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Weird Old America

Mar 1, 2021 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

With Dylan Fox

3:00 PM		Marianne Faithfull It's All Over Now Baby Blue Bob Dylan Rich Kid Blues
3:05 PM		Lead Belly Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Lead Belly Good Night Irene 1965
3:08 PM		Nirvana Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Traditional MTV Unplugged In New York (Live) Geffen 2019
3:13 PM		The Kossoy Sisters In the Pines Traditional Bowling Green and Other Folk Songs from the Southern Mountains
3:16 PM		Wanda Davis Where Did You Sleep Last Night Wanda Davis Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Single Secret Stash Records 2013
3:20 PM		Grateful Dead In the Pines (Live In San Francisco 1966) Traditional Complete Live Rarities Collection Grateful Dead/Rhino 2013
3:25 PM		Doc Watson In The Pines Traditional Doc's Guitar HHO 2017
3:27 PM		Loretta Lynn In the Pines Traditional Full Circle
3:30 PM		Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys In the Pines Traditional The Essential Bill Monroe & The Monroe Brothers 1989
3:38 PM		Lucrecia Dalt Mono Lucrecia Dalt N No Era Sólida (Outtakes) - EP RVNG INTL. 2021
3:41 PM		The Rajasthan Express Junun Brass The Rajasthan Express Junun
3:45 PM		Odetta Gallows Tree Odetta At the Gate of Horn Everest Records 1957
3:47 PM		Reverend Gary Davis Death Don't Have No Mercy Reverend Gary Davis Harlem Street Singer (Remastered) Fantasy Records 1992
3:52 PM		Led Zeppelin The Battle of Evermore Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (Remastered) Rhino Atlantic 1971
4:02 PM		Mark Feldman Unbound Mark Feldman N Sounding Point Intakt Records 2021
4:07 PM		Club Soda It's Electric N Club Soda s/r 2021
4:08 PM		Townes Van Zandt Dead Flowers Townes Van Zandt Roadsongs Fat Possum 2018
4:13 PM		Aaron Diehl Broadway Boogie Woogie Aaron Diehl Space, Time, Continuum
4:15 PM		The Original Dixieland Five & Nick LaRocca Tiger Rag The Original Dixieland Five The Complete Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917-1936) RCA Records Label 1992
4:18 PM		Miles Davis In a Silent Way Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia/Legacy 1969
4:39 PM		Chris Watson El Divisadero Chris Watson El Tren Fantasma Touch 2011
4:44 PM		Francisco López Qal'at Abd'al-Salam: VI. Horses Francisco Lopez Francisco López: Through the Looking Glass KAIROS 2009
4:57 PM		The Beatles Sun King The Beatles Abbey Road (2019 Mix) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2019

Chat is archived.

HELLOOOO

Yonder stands the chat

Imagine someone handing you this song and they ask what you what you think about it

“It’s fine enough”

sounded FuZzY

One of the first people to see the lyrics to The Times They Are A Changin (not the best Dylan song but it makes liberal grandparents happy) said "what is this bullshit." Bob Responded, "I don't know, people seem to like it."

It rains and often floods in my home town in the spring

hahahaha

will we hear the nirvana version? that and lead belly's are my favs

sad

Just wait a lil bit

:-)

I agree and concur with DJ McSweden

It's like the most famous one (being Cobain's last public performance), so you can't not play it.

🤩🤩🤩

LEAD BELLY ♥️

The video of it online is really great because it shows what happens right before and right after the song. Really kind of moving knowing this is the last time this will ever happen.

Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees does a version on his first solo album. Deeeeeep voice.

1st I ever heard it was a pre Grateful Dead (when they were acoustic bluegrass / jugband ) band recording back in the cassette tape trading days. Listed as In The Pines on the tape

cobain version time

I’m cry

i know this just by the first few strums lol

Brian D out here is a seer

i listened to nirvana/kurt cobain every single day in my senior year of high school haha

Peeks over Dylan's shoulder...

Haven't listened a lot to nirvana since high school but did have an argument with my barber when he called the a one-hit wonder

i love the one part when kurt sings it while straining his voice a lot

one hit wonder to POSERS

really??

It was like when Seinfeld met Larry King

for realz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVTP8xZCGVw

Rolling Stone magazine used to have these Rockwell esque art depictions of rock artists. One of the best was a classroom setting w schoolboy versions of Bob Dylan (front row) and Springsteen, Petty, Cougar Mellencamp all sitting behind in same row each craning their necks to peek over Dylan's shoulder

haha @dylan's video

Brian: Link

will watch after show

I like this cover

this one has a nice vibe too

We're always trying for good vibes

oh i had this version too. 1966 electric this is

Also the aforementioned acoustic jugband version. You can hear the House of New Orleans verse parallels in these last couple versions.

The beautiful thing about folk music is the interconnected worlds of the music

Yep. The folk process. Never ending

I’m glad you put this together, DJ DylanFox! I’ve always luvd this song with the different names.

Well, it did end when the phonograph was invented.

Oh so glad you put the Doc major key banjo version on too!

Were you ever involved with WHRW or the 607at all

Didn't get on radio until college

which is the original

There is no original

Kopy, good music, keep it up

Oh i can assure you it's still going on in living rooms, stages, campgrounds etc

somebody had to do it first

Not necessarily.

LORETTA LYNN ❤️

But the process of music recording crystalizes the song. You're doing Leadbelly's or somebody else's, not the song itself

The folk process involves taking a story and retelling it. Town to town, porch to porch etc

Dave, it's the homer dilemma

thank you sir

Don't call me sir, that's my ex (joke)

The idea of "original " and "copyright" involves record companies, publishing, contracts etc

love them all

Yeah!

The one currently playing was at first comparably popular to Lead Belly's

Mr Monroe. (That's M'nroe not MONroe)

Great biography on Mr Monroe

"Can't You Hear Me Calling..." long title

March Fools!

No idea

Couldn’t tell you

Is this the survey?

This is not the survey

I’m busy that day

Ides might've known

wprb.com/survey

Aha thanks for link Dylan

Archive dot org has the stuff

Hahaha

Junun is one of my favorite albums

There are some shows from 1970 and also from 1980 where the GD perform some entirely acoustic sets. Originals and some traditional folk songs & country songs honoring their jugband and bluegrass roots. Those shows would be good toe dip in water entry points Dylan

Yeah Junun is so great!

Junun was a good time!

It's like with Bob where there is so much material that's hard to grasp

Yes. And well documented fortunately

Those 2 specific years 1970 and 1980 btw (not decades)

Didn't Jerry also do a bunch of bluegrass?

most people would say try Barton Hall 1977 but there are better shows

I think Dicks Picks 3 is a good starting point for n00b

70-71 is a fertile period..as is 73-74. 1972 is my favorite year. You get the Europe tour then the Dead return home to crush the remaining Fall-Winter 72 shows

Oh yes! Before GD he was strictly folk & bluegrass. Great banjo player. Then in the 1970s he was in a side bluegrass band. Then he reconnected with David Grisman in the 90s and did it some more

Ken Kesey comin at ya

I regret that he did not take a break from GD and do more acoustic performing in later years. The Grisman reunion 90s years never toured the Eastern USA

Jerry Garcia Band is some GREAT stuff. Anything he did with Merl is aces. Reconstruction is a short-lived band that was my fav side project

Odetta and Rev Gary great additions to the set Dylan!

I try my best

that Pines string of songs was great. Roped me right in :P

I've thought of doing a whole entire show on one song but it would have to probably be something like house of the rising sun

But too many versions of that song are too similar to the Rock/Dylan/Burdon version

Dan Melchior's version of "Death Don't Have No Mercy" is awesome too. Find it on an Ever/Never 12".

Satisfaction does a great hosue if the rising sun

A Dave Van Ronk set would be great

oh yeah if anyone can help identifying this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PDFvNGGdx0

biased

The problem with Ronk is he likes to curse

Skip the stage patter yes

Heard this Club Soda the other day. So much fun

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Makes me want to go bowling

Bowling is so strange

I could do without the shoes and the thumb blister. But i liked learning how to use the boards when I took it as a gym class in college. Half credit to bowl? I am in

I have too much gym trauma to relate

They did not have beers at the college alley. Another minus (note i did not say "strike against them")

I haven't been able to drink in public yet and so look forward to it

story of how coens secured rights to dead flowers is quite amusing/ those interested can google

tell us mark

I cheated and refreshed playlist... Miles great choice Dylan!

That one was a great choice too! 🐅 🎶

Oh, WOW. THIS SONG. RN!

Thank ya

This piece would have been great background music for Joe Frank's radio plays. He did use some Donald Byrd music very similar to this

I always feel weird about doing music as a background thing.

Thre LP Eectric Byrd. Not a far cry from this LPs sound

Yeah for just talking it's one thing. Joe had these bizarre scripts and monologues it worked well

Was involved with a plan to do radio plays on wprb before the pandemic hit.

He looped a lot. Back when it involved scissors/razors and adhesive tape

Didn't prb do some radio plays for fundraisers in recent years?

Probably?

I would ask a smarter dj

smartAss DJs are guud too

Imagine being smart, what a concept

💃👯‍♀️🕺

I'll just keep being a dumbass

Goof

So glad I wasn't labeled gifted as a child

“Special”?

I got good grades but I think they thought I was too weird for them

I also have trouble in math. Got straight A's but actually had to try hard in those classes

Former WPRB Music Director Aida did a few live radio plays on her show.

Well definitely keep labeling yourself as weird and strange etc. That will have great benefits. 😐

At one time we were developing a script for a 1920s version of much ado about nothing

Sir, you're a scull

a skull, even

Only thing that gave me real trouble was Chemistry. I took as many music courses as i could. Music was my 'science'. Then years later i end up working at a co. where chemistry is like everything. Fortunately I just ask the coworkers that are experts.

Chemistry was okay but mostly memorization

Still don't know multiplication tables

DJ DylanFox, I think you’re AWESOME or I wouldn’t waste my time here *twice a week!

I liked the complex math classes because I had good teachers. They let us write out a note sheet of whatever we could remember (without looking at texts) right before the tests

Thank you mr skeleton

Like I did fine in math but never felt passionate about it like English or history

Statistics was cool. And Logic too.

Dual enrollment statistics was the easiest thing I ever took

Never had much interest in logic, this show as illustration of that

Exactly. Math is calisthenics, cardio, core exercise for thought. Not nec. activity you need to repeat or love doing. Just helps with other things

I have a very powerful sense of intuition

Logic is ok to visit. Would not want to live there all year round

Film editing is a great lesson in logic

I bet

The many different permutations of "this doesn't work" are insane

This insane and illogical Show, DOES work!! Thanks, DJ DylanFox! Cheers!

Thanks everybody! Have a great night!

Cheers Dears and especially those with Big Ears!

It's your show! Had a great time Dylan. Great sets. Great chatting with you all!