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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | Approx. start time | ||
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Nick Drake |
Introduction
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Fruit Tree | Hannibal | 1986 | LP | From 1971 | 0:00:00 (Pop‑up) | |||
Molly Drake |
How Wild the Wind Blows
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Molly Drake | Squirrel Thing | 2013 | CD | From the '50s | 0:03:39 (Pop‑up) | |||
The Lyttle Folk |
A' Soalin'
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Classroom Projects: Incredible Music Made by Children in Schools | Trunk | 2013 | CD | '60s sometime in the UK | 0:04:56 (Pop‑up) | |||
Silica Gel |
Judy
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May Day | Sweet Wreath | 2020 | LP | 0:07:48 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Luboš Fišer |
The Magic Yard (excerpt)
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Finders Keepers | 2006 | CD | From 1970 | 0:09:21 (Pop‑up) | |||
T. Vinkovsky / I. Sklyarov |
Cuckoo
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Fragile Contains Glass: 2004 Stochastic Hit Parade Marathon Premium | WFMU | 2004 | CD-R | Timofey and Igor! From 2002 | 0:11:31 (Pop‑up) | |||
Nailah Hunter |
Soil: Song from Silence
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Spells | Leaving | 2020 | LP | * | 0:13:42 (Pop‑up) | |||
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger |
This Woman's Work
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Force Majeure | International Anthem | 2020 | MP3 | * | 0:14:51 (Pop‑up) | |||
Kate Bush |
50 Words for Snow
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50 Words for Snow | Fish People/Anti- | 2011 | CD | 51st: "The Cold Scourge" | 0:19:22 (Pop‑up) | |||
Värttinä |
The Village Awaits the New Moon
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Nordic Roots 2 | Northside | 1999 | CD | 0:27:42 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Notwist |
Into Love Again
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Vertigo Days | Morr Music | 2021 | MP3 | * | 0:32:32 (Pop‑up) | |||
Bill Fay |
The Healing Day
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Life Is People | Dead Oceans | 2012 | CD | 0:37:35 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Cardigans |
Losers (First Try)
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Best of the Cardigans | Universal Music AB | 2008 | CD | From 1996 | 0:56:03 (Pop‑up) | |||
Ibibio Sound Machine |
Guess We Found a Way
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Doko Mien | Merge | 2019 | CD | 0:59:51 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Arlo Parks |
Caroline
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Collapsed In Sunbeams | Transgressive | 2021 | MP3 | * | 1:03:00 (Pop‑up) | |||
CHAI |
Donuts Mind If I Do
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single | Sub Pop | 2020 | 45 | * | 1:07:00 (Pop‑up) | |||
The Style Council |
You're the Best Thing
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My Ever Changing Moods | Geffen | 1984 | LP | 1:10:11 (Pop‑up) | ||||
George Barnes and His Octet |
A Blues Serenade
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Guitar in Velvet | Modern Harmonic | 2020 | LP | From 1957 | 1:16:01 (Pop‑up) | |||
Jo Stafford |
It's Monday Every Day
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The Capitol Rarities 1943-1950 | DRG | 2009 | MP3 | Thanks, Sheila B.! You're the best thing! | 1:18:26 (Pop‑up) | |||
Steve Carlisle |
WKRP in Cincinnati (Main Theme)
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Tube Tunes Volume Three: The '80s | Rhino | 1995 | CD | From 1981 | 1:21:18 (Pop‑up) | |||
Hailu Mergia |
Yene Mircha (My Choice)
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Yene Mircha | Awesome Tapes from Africa | 2020 | CD | * | 1:24:55 (Pop‑up) | |||
Single File: a bunch of 45s in a row for about a half-hour |
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Lucky Thompson |
The Scene Is Clean
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single | Decca | 1953 | 45 | 1:37:47 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Tex Ritter |
Fort Worth Jail
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single | Capitol | 1947 | 45 | 1:40:17 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Stevie Wonder |
Master Blaster (Dub)
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single | Tamla | 1980 | 45 | 1:43:23 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Tasha Thomas |
The Unexpected Experience of Michael D. Tippet in an Unspecified Part of San Francisco Last July (Michael, Michael, Michael)
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single | Roulette | 1969 | 45 | 1:49:50 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Alexandra |
Mein Freund, der Baum
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single | Philips | 1968 | 45 | 1:52:17 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Lene Lovich |
New Toy
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single | Stiff | 1981 | 45 | 1:55:55 (Pop‑up) | ||||
John Lennon |
#9 Dream
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single | EMI Odeon | 1974 | 45 | 1:59:07 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Jim Lauderdale and Roland White |
February Snow
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Jim Lauderdale and Roland White | Yep Roc | 2018 | MP3 | From 1979 | 2:11:47 (Pop‑up) | |||
Jim Thompson and the Colts |
Since Daddy's Not Around
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Garland Records Pacific Northwest Snuff Box | Beat Rocket | 2020 | LP | From 1970 | * | 2:14:40 (Pop‑up) | ||
Little Gold |
Swap Meet
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Wake Up & Die Right | Sophomore Lounge | 2020 | LP | * | 2:17:16 (Pop‑up) | |||
Bill Callahan and Bonnie "Prince" Billy |
Night Rider's Lament
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single | Drag City | 2021 | MP3 | featuring Cory Hanson | * | 2:21:15 (Pop‑up) | ||
Jane Getz |
I Wanna Ride
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No Ordinary Child | RCA | 1973 | LP | 2:26:04 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Herb Pedersen |
The Hey Boys
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Southwest | Epic | 1976 | LP | 2:29:07 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Neil Young |
If You Could Read My Mind
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A Letter Home | Third Man | 2014 | LP | 2:32:38 (Pop‑up) | ||||
Sturgill Simpson |
Water in a Well
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Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions | High Top Mountain | 2020 | CD | * | 2:36:35 (Pop‑up) | |||
Emma Swift |
Simple Twist of Fate
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Blonde on the Tracks | Tiny Ghost | 2020 | CD | * | 2:40:31 (Pop‑up) | |||
Billy Walker |
The Record
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The World Is a Monster: Columbia Hillbilly 1948-1958 | The Omni Recording Corporation | 2010 | CD | From 1955 | 2:44:38 (Pop‑up) | |||
Cut Worms |
Castle in the Clouds
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Nobody Lives Here Anymore | Jagjaguwar | 2020 | CD | 2:47:54 (Pop‑up) | ||||
The Chills |
February
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Somewhere Beautiful | Fire | 2013 | CD | Happy 1st! | 2:57:14 (Pop‑up) |
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Listener comments!
stay warm, stay cool ! Morning Mr. McG and all noise surfers
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it Joe! let it Joe! let it Joe!
@The Oscar, us too!
this is a week of wonders already
David, YB, morph, TDK60 (\\ //), melinda, Listener Bop M, Mariano, Krys, queems, Threemoons, common, all upthread friends: hello! Polishing up the boots here.
Heya David, Handy.
@David: I could use some kitties at least, now....
Did you bring your sleeping bag in case it snows 4 feet while you're on the air?
Regards Pekka
@Dances: I've seen many Finnish free folk groups, and some rock groups, but not traditional folk live....
Fay
A truly world-class lyric from Bill Fay, there.
Hey Handy, DiL, ngh, mariano, boods, kfhp, steveo et al
Hey, Phillippe!
Dances with Moomins: Sounds like Latin in that regard. Lots of case endings instead of prepositional phrases, and even the prepositional phrases require case endings anyway.
Will be listening, Joe. if I don't get back, arigato!
Howdy Brian.
been listening all morning in werk & lurk mode -- finally have a chance to say HELLO to you all -- as someone who has had to go to jobs in weather like this, i hope everyone in this NYC area is enjoying all this SNOW!!! from a safe and warm environment :)
For clarity, were other DJs other than Johnny or Venus ever featured on the show? Or did most of the audience just assume each of them worked a 12-hour shift each day? :)
Hey, chresti!
So we're hopeful.
I can't get to my Wall and Bridges LP right at the moment, but weren't the Flux Fiddlers just on the Imagine LP? Just throwing it out there -- I can't confirm just yet.
Did Mark Lewisohn ever do a book on John's recordings?
Book by Bob Spitz
Not really. Just wanted to post that title.
Sounds like a pure Holla name.... Wonder if it is his true birth name??
John Sturgill Simpson
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/924343633/sturgill-simpson-new-surprise-bluegrass-album
And I'm an unintentional poet.
Thanks, Joe and everyone! Stay safe.
That set was just so great! Thanks, Joe, for that and the whole show. Hope you make it home OK! Maybe you can capture one of the wild reindeer of Jersey City and ride it all the way home!
Be well, Yippers.
her & Robyn's version of "The Ghost in You" is heart-achingly GORGEOUS
have a great day, everyone -- stay warm!
(but i have had to go to jobs in weather like this!)
hope you and Rob and kitties are enjoying the snowstorm from inside too :)