Tonight's show features the output of 3 great musicians who,for most of their careers,worked outside the responsibilities and confines of the "band" format-session musicians Chris Spedding(guitar),Nicky Hopkins(keyboards) and Jesse Ed Davis(guitar).A sampling of their various projects will be aired tonight.
| Some early projects of guitarist Chris Spedding fills out the first set. |
| Theme For An Imaginary Western Jack Bruce - Songs For A Tailor(1969) |
| Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour Rodriguez - Coming From Reality(1971) |
| Jump Into the Fire Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson(1971) |
| Driving Sideways Sharks - First Water(1973) |
| More of Speddings' projects from the second half of the 70's. |
| Black Slacks Robert Gordon - Rock Billy Boogie(1979) |
| Voices In The Dark/Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Mike Batt - Schizophonia(1977) |
| Guitar Jamboree Chris Spedding - Chris Spedding(1976) |
| Nicky Hopkins(keyboards) sessioned for some big U.K. acts including The Kinks,The Who and The Beatles. |
| She's A Rainbow The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request(1967) |
| Plynth(Water Down The Drain) The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola(1969) |
| Hopkins also sessioned for some big Bay Area bands. |
| Kow Kow The Steve Miller Band - Brave New World(1969) |
| Volunteers Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers(1969) |
| Shady Grove Quicksilver Messenger Service - Shady Grove(1969) |
| He also helped out on some L.A. sessions and with some acts on The Beatles "Apple" label. |
| Sour Milk Sea Jackie Lomax - Is This What You Want(1969) |
| Oh Yoko! John Lennon - Imagine(1971) |
| No No Song Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna(1974) |
| Jesse Ed Davis early session work included a lot of blues-he worked for Taj Mahal on Mahal's first three l.p.'s. |
| A Lot Of Love Taj Mahal - The Natch'l Blues(1969) |
| Farther On Down The Road Taj Mahal - Giant Step(1970) |
| She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride Albert King - Lovejoy(1971) |
| Watching The River Flow Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 1(1971) |
| Davis took his guitar talents to L.A.for most of his session work in the 70's. |
| Doctor My Eyes Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using(1972) |
| Surprise Surprise(Sweet Bird Of Paradox) John Lennon - Walls And Bridges(1974) |
| Subterranean Homesick Blues Nilsson - Pussycats(1974) |
| All In The Name Of Rock 'n' Roll Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing(1975) |
| Don't Go Home With Your Hard On Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies Man(1979) 
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| Time permitting,the comedy of Steven Wright. |
| excerpt from side 2 Steven Wright - I Have A Pony(1985) |
| Thank you for listening. |
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