The Backroom 7.29.25

Welcome to your fallout shelter for cool music. Come as you are — you are a natural beauty. Or get dolled up. Either way, you are welcome. Too hot to cook, but never too hot for a kitchen strut. Funk in the house and in hell. Remembering Tom Lehrer and Chuck Mangione.

  • Hair — Nik West (f. TK Wonder and Philip Lassiter)
  • I Am Not My Hair — India.Arie
  • The Beauty Within — Dead Prez
  • Golden — Jill Scott
  • The Kitchen Strut — Hannah Williams & The Tastemakers
  • Feeling Funky — Freda Harris & The Birmingham Rhythm
  • I Thank You — Sam & Dave
  • Raspberry Beret — Prince
  • Dear Madam Barnum — XTC
  • You Tripped At Every Step — Elvis Costello
  • Funk in Hell — Stone Cold Hustle
  • Berlin — Doug Johns
  • Cop Show Suite — In Business
  • Police Car — John Hoyle
  • Who’s Next? — Tom Lehrer
  • Fujiyama Mama — Wanda Jackson
  • So Long, Mom — Tom Lehrer
  • Talkin’ World War III — Bob Dylan
  • Werner Von Braun — Tom Lehrer
  • Man on the Moon — R.E.M.
  • Solar (Alternate Take) — Chuck Mangione Quintet
  • Carousel — The Chuck Mangione Quartet
  • Bellavia — The Chuck Mangione Quartet
  • Feels So Good — Chuck Mangione
  • When They Drop the Atomic Bomb — Jackie Doll and his Pickled Peppers