December 5, 2009 Playlist

DJ: David

I talked over selections from Ben Allison’s Think Free

  • “Must Be Santa” – Bob Dylan – Christmas in the Heart
  • “The Hokey Pokey” – Brave Combo – Brave Combo Live
    RIP Robert Degan, who wrote the Hokey Pokey, who died on his 104th birthday with right hand in, and his left foot out
  • “When the Ship Comes In” – The Clancy Brothers – Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary
    RIP Liam Clancy
  • “The Lonesome River” – Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley – Bootleg Sereis Volume 8
    RIP Jack Cooke
  • “If Dogs Run Free” – Bob Dylan – New Morning
    RIP Molly, my faithful companion
  • “Everything Reminds Me of My Dog” – Jane Siberry – Bound by the Beauty
  • “Moondog’s Theme” – More Moondog/The Story of Moondog – Moondog
  • “Rock n Roll” – Bettie Severt – Bettie Severt plays Venus in Furs
  • “Darklands” – The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands
  • “Sunday Morning” – Carolyn Mark and N.Q. Arbuckle – Let’s Just Stay Here
  • “Sister Morphine” – Eli Cook – Static in the Blood
  • “Jumpin Jack Flash” – Heebie Jeebies/Velvet Elvis – Unreleased
  • “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – Bill Morrissey and Greg Brown – Friend of Mine
  • “John Scofield” – I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – This Meets That
  • “Salt of the Earth” – Judy Collins – Judith
  • “New Amsterdan” – Pink Martini – Splendor in the Grass
  • “The Elements” – Tom Lehrer – NCIS Volume 2
    For my daughter, Sydnie, as she studies for her chemistry final

    • November 28, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Bruce

  • “tha John Wayne” – Tha Tribe – T2K [Canyon: 1999]
  • “Matapat” – Matapat – Matapat [?: 1999]
    From the canadian collection ‘Festival to Go’ Vol..2.
  • “Lanlair” – Le Vent du Nord – La Part du Feu [Borealis: 2009]
    quebec
  • “Silent Spring” – Coastwest Unrest – Songs from the Desert [Reclaim: 2009]
    Salvaged from Rock Department
  • “Viva la Quince Brigade” – Ian Campbell folk Group – Dave Swarbricks 50tht [Cooking Vinyl: 1991]
    50th Birthday Concert for / with Dave Swarbrick
  • “the Devil is Gathering Firewood” – George Jones – Hallelujah Weekend [2000]
    prod. Billy Sherrill
  • “Tobacco Road” – Blues Magoos [1966]
  • “last Night when my Willie Came Home” – Mike Seeger – Southern Banjo Sounds [1998]
  • “Christmas is Coming” – Leadbelly – Where will you be on Christmas Day? [Dust to Digital: 2004]
  • “christ is born on Christmas Morn” – Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singes – Where
  • “Papa ain’t no Santa Claus…” – Butterbeans & Susie – Where
  • “Christmas Morning the Rum had me Yawning” – Lord Beginner – Where
  • “Happy New year” – Lightnin’ Hopkins – Where
  • “Groundhog” – Alex Caton – Sinners and the Saved [2009]
    Playing in town at the Southern, Dec 4. 7.00
  • “Din ya Sagri” – Christy Azuma & Uppers International – Ghana Special – Modern Highlife….1968-1981 [Soundways: 2009]
  • “the Barbecues” – Auyo Lolo – Ghana Special
  • “The Cutlass Dance Band” – HweHwe – Ghana Special
  • “the Response” – Tommy T – Prester John Sessions [2009]
    Gigi guest
  • “the Eight Wonder” – Tommy t – Perster John Sessions

    • November 21, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: Dave

    • “The Christmas Blues” — Bob Dylan – Christmas in the Heart (for Doug)
    • “On the Road Again” Ben Sidran- Dylan Different
    • “Not Dark Yet”-Barb Jungr-No Regrets
    • “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” – Chris Smither – Time Stands Still
    • “California” – Bob Dylan – NCIS Soundtrack Vol. 2
    • “Outlaw Blues”-Bob Dylan-Bringing It All Back Home
    • “Went to See the Gypsy”-Martha Scanlan-The West Was Burning
    • “Dignity” – Jamie Saft Trio – Trouble
    • “Everything is Broken”-Ben Sidran-Dylan Different
    • (I talked over “Pity the Poor Immigrant-Jewels and Binoculars-the Music of Bob Dylan)
    • “Ode to Billie Joe” – Bobbie Gentry- Best of
    • “Where is Bobbie Gentry?” – Jill Sobule-California Years
    • “Nina Simone”-Tom Russell-Blood and Candle Smoke
    • “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”-Nina Simone-Anthology
    • “Your Cheatin’ Heart”-James Brown-Soul on Top
    • “Sentimental Journey”-Nellie McKay-Normal as Blueberry Pie
    • “Whatever Will Be, Will Be”-Doris Day-Sentimental Journey
    • “Que Sera Sera”-Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women-Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
    • “Ou est ma tete?”-Pink Martini-Splendor in the Grass
    • “une americaine a paris”-Rupa & the April Fishes-Extraordinary Rendition

    November 14, 2009 Playlist

    DJ: David

  • “Here Comes Santa Claus” – Bob Dylan – Christmas in the Heart
    Vagabond Shoes is putting its stockings out early this year

    • For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

  • “Berlin Tonight” – Bruce Cockburn – World of Wonders
  • “Berlino” – Paolo Conte – Psiche
  • “Berlin” – Lou Reed – Berlin

    • For Veterans Day

  • “The Veterans Big Parade/Play iIt Again Sam” – Dory Previn – Live at Carnegie Hall
  • “Before the Great War” – Vandaveer – Divide & Conquer
  • “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” – Andy Bey – Ain’t Necessarily So
  • “Old Forgotten Soldier” – Harry Nilsson – Nilsson Schmilsson
  • “John Brown” – Bob Dylan – Live at the Gaslight 1962

    • RIP, Amy. Following with a set of music of or about women of tragic circumstances

  • “No Exit” – Amy Farris – Anyway
  • “Amelia” – Joni Mitchell – Hejira
  • “Edith and the Kingpin” – Elvis Costello – A Tribute to Joni Mitchell
  • “Les Trois Cloches” – Edith Piaf – Artists Choice: Joni Mitchell

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  • “Goin Out West” – Tom Waits – Glitter and Doom
  • “The Void” – Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard – One Fast Move or I’m Gone

    • 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”