WFMU: Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from April 5, 2025

Everybody's Songs with Cricket: Playlist from April 5, 2025

Folk music with no single author and no single audience. Songs by everybody, for everybody.

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April 5, 2025: What’ll You Do When Your Whole Life is Through?

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Michael Hurley	Hog of the Forsaken	Long Journey	Rounder Records	1976	RIP Michael Hurley		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Kimble & Wagoner Families	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down	The Kimble & Wagoner Families	Field Recorders' Collective ‎	2006			0:03:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Benton Flippen	This World Can't Stand Long	Old Time, New Times	Rounder Records	1994			0:06:49 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Highwoods String Band	Grey Cat on the Tennessee Farm	Fire on the Mountain	Rounder Records	1973	Highwoods String Band documentary "Dance All Night" (2018): https://www.folkstreams.net/films/dance-all-night-the-highwoods-stringband-story		0:09:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Hutchison	The Train That Carried My Girl from Town	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 8	Yazoo	1926 / 2003	originally released by Okeh in 1926		0:13:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
George Pegram	Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane	George Pegram	Rounder Records	1971			0:15:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Michael Hurley	Sweet Lucy "Sweet Lucy" by "Michael Hurley"	Have Moicy!	Rounder Records	1976	RIP Michael Hurley		0:18:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Lee Ranaldo	Take Me Up "Take Me Up" by "Lee Ranaldo"	The Suzanne Langille Songbook	Family Vineyard / Feeding Tube	2025	https://familyvineyard.bandcamp.com/album/the-suzanne-langille-songbook	*	0:32:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sis Cunningham	In the Merry Month of May	Broadside Ballads, Vol. 9: Sundown	Folkways Records	1976			0:35:39 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ed Spencer	Sugar Hill "Sugar Hill" by "Ed Spencer"	Traditional Music from Grayson and Carroll Counties	Folkways Records	1962			0:39:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sandy Ives	Sally Brown "Sally Brown" by "Sandy Ives"	Folk Songs of Maine	Folkways Records	1959	Roud 2628		0:40:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Stanley Brothers	The Story of the Flood	Virginia Traditions: Native Virginia Ballads and Songs	Blue Ridge Institute	1981	recorded by Mike Seeger on August 8, 1957		0:41:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Proffitt	Blackberry Wine "Blackberry Wine" by "Frank Proffitt"	Memorial Album	Folk-Legacy Records	1968			0:44:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The West Maryland Highballers	The Death of John Kennedy	Original and Traditional Country Music	Biograph	1963	performed by Bob Coltman (banjo, vocals) & Joe Bussard (guitar)		0:50:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ed Trickett	The Goodnight-Loving Trail	The Telling Takes Me Home	Folk-Legacy Records	1972			0:53:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Vernon Wray	Lonely Son "Lonely Son" by "Vernon Wray"	Wasted	Vermillion	1972	reissued by Fat Possum in 2009		0:58:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Douglas Quin	Frog Nocturne #2 "Frog Nocturne #2" by "Douglas Quin"	Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest	Earth Ear	2001			1:02:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Fahey	Desperate Man Blues "Desperate Man Blues" by "John Fahey"	Blind Joe Death	Takoma	1959	original recording		1:12:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Henry Thomas	Bob McKinney "Bob McKinney" by "Henry Thomas"	Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929	Yazoo	1928 / 1989	recorded October 5, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois; originally released by Vocalion in 1928		1:17:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Clark Kessinger	Sunny Side of the Mountain	Old-Time Music with Fiddle & Guitar	Rounder Records	1972	featuring Gene Meade (guitar, vocals)		1:19:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bull Mountain Moonshiners	Johnny Goodwin	Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early American Rural Music, Vol. 5	Yazoo	1928 / 2002	recorded August 1, 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee		1:22:15 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Paul Gwynne Phillips	The Old Man Came a-Courting	Folk Songs and Ballads of the British Isles	Folkways Records	1964	Roud 210		1:25:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Michael Hurley	Jacob's Ladder "Jacob's Ladder" by "Michael Hurley"	The Time of the Foxgloves	No Quarter	2021	featuring harmony vocals by Josephine Foster; RIP Michael Hurley		1:27:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ultan O'Brien	Banbha's Ruins "Banbha's Ruins" by "Ultan O'Brien"	Dancing the Line	Nyahh Records	2025	https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ultan-obrien-dancing-the-line	*	1:31:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mister Water Wet	Sarah Sleeping "Sarah Sleeping" by "Mister Water Wet"	Bought the Farm	West Mineral Ltd.	2019	https://westmineral.bandcamp.com/album/bought-the-farm-ouest095		1:33:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Douglas Quin	Frog Nocturne #2 "Frog Nocturne #2" by "Douglas Quin"	Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest	Earth Ear	2001			1:39:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wes Tirey	Horsedreamer "Horsedreamer" by "Wes Tirey"	The Hired Hands: A Tribute to Bruce Langhorne	Scissor Tail	2017	https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-hired-hands-a-tribute-to-bruce-langhorne		1:48:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sarah Louise	Home Over Yonder (Variations Pt. 2)	Field Guide	Scissor Tail	2018			1:52:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Michael Hurley	No Home "No Home" by "Michael Hurley"	Snockgrass	Rounder Records	1980	RIP Michael Hurley		1:54:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Douglas Quin	Frog Nocturne #2 "Frog Nocturne #2" by "Douglas Quin"	Caratinga: Soundscapes from Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest	Earth Ear	2001			1:56:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🪕 ♥ 9:01am chresti: morning cricket and errbody!
	🪕 ♥ 9:01am newton: good morning cricket and criketers
	9:03am money&pain: Morning cricketeers.
	9:04am Stefan: Hi Cricket, what a loss. Saw him in the late 90ies in Bonn, Germany, and stil carry the memory with me
	♥ 9:04am cricket: good morning, everybody!
	🪕 ♥ 9:05am Glistener MW: good morning, Cricket + all! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
	♥ 9:05am cricket: ↳ Stefan @9:04 that sounds incredible! i really wish i'd gotten to see him, too
	🪕 ♥ 9:06am melinda: Morning! Oh shit, Michael Hurley is gone...
	9:07am No Big Thing in Chicago: Good morning, Cricket and all. A pleasure to once again be joining you from the grocery store.
	♥ 9:07am common: good morn
	🪕 ♥ 9:08am fred: Good morning Cricket and cricketeers
	9:09am money&pain: The peepers have returned to Maine.
	🪕 ♥ 9:10am melinda: I was lucky to see him 3 times during my 19 years in Portland ME. His Asheville show sold out before I could get a ticket and it looks like it was his last one.
	🪕 ♥ 9:12am melinda: ↳ money&pain @9:09 Recently thinking about how that's one of the few things I miss about my old neighborhood, there was a patch of woods at the end of the street with good peeper sounds.
	🪕 ♥ 9:13am fred: @cricket: I thought of you when I read the Dust-to-Digital newsletter this week
	♥ 9:14am cricket: ↳ fred @9:13 oh, really? it's still sitting unread in my own inbox at the moment (busy week for me haha). i'll have to check it out asap today, anything i should look into in particular?
	9:14am money&pain: We've got a pond that's too shallow to swim in, but it's good enough for the peepers.
	🪕 ♥ 9:17am newton: damn!: These chirping calls are significant for communication in mating as females choose their mates based on the frequency and volume associated with them. Satellite males who do not make any calls also strategically place themselves near those that make louder calls in an attempt to intercept females.
	🪕 ♥ 9:18am newton: oh, forgot, context. That's about peepers!
	🪕 ♥ 9:20am melinda: Hurley's 2nd to last show was at the Big Ears fest in Knoxville, I want go to that someday.
	♥ 9:21am Corey: Good morning all. Hurley is one of my all time favorites. A soul stirring experience every time I saw him. RIP Snock.
	9:22am bixa: RIP
	9:22am money&pain: I knew that peeping demonstrates their cardiovascular health to attract mates, but didn't know about the crafty hangers on. Love that.
	🪕 ♥ 9:23am fred: ↳ cricket @9:14 Not really, mainly the general vibe (and the first picture), though the book recommendations might appeal to you
	9:24am tonyb: This album always brings a smile. Michael is/was unique.
	🪕 ♥ 9:26am 2/3 of the Perrin Family: ↳ Song: "Sweet Lucy" by "Michael Hurley" life changing album for me and others
	🪕 ♥ 9:28am melinda: ↳ Song: "Grey Cat on the Tennessee Farm" by "Highwoods Str... I bookmarked the Folkstreams site years ago but it got lost among the clutter on my computer, thanks for the reminder
	🪕 ♥ 9:32am melinda: Always good to hear Hog of the Forsaken
	9:33am Dano: It's Cricket Day in Minneapolis!
	🪕 ♥ 9:33am fred: ↳ melinda @9:28 Looks like I have to explore that. "When?" being the deflating question
	9:34am tranewreck: A bit early for a jug of wine but I’ll raise a glass later today for Michael. First saw him in a very small bar in Central Mass in the mid 70’s and many times since. His tunes are a balm in these dark times
	9:35am bixa: this show is unbelievable i cant believe i haven’t been here before
	🪕 ♥ 9:35am newton: ↳ Song: "Take Me Up" by "Lee Ranaldo" this is amazing
	🪕 ♥ 9:44am chresti: ↳ Song: "The Story of the Flood" by "The Stanley Brothers" This was recorded 6 days after I was born!
	9:48am bixa: wowowow
	♥ 9:51am cricket: ↳ chresti @9:44 your birthday is August 2? that's actually a Saturday this year... I'll start trying to find an 8-2-57 recording to use as a proper chresti tribute that morning
	🪕 ♥ 9:53am chresti: ↳ cricket @9:51 awww <3
	♥ 9:55am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Song: "The Story of the Flood" by "The Stanley Brothers" This was recorded six months to the day after I was b b b born.
	🪕 ♥ 9:55am Handy Haversack: Greetings from vacation in the suburbs, cricket, cricketeers, everybody.
	🪕 ♥ 9:56am Dan S: Thomas Edison made his first recordings right around the time I was born. :-)
	9:58am jim sobbins: Hello from Providence!
	🪕 ♥ 9:59am chresti: ↳ Steve Del Sol @9:55 I'm older than you!
	🪕 ♥ 9:59am Dan S: ↳ Song: "The Goodnight-Loving Trail" by "Ed Trickett" Not bad, but I love Utah Philips version of this song.
	♥ 9:59am Steve Del Sol: Hows' it workin' out?
	10:01am tonyb: Ragtag bunch at the Cranford train station heading to the Manhattan protest. Including two bagpipers. Train’s crowded…
	🪕 ♥ 10:03am melinda: ↳ Dan S @9:59 I actually like this one better. All the voices together.
	10:03am turtles: I’m digging all the banjo and old time tunes today. 👍
	🪕 ♥ 10:04am Handy Haversack: ↳ tonyb @10:01 It's also the Tartan Day Parade in Manhattan. Pipers might be headed there.
	♥ 10:05am Steve Del Sol: I found a frog sounds album the other day. Library sale.
	10:05am tonyb: ✅. I’ll ask…
	🪕 ♥ 10:05am chresti: Yay bagpipes!
	🪕 ♥ 10:06am fred: ↳ tonyb @10:01 I'm generally in favor of bagpipes, but it sounds especially appropriate at a protest. Bagpipes at a work meeting though... On the one hand it would definitely improve the experience, on the other it would prevent me from catching up on sleep.
	🪕 ♥ 10:07am Glistener MW: Joe Besser? nobody's favorite Stooge?
	♥ 10:08am Steve Del Sol: ↳ fred @10:06 Perhaps the entire nation should break into bagpipery whenever Trump speaks.
	🪕 ♥ 10:08am egould: ↳ Glistener MW @10:07 I immediately thought of Joe Besser too. I got Stooge on the brain.
	🪕 ♥ 10:08am chresti: That'd be awesome!
	♥ 10:09am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:08 To drown him out, just to be clear...Monty Pythonesque.
	🪕 ♥ 10:09am chresti: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:09 Xactly.
	🪕 ♥ 10:10am Glistener MW: ↳ egould @10:08 It's good thing to have! Stooges-on-the-brain keep me grounded in increasingly unwacky times
	🪕 ♥ 10:12am chresti: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:09 Bring out the fog horns and sirens while you're at it
	🪕 ♥ 10:14am Bonnie Prince Jamie: Greeting cricket and friends! Week 2 of you soundtracking my decorating my new place - excellent choices so far
	10:16am money&pain: Hit the Road Jack was recorded by Ray Charles the day I entered this world.
	10:16am Noodle: Tuning in on my ten minute break—morning everybody!
	🪕 ♥ 10:17am chresti: ↳ money&pain @10:16 Is your name Jack?
	♥ 10:18am john_zilla: good morning!! thank you Cricket for taking us forward into the morning
	10:20am Fredericks: This is like greatest hits medley.
	10:22am money&pain: ↳ chresti @10:17 Sadly, no. But I wanted to name my son Jack. Ended up as Huckleberry, also appropriate.
	10:22am Oli: @Noodle Morning! Have a wonderful Saturday!
	🪕 ♥ 10:22am fred: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:09 Can't work worse than Schumer's strategy to drone him out. The Dems are bringing Eliane Radigue to a Kid Rock concert
	♥ 10:23am Kenny rotten: Good morning, Great songs!!
	10:26am Dean: Judging from this finding aid for the Ralph Epperson Collection at UNC, that Benton Flippen record was recorded at WPAQ, Mount Airy, NC, sometime between 1943 and 1958. https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/catalog/20401
	10:27am Oli: This song is a banger!
	♥ 10:28am Yes: a real pleasure to spend mornings here
	🪕 ♥ 10:28am melinda: ↳ Song: "Jacob's Ladder" by "Michael Hurley" I love this one, probably my favorite from Time of the Foxgloves.
	♥ 10:29am Steve Del Sol: ↳ fred @10:22 I try to respond to actual policy direction, not flashy or dull delivery.
	🪕 ♥ 10:30am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "Jacob's Ladder" by "Michael Hurley" Wish I knew his work better. Happens a lot that I discover an artist through tributes on WFMU.
	♥ 10:30am Mark T: Morning. Better late then never
	♥ 10:30am Yes: i was at the asheville hurley show monday. what a weird week
	♥ 10:30am cricket: ↳ Dean @10:26 this is really interesting, gonna read through it more closely a little later. thank you so much
	10:33am Dean: My pleasure, cricket. Judging from reviews of comps derived from Epperson's archive, my guess is that Flippen's early appearances on WPAQ were on banjo.
	♥ 10:34am cricket: ↳ Yes @10:30 so many of the NC folk musicians i follow online were there! it was surreal & heartbreaking to watch my feed change from clips of the concert to memorial posts within what felt like hours
	🪕 ♥ 10:36am fred: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:30 Same here. I heard a few tributes to living musicians, I wish there were more. Stork does birthday shows, but the genre skews dead
	🪕 ♥ 10:37am fred: ↳ fred @10:36 Or at least smells funny
	♥ 10:39am Yes: ↳ Song: "Sarah Sleeping" by "Mister Water Wet" <33
	🪕 ♥ 10:39am Handy Haversack: ↳ fred @10:36 David Dichelle does so as well. And Joe McGasko.
	10:40am Fredericks: Dumb name; great song.
	♥ 10:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:29 i got the gist of the analogy…analogies aren’t literal… the choices of musicians reflect policy, and i couldn’t tell which person you were referring to as being flashy or dull…is kid rock flashy or dull????…. i elaine radigue dull???
	10:41am Sam: The folk music police issued me a summons in the kitchen with Dinah.
	10:41am wimpy: Aw did Michael Hurley pass? What a shame
	🪕 ♥ 10:41am Handy Haversack: We're off to find some suburban brunch. Thanks, cricket!
	10:43am Fredericks: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:30 Have Moicy! is a great starting place.
	🪕 ♥ 10:45am newton: ↳ Steve Del Sol @10:29 unfortunately, it does seem that much of america hasn't patience for, or interest in actual policy, but plenty of enthusiasm for flashy delivery that looks like it might match their brand, I mean values
	🪕 ♥ 10:48am fred: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:40 From experience, Eliane Radigue can be hard after a long workday. Her music can be taxing. Mentally I mean, it requires focus, not jumping around
	♥ 10:48am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ fred @10:48 right….
	10:49am wimpy: Sorry if this has been mentioned but is it possible that desperate man blues was based on John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man off of the anthology of American folk music?
	10:50am wimpy: The melodies just sounded similar, which is what made me think of it
	10:51am Manhiking: Cricket - Thank you for a wonderful program. Just recently discovered your show. It's nice to have folk music back on Saturday mornings. Tuning in on the web from Vermont.
	♥ 10:51am Jeff Formerly from Somewhere: ↳ Song: "Horsedreamer" by "Wes Tirey" This record is fantastic I love every track. Thanks for spinning on this dreary Saturday morning Cricket.
	10:52am Fredericks: ↳ Jeff Formerly from Somewhere @10:51 Is Marshall Crenshaw involved with this?
	♥ 10:53am cricket: ↳ wimpy @10:49 i think you're totally right!
	10:55am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "No Home" by "Michael Hurley" Great production and song.
	🪕 ♥ 10:55am egould: Thank you cricket.
	♥ 10:56am LynnsBrother: ↳ Song: "Horsedreamer" by "Wes Tirey" Hey! Further reading of Bruce Langhorne:en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 10:56am slugluv1313: greetings, cricket! everyone! been listening -- finally getting a chance to sign in -- always love when i am able to catch your show live! thank you! 😺😺
	🪕 ♥ 10:57am newton: thanks cricket!
	10:57am ?: Wonderful playlist!
	♥ 10:57am john_zilla: thank you Cricket!
	10:58am Grimmm: Hello Cricket, just discovered your show. It’s fantastic, thank you. Cheers
	🪕 ♥ 11:12am chresti: Thanks cricket!