PLAYLISTS FOR WUWG'S
APPALACHIAN TRAIL
Vaguely Folk Music Show
DECEMBER 2002

notes on future shows


Produced and hosted by Singin' Steve Sedberry since 1999


***playlist for 31 Dec 2002***

Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; [our instrumental theme song]

Laura Lind and Adam Miller; Goin' To The West; Wild Birds; 2001; phone 888 451-1147 

Acie Cargill; New Year's Eve; Acie Cargill's Country Songs

*************************LIVE**************************
Telephoneconversation with Adam Miller from his home in Palo Alto, CA 
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Laura Lind and Adam Miller; Wild Birds; Wild Birds; 2001;

Laura Lind and Adam Miller; Kissing Is A Crime; Wild Birds; 2001;

Charlie King and Karen Brandow; Barney; I Struck Gold; Appleseed; 2001; www.charlieking.org; VaguelyRem@aol.com  or write Charlie King and Karen Brandow, PO Box 6207, Hamden, CT 06517 [Barney's misadventures at the Macy's Thanksgving Day Parade, NYC, 1997; "how could we make this stuff up?" Hey! He wasn't real! He was only a balloon!!!]

Anne Feeney; Have You Been To Jail For Justice [If not us, who? If not now, when?]

Bill Smith; Carolina Rain; With You Again; 2002 www.bettysmithballads.com [Betty Smith, Bill's mother, sings harmony on this original song by Bill; his is a guest appearance on her solo CD]

***LIVE PERFORMANCE***
Steve Sedberry;  Music is the Road to My Happiness [written in 1980's]

Short Guy From Chi-Town; Short Guy Spiritual Rap; Cow Fish Fowl or Pig; Sugar Hill Records; 2002 [this is the intermission performance in the middle of the Gourd's CD, being a kind of field recording]

Robin and Linda Williams; Streets of Gold; Sugar For Sugar; Sugar Hill; 1996

Carl Story's Rambling Mountaineers; Fire On The Banjo; Back To Carolina; Sims Records 1998 

Gwen Knighton; Night Shuttle; Box of Fairies; Bedlam House  www.bedlamhouse.com

[[[[[[[[[[[[9 PM break]]]]]]]]]]]]]]

Kate Campbell; New South; Monuments; Large River Music

Dolly Parton; Not For Me; Halos and Horns; Sugar Hill 2002

Eddy Lawrence; Wanted; Used Parts 

Dolly Parton; Hello God; Halos and Horns; Sugar Hill 2002

Ronnie Bowman; One Life; Starting Over; Sugar Hill [Ronnie's song reminds me of St. Francis of Assisi who was reputed to have said 'Preach the Gospel always; if necessary, use words,' which is a reworking of Matthew 25:37-40]

Rounds Galore and More; New Year's Round; Rounds Galore and More, Vol. 2; www.ukelady.com [thanks to Evy Mayer and friends for this CD]

Short Sisters; Step Stone; Live From Four States; Black Socks 1995 [Woody Guthrie also recorded this song but I especially enjoy the Short Sister's recording]

Kristin Lems; The Fifties Sound; Oh Mama-Plus!; Carolsdatter Production

Bob Zentz; Light From The Lighthouse; Hove-To, and Drifting; zentzfolk@aol.com [a caller informed me that he really liked this 'traditional' song which he had not heard until tonight. I also really like Lee Murdock's version]

Tom Pacheco; What About Us; There Was A Time; Appleseed 2002  folkradicl@aol.com

Will McLean; Lord, Hold Back The Waters; Best of Broadside; Smithsonian-Folkways 2000
[The late Floridian songwriter sings of a devatating flood in 1928 that drowned around 4000 mostly-migrant workers in the waters of Lake Okeechobee, on the north edge of the Everglades.]

Arlo Guthrie; Victor Jara; Best of Broadside; Smithsonian-Folkways 

Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; Nothing But His Blood; Best of Broadside; Smithsonian-Folkways

***end of program for 31 December 2002***



***playlist for 24 Dec 2002***

Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues

Peter Kearney; Come Now, Holy Spirit

Patchouli; Love Shines

Kate Campbell; The Way Home

Kate Rusby; I Wish

Charlie King and Karen Brandow; Wal-Mart Union Gonna Rise Again

Eddy Lawrence; A Home In The Country

Rodney Brown; Christmas Star

[reading from newspaper column by Mike Steed on the meaning of the song: The Twelve Days of Christmas; Tallapoosa Journal, Monday, Dec. 23, 2002, Tallapoosa, Georgia]

Rodney Brown; The Twelve Days of Christmas

Dolly Parton; Halos and Horns

Wire and Wood; What Is In A Name?

Norma Waterson; There Is A Fountain In Christ's Blood

Bill Peterson; When Christmas Day Is Gone [first 30 seconds played accidently]

Bob Franke; Straw Against The Chill

Betty Smith; Gone, Gonna Rise Again

Rounds Galore and More, Vol. 2; A Word To Husbands

[9 PM Break]

Betty Smith; How Can I Keep Fron Singing?

Leslie Ritter and Scott Petito; The Bells of Christmas

Anam; The Long Night (slip jigs)

The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers; Blue Moon of Kentucky

Bill Monroe and Doc Watson; What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul?

Cheryl Kirking; What Can I Give Jesus?

Cheryl Kirking; Earthen Vessel

Rod Macdonald; Best Defense

Old and In The Way; High Lonesome Sound

Osborn Brothers; Little Rosewood Casket

Old and In The Way; I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent

Osborn Brothers; Y'all Come [song by Arlie Duff; When I was a kid this peppy tune was the campaign song for Big Jim Folsom, former governor of my home state of Alabama. I learned it from my mother, maternal grandmother and great aunt. Does that make me a folk singer?]

Steve Sedberry; Consider the Lilies 

   [Consider the Lilies of the Field; 
   they toil not neither do they spin, 
   yet Solomon and all his glory 
   was never arrayed like them.]

David Piper; Rudder and Sail

The Rusticators; My Pride; www.isart.com

David Piper; That's How... [ran out of time and had to end the show before the song finished]

***end of program for 24 Dec 2002***

May we all welcome the peace of the Holy Spirit of God through his only begotten son, Jesus Christ, born of the virgin Mary in the little town of Bethlehem, on December 25th or not....

Steve Sedberry, fellow struggler



***playlist for 17 December 2002***

Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Circles and Seasons; Warner Brothers, lp 1979 [our radio show's primary theme song]

5 For The Gospel; Beautiful Star of Bethlehem; Christmas In Eastern Kentucky; Hay Holler Records; 1999 www.hayholler.com [group = Rick May, Johnny Branham, John Thornsberry, Albon Lee Clevenger, Pat Holbrook, Otis Lynn Dillon]

5 For The Gospel; Christmas Tones; Christmas In Eastern Kentucky; Hay Holler Records; 1999 www.hayholler.com 

Red Ellis and the Huron Valley Boys; Christmas Is Not Far Away; Christmas Time Back Home; Rebel Records, 1988; Rebel CD-1600

Southern Rail; A Bluegrass Christmas Medley; (single, promo CD) [SR = Jim Muller, Sharon Horovitch, Bob Sachs, Rick Briggs] www.southernrail.com

Foxfire; 12 Days of Bluegrass Christmas; Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas;  Pinecastle Records, 1994
 [14 Christmas melodies by various artists]

Tim and Mollie O'Brien; Christ Was Born In Bethlehem; Sugar Plums; Sugar Hill Records 1991

Robin and Linda Williams; Nothing But A Child;  Sugar Plums; Sugar Hill Records 1991

Scott Pratt; Morning Song, from 'Morning To Midnight Suite' ; The Piano Music of Frank Levin; Purrfect Records; www.franklevincomposer.com [Frank has been a good friend over the years, even having arranged and notated a few of my songs for voice and piano; though originally from Ottawa, Quebec, Frank has lived in San Francisco since before we met there in 1980]

Joel Mabus; Touch A Name On The Wall; The Naked Truth; www.joelmabus.com [I had to turn the volume down to '0' to avoid broadcasting an offensive word; I hope Joel will re-record this song because otherwise this is a very good song and one that needs to be heard, possibly more than he realizes. I sometimes wonder how different the United States would be without its militancy, without its institutional violence? Must we fight and kill just to have a society such as ours? Apparently so. This song is about the young people who lose their lives doing what they think is right, being right or not. It's about those whose names are on or might should be engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. This recording comes via a CD sampler sent to DJs by Mark Moss, editor of Sing Out! magazine in PA]

Stacey Earle; Simple Gearle; Simple Gearle; Gearle Records; 1998; www.staceyearle.com [another folksinger who is saving for private spelling lessons; Steve Earle's younger sister (hey, maybe he can teach her?) Hey, that's just a joke to keep myself awake. I like her music]

Charlie King; Video Games; Inside Out; Vaguely Reminiscent Sounds; 1995 {I met Charlie in 1979 or 1980 via east Alabama folksinger, Judy Cumbee; I later joined the organization he co-founded, Songs of Freedom and Struggle, which later merged with the Peoples Music Network. Charlie once told me that he was a Christian, too. I look forward to hearing him proclaim Christ in song. He'd make a good preacher. And so would you!]

The Short Sisters; More Wood; A Planet Dancing Slow; Black Socks Press [A listener requested this song a year after hearing it on my show; I hope one of  the Short Sisters will send me their new CD, too; the song is for winter wood choppers, like me.]

The Short Sisters; Straw Against The Chill; A Planet Dancing Slow; Black Socks Press [the title for their CD comes from this fine song by Bob Franke; back in 1978 Bob and I were 2 soloists street performers out of about a hundred or more on the schedule at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston Harbor, MA. Fellow-musician Stephen Baird was instrumental in setting up the street singers coop that helped us keep our jobs and deal with an often-insensitive administrator at that very commercial marketplace. She was constantly trying to get rid of all of us. When reading Susie J. Tanenbaum's, Underground Harmonies, Music and Politics in the Subways of New York, I was fascinated to find that there are undercurrents of political repression which actively seek to control public expression, such as streetsinging. A few people such as Franke are able to surface anyway, though at what personal cost I can't say. The cost of success may be about as high as the cost of failure. Remember Emerson's essay on compensation?]

[9pm break]

Christmas Grass; Santa Clause Is Coming To Town; Christmas Grass, A Celebration of Christmas, Bluegrass Style; Audium Records; Koch Records; www.kochentertainment.com  www.audiumrecords.com

Christmas Grass; Carol of the Bells; Christmas Grass, A Celebration of Christmas, Bluegrass Style; Audium Records; Koch Records; www.kochentertainment.com  www.audiumrecords.com

David Lee Murray; Donkey With No Name; We're Not Alone; Precious Records http://ourworld.cs.com/murrleedav [David Lee's great Christmas song about the blessing of humilty] SonLyrics@aol.com/

Eddy Lawrence; I Work With My Hands; Used Parts; Prime CD; http://www.snowplowrecords.com/ eddy@snowplowrecords.com

Anne Feeney; Maquiladoras; Have You Been To Jail for Justice? [song by Larry Penn]

Mary Sue Twohy; Gift Of The Magi; The Risk Involved; Azalea City; www.azaleacityrecords.com

Carter Family; Room In Heaven For Me; Worried Man Blues; Rounder [from the 1930 RCA Victor recordings]

[[thanks to our regular listeners for feedback and friendship, especially to John Whitworth and Robert]]

Christopher; Follow The Dreaming Gourd; The New Heavens and The New Earth; 

Johnsmith; Appalachian Rain; Traveler; BluePine; http://johnsmithmusic.com  [recorded/released in 2000]

Charlie King and Karen Brandow; I Struck Gold; I Struck Gold; Appleseed 2001

Doc Watson; Tragic Romance; Doc Watson at Gerdes Folk City; Sugar Hill 2001 [recorded 1962-1963; thanks to D for this song suggestion; D mentioned that Grandpa Jones wrote this song.]

Kate Rusby; I Wish; 10; Compass Records; www.compassrecords.com

Karen Mal; Rosalie; Mercury's Wings; Boars Nest 1228  www.karenmal.com [her maternal instincts pleasantly surface in this original song]

Steve Sedberry; Feed Me [original song about homelessness and hunger performed live by yours truly at the control board. Thanks to Matt Ertel at Hohner HSS, Inc. for replacing my guitar recently. It's pretty, is fairly easy to fret and sounds good. Thanks! It just goes to show that not all businesses are run by crooks. Praise God!!!!]

T.J. Casey; Call of the Wind; Blue Montana Skies; Fraternity Records, 2002; [song by T.J. Cantin] www.tjcasey.net [I found myself humming snippets of this song the day after playing it on last week's show, and that's always a good sign.]

[For loaning from his personal Christmas CD collection,
a very special thanks to D., the producer and host of 'Bluegrass Jubilee'
which has been heard on WUWG (formerly WWGC) from 1 to 4 pm on Sundays 
since back in the mid 1990's. D is also a musician, an apparently solvent one, 
making his living as a public school teacher.]

***end of playlist for 17 Dec 2002***

other people's ambitions: obnoxious and unruly;
and, so, I find my own, yours truly,
Steve Sedberry

a smoke-allergic Indian
sitting  by the fire--
soon finds himself
in the heavenly choir--

-steve sedberry

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(-*-) Bluegrass and Bluegrass-gospel fans: be sure to listen to 
'Bluegrass Jubilee'
hosted by D. (Professor Bluegrass) 
each Sunday from 1 to 4 pm on WUWG, 90.7 FM, Carrollton, GA.
He will take your requests, comments and sage advice 
during that time at 770-836-6731.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

***playlist for 10 December 2002***

Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Circles and Seasons; Warner Brothers, lp 1979 [our radio show's primary theme song]

Cheryl Kirking; John 11:25 and 3:16 (I Am The Resurrection); The Wind That Blows Forever; Mill Pond Music, 1992; www.cherylkirking.com

Cheryl Kirking; In Your Arms; In Your Arms; Mill Pond Music, 1989; www.cherylkirking.com

Cheryl Kirking; The Wind That Blows Forever; The Wind That Blows Forever, 1992 ; www.cherylkirking.com

[Live Telephone Interview with
Cheryl Kirking from her home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin]

Cheryl Kirking; Roses In December; The Wind That Blows Forever, 1992 ; www.cherylkirking.com

[interview continues]

Cheryl Kirking read her short story about the composition of the classic Christmas carol, 'Silent Night,' from her book, 'All Is Calm, All Is Bright. True Stories of Christmas,' published by Revell, a division of Baker Book House Co.; 2001, [ISBN 0-8007-1790-2] while yours truly, Steve Sedberry, played his brand new Hohner acoustic guitar in the background and even sang the first verse of 'Silent Night' after the story.

[interview continues]

Cheryl Kirking; What Can I Give Jesus?; In Your Arms; Mill Pond Music, 1989; www.cherylkirking.com

[interview continues and then concludes]

Cheryl Kirking; Earthen Vessel; In Your Arms; Mill Pond Music, 1989; www.cherylkirking.com
[my favorite song of hers, so far]

Arlo Guthrie; When the Ship Comes In; Celebration!; Sliced Bread 2002
[also featuring Arlo's son, Abe Guthrie, on this prophetic Bob Dylan song from the early 1960's.]

Tommy Sands; Like The First Time It's Christmas Time; To Shorten The Winter; An Irish Christmas; Green Linnet, 2001; www.greenlinnet.com [a joyful song by one great singing songwriter]

[9pm break]

Peter Kearney; We Welcome This Child; The Common Good; Crossover Music, 2001

Three Weird Sisters; Spring Strathspey; Rite The First Time; Bedlam House; www.bedlamhouse.com 

T.J. Casey; Call of the Wind; Blue Montana Skies; Franternity Records, 2002; [song by T.J. Cantin] www.tjcasey.net
[The Casey-Cantin name issue reminds me that John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. on Dec. 31, 1943 in Roswell, NM; some people seem to prefer having more than one name.]

Cris Cuddy; Lyin' In My Dream's; Come Along Carmelita; 2002 www.criscuddy.com [not to be confused with visual artist: Chryssie Cuddy, formerly of Maine, Huntsville, AL and ETSU, Johnson City, TN]

Martha Trachtenberg; Closer To The Bone (Yarsky's Fault); It's About Time; Mom and Pop Records, 1999

Serena Matthews; Here In The Blue; Radio Sampler for 90.7 FM; 2002; www.serenamathews.com

Marie-Lynn Hammond; Houdini and You and Me; Marie-Lynn Hammond; Vignette Media; www.marielynnhammond.com [I'd like to hear the whole album as this came from a sampler]

Erik Balkey; I Quit (track 13); negotiations and compromise; Hudson Harding Music; www.erikbalkey.com  2001

Brian Conway; Reels: The Liffey Banks/The Concert Reel/The Donegal Traveler; first through the gate; Smithsonian-Folkways 2002 [expert, Sligo-style, Irish-American fiddler]

Anthony Gomes; If You Could Rule The World; Unity; Anthony Gomes Music, 2002; www.anthonygomes.com [don't let the Fender Stratocaster on the CD cover fool you]

Nothin' Fancy; Once Upon A Road; (single); Pinecastle [Nothin' Fancy is Mike Andes, Gary Faris, Chris Sexton, Tony Shorter, and Mitchell Davis; CD produced by Don Rigsby; song by Tom T. Hall and Dixie Hall] (-*-)

Pete Seeger; Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall; Best of Broadside; Smithsonian-Folkways 2000 

***end of playlist for 10 December 2002***

(-*-) Bluegrass and Bluegrass-gospel fans: be sure to listen to 'Bluegrass Jubilee' hosted by D. (Professor Bluegrass)  each Sunday from 1 to 4 pm on WUWG, 90.7 FM, Carrollton, GA. He will take your requests, comments and sage advice during that time at 770-836-6731.

***playlist for 3 Dec 2002***

Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Circles and Seasons; Warner Brothers, lp 1979 [our radio show's primary theme song]

Cheryl Kirking; Earthen Vessel; In Your Arms; Mill Pond Music; www.cherylkirking.com [an inspirational writer, singer and songwriter from Wisconsin who will phone us next week during our show]

The Refuge; Here; Remember; Jamie Aiken, The Refuge, 3124 Spruce Dr., Hoover, AL 35226 
[song by Jamie Aiken; Vocal by Debbie LaCruz]

Jane and Gord; Take My Hand; The Blue Madonna; (self-published, 2002, Canada) jeamon@silk.net
[an original encouraging folk-style song written by Jane Eamon; Jane's musical partner and husband is Gord Brush]

Peter Kearney; God of the Mess; The Common Good; Crossover Music, 2001
[a newer release from New South Wales, Australia]

Jane and Gord; The Blue Madonna; The Blue Madonna; (self-published, 2002, Canada) jeamon@silk.net  [original song by Jane about life in a shelter/mission for the homeless and destitute]

Jon Campbell; The 12 Steps of Christmas; The 12 Steps of Christmas and Other Holiday Fare; Providence Music Works, 1996

[the following four songs were transcribed onto an acetate disk during live broadcasts in January 1947 on WLBB-AM, Carrollton, Georgia; thanks again to Mick Buck and his sponsors for collecting these and many other songs which were nearly lost. Charles was to appear on our show tonight but became ill just after Thanksgiving. Let's remember to pray for him.]

Charles Cole and his Southern Kinfolks; Stay A Little Longer; Everybody's Tuned To The Radio; http://www.westga.edu/~history/centerEVERYBODYSTUNED.htm

Charles Cole and his Southern Kinfolks; Hillbillie Boogie; Everybody's Tuned To The Radio; http://www.westga.edu/~history/centerEVERYBODYSTUNED.htm

Charles Cole and his Southern Kinfolks; As Long As I Live; Everybody's Tuned To The Radio; http://www.westga.edu/~history/centerEVERYBODYSTUNED.htm

Charles Cole and his Southern Kinfolks; Down Yonder; Everybody's Tuned To The Radio; http://www.westga.edu/~history/centerEVERYBODYSTUNED.htm

Tom Pacheco; There Was A Time; There Was A Time; Appleseed  www.appleseedrec.com [I like this compelling, almost hypnotic fairy tale set to music even knowing it will mislead some to think that the  good old days are only in the past. But maybe Tom's song forces the careful listener to consider: are things really much worse now than ever before?]

Leslie Ritter and Scott Petito; The Bells of Christmas; (single CD) 2000; www.HudsonValleyRecords.com
[adapted from a poem by Longfellow]

Tony and Gary Williamson; It's Different Now; Let Us Cross Over The River; Doobie Shea Records 1999

[9 PM break]

Rodney Brown; Christmas Star; Merry Christmas To You; Star Silk, 1998
[Rodney entertains both children and adults near his home in Thunder Bay, Ontario; Rodney's late father, Mel Brown, was a spirited, working-class country-folk musician and singer who recorded two lively original songs on a 45rpm record]

Artisan; Christmas Goose; The 12 Steps of Christmas and Other Holiday Fare; Providence Music Works, 1996 [about that old unavoidable Christmastime mischief]

The Wayfaring Strangers; Wayfaring Stranger; The Angels Are Singing; A Woman's Bluegrass Gospel Collection; Rounder 2002  
http://www.rounder.com/feature/0485/ 

Olabelle Reed; Six Feet of Earth Makes Us All Of One Size; The Angels Are Singing; A Woman's Bluegrass Gospel Collection; Rounder 2002  
http://www.rounder.com/feature/0485/

Phyllis Boyens; Hewed Out Of The Mountain; The Angels Are Singing; A Woman's Bluegrass Gospel Collection; Rounder 2002  
http://www.rounder.com/feature/0485/

Alison Krauss; There Is A Reason; The Angels Are Singing; 
A Woman's Bluegrass Gospel Collection; Rounder 2002  
http://www.rounder.com/feature/0485/

Laurie Lewis; Sleepy Eyed John; Celebration! Highlights from the 40th Philadelphia Folk Festival; Sliced Bread Records, 2002

Gerri Gribi; Share Your Gift; Home For Christmas; Lilyfern Records, Green Bay WI  http://creativefolk.com

Ronnie Bowman; The Man I'm Tryin' To Be; The Man I'm Tryin' To Be; Sugar Hill 1998 www.sugarhillrecords.com

Ronnie Bowman; The Lord Is My Light; The Man I'm Tryin' To Be; Sugar Hill 1998 www.sugarhillrecords.com

Kathy Lowe; Hosanna; Wishing You Peace; CD 1999

Erik Balkey; Amazing Grace; Negotiations and Compromise;

Marie-Lynn Hammond; Flying/Spring of '44; Marie-Lynn Hammond Promotional Sampler 2001; www.marielynnhammond.com

Alton Stitcher; Kentucky; Everybody's Tuned To The Radio; http://www.westga.edu/~history/centerEVERYBODYSTUNED.htm

***end of show for 3 Dec 2002***

It's still an honor to serve this previously-unheard music to you, the gentle listener. May the coming year bring us challenges which keep us spiritually awake and aware of the piece of God Almighty who lives and dwells in each of us.

Your thoughts and feelings are valid; Let me know how you think and feel I can sustain and even improve this community radio program.

Steve Sedberry, host and producer since 1999 
Appalachian Trail Vaguely Folk Music Show 
Radio Station WUWG 
1601 Maple St.
Carrollton, GA 30118
phone 770-836-6731 between 7:30 and 10:10 pm on Tuesdays 
for a live conversation.








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