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Weird Old America

Feb 8, 2021 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Dylan Fox

3:00 PM		Sweetwater For Pete's Sake Sweetwater Sweetwater
3:08 PM		Joan Baez Love Is Just a Four Letter Word Joan Baez Carry It On Vanguard Records 2006
3:12 PM		? and the Mysterians 96 Tears ? & The Mysterians 96 Tears ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2011
3:12 PM		Bob Dylan & Joan Baez With God On Our Side (Live) Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Live 1964 - Concert At Philharmonic Hall Columbia/Legacy 1964
3:18 PM		F & E Morast F & E N Forshung & Entwicklung II
3:24 PM		Dinah Shore Mood Indigo Dinah Shore Presenting...
3:27 PM		Ella Fitzgerald Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Verve Reissues 1997
3:35 PM		Burnett & Rutherford Weeping Willow Tree Burnett & Rutherford Burnett & Rutherford (1926-1930) Document Records 1998
3:38 PM		The West Virginia Snake Hunters Walk the Streets of Glory (Recorded 1927) Traditional Early Country Songs, Vol. 4 (Legendary Bluegrass Artists) [Recorded 1926-1936] Vintage Recordings 2015
3:41 PM		Sutton Foster Anything Goes Cole Porter Anything Goes (2011 New Broadway Cast Recording) Ghostlight Records 2011
3:47 PM		Charlie Parker A Night In Tunesia Charlie Parker Die Legenden des Jazz - Charlie Parker
3:50 PM		Young Jazz Giants Yenne Young Jazz Giants Young Jazz Giants
3:54 PM		Thundercat Them Changes Thundercat Drunk 2015
4:00 PM		Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter Parapraxix Of A Dragonfly Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter N Anticipation American Dreams Records 2021
4:04 PM		Bessie Smith Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair Bessie Smith The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 Legacy/Columbia 1992
4:07 PM		Sidney Bechet Blues For Tommy Sidney Bechet Complete Recordings 1931-1943, Vol. 2
4:15 PM		The Carter Family Bear Creek Blues Carter Family The Essential Carter Family RCA/Legacy 2013
4:18 PM		The Everly Brothers Down In the Willow Garden The Everly Brothers Songs Our Daddy Taught Us MD Music Company 2009
4:21 PM		The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl The Louvin Brothers Knoxville Girl
4:30 PM		The Handsome Family Down In the Ground (Demo) The Handsome Family Smothered and Covered
4:32 PM		Sufjan Stevens Redford (For Yia-Yia and Pappou) Sufjan Stevens Greetings from Michigan, The Great Lake State (Deluxe Version) 2003
4:34 PM		Janis Joplin Little Girl Blue Janis Joplin Janis Joplin: The Woodstock Experience Columbia/Legacy 2009
4:38 PM		Donovan & The Jeff Beck Group Barabajagal (with Jeff Beck Group) [with Jeff Beck Group] [with Jeff Beck Group] Various Artists Seasons of Change II: More Happening Hits of the Hippy Era
4:41 PM		Canned Heat Goin' Up the Country Canned Heat Living the Blues CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2014
4:44 PM		Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Winton Marsalis That's When All Will See N/A N The Democracy Suite
4:53 PM		Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills Albert's Shuffle Al Kooper probably Super Session Columbia 1968

Chat is archived.

Hey everybody

hello Dylan

Donovan will played in this show

Electric sitar fills

👂

This is one of my favorite Joan Baez tracks!!

Cool look forward to Donovan

Dylan have you heard "Geordie"? The version from the album "First Ten Years"?

Never heard it but I think I've seen it on spotify

It's an old English folk song dating back to 17th century

Consider mimi baez & richard farina for future shows / two that were lost way too early :(

hi, dylan and eveyone. like this old time tune. and yes, you are fun to talk to!

Hi esoterica ur familiar w richard & Mimi ? : maybe put on ur playlist !

Great set loving the old recordings

I like old stuff, that's why it's in the title

true! but sutton is not old:).

Maybe for my last show I could get someone to come in with wax cylinders

yes! I'm a boradway baby myself!

and duly noted, mark. why are you thinking richard and mini (bc dylan played baez?).

In just like musicals that have a basic but convoluted plot involving dumb rich people. I don't need a long story about bullying where everything is over pronounced

have you ever seen that cole porter biopic with kevin kline?

I've only seen the one from the forties where they never acknowledge he's gay

David Hajdu's book Positively 4th Street has some great details on Richard and Mimi Farina

1 of the most famous moments in recorded music here

They do a great cover of blood red roses

the kevin kline pic def does (but again casts a straight actor to play a gay man). and bri... i will check out that book

A great WPRB moment: late night drive home and listening to Liz Taylor & Richard Burton argue. And I realize after 5 to 10 minutes oh they are playing the entire Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf play on LP! I gotta watch that again

wow!

And a few years later i heard prb play this great Irish play. Again on the ride home at night. Makes me want to stay in the car....

It's a lot of fun to just play weird unusual stuff on WPRB.

Yes! Just mentioned Thundercat in chat earlier

Thundercat!

Thundercat may not be weird or old, but he's pretty damn good!

He's pretty weird

States of confusion?

He's got adult swim energy

I guess so, but it's the best kind of weird.

Themes: Fabric. Tools. Songs that start with "Why...?" Or "How...?"

*Shrug emoji*

Where should I pick up dinner?

Dinner... there's a theme!

I think next week we're going to try bad celebrity covers

Oh yes!

yes! Telly Savalas doing "If" by Bread was amazing, which DJ MIke made me aware of

Latoya Jackson "(Hunk of) Burning Love"

Mandy Patinkin (sp) from princess bride covers Magnetic Fields

Sebastian Cabot "It Ain't Me Babe"

Andy Griffith has a whole folk album

Yailhousa Rocka by that Dutch director... is it Paul van der Hoeven?

Robert mitchum has a calypso album

Maybe that was not officially released... but i heard it. Wonderfully bad.

@esoterica farina & Mimi were much more interesting couple than dylan & her sister Joan; farina many say was a much smarter Dylan but died very young he was Pynchon best friend / gravity rainbow dedicated to him

Who thought Robert Mitchum Calypso was a good idea?

Oh I just see Brian mentioned positively 4th / yeah interesting stuff in there

I just learned that the Dora the Explorer movie has an acid trip scene.

whhhhaaatttt? really?

love robert mitchum tho, but he is too menacing in night of the hunter for calypso...

YES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mDtsn0yrsA

I'm sorry that I got distracted by acid trip dora, back to your regularly scheduled programming

that is fantastic, dylan!

Courting was dangerous back in the day...

Basically all these songs are about killing your girlfriend when she get's pregnant.

Early America is juts generally or horrible place.

And the portions were so small

YESSSS Katya & Trixie!!!

If they weren't so wildly inappropriate for radio all the time, I would love to make some station IDs featuring them...

Night of the Hunter is SUCH a creepy movie @esoterica!

Great choice here! Thanks

The one I made is the one with "ThanksLIVING!!!"

Agree on Donovan/ Jeff beck backing :)

totally, krista!

@dylan oh, honey....

@esoterica @Krista do you know if Night of the Hunter is streaming anywhere? Just read the plot and I am... intrigued

hesitant but intrigued

Ba RABBA jaggle

it's scary, peppermint! i found it for free on youtube

Yer doing great Dylan!

Dylan, you're cool. We like ya.

i second that, bri!

Thanks for the coo-coo-coo-coo-BARRABA-Jagle!