The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour

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 

Russ chats with artist/musician Jon Langford and spins the following tunes:
 
1. Delines - Left Hook Like Frazier
2. Thee Sacred Souls - Live for You
3. Mekons - Where Were You
4. The Three Johns - Death of the European
5. Jon Langford - Natchez Trace
6. Jon Langford - Pill Sailor
7. Freakons - Blue Scars of a Miner
8. Mekon - Memphis Egypt
9. Jon Langford & The Bright Shiners - Awake The Land of the Shadows
10. The Waco Brothers - The Men That God Forgot 

Russ chats with old pal Matt Piucci about all things Rain Parade, boatclub, Hellenes, Crazy Horse, and rocking with Country Joe McDonald...
Rain Parade - You Are My Friend (explosions in the glass palace)
Rain Parade - No Easy Way Down (ditto)
Rain Parade - Depending on You (Crashing Dream)
boatclub - Milo
Rain Parade - Last Rays of a Dying Sun (rain parade LP of same name)
Rain Parade - Last Stop on the Underground (New RP EP same name)
Rain Parade - This Can’t Be Today 
Rain Parade - Talking In my Sleep 

Longtime buddy Howe Gelb and I take a peek at his 40 year career...
1. Howe Gelb - Thousand Kisses Deep
2. Giant Sand - Shiver
3. Giant Sand - Happenstance
4. Howe Gelb - Terribly So
5. Giant Sand - Cowboy Boots on Cobble Stone
6. Howe Gelb Sno Angel - Paradise There About
7. Giant Sand - Hurting Habit
8. Giant Sand - Black Venetian Blind 

Russ Tolman of Paisley Underground adjacent band True West spins PU tunes and tells tales about the scene:
1. 15 Minutes - Last Chance For You
2. True West - Steps to the Door
3. Rain Parade - I Look Around (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, 1983)
4. Salvation Army - She Turns to Flowers (Self-Titled, 1982)
5. The Bangs - Getting Out of Hand (first 45, 1981)
6. Long Ryders - 10-5-60 (self-titled EP, 1983) PVC
7. Green on Red - Black Night (EP, 1982) Downthere
8. Dream Syndicate - Some Kind of Itch (EP, 1982)
9. True West - Lucifer Sam (45, 1982)
10. 28th Day - 25 Pills (EP, 1985) Bring Out Your Dead
11. Bangles - How is The Air Up There (EP, 1982)
12. Three O’Clock - When I Go Wild (Baroque Hoedown, 1982)
13. Dream Syndicate - Too Little Too Late (Live)
14. Long Ryders - Sweet Mental Revenge (Native Sons, 1984)
15. Green on Red - Gas Food Lodging (1985)
16. Rain Parade - You Are My Friend
17. Thin White Rope - Red Sun (In The Spanish Cave, 1988)