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About the Program
Radio Heartland™ will feature programming from the Web- and HD-Radio service of the same name — except dressed up for a Saturday night. Unpretentious and fun, the Saturday show hosted by Connelly will feature songs by coffeehouse songwriters, jazz divas, Zydeco accordionists, Cajun fiddlers, Broadway stars, movie stars, ukulele virtuosos, big bands, string bands, cowboys and cornballs.
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This Week
November 21, 2009
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Tonight, an hour of music about the Thanksgiving season - songs of gratitude, of satisfaction, or eating too much. We'll have music from Charles Brown, Alison Krauss and Ray Davies among others. In the second hour we'll meet North Dakota singer-songwriter Chuck Suchy (SOO-kee). He also farms full time near Mandan and is taking time away from the ranch to tour in support of his latest CD, "Unraveling Heart." We'll also talk with Tim and Paul Frantzich (FRANT-zick) who are putting together a show to raise money for hungry children around the world.
Hour 1
Peter Mayer - "Bountiful"
Gordon Bok, Anne Mayo Muir & Ed Trickett - "How Can I Keep From Singing?"
Pete Morton - "Thanksgiving"
Blind Willie Johnson - "Praise God I'm Satisfied"
Eric Bibb - "Deep In My Soul"
Porter Wagoner - "Satisfied Mind"
Charles Brown - "Just a Lucky So and So"
Solomon Burke - "Thank You"
Bobby McFerrin - "The 23rd Psalm"
Alison Krauss - "Down to the River to Pray"
Lou and Peter Berryman - "Uncle Dave's Grace"
Ray Davies - "Thanksgiving"
John McCutcheon - "Thanksgiving Day"
Steeple On The Common - "We Gather Together"
Hour 2
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "The Farmer is the Man"
Adrienne Young - "Plow to the End of the Row"
Stan Rogers - "The Field Behind the Plow"
Chuck Suchy Interview
Chuck Suchy - "Molly's Field (live)"
Chuck Suchy - "Be With You (live)"
Chuck Suchy - "Down In The Water (live)"
Susan Werner - "Barbed Wire Boys"
Charlie Maguire - "Getting In The Cows"
Tim and Paul Frantzich Interview
Tim and Paul Frantzich - "This Song Is A Boat (live)"
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Tonight, an hour of music about the Thanksgiving season - songs of gratitude, of satisfaction, or eating too much. We'll have music from Charles Brown, Alison Krauss and Ray Davies among others. In the second hour we'll meet North Dakota singer-songwriter Chuck Suchy (SOO-kee). He also farms full time near Mandan and is taking time away from the ranch to tour in support of his latest CD, "Unraveling Heart." We'll also talk with Tim and Paul Frantzich (FRANT-zick) who are putting together a show to raise money for hungry children around the world.
Hour 1
Peter Mayer - "Bountiful"
Gordon Bok, Anne Mayo Muir & Ed Trickett - "How Can I Keep From Singing?"
Pete Morton - "Thanksgiving"
Blind Willie Johnson - "Praise God I'm Satisfied"
Eric Bibb - "Deep In My Soul"
Porter Wagoner - "Satisfied Mind"
Charles Brown - "Just a Lucky So and So"
Solomon Burke - "Thank You"
Bobby McFerrin - "The 23rd Psalm"
Alison Krauss - "Down to the River to Pray"
Lou and Peter Berryman - "Uncle Dave's Grace"
Ray Davies - "Thanksgiving"
John McCutcheon - "Thanksgiving Day"
Steeple On The Common - "We Gather Together"
Hour 2
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "The Farmer is the Man"
Adrienne Young - "Plow to the End of the Row"
Stan Rogers - "The Field Behind the Plow"
Chuck Suchy Interview
Chuck Suchy - "Molly's Field (live)"
Chuck Suchy - "Be With You (live)"
Chuck Suchy - "Down In The Water (live)"
Susan Werner - "Barbed Wire Boys"
Charlie Maguire - "Getting In The Cows"
Tim and Paul Frantzich Interview
Tim and Paul Frantzich - "This Song Is A Boat (live)"
Previous Weeks
November 14, 2009
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Tonight, breaking musical boundries. We'll introduce you to Project Trio, an ensemble of classical trained musicians who cross over into jazz, folk and even rock with their "beat boxing" flutist Greg Pattillo. In the second hour we'll meet two international singers: Lisa Hannigan from Ireland who's been touring the US a lot in the past year; and Yasmin Levy (LEH-vee) from Israel who sings in the nearly extinct language of her Sephardic grandparents, called "ladino."
Hour 1
Ray Charles - "I Can't Stop Loving You"
Bobby McFerrin - "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
Hesperus - "Saltarello / The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me"
Project Trio Interview
Project Trio - "Nutcracker (Live)"
Project Trio - "Bouree (Live)"
Project Trio - "The Puzzle (Live)"
Project Trio - "Sweet Pea (Live)"
Mike Seeger - "Quill Ditty"
Erin McKeown - "Paper Moon"
New International Trio - "In the Mood"
Athur Miles - "The Lonely Cowboy Pt. 1"
Salsa Celtica - "Cumbia Celtica"
Mark O'Connor's Swing Trio - "Pickles On the Elbow"
Hour 2
Madeleine Peyroux - "Walkin' After Midnight"
Paul Simon - "Bernadette"
Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi (2007)"
Lisa Hannigan Interview
Lisa Hannigan - "Ocean And A Rock"
Lisa Hannigan - "Lille (Live)"
Lisa Hannigan - "I Don't Know"
Sea Wolf - "Middle Distance Runner"
The Klezmatics - "An Undoing World"
Yasmin Levy Interview
Yasmin Levy - "Adio Kerida"
Yasmin Levy - "Una Noche Mas"
Yasmin Levy - "Si Veriash"
November 7, 2009
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Tonight we'll talk with a couple of different musical legends. Willie Murphy has been a staple on the music scene in Minnesota since the sixties. He traveled all over the Midwest with his band Willie and the Bumble Bees and has played with everyone from Muddy Waters to Carl Perkins. He even produced Bonnie Raitt's very first album on Warner. In the second hour, we'll talk with John Gorka who has become one of the most sought after singer songwriters in the country.
Hour 1
Joe Henry - "Time Is A Lion"
Koerner, Ray and Glover - "Running, Jumping, Standing Still"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti"
Muddy Waters - "Kansas City"
Willie Murphy Interview
John Prine - "Spanish Pipedream"
Snuffy Jenkins - "Television"
Ray Charles - "That's Enough"
Jerry Lee Lewis- "Rockin' My Life Away"
Willie Murphy - "Love Attack"
Hour 2
Maura O'Connell - "Blue Chalk"
Steve Goodman - "The Dutchman"
Dinah Washington - "Trouble In Mind"
John Gorka - "I Think of You (Live)"
John Gorka - "Where No Monuments Stand (Live)"
John Gorka - "Ignorance and Privilege (Live)"
Antje Duvekot - "Long Way"
Utah Phillips - "I Remember Loving You "
Lucy Kaplansky - "The Eyes of My Beholder"
Steve Martin and Tony Trischka - "The Crow"
October 31, 2009
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Tonight, what else? It's Halloween, so we've brushed away the cobwebs from the music library in search of "tunes for goons." We'll have scary (or not) music from Tom Waits, The Bills, The Duhks, Louis Armstrong, The Jolly Boys and the scariest of them all, Bob Dylan. In the second hour, it seems Autumn is a time for musicians to release new recordings, and we've got a slew of them. We've put together an hour of new music from local and national performers…some of them new to us too.
Hour 1
Bob Dylan - "Not Dark Yet"
Peter Mayer - "The Dark"
Roe Family Singers - "Shallow Grave"
The Duhks - "This Fall"
Pert' Near Sandstone - "Awesome Costume"
Louis Armstrong - "Old Man Mose"
The Jolly Boys - "Back to Back (Belly to Belly)"
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women - "Potter's Field"
Armstrong Family - "Ghost of John"
The Bills - "Lay Down"
Tom Waits - "Eyeball Kid"
Rufus Thomas - "Tiger Man"
Fourtold - "Panther in Michigan"
Austin Lounge Lizards - "Hillbillies In A Haunted House"
Hour 2
Martin Simpson - "Look Up, Look Down"
Pieta Brown - "I Know A Girl"
Heather Masse - "High Heeled Woman"
Delbert McClinton - "People Just Love to Talk"
Pert' Near Sandstone - "Little Maggie"
Rupa and the April Fishes - "C'est Moi"
Lyle Lovett - "Pantry"
Woody Guthrie - "Bad Reputation"
Joel Rafael - "Love Thyself"
The Avett Brothers - "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise"
The Swell Season - "Love That Conquers"
WPA - "Rise Up"
Väsen - "The Bontanist"
October 24, 2009
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Tonight, more material from Ann Reed. Ann is out with a new album this month and she'll sing some of those songs and chat about "Where The Earth is Round." We'll also have a studio visit from the cast from "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" now showing at the History Theatre in St. Paul. Its been over 50 years since "the day the music died", but a cast of young musicians from the McNally Smith College of Music dug into the Holly songlist and pulled out some classics.
Hour 1
Vicky Emerson - "Ferris Wheel"
John Gorka - "Whole Wide World"
Cara Dillon - "Spencer The Rover"
Ann Reed - "Pink Guitar (live)"
Ann Reed - "Loons on Lake Calhoun (live)"
Ann Reed - "A Song For the End of Day (live)"
Ann Reed - "Where the Earth is Round (live)"
Richard Julian - "The World Keeps On"
Leo Kottke - "World Turning"
Freedy Johnston - "This Perfect World"
Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - "In Case the World Changes It's Mind"
Hour 2
The Folksmen - "Never Did No Wanderin'"
The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
The Rutles - "Back In '64"
Varttina - "Matalii Ja Mustii"
Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers - "Kansas City Star"
The Soggy Bottom Boys - "In the Jailhouse Now"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Maybe Baby (live)"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Words of Love (live)"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Peggy Sue (live)"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Oh Boy (live)"
Don McLean - "American Pie"
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards - "Button Up Your Overcoat"
October 17, 2009
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Tonight, all things Midwest. We'll talk with our friends from Iowa, The Pines. The nice guy duo from Iowa City and Spencer is now a quartet with bass and drums. Their latest album on Red House Records is "Tremolo," and has even been reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. In the second hour we'll spend some time in the studio with a singer songwriter from Michigan, Drew Nelson. Drew writes about his small farming town up-bringing, his time in the Navy and his love for literature. His latest album is "Dusty Road to Beulah Land."
Hour 1
Dar Williams - "Iowa"
Dave Moore - "Mr. Music"
Greg Brown - "Mississippi Serenade"
The Pines - "The Skipper and His Wife (live)"
The Pines - "Spike Driver Blues (live)"
The Pines - "Lonesome Tremolo Blues (live)"
Spider John Koerner - "Red Apple Juice"
The Wayfaring Strangers w/Rhonda Vincent - "Rank Stranger"
The Stanley Brothers - "East Virginia Blues"
Rosanne Cash w/Bruce Springsteen - "Sea of Heartbreak"
Dakota Dave Hull and Sean Blackburn - "Miss The Mississippi and You"
Hour 2
The Klezmatics - "Goin' Across the Sea"
Frankie Ford - "Sea Cruise"
Dave Alvin - "What Did the Deep Sea Say?"
Ollabelle - "Storms Are On The Ocean"
Drew Nelson - "Highway 2 (live)"
Drew Nelson - "Grandmother Moon (live)"
Drew Nelson - "True and Fine (live)"
Ernest Tubb and Willie Nelson - "Waltz Across Texas"
Wayne Hancock - "Shootin' Star From Texas"
Lyle Lovett - "That's Right, You're Not From Texas"
Bill Evans Trio - "Waltz For Debby
October 10, 2009
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For the first hour, you'll want your seatbelts on. We're going to examine the subject of speed. There are songs about racing, impatience, horses and cars from all sorts of artists in the library including Tim O'Brien, James McMurtry, Claudia Schmidt and the Cadillacs. In the second hour we'll visit with one of our favorites, Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem. The band hails from Massachusetts and has a diverse musical background including Celtic, New Orleans Jazz, folk and bluegrass.
Hour 1
The Cadillacs - "Speedoo"
Slaid Cleaves - "Racecar Joe"
Tim O'Brien - "Hoss Race"
Krista Detor - "All The Pretty Horses"
James McMurtry - "Racing to the Red Light"
Ann Reed - "Push the River"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "You Ain't Hurryin' Me"
Claudia Schmidt - "Racer"
Lucy Kaplansky - "Secret Journey"
The Beach Boys - "Red River Valley"
Slow Down Krishna - "The Bobs"
Shout Sister Shout - "Slow Down"
Elizabeth and the Catapult - "Race You"
Eddie From Ohio - "Quick"
Pat Donohue - "Rush Hour"
Hour 2
Feron Young - "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young"
Medeski, Martin and Wood - "Let's Go Everywhere"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "(Can't You) Hear Jerusalem Moan (live)"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "I'll Fly Away (live)"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Big Old Life (live)"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "They All Asked For You (live)"
Tom Waits - "Everything You Can Think"
The Brass Kings - "Jackrabbit Blues"
Rufus Cohen - "Mr. Rabbit"
Polly Fiveash and Anand Nayak - "Happily Ever After"
October 3, 2009
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Tonight, we’ll meet Harry Manx. He was born on the Isle of Man, raised in Canada, and developed his unique musical style working in the blues clubs of Canada and studying eastern music in India. His latest album is titled "Bread and Buddah." In the second hour, space travel, aliens, astronauts, and inter-stellar oddities. We've searched the music library for discs with those topics and found songs from Peter Mayer, Ry Cooder, Dave Frishberg, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and more.
Hour 1
The Tannahill Weavers - "Joy of My Heart"
Anne Mayo Muir, Gordon Bok and Ed Trickett - "Isle au Haut Lullaby"
Taj Mahal - "Sacred Island"
Harry Manx - "Reuben’s Train (live)"
Harry Manx - "Make Way For the Living (live)"
Harry Manx - "Can’t Be Satisfied (live)"
Willie Dixon - "Walking The Blues"
Muddy Waters - "Rollin’ and Tumblin’"
Koko Taylor - "Wang Dang Doodle"
Mark Huphrey & Debashish Battacharya - "Red River Valley"
Hour 2
Peter Mayer - "Astronaut Dreams"
Hugh Blumenfeld - "(edit intro) Shoot the Moon "
Brave Combo - "Flying Saucer"
Ry Cooder - "Green Dog"
Dave Frishberg - "The Green Hills of Earth"
The Jaztronauts - "Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah"
Sheb Wooley - "Purple People Eater"
Jim Post - "The Galaxy Song"
They Might Be Giants - "Why Does The Sun Shine?"
T Bone Burnett - "Humans From Earth "
Harry Nilsson - "Spaceman"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
Aimee Mann - "Lost In Space"
The Ventures - "Telstar"
September 26, 2009
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Tonight, disasters and good luck. In the first hour we’ll explore music about trouble at sea – sinking ships, storms and lost loves. Our musical contributors include Stan Rogers, Boiled in Lead, Johnny Horton and, naturally, Gordon Lightfoot. In the second hour, we’ll meet Sally Barris (BAIR-iss)…a native Minnesotan who has found a successful career as a songwriter in the competitive atmosphere of Nashville, Tennessee.
Hour 1
The Decemberists - "From My Own True Love (Lost At Sea)"
Stan Rogers - "The Wreck of the Athens Queen"
Laura Viers - "Wrecking"
Charlie Maguire - "Fire On The Water"
Judy Collins - "Sailor’s Life"
Boiled In Lead - "Ballad of the House Carpenter"
Eliza Gilkyson - "Requiem"
Gordon Lightfoot - "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker - "Titanic Epic"
Johnny Horton - "The Sinking of the Bismark"
Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen - "Will You Go To The Sea?"
Redbird - "Ships"
Hour 2
Kate Rusby - "Jolly Ploughboys"
Richard Thompson - "Take Care the Road You Choose"
Tanya Savory - "Nashville"
Austin Lounge Lizards - "Do Not Go To Tennessee"
Sally Barris - "My Love Loves The Ocean (live)"
Sally Barris - "Huntington River (live)"
Sally Barris - "Let the Wind Chase You (live)"
Six Mile Grove - "Steel Mule"
Bill and Charlie Monroe - "Rollin’ in My Sweet Baby’s Arms"
Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
Bela Fleck - "Spanish Point"
September 19, 2009
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Tonight we'll meet a singer-songwriter who followed his heart to Minnesota. Jake Armerding has made a name for himself on the east coast, but in the past year has married a Midwestern girl and now calls the Twin Cities home. He's currently celebrating the release of his 5th record. In the second hour we'll examine the Autumnal Equinox and pull out music from the library about the approaching season. You'll hear music from Frank Sinatra, Girlyman, Neil Young, Charlie Maguire and more.
Hour 1
Northern Lights - "Got the Spirit"
Mary Travers, Odetta and B.B. King - "House of the Rising Sun"
Peter, Paul and Mary - "A Hundred Miles"
Bill Monroe - "Uncle Penn"
Jake Armerding - "Whiskey Before Breakfast (live)"
Jake Armerding - "The Fleece (live)"
Jake Armerding - "Harry/Sally (live)"
Paul Simon - "Graceland"
Mark Erelli - "Call You Home"
Tom Paxton - "Home To Me Is Anywhere You Are"
Väsen - "Väsen Street"
Hour 2
Karrin Allyson - "Autumn Leaves"
The Duhks - "This Fall"
Girlyman - "Fall Stories"
Dillon Bustin - "This Time of Year"
The Wayfaring Strangers - "When the Golden Leaves Begin to Fall"
Mia Doi Todd - "Autumn"
Johnsmith - "Come Some Autumn Day"
Charlie Maguire - "Fall Is Here"
Clay Riness - "The Fall Is Here"
Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
Frank Sinatra - "September Song"
Stacey Kent - "'Tis Autumn"
Claudia Schmidt - "Afternoon on a Woodpile"
September 12, 2009
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This week, since most schools in Minnesota have started by now, we decided to take a look at the subject of education in music. We'll feature songs about school, high school, elementary school and college from artists including Steve Martin, Chuck Berry, Van Morrison and more. In hour two we'll meet Brandon Sampson from the band Six Mile Grove. The band is from Lyle, Minnesota originally and Brandon talks about growing up in a tiny town, learning to play music and eventually touring with Johnny Cash's guitar player.
Hour 1
Van Morrison - "Graduate of the School of Hard Knocks"
Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Teach Your Children"
Asylum Street Spankers - "When I Grow Up"
Dan Schwartz - "All These Things"
Steve Martin - "Late For School"
Chuck Berry - "School Days"
Pat Donohue - "High School"
The Red Clay Ramblers - "School House on the Hill"
Josh Rouse - "Middle School Frown"
John McCutcheon - "Kindergarten Wall"
Ann Reed - "Marching Back To School"
Austin Lounge Lizards - "Didn't Go To College"
Bright Morning Star - "Their Way"
Preston Reed - "Driving School"
Hour 2
Greg Brown - "Early"
Iris DeMent - "Our Town"
Six Mile Grove - "Hollywood"
John Denver - "Rhymes and Reasons"
Dion - "Kickin' Child"
Luther College Nordic Choir - "Sicut Cervus"
Hank Williams - "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You"
Six Mile Grove and Bob Wootton - "Big River"
Sally Barris - "My Love Loves the Ocean"
Wilco - "What Light?"
Brandon Sampson - "This Old Guitar"
September 5, 2009
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In the first hour we'll help celebrate the working person for this Labor Day weekend with songs about work, about the toils and troubles, the bosses, love as work and appreciation for the employee. You'll hear music from Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Billie Holiday, the Roches and more. In the second hour, music from our live show at the Minnesota State Fair. A week ago Friday, Dale hosted two hours of live music from the Minnesota Public Radio booth. Our guests were singer-songwriter Ann Reed, local string duo The DitchLilies and the trio Bojono which is Boyd Lee, Joe Cruz (CROOZ) and Noah Hoehn (HAYN).
Hour 1
Common Rotation - "Union Maid Fight Song"
Pete Seeger - "Step By Step"
Paul Robeson - "Joe Hill"
Si Kahn - "Aragon Mill"
Bruce Springsteen - "John Henry"
Moxy Fruvous - "I Love My Boss"
Brass Kings - "Company Man"
Tom Waits - "I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Ave.)"
Zach Gill - "Handy Man"
Billie Holiday - "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Priscilla Herdman - "Millworker"
Cisco Houston - "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
Suzzy & Maggie Roche - "For Those Whose Work is Invisible"
Cannonball Adderly - "Work Song"
Hour 2
The Bobs - "Corndogs"
Cranberry Lake Jug Band - "What the Barker Said"
Molly And the Heymakers - "Milkhouse"
Bojono - "She Makes Me Feel Good"
Bojono - "I Want To See"
Ann Reed - "Where The Earth Is Round"
Ann Reed - "Betty Crocker"
The DitchLilies - "Breezin' Along"
The DitchLilies - "I'm Just Drifting"
Ann Reed - "Somewhere At the Fair"
The DitchLilies - "Freight Train Boogie"
The DitchLilies - "Sally Shifting Sand in the Garden/Catnip"
Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)"
Bojono - "Cry Love"
August 29, 2009
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Tonight we'll talk with John Hermanson, one half of the duo Storyhill. John, along with Chris Cunningham formed Storyhill years ago as students at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Their partnership has led to several albums, the latest on Red House Records. They're in the studio now working on a new recording produced by Dan Wilson. In the second hour, we'll examine love relationships gone bad in music. Listen for a collection of songs about trust, infidelity, lies, questions, cheating and excuses from Charley Pride, Etta James, Tom Waits and more. Unfortunately there's a lot of music in the library about the topic. Fortunately, we'll only hear SOME.
Hour 1
Storyhill - "Paradise Lost"
The Beatles - "I'm Looking Through You"
Cliff Eberhardt - "The Land of the Free"
Joni Mitchell - "All I Want"
Jonathan Byrd - "Diana Jones"
Meg Hutchinson - "Not Gonna Feel This Way Anymore"
Danny Schmidt - "Swing Me Down"
The Pines - "Heart and Bones"
Anais Mitchell - "Old Fashioned Hat"
The Hopefuls - "Hold Your Own"
Hour 2
Etta James - "Trust In Me"
Kate Rusby - "The Good Man"
Maxine Brown - "Oh Not My Baby"
Charley Pride - "She's Too Good To Be True"
Adam Granger - "Where Were You When The Lights Went Out"
Rodney Crowell - "Who Do You Trust?"
Todd Menton - "Sure of Me"
Stacey Kent - "Those Little White Lies"
Howlin' Wolf - "Evil (Is Goin' On)"
Van Morrison - "Your Cheatin' Heart"
Solomon Burke - "Vicious Circle"
Jerry Lee Lewis - "It Was the Whiskey Talkin' (Not Me)"
Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)"
Dakota Dave Hull - "The Loyalty Waltz"
August 22, 2009
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In the first hour: Natural calamities in music � earthquakes, volcanoes and floods. As we move deeper into hurricane season we should remember that each developing storm has the potential to cause great havoc and at the same time, create great songs. Listen for nature's mayhem on Radio Heartland tonight with music from Johnny Cash, Marcia Ball, Elvis Costello, Neko Case, The Duhks (ducks), and more.
In hour two: Celtic musicians Dáithí Sproule (DAH-hee sp-ROLL) and Laura MacKenzie are both winners of Bush Foundation Artist Fellowships for 2009, and collaborators on a new recording called "The Pinery". Dáithí and Laura will perform in the studio and talk about their shared interest in traditional songs.
Hour 1
Ann Hills - "Last Days of Pompeii"
The Duhks - "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm?"
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - "Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?"
Dr John - "Sweet Home New Orleans"
Marcia Ball - "Louisiana 1927"
Johnny Cash - "Five Feet High and Rising"
The Bottle Rockets - "Go Down River"
Guy Clark - "Tornado Time In Texas"
Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You"
Uncle Tupelo - "New Madrid"
Corky Siegel - "Goodbye California"
Shawn Colvin - "Shotgun Down the Avalanche"
Budos Band - "Volcano Song"
Hour 2
Van Morrison - "Celtic New Year"
The Ditchlilies - "Breezin' Along with the Breeze"
Laura McKenzie & Dáithí Sproule - "To Limerick We will Go (live)"
Laura McKenzie & Dáithí Sproule - "Up The Airy Mountain (live)"
Laura McKenzie & Dáithí Sproule - "The Pinery Boy (live)"
Nelstone's Hawaiians - "Fatal Flower Garden"
File - "Loup Garou Don't Eat My Children"
August 15, 2009
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Tonight we'll talk about the blues and the road with Charlie Parr. Charlie is a blues musician from Duluth, but is rarely home. He tours all over the world and the US and we were lucky enough to catch him at the end of a Western US tour, before he leaves for Europe, where he is something of a sensation. His latest album is "Roustabout". We'll also celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Many of the artists who played on that historic event in 1969 are still recording and touring today. We'll hear music from Country Joe MacDonald, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Levon Helm and more.
Listen to Charlie Parr's performance in the Radio Heartland Studio.
Hour 1
Warner Williams and Jay Summerour - "Key To The Highway"
Fourtold - "Run Come See Jerusalem"
Charlie Parr - "Come Along And See (live)"
Charlie Parr - "Far Cry From Fargo (live)"
Charlie Parr - "Let An Old Drunkard Lie (live)"
Connie Kaldor - "I Love That Dog"
Hans Theessink - "Walkin' The Dog"
Dave Moore - "Just A Dog"
The Pines - "Shiny Shoes"
Charlie Parr - "Tampa Red's Blues"
Hour 2
Country Joe MacDonald - "Tranquility"
Richie Havens - "The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)"
Joan Baez - "Mary"
John Fogerty - "Don't You Wish It Was True"
Neil Young - "Prairie Wind"
Country Joe MacDonald - "Cocaine"
Levon Helm - "Feelin' Good"
Arlo Guthrie - "St. James Infirmary"
Jorma Kaukonen - "Bread Line Blues"
Ravi Shankar - "West Eats Meat"
August 8, 2009
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Every day is someone's birthday, and tonight we'll celebrate some very famous August birthdays from the Radio Heartland library of performers... Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, Eliza Gilkyson and Michael Johnson, just to name a few. In the second hour, it's all about Ella Fitzgerald. We'll meet Tina Fabrique (fah-BREEK), who portrays Ella Fitzgerald at the Guthrie this month. She'll talk about the magic of Fitzgerald, her life and times, and the joys and the rather large shoes she has to fill on the stage every night. We'll also play music from a few of the many artists who count Fitzgerald as one of their musical influences
Hour 1
The Tune Weavers - "Happy Happy Birthday Baby"
Tony Bennett - "We'll Be Together Again"
Louis Armstrong - "A Kiss To Build A Dream On"
James Taylor & Mark O'Conner - "Chain of Fools"
Spider John Koerner - "Black Dog"
Bryan Bowers - "Dog"
Rufus Wainwright - "Cigarettes and Chocolate"
Eliza Gilkyson - "Unsustainable"
Cesaria Evora - "Carnival in Sao Vicente (Luck)"
Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz - "Carnival in Rio"
Mark Knopfler - "Let It All Go"
Benny Carter - "Over the Rainbow"
Hour 2
Ella Fitzgerald - "Ella Hums the Blues"
The Bobs - "Caravan"
The Cast from "Golden Boy" - "The San Francisco Bay Blues"
Bobby McFerrin & Voicestra - "Swing Me A Lullaby"
Tina Fabrique - "I'll Never Be The Same (live)"
Tina Fabrique - "It Don't Mean A Thing (live)"
KT Tunstall - "False Alarm"
Doris Day - "With A Song In My Heart"
CéU - "Lenda"
Kurt Elling and Jon Hendricks - "Don't Be Scared"
Chick Webb Orchestra - "Traffic Jam"
August 1, 2009
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Tonight we'll chat with blues and folk artist Ray Bonneville. Ray tours all over the U-S and Canada and recently won a songwriting award. He was in town for some gigs including Red House Records' "Blues At The Barn" festival this weekend near Red Wing. We'll also revisit an interview with the cast of "When A Man Loves A Diva", a production currently running at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis. Dane Stauffer (STAW-fer), Julias Collins and Ben Bakken (BAH-ken), along with musical director Sanford Moore were in the studio earlier this spring.
Hour 1
Carole King - "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
Steve Goodman - "Men Who Love Women Who Love Men"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Leader of the Pack"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Chain of Fools"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Like A Virgin"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Medley"
Macy Gray - "Your Mother's Son In Law"
Kate Rusby - "The Cobbler's Daughter"
Basia Bulat - "I Was A Daughter"
Buell Kazee - "The Butcher's Boy"
The Horse Flies - "Blueman's Daughter"
Frigg - "Jalla Jalla"
Hour 2
Hank Williams - "Hey, Good Lookin'"
Professor Longhair - "Tipitina"
Ray Bonneville - "The San Francisco Bay Blues"
Ray Bonneville - "Cemetery Road (live)"
Ray Bonneville - "Shy Star (live)"
Ray Bonneville - "Crow John (live)"
Pieta Brown - "Remember the Sun"
Dave Moore - "Big Fool For You"
Eliza Gilkyson - "Jedidiah 1777"
La Bottine Souriante - "Le Reel de Pointe-au-Pic"
July 25, 2009
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In the first hour we'll talk about summer festivals and the music industry in these difficult economic times. Eric Peltoneimi (PEL-toe-nee-mee) of Red House Records will join us. Red House is bringing back a popular outdoor music festival in August, and he's brought in some soon-to-be released music from Red House artists "The Wailin' Jennys" and "The Pines."
In the second hour, local jazz singer Connie Evingson joins us to examine the idea of the "tribute record". Connie has produced discs honoring Peggy Lee, Dave Frishberg and the Beatles, and is about to embark on a bi-monthly songwriter series at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.
Hour 1
Cliff Eberhardt - "The Long Road"
Dave Moore - "Everybody Ought To Make a Change"
Greg Brown - "Lull It By"
The Wailin' Jennys - "Deeper Well"
The Pines - "Pray Tell"
Taj Mahal - "Catfish Blues"
Bonnie Raitt - "Give It Up or Let Me Go"
Ann Reed - "The Fair"
The Ditchlilies - "The Jackson Stomp"
Steve Kaul - "Straightlegs"
Hour 2
Connie Evingson - "Zoot Walks In"
Asleep at the Wheel - "Take Me Back To Tulsa"
Bob Dylan - "My Blue Eyed Jane"
John Pizzarelli - "Things We Said Today"
Connie Evingson - "Fixing a Hole"
Sarah Vaughan - "The Boy From Ipanema"
Carmen McRae - "Poor Butterfly"
Shelby Lynne - "I Only Wanna Be With You"
Eric Clapton - "When You Got a Good Friend"
Tony Bennett & kd lang - "Exactly Like You"
Chet Atkins - "She's a Woman"
July 18, 2009
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In the first hour tonight, our guest is Dan Newton, aka "Daddy Squeeze," the man behind the Café Accordion Orchestra, Jumbo YaYa, The Rockin' Pinecones, Art Carnage and many other local bands. Dan's musical tastes are as colorful as his many pairs of tennis shoes. In hour two, we'll meet the Roe Family Singers. The group was started by Kim and Quillen Roe and their love for old time music. The band grew, and grew... it's up to nine members now. They stopped in the Radio Heartland studio, eight and a half players, to play some songs from their latest album, "The Earth and All That Is In It."
Hour 1
Dave Frishberg - "Let's Eat Home"
The New Mainstreet Singers - "Never Did No Wanderin'"
Mary Black - "Home"
Lou and Peter Berryman - "When Did We Have Sauerkraut"
Mose Allison - "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
The Daddy Squeeze Trio - "The New Righteous Blues"
Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards - "That's My Weakness Now"
Dan Newton - "Valse Por Michelle (Live)"
Madeleine Peyroux - "La Javanese"
Paris Combo - "Trois Petits Points"
Café Accordion Orchestra - "Cumbia Medley"
Hour 2
The Handsome Family - "Flapping Your Broken Wings"
The Carter Family - "Anchored In Love"
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - "Jackson"
The Steeles - "Heaven Help Us"
The Roe Family Singers - "The One Who Loves Me (Live)"
The Roe Family Singers - "The Buckeye Tree (Live)"
The Roe Family Singers - "My Heart Took To The Earth (Live)"
KaiserCartel - "Okay"
Erik Brandt - "A Thousand Heartaches"
Jim Turner - "Wildwood Sawyer"
Woody Phillips - "Bizet: Habanera from "Carmen""
Outback - "Baka"
July 11, 2009
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Tonight we'll investigate the subject of gambling in music. Don Feeney from the Minnesota Lottery had help from Radio Heartland listeners to find gambling music and used those suggestions in a speech at a gambling convention. In the second hour, we'll look ahead at Woody Guthrie's 97th birthday next week. Local musicians Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner and Tony Glover stopped by the studio to play some Guthrie songs in tribute to the American legend. They'll be performing at the Ginkgo Coffeehouse on Guthrie's birthday Tuesday night. Listen to their performance in the Radio Heartland studios.
Hour 1
Spider John Koerner - "Roving Gambler"
Elvis Presley - "Viva Las Vegas"
Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City"
The Duhks - "Camptown Races"
"Guys and Dolls" cast - "Fugue for Tinhorns"
Leadbelly - "Stewball"
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "I Feel Lucky"
Neal and Leandra - "A Gambler's Life"
Daryl Purpose - "A Very Dangerous Game"
Ray Charles - "Blackjack"
Harry Nilsson - "The Lottery Song"
Bob Dylan - "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
Hour 2
Los Super Seven & Joe Ely - "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos"
Woody Guthrie - "Hard Travelin"
Arlo Guthrie - "On a Monday"
Sara Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - "Holdin' Back"
Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner & Tony Glover - "Take A Whiff On Me (Live)"
Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner & Tony Glover - "Goodbye to My Stepstone (Live)"
Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner & Tony Glover - "High Floods & Low Waters (Live)"
Taj Mahal - "Don't You Push Me Down"
Jonatha Brooke - "You'd Oughta Be Satisfied Now"
Billy Bragg - "Ingrid Bergman"
The Klezmatics - "Come When I Call You"
July 4, 2009
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Tonight, music for your Fourth of July holiday celebration. We scoured our library for good, old fashioned — or not — music about America, summertime, fireworks and patriotism. You'll hear music from James Taylor, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, Paul Robeson and more. In the second hour, we'll feature music from Dan Chouinard's (sheh-NARD) "Saturday Night at the Stage Door Piano Bar" concert recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater earlier this spring. Some of Dan�s guests: Prudence Johnson, Maria Jette (JET-tee), Vern Sutton, Yolanda Bruce, John Munson and more.
Hour 1
The Cuckoo Bird - "Clarence Ashley"
Red Molly - "Summertime"
Dave Alvin - "Fourth of July"
James Taylor - "On the 4th of July"
Mary Black and The Chieftains - "Paddy's Lamentation"
Steve Earle - "City of Immigrants"
Girlyman - "Amaze Me"
Simon and Garfunkel - "America"
Paul Robeson - "The House I Live In"
Ray Charles - "America the Beautiful"
Norah Jones - "American Theme"
Pat Donohue - "The Star Spangled Banner"
Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry - "America the Beautiful"
Louis Armstrong - "Fireworks"
Hour 2
Fats Waller - "Your Feet's Too Big"
Nanci Griffith - "Spin On A Red Brick Floor"
Steve March Torme - "Swinging At the Blue Moon Bar & Grill"
Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking"
Dan Chouinard concert excerpts: Jordan Sramek - "Old Devil Moon"
Maria Jette - "Boogie With a Carmen Touch"
Jim tenBensel - "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams"
Vern Sutton - "All Or Nothin'"
Yolanda Bruce - "Can't Help Lovin' That of Mine"
John Munson - "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain"
All - "Lida Rose"
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - "Stay A Little Longer"
Clifton Chenier - "All Night Long"
Steve Goodman - "Let's Give a Party"
Jay McShann, Milt Hinton and Butch Miles - "After Hours"
June 27, 2009
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So this banjo player walks into a bar... That's the issue tonight. We'll have a visit in the studio from a Duluth-based band called Two Many Banjos and talk about the much loved, and maligned instrument and listen to some artists who used the banjo successfully. In the second hour, some duos made up of artists from different musical genres, and a visit in the studio from the Australian couple Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson. Their latest album is "Rattlin' Bones" and it's creating a buzz in the Americana music scene.
Hour 1
Steve Martin with Tim O'Brien - "Daddy Played the Banjo"
Nanci Griffith - "Ghost in the Music"
Steve Goodman - "City of New Orleans"
Two Many Banjos - "13,000 Railroad Men" (Live In-Studio Performance)
Two Many Banjos - "Maybelle" (Live In-Studio Performance)
Two Many Banjos - "Diddo Kiddo" (Live In-Studio Performance)
Kristin Andreasson - "(Just Another) Song About Molly Brown"
John Hartford - "Headin' Down Into the Mystery Below"
Otis Taylor with Don Vappie, Corey Harris, Guy Davis & Cassie Taylor - "Walk Right In"
Tony Trischka and B�la Fleck - "Ivory Toad of Catalan"
Hour 2
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - "Elvis Presley Blues"
Elvis Presley - "That's All Right"
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)"
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - "Beachcombing"
Harvey Reid & Joyce Anderson - "Mississippi You're On My Mind"
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - "Once In A While (Live)"
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - "Sweetest Waste of Time (Live)"
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - "Woe Is Mine (Live)"
The Waifs - "Eternity"
Tommy Emmanuel - "Game Show Rag"
Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues"
June 20, 2009
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Tonight, on the eve of Father�s Day we�ll pay tribute to fathers and their musical offspring. We�ll have music by fathers and for fathers from the Guthrie clan, the Wainwrights, the Earles, the Coles and more. In the second hour, we�re paid a visit by the Baldwin sisters � Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden (PEE-den). They�re involved in a production called �Sister Stories�, commissioned by the Nautilus Music Theater and written just for them by four different composers and writers. The show opens this week at the Playwright�s Center in Minneapolis. Also, songs about the constant struggle of leaving or staying in a relationship.
Hour 1
Johnsmith - Father's Day
Loudon Wainwright III - Half Fist
Lucy Wainwright Roche - Chicago
Rufus Wainwright - Oh, What A World
Doc & Merle Watson - John Henry
Steve Earle & Justin Townes Earle - Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
Natalie Cole & Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
Martin Simpson & Kate Rusby - Never Any Good
Ed Trickett, Ann Mayo Muir and Gordon Bok - Here's To You Rounders
Woody Guthrie - Ship In The Sky
Arlo Guthrie - Uncle Jeff
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration
Dave Brubeck & Chris Brubeck with Gerry Mulligan- Gerry Go-Round
Hour 2
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Foolish You
The Roches - No Shoes
Shout Sister Shout - Shout Sister Shout
Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden - Nan (Live In-Studio Performance)
Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden - Bubble Babble (Live In-Studio Performance)
Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden - Seasons (Live In-Studio Performance)
Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go
Sonya Kitchell - Let Me Go
James Hunter - Don't Come Back
Devotchka - We're Leaving
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Stay A Little Longer
Richard Julian - If You Stay
June 13, 2009
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Tonight, we'll meet a creative and unusual group of musicians who hail from different musical backgrounds to form a kind of music they call "bluegrassical." The Orange Mighty Trio are our guests in the first hour. They're releasing their latest CD, "Infrastructure" this week in the Twin Cities. In hour two, it's the height of commencement season all over the region. It's a time of exciting new beginnings. We'll look at a series of songs that COULD be mini-commencement addresses, uplifting messages about the next step in life and starting anew. Listen for music from Eric Bibb, Dan Wilson, Ann Reed and Richard Julian among others.
Hour 1
Tim Lake - Jazz With Bluegrass and Blues
Corky Siegel - Unfinished Jump
Susan Werner - All In Love Is Fair
Bela Fleck & Joshua Bell - Chopin Mazurka in f sharp minor
Orange Mighty Trio - The Long Zoom (Live In-Studio Performance)
Orange Mighty Trio - The Waltz of the Traffic Patterns (Live In-Studio Performance)
Orange Mighty Trio - Infrastructure (Live In-Studio Performance)
Woody Guthrie - Talking Columbia
Richard Shindell - Northbound 35
Colcannon - General Grant's Visit
Adrienne Young - Natural Bridge
Bela Fleck & Warema Masiaga Cha Cha - Pukkugyenda Balebauo
Hour 2
Bright Morning Star - Their Way
Dan Wilson - Free Life
Eric Bibb - Shine On
Joe Williams - Experiment
Nanci Griffith - There's a Light Beyond These Woods
Ken Booth - The Impossible Dream
Paul Robeson - Purest Kind of Guy
Suzzy and Maggie Roche - Anyway
Eddie From Ohio - Walk Humbly Son
Richard Julian - Can't Go Back
Ann Reed - Life Becomes Real
Pete Morton - Thanksgiving Sam Shaber - El Dorado Woody Guthrie - Goodbye, Dear Old Stepstone
June 6, 2009
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Tonight, some music about trees, friends, family and hometowns: Songwriters love to write about going home. It's good to some, and not so good to others. And we'll meet a trio of local musicians who all grew up in the same southwestern Minnesota county and now live in the Twin Cities, Nikki and the RueMates. In the second hour we'll hear excerpts from a concert by Jearlyn Steele recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater earlier this spring. Jearlyn, along with her family and friends, put on a show that was part of MPR's Troubadour Concert series that toured all over Minnesota this winter.
Hour 1
Nanci Griffith - This Old Town
Gary Myrick - Home Town Waltz
Steve Earle - The Hometown Blues
Slim Dunlap - Hate This Town
Nikki and the RueMates - Down On Me (Live In-Studio Performance)
Nikki and the RueMates - I Am Your Angel (Live In-Studio Performance)
Nikki and the RueMates - I Am A Tree (Live In-Studio Performance)
The Roe Family Singers - The Buckeye Tree
Natalie Merchant - Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
John Gorka - Branching Out
Carrie Newcomer - There Is A Tree
Hour 2
George Benson - On Broadway
The Steeles - Numberless Are The World's Wonders
Bobby McFerrin - Circlesong 2
Take 6 and Ray Charles - My Friend
Carole King - You've Got A Friend
Jearlyn Steele - Fools Fall In Love (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - Natural Woman (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - Respect (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - At Last (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - Something's Got A Hold On Me (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
La Bottine Souriante - La Rap A Ti-Petang
May 30, 2009
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Tonight, we'll look at the so-called "hot club" music trend in Minnesota music. Several local bands that have taken on the style of music most often associated with Django Reinhardt and the "Gypsy Jazz" sound of early 20th Century Paris. A local band - Gypsy Mania - is out with a new CD and they're our guests in the studio during the first hour. In hour two, we'll meet a local songwriter who has taken on the task of writing one song a week, every week, for one year. James Hersch is the musician behind the "52 Song" project and he posts a new song each week on his website. We'll also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benny Goodman.
Hour 1
Gypsy Kings - Pasajero
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - Nuages
Harmonius Wail - Five Guys Named Moe
Keb' Mo'- Life is Beautiful
Sam Baker - Pretty World
Ollabelle - Troubles of the World
Gypsy Mania - Bar Del Pi (in studio performance)
Gypsy Mania - Butterfly (in studio performance)
Gypsy Mania - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)(in studio performance)
Duke Ellington Orchestra with Adelaide Hall - Creole Love Call
Connie Evingson and the Hot Club of Sweden - Swinging The Blues
Peter Ostroushko - Psalm of the Prairie
Hour 2
Benny Goodman Quartet - Avalon
Lou and Peter Berryman - Your State's Name Here
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer - Here Is The Chorus
James Hersch - After the Snow (in studio performance)
James Hersch - Tomorrows (in studio performance)
Billy Bragg and Wilco with Natalie Merchant - Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
Jonatha Brooke - My Sweet And Bitter Bowl
Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing
May 23, 2009
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Hour 1
Jim Kweskin Jug Band - "Jug Band Music"
Sunshine Skiffle Band - "Jug Band Stomp"
The Heartbeats - "A Thousand Miles Away"
David Francey - "1000 Miles"
Bobby Bare - "500 Miles Away From Home"
Kate Campbell - "Miles of Blues"
De Elliot Brothers - "Fishin� Blues"
De Elliot Brothers - "Go Fish"
John Prine - "Taking A Walk"
Jeffrey Foucault - "Hello In There"
The Byrds - "You Ain�t Goin� Nowhere"
Gene Ammons - "Hittin� The Jug"
Hour 2
Richard Julian - "Cheap Guitar"
Rio Nido - "The Trouble With Me Is You"
Mississippi John Hurt - "John Henry"
Tim Sparks - "Mississippi Blues (Live)"
Tim Sparks - "I�ll Fly Away (Live)"
John Hartford - "Turn Your Radio On"
The Southern Sons - "Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)"
The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - "Golden Gate Gospel Train"
Guy Davis - "Railroad Story"
The Soggy Bottom Boys - "I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Oh Death"
Ralph Stanley - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
May 16, 2009
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Hour 1
Johnny Cash - "I've Been Everywhere"
Peter Mayer - "Earth Town Square"
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - "Simbo"
Béla Fleck and the Nakisenyi Women's Group - "Tulinesangala"
Mose Fan Han - "Hello Hello"
The Brass Kings - "Way Back Home"
Nirmala Rajasekar - "Ragi Thandiro"
Harry Manx with The Heavenly Lights - "Sitting On Top of the World"
Taj Mahal with Ramatou Diakite - "Queen Bee"
Julie Fowlis Interview"
Annbjorg Lien - "W"
Hour 2
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis - "Bright Lights, Big City"
Ray Price - "City Lights"
Jackie Wilson - "No Pity (In the Naked City)"
Emmylou Harris and Beck - "Sin City"
Randy Weeks - "I Couldn't Make It (Live)"
Randy Weeks - "Your Lucky Day (Live)"
Randy Weeks - "You'd Better Be Nice (Live)"
The Watson Twins - "How Am I To Be"
Elvis Presley - "Don't Be Cruel"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Lady Be Good"
Dave Moore - "Over My Shoulder"
Michael Doucet - "Fonky Bayou"
May 9, 2009
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Hour 1
Doc Watson - "Mama Don't Allow No"
Loudon Wainwright III - "Make Your Mother Mad"
Merle Haggard - "Mama Tried"
Billie Holiday - "God Bless The Child"
Paul Simon - "Mother and Child Reunion"
The Beatles - "Your Mother Should Know"
Mother Banjo - "Revival Train"
Mother Banjo - "One Hello (live)"
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer - "Orange Cocoa Cake"
Lou and Peter Berryman - "A Chat With Your Mother"
Arlo Guthrie - "Mother, the Queen of My Heart"
Iron and Wine - "Upward Over the Mountain"
Hour 2
Varttina - "Ottajat"
Odetta - "Cotton Fields"
Paul Robeson - "Curly Headed Baby"
Eric Bibb - "Pockets (live)"
Eric Bibb - "Goin' Down Slow (live)"
Eric Bibb - "River Blues (live)"
Taj Mahal - "Fishin' Blues"
Mollie O'Brien - "The Important Part of Fishing"
Bob Franke - "Catfish"
Boiled in Lead - "Silver Carp"
Dakota Dave Hull - "The Itasca Rag"
May 2, 2009
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Hour 1
Bruce Springsteen - My Oklahoma Home
Pete Seeger - Talking Blues
Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet - Banjo Pickin' Girl
Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman - Green
Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman - I'm Ready
Lou and Peter Berryman - Talking at the Same Time
Lou and Peter Berryman - We Strolled on the Beach
Storyhill - Blazin' Out of Sight
Storyhill - Better Angels
Woody Guthrie - Better World A-Comin'
Larry Long & Pete Seeger - Well May the World Go
Pete Seeger - Blue Skies
Hour 2
Cesaria Evora - Amor di Mundo
Nina Simone - Suzanne
Carmen Souza Band - Afrika' (live)
Carmen Souza Band - Sem Valor (live)
Carmen Souza Band - Levanta' No Bai (live)
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
The Wood Brothers - Luckiest Man
Rickie Lee Jones - Elvis Cadillac
Gary Myrick - The Ghost of Elvis
Spaghetti Western String Co. - Draisienne
April 25, 2009
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Hour 1
Nickel Creek - "Jealous of the Moon"
Judd and Maggie - "Perfectly"
Tim and Mollie O'Brien - "Ain't No Grave"
Angus and Julia Stone - "Here We Go Again"
Sara and Sean Watkins - "All This Time (live)"
Sara and Sean Watkins - "Too Much (live)"
Sara and Sean Watkins - "Long Hot Summer Days (live)"
John Hartford - "Steam Powered Aero-Plain"
The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"
Fiona Apple - "Extraordinary Machine"
Pat Donohue - "Rush Hour"
Hour 2
Louis Armstrong - "What A Wonderful World"
Everything Green - "Christine Kane"
Green - "Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman"
Johnny Cash - "Paradise"
Tom Lehrer - "Pollution"
Randy Newman - "Burn On"
Patty Larkin - "Metal Drums"
Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
Don McLean - "Tapestry"
Dave Frishberg - "The Green Hills of Earth"
Tom Paxton - "Whose Garden Was This?"
Harry Waller - "Cockroaches On Parade"
Bill Steele - "Garbage"
Greg Brown - "Two Little Feet"
Connie Evingson - "Nature Boy"
April 18, 2009
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Hour 1
Bob Dylan - "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
The Floorbirds - "Wild Mountain Thyme"
Pert' Near Sandstone - "Little Birdy"
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank (live) - "Uncle Frank's Basement"
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank (live) - "Love Hurts"
Charlie Parr - "Cheap Wine"
The Floorbirds (live) - "Canaan's Land"
The Floorbirds (live) - "Washburn Blues"
The Floorbirds (live) - "What Does the Deep Sea Say"
The Monroe Brothers - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
Storyhill - "Steady On"
Hour 2
Wilco - "Impossible Germany"
Todd Menton - "Rowdledum"
Antje Duvekot and Natalia Zukerman (live) - "Vertigo"
Antje Duvekot (live) - "Dublin Boys"
Natalia Zukerman (live) - "Only Trees"
Natalia Zukerman and Antje Duvekot (live) - "Brooklyn"
Richard Julian - "Brooklyn in the Morning"
Allan Sherman - "The Bronx Bird Watcher"
Hem - "The Great Houses of New York"
Lucy Wainwright Roche - "Chicago"
Earl Scruggs - "Fireball Mail"
April 11, 2009
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Hour 1
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - "Gentle Arms Of Eden"
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - "April In Paris"
Tracy Grammer - "April Come She Will"
Tracy Grammer - "Travis John"
John Gorka - "Writing in the Margins"
Rudy Valle - "The Drunkard Song"
Bjork - "It's Oh So Quiet"
Bill Holm Portrait excerpt"
Peter Ostroushko - "Prairie Sunrise"
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Hour 2
Peter Mayer - "Africa"
The Kingsmen - "Louie, Louie"
Brave Combo - "Louie, Louie"
Los Lobos - "I Wanna Be Like You"
Marty Robbins - "El Paso (re-start song)"
Amy MacDonald - "Let's Start A Band"
Peter Mayer - "The Hat Song (live)"
Frank Sinatra - "The Way You Look Tonight"
Nanci Griffith - "Love At The Five And Dime"
Michael Stadler - "Renki Jussi/Raatikkoon"
April 4, 2009
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Hour 1
Joni Mitchell - "If"
Susan Werner - "Thy Kingdom Come"
Susan Werner - "Sunday Mornings"
Susan Werner - "May I Suggest"
Susan Werner - "When They Make the Movie Of My Life"
Cheryl Wheeler - "75 Septembers"
Cheryl Wheeler - "My Cat's Birthday"
Cheryl Wheeler - "Summer Fly"
Cheryl Wheeler - "Gray and Green"
Cheryl Wheeler - "One Step At a Time"
Gram Parsons - "The Streets of Baltimore"
Ralph McTell - "Streets of London"
Dakota Dave Hull - "The Streets of Loredo And St. James Infirmary"
Hour 2
The Carter Family - "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland"
Bing Crosby and Bix Beiderbecke - "Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears"
Steve Goodman - "Men Who Love Women Who Love Men"
Cast of "When A Man Loves A Diva" (Live in studio)"
"Leader of the Pack"
"Chain of Fools"
"Like a Virgin"
"Medley"
Macy Gray - "I Want to Be Your Mother's Son in Law"
The Stoneman Family - "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter"
Willie Nelson - "I'm My Own Grandpa"
Crooked Still - "Orphan Girl"
Boozoo Chavis - "Uncle Bud"
Leahy - "Cape Breton Medley"
March 28, 2009
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Hour 1
Richard Shindell - "Transit"
Guy Davis - "Grandma Is Dancing"
Larry Long - "Love Of Life (live)"
Larry Long - "Elders' Wisdom Children's Song"
Larry Long - "Talkin' Okemah Town"
Si Kahn - "Crossing The Border"
Annie Gallup - "1917"
Greg Brown - "Hillbilly Girl"
Alison Brown - "The Clean Plate Club"
Hour 2
Mavis Staples - "We Shall Not Be Moved"
John Gorka - "When You Sing"
Richard Shindell - "There Goes Mavis (live)"
Richard Shindell - "Get Up Clara (live)"
Richard Shindell - "The Balloon Man (live)"
Chris Smither - "No Love Today"
Billie Holiday - "Love For Sale"
Taj Mahal & Etta James - "Mockingbird"
Alasdair Frasier and Natalie Haas - "St. Kilda's Wedding/Brose and Butter"
March 21, 2009
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Hour 1
Jennifer Warnes - "Bird on a Wire"
Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman - "Give Me a Kiss"
Lou & Peter Berryman - " Dupsha Dove"
Lui Collins - "Red Red Robin "
Bobby Day - "Rockin' Robin"
Cliff Edwards - "Old Fashioned Love"
Arthur Godfrey - "Ukulele Song"
Melvern Taylor - "You and Me and My Ukulele"
Jake Shimabukuro - "Let's Dance"
Byron Yasui - "Blue Hawaii"
Jake Shimabukuro - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
George Harrison - " All Things Must Pass"
Hour 2
Van Morrison - "Carry On Regardless"
Eric Bibb - "Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down"
Billy McGlaughlin – "Hold On To Forever"
Billy McGlaughlin – "Church Bells"
Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Get Up Stand Up"
John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
Stan Rogers - "The Mary Ellen Carter"
Diana Krall - "Pick Yourself Up"
Oscar Peterson – "Accentuate the Positive"
March 14, 2009
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Hour 1
Seancharirde - "Danny O'Donnell's & The Cedars of Lebanon"
John and James Kelly - "Ceathru Cavan & The Wild Irishman"
Glenn Gould - Haydn: "Sonata in D Major – Finale"
Van Morrison - "In The Garden"
Daithi Sproule - "Eirigh Suas A Stoirin" (Rise Up Darling)"
Dermot McLaughlin – "The Iron Man"
Peter Mayer – "Molly O'Malley's"
Allan Sherman – "Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max"
Elvis Costello – "Long Journey Home"
Altan - "Mother's Delight"
Hour 2
Jonatha Brooke - "Bleecker Street"
Susan Werner - "A Hazy Shade of Winter"
Albert Kuvezin - "Inna Gadda Da Vida"
Darrell Scott - "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"
Yusuyuki Fukushima - " Starting Over"
Susan Werner - " Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Susan Werner - "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
Nickel Creek - "Tomorrow is a Long Time"
Sam Bush and Alison Brown - "Everyday I Write the Book"
Toots and the Maytals - "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Caetano Veloso - "Dreamland"
March 7, 2009
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Hour 1
Richard Shindell - "Parasol Ants"
Crooked Still - "Oh, Agamemnon"
Judith Owen & Richard Thompson - "Poseidon"
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - "Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man"
Bob Dylan - "Isis"
Martin and Jessica Ruby Simpson - "Icarus"
Krista Detor - "Icarus"
The Roe Family Singers - "My Poor Son"
Ruth MacKenzie - "Salmon Dance"
Aaron Neville - "Hercules"
Frankie Avalon - "Venus"
Frigg - "When The Time Comes, I'll Be Ready"
Hour 1
Phil Heywood - "Old Man River/One Funky Dime"
Michael Doucet - "Everything I Do Is Gonna Be Funky"
BeauSoleil - "Les Oignons"
Michael Doucet - "Wade's Two Step"
Patrick Ekhart - "Piggy With A Fiddle"
Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
Hans Theessink - "Johnny And The Devil"
Asleep At The Wheel with The Blind Boys of Alabama - "The Devil Ain't Lazy"
Robert Johnson - "Crossroads Blues"
Cam Waters - "Meeting At The Crossroads"
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - "The Devil Had A Hold Of Me"
Fiddlers 4 - "Pickin' The Devil's Eye"
February 28, 2009
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Hour 1
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met"
Susan Werner - "Let's Regret This In Advance"
Andy Breckman - "The Movie Song"
Alison Krauss and Union Station - "I Will"
John Gorka - "The One That Got Away"
Snooks Eaglin - "Lookin' For A Woman"
Claudia Schmidt and Paul Cebar - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Johnny Mercer - "Bobwhite, What You Gonna Swing Tonight?"
Claudia Schmidt - "Can't Get Yourself Out Of Love (live)"
Syd Kitchen and Madala Kunene - "What Kind"
Laurie Lewis - "Love Chooses You"
The Roches - "Instead, I Chose"
Wes Montgomery - "Bumpin' On Sunset"
Hour 2
Ry Cooder - "Steel Guitar Heaven"
Rufus Wainwright and The McGarrigles - "What'll I Do"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Oh Death"
Steve Goodman - "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request"
Blind Lemon Jefferson - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
Willy Rogers and the Soul Stirrers - "Now Let the Weeping Cease"
Jennifer Warnes - "Bird On A Wire"
Nanci Griffith and James Hooker - "Gulf Coast Highway"
Michael Johnson - "Bristlecone Pine"
Pat Humphries -Swimming To The Other Side"
Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers To Cross"
Mavis Staples and Lucky Peterson - "I'll Fly Away"
Louis Armstrong - "What A Wonderful World"
February 21, 2009
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Hour 1
Si Kahn - "Crossing the Border"
Erik Brandt - "Get Into the Boat"
Bill Booth - "Off To America (live)"
Bill Booth - "Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (live)"
Bill Booth - "The Miller Boy (live)"
Bukkene Bruse - "Haslebuskane"
Bjoro Haland - "I Love Norwegian Country"
The Johansson Band - "The Dreams Will End When Opening Your Eyes"
The Johansson Band - "All The Way"
The Johansson Band - "Honsafotter (Chicken Feet) (Live)"
Hat A Jid A Wejbele - "Muzsikas"
Hour 2
Martin Simpson - "Boots of Spanish Leather"
The New Main Street Singers - "Never Did No Wanderin'"
Erik Brandt - "Ramblin'"
Agnes Herczku & Nicola Parov - "Ha te tudnad"
Csurrento - "Levenos a Labaival"
Pat Donohue - "High School"
Budapest Pickers - "The Folsom Prison Blues"
Erik Brandt - "If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It"
Johnny Cash - "I've Been Everywhere"
The Wayfaring Strangers - "Wayfaring Stranger"
Joan Baez - "I Am A Wanderer"
February 14, 2009
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Hour 1
Tom Paxton - "Did You Hear John Hurt?"
Mississippi John Hurt - "Candy Man"
Patsy Cline - "Crazy"
Kimya Dawson - "Mr. Rollercoaster"
Ann Reed - "Love at the Fair"
Gemma Craven - "Bill"
The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Jim Ouska and Jane Aleckson - "Too Much Love"
Bonnie Raitt - "Baby Mine"
The Auto Body Experience - "Annie"
Michael Smith - "Love Letter on a Fish"
Ella Fitzgerald - "My Baby Likes to Be Bop"
Guy Clark and Emmylou Harris - "I Don't Love You Much, Do I?"
Sophie Milman - "People Will Say We're In Love"
I Will - "The Beatles"
Hour 2
The Penguins - "Earth Angel"
Carrie Rodriguez - "Seven Angels on a Bicycle"
Bill Morrissey - "Louis Collins"
Mississippi John Hurt - "Frankie"
Gillian Welch - "Beulah Land"
Lost Jim Ohlschmidt - "Dear Old Daddy John"
Lost Jim Ohlschmidt - "Coffee Blues"
The Lovin' Spoonful - "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind"
Susan Werner - "I'm Not Sure"
John Gorka - "The One That Got Away"
Doc Watson - "Sittin' On Top of the World"
The Time Jumpers - "Caravan"
February 7, 2009
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Hour 1
Greg Brown - "Worrisome Years"
Tom Waits - "Step Right Up"
Cast from "The Music Man" - "Rock Island"
Spike Jones and His Orchestra - "Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny?"
Karen Savoca - "16 Windmills"
Moxy Fruvous - "Darlington Darling"
Frank Sinatra - "High Hopes"
Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard - "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Bettye Lavette - "Before the Money Came"
The Roches - "Mr. Sellack"
Billie Holiday - "God Bless The Child"
Dick Powell - "We're In the Money"
Roger Sprung and Doc Watson - "The World is Waiting For the Sunrise"
Hour 2
Robin and Linda Williams - "Tied Down, Home Free"
Marcia Ball - "Married Life"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Joy Comes Back"
Neal and Leandra - "The Joy That Is You" (live)
Neal and Leandra - "Cry" (live)
Neal and Leandra - "Stoppy By Woods on a Snowy Evening" (live)
Neal and Leandra - "When That Morning Comes" (live)
Sonny and Cher - "I Got You, Babe"
Ike and Tina Turner - "3 O'Clock in the Morning Blues"
Richard and Linda Thompson - "The Back Street Slide"
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - "Jackson"
Magical Strings - "Crossing to Skellig"
January 31, 2009
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Hour 1
Ry Cooder - "Steel Guitar Heaven"
Les Paul and Mary Ford - "Hold That Tiger"
Haja - "Fiainana"
Boiled In Lead - "House Carpenter"
Dama - "Sangisangy"
Rachael Davis - "Better Than Me"
S. Sowmya - "Gam Ganapathey"
Prudence Johnson - "Baltimore Oriole"
Jimi Hendrix - "Midnight Lightning"
Dean Magraw - "Foxfire / Kilnamona"
Eddie Pennington - "The Pig Got Up and Walked Away"
Hour 2
Dar Williams - "February"
John Gorka - "Oh Abraham"
Paul Simon - "Born at the Right Time"
Elizabeth Cotton - "Washington Blues"
Peggy Seeger, Penny Seeger, Sonya Cohen - "Ground Hog"
Charles Brown - "One Never Knows"
Eric Bibb - "Lucky Man Rag"
Jon Langford and Sally Timms - "Anything Can Happen"
John Hartford - "I Would Not Be Here"
Railroad Earth - "You Never Know"
Carrie Newcomer - "Tornado Alley"
Guy Clark - "Tornado Time in Texas"
Jorma Kaukonen - "River of Time"
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Tonight, breaking musical boundries. We'll introduce you to Project Trio, an ensemble of classical trained musicians who cross over into jazz, folk and even rock with their "beat boxing" flutist Greg Pattillo. In the second hour we'll meet two international singers: Lisa Hannigan from Ireland who's been touring the US a lot in the past year; and Yasmin Levy (LEH-vee) from Israel who sings in the nearly extinct language of her Sephardic grandparents, called "ladino."
Hour 1
Ray Charles - "I Can't Stop Loving You"
Bobby McFerrin - "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
Hesperus - "Saltarello / The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me"
Project Trio Interview
Project Trio - "Nutcracker (Live)"
Project Trio - "Bouree (Live)"
Project Trio - "The Puzzle (Live)"
Project Trio - "Sweet Pea (Live)"
Mike Seeger - "Quill Ditty"
Erin McKeown - "Paper Moon"
New International Trio - "In the Mood"
Athur Miles - "The Lonely Cowboy Pt. 1"
Salsa Celtica - "Cumbia Celtica"
Mark O'Connor's Swing Trio - "Pickles On the Elbow"
Hour 2
Madeleine Peyroux - "Walkin' After Midnight"
Paul Simon - "Bernadette"
Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi (2007)"
Lisa Hannigan Interview
Lisa Hannigan - "Ocean And A Rock"
Lisa Hannigan - "Lille (Live)"
Lisa Hannigan - "I Don't Know"
Sea Wolf - "Middle Distance Runner"
The Klezmatics - "An Undoing World"
Yasmin Levy Interview
Yasmin Levy - "Adio Kerida"
Yasmin Levy - "Una Noche Mas"
Yasmin Levy - "Si Veriash"
November 7, 2009
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Tonight we'll talk with a couple of different musical legends. Willie Murphy has been a staple on the music scene in Minnesota since the sixties. He traveled all over the Midwest with his band Willie and the Bumble Bees and has played with everyone from Muddy Waters to Carl Perkins. He even produced Bonnie Raitt's very first album on Warner. In the second hour, we'll talk with John Gorka who has become one of the most sought after singer songwriters in the country.
Hour 1
Joe Henry - "Time Is A Lion"
Koerner, Ray and Glover - "Running, Jumping, Standing Still"
Little Richard - "Tutti Frutti"
Muddy Waters - "Kansas City"
Willie Murphy Interview
John Prine - "Spanish Pipedream"
Snuffy Jenkins - "Television"
Ray Charles - "That's Enough"
Jerry Lee Lewis- "Rockin' My Life Away"
Willie Murphy - "Love Attack"
Hour 2
Maura O'Connell - "Blue Chalk"
Steve Goodman - "The Dutchman"
Dinah Washington - "Trouble In Mind"
John Gorka - "I Think of You (Live)"
John Gorka - "Where No Monuments Stand (Live)"
John Gorka - "Ignorance and Privilege (Live)"
Antje Duvekot - "Long Way"
Utah Phillips - "I Remember Loving You "
Lucy Kaplansky - "The Eyes of My Beholder"
Steve Martin and Tony Trischka - "The Crow"
October 31, 2009
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Tonight, what else? It's Halloween, so we've brushed away the cobwebs from the music library in search of "tunes for goons." We'll have scary (or not) music from Tom Waits, The Bills, The Duhks, Louis Armstrong, The Jolly Boys and the scariest of them all, Bob Dylan. In the second hour, it seems Autumn is a time for musicians to release new recordings, and we've got a slew of them. We've put together an hour of new music from local and national performers…some of them new to us too.
Hour 1
Bob Dylan - "Not Dark Yet"
Peter Mayer - "The Dark"
Roe Family Singers - "Shallow Grave"
The Duhks - "This Fall"
Pert' Near Sandstone - "Awesome Costume"
Louis Armstrong - "Old Man Mose"
The Jolly Boys - "Back to Back (Belly to Belly)"
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women - "Potter's Field"
Armstrong Family - "Ghost of John"
The Bills - "Lay Down"
Tom Waits - "Eyeball Kid"
Rufus Thomas - "Tiger Man"
Fourtold - "Panther in Michigan"
Austin Lounge Lizards - "Hillbillies In A Haunted House"
Hour 2
Martin Simpson - "Look Up, Look Down"
Pieta Brown - "I Know A Girl"
Heather Masse - "High Heeled Woman"
Delbert McClinton - "People Just Love to Talk"
Pert' Near Sandstone - "Little Maggie"
Rupa and the April Fishes - "C'est Moi"
Lyle Lovett - "Pantry"
Woody Guthrie - "Bad Reputation"
Joel Rafael - "Love Thyself"
The Avett Brothers - "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise"
The Swell Season - "Love That Conquers"
WPA - "Rise Up"
Väsen - "The Bontanist"
October 24, 2009
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Tonight, more material from Ann Reed. Ann is out with a new album this month and she'll sing some of those songs and chat about "Where The Earth is Round." We'll also have a studio visit from the cast from "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" now showing at the History Theatre in St. Paul. Its been over 50 years since "the day the music died", but a cast of young musicians from the McNally Smith College of Music dug into the Holly songlist and pulled out some classics.
Hour 1
Vicky Emerson - "Ferris Wheel"
John Gorka - "Whole Wide World"
Cara Dillon - "Spencer The Rover"
Ann Reed - "Pink Guitar (live)"
Ann Reed - "Loons on Lake Calhoun (live)"
Ann Reed - "A Song For the End of Day (live)"
Ann Reed - "Where the Earth is Round (live)"
Richard Julian - "The World Keeps On"
Leo Kottke - "World Turning"
Freedy Johnston - "This Perfect World"
Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - "In Case the World Changes It's Mind"
Hour 2
The Folksmen - "Never Did No Wanderin'"
The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
The Rutles - "Back In '64"
Varttina - "Matalii Ja Mustii"
Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers - "Kansas City Star"
The Soggy Bottom Boys - "In the Jailhouse Now"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Maybe Baby (live)"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Words of Love (live)"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Peggy Sue (live)"
The cast from "Buddy" - "Oh Boy (live)"
Don McLean - "American Pie"
Jonathan and Darlene Edwards - "Button Up Your Overcoat"
October 17, 2009
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Tonight, all things Midwest. We'll talk with our friends from Iowa, The Pines. The nice guy duo from Iowa City and Spencer is now a quartet with bass and drums. Their latest album on Red House Records is "Tremolo," and has even been reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine. In the second hour we'll spend some time in the studio with a singer songwriter from Michigan, Drew Nelson. Drew writes about his small farming town up-bringing, his time in the Navy and his love for literature. His latest album is "Dusty Road to Beulah Land."
Hour 1
Dar Williams - "Iowa"
Dave Moore - "Mr. Music"
Greg Brown - "Mississippi Serenade"
The Pines - "The Skipper and His Wife (live)"
The Pines - "Spike Driver Blues (live)"
The Pines - "Lonesome Tremolo Blues (live)"
Spider John Koerner - "Red Apple Juice"
The Wayfaring Strangers w/Rhonda Vincent - "Rank Stranger"
The Stanley Brothers - "East Virginia Blues"
Rosanne Cash w/Bruce Springsteen - "Sea of Heartbreak"
Dakota Dave Hull and Sean Blackburn - "Miss The Mississippi and You"
Hour 2
The Klezmatics - "Goin' Across the Sea"
Frankie Ford - "Sea Cruise"
Dave Alvin - "What Did the Deep Sea Say?"
Ollabelle - "Storms Are On The Ocean"
Drew Nelson - "Highway 2 (live)"
Drew Nelson - "Grandmother Moon (live)"
Drew Nelson - "True and Fine (live)"
Ernest Tubb and Willie Nelson - "Waltz Across Texas"
Wayne Hancock - "Shootin' Star From Texas"
Lyle Lovett - "That's Right, You're Not From Texas"
Bill Evans Trio - "Waltz For Debby
October 10, 2009
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For the first hour, you'll want your seatbelts on. We're going to examine the subject of speed. There are songs about racing, impatience, horses and cars from all sorts of artists in the library including Tim O'Brien, James McMurtry, Claudia Schmidt and the Cadillacs. In the second hour we'll visit with one of our favorites, Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem. The band hails from Massachusetts and has a diverse musical background including Celtic, New Orleans Jazz, folk and bluegrass.
Hour 1
The Cadillacs - "Speedoo"
Slaid Cleaves - "Racecar Joe"
Tim O'Brien - "Hoss Race"
Krista Detor - "All The Pretty Horses"
James McMurtry - "Racing to the Red Light"
Ann Reed - "Push the River"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "You Ain't Hurryin' Me"
Claudia Schmidt - "Racer"
Lucy Kaplansky - "Secret Journey"
The Beach Boys - "Red River Valley"
Slow Down Krishna - "The Bobs"
Shout Sister Shout - "Slow Down"
Elizabeth and the Catapult - "Race You"
Eddie From Ohio - "Quick"
Pat Donohue - "Rush Hour"
Hour 2
Feron Young - "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young"
Medeski, Martin and Wood - "Let's Go Everywhere"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "(Can't You) Hear Jerusalem Moan (live)"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "I'll Fly Away (live)"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Big Old Life (live)"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "They All Asked For You (live)"
Tom Waits - "Everything You Can Think"
The Brass Kings - "Jackrabbit Blues"
Rufus Cohen - "Mr. Rabbit"
Polly Fiveash and Anand Nayak - "Happily Ever After"
October 3, 2009
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Tonight, we’ll meet Harry Manx. He was born on the Isle of Man, raised in Canada, and developed his unique musical style working in the blues clubs of Canada and studying eastern music in India. His latest album is titled "Bread and Buddah." In the second hour, space travel, aliens, astronauts, and inter-stellar oddities. We've searched the music library for discs with those topics and found songs from Peter Mayer, Ry Cooder, Dave Frishberg, Aimee Mann, They Might Be Giants, and more.
Hour 1
The Tannahill Weavers - "Joy of My Heart"
Anne Mayo Muir, Gordon Bok and Ed Trickett - "Isle au Haut Lullaby"
Taj Mahal - "Sacred Island"
Harry Manx - "Reuben’s Train (live)"
Harry Manx - "Make Way For the Living (live)"
Harry Manx - "Can’t Be Satisfied (live)"
Willie Dixon - "Walking The Blues"
Muddy Waters - "Rollin’ and Tumblin’"
Koko Taylor - "Wang Dang Doodle"
Mark Huphrey & Debashish Battacharya - "Red River Valley"
Hour 2
Peter Mayer - "Astronaut Dreams"
Hugh Blumenfeld - "(edit intro) Shoot the Moon "
Brave Combo - "Flying Saucer"
Ry Cooder - "Green Dog"
Dave Frishberg - "The Green Hills of Earth"
The Jaztronauts - "Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah"
Sheb Wooley - "Purple People Eater"
Jim Post - "The Galaxy Song"
They Might Be Giants - "Why Does The Sun Shine?"
T Bone Burnett - "Humans From Earth "
Harry Nilsson - "Spaceman"
David Bowie - "Space Oddity"
Aimee Mann - "Lost In Space"
The Ventures - "Telstar"
September 26, 2009
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Tonight, disasters and good luck. In the first hour we’ll explore music about trouble at sea – sinking ships, storms and lost loves. Our musical contributors include Stan Rogers, Boiled in Lead, Johnny Horton and, naturally, Gordon Lightfoot. In the second hour, we’ll meet Sally Barris (BAIR-iss)…a native Minnesotan who has found a successful career as a songwriter in the competitive atmosphere of Nashville, Tennessee.
Hour 1
The Decemberists - "From My Own True Love (Lost At Sea)"
Stan Rogers - "The Wreck of the Athens Queen"
Laura Viers - "Wrecking"
Charlie Maguire - "Fire On The Water"
Judy Collins - "Sailor’s Life"
Boiled In Lead - "Ballad of the House Carpenter"
Eliza Gilkyson - "Requiem"
Gordon Lightfoot - "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
Sparky and Rhonda Rucker - "Titanic Epic"
Johnny Horton - "The Sinking of the Bismark"
Harvey Reid and Joyce Andersen - "Will You Go To The Sea?"
Redbird - "Ships"
Hour 2
Kate Rusby - "Jolly Ploughboys"
Richard Thompson - "Take Care the Road You Choose"
Tanya Savory - "Nashville"
Austin Lounge Lizards - "Do Not Go To Tennessee"
Sally Barris - "My Love Loves The Ocean (live)"
Sally Barris - "Huntington River (live)"
Sally Barris - "Let the Wind Chase You (live)"
Six Mile Grove - "Steel Mule"
Bill and Charlie Monroe - "Rollin’ in My Sweet Baby’s Arms"
Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
Bela Fleck - "Spanish Point"
September 19, 2009
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Tonight we'll meet a singer-songwriter who followed his heart to Minnesota. Jake Armerding has made a name for himself on the east coast, but in the past year has married a Midwestern girl and now calls the Twin Cities home. He's currently celebrating the release of his 5th record. In the second hour we'll examine the Autumnal Equinox and pull out music from the library about the approaching season. You'll hear music from Frank Sinatra, Girlyman, Neil Young, Charlie Maguire and more.
Hour 1
Northern Lights - "Got the Spirit"
Mary Travers, Odetta and B.B. King - "House of the Rising Sun"
Peter, Paul and Mary - "A Hundred Miles"
Bill Monroe - "Uncle Penn"
Jake Armerding - "Whiskey Before Breakfast (live)"
Jake Armerding - "The Fleece (live)"
Jake Armerding - "Harry/Sally (live)"
Paul Simon - "Graceland"
Mark Erelli - "Call You Home"
Tom Paxton - "Home To Me Is Anywhere You Are"
Väsen - "Väsen Street"
Hour 2
Karrin Allyson - "Autumn Leaves"
The Duhks - "This Fall"
Girlyman - "Fall Stories"
Dillon Bustin - "This Time of Year"
The Wayfaring Strangers - "When the Golden Leaves Begin to Fall"
Mia Doi Todd - "Autumn"
Johnsmith - "Come Some Autumn Day"
Charlie Maguire - "Fall Is Here"
Clay Riness - "The Fall Is Here"
Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
Frank Sinatra - "September Song"
Stacey Kent - "'Tis Autumn"
Claudia Schmidt - "Afternoon on a Woodpile"
September 12, 2009
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This week, since most schools in Minnesota have started by now, we decided to take a look at the subject of education in music. We'll feature songs about school, high school, elementary school and college from artists including Steve Martin, Chuck Berry, Van Morrison and more. In hour two we'll meet Brandon Sampson from the band Six Mile Grove. The band is from Lyle, Minnesota originally and Brandon talks about growing up in a tiny town, learning to play music and eventually touring with Johnny Cash's guitar player.
Hour 1
Van Morrison - "Graduate of the School of Hard Knocks"
Crosby, Stills and Nash - "Teach Your Children"
Asylum Street Spankers - "When I Grow Up"
Dan Schwartz - "All These Things"
Steve Martin - "Late For School"
Chuck Berry - "School Days"
Pat Donohue - "High School"
The Red Clay Ramblers - "School House on the Hill"
Josh Rouse - "Middle School Frown"
John McCutcheon - "Kindergarten Wall"
Ann Reed - "Marching Back To School"
Austin Lounge Lizards - "Didn't Go To College"
Bright Morning Star - "Their Way"
Preston Reed - "Driving School"
Hour 2
Greg Brown - "Early"
Iris DeMent - "Our Town"
Six Mile Grove - "Hollywood"
John Denver - "Rhymes and Reasons"
Dion - "Kickin' Child"
Luther College Nordic Choir - "Sicut Cervus"
Hank Williams - "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You"
Six Mile Grove and Bob Wootton - "Big River"
Sally Barris - "My Love Loves the Ocean"
Wilco - "What Light?"
Brandon Sampson - "This Old Guitar"
September 5, 2009
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In the first hour we'll help celebrate the working person for this Labor Day weekend with songs about work, about the toils and troubles, the bosses, love as work and appreciation for the employee. You'll hear music from Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Billie Holiday, the Roches and more. In the second hour, music from our live show at the Minnesota State Fair. A week ago Friday, Dale hosted two hours of live music from the Minnesota Public Radio booth. Our guests were singer-songwriter Ann Reed, local string duo The DitchLilies and the trio Bojono which is Boyd Lee, Joe Cruz (CROOZ) and Noah Hoehn (HAYN).
Hour 1
Common Rotation - "Union Maid Fight Song"
Pete Seeger - "Step By Step"
Paul Robeson - "Joe Hill"
Si Kahn - "Aragon Mill"
Bruce Springsteen - "John Henry"
Moxy Fruvous - "I Love My Boss"
Brass Kings - "Company Man"
Tom Waits - "I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Ave.)"
Zach Gill - "Handy Man"
Billie Holiday - "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Priscilla Herdman - "Millworker"
Cisco Houston - "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
Suzzy & Maggie Roche - "For Those Whose Work is Invisible"
Cannonball Adderly - "Work Song"
Hour 2
The Bobs - "Corndogs"
Cranberry Lake Jug Band - "What the Barker Said"
Molly And the Heymakers - "Milkhouse"
Bojono - "She Makes Me Feel Good"
Bojono - "I Want To See"
Ann Reed - "Where The Earth Is Round"
Ann Reed - "Betty Crocker"
The DitchLilies - "Breezin' Along"
The DitchLilies - "I'm Just Drifting"
Ann Reed - "Somewhere At the Fair"
The DitchLilies - "Freight Train Boogie"
The DitchLilies - "Sally Shifting Sand in the Garden/Catnip"
Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)"
Bojono - "Cry Love"
August 29, 2009
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Tonight we'll talk with John Hermanson, one half of the duo Storyhill. John, along with Chris Cunningham formed Storyhill years ago as students at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Their partnership has led to several albums, the latest on Red House Records. They're in the studio now working on a new recording produced by Dan Wilson. In the second hour, we'll examine love relationships gone bad in music. Listen for a collection of songs about trust, infidelity, lies, questions, cheating and excuses from Charley Pride, Etta James, Tom Waits and more. Unfortunately there's a lot of music in the library about the topic. Fortunately, we'll only hear SOME.
Hour 1
Storyhill - "Paradise Lost"
The Beatles - "I'm Looking Through You"
Cliff Eberhardt - "The Land of the Free"
Joni Mitchell - "All I Want"
Jonathan Byrd - "Diana Jones"
Meg Hutchinson - "Not Gonna Feel This Way Anymore"
Danny Schmidt - "Swing Me Down"
The Pines - "Heart and Bones"
Anais Mitchell - "Old Fashioned Hat"
The Hopefuls - "Hold Your Own"
Hour 2
Etta James - "Trust In Me"
Kate Rusby - "The Good Man"
Maxine Brown - "Oh Not My Baby"
Charley Pride - "She's Too Good To Be True"
Adam Granger - "Where Were You When The Lights Went Out"
Rodney Crowell - "Who Do You Trust?"
Todd Menton - "Sure of Me"
Stacey Kent - "Those Little White Lies"
Howlin' Wolf - "Evil (Is Goin' On)"
Van Morrison - "Your Cheatin' Heart"
Solomon Burke - "Vicious Circle"
Jerry Lee Lewis - "It Was the Whiskey Talkin' (Not Me)"
Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)"
Dakota Dave Hull - "The Loyalty Waltz"
August 22, 2009
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In the first hour: Natural calamities in music � earthquakes, volcanoes and floods. As we move deeper into hurricane season we should remember that each developing storm has the potential to cause great havoc and at the same time, create great songs. Listen for nature's mayhem on Radio Heartland tonight with music from Johnny Cash, Marcia Ball, Elvis Costello, Neko Case, The Duhks (ducks), and more.
In hour two: Celtic musicians Dáithí Sproule (DAH-hee sp-ROLL) and Laura MacKenzie are both winners of Bush Foundation Artist Fellowships for 2009, and collaborators on a new recording called "The Pinery". Dáithí and Laura will perform in the studio and talk about their shared interest in traditional songs.
Hour 1
Ann Hills - "Last Days of Pompeii"
The Duhks - "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm?"
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - "Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further?"
Dr John - "Sweet Home New Orleans"
Marcia Ball - "Louisiana 1927"
Johnny Cash - "Five Feet High and Rising"
The Bottle Rockets - "Go Down River"
Guy Clark - "Tornado Time In Texas"
Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You"
Uncle Tupelo - "New Madrid"
Corky Siegel - "Goodbye California"
Shawn Colvin - "Shotgun Down the Avalanche"
Budos Band - "Volcano Song"
Hour 2
Van Morrison - "Celtic New Year"
The Ditchlilies - "Breezin' Along with the Breeze"
Laura McKenzie & Dáithí Sproule - "To Limerick We will Go (live)"
Laura McKenzie & Dáithí Sproule - "Up The Airy Mountain (live)"
Laura McKenzie & Dáithí Sproule - "The Pinery Boy (live)"
Nelstone's Hawaiians - "Fatal Flower Garden"
File - "Loup Garou Don't Eat My Children"
August 15, 2009
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Tonight we'll talk about the blues and the road with Charlie Parr. Charlie is a blues musician from Duluth, but is rarely home. He tours all over the world and the US and we were lucky enough to catch him at the end of a Western US tour, before he leaves for Europe, where he is something of a sensation. His latest album is "Roustabout". We'll also celebrate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Many of the artists who played on that historic event in 1969 are still recording and touring today. We'll hear music from Country Joe MacDonald, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Levon Helm and more.
Listen to Charlie Parr's performance in the Radio Heartland Studio.
Hour 1
Warner Williams and Jay Summerour - "Key To The Highway"
Fourtold - "Run Come See Jerusalem"
Charlie Parr - "Come Along And See (live)"
Charlie Parr - "Far Cry From Fargo (live)"
Charlie Parr - "Let An Old Drunkard Lie (live)"
Connie Kaldor - "I Love That Dog"
Hans Theessink - "Walkin' The Dog"
Dave Moore - "Just A Dog"
The Pines - "Shiny Shoes"
Charlie Parr - "Tampa Red's Blues"
Hour 2
Country Joe MacDonald - "Tranquility"
Richie Havens - "The Great Mandala (The Wheel of Life)"
Joan Baez - "Mary"
John Fogerty - "Don't You Wish It Was True"
Neil Young - "Prairie Wind"
Country Joe MacDonald - "Cocaine"
Levon Helm - "Feelin' Good"
Arlo Guthrie - "St. James Infirmary"
Jorma Kaukonen - "Bread Line Blues"
Ravi Shankar - "West Eats Meat"
August 8, 2009
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Every day is someone's birthday, and tonight we'll celebrate some very famous August birthdays from the Radio Heartland library of performers... Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, Eliza Gilkyson and Michael Johnson, just to name a few. In the second hour, it's all about Ella Fitzgerald. We'll meet Tina Fabrique (fah-BREEK), who portrays Ella Fitzgerald at the Guthrie this month. She'll talk about the magic of Fitzgerald, her life and times, and the joys and the rather large shoes she has to fill on the stage every night. We'll also play music from a few of the many artists who count Fitzgerald as one of their musical influences
Hour 1
The Tune Weavers - "Happy Happy Birthday Baby"
Tony Bennett - "We'll Be Together Again"
Louis Armstrong - "A Kiss To Build A Dream On"
James Taylor & Mark O'Conner - "Chain of Fools"
Spider John Koerner - "Black Dog"
Bryan Bowers - "Dog"
Rufus Wainwright - "Cigarettes and Chocolate"
Eliza Gilkyson - "Unsustainable"
Cesaria Evora - "Carnival in Sao Vicente (Luck)"
Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz - "Carnival in Rio"
Mark Knopfler - "Let It All Go"
Benny Carter - "Over the Rainbow"
Hour 2
Ella Fitzgerald - "Ella Hums the Blues"
The Bobs - "Caravan"
The Cast from "Golden Boy" - "The San Francisco Bay Blues"
Bobby McFerrin & Voicestra - "Swing Me A Lullaby"
Tina Fabrique - "I'll Never Be The Same (live)"
Tina Fabrique - "It Don't Mean A Thing (live)"
KT Tunstall - "False Alarm"
Doris Day - "With A Song In My Heart"
CéU - "Lenda"
Kurt Elling and Jon Hendricks - "Don't Be Scared"
Chick Webb Orchestra - "Traffic Jam"
August 1, 2009
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Tonight we'll chat with blues and folk artist Ray Bonneville. Ray tours all over the U-S and Canada and recently won a songwriting award. He was in town for some gigs including Red House Records' "Blues At The Barn" festival this weekend near Red Wing. We'll also revisit an interview with the cast of "When A Man Loves A Diva", a production currently running at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis. Dane Stauffer (STAW-fer), Julias Collins and Ben Bakken (BAH-ken), along with musical director Sanford Moore were in the studio earlier this spring.
Hour 1
Carole King - "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"
Steve Goodman - "Men Who Love Women Who Love Men"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Leader of the Pack"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Chain of Fools"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Like A Virgin"
"When A Man Loves A Diva" cast - "Medley"
Macy Gray - "Your Mother's Son In Law"
Kate Rusby - "The Cobbler's Daughter"
Basia Bulat - "I Was A Daughter"
Buell Kazee - "The Butcher's Boy"
The Horse Flies - "Blueman's Daughter"
Frigg - "Jalla Jalla"
Hour 2
Hank Williams - "Hey, Good Lookin'"
Professor Longhair - "Tipitina"
Ray Bonneville - "The San Francisco Bay Blues"
Ray Bonneville - "Cemetery Road (live)"
Ray Bonneville - "Shy Star (live)"
Ray Bonneville - "Crow John (live)"
Pieta Brown - "Remember the Sun"
Dave Moore - "Big Fool For You"
Eliza Gilkyson - "Jedidiah 1777"
La Bottine Souriante - "Le Reel de Pointe-au-Pic"
July 25, 2009
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In the first hour we'll talk about summer festivals and the music industry in these difficult economic times. Eric Peltoneimi (PEL-toe-nee-mee) of Red House Records will join us. Red House is bringing back a popular outdoor music festival in August, and he's brought in some soon-to-be released music from Red House artists "The Wailin' Jennys" and "The Pines."
In the second hour, local jazz singer Connie Evingson joins us to examine the idea of the "tribute record". Connie has produced discs honoring Peggy Lee, Dave Frishberg and the Beatles, and is about to embark on a bi-monthly songwriter series at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.
Hour 1
Cliff Eberhardt - "The Long Road"
Dave Moore - "Everybody Ought To Make a Change"
Greg Brown - "Lull It By"
The Wailin' Jennys - "Deeper Well"
The Pines - "Pray Tell"
Taj Mahal - "Catfish Blues"
Bonnie Raitt - "Give It Up or Let Me Go"
Ann Reed - "The Fair"
The Ditchlilies - "The Jackson Stomp"
Steve Kaul - "Straightlegs"
Hour 2
Connie Evingson - "Zoot Walks In"
Asleep at the Wheel - "Take Me Back To Tulsa"
Bob Dylan - "My Blue Eyed Jane"
John Pizzarelli - "Things We Said Today"
Connie Evingson - "Fixing a Hole"
Sarah Vaughan - "The Boy From Ipanema"
Carmen McRae - "Poor Butterfly"
Shelby Lynne - "I Only Wanna Be With You"
Eric Clapton - "When You Got a Good Friend"
Tony Bennett & kd lang - "Exactly Like You"
Chet Atkins - "She's a Woman"
July 18, 2009
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In the first hour tonight, our guest is Dan Newton, aka "Daddy Squeeze," the man behind the Café Accordion Orchestra, Jumbo YaYa, The Rockin' Pinecones, Art Carnage and many other local bands. Dan's musical tastes are as colorful as his many pairs of tennis shoes. In hour two, we'll meet the Roe Family Singers. The group was started by Kim and Quillen Roe and their love for old time music. The band grew, and grew... it's up to nine members now. They stopped in the Radio Heartland studio, eight and a half players, to play some songs from their latest album, "The Earth and All That Is In It."
Hour 1
Dave Frishberg - "Let's Eat Home"
The New Mainstreet Singers - "Never Did No Wanderin'"
Mary Black - "Home"
Lou and Peter Berryman - "When Did We Have Sauerkraut"
Mose Allison - "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
The Daddy Squeeze Trio - "The New Righteous Blues"
Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards - "That's My Weakness Now"
Dan Newton - "Valse Por Michelle (Live)"
Madeleine Peyroux - "La Javanese"
Paris Combo - "Trois Petits Points"
Café Accordion Orchestra - "Cumbia Medley"
Hour 2
The Handsome Family - "Flapping Your Broken Wings"
The Carter Family - "Anchored In Love"
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - "Jackson"
The Steeles - "Heaven Help Us"
The Roe Family Singers - "The One Who Loves Me (Live)"
The Roe Family Singers - "The Buckeye Tree (Live)"
The Roe Family Singers - "My Heart Took To The Earth (Live)"
KaiserCartel - "Okay"
Erik Brandt - "A Thousand Heartaches"
Jim Turner - "Wildwood Sawyer"
Woody Phillips - "Bizet: Habanera from "Carmen""
Outback - "Baka"
July 11, 2009
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Tonight we'll investigate the subject of gambling in music. Don Feeney from the Minnesota Lottery had help from Radio Heartland listeners to find gambling music and used those suggestions in a speech at a gambling convention. In the second hour, we'll look ahead at Woody Guthrie's 97th birthday next week. Local musicians Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner and Tony Glover stopped by the studio to play some Guthrie songs in tribute to the American legend. They'll be performing at the Ginkgo Coffeehouse on Guthrie's birthday Tuesday night. Listen to their performance in the Radio Heartland studios.
Hour 1
Spider John Koerner - "Roving Gambler"
Elvis Presley - "Viva Las Vegas"
Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City"
The Duhks - "Camptown Races"
"Guys and Dolls" cast - "Fugue for Tinhorns"
Leadbelly - "Stewball"
Mary Chapin Carpenter - "I Feel Lucky"
Neal and Leandra - "A Gambler's Life"
Daryl Purpose - "A Very Dangerous Game"
Ray Charles - "Blackjack"
Harry Nilsson - "The Lottery Song"
Bob Dylan - "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"
Hour 2
Los Super Seven & Joe Ely - "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos"
Woody Guthrie - "Hard Travelin"
Arlo Guthrie - "On a Monday"
Sara Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - "Holdin' Back"
Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner & Tony Glover - "Take A Whiff On Me (Live)"
Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner & Tony Glover - "Goodbye to My Stepstone (Live)"
Charlie Maguire, Pop Wagner & Tony Glover - "High Floods & Low Waters (Live)"
Taj Mahal - "Don't You Push Me Down"
Jonatha Brooke - "You'd Oughta Be Satisfied Now"
Billy Bragg - "Ingrid Bergman"
The Klezmatics - "Come When I Call You"
July 4, 2009
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Tonight, music for your Fourth of July holiday celebration. We scoured our library for good, old fashioned — or not — music about America, summertime, fireworks and patriotism. You'll hear music from James Taylor, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, Paul Robeson and more. In the second hour, we'll feature music from Dan Chouinard's (sheh-NARD) "Saturday Night at the Stage Door Piano Bar" concert recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater earlier this spring. Some of Dan�s guests: Prudence Johnson, Maria Jette (JET-tee), Vern Sutton, Yolanda Bruce, John Munson and more.
Hour 1
The Cuckoo Bird - "Clarence Ashley"
Red Molly - "Summertime"
Dave Alvin - "Fourth of July"
James Taylor - "On the 4th of July"
Mary Black and The Chieftains - "Paddy's Lamentation"
Steve Earle - "City of Immigrants"
Girlyman - "Amaze Me"
Simon and Garfunkel - "America"
Paul Robeson - "The House I Live In"
Ray Charles - "America the Beautiful"
Norah Jones - "American Theme"
Pat Donohue - "The Star Spangled Banner"
Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry - "America the Beautiful"
Louis Armstrong - "Fireworks"
Hour 2
Fats Waller - "Your Feet's Too Big"
Nanci Griffith - "Spin On A Red Brick Floor"
Steve March Torme - "Swinging At the Blue Moon Bar & Grill"
Tom Waits - "The Piano Has Been Drinking"
Dan Chouinard concert excerpts: Jordan Sramek - "Old Devil Moon"
Maria Jette - "Boogie With a Carmen Touch"
Jim tenBensel - "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams"
Vern Sutton - "All Or Nothin'"
Yolanda Bruce - "Can't Help Lovin' That of Mine"
John Munson - "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain"
All - "Lida Rose"
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - "Stay A Little Longer"
Clifton Chenier - "All Night Long"
Steve Goodman - "Let's Give a Party"
Jay McShann, Milt Hinton and Butch Miles - "After Hours"
June 27, 2009
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So this banjo player walks into a bar... That's the issue tonight. We'll have a visit in the studio from a Duluth-based band called Two Many Banjos and talk about the much loved, and maligned instrument and listen to some artists who used the banjo successfully. In the second hour, some duos made up of artists from different musical genres, and a visit in the studio from the Australian couple Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson. Their latest album is "Rattlin' Bones" and it's creating a buzz in the Americana music scene.
Hour 1
Steve Martin with Tim O'Brien - "Daddy Played the Banjo"
Nanci Griffith - "Ghost in the Music"
Steve Goodman - "City of New Orleans"
Two Many Banjos - "13,000 Railroad Men" (Live In-Studio Performance)
Two Many Banjos - "Maybelle" (Live In-Studio Performance)
Two Many Banjos - "Diddo Kiddo" (Live In-Studio Performance)
Kristin Andreasson - "(Just Another) Song About Molly Brown"
John Hartford - "Headin' Down Into the Mystery Below"
Otis Taylor with Don Vappie, Corey Harris, Guy Davis & Cassie Taylor - "Walk Right In"
Tony Trischka and B�la Fleck - "Ivory Toad of Catalan"
Hour 2
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - "Elvis Presley Blues"
Elvis Presley - "That's All Right"
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)"
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - "Beachcombing"
Harvey Reid & Joyce Anderson - "Mississippi You're On My Mind"
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - "Once In A While (Live)"
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - "Sweetest Waste of Time (Live)"
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - "Woe Is Mine (Live)"
The Waifs - "Eternity"
Tommy Emmanuel - "Game Show Rag"
Tom Waits - "Tom Traubert's Blues"
June 20, 2009
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Tonight, on the eve of Father�s Day we�ll pay tribute to fathers and their musical offspring. We�ll have music by fathers and for fathers from the Guthrie clan, the Wainwrights, the Earles, the Coles and more. In the second hour, we�re paid a visit by the Baldwin sisters � Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden (PEE-den). They�re involved in a production called �Sister Stories�, commissioned by the Nautilus Music Theater and written just for them by four different composers and writers. The show opens this week at the Playwright�s Center in Minneapolis. Also, songs about the constant struggle of leaving or staying in a relationship.
Hour 1
Johnsmith - Father's Day
Loudon Wainwright III - Half Fist
Lucy Wainwright Roche - Chicago
Rufus Wainwright - Oh, What A World
Doc & Merle Watson - John Henry
Steve Earle & Justin Townes Earle - Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
Natalie Cole & Nat King Cole - Unforgettable
Martin Simpson & Kate Rusby - Never Any Good
Ed Trickett, Ann Mayo Muir and Gordon Bok - Here's To You Rounders
Woody Guthrie - Ship In The Sky
Arlo Guthrie - Uncle Jeff
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion - Exploration
Dave Brubeck & Chris Brubeck with Gerry Mulligan- Gerry Go-Round
Hour 2
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Foolish You
The Roches - No Shoes
Shout Sister Shout - Shout Sister Shout
Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden - Nan (Live In-Studio Performance)
Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden - Bubble Babble (Live In-Studio Performance)
Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden - Seasons (Live In-Studio Performance)
Muddy Waters - Baby Please Don't Go
Sonya Kitchell - Let Me Go
James Hunter - Don't Come Back
Devotchka - We're Leaving
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Stay A Little Longer
Richard Julian - If You Stay
June 13, 2009
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Tonight, we'll meet a creative and unusual group of musicians who hail from different musical backgrounds to form a kind of music they call "bluegrassical." The Orange Mighty Trio are our guests in the first hour. They're releasing their latest CD, "Infrastructure" this week in the Twin Cities. In hour two, it's the height of commencement season all over the region. It's a time of exciting new beginnings. We'll look at a series of songs that COULD be mini-commencement addresses, uplifting messages about the next step in life and starting anew. Listen for music from Eric Bibb, Dan Wilson, Ann Reed and Richard Julian among others.
Hour 1
Tim Lake - Jazz With Bluegrass and Blues
Corky Siegel - Unfinished Jump
Susan Werner - All In Love Is Fair
Bela Fleck & Joshua Bell - Chopin Mazurka in f sharp minor
Orange Mighty Trio - The Long Zoom (Live In-Studio Performance)
Orange Mighty Trio - The Waltz of the Traffic Patterns (Live In-Studio Performance)
Orange Mighty Trio - Infrastructure (Live In-Studio Performance)
Woody Guthrie - Talking Columbia
Richard Shindell - Northbound 35
Colcannon - General Grant's Visit
Adrienne Young - Natural Bridge
Bela Fleck & Warema Masiaga Cha Cha - Pukkugyenda Balebauo
Hour 2
Bright Morning Star - Their Way
Dan Wilson - Free Life
Eric Bibb - Shine On
Joe Williams - Experiment
Nanci Griffith - There's a Light Beyond These Woods
Ken Booth - The Impossible Dream
Paul Robeson - Purest Kind of Guy
Suzzy and Maggie Roche - Anyway
Eddie From Ohio - Walk Humbly Son
Richard Julian - Can't Go Back
Ann Reed - Life Becomes Real
Pete Morton - Thanksgiving Sam Shaber - El Dorado Woody Guthrie - Goodbye, Dear Old Stepstone
June 6, 2009
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Tonight, some music about trees, friends, family and hometowns: Songwriters love to write about going home. It's good to some, and not so good to others. And we'll meet a trio of local musicians who all grew up in the same southwestern Minnesota county and now live in the Twin Cities, Nikki and the RueMates. In the second hour we'll hear excerpts from a concert by Jearlyn Steele recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater earlier this spring. Jearlyn, along with her family and friends, put on a show that was part of MPR's Troubadour Concert series that toured all over Minnesota this winter.
Hour 1
Nanci Griffith - This Old Town
Gary Myrick - Home Town Waltz
Steve Earle - The Hometown Blues
Slim Dunlap - Hate This Town
Nikki and the RueMates - Down On Me (Live In-Studio Performance)
Nikki and the RueMates - I Am Your Angel (Live In-Studio Performance)
Nikki and the RueMates - I Am A Tree (Live In-Studio Performance)
The Roe Family Singers - The Buckeye Tree
Natalie Merchant - Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow
John Gorka - Branching Out
Carrie Newcomer - There Is A Tree
Hour 2
George Benson - On Broadway
The Steeles - Numberless Are The World's Wonders
Bobby McFerrin - Circlesong 2
Take 6 and Ray Charles - My Friend
Carole King - You've Got A Friend
Jearlyn Steele - Fools Fall In Love (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - Natural Woman (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - Respect (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - At Last (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
Jearlyn Steele - Something's Got A Hold On Me (Live at the Fitzgerald Theater)
La Bottine Souriante - La Rap A Ti-Petang
May 30, 2009
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Tonight, we'll look at the so-called "hot club" music trend in Minnesota music. Several local bands that have taken on the style of music most often associated with Django Reinhardt and the "Gypsy Jazz" sound of early 20th Century Paris. A local band - Gypsy Mania - is out with a new CD and they're our guests in the studio during the first hour. In hour two, we'll meet a local songwriter who has taken on the task of writing one song a week, every week, for one year. James Hersch is the musician behind the "52 Song" project and he posts a new song each week on his website. We'll also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benny Goodman.
Hour 1
Gypsy Kings - Pasajero
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - Nuages
Harmonius Wail - Five Guys Named Moe
Keb' Mo'- Life is Beautiful
Sam Baker - Pretty World
Ollabelle - Troubles of the World
Gypsy Mania - Bar Del Pi (in studio performance)
Gypsy Mania - Butterfly (in studio performance)
Gypsy Mania - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)(in studio performance)
Duke Ellington Orchestra with Adelaide Hall - Creole Love Call
Connie Evingson and the Hot Club of Sweden - Swinging The Blues
Peter Ostroushko - Psalm of the Prairie
Hour 2
Benny Goodman Quartet - Avalon
Lou and Peter Berryman - Your State's Name Here
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer - Here Is The Chorus
James Hersch - After the Snow (in studio performance)
James Hersch - Tomorrows (in studio performance)
Billy Bragg and Wilco with Natalie Merchant - Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
Jonatha Brooke - My Sweet And Bitter Bowl
Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing
May 23, 2009
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Hour 1
Jim Kweskin Jug Band - "Jug Band Music"
Sunshine Skiffle Band - "Jug Band Stomp"
The Heartbeats - "A Thousand Miles Away"
David Francey - "1000 Miles"
Bobby Bare - "500 Miles Away From Home"
Kate Campbell - "Miles of Blues"
De Elliot Brothers - "Fishin� Blues"
De Elliot Brothers - "Go Fish"
John Prine - "Taking A Walk"
Jeffrey Foucault - "Hello In There"
The Byrds - "You Ain�t Goin� Nowhere"
Gene Ammons - "Hittin� The Jug"
Hour 2
Richard Julian - "Cheap Guitar"
Rio Nido - "The Trouble With Me Is You"
Mississippi John Hurt - "John Henry"
Tim Sparks - "Mississippi Blues (Live)"
Tim Sparks - "I�ll Fly Away (Live)"
John Hartford - "Turn Your Radio On"
The Southern Sons - "Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air)"
The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - "Golden Gate Gospel Train"
Guy Davis - "Railroad Story"
The Soggy Bottom Boys - "I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Oh Death"
Ralph Stanley - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
May 16, 2009
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Hour 1
Johnny Cash - "I've Been Everywhere"
Peter Mayer - "Earth Town Square"
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - "Simbo"
Béla Fleck and the Nakisenyi Women's Group - "Tulinesangala"
Mose Fan Han - "Hello Hello"
The Brass Kings - "Way Back Home"
Nirmala Rajasekar - "Ragi Thandiro"
Harry Manx with The Heavenly Lights - "Sitting On Top of the World"
Taj Mahal with Ramatou Diakite - "Queen Bee"
Julie Fowlis Interview"
Annbjorg Lien - "W"
Hour 2
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis - "Bright Lights, Big City"
Ray Price - "City Lights"
Jackie Wilson - "No Pity (In the Naked City)"
Emmylou Harris and Beck - "Sin City"
Randy Weeks - "I Couldn't Make It (Live)"
Randy Weeks - "Your Lucky Day (Live)"
Randy Weeks - "You'd Better Be Nice (Live)"
The Watson Twins - "How Am I To Be"
Elvis Presley - "Don't Be Cruel"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Lady Be Good"
Dave Moore - "Over My Shoulder"
Michael Doucet - "Fonky Bayou"
May 9, 2009
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Hour 1
Doc Watson - "Mama Don't Allow No"
Loudon Wainwright III - "Make Your Mother Mad"
Merle Haggard - "Mama Tried"
Billie Holiday - "God Bless The Child"
Paul Simon - "Mother and Child Reunion"
The Beatles - "Your Mother Should Know"
Mother Banjo - "Revival Train"
Mother Banjo - "One Hello (live)"
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer - "Orange Cocoa Cake"
Lou and Peter Berryman - "A Chat With Your Mother"
Arlo Guthrie - "Mother, the Queen of My Heart"
Iron and Wine - "Upward Over the Mountain"
Hour 2
Varttina - "Ottajat"
Odetta - "Cotton Fields"
Paul Robeson - "Curly Headed Baby"
Eric Bibb - "Pockets (live)"
Eric Bibb - "Goin' Down Slow (live)"
Eric Bibb - "River Blues (live)"
Taj Mahal - "Fishin' Blues"
Mollie O'Brien - "The Important Part of Fishing"
Bob Franke - "Catfish"
Boiled in Lead - "Silver Carp"
Dakota Dave Hull - "The Itasca Rag"
May 2, 2009
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Hour 1
Bruce Springsteen - My Oklahoma Home
Pete Seeger - Talking Blues
Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet - Banjo Pickin' Girl
Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman - Green
Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman - I'm Ready
Lou and Peter Berryman - Talking at the Same Time
Lou and Peter Berryman - We Strolled on the Beach
Storyhill - Blazin' Out of Sight
Storyhill - Better Angels
Woody Guthrie - Better World A-Comin'
Larry Long & Pete Seeger - Well May the World Go
Pete Seeger - Blue Skies
Hour 2
Cesaria Evora - Amor di Mundo
Nina Simone - Suzanne
Carmen Souza Band - Afrika' (live)
Carmen Souza Band - Sem Valor (live)
Carmen Souza Band - Levanta' No Bai (live)
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
The Wood Brothers - Luckiest Man
Rickie Lee Jones - Elvis Cadillac
Gary Myrick - The Ghost of Elvis
Spaghetti Western String Co. - Draisienne
April 25, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Nickel Creek - "Jealous of the Moon"
Judd and Maggie - "Perfectly"
Tim and Mollie O'Brien - "Ain't No Grave"
Angus and Julia Stone - "Here We Go Again"
Sara and Sean Watkins - "All This Time (live)"
Sara and Sean Watkins - "Too Much (live)"
Sara and Sean Watkins - "Long Hot Summer Days (live)"
John Hartford - "Steam Powered Aero-Plain"
The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"
Fiona Apple - "Extraordinary Machine"
Pat Donohue - "Rush Hour"
Hour 2
Louis Armstrong - "What A Wonderful World"
Everything Green - "Christine Kane"
Green - "Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman"
Johnny Cash - "Paradise"
Tom Lehrer - "Pollution"
Randy Newman - "Burn On"
Patty Larkin - "Metal Drums"
Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
Don McLean - "Tapestry"
Dave Frishberg - "The Green Hills of Earth"
Tom Paxton - "Whose Garden Was This?"
Harry Waller - "Cockroaches On Parade"
Bill Steele - "Garbage"
Greg Brown - "Two Little Feet"
Connie Evingson - "Nature Boy"
April 18, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Bob Dylan - "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
The Floorbirds - "Wild Mountain Thyme"
Pert' Near Sandstone - "Little Birdy"
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank (live) - "Uncle Frank's Basement"
Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank (live) - "Love Hurts"
Charlie Parr - "Cheap Wine"
The Floorbirds (live) - "Canaan's Land"
The Floorbirds (live) - "Washburn Blues"
The Floorbirds (live) - "What Does the Deep Sea Say"
The Monroe Brothers - "Will The Circle Be Unbroken"
Storyhill - "Steady On"
Hour 2
Wilco - "Impossible Germany"
Todd Menton - "Rowdledum"
Antje Duvekot and Natalia Zukerman (live) - "Vertigo"
Antje Duvekot (live) - "Dublin Boys"
Natalia Zukerman (live) - "Only Trees"
Natalia Zukerman and Antje Duvekot (live) - "Brooklyn"
Richard Julian - "Brooklyn in the Morning"
Allan Sherman - "The Bronx Bird Watcher"
Hem - "The Great Houses of New York"
Lucy Wainwright Roche - "Chicago"
Earl Scruggs - "Fireball Mail"
April 11, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer - "Gentle Arms Of Eden"
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - "April In Paris"
Tracy Grammer - "April Come She Will"
Tracy Grammer - "Travis John"
John Gorka - "Writing in the Margins"
Rudy Valle - "The Drunkard Song"
Bjork - "It's Oh So Quiet"
Bill Holm Portrait excerpt"
Peter Ostroushko - "Prairie Sunrise"
"
Hour 2
Peter Mayer - "Africa"
The Kingsmen - "Louie, Louie"
Brave Combo - "Louie, Louie"
Los Lobos - "I Wanna Be Like You"
Marty Robbins - "El Paso (re-start song)"
Amy MacDonald - "Let's Start A Band"
Peter Mayer - "The Hat Song (live)"
Frank Sinatra - "The Way You Look Tonight"
Nanci Griffith - "Love At The Five And Dime"
Michael Stadler - "Renki Jussi/Raatikkoon"
April 4, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Joni Mitchell - "If"
Susan Werner - "Thy Kingdom Come"
Susan Werner - "Sunday Mornings"
Susan Werner - "May I Suggest"
Susan Werner - "When They Make the Movie Of My Life"
Cheryl Wheeler - "75 Septembers"
Cheryl Wheeler - "My Cat's Birthday"
Cheryl Wheeler - "Summer Fly"
Cheryl Wheeler - "Gray and Green"
Cheryl Wheeler - "One Step At a Time"
Gram Parsons - "The Streets of Baltimore"
Ralph McTell - "Streets of London"
Dakota Dave Hull - "The Streets of Loredo And St. James Infirmary"
Hour 2
The Carter Family - "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland"
Bing Crosby and Bix Beiderbecke - "Ain't No Sweet Man Worth the Salt of My Tears"
Steve Goodman - "Men Who Love Women Who Love Men"
Cast of "When A Man Loves A Diva" (Live in studio)"
"Leader of the Pack"
"Chain of Fools"
"Like a Virgin"
"Medley"
Macy Gray - "I Want to Be Your Mother's Son in Law"
The Stoneman Family - "The Spanish Merchant's Daughter"
Willie Nelson - "I'm My Own Grandpa"
Crooked Still - "Orphan Girl"
Boozoo Chavis - "Uncle Bud"
Leahy - "Cape Breton Medley"
March 28, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Richard Shindell - "Transit"
Guy Davis - "Grandma Is Dancing"
Larry Long - "Love Of Life (live)"
Larry Long - "Elders' Wisdom Children's Song"
Larry Long - "Talkin' Okemah Town"
Si Kahn - "Crossing The Border"
Annie Gallup - "1917"
Greg Brown - "Hillbilly Girl"
Alison Brown - "The Clean Plate Club"
Hour 2
Mavis Staples - "We Shall Not Be Moved"
John Gorka - "When You Sing"
Richard Shindell - "There Goes Mavis (live)"
Richard Shindell - "Get Up Clara (live)"
Richard Shindell - "The Balloon Man (live)"
Chris Smither - "No Love Today"
Billie Holiday - "Love For Sale"
Taj Mahal & Etta James - "Mockingbird"
Alasdair Frasier and Natalie Haas - "St. Kilda's Wedding/Brose and Butter"
March 21, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Jennifer Warnes - "Bird on a Wire"
Karen Savoca & Pete Heitzman - "Give Me a Kiss"
Lou & Peter Berryman - " Dupsha Dove"
Lui Collins - "Red Red Robin "
Bobby Day - "Rockin' Robin"
Cliff Edwards - "Old Fashioned Love"
Arthur Godfrey - "Ukulele Song"
Melvern Taylor - "You and Me and My Ukulele"
Jake Shimabukuro - "Let's Dance"
Byron Yasui - "Blue Hawaii"
Jake Shimabukuro - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
George Harrison - " All Things Must Pass"
Hour 2
Van Morrison - "Carry On Regardless"
Eric Bibb - "Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down"
Billy McGlaughlin – "Hold On To Forever"
Billy McGlaughlin – "Church Bells"
Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Get Up Stand Up"
John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
Stan Rogers - "The Mary Ellen Carter"
Diana Krall - "Pick Yourself Up"
Oscar Peterson – "Accentuate the Positive"
March 14, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Seancharirde - "Danny O'Donnell's & The Cedars of Lebanon"
John and James Kelly - "Ceathru Cavan & The Wild Irishman"
Glenn Gould - Haydn: "Sonata in D Major – Finale"
Van Morrison - "In The Garden"
Daithi Sproule - "Eirigh Suas A Stoirin" (Rise Up Darling)"
Dermot McLaughlin – "The Iron Man"
Peter Mayer – "Molly O'Malley's"
Allan Sherman – "Shake Hands With Your Uncle Max"
Elvis Costello – "Long Journey Home"
Altan - "Mother's Delight"
Hour 2
Jonatha Brooke - "Bleecker Street"
Susan Werner - "A Hazy Shade of Winter"
Albert Kuvezin - "Inna Gadda Da Vida"
Darrell Scott - "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"
Yusuyuki Fukushima - " Starting Over"
Susan Werner - " Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Susan Werner - "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
Nickel Creek - "Tomorrow is a Long Time"
Sam Bush and Alison Brown - "Everyday I Write the Book"
Toots and the Maytals - "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Caetano Veloso - "Dreamland"
March 7, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Richard Shindell - "Parasol Ants"
Crooked Still - "Oh, Agamemnon"
Judith Owen & Richard Thompson - "Poseidon"
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - "Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man"
Bob Dylan - "Isis"
Martin and Jessica Ruby Simpson - "Icarus"
Krista Detor - "Icarus"
The Roe Family Singers - "My Poor Son"
Ruth MacKenzie - "Salmon Dance"
Aaron Neville - "Hercules"
Frankie Avalon - "Venus"
Frigg - "When The Time Comes, I'll Be Ready"
Hour 1
Phil Heywood - "Old Man River/One Funky Dime"
Michael Doucet - "Everything I Do Is Gonna Be Funky"
BeauSoleil - "Les Oignons"
Michael Doucet - "Wade's Two Step"
Patrick Ekhart - "Piggy With A Fiddle"
Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"
Hans Theessink - "Johnny And The Devil"
Asleep At The Wheel with The Blind Boys of Alabama - "The Devil Ain't Lazy"
Robert Johnson - "Crossroads Blues"
Cam Waters - "Meeting At The Crossroads"
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - "The Devil Had A Hold Of Me"
Fiddlers 4 - "Pickin' The Devil's Eye"
February 28, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Molly Maher and Her Disbelievers - "Let's Pretend We Never Have Met"
Susan Werner - "Let's Regret This In Advance"
Andy Breckman - "The Movie Song"
Alison Krauss and Union Station - "I Will"
John Gorka - "The One That Got Away"
Snooks Eaglin - "Lookin' For A Woman"
Claudia Schmidt and Paul Cebar - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Johnny Mercer - "Bobwhite, What You Gonna Swing Tonight?"
Claudia Schmidt - "Can't Get Yourself Out Of Love (live)"
Syd Kitchen and Madala Kunene - "What Kind"
Laurie Lewis - "Love Chooses You"
The Roches - "Instead, I Chose"
Wes Montgomery - "Bumpin' On Sunset"
Hour 2
Ry Cooder - "Steel Guitar Heaven"
Rufus Wainwright and The McGarrigles - "What'll I Do"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Oh Death"
Steve Goodman - "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request"
Blind Lemon Jefferson - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
Willy Rogers and the Soul Stirrers - "Now Let the Weeping Cease"
Jennifer Warnes - "Bird On A Wire"
Nanci Griffith and James Hooker - "Gulf Coast Highway"
Michael Johnson - "Bristlecone Pine"
Pat Humphries -Swimming To The Other Side"
Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers To Cross"
Mavis Staples and Lucky Peterson - "I'll Fly Away"
Louis Armstrong - "What A Wonderful World"
February 21, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Si Kahn - "Crossing the Border"
Erik Brandt - "Get Into the Boat"
Bill Booth - "Off To America (live)"
Bill Booth - "Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (live)"
Bill Booth - "The Miller Boy (live)"
Bukkene Bruse - "Haslebuskane"
Bjoro Haland - "I Love Norwegian Country"
The Johansson Band - "The Dreams Will End When Opening Your Eyes"
The Johansson Band - "All The Way"
The Johansson Band - "Honsafotter (Chicken Feet) (Live)"
Hat A Jid A Wejbele - "Muzsikas"
Hour 2
Martin Simpson - "Boots of Spanish Leather"
The New Main Street Singers - "Never Did No Wanderin'"
Erik Brandt - "Ramblin'"
Agnes Herczku & Nicola Parov - "Ha te tudnad"
Csurrento - "Levenos a Labaival"
Pat Donohue - "High School"
Budapest Pickers - "The Folsom Prison Blues"
Erik Brandt - "If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It"
Johnny Cash - "I've Been Everywhere"
The Wayfaring Strangers - "Wayfaring Stranger"
Joan Baez - "I Am A Wanderer"
February 14, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Tom Paxton - "Did You Hear John Hurt?"
Mississippi John Hurt - "Candy Man"
Patsy Cline - "Crazy"
Kimya Dawson - "Mr. Rollercoaster"
Ann Reed - "Love at the Fair"
Gemma Craven - "Bill"
The Proclaimers - "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Jim Ouska and Jane Aleckson - "Too Much Love"
Bonnie Raitt - "Baby Mine"
The Auto Body Experience - "Annie"
Michael Smith - "Love Letter on a Fish"
Ella Fitzgerald - "My Baby Likes to Be Bop"
Guy Clark and Emmylou Harris - "I Don't Love You Much, Do I?"
Sophie Milman - "People Will Say We're In Love"
I Will - "The Beatles"
Hour 2
The Penguins - "Earth Angel"
Carrie Rodriguez - "Seven Angels on a Bicycle"
Bill Morrissey - "Louis Collins"
Mississippi John Hurt - "Frankie"
Gillian Welch - "Beulah Land"
Lost Jim Ohlschmidt - "Dear Old Daddy John"
Lost Jim Ohlschmidt - "Coffee Blues"
The Lovin' Spoonful - "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind"
Susan Werner - "I'm Not Sure"
John Gorka - "The One That Got Away"
Doc Watson - "Sittin' On Top of the World"
The Time Jumpers - "Caravan"
February 7, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Greg Brown - "Worrisome Years"
Tom Waits - "Step Right Up"
Cast from "The Music Man" - "Rock Island"
Spike Jones and His Orchestra - "Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny?"
Karen Savoca - "16 Windmills"
Moxy Fruvous - "Darlington Darling"
Frank Sinatra - "High Hopes"
Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard - "Nice Work If You Can Get It"
Bettye Lavette - "Before the Money Came"
The Roches - "Mr. Sellack"
Billie Holiday - "God Bless The Child"
Dick Powell - "We're In the Money"
Roger Sprung and Doc Watson - "The World is Waiting For the Sunrise"
Hour 2
Robin and Linda Williams - "Tied Down, Home Free"
Marcia Ball - "Married Life"
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem - "Joy Comes Back"
Neal and Leandra - "The Joy That Is You" (live)
Neal and Leandra - "Cry" (live)
Neal and Leandra - "Stoppy By Woods on a Snowy Evening" (live)
Neal and Leandra - "When That Morning Comes" (live)
Sonny and Cher - "I Got You, Babe"
Ike and Tina Turner - "3 O'Clock in the Morning Blues"
Richard and Linda Thompson - "The Back Street Slide"
Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash - "Jackson"
Magical Strings - "Crossing to Skellig"
January 31, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Ry Cooder - "Steel Guitar Heaven"
Les Paul and Mary Ford - "Hold That Tiger"
Haja - "Fiainana"
Boiled In Lead - "House Carpenter"
Dama - "Sangisangy"
Rachael Davis - "Better Than Me"
S. Sowmya - "Gam Ganapathey"
Prudence Johnson - "Baltimore Oriole"
Jimi Hendrix - "Midnight Lightning"
Dean Magraw - "Foxfire / Kilnamona"
Eddie Pennington - "The Pig Got Up and Walked Away"
Hour 2
Dar Williams - "February"
John Gorka - "Oh Abraham"
Paul Simon - "Born at the Right Time"
Elizabeth Cotton - "Washington Blues"
Peggy Seeger, Penny Seeger, Sonya Cohen - "Ground Hog"
Charles Brown - "One Never Knows"
Eric Bibb - "Lucky Man Rag"
Jon Langford and Sally Timms - "Anything Can Happen"
John Hartford - "I Would Not Be Here"
Railroad Earth - "You Never Know"
Carrie Newcomer - "Tornado Alley"
Guy Clark - "Tornado Time in Texas"
Jorma Kaukonen - "River of Time"
January 24, 2009
Listen
Hour 1
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Stick With Me Baby"
The Little Willies - "Night Life"
k.d. lang - "I Dream of Spring"
Richard Julian and Sasha Dobson - "Spring is Just Around the Corner (live)"
Sasha Dobson - "I Couldn't Let You Go (live)"
Richard Julian - "Window (live)"
Richard Julian and Sasha Dobson - "Burn (live)"
Richard Julian and Sasha Dobson - "I'm Gonna Always Love You (live)"
Randy Newman - "Easy Street"
Eilen Jewell - "Rich Man's World"
Spider John Koerner - "Everybody's Going For the Money"
Butch Thompson - "Echoes of Spring"
Hour 2
Over the Rhine - "North Pole Man"
Deborah Liv Johnson - "Across the White Plains"
Ann Reed - "Every Long Journey"
Johnny Horton - "North To Alaska"
Nanci Griffith - "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder"
Debby McClatchy - "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Bob Dylan - "Isis"
Dave Frishberg & Rebecca Kilgore - "Snowbound"
Mark Erelli - "Snowed In"
Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen - "The Frozen Logger/Proper Cup of Coffee"
Dakota Dave Hull and Kari Larson - "Windchill"
Listen
Hour 1
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Stick With Me Baby"
The Little Willies - "Night Life"
k.d. lang - "I Dream of Spring"
Richard Julian and Sasha Dobson - "Spring is Just Around the Corner (live)"
Sasha Dobson - "I Couldn't Let You Go (live)"
Richard Julian - "Window (live)"
Richard Julian and Sasha Dobson - "Burn (live)"
Richard Julian and Sasha Dobson - "I'm Gonna Always Love You (live)"
Randy Newman - "Easy Street"
Eilen Jewell - "Rich Man's World"
Spider John Koerner - "Everybody's Going For the Money"
Butch Thompson - "Echoes of Spring"
Hour 2
Over the Rhine - "North Pole Man"
Deborah Liv Johnson - "Across the White Plains"
Ann Reed - "Every Long Journey"
Johnny Horton - "North To Alaska"
Nanci Griffith - "Ten Degrees and Getting Colder"
Debby McClatchy - "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Bob Dylan - "Isis"
Dave Frishberg & Rebecca Kilgore - "Snowbound"
Mark Erelli - "Snowed In"
Priscilla Herdman, Anne Hills & Cindy Mangsen - "The Frozen Logger/Proper Cup of Coffee"
Dakota Dave Hull and Kari Larson - "Windchill"
January 17, 2009
Listen
Fame - "Van Morrison"
Fame is Dangerous - "Gary Myrick"
I Want to Be a Sideman - "Dave Frishberg"
Motel Time - "Johnny Paycheck w/ Lloyd Green"
The Rocket Motel - "Cam Waters"
Twelfth Street Rag - "Sol Hoopii & O.T. Coffin"
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - "Buddy Emmons"
It Doesn't Matter Anymore - "Eva Cassidy"
Stratosphere Boogie - "Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant"
The Orchid - "Joe Savage live in-studio"
Morning Coffee Funk - "Joe Savage"
Blues for Martin Luther King - "Otis Spann"
Get Back (Black, Brown and White) - "Big Bill Broonzy"
Up To The Mountain (MLK Song) - "Patti Griffin"
Take My Hand, Precious Lord - "Mahalia Jackson"
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) - "Sam Bush"
If a Song Could Be President - "Over the Rhine"
A Change is Gonna Come - "Aretha Franklin"
Eyes on the Prize - "Mavis Staples - "We'll Never Turn Back"
Just a Dream - "Memphis Slim"
It's Alright Ma - "Bob Dylan"
Abeline (The Eisenhower Waltz) - "Peter Mulvey"
Only In America - "Jay and the Americans"
Listen
Fame - "Van Morrison"
Fame is Dangerous - "Gary Myrick"
I Want to Be a Sideman - "Dave Frishberg"
Motel Time - "Johnny Paycheck w/ Lloyd Green"
The Rocket Motel - "Cam Waters"
Twelfth Street Rag - "Sol Hoopii & O.T. Coffin"
Take Me Out To The Ballgame - "Buddy Emmons"
It Doesn't Matter Anymore - "Eva Cassidy"
Stratosphere Boogie - "Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant"
The Orchid - "Joe Savage live in-studio"
Morning Coffee Funk - "Joe Savage"
Blues for Martin Luther King - "Otis Spann"
Get Back (Black, Brown and White) - "Big Bill Broonzy"
Up To The Mountain (MLK Song) - "Patti Griffin"
Take My Hand, Precious Lord - "Mahalia Jackson"
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) - "Sam Bush"
If a Song Could Be President - "Over the Rhine"
A Change is Gonna Come - "Aretha Franklin"
Eyes on the Prize - "Mavis Staples - "We'll Never Turn Back"
Just a Dream - "Memphis Slim"
It's Alright Ma - "Bob Dylan"
Abeline (The Eisenhower Waltz) - "Peter Mulvey"
Only In America - "Jay and the Americans"
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