Russ is back in the saddle with another great show:

1. Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing (1979)
2. Nelson Bragg - We’re Gonna Laugh Ab

1. Soft Boys - Kingdom of Love (Underwater Moonlight)
2. Popealopes - Violet (Kerosene, 1989)
3. Matt Berninger - Bonnet of Pins (2025)
4. Psychedelic Furs - We Love You (s/t 1980)
5. Nick Drake - Northern Sky (Bryter Layter, 1971)
6. Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home (Long Way Home, 2024)
7. Fred Neil - Dolphins (Fred Neil, 1966)
8. The Lyres - Help You Ann (On Fire, 1984)
9. Russ Tolman - Looking for an Angel (Totem Poles & Glory Holes, 1986)
10. Bobby Darin - Everything is OK (Earthy, 1963)
11. Robert Mitchum - Beauty is Only Skin Deep (Calypso is Like So, 1957)
12. Jim Lauderdale - Artificial Intelligence
13. George Jones - If The Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me, Her I Am, 1981)
14. Tom Verlaine - Souvenir from a Dream (s/t, 1979)

This week, Russ plays:

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

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

Russ pops the cork on the 25th episode of The Goodtime Hour:

1. Thunderclap Newman - Something in The Air (1969)
2. Pulling Mussels from a Shell - Squeeze (Argybargy,)

1. Nick Lowe - So it Goes (Jesus of Cool, 1978)
2. Byrds - My Back Pages
3. Russ Tolman - North Hollywood Blues
4. Guy Clark - LA Freeway
5. Hiss Golden Messenger - Sanctuary
6. Sierra Farrell - The Sea (Washington by the Sea, 2019)
7. Bobby Darin - Beyond The Sea
8. Cat Power - Sea of Love
9. Fiona Apple - Across The Universe
10. Barbara Keith - Detroit or Buffalo (s/t, 1973)
11. Frazey Ford - September Fields (Indian Ocean, 2014)
12. Moody Blues - Go Now

1. Gill Landry - Make It Through The Night (Anthropocene Blues) (Cinnamon Canyon Blues, 2024)

1. Eilen Jewell - Witness (Gypsy, 2019)
2. Theo Lawrence - Heaven To Me (Homemade Lemonade, 2018)
3. Thee Sacred Souls - Can I Call You Rose (s/t - 2022)
4. Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Let’s Get It On, 1973)
5. Mayer Hawthorne - Henny & Gingerale (Album Version) (How Do You Do, 2011)
6. Chic - Le Freak (C’est Chic, 1978)
7. Barry White - Can’t Get Enough of Your Love (Can’t Get Enough, 1974)

1. Nick Lowe - She’s Got Soul (The Convincer, 2001)
2. Russ Tolman - Kid (Goodbye El Dorado, 2019)

1. Rodney Crowell - Oh, What A Beautiful World (Tarpaper Sky, 2014)
2. 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