The songs that spooked the Boss — spare demos of death and bad deeds that became the “Nebraska” album — are the subject of a new movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” and an expanded boxed set, “Nebraska ’82.” We explore it a bit on today’s Capital Radio, but also take time to pay tribute to the recently departed original Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis and Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Godchaux.
Today was also the birthday of Looney Toons composer Carl Stalling and Sinatra arranger Billy May, the one-hit Dave Loggins, Alice Cooper guitarist Glen Buxton, Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Warren G, Eve, Tim Rice and Diplo.
There was time left to sample music from artists I’d recently seen live: The Third Mind, S.G. Goodman, The Raveonettes, Destroyer, Elvis Costello and Jorma Kaukonen.
Here’s the setlist:
Capital Radio. Nov. 10, 2025 1 – 4:21 p.m. www.cygnusradio.com
“Capital Radio Two,” The Clash
Up the Junction,” Squeeze
“Is That Love,” Squeeze
“Slap and Tickle,” Squeeze
“When a Man Loves a Woman,” Percy Sledge
“Suspicious Minds” Elvis Presley
“From the Heart of Me,” Grateful Dead
“Playing in the Band [Live[,” Grateful Dead
“Powerhouse and Other Cuts from the Early 50’s,” Carl Stalling and the Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra
“Mission Impossible,” Billy May
“Come Fly With Me,” Frank Sinatra
“Please Come to Boston,” Dave Loggins
“Lucky Man,” Emerson, Lake and Palmer
“Eighteen,” Alice Cooper
“Heaven on Their Minds,” Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack
“Regulate,” Warren G.
“Who’s That Girl?” Eve
“Paper Planes [Diplo remix],” M.I.A.
“Losin’ Kind,” Bruce Springsteen
“Gun in Every Home,” Bruce Springsteen
“Reason to Believe,” Bruce Springsteen
“Atlantic City [live],” Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
“The Last Mile of the Way,” Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers
“Sally Go Round the Roses,” The Third Mind
“Groovin’ is Easy,” The Third Mind
“Snapping Turtle,” S.G. Goodman
“Space and Time,: S.G. Goodman
“Aly, Walk With Me,” The Raveonettes
“Last Dance,” The Raveonettes
“The Same Thing as Nothing at All,” Destroyer
“Fools song,” Destroyer
“American Gangster Time,” Elvis Costello & The Imposters
“Fish ’n’ Chips Paper,” Elvis Costello and the Attractions
“Deportee (Red Bus Demo),” Elvis Costello
“Death Don’t Have No Mercy [Live],” Hot Tuna
“Mann’s Fate [Live],” Hot Tuna
“Good Shepherd,” Jefferson Airplane
Capital Radio returns Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. until after 4 on www.cygnusradio.com. The show can also be heard via the cygnusradio.com app, available free at iTunes or GooglePlay. Older shows are available at Substack.com/@rogercatlin.
