PLAYLISTS FOR WUWG'S APPALACHIAN TRAIL VAGUELY FOLK MUSIC SHOW April 2003
producer and host: Steve Sedberry
***playlist for 29 April 2003***
Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Warner Brothers, 1979 lp [our radio show theme song]
Jimmy Driftwood; What Is The Color Of The Soul of Man?; Voice of the People; Monument lp [produced by Fred Foster]
Ray Korona Band; Polluting Is Fun; It's Still The 60's; Hobo Star Music; CD1992
The Happy Goodmans; The Eyes of Jesus; good 'n' happy; Canaan Records, Waco, TX
Reckless Kelly; Everybody; Under The Table and Above The Sun; Sugar Hill 2003
Jimmy Driftwood; Voice of the People; Voice of the People; Monument lp [produced by Fred Foster]
Kate Campbell; In My Mother's House; Rosaryville; Compass 1999
Tom Rawson; I Didn't Ask Why; Outside the Lines; Royal Gorge Music, 1992
Clark Kessinger; Wednesday Night Waltz; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
The New Lost City Ramblers; Cyclone of Rye Cove; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Maybelle Carter and Sara Carter Bayes; I'm Leaving You This Lonesome Song; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Doc Watson and Fred Prince; Carroll Conty Blues; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Open Road; How Can You Refuse Him Now; Cold Wind; Rounder 2002
Sam and Kirk McGee; Don't Let Your Deal Go Down; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Caroline Herring; Wreck On The Highway; Twilight; Blue Corn Music, 2001
Greg Hester; Hello Sweet Georgia; Slow Burnin'; Coin Bread Records [song by Michael Karl Brown]
Steve Sedberry; noodling around on the guitar: maybe even improvising....live at the control board tonight, 29 April 2003, WUWG
[9 PM break]
Caroline Herring; Devil Made A Mess; Twilight; Blue Corn Music, 2001 [the devil sure made a mess outa you]
Jimmy Driftwood; The Lonesome Ape; Voice of the People; Monument lp
The Happy Goodmans; Do You Know My Jesus; good 'n' happy; Canaan Records, Waco, TX
Roscoe Holcomb; Trouble In Mind; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Doc Watson; Deep River Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003 [The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection 1964-1998]
Christine Kane; Love LIke That; This Time Last Year
Doc Watson; Never No More Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003 [The Doc Watson Country Blues Collection 1964-1998]
Buffy Sainte-Marie; Dance Me Around; Up Where We Belong; EMI 1996
Buffy Sainte-Marie; He's An Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo; Up Where We Belong; EMI 1996
Buffy Sainte-Marie; Until It's Time For You To Go; Up Where We Belong; EMI 1996
Buffy Sainte-Marie; Universal Soldier; Up Where We Belong; EMI 1996
Karen Mal; Rosalie; Mercury's Wings; Boars Nest 1228 www.karenmal.com
Bill Monroe and Doc Watson; Fire On The Mountain; Smithsonian Folkways SFCD 40064; 1993
Bill Monroe and Doc Watson; Chicken Reel; Smithsonian Folkways SFCD 40064; 1993
Carter Family; Sunshine In The Shadows; Sunshine In The Shadows; Rounder
Seņor Cantiva Band; Negros; Traditional Music of Peru 8: Piura; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002
Steve Sedberry; Music Is The Road To My Happiness; (live performance)
***end of show for 29 April 2003***
***playlist for 22 April 2003***
Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; [our radio show theme song] 1979 lp
Norah Jones; Don't Know Why; Come Away With Me; Blue Note
Norah Jones; Cold Cold Heart; Come Away With Me; Blue Note
Edna Garte; TV; Songs For Free Spirits [actually Edna does not sing but rather writes the songs]
George Pegram; John Henry; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Cousin Emmy with the New Lost City Ramblers; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003 [a city lost but now is found; was taxed but now it's free]
John W. Summers; Fine Times At Our House; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Connie Huber/Edna Garte; Abraham's Tears; (single CD)
Clarnce Ashley; Little Sadie; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Jean Ritchie; Gypsy Laddie; Ballads From Her Appalacgian Family Tradition; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Jean Ritchie; False Sir John; Ballads From Her Appalacgian Family Tradition; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Mercedes Sosa; Solo le Pido a Dios; 30 Anos; PolyGram Philips 1993 [duo with Leon Gieco, the actual writer of this very moving song]
The Iron Mountain String Band; Sugar Hill; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
The New Lost City Ramblers; Bill Morgan and His Gal; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Dock Boggs; Country Blues; Classic Old-Time Music; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Steve Sedberry; Jesus Never Taught Me To Kill (and) Jesus Christ, Have Mercy On My Soul; live performances of two original songs at the WUWG control board, 22 April 2003.
[Luke 18:13. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]
[9 PM break]
selections from Traditional Music of Peru 8: Piura; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002
a) Negros
b) Hermanos; Borregos
c) Los Cuarto Amigos; Sarahuas
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper; The Legend of the Dogwood Tree; www.dovesong.com
David Goldman; Takeda No Komori Uta; Summer With Juliet; www.david goldman.com 2003 [a performing musicologist melding song styles from many lands, this one from Japan]
David Goldman; Lag Gai Chot; Summer With Juliet; www.david goldman.com 2003
David Goldman; Someday I'll Fly; Summer With Juliet; www.david goldman.com 2003
Birmingham Jubilee Quartet; Crying To The Lord; www.dovesong.com [Crying Holy Unto The Lord]
Kenny Burrell and the Jazz Guitar Band; Confessin' The Blues; Pieces of Blues and The Blues; Blue Note lp 1988 [recorded in 1986 featuring guitarists: Kenny Burrell (also playing Six String Banjo), Rodney Jones, Bobby Broom, bassist, Dave Jackson, and percussionist, Kenny Washington]
Steve Brooks; The Terrorists Have Won; Fever; 2002 www.stevebrooks.net [hear the whole song before judging the song by the title]
Ustad Mohammad Omar; Emen/Tintal; Virtuoso from Afghanistan; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002 [featuring Zakir Hussain] [I played some of the first part of this 22 minute piece]
Larry Penn; Potato Man; A Ride On The Westbound; Cookie Man Music Co
Otis Brothers; God Don't Ever Change; The Return of the Otis Brothers; Let's Go Hunting [this song is proof that street musician and preacher Pearly Brown of Americus, Georgia had a far reaching effect; thank you, Pearly, for what you shared: knowledge that God really does love us!]
***end of program for 22 April 2003***
***playlist for 15 April 2003***
Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; [theme song] 1979 lp
Lynn Morris Band; Good Love; Shape of a Tear; Rounder 2003
Lynn Morris Band; Gonna Have Love; Shape of a Tear; Rounder 2003
Lynn Morris Band; Shape of a Tear; Shape of a Tear; Rounder 2003
Lynn Morris Band; I Wish It Would Rain; Shape of a Tear; Rounder 2003
Judy C. Cumbee; Child of the Red Hills of Georgia; Moment of Dawn; cassette 1995
Big Jack Johnson; Pistol Packin Mama; Live In Chicago; Earwig Music 1997 [What kind of courage does it take for a bully to beat someone up with a gun or with anything else? Is that patriotism? Can patriotism and the love of God coexist? If so, in what kind of poetic schizophrenic? Is poetic schizophrenia now the norm? Answers furnished on request if we can find someone who knows.]
Judy C. Cumbee; Alleluia Anyhow!; Moment of Dawn; cassette 1995
Joymasters; It Won't Be Long Till Jesus Comes; Songs of the South; lp
Ed McCurdy; Strawberry Roan; Song of the West; Tradition Everest, lp [dedicated to the dedicated doing the impossible]
Joymasters; God Will Make A Way; Songs of the South; lp
Judy C. Cumbee; Hello Love; Moment of Dawn; cassette 1995
Ed McCurdy; Punchin' The Dough; Song of the West; Tradition Everest, lp [the trail cook sings: While you're punchin' cattle I'm punchin' dough]
Roscoe Holcomb; Coal Creek; an untamed sense of control; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Roscoe Holcomb; Rock Island Prison; an untamed sense of control; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Roscoe Holcomb; I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow; an untamed sense of control; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Roscoe Holcomb; Combs Hotel Burned Down; an untamed sense of control; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Roscoe Holcomb; Knife Guitar; an untamed sense of control; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
[9 PM break]
Doc Watson; Country Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003
Doc Watson; Sitting On Top Of The World; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003
Roscoe Holcomb; I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow; an untamed sense of control; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003 [repeated by listener request]
Judy C. Cumbee; Guatemala Bracelet Song; Moment of Dawn; 1995
Judy C. Cumbee; Wayfaring Stranger; Moment of Dawn; 1995
Doc Watson; Deep River Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003
Horton Barker; Amazing Grace; Classic Mountian Songs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Ed McCurdy; When The Work's All Done This Fall; Song of the West; Tradition Everest, lp
Judy C. Cumbee; Grandma's Song; Moment of Dawn; 1995; write Judy at Vine and Fig Tree, 11076 CR 267, Lanett, AL 36963
Anne and Dick Albin; Have A Nice Day; No Commercial Appeal; 1976 lp from Kentucky [Dick lives in Atlanta now]
Country Boy Eddie and the Joymasters; Come Spring; Songs of the South; lp
Buffy Sainte-Marie; The Priests of the Golden Bull; Coincidence and Likely Stories; Chrysalis, EMI 1992 [one of the most poetically coherent indictments of our highly destructive and quite ephemeral western way of life ever set to music]
Sally Shuffield; Backroads of My Mind; Backroads of My Mind; FanFare Records, CD, 1999
Doc Watson; Memphis Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003
Steve Sedberry; When I Can't See Christ For The Christians (it's time for me to pray); live performance at the WUWG control board, 15 April 2003.
The Lamplighters; The Lighthouse; Introducing the Lamplighters; Lamplight Records LL-4830 lp
***end of program for 15 April 2003***
John 10: 7. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
***playlist for 8 April 2003***
+++submissions of Christian folk music are especially welcomed+++
Pete Seeger, Mexican Blues (theme song); Circles and Seasons
Brick Road Ramblers; Ragged But Right; Porch Music
Kilby Snow; Wildwood Flower; Classic Mountain Songs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002 [Snow was a unique Autoharp player with a style completely his own]
Tom Rawson; I Didn't Ask Why; Outside the Lines; Royal Gorge Music, 1992 [A timely message of 'heads up, everybody!']
Watson, Price and Howard; Daniel Prayed; Classic Mountain Songs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002
Ray Korona Band; (If It's Sexual Harassment) I'm Calling the Law; A Friend Like You; www.raykorona.com
Pop Stoneman; Wreck of the Number Nine; Classic Mountain Songs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002
Kate Campbell; Ave Maria Grotto; Rosaryville, Compass 1999 [concerns Brother Joseph, a folk artist monk at a monastery in Cullman, Alabama]
Horton Barker; Amazing Grace; Classic Mountain Songs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002 [In my opinion one of the best versions of this famous song]
Eva Cassidy; People Get Ready; Songbird; www.blixstreet.com [a heartfelt, folkier version of the Curtis Mayfield classic song about the last days]
Ray Korona Band; Sanctions; single song on a CD release in 2002; www.raykorona.com [this song gives some background on the seemingly-non-humanitarian effects of the lengthy economic blockade of Iraq by the US following the 1991 invasion]
Eva Cassidy; Oh, Had I A Golden Thread; Songbird; www.blixstreet.com [appealing folk-soul version of Pete Seeger's classic song of compassion for 'this sorry world,' but the only cure for this planet is Jesus Christ, son of the Living God.]
Steve Young; Worker's Song (Handful of Earth); Primal Young; Appleseed, 1999
[The voice of this folk rock song seems to assume that in the meanacing machine: without the little wheels the big wheels can't turn]
Eva Cassidy; Fields of Gold; Songbird; www.blixstreet.com [Can Sting sing his original song any better?]
Doc Watson; Spike Driver Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003 [song by Mississippi John Hurt; duo with Merle Watson; Annual MerleFest is toward the end of this month at Wilkesboro, NC]
[9PM break]
Larry Penn; Potato Man; A Ride On The Westbound; Cookie Man Music Co. 2002 Milwaukee cookeman@execpc.com
Carlo Aonzo, Beppe Gambetta and David Grisman; Costumi Siciliana; Acoustic Disc. Vol. VI; 2001 Acoustic Disc [from Traversata: Italian Music in America; Costumi Siciliani (Sicilian Customs) Giovanni Gioviale]
Charles Sawtelle and Friends; The Ranger's Command; Music From Rancho Deville; Acoustic Disc; www.dawgnet.com [Laurie Lewis sings a tight harmony on this classic Wood Guthrie cowboy ballad. 'She rose up from her warm bed, a gun in each hand']
Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith; If God Is Dead (Who's This Living In My Soul?); God Will; Music Row Talent Records, Inc. 2001; originally recorded in 1969 and released on RCA lp, Sunday Morning, 1970. lakesong@shreve.net
Eddy Lawrence; Exit 115; Used Parts; 1992-1994 [Personal fortune used unwisely is soon lost]
Eddy Lawrence; Four Faces; Going To Water; Snowplow Records [Being more rock than folk Eddy's newest CD tells a story that needs to be heard, especially now, concerning the hypocritically more acceptable brand of historic American terrorism perpetrated by the White House itself.]
MacLeod - Eggleston; Drawn From The Well; Drawn From The Well; Wind River 2002 www.folkera.com/windriver [Instrumentalists Kate MacLeod and Kat Eggleston on fiddle and hammered dulcimer]
Johnny Selph; Samson; Country Legends [the story of Samson is always of interest]
Steve Eulberg; Maquiladora; Soaring; Owl Mountain Music 2001 www.owlmountain.com
Steve Sedberry; Were You There (when they crucified my Lord)? [with some new verses, sung live at the WUWG control board tonight]
David Amram Quartet; Pull My Daisy; There Is No Eye: Music For Photographs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2001 [I met David at the same life-changing gathering where I met Eddy Lawrence and his former singing partner, his older sister Vicky, when Eddy was still a student at Banks High School in Birmingham, Alabama; Spring 1973]
Johnny Selph; The Anniversary Song; Country Legends; JHS Records, Orlando, FL 1995
Odetta; Rock Island Line; Lookin For A Home; M.C. Records, NY
Buffy Sainte-Marie; He's An Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo; Up Where We Belong; EMI
***end of show for 8 April 2003*****
***playlist for 1 April 2003***
+++submissions of Christian folk music are especially welcomed+++
Buffy Sainte-Marie; Cripple Creek; Up Where We Belong; EMI
[a mouthbow is a superior weapon in cultural warfare]
Josh White; Fuhrer; Free and Equal Blues; Smithsonian-Folkways
[there aren't many funny war songs but this is.]
Odetta; Roberta; Lookin For A Home; M.C. Records, NY
Larry Penn; A Ride On The Westbound; A Ride On The Westbound; Cookie Man Music Co. cookeman@execpc.com [new release]
Odetta; When I Was A Cowboy; Lookin For A Home; M.C. Records, NY
Larry Penn; John Henry; A Ride On The Westbound; Cookie Man Music Co. cookeman@execpc.com [new release]
Charles Sawtelle and Friends; The Ranger's Command; Music From Rancho Deville; Acoustic Disc; www.dawgnet.com
[I read that this was Sawtelle's last recording.
I found the one song on a sampler from Acoustic Disc;
Laurie Lewis sings a well-woven harmony on this classic Wood Guthrie cowboy ballad.]
Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith; If God Is Dead (Who's This Living In My Soul?); God Will; Music Row Talent Records, Inc. 2001; originally recorded in 1969 and released on RCA lp, Sunday Morning, 1970. lakesong@shreve.net
Tom Rawson; Family of Woman and Man; Outside the Lines; Royal Gorge Music, 1992
[repeated from last week]
The Waifs; Fisherman's Daughter; up all night; Compass 2003
[Australian group tending more toward folk rock with a few rather acoustic selections]
Steve Sedberry; If We Have Faith;
[yours truly live for my friend in SF, CA, Frank Levin]
Tom Russell; The Kid From Spavinaw; Modern Art; Hightone 2003
[song about baseball star, Mickey Mantle]
[9PM break]
Kate Campbell; Look Away; Rosaryville, Compass 1999
[a song about a southerner trying to understand her role in a changing world]
Tom Russell; Gulf Coast Highway; Modern Art; Hightone 2003
[with Nancy Griffith]
Sally Shuffield; She Ain't No EmmyLou Harris; Backroads of My Mind
Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith; God Will; God Will; Music Row Talent Records, Inc. 2001; originally recorded in 1969 and released on, Sunday Morning, RCA lp.
Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith; Whispering Hope; God Will; Music Row Talent Records, Inc. 2001; originally recorded in 1969 and released on, Sunday Morning, RCA lp.
Steve Eulberg; Soaring; Soaring; Owl Mountain Music 2001 www.owlmountain.com
Steve Eulberg; I Am A Pond; Soaring; Owl Mountain Music 2001 www.owlmountain.com
Doc Watson; Country Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003
Big Jack Johnson; Pistol Packin Mama; Live In Chicago; Earwig Music 1997
[in a moment of weakness this reminded me of 'shrub']
Elizabeth Cotten; Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie; There Is No Eye: music for photographs; Smithsonian-Folkways 2001
Alastair Moock; Pastures of Plenty; A Life I Never Had; 2002 www.moock.com
[For some this Woody Guthrie song might help justify war to defend one's homeland.]
Johnny Selph; Country Legends; Country Legends; JHS Records, Orlando, FL 1995
[This song thanks all us 'nice guy DJs' for playing Johnny's records!!!!! And thanks for the thanks!!!!]
Steve Young; The Year That Clayton Delaney Died; Primal Young; Appleseed, 1999
[I was going to play Young's version of The Worker's Song
(Handful of Earth) but changed my mind; May this war be over.]
Christine Kane; Fall From Grace; This Time Last Year; 1995
[from Asheville, NC. I'd like to hear her more recent work.]
Steve Young; Blackland Farmer; Primal Young; Appleseed, 1999
Doc Watson; Memphis Blues; Trouble In Mind; Sugar Hill 2003
***end of show for 1 April 2003, and that's no joke!*****
*********************PICK OF THE WEEK**********************
Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith; If God Is Dead (Who's This Living In My Soul?)
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This song was written by Lawrence Reynolds
(born: July 13, 1944, St. Stephens, Alabama;
died: August 15, 2000;
buried at Three Forks Baptist Church in Bigbee, Alabama)
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