WFMU: Steve Krinsky: Playlist from August 14, 2009

Steve Krinsky: Playlist from August 14, 2009

August 14, 2009: Willy Les Frank Uke Ike
It's a drag, since I am only on the air once in a while, that I have to do so many tributes to the recently deceased all at once. I played them while they were alive-- well, maybe not Cliff Edwards-- but had to do something for Willy Deville, Les Paul and Frank McCourt. Ukelele Ike/Cliff Edwards is another story: an icon from vaudeville and beyond, who still sounds good today. Hope you like it. Email me with comments: stevek@wfmu.org

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Artist	Track	Comments
Big Guitars from Texas	Hardy Street	I've been playing cuts off this great collection of Texas twangsters for about 20 years and it amazes me how good they can be-- even when the CD skips
Stevie Ray Vaughan	Travis Walk	Another pretty good Texas guitar player
Paul Butterfield Blues Band	Thank You Mr. Poohbah	Just stumbled on to a CD copy of the first album by PBBB and this number jumped out!
Sarah Brown	Bad Boy's Pride	Austin bass player steps out on her own-- a 45 from a while back. Sarah is one of the Big Guitars from Texas and, more recently, plays with Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women.
Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women	River Under the Road	Dave is at his best, fronting this band of top notch country blues women, Sarah Brown among them (Yep Roc, 2009)
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros	Sandpaper Blues	Former Clash frontman from "Rock Art and the X-Ray Style" (Hellcat Records, 1999)
Mink DeVille	Teardrops Must Fall	Willy Deville died last week at the age of 58. Sad story but he left behind lotsa great music! Fall teardrops.
Mink DeVille	Cadillac Walk	Punk. Soul. Lower East Side Blues. Call it what you want. It's good.
Willy Deville	Voodoo Charm	Willy left NYC in the 90s and went to New Orleans, where he seemed to pull it all together and . put out a few good albums. My fave is "Victory Mixture" (with Eddie Bo & Dr. John); this one is from "Backstreets of Desire" (FNAC Music, 1992)
Allen Toussaint	On Your Way Down	With the best New Orleans players, this 1972 session is rich with soul. On CD as "Life, Love & Faith" (Water Music, 2008)
Allen Toussaint	Louie	In 1970, Allen Toussaint put out his first CD, with a bunch of his best 60s hit singles plus this cool instrumental. The album was reissued on Kent as "What is Success: The Scepter & Bell Recordings"
Pinetop Perkins	3-Finger Boogie	Recorded live at the old FMU studios in East Orange in 1993; it can be found on "Upsalapalooza"-- a bunch of tunes recorded live at the station
Art Tatum	How High the Moon	Wow. This guy can play.
Art Tatum	Tatum-Pole Boogie	Mostly bed music but let's let Art tinkle away on those keys
Les Paul	Hawaiian Paradise	Here's where the old "what-more-can-you-say" about someone really applies.
Les Paul & Mary Ford	I'm A Fool to Care	These guys did radio and, in the early days of the medium, TV. He played, she sang, they made jokes-- and it still sounds pretty good today!
Les Paul & Mary Ford	I'm Sitting on Top of the World	This doesn't sound like the way Howlin' Wolf did it!
Tony Schwartz	Translations	Tony went out into the streets of NY and recorded what he heard; from "New York 19" (Folkways)
The Village Stompers	Washington Square
Bobby Sanabria & Ascension	Delirio	From "New York City Ache" (Flying Fish, 1993)
Bobby Sanabria & Ascension	La Cumbiamba	A Joe Henderson tune, done Puerto Rican style
Renata Lu	Faz Tanto Tempo	Samba Soul from the 70s, on "Black Rio 2" (Strut, 2009)
Guimaraes E O Grupo Som Sagrado	Our Sound	More soul stuff from Brazil.
Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards	California
R Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders	Alabamy Bound	A Uke Ike number, done by some of his biggest fans. Crumb did the cover for one of his albums, a re-issue of old stuff from 1974
Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies	Somebody Stole My Gal	A western swing take
Barrence Whitfield & Tom Russell	Insufficient Sweetie	"That when a rabbi becomes kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan"
John Martyn	Singin' in the Rain
Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards	If You Knew Susie	Listener Adam wondered if the voice in "Betty Boop MD" was Uke Ike. If you look on YouTube, you can see it-- great scary animation-- and much more, including other Cliff Edwards stuff
Alberta Hunter	Darktown Strutters Ball	Alberta Hunter is one of the amazing stories of the recent past: a successful blues/jazz singer from the early part of the 20th century, she turned up in the 70s and sang as well as ever. I never saw her but this a great album: "Amtrak Blues" (Columbia 1980)
Jeff Beck	Cause We've Ended As Lovers
Slim Gaillard	African Jive	Lotsa Slim on YouTube too, including a 1988 TV show where an older Slim does "Take the A-Train" w/ David Sanborn. Even better: a clip from a 1986 movie "Absolute Beginners" with David Bowie. Surreal segment, hot Slim music
Steve Martin	Pitkin County Turnaround	Yes, the comic Steve Martin. A good banjo player. He has help on "The Crow" from Early Scruggs, Tony Trischka, Dolly Parton and others. On Rounder.
The Creole Belles	Domino/Will Bolfa Medley	Nice new Cajun music on Arhoolie Records
Lucinda Williams	Out of Touch	From "Essence" (Lost Highway, 2002)
Dwight Yoakam	Fast As You	Dwight rocks
Willie Nelson w/ Carlos Santana	They All Went to Mexico	From an album of duets with the clever name: "Half Nelson" (Columbia, 1985)
Doug Gillard	The Temperament Twist
Jayhawks	Waiting for the Sun
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem	Irish Rover	Just finished reading Frank McCourt's great memoir, "Angela's Ashes."
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem	October Winds
The Pogues	Once Upon a Time
Phil Ochs	The Highwayman	Frankie McCourt was a poor Irish kid who heard this classic English outlaw poem and was inspired to become a writer. It's a common tale: the outlaw falls in love as "the redcoat troops come marching marching..."
Coffin Daggers	Cat's Eyes	Check them out at Maxwells on August 23, along with Los Straitjackets
Los Straitjackets	Chica Alborotada aka Tallahassee Lassie
Los Straitjackets	Squid

Artist

Track

Comments

Big Guitars from Texas

Hardy Street

I've been playing cuts off this great collection of Texas twangsters for about 20 years and it amazes me how good they can be-- even when the CD skips

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Travis Walk

Another pretty good Texas guitar player

Paul Butterfield Blues Band

Thank You Mr. Poohbah

Just stumbled on to a CD copy of the first album by PBBB and this number jumped out!

Sarah Brown

Bad Boy's Pride

Austin bass player steps out on her own-- a 45 from a while back. Sarah is one of the Big Guitars from Texas and, more recently, plays with Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women.

Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women

River Under the Road

Dave is at his best, fronting this band of top notch country blues women, Sarah Brown among them (Yep Roc, 2009)

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

Sandpaper Blues

Former Clash frontman from "Rock Art and the X-Ray Style" (Hellcat Records, 1999)

Mink DeVille

Teardrops Must Fall

Willy Deville died last week at the age of 58. Sad story but he left behind lotsa great music! Fall teardrops.

Mink DeVille

Cadillac Walk

Punk. Soul. Lower East Side Blues. Call it what you want. It's good.

Willy Deville

Voodoo Charm

Willy left NYC in the 90s and went to New Orleans, where he seemed to pull it all together and . put out a few good albums. My fave is "Victory Mixture" (with Eddie Bo & Dr. John); this one is from "Backstreets of Desire" (FNAC Music, 1992)

Allen Toussaint

On Your Way Down

With the best New Orleans players, this 1972 session is rich with soul. On CD as "Life, Love & Faith" (Water Music, 2008)

Allen Toussaint

Louie

In 1970, Allen Toussaint put out his first CD, with a bunch of his best 60s hit singles plus this cool instrumental. The album was reissued on Kent as "What is Success: The Scepter & Bell Recordings"

Pinetop Perkins

3-Finger Boogie

Recorded live at the old FMU studios in East Orange in 1993; it can be found on "Upsalapalooza"-- a bunch of tunes recorded live at the station

Art Tatum

How High the Moon

Wow. This guy can play.

Art Tatum

Tatum-Pole Boogie

Mostly bed music but let's let Art tinkle away on those keys

Les Paul

Hawaiian Paradise

Here's where the old "what-more-can-you-say" about someone really applies.

Les Paul & Mary Ford

I'm A Fool to Care

These guys did radio and, in the early days of the medium, TV. He played, she sang, they made jokes-- and it still sounds pretty good today!

Les Paul & Mary Ford

I'm Sitting on Top of the World

This doesn't sound like the way Howlin' Wolf did it!

Tony Schwartz

Translations

Tony went out into the streets of NY and recorded what he heard; from "New York 19" (Folkways)

The Village Stompers

Washington Square

Bobby Sanabria & Ascension

Delirio

From "New York City Ache" (Flying Fish, 1993)

Bobby Sanabria & Ascension

La Cumbiamba

A Joe Henderson tune, done Puerto Rican style

Renata Lu

Faz Tanto Tempo

Samba Soul from the 70s, on "Black Rio 2" (Strut, 2009)

Guimaraes E O Grupo Som Sagrado

Our Sound

More soul stuff from Brazil.

Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards

California

R Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders

Alabamy Bound

A Uke Ike number, done by some of his biggest fans. Crumb did the cover for one of his albums, a re-issue of old stuff from 1974

Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies

Somebody Stole My Gal

A western swing take

Barrence Whitfield & Tom Russell

Insufficient Sweetie

"That when a rabbi becomes kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan"

John Martyn

Singin' in the Rain

Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards

If You Knew Susie

Listener Adam wondered if the voice in "Betty Boop MD" was Uke Ike. If you look on YouTube, you can see it-- great scary animation-- and much more, including other Cliff Edwards stuff

Alberta Hunter

Darktown Strutters Ball

Alberta Hunter is one of the amazing stories of the recent past: a successful blues/jazz singer from the early part of the 20th century, she turned up in the 70s and sang as well as ever. I never saw her but this a great album: "Amtrak Blues" (Columbia 1980)

Jeff Beck

Cause We've Ended As Lovers

Slim Gaillard

African Jive

Lotsa Slim on YouTube too, including a 1988 TV show where an older Slim does "Take the A-Train" w/ David Sanborn. Even better: a clip from a 1986 movie "Absolute Beginners" with David Bowie. Surreal segment, hot Slim music

Steve Martin

Pitkin County Turnaround

Yes, the comic Steve Martin. A good banjo player. He has help on "The Crow" from Early Scruggs, Tony Trischka, Dolly Parton and others. On Rounder.

The Creole Belles

Domino/Will Bolfa Medley

Nice new Cajun music on Arhoolie Records

Lucinda Williams

Out of Touch

From "Essence" (Lost Highway, 2002)

Dwight Yoakam

Fast As You

Dwight rocks

Willie Nelson w/ Carlos Santana

They All Went to Mexico

From an album of duets with the clever name: "Half Nelson" (Columbia, 1985)

Doug Gillard

The Temperament Twist

Jayhawks

Waiting for the Sun

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

Irish Rover

Just finished reading Frank McCourt's great memoir, "Angela's Ashes."

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

October Winds

The Pogues

Once Upon a Time

Phil Ochs

The Highwayman

Frankie McCourt was a poor Irish kid who heard this classic English outlaw poem and was inspired to become a writer. It's a common tale: the outlaw falls in love as "the redcoat troops come marching marching..."

Coffin Daggers

Cat's Eyes

Check them out at Maxwells on August 23, along with Los Straitjackets

Los Straitjackets

Chica Alborotada aka Tallahassee Lassie

Los Straitjackets

Squid

Listener comments!

Fri. 8/14/09 3:12pm jamesie:

About time I said hello, and with good intentions

Fri. 8/14/09 3:57pm Annie:

Great show! I am really digging the flow of genre! Thank you! I'm 37 weeks pregnant and the baby and I are relaxing to your tunes.....
Morristown, NJ

Fri. 8/14/09 3:59pm ao:

Sigh - will miss Les. It felt good just knowing he was around.

Fri. 8/14/09 3:59pm Chris:

Really enjoying this playlist so far. Between this and the recent tribute to DeVille, I've been turned onto some amazing albums.

Fri. 8/14/09 4:04pm bryce:

very very tiny les paul!

Fri. 8/14/09 4:27pm steve krinsky:

Bryce: Who says size matters?

Fri. 8/14/09 4:30pm kid brody:

can you repeat or write down in the "comments" section what you said about the Texas Tornados? Thanks a bunch! Enjoying your show today.

Fri. 8/14/09 4:31pm Adam / Ladyfingers:

Wow...I hate that I tuned in this late...awesome playlist!!

Fri. 8/14/09 4:36pm steve krinsky:

Lincoln Center Out of Doors:
-- 8/22, 2 pm: Ramblin Jack Elliot, Holmes Bros, etc.
-- 8/22, 7 pm: Allen Toussaint, Lizz Wright
-- 8/23, 4 pm: Texas Tornados, etc.

Fri. 8/14/09 4:39pm kid brody:

Thanks Steve! Have a great weekend!

Fri. 8/14/09 4:44pm taylor:

first time listening to your show, been listening for the last couple of hours during my late breakfast. great stuff! thanks and hello from the breezy bay area!

Fri. 8/14/09 5:32pm LizGig:

Go freeform radio!

Fri. 8/21/09 2:12pm Lou Russo:

Steve, great show, and cool guitar stuff. I've always LOVED the Mescaleros, and my last song "Instigator troublemaker" was totally influenced by their "Johnny Appleseed" track.
Do you have a copy of my song?--- Lou

Thu. 3/11/10 4:14pm LOU RUSSO:

Greetings from Mandolin Brothers:
Hi Steve I just played this Aug 14 (my anniversary) archive. Great stuff as usual. Great to hear that Joe Strummer track on the radio. And where else could I hear my art hero R. Crumb do his music "dang". thanks Steve, see you soon, Lou Russo

Steve Krinsky: Playlist from August 14, 2009

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