This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music classic April album releases from Seger, Sam & Dave, Gnarls Barkley, and Gillian Welch.

Also new Detroit tunes from Jack White and Ryan Racine, new Jill Scott, Samm Henshaw, a Prince cover from Low Cut Connie and much more!

See the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for April 4, 2026

HOUR ONE:

• “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs” – Jack White
• “Who Do You Love” – Bother Wallace
• “Project 10” – Satya
• “Sexistential” – Robyn
• “Don’t Bury Me” – Ryan Racine
• “Great Advice” – Courtney Barnett
• “Looking Back” – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (April 1976)
• “Too Much” – Dave Matthews Band (April 1996)
• “Hold On I’m Coming” – Sam & Dave (April 1966)
• “Money” – Foy Vance
• “Dixie Chicken” – Little Feat
• “Jump” – Inara George
  
• “Float” – Samm Henshaw
  
• “Tear My Stillhouse Down” – Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings (April 1996)

• “ThunderWave” – Thundercat ft. WILLOW
• “Wild At Heart” – Neil Diamond
• “Little Red Corvette” – Low Cut Connie
• “Amiss” – waterbaby
• “Stuck In My Mind” – JR JR
• “Sumthin’ Sumthin'” – Maxwell (April 1996)
• “Mother’s Little Helper” – The Rolling Stones (April 1966)
• “Crazy” – Gnarls Barkley (April 2006)
• “It’s Only Love” – ROZZI
• “Sad & Beautiful World” – Mavis Staples
• “Doctrine Of Love” – Jalen Ngonda
• “Beat On The Brat” – Ramones (April 1976)
• “Freedom” – Beyonce (April 2016)

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org

On this week’s episode of Acoustic Café, in-studio guests Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, aka Shovels & Rope, play songs from their latest album “Something Is Working Up Above My Head.”

Also this week, a collection of in-studio duets, all from 2016 with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle, Judy Collins and Ari Hest and more. Plus new songs from Samm Henshaw, Bonny Prince Billy, Mumford & Sons and Larkin Poe.

See the playlist below and listen to the episodes on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Acoustic Café Playlist for February 1, 2026

• “Million Dollar Intro” – Ani DiFranco
• “Plastic Cigarette” – Zach Bryan
• “Changed” – Valerie June
• “They Keep Trying To Find You” – Bonny Prince Billy
• “Dime” – Silvana Estrada
• “Gentle On My Mind” – Billy Bragg + Joe Henry (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” – The Dandy Warhols
• “Two Wolves” – Shovels & Rope (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guest)
• “Colorado River” – Shovels & Rope (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guest)
• “Hair Down” – Samm Henshaw
• “Can You Get To That” – Funkadelic
• “Pharmacy” – The Black Crowes
• “Kiss Me Quick” – Iron & Wine + Jesca Hoop (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “River” – Selah Mooney (SongWriter Podcast preview)
• “Mr. Marketer” – Hayley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover
• “The Banjo Song” – Mumford & Sons
• “I Choose Love” – Judy Collins + Ari Hest (Acoustic Cafe performance)
• “Little Bit (acoustic)” – Larkin Poe
• “American Tune” – Leslie Odom, Jr.
• “Summer Boys” – Mark Erelli
• “Come What May” –Shawn Colvin + Steve Earle
• “Favorite Place” – John Gorka
• “I’d Be Lying” – Shovels & Rope (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guest)
• “love Song For A Dog” – Shovels & Rope (Acoustic Cafe in-studio guest)

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org