The Song Collector (TOTR 393)

 

The Song Collector (TOTR 393)

2/6/2021

Chumbawamba - The Song Collector

The Paramount Singers - There's A Great Camp Meeting

Eva Grace Boone - We're Goin' Around The Mountain

Carl Mickens - Walk Together, Children

United Sacred Harp Musical Association - Present Joys

Word Of Mouth Chorus - New Jerusalem

The Carter Family - God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign

Memphis Sanctified Singers - He Got Better Things For You

Golden Eagle Gospel Singers - Do Lord Remember Me

Aunt Molly Jackson & John Greenway - I Am a Union Woman

Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers -  White House Blues

Uncle Dave Macon - Buddy Won't You Roll Down The Line

Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - Blues in the Bottle

Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues

Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman - Whiskey In The Jar

Allen Ginsberg - CIA Dope Calypso

Taj Mahal - High Water Everywhere, Part 2

Doc Watson - Mole in the Ground

Eliza Carthy & Richard Thompson - The Coo Coo Bird 

Steve Earle - Prison Cell Blues 

Wilco - James Alley Blues

Grateful Dead - Deal - Live in Veneta, Oregon 8/27/72

David Peel and The Lower East Side - God

The Fugs - Hare Krishna

Peter Rowan - All My Relations

The Holy Modal Rounders - Better Things For You

Bongwater - Kisses Sweeter than Wine

Nick Cave - Shine On Me 

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground

Lead Belly - Midnight Special 

Frog Songs Mixtape: 1985-1994

 

Frog Songs Mixtape - 1985-1994

Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/teacherontheradio/frog-songs-mixtape

This 8-track, 32-minute-lo-fi-mono mixtape is from the heart, on the occasion of the 30th birthday of the year 1991, taking me back home to my radical Detroit roots. Ripped on 1-31-2021 from playback on a Nakamichi Cassette deck to Audacity on a Lenovo laptop & then uploaded on February 2, 2021 to Soundcloud. None of the tracks are available anywhere in digital format, to my knowledge. [Ok some of them are probably on YouTube, maybe.] Some of these were extremely limited private-pressing cassettes. None of this is on Spotify. 

404 Willis was Detroit’s DIY ‘autonomous zone’ & music-poetry venue & art gallery & soup kitchen from 1991-1994. We opened our doors as some folks read Hakim Bey’s TAZ that same spring & it was a nonstop adventure until we closed our doors after three short years, only to move our energies nearby to the Trumbullplex, which by reports is still going strong after all these years.

This mixtape was born from my boxes & boxes of mostly neglected cassettes, as I have been enjoying some deep nostalgia about that pivotal year in a transformative period in my life. In this mix, I have tried to capture the spirit of the 404, the radical anti-authoritarian movements at that time period more generally, as well as the Detroit/Cass Corridor scene. Two artists not from Detroit that make it into this cut, were ones that both performed at the 404 when on tour, as we became the stop for lots of traveling punk, some folk, & otherwise independent & interesting artists. 

1 - The Don’t Look Now Jug Band - Frog Song - Live In The Attic - private press live cassette - 1988
2- Andy Sunfrog - Waiting For Richard - cassette rip from Living Poets radio show - private copy from DJ - 11/27/1994
3 -Roger Manning - Real Estate Blues - White Trash: NY Folk Volume 1 - 1988 - 109 Records
4- Lenny Pops - Talking Proletarian Blues - 1992- 404 Records (“recorded at Lisa & Sunfrog’s apartment”)
5- The Layabouts - I’m Tired - No Masters - 1985 - Non-Serviam - dubbed from a cassette dub of album
6 - Chumbawamba - Happiness Is Just A Chant Away - SHHH - Agit Prop - 1992
7- Mick Vranich & Wordband - Chains Across The Trees - Cloak Of Skin - New Alliance Records - 1994
8- Cathouse - Road Song - Virtue Undone - private press cassette - 1992

We Get By (TOTR 392)

Danny Kroha - Before This Time Another Year
Mavis Staples & Ben Harper - We Get By
Gary Clark Jr.- What About Us
Raoul Kerr & Amani Kerr - No Flag
Cast of Hamilton - One Last Time
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
Punch Brothers - The Angel of Doubt
American Aquarium - The World Is On Fire
The Decemberists - Everything Is Awful
Drive-By Truckers - Once They Banned Imagine
Roger Waters - Part of Me Died
A Perfect Circle - Disillusioned
Bob Mould - American Crisis
U2 - American Soul
Jim James - Same Old Lie
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Shame
Dead & Company - Touch of Grey - Live 7/2/18
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Last of My Kind
Frank Turner - Be More Kind
The Avett Brothers - New Woman's World
Brandi Carlile - Hold Out Your Hand
Carrie Newcomer - That's the Way These Things Go
Andra Day - Rise Up

Broadcast live in January 23, 2021

Want to hear the songs? Listen Here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6k62Gu01rqYExllHq1bGjv?si=7qa-94hURqKUBXJ74pwgbg

Wanna Get Outta Here (TOTR 391)

(graphic is street art in Hattiesburg, MS, next to the T Bones record store and restaurant)

Resistance Revival Chorus - Ella’s Song

Rev. Sekou & the Holy Ghost - Neighbor 

Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind 

Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers - O Day

The Wild Tchoupitoulas - Here Dey Come

Lonnie McIntorsh - Arise and Shine

Junior Kimbrough - I Feel Good Again 

Carolina Chocolate Drops - Cornbread and Butterbeans

The War and Treaty - Wanna Get Outta Here

Big Head Todd and The Monsters w/ Cedric Burnside - Ramblin’ On My Mind

Chuck Simmons & Wardell Quezerque - Lay It On Me, Pt. 1

Little Feat - Spanish Moon

Adam Arcuragi - She Comes To Me

Jim Clark - Peggy-O

Sam Amidon - Dry Bones 

The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine

The Head and the Heart - All We Ever Knew

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Hope the High Road

Hiss Golden Messenger - Biloxi

JJ Grey & Mofro - Tupelo Honey

Steve Earle - Harlem River Blues

Justin Townes Earle - Graceland

Ben Harper & Soweto Gospel Choir & Jordan C. Brown - Fix You 

Dr. John & The Blind Boys Of Alabama & Nicholas Payton - What A Wonderful World 

Listen to these songs on Spotify here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YYyVlREHL5QPpvIIgz7Qw?si=sHBec0gxQXSXj-PKCUcK-g

Sonic Sanity for Insane Times: Best Music of 2020

 

Friends of Teacher On The Radio and fans of good music. Seventy albums from 2020, plus a playlist with 111 songs!

1. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Reunions

2. Possessed By Paul James - As We Go Wandering

3. Ray La Montagne - Monovision 

4. John Craigie - Asterisk to the Universe

5. Margo Price - That’s How Rumors Get Started

6. Resistance Revival Chorus - This Joy

7. Ondara - Folk n Roll Vol. 1: Tales of Isolation

8. American Aquarium - Lamentations

9. Drive By Truckers - The Unraveling

10. Nathaniel Rateliff - And It’s Still Alright

11. Brian Fallon - Local Honey

12. The Band of Heathens - Stranger

13. Dawes - Good Luck With Whatever

14. Phish - Sigma Oasis 

15. Ruston Kelly - Shape & Destroy

16. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

17. The War and Treaty - Hearts Town

18. Shemekia Copeland - Uncivil War

19. Tyler Childers - Long Violent History 

20. Brent Cobb - Keep ‘Em On Them Toes

21. The Avett Brothers - The Third Gleam

22. Maria McKee - La Vita Nuova

23. The Porter’s Gate - Justice Songs

24. Joshua Burnside - Into The Depths of Hell

25. Kingdom in My Mind - The Wood Brothers

26. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman

27. Sadler Vaden - Anybody out there?

28. Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us

29. Nahko and Medicine for the People - Take Your Power Back 

30. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II

31. Blitzen Trapper - Holy Smokes Future Jokes

32. Flaming Lips - American Head 

33. December - God Is Not A Man

34. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison 

35. Delta Spirit - What Is There

36. Jake Blount - Spider Tales

37. Casey Neill - Crow Hill + EP2

38. David Wimbish - Surface Tension

39. Rev. Yolanda - YolandaNanda

40. Bill Fay - Countless Branches 

41. The Chicks - Gaslighter 

42. Bruce Springsteen - Letter To You 

43. Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King

44. Julian Taylor - The Ridge

45. Carbon Leaf - Gathering 

46. Andy Frasco & the U.N. - Keep On Keeping On

47. Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive 

48. AJJ - Good Luck Everybody

49. Puscifer - Existential Reckoning

50. Drive By Truckers - The New OK 

51. Nada Surf - Never Not Together

52. Mandy Moore - Silver Landings 

53. William Elliot Whitmore - I’m With You

54. Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass

55. Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs

56. Steve Earle - Ghosts of West Virginia

57. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

58. Indigo Girls - Look Long

59. Fleet Foxes - Shore 

60. Danbert Nobacon, Kira Wood Cramer, & The Axis of Dissent - Mesmerica - Expect A Circus

61. Delta Rae - The Light 

62. Brennen Leigh - Prairie Love Letter 

63. The Hanging Stars -  A New Kind of Sky

64. Ben Seretan - Youth Pastoral

65. Waylon Payne - Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me

66. Raye Zaragoza - Woman In Color

67. Sally Anne Morgan - Thread

68. Tre Burt - Caught It From The Rye

69. William Prince - Gospel First Nation

Playlist -

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1WG2lrkBsdasT2I76Ccd7i?si=hlLRnQRLS829USpVD8MuzQ

We're All In This Together Now (TOTR 390)

 

-marathon all-day episode

-aired live on WTTU back on Monday, December 7, 2020
-best of 2020 & holiday theme

Nahko And Medicine For The People - Bend Like The Willow
Andy Frasco & the U.N. - None of Those Things
Merry Hell - Leave It in the Ground
The Wood Brothers - Jitterbug Love
Sadler Vaden - Don't Worry
Mt. Joy - Let Loose
Phish - Everything's Right
Nada Surf - Something I Should Do
Brian Fallon - When You're Ready
Carbon Leaf - Gathering
Bill Fay - Filled With Wonder Once Again
Nathaniel Rateliff -  And It's Still Alright
Possessed by Paul James - When It Breaks
Ondara - Mr. Landlord
Tyler Childers - Long Violent History
Brent Cobb - Shut up and Sing
Brennen Leigh - Pipeline
Casey Neill - The Distance Ahead
Bruce Springsteen - Rainmaker
Jeff Tweedy - Natural Disaster
Steve Earle - Time is Never on Our Side
Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul
Sufjan Stevens - America
Puscifer - Bedlamite
Pearl Jam - Buckle Up
Drive-By Truckers - The New OK
The Porter's Gate - We Will Make No Peace With Oppression
Shemekia Copeland - Uncivil War
The Chicks - Set Me Free
Indigo Girls - Howl At The Moon
Margo Price - I'd Die For You
David Wimbish - Sorry
The Avett Brothers - I Should’ve Spent The Day With My Family
Will Kimbrough - The Late Great John Prine Blues
American Aquarium - Six Years Come September
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - River
My Morning Jacket - Run It
Ray LaMontagne - Summer Clouds
Blitzen Trapper - Requiem
John Craigie - Son of a Man
December - God Is Not a Man
Matt Berninger - Loved So Little
Fleet Foxes -  A Long Way Past The Past
The Band Of Heathens - Black Cat
Dawes - Didn't Fix Me
The Flaming Lips- My Religion Is You
Rev. Yolanda - Love Lifted Me
Ruston Kelly - Jubilee
The War and Treaty - Jubilee
Jake Blount - Move, Daniel
Ben Harper & Rhiannon Giddens - Black Eyed Dog
Black Pumas - Fast Car
Eliza Gilkyson - Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Molly Tuttle - She's A Rainbow
Jake Hoot & Ricky Duran - La Bamba
Resistance Revival Chorus & Deva Mahal - Everybody Deserves To Be Free
Mountain Man - Simple Gifts
Jason Ringenberg - John the Baptist Was a Real Humdinger
Mandy Moore - How Could This Be Christmas?
Dolly Parton & Miley Cyrus - Christmas Is (feat. Miley Cyrus)
Carrie Underwood & John Legend - Hallelujah
Brandi Carlile - Hallelujah
Ruston Kelly - Hallelujah Anyway
Eva Cassidy - O Come, All Ye Faithful
The Goo Goo Dolls - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
Sons Of The Never Wrong - In the Inn
John Prine - Christmas in Prison
Justin Townes Earle - Graceland
Mountain Man - Greensleeves
Andrew Bird - Greenwine
Benjamin Scheuer & Atlantic Holiday - Christmas Is Black And Blue
Merry Hell - Beyond the Call
John Paul White & Rosanne Cash - We're All In This Together Now
Ana Egge & The First Unitarian Brooklyn Choir - We Are One
Bonny Light Horseman - Bright Morning Stars
Margo Price - River
Ruston Kelly - O Holy Night