Hello Everyone-Hope you are all OK and coping with what's happening in the world. Can't say that I am. But another radio show at WAMC is done. Tough times for us all...

Here's my playlist from last night.

Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly


Set #1:

Dust Bowl Faeries / Film Noir/Double Feature / Single

Annie Gallup / Movies / Little Five Points

Michael Jerling / It's a Wonderful Life / Little Movies

Nanci Griffith / Drive-In Movies and Dashboard Lights / From a Distance - The Very Best of Nanci Griffith

Jim Henry / Drive-in Movie Picture Show / The Wayback

Fred Eaglesmith / Drive-in Movie / Drive-In Movie


Set #2:

Malvina Reynolds / It Isn't Nice / Ear to the Ground

Tom Paxton and Anne Hills / Carry It On / Under American Skies

Malvina Reynolds / The Money Crop / Ear to the Ground

Friction Farm / Louder Than Guns / Stone By Stone

The Beers Family / The Seasons of Peace / Seasons of Peace

Rosanne Cash / Hope Against Hope / Rules of Travel


Set #3 (this one came about when a woman whose husband was dying in hospice emailed and asked me to play this song. Walt Michael and Company had played at their wedding two-and-a-half decades ago. She wanted to hear John Kirk sing this song. I couldn't play it that night because the only version I had was on vinyl, and all the vinyl is on the second floor. It was heartbreaking for me to tell her I couldn't play it. I hope she was listening last night, but I have no way of knowing whether or not she was...):

Walt Michael and Company / The Star of the County Down / The Good Old Way

Brian Conway / Red Rose, Proud Rose / Wallace Avenue


Set #4:

Robert Force & Albert d'Ossché / Waltzing with Bears / The Complete Recordings

Alice DiMicele / Three Little Birds / If I Were an Otter: Songs for Kids of All Ages

Amy Speace / The Sea and the Shore (Acoustic) / The Blue Rock Session

Mustard's Retreat / Seeds of Hope / There...And Back Again

Kray Van Kirk / Resistance / Empire


Set #5 (Martin Luther King, Jr holiday coming up):

Sweet Honey in the Rock / I Got Shoes / I Got Shoes

To Paxton / How Beautiful Upon the Mountain / Comedians & Angels

Kate Campbell / Freedom Train / Blues and Lamentations

Sweet Honey in the Rock / Freedom Train / I Got Shoes

Magpie / Ballad of Harriet Tubman / John Brown - Sword of the Spirit



Set #6 (more for MLK Jr.):

Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway / Hickory Hill / Deeper Than the Skin

Vance Gilbert / A Change is Gonna Come / Angels Castles Covers

Molasses Creek / Abraham, Martin, and John / People Get Ready

John Gorka / Hope Doesn't Fail / Unentitled


Cindy Kallet / Big Dark's Fancy (theme) / Working on Wings to Fly


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