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Appalachian Trail Vaguely Folk Music Show is heard 8 to 10 PM each Tuesday,
God-willing, on WUWG, 90.7 FM, within a range of up to fifty miles from our antennae near Carrollton, Georgia USA
Studio is located in the basement of the Geography-Learning Resources Building,
State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, USA.
producer/host: Steve Sedberry
General Manager: Kevin Sanders
***playlist for 30 Sep 2003***
Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Circles and Seasons; Warner Brothers 1979 [theme song for our radio show]
Alison Krauss; 9 to 5; Just Because I'm A Woman/Songs of Dolly Parton; Sugar Hill 2003
Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; Nothing But His Blood; The Best of Broadside 1962-1988; Smithsonian-Folkways 2000
Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick and Jim Collier; You're Just A Laughing Fool; The Best of Broadside 1962-1988; Smithsonian-Folkways 2000
Tim O'Brien; Less and Less; Traveler; Sugar Hill 2003
Kate Campbell; Boulder To Birmingham; Twang On A Wire; Large River 2003 [song by Bill Danoff and Emmylou Harris]
Emmylou Harris; To Daddy; Just Because I'm A Woman/Songs of Dolly Parton; Sugar Hill 2003
Kate Campbell; Down From Dover; Twang On A Wire; Large River 2003 [song by Dolly Parton]
Dave Potts; Black Coffee; One Night In The South; Looking Up Records 2003
Cheryl Kirking; John 11:25 and 3:16 (I Am The Resurrection); The Wind That Blows Forever; Mill Pond 1992
Dave Potts; When I See Your Face; One Night In The South; Looking Up Records 2003
Tim O'Brien; Let Love Take You Back Again; Traveler; Sugar Hill 2003
Peter Meyer; Crawl In; Earthtown Square;
[9 PM Break]
Jean Ritchie; The Merry Golden Tree; Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Peter Meyer; Brown County Fair; Earthtown Square;
Jean Ritchie; The Unquiet Grave; Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Eric Bibb; I Am Blessed; Spirit of the Blues; Earthbeat 1999
Eric Bibb; Just Keep Goin' On; Spirit of the Blues; Earthbeat 1999
wm alan ross; A Safe Place; Poet Warrior; Core, POBOX 386, Monteagle, TN 37356-0386 www.rossmusic.net
wm alan ross; My Father's Eye; Poet Warrior; Core, POBOX 386, Monteagle, TN 37356-0386 www.rossmusic.net
wm alan ross; Golden Acre; Poet Warrior; Core, POBOX 386, Monteagle, TN 37356-0386 www.rossmusic.net
Mindy Smith; Jolene; Just Because I'm A Woman/Songs of Dolly Parton; Sugar Hill 2003
Eric Bibb; Woke Up This Morning (with my mind stayed on Jesus); Spirit of the Blues; Earthbeat 1999
The Freedom Singers; We'll Never Turn Back; The Best of Broadside 1962-1988; Smithsonian-Folkways 2000 [Matthew Jones was a young member of this influential group from Albany, GA]
Derek Trucks Band; Sierra Leone; Soul Serenade; Columbia 2003 [partial play of song up until show closing.]
***end of show for 30 Sep 2003***
***playlist for 23 Sep 2003***
Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Circles and Seasons; Warner Brothers 1979 [theme song for our radio show]
Dan Tyler; I Am The River; I Hope; Intuit 2003 [Dan's music grows on you, esp. this song]
Dan Tyler; I Hope; I Hope; Intuit 2003
Dan Tyler; When Will I?; I Hope; Intuit 2003
Dan Tyler; Love Remains; I Hope; Intuit 2003
Guy Davis; Step It Up and Go; Chocolate To The Bone; Red House 2003
Guy Davis; Right On Time; Chocolate To The Bone; Red House 2003
Guy Davis; Set A Place For Me; Chocolate To The Bone; Red House 2003 [I particularly like the long musical intro to this song]
Emily Singleton; Reuben; Life In The Moment; Bell Buckle 2003
Emily Singleton; Right Now; Life In The Moment; Bell Buckle 2003
Colleen Sexton; Wildbird In A Purple Plum Tree; Greatest Find; Accord 2003 [last song on CD, unlisted on package; song written by Lorraine Duisit]
Eric Teplitz; Like The Government; Sanity Check and other love songs; Hominid 1996
Eric Teplitz; Everything Is Temporary; Sanity Check and other love songs; Hominid 1996
Steve Sedberry; If; reading poem by Anthony Tyson, Alabama Death Row inmate
[9 PM Break]
Albert Cumming; Beautiful Bride; From The Heart; Under The Radar 2003
Jean Ritchie; Hangman; Ballads from her Appalachian family tradition; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
Paul Arnoldi; Rub Some Dirt On It; Highroads Ten plus two; www.paularnoldi.com 2003
Paul Arnoldi; Freeway Romance; Highroads Ten plus two; www.paularnoldi.com 2003 [a very funny song that reminds me of Scott Richard Morin's and my 'on the road' trip from Birmingham to Los Angeles in 1967. We excitedly flirted with girls who were driving west as we were and once actually while still driving talked one into stopping at a diner for coffee. That was rather uneventful, but the adventure of the motorized flirts of the world is ongoing as Arnoldi's song indicates.]
Gillian Welch; No One Knows My Name; Soul Journey; Acony 2003 [My best friend, Sharon, is a social worker for foster children and their foster parents; I've learned quite a bit about orphans in the past few years. This song by Welch is one of the best orphan's songs I've ever heard. It would be interesting to know where she gets her information.]
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul?; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003 [overall this is one of the best albums I have ever heard]
Buffy Sainte-Marie; The Priests of the Golden Bull; Coincidence and Likely Stories; Chrysalis 1992 [this song with the timeless theme of exploitation was written and sung with true conviction and intense restraint. If I was handing out songwriting awards this song would win two.]
Cheryl Kirking; The Wind That Blows Forever; The Wind That Blows Forever; Mill Pond Records [a Christian songwriter, singer and inspirational book writer whose message is as important as the message of the previous song: God is alive and working within us to overcome our sinful nature; I believe in a careful balancing of faith in salvation through Jesus Christ and our working in his name to correct the evils that oppress us and our neighbors worldwide. For me my appreciating both Buffy and Cheryl is part of that balance.]
Doc Watson and Richard Watson; Walk On Boy; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/DocWatson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003
Peter Kearny; Martha and Mary; Make Me A Song; Crossover Music 2000 [I've not played Peter's music lately but he is still one of my favorite Christian folksingers. Often, as in this song, his friends such as Claire Parkhill sing his original songs when appropriate. Peter's type of catholicism is concerned with socially proactive concern for our neighbors. If there was justice on this planet, which of course there is not, Peter Kearney's songs would be better known than Peter Seeger's, the American songwriter who some consider so very underappreciated.]
Charlie King and Karen Brandow; Dignity; I Struck Gold; Appleseed 2001 [song by Bonnie Lockhart of the S.F. Bay area] www.charlieking.org
Peter Kearny; Come Now Holy Spirit; Make Me A Song; Crossover Music 2000
Charlie King and Karen Brandow; God Danced; I Struck Gold; Appleseed 2001 [Having forgotten the song's strange lyrics before playing it I stopped it mid-stream realizing at best it was silly and at worst completely blasphemous. Instead I played the following song.]
Charlie King and Karen Brandow; I Struck Gold; I Struck Gold; Appleseed 2001
Odetta; In The Pines; Lookin For A Home, thanks to Leadbelly; M.C. Records
***end of show for 23 Sep 2003***
***playlist for 16 Sep 2003***
Pete Seeger; Mexican Blues; Circles and Seasons; Warner Brothers 1979 [theme song for our radio show]
Sweet Honey In The Rock; The Women Gather; The Women Gather; Earthbeat! 2001 1-800-346-4445 [a powerful anti-war song]
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown with Benjy Davis; Get Rhythm; Johnny's Blues; A Tribute To Johnny Cash; Northern Blues 2003
Mel Brown; Son of a Pulpwood Cutter; (45 rpm single); Northtrack, Thunder Bay, Canada [humorous original song by the father of Rodney Brown]
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; What Would You Give In Exchange For Your Soul?; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003 [overall this is one of the best albums I have ever heard]
Judy Cumbee; Dem Bones; Bringin' Abolition Day; Vine and Fig Tree, 11076 CR 267, Lanette, AL 36863 [not only a musician but a lifetime social and political activist who works to abolish the death penalty in Alabama. Ezekiel 37:13. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14. And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.]
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; The Storms Are On The Ocean; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Down In The Valley To Pray; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003
Bryan Sutton; Beaumont Rag; Bluegrass Guitar; Sugar Hill 2003
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; The Banks of the Ohio; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003 [I've sung this song for over thirty years and am convinced that this is the best performance of it I have ever heard. Allison Krauss also sings a beautiful harmony with the trio.]
Guy Davis; Step It Up and Go; Chocolate To The Bone; Red House 2003 [It is interesting but a little perplexing that Guy refers to Pete Seeger as his uncle in the album notes. Is the reference poetic or actual?]
Fred Eaglesmith and the Flathead Noodlers; Bailing Again; Bailin'; AML Records, Gen. Delivery, Alberton, ON, Canada [a tribute to a father now missed]
Guy Davis; Limetown; Chocolate To The Bone; Red House 2003
Guy Davis; Tell Me Where The Road Is; Chocolate To The Bone; Red House 2003
Colleen Sexton; Wildbird In A Purple Plum Tree; Greatest Find; Accord 2003 [last song on CD, unlisted on package]
Steve Sedberry; Morning, Noon and Afternoon; live performance at WUWG tonight
[9 PM break]
Tom Paxton; Peace Will Come; Your Shoes, My Shoes; Red House [my copy of this came from a Sing Out magazine CD sampler; this is a seductive peace song which though temporarily comforting sure won't get us into heaven; Jesus is the only answer to our world at war and without him everything is a little crutch soon to break, even Paxton's beautiful and compelling song which features the ever-inspiring voices of children singing about peace. Matthew 7:16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.]
The Gospel Jubil-Aires; Living In Canaan Now; It Keeps Getting Better; long-playing record produced in Birmingham, AL by Kenny Wallis probably in 1960's.
Capercaillie; Both Sides of the Tweed; Scotland The Real , Music From Contemporary Caledonia; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003 [a wonderful album!]
Steve Sedberry; Out on the Street (I used to be a music man); The Open Heart
Cilla Fisher; Norland Wind; Scotland The Real , Music From Contemporary Caledonia; Smithsonian-Folkways 2003
The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Who Will Sing For Me?; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003
Heather Russell Band; I've Changed; [Demo CD personally submitted by local musician and songwriter]
The Gospel Jubil-Aires; Nothing Here To Hinder Me; It Keeps Getting Better; long-playing record produced in Birmingham, AL by Kenny Wallis probably in 1960's.
Johnny Selph; Samson; Country Legends; JHS Records, Orlando, FL 1995 [a very personable talent who grew up in a small town in Georgia. Which town I don't know; do you?]
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder; Ridin' That Midnight Train; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder; Road To Spencer; The Three Pickers: Earl Scruggs/Doc Watson/Ricky Skaggs; Rounder 2003
Johnny Selph; I Know Him; Country Legends; JHS Records, Orlando, FL 1995
HeartStrings; Love Oh Love; HeartStrings; HeartSung Records 2002 [song by band member, Chris Lewis; other members of the this all-woman band include: Karen Pendley, Marilyn Barclay, Bo Jamison, and Sally Wingate]
HeartStrings; Church Building; HeartStrings; HeartSung Records 2002 [song by B. Jamison]
Jerry Reed; The Preacher and The Bear; (45 rpm single record); RCA [humorous song about a preacher who sneaks off to fish on a normally-dutiful Sunday and is hotly pursued by a bear. The preacher sings: Oh, Lord, if you can't help me, please don't help that bear!]
***end of show for 16 Sep 2003***
***playlist for 9 Sept 2003***
Pete Seeger, Mexican Blues [theme song for show]
Kevin Breit; Send a Picture of Mother; Johnny's Blues; A Tribute To Johnny Cash; Northern Blues 2003
Eric Bibb; So Sorry; Natural Light; Earth Beat! 2003
The Gospel Jubil-Aires; If It Keeps Getting Better; If It Keeps Getting Better; long-playing record produced in Birmingham, AL by Kenny Wallis probably in 1960's or early 1970's
Ben Sumner; Love Song [Ben was live in the studios of WUWG tonight. He's a resident of Carrollton and a student at this university.]
Ben Sumner; A Long Night [both original songs accompanied by Ben's acoustic guitar. I heard Ben and Raven performing on campus today and invited them into the studio for the show tonight.]
Clarence Gatemouth Brown with Benjy Davis; Get Rhythm; Johnny's Blues; I Tribute To Johnny Cash; Northern Blues 2003
Raven; Manifest Destiny; [Raven, whose formal name is Rob Ervin was live in the studios of WUWG tonight. He's a resident of Carrollton and a student at this university. This is an original song accompanied by acoustic guitar.]
Raven; You're My Home; [song written by Bill Joel]
Bill Kanengiser; All The Things You Are; Classical Cool; GSP 2003 [inspiring CD album of solo guitar work as Bill is a real master of the instrument.]
Eric Bibb; Circles; Natural Light; Earth Beat! 2003 [alcoholism is a devastating condition whether or not one believes it to be a disease, which I think it is; This song made me cry as it so poignantly expressed the toll paid by the alcoholic, the ones who love him and by implication society at large. Lock 'em up just doesn't work when suicide is too often the result of alcoholism. What a brutal, unthinking society we somehow manage to live in!
Mike Marshall and Chris Thile; J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations, variation # 1; Into The Cauldron; Sugar Hill 2003 [a whole album duo mandolins with some mandola]
Mike Marshall and Chris Thile; Something Quite Trifling; Into The Cauldron; Sugar Hill 2003
[9 PM break]
Mike Marshall and Chris Thile; J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations, variation # 1; Into The Cauldron; Sugar Hill 2003 [I played the full song this time; last hour I punched the eject button on the wrong machine: oops.]
Mike Marshall and Chris Thile; Scrapple From The Apple; Into The Cauldron; Sugar Hill 2003
Glamour Puss; Kitty Kitty; Wire and Wood; Northern Blues 2003 [a cat-calling, ironically-humorous mating song depicting one man's objectification and attempted possession of a less-than-cooperative woman. This blues-based show band from New Brunswick seems to have a lot of devilish fun.]
Glamour Puss; If You Miss Me; Wire and Wood; Northern Blues 2003
The Gospel Jubil-Aires; I Wouldn’t Take Nothing For My Journey Now; If It Keeps Getting Better; long-playing record produced in Birmingham, AL by Kenny Wallis probably in 1960's or early 1970's
Don Rigsby; Dying To Hold Her Again; The Midnight Call; Sugar Hill 2003 [song by Jerry Salley and Joanie Keller; great back-up vocal harmony]
Don Rigsby; Muddy Water; The Midnight Call; Sugar Hill 2003 [song by Alan Johnston]
Shelley Miller; hey, hey hallelujah; www.shelleymiller.net 2002; P.O. Box 1574, Chicago, IL 60690 [Shelley is one more singin?foot soldier in the musical war against complacency; March a mile with her, too.]
The Gospel Jubil-Aires; Nothing Here To Hinder Me; If It Keeps Getting Better; long-playing record produced in Birmingham, AL by Kenny Wallis probably in 1960's or early 1970's; Where are they now?
Shelley Miller; Mama’s Brank Spankin?New Redneck
Boyfriend; www.shelleymiller.net 2002; P.O. Box 1574,
Chicago, IL 60690
[funny song but personally bitter;
somehow we have to get beyond bitterness. Jesus shows
us how. Trust him.
Rosa Passos and Ron Carter; Por Causa de Voce; Entre
Amigos; Chesky Records 2003
[unusual duo arrangement,
very complete with only her warm, expressive voice and
Ron’s supportive, acoustic bass. Rosa is from Brazil.
This album features some songs from the Bossa Nova
movement of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s when
songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim were superhits on
American pop radio. As a young person I was swept away
with such music. That was before I became obsessed
with the Seegerian delusion that the world could be
permanently transformed by sophisticated protest
songs. As a protest song writer I must have thought
myself some kind of priest of a then-unlabeled secular
humanism. Those days are over. Now, gratefully I
believe in Jesus Christ as the only means to salvation
for individuals. And such salvation is eternal. But I
still enjoy Bossa Nova. I wonder if there are any
evangelical bossa nova musicians? I once used the tune
for Jobim’s Girl From Ipanema for a lyric I wrote
about a child burning to death during the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima. It was published in Songletter,
a few copies of which are still in various musical
archives for the perverse musical researcher to
stumble through.]
Rosa Passos and Ron Carter; Garota de Ipanema; Entre Amigos; Chesky Records 2003
The Gospel Jubil-Aires; God Walks the Dark Hills; If It Keeps Getting Better; long-playing record produced in Birmingham, AL by Kenny Wallis probably in 1960's or early 1970's
***end of show for 9 Sep 2003***
***playlist for 2 Sept 2003***
Derek Trucks Band; Sierra Leone; Soul Serenade; Columbia-Sony 2003
The Lamplighters; The Lighthouse; Introducing the Lamplighters; (old long playing record from Georgia, USA)
Emily Singleton; Reuben; Life in the Moment; Bell Buckle 2003
Emily Singleton; Calling My Children Home/ In Christ There Is No East or West; Life in the Moment; Bell Buckle 2003
Emily Singleton; Walls of Time; Life in the Moment; Bell Buckle 2003
Dorothy Carter; Visiting Song; Troubadour; Celeste Recordings (long playing record from the 1970s; produced by Stephen Baer)
Dorothy Carter; The King of Glory; Troubadour; Celeste
(I am sad to report that Dorothy passed away a few months ago. She was an unusually committed artist who found her calling in unusual music which fused the past with the present. Her word with the Medieval Babes musical group in Europe engendered new interest late in her career.)
Pete Seeger; Oh, Sacred Word (spoken); Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3; Appleseed Recordings, 2003
Pete Seeger (with Billy Bragg, Ani Difranco and Steve Earle); Bring Them Home (If You Love Your Uncle Sam); Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3; Appleseed Recordings, 2003
The Lamplighters; Old Gospel Ship; Introducing The Lamplighters
Pete Seeger; Dr. King On Violence (spoken); Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3 Appleseed Recordings, 2003
Pete Seeger; Take It From Dr. King; Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3; Appleseed Recordings, 2003
Pete Seeger (and friends); Over The Rainbow; Seeds: The Songs of Pete Seeger, Vol. 3; Appleseed Recordings, 2003
Kate Campbell; Twang On A Wire; Twang On A Wire; Large River 2003 [truncated version due to confusion about the actual lengthof the song]
The Lamplighters; Sweeter Gets the Journey; Introducing The Lamplighters
[9 PM break]
Kate Campbell; Twang On A Wire; Twang On A Wire; Large River 2003
[Kates tribute to the women in country music who inspired her to twang along; Thinking this title song was too long to fit into the slot in the last few minutes of the last hour, I shortened it but played it again after the break all the way through. It turns out that the song was not really over seven minutes long but that a hidden track after this last track indicated the song was twice as long as it actually was. The hidden track is a second version of Funny Face. I like the whole album but still like her Christian songs the best. An artist has to sing what they feel at the time, I believe, or they dry up and become petrified, mummified, stupefied. Kate is too smart for that and may we be also. Be who you is cause if you aint who you is WHO IS YOU?]
Kate Campbell; Boulder To Birmingham; Twang On A Wire; Large River 2003 [song by Bill Danoff and Emmylou Harris]
Kate Campbell; Would You Lay With Me In A Field Of Stone; Twang On A Wire; Large River 2003 [classic metaphorical love ballad by David Allen Coe taken to an even greener field]
Lucinda Williams; World Without Tears; World Without Tears; Lost Highway 2003 [this album was borrowed from Sharon Bruce Smith for a few minutes; Thanks!]
Lucinda Williams; Fruits of My Labor; World Without Tears; Lost Highway 2003
Tim OBrien; Less and Less; Traveler; Sugar Hill 2003? [Mollie O Briens brother makes good! I like this song best on this new CD]
Mark Savoy ; Sams Big Rooster; Sams Big Rooster; Arhoolie 481
[I got this and the next song from Sing Out Magazine recent CD sampler; Sharon and I first heard Mark and Ann Savoy on about a 1991 film shown on World Link TV, perhaps my favorite TV channel.]
Ann Savoy; Woman With A Broken Heart; Cajun Album; Arhoolie 508
Dusk; Leslie; Dusk; Phi Acoustics [a song for his wife; my favorite on his CD
Dusk; Santas Moving South; Dusk; Phi Acoustics
[Dusk is one of the founders of an intentional community in Northeast Georgia that I visited maybe 16 years ago; His vision moves through many areas including architecture and construction. I hope he can come to my homestead someday and show me a few of his neat tricks of transforming clutter to beauty and functionality.]
***end of show for 2 Sept 2003***
Dear Friends,
I am spending less and less time near electricity and computers so if you want to be in touch please write me at home. Thanks for your great music and friendship!!!
Steve Sedberry
100 CR 525
Newell, AL 36280-4312
PS Once a week or so I will still get mail you send to the University address also:
Steve Sedberry
Radio Station WUWG
1601 Maple St.
Carrollton, GA 30118