Ed Bott

You know the rules: Shuffle your entire music collection, click Play, and report the first 20 tracks, no matter what [*]. This week’s list is formatted as song title, artist, and album (in italics):

1. Riding with the King, B.B. King and Eric Clapton, Riding with the King
2. Night Is Left Behind, Yonder Mountain String Band, Live in Cincinnati 10-31-2004
3. Rattlesnake Shake, Fleetwood Mac[**], Live at the BBC
4. Forgotten Years, Midnight Oil, Blue Sky Mining
5. Love O’Love, The Subdudes, Primitive Streak
6. Mother, Sinead O’Connor and Roger Waters, The Wall: Live in Berlin 1990
7. A’ Chuthag (The Cuckoo), Natalie MacMaster, My Roots Are Showing
8. Silvio, Bob Dylan, White Dove (bootleg)
9. What Is This Thing Called Love?, Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time Vol. 2
10. Back in the High Life, Warren Zevon, Live in Nashville 4-11-2000 (bootleg)
11. Fly Like An Eagle, The Neville Brothers, Family Groove
12. Alive, Pearl Jam, Ten
13. Mother Pigogne and the Clowns, Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker
14. Lady Cab Driver, Prince, 1999
15. Concrete Jungle, Bob Marley and the Wailers, On Stage
16. Why Walk When You Can Fly, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Stones in the Road
17. The Big Room, Neil Young, Archives Be Damned Vol. 4 (bootleg)
18. Casey Jones, David Lindley and Warren Zevon, Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead
19. Seguro Que Hell Yes, Flaco Jimenez, Flaco Jimenez
20. Five Women, Joe Cocker, Night Calls

[*] My one exception is to limit each artist to one track per list. If the same artist appears a second time, I skip over that track. This week, Bob Dylan and Yonder Mountain String Band and Bob Marley would each have had an extra track on the list otherwise.

[**] The original Peter Green lineup, not the bogus Nicks-Buckingham gang.

You know the rules: Shuffle your entire music collection, click Play, and report the first 20 tracks, no matter what [*]. This week’s list is formatted as song title, artist, and album (in italics):

1. Tato Wa Biso, Ray Lema, Gaia
2. La Hormiguita, Juan Luis Guerra, Ni Es Lo Mismo, Ni Es Igual
3. Only Love, k.d. lang, Invincible Summer
4. Preacher in the Ring, Pt. 1, Bruce Hornsby, Spirit Trail
5. Stuck Inside of Mobile (with the Memphis Blues Again), Grateful Dead, Nightfall of Diamonds
6. Everything Happens to Me, Wynton Marsalis, Standard Time, Vol. 3
7. Soon Come, Peter Tosh, Bush Doctor
8. Compliment, Collective Soul, Dosage
9. Can’t Even Be Bothered, The Charlatans UK, Between 10th and 11th
10. Bass Trap, U2, Best of 1980-1990/B-Sides
11. Listen to Her Heart, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greatest Hits
12. Compay Gato, Los Super Seven, Canto
13. Mojo Haiku, Little Feat, Shake Me Up
14. Triad, The Byrds, The Byrds (Box Set)
15. Winter, The Rolling Stones, Goats Head Soup
16. 3×5, John Mayer, Any Given Thursday
17. It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, Bob Dylan, Live in Brussels 12-Nov-2003 (bootleg)
18. Your Love, Neil Young, Archives Be Damned Vol. 2 (bootleg)
19. Whirl-Y-Reel 1, Afro Celt Sound System, Volume 1: Sound Magic
20. Discipline, Joe Jackson, Blaze of Glory

[*] My one exception is to limit each artist to one track per list. If the same artist appears a second time, I skip over that track. This week, Bob Dylan and Wynton Marsalis would each have had an extra track on the list otherwise.