Catching A Wave

t's our annual ALL Christmas show on Catching A Wave! Beth Riley (from Boppin' With Beth and her Catching A Wave segment here called Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break...hear one of their Christmas tunes this hour) co-hosts with me once again. We hear a Leon Redbone tune in our Good Time segment from the Elf soundtrack celebrating it's 20th anniversary this year and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Plus, there's songs from JD McPherson, Joel Paterson, The Monkees, The Grip Weeds, The Tourmaliners, Phil Keaggy, Jim & The Sea Dragons, The Smithereens, The Tikiyaki Orchestra, The Breakers (with Dan Peters), Abyssal Lurkers, The Evergleams (feat. members of Black Flamingos), The Manakooras, The Surf Junkies and The Surfisticats!

This is our bonus 2nd hour this year! We hope to make this a new tradition as we just love Christmas music and wanted to offer more! Beth Riley co-hosts and has another fun tune from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up Beth's Beach Boys Break. We hear a Nick Lowe tune from his holiday album celebrating it's 10th anniversary in our Good Time segment and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear a Los Straitjackets selection this hour! We've spin rockers from Reverend Horton Heat, The Ventures, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Bongos, Monsters From The Surf, The Weeklings, The Untamed Youth, The Malibooz, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th, Davie Allan & The Arrows, Southern Culture On The Skids, Satan's Pilgrims, The Isotopes, Underwater Bosses, The Slimetones and The Volcanics!

Get ready to spin the "Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun" again this hour for some randomly selected covers of The Beach Boys on this Catching A Wave. Beth Riley has a deep track from them in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. There's a track from a Frankie & The Poolboys album celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year in our Good Time segment and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (Los Straitjackets)! Plus, we've got rockers from Micky Dolenz (covering R.E.M.!!), The Cosmic Wrays, Atomicos, The Beyonderers, The Sea-Jays, Bobby Sutliff, The McCharmlys, The Routes, The Grogans, Froghat, Hipbone Slim and The Meteoroids!

There's 15 killer new tracks on this episode from Jimmy Dale (newly released from 1998 with Nick Curran and Jake Erwin), Dale Watson, Tami Neilson, Chuck Mead, Marty Stuart, Hot Chickens, Jason James, Terra Jackson, Magic, Tiger Army, Twisted Rod, Jesse Dayton, Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys as well as new tunes from Crown City Bombers & Joel Paterson in our instru-Mental Breakdown! Our Heavy Hitter Triple Threat segment returns honoring Hank Williams with covers by Jerry Lee Lewis and Jack Scott! Plus, there's a great classic from Johnny Cash to finish things up.

Intro Voice Over- Rob "Cool Daddy" Dempsey

Intro Music Bed: Brian Setzer- "Rockabilly Blues"

Tami Neilson- "Hey Bus Driver"

Chuck Mead- "Shake"

Terra Jackson with Danny B. Harvey- "Fallin'"

instru-Mental Breakdown:

Crown City Bombers- "Rockin' Tomato"

Joel Paterson- "All My Loving"

Dale Watson (with Dave Gonzalez)- "Brylcreem and Vaseline"

Jason James- "Move A Little Closer"

Jimmy Dale- "Riverside Jump"

Magic- "Forever Rock 'N' Roll"

Tiger Army- "Shadowlight"

Jesse Dayton- "Just What I Needed"

Twisted Rod- "I Wanna Bop"

Heavy Hitter Triple Threat:

Hank Williams- "I'm A Long Gone Daddy"

Jerry Lee Lewis- "Your Cheating Heart"

Jack Scott- "Honky Tonk Blues"

Marty Stuart- "Been Lonely Too Long"

Hot Chickens- "Well All Right"

Dave Del Monte & The Cross Country Boys- "Rag Roof Roadster"

Johnny Cash- "Oney"

Outro Music Bed: Johnny Cash- "Rollin' Free"

We get another Two-nami in the forecast on this week's Catching A Wave with 2 in a row from The Exbats! Beth Riley has an early instrumental track from The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We hear a tune from an album by Jan & Dean celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week. Plus, we get rockers from Amphibian Man, Galvezton, The Outta Sites (appearing at Surf Guitar 101 Festival Weekender), Barrence Whitfield and The Savages, The Bahareebas, Surf Muscle, Stephie James, The Cynz, Kincaid & The Memetics, Secret Agent, Rangers, Hipbone Slim and Atomic Tom!