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Raw Music from the 20th and 21st centuries: Airing its genre-busting blend of progressive hootenanny, provocative commentary, and sprawling pop music history lesson on WTJU since 1995 (or 1996), Radio Wowsville is broadcast via nuclear warhead from a cave / sound lab in Grottoes, Virginia.

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This Show's Playlist (last or most recent selection at top of list):

updated 00:47:43

  • "Somebody in my Home" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Grow Fins
  • "Things Behind the Sun" - Nick Drake - Pink Moon
  • "Sinking Ships" - Bee Gees - Horizontal (b-side)
  • "Dead Web" - The Chills - Submarine Bells
  • "Doubles and Trebles" - Wire - Change Becomes Us
    NEW
  • "Rock It" - Thumper Jones - 45
  • "Gone Beyond" - Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
  • "Wooden Indian" - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - The Music is You: The Music
    NEW
  • "Heaven" - Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
  • "I Lost You in My Mind" - The Painted Faces - 45 [Manhattan]
  • "Hey! Miss Fannie" - Wink Westerners w/ Roy Orbison - Primitive, Rare and Obscure Rockabilly
  • "Leave" - Regular Guys - Shake Some Action Vol. 7
  • "Swim" - The Penny Arkade - Not the Freeze
  • "It's No Secret" - Jo Ann Garrett - Just a Taste
  • "Laughs On Me" - The Boyz - Shake Some Action Vol. 7
  • "Root Beer" - George Jones
  • "My Before and After" - Cotton Mather - Kon Tiki
  • "Lullaby / Lotus Flower" - Appletree Theatre
  • "Madeleine" - Lissy Tuffle - Lissy Tuffle
  • "Wade in the Water" - Big Mama Thornton
  • "Hard to Handle" - Patti Drew - Mama's Got a Brand New Bag
  • "Stoned Out of My Mind" - The Chi-Lites - The Chi-Lites
  • "I Can Detect You For 100,000 Miles" - Andy Arthurs - Shake Some Action Vol. 5
  • "Unitar Rock" - Willie Jo and His Unitar
  • "Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster" - Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
    NEW
  • "Day Breaks, Night Heals" - Thomas Leer and Robert Rental - Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story
    NEW
  • "Rough Disco (long version)" - Mathematiques Modernes - Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story
    NEW
  • "Sport" - Lightning Rod - Change the Beat: The Celluloid Records Story
    NEW
  • "The Thang" - The Surveyors - 45 [Pow-Wee]
  • "Good Night Day" - The Yorkshire Puddin - 45 [Dellwood]
  • "Coyote" - Steve Young - Rock, Salt and Nails

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