Your Love (Can’t Get Enough, 1974)
Nick Lowe - She’s Got Soul (The Convincer, 2001)
Russ Tolman - Kid (Goodbye El Dorado, 2019)
Rodney Crowell - Oh, What A Beautiful World (Tarpaper Sky, 2014)
Charley Crockett - Jamestown Ferry (Lil GL’s Honky Tonk Jubilee, 2017)
13. Geraint Watkins - Easy to Say “Bon Temps Rouler” (In A Bad Mood, 2008)

Russ chats with Gill Landry, two-time Grammy winner with Old Crow Medicine Show, about his own music...
1. Gill Landry - Dead Language
2. Gill Landry - Denver Girls
3. Gill Landry - Waiting For Your Love
4. Gill Landry - Nobody’s Coming
5. Gill Landry - Take This Body
6. Gill Landry - Always Here Tonight
7. Gill Landry - The Place They Call Home