November 7, 2009 Playlist

DJ: Bruce

  • “Big Harlan Taylor” – George Jones – Cup of Lonliness
  • “Relief is just a Swallow Away” – G. J.
  • “Talk to Me Lonesome Heart” – G.J.
  • “Tarnished Angel” – G. J.
  • “Heartaches by the Number” – G.J.
  • “Something to Lose” – Ned Sublette – Cowboy Rumba [1999]
    with Yomo Toro and Lloyd Maines
  • “Not Fade Away” – N. S.
    w/ Los Munequitos de Matanzas
  • “La Bamba” – Son de Madera – Son de mi Tierra [Smithsonian: 2009]
    jarocho genre of Veracruz
  • “Tape from California” – Phil Ochs – Tape from C. [1968]
  • “Just Got Back from the City” – Captain Beefheart – Grow Fins [1966]
  • “A House not a Motel” – Love – Forever Changes [1967]
  • “Bad Night at the Whiskey” – Byrds
  • “When you Smile” – Dream Syndicae – Days of Wine and Roses [1982]
  • “Este Mundo (This World)” – Rupa & the April Fishes – Este Mundo [Cumbancha: 2009]
    San Francisco based performers
  • “Crua” – Otto – Certa manha…. [2009]
    brazil
  • “Fiddle Dance” – An Anthology of North American & Eskimo Music [Folkways: 1973]
    Three songs in tribute to Claude Levi-Strauss who died last week.
  • “Bear Hunting song”
  • “inviting to Dance”
  • “L’orient Est Rouge” – Kocani Orchestra – RG Eastern Europe
    macedonian brass band
  • “Suffering And Smiling” – Fela Kuti

    • Fall 2009 Marathon

    Vagabond Shoes is on hiatus for the next two weeks during the Fall Classical/Jazz Marathon.  Bruce, however, will have a marathon show on Cannonball Adderly on Sunday, November 1, from 1:00 – 2:30 pm.

    To paraphrase an old saying about Chicago politics, we hope you do your civic duty and pledge, and pledge often.

    Enjoy the unique programming from a unique station.

    October 10, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Dave

    Rich and Loud at the Paramount on 10/16

  • “Two Left Feet” – Richard Thompson – Live at Crawley 1993
  • “Took My Gal Out Walkin’” – Loudon Wainwright III – High Wide& Handsome
  • “The Back Nine” – Loudon Wainwright III – More Love Songs
  • “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” – Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (For Columbus Day)
  • “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks – Tangled Tales
  • “Obama Over the Rainbow” – Clare and the Reasons – Live-Paris (For the new Nobel Peace Prize winner)
  • “Silver Fox” – Paolo Conte – Psiche
  • “Innocent When You Dream” – Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
  • “Hanauman” – Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
  • “The Man I Keep Hid” – Joe Henry – Blood from Stars
  • “Srey Leak The Girsl of Phnom Penh” – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – White Lunar
  • “Ambulance Man” – The Felice Brothers – Yonder is the Clock
  • “Choices” – Terrance Blanchard Group and Cornel West – Choices
  • “Tin Man” – The Avett Brothers – Demos I and Love and You
  • “Temazcal” – Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk
  • “Cry” – Slaid Cleaves – Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
  • “Moondance” – Van Morrison – Moondance (For my wife, Billie, and our upcoming 26th anniversary)

    • I talked over Robert Cray’s Over the Pond (at the Paramount 10/17) and selections from White Lunar, soundtrack music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

    October 3, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Bruce

  • “Con el Cuese” – Aguilas and Cobras – Brownout [Six Degrees: 2009]
  • “Taketron” – Slavic Soul Party – Taketron [Barbes: 2009]
  • “Perro Loco” – Forro in the Dark – Light a Candle [Nublu: 2009]
  • “Ecos de Radio Iguana” – Sarazino – Ya Foy! [Cumbancha: 2009]
  • “Caipirinha” – Forro in the Dark – Light a Candle
  • “Cochamba” – Sarazino – Ya Foy!
  • “Remedios” – Gertrudis – Putmayo presents Espana [2009]
  • “Corren” – Gossos feat. Dani Macaco – P. p E.
  • “Cumbai Caimanera” – El Combolinga – P p E
  • “It Will come (a muscian’s life)” – Tarrus Riley – Contagious [VP: 2009]
  • “What is this thing called Love” – Miles Davis – Broadcast Sessions 1958-59 [Acrobat: 2008]
  • “Fool Killer” – Brian Auger & Jools Driscoll – JJulie Driscoll w/ Trinity [CEMA/One Way: ?]
  • “Olin SairaKun Luoksen Saavuit” – Maria Kalaniemi – Maria Kalaniemi [Xenophile: 1982]
  • “Ancestors Call” – Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo – Eternal [2009]
  • “Tsikaholy” – Regis Gizavo – Milea [Indigo]
  • “Stambul Bila” – Mama Ong et al – Music from the Outskirts of Indonesia 3 [Smithsonian: 1991]

    • September 26, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Bruce

  • “Eight Miles High” – Byrds – Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1971 [Sundazed: 2008]
  • “Two Bugs and a Roach” – Earl Hooker – Journey of Chris Strachowitz/ [Arhoolie]
  • “I just got back…..” – Parliament – Up for the Down Stroke [Casablanca: 1974]
  • “Chasem Ba Rahat Dil Ba yadat” – Ahmad Zahir – Afghan Star [Silva Screen: 2009]
    Soundtrack for a film opening this fall – American Idol done Afghani Style
  • “Mata Chal Ne Raze” – Naghama – Afghan Star
  • “Sabza Ba Naaz Mea Ayad” – Rah Naabzada & Hameed Sakhizada – Afghan Star
  • “Nijurireni” – W.Theu – North/Central Malawai [SWP: 1958]
    Hugh Tracey recordings 1950,1957,1958
  • “M’Sodomo” – Kasunga villagers – N.C M [1958]
  • “Ndipeko Kayuni Karimbula” – Nezela Shonga – N.C. M [1958]
  • “Olin Saira Kum Kuokseni Saavut” – Samkani Mponela – NCM
  • “M’Sodomo” – Kasungu village – NCM
  • “Mansanni Cisee” – Various – Midnight In Mali [Sterns: 2006]
    Recording in 2004
  • “Tindo” – Baaba Maal & Brazlian Girls – Television [2009]
  • “Canteloupe” – Baaba Maal & B.G. – Television
  • “Yalli Kan Tahqik Anini (you are excited by my sobs)” – Oum Kalthoum – El Sett (La Dame/The Lady) [Buda: 2002]

    • September 19, 2009 Playlist (2nd Anniversary Show)

    Happy Birthday to us!.  Thanks to Jay and Bruce and folks who have filled in for making this a unique slice of a unique station.

    DJ: Dave

    Themes: Our second anniversary; songs of the recently departed and questions about what it all means.

  • “Theme from New York. New York” – Frank Sinatra – Sinatra Reprise:The Very Good Years (“These vagabond shoes are longing to stray..”  Which is what we do, straying from one musical genre to another, from Sinatra to Springsteen)
  • “Radio Nowhere” – Bruce Springsteen – Magic (This is radio from like nowhere else)
  • “People Who Died” – Jim Carroll – The Jim Carroll Band
    RIP Jim
  • “And When I Die” – Peter, Paul and Mary – Album
    RIP Mary Travers
  • “So Long It’s Been Good to Know You” – The Weavers – The Weavers Greatest Hits (Peter, Paul and Mary were assembled as a 1960s version of The Weavers)
  • “Samson and Delilah” – The Washington Squares – The Washington Squares (who were a 1980s version of Peter, Paul and Mary)
  • “Hard to Be” – David Bazan – Curse Your Branches  (The rest of the evening was devoted to songs of faith and doubt, and questions thereof)
  • “Eve” – Helen Horal – Words Unbroken
  • “Outside of the Inside” – Richard Thompson – The Old Kit Bag
  • “Our Father (the new revised edition)” – Susan Werner – The Gospel Truth
  • “Let the Mystery Be” – Iris Dement – Infamous Angel
  • “All Blues Hail Mary” – Joe Henry – Blood from Stars
  • “The Ballad of Mary Magdelene” – Richard Shindell – Blue Divide
  • “Story of Issac” – Leonard Cohen – Songs From a Room
  • “Into My Arms” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
  • “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” – Johnny Cash – Cash
  • “In the Garden” – Van Morrison – No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

    • I talked over selections from Jewels and Binoculars, who do jazz versions of Bob Dylan songs: “With God on Our Side” and “I Believe in You”

    September 12, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Bruce

  • “Scratch Upon Her Windowpane” – Darden Smith – Across the Great Divide-Songs of Jo Carol Pierce [DejaDisc: 1992]
    Austin Musicians’ tribute project to Jo Carol Pierce, a (still alive) local songwriter/performer 1992
  • “Something More” – Lords of Love – ATGD
  • “Apocalyptic Horses” – Robert Jacks & Kim Longacre – ATGD
  • “Too Much On My Mind” – Kinks – Face to Face [1966]
  • “You Know What You Could Be” {M Heron} – Incredibe String Band – 500 Spirits [1966]
  • “Mad Hatter’s Song” {R Williamson} – ISB
  • “Chinese White” {M Heron} – ISB
  • “Talking Hard Work Blues” – Woody Guthrie – Asch 1 – This Land is Your Land
  • “Mano Suave” – Yasmin Levy – Mano Suave [4Q: 2009]
    Ladino music (Sephardic and Andalusian/Spanish traditions)
  • “Kaise Main Kahoon” – Kailash Kher & Kailasa – Yatra -’Nomadic Souls’ [Cumbancha: 2009]
    Bollywood Star forms a band and it ain’t a bad one
  • “Riding on a High and Windy Day” {John Holt} – King Selewa & his Calypsonians – Back to mi Home [ARC/Euclid: 2009]
  • “Fulada” – Foday Musa Suso – The Dreamtime [CIMP: 1988]
    Produced by Bill Laswell. All instruments by F M S
  • “Muwwashshaha” – Ensemble El-Awj – Nuba- D’or Et De Lumiere [Buda: 2009]
    soundtrack. ‘Arabo-Andalusian music’
  • “Visa Veminchosa” – Mlimani Park Orchestra – Zanzibara 5 – Hot in Dar .TZ 1978-1983 [Buda: 2009]
  • “Baba Amaa” – Dar Internationale Orch – Z 5
  • “Bamba ya Afirka” – Isaya Mwinamo – Nairobi Sound – Before Benga Vol 2 [Orginal Music: 1983]
    1960’s
  • “?” – Jajoby – Rough Guide Madagascar [2005]

    • September 5, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Dave
    Some Remembrances, September and Labor Day

  • “Who’s Going to Shoe your Pretty Foot” – Willy Deville – In Berlin
    RIP Willy DeVile
  • “Be My Baby” – The Ronettes – Murray the K Christmas
    For Ellie Greenwich
  • “Irish Rover” – Van Morrison – No Guru, No Teacher, No Method
    Ted Kennedy, one Irish Rover
  • “Bridge Over Troubled Water” – Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
    For Larry Knetchel

    • September Songs:

  • “September Song” – James Brown – Soul on Top
  • “Pale September” – Fiona Apple – Tidal
  • “September” – Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Jacksonville City Nights
  • “September Gurls” – Bangles – Different Light

    • Labor songs:

  • “Joe Hill” – Joan Baez – Rare, Live and Classic
  • “There is Power in a Union” – Billy Bragg (with the Pattersons) – Help Save the Youth of America
  • “Union Sundown” – Bob Dylan – Infidels
  • “Polish Work Song” – Dex Romweber Duo – Ruins of Berlin

    • Back to work songs:

  • “Welcome to the Work Week” – Elvis Costello – Infidels
  • “Working Man’s Cafe” – Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe
  • “Work” – Lou Reed and John Cale – Songs for Drella
  • “Work Song” – Hal Wilner producer – Weird Nigthmare: Meditations on Mingus
  • “I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Ave)” – Tom Waits – Small Change
  • “My Mother and My Sweetheart” – Loudon Wainwright – High Wide and Handsome
  • “A Hard Day’s Night” – The Beatles – Hard Day’s Night

    • Dex Romweber Duo

    Ruins_366Saw these guys along with local band The Leeroys at the IS Venue last night.  Great show, particularly for a guy who complained he hurt his hand; I wonder what his guitar would sound like when he’s feeling better. Amazing how much texture can be generated by a two-piece band.

    I got the impression that a good portion of the sparse turnout had come to see the opening act, who were good, but considering that Romweber is something of a seminal cult legend, who Jack White himself claims as a major influence, you’d think more people might have turned out. I can only imagine how a larger, more enthusiastic crowd and an uninjured strumming arm  might have changed the performance dynamic.

    And what’s with this deal of announcing  a show starting at 9 when the band (and the opening act, at that) doesn’t start until 10.  Yeah, I know they want to sell beer, but maybe a little more truth in advertising. And maybe earlier scheduled shows might get more people out.  This is Charlottesville, not Greenwich Village.

    - Dave

    August 29, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Bruce

    History of Rockabilly in Virginia, guest is Don Harrison, co-compiler of the 2 c.d. set just now released

  • “Whole Lotta Shakin’” – Roy Hall – Virginia Rocks
  • “All By Myself” – Roy Hall – V R
  • “Be Bop A Lulu- Live” – Gene Vincent – V R
  • “Be Bop a Lulu 45″ – Gene Vincent
  • “Red Blue Jeans and a Poney Tail” – Gene Vincent
  • “Lotta Loving” – Gene Vincent
  • “Git It” – Gene Vincent
  • “Drugstore rock n roll” – Janis Martin
  • “My Boy Elvis” – Janis Martin
  • “Bertha Lou” – Clint Miller
  • “Jeannie withthe Dark Blue E” – Doug Powell
    From Charlottesville
  • “Something Baby” – The Dazzlers
    From Lynchburg
  • “Bip Bop Boom” – Moon Mullins
  • “Woo-Hoo” – Rockateens
  • “Please Mr Mayor” – Roy Clark
  • “Baby Baby” – Wayne Newton
  • “Rascal Boogie” – Wayne Newton
  • “Loud Mufflers” – Robert Williams
  • “Sweet Rockin Mama” – The Hi-Tones