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January 21, 2012 Playlist

DJ: David

Obits and songs related to Mississippi (inspired by Oxford American magazine’s 13th annual Southern music issue)

  1. “Blue Suede Shoes” – Carl Perkins – Johnny Cash at Dan Quentin [Sony/Columbia/ Legacy: 2006]
    Story goes that Johnny Cash gave Perkins the idea for this song at a 1955 show in Mississippi
  2. “Harlem Nocture” – The Johnny Otis Rythym and Blues Caravan – The Johnny Otis Rythym and Blues Caravan: The Savoy Recordings [Savoy Jazz: 1999]
    RIP Johnny
  3. “God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind)” – The Essential Etta James – The Essential Etta James [MCA: 1993]
    RIP Etta
  4. “Tour of Duty” – Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Here We Rest [Lightning Rod: 2011]
    RIP freestyle skier Sarah Burke, Isbell is scheduled to appear at the 2012 Steamboat Musicfest
  5. “Get Rythym” – NRBQ – At Yankee Stadium [Fontana Island: 1989]
    RIP Tom Ardolino
  6. “I Loves You Porgy” – The Windmills of Your Mind – Paul Motian (vocal Petra Haden) [Winter & Winter: 2011]
    Some say Gershwin is rolling in his grave over new Broadway production of Porgy & Bess
  7. “I Shall be Free No: 10″ – Bob Dylan – Another Side of Bob Dylan [Columbia: 1964]
    Happy 70th birthday Muhammed Ali
  8. “Mississippi Goddam” – Nina Simone – Anthlogy [BMG: 2003]
    in remembrance of what this country was like before MLK Birthday became a national holiday
  9. “Down in Mississippi” – Mavis Staples – Live: Hope at the Hideout [Anti: 2008]
  10. “Uprising” – Wadada Leo Smith and Ed Blackwell – The Blue Mountain’s Sun Drummer [Kabell: 2011]
  11. “Mississipi Delta Blues” – Leon Redbone – Double Time [Warner Bros: 1976]
  12. “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” – Mississippi Fred McDowell – Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Arhoolie: 1994]
  13. “Mississippi Waltz” – Chris Thile & Michael Daves – Sleep with One Eye Open [Nonesuch: 2011]
  14. “Tallahatchie River Blues” – Mattie Delaney – Mississippi Masters: Early American Blues Classics 1927-1935 [Yazoo: 1994]
  15. “Mississippi Mud” – Bix Beiderbecke – The Very Best of Bix Beiderbecke [101: 2004]
  16. “Did You Hear John Hurt?” – Dave Van Ronk – …And The Tin Pan Bended, And The Story Ended… [Smithsonian: 2004]
  17. “Trouble I Had All My Days” – Mississippi John Hurt – Revisited [Fuel: 2011]
  18. “Heart-O-Matic Love” – Bo Diddley – I’m a Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958 [Hip-O-Select: 2007]
  19. “Howlin’ for My Darling” – Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf: His Best [MCA: 1997]
  20. “Sitting on Top of The World” – Carolina Chocolate Drops – Things About Comin’ My Way: a tribute to the music of the Mississippi Sheiks [Black Hen: 2009]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

January 14. 2012 Playlist

DJ Bruce

  • “Masculine Intuition” - Music Machine (Sean Bonniwell obit) - Turn On
  • “Romance” - Wild Flag - Wild Flag 2011
  • “Groceries on the Shelf” - Louise Bogan (1933)
  • “My Banjo and I” - Hanggai - Introducing
  • “Buigan (Shame)” - Las Golondrinas Viajeras - Compilation Voices of Forgotten Worlds
  • “Wuji” - Hanggai - Introducing
  • “Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo” - Lol Gomez Gomez - Mexico- Feasts of Chiapas & Oaxaca
  • “Haar Hu” - Hanggai - Introducing
  • “Mamaye” - Novalima (2012) - Karimba
  • “Pis Pisla” - Nilgul - Compilation Turkish Groove
  • “Karimba” - Novalima - Karimba
  • “Descarga en Cumbia” - Banda Bojera de San Peloyo - Compilation Original Sound of Cumbia 2011
  • “Louie’s Luau” - TriBeCaStan (2012) - New Deli
  • “Untitled Extract” - Gwenva Ensemble - Enxemble Gwenva (Breton)
  • “Guinea” - TriBeCaStan - New Deli
  • “A Son Magni” - Cissa Abdoulay & Super volta - Compilation Ouga Affair Hard won sound of the upper volta 1974-7
  • “the Brain Surgeon’s Wife Serves Lunch” - TriBeCaStan
  • “Doro Daga” - Safra Star (Tidiane Coulibaly) - Ouaga Affair
  • “Untitled” - Fishermen’s Orchestra - Yemen- Music from the Heart of Arabia
  • “When I’m 64″ – The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (for intrepid World Turning announcer Ron Kovich’s birthday; he doesn’t look a day over 63)

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

January 7, 2012 Playlist

DJ: David

Music of interest in 2011: an incomplete, hardly comprehensive selection of work.

  1. “Vagabond” – Beirut – The Rip Tide [Pompei: 2011]
  2. “Chicago” – Tom Waits – Bad As Me [Anti: 2011]
  3. “Questions for the Angels” – Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What [Hear: 2011]
  4. “It’s Time for Church” – Andy Friedman – Laserbeams and Dreams [City Salvage: 2011]
  5. “Bless This Place” – Brian Eno – Drums Between the Bells [Warp: 2011]
  6. “PInky’s Dream” – David Lynch/Karen O – Crazy Clown Time [Play It Again Sam: 2011]
  7. “My Friends” – Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know [Virgin: 2011]
  8. “All Along the Watchtower” – Thea Gilmore – John Wesley Harding [Fullfill: 2011]
  9. “Don’t Stop Singing” – Thea Gilmore – Don’t Stop Singing [Island: 2011]
  10. “The Love That Faded” – Bob Dylan – The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams [Egyptian: 2011]
  11. “Goodbye Cowboys & Rocketmen” – Julia Haltigan – My Green Heart [Self: 2011]
  12. “Bucky Balls (Spherical Fullerene)” – The Dead Kenny Gs – Operation Long Leash [Royal Potato Family: 2011]
  13. “Family Affair” – MTO/Anthony – MTO Plays Sly [Royal Potato Family: 2011]
  14. “Throwin’ Off Sparks” – The Stone Coyotes – I Couldn’t Find You [Red Cat: 2011]
  15. “Loves Made a Fool of You” – Chris Smither – What I Learned in School [Self: 2011]
  16. “Peggy Sue” – Lou Reed – Rave on Buddy Holly [Concord: 2011]
  17. “The Debt I Owe” – Lou Reed – Note of Hope [429: 2011]
  18. “Iced Honey” – Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu [Warner: 2011]
  19. “The Desperate Ones” – Judy Collins – Bohemian [Wildflower: 2011]
  20. “God Help Us All” – Tom Morello :The Nigthwatchman – World Wide Rebel Songs [New West: 2011]

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Happy New Year’s Eve (January 31, 2011 Playlist)

DJ: Bruce

For the last Vagabond Shoes shoe in 2011:

  1. “Drift Away” - Dobie Gray (obit) - VA Sweet 70s Soul [Razor & Tie]
  2. “The Ballad of Penny Evans (Vietnam is over, Iraq is over…..)” - Steve Goodman - Someone Else’s Troubles [Buddah: 1972]
  3. “Under the Bridge” - Merle Haggard - Working in Tennessee [Vanguard: 2011]
  4. “Everything Happens by Itself” - Barbara Manning (and David Kilgour) - In New Zealand [Common/]
  5. “The Blues What Am” - Jazz Gillum - Chicago is Just that Way [JSP: 1947]
  6. “Green Grows the Rashes O” - Jean Sterling MacKinlay - VA The Star of Rabbie Burns [Moidart: 1931]
  7. “To the so-called “The Guilties”" - Koes Bersaudara - To the so-called ‘The Guilties” (1967 aprox) [Sublime Frequencies]
  8. “Gun Dogmuyor” - Erkun Koray - Mechul [Sublime Frequencies: (1970)]
  9. “Cho cho Chan” - the Son of P.M. - VA Shadow Music of Thailand [Sublime Frequencies]
  10. “Quando My Love” - Sinn Sisamouth - Cambodia Rocks Vol 1 [Khmer Rock]
  11. “Cumbur Cemaat” - Erkun Koray - Mechul [SF: (1976)]
  12. “Iciyorum” - Ajda Pekkan (1972) - VA Turkish Freakbeat [Bouzoki Joes: 2011]
  13. “Wangamiya” - Malesh ( Comores) - Musiques Metisses [Marabi]
  14. “Ase” - Salem Tradition (Reunion) - VA Musiques Metisses – Ocean Indien [Marabi]
  15. “Tsika holy” - Regis Gizavo (Madagascar) - Musiques Metisses [Marabi]
  16. “Zi Pi Bi Blues” - Rene Lacaille & bob Brozman - DigDig [Riverboat]
  17. “Drums at Dalada Maligawa (Sri Lanka)” - VA les Iles de l’Ocean Indien [Arion]
  18. “Cumbia del Puerto” - Conjunto Los Rumberos - VAThe Original Sound of Cumbia [Soundway: New]
  19. “Sembrando Cafe” - Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto
  20. “Diwana Aaya Hai” - ? - VA Crucial Jam the album [Rhythm Squad]

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Ho, Ho, Ho Playlist (December 24, 2011)

DJ: David

  1. “The Christmas Song” – Bob Dylan – Christmas in the Heart [Sony/Columbia: 2009]
  2. “That Was the Worst Christmas Ever” – Sufjan Stevens – Songs for Christmas [Asthmatic Kitty: 2006]
  3. “Everything is One Big Christmas Tree” – The Magnetic Fields – Realism [Nonesuch: 2011]
  4. “Run Rudolph Run” – Keith Richards – Run Rudolph Run [Mindless: 2007]
  5. “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” – Weezer – iTunes Holiday Sampler [iTunes: 2009]
  6. “I’m Waiting for the Man”{RIP Vaclev Havel} – Velvet Underground & Nico – Velvet Underground & Nico [Verve: 1967]
  7. “Natal”{RIP Cesaria} – Cesaria Evora – World Christmas [Blue Note: 1996]
  8. “Il est n/a bergers” – McGarrigle Sisters – The McGarrigle Christmas Hour [Nonesuch: 2005]
  9. “Rebel Jesus” – Martha Wainwright – The McGarrigle Christmas Hour [Nonesuch: 2005]
  10. “Getting Ready for Christmas Day” – Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What [Hear: 2011]
  11. “Chanuka Chase” – The Short Sisters – Season’s Greetings [Fast Folk: 1986]
  12. “Driedel” – Don McLean – Solo [United Artists: 1976]
  13. “Not a Jew” – Philip Glass/Leonard Cohen – Book of Longing [Omm: 2007]
  14. “The Atheist Christmas Carol” – Vienna Tang – Live at Schubas [eMusic: 2004]
  15. “The Hallelujah Chorus” – The Roches – Keep on Doing [Warner Bros.: 1982]
  16. “Emmanuel” – Tori Amos – Midwinter Graces [Universal: 2009]
  17. “Scrooge” – Lord Buckley – Blowing His Mind (and yours too) [Demon: 1959]
  18. “7 O’Clock News\Silent Night” – Simon and Garfunkel – Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme [Columbia: 1966]

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December 17, 2011 Playlist

DJ: Bruce

  • “Working for the Man(Barbara Orbison obit)” - Roy Orbison (1962) - The Monument Singles
  • “Riot (obit for Christopher Hitchens)” - Mekons - Mekons United
  • “Getting Late (obit for Hubert Sumlin)” - Howling Wolf (1958) - Ain’t Gonna be your Dog
  • “The Cave (obit for Russell Hoban/Riddley Walker)” - Johhny Paycheck - the Real Mr Heartache
  • “Jiterbug Waltz” - Chet Atkins (1951) - JSP The Early Years
  • “Burn Down this Town” - Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
  • “Get Down Moses” - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
  • “Poor Boy Long Way from Home” - John Fahey (1959) - The Legend of Blind Joe Death
  • “Bugle Call Rag” - Joe Smeck - JSP I’s Hotter in Hawaii
  • “Pame Sti Honolulu” - Bezoz Hawaiian Orchestra - It’s Hotter in Hawaii
  • “12th Street Rag” - Hauulea Entertainers - It’s Hotter in Hawaii
  • “Wai O Ke Aniani” - Gabby Pahini - Soundtrack “The Descendants” [New]
  • “Ka Mele Ok’u Pu’Uwai” - Sol Hoopi - The Descendans’
  • “Tula Performance” - Mohammad Akbar (1967) - Folk Music of Afghanista (lp)
  • “Warrior’s Cry” - Honiata Musicians of Guadalcanal - Polyphonies des Iles Salomon [Le Chant Du Monde]
  • “Washint Performance” - Anonymous - Ethiopian Central Highlands etc [Topic]
  • “Always with Sweet hashish” - D Gongos - JSP Rembetika
  • “Drunk and Stoned” - Anestis Dhelias
  • “It showed when I was a Mangas (hoodlum)” - Michalis Yentsaris
  • “Cashing In” - the Lijadu Sisters (1976) - Danger [Knitting Factory: New]
  • “Unknown” - Meas Samon - Cambodian Cassette Archives [Sublime Frequencies]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

Classical Marathon

No Vagabond Shoes this week as we are pre-empted by the Classical Marathon.  As always, give generously, give frequently, give what you can to support this unique station. Here are the details:

During the week of December 5-11, tune in to WTJU 91.1 FM to hear glorious classical music around-the-clock, presented by some of your favorite hosts. Programs will run the gamut of classical genres: from medieval music to 21st Century composers; from baroque to romantic; from solo piano to grand opera. The marathon will conclude Sunday, December 11 with a specially-chosen performance of Handel’s “Messiah” (another tradition of WTJU Classical Marathons).

Check out the entire Classical Marathon program schedule, including show descriptions.

Recent classical marathons have been fundraising record-breakers – and that’s another tradition we’d like to continue. Donate online today – either a one-time donation or a recurring monthly donation.

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Thanks for your support!

December 3, 2011

DJ: David

  • “Little Red Boots” - Lindi Ortega - Little Red Boots [Last Gang Records: 2011]
  • “Kiss Me” - Tom Waits - Bad as Me [Anti: 2011]
  • “Show Me the Place” - Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas (forthcoming) [Sony: 2012]
  • “Claudine” - Rolling Stones - Some Girls Deluxe (reissue) [Universal Republic: 2011]
  • “Hello Hello” - Claudine Longet - Hello Hello: The Best of Claudine Longet [Rev-Ola: 2005]
  • “Moon River” - Andy Williams - Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams [Sony Legacy: 2009]
  • “All My Rage” - Laura Marling - A Creature [Ribbon: 2011]
  • “Isis”{RIP producer Don Devito} - Bob Dylan - Desire [Columbia: 1975]
  • “Sufferers Time”{RIP Barry Llewellyn} - The Heptones - 20 Golden Hits [Sonic Sounds: 1992]
  • “Crucifixion”{RIP Tom Wicker} - Phil Ochs - There and Now: Live in Vancouver 1968 [Rhino: 1990]
  • “The Hostage” - Judy Collins - True Stories and Other Dreams [Elektra: 1973]
  • “No Banker Left Behind”{RIP Occupy Charlottesville} - Ry Cooder - Ull Up Some Dust and Sit Down [Nonesuch: 2011]
  • “Overture”{RIP Ken Russell} - Tommy - The Who [Decca: 1969]
  • “Mother Russia”{RIP Lana Peters, Stalin’s daughter} - Renaissance - Turn of the Cards [Sire: 1974]
  • “Mumbo Jumbo”{RIP Paul Motian} - Joel Harrison String Choir - The Music of Paul Motian [Sunnyside: 2010]
  • “Long May You Run”{For Aer Stephen, a folk going beyond} - Neil Young (Still-Young Band) - Long May You Run [Reprise: 1976]
  • “Old Man” - Youssou n’dour - The Guide [Columbia: 1994]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

November 26, 2011 Playlist

DJ: Bruce

  • “The Day Walk” {Gene Clark} - Byrds
  • “Eight Miles High” - Byrds
  • “She Don’t Care About Time” {Gene Clark} - Byrds
  • “McArthur Park” {Jimmy Webb} - Waylon Jennings - Nashville Rebel, CD 3 [RCA]
  • “Close Your Eyes” - Steve Wynn - Dazzling Display [RNA: 1992]
  • “the Lethern Bottel” {Anon (1684)} - Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band - Hang Up Sorrow and Care [Park: 1996]
  • “Nne Pound Hammer” - the Monroe Brothers - What would you give in exchange for your soul? [Rounder]
  • “Right String but the Wrong Yo Yo” - Piano Red (1950) - Compilation That’s allRight, the secret history of rock & Roll
  • “You Keep me going” - Mack Tubb and the Shades - Compilation History of Texas Garage Bands The AOH Record Story [Collectables]
  • “Gone are the Days” - Dayle Brown - Compilation Midnite Blues Party vol 2 [Eelctro Fi]
  • “La Ultima Cita” - Camino Real de Polo Villa - Compilation Puras Nortenas Vol 2 [Jalapeno]
  • “Corazon Herido” - Ramon Ayala y los Bravos del JNorte - Comkkp. Puras Nortenas
  • “Clave Privada” - Conjunto Amanecer de Durango - Cojmpilation Corridos Frente a Frente, Duranguense vs. Norteno [Lideres]
  • “Por Culpa de tu amor” - Bravos de la Region - Comp Puras Nortenas
  • “La Calentura” - tobias plicet - Compilation La Orquest de la Papaya
  • “Bullerenque” - Jorge Ledezma Bradley - Comp. Papya
  • “Mejorana Zapagtero” - ? - Comp.Papaya
  • “K’alanchito” - Sava Andina - Compilation Rough guide Boliva
  • “Ulula Kiskita” - Betty Veizaga y el Grup Pukaj Wayra
  • “Nkikiz Saz Semaisi” - Calanlar ensemble - Compilation “Turkish Hit P;arade”: [Request Records LP]

 

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

 

November 19, 2011 Playlist

DJ: David

  • “It’s Not Real” - The Greenhouses - Sewed Soles [V2: 2005]
  • “Time is on My Side” {RIP Jimmy Norman} - Rolling Stones - Singles Collection: Te London Years [Abko: 1989]
  • “A Winter Tale” - Bobby Long - A Winter Tale [ATO: 2011]
  • “Winter Song” - The Head and the Heart - Winter Song [Sub Pop Records: 2011]
  • “Winter Love” - Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains in New York [Yep Roc: 2009]
  • “Rain and Snow” - Greg Brown - Freak Flag [Red House: 2011]
  • “Dark Night of the Soul” - Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous - Dark Night of the Soul [Capitol: 2010]
  • “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weene Yellow Pola Dot Bikini” {RIP Lee Pockriss} - Brian Hyland - Greatest Hits [MCA: 1994]
  • “Swimming Song” - Loudon Wainwright/Fairport Convention - Cropedy Capers [Free Reed: 2004]
  • “Swimming” - Breathe Owl Breathe - Paste Magazine Sampler 63 [Paste: 2009]
  • “Surfer King” - A.A. Bondy - Believers [Fat Possum: 2011]
  • “Let’s Go Surfing” - The Drums - Paste Magazine Sampler 59 [Paste: 2009]
  • “Big Wave” - Jenny and Johnny - I’m Having Fun Now [2011]
  • “Surfin’” {50 year ago, Surfin’ was the first hit for the Beach Boys} - Beach Boys - Surfin’ Safari [Capitol: 2001]
  • “The Way It Goes” {For Joe Queenan and his love of the banjo} - Otis Taylor/Keb Mo’ - Recapturing the Banjo [Telarc: 2008]
  • “Green Apples” - Po’Girl - Home to You [Nettwerk: 2007]
  • “Rare Bird Alert” - Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers - Rare Bird Alert [Rounder: 2011]
  • “City of Refuge” - Abigail Washington - City of Refuge [Rounder: 2011]
  • “Adagio sostenuto from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata” - Bela Fleck - Perpetual Motion [Sony: 2001]
  • “Ajula-Mbama” - Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart [Rounder: 2009]

Listen to this show on the Tape Vault. It will be available for the next two weeks.

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