TOTR 23: Out on the highway!

Robert Johnson - Walkin Blues

Robert Johnson - Me And The Devil Blues

Robert Johnson - Hell Hound On My Trail

The Band - Key To The Highway

Neil Young - Far from Home

Son Volt - Highways And Cigarettes

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift

Otis Gibbs - daughter of a truck drivin man

Old Crow Medicine Show - Fall On My Knees

The Avett Brothers – Shame

Nickel Creek - Out Of The Woods

Nickel Creek - Jealous Of The Moon

the everybodyfields – Aeroplane

the everybodyfields - - Lonely Anywhere

the everybodyfields - Dont Tern Around

the everybodyfields - Out On The Highway

Ryan Adams - Magnolia Mountain

Jeff Tweedy - - The Ruling Class

Steve Earle - Days Arent Long Enough (with Allison Moorer)

Lone Justice - This World Is Not My Home

Jason & the Scorchers - Take Me Home, Country Roads

Guadalcanal Diary - Kum Ba Yah

TOTR 22: Guest Host Jim Clark (and more!)

Teacher on the Radio guest hosting of "The Band Next Door" for St. Patrick's Day (7-8)

Clannad - Theme From Harry's Game

Eoin Dillon - The Moon On Me Back

Lorcan Mac Mathuna - An Rógaire Dubh

The Chieftains - Lots Of Drops Of Brandy

The Dubliners - Whiskey In The Jar

The Dubliners - The Pub With No Beer

The Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights

The Pogues - The Irish Rover

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town

Dropkick Murphys - Wild Rover

Flogging Molly - Man With No Country

Luka Bloom – Change

Luka Bloom - Star of Doolin

Black 47- James Connolly

With Special Guest Host and Performer Jim Clark 8-10

Bruce Springsteen - Eyes on the Prize

Doc Watson - Down In The Valley To Pray

The Carter Family - Will You Miss Me When Im Gone

John Jacob Niles - Go Way From My Window

Hank Williams – I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

The Stanley Brothers - Ramshackle Shack On The Hill

The Stanley Brothers - Wild Reckless Hobo

Jim Clark - Sweet Sunny South

Jim Clark LIVE in the studio

Emmylou Harris - Satans Jewel Crown

Gram Parsons - In My Hour of Darkness

Jean Ritchie - Barbary Allen

John Hartford - Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry

Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley

Bob Dylan - The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Grateful Dead - Tennessee Jed

Jesse Winchester - Brand New Tennessee Waltz

Jim Clark - In Tennessee

Jim Clark - Lady Magdalene

Teacher on the Radio Field Trip: Black Mountain at the Grey Eagle

We were there! See the story at

http://realitysandwich.com/black_mountains_prog_gnosis

TOTR 21: "Folk that!"

Ani DiFranco - This Land Is Your Land

Utah Phillips - The Boss

Utah Phillips - We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years

Utah Phillips & Ani DiFranco - Bum on the Rod

Woody Guthrie - Jesus Christ

Woody Guthrie - Do-Re-Mi

Natalie Merchant - Which Side Are You On

Nick Drake - Cello Song

The Incredible String Band - Swift As The Wind

Pentangle - Springtime Promises

Steeleye Span - Hard Times Of Old England

The Fugs - You Cant Go Into The Same River Twice

The Holy Modal Rounders - Blues In The Bottle

The Holy Modal Rounders – Euphoria

The Holy Modal Rounders - Mr. Spaceman

Violent Femmes - Jesus Walking on the Water

Joanna Newsome - Sawdust & Diamonds

Devendra Banhart - Long Haired Child

Espers - Dead King

Elvis Perkins - The Night & The Liquor

Birch Book - New Song

Casey Neill – Riffraff

David Rovics - Here at the End of the World

Joan Baez - The Ballad Of Sacco Vanzetti

Joan Baez - Joe Hill

Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair-Canticle

Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

TOTR 20, Prog Gnosis, 2-25-2008

Grab your space helmet and special headphones radio fans!!!

I am honored tonight to have a special co-host in the incomparable Bran Merritt!!

Electric Light Orchestra - Dreaming Of 4000

Yes - Siberian Khatru

Gentle Giant – River

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy

Utopia – Overture: Mountaintop And Sunrise Communion With the Sun

Genesis – Watcher of the Skies

Genesis – Dance of the Volcano

King Crimson – Dinosaur

King Crimson – Red

Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones)

Rush - The Body Electric

Rush – Far Cry

Rush - The Main Monkey Business

The Mars Volta – Soothsayer

Tool - 10,000 Days (Wings, Pt. 2)

Black Mountain - Bright Lights

Angels in Cookeville--the Review

Teacher on the Radio is in today's Herald-Citizen with a review of Angels in America.

Local Theatre Review: 'Angels in America' transcends Playhouse's small space

Monday, Feb 25, 2008

By ANDREW WILLIAM SMITH

Special to the HERALD-CITIZEN

COOKEVILLE -- The frank topics addressed in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" are matched by the play's ambitious, ambiguous and ultimately hopeful messages.

The Tech Players' version of this epic play is currently in production at the Backdoor Playhouse.

At first, a play so complex and controversial seems like an odd fit for Cookeville. But with a compassionate group of actors committed to an inspired interpretation of Kushner's material, the 1980s New York where most of the show takes place suddenly seems incredibly close to Tennessee.

Confronting issues such as gays, Republicans and gay Republicans, the play hilariously combines fantasy and reality, politics and pop culture, spirituality and sexuality.

The show centers on the troubles faced by two couples, made difficult by overlapping plot lines.

Amy Byrne amazes as the hazily confused "Harper Pitt." Evan Montgomery moves us as Harper's husband, "Joe Pitt," a conflicted soul who eloquently grapples with his homosexuality and a Mormon training that denies it.

In his version of "Louis Ironson," Matthew Feliss fosters an emotionally complicated portrait of how one man faces the fear that he will lose his lover to AIDS. Purposeful and profound, proud yet vulnerable, Jimmy Rose's "Prior Walter" confronts the terror of an epidemic with humor, doubt and love.

The emotionally vast cast would not be complete without David Davidson's darkly chilling "Roy Cohn," Shane Langford's caustic "Belize," Lillian Rose Crouse's virtuoso performances as "Hannah Pitt" and so many others, or Jennifer Dotson-Creter's awesome "Angel."

Without a large auditorium or limitless production budget, the dynamic direction of Mark Harry Creter transcends the small size of the space, allowing audience members to confront their feelings.

Awed by emotional muscle and dramatic flare, many theater-goers discussed their anticipation of the play's Part Two this April, even as they departed the back of the Jere Whitson building, overwhelmed by a near-perfect Part One.

Andrew William Smith is an instructor of English at Tennessee Technological University.

http://www.herald-citizen.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=51611738-19B9-E2E2-67792CF442124733

TOTR 19, We're All Angels Over The Rainbow, 2-18-8

Electric Factory - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Logos – Requiem / Land of the Free

Billie Holiday – What a Little Moonlight Can Do

Nina Simone – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

Peaches – Downtown

Girl Talk - Double Pump

Madonna - Nothing Fails

Goldfrapp – A& E

Le Tigre - Tell You Now

Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad

The Smiths – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Tony Kushner interview clip

Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Philadelphia

TOTR special interview with Angels in America director Mark Creter and actor Jimmy Rose

Beastie Boys – Alive (Moby Remix)

Hair [Original Broadway Cast] – Frank Mills

Rent [Original Broadway Cast] – La Vie Boheme

Rent [Original Broadway Cast] – Seasons Of Love

Shortbus Soundtrack — In the End

Tori Amos – Somewhere Over The Rainbow