To celebrate the 75th episode of Some Kind of Jam we're kicking off what is easily the most ambitious Guest DJ series to date, and something that will hopefully be repeated throughout a much more active 2015. Unlike Guest DJ episodes in the past where fellow musical mavens take a crack at creating an hour long playlist of whatever comes to mind, this series has a common thread: colors.
For this series every Guest DJ (and yours truly) had to pick songs with a specific color in the title, artist name, or if we're being lenient, album title. I chose blue for this first episode, and so every track has to have some kind of tie to the color blue. The added stipulation I gave myself for this round was to avoid songs with "blues" in the title. Although
"Harlem River Blues" by Justin Townes Earle is truly a fantastic song, I left it off simply because "blues" is in the title to mark the type of song, not so much what the song is about. Also, it would've been
way too easy to put together a playlist if "blues" could be included.
The next two episodes are set with
Marc Consolazio taking on red, and
Asif Ahmed doing green. A few other guest DJs have offered up ideas as well, but it's pretty open ended at this point. We may only do three, we may keep it going for a while.
If there's a color you'd like us to give a try, please leave a comment below or catch us on
Twitter or
Facebook. If you already have a color playlist put together you'd like to submit, just drop a link below and I'll give it a listen.
With no further ado, here's what you'll be listening to for the blue episode:
Start Time – Artist / Track / Album
00:13 – The Wiyos / Blue Drag / Porcupine
03:44 – Tommy James and The Shondells / Crystal Blue Persuasion / 40 Years
07:43 – The White Stripes / Blue Orchid / Get Behind Me Satan
10:18 – Portugal. The Man / Purple Yellow Red and Blue / Evil Friends
14:22 – Belle and Sebastian / The Blues Are Still Blue / The Life Pursuit
18:25 – Roy Orbison / Blue Bayou / The Essential Roy Orbison
20:51 – Charles Bradley / Dusty Blue (feat. Menahan Street Band) / Victim of Love
24:08 – David Bowie / Blue Jean / Nothing Has Changed
27:16 – Ladyhawke / Black White and Blue / Black White and Blue
31:33 – Fats Domino / Blue Monday / Greatest Hits
33:45 – Fleet Foxes / Blue Ridge Mountains / Fleet Foxes
38:02 – The Allman Brothers Band / Blue Sky / 20th Century Masters
43:06 – Doris Day / Blue Skies / The Essential Doris Day
44:50 – Electric Light Orchestra / Mr Blue Sky / Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
49:51 – The Raconteurs / Blue Veins / Broken Boy Soldiers
53:38 – Miike Snow / Black and Blue / Miike Snow
57:15 – Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti / Bright Lit Blue Skies / Before Today
59:35 – The Marcels / Blue Moon / Doo Wop Classics
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