"ACCORDION 101" Your back-to-school primer of great accordion music. A perfect education. With accordions at the heart of music by everyone from Norah Jones to Bob Dylan. Includes interview with guest accordionists TARA LINDA and MAGGIE MARTIN (MAD MAGS), previewing the CD from the 2010 West Coast Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar (to be featured, along with various babes' bands, at this weekend's Cotati Accordion Festival).Playlist incudes accodionists for each selection.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year | ||
| James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll | excerpt: Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhbition" | Stravinsky/Mussorgsky (for duo accordion) | EMI Classics | 1997 | 10:00 | 4:20 |
| Joe Ely | "Boxcars" (accordion: Ponty Bone) | Live Shots | MCA | 1980 | 10:04 | 4:37 |
| Gilberto Gil | "Esperando na janela" | Me You Them (soundtrack) | Atlantic | 2000 | 10:10 | 4:20 |
| Neil Young | "Helpless" (acc: Nils Lofgren) | Unplugged | Reprise | 1993 | 10::14 | 5:47 |
| Ann Dyer | "Good Day Sunshine" (acc: Rob Burger) | Revolver:A New Spin | Premonition | 1996 | 10:18 | 2:07 |
| Nino Rota | "La Gradisica Si Sposa E Se Ne Va" | Amarcord (soundtrack) | CAM (Italy) | 1973 | 10:21 | 2:16 |
| Norah Jones | "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (acc: Rob Burger) | Feeling the Same Way (EP) | Parlophone (Europe) | 10:24 | 3:16 | |
| Bob Dylan | "This Dream of You" (acc:David Hidalgo) | Together Through Life | Columbia | 2009 | 10:32 | 5:40 |
| Ry Cooder | "Volver Volver" (acc: Flaco Jimenez) | Showtime | Warners (Japan) | 1977 | 10:38 | 3:59 |
| Guy Klucevsek | Fred Frith: "Disinformatioin Polka" | Transylvania Softwear | JMR | 1994 | 10:43 | 4:09 |
| Lars Hollmer | "Boeves Psalm" | Siberian Circus | Re-Source (Sweden) | 1980 | 10:47 | 2:27 |
| Accordion Tribe | "Encore Trois W" | Lunghorn Twist | Intuition (Germany) | 2006 | 10:49 | 0:58 |
| Maria Kalaniemi | "Napoleon" | Iho | Hannibal | 1995 | 10:53 | 4:05 |
| Accordion Tribe | "Nat #7" | Lunghorn Twist | Intuition (Germany) | 2006 | 10:58 | 4:22 |
| Accordion Tribe | "Return of Lasse" | Lunghorn twist | Intuition (GermanY) | 2006 | 11:02 | 3:08 |
| Thos Darn Accordions | "Baba O'Riley" | No Strings Attached | Globe | 1996 | 11:05 | 4:58 |
| Creole Belles | "Zydeco Tou Pais Pais" | Creole Belles | Arhoolie | 2008 | 11:10 | 2:57 |
| Culann's Hounds | "Thousand Flowers" | CD accomanying 2010 West Coast Accordion Babes Pinup Calendar | WCAB | 2009 | 11:16 | 4:10 |
| Big Lou's Polka Casserole | "Ramune": | 2010 West Coast Accordion Babes... | WCAB | 2009 | 11:20 | 3:10 |
| Mad Maggies | "For the Love of Pete" | 2010 West Coast Accordion Babes... | WCAB | 2009 | 11:26 | 3:28 |
| Tara Linda | "El Diablito" | Nueva Luna (New Moon) | Tara Linda Prod. | 2008 | 11:35 | 3:20 |
| John Schott Typical Orchestra | "Los Angeles" (acc: Odile Lavault) | John Schott'sTypical Orch. | Smash the State | 2007 | 11:45 | 4:39 |
| Richard Galliano & Ron Carter | "Summer in Central Park" | Panamanhattan | Evidence | 1991 | 11:50 | 5:43 |
| Yvette Horner | "Comedian's Dance" | Accordeon Musette Virtuosos: Paris 1944-1954 | Fremeaux & Associe | 2008 | 11:56 | 2:43 |
