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”
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