Alt Rock Classics
- Somebody To Shove-Soul Asylum (The urgency of the track still appeals to me a quarter-century later.)
- Stay With Us-Seoul (Seoul pulls off the trick of sounding intimate yet distant in this hypnotic track.)
- People Get Ready-The Impressions (Lyrics of hope and salvation that command respect. This version's gloss is appealing, but if you want to hear an equally or perhaps more poignant rendition, The Persuasions recorded an excellent a cappella version of it.)
- I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)-John Pizzarelli (There's a strong consistency to Pizzarelli's subtle crooning throughout his albums. I knew I could play virtually any song of his on WEW and segue it easily.)
- You Go To My Head-Bud Powell (Powell shows this standard is naturally suited for the piano.)
- You've Got A Friend-Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (Although I'm used to hearing this in its James Taylor and Carole King incarnations, this somewhat overlooked cover deserves its due.)
- In The Name Of Love-Grover Washington, Jr. (A fresh breeze of a saxophone melody; I miss the days when you'd hear this version or the Ralph MacDonald/Bill Withers rendition with vocals on the radio.)
