Song Of The Future (TOTR 531)

 

-This week, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of U2 & the incoming new U2 music.

Our guest is Steve Harmon, friend & colleague, pastor & professor & author.

His new book is U2's Theological Imagination. A Guide for Pilgrims on the Way.
-originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Wednesday, September 30, 2026

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U2 - Stories for Boys

Bono - Surrender memoir, excerpt

U2 - Cedarwood Road

U2 - The Tears of Things

U2 - Song of The Future
U2 - Resurrection Song

U2 - COEXIST (I Will Bless The Lord At All Times)

Interview with Steve Harmon

U2 - Silencio (live from Mt. Temple school on 9-25-2026)

Interview with Steve Harmon

U2 - Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way (live from Mohegan Sun on 7-3-2018)

Bono & The Edge - Running to Stand Still (live from Cain’s Ballroom on 10-21-2025)

Bono & The Edge - Sunday Bloody Sunday (live from Cain’s Ballroom on 10-21-2025)

Bono & The Edge - One (live from Cain’s Ballroom on 10-21-2025)

Bono & The Edge - Pride (in the Name of Love) (live from Cain’s Ballroom on 10-21-2025)

Bono & The Edge - Yahweh (live from Cain’s Ballroom on 10-21-2025)

U2 - Bad (live from East Rutherford, NJ on 4-15-1985) 

Think I'll Start Over (TOTR 530)

 

-this episode reviews the Teacher’s attendance at Americanafest in Nashville last week!

-originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Wednesday, September 23, 2026

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Ruthie Foster - Six Mile Water
Chris Pierce - Madonna of the San Joaquin
Brandi Carlile - Returning To Myself
Ken Pomeroy - This Old Guitar
The Sentimental Gentlemen - Leavin’ The Ozarks
Sparrow Smith & The Resonant Rogues - Wineberry Time
Sabine McCalla - Louisiana Hound Dog
Hollow Hand - Heavy Metal T-Shirt
Thomas Dollbaum - Big Boi
Lily Seabird - Lightspheres On The Way
Angela Autumn - Millionaire Money
Drayton Farley - Chewing On Fire
Roger Harvey & John R. Miller - Blue Mountain
John R. Miller - Think I’ll Start Over
Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs - Let Me Back In My Dream

Boy Golden & Cat Clyde - Moontan
Brown Horse - Total Dive
River Shook - Beater Car
Ramsey Thornton - Home Base
Emily Scott Robinson & John Paul White - Cast Iron Heart
Sierra Ferrell - Pair of Dice
Buddy Miller & Emmylou Harris et. al. - The Inner Sanctum of God
Rhiannon Giddens - Walk With Me  

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (TOTR 529)

 

-today we celebrate 19 years on the air (that's 19 years with lots of sabbaticals & most summers off) & we are thinking about Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash through the filter of Elvis, because that is the entire mood I am in upon this pre-recording!
-originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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Gillian Welch - Elvis Presley Blues
Dire Straits - Calling Elvis
The String Cheese Incident - Johnny Cash
Chuck Berry - Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis Presley - That’s All Right
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream 
Johnny Cash - Hey Porter 
Scott Moreau & the Died Drunk Boys - I Walk The Line
Bob Dylan - Song To Woody
Pete Seeger - Wimoweh
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Big River
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Wanted Man
Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash - If I Were A Carpenter
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl from the North Country
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Bob Dylan - Mississippi 
The Byrds - You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Joan Baez - Diamonds And Rust
Richard Thomspon - From Galway to Graceland
Bruce Springsteen - Johnny Bye Bye
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tupelo (live)
U2 - Unchained Melody 

Hurry Up Sunrise (TOTR 528)

 

-for today’s show, we get into some Jug Band music, as we anticipate the “story of American music” concert on 9-10-2026 at the Backdoor Playhouse, starting at 7:30pm & featuring the Jake Leg Stompers & Eggplant Faerie Players. The event is free, & the Playhouse is at the back of the Jere Whitson Building, just off the Tennessee Tech quad. We also hear from the founder of the Jake Leg Stompers, Bill Steber.
-as timing would have it, just as last week’s show remembered Dolly Parton on the occasion of her passing, much of today’s show turns to remember the life of Kentucky poet, farmer, novelist, essayist, & activist Wendell Berry, including an excerpt of Berry speaking & poems by your host that poured out this week
-originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Wednesday, September 9, 2026
-episode audio archive posted after the live show
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The Lovin Spoonful - Jug Band Music
Jake Leg Stompers - Tear it Down, Bed Slats and All
Jake Leg Stompers (with Luther Dickinson) - Goin’ Down South
Bill Steber being interviewed in April 2026 (excerpt)
Jake Leg Stompers (with Luther Dickinson) - Hurry Up Sunrise
Charles Wesley Godwin - I Caught The Sunrise
Wendell Berry - A Warning To My Readers
Brian Andres & the Mark Lalama Trio - The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (by Wendell Berry)
Tyler Childers - Follow You To Virgie
Tyler Childers - Lady May
Nicholas Jamerson - Goodbye Brother
Willi Carlisle - The Mason Jar at the Center of the Universe
Brandon Flowers - Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?
Emily Scott Robinson - Better With Time
Nicholas Jamerson & the Morning Jays - Linda James
The Wooks - Helechawa
Sophie Wellington - Shacks and Chalets
-Wendell Berry, response to a question, Festival of Faiths - Sacred Earth Sacred Self, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky
Creekbed Carter Hogan - Peasants Revolt
Billy Strings & Don Julin - I’ve Just Seen The Rock of Ages
Colin Cutler & friends - Temple of the Holy Ghost
Adrienne Young, Will Kimbrough, & Ketch Secor - Satan, yer Kingdom Must Come Down
James McMurtry - Decent Man
Jake Leg Stompers with Rev. John Wilkins - That’s No Way To Get Along 
Foggy Memory Boys - Put it on My Gravestone
The Local Honeys - My Old Kentucky Home
Jake Leg Stompers with Jimbo Mathis & Rev. John Wilkins - I Shall Not Be Moved

Union Song (TOTR 527)

 

-in this episode, we celebrate Labor Day & shout out our solidarity with workers everywhere, especially university workers, whether students or staff or faculty! Special shoutout to the United Campus Workers/Communications Workers of America, American Association of University Professors/American Federation of Teachers, & Tennessee Tech’s new chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America - @ydsatntech  

-originally aired on WTTU 88.5 FM The Nest on Wednesday, September 2, 2026

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Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School Today

Dave Van Ronk - Samson and Delilah

Lead Belly - Bourgeois Blues

Fred Holstein - Banks of Marble

Utah Phillips & Rosalie Sorrels - Wobbly Doxology

Utah Phillips - The Preacher and The Slave

Pete Seeger - I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister

IWW Rebel Voices - Power In The Union 

Blue Highway - Union Man

Woody Guthrie - Farmer-Labor Train

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith - Chemical Workers Song

Hazel Dickens - They’ll Never Keep Us Down 

Louise Mosrie - Battle of Blair Mountain

Barbara Dane - I Hate The Capitalist System

Phil Ochs - Automation Song

Joan Baez - Joe Hill - Live at Woodstock

Phil Ochs - Joe Hill

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad

Tom Morello - Union Song - recorded live in Madison, Wisconsin

Mimi and Richard Farina - House Un-American Blues Activity Dream

Mimi Farina - Quiet Joys of Brotherhood

Billy Strings - Mill Town Flood

Willi Carlisle - Work Is Work

Hurray For The Riff Raff - People Talkin’

Dolly Parton & Miley Cyrus - Rainbowland