Makin' Candy, 12/28/04

One of my favorite formats, the ALL 80s SHOW. So many good songs from 1984 and thereabouts. Look for the soundtrack chunk below, and listen in next time for Professor Kitty's trenchant commentary...

• 1984: Van Halen
  
• She's a Beauty: The Tubes
  
• Modern Love: David Bowie
  
• Heart & Soul: Huey Lewis & the News
  
• Back on the Chain Gang: The Pretenders
  
• Hold Me Now: The Thompson Twins
  
• Don't Let Go: Wang Chung
  
• Burnin' down the House: Talking Heads
  
• Catch Me I'm Falling: Real Life
  
• Heat of the Moment: Asia
  
• Ban the Game/Safety Dance: Men without Hats
  
• St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion): John Parr
  
• To Live and Die in L.A.: Wang Chung
  
• Pretty in Pink: Psychedelic Furs
  
• If You Were Here: The Thompson Twins
  
• Relax: Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  
• I Want the One I Can't Have: The Smiths
  
• Hong Kong Garden: Siouxsie & the Banshees
  
• Blasphemous Rumors: Depeche Mode
  
• King of Pain: The Police
  
• What's Love Got to Do with It?: Tina Turner
  
• Africa: Toto
  
• Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This): Eurythmics
  
• Everything She Wants (remix): WHAM
  
• Live to Tell (maxi-single): Madonna
  
• Human: Human League
  
• Smooth Operator: Sade
  

Makin' Candy Winter Solstice edition, 12/21/04

This turned into kinda a Christmas show because I grew up with a lot of great Christmas music and it seems to fit the time of year for me... But whatever your faith or belief, celebrate the longest night of the year and the return of the sun!

• Christmas is Coming: Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas s/t)
  
• Go Tell it On the Mountain: Harry Simeone Chorale
  
• The Holly & the Ivy: Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
  
• Christmas Song: Nat "King" Cole
  
• Christmas Present: Andy Williams
  
• Kling, Glockchen, Klingelingeling: [unknown German singers]
  
• Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod): Luciano Pavarotti
  
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Galliard Brass Ensemble
  
• What Noise on Earth: Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  
• Russische Vesper: Ivan Rebroff
  
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm: Ella Fitzgerald
  
• Nutty Jingle Bells: Al Hirt
  
• A Marshmallow World: Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin live on the Dean Martin Christmas Show, 12/21/67
  
• Once in Royal David's City: Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
  
• Boar's Head Carol
  
• Sleigh Ride: Midnight String Quartet
  
• Chicken Foot: The Christmas Revels
  
• Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer: Elmo & Patsy
  
• Do They Know it Christmas?: Band Aid
  
• Baby, It's Cold Out there: Dean Martin
  
• Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!: Dean Martin
  
• Winter Wonderland: Dean Martin
  
• I'll be Home for Christmas: Bing Crosby
  
• What Child is This: Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas s/t)
  
• Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, The Nutcracker: P.I. Tchaikovsky
  
• Christmas at Sea (medley): Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  
• Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming: John Fahey (guitar)
  
• Un Flambeau, Jeanette Isabella: Jean-Paul Kreder Choir
  
• Happy Christmas: Oscar Lopez
  
• Dancing Day: University of Vermont Choral Union
  
• Synge We to This Mery Cumpane: The Boston Camerata
  
• Der Engel Sprach zu den Hirten: Heinrich Schutz
  
• Christmas Concerto: Arcangelo Corelli
  
• Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio: J.S. Bach
  

Another in a series of strange dreams

In my dream, I was looking for LPs by Wentzle Ruml, perhaps as a gift, and I went to About Music in the now-burned Wilder Building in Brattleboro, VT. The guy at the store said that, even though tons of water from the firemen's efforts had ruined most of the stock, his Wentzle Ruml albums were still in super shape, because they were just great product. I looked through them--one was a shiny black box-type album, the kind that holds 2 or 3 records that are oddly numbered so that when you stack them on one of those tall-spindle record players the sides will play in the right order. I seem to recall that the talented W.R. was on the cover in a sort of stylized embossed design, just him at the piano caught in simple lines like he was live at Montreux or something. A bit of an odd dream seeing as 1. I think About Music is closed now, 2. I am not aware of Wentzle Ruml having any sort of musical career. I enjoy imagining it though.

Sweet & Sticky Jazz times, 12/7/04

A smooooth show this time, peeps.

• Kathy's Waltz: Dave Brubeck
  
• Blue Skies: Ella Fitzgerald
  
• Night & Day: Django Reinhardt
  
• The Touch of Your Lips: Zoot Sims
  
• You're A Sweetheart: Dinah Washington
  
• 5400 North: Roy Eldridge
  
• The Giddybug Gallop: Johnny Hodges
  
• Soul Blues: Yusef Lateef
  
• Early in the Morning: Jeanne Trevor
  
• Similau: Johan Jones Quartet
  
• First Valve Blues: Malik McBee Moffett
  
• Now's the Time: Charlie Parker
  
• Nowhere with Love: Harry Connick, Jr.
  
• Royal Garden Blues: Duke Ellington
  
• Down by the Sycamore Tree: Stan Getz
  
• Lullaby of Birdland: Lionel Hampton
  
• Happy-Go-Lucky Local aka "Night Train": Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery
  
• Please Send Me Someone to Love: Count Basie & Joe Williams
  
• Ain't Misbehavin': Ella & Count Basie
  
• Meditation: Al Hirt
  
• You Don't Know what Love is: Sonny Rollins
  
• A Fine Romance: Dave Brubeck
  
• Last Night When we Were Young: Kenny Burrell
  
• For All we Know: Billie Holiday
  
• Strength & Sanity: Booker Little
  
• Late Date: Ben Webster Quintet
  
• Flying Home: Lionel Hampton
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 12/1/04

The latest tender morsels of radio sweetness!

• What the Snowman Learned About Love: Stars
  
• Web Front: Archers of Loaf
  
• Rusholme Ruffians: The Smiths
  
• Stove/Smother: Sloan
  
• Freeborne: Land of Diana
  
• Fairy Dust: Joe Jackson Band
  
• The Day After the Revolution
  
• Dream Sweet Dreams: Aztec Camera
  
• Alyda: Yo La Tengo
  
• Knock on Wood: Ware River Club
  
• Free Fall: Saloon
  
• Gutter Rock: Martin Rev
  
• Tonite: Go-Go's
  
• Over & Done With: The Proclaimers
  
• All Lifestyles: The Beastie Boys
  
• Veridis Quo: Daft Punk
  
• Top of the World: Shonen Knife (covering The Carpenters)
  
• Wicked Funk: Kwanzaa Posse
  
• Little Black Egg: The Bourbons
  
• Firedoor: Ani Difranco
  
• Noites Cariocas: Conjunto Epoca de Ouro
  
• A Taste of Honey: Martin Denny (exotic moog!)
  
• Dance in the Moon: Lydia Kavina (theremin); Friedrich Wikkens (composer)
  
• Snake Flute Blues: Norma Tanega & Brian Ransom
  
• At the End of the Evening: Night Noise
  
• Misteriou Joiau: La Chorale du Bout du Monde
  

A small cache of links for future use

How to make your own fonts

www.mozartproject.org

letters of Mozart on-line

some info on how the French nobility worked

Great Saxe

My low-grade interest in the Marechal de Saxe, who lived from 1696-1750, has suddenly flared up into a fever of web-searching. I found the following brief tidbits at an infoplease entry for Saxe:

Saxe, Maurice, comte de, marshal of France, one of the greatest generals of his age. He was the illegitimate son of August II of Poland and Saxony. When very young he entered the Saxon army, and in 1720 he went into French service. In 1726 he obtained leave to make good his claim to the duchy of Courland, but in 1727 the attempt failed. He fought under the duke of Berwick in the War of the Polish Succession. In the War of the Austrian Succession, he led the successful attack on Prague (1741) and later, after becoming (1744) marshal, made his reputation by victories at Fontenoy (1745) and Raucoux (1746) and by the capture of Maastricht (1748). In recognition of his services Louis XV gave him life tenure of the castle of Chambord and (1747) the title of marshal general. His Mes Rêveries (1757) is a remarkable work on the art of war. Maurice de Saxe was notorious for his amorous exploits and for his tragic liaison with Adrienne Lecouvreur. Among his descendants was George Sand. L. H. Thornton has translated (1944) Mes Rêveries.

Other searches reveal titillating mentions of Saxe in the memoirs of Casanova, check out these 2 e-book pages: casanova 1, casanova 2.

Apparently his mistress, the actress Lecouvreur, was poisoned by a rival named Bouillon. Later, an opera was written about her. And how cool is the George Sand connection?

Makin' Candy setlist, 11/23/04

Here's what played last week--just 2 hours of sticky sweet goods.

• Lifted by Love: kd lang
  
• Moves Like You: Cath Carroll
  
• At Seventeen: Janis Ian
  
• My Jeanette: Squirtgun
  
• Snik Snak Skaduliak: Go Nuts
  
• Cryin' Cryin' Cryin': Bomb Bassets
  
• How to Survive a Broken Heart: Ben Lee
  
• Lover's Lane: Squirrel Nut Zippers
  
• Pacifics: Digable Planets
  
• Plena for My Grundle: Garage a Trois
  
• Desaparecido: Manu Chao
  
• Which of Us is the Fool: Robert Palmer
  
• Consumption: Bill Horowitz
  
• Midnight Blues: Leftover Salmon feat. Del & Ronnie McCoury
  
• It Must Be Love: Madness
  
• Der Komissar (German version): Falco
  
• Sentimental Love: Elevator Drops
  
• Big Country: Big Country
  
• Hey: Disappear Fear
  
• Cosmic Slop: Axiom Funk
  
• Let Forever Be: Chemical Brothers
  
• Clever Gretel: told by Danny Kaye
  
• Shaker Hill: The Jazz Mandolin Project
  
• Green Peach Blues: Lew London
  
• Caught: Anna Domino
  
• Eggs & Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson): Tom Waits
  
• Fadista Louco: Antonio Mourao
  
• There's Always One You Can't Forget (music of Charlie Chaplin: Thomas Beckman (cello) & Johannes Cernota (piano)
  

Gilfeather turnip soup with sea-legs

I invented this based on a bitchin' soup I tasted a couple years ago at the 4 Columns Inn in Newfane, VT. My ad hoc recipe, featuring the legendary Gilfeather Turnip (check this link for word on a movie about this heirloom vegetable, that's how much we love it in Vermont:
http://www.ibrattleboro.com/article.php?story=2004062809212420). I bought the turnip at the local Farmer's Market on Saturday and it really was as big as my head. Turns out I could only fit about half of it in my largest soup pot.

Take:
1 chopped onion
1 T olive oil or butter
1 box chicken broth
4 cups cubed Gilfeather turnip
2 cups cubed potato (I used a waxy one to add more texture to the soup)
1 cup cubed yellow carrot (found this at Walker Farm, the light color means the soup has carrot sweetness but not carrot color)
1 bay leaf
1 6 oz. can of lump crab meat (or fresh if you can get it)
salt to taste

Saute the onion in the butter or oil until it starts to look glassy. Then add the broth, root vegetables and bay leaf. Bring to a boil and simmer for about an hour or until turnip pieces are soft (the potato and carrot may not be so soft, that's OK). The soup pot I used was larger than my (electric) stove element, so I used a heat disperser to keep everything cookin' and avoid burning food to the bottom of the pan. (This technique also works really well for brown rice.)

Allow the soup to cool (perhaps overnight in the fridge). To finish soup, mash up the root chunks with a masher or slotted spoon. Bring back to a simmer and add water for desired consistency. Add the crab meat and stir in so it starts to break up and flavor the whole soup. Marry flavors by simmering everything for another 10 minutes or so, then salt & serve! For someone who isn't a huge fan of vegetable tastes, I thought this soup was pretty delicious!

Makin' Candy Setlist, 11/16/04

Here's the radio info for this week. Mixin' candy like toffee loves lace.

• My Radio (AM Mix): Stars
  
• Mouthpiece: Shellac
  
• Speak Our Minds: Innocence Mission
  
• Je Veux Plus te Voir (I Don't Want You Anymore): Linda Thompson
  
• In Limbo: Radiohead
  
• Pachysandra: Gordon Stone
  
• No Aloha: The Breeders
  
• Harbor coat: REM
  
• Who's My Baby: Natacha Atlas with Niara Scarlett
  
• Down Boys: The Cars
  
• No Melody: Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• 12 Halfs: E*vax & Supersprite
  
• War Party: Eddie Grant
  
• Civilization: David Byrne
  
• Through with June: The Vestrymen
  
• Hombre Secreto: The Plugz (Repo Man s/t)
  
• Bring My Car I Feel to Smash It: The Sea & Cake
  
• Wedding Coat: Appalachian Death Ride
  
• The Bomb: Herbie Hancock
  
• Perfect Angel: Jimmy Ryan
  
• You're My Meat: Joe Jackson
  
• Eat That Chicken: Charles Mingus
  
• Freedom: House Martins
  
• Angry Anymore: Ani diFranco
  
• I Scare Myself: Thomas Dolby
  
• 12-24-2011: Anubian Lights
  
• Valley in the Clouds: David Arkenstone
  
• Bushman's Samba: Lullatone
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 11/9/04

Check out the strings of rants and useful information at www.ibrattleboro.com... it has been making me feel if not better, at least in like company regarding this election fiasco. I have also been enjoying www.sorryeverybody.com, though I contest that the "red" states have gotten ripped off even more than the blue states (either through fraud or, worse, being brain-washed by vituperative talk radio, etc.) so I hate to see those "blues" pulling back and pointing fingers. That's just what THEY want us to do. We gots to work together, man. Anyway, here's the list:

• Faith: George Michael
  
• The Phone Call: Memphis
  
• Equal Rights: Peter Tosh
  
• Dreamin': The Photon Band
  
• Watchin' the Detectives: Elvis Costello
  
• Don't change Your Plans: Ben Folds Five
  
• Mom's Sound System: Buckminster Fuzeboard
  
• Feeling Sad & Lonely: Bush (a 60's garage-rock band)
  
• I Like em Big and Stupid: Julie Brown
  
• Limbo: Throwing Muses
  
• I Wish You Would: Bowie
  
• Waltz #2: Elliot Smith
  
• Bullroarer: Midnight Oil
  
• The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit Me Now): David Byrne
  
• Time to Build: Beastie Boys
  
• Nobody told Me: John Lennon
  
• Terror: The Stockholm Monsters
  
• Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity: Isao Tomita (and Holst)
  
• See the Girl: Psychopaths
  
• The Man's Too Strong: Dire Straits
  
• Band of Gold: Afghan Whigs
  
• Radio Free: Smiley Bob Project
  
• Now You're Gone: Counts
  
• Hearts and Bones: Paul Simon
  
• Take Your Clothes off when You Dance: Frank Zappa
  
• Early Ev'ry Midnite: Roberta Flack
  
• You're Gonna Love Yourself in the Morning: Sammy Davis Jr.
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 11/2/04

This show was a dee-luxe Beastie Boys special edition... as DJ Pockets pointed out, good music for election night, especially if you're angry. I must add that the new "To the Five Boroughs" CD is really starting to rock my world. Thanks y'all.

• Sabrosa
  
• Body Movin'
  
• Right Right Now Now
  
• Brass Monkey
  
• Lighten Up
  
• I Don't Know
  
• Shake Your Rump
  
• Sure Shot
  
• Groove Holmes
  
• Time to Build
  
• Rhymin' and Stealin'
  
• Negotiation Limerick File (The 41 Small Star Mix)
  
• Shadrach
  
• Alright Hear This
  
• Now Get Busy
  
• Fight for your Right
  
• Root Down (Free Zone Mix)
  
• Alive
  
• Sounds of Science
  
• Drinkin' Wine
  
• Crawlspace
  
• Brand New
  
• Hey Ladies
  
• Paul Revere
  
• 20 Questions
  
• Sabotage
  
• Intergalactic
  
• Egg Man
  
• An Open Letter to NYC
  
• Gratitude
  
• Transitions
  
• Benny & the Jets
  
• Boddhisatva Vow
  
• We Got The

The least of it

Of the many, many loud and ANGRY and apologetic (to the rest of the world) things I have to say about what happened in this country in the past 24 hours, here's just one: Bush was not RE-elected. This is not a RE-election win. This is the FIRST time he's been elected. And THAT is even worse. WHO elected this person after everything that's gone down in the past 4 years? What are we going to do for the NEXT 4 years? I feel like Lewis Black today in that I can't help SHOUTING.

Makin' Candy Setlist, 10/26/04

Radio show details finally available after a weekend spent moving house. Tribute to John Peel and tiny Hallowe'en set included in this show...

• Fool's Gold: Stone Roses
  
• My Guru: Kalanji & Ananji
  
• How Long Can This Go On: Kitty Craft
  
• Eve of Destruction: Buzzo
  
• Eardrum Buzz: Wire
  
• Frontier: Dead Can Dance
  This next chunk dedicated to John Peel, BBC DJ 1967-2004
  
• Is She Weird: Pixies, recorded on the John Peel show, 6/11/90
  
• Transmission: Joy Division
  
• There is a Light that Never Goes Out: The Smiths
  
• (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais: The Clash
  
• Badhead: Blur
  
• clip of Mr. Peel opining on Grand Rapids... here endeth the John Peel tribute
  
• Goodbye: The Universe
  
• David's Last Summer: Pulp
  
• Spin: Death of a Salesman
  
• Out of Myself: Arco
  
• Brackish Boy: Frank Black
  
• (She's a) Universal Emptiness: Swans
  Halloween trio:
  
• I'm a Vampire: Future Bible Heroes
  
• Scary Monsters: David Bowie
  
• Great Pumpkin Waltz: Vince Guaraldi
  
• Action at a Distance: Matmos
  
• Bushman's Samba: Lullatone
  
• Acknowledgment from A Love Supreme: John Coltrane
  
• Playford Tunes: Maddy Prior
  
• Time on My Hands: Ben Webster
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 10/19/04

A sweet & sticky revue of indie/oldie favorites from Makin' Candy this week.

• Pasttime with Good Company (originally Henry VIII): Super Madrigal Brothers
  
• American Flag: Cat Power
  
• What Are You Wearing: Kahimi Karie
  
• Strawberryfire: Apples in Stereo
  
• This Night Has Opened my Eyes (originally The Smiths): Pipas
  
• Educated guess: Ani diFranco
  
• Ritual: Charming
  
• Terror: The Stockholm Monsters
  
• Apple Scruffs: George Harrison
  
• Thinking of You: Dr. Frank
  
• Wait for Me (Please): Kleenex Girl Wonder
  
• Roller King: The California Oranges
  
• Wild Bill Jones: Bad Livers
  
• The dissenters have risen: The Cannanes with Steward
  
• Mood Elevator: Lu
  
• Blue & Beautiful: Modesty Blaise
  
• The Eve of Destruction: Al Bruno aka Buzzo (see also Rudy Rucker's 10/19/04 weblog for more)
  
• The Vanishing: Stars
  
• Planeta Engraja: Lineland
  
• I Wish You'd Stay: Club 8
  
• New Mate: Figurine
  
• Bubblegum popgirl: The Cherry Orchard
  
• St. Elmo's Fire: Uilab
  
• No Op: Isan
  
• Brazil: Cornelius
  
• Invincible: Holiday Flyer
  
• Tonka Truck remix: Kevin & Paul
  
• 1987: Fingernail
  
• Zefiro torna: Monteverdi
  

Your website, madame

I've been going through a little Madame de Pompadour obsession lately (I know, who hasn't?) and was toying with the idea of recreating some denominator of a 44-course meal she hosted on November 4, 1747. Since I didn't have my Nancy Mitford biography on me, I tried finding the menu online. Thanks to Google I not only found it (in French & Italian), but there is an entire Madame de Pompadour website to play with. There goes my lunch hour--huzzah!

With an old fashioned hug, Prof. K.

Lunchtime flu thoughts

Since herbalism and conspiracy theory are a big part of my family life, here are my thoughts on the flu shot shortage this year.

It seems to me like a really crazy ad-campaign: "These are great, get them every year... oh wait, never mind." I only started hearing about flu shots 6 years ago, and was surprised that grown adults were encouraged to get shots at their local drug store on an annual basis. Sounded like a scam to me... much like the theory that putting fluoride in drinking water is a handy way to get rid of fluoride, actually a toxic substance. But with shots, people actually have the stuff injected voluntarily! What is it exactly? Concocted from strains of last year's defunct flu? Then this year, with flu shots limited, the CDC is trying to assure the same flu-shot-happy masses that only "high risk" people need the shots. But it's too damn late, we're trained to get the shots every year and begorrah, we're going to get them! So what if I'm over 2!

Here's where herbalism comes in. Nature has already made a powerful and tasty flu-fighter, called the elderberry. Ask your local herbalist or health-food store about elderberry and give yourself a break from shots. Heck, someone told me the FDA is thinking of regulating elderberry, so that means it must be good.

David Crosby puts it nicely:

Say, can I have some of your purple berries

Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now

Haven't got sick once

Prob'ly keep us both alive

Makin' Candy setlist, 10/12/04

This week was 774 years of human song--voice music going backward in time from 2004 to 1230. The Time Machine edition!

• Tiny Apocalypse: David Byrne 2004
  
• Soma: The Strokes 2001
  
• Perfect Time: Archers of Loaf 1998
  
• Maybe, I Don't Know: The Elevator Drops 1997
  
• Power of Equality: Red Hot Chili Peppers 1991
  
• Secret Separation: The Fixx 1986
  
• You Spin Me Round (Like a Record): Dead or Alive 1985
  
• Take On Me: a-ha 1985
  
• Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division 1980
  
• London Girl: The Jam 1977
  
• Barracuda: Heart 1977
  
• 1977: The Clash 1977
  
• Some Kinda Love: Velvet Underground 1969
  
• Stephanie Knows Who: Love 1967
  
• It's No Secret: Jefferson Airplane 1966
  
• The Getaway and the Chase: Anita O'Day 1956
  
• I Don't Mind: Hadda Brooks 1953
  
• Steppin' Out with My Baby: Fred Astaire 1952
  
• Prisoner of Love: Lena Horne with Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra 1941
  
• Quando m'en vo (from La Bohème): Puccini 1896
  
• Un di felice eterea (from La Traviata): Verdi 1853
  
• Sorrow's Tear: Stephen Jenks 1805
  
• Der Hölle Rache (from The Magic Flute): Mozart 1791
  
• Ma heureuse Iphigenie (from Iphigenie en Tauride): Gluck 1779
  
• I'm Sick of Life: Henry Purcell lived 1659-1695
  
• Tornate o cari baci: Claudio Monteverdi 1619
  
• Awake, sweet love, thou art returned: John Dowland 1597
  
• A Robyn: William Cornysh c. 1500-1550
  
• Que vous madame: Josquin des Prez lived 1440-1521
  
• excerpt from The Play of Daniel: manuscript from 1230
  
  

Makin' Candy setlist, 10/5/04

Tune into Makin' Candy every Tuesday night from 10pm to midnight! Here's what played this week--it was mainly a "wax from the stacks" show centering heavily on LPs from the Chelsea House Folklore Center Collection (click here for brief history).

• Pachysandra/Sunday Driver: Gordon Stone Band
  
• Maple Leaf Rag: Scott Joplin (Joshua Rifkin, piano)
  
• Bonny Lass of Anglesey: Martin Carthy
  
• Saint Behind the Glass: Los Lobos
  
• I'm goin' to Take You Fishin': Dice
  
• Old Joe: The Early Minstrel Show
  
• Davy Green: The Ivy Ross Experiment
  
• Coal Tattoo: Guy & Candie Caravan
  
• Misty Moisty Morning: Steeleye Span
  
• Ease the Pain: Mr. Love [from "Only in America," an Arf! Arf! compilation]
  
• Down the Valley: Sparky Rucker
  
• Salty Dog: Pinnacle Mountain Boys
  
• Cold Sailor: Arwen Mountain
  
• Must've Been High: Supersuckers
  
• Cigarettes, Whisky and Wild Women: Sons of the Pioneers
  
• Don't Let Your Deal Go Down: Barbara Carns
  
• Tennessee Border: Red Foley
  
• Liberty: Jay Round and the Williams Family
  
• Batik: Gordon Stone Band
  
• Face Up: Jimmy Ryan
  
• Simply a Road Song: Jim Ransom
  
• Everybody Knows this is Nowhere: Neil Young with Crazy Horse
  
• Homemade Music: Bob Gibson and Hamilton Camp
  
• Did You Hear John Hurt?: Tom Paxton
  
• The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn: Burt Porter
  
• Logie O'Buchan: Burt Porter (fretless banjo) & Sandy Kepler (guitar)
  
• Happy Song #1: Pete Swinnerton (from an LP called "Folk Songs from the Red Herring Coffee House, Urbana, IL")
  
• Barbara Allen: Mitzie Collins
  
• Fantasia on Nonesuch: Mitzie Collins (both these from a 1976 recording on Sampler Records)
  
• Woodsman's Alphabet: Sara Cleveland
  
• Shady Grove: Garcia, Grisman & Rice (from "The Pizza Tapes")
  
• Dust: Gene Autry
  

This blog hurts me

Ok, yes. Was feeling very chipper about this project several hours ago when I started wrestling with it. My patience has sadly worn thin. I'll start with some dope links, yo:

radio free brattleboro
fametracker
darla records
ibrattleboro
national novel writing month